"Signatures dropped out" The report came, and the Civilis Protectione crafts dropped out as a result, scanning the system they arrived in for contacts. After failing to find them, the Civilis Protectione constructed the Datafiles of the Unknown Craft with appropriate information and marked them as Malcompliant Defendants. They are quickly judged by the highest ranking unit available in absentia Level Four: Major Tresspassing: Guilty Level Three: Minor Theft from Collective: Guilty Level Three: Major Malcompliance: Guilty Level Three; Resisting Arrest: Guilty Level Four: Sociocide: Acquitted, no physical harm to units. Revised to Conspiracy to commit Sociocide Level Four: Conspiring to commit a level four violation (Sociocide): Guilty Level Two: Level Two Contraband (Unauthorized minor ship device: Evasive Flare Devices): Guilty The ships then proceed to patrol the system for several hours, firing a few plasma shots into the asteroid fields as if attempting to scare an opponent out, but do not bother to enter themselves, assuming they have overshot the defendants. The ships then proceed to disappear from the system, jumping back to Triarius