SOURCE : Omicron Theta System - Delta-5 coordinates
NCC Gunship Flycatcher Commander Alferez William Neville
*The young man on screen looks slightly confused.*
Good day, Field Maestre.
I'm contacting you urgently to report a... strange and inexplicable event that has just happened to the Flycatcher crew and me.
We were carrying out a routine patrol in Pygar orbit when we were attacked by a wing of six Eagle fighters with an unidentified transponder. The assault was fast and fierce, and fortunately this gunship is precisely designed as an anti-aircraft platform. Our Solaris rapid-fire cannons were able to shoot down four of the attacking ships, while the rest fled. We recovered the pilots' stasis pods as prisoners, so that they could be interrogated once we could dock.
When we were preparing to head towards the planet's mooring fixture, we heard a distress signal from a civil transport requesting help at Delta-5 coordinates, so we headed there at the maximum speed of our cruise engine. The attacking ship was a Donau-class Rheinland cruiser, which unfortunately destroyed the civilian ship before we arrived, but we intercepted the cruiser, which also had an unknown transponder and which appeared hostile on our scanner.
We opened communications with him, and an officer of the Rheinland Navy responded, a certain Captain Flynn Meyer, explaining to us that the ship they had attacked was one that operated under Corsair flag transporting some type of illegal refined ore. I pointed out that the Rheinland Empire has no jurisdiction in Omicron Theta and asked him to leave the system. And here is where the strange thing comes in, sir. That Captain Meyer told me he was in a position to tell me otherwise, and then...
*Neville pauses. He doesn't seem to know how to continue.*
I don't even know how to explain it. Suddenly part of my head knew that the Rheinland Navy did have jurisdiction there. Even I remembered other Rheinlander operations in the system, and had clear memories of news reports reporting a campaign sponsored by Chancellor Niemann to bring peace to Theta. It was a sensation... like I've never experienced. It wasn't even like I remembered that information at the time, it was like it had always been there. However... some of my memories had a certain duality, as if there were two parallel realities, struggling to overlap. I was totally confused, sir. I remembered seeing the transponder of the ship the Donau had attacked, and was sure it was civilian, but I was also sure it was Corsair.
Captain Meyer... told me that he saw in his scanners that we had stasis capsules of Rheinland Navy pilots in our hold. He asked us to collaborate and release them so he could take care of them. Thinking about this my mind clearly remembered myself ordering to collect the pilots' capsules, and I was sure that they were Rheinlander fighter pilots. However, the memory of our fight against the unidentified Egles in Pygar's orbit also throbbed in my brain... I couldn't focus, sir, I couldn't know what was happening to me, and I couldn't be sure of anything. For a while I thought I was having a stroke, or something. In that moment, although I was aware that something strange was happening, I considered that engaging in combat with a Rheinland Navy cruiser could be very negative to our political position. I decided to cooperate with Captain Meyer, since I couldn't be sure of my own decisions, and jetisoned the capsules from the Flycatcher. After this, Captain Meyer congratulated me for the collaboration, and left.
I've checked the Flycatcher logbook records several times and it is evident that several of the memories that my mind recalled during my conversation are completely false. However, its realism is indistinguishable from reality. The only thing that made me hesitate instead of blindly obeying was that I was somehow able to keep the true memories parallel. There is no doubt that Deux Our Lord granted me his favor and tried to help me... but I'm afraid that my Faith faltered and I finally succumbed to what Captain Meyer wanted...
*Neville covers his face with hands for a moment, saddened. Then he looks at the camera again.*
I still don't understand what happened, but I'm convinced that Meyer was no Captain of the Rheinland Navy. He probably wasn't even... human. I have heard stories that the Nomad aberrations and the puppets they infect have unholy powers through which they can force humans to do things they do not wish to do, or to see things that are not happening. It is very likely that what happened to us today is something similar to this.
The entire crew was affected by the false memories, and although they're gradually disappearing, in some of my men they still persist strongly. Two of them have even completely lost true memories, and only remember what Meyer put into our heads. They have been confined to the brig until we reach Pygar.
We're currently returning to the planet, and I expect we will arrive within the hour. Once we dock, I request to be arrested and isolated along with my crew to be subjected to investigation and study. I consider that in the current situation we cannot guarantee our understanding of reality, and therefore our loyalty to the chain of command is compromised. I also think it would be appropriate for a member of the clergy to be present when we arrive.
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