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The Captured Alien Gunship

Recovery Log

Entry 1: We discovered an alien ship today. As far as we know, this is the first time anybody has recovered a ship of this design. The hull seems to be made of some kind of bio-metallic compound. Our engineer seems to believe the ship may be alive. We're sending a recovery team over to evaluate if it is plausible to refit it for human use.

Entry 2: Our recovery team has reported that the ship seems abandoned. While they reported no technology, as we know it, the ship seemed strangely built to support a crew of at least one person... or alien. We believe that this is an Overseer ship. What happened to its pilot, and why it was abandoned, we have yet to discover.

Entry 3: We have successfully replaced the alien core with one of our own. Although the recovery team reported that the ship seemed to "react badly" to our tampering with its systems, once our core was online, it became more cooperative.

Entry 4: The ship appears to be outfitted with six heavy laser batteries, although the design is alien, they seem to utilize energy similar to those of our Capital Vessel's pulse lasers. When one of our recovery personnel sat a pulse laser charge on the floor, the ship absorbed the charge through the floor!

Entry 5: We have installed standard equipment on board the alien ship. Strangely, the ship seems to have grown around the machinery, incorporating our technology into itself. The ship even moved some of our equipment several feet, to incorporate them into the walls. This is one of the strangest vessels, or creatures, that I have ever seen.

Entry 6: Final Entry. The alien ship is responding to our input like it was one of our own, although our recovery team says it seems to act more like a stray puppy that has been taken in, than a vessel. They have gotten into the habit of calling the vessel "Tin Man", although I can't fathom why.

Supplemental Entry: "Tin Man" seems to lack warp capability, and we risk damaging the vessel if we try to install a warp drive into it. Unfortunately, this means it will be a long trip getting it home...