The Jericho Expedition

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Day 2137

It looks like the ICMG have pulled through and a bit more too. They have already manuevered a fleet into the Coronado system and near to the planet and established that their mighty Argus class vessels could get within 4k of the planet before the radiation gets dangerous. We only got within 7k, so this should be of great interest.

We are also enroute to Coronado, after taking some damage due to crossfire in yet another fire fight between Bretonian and Kusari forces in Tau-31. They need to watch where they are firing before they make more enemies for themselves.

It would seem that the ICMG are serious about this venture and even refused credits but instead wanted to share in any discoveries that we make. This is a great boon to our expedition. A dedicated, efficient and knowledge driven group with the resources to effectively carry out what needs to be done.

The crew have got high morale with the news of the ICMG's rapid movements, which has definitely helped dispel the dismal mood after Engineer Lawson was injured during the firefight. He should hopefully be alright but the medical officers couldn't give a definite answer. If he does end up dying, I'll have to look for a new Engineer from somewhere.
We would probably need to head back to Kusari if such a thing happened, not many are experienced with our new propulsion systems.

Still, such idle thoughts are not going to be helpful now, best I get back to the data we collected from our last trip to Jericho, perhaps I can pinpoint some sort of pattern in the radiation readouts. Would be a great help towards finding the source of the energy.

Can't help but wonder what awaits on the surface of that desolate planet. Perhaps it will be a fruitless waste of time but it could also be the opposite, a discovery akin to those that the Zoner's made out in the Omicrons years ago.

Who knows.

Jao.

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