Operation Kaiser Log I

I have seen things that no man ought to see. Dreamed of realities that only exist in some far off fantasy, and yet, now I feel small in a universe that man is unprepared to face.

That's what I want to put into my official report, that's the truth that I want everyone back home to hear but it won't be the one they receive. Just got a transmission from MC about the new orders, apparently this isn't a simple excursion like we were told. There is something we were meant to find, out here in the lone silence of space.

According to the dispatch we obtained, Classifed Level Alpha by Eagle One, a Joint Coalition has requested further analysis be conducted at the Site that was uncovered during the January 71 mission. The documents pertaining to this message were not authorized to be seen by any personal outside of direct staff.

I'm not sure what we are walking into out here, but it scares me. The whole crew feels it. Out here in the still dark, we seem to regard Earth with a distant memory. As though time has no meaning. On the dark side of the moon this was even more true, with only the LVR to guide us it seemed we were stumbling around searching for myths.

But I knew what I saw amid the shadows wasn't a work of imagination but a grim reality.

Early estimate is the starship crashed on our satellite sometime between 2 to 14 C.E., judging from the way the Lunar dust has slowly caked over its lustrous hull.

It's difficult to decide which task comes first for s discovery of this magnitude. The material and design of the ship itself could take decades to study.

To think though this massive ship had been decaying and buried in our moon for so long, the idea is mind boggling.

Around 1500 hours a decision is made that we will evaluate the entire structure and emphasis will be placed on any signs of life. If we can just get a glimpse of what species manufactured this vessel it will potentially unlock secrets of the universe.

Within the confines of that alien ship, we used what limited time we could to take pictures of everything. Documentation, if nothing else was key. Again we were reminded of the strangeness to this entire matter, our time being limited as each of us used the rudimentary equipment we had been given. Most of the photographs were grainy. Others barely showed the true scope of the interior. It seemed clear that whatever sort of creature had been using this starship had similar biological structure to us as humans with doors, typical computers and architecture that reminded me of something straight from a corner store tabloid.

But the material was some sort of metal that I could hardly comprehend and I knew the rest of us felt the same. Some of it appeared solid whereas the rest seemed to almost be made of living tissue. Lights came on as we entered a larger chamber and we stopped to preview the astonishing find.

Immediately we realized that the power source was artificial but there were some latent traces of tissue from whenever these aliens died scattered about the room. It seemed clearer to me that they had died upon impact of the crash, and all of this was remnants of a civilization we will likely never fully come to know.

Soon though we did learn something was blocking transmission back to our orbital, so for today our search would be done. Perhaps tomorrow we can learn more about this ancient alien device and what secrets it holds.

0300 hours and we have returned with the best equipment possible that we bought from Earth. Originally intended to procure samples from the Lunar craters, now we will do our best to gather alien tissue. Worden has discerned that the chamber we were in yesterday was some sort of astronomical chart. Today he is going to try and activate it.

The tissue of this species is not like anything we can relate to, except perhaps to the most advanced of primates. I am not too familiar with biology or chemistry but it would definitely seem that they have a certain ability to adapt to a variety of climates. Further testing will likely prove this theory once we return home.

0600 hours

Worden has managed to figure out the basics of their computer schematics. Enough where we can activate and diagram the chart which details their course to our planet.

From the limited time we spent examining and documenting the chart it would seem it would take about 1,000 hours for their vessel to travel between their own world and ours using advanced faster than light technology. But seeing as the only thing we can truly guess is that they must have abandoned their world some time ago, it could decades before we understand just why they came to this world.

We have found something else deeper in the ship. The Life Vitality Recorder has picked up signs of something still living deeper in the crash site, we need to see what it is before our fuel reserve is ran out.

01300

We will be returning to Earth tomorrow and presenting our findings to this private coalition, but I'm not are they want to know what we have found. A monster.

Or at least what was left of one. There deep in the core of the ship. Protected by some sort of forcefield, we discovered that they had been catering to a beast which seemed to have been the death of them. The computers showed it still had some sort of life to it. But with our limited resources and time being of the essence, we can't confirm anything right now. It had the face of a serpent with cold heartless eyes filled with death. I can only but wonder what it was before these aliens dissected it. It would seem though that the same structure of chemical engineering which ran thru their tissue also existed in it.

Most likely an infection of some sort, Worden said, is the reason that they died when they discovered this monster and tried to cultivate it into their own culture as a servant.