The "Marathon" arrives in NV-1078 system on 7 731 819.M41, where the planet Octavian is located, and detects other Imperial voidships.

Preliminary augur sweep on the system reveals that there are eleven massive planets including two gas giants, and an anomalous gas giant with around a third the mass but ten times the diameter of a normal gas giant, as well as one inhabited mining world of Octavian which like most of the planets in the system lacks an atmosphere despite their heavy gravity. The NV-1078 system also has a double ring of asteroid belts, one rings the edge of the system, the other is close to middle of the system and would appear to be shrinking as the highly dense planets in the system attract and rob the asteroid belt of mass. There is also an anomalous object that the sweep detects on the surface of the giant red star at the center of the solar system, but solar flares make it impossible to identify without getting closer. After about two weeks of automated augur sweeps, the Marathon also detects two Imperial vessels in orbit of Octavian, another Orion class star clipper and a Repulsive class grand cruiser. Assuming that the heretics void ship spent this time traversing the system, avoiding various navigational hazards such as both asteroid fields and headed toward the mining world, would still be difficult for the Marathon's abominable intelligence to make a positive identification of their transponder beacons as you are currently 350,000 VU away, too far for visual identification. The other Imperial vessels are currently docked together in orbit around the mining world because the Repulsive grand cruiser is so large that it has four berths attached to it that can be used for void ship repair and retrofitting. It is certainly probable that the Imperial vessels would have detected the Marathon by the time that the Marathon detects them. Likely, the other Imperial vessels would have tried to establish Astropathic contact with the Marathon, however the heretics lack any Astropaths, making such contact impossible. Scans also indicate debris from a recent space battle, spent macrocannon shells and flak, as well as a crippled Endeavour class light cruiser that is adrift 100,000 VU from the Marathon and approximately 250,000 VU from the mining planet that your charts designate as Octavian.

How long did it take to get here? I would like to do some research and maybe work on mastering types of tech. I can send you more deatals when i wake up in 7-8 hours.

Subjectively, it took a three months but chronologically only 23 days to travel from Gamma Quindecimus to Aurum to NV-1078 due to excellent navigation by the Ulysses, the Lord Mercator. So you have three months worth of downtime, if you want to bind yourself to Tzeentch during that time or do research. Furthermore, after about a month aboard the Marathon the Heretic Kar'nexes discovers that those who speak either Demiurge or Tau can verbally activate a Xenos noosphere/augmented reality interface that allows the user to gain the benefits of Assistance (reducing the test difficulty by one step and if successful one extra degree of success) to any Awareness, Navigate (Voidship), Operate (Voidship), Scholastic Lore, and Scrutiny tests while aboard the Marathon as long as the Abominable Intelligence bridge component is powered. The augmented reality interface can be accessed from any of the cramped Xenos manufactured sections of the voidship as well as the bridge. The character that activates the Assistance Machine Spirit see a blue and white hololithic interface superimposed over their vision, can read scrolling panes of Xenos script that advises them on skill tests and allows them to access the ship's augury array, cogitators, or helm but isn't fast enough to help with Free Actions or Reactions, while active onlookers see their eyes glow blue. For whatever reason, the Abominable Intelligence cannot Assist those characters that are connected directly via a MIU implant.

Tesla is not sold on the dark gods as a necessity so ill be doing research. Focusing on mastering convertion beamer, Ion and Haywire Tech. Then (if theres any more time ) ill master Void Ship weapons tech and how to convert weapons from man portable to Void Ship scale. Ps. ill suclud myself to my work chamber wile in the warp and ...."trust" the other harateck to the day to day runing of the ship.