Riley contemplated the rather sparse file for her first field assignment.
Unexplored World 7bf728159fd95000.
Local name: Remnant
Population: 50,124,344
Warnings:
Remote observation suggests high rate of sudden death. Probable cause is violence of some kind.
Unidentified magical effects are present.
Priority objectives:
Determine cause of high death rate.
Analyze local magic.
Assess risk level.
Secondary Objectives:
Standard precepts
Open diplomatic relations
She took a deep breath and rechecked her equipment, four dodecs, her mage staff, a tent, two changes of clothes, an auxiliary generator, and an auxiliary processing core.
"This is what I wanted, a chance to discover something completely new. No more incremental work." She shook her head. "Didn't really plan on needing to fight though... I kinda neglected those classes."
She steeled herself, ran one last internal diagnostic, uploaded one last incremental backup, and activated the transposer.
And then she was somewhere else.