Before FTL
Prolog
You all know the story of the brave men and woman of the Kestrel Cruiser who risked their life to try and give the Federation data that would have won the war against the rebels, but then again we all know how the story ends. I won't go in to detail of the event leading up to the failure of the mission but I will tell you the story before that story, this is before FTL.
Chapter 1
We take a look at a man named Ellis Leroy, today is an important day for this 32 year old man. That reason is because he is about to get a critical mission for the remaining forces of the Federation. To get you caught up on the situation, the rebel fleet has been destroying the federation for the last 2 years. The rebels want the known universe to become human controlled, however the federation want it to be shared with all the known intelligences. Due to the rebels having extreme technology they have been dominating the other alliances. We, the federation are the last group, and us winning the war is like a fly trying to fight a fly swatter. Some of our scouts have gave us data that the rebels have been in cahoots with the Engis to prefect the art of unmanned ships. We speculate that the drones out in space are prototypes because there systems do not match any fighting vessels that they currently use.
Now back to Ellis, this man is going into an office on Htrae (the H is silent) for a briefing of his upcoming mission. "I.D. sir." Ordered the security guard nearest Ellis.
"Ask the last guy at the last check point he saw it." Responded Ellis who seemed aggravated at the guard, but then bumped into his chest.
"Just give me your I.D. before I call you in." The guard said with his hand on Ellis's chest and the other over his holster. Ellis said something under his breath and handed the guard his card he checked it and gave it back then waved him through. Why do I have to go to this thing I already know what to do and how to do it I want to go home I wonder who else will be there. There was a poster on the wall Ellis saw, on it was the emblem of the Federation and below it was the six most dominate races, under them was text that read "fight the right fight and join the Federation" Ellis thought this was weird how they advertised the Federation inside a Federation only building, was it for tours or something? Na it can't be this is a class B security sector. As Ellis is walking and nothing interesting is happening this might be a good time to tell you what he is going to do, Ellis and 3 other people have been given the task to travel to one of the rebel outpost in the civilian sector and take data via a uplink They will then fly from that outpost to our base in sector 8, this Is a very dangerous mission but the Federation needs to try something. Ellis now close to the conference room is getting a bit nervous. I need to ease my nerves if I go in there I will look like a fool I have it with me but I don't want people thinking I am ill where's the bathroom ah good I'll go in take it and then be back on track. Ellis then proceeded to the bath room and did what he was thinking of just then, when he walked out he took a deep inhale and continued walking. Soon enough he got to the door of the conference room and opened it at 8am GDT (galactic date time).