2109.10.2.22.22 - Dissonance
03 Oct 2019ArchAngel-7
We heard tell of numerous Metallic Meteorite fields in the HIP 95944 System, Body 3A. We came across wreckage and 6 Jettisoned Lifepods. Oddly enough there seemed to be a ship at their rescue. Scanners reported that the ship's name was the Dissonance, piloted by Colski Mackay. The Dissonance, an Imperial Courier was landed on the surface of 3A no more than 150 meters from the wreckage. All attempts were made to hail The Dissonance to no avail. The ship was beat up but the Canopy and Hull seemed intact. We chalked it up to abandoned and left with the escape pods in tow. We will be sure to ferry those poor souls to safety when we get back to Canonn Space.Lena had the idea to wake up one of the rescues and inquire about the state of their affairs. She means well but has truly shown her inexperience and young age when dealing with such matters. When you have no knowledge of their situation, making brash decisions like that could put us and them in great danger. What if they are hurt beyond our helping? Taking them out of stasis could kill them. Better to wait for a proper medical team and services. What if they are infected with some unspeakable alien virus? You get the idea. After the cautionary tale, she agreed. It is straight out of the Pilot's Federation Handbook, I said. There is not much else we can do or learn till we get back to safety ourselves.
Just a few jumps later, we were interdicted by an elite ship named "Starship". Odd name. The pilot did not hail us at all with any bragging of destroying us unless we give up our cargo. They fired on us immediately. They were summarily destroyed. Then some time later we were interdicted by a Mamba named Gremlin. Same story. I'd assume someone does not want those pods making it back to the bubble. But, that is pure speculation.
We thought we would stop by HIP-114458 because we had never been in that system but had heard the news about it. Once we jumped in, we immediately employed a full spectrum scan and it was the first signal we found. The Achlys MegaShip. This place is a morgue. I could not imagine being a crew member aboard one of those rigs. Stuck there either for your whole life or the majority of it. The horror stories of the other Generation Ships is enough to make you cringe. Hindsight is 20/20. We were able to confirm the stories about The Achlys initiating a sequence to develop its systems into some kind of Artificial Intelligence and await further orders. We tried to communicate to the ship to no avail. All of its systems are offline.
Once we made it back to Nones. We were drifting cruise towards Daniel Port when we were interdicted by an Elite Mamba. Same as before, no discussions only engagement. Once the Mamba was dispatched we docked at Daniel Port, claimed the bounty on the Mamba and turned in the escape pods we found on HIP 95944-3A's surface. The crew were in bad shape and were all in a recovering coma. We have learned nothing of their tragedy. I am just glad to be able to lend a helping hand and increase my credits of course.
07 ArchAngel-7 Out.