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Colonel Redfire here.

The mission within the Nomad worlds has been a success...kind of...

We got the information we came for but we paid a hefty price for it, but you will see that it is well worth the trouble.

It is a very dangerous information however, it is of out-most importance that it does not slip away to the wrong ears.

Steps must be taken to ensure our safety as a group, but also the safety of the mankind is in peril.

We must discuss the course of actions that we will take in detail, but here is the report:

I started by heading over to the Barrier Gate to prepare my ship for the Omicrons.

There, I met an Order agent named Kalh, a commander of a Osiris vessel.

The commander informed me that his group has gathered information of a large number of Nomads gathering in Liberty.

Yes, you got that right, there are actual Nomads within Liberty right now, and according to Kalh, they are in large enough numbers to convince a secret organization to send nothing less than an Osiris to investigate.

We gathered around the Exodus and just as we were about to start the mission, we were met by two ships from a group named D9.

This is where it gets weird, they claimed to be LSF, but I know LSF from my history in Liberty and they did not act like LSF at all.

Not to mention, they later engaged a Crayter vessel in Coronado for no apparent reason, however we were just exiting a jump hole when it happened so I might have missed a few details there.

As if that wasn't enough, my scanner viewed them as hostile, I am not hostile to the LSF.

A closer scan indicated that there were actually two life forms aboard each fighter, but I could not detect the second one, this might be why they showed up as hostile on my radar.

Could be some kind of scrambling mechanism to throw hostiles off guard? I was going to believe that option if I didn't meet D9 in the Nomad home system!

If this isn't proof of the Nomads infiltrating our colonies, I don't know what is.

And this is just a single division that I discovered to be working with the Nomads, if D9 is involved with the Nomads, how many are there that we are not aware of?

But we did not go all the way into the Omicrons to prove that Nomads are infiltrating us, rumors of Nomad infiltration have been in circulation since the Nomad War.

This is what we came for.

This is an actual, fully functional jump gate leading straight into the Nomad homesystem.

Why is this such an important discovery? Because there is a network of inactive trade lanes connecting the jump gate to an empty area in the Omicron Minor nebula.

This area has been cleaned of asteroids and space debris, and the trade lanes do not appear to be functional yet.

This is a clear sign of expansion, if the Nomads cleared an area within the nebula, and laid a trade lane network leading straight to it, I assume they are planning to build something there, something big.

We went through the gate, and once we exited on the other side, we found ourselves in the Nomad home system.

Looking around, I spotted a whole group of similar jump gates, so I took Jimmy with me to explore, and left the rest of our group behind to guard our exit should things go wrong.

Up until this point, we haven't encountered a single Nomad.

Like they just vanished, Jimmy said they were watching us and preparing a trap, and I must congratulate Jimmy again for his instincts. He could not be more right.

I'll get to that in a bit.

First, me and Jimmy headed to the jump gates to get scans on them, I wish I didn't.

Prepare yourselves:

My scans(//warning: adult language detected) indicate that each jump gate leads straight into one of the major colonies, except for Gallia.

My biggest fears have been confirmed, the jump gates were active as-well.

I tried to jump through one but it didn't let me, as if it knew I was not a Nomad.

If these things can lead Nomads straight into our colonies, then it means that Kalh was correct, there may very well be a large gathering of Nomads within Liberty.

Back in Omicron Minor we all had our suspicions that the large structures leading to the empty spot in the nebula were trade lanes, in preparation for an expansion.

Our suspicions were confirmed when Jimmy found actual, active, Nomad lanes within their home system.

We didn't manage to get any further within the system before the Nomads started to swarm all over us.

We found the same type of Predator that we encountered back in Omega 3.

I managed to get some scans of it's composition and closer details of it's shape before we got attacked.

As soon as the entire system started to rain down on us, I ordered a retreat.

This is where taking Exodus with us paid off.

Thanks to Sullivan we all made it back alive.

Me and Exodus were going to stay behind and provide cover fire while the rest made it out, but the Jump gate started spinning our ships instead of letting us through, effectively making us cannon fodder.

We aborted the docking sequence and took shelter aboard the Exodus.

I can't tell what exactly happened during the chaos, but we lost comms with Jack Burton and Wallace, they got hit the worst.

Finally, Exodus managed to escape through the jump gate with our guys aboard, but the Nomads pursued and Exodus got wrecked, again.

We managed to drag the fatally damaged vessel to limp back to the nearest friendly base which was Freeport 9 in Theta.

If it wasn't for Exodus' thick walls and intricate Zoner inner design, we might have never made it out.

But we got what we came for.

We are already late to take action.
This is no longer an option.

It's not a matter of if, it's only a matter of when the Nomads will strike at the colonies, and this time we may not have an Edison Trent to save us.

We must make allegiances with the Order, and if it will not be the Order, then other groups specialized in Nomad research.

The participants of this mission have more than earned their pay.

Engineer Wallace, Jack Burton, good old Jimmy, Exodus without which we might have never returned, and if I left anyone out, feel free to make yourself known.

You have all done an excellent job. I could've not asked for more.

Especially you Jimmy, considering you never saw anything remotely like this before. You handled yourself great.

And Wallace, good thinking taking that repair ship. Without your expertise, our mission would've lasted much shorter.

Redfire out.