[b]Moon N-3[/b] As the ship disappeared, a station-wide all-clear alert was sent through the base, and the underground, fearful people rose through the dark corridors to the upper levels to resume their research and other duties. As some of them returned to their posts at the communications center, the picked up a distress signal from the planet, and a total of three ships, moving at a minimal speed. With all ships accounted for on the latest update on the system network, an alarm was sounded of foreign ships being in the system. With the message sent to the inner planets, a panic ensued in which two Explorer ships were sent out immediately, with other ships slowly mobilizing. The two Explorer ships burned across the system with all its crew in an emergency cryostasis, the ships blasting through the system at sublight.