Natio Octavarium Internal Affairs

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Identification: Taskmaster Harold Kane
Affiliation: Natio Octavarium, Fourth Fleet

To: Escher
Visibility: NONE

Subject: What the f*ck
Encryption: Your terminal is smoking.
Location: OCS Repentance, Tau-44

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We have a BIGGER problem.

After the OIC returned to base to report on what they had seen while scouting the structure seen earlier, we engaged the unknown ship with, uh...

You know what? This encryption isn't high enough.

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[ Encryption Increased: Point to Point, 64-Kiloqubit ]

Okay, no one other than you will be able to see this. The Repentance and Pure Imagination, supported by ADSV Dubbo, temporarily allied with la Marine Royale Gauloise, engaged and destroyed one unknown hostile contact and several unknown hostile drones. We could not identify the ships or technology the unknown contacts were using but I believe it to be related to the rise in Omicron-related cultist activity in the past months.

We split the received goods with the Gauls in order to expedite our safe retreat before a joint Crayter-Council force was set to arrive. Attached to this message are the tagged and catalogued components we retrieved from the wreckage and transferred to the Twilight Zone. I apologize for not retrieving more of it. We were... not planning on having a genuinely neutral conversation with the Gauls before leaving.

Heavily encrypted attachment found: Image

Heavily encrypted attachment found: Image

Heavily encrypted attachment found: Image

Heavily encrypted attachment found: Image

That is of course in addition to the two drone remains and five units of data from the Premonition.

I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight.

Harold

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