Cheating ghosts: The account of Captain Lutz Gilger, Project Angurvadal.

[Enkidu]

To blow away your problems

Marinenachrichtendienst
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Service drones log: All active drones sent to outer hull pathfinding duty.

Notes: Crew reports headaches behind compartments two through three. Rotating civilian personnel. The skeleton has been exfiltrated and is unidentifiable – compartmental entombment connotes a construction casualty. The walls in this section are plastic-wrapped ceramic, as are the pressure doors. Odd. Density is heavily inconsistent. Civilians occupied drilling samples.

The migranes are spreading. We are well beyond the limits of what would be conventionally described as a “safe” magnetic field exposure, yet the biomedical import of such an exposure has never been sufficiently explained. Electromagnetic hypersensitivity is something of a wives tale, a conspiracy theory the millennia have done well to debunk. Yet, here we are. I have not experienced any personal effects, yet the effect on the crew is obvious. We must tread lightly – I am not such a neophyte at inter-agency politics not to realise that reports of inexplicable medical issues without evidence of cause would result in anything other than a degrading re-assignment and the devestiture of the project at large.

I have ordered a hold on manual inspection of the vessel till logical cause-effect chains can be appropriately analysed. We conceive that the threat is resultant from the presence of black mould growth within the air conditioning conduits deeper within the vessel. The ship once carried a large number of hydroponics supplies and any support environment will eventually degrade. Whilst the contaminant concentration remains too insignificant to raise chemical concern, we cannot assume environmental consistency. This is not my first shipwreck.

Outside, the engineering teams have been working furiously to bolt the cannons to the primary hardpoints. The procedure has been…. More rapid than expected. As apparent from previous systems analysis, whoever designed the vessel has not bound themselves by the architecture restraints usually found within large spacecraft; the ability to scavenge components has outweighed the need for compatibility regulation. Nonewithstanding, I will not unduly strain the vessel with an operational test. It is my hope that the cannons, rather than operating as any viable defence system, will provide an efficacious, if crude, manner of bleeding the vessel's excessive energy production.


I hope the heavens do not deem me hasty.

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