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Lord Caedus

11-03-2023, 05:19 PM,

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External Security & Research Division
Liberty Navy, First Fleet
Commander Jack Boehm

Director Baker,

As per request from high command, I carried out a preliminary survey of the Copernicus system to ascertain if it provides a connection to Sigma space. While proceeding to Galileo to conduct said survey, I encountered Lieutenant Cotton, who offered to join me on the expedition. We proceeded through the unstable Jump Hole in Galileo and arrived in an asteroid rich nebula. After dealing with a small threat from some Xenos, we proceeded to head out to explore the rest of the system, almost immediately encountering an odd set of jump holes, as well as a pair of planets.

Noticing a vast, almost pitch black nebula ahead of us, we went to explore it, but due to how dense the particle field there was, our scanners were incredibly ineffective, and we felt it was dangerous to proceed in further. At about this time, we encountered another explored, flying under an independent IFF. They had recently been further in the field, having decided to explore through the previously mentioned jump holes. According to this pilot, who seemed perfectly forthright, the jump holes in this system seem to all connect in a sort of loop that goes throughout the system in general. The pilot also warned that there are heavy radiation fields located within the areas around some of these jump holes, and that one of them had almost destroyed their ship. After being asked what their origin was, the freelance pilot mentioned that they had come into Copernicus from Sigma-13. Deciding that it was probably a good idea to not explore the highly radioactive areas in a mere freighter and fighter, we exchanged some telemetry data with the freelance pilot, pointing them towards the Jump Hole leading back to Galileo, while he sent us to the one to Sigma-13.

Proceeding in the direction of the coordinates, we passed close to the brown dwarf at the center of the system, making note of a asteroid field in orbit of it. As we neared the coordinates given to us by the freelancer, we discovered a vast stretch of what seems to be part of the Crow nebula as well as several large ice asteroids approximately the size of Willard station within it, and near them the Jump Hole we had been looking for. After making note of the precise location, we endeavored to finish the loop of the system that we had started, almost immediately running into a dense pocket of explosive gasses which nearly destroyed Cotton's fighter. With her ship damaged, we made haste back towards our entry point, stopping for a moment near the wreck of one of the other early explorers of the system. Once that was done, we quickly jumped back to Galileo, then headed to Colorado, where we both landed on the Ohio to make repairs.

If we intend to send more expeditions into Copernicus to map the rest of the system, which I greatly recommend, I suggest not sending anything smaller than a Grizzly. The dangers of the nebula in Copernicus are extreme, and it was mostly luck that saw Lieutenant Cotton through the experience. I'll be attaching several recordings from the camera suite on my ship, as well as a transcription of the flight recorder below for review.

Jack Boehm
Commander, ESRD
1FLT, Liberty Navy

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[LN] ESRD Secure Reporting Network - by Liberty Navy - 10-11-2023, 12:35 AM

RE: [LN] ESRD Secure Reporting Network - by Yannis - 10-11-2023, 09:29 AM

RE: [LN] ESRD Secure Reporting Network - by Sarawr!? - 10-12-2023, 04:01 AM

RE: [LN] ESRD Secure Reporting Network - by Lord Caedus - 11-03-2023, 05:19 PM

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