{"data":{"id":14224,"title":"Discovered: Vanguard System","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/14224-Discovered-Vanguard-System","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/14224","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/14224","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"News Update","images":[{"id":2482,"name":"DiscoveredFI1.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/itq0t0qjo5yw9r\/source\/DiscoveredFI1.jpg","alt":"","size":614037,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2014-10-15T00:17:28+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/2482","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/2482\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"},{"id":27892,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/w3o9r4zgppm77\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":900916,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2021-09-06T14:48:40+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892\/similar"}],"images_count":8,"translations":{"en_EN":"BEGIN:\n2943.10.13\/02:36\nLOCATION: VS-2\/Vanguard\nFirst day off. Set out through Elysium and checked in with Yezzel for his latest Vanduul movements. He was about to head out on a scrap run himself so he felt pretty confident. That might have been the booze talking though.\n\nThough I have performed several expeditions into Tiber, Orion and Virgil, this marked the first venture into Vanguard. With equal parts exhilaration and abject fear, I set towards my first jump into new territory.\n\nUpon exiting the jump point, I quickly found a quiet and dark place and sent out a drone for a scouting sweep. It eventually came back with an all clear and some interesting images. One of the planets showed signs of Vanduul harvesting. Even from orbit you could see the deep scars on the surface. Every time I see a planet being slowly consumed by the Vanduul, it gives me pause.\n\nWhat are they using all these resources for? The incredible thing is how indiscriminate it appears their harvesting tech is. From my research, it doesn\u2019t appear like they are isolating and extracting specific elements or ore, they simply scrape entire sections of the planet off.\n\nIf the system stays quiet, I will try to take a closer look.\n\nFound a spot to power down. I\u2019ve been losing efficiency on one of the cooling systems, so I spent the past few hours digging through the guts of the ship. The culprit turned out to be a switcher cable. I thought I just replaced that. I think I\u2019ll be okay until I get back.\n\nI\u2019m about to crack open some foodstuffs and put the ship on watch.\n\n2943.10.14\/05:03\nLOCATION: VS-2\/Vanguard\nI\u2019ve been staring at the screen for about an hour, trying to calm myself down enough to start recording this. I got up after about six hours of sleep and did a quick check of the scans, seemed the system was pretty quiet the whole time. I went through my morning regimen (food, exercise, pills) before working out a course through the system. I was going to try and land on Vanguard III to get some samples of the Vanduul harvesting, so I flashed up the engines and set out. Such a stupid, stupid move.\n\nI\u2019ve been spending too much time in Banu and Xi\u2019An space. I\u2019ve forgotten what life is like out here and particularly rule number one: you always sweep before you move. That chilling realization lanced through my spine the second I accelerated. Then, almost on cue, I picked up a contact.\n\nI cut off everything and went dark.\n\nIt was a Kingship. Whole sections of the massive capship\u2019s skeletal frame were bare and exposed, indicating \u2026 actually, I want to be clear that all of this insight was in retrospect, so you don\u2019t think I was being calm. When it was happening, the only thought ricocheting around my head was \u201cplease, please, please don\u2019t see me.\u201d\n\nBut based on the level of construction to their flagship, I think they must have been a relatively new Clan. The \u2018younger\u2019 ones (if that\u2019s an accurate way to put it) use their initial raids to build onto their Kingship, \u201cfleshing it out\u201d as I once heard a bounty hunter call it.\n\nI watched the Clan\u2019s trajectory, ready to take off if they shifted a degree toward me. I was so focused on their path that I wasn\u2019t paying attention to my own. I had cut the engines off so quick that I was still moving forward, right towards an asteroid about the size of a small space dock. With my systems down, there was no proximity alarm to warn me. The impact nearly cracked the hull.\n\nThen the Vanduul Clan stopped. They set themselves in orbit of the harvested planet, sending down their own machinery to start processing.\n\nEight hours later they finally pulled their harvesters and Scythes back to move on. Finally the Clan headed toward a part of the system with nothing in it. Wonder where they were going? Hope Yezzel\u2019s already back and under cover.\n\nI spent the rest of the day patching up the ship and cursing my stupidity.\n\n2943.10.14\/12:41\nLOCATION: VS-2\/Vanguard\nI sent out a few probes to make sure I was alone and slowly approached Vanguard III. I wasn\u2019t going to risk getting too close to the planet, but I managed to position my ship for a good look down on the planet surface. Made me so glad I sold off my house for that new scan array.\n\nNot all the Vanduul had gone. It was an encampment.\n\nI had no idea that Vanduul ever stayed in one place long enough to have encampments.\n\nI think if I post up on the opposite side of the planet (after yesterday, I\u2019m not going to take any chances), I could sneak a short-range down for a closer look. This is unbelievable.\n\n<<<COMMUNICATION STREAM ENDS","de_DE":"ANFANG:\n2943.10.13\/02:36\nStandort: VS-2\/Vanguard\nErster freier Tag. Aufbruch durch Orion und Check-in mit Yezzel auf Armitage f\u00fcr seine neuesten Vanduul-Bewegungen. Er war im Begriff, selbst auf einen Scrap-Run zu gehen, also f\u00fchlte er sich ziemlich zuversichtlich. Das h\u00e4tte aber auch der Alkohol sein k\u00f6nnen.\n\nObwohl ich mehrere Expeditionen nach Tiber, Orion und Virgil durchgef\u00fchrt habe, war dies das erste Projekt in Vanguard. Mit zu gleichen Teilen Begeisterung und elender Angst machte ich mich auf den Weg zu meinem ersten Sprung in neues Terrain.\n\nAls ich den Sprungpunkt verlie\u00df, fand ich schnell einen ruhigen und dunklen Ort und schickte eine Drohne f\u00fcr einen Scouting Sweep aus. Es kam schlie\u00dflich mit einem klaren und interessanten Bild zur\u00fcck. Einer der Planeten zeigte Anzeichen einer Ernte von Vanduul. Schon aus dem Orbit konnte man die tiefen Narben an der Oberfl\u00e4che sehen. Jedes Mal, wenn ich sehe, dass ein Planet langsam von den Vanduul verzehrt wird, gibt mir das eine Pause.\n\nWof\u00fcr nutzen sie all diese Ressourcen? Das Unglaubliche ist, wie wahllos es scheint, dass ihre Erntetechnik ist. Meiner Forschung nach sieht es nicht so aus, als w\u00fcrden sie bestimmte Elemente oder Erz isolieren und extrahieren, sie kratzen einfach ganze Teile des Planeten ab.\n\nWenn das System ruhig bleibt, werde ich versuchen, einen genaueren Blick darauf zu werfen.\n\nIch habe einen Ort gefunden, an dem ich mich ausschalten kann. Ich habe an Effizienz bei einem der K\u00fchlsysteme verloren, also habe ich die letzten Stunden damit verbracht, durch die Eingeweide des Schiffes zu graben. Der T\u00e4ter stellte sich als Schalterkabel heraus. Ich dachte, ich h\u00e4tte das einfach ersetzt. Ich denke, es wird mir gut gehen, bis ich zur\u00fcck bin.\n\nIch bin dabei, ein paar Lebensmittel aufzubrechen und das Schiff auf Wache zu stellen.\n\n2943.10.14\/05:03\nStandort: VS-2\/Vanguard\nIch starre seit etwa einer Stunde auf den Bildschirm und versuche, mich so weit zu beruhigen, dass ich anfangen kann, dies aufzunehmen. Ich stand nach etwa sechs Stunden Schlaf auf und machte eine kurze \u00dcberpr\u00fcfung der Scans, das System schien die ganze Zeit ziemlich ruhig zu sein. Ich ging durch meine Morgenkur (Essen, Bewegung, Pillen), bevor ich einen Kurs durch das System ausarbeitete. Ich wollte versuchen, auf Vanguard III zu landen, um einige Proben der Vanduul-Ernte zu erhalten, also blitzte ich die Motoren auf und startete. So eine dumme, dumme Bewegung.\n\nIch habe zu viel Zeit in Banu und Xi'An verbracht. Ich habe vergessen, wie das Leben hier drau\u00dfen aussieht, und vor allem Regel Nummer eins: Man fegt immer, bevor man sich bewegt. Diese k\u00fchlende Erkenntnis drang in der Sekunde, in der ich beschleunigte, durch meine Wirbels\u00e4ule. Dann, fast auf Stichwort, nahm ich einen Kontakt auf.\n\nIch habe alles abgeschnitten und wurde dunkel.\n\nEs war ein K\u00f6nigsschiff. Ganze Abschnitte des massiven Skelettrahmens des Kaperschiffes waren entbl\u00f6\u00dft und freigelegt, was darauf hindeutet, dass all diese Einsichten im Nachhinein zu sehen waren, so dass man nicht glaubt, dass ich ruhig war. Als es passierte, war der einzige Gedanke, der um meinen Kopf herum abprallte, \"Bitte, bitte, bitte, bitte, bitte, bitte, sehen Sie mich nicht.\"\n\nAber basierend auf dem Stand der Konstruktion ihres Flaggschiffs, denke ich, dass es sich um einen relativ neuen Clan handeln muss. Die \"J\u00fcngeren\" (wenn man es so sagen kann) nutzen ihre ersten \u00dcberf\u00e4lle, um auf ihrem K\u00f6nigtum aufzubauen und es zu \"vervollst\u00e4ndigen\", wie ich es einmal von einem Kopfgeldj\u00e4ger genannt habe.\n\nIch beobachtete die Trajektorie des Clans, bereit zum Abheben, wenn sie sich einen Grad in Richtung mir verschoben haben. Ich war so sehr auf ihren Weg konzentriert, dass ich mich nicht um meinen eigenen k\u00fcmmerte. Ich hatte die Triebwerke so schnell abgestellt, dass ich mich immer noch vorw\u00e4rts bewegte, direkt auf einen Asteroiden von der Gr\u00f6\u00dfe eines kleinen Raumdocks zu. Da meine Systeme ausgefallen waren, gab es keinen N\u00e4herungsalarm, der mich warnte. Der Aufprall riss fast den Rumpf.\n\nDann hielt der Vanduul-Clan an. Sie versetzen sich in die Umlaufbahn des geernteten Planeten und senden ihre eigenen Maschinen, um mit der Verarbeitung zu beginnen.\n\nAcht Stunden sp\u00e4ter zogen sie schlie\u00dflich ihre Erntemaschinen und Scythes zur\u00fcck, um weiterzumachen. Schlie\u00dflich verschwand der Clan im Sprungpunkt zur\u00fcck zu Orion. Ich hoffe, Yezzel ist schon wieder da und in Deckung.\n\nIch verbrachte den Rest des Tages damit, das Schiff zusammenzuflicken und meine Dummheit zu verfluchen.\n\n2943.10.14\/12:41\nStandort: VS-2\/Vanguard\nIch schickte ein paar Sonden aus, um sicherzustellen, dass ich allein war und n\u00e4herte mich langsam Vanguard III. Ich wollte nicht riskieren, dem Planeten zu nahe zu kommen, aber ich schaffte es, mein Schiff zu positionieren, um einen guten Blick auf die Planetenoberfl\u00e4che zu werfen. Ich war so froh, dass ich mein Haus f\u00fcr die neue Scan-Array verkauft habe.\n\nNicht alle Vanduul waren weg. Es war ein Lager.\n\nIch hatte keine Ahnung, dass Vanduul jemals lange genug an einem Ort blieb, um Lager zu haben.\n\nIch denke, wenn ich auf der anderen Seite des Planeten poste (nach gestern werde ich kein Risiko eingehen), k\u00f6nnte ich eine kurze Strecke f\u00fcr einen genaueren Blick nach unten schleichen. Das ist unglaublich.\n\n<<<<<<KOMMUNIKATIONSSTROM ENDET","zh_CN":"BEGIN:\n2943.10.13\/02:36\nLOCATION: VS-2\/Vanguard\nFirst day off. Set out through Elysium and checked in with Yezzel for his latest Vanduul movements. He was about to head out on a scrap run himself so he felt pretty confident. That might have been the booze talking though.\n\nThough I have performed several expeditions into Tiber, Orion and Virgil, this marked the first venture into Vanguard. With equal parts exhilaration and abject fear, I set towards my first jump into new territory.\n\nUpon exiting the jump point, I quickly found a quiet and dark place and sent out a drone for a scouting sweep. It eventually came back with an all clear and some interesting images. One of the planets showed signs of Vanduul harvesting. Even from orbit you could see the deep scars on the surface. Every time I see a planet being slowly consumed by the Vanduul, it gives me pause.\n\nWhat are they using all these resources for? The incredible thing is how indiscriminate it appears their harvesting tech is. From my research, it doesn\u2019t appear like they are isolating and extracting specific elements or ore, they simply scrape entire sections of the planet off.\n\nIf the system stays quiet, I will try to take a closer look.\n\nFound a spot to power down. I\u2019ve been losing efficiency on one of the cooling systems, so I spent the past few hours digging through the guts of the ship. The culprit turned out to be a switcher cable. I thought I just replaced that. I think I\u2019ll be okay until I get back.\n\nI\u2019m about to crack open some foodstuffs and put the ship on watch.\n\n2943.10.14\/05:03\nLOCATION: VS-2\/Vanguard\nI\u2019ve been staring at the screen for about an hour, trying to calm myself down enough to start recording this. I got up after about six hours of sleep and did a quick check of the scans, seemed the system was pretty quiet the whole time. I went through my morning regimen (food, exercise, pills) before working out a course through the system. I was going to try and land on Vanguard III to get some samples of the Vanduul harvesting, so I flashed up the engines and set out. Such a stupid, stupid move.\n\nI\u2019ve been spending too much time in Banu and Xi\u2019An space. I\u2019ve forgotten what life is like out here and particularly rule number one: you always sweep before you move. That chilling realization lanced through my spine the second I accelerated. Then, almost on cue, I picked up a contact.\n\nI cut off everything and went dark.\n\nIt was a Kingship. Whole sections of the massive capship\u2019s skeletal frame were bare and exposed, indicating \u2026 actually, I want to be clear that all of this insight was in retrospect, so you don\u2019t think I was being calm. When it was happening, the only thought ricocheting around my head was \u201cplease, please, please don\u2019t see me.\u201d\n\nBut based on the level of construction to their flagship, I think they must have been a relatively new Clan. The \u2018younger\u2019 ones (if that\u2019s an accurate way to put it) use their initial raids to build onto their Kingship, \u201cfleshing it out\u201d as I once heard a bounty hunter call it.\n\nI watched the Clan\u2019s trajectory, ready to take off if they shifted a degree toward me. I was so focused on their path that I wasn\u2019t paying attention to my own. I had cut the engines off so quick that I was still moving forward, right towards an asteroid about the size of a small space dock. With my systems down, there was no proximity alarm to warn me. The impact nearly cracked the hull.\n\nThen the Vanduul Clan stopped. They set themselves in orbit of the harvested planet, sending down their own machinery to start processing.\n\nEight hours later they finally pulled their harvesters and Scythes back to move on. Finally the Clan headed toward a part of the system with nothing in it. Wonder where they were going? Hope Yezzel\u2019s already back and under cover.\n\nI spent the rest of the day patching up the ship and cursing my stupidity.\n\n2943.10.14\/12:41\nLOCATION: VS-2\/Vanguard\nI sent out a few probes to make sure I was alone and slowly approached Vanguard III. I wasn\u2019t going to risk getting too close to the planet, but I managed to position my ship for a good look down on the planet surface. Made me so glad I sold off my house for that new scan array.\n\nNot all the Vanduul had gone. It was an encampment.\n\nI had no idea that Vanduul ever stayed in one place long enough to have encampments.\n\nI think if I post up on the opposite side of the planet (after yesterday, I\u2019m not going to take any chances), I could sneak a short-range down for a closer look. This is unbelievable.\n\n<<<COMMUNICATION STREAM ENDS"},"links_count":0,"comment_count":120,"created_at":"2014-10-15T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"11 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-08 00:16:18","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":14223,"next_id":14230}}