[NISRO – NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SPACE RESCUE OPERATIONS]

‘Why I joined NISRO? Uh, is this being recorded? No?

Right then, well I kinda had a dream of being a space ranger when I watched all these cartoons as a kid.

Going out there inside a spaceship, saving people from space pirates or bad aliens and all that. Dumb I know but it was a long time ago and that’s all we had to watch out in the…ah.

Sorry. I’m pretty old, mind wanders a little. So yeah, my work in NISRO has been interesting.

A lot of fighting and orbital bombardments but I like to think we kept our planet safe.

Our civilisation.

My family, my grandkids…huh. Belphus?

Is that where we came from? Sorry, been out here a long, long time.

Wait. You never gave me your rank and serial nu-‘z

[Alice Vanda – NISRO Field Commander.

Fragmented last recorded message found at abandoned Mining Colony on [redacted] moon. No physical trace of her was discovered.]


NISRO was produced by the Tourism Board to counter threats from outer space and beyond.

They have proved largely useful and versions of it have thrived on both Seed Worlds and Variant Worlds alike.

The National Intelligence Space Operations Rescue Operations has proven to be a useful countermeasure against Planetary Realities overcome with the threat of CAMPIN.


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