Appleton Laboratory Station Log

[kornon]

Official Appleton Laboratory Station Log
August 5th, 829 A.S.
-Recorded by Dr. Ron Kosher

Once again I have gotten behind on the logs, but things have been slow. We did complete the core 3 upgrade on March 23rd, just shortly after my last log. We have spent the last several months trying to get all of our equipment setup and our research going. As with any new construction there have been lots of issues, and we have had some trouble getting some of the equipment we need. After all of the setbacks, we are getting close to getting started on some actual work.

We have also gotten our hyperspace scanner fabrication line completed and we will be finishing up our first scanner hopefully today. We had some bumps along the way on the first unit, so I think we are going to sell it to raise some capital and try to do a better job on the next unit. The next scanner we will hold onto for ourselves for scanning the system, but I believe we got the kinks worked out in the fabrication process.

The biggest problem we have had is some harassment by the Corsairs in the system. They never really do much damage to the station, but we have launched some ships on a couple of occasions to chase them away. With the Freeport so close I am not sure what they hope to accomplish, but it seems like they are testing things out, mapping our defenses, looking for weaknesses rather than trying to do any real damage, which worries me for what is to come…

-End Log Entry