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Jess Geller, Captain
LOCATION: Valley Forge Flight School, Pennsylvania
SUBJECT: Internal Report - Kansas Mapping

[REPORT SUMMARY] VESPUCCI ACCESS CORRIDOR EMPTY OF THREATS OR SIGNIFICANT TRAFFIC
Howdy Boss.

We started of from Valley Forge. It looks like there hasn't been a supply run in over two months, based on what the techs told us. Someone really ought to check out the automated buoys around Veracruz.
On our way out, helm noticed a station slowly being charred by the corona. I guess some genius decided it was cheaper to leave some reaction mass and run the autopilot, than paying us or some junkers to take it apart. Based on LIDAR and other scans, it's in a sorry state, and completely abandoned. Old records show that it's probably Emleton, but it's hard to be sure with all the damage.

After getting to Kansas, traffic drops off substantially. There are some light bounty hunter flights, though I'm guessin' they're just getting youngsters used to the controls. Right within sensor range of the hole, we've got another abandoned station. This one looks to be one of our old explorer depots, later taken over by the junkers. But they're gone too - guess they didn't wanna hang around without any customers. Still, it's a bit weird that the junkers just abandoned it. There's definitely water in the system, and pretty of other crap to salvage. Kinda gives you the creeps if you really think about it. Doesn't look like there was any sabotage either - people just up and left, and the rocks did the rest.

Gettin' out of Dodge, and there's barely any contacts. I did pick up a train acting kinda suspect, but since it stayed away I figure I'd just let it be. It soon disappeared in the direction of the Pennsylvania hole.

So like I said, plenty of water left in-system, either within the Arkansas, or on Wichita (still there on LRS). We even got some of our old buoys still operational, but only around the Vespucci hole. May be worthwhile to tow a few more to point back towards Penn. The area around the whole is empty except for a big battlecruiser wreck, one of ours. Again, why aren't junkers all over it? What's gotten them so spooked? It is pretty bare-bones, but still plenty of tech on that thing to be worth taking apart.

Starting at the battlecruiser, you can sorta see how the battle went. It must've blockaded the hole while a battlegroup mopped up the Insurgency forces. There's a destroyed Insurgency cruiser, and a Liberty boarding group on an intact one. My guess would be a complete reactor scram after the navy boys couldn't hold off a counter-attack. There's more crap further off, but I'll leave that for the next intrepid explorer. Or just a junker or two.

Boss, we really gotta send someone over to Rochester and ask why the hell they've kept clear of Kansas. I ain't seen or heard anything while we were out there, but they've gotta know something. And we need to figure out what, before we lose a whole station crew setting up.

Geller out.

First, farthest, fearless.

ATTACHMENTS:

Emleton wreck	Kansas, B3
Junction Wreck	Kansas, B4
Pirate Train	Kansas, B5
Kansas, B6	Liberty Battlecruiser
Insurgency and Liberty Cruiser	Battlegroup Remains

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