(05-10-2010, 04:16 PM)Stoat Wrote: Been getting lots of reports filtering in from our hunters stationed on the freeport in Omega-3. Seems like the Wilde are getting more active recently. One report from a couple of days back lists three Hegemons taken out, and a Molly gunboat heavily damaged by a single vessel.

There's also reports of them being seen in Cambridge, Dublin, New London and Leeds recently. Even the BAF have reports concerning "unidentified vessels" attacking military targets in Newcastle.

There's rumours that some of the attacks are coming from the Chester system. I've sent out a couple of remote probes, but they've been lost. The complete lack of any data coming back has me suspicious. I think a manned sortie into the area might be required. Just gotta get some data from the BAF first.

(05-11-2010, 10:49 AM)Stoat Wrote: My initial foray into Chester has proven inconclusive. Planet Shirley is a dead end. There's no way anything could be basing itself from there. Jumping through to Newcastle lands in the middle of nowhere. While attacks could be originating from Newcastle, it seems unlikely. The BAF, I am sure, would be hard pressed to withold information of that nature, although the hostilities with Kusari certainly provide them with a suitable blanket to hide things under, should the mood take them.

No, my suspicions lead me towards the nebula towards the outer reaches of the Chester system. As I headed in that direction all my sensors went red. There's something in that field, and it's generating a massive field of some sort. I turned back without getting closer. My Manta just isn't a ship to carry out risky surveying in. On my return to Leeds I accessed all the data the Bretonians have on Chester. It seems the survey ships never got to the edges of the system. With Shirley being the only body there, and the insane emissions coming from the nebula, it seems a decision was made to withdraw until such time as suitable surveying equipment could be developed. Again, the war with Kusari has put all this on hold, if not discarded completely.

It looks like I'll have to assemble a team from the guild for this. My initial enquiries to the Core have been met with favourable interest as well.

(05-14-2010, 02:05 PM)Stoat Wrote: The Core have agreed to send One of their Moray wing, Piranha, along to assist in a recon mission into the nebula in Chester. I'm still waiting to hear back from Sheffield as to who's available to assist. Bloody red tape, I can't even escape it as a damn guildmaster. I can see this is going to be another last minute job.

(07-13-2010, 10:43 AM)Stoat Wrote: Finally got through all the red tape.

Three of us took a long look at Chester. There's something there alright. Energy and radiation signatures went off the charts as we approached the nebula. In the end I'm glad we waited for the enhanced armour panels to be fitted to our ships. Going into that nebula with anything less would have been suicide. As it is, all our ships took extensive radiation damage, and the hulls are heavily scored and pitted. Some of the damage reminds me of acidic attack. There was nothing obvious from our scans of the area, but maybe the techs can find something in the samples we took.

What really interests me though is the structure we discovered in the centre of the nebula. We're still waiting to see what can be recovered from the guncam and senor logs, but whatever it was, it was huge. Seemed to be shaped like some kind of donut, of all things. All sorts of weird stuff started happening as we approached. Power fluctuations, static charge build up, hell I even had St Elmo's Fire flashing around the antennae on my Bottlenose. It was nigh on impossible to get any sort of lock on the structure to scan it properly, and with what was happening to our power arrays, I'm not sure we'll get anything useful back anyway.

Whatever the structure is, it's not something that's been built by human hands, of that I am sure.

(07-16-2010, 08:59 AM)Stoat Wrote: Well, the technicians have done their thing, sure enough. They were able to retrieve a dozen or so images, of varying quality, from my Bottlenose.



What I'd forgotten was the presence of those nomad patrols. Could this structure be some sort of base? A far flung outpost of the old city in Newcastle perhaps? Whatever it may be, I can only venture supposition at this point, but it is certainly not dead like the Newcastle city is supposed to be. Whatever is going on in Bretonia, I am becoming more and more certain that it is originating from here. I must forward this data to the Core, I think. No doubt the Core operative that flew with me has data of his own, but given the damage my Bottlenose sustained, I wonder if any of his data survived.

I also feel I must approach the BAF about this. With the research that has already been done in Newcastle, they could undoubtedly provide information that might yet prove invaluable to the Guild.

(11-05-2010, 02:24 PM)Stoat Wrote: Sleepless nights. How many more sleepless nights? I awaken to sweat-soaked sheets, and a sense of foreboding, but no memory of the dreams that must be plaguing me. I have even taken to recording myself sleeping. I have no idea what I hoped to achieve in doing so. Maybe some understanding of the terrors I can only suppose stalk my imagination, yet I lie there, seemingly untroubled. Does this all stem from my recce into the Chester system? The feelings certainly coincide, yet I recall no event that might have triggered such. I am at a loss to explain it to myself. Perhaps I should.......................