SE-714 "Lost signal"

### Investigation

During a data recovery mission from the Grand Duchy of Julithar's intelligence agency the Bureau of Intelligence and Threat Response (BITR) the following document was recovered.

#### Lost Signal

*Date: ████ ██ ███ DoS*

*Location: Signal station #4801*

*Event:*

*Agent* **NAME REDACTED** *traveled to signal station #4801 after it stopped transmitting. A service team was sent to the station but did not report back. Navy command authorized an BITR investigation. Upon reaching the signal station agent* **NAME REDACTED** *found the service team's shuttle still docked with the stations only landing port and had to use an emergency access hatch. Upon entering the signal station power was on and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Agent* **NAME REDACTED** *moved to the crew quarters which was untouched. The beds were freshly made, cloths had been folded and food was still in sealed bags. Upon entering the control room the only sign that something was a miss was one of the chairs had been tilted away from the console as if someone was trying to escape. The on sight agent opened the console and opened recent logs and found a recorded signal/conversation that read:*

*Unknown signal: 100*

*Signal station #4801: Please confirm identity*

*Unknown signal: 99*

*Signal station #4801: You're IFF or security clearance is not activated. Please confirm*

*Unknown signal: 98*

*Signal station #4801: We are unable to confirm source of signal. Please confirm within 30 seconds or transmission will be terminated and reported to nearest fleet for arrest. You are tying up government resources.*

*Unknown signal: 97 (continues to count of 77)*

*Signal station #4801: We will terminate your signal now. Contacting naval command.*

*Unknown Signal: %$#))))(?/////!(%\_!$\_#W)$%)#\_\_!($#I$(\*%\*)\\\\\\\\\_\_...|*

*Signal station #4801: Please send again. You're message was unable to be read.*

*Unknown Signal: ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████*

*Signal station #4801: Please confirm identity. Classified information should not be broadcast over un-encrypted channels!*

*Unknown Signal: (forty seconds of recorded silence)*

*Signal station #4801: Please confirm identity. This is a matter of top security! By authority of the Grand Duchies state your identity! Failure to do so will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law!*

*Unknown signal (translated to understandable language): Coming. To. You.*

*Signal station #4801: Say again? Please transmit again. Repeat. transmit again!*

*Following this chain of messages the station went into auto work for 4 days till the service team arrived. Following this a similar chain of messages was recorded with the final message dated 1 day before* **NAME REDACTED** *arrived that stated: DO NOT R... An occupation team was called to take control of the station. During this time the unknown signal contacted the station again starting its count at 98. During this agent* **NAME REDACTED** *transmitted an all clear signal and the count down stopped. As such this has been the best course of action.*

*Follow up:*

*On ████ ██ ███ DoS the station failed its check in once more. This time two ships were dispatched to check the station assuming someone failed to send the all clear signal once more. However at their arrival the station was completely gone. A thorough investigation of the area was conducted but found no evidence of the station. It is believed that the crew allowed the count down to reach 0. An investigation to find the source of the signal was conducted but no evidence could be found. Until new data arrives all signal stations are instructed to broadcast all clear signals to any count downs in the future under the pretense of it being a new military code coming into use.*

*Classification: TOP SECRET. By Authority of the Grand Duchies herself!*

*Report end.*

### Conclusion

Requests to look farther into this SE were denied by the Office of Strategic Naval Intelligence director H on the grounds that attempting to infiltrate the Grand Duchy would likely be very costly and there is little supporting evidence that the team would find any new information. It is also assumed that this document may in fact be misinformation created to confuse or mislead any attempted data infiltration. If true this is very possibly the most suggestive resource that super natural forces exist in Aetherian.