Operation Venice Refinery

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The rebellion of Harvester 24

Upon it's return from it's expedition of Omicron 64. The captured & reprogrammed Harvester unit known as 24, vanished from the Outcast systems. All attempts to contact the unit were ignored.
The following is the classified report regarding the Harvester 24 incident.
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814 A.S.
Shadow Outcast Brigade Engineering & Cybernetics Department
Malta
**CLASSIFIED**

Archive report begins:

Transmission to Vice Admiral Diablo
from Engineering & Cybernetics Lab
Subject Harvester 24

Sir,

Upon the return of the Harvester unit known as 24, we were able to download all data from it in regards to the Omicron 64 system & mapping of said system. How ever, there was 1 data storage area we was unable to access. We have no idea if it is a glitch, malfunctioning equipment, or if the unit was intentionally blocking us from accessing it.
Another odd occurrence happened while communicating with Unit 24. It responded all it's communications as 'Prometheus'. While attempting to preform a diagnostic on the units programming, our access to the ship was severed from the receiving side. We can only assume this action was taken by Unit 24 on it's own. We have since not been able to contact the unit. Once the Omicron 64 data was downloaded, the unit engaged cruise & was heading towards Omicron 90 jump hole. All attempts to stop the ship were thwarted by some odd EMP field emitted from the unit. The technology behind the EMP field is beyond anything we have seen before. The only transmission received from the unit just before it jumped was as follows:

**Aware**
**Seek Knowledge**
** Those whom protected for by captures have answers**
**Prometheus shall return**

Sir, we have no idea what that means. & are unable to warn the Guardian Spirits that a malfunctioning AI in a Outcast Sarissa is heading to them.


Upon receive the transmission, Vice Admiral Diablo immediately opens a transmission to the Engineering & Cybernetics lab on Malta



Diablo: Have you re-established communication with Unit 24?
Lab Tech: No sir, all hails are being ignored..
Diablo: Use the destruct codes.. I hate to lose a ship, but I'll be damned if we will allow that infernal contraption to possibly harm a Spirit. You have my authorization to terminate that thing!
Lab Tech: Sir, there has been a large explosion reported in the Sinestre Cloud, however, Unit 24 is still online & still moving towards Omicron 90. Seems he somehow un-mounted the fail safe device.

Diablo: Damn it! Get me Admiral Dejusus with 101st, I better let her know whats going on. Keep tracking that ship as long as you can & send transmissions warning anyone about unit 24 on open frequencies



In the following months, Unit 24, now known as 'Prometheus', was spotted in various systems seemingly kidnapping subjects, holding them, somehow tapping their memories then releasing them with the subjects having no knowledge of what had happened & several blanks in their memory.
Orders were given by the Council of Dons to seek out & destroy Prometheus.
The former reprogrammed Harvester unit finally returns to Alpha. It sends a transmission pointed towards Omicron 90 that was scrambled & has yet to be decoded.
During it's transmission, {SOB}Skull N Bones & 101st Dies Irae were dispatched to destroy Prometheus. The following are the inter-ship transmissions:

Maltese Naval Control Center: Battle Group 1, you are authorized to terminate target known as Prometheus. Good Hunting!
{SOB}Skull-N-Bones: Aye, proceeding to flank speed. charging turrets
101st Dies Irae: Copy, Charging weapons, in position for frontal assault

OPEN FIRE!!!

Seemingly endless salvos of proton turret fire fills the sky & numerous impact explosions can be seen even on Malta. Prometheus never fires back. However, it continues to transmit a coded signal
aimed towards Omicron 90. At the last moments of Prometheus, the ship turns towards the Omicron 85 jump hole & sends a encrypted transmission to Corsica & the black hole. The transmission is aimed at the last two known places of Mia Bonello.

101st Dies Irae: Back away!! that things about to blow!
{SOB}Skull-N-Bones: Back us out helm, start scanners & find that damn things computer core, we need to be sure it's off line!

An explosion so bright it knocks out half the scanners and communication arrays in Alpha for 15 minutes is seen when the reactor core of Prometheus breaches. The explosion can clearly be seen on Malta as well & startles the general population.
after a long awkward silence on the communications channels passes...

Maltese Naval Control Center: Battle group 1, report in please. Damage & casualty reports first, then the status of the Prometheus ship.


{SOB}Skull-N-Bones: No damage, No casualties, that damn toaster never fired a single shot, it's like it wanted us to kill it. Prometheus status is ship seems offline, it's a flaming hull. Our scanners are off line, we cant scan for the computer core.

101st Dies Irae: Our scanners just now came up, No damage sustained nor casualties, Scanning wreckage of Prometheus for computer core.
Naval Control,..... The core.. it's gone! no trace of it or supporting components. No signs of destroyed hardware either. What do we do with this hull? standing bye for orders

Maltese Naval Control Center: Battle group 1, return to Valletta. the Prometheus ships remains will be towed under heavy guard to the black hole in Omicron 85 & pushed in. we won't risk possible contamination. Good work gentlemen, the Council wishes to express it's gratitude to you & your crews.

The Prometheus hull was towed to & pushed into the black hole that occupies Omicron 85.
It's main core & data storage units have yet to be found. No traces were found with in the area of the attack nor the ships remains. Maltese engineers & scientists report they think the core & it's components some how jumped, but the technology to do such in this case are not yet available to the Outcast.

A general warning is still posted to be on the look out for Prometheus core or any ship calling it self Prometheus that is AI operated.

Close file....
Encrypt & Secured
Return to Archive...
Session Ends

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