As our mission continues to push new boundaries, our Unit must adapt to survive. Part of this includes to find new friends out there that are able to help us accomplish our goals. From yesterday I approved a communique sent out to the Phoenix Zoner group. I have known of the Phoenix for some time as they are a more well-known group that operate mainly among the Omicrons. They have a good sized amount of people that work with them and continue to expand their operations.
In the communication sent, I made a request to see if we may conduct some sort of personnel or technical exchange of some sort. My hope is to get on their good side so we may have another ally out there and additional resources to draw upon if needed. Time will tell to see how amicable they are to our goals.
April 30, 828 AS
Today we arrived in Kepler, and it is quite the sight.
The entire system has been covered in a highly dense and extremely radioactive dark matter cloud. Our sensors were partially obstructed by it so getting detailed scans of many things was difficult.
I instructed all science teams to gather whatever information possible from here so we may have something to review in detail for later. The radiation in the system is so intense I don't imagine we will be able to spend much time here. On contacting Ames, they informed us that smaller vessels must be very quick to transit the area to avoid excessive damage or poisoning and larger vessels should not linger too long either. We will be surveying various spots that have been relayed to use as points of interest by the local Zoners that already began some exploration of the area since the storm invading.
I plan to keep the Stormhawk around Kepler for at least another day or two, considering its safe to do so then turn our attention back to our main objective. A change of pace is good but we cannot let the Nomads or their cronies gain any ground on us.
Also, some unmarked vessels were spotted in the area, they claimed to operate for different reasons in the system but that is suspicious to say the least, as any deep venturing throughout Kepler would be deadly I imagine. I have noted in the ship-logs of such vessels should we run into them again.