Yoistal Feeding Grounds

Yoistal Feeding Grounds

In 5050 a civilian / private funded Union expedition to Planet Peppermint [1] accidently discovered a huge field of Uranium, Plutonium metal balls. The field or flat cloud, about 18 light years due Galactic South of Peppermint Planet measured 700,000 km x 2,200,000 km x 400 km. The balls were floating in approximately 100 meters from each other, with an estimated number of 6,160,000,000,000 of these metal balls.

Taken the even spacing in account and the spherical shapes of the metal balls, it was quite obviously the work of sentient beings. It was also noticed that there were streaks or swatches of missing balls.

The reason for this strange field could not be ascertained by the explorers, but they claimed it as theirs and formed the Leicester Uranium Ball Inc. right there.

The LUB Inc. officially [2] begun harvesting the valuable balls in 5055 and established a base on a cold rock core planet in the closest system (2 light years from the “Ball field”)

The Base was registered as a Union Colony in 5059 (Having a Ball).

In 5061 the Yoistal appeared (A heard of about 200) and they began consuming the balls.

The Ball harvesters used armed shuttles and an armed freighter to open fire and killing / destroying the Yoistal. A few Yoistal escaped by “disappearing”. The incident was not reported to anyone official.

In 5066 the Yoistal came back this time however the herd was much bigger.

All contact to the harvest ships and the Transport shuttles was lost.

At the same time an approaching long ranges space bus (on its way to the new Colony) was also lost. This caused an investigation and Union Science take interest into the Yoistal phenomenon.

Two more such Feeding grounds were found so far and they are all approximate the same size.









<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[1] The Leicester Baron Expedition retracing the path of the USS Tigershark (of what was made public)

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[2] Officially meant they send a modified scooper ship. They had packed their cargo holds with spheres and abandoned their expedition. (The story that Leicester killed his partner Baron by deliberately spacing him, instead of trying unsuccessfully rescuing his friend during an extremely rare airlock malfunction accident could never be confirmed)