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"My Lord", said a Lesser Psion, "There are multiple Phase Lanes leading out from this

world, the lanes are long enough that we cannot scout the Lanes within a reasonable

amount of time."

"Damn." said High Commander Salator. "I cannot allow the the High Mindlords to discover that the Return has stalled after our first battle. The prisoners still refuse to talk?"
"Yes, my Lord."
"Damn, alright tell Farala and the other Flayers that they have my authorization to use, rigorous, techniques on the prisoners."
"Yes my Lord." the Lesser Psion's face was completly expresionless, as befited one of his rank, only the lower ranks and castes, imperfects(cripples) and headblinds(those who had no Psionic talent) showed their opinions on their faces.
"Sir", it was Salator's friend, High Psion Dorsain, " Do you think it wise to give that sadist Farala free rein?"
"I will remind you that however much the High Mindlords may object, however much I may object to torture, both the High Mindlords and I object far more to the Return stalling. I would die far quicker and far easier if I shot myself in the Head with a plasma rifle than to fail with the Return."
"I understand my Lord, partly I am worried what they will do to our personal if we torture theirs, and what if that world that you so casually annilated was not a Military world but a Civilianone."
"High Psion, only fools would put a Military world this close to the edge of what they believe to be unexplored space."
"Perhaps it was partaly Military, partially Civilian."
"What fool would not separate the types of worlds so as to achieve maximum efficiency, return to your post, High Psion."
"Yes my Lord." Dorsain bowed his head in acquiescence and walked back to his duty station.

Several hours later Salator recieved information on the systems that were the endpoints of the Phase Lanes through his Mindlink( a small crystal embedded in his temple). One of the systems was highly populated and was the administration center for the others in the surrounding area. Four hours later all that was left in the Tal system was the spinning hulks of the Cobalts and the flash frozen remains of the prisoners. Several hours later the seconded element of the Return arrived and begun to construct defensive platforms and crystal mines.

First the edited second to last part:
This is the second to last part of the CONTACT chapter(I know very short I suxors!):

Ensign Bajiro was smart..or so he thought. He had requested a quiet position at a listening post on the outskirts of Centauri prime. Ya right! if you could call them that, this was a main world! There had never been any pirate attacks on this system nor had the unidentified enemies approached. He had a cushy job and more importantly he was safe. 'Yep, best job ever' he thought as he leaned back in his chair pushing the sensor screen out of his view. Had he been paying attention he would have noticed the small sensor distortion that appeared.
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*This is Probe, in position* the vasari device had a rudimentary AI allowing it to make small decisions of no consequence, turn here, look there, pay attention to the planet, and then report its findings. It was simple and something any race including the humans could do. *Probe, planet is all clear for assalt*

*Roger Probe this is Spiro control, activate phase node* The probe did as it was told, and the planet became the first target for Vasari harvesting.
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"Thats odd? the monitors never done that before, better check the manual" You see bajiro didn't even know what a sensor distortion was let alone what it looked like. Slowly the distortion grew bigger and bigger, he still hadn't found the book. By now he really didn't need to as the proximity alarms started to blare. "What the hell was that!" he snapped his head up and started crying "Why me! This was supposed to be easy!"

Even in the last seconds of his life he remained true to himself, incompetent. He had been performing some maintenance work on the phasecom(stealing cable) and it was still off line. The emergency beacon tried to send off a message(it had AI too) but it was stumped, for some reason the phasecom was off.
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The vasari fleet slowly moved through the system, destroying every structure and harvesting every bit of scrap. The system only had a few cobalts defending it, they had depended on two things, first was the outer ring of systems that defended it and second was the listening post giving them advance warning of the assault. Alas the vasari never went through the outside ring and the listening post never gave them advance warning.
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"This is Lt. Wright to control, repeat this is Lt. Wright to control!"

"Roger that Wright this is control"

"The advance warning never came, they are here!"

By this time everyone knew who they were. The protocol was strictly followed, every single ship available took off carrying civilians to the designated shelter worlds and all transmitters started broadcasting a call for help.
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Six hours later(someone give me a more sensible time!) the seventh combined fleet, the only one that had fought and lived(barely at that), jumped into the system.

"This is AP-1, looks empty chief!"

"This is CC roger that AP-1 sending out a flotilla of cobalts to look for survivors"

The 5 cobalts searched the system and only found one thing. "Sir we have what looks like a small alien transmitter!"

"Roger that, keying into the frequency now...well atleast now we know their names" for the transmitter was programmed to repeat one thing: "We are the Vasari. We will harvest your resources. Surrender them, or die as these fools did."

"Ensign what frequency was that!"

"Standard hailing for trade ships sir!"

"Did we have to run it through the translator?"

"No Admiral, it seems to be flawless common, they know it better than I do!"

"I see, they've been watching us. They've learned a lot about us, and now they can learn even more, all we've learned is that we are helpless!"

AN: next one will cover the first "victory" over the vasari by a couple of modified cobalts, and will reveal the pirates!.