“Arvie, I have sent you a new job request via your secure portal. Could you please let me know if you can attend and I will allocate the assignment to you.

Regards,

Alice

SOPHIC
Public Relations”

Sitting at his laptop, Dalens opens up his secure portal with the public relation company SOPHIC. Typing in his password, he accesses the web page page, looking over the requirements.

“Assignment:

You will pose as a buyer for an a Space start up company who are developing costs efficient low orbit micro satellites. We will set up the appointment on your behalf with TUDAS CORPORATION who manufactures pressure sensors for the Marine, Defense, Space and the Energy Industry. The job will require you to gather intelligence on TUDAS CORPORATION pressure sensor technology and their customers, who use the current technology. More so, the company ARDEN SPACE AI AND SATELLITE SYSTEMS.
We require for our client, detailed reports on the Tudas Corp Pressure Sensors and information relating to Arden's Artificial Intelligence for tracking relays from the James Webb telescope.
The task will require you to study and show a basic knowledge of high precision engineering equipment.

Task dynamics:

The report should be split into two parts, one for Tudas, the other for Ardent. As follows:

TUDAS CORPORATION:

• Details on their Pressure Sensors.  

• Costs and delivery times.

• Specification documents, i.e. materials used, measurements of technology.

• Names of all contacts, including business cards, emails and attached quote and offer documents.

• Photos of building and if possible interior of meeting area, room AND foyer. Even if this is a serviced office used for meetings by the company.

ARDEN SPACE AI AND SATELLITE SYSTEMS:

• Requires infiltration of Tudas’s customer list. This can be sourced by building rapport with Tudas client relations.

• Record all interactions, written and verbal in relation to Arden Corp.

• Attempt to connect Arden Corp after establishing contact with Tudas Corp, utilizing the gathered contact names.

Attached is the task flow PDF.

Please respond to this email within 24 hours, otherwise the job will be referred to another contractor.
Your fee will be two contract jobs at Four Thousand Dollars each, all expenses will be reimbursed if interaction with contacts are made which includes dinner, hotel and transportation.

Regards,

Alice,

SOPHIC

Public Relations”

Dalens closes his eyes, breathing slowly. Calming himself, opening his eyes.
“Deliah’s vision of a dead city, but…” Dalens leans back looking around his apartment. “...But, it’s not this one. Maybe a parallel world? I’ve had those dreams too, but it is not a place of ruin. Just empty. Intact.” He looks back at the computer screen in front of him. Another job. Ironic, for what it’s worth. They can’t stop.
Without immediately responding to the task offer, Dalens closes his laptop.
“Tired,” he says to himself, staring into the darkness of his lounge room.

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Reading: "Dead Cities of the Stars" from RITUALS OF THE ANTITHETICAL (A.Glass 2023)