Friend or Foe Pt 2.
13 Mar 2020LilliSWE
This is a continuation of my previous log entry. My newest crew member, CMDR Rodriguez had finally been cleared for active duty since we recovered her escape pod. She approached me with log entries and data that she was compiling over the course of 3 months. I read all the entries, mostly from space faring traders and explorers. They all were hyperdicted by Thargoid vessels, scanned and harmlessly left alone. Each ship had common factors...no guardian weaponry, no Thargoid machinery and no Aegis equipment. The logs recorded by combat vessels spoke a different story. They were equipped with guardian weaponry. All were hyperdicted, scanned and immediately attacked. A few escaped, some not so much. The data entries back all this up. It seems guardian weaponry is the only thing capable of taking out Interceptors. This is why they prove to be so hostile after the ship is revealed to be carrying them. As for Thargoid machinery, ie...sensors, bio-material, etc, wouldn't you get pissed if someone's stealing your shit? I know I would. But Aegis....now that was somewhat of a mystery to us UNTIL our meeting with Nova Imperium. It seems they are also against Aegis. When we questioned them as to why, we were told to look for ourselves. They gave us coordinates for a remote system in the Pleiades Nebula. This is our next stop. Uncover the secrets of the Aegis organization and they're true missions towards Thargoids. 
On our way back to dock to prep for the Pleiades mission, we came across a distress call in Nauni. It seems that Thargoids attacked a megaship and crippled its engines. Luckily we were piloting the Parthenogenesis which is equipped with repair, collector and hatch breaker limpets. We dropped out of supercruise and we instantly hit with a mayday requesting 2 hull breaches be repaired. We acknowledged the megaship pilot and got to work. As soon as the repair limpet hit the second hull breach we got a warning: FRAMESHIFT ANOMOLY DETECTED! A Thargoid Cyclops had dropped out of hyperspace. It sent out shutdown surge which disabled all ship systems for about a minute. After they came back online I took notice the Cyclops was firing at the repairs we just made. Why is this xeno so against this megaship being repaired?
We locked our manifest scanner onto the cargo bay which was revealed to have several escape pods, some wreckage components and a black box. This seemed like it could tell us why the Thargoid attacked the ship. After the hatch breaker broke open the hold, our collectors went to work. That turned out to be a mistake. The Cyclops immediately halted it's attack on the recently repaired hull breaches and turned its eye towards the jettisoned cargo.
It seemlessly yanked the escape pods from my collectors with ease then it went for the black box. I managed to get the box into my ships hold. Oh did that piss him off. Thargon swarms were immediately launched and it began to attack us. I slammed that cargo hold shut and cranked up the FSD. A problem arose when we became mass-locked to the Cyclops. I switched all pips to engines and floored it! I needed distance from that thing to get away. Shields were shot and hull was down to 29% when we were released from mass lock. Supercruise kicked in and we were off to Fozard Dock. We needed to find out what was on that black box. This mission is FAR from over.
Signing off....
CMDR LilliSWE