<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/5/5a/Beard5.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Sheriff Fielding<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Fielding's Office<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>the crew<br/><strong>Doing:</strong>Negotiating<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Fielding nodded to Jay about the question of the wife of the miner that would go wandering before he vanished, "Sure thing. It's in the files and easy enough to spot when you get to the missing persons list. You may get some info from past employers more than the miners on that regard. The employers will have more details on his jobs and can probably point to which direction the guy would wander." He linked his fingers and crunched them before looking to Jay again, "Presidia is a freelance colony. We sell what we mine to the Corporations, though we're not run by them. People stay here not because they have a contract, but because they want to mine and earn their credits that way."<br/><br/>Fielding nodded when asked to hand a copy of the ballistics database over, "Sure... Though whilst you look at those files, we'll be adding yours to the database too." He then looked back to Liam, "No, every pet that's gone off as either come by frozen like a popsicle from the night weather or not shown up again at all." Fielding then looked to Zaine, "You can access the maps on the Network, using your wrist-comm. Still, if you don't have access I can get a deputy to download you a copy onto a disc or USB for you." He looked over the team as a whole, "Okay, well I guess now you know what I need and you have everything I can give you. The deputies will show you to your place and your clothes will be there waiting."<br/><br/>Outside of the building, as promised a deputy is waiting and they show you to a building that has rooms for everyone and a large communal living room to discuss and pool resources together. Clothes in the requested sizes are waiting in each room, though the crew can swap around and sleep where ever if wanted. For an initial read through of the notes that night, all the Sheriff had said was true. Unfortunately there are no obvious links between case files for the crew that prove useful, though after scanning through them more carefully, a few are separated out and put to one side. A pattern is becoming evident as the noise is put to one side...<br/><br/>Many of the thefts involve things used in traditional mining operations. Items of note include excavation explosives, shoring frames used to brace unstable tunnels, sonic drills, a portable generator and mundane excavation tools. Also, on two separate occasions, cases of portable batteries that would fit the sonic drill have been reported as stolen. Besides this, two of the missing miners specialize in excavation work, the others are rooky trying to strike out on their own to grizzled veteran miners with no detectable links past their occupation and living in the colony. There are no reported grudges between the miners that have gone missing and there aren't (outside of what Fielding pointed out) any instances of strange behaviour or similar quirks outside of someone that'd want to live off the grid anyway. The one miner that would go wandering was one of the two excavation miners.<br/><br/>The information is extensive though shows Fielding is less trying to slow the crew down than he doesn't want to hide anything from them and wants this sorted out. He clearly wants their help and suspicion is not cast in any particular direction and so the information here is thankfully unbiased for a small insular colony such as this. He has delivered everything as required from the Wardens and as such has proven to be reliable. Finally the weapons not required to be placed in the weapons locker, that the deputies needed for the ballistics database are returned just as they were taken in before the night is done.<br/><br/>The night rolls in and it's up to the crew what they'll do now.