The Stingray

As soon as Deyshian officials received the report of a PF13 Stingray's departure, they forwarded it to the Ministry Special Investigations team. There was a positive ID on the serial numbers - the ship in question was allowed, as requested, to leave Deysha unhindered so as not to alert its passengers to any suspicion. Since Deysha had been alerted that there were unknown ships outside of its airspace attempting to tap its signals without permission, they did not release any information to any colony other than Novalyse.

A few seconds before the message was sent, all Deyshian satellites which were vulnerable to outside interference were briefly reset. Any connections to them were severed, but could potentially be picked back up a few minutes later. In the downtime, an encrypted message was sent directly linked to Thorne's office, also packed with heavy intercepters to deter anyone else that would attempt to illegitimately receive it.

It simply read: "A PF13 Stingray closely matching your description departed approximately twenty-two minutes ago."

The Stingray departed unhindered by the Deysha government as was requested by the Novalysian general.  However, it did not initially approach the Khrysis System.  Instead the pilot routed the path indirectly through the phase lanes going in what seemed to be the wrong direction.  Although the transmission to Novalyse regarding the ships departure was covertly transmitted without the knowledge of the Cascadian Defense Force's Interception, the Stingray itself may stay out as it is traveling amongst civilian and cargo transports.  

Thorne moved immediately after receiving the notice of the Stingray's Departure, sending notice to all Novalysian vessels not to engage the Stingray upon its arrival at the borders.  Rather a Ghost Company vessel was given orders to follow it in stealth, track its location and its direction in hopes that Colten would lead them directly to the Terrorists.

Deysha took no further actions that were noticeable outside of the spec team that was assigned to the issue. For all intents and purposes, they simply remained silent and withdrawn, but watched to see how the events would unfold.

The Cascadian cruiser in Deyshan orbit would remain, but an Urvanian stealth corvette would leave the Cruisers hangar and pursue the ship that stood out among the cargo and civi ships. while the cruise would attempt to ID the ship from any footage they had of it and trace any ownership

The Stingray weaved between the traffic of the phase lanes, sweeping passed the other ships.  Its speed was unmatched by the civilian vessels, making it hard to keep track of among the slower moving vehicles.  Suddenly, the Stingray jolted illegally out of the phase lanes into private space.  Once in the open it was easy to identify the vessel as shown in the image given by the Novalysian government.  All serials however were missing from the scarred hall, replaced with a chrome symbol resembling an N and an X.  The ship did not hesitate, taking the indirect route through and asteroid field headed straight for Khrysis System.  The ship glided passed the floating debris with easy, showing the skill of the pilot within it and making it extremely difficult to follow.

Colten sat in the pilots seat, his face shrouded in a mixture of determination and anger.  He glanced down at the radar, signaling each of the asteroids and faintly giving notice to the cloaked ship behind.  Despite being one of the Novalysian's best fighters for its time, the Stingray was highly outdated and could hardly pick up the cascadiun stealth cruiser.  Not that Colten cared, even if he realized he was being followed that would not stop him.  Brow furrowed and eyes burning with hate, more resembling his father now than ever before, he stared unrelentingly into the distance toward his home system.  The system he had abandoned so many years before, the system he despised.  He gave little notice to the woman beside him, masked with a sword at her side.

:: the Cascadian corvette's wing and rudder placements would slightly meld and change loosing some of their hardiness but adding unparralelled range of movement following the ship through the field::

Captain- keep a good heading, we dont want to lose them but we dont want to become asteroid fodder either, Keep the strike team in the barracks at the ready, we dont know if we'll have a fight or not.

Commander- Sir who exactly would we be fighting? theres alot of rumors going around that these rebels even though their terribly misguided in their actions have an adequate leg to stand on for rebelling against Novalyse

Captain- it remains to be seen, We'll await orders from CSCC. Until given the word we will not make contact with the rebel ship.

"What should we expect when we arrive?" The soft voice behind the mask did well to conceal the lingering emotions. Fear, excitement, doubt - all things that the Ajkadi girl had learned to suppress. But now they were welling up inside. Perhaps she only understood them an iota more than she understood the circumstances that led her here, on this ship headed straight for trouble.