System 0609 Red Kelly recovery

#### 1 INITIAL DATA AND SET UP

The slave ark ship the Red Kelly that had last been explored in this system was designated as an asset marked for recovery by the corporation of Lewis, Louis and Luis. A team was assembled comprising of Algenon Digsby, Alejandro, Stella and myself, finally a small group of support staff and explorers was added to the party and we departed the Radiance.

Heavy alien activity was detected in the Ziva system upon arrival and the transponder of the Red Kelly was detected on Nova, a planet fully in control of the aliens.

Not assuming hostility from the alien species local to this system, we brought our shuttle closer to Nova, being wary to not reveal ourselves as a threat and taking note of the alien craft. Several scans of the craft should be available in the data storage aboard the shuttle, assuming reckless actions by the crew did nothing to harm the storage areas.

Upon detection by the alien forces, our shuttle was violently attacked, with a small fighter attaching itself to us and dragging the shuttle down to the surface of Nova. Having narrowly escaped death by explosive decompression we nonetheless endeavoured to treat these aliens as non-hostile entities.

##### 1.1 LANDING ON NOVA

Upon arrival on the planets surface, a small team of us left our shuttle to interact with the aliens and hopefully secure release of the Red Kelly from them. We were greeted by a contingent of aliens, the same as had been previously encountered upon the Red Kelly, towering bug like
creatures with a dark glossy exoskeleton and horrifically powerful claws. As well as a previously 1unencountered form of alien, with additional scythe like blades forming part of it’s natural arsenal.

Despite the fact that these aliens had come with clear dangerous weapons to our peaceful party we attempted to communicate with them, ascertaining several symbols that they use to communicate. During this discourse, the aliens demanded from us a blood sacrifice. It seemed that to continue in our attempts to communicate and retrieve the Red Kelly they required that we murder in cold blood one of our own.

Whilst vehemently refusing to sacrifice one of our own to them the aliens took matters into their own hands, acting without hesitation they violently seized myself, severing my spinal cord at the neck. From this point on, I can only comment on what was experienced by me, other members of the crew may choose to submit reports enlightening the missing portions of the mission.

##### 1.1.1 CAPTURE

I was carried into an alien ship, coming across many aliens interfacing with their ship, these ones equipped with additional antennae. This has led me to the theory that the aliens are divided into subclasses, based on the physical attributes they are spawned with. It should be noted at this point that no alien can be considered safe, each and every one of them has the strength of many men, along with claws that can sever a spine with a simple tightening.

Whilst being taken through the ship I noticed a plethora of human slaves, completing manual labour for the aliens whilst being covered from the jaw down to the chest in a substance similar in design to the ships the aliens create. Each of these slaves seemed dead to the world, completing work that would be assigned to non-sentient machines in our own culture.

I was taken to a chamber within the ship, where a creature lowered itself towards me and encased me in the alien metal. During this time my thoughts were altered and I was given understanding of the alien ship and the things that were occurring, several slaves inside the ship were loading and preparing ammunition for its weapons, no doubt preparing to destroy us should we not follow their instructions clearly.

After this, I was dragged out from the alien ship and deposited in front of our own ship, where I was retrieved, still unable to move. As I was brought into our ship I was able to ascertain that since I had been assaulted and kidnapped by the aliens we had in return taken one of theirs as a hostage to guarantee my safe retrieval.

##### 1.1.2 RETURN

On return to the ship I was hit with some sort of psychic attack by the aliens, with them attempting to force me to act in violence against the members of the ship, if not for my extreme power of will and the fact that they had previously crippled me I have no doubt that they would have forced me to murder our entire party remaining on the ship through whatever means necessary. It immediately became clear to me, they had attempted to use me as some sort of suicide bomber, a clear act of war to attempt to retrieve their fellow brood.

Following their failed attempt, the captured alien attempted to break through the airlock that it was sealed in. Successfully warping and partially destroying the massive doors impenetrable to all but the strongest explosive. Shortly before it succeeded in breaking through the airlock completely and no doubt slaughtering us all the aliens released a viral attack at the computers systems, thwarted at the cost of some subsystems by Stella’s quick thinking. Nonetheless, the virus succeeded in opening the airlocks, freeing the alien.

I was then placed into chemical unconsciousness by the crew, for fear that the aliens psychic powers could somehow influence me into harming us further. From what I gather happened next, Alejandro approached the Red Kelly and found the aliens in siege with the convicts that survived entry to Nova. Alejandro appeared at a similar time as the bugs were planning to breach and they swarmed over the ship, capturing all of the convicts to use as their own slave force.

Myself and the brave soul Nathaniel Allen were put on the Red Kelly to launch the ship into orbit, upon successfully reaching orbit we entered cryosleep and prepared to wait until either the forces from Lewis, Louis and Luis reached us or we reached the Radiance’s outpost.

Nathaniel Allen and I have made this report as the semi-functioning life support has once again woken us up. If you find this and we live no longer, do not trust the aliens. They seek dominion over our species. We can only hope that our message is found in time, before these monsters enslave us all for their sick pleasures. I have heard that some amongst the Scientologists worship these as gods. These beasts are no gods, just sick creatures trying their best to conquer and destroy all that we are.

#### 2 APPENDICIES

##### 2.1 COMMUNICATIONS

The aliens use drawing on sand as a form of communication, the following are a list of symbols we have deciphered.

* Dots - Used to represent numbers
* A straight horizontal line above a V and a circle - Worship by humans, sacrifice for them
* A straight vertical line with two circles above - Slaves
* Three V’s above a conjoined concave image - Dead aliens
* A circle next to a horizontal line and two V’s - Dead humans