0014 issue
To/From: djanek@cascade.internal.gate, dmanse@cascade.internal.gate
Sir, we've run into a serious issue with IS-0014. Its temporal distortion increases the closer we get, meaning that as soon as our instruments touch it, they stop working. There's no way to take a sample.
With respect, Daniel, it's your job to find a way around this.
I know, but Dr. Verenkov touched it and was practically stuck to it for the next 20 minutes. Now Dina Khattar's team want to assess the effects on him, which is fair enough, but we're still no closer to discovering where on earth this came from or who made it.
I think we can be fairly sure it wasn't Turkmen nomads, so that's a start.