Research Log Team Mk 1.3

[Alvin]

Principle Investigator supplementary log. We made significant leaps in understanding the beacon after finding the hidden unlocking switch. We hooked up the data port with an adaptor and linked it up to the analyst machine. Thankfully there wasn’t any encryption and the rest was straight forward, as the interface and bundles of data appeared on our monitors on a loop.

Reading the beacon log, it looks like the device was automatically deployed from the originator vessel, after it suffered hull stress beyond the acceptable threshold. The vessel appeared on screen is a familiar Bismarck class strangely … if I also recall correctly, looks exactly like one of the vessel in the CoreFleet that failed to make back. Looking at the vessel status last known by the beacon, it doesn’t bode well at all… Reactor offline, fires on multiple decks, hull fissures and oxygen leaks…

Anyway we now have a location on a map - a system somewhere nearby adjacent to Omicrons Theta, but frustratingly not within the known network accessible by Jump holes or jump gate.