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%% BGN QEC DIRECTIVES %% Update-Delegation: Quintessence: SHIP -> OUTPOST Create-Delegation: Quintessence-P1: SHIP %% END QEC DIRECTIVES %% Origin: Quintessence Routed: Quintessence → Vespira → [2-4 unknown hops] → QEC Relay A120D019 Date: ∅+0 days [Origin date format UNKNOWN; epoch assigned by QEC] Langauge: QEC Common Records Language Subject: Notice of establishment of outpost This is the Quintessence's official notice to the QEC transmitter records database that we have arrived at ′5190″859942‴68400, to be known henceforth as the Quintessence outpost. Our ship remains in orbit and is still spaceworthy. We are prepared to respond to distress signals within 4ly, and expect our capabilities to expand in the future. It is our intention to remain here for up to 50 years. Our crew consists of 136 individuals, in 34 families, with 25 unaffiliated persons. Our destination is a dwarf planet, 966km in diameter. It caught our interest from 37ly, as it transited ′5190″859942 and showed spectral signatures of heavy metals, which we intend to mine for expanding our ships and for possible trade in the future. However, upon our arrival we have discovered previous signs of inhabitation. We believe the previous tenants were interstellar in origin, as there are no such signs in the large bodies of the system, which we are still cataloguing. We will forward our findings to the QEC records database when we have completed our survey of the system. We have established a small archaeology team which will investigate the remains of previous habitation. Our mining crew will begin work as planned on areas which are deemed unlikely to have useful archaeological evidence. -- Thora Balliol Records Keeper Quintessence