Defending the Delta

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These log entries are created in secret and aren't available neither to the Core nor any other entity.

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Captain's log - Ezrael Vertiga

Omicron Delta. What a fitting name, if you ask me. The nomad river has it's delta in this system. Today, I was reminded of that fact, when the giant nomad battleship suddenly appeared very next to the Zoner Freeport 11.

About two weeks ago I gained the command of the Apahanta. Mako-class battleship. One of those ships all those core captains like to take to feel good. To feel strong. To feel like they can command around anyone, be it within the core or other pilots and captains. It's true, I joined the Core to get my hands on one of those ships too, but I'm not one of those eager-to-shoot guys who fly around, jumping from system to system and tell people what to do. "Drop your nomad stuff!" "This is Core-space now." "Hey scumbag! Out of my way or you're blown to smithereens." Or, just like the captain of the Core Mako "Beast" said while entering the no-fire-zone of FP11: "This is Coreport 11!"
People tend to go crazy out here in the Omicrons. Everyone knows. Maybe it's the desolate area, or all those green clouds, or the high frequency of battles all around here and there. Or the omnipresent nomads, hiding, cloaked, waiting for the first best moment to attack.

I don't know what causes the guys here to become weirdos. And I don't know how long it will take the Omicrons to consume my sanity. Nom nom nom, maybe it's already happened. Whatever.

It took nealy all of my money to get what I wanted. I became captain of the Apahanta. And now, this ship is in Alabama's Repair Bay, and I walk around here in my room, knowing that was only the first time I will have to come back here to get this ship repaired. The lower section of the ship is totally gone. Not so fishy. I need new robots. About 15 of them got lost when the marduk shot us into two big pieces. Two of my human crew members are dead, four people still with unknown status. Maybe they got into the escape pods. Maybe not. They are searching the area for remaining escape pods, or any other surviving ships. I hope the Eidolon did make it.

My duty was to defend Freeport 11 in case of an attack by nomads. I failed. The Beast - to be honest, I can't say I care very much - was destroyed, as well as the suddenly showing up Outcast Battleship that assisted in the defense of Freeport 11. I don't know why, but I think the Captain knew the nomad was about to attack the freeport. Boy, really, I need to get us a better sensor array. And Cloaking Disruptors. And everything else.

There is something I wonder about. Only a couple of hours before the attack, we found something in the fragment belt around the sun in the center of Omicron Delta. I'm not a scientist, but those things looked like alien artefacts. Nothing unusual? Maybe. We're patroling the system for one whole week, scanning everything again and again, just to be sure. Right, every day we found new escape pods filled with Order pilots, Core pilots, even Zoner pilots. Nothing unusual. There are some ship wreckages in the belt, three to be precise, known and scanned several weeks and months ago. Remnants of the battles between Core, Order, Corsair and other weirdos. But this time, we found a new wreckage. A fresh wreckage. Scanned it, was clearly an Order design. No survivors, just burnt meat. That fighter was very close to the sun corona. Anyway, there were those artifacts, two of them in the cargo bay, three of them around the ship. Did I mention this ship wasn't, apart from some sun-molten parts, not even damaged? Not even the heat shield. It wasn't damaged, it was manually removed. Unusual, if you ask me.

Eh, computer, pause it.

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// I find it really challenging to write a whole story in english. Please be patient with me, I understand english nearly perfectly well, and I'm a skilled story writer in german, but this is the first time I wrote something like that. Chat is far more easier. If you want to help me inproving, tell me what I wrote wrong and tell me how it would be correct. :)

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