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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 4939268" data-attributes="member: 21938">Fendamir Transfer Point, aboard the Outrageous Fortune, two days later...The Fortune drops out of the gate back into normal space after a couple of days in hyperspace. Cheshana has been quiet for the past day, after some initial conversation with Kirth about the Abbai datapad. It seems that Cheshana is an engineer, so the two men enjoy a bit of technical discussion before a sombre mood overtakes the Markab.Fendamir was a transfer point, one of the many laborious real-space stages that commercial vessels have to take to travel the galaxy. There was once a refuelling depot set up by the Drazi but this was destroyed during the Shadow War. The Drazi government never saw fit to replace Fendamir Station and the system is now something of an abandoned backwater. Cheshana tells you that the Markab ship, the Lashaiaj, was heading here many years ago, a year before the Shadow War broke out openly, when it was last seen. He gives you a selection of calculated trajectories that the ship may have taken had it dropped into realspace out of control.A vast blue gas giant hangs "over" your view, once the source of hydrogen fuel for the destroyed Fendamir Station. Now it provides intermittent interference to sensors and communications, and a slight but inexorable gravity well that Sarhat has to constantly compensate for. Finally, after some hours of searching, you find something caught in a distant orbit of the gas giant, its sensor silhouette suggests that it is not a piece of debris from Fendamir.Cheshana does some calculation on his hand-held computer. "That's it," he says grimly.</blockquote>

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