Pleiades Nebula Deployment, Mission Addendum #3
18 Aug 2017User78245
Major Systems Surveyed:Taygeta
Merope
Maia
Remarks: The mission continues to be devoid of concrete evidence of Thargoids. I picked up several abandoned canisters of scan data in Taygeta, this attracted unwanted attention and flagged my ship as a smuggler. I was attacked in Pleione while trying to find a black market to dump the data off on. While conducting a post-battle assessment of my systems, it suddenly occurred to me that sitting in the middle of nowhere surrounded by wreckage, a hold full of illicit cargo, and the System Authority inbound wasn't the best of plans. I pulled into Stargazer station under silent running, but in my haste I forgot to shut off non-essential systems, nearly melted my ship, pranged a Type-9 on the way in, and earned a spot on Traffic Control's shitlist.
Merope is infested with Fed battlecruisers, and even worse, Sirius Corporation. I've encountered a few of their listening posts in both Merope and Maia, which leads me to believe that relay station I encountered in Electra belongs to them as well. Make no mistake, the Pleiades are getting crowded.
Maia is in a state of anarchy and run by The Ant Hill Mob, which means everything is free game, up to and including unchecked skirmishes between the Merope Expeditionary Fleet and the Pioneer Coop. I was interdicted near the black hole and I don't know what the poor sod was more surprised by, that he wasted his time on a ship with an empty hold, or that I went out of my way to chase him down and reward his wasting of my time.
End report.