Section 8 - Personal Logs

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Section 8

Personal Logs

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Login ID: Hawkins
Entry #: 05
Encryption: Fortress

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05. Jan. 829

I have not yet received any news from Marquez in regards to Abrams and his return. Delays were expected but this continued silence is becoming concerning. I will have to remain patient. There are other things to keep me occupied, after all.

The Nightfall's hyperspace jump drive is malfunctioning and the jump computer is experiencing unknown errors. The drive nearly suffered a catastrophic failure yesterday during the charge-up process. Only [REDACTED]'s quick thinking and abortion of the jump sequence kept the ship and everyone aboard from being atomized in a failed hyperspace breach. Engineering reports that they cannot find any obvious causes for this malfunction in the drive's hardware. [REDACTED] has been sifting through the computer's error logs for hours and has yet to make sense of any of them, either.

I suggested performing another charge cycle to see whether it was a one-off incident, but [REDACTED] insists on caution. He is likely right. We cannot risk damaging the Nightfall at this stage of operations. However, this means we are now effectively stranded in Kepler and Galileo. If Abrams returns now and K1* reactivates, we will be in the middle of it with no means of retreat. I have given engineering and [REDACTED] forty-eight hours to locate the problem and fix it before I contact nearby Order assets for assistance.

Must this happen now of all times?

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Olivia Sable
On hiatus