Research Commander P.K. Wanabe of the Valkyria Research Fleet log nr. 3652643263
Day 3246 since the ship's plans were destroyed by the accident commonly known as "Quad-Araches Invasion" or "Quadropod Spiders Invasion".
I have yet to find the reason why a swarm of the life beings registered as A63DQP3626HNK532Y4Z3 was being carried by a ship of the trading guild. The reason why they would hide something like that, instead of requesting the protection of the army is still unknown. Yet one thing is for sure: they did not tried to imprison any of them untill they got on the space station. And that was when the problems started. I was verry lucky to have my fleet just departing, with the shields at maximum capacity. Sadly, only two ships made it through the event, and without cooprdination between them two, none of them would have survived.
Who would belive a pirate tried to stop this catastrophe from happening? I could not belive my ears when I heared that intense screaming of the beast, nor the fact that it took out most of our shields. And then it happened. Laser beams were shot from the insides of the station, into any object ship visible on the sky. At the beginning they were weak, but after few minutes they took out our carrier's shields, and few minutes after that there were only so many ships still functional that you could count them on the fingers of your hands. That's when the pirates got involved. An attack like I've never seen before, literally it was raining over the station. And somehow the specimens survived, even when our radars said there were no life signs on the station, anymore. Probably, it was some adapted for of hibernation, made to protect them from the dangers which they may find on an unwelcoming planet. I only guess this species is adapted to inhabiting other planets.
And it was not long after the pirates their fires than some unidentified objects started slowly floating from the remainings of the station to the pirate ships as they were trying to leave. But as soon as the first few ships managed to jump, the unidentified objects started shooting the pirates, canceling the jump of the most of the ships.And so, the only option they had was to try leaving using slower than light speeds. Which most of them didn't even had a chance to do. But thanks god the pirates had jump ship prepared to leave, with lots of shelds and a docking system powerful enough to dock the light carrier we were using to transport the most important specimens and scientists from the main research carrier to one of the research stations located on a planet of that system. We were saved. We managed to dock ourselves to their ship just a moment before the jump, and as soon as we finished the jump, we arrived in a heavily guarded sector of the space, and the pirates were welcomed with a hole in their ship. A small one, fortunately, as we were completly surrounded and we had no chance to fight back even if we were capable to.
We were lucky there was another scientist with whom we established contact just few days before. Without that person guaranteeing that few days ago I was in the same position as I mentioned to the defenders of that sector, there could have been many more casualities. I and the people under my command were relocated on a prison ex-planet near a warp gate, just after being healed by the authorities of that system. As for the pirates, they were recomanded to leave as soon as they were healed and a short interogation took place, an interogation to which I was asked to assist, from behind the screens.
Even after we were moved, I didn't seen any move on their side. They probably planed to get us in prison, while the pirates probably payed them to be released. In that circumstances I had no choice but to ask for my right to make one call. So I had to contact one of the people who were always against my ways of research. But I had to be quick. He was a busy man, as usual. And I feared something might distract him. So the only words I could say were... "I, Research Commander P.K. Wanabe of the Valkyria Research Fleet, give you, Commander of the Eight Titan of the Peacekeeping Fleet, Sergent Ko'Var'Oz D.K.T. Feir, my utterly approval to use any means necessary to protect the humanity agains what happened to the Station Walhalla of the system 35, -18, 107 sector 9, 1, 3. P.L. Wanabe out and over." That's when everyone became serious. And just before the call ended suddenly, I only managed to say "I only hope it's not gonna be too late".
Within minutes, the warp gate was flooded with carriers and the pride of the Peacekeeping Fleet, Carriers filled with the most dangerous models of ships they could get their hands on, and they even managed to get a Titan to warp all the way to here from thousands of systems away. They managed to eliminate the threat in only few minutes, but the matter was serious enough that the Titan was parked there for weeks, with various ships patrooling the systems nearby and interogating anyone they could find, hoping they could find out more about this thread.
And when they searched our ship, they found out why that ship of the trading guild did not tried to imprison that specimens: using radars special designated for military purposes they found few specimens inside a rather big sample of the soil of more of the planets we landed on. It was a good thing that I always kept copies of the researches I've tone in the last 300 days in each station I visited, since it was the only thing which kept me and the people in my command from being declared responsible for this unfortunate event. And as the research showed, it was nearly impossible for any of us to find out what was hiding in that samples. The first specimen they tried sending through warp remained as it is, but jumping it woke it up. And the ship carrying it had to be completly eradicated.
The matter at hand is still delicate and the situation is not fully understood. I only hope it's not already too late.
This was the 3652643263th log of the Research Commander P.K. Wanabe of the Valkyria Research Fleet. Out and clear.
