Vessel Overview: Dies Illa

[Enkidu]

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The vessel’s last emergence into known space occurred in the early part of Eight Twenty Four AS shortly before the commencement of the Second Sigma War between Rheinland, the GMG, and the house of Kusari, within the desolate Koeln system to Rheinland’s cosmic west. Badly damaged and missing most of her critical components, the Dies Illa drifted amongst the interplanetary debris unnoticed until her computer core started to further degrade under the intensity of Koeln’s twin suns. Functioning unpredictably, ionic scrambling of the vessel’s intrinsic threat response programming caused the vessel to view most of its local environment as a potential EM invasion, enabling its active jammers as it drifted between the stellar fields, to the predictable outcome of degrading most of the nav-comm functionality of the few pirate patrols who blundered upon the stricken hulk. Worst affected were the Unioners, steadily mobilizing for an expected flanking attack into Hamburg from their newfound nemesis, the forces of the Red Hessian Armee and their feared special operations branch. Fearing that the disoriented patrols were the consequence of some eldritch Hessian weapons system dragged out of the edge worlds, the Alster Union’s controlling cabal moved quickly to label the incidents as nothing more than system malfunctions combined with alcoholism and discipline issues – which unintentionally engendered a mythologizing of the incident within Unioner flight operations circles. As the months progressed, the operations disruptions eventually progressed from a wary irritant for the Koeln cell to a genuine source of fear, with police arrests of Unioner members gradually skyrocketing due to the ever-increasing number of Unioners depending of pre-placed nav buoys to avoid getting lost in the treacherous fields they’d once called home. Eventually, the distruptions were considered notable enough to attract the eattention of the Arbeitsdirektorate, who swiftly deployed the Unioner's famed spectre divisions to
prosecute the matter further. It remains unknown if anything came of the search.

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