[Personality Core Online]
Hey Beau, it's Ari. I don't know where you stand as far as your child, but I assume you are still in possession of your mind.
The following are fragments of documentation I was able to snag from the central computer aboard the UNS-Revenant without Blackwood becoming alerted to my presence. I will attempt to contribute some commentary on what I think the documents mean where able, however, there are still some elements I do not fully understand or comprehend.
File#1000001 Wrote:09.25.818 A.S.
Colonel [REDACTED], Project [REDACTED] has failed. The test ship containing one [REDACTED] was destroyed due to an unforeseen difference with the power frequency between the [REDACTED] and the ship's power reactor. I blame myself for this oversight. I had assumed that our tech and theirs were not compatible without extensive compensation, but I failed to check one of the most basic of compatibility issues.
However, all is not lost. I know where I erred and can construct a replica of the original device if I can locate the recorder from the test ship. Assuming, of course, it has not been destroyed.
I'm begging you, Colonel. Please don't activate the [REDACTED]. I know the plan was to deprive the [REDACTED] of any victory by sterilizing the entire sector as the [REDACTED] had done millennia before. But there is still a chance to save our species. Let me atone for my mistake. I can't bear the thought that my incompetence has killed humanity...
Commentary:
This document seems to be a transmission transcript to an unnamed Colonel within the organization known as "Blackwood". The document's timestamp places its creation the day after my incident. However, this document was never transmitted.
It is most likely safe to assume that it is referring to the incident with Project Kronos. His later plea to the Colonel to hold off on some other plan is unknown to me. I would conjecture that the individuals they were hoping to "deprive of victory" were the Nomads, or 'Seraphim' as they were called.
I would also like to point out that it appears the author was unaware that they had been transported to a parallel dimension and were attempting to contact their commanding officer as per protocol.
I have additional documentation I will be sending on this channel once I have finished compiling it into a legible form, as I doubt you can read computer script.
[Personality Core Online]
Hey Beau, it's Ari again. I'm sorry it's taken so long for me to decompile the files. There are several layers of encryption I'm having to crack. At any rate, I have another piece. This time a brief audio snippet.
File#1000002:a Wrote:09.25.818 A.S.
UNS-Providence: "[REDACTED] , we just lost planetary defense platform Gamma. The defense grid is down to 50% strength."
[REDACTED]: "Copy that, Providence. Orders sent to Salvation and Revenant to strengthen the left flank. Maintain position and fire-pattern. Do not let any of the larger entities get within firing distance of the planet or transports."
UNS-Retribution: "Here they come again! 3 o'clock, right flank! Small ones up front with at least a half-dozen mediums trailing behind. Bombers by the look of them."
UNS-Brimstone: "Eris preserve us! They're going after the transports! All fighter squads, focus on the bombers! Repeat: target the bombers!"
LNS-Saratoga: "Sorry, Revenant. Navy Command has ordered us to fall back to protect the e-vac transports.
UNS-Revenant: "Those transports are dead either way if we don't stop this thing from firing!"
LNS-Saratoga: "Revenant, I have my orders! Clear this channel, now! Fighter wings, continue to defend the transports. That is an order."
Black-Leader:Brimstone, we're getting torn-up pretty bad by these snubs. Lost Black-2 and Black-7. We can't protect the bombers long enough to get them within torpedo range.
UNS-Brimstone: "Copy, Black-Leader. Bomber squad has been recalled. Regroup and form a defensive screen around Salvation.
UNS-Providence: "Detecting odd power fluctuations from Target Alpha. Something isn't right. It's almost like...
[REDACTED]
UNS-Providence: "SALVATION!! BREAK OFF!! IT'S A TRAP!!"
UNS-Salvation: "Helm, full-power to engines! Emergency stations! Get us-*static*"
UNS-Retribution:"No..."
UNS-Purgatory: "[REDACTED] ! We lost Salvation! Repeat: UNS-Salvation is down!"
[REDACTED]: "Confirmed, Purgatory. All units, UNS flagship Salvation is K.I.A. RNS-Ragnarok is moving up from Secondary Fleet to replace her."
UNS-Retribution: "Sensor spike! Power discharge! Sensors confirm pattern is consistent with Class-N anomaly!
[REDACTED]: "Retribution, please confirm. We do not see it."
UNS-Retribution: "Grid G-4. Anomaly travelling at 2,500 units-per-second. It's headed for the planet!"
UNS-Providence: "We've been tricked... "
UNS-Brimstone: "They lured us away from any intercept path!"
UNS-Revenant: "Helm! All power to engines, get us between that anomaly and the planet! DO IT NOW!!!"
[REDACTED]: "Alert! Incoming projectile headed for planet surface! All ships, move out of planetary orbit and brace for impact!"
UNS-Purgatory: "Revenant, what are you doing?!? You won't be able to get there in time! Break off and retreat!"
UNS-Revenant: "I have family down there!!! What am I supposed to do, just let them die?!"
[REDACTED]: "Revenant, you are ordered to retreat."
[REDACTED]: "Captain, you will comply or face court-marshal."
UNS-Brimstone: "Visual contact with anomaly! All hands, brace for impact!"
RNS-Ragnarok: Kontakt!
LNS-Saratoga: BRACE!!!- *static*"
[REDACTED]: "-one hear me? Please respond. Repeat: Report Status. Blackwood Defense Fleet, do you read me?"
UNS-Revelation: "[REDACTED] , this is UNS-Revelation, Tertiary Fleet. Sir... we've lost the planet. They... they glassed it... The e-vac transports... everything is burning."
[REDACTED]: "God help us... All ships, retreat to rendezvous Epsilon. Repeat: Retreat order Epsilon.
*heavy sigh*
We lost Manhattan."
Commentary:
The ship designated as UNS-Revenant from the audio transcript is the source of this recording.