Investigating the 64 Arietis sector
15 Jun 2020Prochaska
Report 15/06/3306Today's assignment was to search 64 Arietis and all neighbouring systems for clues. After a short stay on Weyn Dock I started my investigations in HIP 16824. Here I searched the area around the destroyed INRA base Carmichael Point and found two landed spaceships. One was an Asp Explorer of the local security authorities and therefore not of interest. The second ship, parked a bit further away, was the Diamondback Scout "Defiant Riot" (registration MA-05D), registered owner Malavir. He belonged to the Inheimagni Jet Society. Thereupon I made a side trip to Inheimagni. I landed at Morgan Terminal and learned that the Jet Society is currently contracting political assassinations. The organization is very small, and only represented in Inheimagni, so I assume that they only act as middlemen, distributing orders for their clients to willing pilots. The Jet Society has several smaller facilities in the system. I visited a military outpost of them and hacked one of the two communication arrays there, but - apart from the usual trouble with the security forces on site afterward - without any result. More productive was Pullman Enterprise on planet A 5 B. There I could acquire some encrypted files, their decryption is still in progress.
Then I continued to map all systems in the vicinity around 64 Arietis, but these are mostly uninhabited and I found nothing of interest there. Interesting systems in the wider area are Aries Dark Region DB-X D1-63, with a Thargoid structure on planet 7 A. In orbit around the planet was the fleet carrier IGS Solace (registration G51-Z8Q). There were no activities to be recognized on the carrier, and permission for docking was denied. Another remarkable system is Pleiades Sector LN-T C3-4, on planet 2 A lies the derelict of a crashed Thargoid scout. Neither the Thargoid structure nor the wreckage showed any unusual activity.
When returning to Weyn Dock in the evening I was attacked while approaching the station. The attacker called himself Hekanaho and flew the Python "Midnight" (registration HE-25P). The ship belonged to Jet General Solutions. I severely damaged his ship in combat, and he then dropped into a neighboring system, Arietis Sector FG-X B1-1. I took up pursuit to find out where he was flying to. He had evidently noticed the pursuit, however, and directed his ship only to the second star of the uninhabited system, where I destroyed him and his ship. The only question now is, at which point of my research today have I alarmed the JGS.
I then flew back to Weyn Dock. Here I met Precious Cotton again. In 3304 she was still working as executive on Boulle Landing, but after the takeover by Argus Panoptic Corporation she had been transferred to Weyn Dock. Here she now works as an administrator at JGS. Maybe she knows something useful.
Z. Prochaska, Intelligence division, OSA Unit 52