Pure Acid

Voyager's Record 19.0062.1545

Hyades (GX005)

Ivplak System

Ossout Gamma

- Scoured the frozen hills of Ossout Gamma in search of more salvageable data (need to add floor numbers in the orbital base floors to avoid confusion during short range teleportation)

- Came across some interesting fauna - nomadic, chimera-like Tetrasakae, jittery Cornetrofus, and the wolf-like Tetraodamima.

- We may not have landed here initially, but I still like these frozen worlds.

- Collected over 60 salvageable data. Returned to Caliburn and rocketed through the wandering frost storm, settling just above the clouds for a brief glide.

Voyager's Record 19.0063.1902 The Mind-Warping Itus A41

- One more planet to go - Itus A41

- We broke through the sickly green atmosphere and once we got through the choking clouds, a vast landscape of towering plateaus welcomed us.

- Hazard protection unit was geared towards toxicity prevention to combat the "lethal atmosphere" that the sensors picked up

- As we landed on the plateau, the clouds immediately vanished and the sky was a deep cotton candy pink.

- Hanging in the sky, as clear as day, was Ossout Gamma and Flafi Minor neatly tucked in its rings. Kann XVIII bobbled just off to the side.

- The surrounding flora more closely resembled colorful, hard candy than cacti and typical vegetation... then one of the pineapple-like flora bounced.

- Multitool scanners indicated that the pineapple was in fact a creature... what??

- Another piece of vegetation bounced, and this one too was a creature. It had multiple eyes over its blobby form. Jutting limply from its sides were two uselessly floppy wings. It was crowned with what looked to be two sets of beaks. Its wrinkly, nightmarish mass flubbed across the dusty terrain. We stood dumbfounded.

- The sun was quickly sinking into the horizon as we approached the edge of the plateau and again were dumbstruck by the view beneath us...

- The gaping chasms of the planet lit up with a foreboding orange glow, misting upwards as if to beckon us into their depths, we quickly scrambled back to the Caliburn.

- As night fell, the pink sky quickly yielded to a boundless and beautiful, green-hued starfield. Then we started choking.

- In between awestruck hesitation and uncalculated jetpacking, we found ourselves caught in the sick vapours of a Honeyecdum plant.

- Regaining our senses, we made it back to the Caliburn and back to the safety of low orbit.

- The planet called to us.

- After blinking, the buzzing of the cockpit and the screaming of the land coming up to greet us snapped us out of our daze. The instrumentation swore that we were at least 2000u off of the surface of Itus as we jammed Caliburn's reverse thrusters.

- Thankfully, a Korvax outpost sat atop this blasted plateau. It felt odd that a small piece of civilzation provided us with such a great sense of relief.

- Itus begged to differ as it changed the sky from pink to green and then back again.

- Jumping out of the cockpit, our eyes were drawn by yet another bouncing pineapple - this one had a series of beady eyes; we had to chase it!

- The sunset was pretty too...

- The exosuit screamed at us, something about hazard protection falling. Then we realized we were in free fall - for about a minute.

- The chasm floor greeted us quickly, we flared the jetpack at maximum burn and tumbled across the bottom; thankfully the shields held on.

- Looking back up, the gaping maw of the 2000 u deep chasm seemed to laugh at us.

- Breathless, we summoned Caliburn and retreated to the surface yet again.

- Fluorescant tumbleweeds greeted us at the top, and we harvested "bone nuggets" from it. It didn't seem to mind as it tumbled off with its buddy; Xenobiologist Silvenatrix is gonna have a field day with this place... (0.o)/

- Retreating back through the thick clouds, our vision went from green to pink again.

- I swear I thought the planet was inviting us to return - we ignored it this time and warped back to Flafi Minor.

Voyager's Record 19.0064.2048 System Anomaly(ies)

- The system wasn't done with us yet.

- Sensors picked up a massive object mid-warp, so we cut the engines.

- Sprawling, frigate-sized pipes and blinking, neon-pink, running lights came into view amidst the surrounding asteroid field.

- No response to hails. Sensors didn't pick up anything beyond the fact that this thing was just sitting there.

- Flustered from the day's insanity we quickly flew past the anomaly and continued on our way, before the Caliburn sounded the alarms.

- A lone pirate in a hauler of all things decided to ambush us seconds away from the anomaly. A HAULER...

- After messing with the pirate we put it out of its misery using the new Infra-Knife Accelerator we had installed recently. Why did it feel good to blow up that hauler?

- Returned to base for the night, just behind the rings of Ossout Gamma, in green, Itus A41 bid us goodnight...