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CLASSIFIED: RED
RECOMMENDATION
ON CONTINUED ANALYSIS
OF SITE “OUTLAND”
THE FOLLOWING IS AN ACCOUNT OF THE EVENTS LEADING TO THE DISCOVERY OF ELEMENT 803 AT THE OUTLAND SITE. THIS ACCOUNT WAS RECONSTRUCTED FROM THE LOGS OF THE 803 RD RECONNAISANCE SQUAD AND REPORTS OF THE 342 ND COMMANDO UNIT AND ITS SUPPORT TEAM.
THE OUTLAND SITE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN INITIALLY LOCATED BY MATTHEW PERKINS, AN EXPLORER CORPS FIELD ANALYST. PERKINS WAS ASSIGNED TO STUDY THE TRA' QUIL SETTLEMENT OF SYRTIS. DURING THE COURSE OF HIS RESEARCH, PERKINS LEARNED OF AN AREA OF THE OLTARAN RAINFOREST THAT THE TRA' QUIL REGARDED AS FORBIDDEN. AFTER GATHERING FURTHER INFORMATION, PERKINS CONTACTED HIS SUPERVISING OFFICIAL AND FORWARDED HIS REGULAR REPORT, INCLUDING DATA ON A STRUCTURE HE DESCRIBED AS A BUNKER IN A FORBIDDEN REGION OF THE FOREST . PERKINS WAS INSTRUCTED TO GATHER MORE INFORMATION AND AWAIT THE ARRIVAL OF A RECONNAISANCE SQUAD. THE 803 RD RECONNAISANCE SQUAD, COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN KURT LIMBACK, WAS DISPATCHED WITH ORDERS TO RENDEVOUS WITH PERKINS IN SYRTIS AND PROCEED WITH A RECON OF THE LOCATION HE DESCRIBED.
THE 803 RD WAS INTERCEPTED BY A TRA' QUIL MESSENGER SEVERAL MILES FROM SYRTIS. ACCORDING TO CAPT. LIMBACK'S REPORT, THE TRA' QUIL INFORMED THEM THAT PERKINS HAD STOLEN A TRA' QUIL ARTIFACT AND LEFT SYRTIS, PRESUMABLY FOR THE LOCATION DESCRIBED IN HIS REPORT. THE TRA' QUIL REQUESTED THE RETURN OF THE ARTIFACT AND EVENTUALLY AGREED TO DISCLOSE THE LOCATION OF THE STRUCTURE IN QUESTION. THE 803 RD FORWARDED THIS INFORMATION AND THEN PROCEEDED TO THE SITE IN AN ATTEMPT TO LOCATE PERKINS AND THE ARTIFACT. THERE WAS NO OTHER CONTACT WITH THE 803 RD .
FIVE DAYS AFTER THE 803 RD WAS DISPATCHED, THE 342 ND COMMANDO UNIT, COMMANDED BY MAJOR MARK JANSEN, WAS DEPLOYED TO THE OLTARAN RAINFOREST WITH A THREE MAN RESEARCH TEAM IN SUPPORT. MAJOR JANSEN WAS ORDERED TO LOCATE THE 803 RD AND RECOVER ANY INTELLIGENCE POSSIBLE. MAJOR JANSEN WAS ALSO ORDERED TO REPORT BACK AT THE FIRST SIGNS OF ANY OVERT HOSTILE ACTIVITY.
THE 342 ND ARRIVED AT THE SITE TO FIND A STRUCTURE EMBEDDED IN THE SIDE OF A SMALL HILL. THE ENTRANCE WAS OPEN AND THE TEAM PROCEEDED INSIDE. THE STRUCTURE CONSISTED OF A HALLWAY LEADING TO A SINGLE ROOM. MAJOR JANSEN DEPLOYED HIS COMMANDOS TO ESTABLISH A PERIMETER AND SEARCH THE IMMEDIATE AREA WHILE THE RESEARCH TEAM INVESTIGATED THE ROOM. THE WALLS OF THE ROOM WERE COVERED IN AN ALIEN WRITING NOT PREVIOUSLY ENCOUNTERED. THE ONLY OTHER FEATURE OF THE ROOM WAS A PEDASTLE IN ITS CENTER. THIS PEDASTLE WAS COVERED IN MORE ALIEN TEXT AS WELL AS SOME SORT OF DIAGRAM. IT ALSO HELD SEVERAL SMALL BLACK SPHERES. THEN MAJOR JANSEN RECEIVED A REPORT FROM ONE OF HIS MEN, LT. JACK BYERS, STATING THAT HE HAD LOCATED THE 803 RD AND THAT CAPT. LIMBACK AND HIS TEAM WERE DEAD. MAJOR JANSEN ORDERED BYERS TO RETRIEVE THE CAPTAIN'S FIELD LOG AND RETURN TO THE STRUCTURE. THE MAJOR THEN INSTRUCTED THE RESEARCH TEAM TO GATHER WHAT INFORMATION THEY COULD AND PREPARE TO EVACUATE. THE RESEARCH TEAM TOOK SEVERAL OF THE BLACK OBJECTS AS WELL AS PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE WRITINGS ON THE WALLS. MAJOR JANSEN ALSO ORDERED HIS TEAM TO RETURN TO THE STRUCTURE AND PREPARE TO EVACUATE. LT. BYERS DID NOT RETURN. MAJOR JANSEN PROCEEDED TO LEAD HIS ENTIRE TEAM TO BYERS' LAST KNOWN LOCATION. THERE THEY RECOVERED THE BODY OF LT BYERS AS WELL AS THE LOGS OF THE 803 RD . THE 342 ND THEN EVACUATED THE AREA AND RETURNED TO BASE ACCORDING TO THEIR ORDERS.
ANALYSIS OF THE BLACK SPHERES REVEALED THEM TO BE A COMPLETELY ALIEN SUBSTANCE WHICH WE HAVE TERMED ELEMENT 803. DETAILS ON THIS SUBSTANCE CAN BE FOUND IN SEPARATE DOCUMENTS.
ANALYSIS OF LT. BYERS' BODY INDICATED THAT HE WAS KILLED BY A SHARP-EDGED WEAPON, POSSIBLY BELONGING TO AN AS YET UNKNOWN SPECIES OF ANIMAL. THIS WEAPON WAS OF SUFFICIENT STRENGTH TO SLICE THROUGH THE COMMANDO'S BODY ARMOR. TRACES OF ELEMENT 803 WERE FOUND IN BYERS' WOUNDS. ANALYSIS OF BYERS' HELMET CAMERA YIELDED A SINGLE GRAINY IMAGE WHICH SEEMS TO FURTHER SUPPORT THE THEORY THAT HE WAS KILLED BY A PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN CREATURE.
THE OUTLAND SITE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA ARE CURRENTLY LISTED AS HOSTILE.
RECOMMENDATION:
BASED ON THE ABOVE INFORMATION, IT IS MY OPINION THAT LITTLE MORE CAN BE GAINED FROM CONTINUED ANALYSIS OF THE OUTLAND SITE. THERE SEEMS TO OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE THAT SOME HOSTILE FORCE, BE IT ANIMAL OR OTHERWISE, INHABITS THE OUTLAND SITE. I PROPOSE THAT WE FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF THE TRA' QUIL AND AVOID THE AREA FOR THE TIME BEING.
GENERAL ALAN CLARK
COMMANDER, EXPLORER CORPS
CLASSIFIED: RED
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