Assets and Aliens
21 Oct 2017Pax Rabbit
Certain matters have taken my attention away from these log book entries and a fair amount has happened in the mean time.My personal fleet of craft has become nearly fully operational with only the Beluga currently awaiting being pulled out of mothball status. My reputation with the Imperial mercenary forces is still not high enough to gain the keys for a Cutter but my funds are still a long way off from being ready to outfit it properly in any case. Suffice to say I will be slowly building up my reputation with the Imperials so that when suitable funds are available a Cutter will hopefully be able to be added to the fleet shortly their after. Before that, I plan to refit the last of my mothballed ships ready for active duty.
My reputation with most of the Engineers is pretty solid with only Colonel Dekker and Lori Jameson awaiting a formal establishment of trade and business agreements. For the latter I need to build up my combat reputation and for the former I need to support some of the Federation's conflict activities. I am not really looking forward to either activity since I am not sold on the Federation's mandates for war and with potentially hostile Aliens becoming more prevalent I would rather not feed the conflicts between humans regardless of their motives. However, needs must and I will just have to pick which conflicts I get entangled in very carefully. Where my combat rep is concerned, I would rather live a life of peace and I am concerned that with an increased combat rep will come increased interest from glory hunters who may wish to try and use me as a target/conquest. But I guess needs must and all that.
My journeys to date have taken me a long way outside the bubble and it is quite peaceful out there at the moment, none of the political wrangling and manoeuvring to monitor or concern myself with - just me, my ship, and the universe. However, I caught wind of the return of the Thargoids and heard the horror stories - capital ships and entire fleets destroyed and crews murdered or worse. The only bright side to this is that it seems that not all the Thargoids are hostile and there may still be hope for peaceful coexistence rather than genocide by either us or them.
The AEGIS initiative is a double edged sword - we need the technologies if the Thargoids do become universally or even mostly hostile but by developing these technologies I hope we do not provoke them to act where as otherwise they may have left us alone. Establishing a dialog with them and discovering their goals would seem to be the key to all this, but we need to be sure that if things do go south we can live to tell the tale.
The Grey Council propose Operation Draco-Lingua (Dragon Tongue in an ancient Earth language) as a Wing initiative with three main goals:-
- Establish if and/or how we may communicate with the Thargoids
- Determine the reason(s) for the Thargoid activity in the Milkyway
- Ensure that we can either co-exist peacefully or atleast prevent the Human race from being annihilated