First Darkness, Last Dawn

[Inferno]

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[Entry Date]: 3-3-824
[Asset]: Cpt. J. Eclipse Milford
[Subject]: Shadows

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I know not what happened to Humanity while we have slept. The voids, dark, and the ship, alone.

There is one fleeting hope, however, that is keeping the crew animate: The Confederation of Freeports. When we left for the Cassiopeia sector, there was only three, four of the Freeports active. Now there are over nine. The progress the Confederation has made astonishes me, but it does not explain what happened to these sectors of old, this 'Omicron Kappa', or this talk of 'The Core'. That matters not, right now.

Adrift, testing scanner systems within the Awakened sector, there was a signal picked up. Unknown, we were unaware of what it could have been. Then it emerged. This large... I honestly don't know what to call it. It was a large ship, with a front, a large spike, and the end, one engine. I could swear it looked like a heavily modified Overlord, from Liberty's fleets. No one moved, but the hulking mass silently slipped by, before... disappearing from all existence. No signal, no visual sight. Everyone was astonished, such a vessel moving through reality without being seen. We are collecting plasma from the local Class G stellar body right now, apparently an outdated tactic. The Uncovering party spoke about powercores that were so efficient, that one wouldn't need to scoop from stellar bodies, because the vessel collected the plasma passively. The engineers do not know if our aging Jinkusu could posses that ability. All a matter of finding out.

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