Miskatonic University Galactic Expedition 3303 - Day 27
16 Sep 2017LCU No Fool Like One
Before I departed for Rigel I took a detour to a nearby base in T-Tauri were I had arranged for my trusty Diamondback Explorer transported. The Asteroid base in T-Tauri is located in the belt around a class III gas Gant. If this were not a striking enough setting for the base, T-Tauri is situated inside the Hind Nebula, a swirling red oppressive cloud whose flowing shapes exite the fancy of a troubled mind. I had decided to switch to the smaller craft because it had a longer jump range and would cut my journey time in half. Though I shall miss the convenience of the Python, especially the luxury staterooms and well stocked wine cellar, it does mean that I will spend less time in witch space.I have lately grown apprehensive about travelling in that accursed maelstrom. I fear that there is some malevolent entity trying to lure me into its embrace and I find myself lulled into a stupor by it siren song. I will either lose myself or plunge unwary into a star if I spend too much time there.
The journey to Rigel was uneventful. Alas so was the search, as Rigel held nothing more wonderous than the two stars that populate the system. Deciding to waste no time I set off for Wezen.
It seems that I made the right decision in swapping the Python for the Diamondback because those meddling beurocrats at the Pilots Federation have seen fit to permit lock huge swathes of space near Wezen making it impossible to plot a direct route. I was forced to make a detour towards the galactic centre before I would get to Wezen.
After 30 nail biting jumps I arrived at Wezen and was frustrated once more to discover that there was nothing of interest. Whatever denizens that had inhabited the area and taken their planets with them it seems. I wearilly started on the long trip back to my next destination Hyades Sector AA-P b6-5
But while I travelled I began work again on the scrambled transmissions that I had discovered at the site of a wreck in Sothis on day five. I had news from the faculty that the wrecked craft did indeed belong to Professor Lake god rest his soul. With this knowledge and his date of birth I was able to decode the message. Password security was never his strong point.
We have been looking for the elder gods in the wrong place. We were close, so close. We had landed on Hyades Sector AA-P B6-5 6A and we running about in the SRVs looking for anything of interest, Dyer and Douglas spotted a downed craft we went off to investigate. it was a small federal navy craft. Half the craft was slagged with some sort of green mess over it. All of the crew were long dead, but we found one of them had a working terminal that had a spectograph on it. Some sort of partial map.
Douglas was quite obsessed with trying to work out what was on the map, He seemed to think that it was alien in origin and it turns outthat he was right. He was able some how to establish that the map referred to some planetary bases elsewhere in the Hyades.
HYADES SECTOR PC-V B2-3 2 A -7.0555:144.1756 HYADES SECTOR AQ-Y D81 AB 3 C -53.5029:106.5668 HYADES SECTOR XO-A C15 2 A 38.6733:139.1832 HYADES SECTOR ZU-Y C16 6 B -29.9773:-152.3166 HYADES SECTOR AQ-Y D93 2 B -46.2852:45.5708 HYADES SECTOR DB-X C1-8 3 A -39.8101:36.0883 Hyades Sector DB-X C1-19 8 C 27.1036:-128.5733
We resolved immediately to visit the mysterious location and headed for Hyades Sector PC-V B2-3. We came down on the night side of the planet and saw almost immediately a green glow in the distance. <unintelligable> vast organic <unintelligable> alien <unintelligable> affecting our instruments. <unintelligable> the <unintelligable> glowering <unintelligable> scavengers <unintelligable> entrance <unintelligable> despair <unintelligable>
That is all I was able to unscamble. Clearly Professor Lake found something. I will head immediately to Hyades Sector PC-V B2-3 to investigate. Finally we are making some progress.