Hidden menace

[ophidian]

LEVEL 3 TOP SECRET: FOR EYES ONLY

ORDER SPECIAL OPS REPORT
DATE: 13.04
SPEC OPS MEMBER / CALLSIGN: Rand Seith / Order|Ophidian
OP PARAMETER: Wing Commander
SUBJECT: Classified Operation Summary
TYPE: Dictaded from audio logs


Ensign Ophidian entered to Isis' Spec Ops briefing room to be questioned by Fleet Admiral Malacos' Operations Advisor and several Spec Ops commanders. The doors closed behind him and the guards outside the room started blocking the doors, arming weapons and going on full alert status.

Ophidian slowly moved towards the seats of commanding officers and saluted them briefly.

Commander: Ensign Rand Seith, you are summoned before us to report about the incident happened today, regarding the capturing of Liberty Navy transport XXXXXXX| ID Removed for security reasons | and your first hand observations regarding the notions of Keepers, your experience over Toledo together with the ground crew. You may start, when ready.

Rand slowly cleared his throat and started speaking in a formal manner. It was a report logging so he had to be brief and out of emotions as much as possible. He tried to forget the massacre he saw on board the transport and the blast he suffered on Toledo...


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This is Ensign Rand "Ophidian" Seith. I am answering this Spec Ops report interview as the wing commander of our primary fleet special operation that took place on 13.04 under direct orders from CIC Apophis regarding the emergency call of operative "Johnson" who was reported and filed as MIA about a year ago according to log files.

Liberty operative's message stated a high-risk intel and first degree dangerous asset was on the move from Liberty by the Navy.

As I am not of high rank to know all the mission details, I have been briefed to gather the emergency wing and head to Liberty space to stop one Navy transport carrying an unusual, Nomad origined cargo.

As of 21.00 standart Toledo time, me and four other craft jumped off to New York as secretly as possible. 21.04 was the time when we spotted the transport ID'ed XXXXXX | ID Removed for security reasons | and the escorts.

Navy craft engaged our wing and we had to fight with the escorts. The transport and its primary guard managed to make it to Colorado system and to Kepler after two skirmishes we had.

We had to divide the wing into two and using the Kusari pasage, half of my fighters managed to block and trap the transport near Planet Junyo in Shikoku system.

After the escorts were neutralized, I had to dock on to the transport to force the crew to follow our wing and obey the orders. The captain seemed to agree but his anchorman decided to go hostile and I shot him several times at his chest and his head.

After the takeover, we headed to our home space over Kyushu, Tokyo, Honshu, Okinawa, Nagano, Tohoku. However, in 92, we picked the satellite imaging of a Keeper fleet, probably being after the asset.

Cargo scans didn't show much except for some Nomad cells and artifacts of some sort that I have never seen before as wel as cargo holds looked like Rand stopped for a brief moment and continued... pods.

When we came to 92, we had to divide the fleet and all my wingman headed before Keepers to block them while I tried to escort the transport back to Toledo.

Things... got complicated after that.

Transport captain sent a message regarding his engines failing and then he suddenly dropped off all communications.

I decided to dock back on the transport and take it to Toledo manually as I was a smuggler before my Order days, I had the experience to fly one of those things.

God, I wish there was a way to explain this... The captain was... all over the console. I mean, he was splittered as if he.. bursted from inside out. His chest ripped, parts everywhere... I had to fly the ship within all that bloodbath and it wasn't pleasant. I managed to dock the ship on Toledo after a brief flight and then something strange happened. It took Rand a while to calm down and speak slowly after remembering the captain's body...

We are used to getting electomagnetic brain attacks and messages from Nomads and Keepers but I have never felted such rage and power before. And it was like a message to all, as all the ground personnel heard it at the same time, some fainting, some falling on to their knees. I fell off to ground as well. One message keeped ringing in my ears. It was about eternal darkness coming. I saw ... visions. I cannot understand them yet but they were nasty and I was reduced into tears because of fear.

I have no clearance to check the cargo but from what I heard of rumors, there are... people in those things in some strange conditions. That is all I can say about the operation.

After his report was over, commanders dismissed Rand and started discussing over the information. Rand didn't even care what it was about as he was too tired and afraid of the whole mess he has seen in the last two hours. He headed back to his quarters slowly, without being able to stop his tears comiing off.

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