His name was Randall Lamar. I met him during a...patrol in the Magellan system, where he was looking for...something. If I just knew what it was what he was looking for! I should have shot him without any second thoughts. Now, I am paying for my shortsightedness, here, lying in the hospital of Freeport 4, with my ship lost and me still recovering from what I've seen.
After a long dispute with him, it turned out that he was following some strange kind of religion, "the call of the Shrine" or something. I tried to convince him that religion is just a concept brought into this world by the capitalist pigdogs to keep him in line, but I was wrong - he was serving nobody less than the Slomon K'Hara, the squishies, the enemies of men!
I managed to pin him down near the tradelanes, and tried to convince him of the errors of his ways - he seemed to genuinely believe in peace, so I thought I might lead him away from his treacherous path - but I failed. Maybe he was infected, maybe the squishies have been messing with his mind, I don't know. I eventually powered up my weapon systems and began shooting, but while he did not return fire, he managed to escape. I instantly switched to cruise speed and began pursuing him.
Lamar led me to a strange nearby system, through some jumphole formerly unknown to me in one of the ice clouds. I think he had not seen this jumphole before either, as after the jump, he expressed great astonishment, screaming something about "shades of blue and green" and that he finally found what he has been searching for. I pursued to him to a strange purple cloud, full of strange particles...it was then, when I first heard "the voice". That voice...I think I understand what Lamar meant when he talked about "the call of the Shrine". It was...like a song, bright, tempting...I barely managed to resist it. They've been playing with my mind, both Lamar and that...voice. He accused me of being much more of a believer than he was...what a fool, even if I might have betrayed my former Libertonian masters, I'd never betray the human race as a whole!
Soon, everything went brighter and brighter...the voice became louder and clearer. Eventually, when I was barely able to bear it's brainwashing anymore, we found a strange, alien gate - and Lamar even invited me to follow him through it! Again, I tried destroying him, but it was too late, and in a flash of blinding light, he entered the gate. No longer able to control my ship, with all these voices around, I crashed into an asteroid and had to eject. I still don't know how I made it back to the Freeport; I am just glad that I survived and did not become...one of them.
This gate must be destroyed. We cannot allow more to follow this path of the traitor. It seems that I've lost it's exact coordinates (due to strong interferences, I was barely able to send through the picture I took of it), but I believe that if we can find the wreck of my ship, the navigation files might still be intact and could reveal it's location.
Also, please get me out of the Freeport as soon as possible. Even though the infection scans where negative, the people still eye me very suspiciously...and I fear they might just throw me out of the airlock on the first sign of any, uh, "abnormal" behavior.
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