Dearest Mar, and those whom this may concern...
While searching through the last few personal effects left behind by the Senator Mani Mansfield, I stumbled across a comlog...I took it to a tech friend who used to work for us, and after much careful prodding of the OS the coding opened up and offered many nuggets of information regarding you grandfathers flight path, as well as what he was carrying with him, and his final plans for where he was headed...I am in haste to join him.
I realize a note isn't the best way to say my farewells, but if I am to meet with his convoy and join him before the crew enters cyrogenic fugue, I had to leave immediatly. I'm afraid you leapt to the wrong conclusion in assuming hidden enemies were after me...and as far as your new sister and MamaSan are concerned,they are well taken care of, more so with your gifts. I know you will be as much a parent to her as I never was...if that makes any sense at all...
This is the most important discovery since the wormhole collapsed, and its to my shame that the time debt ensures that I will never see any of my loved ones again...but as the head of Mansfield Mine and Trade Co. I learned that hard choices are the daily bread of life. If this expedition pans out as your grandpappy forsaw, our childrens childrens will be the richest in all the systems, and this war may end as well...I think this is the most *ahem* honorable pursuit I have ever undertaken....
Please find it in your heart to forgive your Papa,
Love always and into the hereafter, Mani Mansfield.

--Recieved in a low-bandwidth coded spurt. Decoded using High-Priority MMTC code-key. Edited for release.

:S

I'll miss PapSan

I will miss him too...In a few years after the anger fades....

I would like to find out who helped him find the needed supplies, and I wonder where he found the funding; we all know he was a pauper, a ineffective trader, a laughable ceo, and a bastard-making father....Vo is better off without his brand of chaos...I'm afeared that if he does catch up with Pappy, his curse will affect a noble quest to find a way to humanities home...

--MarAni

Update for Friends and Family:

HAve awoken...my implants are mostly removed...a bug in the spellcker surfaced while in deed space far removed from the update-beams...firmware was corrupted by seemingly random emissions of unknown origens...an deep in recovery...the doctors seem to think i will fly again soon...

--MArAni

PS: PAPA, if you are out there i need advive...