The Flame From The Void

[Charos]

As the fleet was approaching the jumphole where the other other guardian once stood, the Ravager, they picked up a familiar signal. It used the old frequencies and it belonged to the Hellfire Legion, one of the battlecruisers under Brass when he was still in the High Command, the Redeemer. Apparently, Daniel Rou, Brass's former right hand onboard the Polyphemus was later given command of the Redeemer before things between the Commonwealth and Hellfire Legion started getting tense, unaware of what would follow soon. He and his crew traveled to the Omegas on a diplomatic mission to maintain relations with the Red Hessian Army, Legion's old distant allies.

After fulfilling their task of diplomatic nature, they would embark on their journey back to Leniex as soon as news of the Commonwealth started falling apart came in. The events that unfolded in the Omegas and Bretonia slowed the pace at which they were traveling in fear of attracting unwanted attention in a territory so far from home. Moving in stealth and with their hearts racing, they managed to reach Magellan later than their determined ETA only to find out their domestic problems only escalated and a civil war broke out. Not wanting a part of this, Rou and the Redeemer hid away from Legion's reach in deep space only resurfacing for supplies as they lied in wait for a sign.

That sign came upon Polyphemus' arrival and the transmission they picked up but did not respond in fear it might be a trap, however, they began to move with caution as they could not just leave it be. They moved to Vespucci in a location that surveillance of the system and a retreat to the Leniex cloud to escape pursuers was possible. Their plan was to wait for a predetermined amount of time and if nothing would come up, they would abandon the idea and would carve a path of their own somewhere far. However, the Polyphemus arrived and that idea was cast aside as they were happy to see an old friend and his flagship on the horizon. With the engines to full, the Redeemer started moving out of its hideout brandishing the skull and flame of on its hull, thus bringing their long voyage to an end and the beginning of a new one lied just ahead.