78OS.space - Captains Log, Star Date: 988123.8764903601

Captains Log, Star Date: 988123.87

Today has been a long one. Command has officially given the green light for Operation: To Boldly Go—a mission designed to push the very limits of the Battlestar Enterprise and her capabilities as an exploration vessel. And I must say, even reaching our starting point has proven that she is more than up to the challenge.

Upon departure, I began making early discoveries—water worlds, high-metal content planets, the kind of finds that remind us of the boundless potential of the unknown. The mission itself is straightforward in design, yet daunting in execution: return home from the remote system Myoidee WO-A D0, a journey that will span thousands of jumps and take weeks to complete. Along the way, every system will be scanned for water worlds, Earth-likes, and high-metal content planets. If untouched, they will be mapped in full—a task that, for the first to complete it, is worth a million credits per planet. However, the presence of organic life will require further study, extending the mission even longer.

Yet, for all the excitement of discovery, nothing could have prepared me for the moment I arrived at Myoidee WO-A D0.

Beyond the light of the system’s primary star, there was... nothing. An expanse of pure darkness, stretching out before the Enterprise like an endless void. There was no light ahead, no familiar celestial markers—only the abyss. And for a fleeting moment, I felt something deep within me... a primal, instinctive fear. A sensation I could not explain, nor easily dismiss.

Because in that moment, as I gazed into the void, I felt it gaze back.

Tonight, our research concludes, and tomorrow we divert course downward, hoping to increase our chances of finding untouched space. We are 9,662 light-years from home. And so, the long journey back begins.

End log.

Captain Kyodan Dragoran Battlestar Enterprise, BS-23B