To:Communications Hub Sender:Alex Fuchs Origin:Med Bay, Bruchsal Base
Report #001: Radiation in Omega-49
'Tag,
It's Alex. I've managed to recover enough from the Acute Radiation Sickness to be able to report on what on earth happened, but unfortunately I still have to stay in the Med Bay for a bit longer
So I received a comm from Axel saying that the VWA Arsenal had gone and wasn't responding to any hails from him. So I followed him for a while until the ship reached the Omega-49 system, which at that point it stopped and drifted in space.
By the time I had got there, the ship had drifted for quite some time into the Barrier Nebula and I hailed the ship. Nobody in the ship was responding but the turrrets would fire at occasional Corsair rookies who tried to take a pass at it. Axel and I attempted to take down the shields in an attempt to forcefully board the ship but it fired at us. For some reason it let us board anyway after we guessed a password 'rememberzwickau'
After we got onboard the Arsenal we started a search through the ship for any people. Axel and I thought that it was awfully hot for a pitbull on the interior and when we got to the bridge, there was nobody there. I left Axel to do whatever it was he was doing with the console and I continued to search the ship. I checked all the crew's quarters, the cargo bay, the reactor room (which I later learnt was unshielded), the engine room, and the weapons room.
By the time I had gotten to the rescue room Axel had managed to re-activate the disabled radiation and reactor shields (which I didn't realise were de-activated until he turned them on) but we were already suffering from Acute Radiation Sickness. I fell unconscious in the weapons room and I'm not sure what happened until Steve had boarded and gotten me rad meds which I am extremely grateful for.
The Arsenal is now on Leipzig (which I strongly opposed), Axel is recovering on Zwickau, and I assume Steve is on Bruchsal.
I'm just not sure how the ship got there by itself. Where was the pilot on the ship? And why were all the systems disabled?
