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To: All Personel
From: Capt. Jacob Davidson, Northumbria
Subject: Situation Report
Hello All;
With apologies for my continued absence from space, I tender this explanation. A few weeks ago, while performing some of my bread and butter runs of minerals and ores between Bretonia and the Border Worlds, the Northumbria become entangled in the worst Ion storm I have ever had the misfortune of witnessing and certainly the largest and most intense I've ever experienced from the inside.
We were near the Leeds/Tau gate when it struck. I cannot say how long we were within it, but by the time we had broken free of it's grasp, the Northumbria was well off the trade lanes and dozens of parsects from the Tau gate. This is, as any ship captain knows, a bad thing in any case. Being that I had recently transferred the Northumbria's transponder and ID to a freshly bought Train, we were in a territory where corrosive gas clouds and hostile Mollies were in abundance and in a ship ill suited for the situation. Worst, the prolonged contact with the Ion storm completely obliterated out primary navigation computers. We were able to limp back to Station LD-14 on our diminished secondary units with some difficulty, after ejecting our beryllium-laden cargo pods.
The Northumbria remains docked at LD-14 and is undergoing some rather extensive repairs due to the effects of both the Ion storm and corrosive clouds. I am transmitting this message from a personal computer unit which is an older model and incapable of processing flight computations.
I hope to have our primary system restored soon so that we can get back in action.
Until then we are hard at work aboard ship at LD-14, and hope to be able to limp ourselves home to Kensington or at least to Leeds sometime next week.
With Regards,
J. Davidson, Northumbria.
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