Büro der Marineintelligenz Battleship Schwerin, Munich
Spezialoperationsabteilung
Addressed to:
BDM Operational Report Archive
19.02.823 A.S.
Scouting Report: Omicron Xi
I won't lie, I didn't think I was going to make it out once I was mixed in and cruising through the system, no matter how incognito I was attempting to be I kept receiving detection warnings. This went on for ten or so minutes as I scrambled back and forth to the safety of a near-by Nebula.
My mission criteria was as follows: Determining the density and amount of Corsair forces within the system.
Locating connections to neighboring systems.
Surveying for potential resource sites.
I shall report on each individually and break them up with whatever evidence I was able to gather during the process of the reconnaissance mission.
Determining the density and amount of Corsair forces within the system: I began this report by stating I was being detected very often, worryingly so. It wasn't easy staying under the radar, but the moment I thought of the word I realized the corsairs must have some form of surveillance over the system, so I began to frequently 'run the gauntlet' so to speak, testing my luck with how long I could run through open space while being detected till I had my break-through.
VISUAL ATTACHMENT: Satellites
That is the reason, dotted around Omicron Xi are several Satellites operated by the Corsairs to detect incursions into the system. This one was in orbit around Planet Santorini, I noticed an odd looking planetoid near it, so I moved in closer to investigate it, confirming my original suspicions once I brought up the scanned information on my display.
VISUAL ATTACHMENT: Thira Colony
The name I was able to retrieve was Thira colony. Although the scans I was able to conduct on it were limited, there's most definitely construction going on inside, structural components line this planetoid and they are most likely excavating to hollow out more out of it. It's a rather well hidden installation, had I not turned my head when leaving the nebula I arrived in, I would have missed it entirely.
A very large gas giant of a rather ominous dark color sits in the forefront of the system the moment any craft leaves the nebula. It's more than a spectacle of cosmic beauty, it's a landmark and a means for the Corsairs to hold a shipyard in orbit rather effectively, allowing them to construct ships and deploy fighter wings who may then sling-shot around the minor 'grav-well' caused by this massive body. Upon scanning the planet, I detected that it was charted and dubbed 'Mykonos'.
VISUAL ATTACHMENT: Syros Shipyard
I think this will hit the nail on the head in determining how concentrated corsair forces are in this sector, I could not approach it directly due to the concentration of weapons platforms and the threat of being detected, but I made do and got a glancing shot of it. As stated in the attachment, it's an installation named "Syros Shipyard". I'm certain it's an active ship yard and pending more ship production, since the dry-docks are already being prepped with new struts to no doubt build new ship frames, by the size of the frames, this is the place their warships are constructed.
VISUAL ATTACHMENT: Active defense
This is an important piece of visual evidence for two reasons. Number one, it's another satellite that pestered me during my 'photography' of Syros. Number two, very close to it is a Murmillo class battleship, which scans indicated to be the 'Delos'. I dare not approach it for risk of being fully detected, so as such I did not manage to retrieve a clear shot of it. The threat of being detected by it and the satellite near it was too great and I did not want to blow the reconnaissance operation over it.
I detected a field near-by after some further flight around the system, upon inspection and entering it, I noticed a good concentration of corsair patrols inside it deployed from battleship 'Delos'. Due to this, I had to skirt around the field and avoid detection. I detected another station within the field, but the risk of exposure to the size and frequency of patrols into this field were too great a threat to my own safety and the integrity of the operation. It is however, an installation of great importance, using the defenses swarming the field as a reference to confirm this.
There were two other nebulae inside the system, both resonating with electromagnetic interference, an all too familiar sign from my days in the core that unsavory entities may be lurking within them, as such I avoided both nebulae in entirety and have nothing to report regarding them, only an advisement of caution, it's possible this all may be my paranoia and it is merely a jump-hole causing this interference from within, but I would not put aside the former's plausibility.
Locating connections to neighboring systems: I noted three such jumpholes leading into this sector as well as out into neighboring systems, in order of my detection of them. Munich to Omicron Xi: Sector G1; Sector 6G - Leading back to Munich. Omicron Gamma: Sector C2, did not jump through due to obvious risks and not being part of the assignment. Omicron Beta: Sector D1, located but did not jump through due to the same reason as previously stated for Omicron Gamma.
Surveying for potential resource sites: There is little to no economic value that can be placed on this sector. What little resources I could find were trace iron oxide and aluminium oxide deposits in the Andros Asteroid field. This is the very same field that is frequented by significant Corsair patrols deployed from Battleship Delos. I suspect there may be some ship-wrecks within it worth salvaging, but the cost of doing so may not be worth the reward.
The Gas giants remain toxic and of no true use from the harvesting point of view. From the brief scans I did of all three nebulae, I found nothing exceptionally out of the ordinary regarding them. Apart from high radiation, electromagnetic interference and potential danger. The corsairs themselves seem to avoid the two distant nebulae that are some distance away from the Munich jumphole.
This hereby concludes my detailed reconnaissance report.