SCRA Communications Centre

[Capt. Henry Morgan]

From: Lt. Cmdr. Robert Thacker, CPW Aeon's Fall

To: Commissar Lieutenant-Commander Pavel Medvedov, Intelligence

Comrade Commissar, I have just returned from my transport mission to Freeport 11. There, I picked up the Order science team bound for Mykolaiv Research Station. I also picked up the Iridium for the R&D department, as well as the Pharmaceuticals for the medical staff on Zvezdny Gorodok. Finally, the recruitment division transferred 30 new marine recruits bound for Basic Combat Training on Jiangxi. The cargo manifest, as of our arrival in 52, is attached to this report.

The trip itself was largely uneventful. We encountered a Corsair named CR_MIDAS in Omicron Gamma who flew away as soon as we entered the system. Once he was beyond sensor range, he ordered us to leave the system and threatened us if we didn't. That was all we had seen or heard of him. We got through Gamma without incident. Between you and me, the Corsairs seem to have no standards at all. They'll give anyone a ship, it seems.

Omicron Kappa also passed without incident, but when we got to Delta, we were intercepted by by a Nomad gunboat patrol. We made short work of the Assassins, and the Gunboat fell soon afterwards. From the remains, we recovered the gunboat's brain, which we put into isolation as soon as we brought it in. One of my soldiers passed out during the transfer. He awakened after we got the brain in isolation seeming none the worse for wear, but we transferred him to the Medical Research Division on Mykolaiv just to be sure. If he checks out, I would like to have him placed back under my command if that's at all possible.

Also, among the remains of one of the Nomad Assassins, we recovered what appear to be missiles of Nomad origin. They're easily the strangest looking munitions I've ever seen. Despite them showing none of the independent volition shown by Nomad ships, we placed them into isolation to be safe. No sense taking any unnecessary risks. We transferred the missiles to the R&D Division on Mykolaiv. What information we could gather will be attached to this report. Given the nature of the technology, however, I must stress that any information we gathered may be unreliable.

The return trip from Freeport 11 was uneventful, without a single hostile contact the whole way. After making the above transfers to Mykolaiv, we went to Zvezdny Gorodok to transfer the pharmaceuticals and new recruits. The medical staff was pleased at the medical supplies. Most of the recruits were unloaded from the ship, and sent off for processing prior to transfer to Jiangxi for training. One of the recruits, however, was a problem.

Most of the recruits we picked up were younger folks, late teens and early twenties, as is usual. One we picked up seemed to be in his late twenties or early thirties. Not unheard of, but certainly unusual. He generally avoided the other recruits as best as he could, and seemed less enthusiastic than the others. The guard posted over the recruits reported his unusual behavior to me, so I ordered an extra guard posted to the recruits with orders to quietly watch him.

During the journey, he did nothing else to warrant suspicion. While I supervised the unloading of the recruits at Zvezdny Gorodok, I kept my eye on the older one. Good thing, too, as shortly after stepping off the ramp he bumped into one of the maintenance staff who was going to service the Aeon's Fall. I nearly missed it, but as they bumped into one another, the recruit passed something small to the maintainance worker. I ordered my soldiers to immediately take both men into custody. The object in question was an encrypted data chip, which my men couldn't open. We've transferred both of them to the station authorities pending an investigation by the Commissariat.

I certify this report to be complete and accurate to the best of my knowledge.

Lieutenant Commander Robert Thacker
Капитан-лейтенант Робэрт Текер

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