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The following is the first of many logs recording the study of the recently recovered Zariman 10-0: a derelict colony ship found floating into Imperial space by a salvage team. From my understanding, the ship, sent of course to the Tau system; was lost mid-traversal in a void fissure. I remember the day it launched, with a fragment of the one-day traitor machine aboard, painfully well. We knew the void was turbulent, of course; but whether they survived or not was irrelevant. The data recorders aboard the ship...now, those are invaluable. Video footage of thousands of subjects (however willing) exposed to void energy? It's a Void researchers wildest dream! Scouts are currently probing the vessel, but so far the data stores seem to be... displaced. Signs of internal damage have been reported over audio channel; and integral faults seem worryingly common. Worse still, there have been no signs, on any scanners, of the prototype Terraforming Engine! Our last shred of the Original Proto-Sentient not indoctrinated by the Traitor, potentially a PERFECT weapon against it, and it's just go-

By the VOID Gradva! You know not to enter my office when I am TRYING TO REC-

What? Calm down and speak. Who is hur-

Kaleen?! Burned? What could burn through a Class 4-Protoshield?

What? What child? Survivor? Survivors!? Are they injured? Did the expl-

...they did WHAT?

Gradva… you mean to tell me, there are not only survivors aboard the ship, exclusively CHILDREN, on a vessel lost for YEARS in the void, but that one of the children effectively

SHOT FIRE FROM HER HANDS!?

DOES THAT SUMMARIZE IT?!

...I am the Imperial Head of Void Sciences, Gradva.

Do you have any idea How MUCH-

Footage?

LET ME See that holov-...

...

are dissmissed.

...

NOW GRADVA.

By the Masters…

My job, it would seem, has gotten Far more intriguing.

In case it wasn't evident, this was my first attempt at fanfic. I do really need help with it; this stuff is hard (though you all would know best, right?) I know I'm not supposed to post Text/Audio log format stories, but this is how I chose to write this, and I feel as though It's warranted. In any case, I'll be skipping this end bit up till chapter 5, but if you want to read them, they are on the original posts on WF Forums.

Cheers!

-Glory unto The Golden Empire