{"data":{"id":16388,"title":"Untold Tales: \"The Journey Home\"","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/16388-Untold-Tales-The-Journey-Home","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/16388","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/16388","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"News Update","images":[{"id":4588,"name":"UntoldTales_Title.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/lvtmyzw0gyvnzr\/source\/UntoldTales_Title.jpg","alt":"","size":716840,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2016-01-27T01:21:56+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/4588","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/4588\/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":"There are mysteries in the universe. From the winding backstreets to the halls of power, stories that defy logic are whispered to eager ears and passed from listener to listener. These tales live because they inflame the imagination. They instill that sense of wonder that can only exist when you acknowledge that there\u2019s more to the universe than we could ever know.\n\nThese are Untold Tales.\n\nNews of Lt. Commander Liam Nealy\u2019s dramatic escape from Vanduul space has taken over the spectrum for the past few weeks. While we celebrate Lt. Commander Nealy\u2019s safe return, it\u2019s important to remember that rarely do these stories have a happy ending. In nearly three centuries of conflict with the Vanduul, history is filled with tragedy and loss. There is one tale though that continues to defy explanation over thirty years later: the mystifying story of Lieutenant Junior Grade Laurence Kiefly.\n\nThroughout Laurence Kiefly\u2019s life, flying wasn\u2019t something he ever dreamed of, it was simply something he did. Growing up in the woodlands of Tiesl on Saisei, Laurence\u2019s ultimate dream was to be an actor. Friends and family recounted that during the summer months when he wasn\u2019t in school, the young boy would stage increasingly complicated performances outside the family\u2019s farm. In the warm evenings, he often enlisted other kids from the nearby farms as actors. But although he was an enthusiastic performer, his family saw his potential in the cockpit.\n\n\u201cIt was effortless,\u201d Jordan Kiefly, Laurence\u2019s older brother, recounted. \u201cMom had him flying shipments to the market when he was twelve. It didn\u2019t matter if it was one of our small haulers or a Hull, the kid was surgical.\u201d\n\nThe Kiefly farm grew organic produce until 2905, when several years of harsh weather and a failing market nearly forced the family into bankruptcy. Laurence, still undeterred in his desire to pursue the arts, signed up for the Navy after achieving Equivalency, in an effort to subsidize further education.\n\nUnsurprisingly, the divisional officers at his forge quickly discovered their new recruit\u2019s aptitude for piloting and dutifully set out to test its limits. In every test they threw at him, Kiefly managed to exceed expectations.This continued all through the flight academy until he graduated at the top of his class. On 2909-05-18 SET, Laurence received his first assignment: report to the newly reformed 106th squadron along the Vanduul front, a post considered by many to be the most coveted theater of operations in the Navy, and an assignment second only to the Marines or joining Squadron 42.\n\nKiefly settled quickly into his new role as a combat pilot, aiding and supporting his flight in a number of missions along the Vanduul front. And according to the starmen and officers who served with him, Laurence could always be depended on as a source of good humor.\n\n\u201cI know that sounds like it could be pretty obnoxious,\u201d Commander Ava Toll (Ret.). \u201cHe knew how to read people. Knew how to connect in the way that didn\u2019t feel patronizing. So yeah, I saw him pull people out of some pretty serious funks.\u201d\n\nThe 106th would suffer their second devastating loss in four years on 2911-02-01. Kiefly and his flight were tasked with a dangerous reconnaissance mission into Caliban to chart any Vanduul presence. Exact details on the operation are still classified, but High Command did confirm that during the operation a Vanduul element cut off the 106th from the jump point back to the fleet.\n\nOnly two of the pilots were able to make it back. Kiefly and the rest were lost, presumed dead. Despite several attempts to retrieve verification, most of the bodies weren\u2019t found. Posthumous medals were conferred and military funerals held in the wake of the attack. Though tragic, many had come to accept this type of outcome as a likely possibility for combat pilots serving on the Vanduul front.\n\nBack on Saisei, the Kiefly family mourned the loss of their son and brother as they tried to move on.\n\n\u201cYeah, it messed us all up,\u201d Jordan recalled in a 2914 interview. \u201cI\u2019d go by to check on them and Mom would barely speak, while Dad just worked. I think it was the fact that he was just gone. If they\u2019d had the chance to see him one more time, I think that would\u2019ve\u2026 not made it better\u2026 but given them that closure.\u201d\n\nIt turns out that they would get their wish.\n\nOn the morning of December 17, 2914 SET, Laurence\u2019s father, Javier, woke shortly after dawn to begin work in the fields. Harper, Laurence\u2019s mother, had gone out to the harvester shed when she noticed something.\n\nA crate, constructed out of scraps of metal and composites, sat on the dirt path leading up to their house. While a morning frost covered the landscape as far as the eye could see, this crate was almost warm to the touch.\n\nShe called Javier over. Upon closer inspection, they discovered something etched into the top of the crate. The jagged lines formed the words:\n\nI remember home.\n\nThe two apprehensively opened the crate. Inside, they found the body of their son, Laurence, dressed in a ragged and burned flight suit.\n\nThe Kieflys quickly called local authorities who, in turn, notified the Navy. Within a day, representatives from a dozen government divisions descended on the Kiefly\u2019s farm.\n\nMedical examiners studied the body and although he\u2019d been declared dead for over three years, he hardly looked it. They determined that he had died no more than two months earlier, from exposure. In addition, Laurence\u2019s remains bore scars from extensive wounds that had been treated with some kind of rudimentary but effective medicine.\n\nThe Navy\u2019s official conclusion was that Kiefly had somehow survived the battle back in 2911, theorizing that his ship had gone down in-system, but that he had lacked an effective means of communication \u2014 but that\u2019s the extent of their theory. To this day, the military does not have an official stance as to what happened to Laurence Kiefly after his ship was lost in Caliban system. There are no known Human inhabitants of the system; the civilian population either fled or was wiped out in the Fall of Caliban nearly thirty years earlier.\n\nSo how did Laurence survive out there for three years? And the bigger questions, who delivered the body and who scrawled the message on the coffin?\n\nFor the record, the Empire has never figured out the answers to any of these questions. If they did, they remain a closely guarded secret. However, despite all the mystery surrounding Laurence\u2019s death, one thing is for sure \u2014 the Kieflys were able to see their son one more time to say their final goodbyes.","de_DE":"Es gibt Geheimnisse im Universum. Von den verwinkelten Gassen bis zu den Hallen der Macht werden Geschichten, die sich der Logik entziehen, in eifrige Ohren gefl\u00fcstert und von H\u00f6rer zu H\u00f6rer weitergegeben. Diese Geschichten leben, weil sie die Phantasie anregen. Sie vermitteln dieses Gef\u00fchl des Wunders, das nur existieren kann, wenn man erkennt, dass es mehr im Universum gibt, als wir je wissen k\u00f6nnten.\n\nDas sind unerz\u00e4hlte Geschichten.\n\nNachrichten von Lt. Commander Liam Nealy's dramatischer Flucht aus dem Vanduul-Raum haben in den letzten Wochen das Spektrum \u00fcbernommen. W\u00e4hrend wir die sichere R\u00fcckkehr von Lt. Commander Nealy feiern, ist es wichtig, sich daran zu erinnern, dass diese Geschichten selten ein gl\u00fcckliches Ende haben. In fast drei Jahrhunderten des Konflikts mit den Vanduul ist die Geschichte voller Trag\u00f6die und Verlust. Es gibt jedoch eine Geschichte, die sich auch \u00fcber drei\u00dfig Jahre sp\u00e4ter noch immer nicht erkl\u00e4ren l\u00e4sst: die mystische Geschichte von Lieutenant Junior Grade Laurence Kiefly.\n\nLaurence Kieflys ganzes Leben lang war Fliegen nicht etwas, wovon er je getr\u00e4umt hat, es war einfach etwas, was er tat. Aufgewachsen in den W\u00e4ldern von Tiesl am Saisei, war Laurence's ultimativer Traum, Schauspieler zu werden. Freunde und Familie erz\u00e4hlten, dass der kleine Junge in den Sommermonaten, in denen er nicht in der Schule war, immer kompliziertere Auff\u00fchrungen au\u00dferhalb des Hofes der Familie durchf\u00fchren w\u00fcrde. An warmen Abenden zog er oft andere Kinder von den nahegelegenen Bauernh\u00f6fen als Schauspieler hinzu. Aber obwohl er ein begeisterter K\u00fcnstler war, sah seine Familie sein Potenzial im Cockpit.\n\n\"Es war m\u00fchelos\", erz\u00e4hlte Jordan Kiefly, Laurences \u00e4lterer Bruder. \"Mom lie\u00df ihn Lieferungen zum Markt fliegen, als er zw\u00f6lf war. Es spielte keine Rolle, ob es einer unserer kleinen Schlepper oder ein Rumpf war, das Kind war chirurgisch.\"\n\nDer Bauernhof Kiefly baute bis 2905 biologische Produkte an, als mehrere Jahre lang raues Wetter und ein gescheiterter Markt die Familie fast in den Ruin trieben. Laurence, immer noch unbeeindruckt von seinem Wunsch, die Kunst zu studieren, meldete sich nach Erreichen der \u00c4quivalenz bei der Marine an, um die Weiterbildung zu subventionieren.\n\nKein Wunder, dass die Abteilungsoffiziere seiner Schmiede schnell die F\u00e4higkeit ihres neuen Rekruten zum Fliegen entdeckten und sich pflichtbewusst daran machten, seine Grenzen zu testen. In jedem Test, den sie auf ihn warfen, gelang es Kiefly, die Erwartungen zu \u00fcbertreffen, was sich \u00fcber die gesamte Flugschule fortsetzte, bis er an der Spitze seiner Klasse abschloss. Am 18.05.1990 erhielt Laurence seine erste Aufgabe: Bericht an die neu reformierte 106. Staffel entlang der Vanduul-Front, einen Posten, der von vielen als das begehrteste Operationstheater der Marine angesehen wird, und eine Aufgabe, die nur von den Marines \u00fcbernommen wurde oder der Staffel 42 beitritt.\n\nKiefly begann schnell mit seiner neuen Rolle als Kampfpilot und unterst\u00fctzte seinen Flug bei einer Reihe von Missionen an der Vanduul-Front. Und nach den Stars und Offizieren, die mit ihm dienten, konnte man sich immer auf Laurence als Quelle der guten Laune verlassen.\n\n\"Ich wei\u00df, das klingt so, als k\u00f6nnte es ziemlich widerw\u00e4rtig sein\", Kommandant Ava Toll (ausgeschieden). \"Er wusste, wie man Menschen liest. Ich wusste, wie man sich auf eine Art und Weise verbindet, die sich nicht bevormundend anf\u00fchlt. Also ja, ich habe gesehen, wie er Leute aus einigen ziemlich ernsten Funks herausgeholt hat.\"\n\nDer 106. w\u00fcrde am 2911-02-01-01 ihren zweiten verheerenden Verlust in vier Jahren erleiden. Kiefly und sein Flug wurden mit einer gef\u00e4hrlichen Aufkl\u00e4rungsmission nach Kaliban beauftragt, um jede Vanduul-Pr\u00e4senz zu erfassen. Genaue Details \u00fcber die Operation sind immer noch geheim, aber das Oberkommando hat best\u00e4tigt, dass w\u00e4hrend der Operation ein Vanduul-Element den 106. vom Sprungpunkt zur\u00fcck zur Flotte abgeschnitten hat.\n\nNur zwei der Piloten konnten es zur\u00fcckschaffen. Kiefly und der Rest waren verloren, vermutlich tot. Trotz mehrerer Versuche, die \u00dcberpr\u00fcfung abzurufen, wurden die meisten Leichen nicht gefunden. Im Anschluss an den Angriff wurden posthume Medaillen verliehen und milit\u00e4rische Beerdigungen abgehalten. Obwohl tragisch, waren viele gekommen, um diese Art von Ergebnis als eine wahrscheinliche M\u00f6glichkeit f\u00fcr Kampfpiloten an der Vanduul-Front zu akzeptieren.\n\nZur\u00fcck in Saisei trauerte die Familie Kiefly um ihren Sohn und Bruder, als sie versuchte, weiterzumachen.\n\n\"Ja, es hat uns alle durcheinander gebracht\", erinnerte sich Jordan in einem Interview mit 2914. \"Ich ging vorbei, um nach ihnen zu sehen, und Mom sprach kaum, w\u00e4hrend Dad nur arbeitete. Ich glaube, es war die Tatsache, dass er einfach weg war. Wenn sie die Chance gehabt h\u00e4tten, ihn noch einmal zu sehen, denke ich, h\u00e4tte es das.... nicht besser gemacht... sondern ihnen diesen Abschluss gegeben.\"\n\nEs stellt sich heraus, dass sie ihren Wunsch bekommen w\u00fcrden.\n\nAm Morgen des 17. Dezember 2914 SET erwachte Laurence's Vater, Javier, kurz nach Sonnenaufgang, um die Arbeit auf den Feldern aufzunehmen. Harper, Laurences Mutter, war in den Harvesterraum gegangen, als sie etwas bemerkte.\n\nEine Kiste, die aus Metallresten und Verbundwerkstoffen gebaut war, sa\u00df auf dem Feldweg, der zu ihrem Haus f\u00fchrte. W\u00e4hrend ein Morgenfrost die Landschaft so weit bedeckte, wie das Auge es sehen konnte, war diese Kiste bei Ber\u00fchrung fast warm.\n\nSie rief Javier zu sich. Bei n\u00e4herer Betrachtung entdeckten sie etwas, das in die Oberseite der Kiste einge\u00e4tzt war. Die gezackten Linien bildeten die Worte:\n\nIch erinnere mich an Zuhause.\n\nDie beiden \u00f6ffneten \u00e4ngstlich die Kiste. Im Inneren fanden sie die Leiche ihres Sohnes Laurence, gekleidet in einem zerfetzten und verbrannten Fluganzug.\n\nDie Kieflys riefen schnell lokale Beh\u00f6rden an, die wiederum die Marine informierten. Innerhalb eines Tages kamen Vertreter von einem Dutzend Regierungsabteilungen auf die Farm der Kieflys.\n\nGerichtsmediziner untersuchten den K\u00f6rper und obwohl er seit \u00fcber drei Jahren f\u00fcr tot erkl\u00e4rt wurde, sah er ihn kaum an. Sie stellten fest, dass er nicht mehr als zwei Monate zuvor an der Entlarvung gestorben war. Dar\u00fcber hinaus trugen Laurence's \u00dcberreste Narben von ausgedehnten Wunden, die mit einer Art rudiment\u00e4rer, aber wirksamer Medizin behandelt worden waren.\n\nDie offizielle Schlussfolgerung der Marine war, dass Kiefly die Schlacht im Jahr 2911 irgendwie \u00fcberlebt hatte, indem er theoretisierte, dass sein Schiff im System zusammengebrochen war, dass es ihm aber an einem effektiven Kommunikationsmittel gefehlt hatte - aber das ist der Umfang ihrer Theorie. Bis heute hat das Milit\u00e4r keine offizielle Haltung dazu, was mit Laurence Kiefly geschah, nachdem sein Schiff im Kaliban-System verloren ging. Es gibt keine bekannten menschlichen Bewohner des Systems; die Zivilbev\u00f6lkerung floh oder wurde im Herbst des Kaliban fast drei\u00dfig Jahre zuvor ausgel\u00f6scht.\n\nWie hat Laurence also drei Jahre lang da drau\u00dfen \u00fcberlebt? Und die gr\u00f6\u00dferen Fragen, wer hat die Leiche geliefert und wer hat die Botschaft auf den Sarg geschmiert?\n\nF\u00fcrs Protokoll: Das Imperium hat nie die Antworten auf eine dieser Fragen herausgefunden. Wenn sie es taten, bleiben sie ein streng geh\u00fctetes Geheimnis. Doch trotz aller Geheimnisse um den Tod von Laurence ist eines sicher - die Kieflys konnten ihren Sohn noch einmal sehen, um sich endg\u00fcltig zu verabschieden.","zh_CN":"There are mysteries in the universe. From the winding backstreets to the halls of power, stories that defy logic are whispered to eager ears and passed from listener to listener. These tales live because they inflame the imagination. They instill that sense of wonder that can only exist when you acknowledge that there\u2019s more to the universe than we could ever know.\n\nThese are Untold Tales.\n\nNews of Lt. Commander Liam Nealy\u2019s dramatic escape from Vanduul space has taken over the spectrum for the past few weeks. While we celebrate Lt. Commander Nealy\u2019s safe return, it\u2019s important to remember that rarely do these stories have a happy ending. In nearly three centuries of conflict with the Vanduul, history is filled with tragedy and loss. There is one tale though that continues to defy explanation over thirty years later: the mystifying story of Lieutenant Junior Grade Laurence Kiefly.\n\nThroughout Laurence Kiefly\u2019s life, flying wasn\u2019t something he ever dreamed of, it was simply something he did. Growing up in the woodlands of Tiesl on Saisei, Laurence\u2019s ultimate dream was to be an actor. Friends and family recounted that during the summer months when he wasn\u2019t in school, the young boy would stage increasingly complicated performances outside the family\u2019s farm. In the warm evenings, he often enlisted other kids from the nearby farms as actors. But although he was an enthusiastic performer, his family saw his potential in the cockpit.\n\n\u201cIt was effortless,\u201d Jordan Kiefly, Laurence\u2019s older brother, recounted. \u201cMom had him flying shipments to the market when he was twelve. It didn\u2019t matter if it was one of our small haulers or a Hull, the kid was surgical.\u201d\n\nThe Kiefly farm grew organic produce until 2905, when several years of harsh weather and a failing market nearly forced the family into bankruptcy. Laurence, still undeterred in his desire to pursue the arts, signed up for the Navy after achieving Equivalency, in an effort to subsidize further education.\n\nUnsurprisingly, the divisional officers at his forge quickly discovered their new recruit\u2019s aptitude for piloting and dutifully set out to test its limits. In every test they threw at him, Kiefly managed to exceed expectations.This continued all through the flight academy until he graduated at the top of his class. On 2909-05-18 SET, Laurence received his first assignment: report to the newly reformed 106th squadron along the Vanduul front, a post considered by many to be the most coveted theater of operations in the Navy, and an assignment second only to the Marines or joining Squadron 42.\n\nKiefly settled quickly into his new role as a combat pilot, aiding and supporting his flight in a number of missions along the Vanduul front. And according to the starmen and officers who served with him, Laurence could always be depended on as a source of good humor.\n\n\u201cI know that sounds like it could be pretty obnoxious,\u201d Commander Ava Toll (Ret.). \u201cHe knew how to read people. Knew how to connect in the way that didn\u2019t feel patronizing. So yeah, I saw him pull people out of some pretty serious funks.\u201d\n\nThe 106th would suffer their second devastating loss in four years on 2911-02-01. Kiefly and his flight were tasked with a dangerous reconnaissance mission into Caliban to chart any Vanduul presence. Exact details on the operation are still classified, but High Command did confirm that during the operation a Vanduul element cut off the 106th from the jump point back to the fleet.\n\nOnly two of the pilots were able to make it back. Kiefly and the rest were lost, presumed dead. Despite several attempts to retrieve verification, most of the bodies weren\u2019t found. Posthumous medals were conferred and military funerals held in the wake of the attack. Though tragic, many had come to accept this type of outcome as a likely possibility for combat pilots serving on the Vanduul front.\n\nBack on Saisei, the Kiefly family mourned the loss of their son and brother as they tried to move on.\n\n\u201cYeah, it messed us all up,\u201d Jordan recalled in a 2914 interview. \u201cI\u2019d go by to check on them and Mom would barely speak, while Dad just worked. I think it was the fact that he was just gone. If they\u2019d had the chance to see him one more time, I think that would\u2019ve\u2026 not made it better\u2026 but given them that closure.\u201d\n\nIt turns out that they would get their wish.\n\nOn the morning of December 17, 2914 SET, Laurence\u2019s father, Javier, woke shortly after dawn to begin work in the fields. Harper, Laurence\u2019s mother, had gone out to the harvester shed when she noticed something.\n\nA crate, constructed out of scraps of metal and composites, sat on the dirt path leading up to their house. While a morning frost covered the landscape as far as the eye could see, this crate was almost warm to the touch.\n\nShe called Javier over. Upon closer inspection, they discovered something etched into the top of the crate. The jagged lines formed the words:\n\nI remember home.\n\nThe two apprehensively opened the crate. Inside, they found the body of their son, Laurence, dressed in a ragged and burned flight suit.\n\nThe Kieflys quickly called local authorities who, in turn, notified the Navy. Within a day, representatives from a dozen government divisions descended on the Kiefly\u2019s farm.\n\nMedical examiners studied the body and although he\u2019d been declared dead for over three years, he hardly looked it. They determined that he had died no more than two months earlier, from exposure. In addition, Laurence\u2019s remains bore scars from extensive wounds that had been treated with some kind of rudimentary but effective medicine.\n\nThe Navy\u2019s official conclusion was that Kiefly had somehow survived the battle back in 2911, theorizing that his ship had gone down in-system, but that he had lacked an effective means of communication \u2014 but that\u2019s the extent of their theory. To this day, the military does not have an official stance as to what happened to Laurence Kiefly after his ship was lost in Caliban system. There are no known Human inhabitants of the system; the civilian population either fled or was wiped out in the Fall of Caliban nearly thirty years earlier.\n\nSo how did Laurence survive out there for three years? And the bigger questions, who delivered the body and who scrawled the message on the coffin?\n\nFor the record, the Empire has never figured out the answers to any of these questions. If they did, they remain a closely guarded secret. However, despite all the mystery surrounding Laurence\u2019s death, one thing is for sure \u2014 the Kieflys were able to see their son one more time to say their final goodbyes."},"links_count":1,"comment_count":23,"created_at":"2018-01-31T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"8 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-07 23:32:34","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":16387,"next_id":16389}}