Communication Zone: Maquis Front de Libération de Gallia

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Author: Raimund Lavigned
Recipient: The Front's High Command
Subject: The new neighbourhood

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Two days ago on Battleship Pamiers I was approached by Boucher, who told me a new jump hole appeared in the Agout Asteroid Field and asked me to accompany him on the scouting flight. After jumping, we emerged in the previously uncharted space near the binary pair of Tau-61. The hole leading back to Roussillon is located near the edge of an icy asteroid field on the outskirts of the system, facing a gas giant with three moons. The largest of them appeared to have atmosphere and water on the surface, but we were unable to find a reentry vector safe enough for our ships to use.

A quick tour around revealed another jump hole in a second asteroid field on the opposite side of the planet, this one leading to Orkney, not far from Gaians' Kirkwall Base. While we cannot be completely sure without a detailed survey, it appears those are the only two entry/exit points into and out of the system. Boucher already started planning how to use the new space when we found out we weren't the first ones to get there.

While flying through the large nebula outwards from the jumphole, our sensors started returning unusual readings. We decided to cloak and check them out. The source of those anomalous signals turned out to be a large installation of unknown ownership. Boucher tried to initiate contact from the safety of cloaking field, but received no response. Likewise, there was no traffic anywhere near the station, despite it visibly being equipped to service large vessels, including capital ships. We soon started to run out of cloaking device batteries, so I decided to leave and led us back to Roussillon, where we docked on Caussade. Unfortunely, most of the data I gathered about the station had been corrupted for unknown reason, including the navigation logs.

Terminer l'émission,
Raimund Lavigned

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