Weakening Suits:
From the information I had about this planet, it was supposedly a treasure trove of knowledge stored by the Darvic people, but from my investigation to the second spore hot spot there appears to be a distinct lack of writings or databanks anywhere. The building is clearly intended to be a library but the team and I haven’t found any documents in this place, perhaps they were moved during the project that was being conducted here, despite all the micromanaging High Command likes to do, it appears that they know little about what was happening here, or perhaps they’re just keeping everything close to the vest, don’t know why they’d launch an investigation if they were withholding information but here we are.
On top of all these frustratingly minute details, our little expedition appears to be getting more dangerous for those of us on the planet's surface, the spores appear to be slowly eating away at our hazard suits, on of the Hipper's crew that he sent down with us, I don’t know his name, had to be rushed back to the ship after brushing into the wall slightly caused his suit to rip open. We had no idea that our suits were slowly being compromised with every minute we stayed on the surface. Forced to return to the ships, we thought it best to halt the investigation while we come up with a long term solution for dealing with the spores. Upon boarding the ship I went to the med-bay to check on the poor soul that had been exposed to the spores, they’ve got him sealed up in one of those new pill-shaped “Medi-pods”, seems more like a coffin to me. Apparently they’re quarantining him inside of the med-bay as well to avoid any additional exposure on board the ship, but from what I can see, they just want to be as far away from him as possible incase he breaks out of that pod, he’s been banging and bashing around inside of that pod since I showed up, the spores seemed to have induced some sort of madness, might explain what happened at that “feast” we saw not too long ago.
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Despite this troubling development, we need to push on, while the investigation is officially halted I’ve decided to investigate the third hot spot anyway. A couple volunteers from Hipper’s crew have decided to tag along in an attempt to keep me safe but I don’t see the need for them, I was trained in all forms of imperial combat after all. The lower team size should free up enough hazard suits that we should be able to use new suits every day to avoid the degradation we’ve experienced so far, I was hoping to go alone to further extend the suit supply but Hipper insisted that I not go alone for this so it seems like I’ll just have to deal with it.