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constellations in the message and displayed them on the main viewer. Two were easily recognisable
as being the area around Sol viewed from the region of the Hagunenon world of Halagraah; which
was only recently found near the Hub. Another one that stood out was a constellation that would
only appear as it did if viewed from Old Terra. The rest; six in all seemed to be scattered around the
rim regions of the Galaxy. The Hive then did a quick recalculation and displayed the point in space
from which all would appear as they would from a planetary system in the region of The Veil. It
cantered in on a system on the outskirts of Krall space near The Veil. It displayed the results showing
their relative position to the system highlighted by the results.
“That’s definitely in what we now know to have been Krall controlled space.” The Navigator said
adding “Approximately twelve light-years from here. There’s a Gantrax debris field from one of the
later skirmishes the Osir had in our galaxy between there and The Veil. That field is particularly
dense and still radioactive after all this time. It was the site of a test use of the doomsday device the
Osir came up with to rid their galaxy of the Gantrax menace. It could explain why we never noticed
that region before”
Hart contacted Engineering “is it possible to bring that probe aboard?” she asked. Jock replied
“Aye; but we’ll need to set up a containment area, it’s barely holding together in our traction field as
it is” he barked an order to some of his crew and added “ The materials used are degraded a bit, but
we might just be able to get it aboard intact.” He answered
“Then make it so!” Hart ordered. She then turned to all assembled on the Bridge “It may be some
time before we get a reply from our colleagues in the speeders so I think we should concentrate on
this probe and send as much data as we gather to Unity Central for analysis. Coms; resume the
monitoring rota, Navigation. Ready planned routes to that system; we are after all an exploratory
expedition, that system may well be our next objective. That is all… dismissed!”

Chapter 3
Waking up in a strange place

Trok 772 and Misha Lyndsey; the two pilots of the speeders slowly began to awaken. When
they did they were astonished to find they were in some kind of medical facility; Trok in particular as
he was a Mechanoid and needed no medical assistance. However he was connected to some ancient
and primitive form of monitoring station. Likewise Misha who took a little longer to come round
“What happened; I remember trying to compensate for that strange warp surge then nothing?” she
asked of her companion
“I’m in the dark too. I did manage to make a personal recording, but it appears to have been
scrambled by the phenomenon we encountered. We appear to have been rescued by someone and
brought here. If I can get to our craft I might be able to reconstruct what
happened.” Trok replied. A noise to their right focussed their attention. It
was snoring coming from a young man dressed in some sort of medical
coverall. He stirred and yawned. He looked a little startled that they were
awake but went over to a desk and scribbled a note before making a call to
someone. Trok recognised the language as a variant of Atalaman though he
couldn’t quite pin down the region. He was about to ask where they were
when the young orderly spoke in Interlac
“You’re finally awake. I’ve just called my superiors; they will attempt to
answer your questions. Just for the record; you are in the Facilitia Medico
Centrali Jesus. We are a military facility on the outskirts of Juaneras City.
The world you are on is called Keteria; home world of our peoples. I suggest you dress in your
uniform Ma’am; as to your metal friend, I’m not sure. Do you require refreshment?” he asked. Misha