When Beta Arslashn decided to embody as a lion, he never expected to find himself in so much trouble.That decision had him sent into a previously unexplored system to map the starlanes leading out of it. A boring, decades long task that would leave him out of sight for the entire duration.But there is a twist.431 Caton already had a team sent to survey it. A team that never returned.Will the young NAI manage to avoid whatever fate befell them, or will he too be lost among the stars?This is a fanfiction of Erios909's ShipCore universe