[ Log date ]
Docs for your Sake
Her Majesty’s Ship: The Albatross.
Captain [Stricken from records]
Day 01.
Departed from alternia during the first hours of daylight. The cargo had been taken in stride, as the orders to assume post six moons away from the planet and remain in orbit of the sun. Special heat shields were provided for the albatross for this Trip.
Day 05.
Five days in orbit, tests have begun. Projections of success from The Engineer, Samson, Are steadily kept at a high 80%. Due to the amount of subjects we have brought for the trip the voyage seems to have been fated for an overwhelmingly positive outcome.
[Voyage Sub log. No. 1.]
Subjects
Engineer: Samson
Doctor: [Stricken from records]
The following is a transcript from the conversations before the start of the tests.
Doctor: How many have we brought aboard?
Engineer: Eight, None with fleet affiliation, Lowest Caste is rust. highest is… Violet.
Doctor: Understood. Test begins with the subject Rust. Then Yellow A through C.
Engineer: [Samson Nodded. no vocal response.]
Information.
Subjects:
Subject 1: Rustblood, Name not given, Willing participant.
Subject 2: Yellowblood. Name Not Given. Willing participant
*Subject 3: Yellowblood. Name Not Given. Willing participant Subject 4: Yellowblood. Name Not Given. UnWilling participant
**Subject 5: Mutant Red. Name Not Important. Prisoner.
Subject 6: Jade. Name Given. Given, But stricken from records. by Cave Jades.
**Subject 7: Cerulean. Name Given, But Stricken from records. Prisoner.
***Subject 8: Violet. Name Given, Winona. Sedated*
* Subject 3 suffers from voidrot.
** Subject 5 found alongside subject 7. must keep separate
*** Subject 8 MUST remain sedated at all costs.
[End of Voyage Sub log. No 1.]
Day 10
The 10th day of the season-long orbit. Tests remain steady. I am not allowed inside the Research bays. nor the mechanical bays. The airlocks were opened two times today for trash release. Which struck me as odd, trash release is done once every six days.
Furthermore it seems like the battery on the ship has been replaced. With the current one acting as a grunt for protection in this mission. She is wearing a strange collar I have not seen before. but it seems to nullify any psionic ability she had… Scary.
[Voyage Sub Log 02]
Subjects: Subject 01
Subject 04 Subject 07
Henceforth any subjects will be named S-## for brevity.
Information: The following was a conversation between the Subjects. in context they were all placed in a testing chamber with a single glass window on the south and a blast proof door. Six inches of ballistic glass reinforced the window.
S-04: We have to fucking LEAVE. THEY'RE GONNA KILL US.
S-01: It seems so… But they told me I should stay.
S-04: WHO THE FUCK TOLD YOU TO STAY? DONT TELL ME IT WAS THE FUCKING GHOSTS.
[At this moment S-07 seemed disturbed by S-04’s yelling.]
S-04: [in a lower tone of voice] Sorry Cee… Listen. they’re watching us from the other side of that.
[The subject pointed towards the glass.]
S-04: and they’re gonna do something bad, they’re gonna fucking Dissect us. or beat us up with a stick, i mean did you SEE what they’re doing with that seadweller
S-01: I heard… i…
[Further conversations were stricken from record by Doctor [Stricken from records] Further information can be found under fleet file V1013N-C1 through V1013N-C3].
Testing Information:
Writer: Doctor [Stricken from records]
Subjects 01 and 04 were considered failures. They developed the mutations we were seeking. but Subject 01 went into a coma. and Subject 04 developed voidrot.
Subject 07 Did not develop any mutations. considered a success however, Her capability of seeing through walls has been greatly enhanced. Subject 07 will not stop crying.
During the next bout of tests on day 12. Subject 08 proved herself extremely courageous. Switching recuperacoons with subject 07. going as far as to switch clothes, badges and cut her hair to look more similar. Her fins were later discovered to be retractable.
[ End of Voyage Sub log 02 ]
Day 20
The more this trip goes, the stranger I feel about it. Her Royal Majesty sent us forth on this mission during the heyday of a war in the sixth quadrant four systems from here. battle we were assigned to battle on. But we were sent on this orbital mission… which seems strange
But who am i. if not just an admiral to obey The empress Will. Today the morning started bleak, the entirety of the Albatross felt cold as if the cosmos itself had dug its claws inside. I kept to my quarters for the most part.
[Voyage sub log 04]
Voyage sub log 03 was far too graphic, and hence removed from the records. Any further inquiries about Sub Log 03 can and will be affecting the paygrade of any fleet member under classification under FL_Admiral.
Information: The following is a Video of the tests performed on subject 08. During a test of her new abilities.
[File_Error_41. :)]
Information: The following is a conversation between the Captain, and the doctor. Who will be henceforth referred to as Capt, and Doc.
Conversation began before the reporter could begin writing due to pains in fingers and wrists after writing the previous tests.
Capt.: Listen. I understand. but. can you stop the screaming? It has been keeping me up ever since day 23.
Doc.: [Doctor seems to have a face of surprise at the question, as there were no records of any screaming]
Capt.: Why are you looking at me like my blood’s bright red? it’s not that fucking hard just tell your subjects to shut up.
Subject 07 will remain with her mouth covered during sleeping hours.
[ End of Sub Log 04 ]
Subjects were all 7 Sweeps old during testing.
Any records from here on out have been tampered with, and cannot be redacted. Reading the following recordings of the black box are not considered part of the testing, and thus should not be taken as truthful in any way shape or form.
> To proceed Show identification
> …… :)
> Identification Accepted. Welcome ??????
[Black box recording of day 66 of the Albatross Orbital Lab test Facility]
—Listen. Fuckface i’m not telling you again you either shut this entire thing off. or I AM reporting you directly to the Sixth Star Admiral Brikel.---
The captain’s voice trembles with more fear than certainty.
— I would like to see you try, Captain, This mission was given to us directly by the empress. There is not a day in HELL that I am giving up on it. Neither you NOR GOD could stop what is about to happen. and… The beauty of what that is, is blinding. —
The black box recording is filled with Heavy static from here on out. Several distress signals were noted as being sent to the planet. none ever arrived.
— Now. Winona, I am going to Remove the bandage on your eyes. I need you to keep them closed for Six-Six-Six-Six-Six… Sixty Seconds — The doctor spoke, as her voice looped on six
The video feed of this interaction is available under the File “…:)”
[File opened]
Winona is sat up staring forwards at the doctor. as she unbandages the young troll’s face The camera zooms in, Winona’s face is shrouded in a dark tone, the camera cannot focus on her face. As one eye opens, and then the other. and then another, and another. When the doctor finally shakes winona, she had the count of 36 eyes located across her face, neck and arms. As she is shaken they close, and the camera cuts for exactly eight seconds.
— Log date 05. Successful implantation of psionic abilities. Subject 08 seems to have taken well to the implanted powers… a bit too well — the doctor’s voice is said into the log recorder she carries. as eyes can be seen appearing in the shadows behind her. with Winona simply looking at a shadow in the corner of the room.
[Video Ended]
The following files are videos from two escape pods of the only two survivors of the HMS Albatross.
One of the videos contains an empty pod that fell on a desert during the period of six days of full sunlight. and the other contained Samson, Four weeks after the pod crashed. He was reported as defective from the fleet. Samson was holding Winona in his arms, The troll seemed to be extremely hurt but Bio analysis from inside the pod says she was alive.
Your snooping around doesn’t seem to go unnoticed, As you stare into the shadows in one of the walls, that eye with a pink pupil blinks at you before vanishing. As you hear static coming from the device you were using for research into the fateful day that the fleet wishes to forget.
The news of the day was catastrophic, More than two hundred grunts died. A battery exploded the ship before impact. and only two survivors of the entirety of the ship were destroyed leaving nothing but the black box.
As you leave the room you keep seeing those eyes following you, close enough where it is deliberate that you should notice but too far for it to seem like they were focusing on you alone. As you walk into High Admiral Wratful’s office for the verbal beatdown of your life. You can’t help but notice that all her computers are turned into the familiar static from the video feed of the albatross’ black box.
