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(NDI Article) S-551 Judgement and Faith

Anomaly Class: Solar Item: S-551 Threat Level: Green Containment Procedures: S-551 is to be kept in a containment cell. Personnel of Abrahamic faith are to attend to S-551 at least every Sunday. The same protocol follows for any day during Abrahamic holidays including lent, fasting, Christmas, Hanukah, Good Friday, Hijra, Passover, etc.  Description:  S-551 has multiple characteristics defining its appearance depending on personnel’s piousness and beliefs. The most common characteristics reported by members of every faith is that S-551 is a humanoid skull. Anthropologists have deduced from studying the materials from the skull, and the skull itself, that S-551 is over [REDACTED] years old. The genetic compound of the skull shows no records of any human or subspecies hominids that match it. S-551 is sentient and shows cognitive functions. Discovery and recovery of the object took place at 19XX when local reports detail a discovery and attack of a hidden multi-faith cult.

(Mass) Prologue

Mass In 2065, Von Braun Aerospace unveiled the controversial physics defying Mass Drive, capable of warping and reducing the surrounding ship of its mass to absolute zero. Ships were capable of exceeding 1.5 times the speed of light. In 2070, Von Braun revealed the 2 nd generation of the Mass Drive, dubbed the Mark II Vittore Mass Drive after its original inventor. It utilizes solar energy stored as a method of powering the drive and the ship itself for long term space exploration. Expeditions were sent to determine habitability and colonization. In 10 standard years, Humanity has colonized the Moon, Mars, Ganymede, Io, Europa, Titan, Triton, Calisto, Phoebus and Deimos. In the future, plans to terraform Venus are being evaluated. 2077, Axom Industries created a powerful thinking computer under the name Durendal. Its purpose, to lead exploratory science vessels across the depths of deep space. It was this year the Mark III Vittore Mass Drive was unveiled. Durendal was s