Horseshoe, 3, 199ne.

Frigga’s spire, Endyll-

We first spotted the irregularity during a routine morning patrol. This outpost being the most recent of the new forts (part of an effort to bring more stability to the northern reaches of Gameroth), had just acquired a new batch of recruits from the mainland. Until recently our numbers consisted mostly of Endyllish men and women, and a handful of recruits from Stryden.

This new shipment brought us a few more Strydishmen and an entire contingent of fresh faced Titan youths from Berusa. I, Commander Wulfric Lyndhurst, was leading our new recruits on a patrol march around the perimeter of our territory, when we witnessed a flash of light from above. Our eyes drawn upward, a section of the sky had begun shifting in color- the spectacle could have been dismissed as merely an aurora, but what followed was no natural occurrence.

The sky opened, and from the bizarre portal an airship emerged. This ship was like nothing we had ever seen before- snow white in color it was a massive icosahedron. The Balloon that deployed and inflated at the craft’s top upon its emergence, seemed to be little more than cosmetic- something to help it blend in with other conventional airships.

An alarm began blaring, and in the far distance we witnessed three of our own airships rise from Fort Fenris and begin moving in the direction of the new arrival. Whatever customary audio correspondence there might have been between the flagship and the unidentified craft, must have gone terribly wrong since the three titan cruisers soon began firing their weapons.

The enemy ship (as it had come to be identified) swiftly evaded the ballistic shells from the Titan cruisers. Abruptly, the ship’s color changed from white, to crimson- and one of its many sides began to glow (from the distance I was unable to see, but later reports from those that survived the encounter state that the arcane glyph for lightning appeared on the illuminated side) and chords of white electricity lept forth and enveloped the Cruisers.

All three ships began losing altitude (possibly from system failure) and while two of them were able to make emergency landings, one of them crashed into the fort’s northern wall. A great hush fell over the recruits, and when I looked back up the Ship was already departing through another Portal.

We returned to Fort Fenris to a scene of great chaos and disarray. Many personnel had to be rushed to the infirmary and there had been a handful of fatalities both from the northern wall, and the ship that crashed into it. It was fortunate that the impacted wall happened to be the least inhabited.

Something about the manner of the diversion had seemed almost planned; however, such a move would require the assailants to be able to know who was where. It is unlikely that any ship’s systems today possess such a quality, but then again it is also preposterous for any modern ship to come and go as it pleases through portals in the sky.

We later learned from an injured deckhand who had been on the cruiser that had initiated audio contact- that the conversation between the vessels had gone thusly. The Commanding officer demanded that the unidentified ship state their identity and intentions. An arrogant voice had replied "We're no one important- but we are on our way to run a train on your mother." in a blind rage the officer had demanded a full scale assault. The officer in question had been stripped of his rank.

Commander Lyndhurst, 12th Titans brigade in Endyll.