In the dead space where the Tiomanai and the Apophis were meeting, a single FTL jump flashed in at the very fringes of the grid as the Ayen would term it. The FTL jump presented a ship, no more than a few hundred meters in length, and coated in a dark colored hull.
The Reverence S Class Stealth Corvette is a state of the art Aschen reconnaissance vessel, equipped with an advanced sensor suite, Electronic Countermeasures, and ECW Systems. Virtually undetectable, these ships monitor communications, and act as an advance warning for the Imperial Fleet.
The vessel drifted for a few seconds, before it's Luminomagnetic plating shifted, and light began to bend around the vessel, causing it to slowly fade out of visuals, shifting into what could be described as sunlight shimmering on water, until the phase cloaking kicked on and the ship disappeared entirely from sensors.
"No doubt it was a Cyno, there's Varhegs somewhere in this sector." A lieutenant reported, as he turned to the ship's Commander. The Commander however turned and shook his head. "Run us dark and start monitoring communications. We're in dead space, so we'll need to open up wide-spectrum systems, and run a gravity scan of the area. If anything's out there, we'll be able to pick up on it's gravity well if it's cloaked." The Commander said, while the Aschen ship slipped silently through the void of space.
"Gravity scans might reveal our position, Commander." The XO protested. "We're also in what is claimed as TNG space, discretion is prudent." The XO Added, and the Commander nodded. "Gravity scans, we'll need to report our findings to SOLCOM so they can dispatch a fleet. If that's indeed a Cyno and there's Varhegs here, we'll have to signal the fleet, the Ordo Xenos was clear that anyone with Varden Affiliation is an enemy of the Empire, and must be purged."
The XO nodded.
"Emperor's wish, our command." He relented, before he keyed up the AI.
"Initiate gravity scans of the sector, report findings to the Commander. If you find anything, signal the fleet." The XO ordered.
"Acknowledged..." The AI Parroted back, and the lone Aschen stealth Corvette began gravity scans of the system, with maximum sensor ranges up to 50 SU. With the Gravity scanner, given that most ships had sufficient mass to have a discernible gravity field, the scanner was even capable of detecting the ship's own artificial gravity, and thus this particular form of scanning was difficult to hide from unless specific countermeasures were deployed
"Two signatures." The Lieutenant reported, turning to the Commander. "We have one cloaked signature, and confirmed visuals on the second... there's a... Gods damn look at the size of that thing.." The Lieutenant said, trying to pull a better look.
"That one looks like a UDW Configuration and the other...." The Lieutenant said.
"By the Lords..."
The Lieutenant's eyes went wide, and he turned to the Commander. "There's a Varheg ship there, docked with the UDW Ship."
The Commander nodded. "Log the visual data, the Ordo Xenos is going to want to know about this..."
While the ship was running through Phase, the transphase arrays allowed the ship to observe it's surroundings while out of phase, this 'periscope' of sorts would appear as a sensor anomaly, static and noise where there normally was none. A strange soupy series of electronic signals coming from nothingness. A grey pebble in a field of black pebbles. A proverbial needle in a haystack.
"Log those two ships, and work on finding the second signature." The Commander ordered.