"My name is Tyrelle, and this is a documentation of the incident that will later be known as the apocalypse".
Tyrelle was a brilliant strategic mind, trained by the finest academy in the federation, showed enough ability to be hired by the local government of a newly terraformed planet, he was on the first shuttle landing, he was part of the group that declared the terraforming as successful, his specialisation was resource acquirement and management.
He was your typical workaholic, long office hours followed by more on-site hours, followed by even more hours back at the office, the planet had a 72 hour per day cycle and he liked his job enough to work most of them, the best part about it was the data he received every time a discovery was made.
The video continued to explain the situation and how it started from this point onward.
"As per protocol, after confirming the success of terraforming, the department of resources would start a planet-wide survey and dig where every possible deposit is located, mineral, crystal or biological, all such deposits will be investigated, sampled and recorded, then, depending on the commercial and industrial needs of the planet, mining can start on the most important assets."
"If the planet had moons, they too would be included in the process which has become a routine. The federation has done this so many times it has become a standard procedure, if the moons have no atmosphere, the mining is to be all the way to the core, most of these contained rich deposits of heavy metals, most of them precious or even rare and exotic."
"As per protocol, we started digging in the third moon, the only one without an active core, the dig took some time due to the impossible amounts of titanium and diamonds veins we found, the last 100 km of digging was the most difficult, it was as if someone put on enough titanium alloys to make it as impossible for someone or something to escape, unfortunately, we were so happy about that pile of readily available and already smelted weird combination of an alloy, and we dug through it, layer by layer until we hit the centre of the moon."
"I was not there in person, but was linked to the site through the quantum network, here is the video record of that moment".
The video suddenly transitioned from the face of Tyrelle to a screen with workers shouting over the loud noise of plasma cutters and magnetic drills. "Core breach in 30 seconds, start the cooling system, commence all machine shutdown protocols at my mark, 6, 5, 4, ready, mark". A big loud noise was filtered into a manageable volume, after a dust cloud passed and the noise faded away someone from the far end shouted "core breach confirmed, just like the scans said, there is this weird chamber, get the chief, everyone execute quarantine protocol!".
The scene showed a huff of movement, people putting on hazmat suits, others pushing buttons and others activating some robot or the other, it felt as if the crew has done that same action too many times it became a reflex of sorts.
"Quarantine protocol activated," said a monotonous female voice, then after some information processing visible to Tyrelle, the voice sounded once again "quarantine successful, no foreign bio-signature or radiation detected, return to normal operation.'' And just as efficient, the crew got out of the hazmat suits, deactivates the robots and pushed more buttons.
"This is weird?! Why Is there something on a pedestal inside the hollowed-out core? Hold for scanning, okay, the reading says its the usual biological matter, but can not define the use of it, it has no life in it and does not seem to hold any use, get the scientist on standby, this not the usual". The voice of the foreman was loud and clear through the comm, his personnel camera showing exactly what the scanners found and he was correct in his interpretation.
The scientists came, used their tools and performed a preliminary report, it stated that this perfect sphere, down to the micrometre, was an organ that took some sort of energy and converted it to something else, almost like the psionics did to brain waves, manifesting their thoughts into reality.
"Alright, bring it back, as for the moon, hollow it out, slowly, we need to find out why it was used to house this organ or whatever, do not rush the mining and disturb the gravity wells too soon, thank you for your time, everyone". The scene changed back again to the point of time where Tyrelle was recording.
"And that is how we laid our hands on the curse of this planet, the source of all nightmares, and the object that should remain out of reach of any being capable of fear. That item is the nightmare extractor, a completely independent biological organ that can survive absolutely everything this universe can throw at it short of a supernova, in the next few files there will evidence for every claim made in this video".
Jester was feeling trepidations and was already thinking about moving to any point of space that was not in range of these damned videos, just as she was about to give the order, Rob and Jordan barged into her office, clearly about to tear into each other, this rivalry ended with Rob appreciating the fine-grained wood that made Jester's desk.
"This piece of turd just recommended us to the federation as investigators, they knew already, everyone in the vicinity has been spooked away, siting the contents of the video logs as "dangerous omens" now we are officially working under the federation to investigate this, even our passengers are to sit tight onboard and do nothing". Jordan was delivering a passionate speech when he suddenly choked his words back, Jester was smiling, and his senses told him to shut up and get out but he remained still, gulping audibly.