George Davids

[monmarfori]

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Name: George Davids
Entry Date: May 10, 829 AS
Subject: Happenings in Kepler

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Kepler visit: The last time I left Liberty for good, Kepler was a fine system. Nothing too bleak or dangerous, except for some dark pockets outside the trade lanes.

This time, however, it was different. To my surprise, Kepler's become a shrouded mess of mystery. Initial scans into the dark matter cloud revealed some anomalies, though much of the data is corrupted, probably due to signal interference. The only thing that's certain was an eerie, but hard-to-perceive, presence. Thankfully, Ames somehow managed to withstand all of the effects of the dark matter cloud.

Upon my arrival, there was a Hacker who went by the callsign Hoarfrost. Didn't believe in my claim about the presence of some Liberty tech deep in the cloud, but I may as well attribute that to the signal interference. After convincing him of the possible Nomad presence, someone by the callsign Gossamer showed up. This one proceeded to doubt the Order's fundamental aspects, even going as far as "reasoning" with the Nomads. I'll add this one to my personal "Person of Interest" list, in case any further development occurs.

My primary purpose here is to investigate the strange happenings in Kepler and find any credible links that may explain all of these.

Hearsay: Hoarfrost talked about some hybrid half alien, half machine that intruded the perimeter near Ames, whose description corresponds to the known "Scorpion"-class warforms. By immediately recognizing the threat it posed, it soon became clear that there were indeed hostile entities, lurking somewhere in the dark matter cloud. Luckily, the Nubia, being a "Hathor"-class gunboat, was suited to the task; it had all the equipment needed to deal with these warforms.

Interestingly, to my surprise, a vessel identified as belonging to the Auxo appeared within Ames, but it had made no attempts to initiate hostilities towards the Nubia and its crew. A group of other Hackers, as well as a Rogue, came to join the already-swelling number. Eventually, due to the increasingly volatile situation, with accusations thrown around, I had the Nubia docked at Ames.

Oh, and I almost forgot. Hoarfrost also told me about a group known as "Section 8", which seemed to be an Order cell investigating the same thing as the Nubia does currently. I might look into that, sometime in the near future.

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