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FAO: Admiral-in-Field ArethaTristar, Pentahelios Command; Intelligence Asset Liaison Vaiana Jakaria; [Confidential Access L.2]

Author: Asset [Periphery-43/c] via Analyst #243

URGENT

Analyst’s Note: The reopening of the slip point has allowed me to receive these logged transmissions from a cul-de-sac comms channel inside Periphery.

I don’t know if anyone is picking up these things, but I was told that this relay inlet would be monitored. This is Elang Vronski, and something big is happening here in Periphery that you need to know about.

I was assigned to a bait-and-detain mission for Ridgeway Mining, on the asteroid Kudos to Angelico, as I told you in my last update. You wanted me to make sure that the Starbound perps didn’t get the fuel, no matter what. Well, they didn’t get the fuel, you’ll be happy to hear, but it wasn’t because of me.

There’s somebody new in Periphery. A dropship appeared over the combat zone. Nothing like I’ve seen before. Big, at least up there with a Cataphract-class, I reckon. It looked like they dropped three, maybe four tactical zeos. About the mass of a Rakke, less than a Stormer. Can’t give you anything more accurate than that because my zeo couldn’t get a register on them. Nothing at all like it in the security database you gave me access to. 

They were fast, and cut through the Troopers around the megaharvester in seconds. Again, energy signatures were not in the database; I’ve no idea what sort of weapons they were using. Close-combat specialists, but with some kind of high-energy ranged element. I know it sounds mad, but it was like they had swords that shot ultra-intensity flamebursts.