On everyone's sensors came extremely strange warps in space - gravitational fields were present, and even anti-gravity fields were contained within a small bubble of the continuum of the fabric of the multi-dimensional space-time, and then strangely, the bubble seemed to merge with normal space.
It was no surprise to anyone that some faction would pick up on rumors of crystals that can do quite some strange things. Nobody ever really returned, but people tried anyways in hopes of getting riches beyond everyone elses' wildest imaginations, however this was not your bog-standard pirate group that raided ships in the space between the balls of swirling plasma, and it certainly wasn't a pirate faction either.
There were only a few factions utilizing this method instead of folding space and time or using an average FTL drive. One of the most notable ones just so happened to be one of the most powerful active factions in interstellar space, excepting that of the New Hegemony and several other factions. It was known throughout G-S16 as the Illateri Sovereignty.
Upon exit from warp, the Electro-Plasma systems diverted from the warp drive to the scanner, offensive and defensive systems such as shields, point defense, and other weapons while quite a few scanners were directed towards the planet, trying to gather as much information as required.