[b]Lance Enpire Contact[/b]
"Oh, you were the first wave... there's something you should know."
The human stepped closer to the mic, and took a deep breath to relieve the stress.
"There was a war a decade after you left, we called it the Common Sense War. The hundreds of religions began to fight among each other. Initially it was just riots that the police could put down, but then one of the Christian extremist factions got their hands on a nuclear missile and destroyed an entire city. Then the Alliance just broke apart, barracks on Earth became battlegrounds as the members of different religions began attacking their former friends, and in some cases family. The war ended with the destruction of Gliese 581g, and everyone realized what they had done. A doctrine was created, it stated that humans were an inferior species and all beliefs were equal. Recently, that doctrine fell apart and another war started, the Doctrinal Conflict. It too ended with horrific destruction, but this time it was an entire star system. How peace was brought to the factions is highly classified info only the Council and Admirals are privy too, and then only if they get their access approved. Another doctrine was created by the same name as the last, the Common Sense Doctrine. It stated that humans could never be redeemed for the evils they had taken part in, and religions cannot have any sort of leader and must put into their religious texts lines that that promote equality. So far, it seems to be working just fine. Due to your absence, the doctrine does not apply to you. Actually... there's... sorry, I just can't-"
"It's okay, I'll say it" Said the Abh, and the swoosh of a door could be heard as the human left the bridge. "Earth was destroyed by a hostile species. Mars is the new homeworld for us Terrans."

[b]Message to the Makudan and Equiis Pact[/b]
"The Allied Interstellar Federation wishes to invite the Makudan and Equiis Pact to send diplomats to the planet [i]Hépíng jiějué[/i] for peace talks. It is an old colony of ours that has served as the location of peace talks throughout Terran history, and it is thus considered the most neutral place in all of the Federation. I must tell you that no weapons are allowed on the planet, and military uniforms are considered rude to wear in public places there. Should you choose to accept, Dmitri Saveli will be there to mediate."

[b]Seeder Threat[/b]
AIF space has been cleared of the Seeder invasion fleets, but orders have come in to build excessive defenses in the event of another attack. Among these new defenses will be Orbital Antiparticle Stream Cannon (OASC) emplacements. These will essentially be huge orbital particle accelerators placed around stars that produce antimatter using captured solar material. Once an enemy fleet enters the system, they will fire the antimatter using the accelerator, creating a stream of antimatter headed towards the target at relativistic speeds. Construction ships have already been sent to begin construction of these platforms.

[b]ATS [i]Frybar[/i], Transport Assignment[/b]
Plumes of hot plasma rocketed out of the ship's drive systems as it reached the halfway point, beginning the month long slowdown burn. Normally a warp pulse would be employed for such a routine interplanetary mission, but the properties of the cargo being carried were unknown and a warp pulse might destabilize it. Therefore, subwarp propulsion was being used for the transport between Europa and Mars. However, ten minutes into the burn the Yuanon being carried suddenly changed somehow. It turned into a beautiful cloud of blue light that engulfed a thousand kilometers. The bridge lost all communications with the cargo bay as the ship entered the other universe theorized to exist and provide the Yuanon it's power. The ship's shields were brought up, and inspection drones were launched within the bubble to asses the damage. The ship had been pulled into another universe, but this universe was nothing like the one they knew. There was simply nothing there that the scanners could detect, not even radiation. One of the inspection drones hit the shield on it's way to the cargo bay, identifying that it was unprotected. it took a picture of the damage, and the crew was shocked by it.

The cargo bay was no longer three-dimensional, it was completely and entirely flat. Not like a piece of paper, it was truly two-dimensional. There had been ten people working in it at the time, and whatever death they had could not have been pleasant. The shield was the only thing keeping the ship together, apparently cutting it off from the rest of the alien universe. The Yuanon was off to the left of the ship, and it re-entered it in an attempt to get home. It was expelled fifty kilometers to the right of where the accident occurred, right into the Jupiter-Mars civilian Krasnikov tube. The cargo bay just ceased to exist the exact moment it entered the 'normal' universe, and the fore and aft sections rocketed through the tube and were expelled in a highly elliptical orbit above Mars. The aft section fired multiple towing cables at the fore section, allowing it to pull it towards the target space station. Once an interview with the crew had been completed, international news channels operated by Federation-based networks got a bit of he story. The following is a section of that broadcast.

"A high-security Abh transport was broken in half during a subwarp transport mission in the Sol system! The ship was carrying sensitive research data and objects from Europa to Mars, and one of the sensitive objects caused some sort of anomaly to appear inside the starship. The crew claims that they were transported to an alien universe, what's more, they claim that universe only had two dimensions! They even have a name for this strange universe: Fath, which translates to Plane Space. All the info that has been released about the object that caused all this is that it has been named a 'Yuanon', and is a fourth neutrino 'flavor'. The ten closest inhabited systems to Sol have sent reports stating that clouds of light similar to the one produced by this 'Yuanon' have appeared in their systems as well, apparently having laid dormant for billions of years. Modern shielding technology seems to create a 'space-time bubble' in Plane Space, allowing ships to travel through it unharmed. New updates as situation develops."