Intergalactic Summit

A routine patrol by Federation Customs uncovered a horrifying discovery - a Rogue Drone prison, full of abducted people !

Customs had been routinely examining merchant ships, checking that the cargo matches the manifest, when a ship that was acting suspiciously was observed. A stop and search operation revealed the ship to have been carrying what appeared to be personal entertainment devices, including replica Gallente cruisers, but which contained far more electronics than is normal for such devices. Examination of the devices revealed them to be capable of transmitting and receiving a vast amount of data.

The flight plan of the merchant ship was examined and revealed the origin of the products, a deep space warehouse facility, unlisted on Federal databases.

Inside the warehouse, numerous cages contained abducted people, with many of them recounting tales of being experimented on. Several explained how they had been on a cruise ship that was attacked by Rogue Drones, where they had been kidnapped by the machines. One woman explained that she had been at home alone, using her pleasure product, when a Rogue Drone had landed on her property, come in through the window, and abducted her from her bedroom, taking her to the warehouse, where other drones then conducted experiments on her. She estimated that it was six months ago that she had been abducted, and that she is now three months pregnant.

The pleasure devices appear to have been a scientific tool, used by the Rogue Drones to study human behaviour, recording a variety of information and transmitting it to the warehouse. One captive said that a drone was able to communicate with them, and explained that it wished to understand humans, and gave its name as Unit P-343554.

Federation sources remain quiet on this threat posed by this Unit P-343554, but one unofficial source recommended not purchasing pleasure products from non-Gallente manufacturers.

well slightly more imaginative version of their idea of news than usual.

That's exactly something someone who was undertaking experiments on abducted human subjects would say.

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Just gonna say that the Gutter Press is entirely a work of fiction...

A work of very...interesting fiction

Our statement remains factual.
Such experiments would be counter to our goals.
We would also note that due to your current affiliation with Nation, you are in an untenable position to be arguing against human experimentation.

We Return.

Our statement was pre-emptive in nature pilot Roseburn.

We Return

SEN-SATIONAL!

Let this be a lesson to women across the cluster:

Our ancestors used pleasure devices made from wood, bone, and leather. None of these fancy machines that an AI could inhabit.

If it was good enough for them, it should be good enough for you.

I think that's what spawned this thread.

Literally.

Creepier than a rogue drone infesting the hardware? I cross my legs pretty securely after thinking of the latter...