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Yevata System Research Candidate #1, December XX, 2XXX

''After a few months(RP) of searching planetary systems, 3 Scorpio class vessels exit warp just inside the gap in the dust cloud surrounding this system. It had taken several days to find a spot in the dust cloud where they could warp out. When they got out, they started scanning the system for any signs of habitable planets. Nothing could be detected through the cloud, but the 3 small planets in the system actually were semi-habitable to humans. Nothing but microorganisms had developed there. The captain overlooking the operations for this group was about to head out, sure there was nothing interesting in the system, and then the star, which was a neutron star, visibly slowed down, and turned from one pole to the other, and then resumed spinning at the same rate it was before. Nothing happened for a few seconds, and then all the ships went dark, overloaded with electricity. Despite the radiation shielding on the ship, the power had gotten disabled. Emergency systems kicked on the second the EMP dissipated, restoring power to the ship’s life support(multiple different systems for it) and other vital systems to keep the crew alive. The captain ordered all the ships to warp out, and the 3 ships started heading back to Earth. The EMP was logged and further research to be done at another time. They were not going to head back there without some redundancy in the equipment…''

Yevata System Research Candidate #2, December XX, 2XXX

''5 Scorpio class aerospace research vessels, among them the Piercing Light commanded by Catherine Cabral, exit in the outside barriers of the systems. Catherine ordered for the ships to disperse when they first enter a system, to allow readings to come from multiple different angles. The system at a blue main sequence star, and a good 25(it’s actually closer to 17-19, but you know, obscuring of the star by planetoids) planets or so from initial readings. A dust cloud similar to what was encountered in the other system extended out into the edges of the system… A faint star could be seen close by, probably the star from the other system, possibly binary, but that would need further investigation. All the outer planets were very cold, definitely not able to retain heat even with the thick atmosphere of some of them. The inner planets and mid placement planets(2nd through the 8th planets), though, were very much habitable to humans, if a bit hot after the 3rd or 4th planet… and the 1st planet was completely inhospitable, due to lack of water and extreme heat(pretty much a Venus of sorts). No real readings could be done besides system layout from this distance though…''

After several days after the initial scans of the system, much more data had been collected on the system, and it was deemed safe by Captain Cabral to warp further in to the system, which would only take about an hour to get to the designated drop out points.

''The ships left warp and did some more scanning of the system, from a closer area so that analysis could be done on the conditions of each planet. Several SMF-500’s, and 2 top secret crafts, still shrouded in secrecy(Not really, but in RP it will be, cause I haven’t actually built the bloody thing in SP yet.), under the code name Sky Fall, decouple from various different ships and head towards some of the planets, to take atmospheric samples of several of the closer planets. A SMF-500 dips into the 5th planet’s atmosphere, and almost immediately starts to climb back up despite the pilot’s best efforts, and also having severe re-entry effects. It went back down again, and this time didn’t nose back up due to the steep incline being taken on by the aircraft and controls being locked to maximum downward pitch on the tail section. After the SMF-500 was slowed down, controls returned to near normal. The atmosphere spectrometer showed, quite clearly, that there was a abundance of oxygen compared to earth, almost 60%. Nitrogen was down a bit, but not by much.''

''About an hour passed uneventfully after that, but then radio chatter started to be picked up by the Peace Bringer, the ship that had accompanied Cabral when they began the expedition. It seemed random at first, but there was repeated sections that had the same types and order of pulses. It was a language, but it certainly wasn’t morse code. Radio wave activity on the 4th planet was very high… Also, 2 ships could be seen leaving the planet’s atmosphere, and, based on their size and weight, and general lack of weaponry, were determined to be colony ships of some sort. But they didn’t warp. Instead, sub-light engines, crude at that, started to blaze away, turning the ships towards 2 destinations… The 3rd and the 5th planet. One of the FTL operators cursed, because he couldn’t find the FTL receivers on the colony ships. Clearly, they only had radio, and it could take several hours to do a one way transmission via radio waves. Cabral ordered the Piercing Light to start preparations for warping to ‘intercept’ the colony ship heading for the 5th planet.''

''Several hours later, it was done. The ship warped over to the colony ship in practically an instant, matching speed and course with the colony ship. The radio operator started a transmission, but a video call was gotten instead…''(I’d put more, but that’d sort of spoil a thing I’m going to do later on… I might disclose what happened in a future post, but let’s just say it’s… Well, not top secret, but it’s a very complex thingy which would need a lot of other details. Don’t feel like doing that right now. Not too important, either way.)

Yevata Press Conference, December 14th, 2XXX, Approximately a week or 2 after the first expedition had ended

''At the press conference being held by Yevata, many camera crews and journalists(mostly from Yevata media outlets as well as an international one.) waited for the whole thing to start so they could do what they came here for. Big news was made several days ago with a press conference set for today.''

''Out of one of the back rooms, Yevata’s current leader, Adilen R Breshinsky stepped out and took a seat at one of the conference chairs, mostly there to do the beginning of the conference announcement(figure of authority stuff), with Catherine Cabral and Jake Nashworth following behind. Adilen stands up to provide the opening speech, on the stage that the camera people train their cameras on(Terribad description, IK.).''

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OOC: actually, I’m going to leave some of this for later, probably tomorrow, the last bits of the post. But those 2 systems are now official in RP…