A few weeks after delivering the kar'sorans' info to the League, the heroes were contacted by Admiral Delsa.  They met with her where she explained that the military was interested in scouting out the area between the League and the Union of Klorr.  The heroes were asked to scout an area of the Buffer for habitable or mineral rich worlds, for a payment of $15,000, as well as all supplies (ie food) to be paid for by the League.  The group agreed and soon headed off to begin their mission.

Once they arrived at the cluster of systems in question, they began surveying the worlds within.  Nothing much turned up for the first few systems.  Then, the heroes found something interesting.  In one of the systems, as they were moving through an asteroid belt towards the inner planets, they found an alien vessel which was firing things into the system's star.  Atrus tried scanning the vessel, but the only thing that worked was the mass detector, only indicating that there was a mass there.  All other scanners couldn't pick up the ship.  The heroes tried to hail the vessel, only to have it move away from them very quickly.  They decided not to chase it and eventually it opened a wormhole and vanished into it.  Atrus also found something odd about the sun:  near the equatorial area there was a string of what appeared to be sunspots.  Ezekiel moved the ship around so Atrus could triangulate what these sunspots were (sunspots don't usually form in very even patterns like this).  It turned out that the things weren't sunspots at all, but rather objects floating roughly 60,000km from the sun's surface.  Considering all known materials vaporize at about 400,000-500,000km from a star of this type, this definately was impressive.  Also, whatever the objects were, they were egg-shaped and roughly 200km from end to end, with a 30km diameter in the thickest part of the center.  Finally, there were 203 of the vessels.

Upon contacting the League of their find, the heroes were told to wait there; a science team would be arriving in about ten days to take a look at the find.  Sure enough, a week and a half later the science team arrived; two t'sa science vessels, three unknown configuration corvettes, and a multitude of small escort and support vessels.  It appeared that the League was planning a trip to one of the objects; the three corvettes were a new class of ship, armed with a type of shielding technology (when the PCs asked where the League got shielding tech, the science officer they were speaking to told them it was alien tech recovered from a dead planet).  The PCs were ordered to go along and were assigned four teammates; two soldiers, a xenobiologist, and a computer tekkie.  After a trial run (in which the objects were found to be ships), the group headed onboard the corvettes (called Blacklight Vessels).  Mar'eketh came along, bringing Atrus along in his memory harness, while Natasha and Ezekiel stayed behind.

As they got closer, they found that the alien ships appeared slightly transparent, or at least, their outer layers did.  As they entered what could have been the docking bay of the vessel, they saw that as their ship flew deeper into the vessel the walls of the alien ship seemed to become more solid.  Finally, a landing area was found, and the crew debarked (in e-suits, as there was no atmosphere).  The exploration began.  There were a total of six groups, including the heroes'.  Each was given an indoor hover vehicle from the Blacklight Vessels' hangers with which to travel through the vessel.

The PCs travelled down many large corridors (all corridors were more or less circular and roughly 20' in diameter).  The entire vessel was made out of some type of silicon material, which proved impervious to all attempts to cut it.  The group travelled deep into the vessel, eventually coming to a glowing red force field.  Morgan threw a small bag into the field to see if it would vaporize or anything, but all the bag did was slow down, then fall in the middle of the field.  Dalek then simply walked through the field, followed by Goresh, and then the others.  The field offered only a slight resistance, but on the other side there was an atmosphere (not breatheable however; in fact, slightly corrosive).  The group kept going deeper into the ship.

A second discovery was found after the group made a trip down a side passage and discovered a massive locked door.  A keypad was located about 7 feet off the ground, each key having a different colour and a different texture.  After fiddling with the keypad for awhile, Morgan got lucky and the door opened.  Entering, the PCs came into a massive room filled with tubes of fluid that were slowly emptying.  Goresh used his sensor gauntlet to scan them, finding them to be filled with various basic biological components.

Farther down the main corridor, the heroes came across many doors.  Each door had a keypad with only a single button on it, so the heroes pressed the buttons and explored the rooms.  Each room was fairly long and narrow, and contained roughly a thousand stasis tubes.  Each tube held an alien creature, all in various stages of development (for those of you with the Aliens Compendium Alternity supplement, these were dimensional horrors, but of course the heroes didn't know this!).

Continuing down the main passage, the group came to a fork in the road.  First, they went left and came across an alien power plant.  There were no visible controls of any type here.  They checked in with the five other teams to see what they had found.  The various other teams had encountered many stasis rooms as well, and two of the other teams had also found the massive power plants, but none of them had had any more success than the heroes had.

The party backtracked and headed through the right passage in the fork.  Here they came to what seemed to be a control center.  There were many consoles and panels, each containing many small buttons, all different colours and textures.  The computer tekkie that had come along with the PCs went to work, as did Goresh, who wanted to link with the alien computer.  Although he successfully linked with the computer, he couldn't understand most of what he saw.  Mar'eketh then linked Atrus in Goresh, in effect using Goresh as an adapter.  Atrus began translating the alien language.  Meanwhile, the rest of the heroes were confronted by what seemed to be a human, dressed in very regal attire.  The human told the heroes that their time was over, and that they and their races' would be wiped from the galaxy.  He also claimed that he created all of their races.  Finally, he said that although all the outsiders would die, the heroes' group would die last, as they had chosen the right path and had come to him.  He then told them to look at the monitors on their hover vehicle (each of which was connected to a helmet mounted camera of another team).  Almost simultaneously all five of the other teams were attacked by dimensional horrors.  At this point, Kurknoon, who is not known for subtle methods, opened up on the mysterious human with his machine gun.  The bullets flew right through him, then hit something.  The human image vanished, and a small badly damaged floating holoprojector dropped to the ground.  At this point, Dalek was shot in the arm by something.  A stinger protruded from the wound, slowly working its way into Dalek's arm.  As if this wasn't bad enough, Dalek's e-suit had a small hole in it now.  The two soldiers began to help patch Daleks suit and pull the stinger out while everyone else was looking for where this stinger came from.  Meanwhile, Goresh had learned that these vessels were bio-weapon storage facilities.  Goresh tried several things to kill off the dimensional horrors, such as changing the atmosphere or setting an autodestruct sequence but failed both times, as the alien system was still new to him.  Finally, he managed to convince the alien computer that the bio-weapons were corrupted and that the computer should link up with all other ships in 45 minutes, telling them to fly into the sun and drop whatever protection they may have to terminate the bio-weapons.  The computer accepted this and began a silent 45 min countdown.  As the heroes were piling onto their hover vehicle, they saw a dimensional horror down the corridor out attacking something invisible.  Kurknoon, Dalek, Morgan, and the two soldiers shot at the horror, mostly doing stun damage.  The invisible creature then revealed itself: a 9 foot long snakelike creature with two spindly arms and a humanoid face. The heroes shot the horror again, this time doing some actual damage.  Finally, the horror killed the snake-thing, and then the heroes killed the horror.  The grabbed the snake-thing's body and fired up the hover truck.

They ripped through the huge corridors they had come through, heading back to the docking bay and their ticket off this deathtrap.  A horror jumped at their hover truck, but missed horribly (natural 20) falling short and crashing to the ground.  Mar'eketh was examining the snake-thing's body when it began to decompose right before his eyes.  He removed what looked like a weapon from the creature's arm.  As the weapon began emitting a high pitched buzzing noise, Kurknoon quickly grabbed it and threw it away, as it exploded seconds later.  The body was also dumped to jettison some weight.  After that, everything went fine until the group got to the entrance to the docking bay.  Two horrors blocked the way to their ship.  Morgan, who was driving, decided to drive right through them, but lost his nerve at the last second and swerved to avoid them.  As all this was happening, Dalek jumped off the hover truck to try and smash one of the creatures with his gravmace but failed a dex check at a big penalty and ended up taking many wounds and landing right in front of one of the horrors.  Everyone got off the hover truck and a furious firefight ensued, with both soldiers being taken out in short order, and Dalek suffering many more wounds.  Eventually both horrors are knocked out from accumulated stun damage.  The heroes make it to their ship, bruised but not beaten, and get the hell out of there.

After Dalek is taken to sick bay, and they return to the rest of the science fleet, it is confirmed that all of the alien vessels flew into the sun and were destroyed.  The League is disappointed that such a significant find was destroyed, but after hearing about what it contained, most Council members agree that it was for the best.  The heroes are given a cash reward of $8000 and full medical care to heal their wounds and rest up.