Dear Jane- The Imperial Intelligence Institute has given me an objective....
19 Jan 2021Dwengo
FROM: CMDR Dwengo
LOCATION: Aboard ship: He who seeks glory gains the knowledge of the gods
CC: i3 - Imperial Intelligence Institute
Dear Jane,
I was finally able to take my heavily modified courier He Who Seeks Glory Gains The Knowledge of the Gods out for a spin today!
REDACTED received a tipoff about an anomaly on the planet REDACTED regarding an advanced research outpost used by the Federation. It is of course masked as a deep space survey station.
My first task was to drop a small heavily engineered drone into REDACTED to improve passive sensor data. It entered the system at a high relative velocity, calculated so that it would get close to REDACTED whilst looking like a harmless rock on sensors. This went to plan, and I picked it up as it made escape velocity and hurtled out of the system. The data was highly suspicious, a research station built deep within an extremely dense rocky planet. With only one access shaft. My suspicions were raised almost immediately.
The passive data showed a sophisticated military grade multi layered defence network. Starting from about 7 light seconds out, was an overlapping passive scanning satellite network that picked up the tell-tale signs of a gamma ray burst given off by ships that are thrown out of hyperspace at the heaviest mass object in the target system.
Thanks to the advanced technology of i3 ships, the He who seeks glory gains the knowledge of the gods. is able to calculate which heavy mass object in a star system it wants to be thrown out at. Allowing me to mask the tell tale gamma ray burst behind a gas giant.
The next layer of defence was 3 light seconds out. An extremely high tech grid network of micro satellites that pulse infrared beams at each other and checked for the slightest micro lensing effect - which according to REDACTED - immediately triggers an active sensor scan, painting the suspected area with waves across the light spectrum. Now these things could pick up the lensing effect of any object with a mass above REDACTED. That's why I was given the extremely light weight and expensive REDACTED drone to conduct the initial scouting phase of the mission.
I waited patiently on the edge of the system, aboard The Knowledge of the Gods while the little drone made its way towards me. The operation took two weeks of waiting around. But as you can see passive sensors and the information provided by the drone have given me a treasure trove of information.
But I haven't told you the most troubling part of the report. The final layer of defence.
The final layer of defence is a sizable array of defensive artillery satellites. Imagine a satellite that can communicate targeting solutions to all other satellites in the network. Now give that satellite a class 4 Rail Gun. ...That's right, Rail Guns that are so massive they are only ever seen on capital ships, now picture 50 of them. All able to coordinate their attacks!
i3 Have given me orders to REDACTED so I am currently amassing assets for just that. of course my trusty little courier The knowledge of the gods is not in the right weight class for the next phase of this mission. So I patiently wait while pieces of the chess board fall into place.
With love
CMDR Dwengo
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