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31, October 3042
St. Ives palace
0700 hours EST

lilchan walks out to a podium placed at one of the hall followed by 2 young twin girls.
Goodmorning all, thank you all for coming this early.
Today we the survivors of task force czz-103 and our fellow citizens of the innersphere are here to remember and celebrate in equal measures.
First, today marks 2 sad incidents in our former planets history, the opening attacks of a rebellion that after almost 11 years ended in the death of our home, and the same day the death of my father. Now for the good news and the reason for the party that is taking place in 6 other locations here in the capital of St. Ives and here at the palace, 12 years ago today, my daughters were also born, even though they have only know about the horror of war. The members of the family, our guards and the rest of the domestic staff helped to give them as peaceful of a childhood as possable, and also helped to teach them to be good and caring young women like their mother was.
All citizens and military personal are invited to attend one of the parties around town, free food and all kinds of entertainment are provided free to all.
Also there will be trick or treating provided through out the merchant areas till 8 pm for the childrens safety.

Again thank you for coming and please enjoy the day of celebration.

bump for fate to continue before i respond.

0255
Lil Hans office

The door opens quietly and someone dressed in all white enters quickly and shuts the door.
Markus looks at the new arrival and nods but continues talking with the admiral.
"OK Ivan I think this will do for now, please get comma officer shun in here so i "
"You will want shange li instead lilchan" says the man in white
Markus nods and says "Ivan you heard him please get shange li here, five minutes ago"
The admiral looks confused for a few seconds but then nods and quickly leaves.
Markus and the man speak quietly and quickly in a strange language. Two minutes later there is a knock on the door and the man in white opens it and a middle aged non description man walks in with a recorder bows to the man in white and the lilchan, then walks up to the desk and sets things up then signals the device is ready.
Markus dictates the reply, then change rewinds the audio track then presses a hidden button on the machine and the man in white dictates a very different message. After this is done change breaks down the device and heads to the door and says "the messages will be sent in five minutes" and then leaves.
Markus heads out the door a minute later and the man in white departs the ship to another dropper.

0313

Greeting captain zim,
I am lilchan Markus Liao of taskforce ccz-103.
We received the burst message sent to us 9 months ago, but we had some details to work out before we left.
We are very happy and relieved to find our sister colony here at ward is successful and relieved the confederation is still intact. We awaits resp once and are ready to transmits all codes and all medical information since our ancestors left here to our target system. We would also ask for vacinne update from said year.

Meanwhile on a sub Chanel reserved for mask agents a different message plays " this is commander youh. Wilfred is ready to dance."

18 OCT 3040 0235
nadir jump point
ward system
transport ship: deep haul

"officer of the watch, we have incoming message from the 4th planet in the system sir, should I call the admiral and lilchan?" says a young female ensign.
"let me hear the message, ensign" the officer of the watch says in reply.
"I am sorry sir but the message is a bit difficult to understand at the moment, I am sending it to the computer for translation, but from what I can understand it is confirmed that this is the ward system and the confederation has survived to this day"
"get the translation done quick and signal the admiral and lilchan ensign"
"yes sir" as the ensign pushes a few buttons and then over the ship load speaker "admiral to the bridge, I repeat the admiral to the bridge,  lilchan to the bridge I repeat lilchan to the bridge"

0245
bridge

several minutes later lilchan markus liou {sp} enters, followed several seconds later by the admiral.
both approach the officer of the watch, "what is up, mallus" says the admiral to the officer
"we have gotten a response to our hail, sir. It is in translation right now and apparently our sister colony here on ward has survived as has the confederation."
the ensign turns and address her superior officers and lilchan "the computer has finished the translation and is ready to play."
markus looks at the ensign and says "very good ensign, please put it on bridge speaker only"
"yes lilchan sir"

message plays

"thank the gods that we have returned home finally and all seems like it is in order" says markus with a sigh of relief. cheers come from the bridge crew.
"admiral, please come with me to my office we need to reply soonest and I would ask for your assistance in doing so, and ensign please let the rest of the ships know the good news"

{TBC have to think of return message}

"lilchan, sir. we have still not recieved any reply to our message. the drives are recharged and all are ready for you orders"
a handsome young man turns to look at the speaker.
"thank you admiral, it appears we must move on, give the order to staet the jump sequence, we head to where the ward system should be.
"jump conrtol initate jump seqeunce, destination ward syatem, and may we find the decedents of our ancestras families there."
"initiating jump sequence, coordinates confirmed, ward system, time to jump 30 minutes"
computer voice "attention all ships and personal, jymp sequence initated, all computers in sequence, 30 minutes to jump"
Markus Lioi (spelling) heads to his seat and opens a fleet communication "attention all citizens of taskforce ccz_103, our inital coordinates from the message has been false and we now pray oyr information is correct for our sister colony location. (turns off the comms and turns to look at the admiral) "admiral, please finish our ancestral ritual before we jump?"
the admiral bows
computer voice "all hands , 15 minutes to Jump."
the admiral opens the fleet communication and in ancient manderin says a old Chinese pray to the gods fir a safe journey
"moments after the admiral is finished (computer voice) "all hands, 15 seconds to jump"

october 17th
nadiar jump point, 1700 est.
ward system

2 radiation surgesrs herald the arrival of new jumpships,  seconds after their arrival a message is broadcast into the system

in a dificult to understand dialect of manderin "hello is anyone out there."
the message enters the system and starts to repeat itself, every 2 minutes

October 10 th
unknown system

two massive radiation surges form early in the morning as two unknown jumpships come back into real space.