The Starbotians have lost contact with I-3, the ship which first detected the ABBO fleet. I-3 is an old ship which had been returned to service as a long range scout and hadn't been able to keep up with the ABBO fleet as it was much slower than them. It's last message reported they were under attack by ABBO warships.
As I-3 would not be able to flee it would have had to try and fight it out. I-3 had been upgraded with Canister TPM but it is unlikely it would have been able to handle more than a couple of ABBO ships. The Starbotians have listed the ship as destroyed. It is thought a HCS transport ship bound for Orratai may look for survivors.
(Update : the HCS transport ship CSS Telnik Uyoin has found the wreckage of a ship which looks to be Starbotian. It has retrieved some of the wreckage and will hand it over to a Starbotian or DDS ship when it returns to HCS space. The Starbotians are confirming their ship loss.)
