AMARANTHE

Eridium II
System 4A-CC57

The path data in the rodent’s ship had been gibberish, but beneath it lay an interpreter, and beneath the interpreter lay standardized, properly formatted Communis Coordinates.

Conclusion #4:  The species which assisted the native population is an Accepted Species.

This conclusion would have severe consequences for the Accepted Species, but all in due time.

Aver ela-Praesidis arrived at the first set of coordinates and found nothing but empty space. However, attached to the coordinates was a quite specific signal wave frequency. He created the wave.

A ring opened directly in front of him. Judging by the plasma wall it enclosed, the gateway the ring created was inter-dimensional in nature—a wormhole across a distance at a minimum, but also possibly a dimensional bridge.

His search of the Annals of Artificial Spatial Objects for similar configurations retrieved a match to Katasketousya technology. Specifically, their Provision Network gateways.

A secondary signal followed the triggering signal wave. He activated it as well, but detected no physical change in the object or the surroundings. A passcode, then. He accelerated through the gateway.

New space, unconnected to the sector where he’d been an instant before, awaited him on the other side.

It remained a three dimensional physical space, however, and was unpopulated save for an ordered series of low frequency wave patterns. He quickly determined the frequency of one of the waves matched details in the next set of data he’d extracted from the rodent’s ship.

He followed it to its termination point and sent the accompanying signal.

A smaller ring appeared, this one clearly enclosing a dimensional bridge.

Interesting.

He considered returning now to report the Katasketousya to the Praesidis Primor as the offending Accepted Species. But as an ela rank he had a degree of freedom of action and license to pursue new avenues of inquiry an investigation generated.

Instead he recorded an update in his local file for later transmission and traversed this new portal.

 

Assignment Designation:  I-4617-D883-J955

Interim Mission Update:  The resident species was sent to a wormhole gateway/dimensional bridge located in the outer heliosphere region of System 4A-CC57. The gateway leads to the Katasketousya Provision Network.

I am investigating the Provision Network more closely (i) in search of the current location of the remaining population of the species native to 4A-CC57 and (ii) to uncover evidence of the extent of the Katasketousya malfeasance.

— Aver ela-Praesidis

Inquisitor 9166Æ, 47^th Astyn Lineage, 9^th Epoch Proper