[quote=@mattmanganon]
So... Can anyone bring me up to speed on what is happening in the IC?
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...The events that have transpired IC bear a level of significant detail that cannot by adequately summarized without cogent active collaboration from everyone that was involved. I suggest everyone chips in with the events they themselves are most intimately involved with until we have a loose puzzle piece collage of the overall setting.

As for me: The lost Ennedi homeworld has been miraculously rediscovered after being lost for eighty million years, with remarkably intact planetary infrastructure and a starbase. It is being hailed as the greatest archeological find in the galaxy in over 200,000 years. The Straylight Institute recently formed the Ennedi Restoration Committee (henceforth E.R.C.) between itself, the Federation of Sol, the Ryukyuan Empire, and the seventh mercenary division of the GNT. The E.R.C. raced to Enned in order to secure the system before scavengers, raiders, and other forces arrived to loot the place. While establishing control over the area, an Azu ship dropped in uninvited and attempted to land, with the captain issuing a threat to Straylight that they would glass half the planet's surface along with all the GNT personnel there if their vessel was attacked or otherwise interfered with. SI's ship responded by performing an emergency FTL jump to position itself between the Azu vessel and the planet, and the Federation has launched an attack on the Azu ship. Meanwhile, on the ground the clandestine Fourth Division of the GNT has intentionally reactivated long-dormant automated defenses in an isolated district that are dismantling several infantry teams of the Seventh division, and in response to the Azu's presence a capital ship belonging to the Fourth division has entered the system as well with an unknown agenda.