RECEIVER ID : NCC Ministry of Economy and Commerce
SOURCE : NCC Transport Ship Atlantis - In travel through Amarus Cloud, Omicron Theta.
NCC Trader Chief Captain Julius Hansen
*The face of the man in the image suddenly moves away from the camera lens*
Eeeeeh... Is this working? Yes? Oh Deux, finally...
*He takes a seat and tries to fit himself into the image*
Greetings, Monsignor Richelieu, or whoever is listening to me.
I'm afraid I've very bad news. 4 days ago, I was in command of the trade ship Asmodeus, while returning from a commercial voyage in the Bretonia area. We were passing through Omicron Delta, on our way to Freeport 11, when our radars began to beep at an unknown strange presence, with the size of a gunship. In a few minutes we were overtaken by that thing, and I could see it from the bridge. It was one of those shiny blue monsters that appear in the Sacred Machina Codex, the same ones that the clerics show us in the ceremonies in the Temple. This Nomad bastards...
Everything happened at full speed. Those of us who were on the bridge began to hear some kind of... transmission, but I could swear it was coming at the same time from the speakers and inside our own heads... It was saying things... I can barely remember it, but... Yeah! It called us blasphemous! This aberration, to us, can you imagine...? And its words... were full of hate.
*The man runs his hands over his face*
I lunged at the helm and tried to escape, but it was impossible. That thing threw... something at us, which turned off our cruise motor. I collapsed to the ground while the alarms were ringing, and we heard the impacts of the shots on the hull... You can call them shots, right? Because those things shoot, although I don't really know what, or how they do it... I don't even know how I got up from there, but we ran to the escape pods, and I think it was just in time because there was a big explosion just before we ejected.
23 of the 30 crew members of the Asmodeus were able to escape, the rest were left behind when the ship decompressed through holes in the hull. The capsules cryostasis system worked well, and the emergency beacons were turned on, so yesterday we were rescued by the Atlantis, which was traveling the same trade route as us.
We survivors are relatively well and are recovering from the cryo symptoms, but it turns out that here there are also 26 survivors of the merchant ship Holy Cargo Hold, that were collected in their escape pods by the Atlantis three days ago. I don't know if you remember that Holy Cargo Hold disappeared about a week ago. Well, its captain, Mr. Jack Cucumbell, has told us that his ship was destroyed by a monster similar to the one that attacked us, in Omicron Theta, next to the Omega 41 jump hole. His story is frankly identical to ours, and it's terrifying to say that if those monsters were next to the Omega 41 jump, they are getting much closer to home than we thought.
We're all heading towards Pygar right now, we hope to arrive in two days maximum. We have the coordinates where the wrecks of the Holy Cargo Hold and the Asmodeus are located. From what the Atlantis crew says, we believe that both ships can be recoverable if a team of technicians and engineers is sent to reseal the holes and restart the engines. I hope they can do it, those ships are damn expensive. In any case, I will submit a written report upon my arrival.
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