Searching for Answers #8: The megastructure
15 Nov 2020Patrick Bietruch
Another password cracked today.I remember that time when my father came home in 3278, which he wrote about in the last entry. I was wondering where he could have gone as he never said anything about his expeditions to me or my mother. I remember avoiding him because I was fed up with him constantly disappearing. I didn't speak to him and didn't meet his eyes. He felt not very welcome in his own family.
Kinda makes me feel bad for him now but I must remember that it was him that made the wrong choices.
Last time my father returned home from an expedition to the galactic core. He heard the news about new Thargoid sightings in the Pleiades nebula and planned another expedition to that sector scheduled on 3280.. And it looks like he found something, take a look:
> dracut: Scanning devices sda2 for LVM logical volumes sysvg/root sysvg/swap
> dracut: inactive '/dev/sysvg/root' [28.88 GiB] inherit
> dracut: inactive '/dev/sysvg/swap' [1.00 GiB] inherit
>>> INITIALIZING PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT <<<
> Identifying user
> Current user: Christopher Bietruch
> Password: **********
> dracut: rd_NO_MD: removing MD RAID activation
> ata_piix 0000:00:01.1: version 2.13
> ata_piix 0000:00:01.1: setting latency timer to 64
> scsi0 : ata_piix
> scsi1 : ata_piix
> scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA QEMU HARDDISK 0.12 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> virtio-pci 0000:00:04.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, high) -> IRQ 11
> Connection established
>>> ACCESS TO PERSONAL LOGS LIMITED <<<
>>> PERSONAL LOG NUMBER 00007 ACCESSED <<<
Personal journal
Entry #88
January 19 Year 3282
Ship designation: Cobra MkIII Class Vessel - ID: "OR-10N"
Galactic coordinates: -84.375 / -259.28125 / -358.65625
System name: HIP 14909
Finally! We've discovered something big! Literally huge, it is some kind of giant megastructure of unknown origin on the surface of planet 2 A. The whole thing looks like a labyrinth from above, probably the same from the inside. In the middle of the structure is something like a pyramid? We haven't encountered any Thargoid vessels in the area, but there are drones on the surface, they seem to be collecting something. Perhaps the place is being expanded.
However, we are not going down to the surface, we do not have a complete team. Before we made this discovery, Monarch noticed a ship of some smaller faction in the area. He said he would follow their man because it could get us interesting results. He knows that faction and told us that it holds many secrets. We'll see about that. If he had stayed with us a while longer, he would have seen what we see now.
At the moment we are waiting for the return of Monarch, may this matter of his not take him too long.
> Connection lost
> Session end