Neu Ghost Fleet Timeline - Ducks in a Row

Main Events

The Cascadium Translocation Event occurs.
16 MAR 2889/2028 ADNE
An artifact being covertly transported has an interaction with the KYLEV-MULDOON gate in the Cascadium system. The resulting release of energy and exotic particles rapidly expands to engulf the Cascadium system and propagates through a second gate array to engulf the distant Waypoint System. Both vanish from the view of observers in the Sundala Era reality.

18 MAR 2028 ADNE
While the gate linking the Cascadium system with the Waypoint reactivates after the exotic energy signature of the event fades, the other array fails to reactivate and link with the greater UAS gate network. Numerous attempts to reestablish a link fail, the engineers attempting the effort conclude that either the network itself no longer exists or that something has gone wrong with the array. The latter conclusion is discarded ten days later after it is successfully linked to the Waypoint gate.

19 MAR 2028 ADNE
The civil authorities within the Cascadium and Waypoint system activate emergency measures and total control of both systems is handed over to the ranking military authority. Admiral Heston Reyes, commander of the transiting and now stranded 8th Deterrence Patrol Task Group now finds the fates of nearly ninety million souls in his hands.

20 MAR 2028 ADNE
A stellar fix via the Waypoint system informs the two UAS star systems that they are officially in a galactic position that lines up with Waypoint's location in the year of 2028 AD. Cascadium is located roughly sixty light-years away, why it has been re-positioned remains a mystery.

22 MAR 2028 ADNE
A stellar fix via the Waypoint system informs the two UAS star systems that they are officially in a galactic position that lines up with Waypoint's location in the year of 2028 AD. Cascadium is located roughly sixty light-years away, why it has been re-positioned remains a mystery.

The UAS systems of Waypoint and Cascadium, after coming to the realization they've been trans-located into a new reality, reorganize into a two system federal entity centered on the colony world of Cascade.

Non-UAS organizations present on the colony world and in the Waypoint System are briefed on the occurrence, to a man they align with the new situation. For them the matter is simple, there is no more home to go back to, things have changed. The humans they're with, they decide, represent the best chance for their own long term survival.
- Edixi Combined Arms Group 12
- Madarin 7th Scout Group

Scout groups are sent to known locations including sites in both Alliance protected space and Imperial claimed territory. They discover that some things line up with events of their own timeline while others do not. One major discovery is the situation of the Vitari in a nearby sector. Like in their timeline the Imperium is slowly annexing their string of systems in a military campaign. Strangely this event lines up with the pursuits of House Leveskina and their want to control the Vitari and their 'bridge' across the Yuravin Expanse regional void of the shared periphery.

The 'Uptime' Vitari counsel that had been established in the Waypoint System, a measure taken after a military intervention against the Imperium by the UAS, is briefed on the status of their species. They immediately begin to lobby for another intervention as the scout ships observer the various precursor operations for an Imperial invasion of the next Vitari system in the string.

A stealth ship is deployed to Glenstat System, the Imperial center of gravity for the regional approach to the other Vitari controlled star systems. It discovers the steady build up of ships, men, and material for a planetary invasion. Snooping into their communications reveals that the intended target is the Nyfreta system.

FLEETCOM decides that having the Vitari, even if the relationship must be kept secret, owe them would be better than letting another system slip under Imperial control. An operation is greenlit and the group of Edixi forces are drawn into as a 'face' to hide 'uptime' human forces behind.

The attack is designated Operation LOCKSTEP and is intended to be a special forces deployment both on orbit and against targets on the surface. The primary goal is to set and arm thermonuclear weapons at key troop and supply concentrations. These weapons are configured to have the same signature as devices used by the ongoing Ulnus campaign against the Imperium.