LeftHandofGod
In the meanwhile near the senate station, the AD diplomat was still waiting, for two entire months they had been sitting idly in orbit, without any explanation or response by the Imperium...
He sighed...
"Well it appears the Dreft are not interested in pacts or relations with us. Captain, set course, we return home. Another war seems to be coming and I´d prefer to be home before it hits this area."
...the thrusters of the three ships activated and they turned back towards the direction of the gateway, jumping to hyperspace moments later and disappearing in it´s direction...
Once they returned to the gateway it became quite apparent that the Dawn had redirected a decent amount of resources to secure the gateway...
Heavy weapons platforms were floating around the gateway, covered in Mac-turrets and heavy Turbolaser batteries...
Around the gate a not to underestimated force of AD ships were present, patrolling the area, almost a hundred ships, not counting fighter craft, were present in the area, reaching from frigates to dreadnoughts, all of them old models, at least from the external viewpoint, even two Jericho-class super-dreadnoughts were present, their massive hulls slowly making their way in circles around the gateway...
To top it all off, a large ring had been constructed around the borders of the gateway...it seemed...different than the ships. The ring was covered in strange weapon emplacements one could not entirely make out how they actually functioned or what their effects were as they never had fired yet, what was obvious though was that the ring was excessively heavily armored as all iot ever needed was adjusting it´s position via manouvering thrusters, it projected several layers of incredibly dense shields around teh gateway, blocking passage for all those who didn´t get permission to enter...
currently there was a relatively small gap in the shields, compared to teh size of the gateway, letting through a steady stream of merchant ships and occassionally a diplomatic vessel, transmissions were sent back and forth between the ring-control and the diplomat that had just returned and a few minutes later it passed through the gap in the shields, disappearing from G-S16...