SCRA Communications Centre

[Lanakov]

PRIORITY : [color=#990000]HIGH

[font=Courier New]Comrades,


I bring disheartening news.

It would seem that, yet again, the Zoners are moving against us in what appears as a most treacherous scheme.

Upon reaching Omega 52 after a glorious raid on Rheinland, a strike wing composed of Commandante Rhade, Commissar-Major Stroganov, General Warner, Militsiya Lane and myself was on its way to Zvezdny for debriefing when it picked up local transmissions emitted by an invisible source. The sensors couldn't pick any signal apart from the chatter.
The intrusion protocol was thus initiated at once, with the strike wing deploying to cover as much as space as possible to identify and track the source of these transmissions. While our people tried to communicate with the intruder, our questions and calls were met with ignorance.

Somehow, the intruder managed to sneak past our vigilance and escaped to Omega 5 while still ignoring our calls. We chased the signals through , which led us to cross the Hammen Hole and on to Omega 3.

Seeing as the intruder had identified itself as a zoner for some reason, we made our way to Freeport 1, while still having no visual confirmation of our target. Upon reaching it, the ship finally appeared on our scanners.



Unlike our worst predictions, it was a Zoner Whale that appeared before our eyes and just stood right aside the station. Under Commandante Rhade's orders, we disabled its shields to dissuade it from any hostile action, then allowed it to explain itself.

The pilot's declarations were a confused mess about a malfunctioning hyper-drive module, trying to have us believe that he got in our home system by chance, for lack of a better word. All in all, it was nothing more than a spy reading his "what to say when caught" manual. It would take more convincing to fool the brave and smart SCRA pilots. As we started to disable the vessel, it managed to crashdock onto the station, escaping an imminent destruction.



Again, my comrades, we have solid evidence that the Zoners are conducting survey missions in our territory, most likely in preparation of a large-scale assault. Such intriguing displays of bravery and foolishness should be looked into by the Commissariat, as should be the harboring of a spy possibly carrying military secrets by the people of Freeport 1.

Upon returning to Omega 52, my bomber suffered an unexpected incident and went off in flames. Probably a malfunction or the effects of a virus implanted by the Zoner spy.

END OF REPORT.

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