now, made irrelevant Recording of an Akalatian military radio conversation "Sir?" "Yes, lieutenant?" "I think we've got something." "You'll need to talk louder, I can't hear you over that wind." "Right, I think a blizzard's coming on-" *Momentary delay* "Is this better?" "Yeah, I can hear you clearly now." "Okay so the drilling guys are alright, albeit very tired, I don't blame them, but anyways we went out a bit further on a patrol and we found a ship of some sort." "Oh?" "It's definitely crashed, we thought it was just hiding or something but it looks Akalatian enough, and also there was a lot of ice on it that wouldn't be there if people were still in it." "So, you found an abandoned old naval vessel. What of it?" "It's not that old, and also... I-I couldn't make out the name, it was very weathered, but I could definitely see the AK. and also the letters U, T, R, L, and S..." "Okay?" "But what ships have gone missing in the last couple decades?" "Well, the AK. Kagonia, AK. Thassily, and AK. Australis, and I don't rem- wait." "I mean, it's the only one with those letters. I saw a couple others but couldn't make them out-" "Lieutenant, mark that down on your map." "Already did, why?" "Regardless of which one it is, we need to check it out. But... if it is the Australis, I think there are some people who'd like to know." "Right, of course. Uhh... I'll bring the other guys back to the oil station, we can go back out in a couple hours to search it." "I'll send a research team over, by helicopter, but it'll take them at least four hours to get here." "None of the privates would complain about that." "I'm sure they wouldn't." End of recording one Recording of an Akalatian military radio conversation "You wanted to talk about your expedition with a superior?" "Uhm, yes, sir. So the oil rig is fine, there're a couple parts that need repairs but that's to be expe-" "I read your report." "Right, my apologies, commander. So... while we were out we found a crashed Akalatian navy ship." "What kind?" "A cruiser." "So an older one." "It's from the 1980s, yeah, I think 1982." "So you know which one it is?" "Y-yes, the... it's the AK. Australis." *Pause, something slams down.* "The... the Australis." "Yes, sir. Without doubt." "In the arctic sector? God, no wonder we didn't find it, how on earth did it get there?!" "I'm afraid all the electronics are both outdated and irreparable, so we couldn't check that." "Is the information-" "Yes, thank god. They kept physical copies of it in an insulated safe, so the papers are mostly in good condition." "That's... does it have the research, though?" "Yes, all of it, I think. I-I'm afraid I don't understand, like, any of it, but I noticed a lot of references to things like quantum entanglement and quantum mechanics, and other science-y sounding words that I don't know." "Captain, if you actually found those papers..." "I did." "Bring them over as soon as physically possible, the research crew'd die to read them." "We're flying over the Catlantik ocean right now." "You're- you'd better be incredibly careful." "No, no, of course, I'm going to upload images of them as soon as we get close enough to a satellite to do that. But I don't think we'd have to worry about Alpha Corp, we're not openly Akalatian, and also we've got research flags on it, so they probably won't shoot us down." "Regardless, we don't want them misappropriating those documents. Don't fail this thing, and you'll get a promotion." "Yes, sir." "Say, did you find out what happened to the crew." "Oh- uhm, yeah, at least some of them... there were skeletons in the cabin, at least six." "Eugh. That's... that's unpleasant. What of-" One of them was definitely the captain, so I doubt any others survived... but yeah, one of them was Vorwald." "Damn. He didn't deserve to go like that." "No, definitely not... especially with what's on these documents, this... these are insane. I can't believe these came from four entire decades ago." "He really was a century ahead of his time." "We're coming close to one of the installations, now, you should be able to find them in about a quarter hour." "Be careful, until then." "Yes, of course. Trust me, sir, I care about these documents just as much as you do." "Hmm. Just get them here safe." End of recording two
