As far as anyone knows....this was the end of Kenny, the formidable explorer who was the first to send a signal from the formidine rift of beautiful places and new earth-like worlds ripe for settling. The signals just stopped one day. No one ever heard from him again, but the truth was that he reached the limit to how far he could send a signal. He spent a decade exploring the far reaches, gathering resources and data of things no one had ever seen. He had an unfortunate encounter one day...while exploring a system on the far outer reaches. He found a strange emission, and decided to drop from supercruise and investigate. What he found, he couldn't believe. Even seeing it with his own eyes. A wrecked thargoid mothership. Thing was torn to pieces by unknown weaponry; and it was recent as the hull was still smoking. He scanned the area, finding nothing more than wreckage. The ruins of this massive ship were picked clean. Presumably by whatever took it down. He started scanning planets around him and found even more wrecked ships on the surfaces of planets, probably fell to the surface after being destroyed, it was a massacre site. Not finding anything on the surfaces he noticed noticed another strange emission about 100 ls away from the initial wreckage he found. It was the emissions from a recent FSD jump. He was able to scan it and find the jump location, he started following this signal. One system after another, jump after jump. After 20 jumps he finds what he has been following. A thargoid mothership but....it wasnt acting normal. The mothership turned and targeted him. After a lengthy and anxious scan, Kenny receives a transmission. Answering it, he realizes why this ship is acting out of the norm....it is being piloted by a human. Not just any human, a fellow explorer from the original expedition years ago. Kenny didnt personally know this explorer but had heard about him. An elite combat pilot, the expedition was meant to be his retirement, but it was clear that he had not given up his combat roots. CMDR Jameson, was smiling on the video transmission. Welcoming Kenny on-board. He docked and met with Jameson. Jameson explained how he had almost been destroyed by the mothership while exploring Hawkings Gap. In a last ditch effort Jameson tried to dock with this massive ship, flying full speed toward the closing hangar bay doors. Jameson, realizing he was going to fast, flipped 180 and boosted in the opposite direction, slamming into the doors and narrowly sliding through the tiny gap in the doors he made it inside but his ship was out of control and it crashed. Jameson was barely alive as the thargoids descended upon him, he managed to hide himself among the wreckage. He snuck around the ship lost for several days. His lack of food and water was taking its toll on him. He managed to find the Command center, the room was dark and almost empty save for a couple thargoid workers manning various controls. Using his previous training he dispatched these workers quietly and sealed the command center off and locked it down. The lockdown triggered an alarm but it didnt matter because they couldnt enter the room. He was able to change the atmosphere of the ship so that he could have adequate oxygen without his helmet on. Doing so started killing off the inhabitants of the ship. Some managed to escape via ships, other tried in vain to open the command center to no avail. Jameson concluded his heroing tale by saying he was heading towards the formidine rift to attempt contact with Kenny. Low and behold, just that happened. Kenny and Jameson spent the next two decades exploring via this awesome ship. Eventually, Kenny was ready to return to his home back in the bubble. Jameson said he was never going back because everything he left behind was now gone. He had no family and roots but promised to take Kenny home. They finally reached the outer reaches of the bubble. They made their goodbyes and Kenny loaded up his Anaconda ready to depart. With a final wave, he launched and made a few jumps back into Sol. He returned home and realized how much had changed since he left. He was a wanted man, wanted by the Federal Navy for going awol decades ago. He was chased out of Sol and pursued for months by a federal corvette piloted by his very own CO from decades ago. He lost his tail on the outer reaches of the bubble and went into hiding for over a year. Making a living mining in a small population system. He eventually dropped the name Kenny for pseudo name Celestial King Callsign CK01. He became a bounty hunter and he was good at it. Building himself a reputation as man who gets things done. Now at 55 years old, Kenny spends his time in freedom, doing as he pleases.
