Dav's Hope - never more
16 Jan 2024CMDR honorguardcz
Today I visited Dav's Hope settlement. Some folks in bar told me that if I need some manufactured materials for ship improvements, I should definitely go here. It should be some abandoned settlement with lot of forgotten materials there. Well... it didn't ended as I would like.So I traveled there with something on my mind. Why it's abandoned? What happened here? Was it biggest fear of galaxy - Thargoids? Or something else? I took my Pathfinder ship, packed my SRV and trip started.
So I found location by coordinates which one guy in bar on carrier Gazarka Base sold me for 10K credits. Damn, I hate flying by coordinates so much, anyway I found it. In moment of landing it was dark here. I boarded my SRV and started some survey around. Very quickly I found out, that it's old mining settlement. Maybe resources were fully mined and it's now abandoned... well. It was not exactly like that. I found some old, inactive datapoints. They were already without power, but I brought my own generator (thanks god). So, I powered those beacon. Something in my soul died when I read logs...
There were 6 mining teams active on this settlement, rotating in mines. One of those teams was on job underground, when earthquake started and damaged mining shaft. Team six gone missing, trapped in an avalanche. They lost comms. Corporation owning this settlement knew, that they are trapped, but alive, since sensors still worked. But what can you expect from big corporations?
Risk was too big, and materials already dwindled. So, corporation decided to leave without their last team. But they knew that someone can visit this place and use it for mining. Idea of someone else using their mining equipment, and even saving their team, revealing horrors of their deeds to public would ruin them. So they decided to start evacuation of remaining miners and armed explosives which were ready here from day one, for closing this mining operation.
Explosives killed all of the miners, destroyed all equipment. And here I am. Collecting rubbish which corporation abandoned, and I desperately need them....
I collected what I needed, and I swear I will never return. Only thing is - can I tell this to anyone? Or will I immediately get assasinated after first talk in pub?