Fleets of the Thrice Damned

Ships of all kinds are laid to rest here, everything from oblong wooden vessels to crystalline arks of the cosmic and ethereal. Many share similarities with the imagery found in the transmissions and logs of the adAkkaria Broadcast Station.

We suspect a confrontation took place here between the Convention's fleet and that of Unicom, the galactic peacekeeping force from millennia ago.

And yet, while these ships are beyond repair, they do not appear marooned by any common weaponry, nor by malfunction or similar disasters. Instead, the hulls and interiors appear to be ripped apart, as if assaulted by a massive shredder.

Our … carefully recovered databanks from the graveyard vessels. While much of it was ravaged by time, one adAkkaria database has survived:

- We have been waylaid. I repeat, we have been waylaid. UniCom demands we cease our elevation of the Rokukora Primitives or face elimination. Please, respond. If we do not retreat, we will be destroyed! Please, at least send reinforcements!

- Negative. Your sacrifice will be noted.

As our … transliterated the new broadcasts, we made another astonishing discovery: a frozen body floating in the center of the graveyard!

While much of the corpse has withered, its attire is that of an officer of the Convention.

Curiously, a corona of small debris was in orbit around the body, as if it exerted some sort of gravitational pull on these objects. The remains have been taken onboard for further analysis.

Translation of the frozen body's name tag revealed him to be an adAkkaria member named alAtta Landeer. Much like the corpse found at …, several of his appendages were surgically removed before death. However, in this case, the body is also badly burned. His torso especially shows signs of extreme heat damage, as well as a slow, and surely painful, recovery.

Our … came to the unfortunate conclusion that these wounds bore disturbing similarities to … methods of extracting information from unwilling participants. Was this a war veteran, or did something more sinister befall him?

Following this discovery, our crew's databanks were corrupted by an untraceable force. Several … recalled experiencing a brief and debilitating power surge, while others were exposed to scrambled and disjointed imagery, provoking their voice modulators to emit a piercing sound at more than 120 decibels.

The scrambled images corrupting some of our exploration … were decoded. They formed an image of an ancient habitat. … were beset by the sight and sound of an individual being subjected to increasingly cruel treatment. His body was burned, his organs cooked.

Some … managed to escape the audio-visual assault. They stated that several small objects began to float in close orbit to the body. The organic remains had somehow developed their own gravitational field.

This unknown force grew in strength until sections of the interior walls were warped and rent by the pressure. It was that moment that our safety systems re-engaged, and the body was jettisoned back into space.

Soon after, a cosmic storm was unleashed in the system. Our vessel barely made it out intact.

Whatever transpired there has precipitated more questions than answers.