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RP: Freespacers Ho' come the Yuuko: Taking a look around

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One hundred Yuuko Gunboats arranged into ten squadrons of ten ships each raced towards Freespacer territories. The tiny black-hulled stealth ships deployed from SAINT holding positions at Tami.

Five squadrons headed towards The Great Lighthouse, Three towards the Freehold Factory and Two towards Journey's End. Running in silent running mode, immediately upon entering the systems in question began to commit to passive scans of the system, avoiding the detection that would result from the more accurate active scans.
 
Scans of Journey's End would reveal primarily civilian infrastructure in the system. Vast numbers of hydrogen collectors, solar farms, and gas crackers seemed to be producing water supplies and shipping it out to various transport hubs for further dissemination. Among the hostile atmosphere and monoculture jungles of the planet Beanfield there were scattered structures and machinery; farming equipment and facilities sending out nitrogen-based organic compounds -- probably foodstuffs -- in a similar matter as the water supplies. Other than the staff needed to maintain all this equipment, the system was fairly devoid of population.

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The scans of Freehold Factory would be troublesome to analyze. While it immediately apparent this was an industrial settlement based on activities, the entire metropolis was simply machinery piled upon more machinery. Automatons were the sole inhabitants of this world, which may have been the reason for such difficulty in discerning infrastructure.

Automatons would have no problem living among the heat, noise, radiation, and smog that would deter organic humanoids, which meant that the difference between a home and a factory was not immediately apparent. Were a facility's machine shops used for industrial purposes, or simply as an Automaton hospital? Were storage depots used for stockpiling prefabricated Automaton soldiers, or were they merely the Automaton equivalent of apartments? Freehold factory could just as easily be seen as a single giant hyperfactory as it could be an Automaton utopian colony from what scans could tell.

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The Great Lighthouse scans revealed thousands of ships docked, along with at least two Motherships. Whether they were civilian or armed was indeterminable.

The Lighthouse housed highly developed FTL communications and scanning infrastructure in great volumes, probably as a means to track caravan/fleet operations. These traffic generated by these electronic systems seemed to be disrupting casual scans of the planetoid. Active scans could be attempted for further detail, but possibly at the risk of revealing the gunboats' presence.
 
The gunboats left following the Battle of the Great Lighthouse. They headed back to Tami to analyze the data they had collected.
 
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