Order of Ganymede Investigation

Year: 313 CE - 319 CE

The Galactic Observation Society's monitoring division discovered that the Order of Ganymede had begun monitoring the rest of the Alpha Sol System rather than being completely insular, prompting the CSIS to send ships to investigate only for them to be relentlessly bombarded if they crossed within 1 million kilometres of Jupiter, with the firing stopping if they exited this radius, prompting the CSIS to send cloaked spy-drones instead which allowed them to see the new monitoring system and the OOG's fleet in Jupiter's upper atmosphere.

The CSIS kept inching close to Jupiter and ending up attacked, so it contacted the Order of Ganymede demanding access to Jupiter and to know why it kept them away, which the OOG received but initially ignored before clarifying that it wanted nothing to do with the CSIS and would not respond to further communication attempts as it isolated itself. A CSIS battleship infiltrated OOG space and was promptly fired upon once it entered their 'kill zone' which it survived due to using Ablative armour and powerful shields before leaving the radius. 100 CSIS ships and many spy satellites were placed around the killzone which the OOG considered to be a 'nuisance'. The CSIS sent a small stealth shuttle into the killzone which remained undetected for some time until the OOG's monitoring satellites seemed to be able to detect it after 20 minutes, so it turned off to make them stop paying attention but as it didn't move they kept looking at it. With the satellites turning their equipment towards the shuttle, it reactivated and launched missiles at the monitoring array before warping out of the killzone. CSIS' own monitoring equipment managed to observe a variety of crude structures without a clear purpose built onto Io, Callisto, Ganymede, Europa, and Amalthea alongside scans suggesting that the OOG was also active in Jupiter's upper atmosphere. Another stealth frigate was sent to get better scans, managing to notice something metallic in Jupiter's atmosphere as the satellites gradually noticed it and began blinking with a red light, leading to missiles from Europa being fired once the blinking was set to a pure unchanging red. CSIS kept sending frigates into OOG space which kept being caught faster and faster as the satellites learned how to detect CSIS cloaking devices, with fighters being sent in from deeper in the killzone to destroy them as the satellites had learned enough to detect the incoming frigates within 3 minutes. Whenever a frigate or shuttle decloaked to fire missiles at satellites, main OOG ships quickly detected them and opened fire, leading to very minimal details being recovered beyond the fact that the OOG had a few thousand vessels, especially as an attempt at capturing a monitoring satellite failed due to OOG ships hitting and destroying it. A OMM drone also began exploiting the situation, landing discretely on a monitoring satellite and using it as a position to scan for more details without causing turmoil. The CSIS on the other hand had different plans and summoned the Protoss Empire alongside its fleet, prompting the OOG to finally speak again via 'Io Communication Center 2-B' demanding an immediate cease of hostilities as it saw the tensions as completely unnecessary and didn't want to 'waste resources destroying the CSIS'. The CSIS and Protoss ignored this as the Protoss began sending its own tiny advanced drones into OOG space, which took ~30 minutes to begin being detected due to the monitoring network already being on high alert. Hoping to avoid another war, the OMM provided the CSIS with its own gathered information revealing that the monitoring satellites used telescopes and electromagnetic signal/signature detection systems directed by somekind of complex hardware or software, leading to the CSIS and Protoss reluctantly leaving the kill zone and returning to faraway scanning, which didn't reveal much new as it still appeared that visible major structures (such as communications systems and turrets) were only really on the 4 Galilean moons and Amalthea aside from some kind of levitating (with thrusters) spaceport in Jupiter's upper atmosphere. Despite largely withdrawing their military forces (aside from far-away surveillance systems), this atmospheric station caught CSIS attention, so they began surveilling the area with little success due to cloud coverage. The CSIS noticed that not much was changing other than increased internal communications within OOG Space, which the CSIS tried to decrypt with its AI systems with little success due to its very incoherent and choppy encryption method, with the only thing to be figured out first being that they were discussing the ongoing crisis. The CSIS placed a sputnik-like satellite in the killzone, which was shot once it was detected, only for it to actually be a hologram. A few words were decrypted; "Delay.... Situation......... End.......", though this also didn't lead far for now. While the OMM was sending more satellites disguised as asteroids to attach to more satellites, the CSIS first sent in a golf-ball and then a golden ball with a very simple circuit inside to intercept communications which managed to recover a OOG Callsign sent by a 1.6km -long destroyer in Callisto's orbit communicating with a on-surface structure on Ganymede. The CSIS tried one more time to tap into OOG communications, managing to decrypt one low-quality image of the inner Alpha Sol System from a monitoring satellite before the golden ball was found and destroyed.

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Callisto Flashes

Argentine Airlines Crash

After some time, things began happening again as a large amount of OOG ships exited the facility in Jupiter's atmosphere and two bright flashes were seen in the southern hemisphere of Callisto as a series of unidentified objects were launched, which was detected by a in-construction CSIS space-station outside the killzone tasked with monitoring and intercepting long-range weapons. 2 days after the flashes, a major airplane crash happened over the South Atlantic as Argentine Airlines Flight 904 going from Argentina City, Argentina to Umoja, East African Federation seemingly crumpled in on itself as it collided with a invisible object at 22:54 on the 11th of March according to the sole survivor 'Darweshi Selemani', prompting the Argentine and EAF governments to open a investigation to find debris which could verify this claim. Within a week, the EAF Federal Investigation Department had largely completed its analysis after it recovered 'unusual objects' composed of metals (aluminum alloy and an unknown non-Trigal sturdy material) and electronics that wouldn't be found on a plane and brought them to Maputo for analysis, with the OMM making the connection that the aluminum alloy was also used in OOG satellites. The OMM began its own investigation into the incident by looking into its own surveillance systems (hijacked satellites, radar stations, and hidden drones disguised as ordinary weather equipment) dated at the time of the crash and matching any cloak detections to their registry of such technologies. Eventually the FID managed to get the electronics to an operational enough state to recover some files and photographs;

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The EAF, CSIS, and OMM came to the conclusion that the 'mission' graph was related to the Callisto Flashes, suggesting that two crafts had been sent to Yata for surveillance with only one being involved in the crash, suggesting that one was still present on the planet. The CSIS put the entire Jupiter area on lockdown as much of the CSIS fleet and the EAF's small fleet of 50 starfighters started a 'blockade'. The CSS Jupiter and OMM scanning stations began surveying for cloaked crafts across the Alpha Sol System, finding none in the 'inner system' aside from vessels thought to belong to the Empire of Yāta around Vesta, Herculina, Pallas, and Ceres. The OMM began deploying more drones into the Killzone to latch onto OOG satellites, deploying one additional drone every 3 months either on its own or onboard a stray asteroid if one is available, though this only had a roughly 40% success rate (leading to around ~16 satellites being latched onto over the coming years).

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Scanned Map

The 'Amalthea Incident' occurred as a significant portion of the OOG fleet left the Alpha Sol System in an unknown direction (thanks to scanners not being in a alert state to quickly track them), though a majority of their fleet remained near Jupiter. The OMM's early-warning drone/station network designed to detect outside threats and CSIS fleet searched extensively to locate the fleet, though eventually the Amalthea Incident fleet's location was exposed by complete accident as an individual on one of the fleets connected to the Francian 'Dynanet Browser', which was quite easily traced to a collection of uninhabitable planets to the northwest and northeast of the Sol System which the OOG had claimed, leading to a major CSIS build-up and surveillance campaign (hiding equipment for such campaigns within fake asteroids) in order to decrypt OOG communications. Over the next year, around a thousand CSIS ships assembled outside the killzone as a major buildup to match the OOG began, eventually swelling to ~1500 ships. The CSIS deployed anothe rsurveillance drone embedded in an asteroid into the killzone, taking photos and low-level scans with incredibly low-powered processors to avoid detection. Over a year, this satellite gathered various pictures and measurements of ship sizes, though failed to tap into any communications, so a new asteroid designed to specifically do this was sent in to do the same, though once it entered the Killzone interference from the OOG made overviewing how the decryption was going impossible until it left it again. Once it made it out, a series of choppy intercepted communications were received, with the 'first batch' containing the messages; "The Imperial Council for the Restoration of the Trophian Empire is the name of our organization", "Restoration of the Trophian Empire", "Yetian National Front", "NGO Tax Exemptions", "We follow the ideological system of "Trophia Thought", Also known as Human Chauvinism", "Current Member Count: 8", the 'second batch' containing the messages; "Accelerate current plans", "Heightened state of tension", "Risk of exposure," "Initiate PrepOrders-23bx1", "PrepOrders" listing from", "Is to begin being processed, follow once your sector", "Has given the order you will be tasked to complete", and the 'third batch' contained the message; "All future ████████ are to be redirected to quar.zone-5". The CSIS then deployed yet another asteroid-drone was sent in on a elliptical orbit which would send it near Io before exiting the Killzone and re-entering it. Activity within the Killzone appeared to be slowing down, leading to only minimal information being gathered by the spy-asteroid, so the next one was designed to hack into one of the OOG's satellites.

Ganymedian Gravity-Pulse Generator

CSIS ships gradually became more and more aggressive, constantly charging at the OOG's killzone before turning back alongside rapidly building up its forces around the Killzone alongside the Protoss Empire (who was there due to the OOG being responsible for the Pisura27 Sickness outbreak. Attempts at intercepting OOG communications were fairly unsuccessful, as despite the OOG's fleet clearly being on high alert its internal communications did not reflect this fact. CSIS ships' infiltrations kept becoming more and more proactive, even crossing into the killzone sometimes which eventually lead to them being forced out. The CSIS began redirecting asteroids onto OMM moons, though only asteroids that weren't heading for developed appears appeared to hit as some-kind of shield was protecting the installations.

With the OOG seemingly not even using any secret communications channels, the CSIS decided to deploy a elite special-forces team known as 'The Spectres' (and a robotic dog used to carry equipment) to infiltrate Ganymede itself via a derelict frigate on a crash-course with the moon from which they would jetpack down towards an installation, though once the frigate was deflected by a gravitational pulse from the target installation designed to deflect asteroids, though luckily it was unable to detect smaller objects such as people, so they were forced to free-fall 7000 kilometres towards the surface, though they were forced to fall quite far away as to not get pushed back when the debris of the breaking-apart frigate would enter the pulse-generator's scanning radius, which was luckily successful thanks to their on-person stealth gear. Once the Spectres landed, they found themselves 1/3 of the planet away from the target installation in a desolate glacier-area with occasional manufacturing facilities of which only half appeared to be in service, with many abandoned factories littering the landscape, thus they set up a camp to continue onwards with their mission. After some recon and photography missions (which revealed that the OOG installation was barely even a city, instead largely being a 'working site' with a strict routine that workers permanently lived at), the pulse-generator appeared to powered by a reactor hidden underneath it, which seemingly couldn't be accessed without being detected despite the spectres' cloaking devices.

With no clear way to sabotage the OOG's facilities without detection, the CSIS resorted to returning to its attempted sabotages of the OOG's satellite network. Alongside this, further R&D was put into understanding how the OOG was able to detect cloaked ships, with the best guess being that the satellite network's sensor systems managed to gather the approximate location of undetectable crafts via their magnetic signatures, so they deployed an unmanned drone designed to mask its electromagnetic signature to see if they could hide from the satellites. The CSIS began to withdraw its forces away from Jupiter back to pre-tension levels in order to lower the OOG's guard despite surveillance systems remaining active.

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In December 319 a series of significant events were documented as the OOG's internal communications flared up with messages akin to "Execute PrepOrder-(number)" while the CSIS was busy trying to keep a low profile by patrolling elsewhere and the OMM was sending out stealth drones to other OOG-owned planets beyond Alpha Sol. Next, the decryption satellite beamed out the messages "PrepOrders have been completed. Initiate FinPlan-█████████ via case,code █████████. Full initiation of FinPlan will be given alongside case-code once Finplan-████████ are complete" after which the 'Execute' messages came to a close as communications in the area went silent before playing a patriotic song written in YNF-Occupied Antarctica, raising significant suspicion.

On Ganymede, the Spectre team didn't find much as all of the people living on the planet seemed to mainly be office workers and scientists, though a location of notice was found in the form of an abandoned building called the 'Former Host Centre' which seemed to be the former government building of the entire OOG until they had seemingly relocated elsewhere, not leaving behind much other than unimportant documents such as outdated spacecraft designs, old maps, and history documents. The CSIS took note of these ship designs despite how comically ancient they were, noting how they didn't use the OOG's symbol but instead the YNF's one alongside their weapon systems. Elsewhere, a sudden incredibly quick communication which couldn't be decoded in time was detected firing out throughout the Alpha Sol System to all OOG facilities, prompting the Spectres to leave after unsuccessfully attempting to upload a computer-worm into the OOG's communication network which failed as the Host Centre didn't have any electricity. The Teams decided to try doing this in a used building, but a sudden OOG attack onto Unity Station interrupted them as the Accord-YNF War began.