“This is LD Gamma control too Patrol 118 on priority transmission. Captain Tesek, we’re getting a Four Four One from an unknown force, which Royal Intelligance are dubbing Unknown Force-18. They’ve has sent out a rescue request in grid sector G41-559-56, system Kero. Right on the edge of New Sovereignty Your patrol is the closest, investigate immediately.”

“Gamma Control this is Captain Tesek, I thought Kero was a class U planet... why wou-”

“Your orders are to investigate and follow first contact protocols, captain. This is a priority three investigation which has caught the Academy’s attention. Set your warp for the system provided, all details are on the way. Gamma Control out.”


CSNV Photon, Knight class Carrier
ETA: 2 minutes from System Kero.

The bridge of a Knight class Carrier was fairly standard for a small Carrier class vessel more designed for patrols, it’s bridge was situated roughly in the midsection of the ship and blended in with it’s top section. Indeed within this bridge was a fairly standard design, with a single Helmsman, the Navigator behind him both sitting at specially designed semi circular booth’s which showed various information of the ship. Behind those two in a broader section of the bridge were the four other officer’s on a more straighter section each with their own section these were in order of left too right Engineering, Weapons, Intelligance (basically Communications, science and sensors officer all rolled into one) and finally the Executive Officer.

Finally sitting behind this was the captain who sat, holding a cup of coffee in one hand and a Datapad in the other with a rather annoyed expression as he was snapped out by the Helmsman who shouted back “We’re Two minutes from popping, Captain.” in Commonwealth naval terms, ‘popping’ was used for exiting Warp, namely due to the fact that the ship’s bubble seemed to phase away in a bubble motion. A rather strange term, but one which gained a certain amount of fame that the CSN allowed it too be used on their ships. The captain looked up before saying “Okay, bring us out of warp Helmsman Tuo nice and steady like. Navigator Beren, set a Patrol Trajectory towards the unknown vessel.” The pair merely nodded as the Helmsman merely began to carefully bring up a number of screens before saying “Preparing to destabilise Bubble in thirty seconds.”

As captain Terek watched, he casually announced across the ship “All hands, this is the captain speaking. We will be exiting Warp in thirty seconds. Brace for renormalisation.” “Twenty Seconds.” The helmsman said as the engineering officer started to bring up the engine distribution, sliding a few sliders on a control panel as he did so. “Ten... Five... four...three...two...one... Popping now!” The ship suddenly started to shake as space and time unfolded as this carried on, the officers were gripping their own chairs as the this effect slowly gentled out with the Helmsman merely reporting “Captain, we’ve exited Warp. Protection barriers coming up now.”

There was a small internal hum as a number of metallic sections pulled away, showing the system of Kero. Various datafeeds loading up onto the glass as one picked up the location of the transmission, well, the ship to be more precise as the ship began to move. “Lin, open the channel to that unknown vessel.” “Aye, sir. Channel is open, ready for you to speak.” With that, the Captain grabbed his own microphone and said in a calm tone.

“This is the CSNV Photon of the Commonwealth of Sonra too Unknown vessel, my Patrol are here to investigate your rescue request. Please, identify yourself.”

After he had said that, the Captain leant back holding the microphone as the intelligance officer cycled the transmission through all known languages that they knew as the silent wait for an answer occured. Two Hades Escort Cruisers had taken up position in a Reverse Delta as the patrol carried on with their intercept trajectory.