Mission Log: Stormhawk

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- Captains Log of “JJ” Mathers

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January 12, 828 AS

The last few weeks have been more of a buzz ever since our excursion into Omega 55. As much as I wanted to stay around there longer, things were getting too rough in the asteroid field for us. Now we turn our eyes to a place we know there was much Nomad activity, Omicron Minor.

Starting today and continuing over the next 3 or 4 days we will be moving through Minor and attempt to survey and scan as much as we can. This will hopefully give us a better insight into Nomad tactics and maybe we can even salvage something of worth to gain more information on them.

Survey of Minor

So far most of what we have is dead Order and Core ships, with not much to go on yet, but there is still much to see. The brutality of what happened here was possibly one of the worst catastrophes to happen to the Order in their history. I want to get a good look at the surface of Toledo as best as our sensors will allow. Hopefully the mistakes of the past will help us adapt in the future.

The loss of Toledo and combined with the many ships lost in the battle shows even more importantly of the threat we face. Both myself and my crew found it difficult to see so much destruction here, but despite all of that, it was necessary to see all of it so that we are able to face the alien terror head on. The enemy knows that fear is a powerful weapon, but that is something we cannot allow them to have over us. We will stay strong and do what must be done to protect ourselves.

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January 30, 828 AS

The Stormhawk returned to Freeport 9 several days ago to procure a Cloaking system that was purchased for us, as thanks to our Colonel Kaplain that handles a lot of the back-end logistics for us from there. It was installed by a private contractor that operates mainly in the Omicrons, more than that I was not told, the group likes their privacy quite a lot it seems.



The Cloaking device is not as highly advanced perhaps as some military-grade ones I am told, but it has been tested and is fully operational. Waxford has assured me that it is fully integrated with our power systems and shouldn't cause any issue. A lot of the crew were excited to have such a advanced piece of hardware onboard, considering that most had never seen one in operation yet. This will no doubt help us to get past certain areas that are otherwise unable to access easily, or...to use against our enemies.

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February 8, 828 AS

I wanted to make this log as soon as it was possible as I can hardly contain my excitement.

While moving through Omicron Zeta, we received a distress call from a Order vessel that was under assault by Nomad forces. A Nomad heavy assault cruiser was trying to destroy light cruiser on a patrol run. I ordered the Stormhawk to intercept immediately.

I imagined this would be a excellent chance to test out how good our cloaking system really was and ordered to activate it as we made our approach.

As we moved into close range of the Nomad ship, it did not seem to react to us at all, hinting at the fact it didn't know we were there and continued its attack. Instructing to get right up nearly on top of it, the cloak system was then shut down and all weapons were fired at the Nomad ship. I must say the ship seemed almost as surprised as we were, they attempted to make maneuvers to evade our attacks but it was too late, we promptly obliterated it before it could withdraw.

The Order ship thanked us heavily for the assistance and being heavily damaged moved off back to it's base I assumed. In the moments to follow I asked to make a good scan of the area for anything of interest and what do you know, we seemed to have found some sort of Nomad device left over from the wreckage.



After carefully drawing it in to our cargo hold, my science team, assisted by Gatecrashers locked it down in one of our maximum level containment cells. With something of such high value and possibly volatile, I wasn't taking any chances. As much as I would like to take a look at it right away, It will need to be moved to a better place to conduct research on. I intend to contact Colonel Kaplain and see what he thinks of what we found at Corinth for analysis.

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