Logs from the Sevantya / #003 - "Infection"
23 Aug 2022Tosh Vraugen
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Log Title: "Infection"
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This is Doctor Amina Holland, Chief-Scientist of the Sevantya, this is my second log concerning the scavenging crew and the psychotic attacks and subsequent deaths of the four survivors of the HIP 14909 Expedition. It's been 5 days since we had Sarah Filton (patient zero) and her crew mates: Alex Holgins, Jonathan Stevens and Carla Wayne quarantined and under observation, as I wrote in my last log, we had to sedate Sarah Filton to prevent her from having any other episode while we further investigated what was happening to her, we also decided to isolate the other three members of the crew to see if the same symptoms would also show up on them, and to our surprise, it did. On 20/08/3308 at 08:51, Jonathan Stevens started displaying the same behaviour as Sarah Filton: dilated pupils, muscle spasms across the body, mumbling senseless words and eventually the rise in aggressivity and self-harm, only a couple of minutes later the same symptoms showed up on Alex Holgins and Carla Wayne, and 30 hours after these events we have confirmed their deaths. Clearly this wasn't the effect of a drug as Dr. Andrew suggested, this was something else, so before we started the autopsies, I requested to have their suits examined and what we found was intriguing. We always request our operators to have their suits recorder activated during missions, but most of them ignore that, however, Sarah Filton had her recording system online during their time inside the Thargoid Structure and one particular event caught our attention. Below is the image of her suit camera and the audio that was recorded during this event:
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------------------ SUIT STATUS: Nominal /RECORDER: Online --------------------
Sarah F: Ok... night vision is on... what the... are you guys seeing this?
Alex H: Seeing what? It is bloody dark down here.
Sarah F: In the ceiling... it looks like sacks... you know, like insect ones.
Alex H: Holy crap, you are right.
Jonathan S: Ha! Maybe that is where the baby thargoids come from, let's see if we can pop one. (gunfire sound)
Sarah F: No wait... oh c'mon man, look at this, a weird goo spilled over my shoulder!
Jonathan S: Well, no baby thargoids inside it seems... sorry about the goo, heh.
Carla W: Are you guys stupid or something? We already lost Ribas and Carlson to the damned drone things, stop messing around!
Jonathan S: But I jus...
Carla W: Shut up Jonathan! Sarah are you alright?
Sarah F: Yes I guess, the suit has indicated some damage when the goo touched my shoulder but I don't feel anything, suit status is still nominal.
Carla W: Alright, go back to the ship and clean that up, also bring the SRV with the Relics, we will try to start the machine following the instructions that Dr. Amina provided.
Sarah F: Roger that ma'am, on my way.
Carla W: And the rest of you idiots stay on the lookout for more drones, shoot to kill if you spot one.
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From this footage we can see that Jonathan Stevens shot some sort of sack that was attached to the structure ceiling, and that fragments from the sack ended up damaging Sarah Filton suit, so after reviewing the log, we proceeded with the autopsy and we could now confirm that there was a strange growth inside the muscles of her shoulder, exactly where the fragments from the sack landed and breached the suit, we could also confirm that there were growths in various muscles of her body, which explains the spasms and also a significant larger growth in the brain stem, which could explain the sudden change in behaviour, we also confirmed the cause of death to be multiple-organ failure. Now... what we still don't know is how this condition managed to spread to the other crew members, their suits show no indication of breaches or damage so the infection must have occurred when they were all back in the ship. Luckily for us, we were informed that no one else has entered their ship since they arrived, so I ordered that the ship, a Cobra Mk3 owned by Carla Wayne, was jettisoned into space, we can't risk an infection taking over the crew of the Sevantya. We shall keep observing the crew but since the symptoms start showing 4-8 days after exposure to this unknown agent we must stay alert, yesterday I informed Commander Tosh Vraugen about the death of the scavenging crew and the current situation, so we decided it was better to keep this information a secret for the moment to avoid chaos and panic among the crew, if at the end of this week we don't have any new cases of this infection then we will give the All-Clear and we shall inform the crew of what occurred with the members of the HIP 14909 Expedition, Dr. Amina Holland, signing out.
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