Elysium's Shield - Logs

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Log Entries from "Elysium's Shield"



Entry From: Zylar Vespertine
Vessel: ZSS-Defiance
Location at time of Log Entry: Livadia Shipyards, Omicron Kappa
Subject: Unforeseen Damages

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Well, it wasn't really a surprise. We broke the Defiance on only the second day out of drydock. Should've expected it considering it was broken into three pieces and put back together at break neck speed. Luckily we had no fatalities from the event. Several of the crew was hospitalized at Freeport 11 with serious injuries, but we didn't lose anyone thankfully. We were on a normal patrol in Omicron Delta and we'd taken a sortie from the Order base in system. Everything was going well until a couple of Nomad battleships appeared out of no where. We were able to fight them both off but not before red lines began showing through the ships superstructure. Within moments, the ships center of mass began bucking from the stress. We were able to limp the ship back to the Freeport as some technicians came up from Omicron Kappa to investigate the damages. Turns out the ship wasn't ready for the amount of stress we were putting her through. I got my fucking ear about talked off by the lead technician. She was pissed off that I'd managed to damage the ship as extensively as I had in the short period of time it had been utilized. The technicians shooed the crew off of the ship and began repairs. We later found out they'd managed to repair it enough to tow it back to Omicron Kappa and to the shipyards. Kasumi and I had a brief meeting concerning the damages. During our conversation, we had an idea to use some of the tech we've discovered during our sorties with the aliens here. We gathered some of the research our scientists have been doing and brought them to the shipyards in Kappa for them to review. After a painstaking few hours, they came back and said that some of the tech we located might be adaptable on the Defiance including some of the AI tech we've recovered from the Cruisers and Drones. We've researched some of the Renegade and Nomad components under controlled conditions too, but feel that the risk of corruption or other hazards far too high to use that research. We plan on passing that information up to the Order for their review. They know more about this stuff than we do and the risks involved. However, we don't see a reason as to why the AI components can't be integrated immediately. The engines alone would consume far less H-Fuel and may even propel the ship faster than we originally believed possible. We're staying here at Kappa for the evening while they review things. No telling how long this will take. I plan on returning with Kasumi on the Katakiuchi to Delta and Freeport 11 in the morning. The alien menace waits for no one...much less a human with a habit of breaking battleships. Zylar out. - Zylar Vespertine Captain of the Eventide & ZSS-Defiance Attachments (0)

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Encrypting feeds...
...clearing send buffer.
...finishing up.

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