WCGW Chpt 268

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==Chapter 268 - What Could Go Wrong==
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Boulsi (Independent System)
6th August, 3047
Major Nathan Davis was in hog heaven as he got his hands on the DoME database that the Linden people had maintained. It gave him a huge insight into what was done to the region out here in terms of terraforming, resources of the systems, reasons why a system was deemed worth settling but the biggest was it also contained the logs detailing the last months of both the Deep Spin operation but also various missions, pre-mission reports, post mission reports. He had already been reading for over 18 hours but every time he felt he could go no more, he found something else that shot life back into his exhausted mind.
He had writer's cramp from all the note taking he had been doing. He really wanted to haul this database or a copy of it back to Thazi where his entire staff could work on it but Marsha Winston, the caretaker, had been quite firm in her NO to either of those ideas. But he had tripped over several after action reports that really had him ready to hightail it back to Thazi.
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4 July 2765 - Mission to Rest Stop completed. Olympus Recharge Station in service. Convoy jumped by rebels at OR187290, three jumps from Linden. SLDS Farbuild was severely damaged and incapable of continuing to Linden. Rebel fleet of three Pinto Corvettes were defeated with two destroyed and one heavily crippled. SLS Louder was destroyed. Single Star Lord Jumpship was sole survivor having taken on all survivors from SLDS Farbuild and SLS Louder. Recovery mission advised.
19 July 2765 - No word from Zalt. 199th Striker was on station providing protection to water purification and ground based mineral refineries.
21 August 2765 - Convoy from Shira attacked at Alktral, single Lola II Destroyer under rebel control severely crippled during fighting. Placed in orbit of W-9 Gas Giant until recovery and SLIC can be provided.
13 October 2765 - Emergency evacuation of Deep Spin operation ordered as situation is untenable. Not enough collars to transport everything, leaving Orbital Electronics Factory, Orbital Small Craft factory and Support Shipyard. Self-destruct set on Shipyard to prevent capture and utilization by rebel forces.
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But the biggest discovery had been buried deeper in the system report on Ype-Jhu. He did not even write this one down for fear of it being discovered by someone else. It was a complete game changer, and, in his mind, it was bigger than possibly finding wrecked ships. It was only referred to by a code name EXPLOIT but he had dug around until he found another reference to EXPLOIT in the DoME records of Maripa. Delivery of six Orbital Mining Stations from EXPLOIT deployed was all it had said. But if it was what he suspected, it could be as big a find as Linden.
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