Rodarc LFAWT [#01] - "No Good Deed..."

Hey log, first time poster. Uh, Winter here - but not really of my own accord...

Otayen says something about it being "nice to keep memories of things going on - to look back on them on the future". I think he's just worried about my head since the accident. I'll get to that.

While I don't really have the time to dwell, I guess he is right. I mean I wasn't going to protest, he's hugely convincing after all - or rather, convincingly huge! 

Anyway, there isn't much i can do from this hospital bed, so here it is. This is my attempt to keep track of the goings on around me.

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LOG 0405-2341

My ship - the Rubricauda is being fixed. I might have driven it into the back of a scummy Marauder class junk ship during docking at Vidalia station. Look it was an accident, ok? Thankfully the nice folks running the station were so impressed by how Otay and I deftly disbanded the merry band of synthoholic deadbeats taking up space in their port that they offered us a deal. Said they'd fix up the ship for free and loan us a rental if we agreed to run a couple of errands. Sweet! Or so we thought.

Our first errand took us to a floating crash site, looking for the cause of the wreckage. Pretty simple stuff.

We discovered personal belongings floating in space and a LOT of junk. Nothing remarkable at first. The ship's rear section was still mostly in tact, so Otay and I boarded. After a bit of wandering around and scanning, we found the remains of the engine room, and that's when things went from bad to worse.

You see, this ship wasn't an ordinary craft. Turns out they'd been experimenting with an odd region of exospace they called the "Echo Space", using what the researchers called a "Refractive Anomaly". They found that the anomaly acted as an interface between our reality and the Echo Space, a mirror realm accidentally discovered by this very team. When talking near the anomaly, they would hear their voices echoed back, thus the name. According to their research notes, they were trying to synthesize a self sustaining alternative to Veritene, the fuel used in all modern craft. 

It seems that when you bounce an energy wave into a Refractive Anomaly, it'll send a delayed response back with "harmonics". This "refraction" tends to send slightly more information out than the original waveform gave initially. In essence, it sends out more than it receives - a perpetual energy system.

Anyway, after activating one of the control rods used to interface with the contained anomaly to try to restore power, the reactor started going into meltdown.  Otay and I turned to run, but all I can remember was a huge flash, a crackling sound like the air was on fire, and the sensation of being hit by a power hammer before blacking out.

According to Otayen, the anomaly housing had failed and I was shot in the back of the head by one of those "harmonic" waves. He had to haul me out of the wreckage and escape before the entire thing detonated. He said it was spectacular. Lucky bastard- I'd have loved to have seen that.

Doctor Arcturo says he dropped me off at Vidalia station hospital and stayed with me for a week before returning to the site of the wreck. Apparently there was no trace of the unusual anomaly.

That brings us to now - a whole two weeks after the incident. I have a head covered in bandages and a killer headache, but all is well. I left my ordeal with a couple of unusual growths on my head where the impacts happened. Arcturo says removing my "nubs" isn't an option for the moment. According to her, they've fused with my skull in critical areas that can't effectively be regenerated with the on board facilities, but they don't seem to be immediately threatening.

She's calling in favours from her home world to see if I can be fast tracked, but says that waiting times are excruciatingly long thanks to an outbreak planet side.

Delightful.

I'll get a look at them properly when my bandages come off in the next few days.

For now, end of log. I'm going to try to sleep off this headache.

Winter