VTC Cebalrai report on Cassandra Easterling
Author: Richard Rosie
FAO: Karl Tsiban, Callilion San Fransisco, Andrew Kettu, Alessandro
Santori, Chester Arnold Krovny
Cassandra Easterling and her associates first came to our attention when a team from VTC's Personnel department came to Cebalrai to retrieve a journalist who had left Dziban in possession of information that VTC wished to keep confidential.
The journalist, Angelos Ingerman, had formed a relationship with Easterling after meeting her through a local science writer named Arturo Weaver. Weaver has written some popular books and one of Ingerman's stated reasons for travelling to Cebalrai was to interview him.
Some time after arriving on Cebalrai Ingerman was caught in possession of narcotics and sentenced under Ocherland's fast track anti-drugs programme to six months in the Massen Rehabilitation Centre, from where he later broke out. It has not been proven but it is thought that Easterling and her friends were involved. Shortly after the breakout the University of Ocherland Institute of Teleportation's experimental teleport facility was destroyed by an explosion, officially declared to have been a containment failure but judging by available evidence was more likely to have been caused by an external explosive. This, in combination with a recent terrorist attack on the Ocherland Public Teleport Station, caused the effective isolation of Ocherland from space travel. Shortly after this the West Territory announced its split from the Cebalrai Planetary Federation. VTC were well-positioned to take advantage of this development, and formed a trading agreement with the goverment controlling the only working major teleport station on the planet.
Ingerman was finally located aboard the Europa, a ship belonging to one of Easterling's associates, and handed over to VTC by the West Territory. West Territory deported Easterling back to Ocherland. The rest of her associates remained in orbit and were allowed to leave the system.
Her current whereabouts are unknown.