Solar System I
The star station travelled the system, albeit rather slowly due to its immense size as it contained the remnants of the Varn race, now a meagre thousand bodies, in the epitome of excess luxury and natural beauty. It was a paradise; a wonder of modern technology which was funded by the profits of the corporation, sustained by their oppressed races. It was a symbol of their control; so immense and so imposing that it inspired fear in the denizens of the world below. It was even capable of keeping the oppressed races in order, even despite the lack of presence from the Varnians themselves. Within that station lay the epicentre of the Varn Corporation and from that station so was their influence extended.
Within the station was a chamber of unimaginable proportions, with ceilings that seemed to have no end and walls covered with thousands of holo-screens that displayed a ceaseless stream of production and consumption data. The profit trends weren’t looking good however, there was an ever decreasing flow of resources to the mega factories whose production capacity were constantly growing. They’d left so many planets, asteroids and solar systems stripped bare of their resources yet the ever growing demand simple meant they moved on from system to system. In truth there was one system where sustainable business was practiced in was in Solar System I, their home system which had managed a precarious balance between urbanisation and ecology. Yet that balance would be threatened if the Corporation weren’t capable of finding new revenue streams or new resources to drive their costs down. 
Thus much of their future rested on the outcome of the Farsearchers and what they could manage to find in their travels; if any came back that was. 

Unknown Space

The Farsearcher winked into existence into a solar system which had no stored data entries, no record of even existing in the Varn databanks. The powerful on-board computer whizzed into action as a number of scanners, plotters and sensors were deployed in order to learn about the solar system it had landed in. It acted with the inhuman efficiency of a robot as no time was wasted nor extra effort expended in order to follow its coded protocol. It would search the solar system, map out the resources, determine the existence of any species and finally chart its way home, in order to record all the data it had discovered for the Varn Corporation. 

The scanners picked up a number of planetary bodies and asteroids, along with a decent resource pool but there was a definitive positive readings for signs of sentient life, something which had a very cautious protocol established. It prepared an automated message which would be broadcasted in every known language, in hope that the language of these people had a common language or even a common root between the two. A communications analysis machine switched on as this took place in order to assist the ship’s computer with broadcasting the message and interpreting any response. It was more uncommon than common to not find a language root even when traversing the farthest reaches of the stars due to population shifts along with the tendency of visiting advanced beings to be seen as gods. 
The ship made a point of broadcasting its existence and location to the native population, to create the appearance of peaceful intentions and the notable absence of weapons on the ship should somewhat help this impression stick. They were sleek, slender ships that contained a notable bulge around the back where the engines were located and it became apparent these ships were built for speed. There was a quiet beep as the population scanner finished its scan of the planetary body and began storing the key data of the denizens. Inorganic, sentient and technologically advanced to a similar level as the Varn Corporation, a credible threat in terms of military technology. The ship began to also transmit the multi-linguistic message out in an open waveform, clearly intending for it to be picked up by a nearby ship.

Elsewhere in another solar system, another Farsearcher was going through the same process only it turned back the results of an advanced, unknown sentient type consisting of organic and inorganic parts along with another credible threat to the Varn Corporation. The key for the executives, so blissfully unaware of the two nations their Farsearchers had uncovered, was to hope that they’d programmed their machines right in order to keep things coardial.