new blips unveil themselves

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in the small star cluster of CS-17, the few drones and radar stations set up begin to find somthing… peculiar. A group of 5 systems and planetoids have suddenly been picked up, seemingly appearing out of nowhere. What’s more interesting, is what is picked up in these systems. There is seemingly large amounts of wreckage’s from centuries long past. Scattered around and across the planets, ruins of old civilizations remain. however they are all inaccessible beyond going through a singular system first… And a operational station of some sort is being detected floating above the sun of the system. Odd… what mysteries lie ahead of this odd group of stars, and who do the wrecks belong to?
or more importantly, what caused them?

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A single ship's image extends into the system, snapping into place with elegance and very faint gravitic signatures, its sleek and modern design, reminiscent of something from the MISE or GL&M, though bearing no markings, would place it on a B-1 Class, Direct-Force Vessel, thus, making it 100 meters in length.
With its arrival, so jump into motion its sensory suite, almost unparalleled as the MISE focus purely on sensors rather than stealth tech, a bet that grants them the edge on detection and prediction compared to their other galactic peers. A pulse of particulates showers the nearby system, scanning out for places of importance, as the engines cool down for a momentary burn towards whatever location would seem important or interesting.

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Fort_Master_Gustav a empty system lead towards the blips. A small white dwarf star sitting silently in the center, a blue and white station resting over it. The system itself was large, a large circle station reaching the diameter of a small moon, but not a full sphere. It rested, silently, obviously occupied as lights shined and it slowly rotated in space.
beyond the system, there were 5 more that were recently seen. The first two accessible from this zone were both small systems with only 3 planetoids each, but the space surrounding those planets was littered with ancient wrecks of ships never seen before in the current day or history books of any known nation…

Fort_Master_Gustav

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The B-1 Vessel performed a small Alcubierre jump towards the large orbital station, exiting a few AUs away from it, and transitioned for a sublight engine burn, roaring blue flames from the back of the sleek black ship as the hyperatomic mixture was violently detonated for propulsion.
The ship moved forward a standard docking request towards the large station, however, it still kepts its sensors on, watching to see if the place was abandoned in some way.

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Fort_Master_Gustav the response hits the station, and instantly is given a reply.
”no ship allowed to dock. Please move along.”
the station continued its slow movements. No visable weapons, no ships attatched, no hanger bays… what was this place?
the sensors found it oddly hard to get any reading on what was inside the station

Fort_Master_Gustav

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The B-1 Ship logs the information acquired, at least they know that whatever presence was there it didn't seem well protected, nor did it seem to not know Galactic Standard. The shape and presence of the station was logged as the ship drifted away from the station.
Without any other location of importance in the system, the highly efficient Alcubierre FTL drive charged up, and in a dart-like shape, the ship FTL'ed away from the system into one of the systems with the wreckages.

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Fort_Master_Gustav across the system the remnants of fleets are scattered in broadside positions to one another. Torn apart piece by piece, some with chunks that just look erased fully. 3 different paint patterns are across the ships, one purple, one orange, and one red. The purple seem to have the highest amount of total casualties ship wise.
the planet below seems to be a ruined urban metropolis, irradiated and destroyed by presumably orbital bombardment.

Fort_Master_Gustav

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Gathered data is logged, the ships can be partially reconstructed through the careful analysis of the chunks of them that still remain, granting them the rough shape of the ship that once was, that is, if it followed common deign philosophies. Without anything but scrap there present, it wasn't a place of much interest, and thus, the FTL drive spooled up to FTL to another system.

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Fort_Master_Gustav much of the same, though here the red forces seemed to take obscene casualties compared to the purple forces. However a good couple red vessels are still intact enough that they could possibly be repaired and restored.

Fort_Master_Gustav

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The B-1 Vessel showed little interest in these vessels, if it had the time after the exploration, a new detachment would be called upon the place for gathering information about the vessels and extracting technology from them if possible. However, a singular B-1 vessel, a ship of small size to the MISE standards, could not do a reacquisition operation like that.
They jumped towards yet another system.

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Fort_Master_Gustav a massive orange dreadnaught lay ruined with the remnants of a purple flotilla surrounding it. A few vessels are lightly intact but not many.
there’s also a large planet in the systems, cracked and obliterated, with the ruins of a large purple station above it

Fort_Master_Gustav

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The new systems thus far seemed to have been a fluke, perhaps they ran under the radar because of the influence of a nubula, or a quasar stream, or a supernova conveniently blocking the vision of their location. Nevertheless, there were no sightings of anything anomalous within them, despite the presence of large battlefields.
The ship moved onwards towards the few remaining systems to conclude its survey.

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Fort_Master_Gustav in the second to last system, they find a new thing. A apsolutely massive station floating in the void with a huge hold in the center of it, cracking it in half. It doesent seem to be armed, but seems… more presence than the others. Not gone through the test of time…
more wrecks from all 3 colors dot the sector, except for a new one, on the outskirts of the system, a massive ship that seems almost perfectly intact is resting, offline.

Fort_Master_Gustav

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Seeing the inactive ship, it seemed to be a decent target for boarding and exploration. TheB-1 Vessel conducted a burn towards the inactive ship and attempted docking if possible.
Meanwhile, it scanned the gravimetric imprint of the ship and determined its average density and material composition thereof, as well as using various particulate-based systems to map out the internal layout of the ship.

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Fort_Master_Gustav the massive ship lay silent, as the scans revealed it to be almost 2km in total length and coated with guns, it’s shields still alive, flickering slowly in the void. Scans find that there are several life forms aboard, but all not moving.

Brank

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At the edge of the system, 2 ships come out of hyperspace, their grey and white hulls bearing the deep red symbol of the Undying empire. The small fleet consists of a Venator Class Star Destroyer, It's hangar bays filled with Fighters, Shuttles, and Bombers, while the other ship is an Acclamator class assault ship, filled with troops, engineering crew, shuttles, and supplies. The acclamator has been modified to have an additional armament of 4 Guided Munitions launchers alongside the concussion missiles and turbolasers.
//Venator-Class Star Destroyer 'Eternal Glory'//
"Hyperspace jump complete, begin system scans. Reports are of suddenly appearing planets."
//Acclamator-Class Assault Ship 'Gladiator'//
"Copy that, beginning system scans."

The Acclamator begins scanning the dwarf star and the space near it

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Brank the entry system was a calm void, nothing existed beyond the Star and the blue station slowly spinning above it.

Brank

gearshift48 The ship begins more detailed scans of the station in particular as they approach it with engines on half burn

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Brank the scans revealed nothing, seemingly unable to get through the outsides of the station. All they give is a outline of it.

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gearshift48 The ships move ever closer, the hangar doors atop the Venator opening up as shuttles prepare to disembark

Fort_Master_Gustav

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The B-1 Vessel docks and locks itself to the outside of the ship after the docking procedure is completed. The plan to takeover the ship is hatched, they'd access whatever central computing the ship had and transmit the controls over to the B-1 Vessel attached, allowing them full control of the ship, then, FTL away from the location.
The team unloaded through the docking hatch, they were 6 standard replicant models, with the average fit to go with it, mostly unarmed if not for a single pistol sidearm. They moved through the ship without much concern.

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Brank the system lies motionless besides them. The station… appears unarmed.