Salutations, Commander Routh.

Dr. Bagshaw, our sole remaining senior science officer, had noted this anomaly in the datastream of routine scans of the system. She'd been pressing me to divert our limited resources to investigate it for quite a while, and to be honest, it had been on the agenda but was pushed down the list by more pressing matters. I see now that it can wait no longer - god knows what it could be - the theories Dr. Bagshaw has presented to me claim anything from a classified LSF drone capable of bending the background EM fields to conceal its appearance, precise location, and so on, to the radiation from a far-off supernova just reaching the system.

Regardless, you have my approval to launch a recon wing. If we are being surveilled, we must prepare. I certainly do not intend to spend the rest of my life in some black site prison in the backwaters of Liberty. We will go out swinging.