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Valnur has a rather concerned look on her face.
"My people dont just strap artifacts to the bottom of our ships. I've seen the pirates do that a couple of times, though not to the scale you described."
A strange holographic message interface appears in front of Valnur.
"Wait a minute, im detecting a massive energy overload in one the data cores on this planet."
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While the group is still contemplating the ships purpose and origin, they notice a group of three corvette sized trading ships appearing in low orbit. The large ship with the sphere on its bottom immediately stops, as the sphere starts rotating even quicker than before, and energy arcs from it to other parts of the ship, before releasing a series of pulses. Upon reaching them, the pulses cause a strange feeling of numbness in the group, and some nearly fall unconscious. It almost mimics the feeling they felt shortly before being knocked unconscious when arriving on this planet. While they still recover from what just occured, a large beam exits through an opening in the ships upper hull, hitting one of the ships. Its engines immediately go offline, sending the ship plummeting toward the planets surface helplessly, as its hull starts to glow orange due to the atmospheric drag.