Surprise Investigation:
High Command has sent me to investigate one of their top secret projects, apparently there’s been no word from them for a few weeks now. At first I thought nothing of it, probably just another outer rim colony experiment gone wrong, happens all the time. This one was different however, a planet so far in the interior that I was surprised it hadn’t been fully terraformed for humans yet. When I reached the project site I could see why the planet hadn’t been converted for human habitation, it was massive, roughly twice the size in diameter of Terra by the looks of it, must be an old Darvic planet knowing how keen they were about living on large planets. Still, it struck me as strange that there weren't any human habitats built, it’s not like we don’t have gravity manipulators to reduce the amount of gravity felt in the colony. This whole thing felt strange from the very beginning.
As I approached the planet there appeared to be a high level of activity from local shipyards, scans indicated that they were running at only 23% efficiency, and had been for quite some time, so something was clearly not right about this place just from that alone. The closer I got the more strange things got, empty husks of ships floating around, not even complete, holes opened through the midsections, some missing entire sections of the ship, but for some reason all of them had what looked to be fully intact engines and reactors. I examined the shipyards closer for a few hours and what I saw confirmed my suspicions, the yards were manufacturing partially completed ships and were focusing primarily on the propulsion systems so ships could be flown out on their own power to make room for the next ship to be built. The next move I made was pretty stupid in hindsight but there’s nothing I can do about it now. I attempted to shut down one of the shipyards in order to analyze what was causing the inefficiencies but when I did so it caused every ship in that graveyard to come to life. Fighting zombie ships was definitely not on my bucket list so I made a break for it, luckily, Imperial Investigator Ships come equipped with warp functionality not usually seen in such a small vessel so I was able to escape unharmed. I’ve reported my initial findings to high command and called in a favor with Admiral Hipper to help clear the shipyards, he owes me one anyway.
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