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The Suspended Investigation |
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| These photographs accompanied a report which was commissioned to explain why a murder investigation was suspended. They are not intended to document the crime per se. The written crime report has disappeared.
Fwa Fwa Pindle was a Glickan man who served as a translator during the portamanium mining operations on the planet Glick. Large numbers of Glickans were trained and joined the mining crews from Earth. There was tension between the Glickans and the men from Earth from the start. Baseless misunderstandings grew quickly among the uneducated and superstitious workers, and good translators were at a premium.
A major source of friction between the two groups was the earth miners’ view that the Glickan religion was without weight or merit. Glickans worship a being they call Distal, whose opposite is the dark force Broone. Glickans refused to report to work one morning when one of them saw what he said was the face of Broone in a puddle near the front gate. Pindle went inside the mine to try to translate the Glickans’ concerns and apparently became an enemy to both sides.
Pindle’s remains were found in a portamanium pit. An investigation was begun immediately, but the investigators could not be on the site for several hours. The lead investigator has said repeatedly that even if the investigation had gone forward to conclusion, the scene was badly disrupted and evidence was destroyed.
It is impossible to determine if Pindle was stabbed to death, run down by a transporter or the victim of the large explosion which occurred on that morning. These photographs are provided for a time when wiser or better equipped investigators can be involved.
Praise Distal.
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