Kaiserliche Polizei Rheinland Message Dump

[Laura C.]

PRIORITY: High
ENCRYPTION: High, RFP coding
IDENTIFICATION: Wachmann Laura Carsten
SOURCE: Stuttgart Federal Polizeikrankenhaus, planet Stuttgart
TIME STAMP: 7th December, 14:52 local time
SUBJECT: I´m fine. Back in service soon. And...that nomad encounter

*Laura appears on the screen apparently distraught*

Guten tag. Wachmann Laura Carsten here. I was told to make official report as soon as possible and now the possible moment happened after I was finally released from that stup...special ward here.

So first of all, I´m really not crazy. Doctors confirmed that. I´m saying it because at the beginning my mental health was questioned for some reason after I landed on the polizei starport on Stuttgart and was detained. They told me I was reported for having hallucinations, talking to myself and some other...crap.

So really nein. Maybe my behaviour was little strange from what I saw in logs, but the reason was actually a nomad, which started to communicate with me and which I in the end encountered in Stuttgart space. And that is what this is all about because it is quite disturbing.

*holds a breath for a moment, thinking*

But from the beginning. It started week ago, 29th of November in the evening during mein patrol with director Artura and kadett Dermen. From later searching in the TLAGSNET record from black box of my ship, it appeared that nomad firstly showed up in Hamburg system where he used some lanes, probably cloaked, then jumped to New Berlin. We couldn´t notice it because we were occupied by hunting and then fighting with Red Hessian gunboat named PeaceBringer at that time. Fight took place at Hamburg gate in New Berlin system.

I started to hear some noise which I though was some radio noise, but also got strange feeling during fight. But I was able to ignore that at that moment. After the fight ended by destruction of Hessian ship, I heard something like voice, saying something about light beings - by what it meant them, and flesh beings, what meant humans. It didn´t make sence at the beginning but from what I understood later, the nomad was probably watching the fight cloaked and was trying to...eh...understand why we fought to each other. That thing was able to somehow "speak" to me so I tried to answer what then looked like I´m speaking to myself. Again, I didn´t!

But then the talk disappeared for some time,, but later returned. I started to feel urge to go to Stuttgart system, kadett Dermen went with me. That thing was talking about...err...how "they" swim in oceans and this one is harmless but we - humans, or evil flesh or metal swimmers to use its "words", are unfriendly and spitfires.

Then it again disappeared and with it also my inner need to go to Omega-11. Kadett Dermen then reported some ship which crashed into Stuttgart´s atmosphere, loaded with artifacts which were glowing, what confirmed that nomad is around, obviously still cloaked despite I asked it to show itself. Hard to judge if this was just coincidence, or the nomad somehow caused the crash of the ship...or it was even cooperating somehow with nomad in artifact smuggling? I really don´t know.

Anyway, we went to planet New Berlin orbit and kadett Dermen landed to hand over confiscated contraband. But I again felt some inner need to return to Stuttgart and deal with this thing which again started to project words into my head. For reasons I´m not sure about, I went by lanes to Omega-11 jump gate but then cruised for quite a long time...to sector 5D or 6C, I´m not sure.

And there it showed to me. It was quite small one, comparing to others which sometimes we fight with. It had only little armament, yet I tried to be ready to shoot it down. But it appeared it was trying to speak to me. Saying something they...eh..."don´t seek hives within this ocean because it´s contaminated, despite it´s pretty in here and it is enjoying the stay here".

At least that is what I remembered after doctors drugged me here with something for memory refresh. At least they told me that. I felt really awful and...never mind. The "ocean" probably meant Stuttgart system. But that contamination...it probably meant us, humans. So not the best meaning I think.

*stops and takes a few pills from the table, swallows them and then drinks down with few gulps of water*

Anyway, at this moment our "talk" started to have some physical impacts on me, I started to feel dizzy and disoriented and got headache which was slowly going to be worse and worse. It was hard to control the ship and even my body. But I tried to get some informations too and questioned the nomad why came here, speak with me and showed to me.

It answered he is "youngest light with lack of knowledge about complicated flesh beings", or something like that, so he probably came to look on us, study us. And this is what I find disturbing on this. It was able to be in Rheinland core space for quite long time, unnoticed, studying and scanning us and our ships. And only use of trade lanes revealed it´s presence. What if there is more like this, only well hidden?! It seems we are so vulnerable. Oh and by the way how the hell is this thing able to use our trade lanes, maybe even jump gates too?!

But...back to report. I tried to ask how is it communication with me because I was not speaking, yet the talk continued. It admitted it is something like "mind reading". What sounds scary as well. It was flying around cloaked with ability to mind reading. It also said something like that our home is and illusion. I´m not sure what this mean but I don´t like how it sounds at all!

Anyway, then it said something about it enjoyed me being friendly and probably even asked to be friend with me. Then without warning cloaked and disappeared, probably because saw my not nice answer. I could not do anything to prevent it from escape. My physical and even mental condition was quite bad, I almost lost consciousness and felt completely exhausted, physically as well as mentally. To be honest I started to think I´m going to die.

*closes eyes for a moment and then looks like gets that feelings and pain again*

I turned on my emergency transmitter, but after some time finally found enough will and strength to fly again. I set course to planet Stuttgart and arrived there few hours later. Then got detained as "possible crazy" and then, after I told them what really happened, they only changed the reason to "possible infected".

Then they did lot of tests but everything was gut. Some people also spoke with my, I´m not sure who were they, maybe from BDM. I don´t know and don´t want to know. Only thing I want now is to get out of here as soon as possible. So I should be in service soon. Oh, wait, scans. I for some reason didn´t have much scans of that nomad, but at least two were in my recorder. Here they are...

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That is all. Wachmann Laura Carsten signing off.

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On a ragebreak. Or ragequit. Time will tell.