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Captain's log, day 78

Things have gone well for the most part

Travel's been smooth

Not much to see up close, but what I can see far off in the distance is gorgeous

Colors and wonders dot the horizon, just barely within eyesight

I hope that soon I

A transmission

I've been out of Earth's transmission range for days

Sorry, I'll be right back

I can't believe this

I knew something was going on

They weren't telling me everything

Captain's log, day 78 continued

I just received a transmission from an entity identifying itself as Sunflower

The transmission came from somewhere in the Andromeda galaxy, not the Milky Way

It contained a clearance key to declassify my entire flight plan and my cargo as well as photos of what appears to be

A civilization on the planet I'm supposed to touch down on -known locally as Lampetia

My ship is rigged with enough explosive ordnance to crack this planet in half as soon as my landing gear touches the ground

Sunflower begged me to turn back - abort and return to earth

But it's too late for that

Even if I had enough fuel -which I don't- the head of the space program would have me killed

I was told this would be a colonization effort to expand humanity's reach across the stars, but it's not

It's genocide

I don't know what to do

Captain Strom, signing off