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Stormbreakers: War of the Paradox
Issue Number Zero
“Dark Portents ”
COMMAND CENTER: GALACTIC EARLY WARNING SYSTEM – HIGH ORBIT ABOVE AORAKI
[VOICE RECORDING (transcript)]
27 PIPIRI 589 (June 27, 2084)
[11:07 HOURS]
Aoraki: Hokianga, this is Aoraki. Early Warning Sensors indicate some six hundred Hyperspace signatures in your vicinity. Please verify, over.
Hokianga: You’re gripped, Aoraki. There’s nothing out here. Over.
Aoraki: Understood Hokianga. Aoraki Out.
[11:16 HOURS]
Aoraki: Aoraki calling Micanawn. Early Warning Sensors are picking up several hundred Hyperspace exits near the Micore Homeworld. Please identify, over.
Micanawn: Response from the Central AI Core of the Micore Empire. Negative. No unusual Hyperspace activity in our region of space. Communications terminated.
[11:22 HOURS]
Aoraki: This is Aoraki calling all stations on this net. Aoraki calling all stations on this net. Be advised. We believe the Galactic Early Warning System has suffered a large-scale malfunction. We are running diagnostics at this time. Please standby. Aoraki out.
[11:29 HOURS]
Nynrah: Aoraki, Nynrah here. We’ve just done a sensor sweep of the Great Wastelands. There's nothing out there. You're seeing phantoms. Nynrah out.
[11:33 HOURS]
Aoraki: Uhh, Amadiio, this is Aoraki. We may be experiencing a widespread failure of the Galactic Early Warning System. Do you have any incoming bogeys on your scopes? Because we just saw nearly eight-hundred Hyperspace exits in your vicinity. Over.
Amadiio: What!? No. There's nobody here. I don’t know what to tell you, Partogans. We’ll keep our eyes peeled until the system’s back online. Over.
Aoraki: Much obliged, Aoraki out.