User blog comment:USS Enterprise CVN-65/The New (And Improved) Official Roleplay Room/@comment-5885288-20150604080608/@comment-5885288-20150604180254

The corvette continues on its course (although you detect it's slipspace drive is spoiling up) and hails back:

This is AV-CR 525 M hailing UAC defence systems. We are conducting a routine countermeasures test. Please stand by.

(At this point the ship as flown almost 35,000 km)

On the second flyby one of the Longsword copilots notices what appears to be atmosphere venting from ports on the corvette.

(The next bit happens in a fraction of a second)

As AV-CR 525 starts to jump away the Ceres defence grid detects a high energy burst, as if directional transmitters had just been fired in many different directions. Suddenly, without warning, hundreds of thousands of slipspace signatures (ships ranging in size from 30m to 25km) appear, coming from every direction. For a fraction of a second scanners are tricked into thinking that a belt of ships 35,000km long has just jumped into UAC airspace, from locations all throuout the solar system. Then, as quickly as it started, they disappear, along with the corvette, who's location is lost in the mess of tangled data.

The longsword pilots notice a faintly glowing plasma trail stretching from where AV-CR 525 warped in all the way to where it warped out.

A transmission is sent from FSI Headquarters on Caelmare:

Thank you for participating in our little test, we apologize for not warning you in advance but we needed a wartime response for it to work properly. On close inspection of your data you will discover that all but one of those warp signatures was fake. The only thing that actually warped (besides a patch of empty space) was our corvette. I'd like you to try to figure out where it went, by the way.

OOC: due to the sheer volume of traffic generated (close to 150,000 jumps in under one teeth of a second) most of the more distant jumps that you very able to record do not have entry or exit vectors. At the moment there are 70,000 slipspace jumps with unknown origins or destinations. My corvette is one of them.