Augur of Sleep

Installation K-34, also known by the codename "Augur of Sleep", is a 2.5 mile wide mobile base that operates on the vast seabed of the Pacific Ocean. Since it's discovery by the USS -------- during it's sonar survey of the region in 2006, meticulous measures have been enacted and enforced to keep track of K-34's movements. Military ships have been assigned to act as a 5 mile wide circular barrier that moves in tandem with K-34's. This is to prevent any civilian vessels from entering a zone lying directly above the installation.

Several nuclear subs and surface vessels equipped with monitoring instruments, have been dispatched and permitted to enter the barrier in order to conduct studies and round the clock surveillance of K-34's activities. Based on several released reports, the K-34 excavates the seabed underneath as it moves forward, leaving behind 2.5 mile wide tracks on the seabed. The reports further explained that K-34 could be mining the seabed for minerals. But this is merely speculation.

To this date, no contact whatsoever have been made with K-34. All attempts to initiate communication with its inhabitants -if it is inhabited at all- via radio have been met with absolute silence, nor have there been any signals detected from K-34 itself; only white noise, most likely from the mechanisms from within K-34. This led to the speculation that K-34 is fully automated. No authorization have been granted to get a "closer look" until there's enough evidence or reason to believe that K-34 will not respond with hostility. Yet so far there's no evidence of any installments that resembles weaponry on the outer hull of K-34. At least none that we know off. The dark murky depths further hinder our efforts to collect data on this matter. It is also unknown if K-34 is purely a sea-faring vessel, or if it is also capable of surface and air operations. As to the probable age and origin of K-34, that too has yet to be ascertained. For now, all endeavors are to strictly observe and report from distance.

Great caution must be exercised. We may claim conquest on the lands above, but our oceans are home to things that demands our humility.

-Briefing Dossier by Admiral (Redacted)-