AFT in order to counter the Earth Government announced plans for a massive expanion outward into deep space. Ten AFT Colony Ships have been secretly completed and outfitted with small versions of the Hypertrael Tube suited for warp message drones to allow communication between AFT and its colonies.<br/><br/>After a recent run by the AFT Raptor Class Destroyer<em>Talon</em>on the Mercury to Pluto warp test run outpaced any Earth vessels speed to date by a respectable 17% faster on the time they have demonstrated they are now ahead of Earth government research. And the smaller and cheaper AFT Hyperdrives for commercial sales to Union pilots has allowed many Union vessels to now have warp drive capability. The ones used by AFT ship owners are the superior models used in the Warp Trials.<br/><br/>The first major expansion missions will be deployed in one week to near and distant systems which after research and study have substantional chance of habitation. Its expected two of these massive vessels will be lost.<br/><br/>On other news massive numbers of Light Colony Ships have left AFT space using normal hyperdrives to colonize planets closer to Sol and give AFT rights to choice assets first, most of these manned by convicts and their families wishing a new life.<br/><br/>In an announcement by the AFT CEO:<em>Let Earth claim Sol we can claim the rest under the Earth-AFT General Treaty if we land a sentient presence on a world we get it and all rights including non-habitable bodies in orbit, and we will get there first!</em><br/><br/>- General News Release