Operation Breakwater: Stage II - The Web

Greetings Commanders,

As promised, I am here today to provide an update on both the McCoy Spaceways travel advisory issued on the 26th of July and the commencement of Stage II of Operation Breakwater, which I am calling 'The Web'. We have been able to outfit approximately fourty-seven carrier vessels, the Dionysus megaship, Mic Turner Base and the Cooperative Broadcasting Hub with our experimental jamming and interference equipment. These will be placed - or are already - in strategic locations, akin to an earlier technique for disabling of electromagnetic equipment known as a 'Tachyon Detection Grid'. The specifics of the positioning in question can be found here and here. We wish the galaxy to know that the McCoy Spaceways corporation and her allies will not stand idly by while genocide takes place, in whatever form or against whomever it may.


Firstly, the McCoy Spaceways travel advisory issued for the 26th of July was rescinded two days ago after our initial calibrations of the experimental equipment - constructed with the supplies delivered by the galactic community - were a resounding success. However due to the significantly increased scale of our operation, a new McCoy Spaceways travel advisory is hereby issued with immediate effect, for the following star systems:
Mel 22 Sector TT-R c4-2,
Pleiades Sector EB-X C1-14,
Synuefe CT-O d7-57,
Synuefe SA-C b33-4,
HIP 23759,
HIP 23483,
HIP 62138,
Coalsack Sector UU-O b6-2,
California Sector BV-Y C7,
California Sector BA-A E6,
HIP 17044,
Pleiades Sector IR-W d1-76,
Taurus Dark Region OX-U C2-10,
HIP 22118,
HIP 24007,
HIP 22382,
Pleiades Sector PN-T b3-0,
Hyades Sector AQ-Y d81,
Pleiades Sector SP-N b7-0,
Pleiades Sector LY-Q b5-2,
HIP 16985,
Mel 22 Sector KC-V d2-28,
Delphi,
HIP 21251,
Taurus Dark Region IR-W d1-47,
Synuefe LD-A c17-1,
Evangelis,
Witch Head Sector HW-W c1-8,
Witch Head Sector XE-Q b5-0,
Musca Dark Region PJ-P b6-1,
Musca Dark Region IM-V c2-24,
California Sector DL-Y d4,
California Sector LC-V c2-10,
Synuefe IR-C a67-1,
Pleiades Sector FR-U b3-1,
Taurus Dark Region YF-N b7-1,
Col 285 Sector DP-Y b1-1,
Oochorrs DN-O c21-0,
Vela Dark Region EQ-Y c25,
Trapezium Sector WY-A c10,
Trapezium Sector YU-X c1-2,
HIP 13644,
Outotz ST-I D9-6,
Wellington.
This advisory will end, at the earliest, on the 11th of August and pilots are encouraged to remain clear until the operation ends. Other systems may be added to this advisory over the course of the next few hours, so I encourage Commanders to continually refresh themselves on the areas involved for maximum peace of mind when travelling.

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Secondly, for those who are interested in technical details, I cannot reveal too much about the Breakwater devices.

However, I will provide a brief explanation of the theoretical principles behind their operation.
Leading theories concerning the Proteus Wave device detail that it will emit a harmful electromagnetic signal via the Thargoid equivalent of a subspace comms network - using the Thargoid Surface Site on HIP 22460 10 B as a conduit to do so. Approximately twelve of our counter-devices are presently being interfaced, in a limited capacity, with the uplink devices at various other surface sites while the vast majority are being deployed in a space-based blanket-jamming capacity with the aim to emit as much interference on both subspace and narrowband channels as possible. The focal points for our operation are the Thargoid Surface Site located on HIP 17044 1 B, jurisdiction of which has been transferred by Sirius INC to the McCoy Spaceways corporation for the duration of this operation, the megaship Dionysus which is also located in HIP 17044, the installation Mic Turner Base located in California Sector BA-A e6, and the Cooperative Broadcasting Hub in HIP 13644. The large transmitter arrays aboard Dionysus, and at Mic Turner Base and the Cooperative Broadcasting Hub, will be used to both generate and amplify the 'subspace web' of electromagnetic interference created by our devices, positioned in strategic locations across the fourty-two star systems as listed above.

The vessels and stations equipped with the experimental equipment, in the same order respective of the systems above, are as follows:
MSV McCoy's Pleasure,
MSV War In Heaven,
MSV Gods' Vengeance,
MSV Light and Truth,
MSV Lucifer's Dawn,
MSV Fafnir,
MSV Euryphaessa,
MSV The Stargazer,
MSV Turner's Requiem,
MSV Merion's Message / MSV Innitu's Wisdom / Mic Turner Base,
MSV McCoy's Majesty / Dionysus,
MSV Zvevshi,
MSV Zemogan,
S.V. Tabellaria,
MAV Parabola,
MAV Mariobob's Haven,
MSV McCoy's Hope,
MSV McCoy's Honour,
MSV McCoy's Virtue,
MSV McCoy's Rise / MSV Ragnarök,
MSV Lief Eriksson,
MSV McCoy's Victory,
MSV Titan's Approach,
MSV McCoy's Eminence,
MSV McCoy's Blessing,
MSV McCoy's Accord,
MSV Heaven's Gate,
MSV Imhullu,
MSV Iapetus / MSV Nidhöggr,
MSV Waterdeep / MSV The Observatory,
MSV Echoes of Di Jian,
MSV Argent's Quest,
[SINC] Gizmo's Lair,
MSV Otto Struve,
Starforge City,
MAV Cunaxa,
[SINC] Triple Century,
Starforge Refinery,
Starforge Warehouse,
MAV Caerbannog,
[R2C2] Falcon's Nest,
ZMC Cicero's Legacy / Cooperative Broadcasting Hub,
[SIT] Shrike,
[SINC] Umbra Club.
I will be clear, we do not expect to be able to completely disrupt the operation of the Proteus Wave. We expect only to be able to dampen the effects in radii around the systems targeted for jamming, and the aforementioned twelve surface sites with which we are uplinking. This has been a gargantuan effort in the making.


Finally, I would once again like to thank contributors for their assistance in our delivery initiative - this would not have been possible on such a scale without you all.
Right on, Commanders.

"And like a thousand other commanders on a thousand other battlefields,
I wait for the dawn."
- Unknown, circa 2379.
 
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A brief update, Commanders.

I have been steadily receiving reports of carriers assuming their designated positions. Once all of them are in place, we will prepare to initiate the Breakwater Web, and ensure the interference field is stable. The web will only be able to be maintained for a maximum of seventy-two hours after which it's highly likely that the devices themselves will burn out and be rendered unusable, therefore we only have one shot at this, and I intend to make it a good one.

We may, in future, decide to release the specifications of the Breakwater devices to the galactic community at large. However at this stage we need to find out if they actually work first. After the Proteus Wave's activation, as detailed in our original campaign plans, all data retrieved from our studies of the wave itself will be compiled and released at a later date.

Once again, all of this relies on our technology actually working. I don't know if the two-hundred-fourty tonnes of Salvation's own equipment we had was enough for a thorough understanding of the mechanisms, but combined with our limited existing knowledge on cross-species interfaces, it seems to be the best we can do.

Thank you to everyone for supporting our initiatives thus far, you're slowly restoring my faith in Humanity.
Right on, Commanders.
 
A short operational update, Commanders.

The Breakwater Web is currently active, and we have stable interference across the targeted regions.
Now we pray that we're jamming the right frequencies as we don't have the capability for rapid re-modulation now that we're active. We can re-modulate, but it's slow as it has to be coordinated across all fourty-something carrier vessels and other installations in all fourty-something star systems simultaneously via non-jammed secure channels, which is a pain.

The countdown ticks, seventy-two hours until we destabilise.
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I wish everybody luck.
Right on, Commanders.
 
No bullet can stop us now we neither beg nor we bow,
Neither can be bought or sold.

We all defend the right, JAH JAH children must unite
(Your) Life is worth much more than gold.


We're jammin, jammin,
We're jammin in the name of the lord!
 
I don't think we can take credit for that - it fired, but the Thargoids neutralised it. Let's see what the scientists say when they analyse this mess...
 
Forgive my late response, I only just regained consciousness after hitting my head on a bulkhead as whatever that was hit our antenna array and blew the entire thing out. It was like one of those cheap holoflicks where all of the consoles explode whenever there's a space battle. However, I haven't heard of any Thargoids being affected outside of HIP 22460, so I regard that as a success on our part!

We're all running damage control right now after taking that much electromagnetic backblast, but as soon as contact with the fleet itself is re-established and we've figured out which carriers are damaged or drifting I'll provide an update again here.

EDIT/ADDENDUM: I've relayed orders to all carriers, those that have hyperspace capability are heading to their emergency stations and those that don't are working to restore it ASAP. I'll have a larger update soon hopefully.
 
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Another short update, Commanders.

At this time contact with all involved carriers has been re-established, and most if not all have restored their hyperspace capability. The data drives were wirelessly isolated from the main grids and running on a separate backup system, so we haven't lost any scan data that we collected during the operation. It could take us days, if not weeks, to actually pore through it all though. Our offer of knowledge sharing with those in the galactic community that also wish for peace with the Thargoids still stands, and I invite interested parties to contact me directly for information on the co-operation of scientific forces.

Reported injuries mostly consist of minor burns from electrical fires or spark discharges, low-level plasma burns in the more severe cases, alongside the usual broken bones, bumps, bruises and scrapes that you'd expect after being tossed around from such explosive electrical failures. I myself took quite a blow to the head and am undergoing cellular regeneration to heal the scar tissue as I'm writing this on a datapad. It hurts, a lot. I should ask for more painkillers.

Aside from that, over the next few days I will be intensifying our seven-year-long efforts to push for a peaceful resolution to the Thargoid conflict. Which, may I remind you all, Humanity is solely responsible for. We may have finally proven to ourselves that war is no longer worth the effort, and we should just try sitting down to talk. Tesreau - commline me, I still want to share notes regarding Thargoid octal trigram code, we can communicate if we try!

That's all for now.
Right on, Commanders.
 
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