Report Nº 00000456-A

Individual γ-768 reporting on the happenings of dates 364/281/23 through 364/290/23 from the surface of object number 0004-P in system #0000897/02. I trust the quality of communications is acceptable. I have successfully resolved the task that was assigned to me.

I have finished my movement toward the planet in date 364/281/23, as planned but setbacks in the landing procedures of the transport craft and my subsequent activation have caused a minor delay in my landing.

As soon as I was activated, Δ-221 warned me of these facts. Apparently, collisions with unforeseen space debris had diverted us slightly from the planned route, a change of route that its sensors were unable to detect until the moments it prepared for approach, and, checking our position by triangulating the radio emissions of nearby analyzed pulsars, discovered our misplacement.

There was, however, plenty of reaction fuel left within its deposits, and corrections could be made without problems. As soon as we landed, I checked structural damage, and apart from very minor damage to one engine, the collisions seemed to have affected only outer structural systems. Virtually no damage to vitals. I have tasked Σ-8897 to repairing the damaged systems, and set out.

In the interests of the continued information of our analysts, I shall try to make this report as extensive as possible. 0004-P/#0000897/02 is a small planet orbiting a standard yellow star, with mass about 1.3568 that of Sol. Due to tidal effects of the planet’s two natural satellites, major type C bodies, and single star (already described) the world is tide-locked. One of its faces is permanently directed at its star, and the other is permanently facing away the star. Please ask the informers for further data, in case you feel my explanation is not technical enough.

As was planned by you in year 332, position 3 of the second rotation, 0004-P/#0000897/02 was to house an experimental particle collider that was to be used in the production of antimatter in industrial scale and a research centre to analyze what uses the antimatter could be put to.

However, soon after the massive installations of energy transformation were completed, there was a ‘’correction’’ of the plan, when great deposits of silver, nickel and alluminium were discovered on the planet. Resources scarce in sector number 00076 of the second arm of galaxy 000001.

A plan was made to build a great mining complex, to be powered by the large amounts of solar radiation on the light side of the planet. A plan that is being carried out since year 340, position 4 of the first rotation. As I arrived in 0004-P/#0000897/02, I made an initial survey of the area.

The planet’s atmosphere is residual, due to lack of strong gravitational pull, most elements have already been lost to the void. This posed little problem to the planners of the settlement, as we have had much experience with mechanisms that don’t require atmosphere in our operations in the Kuiper belt of system #0000001/01. The lack of gravity was a more problematic, as none of the operations of the Kuiper belt required our mechanisms to remain on the surface of the objects. I was fortunate in this are, though, as the lack of atmosphere made it impossible for me to use either rotors or electricity based ionizers to keep myself afloat, and I had to rely on the expulsion of reaction mass. Needless to mention, my limited fuel would make long-range travel impossible in an environment with higher gravity acceleration index.

All the problems were solved, however, and the installations are already at 78% capacity, it is expected that, now that I have completed my task, the construction phase ends in approximately 5.673 years. After that, the operational phase will begin, and we can expect an extraction of around 3827 tonnes regularly, every rotation, to be used in other projects.

All major installations are located on the dark side of the planet, due to the belief that the high levels of continuous radiation may damage the more sensitive systems of our anatomy. The energy transformers, are, however, constructed to withstand the high levels of radiation, and have built-in redundant systems, so we can reasonably expect only occasional maintenance.

Personally, I believe that such fears are, at best, greatly exaggerated, and would like to propose research on this area as a future project to be undertaken.

After conducting the survey, I left Δ-221’s position definitely, and proceeded to report to α-790, the local administrator.

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