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Non-Combat After Action Report

Date: 05.31.835.7:16 GAST
Rank & Name: Initiate Knox, Cassandrine
Reporting From: Valravn Citadel
AAR # CK-001

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Deployment commenced from Inverness under standard patrol protocols. I was paired with fellow Initiate Alyra Marks, the assignment initially framed as a light systems patrol and cohesion check.

This marked my first official patrol and expedition assignment since joining Task Force Prometheus. What began as a simple flight near Liberty space — shared with fellow Initiate Alyra Marks — soon evolved into something far greater. The arrival of Initiate Assam and a Lieutenant who introduced herself only by callsign “Hurricane” changed the pace and scope entirely. With no names given and no full briefing offered, we found ourselves swept along a route few Initiates are ever exposed to so early.

Despite the scale of the operation, no tactical engagements occurred. No hostile contacts, barely some gun-cam captures to submit for strategic value. And yet, what we experienced felt significant — not militarily, perhaps, but personally.

Because of this,though the flight may not yield raw data for Command analysis, I believe it holds internal value. Not everything in the void is about firepower. Sometimes, it’s about what it stirs within us when we see what lies beyond the safe edge of mapped space.

From Inverness, through Coronado, Baffin and then the Tau corridor, we entered Omicron Alpha. From there, our trajectory took us through Theta, into Kappa, and then Delta. Environmental hazards increased as we progressed — radiation, EM noise, wreck fields. Omicron Zeta came next, then finally, the void gates of Iota... and beyond that, Psi. The Nomad structures there defied form and logic. The silence wasn’t passive. It felt present.

It was near those constructs that Initiate Marks was lost. Her ship was destroyed — unclear whether by residual Nomad weaponry or automated defenses. Assam confirmed pod recovery. No other losses occurred.

Our return followed a long arc: Psi, Alpha, Theta again — then through Gamma, Omega-41, and Omega-5. Bretonian space gave us a corridor home: Cambridge, New London, Manchester. From there, we crossed Cortez, Coronado, and finally returned to Inverness.

My ship sustained no damage. Flight systems remained responsive throughout. There are no tactical engagements to report, but the mission remains meaningful. We were not simply tested against the unknown — we were shown it.

I remain flight-ready and available for debrief.

Attached Visual Logs

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