Battle near Skantos Passage

Year: 261 CE

Battle near Skantos Passage
Date	261 CE
Location	Grid N19
Combatants
Polsk The Quhanim
Commanders

Polsk intercepted and translated a strange transmission in a language resembling Hindi 6 lightyears away from Yata relatively near where Skantos was which revealed that whoever this faction was, they had been following 'Earth Survivors' to the Skantos System where this faction was now planning on making a covert base to research its significance, with this message being seemingly directed towards the dwarf planet Ceres which was responsible for sending reinforcements. A Polskan stealth ship named 'PFS Admiral Krolizec' arrived to investigate, coming across a strange triangular shipwreck in the region the signal came from as whoever sent it seemed to have attacked and destroyed this other vessel. Files onboard this destroyed vessel revealed that they were attacked by the Human vessel seemingly affiliated with the 'Empire of Yata' based on said files' details, with this Empire likely being the one which sent the initial transmission and fought this unidentified alien ship, seemingly themselves also having been damaged as debris was drifting in space towards Skantos. The Polskan ship collecteed all the data it could and set up a beacon at the destroyed triangular ship before heading over to Skantos, dropping off its samples to a Polskan spacestation nearby before cloaking and approaching two unidentified crafts orbiting Skantos, scanning them to be armed and populated with 5 thousand crew each as the Krolizec intercepted another transmission bound for Ceres warning the previously summoned reinforcements to proceed with caution as they had been attacked by 'triangular ships' which may still be around despite one being defeated. The Krolizec was much larger than these two ships so it powered its weapons in order to generate a magnetic signature big enough for the two ships to detect, prompting them to demand that the Krolizec identify itself, which it responded to by explaining it was from a colony of Nova Polska called Polsk which had tracked their poorly encrypted transmissions. The ships asked if Polsk was affiliated with the Human ships they had seen heading towards Skantos in 202 CE, which Polsk denied as they claimed to have been descended from a failed colony ship that left Yata some time before the start of The Great Sleep that ended up settling on Theia, which the ships were unaware of the specifics about and regarded the more accurate dates Polsk was able to give them as useful. Polsk inquired why they had destroyed that triangular ship, prompting the ships to explain that they were attacked by the ship unprovoked and were simply defending themselves, leading to Polsk offering to repair them which the ships accepted despite being ordered not to affiliate with other powers, prompting the two to identify themselves as Polsk and the 'Yatan Empire Navy', marking first contact between the two polities. Once the Empire ships were repaired, the two exchanged goodbyes as Polsk jumped away while the Empire stayed to build an observation post.

As Polsk was heading back to Alpha Sol it detected a massive object approaching them on their radars, prompting them to call for reinforcements, prepare their fighters, and charge their weapons. They fired onto the pyramid-shaped ship with their Yamato Cannon, only for it to appear to be undamaged, prompting them to fire everything they had against the ship which also caused little damage, with even Polsk's 3 reinforcing ships failing to cause significant damage. The approaching ship didn't attack and didn't have any openings to be boarded, though a strange transmission in an unknown guttural clicking language sounded out, which Polsk's AI Systems managed to translate to mean 'Annihilate.'