Seems to me the only people with cause to complain are the ones that had to fill out all the paperwork.

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Gina
Hey Kiddo! So what’s all this about stealing a satellite?


X
You know, Ace, it’s customary to ask the captain before using her ship to commit a felony.

Ace
Relax. The satellite I’m after is abandoned. The plan is it restore it to service and put it back. With an extra radio transceiver. Getting it accepted by its old network will be the hard part.

X
Why not put in a hypercom relay?

Ace
There’s an off chance someone will want to take a hands-on look at it someday. So we want to avoid any obvious extra terrestrial tech.

And I think whoever’s been destroying your relay pods has been using their hypercomms to do it.

Gina
As far as we know, that is those of us in the gate project, there isn’t any Earth nation that can even detect hyperspace signals without a captured relay pod. Much less have any idea who’s been destroying them. We thought the one pod we have was Grey tech, until we figured out it was Peach and company beaming people up. Greys don’t have transporters. Our pod should have been powered back down right after we were picked up.

Ace
No Earth nation, yes. So I’d look at extra-terrestrial influences operating within government agencies. Can’t be The K’Sel since they’ve all been evacuated, and they dropped the remains of their colony ship into the Marianas Trench. Greys maybe?

Gina
Grey relays do use practically the same telemetry as Orion pods.

Peach
Greys don’t have the tech. They use our pods. They think they’re stolen, but that just lets us keep tabs on them. But destroying all relay pods would negatively impact their activities, too.

Ace
The, uh, Varnir?

Peach
They’re still pissed off about Hello Kitty duct tape. They dropped all research into Terrans and left. Most remaining have gone native and abandoned tech entirely.

Ace
So, Mother. How certain are you that you got all of The Saurians?