Transcript File D3CA: Transmission Log, Tau Sigma Station - Beta 1
CLASSIFIED: SECURITY LEVEL EPSILON

Do not disclose this transmission to any unauthorised persons. Failure to comply will result in punishment, Deneb Convention, 2337.

Transcript Follows: <<Time Index 0852-0859, 16/2/2372>>

Beta 1: Command, this is Beta 1, please respond. Repeat, respond Command. Damn it Tau Sigma, answer me!
Tau Sigma Station: All right, Beta 2, this is Tau Sigma Station. What's your status? You sound a bit jumpy.
Beta 1: That's because I am. There's something out here, Command.
Tau Sigma Station: Get real, Beta 1. Scanners don't read anything in your vicinity. You're just getting a little stir-crazy.
Beta 1: There's something out here, I know it. I heard it.
Tau Sigma Station: Sound doesn't travel in space, Beta 1. Relax.
Beta 1: I don't know where it's coming from. Could be over the comm system.
Tau Sigma Station: I doubt it - that fighter had a flight check yesterday.

Beta 1: Command, request permission to break off patrol and return to base.
Tau Sigma Station: Denied, Beta 2. I'm sorry, but you're almost done out there and we need that sensor data.
Beta 1: <sigh> Roger, Command. I should be back in fifteen minutes.
Tau Sigma Station: We'll be waiting. Sounds like you need a stiff drink.
Beta 1: Don't I know it...

<Unknown source> unidentified transmission

Tau Sigma Station: What the hell was that?
Beta 1: See? I told you there was something out here.
Tau Sigma Station: We can't get a fix on a location for the signal. Do your scanners read a source, Beta 1?

Beta 1: Negative. Man, I do n<fzzzt>ke thi...
Tau Sigma Station: Say again, Beta 1? We're losing your signal.
Tau Sigma Station: Beta 1? Beta 1, please respond.
Beta 1: Oh <fzzzzt>mand, you gotta see thi<fzzzt>...
Tau Sigma Station: See what, Beta 1?

Tau Sigma Station: Beta 1, we're pulling you out. Engage your drives now. We'll debrief you back home.
Tau Sigma Station: Beta 1?
Beta 1: Oh my...Comma... reque<fzzzzt>ediate... inf<fzzzzt>y position. The... ..nd m... .n't hold them of.....lp!
Tau Sigma Station: You're breaking up, Beta 1.
Tau Sigma Station: Beta 1?

Tau Sigma Station: Beta 1?

Tau Sigma Station: Alpha wing, priority Yellow, scramble, scramble. Target co-ordinates are grid reference 192 by 65 by 41. Repeat, priority Yellow!

<<Investigator's note: Beta 1 was found floating adrift at the aformentioned coordinates with no apparent signs of a struggle, nor any trace of what may have interfered with the transmission. Lt-jg. Kyle Athanas was found unconscious aboard his craft, having no memory of the above conversation. He does, however, show signs of post-traumatic stress disorder. Until further notice, Lt-jg. Athanas has been relieved of duty, and will be undergoing psychiatric care in Vega.>>