As Operation "Porta Nauru" commences, I have taken the liberty of more personal engagement in the progress due to its vital importance. Several events have taken place that are worth remembering and perhaps revisiting at later stages:
1. The flight report from Libra-7 proveded new intel on the current situation in Liberty. While on route to deliver a batch of iridium to Planet Puttsburg and exchange it for boron, the ship was held off in Texas by an operative of a previously unknown seperatist group. At first glance the astrogator in charge took the situation for a routine LN inspection, however as it turned out, there has been a split in the ranks of Libery military, resulting in battleship Harmony seceding from the primary fleet along with her escorts on the account of internal power struggles within the Navy. Most noteworthy is that the seperatist group suspects high ranking military officers to have been subdued by the Nomad or their affiliates. The LSF may be afflicted as well. This matter should be brought to the attention of the Guildmistress.
[23.08.2017 14:04:51] H|-Connor.Baker: Hello.
[23.08.2017 14:05:09] H|-Connor.Baker: What is a APM transport doing here?
[23.08.2017 14:05:19] Core|APM-Libra-7: This is the APM supply ship Libra-7
[23.08.2017 14:05:30] H|-Connor.Baker: Yes, but why is it here?
[23.08.2017 14:05:33] Core|APM-Libra-7: we are on a supply run to Planet Pittsburg
[23.08.2017 14:05:46] Core|APM-Libra-7: Is there a problem offier?
[23.08.2017 14:06:12] H|-Connor.Baker: Officer? No need to call me that.
[23.08.2017 14:06:37] H|-Connor.Baker: Why do people need Iridium in Pittsburg?
[23.08.2017 14:07:22] Core|APM-Libra-7: I can honestly say that I do not have any knowledge of that sir. We're just delivering what was ordered.
[23.08.2017 14:07:52] H|-Connor.Baker: I see.
[23.08.2017 14:08:14] H|-Connor.Baker: Say, do you know what Harmony is?
[23.08.2017 14:08:29] Core|APM-Libra-7: If the Liberty Navy has any inquiry on our cargo, I advise you contact the APM offices in Omicron Rho
[23.08.2017 14:08:41] Core|APM-Libra-7: Harmony?
[23.08.2017 14:08:47] H|-Connor.Baker: I wouldn't know if the Navy has any inquiry.
[23.08.2017 14:08:51] Core|APM-Libra-7: I can't say that I do
[23.08.2017 14:09:04] Core|APM-Libra-7: I figured you are a navy officer...
[23.08.2017 14:09:24] H|-Connor.Baker: You haven't heard of our battlegroup then?
[23.08.2017 14:09:42] H|-Connor.Baker: I guess we aren't spreading our message well enough.
[23.08.2017 14:10:13] H|-Connor.Baker: We've been exiled from the navy.
[23.08.2017 14:10:31] Core|APM-Libra-7: Forgive my ignorance sir, I'm usually assigned to local runs, rearly to Liberty and/or beyond
[23.08.2017 14:10:41] Core|APM-Libra-7: Exiled?
[23.08.2017 14:11:02] H|-Connor.Baker: Yes, it's a complicated situation.
[23.08.2017 14:11:06] Core|APM-Libra-7: I was actually wondering about this blurry transponder signal of yours...
[23.08.2017 14:11:13] Core|APM-Libra-7: That would explain it
[23.08.2017 14:11:39] H|-Connor.Baker: I've been assigned to divulge our situation to any unaware citizen, if you'd be interested in hearing.
[23.08.2017 14:11:48] Core|APM-Libra-7: I figure your... battlegroup opposes the Navy then?
[23.08.2017 14:11:49] H|-Connor.Baker: Otherwise, I also have some data packets that explain the situation.
[23.08.2017 14:11:58] H|-Connor.Baker: I could give you one of those.
[23.08.2017 14:12:09] H|-Connor.Baker: Yes, we are fighting the Navy.
[23.08.2017 14:12:49] Core|APM-Libra-7: I see - I'd be interrested in some information on the group you are representing
[23.08.2017 14:13:05] Core|APM-Libra-7: I suppose my superiors would too
[23.08.2017 14:13:19] H|-Connor.Baker: Well, I'll try to give you the short version.
[23.08.2017 14:13:30] Core|APM-Libra-7: I'm all ears then.
[23.08.2017 14:14:07] H|-Connor.Baker: Admiral Kight, the lady on charge of our Battlegroup, started to suspect the Navy was infected.
[23.08.2017 14:14:30] H|-Connor.Baker: When she started investigating these claims, we found ourselves being ambushed and attacked by the Navy, forcing us to run.
[23.08.2017 14:14:40] Core|APM-Libra-7: Infected? - that's going to interrest the Guildmasters for sure
[23.08.2017 14:14:45] H|-Connor.Baker: Even the LSF was attacked by the Navy.
[23.08.2017 14:15:20] H|-Connor.Baker: A few months ago, we even encountered a nomad in Liberty.
[23.08.2017 14:15:42] H|-Connor.Baker: We believe it was helping the Navy, as it targetted the Harmony and the Navy seemed to ignore it.
[23.08.2017 14:15:55] H|-Connor.Baker: I can send you some files and footage regarding these incidents, if you'd like.
[23.08.2017 14:15:59] Death: ShockerFace was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
[23.08.2017 14:16:13] Core|APM-Libra-7: You mean the Battleship Harmony?
[23.08.2017 14:16:24] H|-Connor.Baker: Yes, the Battleship Harmony.
[23.08.2017 14:16:41] H|-Connor.Baker: It was attacked by this nomad in Pennsylvania.
[23.08.2017 14:17:00] H|-Connor.Baker: However, the first Navy engagement on our battlegroup was in the New York system.
[23.08.2017 14:17:08] Core|APM-Libra-7: Have you any clue on why the Nomadss targetted the Harmony specifically?
[23.08.2017 14:17:37] H|-Connor.Baker: Our suspicions are that the nomad was helping the Navy get rid of the Harmony.
[23.08.2017 14:17:55] H|-Connor.Baker: If they had managed to take it out, we'd be left scattered.
[23.08.2017 14:18:18] Core|APM-Libra-7: I'm but a simple transport captain, but wouldn't the safer choice be to simply decomission it?
[23.08.2017 14:18:49] H|-Connor.Baker: The Harmony?
[23.08.2017 14:19:19] Core|APM-Libra-7: Aye, would the Navy want it out of service, it could simply retire it
[23.08.2017 14:19:43] Core|APM-Libra-7: And either reasign the crews or let them go - that would be my thought
[23.08.2017 14:20:17] H|-Connor.Baker: Well, you should ask them that. Instead they decided to attack us. I guess that way Admiral Knight would no longer be a threat-
[23.08.2017 14:20:18] H|-Connor.Baker: to them.
[23.08.2017 14:20:42] Core|APM-Libra-7: But still, the intel you provide will most definetly be of interrest to my superiors.
[23.08.2017 14:21:10] H|-Connor.Baker: I'll give you one of our data packages. You can access them via the neuralnet.
[23.08.2017 14:21:14] Core|APM-Libra-7: I shall file a report and make the Guildmasters aware of the Harmony story
[23.08.2017 14:21:19] H|-Connor.Baker: Alternatively, you can just give it to your superiors.
[23.08.2017 14:22:36] Core|APM-Libra-7: Let's see... Semms like the security protocols on my neural net access point is blocking the transfer
[23.08.2017 14:23:03] Core|APM-Libra-7: I fear that I won't be able to receive the files...
[23.08.2017 14:23:11] H|-Connor.Baker: That's a shame.
[23.08.2017 14:23:23] H|-Connor.Baker: Well, I guess if you can inform your superiors, that'll be good enough.
[23.08.2017 14:23:29] Core|APM-Libra-7: Still, the audiologs of the Libra-7 should sufice
[23.08.2017 14:23:53] Core|APM-Libra-7: Thank you for sharing this with us.
[23.08.2017 14:24:02] H|-Connor.Baker: That's what I'm here for.
[23.08.2017 14:24:08] H|-Connor.Baker: Safe skies.
[23.08.2017 14:24:18] Core|APM-Libra-7: I shall continue my route. Godspeed Mr Baker
2. It is of high priority, that our partners at Ageira Innovations have the right image of how serious we consider this venture. Therefore I have accompanied the Quirinus as its commanding officer at several occasions on patrol in Sigma-15, Omicron Rho and Omicron Delta to ensure all convoys carrying vital parts for the docking installations reach their destination safely. During one such run Core operative "Spectre One" halted a Junker frigate trying to sneak past Omicron Rho into Delta and propably Kappa, whithout proper authorization. Despite several attempts, no communication could be stablished. The craft emptied its cargo bay without being asked to, releasing a total of 3094 units of Narcrahtite crystals, a substance known to us, yet still not fully examined by our research divisions due to other, higher priority tasks. Naturally, samples of the ejected cargo were secured, the rest destroyed in accordance with standing protocols.
Suddenly the inspected ship opened fire on "Spectre One" and the Quirinus, engaged drives and crushed into the atmosphere of Nauru - initial surveys reveal that most of it burned in the atmosphere right away, the leftover debris hit the desert on a 30 mile spread, posing no danger to the colony.At this point it is only a wild guess whether it was human failure or a computation error of the nav systems. One way or the other, this Junker was trespassing Core space for the last time.
3. The fact that APM has engaged all of the resources at its disposal for the duration of "Porta Nauru" is best displayed in the fact that I dispatched my flagship, the Sagittarius-3, to conduct reconnaissance throughout Core controlled space. The astrogator in charge reports that a Gammu AI tagged heavy lifter was intercepted supplying Freeport 11 with robotic equipment and terminated on the spot. The troubling part is, that this ship class is known to be used for deployment of modular bases, which would indicate that the AI are in fact about to (or did already!) construct a new installation in this region - propable locations are Omicron Delta, Omicron Lost and Omicron Chi. After the repressurisation of the old Crayter depot in Moros orbit, this would be the second structure operated by Gammu within our jurisdiction. This must not become a prominent symbol, as it strikes at the very heart of the Charter of Omicronis!