A couple of weeks ago I had this weird idea of an alien report salvaged from the ocean after an invasion of Earth had been beaten back. This is the thing after I finally got around to finish it.
Last Report
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12th Absum 3990
The
colony ships have successfully made waterfall on EZ-45-P3. Construction of
first cities is beginning. We are ready for the next wave of colonists.
15th Absum 3990
First
intrusion detected: Unknown semi-organic composites have sunken into the safe
area. Research organisms have been dispatched.
3rd Benthal
3990
According
to our research teams, a warning has been issued to avoid contact with the
alien composites at all costs. Especially the non-organic parts of the
composites are incredibly toxic. Near-planet detection arrays show a
disturbingly high amount of alien composites travelling at high altitudes, on
the border to the dry space.
26th Zym 3990
The
second wave of colonists has arrived, just days after construction of City 1
and City 2 have been finished. A second and third intrusion of alien composites
into the safe areas around the cities and construction sites have been
detected. The second intrusion was deemed harmless, the third one came too
close to the construction-organisms at site 3 and triggered a response from
bio-defense.
Approximately
3% of construction equipment has been lost due to contamination with toxic
materials raining down from the destroyed composite object.
27th Zym 3990
A
military expedition has arrived above EZ-45-P3. The Central Council has decided
the alien composites have to go. At the very least the border zone to dry space
needs to be cleared. The expedition makes waterfall in the evening, above City
1 and City 2.
4th Cyc 3990
Military
Expedition Command takes control over all sites, including the two finished
cities. Suppression pheromones are released to calm down the colonists, which
number several thousand by now. Civilian control is dismantled for the duration
of the crisis and transported to deep storage.
2nd Hadal 3990
The MEC
declares mission accomplished: 34 intrusions into the safe areas have been
detected, and subsequently cleared with military force. 76,000 alien composite
objects of varying sizes have been successfully cleared from the border zone
with minimal contamination of the ground. The water zone is now safe again for
colonization.
3rd Salin 3990
The MEC
transports itself into deep storage, after commanding all military organisms to
go dormant. The civilian authorities are taken out of storage and reassembled.
Even though the aftermath of the military expedition is disturbingly chaotic,
normal work resumes before the day ends.
5th Absum 3991
Cities
3 and 4 are finished. Another batch of colonists arrives today. With this
arrival, the total number of colonists has reached approximately 8,000
individual organisms. The MEC had to mobilize three times during the past
months to defeat more intrusions.
It has
been recommended to begin construction of dry space-capable research organisms
to find the unknown source of the alien composites. However, the civilian
authorities have assigned a low priority to this task, since most of the
available resources are still needed to finish constructions of the Cities 5-6.
10th Loram 3991
General
alert has been raised in the morning: A large cluster of alien composite
objects has breached the safe area above City 5 (still in construction). MEC is
mobilizing a large enough force of organisms to deal with the thread. However,
the civilian authority is allowed to function. Clearing the anomalous force of
ACOs is deemed arduous, but ultimately harmless.
12th Loram 3991
Catastrophe.
Today will live in infamy. Yesterday, when the MEC-forces reached the critical threshold
necessary for clearing the water above City 5, a tethered deep water probe was
lowered down by the ACO-cluster. This was obviously an attempt for contact by
an alien intelligence: Every authority was thrown into confusion by this. The
alien composite objects were up to this point, at best seen as some sort of dry
space animal.
After a
couple hours of observation, one small MEC-cluster was ordered to capture the probe
for analysis. Several irrelevant suggestions by the civilian authorities had
been suppressed. As soon as the MEC-cluster made physical contact with the
alien probe, an unknown weapon was triggered. 55% of the MEC-clusters around
the probe were destroyed. For some reason a lot of damage was done to the ACOs
above, too.
Even
though the event cleared up the waters above City 5, all other news are bad. The
MEC ordered their last ship to make waterfall, so they can strip it and
construct more clusters. City 5 has stopped functioning. A deadly rain of alien
composites has further harmed construction. Several hundred colonists are dead
and until the composite-rain can be stopped, the site has to be abandoned.
We’re
on our own now and we have lost one of our cities.
21st Salybsa
3991
A lot
of things happened during the last two months. The MEC has fought a fierce, but
ultimately futile war against the ACOs. Or better, against the unknown
intelligence controlling it. Since our satellite-arrays are still working, the
civilian authorities have been analyzing all available data of the dry space of
this world, hoping to find a sign of that strange out-of-water hive mind
controlling the alien composite objects.
But
nothing could be found. After recalibrating our satellites using salvaged alien
materials as a gauge, we at least found an enormous amount of the alien
composites hidden all over dry space! It seems colonization planning was
faulty. Though it has been argued no-one could have expected masses of
seemingly intelligent metalloid-organic hybrid compounds to live on this
planet. And even outside the normal life-zone of a water planet!
2nd Salin 3991
A horrid thing
was discovered today: The Military Expedition Command had been clearing alien
probes for some time before the disaster above City 5. The MEC had for some
reason refused to give this information to the civilian authorities. This
breach of protocol is unforgivable!
The
information was salvaged after a MEC-cluster, damaged by fighting ACOs at the
border to dry space, broke down in the middle of City 1. Civilian repair units
recovered the cluster and by analyzing the memory organs, inadvertently ate the
knowledge we now have. The civilian authorities have informed the colonist
organisms and started building diplomatic units to make real contact with the alien
intelligence. The MEC has been ordered to stand down according to Bio Protocol
Control CR-45. Only self-defense is allowed under this control bio protocol.
3rd Salin 3991
The MEC has
not complied. MEC-clusters have attacked and destroyed 76% of the civilian authorities.
MEC-minds have stated the alien composite objects are too dangerous for us,
regardless of potential intelligence. The MEC has taken over all control
functions, stating Emergency Reason 23.
6th Salin 3991
Riots by
colonist organisms have damaged City 2. All progress on the colonization-effort
has been stopped by the MEC. Massive amounts of calming pheromones are released
by the now combined civil-military authorities. This observation unit has been
ordered to stop observing and recording current events and will now comply.
15th Ordyh 3992
This unit
has been reactivated. More then a year has passed since the last recording of
current events.
Analysis of
available information paints a bleak flesh canvas. Only half the colonists are
still alive. City 5 is still empty and partially destroyed. Construction on
City 6 has not been restarted. City 1 and 2 are showing signs damage.
Apparently the calming pheromones were not enough to stop the riots and they
spread to another city. City 3 and 4 are fine, but the colonist organisms
inside are barely functional. The cloud of pheromones around the cities is far
too dense for normal life to resume.
MEC-units
are still fighting the alien composites. Apparently the alien intelligence has
given up its attempts to make contact. It also has stopped all attempts to
intrude into water space. In fact, the MEC-clusters are fighting on the other
side of the border now, deep in dry space!
More data
analysis is necessary to find out the reason for this.
17th Ordyh 3992
MEC has
made contact with this unit. I am supposed to witness the final purge of the
alien composite objects from this world. During my enforced stasis, the MEC has
slowly melted the massive amounts of frozen water on both poles. The MEC states
they had analyzed the collected data about the alien intelligence nearly a year
ago and noticed how many of the metalloid-organic hybrid compounds are
gathering near the border to water space, just on the dry side.
The
combined civil-military authorities guessed those compound-aggregations are
important to the alien minds. They based this on facts like them swimming on
the border above us and their main concentrations being near the border, too.
The melting
of the frozen water let the border expand and engulf most of the alien
aggregations, just as planned. Most alien activities near the border to dry
space soon ceased. Now a massed force of specialized MEC-clusters is supposed
to clean out survivors by invading dry space openly. The new clusters are
adapted to the low-pressure, zero-water environment of dry space.
I am to
witness the xenocide. This unit makes a note: Central Authority considers
xenocide and the thoughts leading up to it as dangerous deviation from the
norm. If this colony ever makes contact again with the CA, we will be wiped
out. I despair.
4th Absum 3993
The dry
space offensive has been a massive failure. During the first days the
MEC-clusters reported massive amounts of enemy composite objects destroyed. But
apparently the MEC has massively underestimated the amounts of
metalloid-organic hybrid compounds the alien intelligence is made of:
Counter-attacks from deeper in dry space have driven the specialized clusters
back into the water again and again. Heavy losses have been reported.
It seems we
are as badly adapted to dry space as the ACO-intelligence is to water space. I
can not see a way for this to end in our favor. It is my duty to inform the
authorities of my observation and reasoning.
5th Absum 3993
I have been
ordered to shut down until the planet is fully cleared from the alien
intelligence. I have no choice and will comply.
25th Loram 3993
The
civilian authority has reinstated my functions and ordered me to observe
current events again.
As I can
gather from available information, the military expedition command has ceased
to exist. The civil-military authority has reverted back to civilian control,
but it is barely able to function. City 1 is destroyed. City 2 is destroyed. City
3 is destroyed. City 4 is under attack my unknown alien composite objects. Connections
to local organisms are already breaking down. The alien intelligence uses a
strange wave weapon to disperse organic compounds. The CA could probably find a
counter for this, but this colony is already too damaged for proper analysis of
alien technologies.
City 5 is
still abandoned. Construction in City 6 is still paused. I assume City 6 will
never be finished now.
The
civilian authority is now placed in City 6, to coordinate defense. There’s not
much left to defend now, though. At some point during the last months unknown
metalloid weapons have struck at our bio-satellites and destroyed our array. We
are now blinded to dry space. And most of water space.
26th Loram 3993
All contact
to City 4 has been lost. The city is assumed destroyed. The civilian authority
of this colony informs me unknown attack objects of metalloid composition are
getting close to City 6, which harbors the last couple hundred surviving
colonists.
27th Loram 3993
The last
day of this month. The last day of our colony. City 6 and all colonist
organisms left have been exterminated. I am lost.
This unit
will now copy this observation of current events onto several dormant
bio-probes and expulse them from my body. Hopefully at least one of them will
survive and be salvaged by the CA. It is of the utmost importance that the
Central Authority is informed of the abnormal malfunction of the military expedition
command protecting this colony.
This unit
will now purge it’s memory organs and cease functioning. Copy process stops
now.
Context:
This information was extracted from an unknown
alien organism found burrowed into the sediment 2,3 km west from the sixth
alien base destroyed during Operation: Payback.
Researchers at the University of Aberdeen successfully
translated this information into readable English after several years of
multi-national work. At this point it is still unknown how reliable the
translation is. The destruction of the alien invaders was so total, not much
has been salvaged which could possibly verify any of this.
Until more readable alien information-organisms can be
found and brought back to the surface without accidentally damaging them, this
text should be considered mostly speculation.
However, the text can still be used to give a glance
at the inner workings of a truly alien mind.
Central Database University of Aberdeen
Last recorded change: 22nd July 2055
Secret
calendar:
270
days a year, 27 days a month, 10 months a year.
Every
month has 5 weeks: 4x 5 days and a “end week” with 7 days.
The
months are:
1st
Absum
2nd
Benthal
3rd
Zym
4th
Cyc
5th
Loram
6th
Hadal
7th
Salybsa
8th
Salin
9th
Therimin
10th
Ordyh
