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Update-Delegation: Quintessence: SHIP -> OUTPOST

Create-Delegation: Quintessence-P1: SHIP

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Origin: Quintessence

Routed: Quintessence → Vespira → [2-4 unknown hops] → QEC Relay A120D019

Date: ∅+0 days [Origin date format UNKNOWN; epoch assigned by QEC]

Langauge: QEC Common Records Language

Subject: Notice of establishment of outpost

This is the Quintessence's official notice to the QEC transmitter records

database that we have arrived at ′5190″859942‴68400, to be known henceforth as

the Quintessence outpost. Our ship remains in orbit and is still spaceworthy.

We are prepared to respond to distress signals within 4ly, and expect our

capabilities to expand in the future. It is our intention to remain here for up

to 50 years. Our crew consists of 136 individuals, in 34 families, with 25

unaffiliated persons.

Our destination is a dwarf planet, 966km in diameter. It caught our interest

from 37ly, as it transited ′5190″859942 and showed spectral signatures of heavy

metals, which we intend to mine for expanding our ships and for possible trade

in the future. However, upon our arrival we have discovered previous signs of

inhabitation. We believe the previous tenants were interstellar in origin, as

there are no such signs in the large bodies of the system, which we are still

cataloguing. We will forward our findings to the QEC records database when we

have completed our survey of the system.

We have established a small archaeology team which will investigate the remains

of previous habitation. Our mining crew will begin work as planned on areas

which are deemed unlikely to have useful archaeological evidence.

--

Thora Balliol

Records Keeper

Quintessence