Kybernauts fleet, in support of ARC. Pochven.
Form-up ran ragged for a few minutes — it does, when people who haven’t moved together yet try to move as one. Nothing that mattered once we were actually underway.
Kino gave us nothing. Six hours sitting on that system, watching, and it never obliged. That’s Pochven for you — it doesn’t care what you came for.
Moved to Igne. Found one. Watched the overshield break, watched it charge — and then watched it warp before we ever got a lock on it worth calling a lock. ARC got a partial read. Not enough.
Angymonne, finally. Same pattern, same overshield, same charge-up — except this time we’d learned something from Igne. Tackle went on early and stayed on. It wasn’t going anywhere this time.
The overshield came down. The weapon fired. No hesitation, no misfire, nothing like what’s being reported out of the Cassandra Tyrannos encounters elsewhere. Whatever’s changed in those cruisers hasn’t reached this region. Not yet, anyway.
Full data, this time. Held the tackle through the burn, watched it die clean, then brought ARC back to k-space myself. Six hours of nothing followed by two systems of almost — that’s usually how the good data comes in.
If ARC wants eyes in Pochven again, they know where to find us.