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  Day 720312. Strange spacecraft appeared in Sol system today. With the suddenness of its appearance and the lack of a detectable gravitational signature this spacecraft must use a new type of propulsion drive.

  Day 720313. Public knowledge transmission contains data that indicates a contact with another alien race and their gift of a Faster Than Light Drive propulsion system. Our government council has diverted all available resources to manufacture this FTLD propulsion system. Spacecraft large enough to use this propulsion system will have it added as a 2nd or 3rd propulsion system.

  Day 720530. Government and Observer councils have finally reached a decision.

  Due to the fact that the observers are now integrated with all human branches, they will no longer be just observers. Their function as historians will continue in all societies. They may now participate as functioning citizens. However, they will observe and report back on alien species societies and actions.

  The Faster than Light communications system will continue to be safeguarded as an observer secret.

  Day 723180. Star Federation military has created a new subgroup within the service. It is called "T" qualifier. Two internal observers tasked to discover true functioning of this subgroup.

  Day 723199. Evaluation of data received along with personnel given this "T" qualifier indicates that this is a command group that is being built and trained by Commandant Mooney. We've tasked three of our warships for service with the SFMDF and task their officers to mingle with the SFMDF officers after briefing them on the duties of an observer.

  Day 723540. Certain human and alien SFMDF officers have attempted to get one of our junior weapons masters to volunteer to leave our service and join the SFMDF. LT. Deena Slovak will be debriefed by an observer from the Wanderer at the SFGSS.

  Day 723555. Lt Slovak has agreed to act as an observer and join the SFMDF.

  Day 723800. After testing and training by the SFMDF she was assigned to an alien planet for a year.

  Day 724149. Lt Slovak passed the report to her observer contact upon returning the SFGSS that the SFMDF has a mental amplifier developed and built by the aliens that allows mental communications over unlimited distances. This device works without direct contact after training is completed. Only personnel with certain native talents are able to proficiently operated it. She was also trained to be able to recognize indications of the talent and instructed to report all personnel she encountered that had this rare talent.

  Day 731136. The Star Federation Revenge Fleet launched today to take the war to the home planets of the species that are attacking and destroying human and Alliance planets. The fleet commander is Sissy Medina, also know as The Red Warrior Queen.

  Day 731636. The remnants of the Revenge Fleet returned to SF space.

  Day 731666. SF 14256 06 01. Admiral Sissy Medina promoted to Supreme Commander of all SEAL space forces and given her own warship by the SEAL government. The SEALs, an alien species, honor her greatly because of the "T" talent she has and her demonstrated leadership.

  SF 14258 10 10 day 732528. The RED WARRIOR QUEEN returned to SFGSS with an extraordinary story about being hijacked to the Perseus arm of the galaxy by another ancient alien species. Then upon their return being captured by another elder species called the FROTH and they brought ambassadors from the FROTH to the SFGSS to negotiate joining the Space Federation.

  Day 732533. Observer at SFGSS picked up information on secret department set up to monitor society. It's task is to observe and report any changes in society's psychological attitudes and meddling by any alien species. This department is tasked to monitor all the species in the Star Federation. Also a complete report was sent to the Alliance Federation and the FROTH. It has extensive references to a second ancient species in the Perseus arm.

  Day 732533. SFGSS observers discovered plans to create sub-departments under this department to monitor all species discovered and monitor their civilizations from a distance until they achieve a point where they are ready to expand out of their star systems.

  SF 14258 11 22 day 732571. The SEAL government gave Admiral Sissy Medina another spacecraft named THE RED WARRIOR QUEEN II. Her new plan is to explore down one side of the Orion arm and back up the other.

  Day 732574. Observer Dianna Slovak, a trained master chef, with orders arranged by HoM system government boarded the RED WARRIOR QUEEN II this evening. She and another will relay observations from the exploration voyage directly to Observer headquarters council.

  SF 14258 11 25 day 732574. Admiral Medina and her mixed species crew departed today.