COMM ID:Lieutenant Alan Polstari TARGET ID:Primary Fleet Command HQ SUBJECT:Order Encounter ENCRYPTION:High PRIORITY:Medium
Greetings, sirs.
Reporting on an encounter with Order agents over Zone 21 yesterday.
While inspecting the status of the newly established [color=#009900]Melbourne Station at the entrance to Zone 21, Recruit Reid and I received notice of an Order agent at extreme range of sensors. Investigating, we found an Order vessel tagged as Order|-Shade.99 hanging out above the Zone 21 minefield. I ordered weapons free on the target and moved in with Mr. Reid, however the Order agent had already called in another vessel tagged as Order|Aline.Alexandrie for support, though its purpose did not appear to be to engage us. What leaked over comms we managed to pick up indicated that the vessels were there to scan the LNS-Sacramento. How that wreck was recovered from where we lost it and functionally put back together enough to power it to Zone 21 I'm not sure I'll ever know, though it was definitely there. We picked up mentions of an "artifact", though to what the Order agents were talking about I'm not entirely certain. I ordered focus on Shade 99, and we persued though to the Badlands, into Pennsylvania, and ultimately to Milford Base on the far end of the system, where the vessel crash landed on the Xeno base having suffered severe damage. I do not know what became of Aline Alexandrie, and I regret to say that we lost contact with that vessel somewhere in the Badlands. On the other hand, it worries me that the Xenos were so quick to accept Order vessels into their base. If Xenos weren't enough of a nuissance, now they look to be hosting other terrorists as well.