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UESC Anomaly Investigations
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FILE TYPE: UESC Science and Security Report
PERIOD: Present Day
TOPIC: TCIV Anomaly Investigation
SUMMARY: Stolen research report on UESC Security Forces investigations into the Tau Ceti IV Anomaly.
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uesc.sci0003.tciv
[scidiv._tcivXXXXXXXXX]
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ACTIVE RESEARCH INVESTIGATION
SUBJECT: TCIV Anomaly, initial observations [0000371 con't]
LOCATION: Agricultural Hub, New Cascadia [outskirts], TCIV
AUTHOR: uesc.sci0003.tciv
ACCESS: CLASSIFIED
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FIELD OBSERVATION [0000371.6]:
New Cascadia Science Command initiated active research into the local anomalous phenomenon near the Ag-Hub operations complex with limited success. Cursory observation suggests their direct experimentation with the exposed Anomaly was hampered by the limitations of their available technology. Tapping into subterranean energy reading as monitored in the Perimeter site data wall and relay string is one thing. And credit where due—for being faced with a discovery of this scale, they and their equipment made an impressive stand. Their ingenuity and determination are impressive. But, big picture, they were grasping at straws and facing self-inflicted limitations. Without AI support to siphon mappable data points from their readings, they were just dealing with too much information to parse.
We have a base understanding of issues with rampancy within the colony and ship AI, but we've only been in-system a short while, so it will take time to fully piece together how, why, when colony infrastructure became compromised. The fact we have no obvious signs of AI operation or communication, joined with the presence of quarantine sites and the wholly unexpected discovery of the Anomaly itself, all point toward complications in need of individual, dedicated examination.
Basically, we have zero connection with any of the colony's 11 intelligence systems—an overlapping series of suites designed specifically to address and eliminate any fatal flaws within the colony's primary support technologies. This alone is considered an extinction-level threat to the colonization efforts and any hope for long-term survivability. Add a quarantine-level contagion event or events and, at a distance, the mysteries of New Cascadia's fate start to paint a series of obvious pictures. Only nothing is obvious, because we have an actively static geyser of unknown energy with wholly alien characteristics tearing through the surface of the planet and cursory evidence that its presence can lethally disrupt both technical systems and biologic stability.
We came here as the tip of a spear dedicated to answering the mysteries of the Marathon's fate as a headline-grabber back home, with explicit orders to establish a beachhead for the reclamation of lost technologies. We are now faced with a race to unlock and control an understanding of a new energy source—its potential, its dangers—before our competitors and enemies can do the same. No small task in a vacuum, and made more difficult by the rising threat of trespassers making their way to Tau Ceti.
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TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [ ]
FILE TYPE: UESC Science and Security Report
PERIOD: Present Day
TOPIC: TCIV Anomaly Investigation
SUMMARY: Stolen research report on UESC Security Forces investigations into the Tau Ceti IV Anomaly.
===================================================================
uesc.sci0003.tciv
[scidiv._tcivXXXXXXXXX]
—————————————————————————————————-
ACTIVE RESEARCH INVESTIGATION
SUBJECT: TCIV Anomaly, initial observations [0000371 con't]
LOCATION: Agricultural Hub, New Cascadia [outskirts], TCIV
AUTHOR: uesc.sci0003.tciv
ACCESS: CLASSIFIED
—————————————————————————————————-
FIELD OBSERVATION [0000371.6]:
New Cascadia Science Command initiated active research into the local anomalous phenomenon near the Ag-Hub operations complex with limited success. Cursory observation suggests their direct experimentation with the exposed Anomaly was hampered by the limitations of their available technology. Tapping into subterranean energy reading as monitored in the Perimeter site data wall and relay string is one thing. And credit where due—for being faced with a discovery of this scale, they and their equipment made an impressive stand. Their ingenuity and determination are impressive. But, big picture, they were grasping at straws and facing self-inflicted limitations. Without AI support to siphon mappable data points from their readings, they were just dealing with too much information to parse.
We have a base understanding of issues with rampancy within the colony and ship AI, but we've only been in-system a short while, so it will take time to fully piece together how, why, when colony infrastructure became compromised. The fact we have no obvious signs of AI operation or communication, joined with the presence of quarantine sites and the wholly unexpected discovery of the Anomaly itself, all point toward complications in need of individual, dedicated examination.
Basically, we have zero connection with any of the colony's 11 intelligence systems—an overlapping series of suites designed specifically to address and eliminate any fatal flaws within the colony's primary support technologies. This alone is considered an extinction-level threat to the colonization efforts and any hope for long-term survivability. Add a quarantine-level contagion event or events and, at a distance, the mysteries of New Cascadia's fate start to paint a series of obvious pictures. Only nothing is obvious, because we have an actively static geyser of unknown energy with wholly alien characteristics tearing through the surface of the planet and cursory evidence that its presence can lethally disrupt both technical systems and biologic stability.
We came here as the tip of a spear dedicated to answering the mysteries of the Marathon's fate as a headline-grabber back home, with explicit orders to establish a beachhead for the reclamation of lost technologies. We are now faced with a race to unlock and control an understanding of a new energy source—its potential, its dangers—before our competitors and enemies can do the same. No small task in a vacuum, and made more difficult by the rising threat of trespassers making their way to Tau Ceti.
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TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [ ]