“For the last 400 years, no League starship has ventured beyond the boundaries of these three systems. Our mission and that of the Brunswick, which will be traveling with us, is to travel back to the last known boundaries of the Commonwealth and make contact as quickly as possible with any authority present. This will not be an easy task.”

Personally, I always found those sequences in the vid tedious and just wanted them to get to the part where all the shooting would be.

Their wedge shape with stubby wings doesn’t give you a lot of confidence that they can fly, at least not on an intuitive level. But then again, the sub-orbitals are more like objects being catapulted from one end of the globe to another than the winged craft that carry most of New Sydney’s passengers to their ports of call.

Everywhere the citizens of the Four Worlds seemed to be walking about in dazed silence. A pall hung over our systems. We were not alone. And whoever they were, they meant business. This was not how we’d ever imagined ending our isolation.