"The Hunt Begins" - Key Lore Art (Patreon)

As the Mercy's Reach ventured deeper into the Centauri Quarantine Zone, it was discovered that the machines had all but abandoned many worlds beyond the border regions where the hapless ventured. Unimpeded in their surveys and scouting, the old AON cartography records weren't aligning with the current state, whole worlds and even stars were missing. 

The few worlds that weren't completely inhospitable had few resources or any real strategic value and offered brief reprise from the trials of the void. Study of past battlefields and the broken machines that remained, Mercy's Reach took great interest into the inner workings of the Centauri, where so many civilizations had failed before, weak to the electronic control of reality the machines exerted, Mercy's forces were immune.

With their duty to record the current movements of the machines, the Heroes of Mercy were being lead into the heart of the Federation's work. More and more star systems were disappearing the closer the Battlecarrier got to super dense star cluster of Omega Centauri...