TA17

==Chapter 17 - The Armada==
Fleet Scout, FSPS Ranger
Uncharted Star System
Deep Periphery
Late 3167 CE
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[FSPS Ranger, Target Candidate Bravo...]
The star system was centered around a main-sequence dwarf sun, and it was dirty.
What does 'dirty' mean?  well, it means there's a lot of asteroidal debris, cometary bodies, unharnessed moonlets, and planets.
Ranger incorporated some stealth tech developed by the Capellans, and some stealth tech developed by the Taussenigans. Wrapped around a subcompact core scaled up from the design studies that created the SLDF's Bug Eye ships.
Up close, the 'busy' star system spotted by the Lyrans wasn't so much inhabited, as infested, and if there were carbon based life here, they didn't appear to need things like air, or potable water, because what was being mined wasn't the building blocks of complex organic life.
"I think we'll need to get closer."  Tommy noted.
"Cap, suh, I don't think that's wise,eh?"
"Wise or not, we can take pretty pictures of industrial sites all day, but there's no radio traffic. We have no idea what they're building here or why." He answered.  "So...we need to get closer."
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