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The Federal Attorney's Office obtained a grand jury indictment against Fleet Admiral Lucas Vincent for conspiracy to commit murder and treason in the Starship One disaster on January 11, 3307. The trial of Vincent, who is the highest ranking Federal military officer to ever stand trial, was scheduled to begin on January 25 at the Federal High Court in Olympus Village on Mars.<ref name="Date Trial">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/5ffc472043077c407858899a GalNet: Date Set for Trial of Fleet Admiral Vincent]</ref> Former Federal President [[Jasmina Halsey]] returned to [[Olympus Village]] on January 20 at the request of the Federal High Court to stand as a witness in the trial.<ref name="Halsey Returns">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/600828dc9311f51697248d0f GalNet: Jasmina Halsey Returns to the Federation]</ref>

On the first day of the trial, the prosecution presented evidence obtained from Rory Webster, including a recording of a secure transmission sent from Vincent's office to Starship One on May 24, 3301 that ordered the vessel to divert to Azaleach for routine maintenance. It was during the stop in Azaleach that Webster's engineering team installed the sabotaged hyperdrive component that caused the misjump. Vincent evaded questions and insisted that the trial was a cover-up for the Liberal Party, which he claimed had Starship One destroyed to elevate then-Secretary of State Felicia Winters to the presidency. Vincent's own defence counsel downplayed his claims, and instead assailed the authenticity of Webster's recordings of Vincent's orders.<ref name="Trial Begins">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/600ec05d4bd72d057e4512de GalNet: Trial of Fleet Admiral Vincent Begins]</ref>

On the first day of the trial, the prosecution presented evidence obtained from Rory Webster, including a recording of a secure transmission sent from Vincent's office to Starship One on May 24, 3301 that ordered the vessel to divert to Azaleach for routine maintenance. It was during the stop in Azaleach that Webster's engineering team installed the sabotaged hyperdrive component that caused the misjump. Vincent evaded questions and insisted that the trial was a cover-up for the Liberal Party, which he claimed had Starship One destroyed to elevate then-Secretary of State Felicia Winters to the presidency. Vincent's own defence counsel downplayed his claims, and instead assailed the authenticity of Webster's recordings of Vincent's orders.<ref name="Trial Begins">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/600ec05d4bd72d057e4512de GalNet: Trial of Fleet Admiral Vincent Begins]</ref> Jasmina Halsey took the witness stand on January 27. She confirmed that Vincent personally ordered the unscheduled stop in Azaleach, and recounted her experience of Starship One's destruction. On cross-examination, the defense counsel asserted Halsey's testimony be discounted on the grounds that she was delusional, and presented the statements Halsey had made after her rescue and revival in 3302 about having met the "[[Guardian|caretakers of our galaxy]]". The former president revealed that she had no memory of making those statements, and suggested that they were a result of the trauma of the disaster and spending months in cryostasis. She provided medical documentation from reputable [[Alliance]] doctors confirming her sanity.<ref name="Halsey Testimony">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/601163e4990d0a15f312437d GalNet: Jasmina Halsey Provides Testimony about Starship One]</ref>

==Timeline==

27 JAN 3307

*Former [[President of the Federation|President]] [[Jasmina Halsey]] has taken the witness stand during the trial of Fleet Admiral [[Lucas Vincent]] at the [[Federal High Court]]. Crime correspondent [[Ethan Takahashi]] reported the details for The [[Federal Times]]: "Jasmina Halsey confirmed that the orders for Starship One's unscheduled stopover in the Azaleach system came directly from Fleet Admiral Vincent. She added that the presidential itinerary was often altered for various mundane reasons, and at the time this seemed routine. Halsey also provided an account of the vessel's destruction, describing the chaos and panic onboard as the [[hyperspace]] misjump caused rapid structural disintegration. She praised her security detail for getting her into a cryogenic stasis pod and launching it moments before Starship One exploded. During cross-examination, the defence counsel quoted her reported visions after being rescued, when Halsey described meeting the [[Guardian|'caretakers of our galaxy']] and experiencing the 'infinities of the cosmos'. It was suggested that the testimony of someone suffering from such obvious delusions should be discounted. Halsey admitted that she no longer has any memory of making those statements, and may have been suffering from post-traumatic shock. She then provided the court with psychological reports and neural scans from the [[Alliance]]'s finest doctors, medically confirming that she is of sound state of mind."<ref name="Halsey Testimony" />

25 JAN 3307

*The [[Federal High Court]] on [[Mars]] has opened the trial of Fleet Admiral [[Lucas Vincent]], who is charged with conspiracy to commit murder and treason. Vincent stands accused of organising the sabotage of Starship One in 3301, resulting in hundreds of deaths. The [[Federal Times]]'s crime correspondent [[Ethan Takahashi]] reported: "The trial began with the prosecution counsel outlining the case. Material evidence obtained from Chief Technician [[Rory Webster]], whose testimony led to Vincent's arrest, was presented before the jury. Vincent was questioned about a secure transmission from his office to the presidential vessel on the 24th of May 3301, ordering an unscheduled diversion to the Azaleach system for routine maintenance. This is where Webster's engineering team followed Vincent's orders to install the sabotaged [[hyperdrive]] component that caused the misjump. Evading the questions, Vincent claimed that the entire trial was a 'Liberal Party cover-up' and that Starship One was destroyed 'to put [[Felicia Winters|Winters]] in charge'. With the loss of President [[Jasmina Halsey|Halsey]] and Vice President [[Ethan Naylor|Naylor]], Felicia Winters did indeed assume the role of acting president and became leader of the Liberal Party. However, the defence counsel played down these accusations, instead declaring that Webster's recordings of Vincent's orders could have been falsified."<ref name="Trial Begins" />

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 The Federal Attorney's Office obtained a grand jury indictment against Fleet Admiral Lucas Vincent for conspiracy to commit murder and treason in the Starship One disaster on January 11, 3307. The trial of Vincent, who is the highest ranking Federal military officer to ever stand trial, was scheduled to begin on January 25 at the Federal High Court in Olympus Village on Mars.<ref name="Date Trial">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/5ffc472043077c407858899a GalNet: Date Set for Trial of Fleet Admiral Vincent]</ref> Former Federal President [[Jasmina Halsey]] returned to [[Olympus Village]] on January 20 at the request of the Federal High Court to stand as a witness in the trial.<ref name="Halsey Returns">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/600828dc9311f51697248d0f GalNet: Jasmina Halsey Returns to the Federation]</ref>
-On the first day of the trial, the prosecution presented evidence obtained from Rory Webster, including a recording of a secure transmission sent from Vincent's office to Starship One on May 24, 3301 that ordered the vessel to divert to Azaleach for routine maintenance. It was during the stop in Azaleach that Webster's engineering team installed the sabotaged hyperdrive component that caused the misjump. Vincent evaded questions and insisted that the trial was a cover-up for the Liberal Party, which he claimed had Starship One destroyed to elevate then-Secretary of State Felicia Winters to the presidency. Vincent's own defence counsel downplayed his claims, and instead assailed the authenticity of Webster's recordings of Vincent's orders.<ref name="Trial Begins">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/600ec05d4bd72d057e4512de GalNet: Trial of Fleet Admiral Vincent Begins]</ref>
+On the first day of the trial, the prosecution presented evidence obtained from Rory Webster, including a recording of a secure transmission sent from Vincent's office to Starship One on May 24, 3301 that ordered the vessel to divert to Azaleach for routine maintenance. It was during the stop in Azaleach that Webster's engineering team installed the sabotaged hyperdrive component that caused the misjump. Vincent evaded questions and insisted that the trial was a cover-up for the Liberal Party, which he claimed had Starship One destroyed to elevate then-Secretary of State Felicia Winters to the presidency. Vincent's own defence counsel downplayed his claims, and instead assailed the authenticity of Webster's recordings of Vincent's orders.<ref name="Trial Begins">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/600ec05d4bd72d057e4512de GalNet: Trial of Fleet Admiral Vincent Begins]</ref> Jasmina Halsey took the witness stand on January 27. She confirmed that Vincent personally ordered the unscheduled stop in Azaleach, and recounted her experience of Starship One's destruction. On cross-examination, the defense counsel asserted Halsey's testimony be discounted on the grounds that she was delusional, and presented the statements Halsey had made after her rescue and revival in 3302 about having met the "[[Guardian|caretakers of our galaxy]]". The former president revealed that she had no memory of making those statements, and suggested that they were a result of the trauma of the disaster and spending months in cryostasis. She provided medical documentation from reputable [[Alliance]] doctors confirming her sanity.<ref name="Halsey Testimony">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/601163e4990d0a15f312437d GalNet: Jasmina Halsey Provides Testimony about Starship One]</ref>
 ==Timeline==
+JAN 3307
+*Former [[President of the Federation|President]] [[Jasmina Halsey]] has taken the witness stand during the trial of Fleet Admiral [[Lucas Vincent]] at the [[Federal High Court]]. Crime correspondent [[Ethan Takahashi]] reported the details for The [[Federal Times]]: "Jasmina Halsey confirmed that the orders for Starship One's unscheduled stopover in the Azaleach system came directly from Fleet Admiral Vincent. She added that the presidential itinerary was often altered for various mundane reasons, and at the time this seemed routine. Halsey also provided an account of the vessel's destruction, describing the chaos and panic onboard as the [[hyperspace]] misjump caused rapid structural disintegration. She praised her security detail for getting her into a cryogenic stasis pod and launching it moments before Starship One exploded. During cross-examination, the defence counsel quoted her reported visions after being rescued, when Halsey described meeting the [[Guardian|'caretakers of our galaxy']] and experiencing the 'infinities of the cosmos'. It was suggested that the testimony of someone suffering from such obvious delusions should be discounted. Halsey admitted that she no longer has any memory of making those statements, and may have been suffering from post-traumatic shock. She then provided the court with psychological reports and neural scans from the [[Alliance]]'s finest doctors, medically confirming that she is of sound state of mind."<ref name="Halsey Testimony" />
 JAN 3307
 *The [[Federal High Court]] on [[Mars]] has opened the trial of Fleet Admiral [[Lucas Vincent]], who is charged with conspiracy to commit murder and treason. Vincent stands accused of organising the sabotage of Starship One in 3301, resulting in hundreds of deaths. The [[Federal Times]]'s crime correspondent [[Ethan Takahashi]] reported: "The trial began with the prosecution counsel outlining the case. Material evidence obtained from Chief Technician [[Rory Webster]], whose testimony led to Vincent's arrest, was presented before the jury. Vincent was questioned about a secure transmission from his office to the presidential vessel on the 24th of May 3301, ordering an unscheduled diversion to the Azaleach system for routine maintenance. This is where Webster's engineering team followed Vincent's orders to install the sabotaged [[hyperdrive]] component that caused the misjump. Evading the questions, Vincent claimed that the entire trial was a 'Liberal Party cover-up' and that Starship One was destroyed 'to put [[Felicia Winters|Winters]] in charge'. With the loss of President [[Jasmina Halsey|Halsey]] and Vice President [[Ethan Naylor|Naylor]], Felicia Winters did indeed assume the role of acting president and became leader of the Liberal Party. However, the defence counsel played down these accusations, instead declaring that Webster's recordings of Vincent's orders could have been falsified."<ref name="Trial Begins" />

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