Comm ID: Sandra Rivers
Location: Battleship Mississippi, Texas System
Address: Liberty Navy Message Dump
Subject: Mysterious Discovery within Grande Negre Cloud
Greetings,
My name is Sandra Rivers and I was recently assigned to battleship Mississippi in the texas system, after graduating from navy flight school. The captain of the mississippi assigned me on patrol duty for today and while on patrol I met a trading vessel which I offered escort.
During this escort the ship flew off course and directly into the hazardorous grande negre cloud, where sadly my systems were damaged and the flight log and gun cam images were destroyed.
However, I always have a pencil and some paper with me for cases such as this, so here are the notes I took.
The craft in question:
Callsign: Chrysokoll
Type: Mastodon Liberty Transport
IFF: -none-
ID: Independant Miners Guild
Cargo: 5000 units of water
Shield: Class 6 freighter shield (29.000 capacity)
Heavy Thruster
Araments: -none-
The transport's destination as I inquired when starting to escort it, was a "Luckenbach" base, which I was unfamiliar with. As the ship steered right into the grande negre cloud, it stopped responding and I started to get wary as I considered the possibility of an ambush.
Fortunately no such thing happened and the transport arrived at this Luckenbach base. The base looked like a full grown station of recent build and initial scans showed no weapons platforms.
As my craft was taking damage and the trader simply sat before the base not responding, I set a course out of the cloud and headed back to battleship Mississippi where I ran into miss Jane Hartman.
She was currently doing maintainance work with a mastodon transport herself when I informed her of what I just witnessed. Intrigued by the report about the base, she went to land and launched with a smaller craft again so we could take a look together.
Under her guidance (and with my guncam repaired) we flew into the grande negre cloud again and found the Luckenbach base again. Miss Hartman scanned and examined if the base would accept our docking codes while I remained on standby and alert.
As it seems the base accepts navy docking codes but miss hartman said that it belongs to the junkers and still seemed to not have been registered.
We then plotted a course back to battleship Mississippi where she told me she would relay word to the navy command and keep me informed. Then she landed on planet hampton and I on battleship mississippi.
That concludes my report, if any further questions arise, I am at your diposal at battleship mississippi. Please feel free to also contact Miss Jane Hartman for additional inormation. Seeing she is an experienced officer, her report may be more reliable than my own.
Sincerely,
Sandra Rivers
Addendum:
I was able to find the transport again waiting in the north dallas debries field. When hailed it did not respond but I was able to gather gun cam images now which I am uploading and adding to this transmission.
After I returned to battleship Mississippi, I received a transmission from the transport where he apologised for not being available earlier. I was able to ask him about the base that was discovered and received some rudimentary information which I am also uploading for your evaluation and consideration.
