Mission Report: Galactic Confederacy Contact

**TO**: RD01CTRL

**CC**: RDDMTRREP

**DATE**: 7JUN3175

**ENCRYPTION**: NONE

**ATTACHMENTS**:

* MISC. FLORA SAMPLES

* CRUISIUM SAMPLE

* INTERFACE FOR ENTITY “JUDGE”

On the third of June [3175], myself and a group of specialists for lack of a better term [Ren, Eugene Poljovka, Mateus Walker, Barkley] were tasked by the [Galactic Confederacy]’s representative on The Radiance, to contact and asses for [FTL] technology the descendants of the [Ark Ship] Xenu’s Promise in the Mokosh [0810] system. After about a day in [FTL] we arrived at the outer edge of the Mokosh system, and sent the standard handshake message introducing ourselves and stating our intent, after receiving their reply we made our way in system to Mikula. On our approach, we noticed immense industrial space vehicles that appeared to be using very basic means of propulsion, and once we were at Mikula and descending to our designated landing zone, as far as we could tell the entire planet was covered in industrial complexes, a mix of what we would later learn were mostly smelters, refineries and factories all of which were very spartan and uniform in appearance except for the large temple building and the administration building. We were met at the landing zone by the planetary administrator and a small retinue who led us to her office where initial discourse occurred.  The most relevant pieces of information to come from this meeting is that as an entire culture, they have regressed severely technologically, a state first mentality, an extreme intermingling of state and church though this is to be expected, and they seem mostly harmless even if they appeared to be hiding something. Though to be fair, what nation doesn’t have its secrets that it hides from those from outside their borders. Additionally, because of their culture spending most of time either working or worshipping it has bred a rather robust version of humanity. One other thing of interest that came up was that they have had contact with a non-human race that they perceive to be their gods, this is the prime focus of their work the entirety of their industry is about producing various raw materials to pass on to the gods so they can progress further in the hierarchy of their religion. This seems to center around an Iron like metal they refer to as Cruisium, this metal is not only the primary form of an offering for the gods but it also primary construction material for their equipment and infrastructure.

After the meeting with the planetary administrator we then went to survey the city and the immediate surrounds, the planet is heavily polluted as we found after Barkley and Ren investigated a running terraforming plant that they have been pushing to overload to counter the pollution given off by the industrial complexes. During this time Mateus was contacted by a member of a dissident group that believes that they are following false gods who advised us to meet with a Lee Hunt on Azus. Prior to leaving Mikula and heading to Adonis [III], the seat of their religion, we authorized them for [FTL] communications which should be operational at some point in the next couple of weeks or so.

As we made our way to the spaceport at Adonis [III] it was apparent that this dustbowl of a small moon had a higher gravity as than it should, which probably warrants some investigation in the future. Also, when I say spaceport I mean a gargantuan landing pad surrounded by warehouse structures, apparently this is where the gods would come to collect their offerings. The warehouse complex and their civilization at large has a very complex and well-designed inventory and accounting system. After landing we headed to a large pyramid which is where we meet with Arch-Reverend Cruise the head of their religion. The interior of the temple was significantly more austere than the pretty much everywhere else we have come across, to the point where it was lit by burning torches and the piece of tech we saw was a communicator in Cruise’s office. The conversation was mostly about inane conversation regarding the role of the religion in the [Galactic Confederacy]’s government as well as the nature of their religion currently. During this conversation [Mateus’] let some of his personal views shine through in both a strongly and poorly worded manner, which he repeated shortly after us leaving the temple quite possibly resulting in the trouble we received experienced later and the two refugees we brought back. Barkley had gone out of town and found some local treelike flora with interesting properties, wood as strong as metal and its sap has potent acidic properties. We attempted to contact the [Galactic Confederacy]’s representative on The Radiance to appraise him our progress, but we encountered heavy interference generated from Adonis Prime, we are unsure if this was natural or artificial, probably warrants a follow up.

Next up was the Cruisium mines, I hate that [expletive redacted] name, on Azus to contact Lee Hunt. We set down on one of the mining platforms, which were about the size of a small city that float on the lava, these constructs along with all the equipment that is used on Azus are made from a local substance they refer to as obsidian, and an alloy of the bark from some tree farmed elsewhere in the system and cruisium. To give you an idea on how durable this stuff is, the local administrator pointed out the corner of a mostly sunken city and was confident that it was still completely intact, also it’s what they make tunnels out of in the lava. After a short conversation with the administrator we went into worker common area to talk with everyman and get a lead on Lee Hunt, which we did, and it required us to go into the mines, so we descended into the mines and witnessed their methods for procuring cruisium, which is, more or less unique. What they do is punch a spigot through the wall of the tunnel into the lava where they siphon off the pure cruisium. Anyway, Hunt, we encountered him in the tunnel shortly after an unfortunate incident involving one of the miners, after introductions he showed us something that lends credence to the claims of the dissident groups. Hunt lead us into an obsidian cave that was perfectly hemispherical with a large pillar in the middle of the room which had a large bowl attached. The walls were covered in various runes carved into the walls there was pure white hot crusium flowing through these runes, to the pillar and then into the bowl. It was here that we contact by the entity called “The Judge” who spoke perfect English directly into our minds, it immediately recognized us as from Sol, and that it and others like it have been to Sol before at the command of their masters the Trysticar. It allowed us to take a sample from the bowl as an interface to communicate directly with it. Part way through the conversation with The Judge it warned us to leave as quick as possible so we made for the Corvette as fast as we could, but were waylaid by local authorities believing that both ourselves and those under our care were in immediate danger we took necessary action to protect ourselves and made our escape.

Now the pair of elephants in the room, Lee Hunt and Daniel Miller. Back on Mikula Miller had confided to the group that he was a member of a group that believed that the [Galactic Confederacy] worship false gods, after this Mateus became somewhat protective of the sickly administrator’s son and overly concerned with an issue that was largely irrelevant to our purpose in Mokosh. After the incident in the [Arch-Reverend]’s office on Adonis [III] as some of our party were leaving the temple Miller was summoned to the [Arch-Reverend]’s office for some unknown reason, and Mateus chose to become overly confrontational with the members of the clergy that delivered this request, this all came to a head when we were confronted as we were leaving the mines on Azus where a group of armed personnel so with that situation resolved after we left Azus. With the current situation in system being too dangerous for Daniel and quite possibly Hunt as he was seen aiding us we couldn’t leave them behind so we brought them with us.

**Recommendations**:

The [Galactic Confederacy] is ready for full implementation of [FTL technology], they weren’t granted full access due to the group not coming to a consensus on the topic.

The sooner they are put into contact with their Sol counterparts the better.

We should see if we can license their inventory [technology], it seems like it would be incredibly useful, also see if we can secure trade for cruisium, and the other raw materials necessary to create the compound we found on Azus, if we could find a way to synthesize the obsidian that may be a good commodity for trade as they are running low on it.

Miller and Hunt should be given asylum on The Radience should they request it.

The Judge should be kept somewhere of its choosing, and entity like that would be a wealth of information, and is probably a good idea to stay on its good side as we currently have no idea what that construct is capable of.