Cayne maintained his station accordingly and cycled through all the channels he could tap into. After the [i]Lightyear[/i] had departed, the number of inbound and outbound traffic had dropped sharply until the comms became quiet as the vacuum itself. During that time, Cayne and [i]Pathfinder[/i] ran several simulations of monitoring Dreshykk transmissions and any frequencies they could employ that Cayne can pick up on. As the pair went through their tests, Cayne could not help but over hear a Dreshykk crew member conferring with Maxwell at the ship's helm regarding some sort of anomaly and asked if the [i]Lightyear[/i] can alter its course to investigate. No doubt an odd request since Maxwel himself wasn't heading the vessel despite flying it.

As expected, Maxwel declined the Dreshykk's query and referred her to Cadence; pity she didn't ask Cayne to look into it. With a shrug, Cayne continued to run his simulations, already nabbing a few tricks with his newer and much more advanced setup. He almost began to question why he never had any of this in the first place while on the field.

Not even more than several minutes later, Cayne and Pathfinder picked up what appeared to be a vague transmission burst. The source appeared hazy but nonetheless, Cayne cycled through all the channels and frequencies to clear up the signal. After nailing the right frequency, Zayne quickly set about recording as much of the transmission as he could into his log. Just as he heard the few sections of the signal, another and much larger surprise came into being. All at once, everything seemed to power down, starting with the overhead lights that illuminated the command deck. Following the power-outage, a visual feed from the main monitor detailed what appeared to be some kind of transport vessel coming into view. Not long after that, Cadence whom was speaking to another individual Cayne had also saw but paid no mind to, came to his side and requested the Republic be informed at once as if she had narrowed this new incident as an attack.

"Getting the Republic on the horn now..."

Suddenly the intercoms boomed in with a situational report, compiling a rather large list of shipwide functions that were now no longer functional, including Cayne's own station.

"...Or not." Cayne could feel Cadence's radiating annoyance as he quickly left his station to Maxwel's helm and made an order over the intercom, wanting his squadmates to come up to the command deck. Armed.

While waiting for the other half of their team to arrive, Cayne up and invited himself into Maxwel's report after the pilot mentioned catching a 'whisper' on the comms before the black out occurred. "Don't think it was your imagination. Me and [i]Pathfinder[/i] also pickup something too. Recorded it actually before everything went offline...and before that ship popped up."