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and humorous attitude,
“Sure thing daddy-o.”
    Logan smiles at Zoey’s strange manner of speaking.
He waves one final farewell before boarding the flight to Olf III.
    The rest of the team also wave farewell, giving
thanks and praise for her heroism on Crete IV, and for the information later
revealed to them.
    After the team departs, Zoey makes her way back to
the hospital ship to check-in. While boarding her ship, she passes her Division
Commander, Commander Mathias Asim.
    “Where to next, Sir?” Zoey asks her Commander.
    The Commander gives her a brief update, “Looks like
we’ve been getting reports of more scouts along the Kishar Badlands, near the
outer rim. It could possibly be more Draks, but maybe just pirates. We’ll see
when we get there.”

Chapter 4 – A New Beginning
    Just as the people of the Trillian Alliance search
for clues to their own history, the Drak Empire seeks knowledge about their own
ancestry and origins.
    Due to frequent wars and the loss of information to
time and weathering, much of the early beginnings of both cultures remain
obscured.
    The Drak Empire enlists the aid of scholars from
various professional fields to acquire lost fragments of civilizations long
past.
    This dominion of archaeologists in the empire is the
Drak Expeditionary Force.
    Their sole purpose is to hunt down ancient fossils
and the ruins of ancient civilizations, in search of clues to the origins of
civilized life in the galaxy, and look for obscure texts written ages ago, and
have since been long forgotten.
    The Drak reconnaissance team captured on Crete IV is
a forward reconnaissance team to locate possible sites for future study.
    Interrogations of the captured soldiers indicate
that the attacks on outlying systems are a preemptive assault.
    The Drak attempt to 'cleanse' these systems of
‘Alliance contamination’ before information and relics could be destroyed or
corrupted by the Alliance usurpers.
    The Alliance Intelligence Directorate sends word of
this news to Logan and his team, along with artifacts retrieved from the Drak
recon team and a detailed list of the contents.
    As Logan is the directing professor for the Doga
Prime School of Archaeology, he is the first scholar in-line to be given the
chance to study archaeological finds by the government.
    Logan arrives early to his office and finds the
package with a DataCom message attached.
    The message reads,
    “To the Chief Professor of Antiquities, Doctor Logan
Bailey of the Doga Prime School of Archaeology
    From the Trillian Alliance Special Directorate of
Information and Intelligence.
    Herein you will find artifacts retrieved from a Drak
reconnaissance force on Crete IV. Intelligence gained from captured members of
the recon team indicates they may have been part of a larger force.”
    “Please examine these objects and present a report
to The Office of the Special Directorate of Information and Intelligence. You
and your team are additionally invited to join together with a Special Forces
unit to locate and retrieve additional artifacts from other outlying sites.”
    The parcel contains four stone tablets with unknown
writings, twelve figurines, and a circular crystalline tablet with no
immediately noticeable markings.
    Logan frantically examines the objects in detail,
recording every speck of dust, imaging every symbol he can find, and sending
all of the information through a powerful computer designed to assist with
studying archaeological relics.
    While the computer examines the tablets to attempt
to translate the language, Logan initialized the scanner to conduct a detailed
microscopic scan the figurines.
    Many of the figurines appear to be Drak, however a
few of the objects appeared almost Tharisian.
    These Tharisian like figures are of great interest
to Logan, since his race is of Tharisian descent.
    Studying every nook and cranny of the stone
statuettes, he finds indications that the creation of the figures were around
the same geologic