 What follows are the recorded audio logs and some visuals from the Elite Dangerous 2020 Halloween event that starts at the Adamastor Megaship in the Chuck Chan system. If you've not followed the trail that leads from there then what you're about to see and hear should be considered spoilers and you might want to stop watching now. It's Friday the 20th of October 31 11 This is Professor Penelope Carver. I'm making this log for our own records and keeping it separate from the official logs we're sending to our employer. Why? Well, I'm still concerned about working for azimuth biochemicals to be honest. Obviously we take on all sorts of contracts for a living and this isn't our first top-secret commercial project. But I'm always about this corporation. Anyway, my people can handle anything I'm sure. Azimuth are certainly paying well for our skills. I'll give them that and those debts of mine aren't going away by themselves. A lot more scientific value than I expected. We established a site on this planet on the 13th after we detected some very odd signals and the whole team is excited about what we found. That's another reason I'm logging this. If this turns out to be a big discovery, I want our names attached. The things growing here are like nothing on record. Definitely organic life, but with crystalline or metallic elements and chemistry that even O'Keeffe can't make sense of. They're giving off signal bursts on all sorts of frequencies. So are they living organisms or machines of some kind? Murphy and Shang both think they're alien in origin as in constructed by non-humans. But Kamalo found that so hilarious we had to turn off his cons. Our transport ship is long gone by now. But Taylor's using the beacon to transmit our findings back to the company in the Chocchan system. She said the built-in encryption software is top of the line, which makes me think the stories about Azimuth and its rivals might be true. They obviously want to keep whatever we find all to the... Something's going on. I can hear everyone shouting. Did the scouting party find something? This is Professor Carver, 27th of October, 3111. Well, hopefully this log will record. Half of our equipment isn't working properly right now. Everything's changed since we found the crashed ship. For one thing, it's, uh, it's alien. Definitely non-human technology. I should say I'm more excited, I know. Every scientist's dream, isn't it? But something about this just feels wrong. I know the others feel the same. Even Kamalo isn't smiling anymore. We're still mostly in the dark about the object we retrieved from inside the wreckage. Is it the pilot or the cargo or maybe some organic component of the ship itself? It seems totally inert, but we've had electromagnetic interference all over the base since we brought it back. Coincidence. Shaying lash something together using the strongest bulkheads they could find, but apparently it's still breaking that down. The equipment failure's meant O'Keeffe couldn't fully analyze its chemical structure, making him so angry that he actually attacked Kamalo for telling him to calm down. I've never had to break up my people like that. We've worked together for years. It's Murphy I'm most worried about, though. He'll set himself away from those growths on the surface. The stones, he calls them, like the, uh, near-lithic standing stones on Earth. We keep finding him out there in his suit, standing under the jet black sky, staring at them. He won't tell us why. We've been sending back reports, but Taylor just relayed a message that made my blood run cold. Azimuth has ordered us to cease all transmissions and await the arrival of their megaship, the Adamaster, which will transport us and our samples to a secure facility. I'm wondering why I got involved with the corporation. There's room to have his own private army. I put everyone at risk by taking this job. We need to try making this log again. While the data drives are still functioning, they could go again at any time. Nothing works properly anymore, especially not us. It's the 30th of October. The object in our storage cage has become noisy. I have a suspicion it's even noisier on intrasonic frequencies, which would explain why everyone is on a knife's edge and unable to sleep. I would ask Mahmood to do some studies, but he's in the infirmary after his run-in with Kamalo. God, I've never seen my team like this. What's wrong with them? But that's not the important thing. I don't think the ship that crashed was alone. As yesterday, O'Keeffe came bursting in through the airlock like a pack of rules was after him. He said there were lights shining down on the growths and on Murphy, who was just standing there. He couldn't make out where they came from, only that the nebula above seemed to be moving. He said the night was opening up like a giant mouth. I don't know where Taylor's got to, so I tried the comms beacon myself, and found a message saying the Adamastor has arrived in the system. That should be a relief. But actually, it twists my gut. What are Azimuth going to do with the thing we found, and what are they going to do with us? A geologist, part of Professor Carver's planetary survey team, but I... I think it was when the sidewipers arrived. Lights flickering on and off, just like the base had been for days. There were soldiers everywhere, onto one of the ships, which took off again. Just about. The soldiers exploded, the main comms relay, I think, but then came more lights. Strange lights, like, that rippled like snakes. And that darkness again, opening up in the sky. We don't make it. Things went to hell on the Adamastor, much faster than before, when it left orbit without picking up the rest of my team. We were furious, weirdly. So were some of the soldiers, mercenaries, just like the rumors said. They demanded to know why half their squad had been left behind, but the British crew refused to explain anything. Men, the power fluctuation started. Shane O'Keefe and I knew what was coming, and the cage they constructed in the cargo hold isn't going to be strong enough. Even Adamastor's hyperdrive keeps failing. They're making emergency repairs to it now, while we're passing through some unexplored system without the ship in darkness. And this sounds crazy, but even though the Nebula is 300 light years behind us, it feels like it's reaching out, trying to drag us back. Swallow us whole. When all the security systems crashed, I took my chance and broke into one of the sidewinders, and we were going to jump ship. I need to get my people out. The few who are left, and I'm the reason they're here. My stupid selfish greed. I can hear screaming, shooting. It's happening again. We're Shane O'Keefe. Thanks very much for watching. We'll be back later this week with more videos. Until then, 07 Commanders, follow the Greens on the way out, and do keep clear of the towstrak. We very much look forward to seeing you next time.