NORE XI - The ARK Mandate starship Venture has been destroyed by GLoW forces, while returning from a retrieval mission near the Voiceless Scream singularity.
A local ARK waystation reported the starship missing when it failed to check in following its assignment to the former Derth system. Astroforensics failed to find any wreckage along the Venture’s flight path, but hypothesised that the ship could have disintegrated if its AIM Drive was engaged during the attack.
The Venture is the sixth ARK ship to have been lost to assaults by the so-called Galactic Liberation of Wonder (GLoW). The militants have yet to issue demands but seem to be exclusively targeting the ARK Mandate, which launched this year with the goal of preserving threatened ecologies and cultures.
In an emergency meeting yesterday, Curator Endelle Stroth of the Aglostarros University Museum sought to reassure investors that the GLoW attacks were “scare tactics from dishonourable anarchists,” and would not impede the Mandate’s work substantially. However, sources indicate that funding for the ARK project is already dwindling, and the Museum has been unable to finance more custom starships to replace losses such as the Venture.
The crew of the Venture were commemorated at a small memorial service on Aglostarros last night. At the event Erea Drace, widow of the vessel’s captain Orin Drace, addressed the Museum directly, stating that “It’s not too late to call time on the ARK Mandate. Your intentions are good, but is this all worth it if we lose more than we save?”
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