Planet Sprafgue, CRN Command Center, 3 days before Olympia's capture
With Olympia's absence, Resistance Navy leaders were running amok. Last seen while activating jumpdrive to somewhere, they tried to organise and coordinate themselves. However with what limited resources available and danger of their missions with the rise of Hessian threat, even with Bretonia's help, few of the resistance captains and crews decided to return to Coronado again and surrender. They already did not have access to any meaningful assets aside from Olympia and now they were crumbling from inside. Over time, rumors spreaded and an expeditionary wing of snubcraft, led by a pair of Hydra Corvettes, sent across omegas to find clues of what happened to Olympia.
Aboard RNV-Everlasting, Lieutenant Commander Erik Kleber was leading the expedition. He did not sleep since the forming of expedition wing along Joker Squadron and they were all the way to Omicron borders now. Keeping a low profile, evading both Corsair and Hessian patrols, they searched for clues. However not a single clue was found. Aside from a faint Jumpdrive signature reported from CRN Command at Omega-3 5 hours ago. However they were too far to investigate that and Command refused to draw more pilots from actual conflict. Erik thought. "Not many ships use Jumpdrives across this region, right?" Then he turned at Helm. "Right?" he said. Helm officer Emily Stardust looked confusingly to Erik. "What right? Whatcha thinkin' again?" Erik started to speak excitedly "The jumpdrive signature we got reported, remember? There are not many ships around that uses such a gizmo. That's probably the Olly." "Look, it's been 4 days and no one seen Olly ever again. Emily, we got to reach Omega 3 once again." Then Erik shouted. "Miguel! Come over here you lazy macho!" Miguel, an ex-Corsair later joined the crew of Everlasting during the days Corsairs and Crayter was not on eachother's throats, was well versed abd a knowledgeable guy when it came to Omegas. "Si, si, I am coming. You need me to get us back to safe space right? Well, there is a Jumphole to Omega 5, a bit far from us, however it will do the thing." Erik, with a satisfying smile, ordered cruise speed to Omega 5 connection.
"Captain, we arrived at Omega 5." Said Emily. Erik turned at Miguel once again. "So, why did you bring us to this place?" Miguel grinned. "You wanted a short passage to Omega 3, I brought you to the place. Keep going 'till you pass Cadiz, then keep going more until you find Omega 3 Jumphole. You will thank me." Erik sighed "So you are saying that we should go through that hostile territory. Well. We have no choice.""Alright everyone, we have to keep a low profile and hope Hessians doesnt catch us. Corsairs wont be bigger problem here." and ordered cruise speed once again
After some hours of cruising, they managed to reach the Jumphole. "Okay, let's jump." and Everlasting initiated jump sequence. Some minutes later a console beeped as they got thrown out of wormhole. "Jump Sequence complete, warning, heavy debris field ahead, radiation levels high." Erik reviewed his knowledge of Omega 3. There were no debris field next to the jumphole before. There must have been a fight. "Okay, we shoudl investigate this. Prime weapons and be ready for anything. Contact HQ and call reinforcements, alert rest of Joker Squadron." confirmation and acknowledgements heard from various crew members. "Impulse speed, bring sensors to max" One of the consoles beeped in an alerting tone. "Scanning field. Debris material match: Crayter-origin. No life forces detected." Erik jumped in his seat. "Crayter Origin? By the gods. Close in on it!" and the Everlasting accelerated towards the biggest intact piece, if it could be called intact at this point. Erik grabbed his EVA suit and looked at Miguel. "You are with me.""Roger, Cap." heard from Miguel. They got out of the ship through airlock after disabling artifical gravity of the ship. "Let's inspect that wreck. Yeah, high amounts of Molybdenium plating, Crayter produced internals... Wait, can not be! Look at the serial number on the side." Erik started to shake inside. "That's...the Olympia. We need to head inside of that piece and see what remains from it." As he said that, Miguel found what they could call as entrance at the below of the wreck. "Boss, activate Mags, otherwise you are going to bump all over the place." said Miguel and he activated his mag boots. Opened his helmet fşashlight and inspected inside. "Hmm. lots of computers, a chair's remains, lots of rubble at places and- Whoa. Boss! Look at that! There is a corpse!" Erik arrived and saw even more corpses. "Ew...Miguel, see if you can unseal the powersuit of that guy lying at the feet of yours." Miguel got confused "What?" Erik shouted. "You dumbass 'sair! Look for an emergency hatch!" Miguel searched through the powersuit and finally found the emergency hatch. The suit unsealed itself as he pulled the hatch. "Okay, got it." Both of them froze for some seconds as the suit opened and revealed the dead man inside. "Los Cojones!" [*****!] Miguel cursed, as the corpse belonged to a man that was once their leader: Zack Xander...