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Federal Alliance Job Listings - Professional
   
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WANTED: The Federal Alliance is planning to explore the old territories of the ancient Vesdin Empire. Those with medical, combat, computer engineering, and/or piloting backgrounds preferred. Duties will include exploration, information retrieval, diplomatic encounters, and possible combat situations. Please, professionals only.
Note: Some equipment will be provided.
 

     Your history records have been scanned & you received a ticket on a passenger liner heading for the Jacobi System in the Tre'agrue Sector. Once there you were collected with several other applicants & shipped via a military transport to the Ricpar Sector. Once in system, the small military transport heads for the large moon of Spartek II & deposits it's passengers at the military installation. Some training is given to those that need it & then a briefing is given covering mission objectives.
     You are escorted back to the docking bay & board another transport. The transport leaves the confines of the docking bay & heads up into orbit to join a gigantic spacecraft. As you exit the transport & board the 1.5km ship, you are greeted by 2 humans, 1 is a frowning, athletic looking young lady dressed like an activities director for some cruise ship & the other an older gentleman in full military dress uniform that he outgrew 2 tons ago. "Welcome aboard the Caruvnik, a Demon-class Battlecruiser," says the man in a deep bass voice. "I'm Captain Nevik & we'll be leaving soon so I will temporarily do away with formal decorum. Tara here will show you to your rooms, give you your assignments, & 'divy up' the equipment for this collection mission." The captain then turns & waddles off with a small AT2000 Administrative droid that you didn't see before following after him.
     Tara waves at your group to follow her & then heads off to show you to your rooms. Tara seems very enthusiastic about the whole thing with sarcasm lining every word, door access panels being punched, & questions being batted away by her menacingly waving hand & savage snarls of hatred. The weeklong travel through hyperspace becomes a week of hell as Tara continues with her ravaging rampage. During this time the supplies have been divided between the 5 scouting teams. Each team is also allowed to inspect the ship it is given & make any minor adjustments that they want.
     At the end of the week, the Caruvnik slices out of hyperspace & into real space, pouncing upon the Telcon system. Everyone is loaded into their spaceships & running last minute checks on everything before launching. You're 3rd in line to exit the docking bay & once you're finally given clearance to leave the hatch the small TXL-500 Caravan medium freighter lifts off & heads out into space. When you clear the bay you head off for the planet Duma'rin, a planet in the Telcon system that was a bountiful lay over for many of the merchants that traveled along the major trade route here in this sector. Your communications "officer" notices that there's a message being broadcast over the emergency frequencies and after tracing it has found that the message came from Duma'rin. He immediately feeds it through the onboard speakers so the whole crew can hear it...
     "This is CC on Duma'rin in Telcon Sys... [a short burst of static]" The man says amidst background explosions. "We're under heavy fire. SDN was... [static] ...detect intruders, we need some help here ASAP!... [static] ...oh my... [a whole lot of static] ..." The static is fairly long & you're about to cut the transmission when the static ends with a large boom that drowns out the voice. When the boom dissipates you hear the man's voice again as squeals & shouts blend in the background, "...finally damaging them, it seems that they are susceptible to..." Static fills the speakers again & after a short period of time the message starts to repeat.
     As you head deeper into the Telcon system, your scanners pick up traces of the remnants of what seems to be the remains of the SDN including the shells of several fighters. A large piece of slowly rotating armor plating slowly floats into view that looks like it came from a large ovoid battleship, possibly the remains of an Orion-class. The space junk seems to have been here for a long time. As you head farther into the system towards Duma'rin you find more floating junk. All seems okay as you follow the 2 other spacecraft in, the other 4 vessels report in that sensors are empty except for the 5 teams & the Caruvnik, you report the same.
     You reach orbit of Duma'rin & 1 by 1 the freighters head towards the surface. It's hard to find landing space as there is alot of junked buildings... It looks as if everything has been destroyed. Two of the other groups have crawled out of their freighters & split up, searching various buildings. 1 of the groups has decided it's useless & has already started to take off & head back to the Caruvnik.
    

     The campaign deals with the exploration of the old Vesdin Empire. It had become obvious that the Vesdin Empire collapsed 10 years ago, but no one is for sure when it had actually fallen. Had it not been for the sudden disappearance of the Empire's border patrols & the ceasing of all it's communications over an extended period of time it would gone unnoticed even longer.