...Byla Hassock was sitting in her ship, a fancy one at that, the stripes of the hyperspace passed by as the ship was advancing towards the TATC Headquarters, or rather, the ominous black orb which was currently in it´s place, she was told to find something interesting for the last few pages of the news and whilst the orb around the TATC territory was old news at this point it never failed to at least spark some curiosity in the readers...
What secrets were behind the blackness? Why did they do this? Did they even do that themselves or were they attacked? Who would be powerful enough to attack a company that is powerful enough to completely shield an entire starsystem?
Byla shrugged, who cares, if someone would ask her, she´d guess they just had enough form all the shit that was going down in the galaxy and she´d get paid in any case.
Well, at least she got one of the special long-range scoutships to make some good records right at the site.
She should be reached the area in just about...
The Hyperdrives stopped, she removed her seatbelt adn stood up, walking to one of the windows, before even looking at the data of the scans, the blackness, despite alll of the talk about stealing your soul, making you go mad and being old news at teh same time, was still fascinating every ti...
She stood at the window and stopped.
Just stood there, it took her a few moments to actually realize what...
She stared and stumbled backwards...
It was gone.
It was gone.
The black orb, the entire system.
GONE.
She ran back to the cockpit and activated the scanners, checked the coordinates...
Nothing, the coordinates were right, the system should be...
...here?
She stared at the scans, nothing, wiped clean, no radiation spikes, no debris, no nothing.
She hesitated and slowly sat down again, readied the realspace drives and began moving further in... what in the world had happened here?
Slowly the ship went deeper into the area which was formerly the system...
...
...and then Byla almost jumped out of the seat when teh TATC announcement blared over her ships internal comm system...
This is an automated announcement, you´re trespassing TATC-owned space, please leave the proximity of the system and gain official passage permission or the defensive systems will trigger.
She stopped the ship and turned around immedietly, she had heard of the defense systems, and she would rather not end up as a cloud of photons.
At the edge of the system, she jumped to hyperspace, she had prepared the route already on the way there...
In the hours following Bylas return, the information spread like a wildfire through various galactic presses, the TATC Headquarters were gone, disappeared completely, the system was empty, without any traces...
What had happened?