Anyway. The Omicron 80 system seems at first glance to have little military activity within it, and then an Outcast Dreadnought by the name of MNS-Moonlighting appeared, me getting out us out of scanner range just in time.
We proceeded to bluff our way out of being followed by the Arms Dealer, who seemed to be willing to risk his cargo in order to follow us...
Anyway, we moved further into the system, our eyes and scanners searching for bases or other reasons why a Dreadnought would be stationed there. Then the Ion Storms hit. The Directors ship recovered first, and he was attacked by several Sabres and had to flee. When my ship powered up again, we moved off, deciding that with damaged ships, it would be better to postpone the search. I gave the director all regens I had, knowing that it was more important he returned than I did...
Anyhow, as we returned to the Omicron Alpha jump hole, we passed a base, and I got several scans of it:
The data has been forwarded to the R&D office on Java.
That's all for now, except we both managed to return to Tau 23 without further damage or incident.
[Add encryption]
[Only Directors and the Guildmaster may read this message]
I have been unable to reach the R&D director as of yet, so I decided... *She checks the clock* 23 minutes ago, to activate the Research and Development fleet.
I am aware that... well... none of you except for guildmaster Hargreaves are aware as to what this is. The R&D fleet was obviously the ships that are controlled by the Research and Development department. Within this fleet, there are 8 Argus battlecruisers, and upon these are placed the latest developments created in our labs. Any weapon tests, or other dangerous research is conducted upon these ships, and the location of these ships is kept a strict secret. The only person with the location of these ships, or a way to contact them is the director or his/her second in command.
My second in command was Mink Whipperwill, who as you may remember went missing. I myself was kidnapped before I could pass the location codes onto the new director. The scientists who worked on these ships had no idea where they were, they were taken to and from them in shuttles that were programmed by myself.
You may wonder why we kept these 8 Battlecruisers silent and hidden. The reason was because the ships were never needed. To keep them active was an expensive draw, and if we left them deactivated they would be vulnerable to attack. Thus the secrecy.
The gunboats and fighters/bombers that were part of the fleet were not with these battlecruisers, I feel it is worth mentioning.
As I said, I pinged the ships... 25 minutes ago now, and received 3 responses. The first was a confirmation that the ships had received my signal. The second signal confirmed that they had not moved places.
The third said that they had been boarded.
Someone, or several someones, has boarded and possibly has control over the 8 most advanced Argus's in Sirius. Sirs, I need to take a team to reclaim the ships immediately, but as a journeyman I have no power and the Research and Development director is missing. I need someones permission to launch a mission to retake control of the ships, and my thought is to fly them to the Tau 39 system, keep them near to Jakarta for the time being.
There is also a slightly more serious point, that of the Artemis... it is only half constructed, but is incredibly deadly. We had not finished her when I had left, so her half built hull is still out there...
*Syana stops and sighs for a moment*
Again, I need to explain. The Artemis, named after the ancient greek god of hunting, was a damaged old hull the R&D department bought in secret from the Colonials for a rather large price. She's a Zephyr sirs, not yet complete. We thought that with the appearance of Gallia, we would need a hidden fleet as our... secret card to play.
Only Hargreaves knew this, but now all of you do... again, please, let me go and retrieve those ships. They have not yet moved position, but who knows how long that will last.
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