Echoes

[Vicho Deivis]

C.I.S- Internal Affairs
Document: 42645YUS
Type: Personal Documentation
Project: CLASSIFIED
Subject code: JMG45

#Note1: Subject JMG45 prefer keep a non-electronic notebook as backup. In aditions to research logs its contains personal coments and hunches. The handwriting suggests that they were written hastily and with certain amount of fatigue. Many coments were blacked out or partially deleted by the subject bejore I could recover this document, but I was able to fully reconstruct this sections.

#Note2: Subject JMG45 doesn't show signs of suspicious about this espionage. Future data collections are possible

Agent Metaxás

Jacob McGregor Field journal- First entry

It’s been two days and is still hard too not fall to the excitement. It’s like be young again. But this is not an excuse.
The wreck’s emblem is very similar to the Colonial Republic symbol but there are some remarkable mismatches:

• The title “Colonial Republic” is absent.
  
• The Phoenix is looking to the right.
  
• Wings lines don’t match. The Phoenix is drawn in a smoother style.
  
• There are only nine stars instead of twelve.
  

Unfortunately the motto, if this one has any, is unreadable. There are huge abrasion marks that erase that part of the emblem. Surely were caused by the crash. In any case this proves one thing: Human’s hands touched this ship before.

All the recognizable symbols, the stars and the bird pre date the arrival to Sirius or Crayter by thousands of years. Even if the Phoenix is misidentification, its show some of the diagnostic marks of a classical earth flying animal: wings with feathers and peak like jaws. Is very improbably that other life forms had evolved somewhere else with so many similarities with earth’s fauna. Given also the persistence of bird like symbols on Sirius (e.g. LPI, LSF, BAF, RM, RFP, and the Zoner’s group Phoenix) and Crayter (e.g. Us) after thousands of years without direct contact with earth’s fauna, the most parsimonious explanation is a significant human role on the vessel history.

In any case, people have started to call it the CSS Phoenix. Until we know more any name is as good as any other.

Its remind me a bit of the old emblem of the Tartarus colony back on Crayter. But that is insane. That colony was little more than a farm colony when the Crayter’s catastrophe happened there is no way they had something to do with this ship.

I still not fully convinced about the ship were truly made by a human group. Goldberg claims that metallurgic analysis of the hull… The idiot ordered take a really big sample without record any part of the process or consider limit the damage. This is the biggest archeological discovery of our people history and a Junker is in charge of the project!!… partially match with a contemporary hull of a very advanced group. But for “security reasons” I can’t see the full report. I’m not sure that I can do my work on this conditions, but I can’t say no either.

The dating of the vessel is still not possible, we don’t know enough about Yuma’s biology C14 as it should be done and there is little gain in know the date of formation of this mountains. My idea of use the tree rings or something to have a minimum age only case laughs between the biologists, looks like the idea that all trees have rings also comes from earth’s biota. Now “tree” means “tree like life form”, no matter if this is biologically correct or not, and the Yuma’s trees wood is more like our bones than original tree wood. Something about that the tissue is constantly replaced.

One good new: Goldberg finally accepted follow a normal archeology protocol instead of his low profile (as he calls it) excavation method. His original plant consisted in dig a hole 5x5m covered by de communications building, penetrate the hull and investigate the vessel inside-out. But when we used our Ground Penetrating Radar directly over the hull to get a more clear reading of the inner structure we discover a lot of structural weakness. If we are not careful entire sections could collapse. We will begin to relocate the camp and expand the excavation tomorrow.

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