To: Admiral John Sader, 5th Fleet

[Durandal]

I'm shocked that Locklear actually got off his ass and ran this silly errand for you of all people. I told you he'd go for it, mind, but I didn't expect him to take the Damocles out there himself and run the scans. In any event, the logs you requested have been attached below. It's my sincerest hope that you find them satisfactory and up to the Fifth Fleet's own standards, as from now on you'll not be getting a chance to monitor the object yourself.

Tuttle Creek Hypergate Survey

[20.01.834 03:19:40] [HF]-HFC-Damocles: Locklear: Legionnaire Oh, Legionnaire Drexler. Anything you see or hear until we exit the Tuttle Creek Nebula is classified.
[20.01.834 03:19:46] [REDACTED]: I'm good at a lot of things. Getting shot at isn't one of them.
[20.01.834 03:20:09] Caleb.Oh: Caleb: Roger that, sir. I've heard some of the stories about this place...
[20.01.834 03:20:17] [HF]-Nathaniel.Drexler: Take your bravado back to the Omicrons, out here respect the locals.
[20.01.834 03:20:30] [HF]-Catalyst: On the bright side, probably only about 15% of them are true, Oh.
[20.01.834 03:20:44] [HF]-Catalyst: On the dark side, some of them are true.
[20.01.834 03:20:55] Caleb.Oh: Maybe so, but I'm keeping my tractor beam warmed up and my cruise engine ready to charge.
[20.01.834 03:21:02] [HF]-HFC-Damocles: Locklear: Transfer shield power to sensors. Full spectrum sweep.
[20.01.834 03:21:20] [HF]-HFC-Damocles: Locklear: "Oh."
[20.01.834 03:21:25] [REDACTED]: This ol' place, huh?
[20.01.834 03:21:30] Caleb.Oh: Caleb: Yes, sir?
[20.01.834 03:21:34] [HF]-Nathaniel.Drexler: I can't see anything.
[20.01.834 03:21:36] [HF]-HFC-Damocles: Locklear: Not.. not you.
[20.01.834 03:21:51] [HF]-Nathaniel.Drexler: Oh God..
[20.01.834 03:21:58] [REDACTED]: Now he sees it.
[20.01.834 03:22:01] [HF]-HFC-Damocles: Locklear: Keep distance and radio silence.
[20.01.834 03:22:05] [HF]-Nathaniel.Drexler: You're frakking kidding me!
[20.01.834 03:22:26] [HF]-HFC-Damocles: Locklear: Radio silence, Drexler.
[20.01.834 03:22:34] [REDACTED]: [REDACTED]
[20.01.834 03:23:14] [HF]-HFC-Damocles: Locklear: Science stations, begin a full scan for any energy readings. X-Rays, Gamma Rays, I don't care what.
[20.01.834 03:23:35] [HF]-HFC-Damocles: Locklear: Tactical, I want a full rundown on structural integrity.
[20.01.834 03:23:50] [HF]-HFC-Damocles: *Muffled "Yes sir's" can be heard in the background*
[20.01.834 03:23:59] [REDACTED]: What, you can't tell by looking at the damn thing? There's freaking holes in it.
[20.01.834 03:24:17] [HF]-HFC-Damocles: Locklear: We're not doing this for -our- sake.
[20.01.834 03:24:18] [HF]-Nathaniel.Drexler: We're a little more thorough than [REDACTED].
[20.01.834 03:24:28] [HF]-Catalyst: Radio silence, he said.
[20.01.834 03:26:00] [HF]-HFC-Damocles: Locklear: Energy patterns nominal. Gravitional anomaly stable, structural integrity detiorating at standard rate.
[20.01.834 03:26:19] [HF]-HFC-Damocles: Locklear: Nothing worth mention.
[20.01.834 03:27:11] [HF]-HFC-Damocles: Locklear: Alright, form up everyone. Helm, shields up, take us out.
[20.01.834 03:27:24] [HF]-Catalyst: That was it?
[20.01.834 03:27:42] [HF]-HFC-Damocles: Locklear: Think of it as a cancer screening.
[20.01.834 03:27:53] [HF]-HFC-Damocles: Locklear: We dot our I's and cross our T's.

In addition, both myself and Lord Commander Locklear would like to request that screening intervals be increased to one month periods. We have been monitoring this device for a long time, Sader, and while we're willing to satiate you to keep your ships out of Kansas, we also want to avoid drawing any undue attention to the cloud or the device, especially with the increasing civilian presence in system.

Star Colonel Etomgi Sahega, Hellfire Legion.