Büro des Marinenachrichtendiensts AESIR Facility, Frankfurt System
CLASSIFICATION:
Top Secret ✓
Secret
Confidential
Unclassified
PRECEDENCE:
Immediate ✓
Priority
Routine
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BDM Operational Report Archive
22/09/826
Assignment Report: "Lost Prototype Recovery"
This is my report on the "Lost Prototype Recovery" assignment.
Made my way to Planet Weimar, Thuringia, to gather the gear required for the assignment. In the meanwhile, I asked the engineers to run a full check on my Sleipnir, to ensure it was at 100% and at full operational status.
Went back to my ship with survival&salvage gear and an HEV suit, placed the gear in my hold and proceeded to my ship's cockpit, ran pre-launch checks and system checks, as usual. Everything green all around the board, asked Weimar Control for takeoff permission, which was granted. After a successul takeoff, I set my waypoints to the last known location of the prototype vessel. The way from Weimar to the coordinates was clear of hostiles. Upon reaching the coordinates, within the Nordhausen Fragments in the northern side of the system, my scanners identified a jump hole anomaly connecting Thuringia to Puerto Rico in sector 2-Delta. Caution advised for radiation within the Fragments.
Successfully engaged jumping protocols, I entered the Puerto Rico system.
The anomaly connecting to Thuringia is located in sector 5-Golf, within a cloud full of explosive gas pockets within the Rincon Fragments - supposed retrieval teams are to make caution when moving through due to gas pockets and background radiation. In sector 6-Foxtrot, approx. 10 clicks from the Thuringia anomaly, my ship's scanners detected an unknown vessel wreckage. The external structure as well as hull deep-scans confirmed the vessel to be of Rheinlandic origin, with Rheinlandic insignia on the sides, which does confirm the wreckage to be the lost AV-1 Prototype - the hull itself seems to be relatively stable.
I approached the ship from the cargo bay, and proceeded to enter. Made my way to the cockpit to retrieve the black box data. Further analysis afterwards detailed that most of the data were corrupted, and I only managed to retrieve the very few moments before it went dark.
After black box data retrieval was successful, I managed to check the whole ship for more clues about its fate. Analyzing the surviving electrical parts turned out to be useless as every single piece of electronics was damaged beyond repair, fried by malfuctions or decayed by background radiation. Shield emitters were damaged as well, which might explain several dents I found on the external hull from the small rocks floating around in the field.
Managed to find a small archive with BDM-related data, including prototype test data prior to the field test, as well as prototype hull designs and blueprints, electronics design and what I suppose is highly classified equipment blueprints which should still be in testing by our R&D department. Luckily, this archive seemed to be meant to be able to be extracted, thus I carefully disconnected it from the ship and brought it back to my Slepinir's hold, where I put it in a secured container.
Unfortunately, while I recovered all sensitive data from the vessel, the husk itself still remains in Puerto Rico. Not an engineer myself, I can say though that - despite the hull being in a rather decent status despite all this time - all electronics are completely fried, thus a recovery team is required to either tow the ship back to Thuringia, or repair the essentials on the field in order to be able to fly it at least on impulse all the way back.
Made my way back to Planet Weimar, where I made sure our R&D receives the secured container I mentioned.
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