Planet: Dantooine System
Story: (Written by the Galactic News Agency, Ramona doesn't write IC).
Two days ago long-range scanners from an imperial patrol picked up a large explosion in the Dantooine system. Since the explosion happened in the Ferionic nebula there was not much more detailed information to be gained from the scanners' result, resulting in a closer investigation by a patrol of TIE Fighters.
At the location of the explosion the ships found a sizable cloud of debris - which subsequent analysis revealed to have been the result of the explosion. A bit away from the debris an escape pod was detected and recovered, but the pod was found to be empty. Judging from the type of the escape pod and the results of spectral analysis of the debris the explosion's cause was a critical reactor containment failure in a Vigo-class freighter. What happened exactly and why an empty escape pod was launched will likely never be known for sure, but there were scorch marks attributed to blaster fire found on the pod's hatch, which indicates hostile action from either inside or outside sources being responsible.
Dantooine orbital station, monitoring the space traffic in the system, had no reports of a registrated freighter going missing so authorities assume the still unidentified Vigo had been either a pirate or a smuggler. According to anonymous but usually well-informed sources the investigation is not considered urgent among the Imperial units assigned to the system.
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