Journal of Earl Catharty

[Petitioner]

MESSAGE RECIPIENT: Earl Catharty
MESSAGE SUBJECT: Journal
MESSAGE SENDER: Earl Catharty
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So earlier I decided to go exploring in the barren Chester system. As it turns out, it wasn't quite so barren after all. I was with the HMS-Orwell again, but halfway through our flight, she had engine troubles, something about residual IONs needing scrubbing from the afterburners and whatnot. I hope she managed to limp back to the nearest shipyard okay. When she had left, I continued onwards towards a large, dark cloud in the "north" of the system. These are low-resolution guncam images of what I found.


I decided not to get too close to the purple discharge, although on the other side of the structure, there was another purple discharge area, exactly the same as that one. My radiation, gravimetric, and electromagnuclear readings were off the charts, although my ship suffered no damage of any sort, quite strange.
After hanging about for a bit, some strange vessels flew up. I attempted to hail them, but to no avail. They seemed unable to see me, although when I went in for a closer look they fired a few shots at me, all of them missing, and managed to disrupt my cruise engines, but after that ignored me. I figured it best not to aggravate them. Here is a picture of one of them.

I've submitted this data to a close friend of mine, Professor Alvin Salt, and the coordinates for the object. Hopefully, he'll be able to make some sense of this, and the information may be used to better the fair land of Bretonia.
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