User blog comment:USS Enterprise CVN-65/The New (And Improved) Official Roleplay Room/@comment-5885288-20150604080608/@comment-5885288-20150604182132

Externally, nothing changes, although you detect a slipspace drive warming up.

The corvette responds:

This is AV-CR 525 M, hailing the Ceres deffence grid. We are undergoing routine countermeasure tests. Thankyou for your participation, please standby.

As one of the longswords fly by the copilot sees what appears to be atmosphere venting from several ports along the ship. At this point the corvette has traveled almost 35,000km from its point of origin. At this moment, the corvette begins to warp away (the next bit happens in a fraction of a second).

Just before AV-CR 525 enters slipspace the Ceres defence grid detects a high energy burst, as if the ship had just fired directional transmitters in many different directions. In that instant more than 250,000 different slipspace jumps are detected, some coming, some going, all from different locations throuought the solar system. The Ceres grid is fooled into thinking that a mass of ships, some corvettes, others capital warships, 35,000km long has just warped into Ceres airspace. Warp disruptors fire, tripped by warps coming from the other side of the planet, but no ships appear on radar, and not a single mine detonates. As the signatures fade the only objects detected are the two longswords and a rapidly cooling plasma trail 35,000km long. The corvette is nowhere to be seen, it's exit vector mixed in with the thousands of other "departing" "ships".

Moments later a transmission is sent from FSI HIGHCOM:

Thank you for participating in our little test, codename: Flashbulb. We appologize for failing to warn you in advance, however, we collected much more useful data with the resultant wartime responce. We would now like you to attempt to find that corvette. HIGHCOM out.

As technicians pour over the massive amount of data just collected, they notice that most of the exit locations for the longer range departures were not detected (due to the sheer volume of information collected and radiation detected, these vectors were lost to background noise). This data, put into a visual map, paints nearly 40,000 lines radiating away from Ceres, all of which are for corvette sized vessels. Only one of them held an actual ship, and it could be anywhere along one of those lines.