The Chimera arrived at the system. In the background the two suns flared brightly, iridescent and currently ignited gases making aurora borealis light displays in each color of the spectrum in a sweeping link between the two. Two dozen smaller craft moved about like flies about a picnic. One had the transponder for the GG .. or Galactic Geographic, a science periodical. Another was a smaller tourist craft making a looping pass, while a third was the FNA, or Federation News Agency which was dangerously close to the action. The others were a collection of civilian transponders of mostly small 2-20 person crewed ships of various design and shape.

The action? The Empress had passed by the buoys and was skirting the plasma waves. Sensors would show that there was considerable power loss throughout the massive ship. The engineering section of the cruise liner was a black bruise showing flaring bursts of plasma here and there. It was evidently more than just a ‘problem in engineering’. There was no sign of lifeboat ejections either from the cruise liner. Trying to forestall the drift into the plasma was a smaller liner, some quarter the size of the Empress. This vessel, the Byzantine Knight, was physically pressed to the flank of the Empress trying to curb its course and keep it from the fires. To do that it meant dropping its own shields. The Knight was showing system overloads in its power grid as it tried to push the Empress out. Perhaps it was partially successful but it was hard to tell in coming into this scene.

Several of the smaller ships scattered at appearance of the Chimera, the news ship rising to a vantage to get everything.
- Wookiee