Australis...

[Edge]

Our worst fear became true. The Rheinlanders must have detected the ship`s power signature, when the Core went operational. Strange readings from the Outcast Core with recognizable Imperial patterns, Capital Class.



We knew that they would send a team of investigators. Just that we didn`t expected them to be a wing of Bombers. We didn`t knew their position, but we knew that they are hunting us. We decided to make a run for it.


The plan was to make it to Liberty, to Beaumont for restock, then to Rochester, for refueling. Then to go to Vieques Shipyard for any remaining repairs... but before that we just hoped to make it out, alive.


They caught up with us somehow. Our last hope was to use their Tradelanes. We had the codes of the Gates in our computer. We will run. We will never surrender. We were probably declared as Enemy of the State, since they didn`t wasted too much time and started doing torpedo runs on the Australis.






We tried to fight back, but because of the damaged arrays, we weren`t able to fight effectively. The shield was underpowered, no energy in the buffer. They broke through the shield, and tried to destroy us once and for all. All their combined firepower went on the rear of the ship. They knew that they can`t disable our engine, but they tried to cut the power to it. That would`ve stopped the Australis dead in it`s tracks.



Journal entry #1450 - status complete.