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You know, I admit I'm starting to feel like this was always just part of the story branch in order to keep things even between the Federation and the Dranglaex, so that one side doesn't dominate the other. Like, if Ethan decided to join the federation, effectively giving them a 3rd Starcaster, that one of the existing Starcasters the Federation has already had would immediately be gotten by the Dranglaex. Perhaps if Ethan hadn't joined them this wouldn't have happened. Although I'm noticing a possible oversight....does the Drangleax have ANY planets at all? Like do they control anywhere? A lot of focus seems to be put on finding their fleet....but the planets that that fleet calls home would be very unprotected currently.

Isn't Quell's badge supposed to be blue?

Sure, send the person with no real control of his starcaster to the front lines... That's a great idea. /S