The BLL Bison was a Leaguer Coutelas class frigate of the Locale Legione, the maritime forces of the Blue League that defended the interests of the Shore Planets. Activity seemed to be bustling from the nearby planet of Patrima and the monolithic stargate that hung suspended over one of the system's distant gas giants.
The Salian frigate was orbiting a customs station, where traffic controllers used quantum telescopes to peer into the great aether even beyond the system. As signals transmitted and cast out from traffic control.
From the gate beyond, ships of the Exogarden could be seen disembarking the shimmering tunnel of the gateway from a distant star themselves, a cluster of escort vessels and a battleship, apparently the Tsushima, judging by the Gardenite script plasted along her enormous hull.