CHAPTER 1- Federation Ship
The large research ship belonging to the Galactic Federation had been on a mission in a remote region for a long time. There was not only a flight crew aboard the ship. Scientists, technical personnel and hundreds of people working in different fields had also taken part in the research. The investigations in the region had been completed, and all the information obtained had been transferred to the Federation’s record system.Preparations for the return had now begun. The ship entered the route that would allow it to reach Federation territory. No problems occurred during the first part of the journey. The ship was proceeding normally by using the electrical lines in space, and due to the ship’s design, any foreign matter that could threaten the ship’s safety was destroyed before it could strike it. After a while, one of the systems in the control center issued a warning. There was a powerful gravitational field ahead of the ship. At first, the personnel thought this was caused by a large celestial body that was not in the records. But when the scans were completed, it became clear that there was no such object in the region.
The captain ordered the route to be changed. The ship was turned in a different direction but the pull did not decrease. On the contrary, it was growing a little stronger with each passing minute. The engines’ power was increased. Despite this, the ship began to drift away from the designated route.
Everyone in the control center was looking at the data in front of them. They were searching for a device malfunction, a miscalculated coordinate or an overlooked celestial body. Any one of these would have been enough to explain the cause of the gravitational field. But there were no errors in the systems. The ship was being pulled toward a dark region that did not appear in the records.
