[b][i]Faira Fleetnet News[/i][/b]

[i]State of the Fleet[/i]
Since the cataclysm, our fleet has been trying to establish working supply chain and adequate protection for the survivors. Today, the admiralty officially declared the operation success . Our race has persevered despite the Universe trying to undo our existence. Admiral Sola had this to say:

“Together we have survived a catastrophe that would have ended any other. Yet we can only celebrate our success with sorrow. Over three billion of our kind remained behind on Faira Erea and were consumed by the Star’s wrath. Let those souls never be forgotten, for it is due to their tireless work that we are now alive. We have elected to hold a fleet wide memorial service for our dead planet today at twelve o’clock.”

[i]Exploration of Exodus[/i]
The system which we used to flee from the nova of Faira Star have been officially christened ‘Exodus’. The Striker fleet under Admiral Cygnus has been dispatched to the system to survey it for usable resources. Unfortunately, the preliminary report indicates that the system is void of any habitable planet, much less one suited to our needs.

The only notable site is the system’s sole gas giant. The large planet has cleared out most of the system’s asteroids which became moons of the planet, twelve in total. The admiralty believes building a forward operations base in the system to be the best course of action. Our sisters on board Faira Tris have already begun with construction of some of the components of the to-be space station.

[i]New hope?[/i]
The most important discovery however is the presence of a second jump node in the Exodus system, in the vicinity of the Gas giant christened ‘Exodus Juno’. Our subspace scientists believe it is the gas giant’s large gravity that allowed for the second jump node to exist without the need for binary star system as was once theorized.

Admiral Cygnus of the Striker fleet revealed that automatic probes were already sent through the node to determine the location of the new system and extract data about it’s composition. Preliminary scans are still being processed, but the Admiral believes that the Striker fleet might be able to transit through the node within the next week to establish our presence and hopefully find new resources. We wish our sisters in the Striker fleet safe voyage and hope they will return safely and with good news.

[b][i]Exodus system - FD Trigati, flagship of Striker Fleet[/i][/b]

The admiral folded her hands on her chest and leaned back in her chair. Ever since they discovered the relic ship on their homeworld, they knew they were not alone in the universe. She did not fear that. The only thing Cygnus feared was their response for when they would become said proof to someone else. “Are you certain of this, Specialist?”

In front of her stood a Faira with blue accents on her skin too similar to the admiral’s to be a coincidence. “Yes. The background noise of the cosmos in the new system displays frightening regularity. It is either a proof of an intelligence present during the birth of the universe and of an intelligent design of everything that is, or it is a heavily degraded signal form technology, most likely communications. We both know which is more likely.” the scientist answered. “From the weak sensors on the probe we weren’t able to determine anything about them, we will have to investigate on our own. The other end of the Jump node seems to be on the edge of the system - hopefully we will remain undetected by them before we can determine more.”

“That’s fairly wishful thinking. For what we know, there are civilizations several times older than us. I trust our equipment, but I don’t know how far we should dare go. We are not many - if we stretch too thin and let something awful to our home...” Cygnus sighed, “I will have to discuss this with the rest of the Admiralty. You may go now.”

Slamming her fist against her chest in a salute, the blue Faira turned to leave. “Astra...” The admiral called out, making her quest turn her head over her shoulder, “Good work.”

[b][i]Several days later[/i][/b]

It was an impressive sight. The Raider-class destroyers were nowhere near as large as the civilian ships, but they had this menacing look to them. The grey, monolithic ship was covered in additional ablative plates, the spire shaped subsystems and dark red accents completing it’s brutish look. Cygnus still remembered the protests of the civillian captains agaisnt building these powerhouses, but now that she was heading to a potential first contact, the admiral couldn’t help but be thankful for having these ‘solutions to nonexistent problems’, as they called them.

The Trigati was not alone. Accompanying it were two corvettes and half a dozen cruisers, with the rest of the Striker fleet blockading the Exodus side of the jump corridor. a small processing of freighters and transports was waiting a little farther, ready to follow if no problems were encountered. Cygnus nodded when all ships reported in and took a deep breath. “Here we go. Helm, engage subspace drive.”

She never ceased to be amazed by what followed. A large blue and white rip opened in normal space the ship passed through to the swirling tunnel. From what their scientists told them, Subspace was a volatile dimension. It was only due to gravity having a stabilizing effect on it that travelling through was possible.

The trek wasn’t too long, and within ten minutes the Trigati and it’s accompanying fleet emerged on the other side of the node. The crew immediately sprung into action, flooding her with reports. “Any contacts or threats?” the admiral asked, her red eyes set on the sensor tech.

“Negative. But if they have the technology to notice us, the Subspace vortex will do the trick. As for our normal operations, we believe our shielding will greatly diminish our electronic signature. Any sensors less advanced than our own should have great difficulty targeting us. We should be hard to spot by optical detection past ten thousand meters.” the tech reported.

Listening to her options, Cygnus shook her head. “We stay put. If whoever is here happens to be strongest than us and hostile, I do not want to have our only way home cut off. No sense of sitting around waiting for them either. Proceed with a system-wide scan, let’s see where we ended up and what exactly is here.” the admiral decided. Nothing to do now but wait.