THE MOTHBALL INCIDENT

The O-12 diplomats were taken by surprise when the Combined Army brought the Leortolani Geological Space Research Center (LGSRC) to the negotiating table. Originally little more than an outdated facility for studying space rocks, welded to Human Edge’s asteroid Te773, the LGSRC suddenly became the focal point of humanity’s push for such a fragile truce. In one night, the center transformed from a forgotten outpost into the pinnacle of Earth's ingenuity, shifting from a waste of resources to the cradle of human and alien cooperation. Bureau Tiandi and Aleph assessed that the CA’s interest lay in the center's strategic location relative to the Circulars and the surrounding asteroid belt, reluctantly admitting that the main risk in allowing CA personnel into the LGSRC was the uncertainty of what their true interest might be.

Until now.

After a perid of steady but low-intensity cooperation between the scientists of both parties at the LGSRC, something shocking occurred: 42 hours and 3 minutes were completely erased from both the station's systems and the research team's memories. Additionally, Amin Monte-Sori, one of the station’s senior researchers from Haqqislam, is missing, along with the contents of one of the station's geovaults, which had been forcibly opened.

No one remembers what really happened, but everyone has their own theory and agenda to pursue.

This, is the Mothball incident.