SENDER:Cadet William Realtak RECIPIENT:5th Fleet High Command LOCATION:Norfolk Shipyard, New York ENCRYPTION:Omega SUBJECT:Field report PRIORITY:High
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Command,
During a patrol in the New York system, I encountered an LSF agent codenamed "Firefly" addressing an issue with a malfunctioning drone, registered to Bristol Constructions, that was attacking a Junker ship. The drone, marked as ERR:NULL, was disabled, and shortly afterward, Agent Firefly requested assistance in locating a Rogue combat vessel that had been harassing traders in the system. With the arrival of reinforcements from the LNS-Astoria, we were able to force the rogue gunboat to retreat.
Following the operation, I returned to the Norfolk Shipyard and met with a senior LSF agent codenamed =LSF=Comanche. During our conversation, an Ageira convoy consisting of the ATS-Newport.News and the RAR|RV-Quark arrived, aiming to extract exotic materials. The convoy was without escorts, so both Agent Comanche and I accompanied them into Zone-Twenty-One and subsequently, the Earhart system.
While in the Earhart system, Senior agent Comanche was recalled by high command, leaving me as the sole escort for the convoy. Despite the unsettling aura of the system, I engaged in casual conversation with the radio officer aboard the ATS-Newport.News. During our exchange, an unidentified vessel appeared on my fighter's sensors.
Visual identification confirmed the vessel as a Geb-class battlecruiser, designated CV-Montu. When questioned, the captain denied any affiliation with the Order and refused to answer further questions regarding the vessel's origins. However, he was open to discussing the significance of our current location and its implications for the sector's future. He claimed that Ageira's experiments with jump gate technology had destabilized the fabric of space, leading to anomalies that is Earhart system, and advised the immediate destruction of related technologies. I have included the conversation logs with the captain, who seemed potentially unstable, in the attachment below.
Despite the unsettling encounter, the CV-Montu did not interfere with the Ageira convoy, which successfully reached its station in Texas without further disturbances.
5th|William.Realtak: I will be staying with you guys.
ATS-Newport.News: James: Good to hear.
5th|William.Realtak: So, This place anything weird happens here?
ATS-Newport.News: James: Well.. I've never seen that thing before.
CV-Montu: V: 'And I've never seen a talking trashcan before.'
CV-Montu: V: 'Oh, wait. That's an actual ship. Sorry, you looked like one of those Junker liner things from a distance.'
5th|William.Realtak: Is that an order ship?
ATS-Newport.News: James: I don't know
CV-Montu: V: 'Where?
5th|William.Realtak: A funny guy are you?
CV-Montu: V: 'I'm being serious. Where?'
CV-Montu: V: 'You see Or-durr, I get antsy.'
5th|William.Realtak: Aren't you with them?
CV-Montu: V: 'Fuck no.'
ATS-Newport.News: James: Who.. Are you with..?
5th|William.Realtak: Well how in the hell did you get a hand on a Geb class?
5th|William.Realtak: Pink keep 3k away from it
CV-Montu: V: 'That's need-to-know, and you don't.'
5th|William.Realtak: Wasp cd.
ATS-Newport.News: hes 7.2k away
5th|William.Realtak: Then what are you doing here?
ATS-Newport.News: even so, i can out thrust
CV-Montu: V: 'Investigating.'
5th|William.Realtak: Investigating this place but what about it?
CV-Montu: V: 'How it's connected, obviously.'
5th|William.Realtak: So got any clues about it?
CV-Montu: V: 'There's whisps of rumor here. I'm not sure for certain, but I'm certain there's something.'
5th|William.Realtak: There is something here for sure.
5th|William.Realtak: But do you know what that something is?
5th|William.Realtak: IDK man is rp-ing
CV-Montu: V: 'It's something, that's for sure.'
[OOC] 5th|William.Realtak: SRP geb.
CV-Montu: V: 'And it surely is something.'
[OOC] 5th|William.Realtak: Freelancer
CV-Montu: V: 'But what are /you/ doing here, is the real something.'
CV-Montu: V: 'You lot typically cling to your big trade lanes and huts of civilization.'
CV-Montu: V: 'This place has neither; Nay, it's the antithesis.'
5th|William.Realtak: Well I am just staying here enjoying the view.
CV-Montu: V: 'You have a clear deathwish, then.'
CV-Montu: V: 'I can respect that.'
5th|William.Realtak: Well I can respect a person that owns a Geb.
CV-Montu: V: 'You should. Some of my guns are bigger than your ship.'
5th|William.Realtak: Yea that part is clear.
5th|William.Realtak: So what is the plan here.
5th|William.Realtak: Just looking for something?
CV-Montu: V: 'We've been performing scans since we entered.'
CV-Montu: V: 'So far, it's very telling that there's something here.'
CV-Montu: V: 'The debris all tells a story.'
ATS-Newport.News: James: I think there's dust on the window, dust from the Dallas Incident..
ATS-Newport.News: James: No, wait, its just regular dust.
5th|William.Realtak: Yea...I was gonna say that.
CV-Montu: V: 'There's ships from all around, collected in one place.'
CV-Montu: V: 'They may be dead, but they still speak.'
CV-Montu: V: 'This place, that blackout was a beckoning.'
ATS-Newport.News: James: That's not how being dead works.
CV-Montu: V: 'The blackout was an invitation.'
5th|William.Realtak: Not sure about that one.
CV-Montu: V: 'Oh, it's an invitation. Not one that may have been wanted, but one that was certainly deserved.'
ATS-Newport.News: James: I highly doubt that. Nothing more than an unknown hiccup in the system caused by an anomaly.
CV-Montu: V: 'And it's all Ageira's fault.'
CV-Montu: V: 'EFL's too, but primarily yours.'
5th|William.Realtak: How in the hell would that be?
ATS-Newport.News: James: Hah. More like Gallia's. They always try to mimic our tech.
CV-Montu: V: 'But that's besides the point.'
CV-Montu: V: 'There wouldn't be so many from all walks of life, military, survey, random passersby, without a clear aim.'
CV-Montu: V: 'What do these wrecks have in common?'
ATS-Newport.News: James: Ageria's Gate and Lane technology is supremely safe. Hundreds of years without any such problems.
5th|William.Realtak: Jumping somewhere?
ATS-Newport.News: James: Gallia starts trying to mimic our technology and causes problems.
CV-Montu: V: 'Hyperspace. Yes.'
CV-Montu: V: 'We felt a shift in our traversal here. Similar to the blackout, and to the jump anomalies across Sirius.'
CV-Montu: V: 'It's the same signal we get from that thing in the core here.'
CV-Montu: V: 'That giant.. rotating thing..'
CV-Montu: V: 'The one that's telling me 'eggs' over and over again, but that's also giving off energy.'
5th|William.Realtak: Eggs what?
CV-Montu: V: 'Eggs benedict, but there's more.'
ATS-Newport.News: James: I think the captain is hungry.
CV-Montu: V: 'I'm dead. I don't eat.'
ATS-Newport.News: James: Dead people don't speak.
CV-Montu: V: 'It's rather liberating, really.'
ATS-Newport.News: James: nor eat eggs.
CV-Montu: V: 'I'm speaking right now. The wrecks are also speaking.'
5th|William.Realtak: You are what?
CV-Montu: V: 'The ones in that cloud over there, for instance.'
ATS-Newport.News: James: Again.. That's not how being dead works.
CV-Montu: V: 'They've spoken at length about your shitty gate design.'
5th|William.Realtak: Dead tend to stay dead.
CV-Montu: V: ''Slow-docking' and whatnot.'
ATS-Newport.News: James: That's pilot error, not design.
CV-Montu: V: 'Sounds like it's by-design.'
CV-Montu: V: 'But again, besides the point.'
ATS-Newport.News: James: It sounds like you were designed to be a moron and want eggs.
CV-Montu: V: 'Perhaps, but the eggs are of no concern.'
CV-Montu: V: 'The energy the object in the core emits, however, is.'
5th|William.Realtak: Now I get that.
ATS-Newport.News: James: I bet the energy cooks eggs.
ATS-Newport.News: James: Scrambled eggs..
CV-Montu: V: 'If used correctly, it may be able to.'
CV-Montu: V: 'It fried the Whitefield pretty well.'
CV-Montu: V: 'It may just fry your eggs, too.'
5th|William.Realtak: It would you too.
CV-Montu: V: 'But it may also fry the system.'
CV-Montu: V: 'And, yes, us with it.'
ATS-Newport.News: James: But will it blend?
CV-Montu: V: 'Remember when I said the blackout was an invitation?'
ATS-Newport.News: James: Sorry, that was a strange question.
CV-Montu: V: 'Deserved, and not wanted?'
5th|William.Realtak: I do remember that part.
ATS-Newport.News: brb foodge
CV-Montu: V: 'It's an invitation, to stop.'
5th|William.Realtak: To stop you say.Stop doing what?
CV-Montu: V: 'To end. Quit. Cease.'
CV-Montu: V: 'To halt.'
5th|William.Realtak: To halt what?
CV-Montu: V: 'What do these wrecks have in common?'
CV-Montu: V: 'Hyperspace.'
5th|William.Realtak: You want us to halt using the gates?
ATS-Newport.News: back
CV-Montu: V: 'I don't. It does.'
5th|William.Realtak: That is crazy. Half of Sirus would starve.
ATS-Newport.News: 10 shy xd
CV-Montu: V: 'Perhaps, but the other half would be free to life thei-..'
ATS-Newport.News: did u wanna top off or head out?
5th|William.Realtak: Massive DTR fleet loging.
CV-Montu: V: 'No, wait, that doesn't math.'
CV-Montu: V: 'Again, I'm not here to stop. We're here to investigate.'
ATS-Newport.News: James: Foreman gave the clear. Time to leave.
CV-Montu: V: 'But I'll leave you with this.'
5th|William.Realtak: It was nice talking to you dead gep capitan.
CV-Montu: V: 'Artificial hyperspace traversal caused this.'
CV-Montu: V: 'Do yourselves, and your kids, a favor, and ram the gates with planets.'
CV-Montu: V: 'End the cycle.'
ATS-Newport.News: James: Uh.. Ageria does not recommend that..
5th|William.Realtak: That is a thing to do.
CV-Montu: V: 'It's /the/ thing to do.'
ATS-Newport.News: James: One of THE things of all time, even.
5th|William.Realtak: Have a good day.