Lysian Border

The Lysian Border slices through deep space as an invisible line on starship sensors, signaling entry into Lysian territory. Enterprise crosses it at cautious impulse, viewscreen fixed on the starfield ahead. Moments later, a destroyer materializes, hails the intruder, then fires disruptors. Bridge crew tenses amid alert klaxons and scan readouts; phasers slice the void, obliterating the vessel in a flash of plasma. Silence follows, heavy with the moral weight of first contact turned lethal.