Stellar Wind Stories: Squadron Commander

*We have acquired unique records - the diaries of space travelers who survived the galactic cataclysm. Perhaps they will shed light on the mystery of the Stellar Wind. JDate: [data damaged]...38/VI-I. Entry one: Squadron Commander*

### Day 176

Everything is ready. Our corvette-class ship has completed its preparations for FTL. It is now ready to send a signal to the fleet to follow the flagship to the nearest pylon. After all they've been through, let's hope the Stellar Wind hasn't done too much damage to the nearby FTL system. The countdown begins and our small fleet sets off into the unknown...

### Day 3

It all began with a dry scientific report. An expedition returning from the furthest outposts of the galaxy reported the death of several stars, resulting in the destruction of all life on dozens of planets in those star systems. Since there were no intelligent beings on the dead planets, no one gave it any importance.. So no one sounded the alarm, no one began to prepare for the evacuation of inhabited worlds until it was too late...[data damaged]

### Day 39

Scientists have made a terrible discovery: the star in our world's central system is dying, and is emitting an inexplicably large amount of coronal mass. The most shocking fact was that it was exactly this kind of emission that had been recorded from the first dead stars. The stellar wind generated by these events, of unprecedented strength, had already wiped other habitable systems from the face of the galaxy when their suns died. I realized then that I had to return home, to the [data damaged] system, pick up my relatives and get out of that part of the galaxy, and then this happened...

### Day 41

The pylons had already been damaged by the Stellar Wind, and the ships could not make FTL jumps over long distances. So to get to the home system, I jumped my ship from one space base to another. Previously, these bases were home to rare science ships and a few fighters, but now there were thousands of ships at each point. Millions of refugees fled the oncoming Stellar Wind. Only my fighter flew to the danger, to the home system [data damaged], with which there had been no communication for seven days. I had two jumps to get home when an emergency transmission from the central system began: The capital, the home planet of our world, has been destroyed, falling to pieces. The government had fallen. This was the last message from the government, no one knew what would happen next…

### Day 45

I'm stuck in the base. There was real chaos. The last government cruiser left the base and they came... At first I thought it was another group of refugees, until a motley fleet opened fire on us. They were marauders: looting, destroying and seizing resources. I managed to escape the base in a derelict government corvette. The raiders couldn't withstand my ship's missiles [data damaged]. I cleared the way for myself and the old cargo ship, from which I took some of the crew, as it was not easy to manage the corvette alone. The commander of the cargo ship said there was a science station a few days away, there should be a connection there, they know what to do next. We plotted a route. A few more fighters joined us.

### Day 61

Station [data damaged] was the last government research facility. Here, with mad persistence, scientists have searched for artifacts and anomalies from the Age of Lost Science, linked to the 9 great galactic civilizations that have achieved levels of technological development inaccessible to any existing civilization. The station also began to receive strange signals. They came from the lost systems, or as the scientists called them, the Hollow Systems. At that time, we did not know the danger of these signals...

### Day 79

One of the staff, who was constantly listening to the signals from the Hollow Systems, seized the station's control center and caused the reactors to overload. Before the explosion destroyed the last Science Centre [data damaged], a voice sounded on open frequencies that a certain The Redemption is coming, we must bow our heads before it. The Cargo Ship was damaged in the explosion, and now our corvette has become the flagship, leading the fleet on a forced journey.

### Day 128

It seemed pointless to go back to the home, to the devastated system. I did not find a single living soul in the home system. However, there are enough resources in the ruins of the colony to repair and upgrade the ships. It was a good sign that the nearest pylon was showing signs of life. And our fleet began to prepare

### Day 176 again

We're about to make an FTL jump. We don't know how far we'll go. We know that we may find ourselves in the center of a military conflict. We will definitely survive and find out what caused the Stellar Wind. A failed military experiment? Or is every time an intelligent species reaches its apogee in space, the universe cleanses itself? Perhaps there is another power behind all this, preparing its own Redemption, driving those who know it mad? Answers await us in the darkest and coldest corners of space...