I finished the modifications to the pod decontamination feeds, using the gas supplies from one of the stasis vessels. When I re-acquire the pod, I can control a flood of hydrogen sulfide gas mixture into the compartment from the touch of a button [image attached]. Spegg should be very little trouble from that point forward. However, thanks to Spegg’s meddling with the integrity of the Central Data Core, the navigational information we have is imprecise at best. Since I had only a brief glimpse of Spegg’s survival pod location information, I’ve run scans of the area a dozen times now. Based on the strength of readings, I’ve catalogued 23 objects of similar size to the survival pod within a 1.52 ± 0.14 AU radius from the SM5. There is a bit of a margin to work within, as I’ve had to make adjustments based on the distance of the pod’s blip before the systems began to crash. In any case, it’s a vast area of space to search.

[Communication sent: 29DEC2185 Shinkai Maru 5]