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• The Alaska system has several interstellar connections. Two jump gates, one of which leads to Virginia, and the other of which we believe to be the old gate to the Liberty core worlds, and a jump hole to Virginia. [ Attachment: Image ]
  
• The system contains several long stretches of navigational buoys and trade lane construction sites, all of which are absolutely covered in weapons platforms. They are equipped with standard turrets as well as some particularly nasty missile launchers.
  
• The battleship Minneapolis is stationed down the path from the Virginia jump gate. There is a trade lane under construction to the south. There is a second path to the north of navigational buoys. [ Attachment: Image ]
  
• The northern path ends at some kind of incredibly large jump gate, possibly related to the ones that were built between Liberty and Bretonia for the counter-attack against the Royal Navy. It did not appear to be powered up or active in any way. [ Attachment: Image ]
  
• I estimate that the lane south from the Minneapolis to be at least halfway built. At its southern terminus, a gaudy Ageira facility called Prudhoe Skunk Works has been built. It didn't seem to see me, but I immediately moved for the cover of the Alaska nebula. [ Attachment: Image ]
  
• The far end of the other half-built trade lane from Prudhoe Skunk Works is a shipyard with the battleship Carcassone in one of its drydocks. It was partially powered up, with IFF and AIS transponders running. AIS for the shipyard identified it as Juneau. [ Attachment: Image ]
  
• The return trip to our staging area was... eventful. Thank God for the cloak on the Neue Regel. [ Attachment: Image ]
  
• After getting nice and far out of scanner range of... that, I disabled the cloaking device, re-enabled comms, and caught a whiff of some DSE transport broadcasting. No visual or thermal identification, just a name and their poor operational security. [ Attachment: Image ]