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The dawn of the 33rd century is considered by many historians to be the Golden Age of space exploration as the Alliance spread further then ever before. It had been over a millennium since the first FTL vessel had been constructed on Earth, and over two centuries since the Terran-Vorla war had ended. In that time the technology had not remained stagnant.
Great advances had been made in every aspect of starship construction and propulsion. The HC-5 Osprey-class heavy cruiser was, for nearly all of that time the crown jewel of the Terran Armada.
In it's nearly nine hundred year operational history, it was the mightiest vessel among the stars, that was until the war started. By the time the guns fell silent; The vessel was totally, pathetically obsolete.
It's replacement, the HC-52 Tunguska-class was a goliath vessel, over 5kms long and carrying enough advanced weapon systems to easily bring an entire interstellar empire to it's knees.
It's weapons won the war, but it's engines changed civilization as it stands as a whole. New printing techniques, new materials, new focusing deflector design, and an all new form of power generation to power it, the GRAZER-induced artificial singularity generator, or "Kugelblitz" generator.
At first, these new technologies were only available in the newest, most advanced post-war Naval vessels such as the HCC and HEC (linked below)
But it didn't take long for the civilian market to open up, and soon intergalactic-rated drive ring and focusing-defector kits were being sold on every metaphorical street corner.
Most of them were down-right scams, selling for far less than even a basic FTL drive should cost. These were people cashing in on small shipping companies trying to get a leg up on the competition.
There was very little motivation for the largest companies to sell these new drives. In fact, it wasn't even possible for the most part. For one, they were very expensive and complicated to produce. They were also a very new form of warp drive, and to say the technology wasn't "As polished out" would be fair.
You couldn't just bolt these to any ship "as long as it fit and had sufficient power" like you could the older style of drive. The ship had to be constructed around the drive, not the other way around.
On top of that, with the new "Slingshot" network being built to facilitate near-instant travel, even at an intergalactic level. It didn't make a lot of sense to build a civilian version, at least not yet.
That didn't mean they wouldn't if you could pay for it though. And that's in fact how Venusian Ship Yards (VSY) came to construct the EDHD 31-340
A total of 135 were commissioned by the MIPH Museum, Civil Exploration Corps, and a large pool of public backers in 3414. Known as the Calypso-class Long Range Space Explorer, or simply the LRSE for short.
Their mission, to explore distant worlds, make contact with alien species, and to chart possible location for habitation and/or further study.
Equipped with two of the most advanced intergalactic-rated AWR rings in a unique "twin-bore" configuration and powered by four Starlite Z-9C Kugelblitz generators. She was the fastest ship flying at the time of her launch, and would retain that title for centuries to come.
The secret to her speed was the two massive engine cluster pods that make up the bulk of the aft end. VSY had actually found a way to use gravitic thrusters while at warp. This forced the bubble to expand or contract, depending on the direction thruster was facing.
She was also the first non-military vessel capable of bi-directional warp travel, meaning it can hop to FTL in reverse, but only in a limited capacity.
By adding thrusters to both the front and back and pulsing them on and off rapidly in exactly the right way and frequency creates extreme oscillations in the gravitational field.
If done correctly, the oscillations will fall into resonance which causes a multi-dimensional cavitation effect that splits the warp bubble and creates a secondary warp bubble that occupies the same space as the initial one.
Essentially what this means is a conventional warp ship "falls" into it's own gravity well. This system straps on rocket boosters and flies into the gravity well.
Her engines weren't her only impressive or groundbreaking new technology to be incorporated into a starship. Under her primary hull, and just behind the hanger door sits a spherical module.
This module is made of a new material, a top-secret graphene reinforced titanium composite armor. This material has the ability to withstand great stress, and can block nearly all ionizing radiation.
It would serve as the radiation shelter as well as the primary laboratory and medical section which was equipped with the best medical technology the alliance had which included everything from limb and organ regeneration, cybernetics, nanorobotics, and advanced other forms of life-extension such as digital cognitive back-ups stored in a secure computer.
And of course, there is plenty of equipment on board that isn't particularly advanced or even new. But it had never been used in that way before. Her nose contained a "fractal" docking adapter that used a complex mechanism to form to any vessels docking port.
Amidships she is separated into the primary habitation section in the front, and the star-drive section in the rear. These two sections are connected by a truss structure that also contains two passage ways for accessing the engineering compartment.
In the event of a catastrophic radiation leak or engine failure. Explosive bolts would detonate and sever the two sections. Anyone still on board the drive section will have a life boats to use to get back to the habitat section.
The habitat section is equipped with four emergency thrusters that will push the section away and even allow it to land assuming an appropriate planetary body is near by.
The habitat section cannot travel at FTL without the star-drive section, and once the bolts are blown, they're blown. If this happens in deep space, you're very likely already dead.
Even if you can contact someone through subspace; And even if they come to help, they simply wont reach you in time.
Ships traveling beyond the reach of help or reinforcements often had their drive section rigged so that once the habitat section is at a safe distance, the entire aft section will detonate to prevent the technology falling into alien hands.
Because these ships were built to explore, they also had some of the best scanning suites and drones available. On her back sits an extremely sensitive radio telescope and passive scanning suite which is used to observe and listen to alien civilizations.
On her nose, her primary subspace communications array is configured to not only maintain communication back home, but also to detect subspace communications from uncontacted alien species as well as detect Cherenkov flares from starships entering and exiting FTL.
She also has a decently sized flight hanger for a ship of her tonnage. This hanger is accessed from the under side of the ship, and is equipped with a plasma shield that keeps atmosphere in, but allows shuttles and drones out.
Each would carry a single UFO-7 observation craft, also commissioned for this mission as well as four, T-23 type shuttles. Some would opt for a second UFO-7, or six T-23s. This was all ship specific and changed frequently depending on the destination.
Her main bridge sits high on her back, directly above the officers compartment. This is where the quarters for the senior staff are located. A total of 12-15 "officers" will serve aboard an LRSE at any one time with around 30-40 scientists and explorers.
Directly behind the bridge sits the mess and common area, one of the only places on board where everyone can look out a window. Down and along the sides of the hull are the "officers" quarters which are stacked on top of each other and connected by a narrow staircase.
The top six of these quarters are the largest, with windows looking out to space. Usually the captain, and his five favorite members of the crew and/or visiting dignitaries will get these rooms, and the rest will get the more basic, windowless quarters.
These are the same size, but instead of being a small room for one person, it's line of bunks for four people. The ship also has limited bathroom facilities. three in total. One directly off the bridge, one in the star-drive section, and the primary one in between the crew quarters.
Main shower facilities are located in between the hanger and crew compartment, these double as the decontamination facility. There are also one in each of the six "Officers" quarters.
The area of the ship forward of the hanger is largely hollow aside from the equipment such as the subspace antenna. The bulk of that space is used for storage, mostly of oxygen tanks but some is taken up by the "garage"
Usually some kind of 4x4, a dirt-bike type motorcycle or hover-bikes, possible a tracked vehicle like a small digger, or maybe even a small motor boat or submarine are stored here.
Directly above that is what's known as "The brig"
This is what it sounds like, a large cage. Usually, it's for storing live animal specimens but it could be used to detain a deranged crew member or hostile alien.
A long corridor runs along the dorsal spine of the ship that connects everything from the forward docking port to the aft-most lifeboats. Small, narrow staircases and corridors break off from it and lead to the various locations within the ship.
Some of the staircases in the earliest models were so dark, narrow, and unsettling that they gave the crew bizarre nightmares and sever apprehension. It was said you had to be a contortionist to navigate them safely.
By the time the 3rd ship rolled out, this issue had been rectified and was attributed to an error in the printing model.
When the first ships in the class launched, they didn't travel out very far. They explored nearby worlds that were interesting, but not interesting enough for the Alliance to send a team.
Then they started pushing farther and farther out. Eventually, the Navy partnered up with the Exploration Corps to launch the "Infinite Frontiers" project.
The goal was to send a group of six vessels on different courses out to the farthest reaches of the supercluster and beyond. To see how far they could get, and to see what else might be out there. Friend or foe.
The Infinite Frontiers mission was the first to discover the existence of, and make contact with the Telneza Republic, a pacifistic and peaceful yet territorial machine civilization as well as countless other species of every shape and size imaginable.
Some with civilizations had built societies spanning multiple star systems and even some with extra-galactic colonies of their own, others just planting their first crops in the soil or forging their first, basic metals.
After seventy-nine years of exploration and discovery across nearly 150 million light years of space. The crew of the LRSE New Horizons XIV had expanded from thirty-four, to forty-six and back home, the 31st century was drawing to a close.
The crew had to choose whether to continue onward indefinitely, or due to the ever increasing population and a ship in desperate need of an overhaul, turn around and head back for Earth.
a decade and a half prior, when they had passed through the Peno Empire; They had made peaceful first contact and were given the "Emperors eternal blessing" to use at any point in the future their own warp-slingshot network, called the C'armo Tel, or God's Rings in Terran English to return home if they ever wished.
Reluctantly, The decision was made to return home to Earth. New Horizons XIV dropped out of FTL and the entire crew gathered in pairs on the small bridge to take one last look ahead into the infinite frontier.
After a brief few moments, the last of the crew slowly piled off the bridge and returned to their stations. The command crew took one last look ahead, and before turning around deployed a buoy marking their final location.
The buoy was a simple, self-stabilized fusion powered long-duration system designed for indicating borders in space. Instead of transmitting a message regarding border protocols as they usually do. This one simply stated.
"June 18th, CY3096. This buoy sits at a distance 150,249,102.48326 light years from our home galaxy and our home worlds, Earth, Geth, and Venus. It marks the furthest our people have ever traveled. Please, do not disturb this device. We intend to return for it one day."
The buoy included and universal translator in the form of a computer virus that could infect nearly any computer system, install itself, and play in their native language.
The ship then turned around, and headed towards the Peno empire. The trip back would be faster than the trip out, as exploration was no longer the goal. Though it would still take over nine months.
On the outskirts of the Peno Empire, like before. They were intercepted by Peno Imperial cruisers. This time though, they knew the ship and instead of holding the entire crew prisoner for nearly a month. This time escorted them as friends directly to their home world, where the emperor "requested" their audience.
The meeting was mostly formality, however he, again "requested" that they bring a small party of Imperial Scouts, who were their own version of the Exploration Corps in many ways along to explore Terran space. A small vessel, about half the size of the New Horizons was already waiting to transit the slingshot network back to Terran space.
Of course, the captain had to inform the Alliance about this request, or the second ship would be destroyed when the Terran ring detected it in the wormhole. The Emperor understood, and dismissed the small landing party back to their ship.
The Alliance was skeptical, but granted the Peno permission to enter. Their ship was small, unarmed and the small crew of sixteen were all scientists and explorers.
At 0:835 on may 18th of 3097. After just over eighty years of exploration. The Terran and Peno slingshot networks made the longest connection of any two wormholes up until that point.
Cherenkov radiation beamed from the perimeter of the ring in a blinding blue ring of canescent blue pulses and ripples. Inside this glowing, blue ring, a black void began to form and expand. As it rapidly expanding, the entire ring appeared to bend and distort as space-time was warped around it.
And then it flashed and the distortion was gone. Now crystal clear like a five kilometer wide doorway in the universe, the blue glow of Earth beamed through and off the hull of the ships on other side.
Two Terran heavy cruisers were docked at one of Earths new orbital rings that wasn't there when the crew departed almost a century ago. Yet another was clearly under construction and nearing completion.
Several hundred more vessels sat around the parameter of the gate, most of them were just people who'd come out to welcome them home and see the ship, though both media and security forces were present as well. Over a dozen other LRSEs also had flown in to greet their fellow explorers as well as the aliens coming back with them.
"New Horizons, Imperial vessel Trelest. This is Earth gate control. Passage is stable and singularity secure. You are cleared for transit. Welcome home new Horizons, and Welcome to Earth, Trelest."
With that, both vessels passed through the ring, and shortly after it was disconnected.
Less than five years later. The connection to the Peno Empire would be activated again and both the Trelest and New Horizions would again make the journey.
The Trelest, returning home after finding the extensive slingshot networking made the Alliance easy to scout for a larger exploration vessel and trade ships if possible. Another Peno ship, the Graator, a slightly larger class of exploration vessel took the Trelests place, and several small merchant vessels from either side were also allowed to make the trip.
Now fully restocked, repaired, and refit with upgraded engines and power systems. She even had new point-defense, including a small missile launcher and something she didn't have at all before, gravitic energy shields which negated the need for the radiation shelter module, but it was kept anyway as it was a functional work space with extra protection.
The shields weren't much, they aren't battle-rated shields. They're for radiation protection on civilian vessels, though they do work against most laser-based weapons and will indeed dampen any physicals blow, though if attacked, it's recommended you turn them off and run as they simply draw more power then they're worth. The ships speed is it's best defense.
New Horizons was now faster, more efficient, and better equipped than ever before in every way. Of her original crew, nearly half returned to the ship to continue the mission.
Some, including the captain barley ever left. Staying on board to assist in the overhauls and suggesting where changes should be made.
She returned to her buoy only a week after the 5th adversary of deploying it. "It took us 80 years to get here last time. With the ring and our new engines we just did it in six weeks."
Was the captains quote upon seeing the buoy in the bridge window.
Great advances had been made in every aspect of starship construction and propulsion. The HC-5 Osprey-class heavy cruiser was, for nearly all of that time the crown jewel of the Terran Armada.
In it's nearly nine hundred year operational history, it was the mightiest vessel among the stars, that was until the war started. By the time the guns fell silent; The vessel was totally, pathetically obsolete.
It's replacement, the HC-52 Tunguska-class was a goliath vessel, over 5kms long and carrying enough advanced weapon systems to easily bring an entire interstellar empire to it's knees.
It's weapons won the war, but it's engines changed civilization as it stands as a whole. New printing techniques, new materials, new focusing deflector design, and an all new form of power generation to power it, the GRAZER-induced artificial singularity generator, or "Kugelblitz" generator.
At first, these new technologies were only available in the newest, most advanced post-war Naval vessels such as the HCC and HEC (linked below)
But it didn't take long for the civilian market to open up, and soon intergalactic-rated drive ring and focusing-defector kits were being sold on every metaphorical street corner.
Most of them were down-right scams, selling for far less than even a basic FTL drive should cost. These were people cashing in on small shipping companies trying to get a leg up on the competition.
There was very little motivation for the largest companies to sell these new drives. In fact, it wasn't even possible for the most part. For one, they were very expensive and complicated to produce. They were also a very new form of warp drive, and to say the technology wasn't "As polished out" would be fair.
You couldn't just bolt these to any ship "as long as it fit and had sufficient power" like you could the older style of drive. The ship had to be constructed around the drive, not the other way around.
On top of that, with the new "Slingshot" network being built to facilitate near-instant travel, even at an intergalactic level. It didn't make a lot of sense to build a civilian version, at least not yet.
That didn't mean they wouldn't if you could pay for it though. And that's in fact how Venusian Ship Yards (VSY) came to construct the EDHD 31-340
A total of 135 were commissioned by the MIPH Museum, Civil Exploration Corps, and a large pool of public backers in 3414. Known as the Calypso-class Long Range Space Explorer, or simply the LRSE for short.
Their mission, to explore distant worlds, make contact with alien species, and to chart possible location for habitation and/or further study.
Equipped with two of the most advanced intergalactic-rated AWR rings in a unique "twin-bore" configuration and powered by four Starlite Z-9C Kugelblitz generators. She was the fastest ship flying at the time of her launch, and would retain that title for centuries to come.
The secret to her speed was the two massive engine cluster pods that make up the bulk of the aft end. VSY had actually found a way to use gravitic thrusters while at warp. This forced the bubble to expand or contract, depending on the direction thruster was facing.
She was also the first non-military vessel capable of bi-directional warp travel, meaning it can hop to FTL in reverse, but only in a limited capacity.
By adding thrusters to both the front and back and pulsing them on and off rapidly in exactly the right way and frequency creates extreme oscillations in the gravitational field.
If done correctly, the oscillations will fall into resonance which causes a multi-dimensional cavitation effect that splits the warp bubble and creates a secondary warp bubble that occupies the same space as the initial one.
Essentially what this means is a conventional warp ship "falls" into it's own gravity well. This system straps on rocket boosters and flies into the gravity well.
Her engines weren't her only impressive or groundbreaking new technology to be incorporated into a starship. Under her primary hull, and just behind the hanger door sits a spherical module.
This module is made of a new material, a top-secret graphene reinforced titanium composite armor. This material has the ability to withstand great stress, and can block nearly all ionizing radiation.
It would serve as the radiation shelter as well as the primary laboratory and medical section which was equipped with the best medical technology the alliance had which included everything from limb and organ regeneration, cybernetics, nanorobotics, and advanced other forms of life-extension such as digital cognitive back-ups stored in a secure computer.
And of course, there is plenty of equipment on board that isn't particularly advanced or even new. But it had never been used in that way before. Her nose contained a "fractal" docking adapter that used a complex mechanism to form to any vessels docking port.
Amidships she is separated into the primary habitation section in the front, and the star-drive section in the rear. These two sections are connected by a truss structure that also contains two passage ways for accessing the engineering compartment.
In the event of a catastrophic radiation leak or engine failure. Explosive bolts would detonate and sever the two sections. Anyone still on board the drive section will have a life boats to use to get back to the habitat section.
The habitat section is equipped with four emergency thrusters that will push the section away and even allow it to land assuming an appropriate planetary body is near by.
The habitat section cannot travel at FTL without the star-drive section, and once the bolts are blown, they're blown. If this happens in deep space, you're very likely already dead.
Even if you can contact someone through subspace; And even if they come to help, they simply wont reach you in time.
Ships traveling beyond the reach of help or reinforcements often had their drive section rigged so that once the habitat section is at a safe distance, the entire aft section will detonate to prevent the technology falling into alien hands.
Because these ships were built to explore, they also had some of the best scanning suites and drones available. On her back sits an extremely sensitive radio telescope and passive scanning suite which is used to observe and listen to alien civilizations.
On her nose, her primary subspace communications array is configured to not only maintain communication back home, but also to detect subspace communications from uncontacted alien species as well as detect Cherenkov flares from starships entering and exiting FTL.
She also has a decently sized flight hanger for a ship of her tonnage. This hanger is accessed from the under side of the ship, and is equipped with a plasma shield that keeps atmosphere in, but allows shuttles and drones out.
Each would carry a single UFO-7 observation craft, also commissioned for this mission as well as four, T-23 type shuttles. Some would opt for a second UFO-7, or six T-23s. This was all ship specific and changed frequently depending on the destination.
Her main bridge sits high on her back, directly above the officers compartment. This is where the quarters for the senior staff are located. A total of 12-15 "officers" will serve aboard an LRSE at any one time with around 30-40 scientists and explorers.
Directly behind the bridge sits the mess and common area, one of the only places on board where everyone can look out a window. Down and along the sides of the hull are the "officers" quarters which are stacked on top of each other and connected by a narrow staircase.
The top six of these quarters are the largest, with windows looking out to space. Usually the captain, and his five favorite members of the crew and/or visiting dignitaries will get these rooms, and the rest will get the more basic, windowless quarters.
These are the same size, but instead of being a small room for one person, it's line of bunks for four people. The ship also has limited bathroom facilities. three in total. One directly off the bridge, one in the star-drive section, and the primary one in between the crew quarters.
Main shower facilities are located in between the hanger and crew compartment, these double as the decontamination facility. There are also one in each of the six "Officers" quarters.
The area of the ship forward of the hanger is largely hollow aside from the equipment such as the subspace antenna. The bulk of that space is used for storage, mostly of oxygen tanks but some is taken up by the "garage"
Usually some kind of 4x4, a dirt-bike type motorcycle or hover-bikes, possible a tracked vehicle like a small digger, or maybe even a small motor boat or submarine are stored here.
Directly above that is what's known as "The brig"
This is what it sounds like, a large cage. Usually, it's for storing live animal specimens but it could be used to detain a deranged crew member or hostile alien.
A long corridor runs along the dorsal spine of the ship that connects everything from the forward docking port to the aft-most lifeboats. Small, narrow staircases and corridors break off from it and lead to the various locations within the ship.
Some of the staircases in the earliest models were so dark, narrow, and unsettling that they gave the crew bizarre nightmares and sever apprehension. It was said you had to be a contortionist to navigate them safely.
By the time the 3rd ship rolled out, this issue had been rectified and was attributed to an error in the printing model.
When the first ships in the class launched, they didn't travel out very far. They explored nearby worlds that were interesting, but not interesting enough for the Alliance to send a team.
Then they started pushing farther and farther out. Eventually, the Navy partnered up with the Exploration Corps to launch the "Infinite Frontiers" project.
The goal was to send a group of six vessels on different courses out to the farthest reaches of the supercluster and beyond. To see how far they could get, and to see what else might be out there. Friend or foe.
The Infinite Frontiers mission was the first to discover the existence of, and make contact with the Telneza Republic, a pacifistic and peaceful yet territorial machine civilization as well as countless other species of every shape and size imaginable.
Some with civilizations had built societies spanning multiple star systems and even some with extra-galactic colonies of their own, others just planting their first crops in the soil or forging their first, basic metals.
After seventy-nine years of exploration and discovery across nearly 150 million light years of space. The crew of the LRSE New Horizons XIV had expanded from thirty-four, to forty-six and back home, the 31st century was drawing to a close.
The crew had to choose whether to continue onward indefinitely, or due to the ever increasing population and a ship in desperate need of an overhaul, turn around and head back for Earth.
a decade and a half prior, when they had passed through the Peno Empire; They had made peaceful first contact and were given the "Emperors eternal blessing" to use at any point in the future their own warp-slingshot network, called the C'armo Tel, or God's Rings in Terran English to return home if they ever wished.
Reluctantly, The decision was made to return home to Earth. New Horizons XIV dropped out of FTL and the entire crew gathered in pairs on the small bridge to take one last look ahead into the infinite frontier.
After a brief few moments, the last of the crew slowly piled off the bridge and returned to their stations. The command crew took one last look ahead, and before turning around deployed a buoy marking their final location.
The buoy was a simple, self-stabilized fusion powered long-duration system designed for indicating borders in space. Instead of transmitting a message regarding border protocols as they usually do. This one simply stated.
"June 18th, CY3096. This buoy sits at a distance 150,249,102.48326 light years from our home galaxy and our home worlds, Earth, Geth, and Venus. It marks the furthest our people have ever traveled. Please, do not disturb this device. We intend to return for it one day."
The buoy included and universal translator in the form of a computer virus that could infect nearly any computer system, install itself, and play in their native language.
The ship then turned around, and headed towards the Peno empire. The trip back would be faster than the trip out, as exploration was no longer the goal. Though it would still take over nine months.
On the outskirts of the Peno Empire, like before. They were intercepted by Peno Imperial cruisers. This time though, they knew the ship and instead of holding the entire crew prisoner for nearly a month. This time escorted them as friends directly to their home world, where the emperor "requested" their audience.
The meeting was mostly formality, however he, again "requested" that they bring a small party of Imperial Scouts, who were their own version of the Exploration Corps in many ways along to explore Terran space. A small vessel, about half the size of the New Horizons was already waiting to transit the slingshot network back to Terran space.
Of course, the captain had to inform the Alliance about this request, or the second ship would be destroyed when the Terran ring detected it in the wormhole. The Emperor understood, and dismissed the small landing party back to their ship.
The Alliance was skeptical, but granted the Peno permission to enter. Their ship was small, unarmed and the small crew of sixteen were all scientists and explorers.
At 0:835 on may 18th of 3097. After just over eighty years of exploration. The Terran and Peno slingshot networks made the longest connection of any two wormholes up until that point.
Cherenkov radiation beamed from the perimeter of the ring in a blinding blue ring of canescent blue pulses and ripples. Inside this glowing, blue ring, a black void began to form and expand. As it rapidly expanding, the entire ring appeared to bend and distort as space-time was warped around it.
And then it flashed and the distortion was gone. Now crystal clear like a five kilometer wide doorway in the universe, the blue glow of Earth beamed through and off the hull of the ships on other side.
Two Terran heavy cruisers were docked at one of Earths new orbital rings that wasn't there when the crew departed almost a century ago. Yet another was clearly under construction and nearing completion.
Several hundred more vessels sat around the parameter of the gate, most of them were just people who'd come out to welcome them home and see the ship, though both media and security forces were present as well. Over a dozen other LRSEs also had flown in to greet their fellow explorers as well as the aliens coming back with them.
"New Horizons, Imperial vessel Trelest. This is Earth gate control. Passage is stable and singularity secure. You are cleared for transit. Welcome home new Horizons, and Welcome to Earth, Trelest."
With that, both vessels passed through the ring, and shortly after it was disconnected.
Less than five years later. The connection to the Peno Empire would be activated again and both the Trelest and New Horizions would again make the journey.
The Trelest, returning home after finding the extensive slingshot networking made the Alliance easy to scout for a larger exploration vessel and trade ships if possible. Another Peno ship, the Graator, a slightly larger class of exploration vessel took the Trelests place, and several small merchant vessels from either side were also allowed to make the trip.
Now fully restocked, repaired, and refit with upgraded engines and power systems. She even had new point-defense, including a small missile launcher and something she didn't have at all before, gravitic energy shields which negated the need for the radiation shelter module, but it was kept anyway as it was a functional work space with extra protection.
The shields weren't much, they aren't battle-rated shields. They're for radiation protection on civilian vessels, though they do work against most laser-based weapons and will indeed dampen any physicals blow, though if attacked, it's recommended you turn them off and run as they simply draw more power then they're worth. The ships speed is it's best defense.
New Horizons was now faster, more efficient, and better equipped than ever before in every way. Of her original crew, nearly half returned to the ship to continue the mission.
Some, including the captain barley ever left. Staying on board to assist in the overhauls and suggesting where changes should be made.
She returned to her buoy only a week after the 5th adversary of deploying it. "It took us 80 years to get here last time. With the ring and our new engines we just did it in six weeks."
Was the captains quote upon seeing the buoy in the bridge window.
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Quite the backstory.