INCOMING TRANSMISSION
COMM ID: Commissar-Lieutenant Konstantin Petrovin
LOCATION: Zvezdny Gorodok, Omega-52 System
Privet, Tovarischi.
While on patrol of the border, our defense network picked up the arrival of a single ship, Spatial-class, arriving through the Omega-50 jump hole. Its transponder did not indicate hostility, but its presence was uncalled for nonetheless. I intercepted the subject near Mykolaiv Research Station, identifying it as a "Pryce Deep Space One". Intensive scans belied nothing but a poorly armed science vessel.
The pilot of this ship claimed they were studying the unstable jump hole forming nearby, and that they had a visa authorized by Premier Katz himself. I could not verify this; Tovarisch Premier Katz was unavailable. The subject then requested the affirmation of "Lieutenant Medvedov". Clearly dated information; rank aside, Tovarisch Commissar Medvedov was also unavailable for confirmation. In light of this, I was forced to escort the vessel out of the system.
I had them purge their navigational logs, and made sure of it through a low-level data stream hack, but they wished to hold onto their sensor logs regarding the anomaly. Since this was potentially information that the Coalition had not yet acquired of its own accord, I had Sevastopol Depot open a secure data transfer and ordered the subject to send all pertinent files there for backup. Sevastopol control confirmed the backup and quarantined the data in a secure drive while I had the subject jettison its sensor data core and confiscated it. The vessel left the system as appropriate.
Given the circumstances, once affirmation for the visa and purpose of being is confirmed, a message through secure neural net channels is the next step.
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