INCOMING TRANSMISSION
COMM ID: Sub-Lieutenant Konstantin Petrovin
LOCATION: Zhukovsky Station, Omega-52 System
My assignment was to survey all planetoids in the Tau Systems using an external sensor pod attached to my Partisan Light Fighter. Since many of those systems are heavily defended by factions, and since the rest of them are devoid of such things, my flight path took me to Planet Harris in Tau-31.
The trip in was somewhat hazardous; the BAF put up a minefield to dissuade the KNF, the only opening being along an incomplete tradelane. A Dunkirk-class Battleship, the HMS Macduff, was stationed just outside the gap in the mines, presumably to concentrate fire there. I managed to slip through a thin portion of the field and fly beyond, but only by the merits of the size of my Partisan.
Planet Harris itself was registered as a Planetform experiment, slated to be finished in 820 A.S. Needless to say, the recent turn of events has pushed that estimate back perhaps indefinitely. However, judging by scan data, the planet's transformation from a dead rock to a hospitable one is almost complete. Temperatures on the surface are well within acceptable habitation levels, and the atmosphere's composition is suitable for survival along most latitudes. Sufficient amounts of water for wide-spread flora growth have not yet been applied, but given the ice fields in the surrounding space that step could be easily accomplished rather quickly. A storage depot is in orbit, presumably to contain terraforming agents for later use, but the level of activity on it in light of the war suggests that it has been militarized; there were no defensive armaments, but the estimated number of inhabitants far exceeded what would be required for maintaining a simple resource dump.
All in all, Harris is on the verge of becoming a viable, prosperous planet, and the Bretonians have made it very defensible in spite of their military situation.
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