[b]Repair Dock A1-B, Char[/b]
Fairlan looked over at the Equestrian, such a strange creature, but somehow familiar. It didn't make sense, but he felt as if he had seen their species before. At least it wasn't the kind of familiar that makes you feel like you're about to be killed, in fact, it made him feel completely safe.
"Thank you so much, my home system is easy to find, it'll be the most isolated system in this entire sector. Forty light years from another star, the myths say that's ten times the distance from Old Terra to its closest star. Lakfakalle is the fifth planet from Kalle, my system's star. Finding it is easy, getting to the ground isn't. We can't use one of your ships, they don't have the right equipment to break through the Great Barrier. We'll need to take the [i]Starfire[/i], it has the correctly modulated laser to break the Great Barrier and allow us to land. Of course, you will certainly want to dock one of your own vessels to the [i]Starfire[/i] for the journey, as its designed for bipeds and tripeds. Besides that problem, the [i]Starfire's[/i] quarters are tiny and the beds don't have mattresses."

[b]Starship Construction[/b]
The construction of the LIV Challenger has been completed! The original interplanetary hull has undergone extreme modifications, with the four defense platforms stabbed into the hull, creating two cone-shaped protrusions on the very front and very back of the vessel. The warp ring has been redesigned to double as an artificial gravity ring, so the bridge and crew quarters are located right next to the very device that allows the starship to travel faster than light. The central hull has become a weapons platform as well as the fuel storage, and of course the sublight propulsion systems. It is estimated that this new class of starship (Traveler-Class) is capable of defeating the entire interplanetary fleet of the LCF. However, only 125 of these vessels could ever be built unless another former Aif world is found and colonized, and operating so many starships equipped with warp drive would be completely impossible unless an entire planet was dedicated to producing fuel. As such, the Challenger and the other in construction will be the only Traveler-Class vessels produced in the foreseeable future.

[b]LIV Challenger[/b]
The LIV Challenger has begun its shakedown cruise from Lakfakalle to Terra, then to Shuroh. All interplanetary transit will be handled by the warp drive, which will be set to half the speed of light for each jump. Afterwards, the ship will return to Lakfakalle, refuel, and sent out to deliver multiple colony pods to a habitable planet 42 light years from the Kalle System. This planet wasn't picked for habitability, simply because its the only thing in range of a ship carrying colony pods that wouldn't bankrupt the entire Federation if colonized. With any luck, it will actually be habitable.

[b]Children of the Phoenix Contact[/b]
"You may bring military forces if you wish, but once you are close enough to Lakfakalle the defense platforms will be more than capable of destroying any threats to your people. We were recently attacked by pirates, in fact, right now we are awaiting news of the outcome of the battle. However, it is almost certain that the pirate vessel was destroyed, no craft could possibly survive colliding with a hundred antiproton streams. We look forward to meeting with you."