#Incident Report — “Aluminum Valley Incident”
##Juno System Branch
##Division of Security
##Department of Colonial Integration
**Date:** 15–22 April 2201
**Location:** Cordin Mountains, Western Continent, Juno ɑ
**Security Clearance:** Level 3
**Background**
Following the 2199 arrival of The Magellan Group’s Hopeful-class vessel Revealer at the Juno System, a large confederation of indigenous humanoid life forms on Juno ɑ began open hostilities with Magellan colonists. These aliens, named “goblins” for their resemblance to creatures from common high fantasy tropes, began a long-term guerilla war against Magellan, mostly fighting with primitive means: spears and bows and the like. By 2201, this conflict had been going on for two years, with much of the goblin population being reduced. However, the Western Continent’s mountainous terrain made it difficult for Magellan assets to make airstrikes with high precision. By April 2201, most of the Cordin Mountains had been declared a “green zone”, meaning that the region was considered mostly free of the goblin threat. On 14 April, the Division of Research and Development’s Department of Planetary Science sent a standard four-person ecological survey team to provide Magellan with a record of the ecosystem in the Cordin Mountains. The four ecologists (Dr. Erica Thomas (expedition leader), Dr. David Brightly (expedition lieutenant), Dr. Ana Chatti, and Chelsea Wo) arrived in the Cordins via orbital drop pod at 10:04 local time, the drop performed by RV Birmingham.