To: Ezrael Vertiga - Printable Version

On November 25th (824 A.S.) one of our scouting drones recorded an unknown signature in the Omicron Chi system. Approaching the unknown signature, it turned out to be a Bustard-class Carrier with the callsign The Titanic. It was caught within a nomad minefield. Further investigation made the deployment of the Apahanta necessary, as the ship is small enough to traverse through the system's fragment field while being resistant to radiation, alien organisms and possible nomad activities as well as equipped with a powerful shield to reach the Titanic within the mine field.

Captain Ezrael Vertiga entered the Titanic with a breaching pod. The ship itself had a complete loss of life support; the use of EVA suits was absolutely necessary as the ship was soaked with radiation and alien organisms. Those have rendered the found bodies of the former crew of the Titanic into deformed decomposing piles of meat. The Titanic was actually only barely damaged. Outer hull was affected heavily by the influence of radiation and alien organisms, leaks in the hull disabled life support, killing all life on the ship. Captain Vertiga aimed for the reactivation of the ship's systems and after hours we were able to pull the Titanic out of the minefield, towing it to the closest shipyard. The ship got repaired in the following days and sold to a research group after installing a new data core to the ship.

Analyzing the data of the damaged data core of the Titanic, we were able to reconstruct the event that lead the Titanic to Omicron Chi.

The recordings show that the Titanic was used as a jumpship, which was confirmed by the discovery of the remains of a jump drive on the Titanic. There are multiple recordings of jumps all over Sirius, most of them having led to the Poole system, while some of them also led to the Sigma-15 system. According to the logs, the Titanic was returning from some deals in other systems when it got attacked by an unknown force. The ship initialized the jump drives without calculating hyperspace coordinates and jumped into the Omicron Chi Nomad Minefield. This must have caused some destabilizing effect on the ship's jump drives as what we found on the Titanic was beyond repairable conditions. The jump drive must have exploded, disabling the Titanic from jumping out again - either that or the crew was already dying before the explosion.

Captain Vertiga deployed the Apahanta to investigate the coordinates the Titanic used to reach the Poole system and triangulating possible suitable jump locations within the asteroid-rich Poole system, conclusion was that the hidden outpost the Titanic used as a base of operations was located within the Ulster Cloud, a perfect spot to hide an installation in. Finding the Vented Smuggling Facility, we deployed salvaging teams to loot anything interested from the station that was about to fall apart from the heavy damage it sustained from what we suppose to be the same hostile force that attacked the Titanic as well, causing it to blind-jump.

Both the databases of the Titanic and the Vented Smuggling Facility mention a third object which we assume is the Vault. It was only hinted but quite often in the crew logs as well as in the jump drive logs of the Titanic. We assume that whatever the Vented Smuggling Facility was producing was transported by the Titanic to the Vault. We assume this because the ship was frequently jumping to the Sigma-15 system without any jumps to other systems. Those jumps always started in Poole and lead to Sigma-15. This is conveniently overlapping with the broadcast the Core shared publicly all over Sirius and apparently Gallia. Core is known to have a claim on one half of the Sigma-15 system and the footage shows the unknown station, the Vault, in the lower orbit of a desert or wasteland-ish planet surface. There is reason to believe that this is not Nauru as the Core would have noticed a foreign installation the moment it started existing. The broadcast stated the Vault was found within Core-controlled space, which is really not that big: Omicron Rho, Omicron Delta and Sigma-15's eastern part. Following this deduction, the Vault is supposed to be located in the orbit of Planet Baltrum in Sigma-15.

Both the Titanic and the Vented Smuggling Facility contained snippets of codes. We assume those codes are required to access the Vault. We also assume that those codes need to be put into the station using a special ship we found on the Titanic, a Light Fighter called Talisman. It was the only ship in the Hangar of the Bustard, stripped of anything of value but the protocols of the Titanic indicate it was launched every single time when the Titanic entered Sigma-15. This combined with the fact that Core wasn't able to enter the station makes us assume the Talisman is the only ship that is whitelisted by the station's defense system, making it the literal key to access the Vault to use the codes on it to unlock it. However, in order to do so, we need all codes. This is where we believe Rosalie Saint-Yves of Gallia to be required, as private communications with her have confirmed there was a fourth installation in Gallic territory that contained another snippet. The gallic general was weirdly interested in the topic, repeatedly threatening us to make us comply.

Long story short: We have a code snippet to the Vault and the means to enter the Vault for the input. What we lack are the other snippet(s) to unlock the Vault.

Sherry Aguilar & Ezrael Vertiga
Commander and Captain of Battleship Apahanta