Stoat - A log

[Stoat]

Finally got through all the red tape.

Three of us took a long look at Chester. There's something there alright. Energy and radiation signatures went off the charts as we approached the nebula. In the end I'm glad we waited for the enhanced armour panels to be fitted to our ships. Going into that nebula with anything less would have been suicide. As it is, all our ships took extensive radiation damage, and the hulls are heavily scored and pitted. Some of the damage reminds me of acidic attack. There was nothing obvious from our scans of the area, but maybe the techs can find something in the samples we took.

What really interests me though is the structure we discovered in the centre of the nebula. We're still waiting to see what can be recovered from the guncam and senor logs, but whatever it was, it was huge. Seemed to be shaped like some kind of donut, of all things. All sorts of weird stuff started happening as we approached. Power fluctuations, static charge build up, hell I even had St Elmo's Fire flashing around the antennae on my Bottlenose. It was nigh on impossible to get any sort of lock on the structure to scan it properly, and with what was happening to our power arrays, I'm not sure we'll get anything useful back anyway.

Whatever the structure is, it's not something that's been built by human hands, of that I am sure.

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