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Narcrahtite Eliza's Eye Research by Sherry Aguilar Battleship Apahanta

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Now that I can only do so much while the Livadians and our engineering teams are repairing the ship, I decided to take a closer look at the Narcrahtite we have in the storage bay on the Apahanta.

Public neural net info entry, 08-31-824

To begin with, we should look at what is already known about the crystalline substance Narcrahtite, or its colloquial name, Eliza's Eye.

- Narcrahtite has been found in an Uncharted System only. To avoid confusion, this system will be refered to as US-III "Aeon" 01-05.

- Narcrahtite seems to be of an artificial nature. The atomar-molecular structure is way more complicated than of any element or compound we know. While snowflakes, frozen ice crystals, follow symmetrical mathematic patterns in their structure in all levels of detail, Narcrahtite crystals so far seem to follow an unknown mathematical pattern. In fact, Narcrahtite crystals seem to form round-ish formations, which when damaged splice up into typical crystallic formations, comparable to amethyst geodes. On a sub-atomar level, Narcrahtite crystals seem not to make sense with our current technological understanding.

- Narcrahtite seems to destabilize itself in space when not protected by a geode shell. Otherwise Aeon would have been filled with sparkling crystals and microcrystals all over the place. Aeon however didn't contain different spacial dust than we know from Sirian systems, although it contains rarely tiny amounts of Narcrahtite remains. The amounts are not big enough to be of any use, compared to the amounts of Narcrahtite in a geode.

- During the process of destabilization, Narcrahtite seems to glow in a yellow, almost gold to goldred color.



- Narcrahtite geodes have been found in particular parts of Aeon only. The neural net mapping tool marked these areas of the Aeon system clusters as the center of the map of the individual clusters. The concentration of Narcrahtite geodes in these areas has been so significantly big, it attracted Sirian companies to base their mining operations in those areas.

- Abandoned mining outposts have been found at those areas. They were inaccessible, without any power or life support. No survivors, no rescue pods in the area. Based on the fact of it having been multiple mining outposts at such mining areas, I assume there are multiple afforementioned Aeon system clusters with similar traits and values.

- Aeon System Clusters seem to be in systems or might be only in one very system which contains a white dwarf sun and a giant asteroid belt. Analysis of scouting have shown the density of the asteroid field is decreasing in a radius of approximately 80K around the center of the mining zone. The areas 60K above and below the horizontal plane also show a drastical decrease of density, so the cluster is actually elliptic.



- The Aeon System Clusters are evidentally not part of Sirius. We refer to this as the Aeon Region.

- Captain Ezrael Vertiga so far discovered five (5) jump holes leading to the Aeon System Clusters.

- Omega-3
- Unknown Rheinland system
- Dublin
- New York
- Sigma-13

- Three types of nebula anomalies have been spotted in the Aeon System Clusters.

- Cyan: This was the first cloud-like anomaly in the Aeon Region, found in Aeon 01. Due to the lack of professional equipment, Captain Vertiga was not able to scan the cloud for its traits and contents. The cloud surrounded an unstable jump hole, being the only way out of the Aeon 01 system. The color is similar to the radiation cloud of a NEMP bomb explosion.
- Green: The green clouds in the Aeon Region seem to be the result of very strong concentration of Narcrahtite geodes, or are the reason for them. The cloud drastically decreases the sensor range when entering it. This type was spotted in Aeon 02 to 05.
- Yellow: Also only spotted in Aeon 02 to 05, the yellow cloud was surrounding other only barely stable jump holes that lead back to the entry system. This is interesting as the jump hole surrounded by the cyan cloud in Aeon 01 lead to the Inverness system, while the entrance jump hole was in the Omega-3 system. Judging by the fact Captain Vertiga was about to be intercepted by a pirate using a percheron-class bretonian freighter, designation "Shy.Hyena", directly at the exit point in Inverness, we can assume the cyan jump hole only lead there.

- Nomads have been spotted in the Aeon System Clusters. They did not use the jump holes the human ships used to enter the Aeon Region. They either have used an unknown jump hole or have a presence the Aeon Region.

- The Cult of Technology was in the possession of Narcrahtite even before we found the jump holes to the Aeon Region. The Handsome Rover, one of our remote controlled drones, managed to salvage contained raw Narcrahtite from Cultist assets.

- Narcrahtite, as a result of mankind finding temporal access to the Aeon Region, has been found during the same time span as Sirius was experiencing a strong increase of temporal jump hole activity.

- [REDACTED] was active in the Aeon System Cluster 03, accessible from the Dublin system. The ship named [REDACTED], a heavily combat-modified Serenity class transport with [REDACTED] IFF as well as [REDACTED] technology, attacked any entity approaching the mining field. System-wide emergency channels have been used by Zoners to call for help against [REDACTED]. The analysis of local found debris showed remains of Narcrahtite, impacts of Cerberus-type energy particles on the hull as well as remains of disruption fields of either Train- or Reinforced Cruise Disruptors. We don't have any actual recordings about [REDACTED] acting hostile towards any other entity. Captain Vertiga prefered to not risk too much. All we have are the audio emergency calls of [REDACTED] and [REDACTED], which appeared to be a Zoner Whale and a [REDACTED]. During one of her flights between Omicron Delta and Gran Canaria, Logistical Transport Captain Sombra Hookier picked up confirming words from an IMG Captain. [REDACTED] was said to protect Narcrahtite in order to prevent it from reaching the Sirius system.

Looking at the facts, there are a bunch of theories we can construct, yet empirical observation and analysis of similar events regarding Narcrahtite is necessary to show the accuracy of those theories. Doctor Thallia Thorn's laboratory contains valuable IRG instruments which could help analysing the actual possible uses of Narcrahtite.

→ Side note: Denied. We won't research it on the Apahanta, and we won't enter Thallia's laboratory. - Ezrael

Independent research teams on Corinth Research Station in Omicron Kappa have been buying Narcrahtite for their research in plenty. While probably everyone who entered the Aeon Region kept a small stash of Narcrahtite for themselves, all kinds of people and companies have been spotted in Omicron Kappa, selling Narcrahtite to the Zoners of Corinth. I tried to contact the Zoners of Corinth to ask them about their research on Narcrahtite, but they do not seem to share it to anyone, not even to the IRG. Looks like there is some hard competition going on on Corinth.

At this point, I will voice some theories regarding Narcrahtite and the Aeon Region.

→ NARCRAHTITE TO POWER BEAM WEAPONS

- It is a logical assumption, based on the mining outpost we found in US-III "Aeon" 01, that Narcrahtite was mined before XXX-A-CO19-01 or 001-A-NLOK-01 happened. Someone had access to the Aeon System Cluster before those AJAXs. This means Narcrahtite mining is likely to have been a thing before both the Nomads and Cultists showed us their new beam guns. We know both the Nomads and the Cultists had access to the Aeon System Cluster simply by the fact the Nomads were there when Captain Vertiga explored the system, and because of 006-A-US-IV-US-III-01. So both Nomads and Cultists were able to mine Narcrahtite before anyone else and thus create beam weapons. However, is mining a thing for Nomads? Or have they developed their beam guns independent from Narcrahtite? Matter of factly, mankind knows beam guns already, as transports, gunboats, cruisers and battleships have access to the Zapper Turrets. However these are weak, short-ranged, inaccurate and eat a lot of energy from the power core. We know the Nomads always have been able to create large amounts of energy - to this day, APM makes use of that component of the Nomads - so it might be the case the Nomads developed their beam weapon independent from Narcrahtite. However, the Cultists not. We could research this if we would get our hands on a physical exemplar of a Cult of Technology Beam Cannon.

→ NARCRAHTITE AS THE KEY TO ARTIFICIAL JUMP HOLE ANOMALIES

- The current chain of events seems to have started with the end of 823. Previous events like the massive jump hole anomaly creation at the house capitals from 07-04-823 or the reactivation and rotation of the Dyson Sphere in the beginning of May 823 seem to be unrelated to all this. Those events have never been targeting systems unknown to mankind. The result of the Dyson Sphere rotation, a giant ion storm affecting sirian jump holes, seems to be unrelated to this.

While there have been rumors about a similar jump hole connecting Colorado with the Sigmas, the first artificially created jump hole of 824 we definitely know about is 001-A-NLOK-01, the artificial jump hole connecting New London and Omicron Kappa. The jump holes were emitting green cloud-like phenomena and both the jump hole in New London and the one in Omicron Kappa have been protected by very strong nomads. Around that time, the sightings of nomadic invasion groups had increased, and they showed us their new weapon, such as their beam guns. Interestingly, the jump holes following 001-A-NLOK-01 have had mostly similar traits. They were all temporal, have been guarded by either Nomads or Cultists of Technology and always have been followed by great trouble. With other words: While there are many unstable jump holes out there which lead nowhere as they are either a loop or will destroy any ship passing the event horizon, people didn't waste their time testing these artificial jump holes on how stable and reliable they are. 001-A-NLOK-01 existed in the early december 823 and destabilized rather quickly, as it didn't last longer than two days.

The next artificial jump hole seemed like someone wanted to show off what they can do. 002-A-KEUS-II-01 appeared ontop of Ames Research Station in Kepler and lead to what we refer to as US-II, a system which seemed to be so close to the old Halle system, it tricked the neural net mapping tool into believing it was the actual Halle system. US-II however contained nothing than a star, which was used as orientation point. While we don't know whether 002-A-KEUS-II-01 was guarded by Nomads on the Kepler-side of the connection, we know it was heavily defended by Nomads in US-II, by battleship-sized warforms. Interestingly, a depot was found in US-II. Captain Vertiga's girlfriend, Maren von Westefeld, was able to dock with it and pilfer some interesting objects as well as teraquads of data on the system from it. Liquid Cardamine was stored on the station as well. Rheinland was present in US-II with an entire battlegroup, as we could see for a short moment. Captain Vertiga deployed the Apahanta on at 12-19-823 to investigate 002-A-KEUS-II-01. 002-A-KEUS-II-01 in Kepler was emitting a green particle cloud, while 002-A-KEUS-II-01 in US-II wasn't emitting any cloud anomaly.

003-A-O3US-III-01 was accidentally discovered by Captain Vertiga at 01-20-824 during a test pit stop of his racing ship at the Aland Shipyards. 003-A-O3US-III-01 was unguarded in Omega-3 and lead to the unknown US-III-system, afforementioned as US-III "Aeon" 01. He was obviously not the first person to find this jump hole, as BMM was already there to mine the very unknown Narcrahtite ore. Back then, the only problem we heard about was about corporate warfare in US-III "Aeon" 01. 003-A-O3US-III-01's entry jump hole in Omega-3 was surrounded by a green cloud, the exit jump hole lead to the Inverness system and was surrounded by a blue particle cloud. 003-A-O3US-III-01's exit point from Omega-3 to US-III "Aeon" 01 did not emit any particle cloud.

004-A-ODTX-01 seemed to be a test run that happened on the 02-05-824. The jump hole connected the Texas system with Omicron Delta, however the jump hole in Omicron Delta seemed far off the horizontal plane, about 60K above the plane. This is unique, as jump hole seem to form mostly on the plane with little inaccuracy, based on gravitational discrepancies in realspace. This makes me believe the jump hole has been created artificially in Omicron Delta, as 004-A-ODTX-01 in the Texas system was located way closer to the horizontal plane. The Apahanta was deployed to scan the anomaly, however a major presence of Corsairs prevented us from doing so. After getting taxed by them in a way that hurt Captain Vertiga's banking account, we were glad enough we got out of the situation without harm. Once we were safe again, Captain Vertiga contacted the Corsairs to try and find out what they knew about it. Their response: "We have no idea, Senor." 004-A-ODTX-01's anomalies were both surrounded by green particle clouds.

We never got to explore the anomaly which connected Kyushu and Omicron Delta during the last days of February 824. From what we know, the jump hole in Omicron Delta was located between the Omicron Delta primary sun, Freeport 11 and the Lichtenfelde Complex, inside the sun's ring belt. No further information available. Theoretical name: XXX-A-ODKY-01.

During one of Captain Vertiga's drone-based scouting operations in the Taus, we were able to record a medium nomad invasion attempt in the Tau-23 system. The Nomads used a unique and so far never observed anomaly to bring a capital ship-sized warform to into the system. The anomaly, in this report refered to as 001-UA-23-01, was not stable enough for human ships to pass. For some reason a Rheinland Battleship was present at the anomaly and tried using it, only to get ripped apart by the event horizon. Curiousity killed the cat. 001-UA-23-01 seems to be unrelated to the other mentioned jump hole anomalies. The recordings show how obvious this anomaly was created by the Nomads, similar to many anomalies in the past they used to enter human space. This was however the first time we got a very close scan of such an anomaly, thanks to Captain Vertiga. This event happened in the Sirian Standard afternoon of the 04-11-824.

A few days later, new jump holes and connections have formed in Sirius. The contact to the Omicron Zeta system was lost entirely, jump holes leading to the system have been destrabilized or relinked, which is something we still need to research. However, the Apahanta picked up two new jump holes having formed in the Omicron Kappa system during out presence at Livadia. Captain Vertiga got in touch with a friend of his on Planet Gammu, Canaan Scientist James El Harady, leader of the Canaan Project. We sent two Rover drones to escort El Farady on his Fearless-class Destroyer, the Kauket-MKII, on this little expedition. The jump holes we found seemed to be of a natural origin and share the traits of the normal stable jump holes we know from all over Sirius. The first jump hole lead to the Omicron Theta system, the other to an unexplored part of the Omicron Chi system. Since there jump holes seem to be natural, stable and appeared without any troublesome news, they seem to be unrelated to the chain of events.

There were rumors about another anomaly in Omicron Delta at the exact same place like XXX-A-ODKY-01 around 05-12-824. We don't know anything about this one. Theoretical name: XXX-A-ODXX-01.

It was quite silent about the artificial jump hole anomalies until the 05-26-824, when we heard about a weird thing happening in the Hudson system. Captain Vertiga was actually at New York during that time and thus was able to see it first hand. 005-A-HUUS-IV-01 was a jump hole guarded by a battlegroup of the Cult of Technology. The anomaly lead to the system US-IV, which seemed to be another system within the vicinity of the Walker nebula, similarly to US-II. US-IV was dominated by Cultists who seemed to have placed multiple research stations in the system. 005-A-HUUS-IV-01 was unique, as 005-A-HUUS-IV-01 in Hudson lead to US-IV, but there was no way out of the system. Scans indicated the Cultist warships somehow disrupted the jump hole, preventing it from being used to travel back to the Hudson system. All ships entering 005-HUUS-IV-01 in Hudson were effectively stranded in US-IV. Luckily, the ships stranded in there were cooperating to find a way out of the system. Rheinland, Liberty, many smaller assets, and Captain Vertiga with the CV-Apotheosis. While ships were unable to use the jump hole back to Hudson, transmissions made it through it. This way, Liberty was able to call reinforcements. Rheinland coincidentally had sent a Bismarck-class Battleship equipped with a fleet jump drive into the system, and Liberty delivered the jump drive fuel to get the entire expedition out of the system. The jump lead them to the [REDACTED]

Captain Vertiga wanted to research this system further and sent both a Rover and later dispatched the Apahanta itself to join the mission. Thanks to his diplomatic skills, the fleet didn't question the presence of a foreign warship too much. They agreed on cooperation, once more. Therefore, we let them take whatever loot they might get from the Cultists, as it seemed Liberty and Rheinland were primarily interested in that instead of the anomaly. The jumps out of the system lead to Hokkaido and Newcastle with the Rover and to Magellan with the Apahanta. To keep an eye on the system, the Handsome Rover was deployed once more, simply to find out what would happen with the jump hole once the Cultists have been defeated entire in US-IV. What actually happened was against our expectations, as 005-A-HUUS-IV-01 in Hudson disappeared while 006-A-US-IV-US-III-01 appeared on the other side of the system in US-IV. The anomaly lead to the US-III "Aeon" 02 system. There was no possibility to analize 006-A-US-IV-US-III-01 further as reaccessing US-IV was impossible to the date.

US-III "Aeon" 02 was pretty similar to US-II "Aeon" 01, although the anomalies in the system had changed. The mining zone was emitting a green particle cloud while the jump hole back to Sirius was emitting a yellow particle cloud. It was leading to the Dublin system. However, the jump hole in the Dublin system was stable enough to re-enter US-III "Aeon" 02. There were also reports of small nomad battlegroups patroling US-III "Aeon" 02.

Since this was a new situation, this anomaly was called 007-A-DUUS-III-01 and the system it lead to US-III "Aeon" 03. The only difference between US-III "Aeon" 02 and US-III "Aeon" 03 is the way of accessing it and the period of time of the study. 007-A-DUUS-III-01 has been so far the longest lasting anomaly and from our knowledge the most active entity in US-III "Aeon" 03 was an AI of the Forlorn Hope mercenary organization, deployed to mine Narcrahtite for incomming traders and researchers. Forlorn|-Picket. Captain Vertiga met it only once during his exploration flight with the CV-Little.Blue.

Time passed and after a few days, 007-A-DUUS-III-01 destabilized, at least in Dublin, leaving a green particle cloud back there, well visible from the Hood and Arranmore. However, we heard very shortly after it about a new jump hole in the New York system, above the Detroit Debris Field. US-III "Aeon" 03 became US-III "Aeon" 04, and the anomaly in New York became 008-A-NYUS-III-01. This time things were different. US-III "Aeon" 04 was still the same as before, but the Nomads have been active there now even more, and they used 008-A-NYUS-III-01 to access New York from US-III "Aeon" 04. Nomads and Wild.

Publicly known was 009-A-NLXX-01, an artificial jump hole which brought Nomads to New London. This jump hole appeared at the 06-18-824 right ontop of the sun of New London. Captain Vertiga wrote an in-depth report about this anomaly for Commodore Kaze Dagon of the Bretonia Armed Forces, a copy of it can be found here without access to the communication channel and the replies. While we can only guess where the jump hole lead to, the most interesting aspect about it is the fact it lasted longer than an entire month, which put New London really into trouble. As Captain Vertiga mentioned in his report, he got to scan the anomaly for a long time and managed to find out it was held open by something stabilizing it, very likely from the other side. Maybe this was supported by a gate-like structure.

At the 08-22-824, Logistical Transport Captain Sombra Hookier discovered 010-A-13US-III-01 in Sigma-13 during a delivery. Captain Vertiga ordered to dispatch a Rover drone to scan the anomaly, however we were only able to gather so much data about this one as it was located between Sigma-13's two suns and deep in the Crow Nebula. 010-A-13US-III-01 lead to US-III-05, which didn't seem to be too different from US-III-04, however this time US-III-05 was overrun by the Nomads. We had to abort the mission to return the Rover drone, so we didn't manage to get much information from it. The video recording was corrupted, so we didn't get much to analyze.

Looking at this history of events, it seems to me like, whoever creates the jump holes, was doing tests. It is unlikely these jump holes are created by the Nomads, as they always had their means to do it their way, as the 001-UA-23-01 unique anomaly in Tau-23 shows.

XXX-A-CO19-01 - To be confirmed - Possible first test of artificial jump hole creation
001-A-NLOK-01 - Possible second test of artificial jump hole creation
002-A-KEUS-II-01 - Possible test of connecting known systems with unknown systems, involving Nomads, in Rheinland
003-A-O3US-III-01 - Possible test of connecting known systems with another sector of this galaxy
004-A-ODTX-01 - Possible test of creating jump holes not depending on the horizontal plane of a system
XXX-A-ODKY-01 - To be confirmed - possible test for involvement of Nomads
001-UA-23-01 - Example of how the Nomads use to create their jump holes to house non-Nomad-controlled systems
XXX-A-ODXX-01 - To be confirmed - Unknown anomaly said to be in Omicron Delta at the same place as XXX-A-ODKY-01, possible test to reuse earlier created jump holes
005-A-HUUS-IV-01 - Possible second test of connecting known systems with unknown systems, involving Culstists of Technology, in Rheinland
006-A-US-IV-US-III-01 - Possible emergency jump hole creation to retreat from US-IV to US-III "Aeon" 02
007-A-DUUS-III-01 - Possible jump hole to keep access to the Aeon Region to gather new Narcrahtite supplies and lure the Nomads to US-III "Aeon" 03
008-A-NYUS-III-01 - Possible jump hole to release the Nomads to house space - US-III "Aeon" 04 seems to have either a large presence of Nomads or another jump hole leading Nomads to US-III "Aeon" 04
009-A-NLXX-01 - Possible jump hole to bring more Nomads into house space as well as longevity test - anomaly was stable for an entire month
010-A-13US-III-01 - Possible jump hole to re-access Narcrahtite

Judging by this, I create following hypotheses:

→ Whoever was initially creating the artificial jump hole was testing it multiple times.
The chain of events shows a very obvious evolution of the jump hole creation. Whoever got their hands on this kind of technology wasn't mastering it already like the Nomads do, but testing multiple possible scenarios. In the end, the tests seem to have resulted in two priorities:
- Leading the Nomads into house space
- Accessing Narcrahtite

→ Artificial Jump Anomaly Experiments (AJAX) require Narcrahtite.
We don't have a prove for it, but looking at the history of the events, and knowing AJAX is a very energy-consuming process - as our jump gates already need much energy to just keep their jump anomalies stable and Nomad Jump Gates use incredible amounts of energy - the creator needs an energy source. We don't know whether XXX-A-CO19-01, 001-A-NLOK-01 and 002-A-KEUS-II-01 were the first anomalies, as I can imagine something found Narcrahtite already before that. Either that or the AJAX back then used another energy source which seemed to be too costly.
We know 001-A-NLOK-01 and 002-A-KEUS-II-01 existed only for a short time. Then 003-A-O3US-III-01 happened and lead us to the Aeon Region. We know someone was there before us, as there was a mining station. This would back up my hypothesis. After 003-A-O3US-III-01, XXX-A-ODKY-01 and XXX-A-ODXX-01 are said to have happened in the exact same place in Omicron Delta. While this looks like a test to see if ressource usage could be decreased by reusing previous anomaly remains, both of those anomalies were said to have lasted longer than the previous ones, especially XXX-A-ODKY-01. During the time span of XXX-A-ODXX-01, we know Omega-3 had massive problems with their stations based on some cosmic event. Maybe this is related.

005-A-HUUS-IV-01, 007-A-DUUS-III-01 and 008-A-NYUS-III-01 allowed the access to the Aeon Region for a long time. After it, we were confronted with with 009-A-NLXX-01, which lasted over a month. Then 010-A-13US-III-01 was found in Sigma-13. It looks like 009-A-NLXX-01 fueled the construct that backed the anomaly with a constant flow of energy to keep it stable enough for Nomads to enter New London but not allow human ships to enter it. The anomaly was regulated, so to say. Only Nomads, and infected ships. Since whoever created the jump hole ran out of Narcrahtite supplies, they gathered enough energy until they were able to create 010-A-13US-III-01 in Sigma-13. If this is true, it is likely we'll find more AJAs in the near future, and it is to assume they will lead more Nomads into house space. Either that, or the creator starts a new range of tests. Both cases are not good for us.

→ The Creator is not of nomadic origin.
Although the Nomads were involved in most of the results of the AJAXs, we know they already have their means to open subspace rifts to enter any place in Sirius, shown in 001-UA-23-01. We know the Cult of Technology matter of factly have induced at least one AJAX right infront of us, refering to 006-A-US-IV-US-III-01 in order to reach US-III "Aeon" 03. This leaves us with the question whether they are the ones who introduced the AJAX chain of events or whether they are just the first to profit from it. Little is known about the Cult of Technology, but we know they are a more extremist version of [REDACTED]. We don't know much about their means and technological limits, but we know we found them in US-IV and the combined forces of Rheinland and Liberty hit them where it hurt them, as the activity of the Cult of Technology suffered a noticable drop all over Sirius.

It is very possible that multiple parties, as a result of the combined efforts against the Cult of Technology, have managed to salvage data and technology from them. It is, actually, a matter of fact. It wouldn't surprise me if we would see more irregular anomalies showing up in future, based on the fact that Sirius got served a technological jump here. While we shouldn't ignore future AJAXs, it will be hard to determine who created them. If it is based on testing, it is likely we'll encounter a new entity inducing AJAXs. If it is based on creating a connection to a new instance of US-III in the Aeon Region, it might be the former creator. The same if the AJAX is used to bring Nomads to house space.

Looking at the latter, I created a graphical map to get an overview on who was involved by the results of AJAXs.

Visualisation - AJAX Yellow: AJAX related to Aeon Region Pink: Unresearched/unconfirmed Cyan: Confirmed and researched inter-Sirian AJAX

Let me explain what we can see here:

→ AJAXs have been reported in New London, Dublin, Omega-3, Inverness, New York, Colorado, Kepler, Kyushu, Texas, Hudson, Sigma-13, Sigma-19, Omicron Delta, Omicron Kappa and two in uncharted Rheinland systems, US-II and US-IV. We can only assume XXX-A-ODXX-01 lead to an Omega system as Omega-3 was suffering from a cosmic event at the same time, rendering sub-systems almost entire unoperational. We also assume 009-A-NLXX-01 lead to a nomad-controlled area judging by the amount of Nomads attacking New London and the fact the jump hole had some gate-like supporting structure on the other end. More about that later.

Now we know New London and New York suffered massively from attacks by the Nomads. Kyushu also was said to have suffered from XXX-A-ODKY-01 and the nomad invasion based on it. Following my theory, we deal with some intelligent group that purposefully induces AJAXs. Who profits the most from this?

→ Rheinland
According to our information, Rheinland never was hit by an AJAX directly. Two unknown systems without any planets, US-II and US-IV, have been accessible by AJAX, and both times the system was either overrun by Nomads (US-II) or the Cult of Technology (US-IV). Rheinland had a battlegroup present in US-II but we don't know whether to fight the Nomads or other visitors. Rheinland is known for still having to rejuvenate from the latest war against Liberty as well as from the war against the Hessians and the Corsairs. However, if I was Rheinland, I wouldn't have sent Nomads to Bretonia or Liberty or Kusari but to the Hessian- and Corsair-controlled Omegas. Speculations.

→ Gallia
We have not a single report regarding AJAX activity in or around Gallia, but Gallia would definitely profit from 001-A-NLOK-01, 009-A-NLXX-01 and 008-A-NYUS-III-01 as well as XXX-A-ODKY-01. In fact, Gallia profits from any AJAX in Sirius that leads to Sirians diverting their forces to counter nomad invasions while Gallia keeps the beachhead in Magellan and Leeds. It is highly advisable to create an information network in Gallia so we know if there should be any AJAXs anytime in the future.

→ [REDACTED]

→ Side note: Any speculations on them should remain unwritten, for now. - Ezrael

→ The Cult of Technology
Knowing they are hostile to almost anyone, we know they have good reason to attack all Sirians, or at least do AJAXs for research purposes. It would make sense, as there is no clear pattern in the recorded AJAXs that would indicate an attack plan, a focus on certain groups. We so far never witnessed Cultists and Nomads at the same time, but maybe the Cultists create AJAXs in Omicron Delta to observe the Nomads actively engaging the Colonies to learn and adapt from the Nomads. This would be backed up by the fact that shortly after the first sightings of Nomads with beam weapons, the Cultists have been spotted to use similar beam weaponry.

→ Corporations
The first installation found in US-III "Aeon" 01 was a mining outpost. Someone wanted to mine Narcrahtite before anyone else could do it. But other people found their way in to the Aeon Region. And suddenly, all kinds of corporations entered the uncharted system to mine the unknown crystal. En masse. I am pretty sure, by now, many corporations have given some Narcrahtite to their R&D divisions. And the rest was sold to the Corinth Zoners the moment it got public they wanted to research it so badly, they would pay insane amounts of money for it. Which brings us to the next suspects.

→ Researchers
In a galaxy where many things are already known and the few things we don't know much about are pretty contested, like Baxter Anomalies and Nomads, Narcrahtite shows up as a completely new crystal with unknown traits and values. Corinth paid corporation-level amounts of money for deliveries of Narcrahtite.

→ The Wild
And to be more specific, das Wilde. All terms I mentioned for Rheinland apply here as well, and in fact, it would make sense to have Rheinland start a new war with the other houses while they already fight Corsairs and Hessians. If I was a Wild and had the means, I'd do that and start as many wars as possible. GMG, Bretonia, Liberty. The goal would be to make Rheinland suffer from all the wars and watch them getting decimated. I would make sure people would be able to realize Rheinland wasn't hit by AJAX so far, just like I did in this document. This would explain many things, as for example how 009-A-NLXX-01 could be kept open for so long and the daily invasions of Nomads in New London, while we don't know where the other side of the anomaly was. The Wild would profit from any AJAX so far, even from 002-A-KEUS-II-01. Nomads were defending the system, but why? Either because they didn't manage to get out of it in time, or because they wanted to be found there, guarding a research depot which contained nomad materials like Liquid Cardamine. It would explain why they didn't use the nomad-typical rifts - maybe the Wild can't do it like them.

While there are more groups that would profit from it, those and especially the Wild seem to be the groups that have the means, assets, technological back-up and reasons to induce AJAXs.

Looking at all of the facts we know and all the assumptions we can make off them, we need to continue our research on this matter definitely. We know Narcrahtite is of artificial nature, but we don't know who or what created it. Maybe the mining base in US-III "Aeon" 01 was more than just a mining base. Maybe there is something unknown, an unknown entity we don't think off yet. Maybe Narcrahtite is a remnant of the mysterious Daam K'Vosh. Or a remnant of whatever caused the Daam K'Vosh to disappear.

We don't know. There is much to learn from this, and much to fear from this. We should prepare ourselves.

Sherry Aguilar
Commander of Battleship Apahanta

Special thanks to Captain Ezrael Vertiga and Logistical Transport Captain Sombra Hookier for sharing the material.

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