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[Fox]

Well, some of us might already know.


"Of the mighty armada that had left Confederacy space to claim the blue planet in the Sol System there was no word. The transmissions had ceased abruptly, but long range communication was prone to mishaps, and no one was overly concerned.

When the transit pod dropped from darkspace, it was assumed to be space junk at first, but a very weak transponder signal caused enough interest that the Governor-General ordered an investigation. The pod's sole occupant, a technician from the Armada's flagship had been driven to insanity by what he had witnessed, but he still managed to push a box into the Governor-General's grasp before collapsing.

None of us were quite expecting what we found inside, if we knew to expect anything at this point. Staring back from the box were the lifeless eyes of the Lord Admiral, well two of his lifeless eyes at least, the third had been destroyed by a projectile which had left a gaping exit wound amongst his antennae. Accompanying the head was a small piece of paper on which was drawn a crude representation of a four-limbed biped, raising the middle digit of his forelimb in some sort of confrontational gesture.

A translation of the short accompanying text proved to be a suggestion to do something physically and morally impossible."
- High Prefect Rhetonius, adjutant to the Governor-General