(1) The Atlantis was pulled into a graviton ellipse dragging her 50,000 light years from Federation Space. A ship carrying at least one crew member known by the local inhabitants of the region as the ‘Great One’ was also traveling in the ellipse and ‘rescued’ the Atlantis by pulling her from the ellipse before it traveled even further from the Federation. The crew has had no contact with the Great One since. The damage to the ship from the ellipse was repaired at a pirate base which was subsequently attacked by an entity called "The Darkness". The Atlantis has rendezvous with a ship and is returning to Base Five to try and get home and evade the Darkness" which was possibly following them.

(2) The Lorn has gifted you an Orb with the knowledge commensurate with your identified sensor technology. So that you can operate in the sector as if you had scanned and had basic information on all the races. The relative technology of the races vary… with the majority of them being several decades behind the Federation, but with the Lorn being several decades more advanced and the ‘Great One’ being perhaps centuries more.

(3) The Away team is on the planet in an abandoned research base that appears to have a link to an advanced race at one time .

(4) The team on the ship has learned the piece of debris they are studying is from the USS Reliant with radiation from protomatter.

Races:

(1) Lorn Empire, they are thousands of years ‘older’ than any of the other races in the sector with the exception of the Great One. The Lorn are a most private race and do not share tech. Thier homeworld is unknown but we do know where their territories are.
(2) The Great One is just one ship and we think one person, but from what we can tell it's he is the most advanced person in the universe, he’s easily bored and annoyed, but by and large if he’s around he’ll help… usually.
(3)Nine, not particularly friendly, very religious, lots of codes and rites, best to be polite and cautious around them. Physically strong too they’ve had wars with the Alfians
(4) Alfians a race the Great One called the ‘used star ship salesmen’. Very political and slightly slimy. They like to deal in favors so be cautious around them too, but for different reasons.
(5) Caste, they are strong, reclusive, private. Can be friendly and not hostile to anyone right now, but they’ve been known to react with great violence if attacked to ensure everyone knows not to mess with them. The Endorians stated they had a war with them.., Kicked our butts pretty good.
(6) Dilgar, aggressive, looks towards galactic domination. The Endorians had a little war with them too.
(7) Enodorians. They are a whole bunch of non-aligned worlds but they don’t amount to much tactically.=^=