Expedition: Brown Dwarf, Poole System

[TheKusari]

Research Team, '\S/'Arcturus Research Expedition Report on Brown Dwarf within the Poole System Report was compiled on 27 / 7 / 830AS Getting a response from the Armed Forces was quite a surprise. I would have thought that their time would have been used protecting the Kingdom, not answering messages from us. In any case, my request to have points of interest given to us was answered. Jacob McIntire told me about Planet Leeds and the Brown Dwarf, alongside other location scattered around Bretonia. These will be added to the list, aside from Leeds. That is one place I will not touch as it is the biggest graveyard in Sirius. Onto the subject at hand, I flew all the way from Liberty to Bretonia, passing by the Ice Fields of Cortez. Here is another location that made me want to look into further, scanners picked up a certain variant of Ice location close by to the star. I made a record of this and continued into Bretonia. Passing through New London and into Dublin, decided to take the rift into Poole as I wanted to take the scenic route while I had the time to wait out the travel. Once we had arrived, two things stood out to me. There was an Orbital liner situated next to Broadstone. There is no indication of what this system offers regarding pleasing the senses, maybe a question for Orbital at a later time. The second object, the reason why we are out here in the fringes of Bretonia, The Brown Dwarf. Never in my history with the Starfliers have I observed and recorded data on a rare star type. With this in mind, the team got to work and started probing and scanning all the different elements and layers of the star. Placing the Arcturus at 5,000 meters from the Brown Dwarf, I set the scanning suite to the Starflier-Alpha preset, dialing in the input radar to about 40* to match the star's size. Diameter of the receiver was set to maximum. The switch was flipped and we started gathering the data. Our systems began overloading when as soon as we started recording the data. The team shut down the sensor suite to assess what went wrong. We looked over the data recorded over the few seconds and re-assessed our presets and settings. There was one thing we did not account for, the extremely large infrared outburst of the Brown Dwarf. Once we doubled our input radar to 80* and set the preset to Starflier-Beta, we reinitialized our suite. This time, our databanks were filling up at the same rate as normal, pulling information from every corner of the star itself. The infrared outburst was not overloading our systems, however it did take up at most 64% of the recorded information. There are a small percentage of Brown Dwarfs discovered a very long time ago during our time in the Sol system where they would emit radio signals. A minute change to the sensitive higher frequency array picked up emission pulses originating from the magnetic poles of this particular Brown Dwarf. It would be very interesting to compare my findings with the star we had discovered in the Puerto Rico system, perhaps that star does not emit radio pulses. We will need to record data on it once we have the opportunity to. During the tail end of out 32 hour research venture we started to question the colour of the star. It is named a "Brown Dwarf" however the visible light the star emits is within the red spectrum. After analyzing the star more, the temperature of the star is a large influence of it's colour. The sensors reading on the temperature guage show it around the 1,000 Kelvin range. With having no other reference to base my next theory from, I can only assume that the visible light and internal elements of the star would change significantly is the temperature was a lot warmer or colder. Given that stars outlast humans in every aspect, I will not be around to record any significant change once it does happen. One main thing I have learned so far is that if we under-dialed our suite for a specific subject, or over-dialed, we would not record the quality data we are after. Similar to the principle of capturing video footage of fire with cameras. If you have it dialed in correctly, then you get the best result. This may mean we will need to contact other organizations to bet some idea of how to penetrate the smog cloud of Leeds. Maybe another of our pilots are able to command another M.R.V. of ours and investigate the devastated planet.

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The Starfliers are the best faction.

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