Sector 3,3 (Ilolian Star System)

[Ardreas]

Sector 3,3 is home to a single star system with a warm, orange main sequence star and 3 planets.

Settled by Nublean refugees in the wake of the destruction of their former home, this system has rapidly been developed into a thriving new center of Nublean society. For detailed information see the Nublean Factbook Entry on the subject. The first planet, Omeginus, is a hot, crystalline world that has become the primary mining colony for the recovering space power. It is rich in Solarite, which is the main fuel source for Nublean reactor technology.


The second planet is Nubpryton and home to the main colony of Nublean survivors. It is a volcanically active hunk of rock that is inhospitable to most forms of humanoid life. But the Nublean people have made a home out of it and are thriving. The rich mineral deposits have helped to jump start the rebuilding of their infrastructure, and the people are prospering on this hostile world. A full map and detailed planetary characteristics can be found Here.

The third and final planet in the system is Riezonar, a lush green world in the star's habitable zone. It has become the primary agricultural world for the Nublean civilization and produces all the food for the other colonies.

Technological and Military Situation at the start of the role play:

The Republic of Nubpryton has the most advanced technology in this part of space. They possess FTL drive technology for their ships, artificial gravity plating, directed energy weapons, and energy shields. However, due to the disaster that they are still recovering from, they only have 2 FTL vessels in active service at the start of the story: the USS Ilolia and the new USS Valhalla.

Nubpryton, while highly advanced, is a peaceful people. Their starships are mainly used for exploration and discovery rather than making war. However, they are armed for defense. Nubpryton maintains a moderate military budget and slightly over 7,000 active duty military personnel with 16,000 in reserve.

The time is stardate 320.2014 by the Nublean calendar

As the story begins, the Nubleans have been focusing on building infrastructure in their new home system and exploring neighboring sectors with their vessels. They have not yet received word of the situation on Rhunar...

[Nubpryton]

At Nubpryton Drydocks, President Fakenublet arrives in a small shuttlecraft and oversees the refit of the USS Ilolia, Fakenublet enters a massive room with a gigantic glass screen showing how big the starship is if you look at it from the outside, Chief Engineer of the Ilolia, Mr. Adel Ortiz comes up and shakes hands with the President and began to talk about how the refit will affect the ship's performance.

"Pretty impressive work, Mr Ortiz." Fakenublet said to Ortiz after being satisfied seeing how the refit is going fast and smooth.

"Thank you sir, would you like to see the new modifications to the warp core?" Mr Ortiz asked.

"I'm guessing the new Quadrocyclic Input Threshold for the Magnetic Interlocks have been installed?" Fakenublet suddenly answers.

"Yes sir, how did you know about that?"

"I've been monitoring this ship's systems for quite a while now, more modifications can be made if-"

Fakenublet is suddenly interrupted by a message from his Communicator, the Captain of the Ilolia contacts him and has something to tell him that's important.

"Sir, I have to tell you something, and its important...its about Rhunar in the Ardrean Star System."

Without hesitation, Fakenublet immediately left spacedock and took a shuttlecraft to a secret location where the Captain will meet him. "I'm on my way." He said before turning off the communicator.

[Ardreas]

* // Message Text Relayed from Nublean Listening Post in the Aedes System \\

To: the Governments of Nubpryton and Zeganas,

A situation has arisen involved one of our deep space exploration vessels, the Ascension, in orbit of the dark planet Rhunar. We do not know exactly what has happened yet, but at 02:24 this morning we received a transmission from the ship that indicates it may have been boarded by hostile life forms. I am forwarding copies of the relevant videos to you with this message. Included also is video footage from the helmet cams of the surface mission that discovered the life forms under ground on Rhunar. Again, I must stress that very little is known about these creatures, and whether they are sophisticated enough to operate a space vessel is not known. Their intentions are not known, and their combat abilities are not known.

What we have here may be a hostage situation, or it may be something else. The Ardrean government is working with all diligence to assemble as much intel as we can to find out the truth. We would welcome any help you can offer. We have been unable to contact the Ascension since the transmission cut off this morning, and so we are proceeding under the possibility that the crew is unable to respond. If you, the leaders of Nubpryton and Zeganas, would be willing to assist, we are preparing to confer with our allies, Invictus, on board their new space station, the Infinitus in orbit of our homeworld, Aedes. If you are willing to help us, please send representatives to the station to confer. Perhaps we may have more intel by the time you arrive.

Sincerely,

Ardrean Secretary of Defense, Charles Vincent.

[Nubpryton]

After a few hours of travelling under Impulse speed, the Presidential Shuttlecraft finally lands at a hangar on a top secret asteroid base, Asteroid 317, at the edge of the star system, after disembarking, he is greeted by the Captain of the Ilolia and proceeds to a dark room, the President orders the Captain to remain outside as the large, metallic airlock door closes.

The President sits down at the console and begins reading the highly encrypted message on a holographic screen and begins reading it.

After reading the message and understanding the situation is on the Ascension, Fakenublet realises there's currently no ship that will be available to be used to send at the Infinitus, as the Ilolia is still in refit and the Valhalla is currently 12 light years from the location of Ardreas.

He immediately contacts Fleet Command to speed up the refit on the Ilolia and demands that it must be ready on stardate 327.2014. He then gets back to the console and sends a message to Ardreas just before he leaves.


* * * * * DIRECT MESSAGE TO FOLLOWING * * * * *

Send Message (ENCRYPTION LEVEL 5): Ardrean.Government

Greetings my friends, we have received your message about the "hostage" situation on board the Ardrean ship Ascension, we will send representatives of Nubpryton to confer and discuss the situation, Unfortunately because of the timing of the incident, it will be on stardate 327.2014 before we will be able to arrive at the conference, our suggestion for you right now is to gather as much information about the lifeforms as possible and keep civilians safe.

Best regards,

President of the Planetary Republic of Nubryton, Fakenublet

* * * * * MESSAGE END * * * * *

After the message was sent, Fakenublet softly whispers to himself "I wonder if Zeganas will help...they are a valuable ally in this situation."

The door, after a few minutes finally opens and Fakenublet tells the Captain, "Take me to Fleet HQ, there's a vital thing that Ardreas needs if it requests help from its allies..."

"Why, sir?"

"Don't ask, just do what I tell you to do."

"Yes sir."

The two get on the Shuttlecraft and head for Nubpryton Fleet Headquarters, located high above the orbit of Nubpryton.

While on the way, Fakenublet contacts the Fleet Admiral, Patrick Rowland and tells him to meet him personally at the conference room on Floor 25, Section 1. "We have something to discuss, its about Ardreas." Fakenublet said.



Image taken on stardate 323.2014, the USS Ilolia still under going refit at Nubpryton Drydocks.

[Invictus]

* // Message Text Relayed from Nublean Listening Post in the Aedes System \\

To: the Government of Nubpryton

Greetings, allies.

We have been made aware of an extraterrestrial lifeform on the planet Rhunar in the Vita Aedes System by the Ardrean government. Upon hearing such news, understandably, we questioned the validity of the statement. We are contacting to you confirm that your government has heard this claim as well from the Ardreans. Please relay a message to us confirming that you too have been made aware of this situation.

Pacis et Prosperitatis,
Invictus Councillor of Foregin Affairs,
Marcus Dyrien

[Nubpryton]

After a lengthy trip from the secret base to Nubpryton Fleet HQ, the shuttlecraft finally lands at one of the hangar bays on the station, they would have to wait for 30 seconds for the hangar to pressurize, an eerie sound of the air rushing in the hangar is heard, which seems to relate to what the president is currently feeling while he waits.

After the pressurization process is complete, he disembarks as quick as he can, nearly tripping while getting off the shuttlecraft. He walks as fast as he can to the nearest gravity lift.

"Specify Destination." The lift computer said.

"Floor 25, Section 1." Fakenublet said.

The lift immediately starts "sending" Fakenublet to Floor 25, the gravity lifts used by Nubpryton were a bit more of a bumpy ride than the turbolifts used by the PRSS, the entire network of gravity grids allows them to gravitationally lift an object up and based on computer calculations - bring the user to its intended destination, though this device is more power-hungry than the turbolift.

When Fakenublet finally arrives in Section 1, he spent most of his time finding Room 11, which was the Fleet Admiral's room, he finally finds the room, not knowing what kind of reaction the Admiral will have when he tells the happenings on Rhunar and the Ascension, he takes a deep breath before pushing a combination of buttons on the door console.

A small beep sound plays, and he hears the Admiral say "Come in.", the door opens and the Admiral tells him to sit down.

"Sit down, Mr. President." Admiral Rowland politely says.

After both of them sit down, Fakenublet shows a phone-like device that displays the message sent by the Ardrean goverment.

"What's this?" Rowland asked.

"Its a message from the Ardrean government, apparently some kind of alien threat is showing itself in their star system, they told us that their ship, the Ascension has been boarded by alien lifeforms, there hasn't been any word from it since-"

The Admiral's computer suddenly goes online and informs him of a message.

"Incoming message. Sender is the government from the nation of Invictus, on the planet of Ardreas."

Fakenublet after hearing the sender is Invictus, nearly had a heart attack because he knows Invictus is also the closest neighbor of Ardreas, he is still nervous on how the Admiral will react. 

"Patch it through, put it on-screen." Rowland said to the computer.

* // Message Text Relayed from Nublean Listening Post in the Aedes System \\



To: the Government of Nubpryton



Greetings, allies.



We have been made aware of an extraterrestrial lifeform on the planet Rhunar in the Vita Aedes System by the Ardrean government. Upon hearing such news, understandably, we questioned the validity of the statement. We are contacting to you confirm that your government has heard this claim as well from the Ardreans. Please relay a message to us confirming that you too have been made aware of this situation.



Pacis et Prosperitatis,

Invictus Councillor of Foregin Affairs,

Marcus Dyrien

After reading the message, Admiral Rowland knew that - If these aliens are hostile and are more biologically and technologically advanced than Invictus and Ardreas, then most likely both governments would be wiped off the face of their planet, and everything that's living on it.

"Well, Mr. President...what do you advise we do?" Rowland asked.

"Status report of the Fleet, Admiral?" Fakenublet asked.

"Ilolia is still not ready to venture out of spacedock sir, her rapid-fire torpedo launchers along with her targeting scanners are still not fully installed yet, and the Valhalla is out in deep space, we can't divert it back."

Suddenly, after hearing the word torpedo, an idea pops into Fakenublet's head that could help them from understanding the aliens better without having to divert the Valhalla back to Ilolia's star.

"Sir, would you ask the senior engineering staff in spacedock if it is possible to refit one of our Interstellar missiles to carry a science probe instead of a antimatter warhead, so that we won't have to divert the Valhalla? And since the missile is warp capable and unmanned, we'll need little resources and manpower to manage it, and since most likely our sensors are more advanced than those of Ardreas or Zeganas, we can scan the Ascension with more information on these aliens."

"Well, no wonder Nubleans chose you to become their president...you are just as bright as our star...I'll contact them right now." Admiral Rowland said, with a smile on his face.

Fakenublet, now having the confidence to handle this crisis, sits down and waits for the Admiral to call him once he has the engineers on the line, despite having the confidence, he is still worried how critical this is for Nubpryton and its allies, he puts all the bad memories of the destruction of his homeworld behind him and focuses on the challenge that now awaits him.

"Mr. President, Chief Engineer Marc Pascual is on the line Mr. President, i'll patch you to him." Rowland said.

"Thanks Admiral, Mr. Pascual, is my plan possible to impliment within 2 days?"

"Yes, Mr. President, its a splendid idea, but remember, we won't be able to get the Ilolia ready until stardate 327.2014, so no rushing us." Pascual said.


*********5 hours later*********

After hours of modifying the probe to fit in the payload fairing of the missile, the missile carrying the science probe which will scan the aliens aboard the Ascension is finally ready for launch.

"It's ready for launch sir, awaiting engine ignition on your command." Pascual said.

"Fire." Fakenublet said, in a weak voice.

Pascual presses the buttons on the launch console, with every press of the touchscreen console, a sound is made, until on the main viewscreen, the word [ENGINES IGNITED] finally appears, the sound of the engines firing is heard as rocket exhaust fills the bottom of the rocket as it slowly blasts off from the missile silo on the surface, lighting up the red, Nublean sky as it soars into space.

"Status, Mr. Pascual?" Fakenublet asked, now in a strict, military-like voice.

"She's ready for warp sir, awaiting your authorization." Pascual says, as Fakenublet sees the warp nacelles of the missile finally come out of the protective fairing that keeps it from being damaged by aerodynamic pressure during launch. The warp nacelles start emitting a soft, ambient blue light.

"Maximum warp, engage."

Pascual sets the missile to warp, as the soft, ambient blue light from the nacelles turns from dim to incredibly bright, the ship breaks the Light Barrier and leaves behind a trail of plasma, it is now on its way to Rhunar to scan the Ardean ship Ascension

[Nubpryton]

The next day...



It is 2:51PM, the alarm has been sounding on and off since 7AM, and the Fakenublet has just waken up, looking a bit grumpy and confused as to why he didn't wake up at his usual time, which is *usually* around 6:50AM.

"What the...oh, it's almost 3, have to suit up. The Science Probe is halfway from Rhunar...going to check the status of the mission right now, don't want anything going wrong at this point in time..."

As he gets up and puts on his "morning attire" he slowly stands up and walks up to the Atomic Reorganizer.

"Computer, coffee, black."

At the base of the device, a cup of hot coffee is molecularized, these devices are one of the most advanced devices the Nublean civilization has ever made, at the cost of some energy, waiting isn't an issue anymore, although it can only make some types of food and beverages. Fakenublet picks it up and gently has a sip of it before turning the TV to see whats going on.

"Hmph, nothing really interesting going on, apart from the usual segment where they show the beautiful, red clouds of Nubpryton being filmed from above...Well, I guess its time to go." Fakenublet grumpily told himself.

He then put back the cup of coffee and the plate back inside the Atomic Reorganizer, it disappears as its atoms have been "recycled" for other uses, making a prolonged "weeeep" sound as it disappears.

After a few minutes of grooming one's self and taking a bath, he wears his usual presidential attire, a ordinary suit with a secret layer of advanced bulletproof vest made of refined Solarite. He then heads out of his room and heads for the landing pad, since he's still sleepy, he accidentally bumps people from time to time as he walks through the corridors and hallways, before finally arriving at the hangar, he nearly fell off while climbing up the stairs, and finally...he was on his way to Nubpryton Fleet HQ.

As the shuttle soars into space, the curvature of Nubpryton can be seen as they continue to gain altitude, they get higher and higher until the entire planet is seen from inside the shuttle, until finally, a small space station appears in the distance, as the shuttle slowly gets closer and closer, it is revealed that Nubpryton Fleet HQ is a gigantic 5.82 kilometer long space station, having 5 spacedocks to accomodate and repair starships as well as 25 docking ports to transfer personnel from the starships to the station or vice versa, shuttles can be seen transferring cargo back and forth through hangars, construction drones are seen working on the half-completed USS Verus, the 3rd starship in the Nublean Interstellar Fleet and the barely completed USS Albion, the 4th ship in the fleet.

As the presidential shuttle approaches Hangar Bay 09, the captain turns on the communications device and requests the hangar bay operator for authorization to land.

"This is the Presidential Shuttlecraft, we request clearance to land."

"This is the operator, you are clear to land."

"Thank you.", as he turns off the communications device, the hangar bay door opens just a few seconds before the shuttle would have collided with it, the shuttle slowly descends until its on the hangar door, and from a small room with a row of windows to see whats going on inside the hangar, he begins pressurizing the hangar so the president can proceed to the situation room.

As he disembarks, he is looking for Nubpryton's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Colum Cameron and the two accidentally bump into each other while running through a small corridor, Cameron first stands up and dusts off his suit, then offers Fakenublet help to get up.

"Oh god, I'm sorry Mr. President!" Colum in a worried voice said.

"It's okay Colum, its just like good ol' days while we were rushing to get to our classes on time..."

"Well then, my friend...shall I guide you to the Situation Room? HQ has just been renovated, and you can get lost pretty quick in here."

"Be my guest." Fakenublet said with a smile on his face, and the two are on their way to the Situation room.

As the two talk about their days when they were at high school - way, way back when the education was still "screwed up" in Nubpryton, they pass by Chief Engineer Adel Ortiz, realizing this, Fakenublet ran back to catch up to his old friend.

"Adel, wait up! You bloody scrub!" Fakenublet shouted

"I thought you weren't coming to the meeting today since you are a bit late." Ortiz said, with an unimpressed face.

"Don't be stupid, let's be on our way."

As the three friends finally enter the newly renovated and gigantic Situation Room, they are faced with information screens showing data from probes that are gathering information about planets and stars in other star systems and people working on maintaining the space traffic within the perimeter of Ilolia's star. Fakenublet sees Senior Engineer Pascual working at the station where the science probe that was launched yesterday was assigned.

"Mr. Pascual, hows the probe doing?" Fakenublet asked with a lively voice while patting him on the shoulder.

"Very good sir, were just a few hours away from arriving in the Aedes system, warp core is functioning splendidly, warp field looks normal, everything is fine, sir."

"Thank you for the hard work Pascual, any other good news?"

"Ah! Yes sir, I've gotten my men to work faster on the refit on the Ilolia, we will be able to launch and head for the Aedes system in approximately 4 hours, the probe will arrive at Rhunar in 7 hours." Pascual said happily with a large grin on his face.

[Nubpryton]

With the refit complete - the new torpedo launchers installed, the targeting systems online and the plasma cannons repaired, USS Ilolia is now ready to depart from spacedock to the Aedes system.

As President Fakenublet, Mr. Ortiz and Mr. Cameron walk across the docking tunnel that's connecting the spacedock to the starship, Fakenublet asks the flight status of the Ilolia.

"Status report of the Ilolia, Mr. Ortiz." He asked, in a strict voice.

"She should be ready for departure by the time we arrive at the bridge, sir."

"Any word from Captain Vincent Borres yet?"

"He's already in the ship waiting in his ready room, the ship is now just waiting for you, sir."

"Thank you, Mr. Ortiz." He thanked in a satisfied and lively voice.

As they enter the far end of Ilolia's docking tunnel and enter's the ship, the airlock doors slowly close as the docking tunnel is slowly depressurized before being retracted, they take gravity lift number 1 that covers all 7 decks of the ship, they're heading first for the Luxury quarters to drop off Mr. Cameron, Nubpryton's Minister of Foreign Affairs, then he'll drop off Mr. Ortiz in main engineering before heading to the bridge.

"Will the ship be using the singularity torpedoes, as this could possibly turn into a military operation, we will need all the firepower we can get - and I don't think those old vacuum torpedoes would work."

"Yes, the new torpedo launchers were modified to be able to carry both vacuum and singularity torpedoes, it can also fire 3 torpedoes every 0.5 seconds."

As the approach main engineering, Fakenublet leaves behind Mr. Ortiz and takes Mr. Cameron to the Luxury Quarters, while being carried there by the network of gravity generators, Cameron asks Fakenublet about the situation on the Ascension.

"Excuse me Mr. President, but do you have any good or bad news from the Ardreans and Invictians yet?" He worriedly asked.

"Well, good news is currently, the probe has arrived there and has already scanned the Ascension, scientists back on Nubpryton will receive the results and see if they can find any useful info on it, the Zeganians have also arrived there to help as well, as for bad news, I haven't heard any yet, so far."

As Fakenublet finishes talking, they arrive at Mr. Cameron's quarters, pushing a combination of buttons, the sliding door opens and inside the room, was a small table, a bed along with glass windows reinforced with solarite coating that makes them stronger and more resistant to damage, a Atomic Assembler and a small bathroom.

"Well, if there's anything you need, don't hesitate to ask me or the Captain."

"Thanks, you can go now."

Fakenublet then leaves the room and closes the door and heads for the bridge, being the first time he will leave Nubpryton, he is very excited for this mission, when arriving at the bridge he nearly tripped while looking at the high-tech touchscreen consoles and all sorts of gizmos and the like.

"Captain Borres!" He shouted happily with a big smile on his face has he sees his old friend now a starship captain.

"Mr. President!"

"Good to see you again old pal, you've grown mature since I last saw you in Fleet Academy...how's life since then?"

"Its pretty fun, though we leave the chit-chat for later, right now we have to depart for the Aedes system, sir."

"Ah yes, we should be underway then...let's do this."

To everyone's surprise on the bridge, Fakenublet was actually the helmsman that was assigned to the Ilolia, with Borres having a big grin on his face - knowing that his old friend will be piloting the flagship of the fleet.

"Alright...retract all moorings, full impulse power." 

As he ordered, the bridge crew got to work, outside the ship, the docking clamps that held the ship in place undocks and detaches the ship from the spacedock, with the ship accelerating forward, "Docking Clamps 1, 2 and 3 are released" are heard through the com as the eerie sound of the ship's impulse engines roars to life and pushes the ship out of spacedock.

"Mr. Ortiz, how we doing at engineering?"

"All systems functioning normally captain, warp propulsion system is ready at your command."

"Thank you, Mr Ortiz...alright, let's hit it, MAXIMUM WARP!"

As soon as the captain gives the order to jump into warp, bridge officers including Fakenublet began working on the warp drive, after the correct coordinates have been entered in the navigation console, Fakenublet slowly pushes a lever-like device forward that - seems to accelerate the ship into warp.

As the warp nacelles begin to emit blindingly bright light, the plasma exhausts on them began to glow blue, on the viewscreen, the stars begin to warp and look disorted, as the ship breaks the light barrier, it leaves behind a trail of blue plasma that the warp coils on the nacelles had left behind.


They are now on their way.

[Zeganas]

Message just delivered from Ryan Kyojiri.
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DEAR TATIANA FENRIS AND FAKENUBLET

"Hello, we would like to inform you that Zeganas would have to hold back its military might until further notice as we may be heading into a war on a global scale. While we do understand the situation that Ardreas has gone through, Zeganas must take care of its own problems first, otherwise the worst case scenario is collapse of Zeganasian society or total destruction, wish us luck, we will bring back ZWS 2. Connor Connors will remain on the planet of Ardreas to dish out diplomatic duties."
The video ends and another video starts.
"We apologize for any inconvenience that this caused, but Zeganas must do what it can to be strong, even minimal help is appreciated even though we don't need it with the only predominantly robotic military force on our planet."

MESSAGE END
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[Nubpryton]

Riezonar Spacedocks, in orbit above the planet Riezonar

"Take her out of spacedock, prepare the new Mark VI Solarium Warp Reactor for warp speed." Patrick Rowland ordered the helmsman, as the ensign activates the impulse engines, the new Ismael-class starship, designed for short-range tactical missions and border missions will have its final systems check before entering service on stardate 0424.2014.

Currently the biggest ship in the Nublean Interstellar Fleet, it sports an impressive arsenal of 6 Type II Solariton Arrays, two on the dorsal side of the saucer section, two on the ventral side and the other two located on the ventral side of each warp nacelle, having a total energy output 31,725 terawatts.

It also carries 5 torpedo launchers which are capable of bringing overwhelming firepower to an enemy ship using either the new Mark I Proton Torpedoes or the old Vacuum Torpedoes, each launcher is capable of rapidly firing 3 torpedoes at 0.35 second intervals between each other, the ship is also equipped with a high efficiency energy shielding system, that has a power capacity of 915,500 terajoules.

Finally, the Ismael-class is one of the fastest ships in the Nublean fleet, able to outrun the Ilolia and Samson classes easily, its highest maximum speed is Warp 9.975 or 4.9 billion miles per second, while having a average cruising speed of Warp 7.5.

As the ship departs the vicinity of the spacedocks, the Chief Engineer reports that the reactor is ready.

"Helmsman, get us to Warp 5, as slow as you can do." Captain Rowland ordered, which was also the Fleet Admiral.

"Yes sir, accelerating to Warp 5." The helmsman said.

As the glowing warp coils on the warp nacelles glows to life, the ship breaks the 0.35c limit due to the effects of time dilation when travelling at faster sublight speeds.

"Warp 0.4......Warp 0.5......Warp 0.6......Warp 0.7......Warp 0.8......Warp 0.9......Warp 1" The helmsman slowly counts as the ship's speed increases, at that point, the ship breaks Warp 1 or the light barrier and enters subspace, still accelerating to Warp 5, the humming sound of the engine aboard the ship slowly increases in pitch as the ship approaches higher speeds.

"Warp 2......Warp 3......Warp 4......Warp 5, we've successfully reached Warp 5, sir." Helmsman reported, while Captain Rowland was observing the crew do their work.

"Accelerate to maximum warp, helmsman." Captain Rowland ordered.

"Accelerating to Warp 9, sir." The helmsman says.

As more power is diverted from weapon systems and shields to the warp drive, the ship begins accelerating faster and faster.

"Warp 6......Warp 7......Warp 8." At this point, the ship begins shaking due to the stress experienced at higher warp speeds, but the ship continues to accelerate.

"WARP 9......WARP 9.1......WARP 9.2, 9.3, 9.4!" The helmsman shouted, until finally, Captain Rowland ordered the ship to drop out of warp, knowing the ship is capable of reaching speeds of Warp 9.

"Drop us out of warp!" Captain Rowland ordered, as the ship drops out of warp and enters normal space, the shaking stops and the crew of the ship, the sensors on board report very interesting data and warp propulsion experts consider the test a success.

As the ship was heading back to spacedock under impulse power, they detect a massive burst of energy on Zeganas, he sends President Fakenublet - who is currently on the surface of Ninabi a message asking what the heck caused the outburst...

[Zeganas]

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DEAR FAKENUBLET, DEAR FENRIS

This is an urgent message from the executive leader, Ryan Kyojiri, of the Imperial United Republics of Zeganas. There has been a mysterious blue glow in his eyes and on strange markings under his fur that just appeared, he also reports feeling a weird pensive feeling, and started feeling stressed for no reason. This is an unusual event as nothing on Zeganas has been going on as of late, and it is essential that this message see a response with a most accurate answer to be offered. I thank you for your service.

-Ryan Kyojiri
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