Shangri-la Skirmishes

The Shangri-la Skirmishes, otherwise known as the First Contact War, were a series of minor conflicts fought between the forces of the Terran Commonwealth and the alien Adrestian Empire. Confined mostly to a single system dubbed Shangri-la by the Terrans, the conflict ended with the Republican intervention into the war, officially introducing the races of the Commonwealth into the galactic community.

A Lost Signal
In October 2348, the Terran Space Command's exploratory cruiser "Spirit of Fire" lost contact with the drones they sent to the Shangri-la system. According to the science division's preliminary analysis, the system had three planets located in the Goldilocks zone, which caught the attraction of the Colonial Administration Authority as potential candidates for colonisation. Concerned, the CAA ordered the captain of the Spirit of Fire to send a Guardian fireteam to investigate the sudden disappearance of the drones.

The captain assigned explorers Zephyr Novak, Lukas Smith, and Price McGregor to accompany the Valkyrie fireteam with their mission on Shangri-la B.