[J,09] Pelican System

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The Pelican System is the centre of the colonial frontier on the galaxy. The Pelican System hosts, primarily, one habitable planet; Stormport. Stormport is 2/3 land with 1/3 water, it has habitable atmospheric conditions, however it's atmospheric conditions mean the plant has high gusts of wind and from 13:00 to 21:00 Sol time the planet is usually covered in harsh thunder storms. As a result the planet boasts high humidity and has a tropical landscape apart from its most northern and southern regions.

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This system was picked up long ago, it had just taken the Lojari a while to get here. A hitch with a primitive FTL drive that some human colonists had "donated" had sent half the fleet to the wrong side of Hyperspace. Things were back on track however and a pirate Cruiser and 2 destroyers clawed through from hyperspace, escorted by 12 corvettes. Like a spiders web on the sensors that eyed them, if there were any, they spewed forth LIDAR and LADAR, mapping for anything, the cruiser also did a slower comb for any stealth units that were sitting in wait for them, Stormport looked like the perfect place to start hauling some mining material for a small time operation, all that was left was to survey the planet for mineral rich deposits.

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As it happened to be, the Lojari weren't alone in the system.

"Forward at half-speed!" the Navigation Officer cried into the internal radio at his station and little delay another voice erupted from the device echoing a confirmation of the order.

"Forward at half-speed!"

Dull business, this Navy of ours Vice Admiral Kuoro thought to himself as he observed the fruition of countless drills in the command center of his designated flagship, the Jioran battleship Kurgan. Although he preferred to leave the more monotonous management of tasks to his Chief of Staff he always insisted on maintaining his obligation to observe their execution from the nerve center of the vessel directly.

His moment of inner reflection was cut short as an Ensign hurriedly rushed to him and his entourage, a patch on his sleeve identified him as a communications officer.

"I report!" he spoke with urgency, Kuoro nodded. "Our stealth cruiser near the 'Lenkwa' asteroid reports intercepting unknown ship signals!"

Captain Bajan stepped forward, taking the initiative. "Read it!"

"At least a dozen unknown ship signals detected, ranging from destroyers to gunboats! Bearing two eight five mark zero seven six from the Asteroid, they are determined to be eighteen thousand kilometers from weapons range of the Kurgan!"

Kuoro nodded again and the Ensign departed to return to his station.

"Maintain our course and keep a report on their location at all times, if they're moving for the planet they'll cross us in no time. Then we'll decide what to do with them."

The remaining Officers standing by bowed deeply before moving off to their stations, the only one who remained was the Admirals Chief of Staff who stepped up speak candidly to his CO.

"Well, old friend, it seems we'll have some sort of distraction after-all."

Kuoro smiled, reaching back to pat his subordinate on the shoulder. The Jioran Task Force was made up of two battleships and an isolated stealth cruiser, they maintained radio silence in a bare bones attempt to avoid detection. They weren't expecting company and their purpose in the Sector wasn't to engage in combat to begin with but their trajectory put themselves in the path of the Lojari and if their intentions were to investigate the planet then confrontation would be inevitable.

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Halfway through surveillance a plinking sound came from the monitor on-board the Lojari cruiser.

"Whats that?" the third class captain said, as he was emerging from his room on-board the cruiser to the impromptu bridge of a once civilian luxury liner.

"Two large yellow vessels" said a deckhand, highlighting the holographic display in the middle of the hall of the luxury liner.

"Dreadnoughts?" sighed the captain, having heard the recent news on the airwaves, national navies were moving into Lojari space with a vengeance and it was bad for business.

"No, they're too small to be dreadnoughts, I doubt its the Nakar that was flopping on the waves, must be another fleet, or another race, give them a hard scan."

"They appear to be packing all sorts, nothing we can deal with." he said, tapping the screen a number of times, zooming in on particular weapon modules as their computer tried to calculate what they were capable of.

He sighed, clenching his fist around a bottle of pirate-hooch and knocking it back. "Alright, fire up the Xudo, take us out of here, I have no wish to get torn apart today, but we'll come back with something bigger and contest, if that planets worth protecting, the promise of treasure awaits."

The Lojari ships spent energy and started to take off across the system, firing away from their potential predators, but none the less staying in system. Quantum wavelength messages emitted from the mashed together crafts.