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At approximately 03:00 [[Universal Galactic Time]] on May 26, 3301, Starship One, a [[Narwhal Liner]] carrying Federal President [[Jasmina Halsey]], Vice President [[Ethan Naylor]], and other leading officials of the Halsey administration, disappeared shortly after making a [[hyperspace]] jump to the Azaleach system.<ref name="Acting" /><ref name="Search1">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/d4300ee6719838070a297fe1fd28006021a1587b GalNet: Federal Search Efforts Continue]</ref> At the time, President Halsey and her staff had been undertaking an outreach tour of current and former Federal frontier systems, including HIP 53688, Tinia, Aleumoxii, 78 Ursae Majoris, Dietri, Su, Furuhjelm I-645, Saga, Delphin, Nanomam, Coriccha, and Ross 860; other destinations were planned, but their names were withheld from the media for security reasons.<ref name="TourAnnounce">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/200d40fd221288b918687758936844e72d039905 GalNet: President Halsey Announces Tour of Frontier Systems]</ref><ref name="TourBegin">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/fbfb919f69da401c72e062a8165c8e6fcc348180 GalNet: Tour of Frontier Systems Set to Begin Shortly]</ref><ref name="TourReaction">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/0c300d048550511dd1b7f24b1a1ab80edb567099 GalNet: 78 Ursae Majoris Reacts to President's Intended Visit]</ref><ref name="TourLaunch">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/05536c768f3cc2432a738c08ad198530bd7c2e88 GalNet: President Halsey Sets Out from Sol]</ref>

The first sign that something was amiss came early on May 26, when Maisy Stevenson, the leader of the Saga Republic Party, told [[GalNet]] that Starship One was 38 hours late for its scheduled arrival ~~time, which~~ Federal officials on [[Mars]] initially claimed was due to Halsey taking a last-minute detour to ~~the~~ Azaleach ~~system~~.<ref name="Missing" /> At 15:00 UGT, however, Secretary of State [[Felicia Winters]] assumed the role of Acting President of the Federation. She announced that contact with Starship One had been lost since its jump to Azaleach 12 hours earlier, and the vessel was officially missing. The [[Federal Navy]] immediately scrambled squadrons to search for it and rescue President Halsey and Vice President Naylor.<ref name="Acting" /> At first, it was believed both Starship One and its escort vessels had been lost, but all three ships of the President's Guardian Wing were found on May 27. According to one of the escort pilots, the Guardian Wing ships had slaved their drives to Starship One's for the jump per protocol, but shortly after entering hyperspace, the escort vessels violently dropped back into normal space. The escorts reestablished contact with each other and searched the area for Starship One before jumping to the original rendezvous point and alerting [[Eta Cassiopeiae|Federal Navy HQ]].<ref name="Search1" />

The first sign that something was amiss came early on May 26, when Maisy Stevenson, the leader of the Saga Republic Party, told [[GalNet]] that Starship One was 38 hours late for its scheduled arrival in the Saga system. Federal officials on [[Mars]] initially claimed the delay was due to Halsey taking a last-minute detour to Azaleach.<ref name="Missing" /> At 15:00 UGT, however, Secretary of State [[Felicia Winters]] assumed the role of Acting President of the Federation. She announced that contact with Starship One had been lost since its jump to Azaleach 12 hours earlier, and the vessel was officially missing. The [[Federal Navy]] immediately scrambled squadrons to search for it and rescue President Halsey and Vice President Naylor.<ref name="Acting" /> At first, it was believed both Starship One and its escort vessels had been lost, but all three ships of the President's Guardian Wing were found on May 27. According to one of the escort pilots, the Guardian Wing ships had slaved their drives to Starship One's for the jump per protocol, but shortly after entering hyperspace, the escort vessels violently dropped back into normal space. The escorts reestablished contact with each other and searched the area for Starship One before jumping to the original rendezvous point and alerting [[Eta Cassiopeiae|Federal Navy HQ]].<ref name="Search1" />

Specialist teams from [[Core Dynamics]] and [[Sirius Corporation]] determined from [[Frame Shift Drive Wake|wake telemetry]] and uplink data that Starship One had suffered explosive [[Frame Shift Drive]] failure mid-jump, catapulting the Guardian Wing out of hyperspace and tearing Starship One into pieces that were spread across interstellar space.<ref name="ShadesAntares">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/2d0472c6f8e7eee1966acb1f542cfb6a6689f379 GalNet: Shades of the Antares Visit]</ref> An official report released by the Federal Navy on June 2, 3301 attributed the disaster to mechanical failure. Sensor data obtained from Guardian Wing Alpha indicated a power surge in the central [[Power Plant]] of Starship One overloaded its other core systems. Automatic shutdown systems in the [[Frame Shift Drive]] designed to prevent these overloads and abort the jump inexplicably failed to operate, resulting in the loss of the ship after it entered hyperspace. No signs of foul play were identified.<ref name="MechanicalFailure" /><ref name="Malice">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/c2955e4406913906e65a0a519c91e0b1eb477572 GalNet: Malfunction or Malice?]</ref>

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 At approximately 03:00 [[Universal Galactic Time]] on May 26, 3301, Starship One, a [[Narwhal Liner]] carrying Federal President [[Jasmina Halsey]], Vice President [[Ethan Naylor]], and other leading officials of the Halsey administration, disappeared shortly after making a [[hyperspace]] jump to the Azaleach system.<ref name="Acting" /><ref name="Search1">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/d4300ee6719838070a297fe1fd28006021a1587b GalNet: Federal Search Efforts Continue]</ref> At the time, President Halsey and her staff had been undertaking an outreach tour of current and former Federal frontier systems, including HIP 53688, Tinia, Aleumoxii, 78 Ursae Majoris, Dietri, Su, Furuhjelm I-645, Saga, Delphin, Nanomam, Coriccha, and Ross 860; other destinations were planned, but their names were withheld from the media for security reasons.<ref name="TourAnnounce">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/200d40fd221288b918687758936844e72d039905 GalNet: President Halsey Announces Tour of Frontier Systems]</ref><ref name="TourBegin">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/fbfb919f69da401c72e062a8165c8e6fcc348180 GalNet: Tour of Frontier Systems Set to Begin Shortly]</ref><ref name="TourReaction">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/0c300d048550511dd1b7f24b1a1ab80edb567099 GalNet: 78 Ursae Majoris Reacts to President's Intended Visit]</ref><ref name="TourLaunch">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/05536c768f3cc2432a738c08ad198530bd7c2e88 GalNet: President Halsey Sets Out from Sol]</ref>
-The first sign that something was amiss came early on May 26, when Maisy Stevenson, the leader of the Saga Republic Party, told [[GalNet]] that Starship One was 38 hours late for its scheduled arrival time, which Federal officials on [[Mars]] initially claimed was due to Halsey taking a last-minute detour to the Azaleach system.<ref name="Missing" /> At 15:00 UGT, however, Secretary of State [[Felicia Winters]] assumed the role of Acting President of the Federation. She announced that contact with Starship One had been lost since its jump to Azaleach 12 hours earlier, and the vessel was officially missing. The [[Federal Navy]] immediately scrambled squadrons to search for it and rescue President Halsey and Vice President Naylor.<ref name="Acting" /> At first, it was believed both Starship One and its escort vessels had been lost, but all three ships of the President's Guardian Wing were found on May 27. According to one of the escort pilots, the Guardian Wing ships had slaved their drives to Starship One's for the jump per protocol, but shortly after entering hyperspace, the escort vessels violently dropped back into normal space. The escorts reestablished contact with each other and searched the area for Starship One before jumping to the original rendezvous point and alerting [[Eta Cassiopeiae|Federal Navy HQ]].<ref name="Search1" />
+The first sign that something was amiss came early on May 26, when Maisy Stevenson, the leader of the Saga Republic Party, told [[GalNet]] that Starship One was 38 hours late for its scheduled arrival in the Saga system. Federal officials on [[Mars]] initially claimed the delay was due to Halsey taking a last-minute detour to Azaleach.<ref name="Missing" /> At 15:00 UGT, however, Secretary of State [[Felicia Winters]] assumed the role of Acting President of the Federation. She announced that contact with Starship One had been lost since its jump to Azaleach 12 hours earlier, and the vessel was officially missing. The [[Federal Navy]] immediately scrambled squadrons to search for it and rescue President Halsey and Vice President Naylor.<ref name="Acting" /> At first, it was believed both Starship One and its escort vessels had been lost, but all three ships of the President's Guardian Wing were found on May 27. According to one of the escort pilots, the Guardian Wing ships had slaved their drives to Starship One's for the jump per protocol, but shortly after entering hyperspace, the escort vessels violently dropped back into normal space. The escorts reestablished contact with each other and searched the area for Starship One before jumping to the original rendezvous point and alerting [[Eta Cassiopeiae|Federal Navy HQ]].<ref name="Search1" />
 Specialist teams from [[Core Dynamics]] and [[Sirius Corporation]] determined from [[Frame Shift Drive Wake|wake telemetry]] and uplink data that Starship One had suffered explosive [[Frame Shift Drive]] failure mid-jump, catapulting the Guardian Wing out of hyperspace and tearing Starship One into pieces that were spread across interstellar space.<ref name="ShadesAntares">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/2d0472c6f8e7eee1966acb1f542cfb6a6689f379 GalNet: Shades of the Antares Visit]</ref> An official report released by the Federal Navy on June 2, 3301 attributed the disaster to mechanical failure. Sensor data obtained from Guardian Wing Alpha indicated a power surge in the central [[Power Plant]] of Starship One overloaded its other core systems. Automatic shutdown systems in the [[Frame Shift Drive]] designed to prevent these overloads and abort the jump inexplicably failed to operate, resulting in the loss of the ship after it entered hyperspace. No signs of foul play were identified.<ref name="MechanicalFailure" /><ref name="Malice">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/c2955e4406913906e65a0a519c91e0b1eb477572 GalNet: Malfunction or Malice?]</ref>

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