Phoenix Internal Network

[Dead Reckoning]

===Incoming Transmission===
===Comm ID: Jim Hawking===
===Ship ID: (\^/)Ikaruga, Nephilim class===

A rather calm day today, as far as the Omicrons go. Ikaruga has only just left the drydock after a long month of retrofits, but things are already falling back into the normal groove. The science deck and I were quite interested in checking out some of the new scanning arrays placed on her. At first we ventured into Omicron Delta in an attempt to do a high gain scan of part of Naurus northern hemisphere. Unfortunately we ran into a medium sized K'hara placing it self directly between us and the planet. Tobias of the Pleiades was in the area and moved to cover Ikaruga should the need have arrived. After minutes of standoff, the K'hara cloaked and disappeared. We cautiously approached the planet and descended into a low orbit to begin the scan. It was going well until all the sensors went haywire. There was a massive explosion underneath Ikaruga and we suddenly registered large amounts of what appeared to be biomass. The Nomad from before had descended between the planet and Ikaruga and detonated. Most puzzling. Fortunately, after a quick damage assessment, only minor transmitters were harmed.

Later in the day, the science team wasn't quite satisfied. We decided to venture into Omicron Lost and get some scans of Moros. Pleiades once again acted as a wing for Ikaruga and we ventured into the Kiribati. Largely uneventful. We arrived at the site and Ikaruga once again descended into low orbit with Pleiades keeping watch.



We were able to get some high quality scans of the surface. We're looking them over for any possible ruins that might have been missed in prior expeditions. A long shot I know, but it was mostly an excuse to try out the new equipment.



And finally, an odd note. When we were departing Moros, I happened to look at one of the stars. Lost being a trinary system, it's interesting to see. The blue dwarf is on the verge of being ejected from the system, but that's not what's interesting. What's interesting is the utter lack of stars in it's region. If you look at it. It's as if nothing is in that region of space. Hard to even think of. We pointed all the spectrometers we had at the region and turned them to maximum gain, but nothing to suggest that there was anything in the region. We may go to the star on another day to investigate if it's something with the star itself warping space around it. I've attached an image below of what I'm talking about. Just... nothingness:



Quite an odd sight.

Hawking out.