**The Valkian Home System**

More droneships began to be produced, half of them being armed with another recent idea- taking the already-existing construction drones, adding the droneship-specific docking port, and then letting them loose to construct *more* ships. Because of this, the frames of the ships can be assembled, with major technological pieces such as the FTL drive and various consoles and engines included, and then can be pushed out to the outside of a shipyard or asteroid facility, where a droneship will launch construction drones, which would promptly swarm over the uncompleted ship, adding armor, internal systems and everything else needed. It was a simple matter for the Valkian Engineers to come in and complete the wiring, hooking up the cables and pressurizing the hull. It didn't take very long for production to jump, and suddenly there were quite a few droneships indeed. With the ships practically going into mass production, gobbling up the vast reserves of unused mineral ore and electronic pieces, it was likely that the nation would have hundreds of droneships before all reserves went low. With the entire system slowly uniting into one production unit, regular commerce had almost been put on halt, research specific to surviving on alien worlds and to train men to serve on warships and study alien technology in the field. 

As soon as a dozen droneships were ready, they departed to system 04, heading for the remnants of the other Draconian vessels, and then later, to search for the unknown [Etheral] ships and see what they can learn. Already, shields were being planned; the experimental shields around the droneship flickered every now and then, far from refined but capable of preventing damage. Point-defense turrets can be seen, alongside Swarmer missile turrets. Due to the nature of the droneships, Swarmer missiles were to only be used in the case of close combat or before drones launched- there would be too many missiles and drones flying through space to *not* cause a collision. 

As more groups began to be assembled, droneship fleets started appearing in orbits of almost all the worlds, one by one, from the outermost to the innermost. More were traveling individually in the empty, patrolled interplanetary space.

As more and more droneships were produced, a small fleet of the warped into Nouvelle, moving to take up the Explorer's position. The experimental droneship, the first, integrated with its fellows, while the rest of the non-droneship fleetships moved to the gas giant, planning on setting up stations and cloudscoops for the precious gases swirling within the planet. The Explorer and a single cargo ship diverted off-course, moving to one of the other planets, fully intending to set up a base near Nouvelle, and establishing a definite presence in the Nouvelle system.