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From: "Ikarus Station" - Dr. Sailas Montgomery

Subject: The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

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No worries, Dr. Wright. I'm fine. We ran into a bit of a snaffu with the Dreamscape. Whilst exploring a new region of space due to a misaligned Jump coil, we were accosted by an unusual vessel which forced us to make an emergency jump back into civilized space. However, we jumped back inside an anomaly located in Vespucci. This caused an unfortunate incident in which the anomaly intersected the powercore of the Bustard causing it to go critical.

We scarcely had 10 minutes to evacuate the ship before it's core melted down and the ship exploded. After a few days, and our rations almost running out, our destress call was picked up by passing traders. We only recently made it back to Ikarus.

Unfortunately this means we've lost another vessel due to strange circumstances. Two in so many of weeks. I'd write it off as circumstancial but I'm starting to wonder if someone doesn't want us researching these unusual changes going on in our region of space.

The ship that chased us out of the system we found ourselves in was reminiscent of a Nephilim...a heavily armed one at that. Why a Zoner would attack one of their own with such ferocity is unclear. With the Dreamscape out of commission, this leaves us without a vessel capable of jumping. On our return trip I reached out to a passing acquaintance I met some years ago who has a heavily armed Zoner Carrier. We will use this to search for this unknown vessel and see if we can't figure out why and what they're protecting in that strange system. Somehow, I feel like it's inextricably linked to our recent bad luck with ships.

I'll keep you updated better in the future, Dr. Wright. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a lot of paperwork to do, seems as if it piled up during my absence.

--Dr. Sailas Montgomery
CEO and Lead Researcher, SLRC

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