Captain's Log: 20 October 822 A.S.
J. Scott, Commanding Officer SS-Endeavor, Corvo Class Science Ship
The Endeavor arrived safely in New York yesterday and experienced no issues on the journey from Provence. Once in New York we encountered the IRG|Spartan at Norfolk Shipyard. While the ship looks like a rusted bucket of bolts she seems to be quite capable. At the request of Captain Vega of the Spartan we accompanied his ship to Bethlehem Station in the Pennsylvania system to assist in a data transfer. Other than a few rogue vessels the journey to Pennsylvania and back was quite uneventful.
After conversing at Norfolk for a bit Captain Vega said that he needed to depart for Freeport 2, since the Endeavor had a cargo due for Austin in the Texas system I decided to accompany the Spartan on their journey. This was made more prudent do to the presence of a Rogue Scylla between Norfolk and the Texas gate.
Once in the Texas system the Endeavor began experiencing intermittent disruption of our navigational controls which eventually led to losing all manual control. I disengaged manual control and set a course for Austin using the auto pilot. While on Austin I completely shut down all power to the Endeavor's computer systems and rebooted them in hopes of fixing the navigational error. Once our cargo was unloaded we met up with the Spartan in space to continue the journey to Freeport 2.
After a quick systems check it seemed like navigational control was functional again, however, it only remained functional for a few moments and we again lost manual control of the ship. Captain Vega came up with a plan to get us to Freeport 2 that actually worked quite well. We would establish a link with the VI on the Spartan and allow the VI to pilot both ships. Other than a couple of glitches when entering trade lanes the Spartacus VI did an excellent job in getting our ship to Freeport 2.
We are still experiencing intermittent navigational failures and as of yet have not determined a cause for it. I believe that the data transfer yesterday may have caused some unintended problems with our computer systems, but until my chief engineer finishes his diagnostics we can't be sure. For the mean time I am going to keep the ship in the New York system while we sort this out. I don't want to be in a situation where I may find myself in combat and I can't even turn the ship. While the ships navigation systems are being repaired I have ordered a complete overhaul of our weapons systems. The Endeavor now carries a full load out of Ceberus and Battle Razor turrets. This upgrade should be more than enough to discourage most would be attackers.
Captain's Log: 20 October 822 A.S.
J. Scott, Commanding Officer SS-Endeavor, Corvo Class Science Ship
I'm not even certain how to start this. While in the New York system we came upon a battle between the HF, A/ and the Liberty Navy ship LN-Dreadnaught-Aby. The Aby had sustained critical damage and announced to all parties in the battle that the Endeavor's medical bays were standing by to receive casualties. Within a couple of minutes the Aby without warning or provocation unleashed the entirety of it's weapons systems and attacked my vessel. To have a Liberty Navy Dreadnaught attack a civilian ship without any reason is shocking to say the least. Luckily we we were able to get the shields up and take evasive maneuvers before we sustained any critical damage. I held off returning fire thinking that the Aby had mistakenly fired upon our ship, however, the dreadnaught continued to fire upon my ship. I had no choice but to return fire and engage the vessel with the Endeavor's compliment of Cerberus cannons and battle razors destroying the attacking ship.
Once the Aby was destroyed I immediately ordered the crew to begin retrieving the surviving crewmen of the Aby and to administer medical assistance. Once we retrieved the remaining crew we delivered them to West Point for further medical treatment. It is unknown at this time whether or not the captain of the LN-Dreadnaught-Aby was among those that we retrieved.
-----UPDATE----
It would appear that the Captain of the Aby was not among the wounded. Moments after making this log entry a Liberty Navy Gunboat named Aby-Fighter reentered the fight. I can only assume that this is the same Captain that tried to destroy my ship earlier. I will not give her another chance to do so and will be filing a formal complaint with the authorities in Liberty.
-----UPDATE----
The Endeavor has just encountered the Captain of the Aby again at Planet Manhattan. Our vessel was again fired upon but as her gunboat's weapons posed no threat we did not return fire. The entire encounter and subsequent transmissions were strange and after consulting with the ships doctor I believe that she may have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Captain's Log: 2 November 822 A.S.
J. Scott, Commanding Officer SS-Endeavor, Corvo Class Science Ship
My crew and I encountered multiple Nomad vessels and structures today in Omicron Delta that were previously unknown to me. We arrived in Omicron Delta to investigate the Rosa Anomaly and the abandoned Santa Rosa Depot that was stationed near the anomaly. Intelligence reports that we gathered stated that there was potentially valuable equipment on the station, but there was no indication as to what type of equipment it was.
Once we arrived in Delta we saw the Bustard Light Cruiser The.Salvager in orbit near the Freeport. Having previously encountered this ship and had good relations with her Captain we decided to group up to search for the station. Liz was able to locate the station very quickly and sent it's location to the Endeavor. Unfortunately when we arrived to the station it was in an automatic lock down mode and there was no way for us to dock on the station. Since the lock down seemed to be on a timer I took some time to study the anomaly in more detail.
Not long after arriving at the station multiple ships of various factions began showing up, Order, Core, Corsairs, Outcasts, Zoners, and a few others. For a moment I thought it was going to be a blood bath as all the factions that are hostile towards each other were gathered in a single place with a potentially very valuable prize in front of them. Before they could even think about fighting against themselves dozens of Nomad ships de-cloaked and immediately engaged all of the human ships. There were Battleships, Cruisers, Gunboats, Fighters, Bombers, and new type of nomad ship with some type of previously un-encountered beam weapon. The Endeavor took heavy damage from to the secondary hull from these beam weapons and I immediately left the area and headed to the Freeport to make emergency repairs.
Once repairs were made I returned to the anomaly to reengage the Nomad forces, however, this time we managed to avoid the beam weapons and the Endeavor was fairing much better in this battle. Once it seemed our rag tag human fleet might actually beat the Nomad forces an extremely powerful Nomad ship designated Ish'Tar class de-cloaked and began picking off the human capital ships one by one. Multiple Zoner colony ships and Core battlecruisers were lost at the hand of this beast and it looked like it was going to single handily destroy the human fleet.
Luckily the Ish'Tar vanished just as quickly as it had appeared leaving only a few Nomad capital ships and gunboats left to engage our fleet. The Endeavor sniped as many vessels as possible while trying to stay out of range of the Nomad battleships, however, one battleship was able to get in close and unleashed a horrendous volley on our ship. Within seconds our shields and batteries were depleted and we were taking heavy damage to the ships armor. I immediately ordered the ship to take evasive action and engage the cruise engines to get us out of range of the Nomad ship. Once out of range we made repairs and used the remainder of our nanobots to repair the damage to the Endeavor's systems. Knowing that we could not sustain another attack like that I decided to keep the ship within sensor range of the battle, but out of range of any weapons fire.
After Zoner reinforcements arrived the fleet was able to defeat the remaining Nomad ships and secure the station. I thought that once our common enemy was defeated that the various factions would return to trying to kill themselves, however, they seemed too interested in the potential treasure aboard Santa Rosa Depot to care much for each other.
After what seemed like hours the station indicated that it would be removing the automatic lockdown within 10 minutes so I took the Endeavor into a position near the station to prepare to dock. I did not want any potentially valuable research to fall into the hands of groups like the Core who would just attempt to turn it in to a weapon. Before the station could unlock the scanners began picking up massive energy readings nearby that indicated the presence of an overloading Nomad Reactor. Visual observation confirmed that readings were emanating from clearly unstable Nomad Reactor so immediately diverted all power to the weapons and shields and attempted to get as much distance between us and the reactor as possible before it overloaded and destroyed everything around it. We managed to get some distance away before the reactor exploded and saved the ship. However, Santa Rosa Station, the anomaly, and everything else within a radius of 10KM of the reactor were instantly destroyed by the reactor.
Fearing another possible attack from the Nomads I set course towards the Freeport again and encountered another Nomad entity designation Destiny's Eye. This was unlike anything I have ever encountered or even heard of before. It was not really a ship but more like a sentient Nebula. It seemed to just fly around as if it were curious about us. Despite the risks I attempted to follow this entity and learn as much about it as possible. We repeatedly scanned the entity and attempted to communicate with it, however, we were unable to gather any useful information about it.
Several of the ships around the Freeport attacked the entity causing it to change shape and instantly destroy every ship that it came into contact with. I urged the others not to attack it since it was clearly only destroying the ships that attacked it and ignoring the others. However, out of fear many more ships attacked it and were subsequently destroyed by the entity. Before we could gather any additional information about this entity it just dissipated like a cloud of steam.
It will be months before we can scour through all of the data collected on this day and I fear this maybe a prelude to a much larger problem. If the Nomads attacked a populated house system with what we encountered today they could destroy entire planets within seconds.
Captain's Log: 24 April 825 A.S.
J. Scott, Commanding Officer SS-Endeavor, Corvo Class Science Ship
It has been some time since I have published anything in my official log book. The Endeavor has been docked at Corinth Research Station in Omicron Kappa for many months while our scientists collaborated with Zoner scientists on recent discoveries.
Since our collaboration at this stage of the research has been concluded I set a course for the New York system to change out crew members and to give the crewmen that are staying aboard the ship some much needed R&R after such a long and arduous expedition into the Omicrons. While docked at Baltimore Shipyard having routine maintenance performed on the Endeavor I received word from my contacts in Gallia that a massive battle was about to take place in the Orkney system near Ft. Albi.
Since the Endeavor has a fully equipped medical unit and can function as a hospital ship if needed I made the decision to leave the New York system and set an immediate course for the Orkney system. When we arrived in the vicinity of Ft Albi there was debris from ships everywhere, and there was still heavy fighting in the area from Capital ships and fighters.
To prevent being attacked ourselves I sent multiple system wide broadcasts stating that we were a neutral vessel and there on a mission of mercy to rescue as many wounded as possible. Despite the chaos of the battle all sides of the fight gave us safe passage while we retrieved injured crewman from Gallic, Bretonian, and Council vessels.
All told we were able to transfer nearly 300 wounded crewmen aboard the Endeavor for triage and treatment. Many injuries were too severe even for our advanced medical facilities so we stabilized as many patients as possible before transporting them to a base of their Allied faction.
While I abhor war and it's effects I am extremely proud of my crew for flying into the midst of battle and saving as many lives as they did. We took no sides in this fight other than the side of humanity and my hope is that one day those involved in this terrible battle will come together in peace.