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Sat 9th Apr 2022 02:37

The Forlorn of Mily

by Kya Blaze

Traveling to the water planet of Aquarius 1 in search of Mily Lipson, a research exobiologist that may have information on the alien creatures some of my crew mates have been searching for. I'm not sure who's more interested in this mission, Breaker or Orion.
We went to the only settlement in view, The Wreck and hoped to find information about her whereabouts, which is on the underwater settlement of Forlorn Paradox. Thankfully we did not have to roam the streets of Wreck, since Carrion informed the docking operator that we were looking for Forlorn Paradox. The operator was kind enough to provide us with the coordinates.
The coordinates unfortunately brought us to a sea monster, not Forlorn. This giant monster, much like a snake tried to submerge our ship. We were able to scare it off only sustaining some damage to the ship.
The small settlement still unseen, I worked with Janko to create a laser sonar system to survey the area. I wasn't sure it would work, but thankfully it did.
Coming upon Forlorn Paradox there was a number of rocks the fell upon the settlement and large holes below, likely the dwelling of one of those creatures that attacked our ship. I scanned the rocks with our new laser system and guided Breaker on where to best fire at the rocks to break them apart without harming the settlement.

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