Chimera Bolide

The Chimera Bolide (D-CA: ) was a continuous anomaly created in the slipway wake of cargo vessel Chimera on DATE. It presented as a highly reflective meteoroid-sized object in low-Horus orbit. The anomaly is notable for introducing ovanebra to the universal default; the novel life form was brought to the surface of Horus after the science vessel Arthur B. McDonald collected a sample of the object and later crashed off the coast of southern Pendorea. The anomaly is also notable for giving rise to the theory of universal causative perception, which was first coined by George Schanzurin during his research into the biological mechanisms of the Bolide.

Background
The Chimera, a Taper-Moore vessel, was designed to provide general service and supply to planetary colonies in the process of foundation. As such, the ship was provided with versatile climate control systems to allow for any form of cargo to be accomodated. During construction, engineers opted to wire the bus providing beacon lock data to the ship's Kirschner drive through a section exposed to the interior of the stowage bay, rather than risk subjecting the wires to damage by being adjacent to the climate system's heating coils.

This adjustment did not account for an oversight in which water could condensate on the bus when the dehumidifier systems were disabled and, should there be sufficient damage on the coating of the wires, cause a short circuit. During the Chimera's transport mission on DATE, the vessel was carrying several modular incubators loaded with eggs of poultry and other birds to assist Coronia in establishing self-sufficiency. The crew, headed by Captain Dragan Sirvinich, determined none of the ship's cargo would be compromised or damaged if the stowage bay was kept humid and at a relatively high ambient temperature.

Occurrence
As the Chimera approached its jump location, deputy navigator Lorne Koestler-Mos loaded the Coronian beacon lock data into the jump system; telemetry at the Minteisna Tracking Station showed the lock data arrived at the drive's systems extremely corrupted, concerning dispatcher Erin Qiang into contacting the vessel with a notice to re-generate the data. Sirvinich responded "we will try again, but you are wrong". Roughly two seconds later at 00:16:54 HUC, the Chimera disappeared off tracking systems and an excess of high-energy masnions were detected by sensors in both Minteisna and other stations, suggesting the vessel had jumped. Several brief pings from the ship's slipway distress beacon sounded from nearby regions of space simultaneously, prompting an immediate rescue effort.

Less than twenty minutes after the incident, rescue vessel Yekaterinburg arrived in the region of disappearance, visually confirming the Chimera had entered a slipway and was unrecoverable. At 00:31:02, responding captain Josh Sears reported "holy hell - looks like it left behind a lump of meat or something". Based on Sears' report, Minteisna handed off the event to HARA, which dispatched the surveying vessel Ypiranga, as well as the Arthur B. McDonald as a tentative research vessel.