Editing Quest:Void Quest (section)

===Orrin===

Upon jumping into Orrin, the ''Harbinger'' receives an automated transmission: "Attention all Ophidian Navy ships, this is Captain Charles Devri of the ''OIS Glorious Destiny'', Marquis-class fast attack destroyer. Employ Jump travel to and from this system only, the gate has been sealed and colony vacated by order of High Command. Praise be the Regent, may we die in his name." It is unclear who these people are, but the gate is, apparently, the large ring satellite orbiting Orrin: large enough for a cruiser or bulk freighter to pass through. The automated defense platforms accept our IFF codes and read green; the base on the surface of Orrin is overgrown, and no intelligent life or transmissions are detected. No response is received from any Ophidian stations in the system.

After scanning the system, the defense platforms are deemed to be horrifyingly weak, but have nonetheless managed to leave a field of debris around the system. Among the debris are 8 monitoring probes. We send a shuttle to investigate the probes, probe our ability to dock with the gate, and to land on the planet. Despite the gate station being completely gutted and sealed up, the seals are overridden on our authority. While exploring the station, we find a single console uplink jack, and plug a drone in remotely. The drone is almost immediately fried by a counter-intrusion protocol.

The other shuttle lands on the planet, and the drones gain entry to the ground base, only to find it powered down, empty, and ravaged by time. Access to the reactor core and command bridge is restricted. Lt. Ivanova dodges the question of knowing the access codes. The probes get disassembled, and the engineers find that they are clearly descended from Ophidian technology.

Parson and Dai are sent off to investigate the gate, samples from Orrin are brought up for Dr. Burr to test, and the debris field is evaluated to contain wreckage from 20,000 to 100 years old. We wake up Lt. Rinn, weapons officer, and, while he is in recovery for two days due to low-end cybernetics, he is generally accepting of his situation. 

We decide to hack the core of the gate, and Lt. Parson suggests checking the date. The ''Harbinger'' takes up place outside the projected singularity collapse radius, and we connect to the core in order to gain access to it. What follows is a trip down memory lane: Ged's battle on the ''OIS Hydra'', and the time we first decided to be a ship captain -- even if it meant become an EI. The solution involved accessing the ''OIS Twin Suns'''s core, and finding the miniature ''OIS Harbinger'' there.