Day 14:

What a beautiful sight to see; The entire Imperial 3rd Fleet warped in today. I’ve never been so close to so many of our own ships warping into a system before, I’m usually on to the next system before the fleet arrives. I’ve been told the 3rd is equipped with the new lasso drives developed by IRD, although with a mass entry into a system with no stable wormhole it’s likely they just used older jump drives to get here. Still, it truly is an awe inspiring sight to see a 2 mile long behemoth tear a hole through space with ease followed by a hundred or so other ships. I certainly wouldn’t want to be the target of those ships though. I still wonder how they managed to get heat management figured out on those things, it seems far too impractical to run at full power all the time, but who am I to judge our engineers when I’m just a measly scout class cruiser captain. We’ve been put in quarantine to make sure none of the remaining crew have been infected in some way, we’ll likely be out of here tomorrow and sent to report to high command after we trashed one of their precious ships. Speaking of, a recovery crew has been sent to contain the ship as well as secure some of the parasites for study. Hopefully command plans on placing a remote research station in orbit of the star here because this planet is far too interesting to overlook, in addition to the parasites being a potential threat to humanity and all that. I’m curious as to what our scientists want with the parasite specimens they’re collecting since I think the planet is the more interesting point of study but I guess they must have something specific they’re looking for if they’d prioritize one over the other.

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