Cal,
It has become painfully obvious that this alien virus entity cannot be stopped by merely hiding in another system. Infected ships, however unwittingly, have carried the alien spores across this whole cluster. The rate of infection is growing geometrically. Each individual spore can reproduce into hundreds within the course of a few days.
It is essential that we move as far from all this as possible, back through the accelerator. I have already instigated evacuation plans, and broached the subject with Naval and Government forces in Fomalhaut. They seem to be in favour of a full-scale evacuation to the Badlands cluster, we should be safe there and can sit this thing out. It is drastic, but I cannot see any other alternative.
This is where you come in, my friend. The evacuation is expected to take some time, longer than the time predicted for the swarm to reach Fomalhaut. We need to buy the evacuation effort more time. We know the swarms can be damaged with area effect weapons, so we want to arm you and a small group of volunteers with the most powerful weapons we can lay our hands on. This is not a sucide run, there will be a transport assigned to wait for you guys and take you through to the Badlands.
Good luck,
Franklyn Hoffer