[Erax]

Seeker I, Captain's log, SGY 2401.5:

There was another colonizable system behind the third wormhole, with one oxygen rock world, three rock worlds with various other atmospheres, and three airless rock moons. We called this system Berlin.

We've just emerged back into Virgillia and are now headed towards this system's Last unknown wormhole. Current supplies should allow us to go one system beyond that before returning to base.

Admiral Wiers' private log, SGY 2401.5:

Our factories will begin to deliver implosion drives next tenth. These drives consume a great deal of energy, but are very powerful. They might be useful on colonizing missions, which are one-way trips and therefore need fewer supplies.

We will recruit our first Army troops next tenth, but we wil need more time to train and equip them.

We have sent the Andarr some goods in order to achieve good will.

The colonists have landed on Gesaril II. We ordered them to explore the alien ruins as soon as possible; they found an abandoned, partially buried alien city. Further investigation revealed that this planet must have been a mining colony - some of the mining equipment was still operable, in fact. We will study this alien technology and use it to upgrade our own facilities. It is still unclear who built this colony on Gesaril, but I doubt it was the same race that built the hyperconduits.

Nova VI has been launched to colonize Gesaril V. That oxygen world will be the future system capital.

Admiral Wiers' private log, SGY 2401.5 (addendum):

Yesterday I had a meeting with one Commodore Haase, supposedly in charge of radioactives refining on Virgillia V. It seems that in addition to his known duties he is responsible for ISB operations in the region. He was sent here with duties similar to mine; develop Imperial intel capacity in the region to support Fleet operations. Now that we have contact with potentially hostile aliens, he chose to reveal his ISB status to me in order to get permission to build Imperial intel centers in the system*.

We agreed to build them on Virgillia IV. Some of the mining facilities there will secretly become intel centers while we upgrade the rest to use the Gesaril technology. To an outsider, it will seem like they are all undergoing the same upgrades.

* - That's the official story, but you can guess what happened in-game.

[ April 27, 2003, 12:57: Message edited by: Erax ]