Space fluff

Excerpt: Ships Log::TFN Colony Transport Ship KB28959 Oswego
                    Cpt Russton Lang
                                                TSD: 2366.53.1100
                    7562 days to spindown

Mission Day:1873
Cpt. Lang: All ship operations normal. Strength fluctuations in power converter 847J starboard have been investigated and resolved. [Chief engineers report attached] Colony Fleet Command has authorized the use of the tunnel drive to jump to K-Beta 31459 navigation anchor point. We commence jump in T-minus 17 hours.

Mission Day: 1876
Cpt. Lang: All ship operations normal. Long range scanners have indicated an unknown fleet presence in K-Beta 31459. Fleet commander Saint-Just has ordered alert status for all fleet units.

  

   The only thing that has saved the Earth thus far is the paranoid dreaming of the old Counter Intelligence Secretariat. They worked in a command into the fleet navigational computers that erased origin points from the tunnel drive computational matrix memory at the end of every jump. We did lose 500,000 colonists, but we learned a hard lesson. The universe is not a safe place. We learned the hard way that our arrogance with regards to being the only intelligent life form was, as a species, a "head up ass" assumption. Since the attack on the Alpha One colony fleet, we have learned how to fight an interstellar war.

   Due to the completely alien physical features of the Klem'entarthug actual pronunciation of not only their name, but there entire language is impossible to reproduce with human vocal apparatus. This coupled with the inability to establish a rapport has served to turn even the most passive among us into the killing machines we are.