TMW#6 - Austra System | "Hidden Station"

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Entry posted by Huston · January 30, 2013

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Three Kodiak Shuttles are making their way toward a unknown destination, making an approach for the seemingly inconspicuous human gas giant colony of Austra. What business could they possibly have here? Find out where they're heading as we dive into Austra's upper cloud decks.

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Welcome again. We've now departed the Nesu'luun star system, and have arrived back at Aerene.

Today, we'll be visiting a planet that you'd more than least expect to visit. A gas giant world with a often chaotic atmosphere and weather pattern; Austra, Aerene's largest local source of Helium-3, rivaling the Asari mined colony world of Lera, harbors many orbital stations that conduct mining operations, solely collecting Helium-3 and extracting Hydrogen from the very atmosphere of Austra. Like any gas giant, there is no tracable surface discounting the planet's rocky and metallic core, therefore surface colonies are not an option to establish. So besides orbital Helium-3 mining stations, what could possibly be of interest here to see?

An irregular signature, showing an environmental interference and an area of low mass, possibly indicating the presence of an orbital station with active mass effect fields was found in Austra's higher atmospheric band, where weather is much less intense, and gravity almost non-existant. It's determined location was in Austra's Southern Hemisphere Zone S-43, one of 60 helium-3 mining zones which divide the Southern Austran Hemisphere for practical reasons. The specific zone, Zone South-43 is a helium-3 mining territory left unoccupied by Human extraction teams as operations do not yet exist in this area. With no operations occurring here, it can leave room for just about anything to take the area, and a suspicious unidentified station is one possiblity.

A group of Cerberus Kodiak transport ships are making their approach to Austra. Their destination is unknown, as for their reasons to even go to Austra.

As they continue through their designated route, they begin to make contact with Austra's atmosphere. They've approached Austra's Southern Hemisphere Zone particularly referred to by Human Helium-3 miners as Zone S-43. It's one of 60 South Hemisphere divisons, used as reference to easily allocate operating Helium-3 mining territories on Austra.

The transport ships begin to make their decent into Austra's upper band atmosphere.

As they reach the calmer upper band of Austra's atmosphere, a large mysterious space station is seen further out. The space station's size and structure suggests a number of things, but mainly that it's a private orbital research station. Detection of Mass Effect fields around the atmospheric station suggest that the station's mass is being decreased in order to stay afloat, while shielding is operational as well to contain a calm environment around the station. The low gravity in addition to mass effect fields om this upper cloud deck also suggests that the station requires minimal amounts of propulsion to keep the station in its place above Austra.

The Cerberus Kodiaks approach ever closer to the space station, and are in the midst of its calm environment maintained by the prolonged use of Mass Effect fields around the station. This unidentified orbital station is increasingly likely to be a Cerberus facility.

The Cerberus Kodiaks being their close approach and eventually make contact with the possi It looms larger as the obscuring clouds being to shift away from the station, and emphasizes the station's sheer size.

The clouds obscuring the view of Cerberus' masked atmospheric station disappear, as more of the station becomes visible. The Kodiak transport ships now begin to make their final approach before making contact with the station and landing in its various docking bays.

Such a mysterious facility hanging over Austra's upper atmosphere continues to go unheard and unrecognized by Helium-3 orbital stations and probes surveying the gaseous giant. Only time can tell what this station means to Cerberus.