A royal find

[Groshyr]

27th December 742 A.G.S.

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The derelict dreadnought has been moved to Brittany

There, at the conference room, was a young man with black hair, a short bristle and bushy moustache. The man's pale green eyes were watching at the big presentation where a large Libertorian warship was being shown with Enclave and MAE ships escorting it out of distant and uncharted star system. He wore a grey pilot suit with white letters "MAE" within the blue square at right shoulder. It was Antoine Seydoux - the pilot of "Le Corbusier" platform. He was there and had the most difficult job one could have had during the operation. Now he was sitting at a simple but comfortable table and was listening to the report of another corporation employee.

Monsieur Dubois' report was ample with details. He almost did not miss anything as the engineer of a repair vessel. Enclave men as well as MAE - all were listening to Dubois. Unfortunately, Seydoux himself was not interested a lot. His part of the work had been done, and done well: the ship was delivered safe and sound and this meant a reward for him from the corporation or even a career promotion within the ranks of MAE. At least Antoine believed that he deserves it.

Finally, the man stopped to speak. So Antoine rose and went to the presentation to add a few more words to what had already been told. The last slide was showing a big silhouette of Liberty dreadnought surrounded with Enclave and MAE ships, slowly moving closer to the planet Lannion. It was really magnificent view. Even in comparison with le Roi's finest ships, the dreadnought still looked impressive.

"Dear Messieurs," - Antoine always worried about speaking in public and this time was not an exception. - "It was really an honour to work with all of you. Together we conducted a bold operation indeed and now have an example of Liberty's shipbuilding industry in our hands. It is outdated, well-damaged but is still can be used with profit for us."

"We have not checked their navigation computer and other data storages for the useful information but I suppose it will contain no useful data or no data at all. As Monsieur Dubois mentioned, it seems that the crew was leaving the ship in a hurry and removing or taking with them everything that could be useful."

He switched to the next image. It was taken by one of MAE drones. The drone was launched to keep area secured and warn about foreign ships which were visiting the system pretty often.

"Because of a possible biological hazard inside the vessel we had no possibility to launch the reactor and dreadnought's primary engines and thus we used auxiliary engines to move the ship out of the system. They were set around the engine tube and a few more at the middle and nose parts of the ship for maneuvres. We believe we should have no issues with energizing the reactor and turning on the engine. Whatever happened there, the ship, as it seems, still has a working engine and reactor which we can try to adapt with our native Promethene fuel."

"Not to mention the defence system itself. Part of the light-defence turrets was actually not removed but destroyed with an unknown type of energy weapon. I believe if we can recover the Captain's log we could get knowledge about what happened there long ago but all this will be possible only after the decontamination." - Soydoux turned to Dubois and asked him: - "How do you think, could we get some useful data at the ship? Do we have any chances?"