Willard Research Station, ESRD Section

[Inferno]

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COMM ID: Commander Jason Hirlerman
TARGET ID: ESRD Reporting Centers
SUBJECT: Paragon, Junkers, and K'Hara
ENCRYPTION: ESRD ALPHA
PRIORITY: HIGH

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My initial report as an Agent of the ESRD has ties to the most previous departure, the former Lieutenant Commander 'Paragon' Reeves and a scrap collector. The scrapper apparantly approched the now-Agent Reeves regarding assistance in a matter of a friend's suicide. This, however, is where the ESRD come into play. The scrapper claims he and his collegue was within the system of 'Kansas' when then encountered a damaged warp gate of unknown, and non-human, origin. The scrap-collecting pair activated the still-functioning gate, and was transported to a unknown location, where they were faced with K'Hara vessels. Not much is known after this, as the scrap collector seemed very distraught, and showed signs of traumatic stress. Below is the attached files of the conversation.

Audio Logs

[25.09.2016 05:35:08] Avery.Reeves:404: Manhattan, now.
[25.09.2016 05:36:09] ScrapFinch: Snell: Background radiation my exhaust pipes, I felt them. Nomads. The only time a vessel's managed to scare me.
[25.09.2016 05:36:20] Avery.Reeves:404: Target right in front of me stumbled upon the gate in Kansas, advise you take them in for questioning.
[25.09.2016 05:36:42] Avery.Reeves:404: You realize how all this sounds, don't you?
[25.09.2016 05:36:53] ScrapFinch: Snell: Yes, I do. This isn't normal for me, or anyone.
[25.09.2016 05:37:00] [LN]-ESRD|Phoenix: ?: "Alright Junker, calm down...start explaining from the start."
[25.09.2016 05:37:14] ScrapFinch: Snell: Alright, fine. Give me a moment to compose myself.
[25.09.2016 05:37:26] [LN]-ESRD|Phoenix: ?: "Right. Let's start with your name. You have one?"
[25.09.2016 05:37:45] ScrapFinch: [Sighs, and the sounds of metal being hit with a wrench are heard] Snell: My name is Beaumont Snell, the lost one? Cory.
[25.09.2016 05:38:24] [LN]-ESRD|Phoenix: ?: "Alright, we are off to a good start. Where were you when this 'event' happened?"
[25.09.2016 05:38:34] ScrapFinch: Snell: Right at the epicenter.
[25.09.2016 05:38:41] ScrapFinch: Snell: The indirect cause, even.
[25.09.2016 05:39:01] [LN]-ESRD|Phoenix: ?: "That does not awnser my question. The location of the event in question, within Sirius."
[25.09.2016 05:39:13] ScrapFinch: Snell: I can't explain where it is, only where I came to it from.
[25.09.2016 05:39:15] ScrapFinch: Snell: Kansas.
[25.09.2016 05:39:30] Avery.Reeves:404: Tuttle Creek, Kansas. Dying nomad gate.
[25.09.2016 05:39:50] [LN]-ESRD|Phoenix: ?: "Auxesian agents mentioned such locations."
[25.09.2016 05:40:20] ScrapFinch: Snell: I found out about an old gate, and notified Cory, a friend of mine of it's presence, after I had gone through it and-
[25.09.2016 05:40:23] ScrapFinch: Snell: Came out.
[25.09.2016 05:40:41] Avery.Reeves:404: You went /through/ said gate?
[25.09.2016 05:40:48] ScrapFinch: Snell: He wanted to see the system, so we both headed there after stocking up on Nanobots to ward off the radiation.
[25.09.2016 05:40:57] ScrapFinch: Snell: Yes, I did.
[25.09.2016 05:41:08] Avery.Reeves:404: And what did you see?
[25.09.2016 05:41:13] [LN]-ESRD|Phoenix: ?: "Radiation, unknown alien gates, and what was there?"
[25.09.2016 05:41:18] Avery.Reeves:404: Does your blackbox have anything pertaining to this system?
[25.09.2016 05:41:32] ScrapFinch: Snell: Nothing could've been charted. I remember where the gate is, though.
[25.09.2016 05:42:07] ScrapFinch: Snell: Before we actually reached the system, at the very precipice of it, the gate, we were found by a single Nomad.
[25.09.2016 05:42:31] ScrapFinch: Snell: Having actually spoken to several, I quickly recognized it had the same goal as any others.
[25.09.2016 05:42:36] ScrapFinch: Snell: Embracing.
[25.09.2016 05:42:53] ScrapFinch: Snell: Or, in intelligible speech, infestation.
[25.09.2016 05:43:14] [LN]-ESRD|Phoenix: ?: "This sounds very...strange. Sir, are you taking any substances by chance? Cardamine, Synth Marajuana, maybe Nox?"
[25.09.2016 05:43:19] Avery.Reeves:404: Were you directly exposed to these 'nomads'?
[25.09.2016 05:43:35] ScrapFinch: Snell: I don't use any substances, and we were.
[25.09.2016 05:43:41] Avery.Reeves:404: You were... I see.
[25.09.2016 05:43:43] ScrapFinch: Snell: I made my biggest mistake by far, lying to it.
[25.09.2016 05:43:59] Avery.Reeves:404: Out of the two of you, one has killed themself and the other is you.
[25.09.2016 05:44:03] Avery.Reeves:404: And you were both directly exposed.
[25.09.2016 05:44:11] ScrapFinch: Snell: Yes, uninfested, but exposed.
[25.09.2016 05:44:29] ScrapFinch: Snell: What pushed the poor guy over the edge was when it realized the lie I had woven.
[25.09.2016 05:44:29] Avery.Reeves:404: I'm afraid you'll have to be taken in for questioning regardless.
[25.09.2016 05:44:55] ScrapFinch: Snell: Let me guess, for knowing classified knowledge?
[25.09.2016 05:45:12] Avery.Reeves:404: No for potentially being afflicted with radiation poisoning.
[25.09.2016 05:45:13] ScrapFinch: Snell: Or suspicions of infestation?
[25.09.2016 05:45:17] Avery.Reeves:404: You're a danger to the general populace.
[25.09.2016 05:45:20] [LN]-ESRD|Phoenix: ?: "I agree with the...Agent here. You will need to be debriefed over the matter, and the situation secured. This is..."
[25.09.2016 05:45:21] Avery.Reeves:404: Quarantine them.
[25.09.2016 05:45:28] [LN]-ESRD|Phoenix: ?: "Precarious."
[25.09.2016 05:45:53] ScrapFinch: Snell: So you are saying I'm fibbing?
[25.09.2016 05:46:06] Avery.Reeves:404: We're saying there's a few things we need to determine.
[25.09.2016 05:46:13] [LN]-ESRD|Phoenix: ?: "If you may, follow me to Battleship Missouri for mooring, Sir."
[25.09.2016 05:48:24] [LN]-ESRD|Phoenix: ?: "I'll be sure to inform the ESRD over this matter. Know that now that you are out of the Primary Fleet, does not mean that we are through with you."
[25.09.2016 05:48:44] ScrapFinch: Snell: Access denied, the computer says.
[25.09.2016 05:49:02] Avery.Reeves:404: I suppose you'll have to attain a better reputation with the crew.
[25.09.2016 05:49:21] [LN]-ESRD|Phoenix: ?: "Of course...Very well...let us try the next best location, Fort Bush.
[25.09.2016 05:49:50] ScrapFinch: Snell: One can hope this won't lead directly to Huntsville, or worse.
[25.09.2016 05:50:27] [LN]-ESRD|Phoenix: ?: "Hopefully not. Whereas most people that go to Huntsville do not come out, you would be an exception."
[25.09.2016 05:50:31] 2016-09-25 05:54:57 SMT Traffic control alert: ScrapFinch has requested to dock
[25.09.2016 05:50:56] [LN]-ESRD|Phoenix: ?: "We will send an Agent to speak to you soon."
[25.09.2016 05:51:20] Avery.Reeves:404: Have them transferred to a secure location, potentially Missouri or Salem.
[25.09.2016 05:51:45] Avery.Reeves:404: There's a good chance they've been infected.
[25.09.2016 05:52:20] [LN]-ESRD|Phoenix: ?: "The Salem doesn't exist, and it should remain that way. At worse, he could be moved to Mitchell or the LPI Supermax."
[25.09.2016 05:54:48] [LN]-ESRD|Phoenix: ?: "As for his state of infection, it will be verified at some point. We have little else to converse about."
[25.09.2016 05:55:21] Avery.Reeves:404: Radford is equipped with a detection suite of my devising from the leg of tests conducted before the Alaskan conflict.
[25.09.2016 05:56:07] [LN]-ESRD|Phoenix: ?: "Don't go off someplace far. You are still intertwined in this, 'Paragon'."
[25.09.2016 05:56:25] Avery.Reeves:404: Is that so?
[25.09.2016 05:56:46] [LN]-ESRD|Phoenix: ?: "We will be in touch, Agent."

These events show that Agent Reeves is still an active element within Liberty. His involvement in this matter will be required, and may prove beneficial, should he be willing to alert us to these events in future times.


Jason Hirlerman
Commander
Liberty Navy Primary Fleet, ESRD Division

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