CX-152-1 : Ghoul T+ 1M 15D 3H 32m Post-battle Report summary

Junior officer 2nd

Stripe Wu Shen Yao Acting Captain.

Casualties excessive, 6 survivors: JO 1st

stripe, John De Cardi 4 General Crewmen and a Junior

Medic Officer. 1 Pending casualty; myself.

System readiness:

Life support stable at 98% effectiveness ; Minimum Priority repair

Sensor Suit emergency repairs complete estimated 25% effectiveness

Power Systems extensive damage Power needs met ; At need Repair

Thruster suit diagnostic system down; fully functional at last report Tier-3 priority

Bridge functionality sensor and diagnostic functions only; Tier-2 priority

Medical Bay offline extensive damage Analog supplies at acceptable level; Tier-1 priority

Data Banks Offline integrity unknown

Mission Status:

Prime objective: Field test Black box 1256; complete, possible failure

Black box appears non-functional

Key objective: Conceal ship

Key objective: Repair ship

Secondary objective: Restore full life support to a Reduced Habitation Zone

Secondary objective: Inventory Vital Supplies

Tertiary objective: Officially record and 'Bury' the dead.

Junior Medical Officer Marsha Wilson set the tablet down next to the acting captain. As the

acting Chief Medical Officer she was part of a different chain of command from the rest of the crew.

Thinking about the Medical Section's operational orders she was glad. Thankfully she could still keep

those details a secret without alerting the crew.

The battle had been hard on her, when the first weapon salvo hit their ship a power surge arced to

the medical bay's isolated grid. Unfortunately one of the Nano Surgeons acted as a ground, and exploded.

Killing the Medical 2nd

officer instantly. Marsha was assigned to the graveyard-shift because of her

stubborn belief that a doctor has sovereign authority over her patients. When the shock of the first barrage

wore off Marsha threw her patient out of his cot, he was off duty with an STD that had managed to make

it onto the ship and turned to the other patients around her and shouting, “If you aren't dead or dieing

report to your duty station; you three clear this corpse and clean this station. Brancof, you're the ranking

officer, clear the waiting room for triage.”

By the third exchange she admitted to herself that they were fighting a losing battle. Whatever

was special about their experimental vessel it left it vulnerable to every form of conventional weaponry.

Eventually their boarding parties managed to disable the enemy vessels. The enemy responded by

boarding the Ghoul en masse. At some point the enemy vessels were destroyed.

The boarding battle took 3 days. Marsha and the other survivors ended up in the quarantine ward.

Core life support went down. With all the boarders and the active combat the oxygen was used up before

the problem was even noticed. It was a week before Marsha decided to see why the sounds of fighting had

stopped.