*Waves crashing onto shore*

The waves crashed onto the shore on the sands of an island in the ocean, there lied on the sand a man in military uniform. Strange apparatuses attached to him from different points on his back.

???: Excelsior, wake up.

He squints his eyes not responding.

???: Come on, wake up.

The voice got clearer until.

*SPLASH*

Water was dumped on his face and he immediately woke and rose up from the shock.

Excelsior: HUUUHGHH?!?

He looked at who dumped the water on him, it was his comrade the Io-Class Ion Cruiser Stormcutter standing from behind him and adorning his massive rigging structure. 

Stormcutter: There you go, thought you'd be dead.

Stormcutter lent out his hand and Excelsior grabs it with his help Excelsior stood up and analyzed their surroundings.

Stormcutter: You remember what happened?

Excelsior: Yeah... Yeah... How'd that solar storm get intense like that?

Stormcutter: Dunno, but that should've been impossible, a solar storm that big has never been recorded before. Let alone one able to mess with ships navigational systems.

Excelsior: Anyways, where's Constantinople and Liberty?

Stormcutter: Liberty is analyzing the soil composition, Constantinople is holding altitude at the stratosphere. Speaking of which, there's Liberty.

The Ion Cruiser looked to the left to see the Mass Produced Cruiser walking up.

Excelsior: Liberty, anything to report?

Liberty: The soil's composition is exactly the same as the one on both Aureth and Earth. But the composition is much more richer, meaning we're on earth.

(Aureth is the Garden Planet in the Pioneer System, and the capital planet/homeworld of the Federation.)

Excelsior: But something doesn't add up... Would the Imperial Alliance forces would've already intercept us by now? We're literally in their capital world.

Stormcutter: Yeah... Even we were crashing from orbit, we would've been obliterated by their home fleet before meeting solid ground. 

Liberty: I've also tested the sea water sample, it has almost no heavy metal composition in it. Let alone radioactivity.

Excelsior: What about pollution? The air?

Stormcutter: I've done that myself, the air isn't as polluted and the planet's temperature isn't as high when it was in the 21st century.

Excelsior: Then wherever we are, we need to stay vigilant so let's regroup with Constantinople first then discuss what we do.

Liberty: Agreed.

Stormcutter: He should be directly north of us, we should go now before trouble arise.

They all nodded and soon used their rigging to ascend into the sky and headed north, they flew for some time until they see a floating figure.

Excelsior: Constantinople!

The Ascender turns around and saw his comrades, the Constantine the Great-Class Battlecruiser sighed in relief.

Constantinople: You are all finally here, I have something to report.

Excelsior: What is it?

Constantinople: My scanner has picked something large northeast of us, I cannot say for certain what it is but we should investigate.

Stormcutter: Constantinople, we shouldn't jump to investigations immediately. We could present something we shouldn't.

Liberty: But what other choice do we have?

Constantinople: Boss, it's your call.

The Marshal Crux-Class carrier wondered in his thoughts before coming to the conclusion.

Excelsior: Then we investigate what it is. Constantinople, lead the way.

Constantinople: Will do.

The Ascenders then flew towards the area guided by their Battlecruiser. Soon history will have to be rewritten.

END