Commander's Personal Entry - December 25th, 3303
26 Dec 2017Orion Starhunter
While picking up various Thargoid materials for Professor Palin in the Maia system, we ran across a science vessel with some rather interesting audio log entries.What got me was that the ship suffered no damages, the skin and systems appeared to be in tact, however she was deserted of her crew. After listening to the commander's log entries, I soon realized that they had come across a structure that, according to the commander, would paint their names all over the Aries Dark Region DB-X D1-63. The last entry was a bit disturbing, ending with the commander telling a Federation ship that they were unarmed and were a licensed science mission. It sounded like the Federation ship was opening fire on the science vessel, without provocation. Per the commander's log entries, the ship's name was Victoria's Song.
After turning in the missions for Professor Palin at Maia, I decided to investigate what the crew of the Survey Vessel Victoria's Song found, and much to my surprise I believe I now know why they were attacked.
Moon A7A in the Aries Dark Region DB-X D1-63 has a rather interesting organic structure on the surface, at coordinates 25.5334, 78.1866.
While it took me a while to locate it, what I found is something really odd. The surface is covered in thorn like protrusions in a circle, and in the center there is a structure made of organic material, with what appears to be an entry way, but I was not able to activate it.
If I had to make a guess, this looks like a Medusa Class Thargoid ship that is buried in the moon, facing the sky. While preliminary scans revealed very little about the structure, there are many things about this site that look so familiar to the one Thargoid encounter we had in the recent refugee rescue mission.
What's puzzling is that if I drive the Scarab close to the door, power begins to fluctuate. I can only guess that this ship is still active in some way, which is consistent of reports of our ships having electrical issues when the Thargoids use their EMP weapon. While I have never been this close to one of these ships, the burning question in my mind is, how did this happen?
The more I study the structure, the more I ask myself if the Thargoids have been here all along, and we just didn't know it. Looking at this structure, and the crash site in HIP 17125 A3, I'm starting to think that perhaps they were, and we may have just crossed into their realm of the Universe.
I am going to continue to drive around the structure, perhaps there will be other data beacons I can scan to make better sense out of all this.
Commander Orion Starhunter
Aurora Sagittarius
YF-29
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