Talk:AIF/@comment-10905876-20161007213008

-Space, 1LY From the Telos System.

"Captains log, June 17, 2XXX:"

"We have been continuing our task for several weeks. The same, monotonous task. The Sirius, along with several other fellow Chimaera class battleships, has been deploying long range sensor buoys outside of the Telos System. We have been tasked with covering one of the approaches from Earth, whilst other ships cover other sectors. Each sensor array can detect incoming vessels from very far out, and are small enough to avoid much notice. Admiralty says that these stations will allow us to detect incoming ships with several hours' warning, though at the moment it is only along certain vectors."

The AIF battleship Sirius glides through space, another sensor buoy dropped off in her wake. She is part of an operation involving hundreds of vessels in the Colonial Fleet, which is meant to provide an early warning system for the colonies on Telos. Thousands of sensor buoys are being deployed at points about a light year from Telos, each one capable of detecting a vessel at warp thousands of AUs away, and providing warning to the colonies.

Most buoys are being deployed along rough approaches from known systems such as Earth, Epsilon Octanus, and Korriban. More are also being deployed with the intent to eventually cover all of the system's approaches. However, it will take months to deploy enough for total coverage. It is estimated that it will take a month to cover the galactic plane with +- 20° declination (where most attacks will likely come from) and three months to cover +-90° declination.