Antares Incident

[Soopyyy]

Hello,
Can someone explain to me what the Antares Incident was? I'm just reading through GALNET and I see it referenced.

 

[Vandaahl]

At a press conference held earlier today, Acting Federal President Felicia Winters made a personal appearance to address the rdisappearance of Starship One after failing to re-enter normal space following a routine hyperspace jump.
“The disappearance of Starship One has us all on edge. Tensions are high, and the rumour mills are making all their usual noise about terrorists, aliens, conspiracies and cover-ups. I’m afraid the truth will likely get you all far fewer viewers, but it is the truth that the people of the Federation need to hear from me now.”
“I’m told the early investigations from telemetry and uplink data suggest an explosive drive failure destroyed Starship One in hyperspace, catapulting all three of her protective Guardian Wing out of hyperspace. Wreckage is likely spread across interstellar space. I’m told there are parallels with the loss of the Highliner Antares way back in 3251 when she was lost with all hands on her maiden voyage.”
“I know I remember where I was when the Highliner Antares disappeared, and I fear we will always remember where we were the day Starship One was lost.”
“While we don’t know what caused this incident – yet – we do know that Starship One’s engines experienced an unexpected surge of power just seconds before making its last jump.”
“The search efforts will continue, of course. Our hearts and hope go out to the friends and families of President Halsey and all those lost yesterday in this terrible

Here you go

 

[Soopyyy]

Here you go

Yeah, that's what I read on GALNET I was wondering if there was more information on the actual Incident that occurred in 3251.

 

[nicomak]

Yeah, that's what I read on GALNET I was wondering if there was more information on the actual Incident that occurred in 3251.

ANOTHER ALIEN RACE.
J.F.

It must be that the silly news season has started early this year. Reports in journals which will try anything to increase their circulation are normally easy enough to dismiss: when they are tied into hard news stories like the recent loss of the Highliner Antares then the morality of the news hounds (we can call them nothing more opprobrious) who perpetrate these fictions must be called into question by any responsible member of the journalistic profession.

Your reporter watched the departure of Antares on her maiden voyage, the monolayer streamers glinting in the harsh light of Sirius as she moved gently away from the orbital habitat and out to launch range. Spacemen talk of a graveyard of lost ships, a place where all who lose their lives in the colossal drive to colonise the galaxy rest in gentle luxury.

We can be sure that the great Highliner Antares is now of their company.

EXPERIMENTAL ENGINES WITHDRAWN.
J.F.

The shipyards of Sirius L4 have announced that the new experimental hyperdrive engines, the Mk 3b, are being withdrawn from service for an indefinite period. The engines have proved fractious in use, probably because of the extreme temperatures reached by the main reactors in routine use and the reduced shielding introduced to enable greater sub-light acceleration to be achieved. We can easily forget that the design of new engines, as shown in the recent sad loss of the Highliner Antares, is not an exact science.

We can take some little satisfaction, however, in the news that the Imperial war fleet is still testing its latest drives after three years.

Quite simply - we do things better here.

http://www.dream-ware.co.uk/first-encounters/journals/all/

 

[Vandaahl]

Ah, I see. I thought you wanted to know what is was, did a quick search and found something explaining it was the disappearance of Starship 1, not knowing this IS on galnet atm

 

[Soopyyy]

Thanks for that, was it ever attributed to Thargoids or was it just a bad accident?

 

[Whiterose]

Thanks for that, was it ever attributed to Thargoids or was it just a bad accident?

Nah, she got in the way of my T9.

 

[Soopyyy]

Nah, she got in the way of my T9.

I get the impression your T9 would go splat on the Antares windscreen.

 

[nicomak]

Thanks for that, was it ever attributed to Thargoids or was it just a bad accident?

Well that's the only thing i could find, but who knows. News articles are merely written with (some of) the knowledge the writter possess or should i say the informations/opinions, true or not, that he is willing/is allowed/is asked(...) to share ...

 

[Soopyyy]

Well that's the only thing i could find, but who knows. News articles are merely written with (some of) the knowledge the writter possess or should i say the informations/opinions, true or not, that he is willing/is allowed/is asked(...) to share ...

Yeah, I know there has to be some ambiguity left to keep the story rolling, I've just never played the old games so I've no idea what transpired in them.

 

[Julissa Silver]

Nah, she got in the way of my T9.

They shouldn't have been playing in open if they didn't want to be rammed.

 

[Allen Stroud]

Yeah, that's what I read on GALNET I was wondering if there was more information on the actual Incident that occurred in 3251.

Apologies for the thread necromancy, but just wanted to say how nice it is to see some of my compiling work for Frontier bearing fruit in an article like this. I went through all the F: FE journals as part of the fiction guides and the Antares Incident was included. Lovely to see it mentioned as part of the situation with Starship One.