Sender: Ensign Chris Leigh, Primary Fleet
Subject: Nomad istallation in Newcastle
Today Captain Orley, Corporal Tryst and myself undertook an operation to investigate reports of a large Nomad structure in the Newcastle system. Our findings confirm the presence of such an istallation and bring to light a possibly monumental problem.
Our journey to Newcastle was mostly uneventful. It was interrupted briefly by ion storms but we made it to Newcaste without serious incident.
Once there it became instantly apparent that the reports were in fact correct as the installation is truly massive and visible from all over the system.
One we got in range of the installation we faced incresing numbers of Bretonia Armed Forces and Mollys fighters although they proved to be little threat.
As we got closer still it became clear that the central structure was protected by a powerful energy shield. We decided to test our weapons against the shield but they proved entirely ineffective. Not even the powerful DEFILERs mounted on my vessel could put a dent in them. The central structure bears a striking and worrying similarity to the large structure in Omicron Iota although I have not had the opportunity to examine that structure closely.
Once it had become clear that we could not penetrate the shield by conventional means we turned our attention to the surrounding platforms. Some were strikingly similar to the Nomad weapons platforms encountered in Omicron Iota.
While others seemed to be joined to the shield by streams of energy. One of these platforms had a BAF research station attatched to it. This raises the worrying possibility that the BAF have exposed themselves to Nomad infection. In addition to the research station, the BAF battleship Grimsby was stationed nearby although it made no attempt to directly stop us, instead launching waves of dated Crusader fighters to intercept us.
Additionally, there was a strange spherical object attached to the bottom of one of the inactive weapons platforms. We were unable to identify it but it was emitting unusually high power levels.
It was at this point that we realised the BAF had managed to get a satelite inside the energy shield protecting the central structure. How they managed to do this is a complete mystery.
In an attempt to get access to the satellite and the central structure we tried destroying what we assumed to be the shield generating platforms. Although the shields energy readings did fluctuate with the destruction of these platforms, the shield remained intact and inpenetrable.
After realising that we could not investigate any futher we destroyed all the remaining Nomad strctures and any BAF equipment that could be reached in an attempt to prevent them from becoming infected or mis-using Nomad technology.
In addition to this we captured several BAF pilots from the wreckage of their vessels. These prisoners have been transfered to the Isis and are awaiting interrogation. Hopefully they will be able to tell us more about what the BAF are doing at this installation.
The return to Omicron Minor through Liberty went without incident thanks to up to the minute intelligence provided by a contact within the Liberty Navy.
I also took the liberty of taking a video recording of the installation prior to us destroying the platforms which I will upload soon.
Ensign Leigh out.
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It seems the video data has become corrupted. The report will have to do without it.
Leigh out.
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