Starlight Research Consortium - Documenting and Reporting

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Starlight Research Consortium
Chasing starlight since 829 A.S.

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To: SLRC Members

From: Galileo System

Subject: Fair Winds

Encryption Strength: Routine

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White noise. It's all it was at first. A recording. A ghost story. Locals called it the 'Prophet', a by-product of the dark matter storm's expansion from whatever had happened in Alberta. Dark Matter. My predecessors died for it in an attempt to exploit it's supposedly boundless applications and, if properly harnessed, the similarly boundless advances humanity would make in terms of space travel.

Three probes. The area around the anomalies surrounding the wreckage is laced with a literal minefield of gravitic distortion that would suck you in and crush you in an instant. We lost three probes finding that out and an additional three trying to map it. I was curious what had brought it out there in the first place. Did it come with the storm when the field began to rapidly expand? Some poor captain and his crew that thought they could make one last trip to Ames before the gates shut down and ended up being flash-frozen in time, cursed to a never-ending loop of trying to move but unable to?

We salvaged what we could from what little wasn't eroded or eaten away by the storm. The anomalies nipping away at it's hull like a pack of piranhas.
It's official nomenclature - identified as an L-584-B "Oasis"-class passenger liner, originally designed and commissioned 799 A.S. in Baltimore Shipyard with original designation as OSC Luxury Liner "Donahue" until it was scrapped, sold and re-designated in 806 A.S. as the Independent Freelance Ship "Starcrest". Due to the lack of functional blackboxes, on-board flight and obvious disconnect from powered systems we were unable to ascertain it's journey and subsequent end. It is a ghost ship, by and far the first genuine "ghost" ship that I've ever encountered in Sirius. Despite there being no power our drone's heuristic sensors continue to pick up a message that repeats. Over and over. Clearer now.

I've cleaned up the distortion. The static. The corrupted data. Pieced it together over a night and a day with my linguistics team.

I'm going to Kansas now. To root around and see what Edison meant when he said it spit him out near there. Some as of yet unknown jump hole that we just don't anything of? A hidden jump gate? Who knows. It's why I joined the SLRC. Research and Exploration. Ever upwards, towards starlight, no?

--Dr. Lillian Genda
Research and Exploration Division, SLRC
Ever upwards, towards starlight!

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"Here we stay. Here. We stay. Here we stay. It never stops and never ends. Here we stay. Forever we stay. Like lambs lost in the night here we stay because there is nowhere else for us to go but forward here we stay. The ship moves but the stars no longer shine so here we stay. We stay. Space is infinite but our lives are finite so here we stay. Unable to leave, unable to move. Here we stay. Here we stay. Here we stay."

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