Comm ID: Dr. Perry Karvinian
To: Naval Action Reports
ID Trace: Juneau Shipyards, Alaska
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Ensign Karvinian reporting my patrol in the classified Alaska and Zone 21 areas. I was a bit surprised at the frequency of smugglers and general populous that think that Alaska is some sort of highway to places unknown. A Zoner gunboat, I only assume the gunboat was named after the offender, Kyle Carter came out of Alaska, precipitating the need for some sort of Jumphole or other way of entering the forbidden system.
I eventually managed to discern where the gunboat came from, indeed my Navy access showed a "Trans-Alaska Corridor" that runs through the system and ends at a highly unstable jumphole on the other end. Along the way I encountered the terrorist organization "The Order," but even though my computer told me they were highly unpredictable and ruthless, the individuals I met were generally talkative and left me alone, for now.
My crew and I aboard the Creve Coeur hastily found the jumphole, and after scanning the anomaly, proceeded to carefully navigate through it, coming out into another system that was strangely similar to Alaska. I quickly ordered a general ping of the area and started to do a little exploring, finding even more unstable jumpholes. My actions were soon noticed by the Order, as they had a considerable presence in this unknown system. My two "friends" that I had encounter in Alaska had managed to follow me, no doubt they have a base somewhere in system.
Eventually, my scans picked up a familiar scent and I encountered it. Inside an area totally devoid of asteroids I encountered a pristine version of the large device I had found in Coronado, however as I was scanning and generally trying to figure out what it was, an Order pilot that I had met earlier in Alaska found me and proceeded to interrupt my scans. What happened next, I'm still reeling from, the device was activated somehow and locked on with the same tractorbeam that had trapped me before in Coronado, except this time - instead of nearly killing my crew and I - a stable wormhole formed inside the device and shot me through one of the most unstable jumps I think I've ever had the misfortune of going through.
When we reached the event horizon at the terminus, my Mammoth-class ship was heavily damaged, however as I was issuing orders and generally trying to get the engines back online, my crew froze and stared out the portholes. I joined them and witnessed something I don't think I'll ever forget - we were next to a planet that was orbiting some sort of extra-system ... "wall" is the best word I can come up with. However, everything on the outside of the Coeur was down, including guncams and scanners which is why there is no visual record of my patrol today.
Unfortunately, before we could get our external equipment back online a ... very large Order fleet emerged out of the alien device and negotiated our way out of the system and back into Liberty-controlled space.
As soon as the repairs and upgrades I have requisitioned from Juneau are complete, I would like to request a follow-up mission with an escort of Navy personnel in order to have a chance to study the alien devices without interruptions. The repairs to the Creve Coeur will take time, as the damage to the external equipment was extensive. (Although no actual shots were fired from any Order ships)
I request a green light to continue my research, as well as a green light for assignment of an escort and supplies.
Perry Out.
"The thirteen saloons that had lined the one street of Seney had not left a trace. The foundations of the Mansion House hotel stuck up above the ground. The stone was chipped and split by the fire. It was all that was left of the town of Seney. Even the surface had been burned off the ground.
Nick looked at the burned-over stretch of hillside, where he had expected to find the scattered houses of the town and then walked down the railroad track to the bridge over the river. The river was there."