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[b]An Unnamed system in Commonwealth Territory, Onboard the starship "Twitching Finger"[/b]

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	The starship Curious tentacle had a fairly small organic crew, 12 kia and 2 H't'tk, The 'bridge' was a small oval cavity in the ship covered in wires and viewscreens displaying all kinds of data. The Kia no longer needed these viewscreens but they were cheap to construct and maintain and added a certain ambience to the room. The Probe Technician Talki Rachax Umiga began broadcasting throughout the ship "Attention Crew and Ship, Initial System survey complete, Star system Includes a Red Dwarf Star and a Brown Dwarf, Of use to us is a Carbon planet orbiting the brown dwarf Although the extreme geological conditions caused by the gravity of the Brown Dwarf and the Red dwarf in close proximity may make utilization difficult I have faith that the Corps of engineers will be up to the task. Additionally 2 Iron silicate worlds and a gas giant orbit the star. Probes indicate bacterial plant life under the ice of one of these moons which could be useful for extraction of Hydrocarbons. Further information about the system and Its resources are available to download for your convenience."

	The Officer in charge of long ranged sensors made his announcements next "Scans of Nearby star-systems show possible signs of Intelligent Life, natural causes are at this point impossible to rule out but the readings are consistent with a warp-capable civilization. No sign of Enemy Tech detected. Xenologist Please State a Course of Action." 

	The Xenologist had a more organic appearance, rather than looking like armor its cybernetic space-suit looked like the chitin of an insect covered in some kind of iridescent algae. "Launch a warp probe towards one of the star systems, standard information packets, hopefully they will be able to understand one of them." 

	The Fleet Representitive had a silver carapace covered in small spikes wearing some kind of skin-tight garment over parts of its body covered in orange honeycomb patterns "Yicha, I would advise against this action, We know nothing of these Aliens, We dont want to make ourselves noticed until we know what we are dealing with."

	The Xenologist considered the Fleet representitives words for a few seconds "A Possibility, I will amend the order, Send the Probe to another uninhabited system, then send it to the alien system, Include only basic information in the data packets."

	a bunch of beeps and whistles came from the communciations officers console "Attenti-" he was cut off by the Fleet representative who Replied to the xenologist "Acceptable, Now, Communications officer?"

	The communications officer, a tall mostly robotic Kia covered in a pink exoskeleton with moth-like antenna continued "Attention, New vessels present in system, all ours, The Construction Carrier [i]Kattikara Harbor[/i] and the Frigates [i]Needle[/i] and [i]Drunken Scuffle[/i]" the communications officer began relaying information to the new arrivals. "The Construction Carrier will begin work on construction of a mining complex on The Carbon planet within 7 cycles" The elderly Fleet Representive was quite surprised, it had been a part of the Military since before the discovery of "The Enemy" and construction projects had never been so fast to start, It always amazed it how far they had come. 

	a small cylindrical object undocked with the Twitching finger before firing tiny bursts of air to manuever itself away, its reactionless engine silently roared to life as its highly specialized digital intelligence plotted its course. after getting a few thousand miles away from the Twitching finger, the probe activated its warp drive.

	a bright flash of light was briefly visible as exotic energies bent space around the small probe forming a bubble contracting space in front of the probe and expanding space behind it,The ship could only be seen as a slight curvature of light. the ship darted off at thousands of times the speed of light towards a nearby "uninhabited" system. 

	Inside the Warp Bubble, the Probe thought over the data it had been briefed with turning its entire attention within itself as no data could be gathered from the outside world...after all, light did not penetrate the warp bubble so all that could be seen outside was the bubble itself glowing a dim white. It was a few hours before it turned off the bubble.

	At the edge of a star system holding the Commonwealth world Duranin, a Bright flash of gamma rays could be seen consistent with a fairly old-style warp bubble collapse, not enough intensity to do any damage but enough to be a spectacle. 

	The probe began charging its warp drive for another jump, completely oblivious that this solar system was not actually uninhabited.