Comm ID: Cdr. Ash Falthion
Greetings to all agents. I hope this finds everyone in safety and good health. Well...as safe as we can be in these troubled times. This report is to inform the OSD of developments in studies on Das Wilde in the Omega-55 sector. Due to the uncertainties of the security of this channel at this time, I'm going to hold the information until another OSD member has the opportunity to make him/herself known, and I'll transmit it to them privately to choose to disseminate. Also, Admiral Staite, ma'am, if you're reading these logs, I have some additional information for you and a request regarding our Research and Intelligence divisions, stemming from several members within each division.
Once security has been tested and proven sufficient, I will post the data to the community at large. In light of recent events, the possibility of jeopardizing our current research and operations in this area of study is not worth the knowledge to be gained from the community at large by submitting it here at this time. I hope everyone understands my concerns here and accepts these reasons for slight secrecy.
Besides this though, I do have two other instances to report that I feel also merit attention, with regards to security of our borders.
One: We had a freelancer, one Harrison.Solo, enter into our home of Omicron-100 roughly a week ago. He had claimed to be 'under orders to escort a trader on his/her route', and was returning from his escort duties. Now, I'm sure I don't need to beat a dead horse and talk about the smuggling problems we've been having going through Minor, Alaska, and the Omicrons 100 and 92, but this individual went further. I'd come back from the area I'd breifly mentioned above, and was preparing to write and submit my report, when I came across Mr. Solo and a 'friend', both of whom were in proximity to the Isis and Planet Toledo. I asked them as to their business, and was graced with the following response: Possible Recruits in Minor at the Isis Discussion with possible recruits pt.2
Now I know we're constantly losing good men and women to the two fronts we're currently fighting, and require new recruits almost constantly. My problem with these two is that Mr. O'Malley had stated that his brother, Torin O'Malley was an 'Order Guard commander', and had been the one escorting Mr. Solo's detention ship out of Minor and away to a holding facility when it came under attack. This is all well and good, but his next statement had me a little confused.
He mentioned that Mr. Solo then 'developed a bond' with some of our officers in battle, whilst they were attacked by a Nomad patrol. Now, I'm not trying to be overly paranoid here, but since when did we allow people who we had as prisoners, under guard and being escorted out of our system, have access to either a ship or a weapons system during combat? And then developed a sense of camaraderie with them all of the sudden? I do apologize if I am thoroughly mistaken and a little bit irritable here - I think hanging around a completely hostile system of alien-infested maniacs might have shifted me that way just a little - but this just does not make sense to me. I accepted this at the time, as they were both engaging the BHG and Nomads, noted their positions, contacted the Isis and Cape Hope docking facilities over our secure comline as to these two, and continued onward towards O-100 to drop off the infectees and Nomad specimens that were in the secure bay of my vessel.
Once there, the holding transfer went smoothly, and I set about to return to my ship to catch some sleep in the bunk. I had gone back up to the helm of the ship to shut down the scanning systems for a little while and converve some power from the core, when I noticed a Sekhmet class bomber about five hundred meters or so in front of me. I'd not recognized the designation he was transmitting, so I asked him who exactly he was. His standard English was not so good, but his Russian was rather impeccable. Speaking little myself, I got what I could out of him, and determined him to be a friendly individual. Below is his vessel's designation. If anyone knows of him, let us please add him to our rosters, as I'd checked a few hours afterwards, and not found him there.
Speaking of rosters, I then decided it would be a fair idea to check up on one Guard Cdr. Torin O'Malley, and was somewhat nonplussed to find none. At first, I figured he might have left us some time ago, but then I thought about the conversation I'd had with those two earlier. Mr. O'Malley had stated his brother was in Mr. Solo's prisoner escort, which would put him still in our logs and present as of last week. Either we've got an imposter wandering around and using a false name, or these two are trying to craft some lovecraftian story in an attempt to subvert our recrutiment process, attain Order vessels and equipment, and make off like a pair of bandits. If there's something I hate more than the BHG and Nomads, it's lying and stealing. I'd advise we look into the logs of these two, figure out where they are currently, bring them in for questioning, and get to the bottom of this escapade.
I apologize for the somewhat irritable nature of this log. It's been a long time out there - and I know all of our hours are long and we're dealing with the BHG, Nomads, Navy now, and other problems, so I should have no right to vent in an official report, and I do apologize for that. It's just that time away from anyone else that's remotely friendly has been...exceedingly stressful.
I'd also like to put in for a formal request for one or two applicants from our secondary fleet to consider joining the 42nd. While the division has been working with WEDJAT and OSD constantly and almost exclusively, we do still need folks doing good recon for us outside of our normal borders. If we cloister ourselves in, we're liable to be blinded to threats from unexpected, outside sources. I've got the basic links to applications attached to an earlier report, so once I can dig them up, I'll come back to this one, and modify it accordingly.
Good flying to all.
This is Ash Falthion signing off.
OCV-Montu: //NPC = not particularly capable 42|Khonsu: //Friggin hilarious Critius