Ghosts of the Past...

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There were 11 people standing around the table. In the center of the table the chunk of crystal taken off the alien ship was being held above the table by a gravity generator. The people in attendance were; Lord Captain Luciaden, Admirals Yuri-Pedoren, and on the comm unit, Nightfall, Captains Deiran and Doran, Commander Grenn, head-scientist Xartun. Along with the Sin|Tech leader, and two of his escort wings, Delta and Alpha, and Vice Admiral Alpha.

Head Scientist Xartun: As most of you know Captain Deiran recently recovered a piece of one of these unknown ships when out looking for the remains of the Chimaera. It was then attacked by the same red-colored ship the Chimaera reported attacked by. It's weapons, or at least the ones we've been able to find so far, seem to be the large sharp crystal-like pointed "tentacles," for lack of a better term, which it slams or pokes into your ship with. Though with normal ships you would expect the pieces of the arms to be damaged after hitting a ship as strong as a cruiser, but they had no damage on them at all. They also have some kind of equipment that lets it pass right through ship shields, not hurting the shields, but parting them and making a hole wherever the ships touches. The ships appear to be entirely invincible to our weapons. 5 minutes of cruiser-grade weaponry didn't leave a scratch. Though we have found a way to at least immobilize the ship for a small time, allowing for ships to get away, or board the ship. 2 Inferno Cannons shot by the Sin|tech's dreadnought disabled a ship. It is theorized that tizonas and coladas may also do the same, but require a lot more shots. Some Sin|Tech operatives attempted to board that ship, but after only a minute the ship seemed to recover from the state the infernos put it in. The ship disappeared instantly, no signs of a cloaking device. The red ship also used the same technique. Appearing to the port side of the Sigtryggr. We have yet to find how they are doing this, but when firing at where it had been did not result in anything more than the bolts continuing onward. So they are doing more than simply being hidden from sight. That is all on the ship's techniques and weapons that we have available. Now onto Identification. We have received quite a few pictures on these things.I'll put them up now.

Large Screen turns on and cycles through pictures taken.


Smallest ship we have found. Barely bigger than a fighter. Highly agile, impacts itself upon its target, shredding right through the hull.


Medium sized ship. Slightly smaller than the Rheinland Cruiser. Attacked by the AWC Glasgow in Sigma-17.


Ship the Sin|Tech Dreadnought encountered.


An oddball. This ship is the first we have found to use ranged weapons. The weaponry is very similar to our missiles, except it does not explode upon impact. It basically sheers through the ships armor and hull and comes out the other side. After it had achieved killing of the target ship all of the missile-like weapons would fly back towards the unknown ship and poke into its side. Though it would not go through, but stay stuck in the outer hull. It would then be absorbed into the ship, we think to be used again in its next encounter. The ship with the recordings was found, pockmarked with holes, lifeless. All of the crew had died due to asphyxiation.


Destroyed Alien ship found by the Chimaera.


Ship that attacked both the Chimaera, and Sigtryggr.

Those are all the pictures that have been gathered. There have been twice as many encounters against these ships, but not all that had gotten recordings of the fights.

Luciaden: Commander Grenn, release these photos to the house governments. Advise them to avoid these ships whenever possible. Use a ship and take it to another base to do that. Keep this location a secret.

Commander Grenn: Aye Sir.

Commander Grenn walks out of the room.

Head Scientist Xartun: Now for the real prize. We have been able to gather a good deal of information from the piece of the ship we have gotten. First, it seems the ship has a auto-repair system inside of it, repairing, fixing, or replacing anything that gets broken. Such as the broken piece that we have. The Sigtryggr reported that the ship had immediately begun healing after the piece was ripped off, and that is how it did. We have no material in our records, or any of the house records, even the restricted ones, of this type that is used in these ships. Farther assuring us that it is not man made. But whatever it is, its the hardest substance we've ever found. We have tried every laser, or weapon we have with absolutely no effect except for the infernos.

Xartun grabs the piece.

It is very heavy, which we assume allows it to slam into its target much stronger than it otherwise would.

He passes it around the table. One of the Captains, Doran, almost dropping it due to its weight.

We think the different colors of the ships identifies what class they are. The command ship found by the Chimaera was an orange-green color
The Red ship seems to be its escort.
Black and purple seems to be standard attack and defense ships.
And the Blue seems to be missile carriers.

As the piece of ship was passed around it remained a lifeless chunk of crystal. But as Luciaden grabbed it, the areas around the finger tips started pulsing green. Like ripples in water.

Luciaden: Xartun, what is it doing?

Xartun's eyes widen slightly.

Xartun: I do not know sir. This hasn't happened before.

Luciaden hands the debris to the scientist, when he does so, the pulsing stops. Curiously he hands it back to Luciaden. As their hands rest on there is a rhythmic pulsing coming out from where he is touching it, yet not a thing happening from the scientist. They set it back down on the table and it returns to a lifeless-like state.

Luciaden: Alright, here is what we are going to do. Admiral Yuri, you will coordinate the search teams, Admiral Nightfall you will be doing the outer-world searching. Check all systems that we know of that are not mapped, and look for any sign of these things. You will work with Vice Admiral Alpha and his Leviathen in this task. His ship will be extremely resourceful in your task. Captains Deiran, and Doran, you will search all of the systems we have mapped here, in this galaxy for these ships. Have your ships be fitted with numerous Inferno Cannons, if you see a ship, you disable it. Then try to get it back here. Remember to shoot it with infernos every once in awhile, to keep it from coming back on-line. Do not alert the houses that your are there. I want this to be a covert operation. Sin|Tech organization, I leave you to decide your own course of operations. Xartun, We will find the reason of this.

He pushes his hand down on the chunk and begins it pulsing again.

Luciaden: You all have your assignments, if anyone has any questions, feel free to stay behind and ask them. Dismissed.



(OOC: Makes you wonder, eh?)

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