Exploration Log, Dec. 31st, 3303 - Supplimental - Almeida Landing
01 Jan 2018Orion Starhunter
Commander Orion Starhunter - CommandingCommander Trysha Sagittarius - First Officer
Baba Yaga - YF-29
Anaconda Class Starship
Location: Conn A3A
Site: Almeida Landing
Coordinates : 73.38 102.37
Effie Ratling, an Engineer is the person doing the recording of the audio this time. It's stared out rather odd, she stated that they have asked her to reverse engineer something, pertaining to weapons, shields, power management. Apparently it's an alien space craft that she was asked to reverse engineer. Her superiors were getting impatient with her progress, but as she said, it's not like it came with a manual. It seems that Ms. Ratling has found out how the Thargoid drive tech works. According to her statement, it's radically different from our own, in that instead of shifting space around the ship, it just creates a stable wormhole for the ship to travel through. In her records, she indicates that she wants to try to create a prototype of this "hybrid drive" on a starship, and wants full credit for it.
As we decrypted the remainder of the audio logs, it appears that the Prototype had been created, and once Ms. Ratling turned in her paperwork the company she worked for, took over her prototype, modified it, and kept her on board as a consultant.
Unfortunately her drive worked, but with a bad ending. The company got a young pilot to test it, and when the ship returned, it just drifted aimlessly in space. When they recovered the ship, the pilot looked like he had been turned inside out. Apparently the company is going to blame all this on Ms. Ratling, but her plan is that since she knows about the Thargoid Weapon, she is going to threaten the release of it into the public if they don't let her go without incident. Somehow, I don't think this will work out for her. She may end up getting, "Reassigned" like the last scientist did.
Onward to get more information from the next facility.