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<div style="text-align: center"><i>---30 Years Ago---</i>​</div><br>
The attack ships over Enrishi'i I kicked up ion dust and flames that burned brilliantly against the inky blackness of night. The sails of the Deun'tleh corvettes were furrowed as they parked in high orbit above the arid world and continually pummeled the ground with their guns. They were blasting away packs of the native wildlife after a recently-sunk new mine had stirred up the nest and caused the fearsome creatures to attack the colonists. From her place onboard a passing Terran passenger frigate, Edna Carol looked upon the spectacle with a sense of morbid curiosity, not understanding why they were bombarding the planet. She called for an attendant. <br>
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"Steward," she muttered into the air.<br>
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"Yes, Miss Carol," replied the balding steward with wine-bottle in hand, his tie slightly undone and his sideburns disheveled from long hours of serving the petulant, rich travelers. <br>
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"What is going on down there?" She pointed out towards the attacking ships.<br>
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"Ah, the captain had to talk to them and get them to let us through. It seems they are clearing out some hostile wildlife that attacked the mines. Nothing to be concerned about, miss, I assure you. No pirates or slavers in these parts, the Deun'tleh navy uses them quite ruthlessly." <br>
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Edna was unsettled by this. If it had been bandits or pirates, that's one thing, but when he said "wildlife" her heart instantly conjured up images of dogs, or tigers, or any other such majestic Earth creature. If she had ever actually seen an Enrishi'i raptor she would know how fearsome of a predator they were that would warrant an orbital bombardment, but in the meantime she could only think of them being ruthlessly exterminated. <br>
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"Steward," she asked, catching the man by the coat, "will they kill them all?"<br>
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The Steward was at a loss to answer, and wasn't particularly concerned himself whether they did or no. He merely shrugged and said, "I wouldn't worry about it, Miss Carol, it's their business."<br>
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He walked off, but this did not satisfy her. On Earth, when there had been massive investment in the climate stabilization and environmental repair movements, it had been everybody's business if the polar bears had survived. And they had, albeit by the skin of their teeth. But here was another poor creature being shot to death from orbit. All of it left an intense knot in the pit of her stomach, and she tried to look away as bits of ionic projectiles struck the planet and erupted in small explosions of yellow light in the thin atmosphere. <br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><i>---15 Years Ago---</i>​</div><br>
The Society for Xenobiological Preservation was one of the most attractive social clubs for rich older women and debutantes alike in Manhattan, and they did some social activism too. In one of the ballrooms of the New Ritz Carlton, Edna Carol could assemble a posse of the most vapid people in the most vapid city on Earth to flock to her cause. Money had been thrown at her from all directions for her efforts to lobby the League to sanction the Deun'tleh State for their general disregard for alien lifeforms and their rights, at least their rights as defined by Edna. After years of leading a successful lobbying outfit, Edna had found herself drifting to policy positions that were increasingly unpopular and ill-advised, which resulted in even more money being thrown her way. <br>
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One of such meetings/fundraisers had thoroughly packed the ballroom that evening, much to the chagrin of the kitchen staff even if they did have a few chef androids to help with meal preparation. They had to hide them in the back, of course. If any of the Old Money types saw anyone other than a stereotypical mustachioed French chef preparing their hundred credit entrees, they might leave in a huff and - worse, leave a bad review. <br>
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But when entrees had been passed out and tables taken, a slightly older Edna (she was 25 for the 25th time, although you couldn't tell it given her myriad plastic surgeries) took the stage to a crowd of simultaneously adoring and sneering comrades. She approached the microphone, cleared her throat, and began with her eyes locked firmly on the small holographic teleprompter that sprung up from the otherwise conventional microphone. <br>
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"Ladies and gentlemen, I come to you tonight in the 15th annual conference of the Society for Xenobiological Preservation with high hopes for our continued success in the coming year. Last year, we successfully passed a ban in Germany on selective breeding of dogs, in Thailand we began an initiative to return domesticated elephants to the wild, and in Kenya we successfully reintroduced a white rhinoceros population to the Bagalog Valley which had been completely overrun by human agricultural activity."<br>
<br>
Each agenda item received a golf-clap from the polite audience who hadn't yet drank enough wine to clap in earnest. <br>
<br>
"But, as you may have noticed, these are all local concerns. And the name of our society is the <i>'Xenobiological'</i> preservation society. For now, I want to turn our attention to a new concern. That is this:" An image flashed on the screen behind her of a large, bloody carcass. The being looked like a giant squid, but with a hard exterior carapace and was, judging by the size of the people in the picture, around the size of a bus. The people standing about it were, by the looks of it, spacers in the interior of a ship. Most of them were holding bloodied lances or harpoon guns. Two of them were Deun'tleh, three were human, one was Mohain, and a single Qirnian beamed from about half height holding a tentacle like a trophy. <br>
<br>
"This is the body of a <i>Sinaere balene</i>, or a space whale. There are ships prowling the uncharted systems as we speak, hunting these creatures, processing them, and selling them off. The Qirnians find them to be a delicacy, the Traiverux use the oils in martial ceremonies, their carapaces are highly prized for carving. An industry worth millions of credits is built around the systemic slaughter of these creatures." <br>
<br>
At this, the crowd acted like they were going to clap like they had for every other agenda item, but when it registered that this was, in fact, a bad thing to clap for, they refrained.<br>
<br>
"This is agenda item number one for the upcoming year." Edna said, now with more conviction than she had had since that space flight fifteen years ago. <br>
<br>
<div style="text-align: center"><i>---Ten Years Ago---</i><br>​</div>It was hard to go anywhere on the Internet without running across a SXP ad, "Consumption of animal products is genocide," or some other such catchy phrase. Since the fizzling out of the public uproar over space whaling and the discovery that the species was, in fact, not even close to endangerment, Edna and the SXP had fallen out of favor among the fashionable people. Her organization's offices moved from an illustrious building on Park Avenue to an older suite of offices in the Bronx. The organization was kept aloft now purely through consolidation. People for the Fair Treatment of Animals (PFTA) had joined with SXP a year ago, and several other organizations had coalesced around them to the point where they were, more or less, the one major animal rights group in the Western Hemisphere. Since conditions for the wildlife on Earth were quite favorable, public apathy was immense. Inroads with the government were becoming smaller as money continued to dry up. The lines on Edna's face appeared deeper and more pronounced. <br>
<br>
All their money, currently, was going to Internet ads. Half of their staffers were unpaid interns, plucky college students with a mind to change the world and the galaxy. Positions grew more extreme, and now the Society's official stance was a kind of enforced veganism. Edna had been on television once to talk about animal rights and a Deun'tleh ambassador was asked to take comment with some of her jabs at his government. He blithely replied that, since he was classified as a plant, she would have no trouble eating him. This caused her to be seen as something of a couk and a has-been in the social and political landscape of New York City. This new status attracted all sorts, one of which was Catherine Rogers. Radical feminist, radical communist, and most-importantly: radical environmentalist. <br>
<br>
Rogers had first floated the idea of using sabotage and subterfuge against their enemies, which Edna identified mostly with "the corporations." While "the corporations" did, in fact, control much of the League's business in animal meat and byproducts, their targets were also sometimes a bit..smaller. Fishermen in Kuala Lumpor were a favorite target of the organization. Another topic that was floated was violence. As Rogers correctly informed her, radical change of the kind that they were proposing had never come about peacefully. Slowly but surely, more radical greens came into the SXP and this allowed them to expand their areas of concern internationally. The Knights of the Tempus Order were some of the more egregious abusers of the environment, but there was also the Deun'tleh, who Edna still could not forget the cruelty of, and the Qirnians who were motivated by profit in almost every endeavor. <br>
<br>
It all coalesced around one moment. A late evening in a Brooklyn deli. Edna came in with Catherine to grab an imitation turkey roll, the house's specialty, right before they closed up for the evening. Slowly, her eyes drifted to the butcher's bloody hands and the knife cut into the chopping block. She was a whirl of emotions, and barely understood the man as he gave her a strange look and asked if she was alright and what she wanted to buy. Her arm moved, as if by compulsion, seized the knife off the chopping block and buried it in one quick motion into the butcher's neck. The man look at her stunned with blood gushing from his neck. Even Catherine looked on in stupefied horror as the old man stumbled to the nearby table to get his phone and hit the emergency dial button. It took the crackle of the voice, "911, what is your emergency?" to stir Edna from her daze, after which she bolted with Catherine hot on her heels. <br>
<br>
Policemen were going door to door all night, and Edna sat against the door of her apartment with the blood still not washed off of her clothes, listening as the hovercopters swung around with their searchlights peering into buildings and open windows. She had no idea how she would ever get out of this one. No amount of her father's money would explain away cold-blooded murder. <br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><i>---Five Years Ago---</i>​</div><br>
Months then years went by and the trail went cold. The CCTV footage was inconclusive, and the butcher had no security cameras or implants that would monitor his vitals or optics. He bled out on the phone with the dispatcher, and the killer was never discovered. Edna, by now, was living in Tibet in a small village up a mountain ridge from Kathmandu. Catherine had long since disappeared from her life, dying of a drug overdose a year or two back, and her organization was largely diffused. Gradually, though, from her house in the village and with a somewhat stable Internet connection, she began to recruit and rebuild her organization. This time, under the name of the Non-Sapients Liberation Army. Her most loyal followers were older, disgruntled environmentalists and teenagers and college students that she could get her feelers around. Most importantly, she had her eyes on a man who went by Sullymon143, or as normal people would have known him, Edward Sullivan, a graduate student at the viral research labs division of Johns Hopkins. <br>
<br>
Whereas Edna was mostly interested in the stoppage of the killing, sale, and exploitation of animals, Sullivan had a different agenda. A Malthusian and a cynic, his dreams were haunted by the idea that the sapient species of the galaxy would grow past the point that natural resources could sustain them. This, he theorized, would lead to the deaths of countless alien creatures across the galaxy, or maybe even the universe, along with the future suffering of these races as they slowly starved to death in a depleted environment. With his interest in virology, he had been working on honing his skills so that, one day, he might create a virus with the power to kill off the human race, then perhaps another for the Deun'tleh, for the Qirnians, and so on. He looked upon it as a mercy killing, and as an act of great charity. Wheels were turning in his awful mind that Edna couldn't fathom. But, all he told her was that his connection at Johns Hopkins might get them bio-weapons to use in terrorist activities. That was good enough for her. <br>
<br>
<div style="text-align: center"><i>---Present Day---</i>​</div><br>
It was a sunny day on Atlantis, the League's floating capital. The landing craft for the <i>Pes'suar</i> was a sleek, orange-brass colored ornithopter that descended first with the use of parachutes, then let its hummingbird wings flap as it glided its way down to the landing pad like a particularly strange dragonfly. The pilot let the craft down with a gentle thud and the passenger bay doors began to open. Out stepped the special ambassador, Lor'vas Man'rin, with a bundle of documents under his left arm and a strange, alien leather bag in his right hand. The faceless creature was the usual height for his race, about seven feet tall, and wore a long robe that was faintly reminiscent of a cassock with a white scarf tied about the neck and white gloves on the hands. He was followed promptly by a military officer wearing a similar coat but blue with white trim and a white belt around the waist. The breast had a stylized flower-insignia over the pocket which had pens and other necessities. They were finally followed by a human woman in a similar uniform, but obviously tailored for someone of her stature. The uniformed alien turned to her and said in his breathy, whispery voice, "<i>Sta w'ta'spet. Un te fol'par at'ot te Terrans.</i>" Or, if someone knew the language, "Stay with the ship, and be careful about the Terrans." <br>
<br>
The young lady saluted dutifully and returned inside the craft while the two Deun'tleh exited the landing pad and went to greet the attache. The business was mining rights, specifically rights to the Vaz'nik System. Terran and Deun'tleh miners had been getting a bit too close for comfort and the two governments were worried that hostilities begun there between two idiot bands of prospectors might lead to farther-reaching consequences. The Deun'tleh were eager to have the agreement set down, as they felt their claim to the system was older and more just. To be frank, there were no permanent settlements in Vaz'nik, so it was anyone's game, but they would just have to see. <br>
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From the nearby viewing platform, a man in a stylish silver coat and hat watched on, leaning over the railing. At his feet, a hermetically sealed briefcase.</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper">"Welcome to Earth, I am glad that you were able to travel here and meet. I find that personal meetings give a decision more, validity." Abimbola leans over the table, offering his hand to the ambassador.<br>
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Lor'vas Man'rin, the Deun'tleh special ambassador, had never been to Atlantis. It was his first assignment to Earth after a long stint as the chief ambassador to the Arthurian Union. While he appreciated the Arthurians' social rigidity, he found them stuffy and overall boring people. Terrans, on the other hand, were quite interesting. He turned his head this way and that as the page led he and his attache, that being Commodore Ol'vi Mar'r, through the administrative building and up to the conference with the president. Lor'vas found it unusual to find an actual head of state with such a hands on approach to statecraft, and he wasn't sure if he particularly liked it yet. <br>
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Upon meeting Abimbola, Man'rin and Mar'r both placed their long, left appendages across their chests and bowed slightly at the waist in a sign of greeting. The eyeless, noseless, smooth and featureless faces of the Deun'tleh seemed to convey, in an odd way, the same sort of personhood as a human face, but distinctly more alien and unfathomable. Man'rin's voice was wispy and breathless, like a person whispering late at night, and Ambibola had to strain to hear him speak. <br>
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"I have never met a leater so eaper to meet with so louly an ampassator as myself... I am your humple servant, Mister Presipent. Moff'vas Ripa, the Prand Pouncilor, sents his solemn pood wishes." <br>
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No matter how hard the ambassador tried, some human sounds would never escape his ventricals. But, for a Deun'tleh, his English was pretty good. The naval officer behind the ambassador crossed his arms contemplatevely to await the President's response.<br>
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Ambibola, used to differing customs, returned the bow."It is customary for human leaders to have a hand in the work done, and I often make time for special ambassadors here to talk about interstellar trade." Abimbola gestured for the ambassador to take a seat, as he turned to address the escort. "James, please, find suitable refreshments for our guests, and some coffee for me, it's been a long morning. Do you have anything you'd like before we begin?" he asked Lor'vas. Abimbola settled into his seat, as his Guardian settled next to him, a Panther from earth.<br>
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Seating themselves, the Deun'tleh nodded politely in James's direction. Man'rin wanted nothing, but Mar'r declared that he might like a glass of water. Likely curious to see how the creature would imbibe the liquid, the attendant ran off the water glass first. Mar'r, taking the glass in his hand, tossed the entire thing in his face making a somewhat loud splashing noise. Having been rather parched, the commodore's skin absorbed a great deal of the water on contact and the rest he wicked off his neck and away from his uniform with a white handkerchief-like piece of cloth before handing the glass back to the attendant empty. <br>
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Once all were settled and ready to begin, Man'rin laid the documents he had brought down on the table. The Deun'tleh copies were written in a script similar to Babylonian cuneiform, with lots of straight lines and angles, and the whole script was raised off of the paper in a similar manner to Braille. The other copy was in English and merely detailed the extent of the Deun'tleh State's claims in the Va'znik System. <br>
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"To pepin, Mister Presitent, I woult like to summarise our position in the Va'ni System. There have peen several tifferent minin pompanies operatin on poth sites of the system. We are worriet that hostilities may happen, most lipely startet by our own spasers, who are known to pe a pit... how to you say... foolharty?"<br>
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"Yes, foolhardy." Murmered Abimbola as he surveyed the claims made by the Deun'tleh. "I may have forgotten, but was it humans or Deun'tleh who first mined in the area? I'm simply asking as humans have a nasty habit of seeing things as 'first come, first serve. While you have an obviously old claim to the system, I would be hesitant to try to dissuade these miners if it could be argued that we have control of this space, as we first showed an interest in it."<br>
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"Well," the ambassador began, "we first chartet the system in 1645, that's... I thinp, startate 2338 for you Earthmen. Put, we have only peen senting mannet epspeditions to the system for the last fifty years. The system is worthless for polonisin, so we pelieve it is in everyone's pest interest if poth parties are allowed to remain in the system, if you will submit that the system pe plact unter the puartianship of the State Navy. Plans are already in the worps, we just neet to plear the plan with your government."<br>
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"This seems agreeable, but all agreements that are put before out government with a foreign entity, have to be ratified and then approved by a majority vote. I can put this forward at the next assembly, and we should be able to get this sorted out within a couple of days. Would this be under the control of the Navy for you? We would probably have to make a special commission, we aren't fans of the military having powers beyond their scope."<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><u><b>Meanwhile, Pleris II</b></u><br>​</div>The jungle world of Pleris II was a veritable garden of untapped potential for xenobotanical and xenozoological study, as attested by the great trees and the near incessant sounds of wildlife buzzing, calling, and roaring above in the canopies. Cutting through the brush with machetes, the party consisting of six Mohain guards, a Mohain scientist, and a human scientist were making their way in the general direction of a large, imposing black edifice just barely visible on the other end of a clearing where the mud-colored river vivisected the land. <br>
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"I hope this monk of yours knows where the <i>manivas</i> grows, Manwel," the human - an olive-skinned man with a ruddy face and deep-set eyes - complained through his ventilator mask. <br>
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"We can only hope, Dr. Morgan, but the <i>manivas </i>hasn't been seen in these forests for nearly a hundred years. The temple was merely the last place the expedition deemed to look." His Mohain counterpart, Dr. Manwel, was cross, his face communicating an expression of wariness with Dr. Morgan and general exhaustion at their trek through the desert. He, like most of the Mohain present, more a breathing mask that covered the lower part of his face and the gills behind his neck. His attire was somewhat reminiscent of a human wetsuit, and he, unlike the other Mohain who were carrying plasma rifles, was carrying a machete and a bioscanner. <br>
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They reached a rickety plank bridge held together by rope, but crossed over without incident into the temple grounds. The ancient temple complex had been half-consumed by the jungle as tree roots and moss grew over the black and grey stones, cut in angles and vaguely triangular shapes, to form a wide central wall around the courtyard leading up to a wide, short pyramid. While Manwel was lost in thought concerning who might have been healed, or sacrificed, at this ancient site of worship, Morgan had his eyes set on the door to the temple itself. <br>
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"C'mon, let's move." He said, accosting the party to move more quickly. As they passed the threshold, they were greeted by a third alien species inside. Green-skinned and slimey humanoids who, as far as anyone knew, were native to the jungles of Pleris II but had no desire to leave and participate in interstellar politics. They wore white monkish robes and carried intricately-carved staffs. The monks rose at their arrival. <br>
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"Greetings, sky-dwellers." The chief among their kind said in a cordial tone. "I understand you have come to seek the <i>manivas</i>. It is a sad thing to relate...but I am afraid that this sanctuary holds the last remnants of the flower on this continent, perhaps the world." <br>
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Morgan looked on with agitation, while the rest of the party listened respectfully. At length, the monk rambled on about the importance of keeping the <i>manivas </i>safe in the sanctuaries and usable only to outsiders that can be trusted. Morgan, for his part, only cared about getting the plant so he could synthesize his wonder drug and make massive amounts of money. While once heavily involved in the environmentalist movement, Mbowli Morgan was only concerned for himself as of late. His long stint as a researcher under the Mohain Federation had desensitized him to the environmental cause, but it had awakened his greed after he realized that a particular flower native to Pleris II could be synthesized into a drug to cure a particularly nasty Mohain malady, usually referred to by humans as "dark water sickness." If he could exploit their patent laws as easily as he thought he could, he could make a killing. <br>
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"Morgan, were you listening?" Manwel prodded as they began moving down a flight of stairs. "He says there is a spiritual test one must undergo before the chamber will open. None of the monks, apparently, can open the chamber with the <i>manivas, </i>so we must be the ones to do it."<br>
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"Oh great," Morgan muttered in English, "more hocus pocus bullshit. Why do you listen to these people's backwards sermons? Spiritual tests my ass. I bet they're gonna try to fleece us. You better tell your men to take the safeties off those rifles."<br>
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Manwel sighed, causing the bubbles in his mask to rise up and make a gurgling noise, but said nothing else. They soon found themselves in a large, open underground courtyard with the only defining feature being a pedestal in the center with a vague handprint on the top. One by one, the monks prodded the Mohain to go forward and touch the pedestal. They would stand for a few seconds, the monks would ask them what they saw, they would answer that they had seen nothing, and the monks would ask them to step back with a look of disappointment. Finally, it was Morgan's turn. <br>
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The human stepped to the pedestal and, looking around self-consciously, placed his hand on the outline. All at once, he heard a crackle like the snapping of a whip and a voice, unintelligible, from the other side of the far wall. <br>
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"What do you see?" Asked the monk, expectantly. <br>
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"I see..." It came into his sight, a figure, shrouded in black and green mist. "A person."<br>
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The monks seemed excited at this. "A person like a spirit?"<br>
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"Yes."<br>
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More excitement. The figure strode towards Morgan, who attempted to move back but found his hand was fixed to the pedestal. <br>
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"What does he look like?" <br>
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As Morgan described the figure, the look of excitement was exchanged for dread and then terror. "Don't touch his cloak! Don't touch him!"<br>
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But Morgan was already transfixed. The figure held out the spectral end of its long robe, and Morgan, as if compelled, reached out his hand and felt the fabric - as cold as ice, with the texture of tree bark. Another crackle and this time, Morgan could move again. He looked around the room and found the monks and the search party were both missing, strangely. The far wall had opened up, revealing what he had wanted all along. The <i>manivas </i>was a blue and red flower, the size of a teacup, that sat bathed in a ray of light filtering in from a hole in the underground chamber. He stretched out a hand, and miraculously <i>the plant moved towards him</i>. As if a dog going to his master's hand for comfort, the flower rested its bulb in Morgan's palm. With one quick motion, he uprooted the flower from its eons-long resting in the sanctuary and began to carry it out. <br>
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As he walked up the stairs back to the temple, he could hear voices playing out in his head, <i>you have power over the very force of life. You are a God. You are master of life</i>. As he ascended, the voices became louder and more straining on his mind until they disappeared altogether with the return of the sunlight. The temple he found ransacked and desecrated. The bloody corpses of monks lay strewn about the floor like fallen leaves. Exiting the temple, he found the remains of the Mohain search party, mostly dead or dying. He found Manwel half-conscious lying against a stone wall. As the Mohain scientist saw the man approach, he discharged his plasma pistol but missed and the shot flew off wildly to dissipate into the atmosphere. The pistol clicked empty. <br>
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"Manwel, Jesus, stop shooting at me! What happened in there!?"<br>
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"I already told them what happened, Morgan," the Mohain said with fear and disgust in his gurbled voice. He could see through the clear part of Manwel's mask that there was now blood mixed in with his breathing water. "I don't know what spirit possesses you, but the monks were right. You are a demon. I should have known it. I've worked beside you for years, and something always felt off about you. Now I guess I know." <br>
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Morgan reached out his hand, attempting to help Manwel, but a strange and uncharacteristic desire began to overtake him, to finish the scientist off. His hand moved, as if by its own volition, towards the roots of a nearby tree which sprang out of the ground like an arrow and impaled the poor scientist right between the eyes. The deed done, Morgan regained control and blinked away sweat that had formed on his brow. He had little time to speculate what his newfound powers meant, as a dropship droned low over the canopy and crested the rise. Seeing him in the courtyard, he ducked behind a nearby statue as plasma bolts were slung from the dropship's coaxial plasma caster, each bolt causing the statue to explode in bits of semi-melted rock. Morgan bolted from the temple, running as fast as his legs could take him, into the dense undergrowth of the surrounding forest. The Mohain soldiers that attempted pursuit eventually called off the search, after finding not but a crumpled mass of red and blue pedals on the forest floor.</div>
				
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 Petting Maus to calm himself, he manually turned of the Klaxon and tuned the holo-Terminal to the Presidential Channel. “Citizens of Atlantis,” he stated, “I am happy to report that the Bio-weapon was found and isolated, and therefore is of no threat to the populace. Please remain where you are, until the scrubbers have destroyed all that remains of the Contagion. Direct any complaints to James Carlton.” <br>
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He signed off, then made a call to one of the few personal numbers saved to his Terminal. On the other end, a young woman popped up, and Abimbola’s heart finally unclenched as his daughter’s beautiful face looked on in concern. “I’m glad you are safe Ayana, was there any trouble with the Justices?”<br>
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While all this was stirring, the Deun'tleh were together in Ambassador Man'rin's provided apartment, the UV lamps overhead turned down quite low and a strange alien machine spitting some sort of mist into the air. Man'rin, the normal ambassador Tai'lon, and Commodore Mar'r were seated around the table playing a Deun'tleh board game that resembled dominoes. Every so often, they would dip and swirl their fingers for a few seconds in metal cups filled with a slightly purplish liquid. Sitting on the bed nearby, their human attache Miss Ran'i had her back propped up against the wall reading a book. All of them were dressed down in their shirtsleeves and cotton pants with the legs rolled up that let air circulate to their stubby feet. The alarm had finally stopped, allowing them to get just a tad bit of peace and quiet. <br>
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"No, that's two sixes, learn to count," Mar'r complained to the ambassador. <br>
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"I know how to count, thank you very much, I just needed to try it there. Needed to visualize where I wanted to put it." The irony of several aliens with no eyes talking about visualization was lost on everyone save Lay'la, who was struggling to read her book over the noise. <br>
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A long pause, then Man'rin, "Well I was hoping to blow the dust off this place by night's zenith (midnight), but this terrorist attack has really thrown a wrench in the works."<br>
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"Wonder who it could have been," Mar'r mused softly, placing a wooden token down and cutting off Tai'lon's next move. <br>
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"Your mother copulated with goats, Mar'r!" Tai'lon blurted in feigned rage.<br>
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<br>​</div>Nathan sighed, either just not hearing or not getting a response aside from the intercom's announcement that gave the 'all clear.' He sighed. Haven had public discord, yet just as quickly as it surfaced, it was equally suppressed by the ground security there- perhaps something he could suggest to the Terrans to prevent future happenings such as this. Holstering his M41, Nathan went back to his room and shut the door behind him; bolting it secure as he disrobed and went right for the shower. Today was already going to be a busy day, and that much he could tell. The shower was finished within a few minute's time, and upon stepping back out, the Havenian took to re-dressing and cleaning himself up. He went over and made his bed, before sitting on the edge and turning on the TV; retrieving a small black rectangle roughly the size of a credit card as he depressed the center of the screen with his thumb and held the piece up to his ear. "Boss, it's Winters. Someone attempted to unleash a biological agent on the Terran embassy. Their ID is unknown as of this time." Despite his efforts to remain quiet, the Havenian's voice carried through the walls of his room as he mentally kicked himself for talking too loud. After a brief pause, he chuckled. "Yes, I'm fine. Countermeasures tripped and secured the building, I'd say we're all safe for the time being." Another pause. "I'll be sure to inform him, Boss. I've been wondering about that, too. Alright. Winters out." He lowered the device to his lap, tapped the center screen and placed the phone in his suit pocket. Turning back to the TV and shutting it off, Nathan made his way to the door, opened it a second time, and shut the door behind him as he headed from the suite halls down to the main lobby of the Atlantis Capitol. If there's one thing he liked about the commodities of Terra, they brewed some damn good coffee.<br>
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<div style="text-align: center">Txell 'Boss' Aristide, Primaris, <i>Haven's Spire </i><br>​</div>The harsh reddish-orange light of Dawn stretched its bony fingers through the blinds of the Commissary-General's quarters; reaching her face and attempting to peel back her eyelids as the sleeping figure was gently roused from her slumber. Getting upright with a groan, she stretched briefly and proceeded to shower and get ready for the day. It wasn't only until she'd finished putting on her uniform that her HyperLink sounded to her attention. Striding over rather quickly, Txell picked up the card-shaped device and tapped the center screen; raising the phone to her ear. In a matter of seconds, her tired, drowsy form quickly sobered as she received the startling news from her Representative. "Boss, it's Winters. Someone attempted to unleash a biological agent on the Terran embassy. Their ID is unknown as of this time." Txell felt a strong, electric feeling race down her spine as the Seraph's Mark reconfigured to streak three black jagged spikes running horizontally from the edges of her eyes halfway to her ears. It was painless, yet the sudden influx of emotion threw concern in her voice. "What? How? Are you alright? Has the bio weapon been identified and contained?"  A paused over the phone, then a gruff chuckle boomed through the speaker before Nathan resumed. "Yes, I'm fine. Countermeasures tripped and secured the building. I'd say we're all safe for the time being." <br>
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Relief had began to surface, and Txell exhaled audibly as she digested the outcome. "That's good. Also, when you can, be sure to ask President Nedaye on his thoughts of constructing a Quantum Gate between our homeworlds. If it's greenlighted, I can prepare for a conference with my advisors. Also- one more thing. Just... stay safe out there, Winters." It was a ramble, yet the man had grown accustomed to listening to the Boss's tangents. After a short paused, he replied once more. "I'll be sure to inform him, Boss. I've been wondering about that, too. Alright. Winters out." The HyperLink disconnected, and Txell pocketed the device as the Mark soon shifted to rest underneath her eyes. She opened the door and exited her quarters, heading straight to her wide one-way windowed office that overlooked the bustling city of Primarum. She knew at times that quality of life wasn't the best here, yet the public had become mostly accustomed to it. Sighing once, she turned around and proceeded to sit at her office desk and tap the metallic rectangular frame once before a holographic flatscreen powered on and displayed her administration terminal.</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><b><u>Meanwhile, Rasla System</u></b><br>​</div>The crew of the <i>Von'hari</i>, a Ror'tash-class science ship, had not expected such heavy vermin resistance in Rasla. Able to chart a temporary hyperjump from Edrins to Rasla, they thought to bypass "The Tunnels" altogether, and thus, hopefully, the ratmen who plagued the system and patrolled its borders with merciless, murderous intent. When they arrived in the system, however, they found the hulk of a Benthic cargo freighter, or what they thought was a Benthic cargo freighter, waiting for them just beyond the jump threshold. The space-rat hulk had scrambled scores of its ramshackle interceptor craft that were now pummeling the shields of the science ship. Some of the petty officers had gone to battle stations, manning the ship's six ball turrets in an effort to fend the interceptors off, but it was clear that they were outmatched, especially as the larger vermin ship began to pummel the shields with their main guns. <br>
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"Where does that stable lane go?" Someone chimed in. <br>
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"Small nebula," noted the captain, "hasn't been charted, although there are hyperlanes there fluid enough that we can chart them on inexact information. We don't know what's there, though. Best bet is slavers. I was hoping to steer clear of these systems because our main concern is here in Rasla, but..." He paused just as a brilliant flash of light passed over the bridge from an ion cannon bursting the shields. Blue streaks of plasma flew up from the turrets and destroyed an incoming rat interceptor just as it swept over the bridge, causing the debris to very narrowly miss the instrument cluster on the top of the vessel. <br>
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"Ensign, just unfurl those sails. Get us out of here!" The captain barked in an uncharacteristically loud voice for a Deun'tleh. Almost immediately, a large sail of foil made from a particular alloy of precious metals was unfurled near the bow of the starship. Turning the right side of the vessel first, the whole ship seemed to rock as the sails yanked the vessel fully into the stream of faster-than-light particles propelling the ship forward. The planets and star of the Rasla System began to stretch across the central horizon of the viewports before fading from view. The rat ships, too, disappeared in the chase. No doubt they would attempt to pursue....<br>
******<br>
When they arrived in Otto, the <i>Von'hari </i>was badly damaged. The instrument clusters were down, several of the turrets were destroyed, there was a gaping wound in her right sidewall, and the FTL sails were pockmarked with holes blown in them by the pursuing ratfolk interceptors, which they had seen no sign of yet. <br>
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The system before them was alien. No other intelligent race had, as far as the Deun'tleh knew, crossed the nebula and entered into these systems. Preliminary scans were demonstrating that it was, in fact, inhabited. One of the worlds, from long range scans, was clearly heavily inhabited and there were clear starship signatures on their radar. <br>
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Captain O'har, frazzled from the journey, poured a small amount of moonshine from his personal liquor cabinet into a glass and let his right fingers rest in it. An ensign approached from the bridge, bearing news of the reports. "Captain, Otto is inhabited and the neighbors don't seem particularly friendly. Take a look at your terminal." <br>
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The captain looked at his computer, as prompted, and noted the short report drawn up by Ensign Vo'tar. "What of the status of repairs?"<br>
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"We're pretty much dead in the water, captain. We just have to hope the vermin don't make a return. Perhaps they know the people who inhabit this system and are afraid of them." <br>
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"Ah yes, but what does that say for us?" The captain retorted grimly. He set the now-empty glass down and looked out the window. A few dozen parsecs away was the Othari capital, and he thought he could already see ships on the approach. It would, at least, be an interesting subject for research, Captain O'har thought as he sat down tiredly on his bunk. <br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><b><u>One day after the Attack</u></b>​</div>The room was rapidly filling as the delegates from all across the world gathered to hear the president speak on the recent attack. While most delegates had been there in Atlantis, a couple had to be flown in as they were ethir taking sabbaticals or visiting their home governments. One of the last to arrive was the State delegate from Canada, who took her seat amongst the other Senators.<br>
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    The State delegates, those who were representative of the higher house, lined the upper wall of the large chamber, each country retaining a booth, with circular pads jutting out in front. The Peoples Delegates, those based on population, sat together in a vast sea of faces and desks, all positioned to face the front. Before them was the Presidential Dias, a tiered set of desks that held the President, the Chief Ambassador, and the High General. Framed by a wall of glass, Abimbola Stood as the last delegate filed into place, and the murmuring of the crowd quieted as he began his address.<br>
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    “I, president Abimbola Nedaye, hereby open this emergency 231st meeting of the United Terran League. Delegates, we have two items on the agenda, the Bio-Weapon attack on the capital and the treaty with the Deun’tleh. We will now take a vote to decide the agenda of this meeting.” The Senator from Russia rose in their chair, a soft glow coming from the indicator on their booth.<br>
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    “The Delegation of Russia motions for the order to be: The details of the attack and plans going forward, then the Treaty with the Deun’tleh.” The senator from China seconded the motion, and with a quick vote all eyes turned once more to the President. With a small hand motion from him, the glass darkened, and the room lights dimmed as a grainy picture of a suited back took the place of the ocean view.<br>
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    “Currently, all that can be said about the situation is that on the 23rd of March, Atlantis was assaulted by a unknown party, using a unknown biological pathogen. It was easily contained, and no further action was taken by the unknown party. We currently have no one in custody, however evidence found by security forces have given us a strong lead. DNA is currently being tested, and we have the full might of the Special Forces Branch investigating this attack.  The floor is now open for a few questions.” A moment of silence, and no questions were put forward. “On to the next item on the agenda then. We will now discuss the mining rights treaty for the Vo’znik system.” The imge behind him transitioned to a picture of the Vo’znik system, a vast empty asteroid field. “As you know, the system currently has no government claiming it. However, both Terran and Deun’tleh miners have settled into the system, leaving a question of rights on the table. The Deun’tleh have stated an older claim, however it was decided that because Terrans first had miners in the system, that both would be allowed to continue their operations with a joint council appointed to oversee them. If there is objection to this agreement, you are asked to speak now.” After a moment, the Senator from China rose, and stepped onto the small circular dias on his booth. A bar rose, without any visible support, and the circle separate from the booth. A few pressed buttons later, and she drifted to a frontal stage below the Presidential Dias, facing the assembly with a aloof expression etched into her painted face.<br>
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    “I must stress that I have all due respect for the Deun’tleh Counselor State, as they have been valuable allies in our first forays into the greater galaxy.” She nodded to the box given to the Deun’tleh, and her eyes narrowed as she again faced the assembly again. “However, as President Nedaye stated, the Terrans were the first to enter the system, and therefore have more real authority there than a claim of paper made hundreds years past. By that logic, the oldest civilization would own every system, as they mapped the stars first. I propose that the Deun’tleh keep their mining contractors, but that the system falls to us, as the first to physically enter the system.” A polite applause followed, as she floated back to her booth, and the Canadian Senator took this opportunity to signal their interest. He replaced the Chinese Senator, floating to the stage in front of the Assembly.<br>
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    “Senator Zhang,” he started, “While it is true that Terrans entered the system first, it seems to me that in order to maintain what you suggest, we would damage relations with the Deun’tleh, over a obviously minor matter. So far, all though tensions have been high, there seem be enough claims for both sides of this argument. I’d also like to point out that zoning another system, one that has no terraformable planets, no vital resources and no other item of import, is just unnecessary hassle. I support this agreement, and while I see the sense in Senator Zhang's argument, I see no reason to pursue it if the disadvantages outweigh the benefits of owning a asteroid field.” Another round of polite clapping followed the Canadian senator to his seat, and after a few more similar remarks from supporters of both sides, the room fell silent as votes were called. To the surprise of some of the Royalist Faction, many of their own voted for the treaty, as they saw it as a waste of time. It was easily cleared, and the president signed it then and there, in front of floating cameras brought in for the occasion. The Deun’tleh were called up to sign, and after the customary handshake was photographed, the president turned to the crowd. <br>
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<span class="horizontal-rule bbcode-horizontal-rule bbcode-horizontal-rule-thick thick"></span>​</div>The Priminister was called to the Palace, it had been a long day already but it was far from over. Starting with the News that there had been a bio-weapon attack on Atlantis, then having to deal with conflicting media reports as to what had happened and now to the Official response by the President of the UTL as to the events. While it was now the day after for those on Atlantis, for those in the city of Camelot it was the same day. Sir Henry Churchill had been working without a break for nearly 22 hours now and his task was far from complete. First, he was awoken so early as to consider it the night before and now as it was approaching the end of the day, he was still going but he could feel his energy waning. The Palace guards waved his party through into the Palace where the King had come to meet them. <br>
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<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">Metallic claw tips of armored Othari clanged across the hallway, couriers jogging in a slight rush to reach the Palace with urgent news.<br>
Within it, the Supreme Ruler of all Othari could be found, most likely dwelling on some sort of political issue with other elites. Such was the life of the Archfiend. It didn't matter to the couriers, however. Since the Archfiend was not responding to telecommunications, they would have to deliver the news in person.<br>
<br>
Dieter clicked down on the holographic board in front of him. Inside the incredibly lavish office of metal and terminals, a there was a big circle in the middle where which he and others could participate in board games like these.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"A foolish error. Your enemy has crushed you."</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">The group of young Othari children before him lowered their heads in disapproval, ashamed to have been bested like that.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"Pathetic."</b></span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"> The Archfiend remarked with a growl. Behind him, two Othari Elites sitting upon lavish, mechanized chairs giggled with empathy.<br>
<br>
The holographic board dissipated into the air, leaving the room dimly lit.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"... Lord Dieter... How do we become strong like you?"</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">One smaller child inquired, though he was not yet brave enough to look at the Archfiend in the eyes.<br>
The question was met by a brief, comedic growl.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"Do you not envy the innocence of their youth, Mitrios? Amala?"</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">As the Archfiend moved forward to squat in front of the children, the two others behind him floated their chairs over to chime in on the discussion.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"Envy can be a powerful weapon, my Lord. But innocence is not what one should endeavor to win with it."</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">Amala's mechanical chair whirred as it levitated, circling the group of small children.<br>
<br>
Leaning in, Dieter placed his massive, armored claws over the head of a small, bird-like Othari child. He petted the timid creature, meeting her eyes with his own.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"There is only one path to strength, little ones. Kill. And kill again."</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">Dieter's razor fangs clicked together as he laughed with a growl.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"Is that why you never take off your armor, Lord Dieter?" </b></span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">Another child asked.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"So that nobody can kill you?"</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><br>
The poor kid had no idea that Dieter couldn't take off his armor even if he wanted to. He had cybernetically altered his body to a threshold beyond the capability of being able to go back to the normal anatomy of Othari, and he had his metallic armor permanently bound to his body at the atomic level.<br>
Dieter dismissed the inquiry with a condescending laugh. Standing up straight, he jutted his chin at Amala.<br>
<b>"I grow more and more disappointed with each of your naive questions, little ones. If this is the best this generation has to offer, I pray for the future of the Othari."</b><br>
Amala cackled like a hyena, rounding up the children with a brief wave of her fingertips. </span><span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"Come along, younglings. You have sooo much more to learn."</b></span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"> With a whir, her chair spun, and she promptly led the field trip out through the door.<br>
<br>
Or, at least she tried to, as three Othari clad in their armored exosuits barrel right through the entrance, shoving aside all in their way. Panting with exhaustion, they rushed into the room, quickly taking a knee before the Archfiend.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"Lord Dieter..!"</b></span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"> The biggest of the trio could barely speak between his breaths.</span><span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b> "We've found you.. Grasho 2 just reported an unidentified vessel slipping out of the Rasla hyperlane. They're just a few parsecs off. Their specs are completely foreign to our databases... Our scans can't detect anything other than its presence.</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><br>
Dieter's metal fist audibly crunched as he clenched it in anger.</span><span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b> "Those damned rats! They must've scrapped up a new junker..."<br>
"My lord, we've only identified one ship. Wh--"</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">In a fit of frustration, the Archfiend growled with intense anger, violently slashing his down a terminal beside him with a single swipe of the arm.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"Insolent rodents! It is no doubt a trap. How dare they think they could get the best of us?!"</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">Whipping off a few electric wires off his claws, Dieter snarled.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"We will not appease their petty games. We will respond in full force!"</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><br>
Growling, Dieter fixed his angry gaze on the children.</span><span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b> "This is what happens when you show mercy to your enemies, little ones. I advise you steer clear of the footsteps of fools and weaklings... Their errors only come back to bite you eventually."</b></span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"> He shaded, no doubts in reference to the previous Archfiendess, who did nothing to stall the advancement of the Vermin threat.<br>
<br>
Digging his claws into the table behind him, Dieter vaulted over and quickly launched himself upwards, shooting up into a hatch in the ceiling. Behind him, the trio quickly followed, shooting up into the hatch.<br>
<br>
It took a minute, but the four made their way to the nearest orbit catapult. It then only took a second to map some launch coordinates as the four Othari strapped into a launch pod. </span><span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"Raise us to The Arbiter.</b></span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><b>"</b> Dieter demanded, as a helmeted visor suddenly extends from his armor, covering his grizzly head with glass and a rebreather. </span><span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b><span style="font-size: 18px">"NOW!!"</span></b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><br>
With a loud, super sonic boom, the pod broke the atmosphere and launched upwards into space. In just minutes, the party reached their destination. One of the most menacing flagships in this sector of the Galaxy. The Arbiter.<br>
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The  largest and most powerful flagship in the Assembly, The Arbiter is a hulking battleship forged from the husk of the ancient leviathan, Maelstrom. While the cybernetic experiment to convert Maelstrom into an organic ship ultimately concluded with its painful death, the Othari were still able to upload the beast's consciousness into the ship, which later had to be completed with metal, since Maelstrom's corpse eventually decayed.<br>
<br>
A simple tractor beam hauled the pod in. The Archfiend and his couriers wasted no time in blasting right out of the sphere. All throughout the ship, yellow arms blaired, and Maelstrom's voice sent out a message. </span><span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">"All hands, alert. The Hierarchy has been updated. His Malevolence, Lord Dieter is now the strongest Othari on board. The position of commanding officer has been updated."</span> </b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">As per the Othari codex, the strongest aboard a ship at any given time is its captain. Any time a stronger individual steps aboard a ship, it automatically relinquishes control to the new strongest entity.<br>
<br>
The Archfiend barreled his way into the bridge, where the crew awaited him with a proper salute. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"Situation report on Grasho 2!"</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">He demanded immediately, making his way for the commanding chair at the center.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"Pilot, bring her about. Full speed ahead to the pending coordinates, on my mark."</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">A deckhand with a microphone around his furry ears swiveled on his chair, a datapad in his hand. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"Grasho 2 reports two Vermin vessels fresh out of the Rasha hyperlane. Updated coordinates; 23450 over 8491. The Rats are armed and loaded."</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><br>
Dieter snarled with violent intent. <b>"MARK!"</b> With a crushing heave, the arbiter turned about, initiating a short jump towards the coordinates.<br>
The Archfiend's metallic footsteps echoed angrily as he marched forward for his chair. In front of him, a younger, smaller Othari stood in his path. The previous commanding officer before Dieter took over.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"L-lord Dieter! This is preposterous! According to the c--"</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">He found his words interrupted by a swift jab to the gut, the Archfiend literally impaling the weaker Othari using his clawed fist alone.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b><span style="font-size: 18px">"DO NOT CITE THE OTTONIAN TEXTS TO ME, WRETCH!!"</span></b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">Dieter growled loudly, gently shoving the corpse off his fist.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"I was there when they were written."</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><br>
Taking his rightful place over his chair, Dieter clenched his bloodied fist.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"All hands, BATTLE STATIONS! Raise the Tempest batteries!"</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">The deck echoed with the sounds of deckhands furiously typing away at their terminals.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"All systems at 100%, my Lord!"<br>
"Shields are up!"<br>
"Exiting FTL in three... two.."</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><br>
The Archfiend turned around to adress the couriers he brought with him earlier.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"You three! Get down to the hangar bay. I want ALL fighters on standby."</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">Without hesitation, the three quickly made their way down.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"If my suspicions are correct, the rats will ambush us. We will not give them that opportunity.</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><br>
Even in the empty void of space, where nothing is audible, the sheer force and particle displacement of the Arbiter coming out of FTL sent a subatomic shockwave fiercely into the surrounding space, shaking everything in its path. It was massive, much bigger than the two little hunks that just came out of Rasla.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"Lord Dieter, we've got a lock on both enemy vessels! Firing on your mark!"</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><br>
Dieter laughed with ominous intent.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b>"Good! On-screen! And hail the rats!"</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">Immediately, Dieter could tell that one of these ships was not of rat origin. What was going on?<br>
<br>
If Kretch answered the hail, he'd be met by Dieter's violent display.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><b><span style="font-size: 18px">"KRETCH! YOU VILE MAGGOT! YOU HAVE DEFILED THIS ASSEMBLY FOR THE LAST TIME! YOU WERE A FOOL TO COME HERE! PREPARE TO PERISH!!"</span></b><br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><b><u>Onboard the <i>Von'hari</i></u></b><br>​</div>"Check mags!" Shouted one of the marines as the Deun'tleh formed a barricade by the airlock in anticipation of a boarding action from the rat hulk which had, yes certainly, followed them into the system. Most of the crew were scientists, not trained soldiers, and they were all acutely aware of the fact that their chances of survival were low. It was rare that a science ship, alone and damaged, could fight off a determined force of space rats and they had lost many a ship in exploring the southern reaches of the nearest portions of the galaxy. <br>
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Captain O'har opened the breach of his plasma rifle and slotted in a metallic grey microfusion cell before jamming a magazine of gas cartridges into the ammunition receiver on the right side of the weapon, racking back the action, and the weapon was live. O'har, unlike some of the other crewmen, had a military background and could shoot a gun straight. He hoped that perhaps quick shooting might keep the rats out of the ship, but he knew the more likely scenario was that the <i>Von'hari </i>would be overrun and the crew eaten. They already had orders - don't be afraid to leave a cartridge in the chamber for yourself. <br>
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As O'har stood, weapon trained towards the airlock, Ensign Ol'fas ran down to meet him. "You need to see this, Captain, we've had movement from the planet." Begrudgingly, O'har handed his rifle off to one of the ship's science officers and followed Ol'fas back up the stairs to the bridge. While Deun'tleh could technically "see" through walls, a direct line of sight was always best for their mental recreations. Going up to the bridge manned by a skeleton crew, Ol'fas and O'har watched as one of the largest ships they had ever seen approached. They could see its weapons aimed at the rats' vessel and preparing to open fire, and for a brief moment they were relieved. That relief soon fell to dread, as they had no idea who these people were or whether they had just delivered themselves up to a fate worse than that of the ratmen's rapacious hunger. While Dieter was busy berating Kretch, O'har paced over to the comms terminals and opened up communications on a separate frequency. After booting up the translator and tapping into the <i>Arbiter</i>'s communications channels, his translation engine had an imperfect working translation of the Othari language. He opened up the communications display and began to speak. <br>
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"Unknown vessel, this is Captain O'har of the <i>Von'hari</i>, a research vessel of the Deun'tleh Counciliar State requesting assistance, over." He let the message loop and steepled his long fingers, staring at the screen and awaiting a response. <br>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">From the large window in his office Overseer Kofi Okoye could see the world of Wua. From here his people had grown from savages to machine dependent xenophobes and then to what they are today. He raises a small mug to his lips and sips a black liquid from it. The warmth of the liquid burning his chest as it passes through. History was strange in how it worked. How people could go from one thing to another so quickly. It baffled him how much could change and yet how similar everything could remain. The lights from the cities on Wua twinkle in the darkness of their night time rotation while the observable day clearly illuminates dried up lakes and heavily populated urban areas as murky grey patches. It wasn't a pretty world by any stretch but it was his and as such, it was his duty to defend it. <br>
"<span style="color: rgb(163, 143, 132)">Overseer Okoye?</span>" A husky voice calls. He turns to face the newcomer and assesses their form. She wore a grey uniform and appeared relatively bland in terms of style. By the stylistic choices he could already tell she was from the administrative parts of the IPNC and that she wasn't someone of any considerable importance. He turns back to continue his watch over Wua, enjoying the beverage in his hands. "<span style="color: rgb(163, 143, 132)">I have a report for you, sir. Terrestrial affairs. Not just Wua either, sir.</span>" She takes a hesitant step forward ready to place a small cube on his desk. "<span style="color: rgb(163, 143, 132)">And another request from Koopa industries. I think.</span>"<br>
"<span style="color: rgb(250, 197, 28)">Place them down.</span>" He turns around and takes a large sip of his mug before putting the almost empty item down on his desk. He pulls out his seat and takes the cube in his right hand, moving a strange stand to the center of his desk. As he places the cube in the stand the woman who'd delivered it to him turns to leave. "<span style="color: rgb(250, 197, 28)">Did I say you were dismissed, clerk?</span>" The woman tenses up and stands stiff in place with her back to him. "<span style="color: rgb(163, 143, 132)">No sir.</span>"<br>
"<span style="color: rgb(250, 197, 28)">Then why are you leaving? Stand at attention and don't move.</span>" The woman quickly straightens her legs and turns her feet outward, raising a hand to her heart and placing the other in a fist behind her back. He looks her up and down and places the cube into the stand. It clicks into place and begins to have its surface shift as small needle like devices from the base of the stand prod at it. Within a moment the cube grows transparent and is removed from the stand. He rolls it around in his hand keeping his eyes fixed on the woman. "<span style="color: rgb(250, 197, 28)">You're dismissed.</span>" She clacks her boots together and starts to leave. "<span style="color: rgb(163, 143, 132)">Yes sir, thank you sir.</span>"</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">The door closes behind her. The room grows quiet again. He takes a leisurely moment to lift an electronic pad from his desk. He starts scrolling through a large amount of now decoded information regarding planetary politics, internal affairs, special requests, and interstellar information. There was an abundance of information to take in and little of it actually mattered to him. Sex scandals between representatives of provinces in Kulu and the misdirected budgets of government bodies on Alui mattered but not enough to warrant his attention. After hours of nonstop reading and a brief break to eat something, he concludes his Wuan monthly update. He starts on the requests and notices a recurring theme of government bodies wanting the IPNC to flex their muscles on their behalf. These didn't interest him as much as the other requests coming from the private sector. Koopa industries was the most persistent of those expressing interest but that was likely because they'd already been approved entry into space. Research institutions and gas refineries all seemed interested in a smaller gas planet in the Fuam system.<br>
He strokes his cheeks in thought and after a short moment of consideration pushes down on a button underneath the desk. Within a moment a man dressed in a plain grey uniform enters the room. He too was a clerk but judging by the badge on his chest he hadn't always been. The small strip of colour signified he was an engineer or at least had been one before now. "<span style="color: rgb(163, 143, 132)">Overseer Okoye, sir.</span>"<br>
"<span style="color: rgb(250, 197, 28)">Bring me an ambassador if you can. We need to arrange for an official meeting.</span>"<br>
"<span style="color: rgb(163, 143, 132)">At once, sir.</span>" The man offers a quick salute by placing his hand on his heart and turns around to leave the room as quickly as he'd entered. Within minutes two more people arrived dressed in tight black uniforms with colourful neck wear. The offer a more hearty salute before approaching the desk and standing before the overseer. "<span style="color: rgb(163, 143, 132)">You called for us sir?</span>"<br>
"<span style="color: rgb(250, 197, 28)">Yes. Please sit. We need to arrange a meeting with the tempest order. You two will be there on my behalf so listen close and listen well.</span>" The ambassadors take their seats and listen to the overseers demands and what he's willing to offer in exchange for these demands. There was little the ambassadors could do short of remember and agree with his requests and, after he'd established his goals, the duo left his office to traverse the proper channels in arranging a meeting over diplomatic endeavors between the two and territory claims.</span></div>
				
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The following day passed without much incident, despite the emergency meeting of delegates in Atlantis's Capitol. The Commisary-General sat at her desk, tapping away at her Holopad as she found herself repeatedly going back to the UTL's published account of the attack just a day earlier.  Aaron had informed her that recent sector polling had shown the public's wary distrust of the Terrans simply because of her father's decision to choose vassalization of the faction under the UTL following the Feral Wars.  Even with Haven as a vassalized state operating under the jurisdiction of the UTL, it's not like Txell viewed the Terrans as any form of captors. The divisive line between 1st and 2nd Class Citizens showed across all sectors within Haven's space, with a near 30% split between asking for independence and remaining under vassalization. Txell sighed softly, recounting the conversation she'd had with Nathan the day before. When word got out (as it inevitably would) with Haven's proposed cooperation of constructing Quantum Gates, the fallout of news alone, depending how it was handled through the PR department, could have the potential to cause civil unrest if the dissenting number grew any larger. Such incidents weren't uncommon under her father's actions either, which is what ultimately lead to a severe policy restriction on any and all forms of advanced AI.<br>
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The only complication was that Mr. Sullivan was dead. He laid sprawled out on the bed naked, ligature marks on his neck, eyes wide open in a moment of final ecstatic expression. One of the policemen beheld the scene, muttered, "Jesus Christ," under his breath, and turned away. Smirking, one of the other cops chuckled and said, "Well, we all gotta go out sometime, might as well go out this way." <br>
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The lead detective scowled. "Just start searching," he growled. <br>
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The bar at Pleris Station was crowded with the influx of Mohain marines from the nearby taskforce. With setbacks planetside, including a rapid evacuation of all ground-based civilians and military personnel, the Mohain Navy was at a loss as to what could be done to retake the planet from the mysterious phenomenon of the strangely-sentient trees. Thus far, whole platoons had gone missing in the forest and several atmospheric craft had failed to return. <br>
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All of this was a mystery to Ves'mar Ul and most of those passing through the system for work or pleasure. The Deun'tleh courier noticed the extra Mohain muscle hanging around the station's largest watering hole, but he thought perhaps they were in the system for routine exercises. He collected his drink and went to sit in the corner by the sunward window where most of the Deun'tleh usually congregated. The air here was thick with a particular kind of vapor used by them as a calming, mild drug and the combination with alcohol lightened their mood considerably. Most of the plantmen there were rough types, spacers who had been travelling from station to station for years - decades usually. Ves'mar sat down at a table with a Deun'tleh that had noticeable scars on this face. He wore a red scarf and a grey spacer's wool jacket with cargo pants and coupling boots that were generally meant for a space suit. Ves'mar approved of him in general. <br>
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"What's the news, spacer?" Ves'mar asked, always willing to make small talk. <br>
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"Been stuck here for six days. Mohain are nervous and don't want anyone leaving the system just yet." Came the reply as the spacer swished his fingers around in his drink. <br>
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Ves'mar shrugged. "Then who does?"<br>
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"That," murmured the spacer, "is a good question. If I get stuck here much longer, my cargo is going to spoil and I'll be out 12,000 credits." <br>
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"That's a streak of bad luck," Ves'mar said and they both nodded. <br>
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Echoed steps filled the silent and empty hallways of the Royal Palace, long shadows cast down onto the patterned marble floor from the setting sun from the large tainted glass windows. A man in a lavish uniform walked down the dim hallway, it wasn't dark enough for the artificial lighting to come on and the glass seemed to refract the light to cover any shadows. Reaching the end of the hallway the man stopped in front of the large double doors flanked by two pedestals, as soon as the man stopped the door opened to reveal a elevator, one of the pedestals came alive with a small hologram of a woman.<br>
"Welcome, Gautri, duke of Theode, where shall i take you?" The hologram bowed gesturing for him to walk into the elevator, to which he did.<br>
"Take me to the queen please, i have urgent news from The Mohain Federation." Gautri adjusted his uniform to make it more confortable on himself.<br>
"The queen is currently in the war room discussing other matters, i shall inform her right away." The hologram disappeared and the elevator doors closed taking the duke down.<br>
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When the elevator ride eventually came to an end the doors opened revealing the large operational control station with various screens everywhere and staff walking about. Walking out the duke was flanked by two phoenix guard, standing idle they looked at the newcomer and soon looked away after their personal AI informed them of the dukes status and why he was there for. Looking around the duke found the queen over a holographic table with what looks like a star chart on screen she was flanked to either side by the Heads of two of the great houses. Videric Arckon, and Arius Mortan. Whatever they are discussing must be of great importance for those two to be here, walking up to them from across the table he listened in while waiting for them to acknowledge his presence.<br>
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"we'll entertain the Wauwoo with talks but Fuam will not be yielded over to them entirely." Fuam was the only neutral system between the Order and the Wauwoo and served as a early warning system for both sides outside the Beli Corona/Talafo'ou hyperlane. Although it had resources it was vulnerable to two different hyperlanes the Wauwoo controlled which is one of the reasons why the order wasnt too interested in claiming it for itself. Not in its entirety anyway, perhaps the two sides can compromise in a miners rights and sharing the system through a commercial pact that is if the small overly paranoid Wauwoo will be open to such options. If not she supposed letting the lesser houses mine there without supervision would be dismissable enough, but the order would benefit more if the larger houses such as Varlock or Mortan were able to.<br>
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"Videric, we shall talk about fleet numbers soon, for now-" The queen looked up to Gautri "there is another matter to talk about."<br>
"yes my queen." Both Videric and Arius said in unison before their forms flickered out. It seemed the matter wasnt very important after all and to think Gautri was high up enough to be graced with the heads of the two greater houses at once, alas the queen was enough.<br>
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"What is it Gautri? What do the water breathers want?" At the sound of her voice calling out his name Gautri straightened up and released himself from his thoughts.<br>
Clearing his throat he spoke. "The Mohain Federation requests a contingent of land forces to be brought to the planet of Peris 2 to assist in some type of, <i>Emergency</i>." This peaked Isolda's interest<br>
"what kind of emergency?" it was an unusual request, normally you dont ask another power to help with these kind of things let alone land forces.<br>
"They didnt say, it seems they're withholding information until someone answers."<br>
"tell them we'll help, but first we need to know what is going on, the Peris system might not be ours but it is neighboring the Agrippina system."<br>
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Isolda wondered to herself if she could use this situation to form a defensive pact with the Mohain Federation, it would certainly dissuade the increasingly paranoid Wauwoo states from doing anything rash.<br>
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<div style="text-align: center">Sol, Terra, Atlantis.<br>​</div>Larissa was let out soon after and over the course of a few weeks of the terrans searching for their perpetrator things seemed to have finally calmed down. At the Orders embassy where security was strict with auto turrets controlled by resident AI hidden within the building and guarded by a dozen knights Larissa wasn't particularly worried. Although she had been quite busy, information on the bioweapon has been kept tight, every request was followed by pending information.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><b><u>Pleris Station</u></b><br>​</div>Ves'mar hadn't been drinking with his new acquaintance long, but he knew the man's name now (Os'lar An) and had beaten him and lost to him in a round of <i>rumrull</i>, Deun'tleh dominoes. After the first hour, the topic of conversation turned from gaming and drinking to women. <br>
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"I've got a woman, beautiful woman, waiting for me in Mor'i'tas," the spacer said, racking the dominoes and stowing them away in their wooden carrying case. "She's got flowers of the most beautiful variety, all grown like a crown around her head."<br>
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"What color?" Ves'mar asked, doing the Deun'tleh equivalent of grinning which was a kind of projecting a feeling of goodwill.<br>
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All this talk was cut short by a Mohain captain, his blue wetsuit marked up all with signifiers of rank and commendation, entered the portion of the bar that was reserved for aliens. He fixed his voice modulator to his helmet and stood with his foot planted on an empty bench. "Visitors to the Mohain Federation," he began, directing his talk primarily to the Deun'tleh and Human spacers to the exclusion of the two Qirnians smoking in the corner and the lone Drenian sitting melancholic by the window. "As you might have gathered, Pleris II is under attack. It seems that there is some sort of virus or perhaps a powerful telepath that has turned the planet's flora in open rebellion against us." <br>
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Everyone looked on with rapt attention.<br>
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"Whoever lends his gun arm to the service of the Federation will receive commendation on behalf of Admiral Yurin and President Lorin. You will also---"<br>
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"What about credits?" A human spacer piped up. <br>
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"Sign on bonus is 10,000 credits, an additional 10,000 if you survive." <br>
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"Now that's what I'm talking about! Sign me up, fishman." The spacer said, walking out and going to the bar to replenish his drink. The captain looked on annoyed but said nothing else. He turned to scan the room again, "Any other volunteers?"<br>
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Ves'mar glanced at Os'lar, then they both stood up. "We'll help you, captain." A couple of the other Deun'tleh, more out of a desire to not be shown up by two of their kind rather than out of any kind of altruism, stood and offered their services as well.<br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><u><b>Urgent Communique</b></u><br>​</div>From: President Os Lorin<br>
To: Delegates of the Tempus Order<br>
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In response to your inquiry for further information, I will provide you with what information we have and the situation as it stands now. On Stardate 1.1.2555, an attack was registered on Pleris II after a medical research team failed to return to base camp. In the next several days, forty different settlements and facilities were reported destroyed or abandoned. A full-scale evacuation was put into effect 1.28.2555 and as far as we know the planet is no longer inhabited by Mohain or otherwise. Current military operations are to retake the planet from a strain of sentient flora who have, as of right now, frustrated our attempts to regain control of the planet. In aid, we humbly request ground forces that can be spared specialized for combat against non-humanoid wildlife, specifically units armed with flame-weapons. Our current objectives are to prevent the strain from reactivating the planetary shields and thus rendering a counterattack impossible and to locate the source of the plants' odd behaviors which we believe to be responsible via the study of a human scientist, Mbowli Morgan, who was reported missing 1.2.2555. Secondary objectives also include location of the rare <i>manivas </i>plant, which was the goal of the majority of the research teams on the planet. Respond urgent. <br>
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-Cordially, President Os Lorin<br>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><b><i>"You have nothing to worry about. This meeting is vital for our research. Not to mention a good way to forge better relations with the Federation. Our people have always been mistaken as hostile due to our status as a Hivemind an-" </i></b></span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><i>"You should remain seated, Diplomat Clarke. I am physically unable to support you in my current condition."</i> The Pilot, that is to say, the Shuttle warned him as Alexander stared at the empty pilot seats. The monitor displaying the avatar of the pilot, a human male in his 30s with salt and pepper hair, and he was visibly frowning. Alexander chuckled as he carefully unfolded the Flight Engineer's jumpseat and carefully settled himself in. </span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"Better? I simply wanted to thank you personally, Pilot. And to ask if you're comfortable with your new arrangements. The accident on Forage Site Delta was inexcusable and I am sorry for your loss." Alexander solemnly said. To his surprise, the Pilot simply let out a soft telephatic chuckle.</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"It will be... a little slow... But I shall... adapt soon..." Barian slowly and carefully stated, showing clear discomfort at physically speaking. Alexander gave him an apologetic pat on his shoulder and motioned for the two to follow him. The pair nodded, their visors lowering with a soft hiss. The shuttle's ramp descended and made contact with the ground before Alexander made his first steps onto Earth ground. Taking a slow breath, he smiled.</span></span><br>
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After receiving the information from the Mohain Federation the Order immediately made started to plans about sending a contingent over to assist. The first was assembling a temporary fleet to send over which was a rather easy and painless task. Using the transport ships from both Battlegroup Irelia and Valia they had their method of transportation, the ships escorting them would be two corvettes from each Battlegroup a single frigate from each and a cruiser from the Valia battlegroup. Thus the formation of Battlegroup Atemos was complete, the flagship designated the Galinda commandeered by Vice Admiral Saphrax, the ground forces led by general Kahlin. Not much specialization was needed for the ground forces however as the knight's equipment were already technically "flame-weapons." With their plasma casters and swords. <br>
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General Judias Kahlin watched over the preparation of his army as they marched in orderly formation into the transport ships provided by the navy. Large columns of knights separated in their squads further separated in companies and then into divisions slowly made their way into the large ships that would take them to their battlefield. It was quite a sight to behold, Judias himself hadnt seen mobilization like this happen in years and now he was going to be the strategist for them all, a sense of pride came through him when he remembered the queen picked him to lead this army, and yet he couldn't help but feel a little nervous. Everything was on him, the achievements, the glory, the failures, and the embarrassments, if anything wrong happened in a large scale it will be pinned on him, which could lead to many places both terrible and great. <br>
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"its quite a sight" A voice came from his right knocking him out of his thoughts and inner monologue, looking over to the source of the voice was a man in blue and white looking over what he was watching just a moment ago. "Vice admiral, what are you doing here?" The vice admiral looked at Judias and smiled. "There is only so much i can manage with the small fleet i was given, the transport ships are all that is left, along with a corvette arriving from Irelia that is." Judias looked back at his army almost whincing as the setting suns rays met his eyes. "I see," fidgeting with the House Mortan crest in his pocket Judias gave a long breath. "i doubt hostile flora will pose much of a threat to this army, but there isnt much known about this enemy." Just as he said that a small contingent of large mechanized Calvary: [large bipedal mechs armed with medium sized artillery weapons and smaller point defense weapons.] Walked out of their hangers towards the transport ships. "Misinformation is a terrible curse that affects any force. Hopefully the water-breathers know more about the enemy as we arrive." Judias responded with a grunt of agreement. "The enemy could be simple feral flora that the water-breathers lack the force to subdue, or it could be something more, sinister."<br>
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Vice admiral Galae Saphrax watched as hyperspace gave way to real space then immediately scans of the system were made, the planet designated Pleris II was full of activity around its orbit. Galae ordered the fleet to start moving toward the planet while transmitting to any Mohain fleets that the Orders ships have arrived. When Battlegroup Atemos got closer a communications officer picked up the presence of Arthurian ships out and about in this system presumably assisting in evacuation. The fact that Arthurian ships were this close to Order space might make the houses suspicious, it gave the Vice admiral himself a little antsy but he shook the feelings aside. "send reports back to Tempus Alternium, but continue on our course to Pleris II" <br>
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"thank you for your valuable information admiral Yurin, I am Vice admiral Galae Saphrax." Galae bowed before the admiral before coming back up. "my knights are ready to make planetfall but we will wait for your word." The <i>Galinda</i> and its escort of two frigates took positions to assist in the planetary bombardment making sure not to fire where they werent meant to and to make sure anything that survived the inital bombardment from the guns of the <i>Kalowas, </i>didnt, meanwhile corvettes assisted in evacuation.<br>
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Back in the transport ships legions of knights are getting ready putting on their gear, power armor, and plasma weapons. The more dedicated drop ships were powering up and ready to make planetfall while the smaller dropships with gunship configurations are making their runs around the main transportships checking systems and warming up the engines for better controllablity in atmosphere. In the hanger of one of the transport ships General Kahlin watched over the proceedings walking down the large hangers as crowds of soldiers ran and walked by getting to their assigned squads or stations. He could see they were all heavy armed with their normal weapons but with plasma configurations including plasma throwers and incendiary explosives. Haran, his personal ai gave him the map of the surrounding area of where they will make planet fall, it was completely scorched with almost no signs of life or vegetation, the ground was reasonably flat. But what made the general wonder was, what was below that ground? Plants can dig deep, perhaps he can request the vice admiral to send a probe down to recon the Landing zone.<br>
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Freighters filled with panicked colonists fled the Avalon system in droves for Lazarus, where the Terran Navy had preemptively prevented the ships from disembarking their refugees at the system's ports. The total human casualties were estimated at 150 million and climbing, the worst pandemic in human history. <br>
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While the government didn't openly declare it, television anchors and political pundits had already drawn the connection between the pandemic on Avon and the attack on the capital a month prior. Many of the nations in the Terran voting council were dead-set against taking in Avonite refugees, with rational fear that the virus could spread to other inhabited systems. The entire nation looked upon President Ambimbola and his staff for guidance on the matter, even as the deathtoll increased. While other nations did not have complete intelligence yet, whispers began to reach all corners of the known galaxy that an unfathomable disaster had occurred on Avon. <br>
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Ophrine Narin Squad leader of her fireteam had been out in the brush mostly exterminating the oddly dormant flora that the Mohain were so afraid of, it bored many of her brothers and sisters. Day after day of nothing but burning brush clearing a path to what seemed like their objectives, it was rather, peaceful and mind numbing, with many of the knights chattering through radio and their ai running calculations to simply pass the time. It wasnt until last night did something happen to shake things up, particularly for her fireteam, one of her squads were patrolling the surrounding area, perhaps they had found something and went inside the brush. Only for them to be found with their helmets caved in, the vile roots seemed to have made inside as well. It made her angry inside, and with a feeling of sorrow, whatever was behind this, she would see them burn.<br>
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Stardate 2.5.2555</b></u><br>​</div>While officially outside of Terran territorial control, the settlers of Proxi Ventris, a dusty and arid-cold mining world on the outskirts of the Proxima Centauri System, were a healthy mix of the various Terran nations. The upper-crust of Proxi society were the Chinese aristocrats who were mostly second sons and had come from Earth to establish a dominance over the illegal spice trade, the water trade, and the mineral refining trade. Closely connected, a prominent group of Norwegians epitomized by the Sorgensen family had established the large "Sorgensen Kraftworks" in nearly every settlement that pumped C02 into the air by the tons to help regulate the climate and vented 02 back into the local ecosystem by the use of giant oxygen scrubbers. Most settlements were built around these giant agglomerations of pipes and metal that spewed gas and steam into the air of a once pristine world. Then, the bulk of the middle and lower class workers who did the mining, warehousing, food packing, and other menial tasks were Americans of some stripe or another - primarily immigrants from the Sunbelt with rough accents and rough attitudes. <br>
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All of these elements combined made the settlement of Ventris City, the planet's de facto capital and seat of trade and home to nearly 300,000 souls, a bustling and lively desert city. Keira Blakely noted all of this as she passed from the dusty street with its sheet-metal sidewalks to keep pedestrians from being run over by rovers and pack animal caravans into the local bar: The Cosmonaut. As she passed the doorway, she stopped to read a curious-looking pamphlet that was being tacked up by a few sheriff's deputies. <br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><u>ATTENTION, CITIZENS OF VENTRIS CITY</u><br>
WANTED:<br>
PERPETRATOR OF MASS MURDER ON THE COLONY OF AVON<br>
MASS FATALITIES UPWARDS OF 100 MILLION<br>
GREATEST CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN HISTORY<br>
REWARD OF 3 BILLION CREDITS FOR INFORMATION LEADING<br>
TO THE ARREST OF THIS HEINOUS CRIMINAL<br>
TO REPORT CONTACT:<br>​</div>The poster trailed off into a long string of telecom numbers where one could contact that Terran Navy, the League embassy, the Arthurian Navy, the Havenian Navy, as well as special forces divisions in all of the aforementioned nations. Keira only smirked. She couldn't believe she was worth three billion credits, alive. Then again, as her eyes scrolled up to the top of the page and she read the words again "Perpetrator of Mass Murder" she paused. For a brief moment, something approximating grief or regret flashed across her face. But it vanished in a worn determination to the cause. She had to go through with it. She had to. <br>
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She walked past the sheriffs and into the bar. A bit of music was playing on the jukebox, something very old. Some romantic spacer ballad from the 2300's, she thought. She walked up to the bar and asked if they had a restroom, which they did. Just as she slipped into the back, a crowd of miners and factory workers were coming in from their shifts. Their soot-and-dust-covered faces concealed warm smiles of satisfaction after a hard day of having dug quite a bit of ore out of the ground or working particularly hard at the lathe. They were all there, mostly to get a pint of beer before going home to the missus. A few women entered after them, they looked to be either hospital nurses or doctors. While Keira was gone, she heard the din of the men crowding the bar and knew that this was the perfect place to start ground-zero of the next infection. Entering the women's restroom, she hid herself in a stall and opened her satchel. Inside, a vial roughly the size of a shot glass contained enough of Edward Sullivan's virus, what he called the Malthus Strain, to kill everyone in this city and, given the traffic across the planet, probably a good proportion of everyone else on Proxi Ventris in two weeks. The damp and the quick response from authorities rendered the Avon pandemic less of a success. This, Keira reckoned, would turn out better. <br>
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She heard the door open, and in a moment of panic and fear the vial slipped from her hands and clattered to the floor. It was shatter-proof glass, but the shoes that she saw on the other end of the stall were white, hospital-issue shoes. A feminine hand stooped to collect the vial. On the other side of the stall door, one of the nurses was examining what had just rolled out from the occupied stall. It looked like a vial of medicine to be administered by a syringe...except...<br>
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The door flung open and caught the unassuming nurse in the face. Reeling back, she was immediately locked in combat with a woman clad in a long brown spacer coat and a dust hood. They fought for a moment over the vial, before the woman realized that the nurse's grip was too strong and the scene of this attack a bit too public. In a flash, the mysterious woman had vanished out the restroom door and was making her way into the street. <br>
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"Stop her! Stop her!" A woman's voice cried out from behind Keira as she dashed out into the street, but the sheriff's deputies were gone and it was getting dark. Before long, the figure had vanished into the twisted maze of prefab apartment buildings, condos, and pipeworks that was Ventris City. The nurse looked down at the vial she had in her hand, then walked back inside. On her way back in, she saw the poster hanging by the door frame. Her stomach lurched and jumped up into her throat. She asked to borrow the bar communicator, and before too long there was a tip posted in by one Emily S. Tellmas that someone had likely tried to make a chemical attack on Ventris City. In thirty minutes, the information was back to Earth and on Ambimbola's desk. <br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">James Carlton was quietly alerted by a note on his pad, and excused himself from the alliance meeting, heading to the space dock. A unknown dignitary was asking to be received by the terran government, but was apparently human. As he descended in the elevator, he saw a man standing next to a couple capital guards, and flanked by two humanoids. He walked up, and as he reached the unknown individual gave a short bow, and straightened to meet the eyes of a rather young man. "You are welcome on earth, but we should continue this discussion in my office, please follow me." James abruptly turns and starts heading inside, the capital guards following him.<br>
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"Of course good Sir. I was under the impression that our arrival was expected. I'm sure my superiors have sent a communique prior to my arrival in Terran orbit. I apologize if I have made a mistake and caused some inconvenience to our host." Alexander started some small talk after returning the bow. As he followed the man, he kept looking around at his surroundings. Atlantis was beautiful to say the least. A city built upon an artificial island. He noted that the city had a nice symmetrical shape during his flight over and made him think back on the Benthic Unimatrix Center back home. Although its obvious that Atlantis had a more lively aura compared to that place. "I must say, I am in love with this place. Its so... How do you say it.... Lively? Is that the word for it, Miss Fields?"<br>
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James stopped suddenly, in front of a local coffee shop he frequented. "Would you like to stop for some coffee before we start the meeting, we could order from the room, but I like having it pipping hot personally."<br>
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"Coffee! It would be lovely indeed." Alexander smiled at the prospect of having something warm to drink. Glancing over at his two bodyguards, the trio had a short silent conversation before he turned back to his host. "If it doesn't trouble you of course. There is much to discuss."<br>
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"Of course not, here I'll pull up the menu." James noted the odd exchange, but shrugged it off and used his holo-cam to project the shops menu before the group. He selected a caramel capuchino, and his guards shook their head when offered one."Go ahead, the order'll be sent to the shop and the coffee will be ready in a couple moments."<br>
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"Hmm... Well this is interesting." Alexander simply chose what James selected and in a show of simple pragmatism, so did Juniper. Barian, the other bodyguard simply chose water.<br>
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James made a flicking motion with his hand, and the menu disappeared. The board in front of them flashed, and "Carlton=12" flashed on the screen. In a couple minutes, the drinks were sent on a floating tray to the group, and when they were distributed James led them to a office close by, with a view of the northern garden district. James directed his guards to stand by the door, and after the visitors had entered, pressed a couple of buttons on his desk. The door closed, and a 'shunk!' was heard as a unseen bolt slipped into place. James sat at his desk, and motioned for the ambassador to join him. He flipped through the daily schedule to find the message the dignitary spoke of, and found that a intern had misfiled the document. He paled for a moment, and pressed one more button on his desk, before turning to the ambassador. "I deeply apologize for my rough introduction, due to a recent attack security has been tightened for members of the government, and foreign ambassadors are required to meet in rooms until verified as non-threatening. My name is James Carlton, and I am the chief ambassador here on Atlantis. I apologize that President Nedaye couldn't be here, but he is currently in another meeting. I see that you are requesting a pact of non-agression, I am authorized to make decisions of this type. Please, let me hear from you the reason for this treaty."<br>
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"Goodness. There was an attack here? Of what nature, if I may ask? I'm surprised that you're government would even allow this meeting to happen." Alexander frowned slightly. This could be a problem indeed. While it was nice to know that their Non-Aggression Pact can be decided with this meeting, it might put the Singularity at risk. Still, things should be handled as they come.<br>
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"But I would suppose that the Pact between our governments should come first." Alexander took a moment to have a sip of his coffee. Decent, something on par with what he could get back home but it was nice to have coffee on another planet. "To the point then. My government is aware of the fact that we're not easy to trust and we emphasize with that. The idea of a group that operates as a whole based on some intergalactic connection is one for concern. That and the ludicrous idea that we'd Integrate people into the Singularity on a whim. Its with our hopes that this Non-Aggression Pact that we can slowly learn to trust each other to the point that maybe one day we may officially become allies." Alexander took a moment to have another small sip. "Another reason for this pact is a purely humanitarian one. The human population back home pine to learn more about the birthplace of their species. Myself included if I were to be honest. And its everything I hoped it would be. I'm glad to know that our outdated information on Earth was wrong regarding the environmental damage."<br>
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James thought for a moment, then opened his holo-terminal and typed something in. A machine in the corner began to glow, and sheets of paper started to appear out from under a large lamp-looking part of the machine, which James walked over and collected. "You seem to be relatively out of the loop, but the president will be releasing a statement to the galaxy soon about this recent attack. The current standard treaty of non-agression allows signifiers to enter and leave friendly space if they have papers to prove citizenship, and volunteer to a ship search. This was implemented recently to track a rather disturbing group, and smaller tolls are levied because of this inconvenience. You would have access to open planets, and have a limited ability to invest in terran assets. The treaty outlines the minor details, but one major one is that if a military ship enters our space without authorization, it will be considered a act of war. Ships in distress will be reviewed, but all others will be shot down on sight. Finally, a clause added by the Leauge for your nation, is the prohibition of conversion of any terran citizen, until you are allies and a full agreement on this subject is formed. You simply have to sign here, and the copies will be sent to our respective governments. Do you have any audits you'd like to negotiate?"<br>
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"Thank you Mr Carlton. No I do not see any need to negotiate about any of the audits. Well except maybe one small issue. Due to our homeworld being in a rather... turbulent part of the galaxy, almost all our ships are militarized to an extent. But worry not, we will send a request for authorized entry before jumping into any Terran system." Alexander quietly read through the printed version of the Pact, mildly amused at the fact that its a hardcopy. Understandable, hardcopies prevent any malicious editing. He would ask for a soft-copy but he knew his Superiors would already be reading it through his own eyes and discussing on the matter. It was then that one of his Superiors suggested something.<br>
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"Actually Mr Carlton. If I may be so bold, could you perhaps tell me about this attack? Or at least the nature of it. I understand if you won't be able to but it seems my Superiors are asking me to offer my assistance in the matter while I'm still Earthside."<br>
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James paused, pondering this offer. "As of now, that information is considered a state secret," James said slowly, "However, as soon as it is released in a few days time, if you were to make your way over to the labs on the northeastern citadel, there wouldn't be any problems." He typed a couple other things, and that same machine started up again, this time a red tag with a metal pin popped into existence, with an image of Alexander and a number 4 next to it. "In fact, head over early and sign in, make yourself comfortable. Your quarters are in the Western block, ask the security there if you need any help." He pressed a button, and a pen rose from the desk."Do we have an accord?"<br>
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"Hm. Efficient. I guess you don't always have to be connected to a Network to work well." Alexander mused, happy that his Superiors are glad with what just happened. In any case, him lending aid to the investigations would help solidify trust between the Singularity and the Terrans. Alexander reached out and grasped the pen in his hand. "That we do. Where do I sign?"<br>
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"Here" James motioned, and singed one of two lines on the last page. He pushed it towards Alexander, and offered the pen.<br>
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"And with this. A Pact is formed." Alexander smiled, signing the other line before rising from his seat and offering a hand towards James. "May this Union bring forth more discoveries."<br>
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James took the hand, and smiled as a new nation joined the ranks of the Terran Allies.<br>
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<br>​</div>The two Havenians were dead silent on how to proceed further. It was a good strategem for a starting point on containment, however there were too many variables still left out in the open. Finally, Txell broke the silence following the Prime Minister's statement along with one of Nedaye's assistants excuse himself from the meeting. "The neutral system should be staged for a summit location. We don't have any claims or demands at the moment, however my science directors have advised a discussion with all of you on the possibility of commissioning the construction of two-way quantum jumpgates between our homeworlds. Obviously, with the threat of the disease, we must place containment as a priority before we proceed any further with talks of this nature. I will begin deployment of the Task Force to Thainsin. The reason for this choice in location is mainly to prevent Sullivan from gaining access to the further reaches of the galactic map, as it serves as a de-facto center pass through the majority of the other quadrants." Txell concluded herself with a clearing of her throat momentarily, then turning her gaze over to Abimbola and addressing him. "President Nedaye, we will need your assistance in obtaining a viable sample of the virus so that our labs can start synthesizing a cure. Lastly... the public in Haven have been rather diversified on matters of trust within the United Terran League since the split. By acknowledging the current situation, Haven faces potential civil unrest within a few sectors if we do not tread carefully with our Public Relations department. If there is any objection or additional suggestions, I would like to hear them before we fully commit to this plan." <br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><b>Faction Representative Nathan Winters &amp; Txell Aristide, Terra, Atlantis Capitol Alliance Boardroom</b><br>​</div>Txell smiled brightly as Nathan wore a content smile. Despite the situation and the dire consequences it presented, it was as firm a belief as every that this could be tackled. Perhaps in the end, the League would finally see to reason with Nedaye if Haven played its part in helping resolve this issue. Regardless, the Commisary-General was thankful to be under oath to the Terran League. Upon the mention of the sample and the continued discussion of the portal plans, Txell's smile widened. "I'll get to work on that right away. Thank you, Sir. Natha turned back and smiled as Txell's image flickered and died on the screen as the communications display went offline, signaling she wasn't one to waste time in beginning to rectify this issue. She'd already had her instructions made clear, and as for Nathan, he cleared his throat and still sat at the table, gaze now turned to President Nedaye as his expression turned back to a warm-neutral tone. "I believe that is sufficient enough to warrant a conclusion of our solution to this problem. Rest assured, the forces of Outcast's Haven will not let you down, Sirs." Nathan smiled to both of them, beginning to pack his papers and notes into his breifcase. Now, it was Txell's turn to get everything on Haven's end underway.<br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><b>Txell 'Boss' Aristide, Vincent Burke, Cole Harrison, Jack Harper, Sarah White, Mark Bradley, Aaron Smith; Primaris - </b><i><b>Haven's Spire Conference Center</b></i>​</div><br>
Immediately after disconnecting from the conference, Txell paged the necessary staff and directed them to the Conference Center. Recieveng a series of acknowledgement alerts from the pager as she briskly strode out of her office and out into the hall, Txell mulled the details over in her mind. She'd be juggling the coordination and deployment of Task Force Exodus, Public Relations <i>and</i> prepping the science department. With this as her first major operation since Micheal passed the torch to her, being overwhelmed was an understatement. Luckily for her, her staff understood this and prepared in advance for a day like this. Swallowing her nerves as she took the elevator up a floor and reached the Department of Diplomatic Relations, Txell steeled her jaw as she strode past reception to a black wooden-polished door with a gold plaque above it that read, 'CONFERENCE BOARDROOM #1' When Micheal initially constructed the Spire, his taste in modern uniformity superseded his taste in having overly luxurious facilities. Taking a deep breath, Txell smiled faintly at the history surrounding the room as she gripped the doorknob and entered the room.<br>
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Almost instantly, she was greeted with the light scent of vanilla upon stepping into the boardroom, as evidenced by the flower standing as a centerpiece on the black glass table. Walking past the small corridor, she found her team seated rather comfortably at the table as they talked amongst themselves, before turning over to her and rising in unison; slamming their left fist across their chest in a Havenian salute. Txell returned the greeting, before walking over and seating herself with a faint smile, before clearing her throat and beginning her introduction. "Thank you all for coming. I'm sure you've heard the news as of late; I've just returned from the current conference with the United Terran League and the Authurian Union. For those who aren't caught up to speed, there was an attempted deployment of a bioweapon on the Terran Capitol building. No-one was injured in the attack, and the suspect presumably fled the planet. After the discussion, President Nedaye and Representative Winters have determined it to be the best course of action in deploying Task Force Exodus to secure a foothold in the Thainsin system to act as a net for catching the suspect, as well as preventing any other ships from crossing borders on the fear that they could be a carrier for the pathogen. In addition to preparing an address to the population of Haven on the issue we're currently facing, the Terran League are shipping an undisturbed, preserved sample of the bioweapon in the hopes that our science department can begin working on a potential cure for those affected. With this being said, are there any concerns or addresses anyone would like to make?" Txell concluded, looking around the room at her staff as they mulled over the General's oral report. Mark Bradley was the first to raise his hand.<br>
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The man was well within his fifties at best, with a head of gray, smooth hair and rectangular tinted glasses that defined an otherwise stoical and businesslike appearance. "Concerning the possibility of further civilian discord within Haven's sectors based on this news... We know that the majority of our populace doesn't trust the United Terran League. If you release an official address of the situation at hand and remind them why we're under vassalization- that is- for <i>our</i> benefit as it offers both protection and our freedoms as Havenians, perhaps they'll begin to see a change of mind. We're not at war right now and we have no reason to be, but I'd advise we don't exacerbate the situation. It's frightening for everyone, but we have to remind our populace that the UTL is not our enemy based on a free radical's actions. If there's anything else anyone wants to add or adjust to this suggestion, raise your hand." Bradley concluded his punctuation with silence as not a single member of Txell's staff raised their hand, and he nodded in agreement. "I will begin drafting a speech when this meeting is concluded, then." With the first part of the discussion satiated, Txell looked around and nodded as Vincent Burke raised his hand. Clearing his throat, he took a moment to compose his documents on the table. "Right, then. Seeing as this will be <i>Exodus's</i> first operation outside of training exercises, and there's no imminent need for a full ground contingent, Exodus's 1st Marine Company and crew should be enough to satisfy the need for a light mechanized infantry operation. I am not too concerned with our Navy's inability to handle themselves in a fight as our ships are built for combat. The only worry I have is the possible encounter of rogue or foreign entities during Exodus's travel to the Thainsin system. Of course, we have to prepare for the unexpected. From my understanding, your mission should be to maintain security of the Thainsin system, and if any unidentified or unmarked Terran ships enter into Thainsin, isolate, detain and scuttle if you suspect the perpetrator is onboard. With that knowledge of the pathogen, I would advise Harrison and Harper procure Class-VI CBRN uniforms for our boarding teams and crew." Harrison and Harper both perked up at the mention and nodded, opening their tablets and filing their logistics requests to the chief officer. "Since the other generals are not present for this conference as it is strictly a Naval operation, I will inform both of you that your mission is to - if the target is identified- target the subsystems of the ship they're in. We need to immobilize it for capture, and only destroy it once the crew have been detained in quarentine. Lastly, it is <i>imperative</i> that all crew and combat teams do not let the suits become compromised in any way. This is a bioweapon, meaning it is designed to kill in a short amount of time. Everyone here is valuable to the mission; the UTL is counting on us, and we're counting on gaining our public support. It's no good if anyone dies." Vincent said, clearing his throat and cracking his knuckles.<br>
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The Intelligence Officer, Sarah White, was busy scribbling notes and bits of information down in her already seemingly filled notebook and tablet. Aaron, Txell's psudeo-mentor and political advisor, raised his hand to which Txell nodded in response to. He sighed with a grim expression, and nodded his head as his eyes radiated with electrical blue pulses of Havenian energy. "The reports from the UTL came in pretty fast with their initial findings of the bioweapon, and they've concluded that already 23% of the Terran populace have been listed as casualties. I'm not going to bother reiterating what my colleagues before me have said, but I will agree that time is of the essence. With Exodus patrolling the Thainsin system, we should have enough range to maintain comms with either Arthurian or League ships in the neighboring systems. Your priority, Boss, is that speech. I'll handle the request to prepare the science team for the sample. White handles her job at briefing the crew of the Exodus. If anyone has any further additions or objections, speak up."<br>
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<b>Aboard the Arbiter</b><br>
<br>
"Close communications!" Dieter growled maliciously, his fist clenched.<br>
"My Lord, the rats are attempting to flee into hyperspace."<br>
<br>
"Fire now!! If we allow them to regroup, our fleets will never make it in time to defend Otto!"<br>
In an instant, two bright blue pulses fired off from the Arbiter's Tempest batteries, scorching any particles or debris in the way as the two orbs zoomed towards the rat ship. <br>
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"Archfiend. The rats have fled succesfully."<br>
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Dieter's glass space helmet fogged up as he howled with frustration, crunching up a lever on the console before him with his bare hand.<br>
"Open a line with hangar 3!"<br>
"On it."<br>
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"Jaisol, report!"<br>
"This is Jaisol, my Lord. All starfighters are primed and ready for launch."<br>
"Dispatch two headhunters to Rasla IMMEDIATELY! Stall Kretch for as long as you can. Bring me his head if possible." <br>
Without a chance to even reply, Jaisol could do nothing but accept his orders. From the starboard port of the Arbiter, two Othari star fighters launched out and immediately jumped into the Rasla hyperlane. Although smaller than the rat freighter which had just fled, the two fighters were more nimble, and sought to out-maneuver the rats once they found them in order to best them.<br>
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"Hail Grasho 2, now! We must get word back to Otto before it is too late."<br>
"Communications are online, my Lord."<br>
"Grasho 2, report!"<br>
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"Archfiend, this is moon base Grasho 2. Our monitors report heavy activity in the Rasla hyperlane. We suspect at least two rat vessels have infiltrated Otto. We haven't been able to put a tag on what kind of ships, but we've picked up at least one Benthic signature and one unidentified signature."<br>
Of course! The unidentified vessel. It was very odd that Kretch had entered Otto with one vessel, and this truthfully did not seem like a trap, despite what Dieter had surmised. Although the threat of a rat incursion was now real due to having angered Kretch, it seems his original intentions here were not to fight with the Othari. There must be an ulterior motive, and the unidentified vessel would have the answer to this.<br>
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"Grasho 2, The Arbiter has successfully repelled a rat vessel back to Rasla. I have two headhunters in pursuit. I also have cause to believe that the rats will return with a stronger force. If not for us, then for whatever they came for in the first place. I need you to get word back to Otto and Foi. Let the admirals know that I have called for a provisional mobilization of our Leviathans. Bring three to the edge of Rasla and summon the rest to defend Foi. Standby for further instructions."<br>
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"My Lord, our batteries are locked onto the second vessel and ready to fire. Waiting on your mark."<br>
"On screen." <br>
Maelstrom projects the image of the Von'hari on the main screen, allowing everyone on the bridge to get a look at it.<br>
"Magnify." <br>
Once zoomed in, it was clear to see that the ship had sustained some damage. What's more, it seemed to be unarmed.<br>
"We are missing something... Scan them again." <br>
As the ship conducted another scan on the smaller science vessel, Dieter pondered what the meaning of this could be.<br>
"Evidently, this is not a rat junker... Scan for Benthic signatures as well."<br>
"No match, my Lord. Benthics are out of the question." <br>
"Impossible... Prec--?"<br>
Dieter cut his own sentence short, swiveling on his chair to access an adjacent console.<br>
"Grasho 2, run another systems check on the unidentified vessel. Cross-reference it with all the data we have on precursors." <br>
Murmurs ran across the entire bridge. "Precursors? Impossible. No such thing."<br>
"My Lord, scans are complete. There are multiple unidentified life forms aboard the vessel. There is no detectable rat or Benthic signature of any aspect. Whatever this vessel is, it has sustained damage and is in need of repairs. They're lightly armed." <br>
From the speakers of the Arbiter, Maelstrom's voice chimed in. It was dark, deep, and demonic, with a robotic undertone to it: "They are outgunned on every variable." <br>
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Dieter sat up from his chair, gruffing. He patiently awaited a report from Grasho 2, though deep down, he knew it couldn't be precursors. Even though it would explain just about everything, it was just too unlikely.<br>
"Flagship Arbiter, this is Grasho 2. The unidentified vessel does not match our records on precursor technology."<br>
This was quite the predicament. Never in the millions, if not billions of years of Othari history had they encountered space-faring people that weren't rat or Benthic. Had Dieter just encountered a new advanced species? This was unprecedented.<br>
As Dieter paced the bridge, a little flicker caught his attention. He turned to face an empty station-- the one that was previously manned by the Othari he had slain just a few minutes ago. His console was blinking with a communication alert. The Arbiter was being hailed.<br>
"Why didn't you tell me they were hailing us?" Dieter spoke softly, as if he were speaking to himself. No doubt, he was speaking to Maelstrom, but it did not reply. It rarely ever spoke on its own volition. <br>
"The vessel is hailing us. On screen." <br>
Everyone on the bridge turned their gaze to the main screen. Suddenly, both vessels were linked with auditory and visual communication. The sight of the Von'hari's bridge and its crew visibly stunned the crew of the Arbiter. They were speechless, curious, observant. It even took Dieter a minute to reply. The Othari had never seen anything like this before.<br>
Dieter snapped his gaze to a sitting bridgehand. "They speak our language?" He growled.<br>
"Negative. Their logs have generated rough translations." <br>
The Archfiend faced the screen again. "Captain... O'har..." Even though his true expression was hidden under a rebreather and glass mask, it was obvious to see that Dieter and the bridge were perplexed. "You.. You speak Ottonian, the sacred tongue of the Othari. The Deun'tleh Counciliar State. Surely you must be precursors! Is that why the rats attacked you?" <br>
Dieter muted the communications for a second. He gulped. "De-activate the tempest batteries. Raise shields to maximum." <br>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 15px">Ventris City, Proxi Ventris</span></u></b><br>​</div>Ever since the arrival of Terran troops onboard the <i>Gatsby </i>and with her escort corvettes, Ventris City had been on absolute lockdown. The civil authorities were certain that the fugitive they were seeking was within the city. Helping the authorities, Ventris City had up-to-date video surveillance on the gates and the whole city was surrounded by an electrified wire wall that kept hostile wildlife and enterprising slavers and raiders away from the interior of the settlement. If anyone had left for the dusty outlands either through the south or west gates, the authorities would have been immediately notified. Thus, they concluded that the attempted attacker was still within the city. <br>
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It was about two days after Terran marines landed and began cooperating with the Ventris City Police that they found the very probable location of the attacker - a run-down apartment next to the pipeworks. Marines in plainclothes with their vests hidden under the thick drifter leathers that characterized many of the inhabitants of the city covertly surrounded the building, then swarmed into the hallway. Without a word, they all moved to stand in front of a presswood door, where Keira Blakely watched them with growing horror from behind the door. She was probably pretty, if she had showered or eaten in the past week, and her dark hair covered eyes wide with fear when she saw the men gathering on either side of her door. Finally, she heard the knock. "Ventris Police, open up!"<br>
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They did not knock twice. A marine sent his thick leather boot through the presswood door and practically burst the thing off the hinges. When they swarmed the room with their handguns, Keira had bolted from the spot she was standing and making ready to jump through the open window. Before they could put a stun round in her, she had dove out the third story window and would likely have fallen to her death had this eventuality not been anticipated and accounted for. She landed firmly in the arms of a burly marine gunnery sergeant. <br>
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"Let go of me, I didn't do anything!" She cried and wailed, beating against the man's back and chest. Clawing at him with no effect, as his uniform insulated him from anything she could possibly do to harm him in her weakened state. The other marines filed downstairs with chuckles on their lips and smiles on their faces, although they all straightened out when they remembered that their mission was very grave. <br>
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"Gunny Sergeant," one of the marines murmured as the burly soldier slung Keira over his back to carry her to the shuttle. Another marine was reading her her rights while a third was fixing a tracking bracelet and shackles to her feet and hands. "You really think this is the woman?"<br>
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"Damn certain of it," the sergeant replied in a matter-of-fact tone. He turned to Keira. "You know, you're not the kind of person I would suspect of being a mass murderer. I pictured you old, and a man, and ugly." He sneered at her. She merely sunk into a sullen silence and let her arms flap uselessly against the marine's back. <br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><b><u>Pleris II, the Facility</u></b><br>​</div>Ophrine Narin's fireteam hulked in their armor alongside the Mohain veterans and the Deun'tleh hirelings as they made their way through the jungle with sword and flame. The Mohain took the lead, visibly uncomfortable with all the fire that was being used to systematically carve a path of ash and destruction to their objective. The Deun'tleh, although their faces were expressionless, seemed to relish the flames crackling and turning green and brown foliage to grey ash. The Deun'tleh were strange little creatures, this much the knights had picked up on since their trek had begun several hours earlier. Despite their lack of eyes, they could navigate the underbrush better than they could in the armor. Additionally, they had a strange way of letting you know how they felt about things. They seemed to exude their emotions and expressions, or put them off like an aura. They were obviously older than the humans, and had strange thoughts about strange and faraway places. The humans and Mohain only picked up vague imprints of these impressions as they moved along whenever their eyes rested on Ves'mar Ul or his plant-man companion. <br>
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Eventually, they came to a clearing where they could see the ruined facility perched up on the cliff. The foliage had been strangely peaceful, to the point where the Mohain had stopped their burning and merely cut through with a machete. The clearing was mostly bereft of plant life as it was a rocky outcropping, but the Deun'tleh nonetheless helped them clear the area of the twiggier weeds before they sat down to take rations. The Deun'tleh, who apparently only need water or sunlight, told them how on long trips it helped to supplement themselves with "nutrients." The "nutrient" rations they described were a brownish-green paste which they covered their fingers in until the paste hardened and turned an ashy grey, then flicked off and repeated the process. <br>
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"You know," Ves'mar said as the Mohain struggled with their food nutrient tanks, "I've always thought humans took their sustenance rather strangely. You have these...oh, what are they called?" <br>
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"Mouths." The Mohain sergeant interjected. <br>
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"Yes, mouths, and you---"<br>
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"What's strange about mouths?" The Mohain asked again impatiently. Ves'mar gave up his attempted small talk, shrugged, and flicked off more of his food paste. He turned his head towards the great, massive tree trunk that seemed to form a horizontal pipe snaking from the mountains in the distance down through the forest and into the side of the ruined facility. <br>
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"I feel that there's bad spirits here at work," Ves'mar said after a long silence, "that's what's making the trees act funny. Otherwise, they would just sway in the wind like they have for thousands of years. It's strange... I don't like it." <br>
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He turned to the knights for comment. "What do you think, metal-men? Bad spirits, yes?" <br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">Darkness. That was the first thing Keira saw when she woke up. Some time on the journey back to terra she had started to feel sleepy, and even while forcing her eyes open, eventually fell into a deep sleep. She vaguely remembers murmurs of speech, and was startled awake to a when a rough material was forced over her eyes. She was lead down a ramp and into a bitting cold, and the sound of a spacecraft lifting off blasted from behind her. She was nearly knocked off her unprepared feet as the wind gust from the engines pushed against the ground, but with a flare of the engine, the sound was gone. <br>
<br>
Her captors marched her into a warmer area, and her hood was removed. The doors were gray steel, and only a dim white luminescent glows above her intermittently. They stop suddenly at a random door, seemingly unremarkable in this endless hallway. She was shoved inside, and was forced onto a table. She struggled heavily as they bound her, but was ineffective as they cuffed her wrists and ankles, and wrapped straps over her body. Eventually they seemed satisfied, and filed out. The door shut, and the light in the room flickered out.<br>
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Keira doesn't know how long she was in the dark, it could have been hours, or days. Eventually marching was heard again, and she turned from the light as the door opened, and she blearily saw a agent in a suit enter. They marked something on their pad, and approached the table.<br>
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"Keira Blakley, born in Albany, New York. Former student of NYU, who left a promising career as a researcher and conservationist to be a 'internet warrior.' Member in good standing of the Non-Sapients Liberation Army, Murderer and potential Genocidal Maniac. Did I miss anything?"<br>
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Keira raised her bleary-eyed head, wet with sweat, and squinted at the interrogator. "Oh, yeah, I'm also an amateur tattoo artist." She added with a weak grin.<br>
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A smile graced his lips for a millisecond, then faded back into it's neutral state. He shuffled some papers, and pulled from behind him a gray box, with a coupe wires leading to suction cups. He attached them firmly to Keiras head, arms, and heart, tugging each strand to ensure a proper suction was in place. "This device ascertains wether or not you are lying, and has been proven to be a hundred percent full-proof so far. I have here a list of questions that if you answer fully and truthfully, you may be given leniency in sentencing. There will only be three warnings before more serious methods of information gathering are used. Do I make myself clear?" <br>
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"You think I'm in on the Avon job - there is no leniency there. If I go down for that, that's...what? 100 million counts of murder in the first degree? 100 million life sentences? Why should I waste my time talking to you? You're gonna pin the whole thing on me and put me to death. It's alright. We've all got to die sometime." She said all this with an air of bafoonish confidence that is customary of people her age. She really thought she was quite a bit smarter than her interlocutor, and treated him as such.<br>
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The agent simply sighed and read the first question: "Were you willingly part of this operation?"<br>
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"I was," She said. She smiled weakly, almost deliriously. "I betcha wanna know why." <br>
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A small check on the form "Did you have a way of exiting the situation alive?"<br>
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"Ultimately?" She asked. "No, not really. The virus was going to spread all over the Proxima system, I could tell from the way the traffic through Ventris City went out. I suspect that the virus from Avon has already broken containment, it's so infectious and can stay dormant for so long. But we'll see if your quarantine was enough. We have a new virus coming down the pipe - this one is designed for the Deun'tleh. Those disgusting little weeds go to bathe in the wine-water of their canals and we've slipped in something special for them. Next thing you know, Sen'Heim is a ghost planet. Next was the Qirnians, dastardly little buggers. After that, I dunno. Someone would have kept making the virus, but I would probably have already taken the release." She said all of this with a straight face, and it was clear she was being frank with the interrogator. <br>
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Another check, and a button pushed. "So this was a suicide mission?"<br>
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"in a roundabout way, yes. Maybe it wouldn't have happened on Proxi, but eventually I would've gotten infected. Then I would have been a carrier, and then I would have died." <br>
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Another check "How do you communicate with your 'Army' leader?<br>
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"Wouldn't you like to know?" She retorted.<br>
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A small sigh, and another button. A small click sounded through the room, and from the wall a table with various appliances slid out slowly. The agent picks up a needle, and tests the flow of the liquid inside. "I ask again, how do you communicate with your leader."<br>
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Keira looked at the needle, then back at the interrogator. "Dead drops." She proclaimed. The detector considered this to be a half-truth, although she couldn't read the display from her sitting position. She didn't want to show it, but she was getting scared. <br>
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"Progress, but not the full truth. Explain and elaborate, this is considered your second warning."<br>
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She sighed. "I get all my information from a small wooden box that's stashed on a dirt road in Alleghany County, Pennsylvania. You'd never find it if you weren't looking, and my leader knows that I'm captured by now because I haven't reported back. You won't be stupid enough to catch her sending me any more orders." Keira seemed so concerned with trying to avoid the needle, she had let it slip that her leader was a woman. Not particularly helpful, but something.<br>
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A small smile, a check. "What is the name of your leader."<br>
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She felt cornered now. "I don't know her name." A lie.<br>
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The agent seemed to deflate a bit."And things were going so well" he murmured, looking at the needle. "This needle contains a highly concentrated toxin. You will be paralyzed, and slowly asphyxiate to death while stimulating extreme pain across the totality of your nervous system.  This has been known to knock out elephants in seconds, and is lethal in high doses." He leans in, his face right above hers. "I'm not a certified doctor, who knows if the dose is right. So I'm going to ask for the last time. What. Is. Her. Name"<br>
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"You know," Keira began, ignoring the man's threat, "that's how the virus kills. It...it, starts out with no symptoms. Gets into the bronchial tubes then, gives you a cough, irritates your throat. First you think it's sinus drainage, then you think its strepdocacuous. Eventually, your bronchial tubes just puff up and swell and get inflamed. Then you choke, and you die. Simple, quick, relatively painless. We're nothing if not courteous." She stared off into space.<br>
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He looks regretful for a second, then shrugs, and places the needle in her arm. The toxin slowly begins to take over, and Keira begins to feel indescribable pain, like the sun was charring her skin. "You have approximately five minute to answer the question, and for me to give you the antidote. Please don't make us kill you."<br>
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At first, Keira seemed content to sit back and accept her death. Pain coursed through her body which caused her to bite back her screams on the side of her mouth. All this did was draw blood, which oozed out of the corners of her mouth as her body started to go rigid. The pain rode her like lightning, indescribably intense. Every neuron felt as if it were on fire. And then, the pain was coupled with the creeping numbness that was starting to set in. First she couldn't feel her fingers or her toes. Then her hands and feet - she began to panic like a child that can't swim when they're caught out in deep water. She let out a muffled scream, then choked out the name, "Edna Carol! Edna Carol!" <br>
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"Thank you" he smiled, and after clicking a box on his pad, he turned to face the door. The toxin should subside in approximately 30 seconds, we have medics on site to tend to your mouth. Your next of kin have been verified of the situation, and a lawyer has been sent for. You will experience a blackout, but rest assured you will be fine." He walks out as Keira slumps into unconsciousness behind him, and opens his holo-watch to his boss.<br>
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"I take it the situation is being taken care of, Morgana?"<br>
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A darkened face of a women stared back at him "Yes agent Danvers, you are free to prepare the strike team for the eventual extraction."<br>
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'Thank you mam." His face disappeared from her holo-console, and she turned to her computer. The satellite imagery of the drop point was being rolled back from the files, and the name had already pinged a xenobiological conservation organization that had fallen on hard times. She was forced from her pondering as a ringing came from her console.  Another call was buzzing in.<br>
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A harried looking young man buzzed in this time, wearing the silver uniform of the tech division. "The scans show a likely lackey dropping off the orders in a rental car. She has been documented with numerous flights to regions of Tibet, Nepal and Northern India. We have followed that lead to a small village near Kathmandu, it is probable that the woman living there is Edna Carol. We already have Danvers team on the way, and we have heavy security in any areas of transportation out of the region, as well as heavy monitors of air travel."<br>
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"Good work, send a message the president and try and keep this out of the media until she is captured." He nodded and quickly cancelled the call, leaving her in her office. She looked out at the secluded beach that her office bordered, on the top floor of the Northern Complex. A glow came from under the water, and bubbles formed as a ship slowly exited the ocean. It flew above the office, and she could Swear she saw Danvers smirking at her from the cockpit of the ship. With a quick 180 turn, the ship shot towards the horizon, towards the Himalayas and the monster that is held.</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><b><u>Two Months Ago - The Otto System</u></b><br>​</div>Everyone on the bridge turned their gaze to the main screen. Suddenly, both vessels were linked with auditory and visual communication. The sight of the Von'hari's bridge and its crew visibly stunned the crew of the Arbiter. They were speechless, curious, observant. It even took Dieter a minute to reply. The Othari had never seen anything like this before.<br>
Dieter snapped his gaze to a sitting bridgehand. "They speak our language?" He growled.<br>
"Negative. Their logs have generated rough translations." <br>
The Archfiend faced the screen again. "Captain... O'har..." Even though his true expression was hidden under a rebreather and glass mask, it was obvious to see that Dieter and the bridge were perplexed. "You.. You speak Ottonian, the sacred tongue of the Othari. The Deun'tleh Counciliar State. Surely you must be precursors! Is that why the rats attacked you?" <br>
Dieter muted the communications for a second. He gulped. "De-activate the tempest batteries. Raise shields to maximum." <br>
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O'har nearly jumped when the Othari vessel connected to the <i>Von'hari</i>'s communications network.  Judging by the reaction of the Othari to him, he could tell that the translator had worked and they could communicate freely with the aid of the telecommunications array as a mediator. O'har was an older Deun'tleh, although to outsiders most Deun'tleh looked identical. He had a thin, featureless face save for his air ventricals. His face was white, slightly perturbed-looking, and gaunt. His red uniform coat clung tightly to his wiry frame, with the breast of the coat covering most of his chest and buttoning under his left arm. The small silver insignia on his right breast was a pin in the shape of a lotus-like flower. <br>
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"I assure you, sir, that we are no precursors. Children of the stars, much like yourselves. I am a science officer, sent abroad by the Grand Council to chart new worlds to teach about to our children on our Sen'Heim," he explained, "My ship is equipped with a translator, that is why I can understand you and you can understand me. The ratmen attacked us as we passed through the neighboring system, and we slipped into the closest hyperlane we could to get away. Now, I am afraid, our sails are damaged and it will take us a long while to make it back to Sen'Heim without your help..." The Deun'tleh captain bowed his head. "To whom do I have the pleasure of speaking?"<br>
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Across the entire bridge of the arbiter, deckhands and officers of the bridge all simultaenously dropped their actions. Like amused children gazing at zoo animals through the protective window, all of the Othari observed Captain O'har and his crew with great curiosity. The translations were rough,but still quite understandable. When O'har bowed his head forward, the entire bridge crew of the arbiter jolted backwards in astonishment,clearly frightened by the sudden movement of the Deun'tleh. Even Dieter. Regaining his courage, Dieter pondered on what to do, he truly did not know how to react. The fact that they weren't precursors was re-assuring, but this was all still completely unprecedented. Clad in his luxurious golden armor and veiled by a glass helmet with a rebreather, Dieter stepped forward towards the screen. "Captain O'har, you were a fool to venture into the den of the rats un-escorted. And you were a greater fool to desecrate this realm with your foreign presence. If you are not precursor, then you have no business in Otto." <br>
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Standing up straight, Dieter idly clicked on some buttons on the terminal. "But alas, your vessel appears to be immobile. You could not leave even if we forced you to. The Othari will offer a helping hand, for I surmise that we might have much to learn from each other, scientist. An unarmed science ship, surviving the onslaught of the rats-- surely you know about sorcery which may help us fight the rats as well." Dieter briefly turned, ordering some of the deckhands around. The hangar would be prepared to either send out vessels to help O'har's science ship, or receive it with a tractor beam, depending on what O'har decided. "Although I know not what sort of pleasure you might gain from this occurence, you speak with Dieter, Archfiend of the Othari Assembly. Captain O'har, my wings are prepared to pay you a visit. Though if you would prefer a more hospitable scenario, I also welcome you aboard this flagship, should you wish." <br>
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O'har tossed several different scenarios around wordlessly in his head. It was obvious to him that the Othari were an aggressive, warlike people. When Dieter gave his title as "Archfiend," he had at first thought this was an error of the translation software. But now, rechecking the lingustics algorithm the ship had made, that was the correct translation. At the same time, Dieter had offered him and his crew aid. Perhaps they would even give them an escort back to relatively civilized space. He admitted to himself that he knew rats were in the system, but he assumed them to be no worse than, say, pirates. He thought again of all the knowledge he might gain about the Othari, their customs, and their people if he was brought onboard to ask questions of this "Archfiend."<br>
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Finally, O'har said, "It was not my intention, your lordship, to trespass on holy aether. I humbly accept the aid which your lordship has condescended to show to me and my crew. The <i>Von'hari</i> is a sturdy ship, and your vessel looks large enough that you could take her into your berth. That would certainly aid in repairs. In the meantime, I give you license to study my ship and its weaponry." He knew that nothing on the <i>Von'hari</i> was particularly new or state-of-the-art. Deun'tleh plasma weaponry was fairly advanced, but not anything particularly astonishing. "I accept your welcome. You may take us aboard." (done)<br>
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"Perhaps you are not as unwise as I first understood you to be, Captain." With just the click of a few buttons, a weak tractor beam locked on to the science vessel and began to tow it in. Aided by some escort wings that flew out from the hangar, O'har's ship finally made it aboard into one of the Arbiter's hangars. The crew of the Arbiter had already been informed of everything, so they were ready to receive the ship. There were a couple of deckhands performing maintenance on other Othari ships. A light defensive perimeter was set up around the new science ship, but nothing too drastic or otherwise overly-intimidating. The Deun'tleh were guests after all. When O'har's crew would finally decide to come out of their damaged ship, they'd be met by a less angry looking Othari clad in a thin exosuit, observing some holographic data panels. "Greetings, scientists. I am Vorun, a lead engineer of the Othari." His tone sounded quite welcoming. "Welcome aboard the Arbiter. If we are to begin repairs on your vessel, my team and I require some time to assess damages and study your foreign schematics. We would like to work together with you so that you'll be able to sail once more as soon as possible." Behind Vorun, two armored Othari carrying what appeared to be rifles sought out Captain O'har. (done)<br>
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While O'har tasked Ensign Ol'fas to oversee the Deun'tleh cooperation with the Othari in rendering repairs, telling him to give over all the relevant schematics and information over to their engineers, O'har was drawn by the two soldiers looking for him. He presented himself and, by use of a small device that looked something like a small metal circlet that rested against his forehead, he told the soldiers that he was O'har and would go with them. All of the Deun'tleh were wearing these devices, which apparently were their translation machines. (done<br>
Surprisingly enough, the Othari showed no intetion of subduing the Deun'tleh scientists, or even strip them of their weapons. Even the escorts which brought O'har and some of his crew along, although armed, appeared to be passive and were not intent on causing any harm. The journey throughout the Arbiter was long. Many corridors, sectors, and elevators had to be traversed, with the Deunt'leh allowed to observe many of the features of the Othari's most powerful flagship. Eventually, after much sight-seeing and idle conversation, O'har and whoever else of his crew followed were brought into a large room which was empty except for a big round table and several thrones erected in circular fashion. On these thrones, the most powerful of the Othari aboard the Arbiter sat in a diplomatic assembly to meet with these new alien visitors. The Othari were quite terrible at diplomacy, but to kill or ignore the Deunt'leh would do nothing except make the Othari miss out on valuable information. The Othari sat on thrones greeted the Deunt'leh briefly, but soon all attention was on the adjacent corridor from where Dieter made his entrance. "Ah, Captain O'har." From the floor, several stools began to prop up, filling the spaces between each throne and giving the foreigners a place to sit among the round table. Dieter promptly took his seat on the biggest throne. Some silent murmuring occured between a few of the Othari, before one of them spoke up. "Captain O'har, you and your scientists have traveled far and wide to reach Otto. We have charted the stars of this realm for centuries, but never once have we come across anything like you." Although they appeared technologically advanced, it appeared the Othari were not capable of mapping out the galaxy beyond a certain threshold. They were confined to this quadrant. <br>
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"Yes," O'har said. He had come with two other science officers dressed in grey coats with red trim: Res'nas and Tal'ur. "The nebular cloud around Otto and the surrounding systems is very dense. We had no idea that there was a civilization within this part of the expanse, at least, we surmised that if there had been one the ratmen would have devoured them long ago." They all took their seats. "I hope the Council will accept my humblest apologies for intruding upon a sacred space. We Deun'tleh also find the divine in Deep Heaven."<br>
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The comment from the captain brought a bit of humor to the council of Othari, evident as they all chuckled behind their glass masks and rebreathers. Speaking of such, it seemed every single Othari aboard was clad in an exosuit or armor, and could only breathe with the use of these masks and rebreathers, which could perhaps give the Deunt'leh a clue about their home planet. "The rats beyond the Rasla system are but mere parasites, captain. Even so, it is impressive that you managed to escape their fury with a mere science vessel. They are relentless vermin." The Othari who was speaking was suddenly interrupted as a female Othari struck her fist on her throne. "Enough! Archfiend, this is blasphemy! These aliens are not welcome here! We should dispose of them immediately!" Dieter silenced the council with an intimidating growl. "Silence, Bareen!" He gave everyone a chance to settle down. "Captain O'har... while we acknowledge your apologies, I presume you are smart enough to realize that you are not wanted here." Dieter explained in a monotonous tone. "Nevertheless, we know nothing of you, or your people. How strong your warriors are, how close you are to Otto. And so, I have decided not to upset you or your kind... for now." Attacking the Deunt'leh blindly without knowing their true capabilities or military might could very well be a mistake, the likes of which the Othari could not afford right now. They had enough trouble fending off the rats as is. Other Othari whispered with each other before adressing the captain and his crew. "Captain O'har, your people rally under the banner of a Councillar State, correct? To add to this, you've mentioned that you are but mere scouts, having arrived here by way of a science vessel. Objectively, your kind does not look or sound very strong, and you carry the characteristics of diplomats. Despite all of this, you flew through the nest of the vermin and arrived here unharmed, save for the damage to your ship. The Assembly wishes to<br>
 know how you've managed to do this."<br>
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"My relative success against the ratmen I attribute to my previous military service. I am not a scientist by trade, I am a navigator and a sailor by trade. The Council selected me to captain the <i>Von'hari</i> because they thought my experience would keep their scientists and researchers alive, and it seems that they have not been proven wrong yet. There was also, your lordships, the fact that the ratman barge certainly would have attempted to finish us off had the arrival of the <i>Arbiter</i> not caused them to flee the system. For that I can offer a great gratitude. In my younger years, I fought many a battle with pirates, smugglers, and slavers. They run rampant in the systems to the Galactic Northeast. Thus, I can attribute my crew's safety to the hard lessons that I learned in combat and in your speedy rescue, not to mention the sturdy construction of my ship."  <br>
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More whispers. Just as Dieter feared, it seemed the Deunt'leh are not as meek as they looked. "What is this Galactic Northeast that you speak of? Where do you hail from, alien?" Because of the rat's dominance to the east, the Othari have never been able to traverse the Rasla hyperlane and reach other sectors of space-- but since the only other sentient beings to have made themselves known are the Benthics, the Othari believed that the rest of the galaxy was empty. Even if they somehow managed to get past the rats, the Othari cannot stray too far from their home systems because their vessels must refuel, and they rely on the native toxins of their planets to be able to breathe. Rebreathers only provide enough sustenance for a few days. <br>
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"We live far north of the Benthic, our home system is called Sos'met, that means "Our Star" in the Deun'tleh language. I hail from Sen'Heim, or the "Sand Home." It is a great desert world where my people flourish. We live mostly to ourselves, but we do a great deal of trading with the Terrans - that is - the humans. The Earthmen are a proud but young race, perhaps too quarallous and too covetous for their own good. They have split into many factions and often they seem to wish to war against one another. They did, hundreds of years ago, have terrible wars among their kind just as the Deun'tleh once sharpened the marshal spirit on one another. There are also the Qirnians, enterprising with a great fondness for coin. The Traiverux and the Drenian are distant from us, warriors of great prowess and peaceful holy men respectively. There are also the fish-men of Mohain who breathe water. They have difficulties like you do, with your rebreathers. These are our neighbors, and there has been peace for a long time, but there are many dangers on the northern hyperlanes. Hyperlane madness, while rare, is still an occurance among our kind. There are pirates who plunder trading vessels for goods, money, and women to sell. Slavers, likewise, harass defenseless settlers looking to press them into slavery for cheap labor or worse abuses. The humans are by far the most prolific in this regard. There are also those who wish to smuggle contraband into our lands - drugs and illegal weaponry among other things - and these men are also dangerous enemies to our sailors and soldiers. These are the dangers of the northeast, although they all seem to pale in comparison to the rapacious appetite for destruction and violence which the ratmen possess." (done)<br>
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The words of O'har certainly took the provisional council aback. This was all news to them-- long had they believed the galaxy to be empty. The talk of multiple races, and their connections to violence and chaos, it seemed the Othari had so much more to discover. A storm of whispers overtook the room, to the point where they weren't really whispers anymore. Brief verbal discussions and arguments took place as the Othari present were visibly perplexed on what to do. Once tensions settled, diplomatic discussion resumed. "Captain O'har. We do not take you for a liar, so we will assume your words carry truth for now." A few murmurs surfaced here and there, but there was relative silence for the conversation to continue. "You have encountered us by chance; a most serendipitous occurence." Dieter gruffed, taking over. "I am hereby granting you and your scientists a pardon for trespassing on Othari territory. Moreover, we will repair your ship so that you may once again sail the stars." Dieter glanced around, receiving a vague nod from some of the other Othari. "Nevertheless, there are conditions that you must meet. Firstly, we will be granting you data storages containing all that we know about the Rat Plague to the east. When you return to the Councillar State, you will inform your hierarchs that, in exchange for the favors we have bestowed upon you and your crew, the Sovereign Othari Assembly demands a fleet of Deunt'leh warships to aid us in a new crusade against the ratment, as well as 10 of their finest admirals." A firm wave of agreement from the Othari swept across the room, and O'har was not yet given a chance to intervene. "Additionally, one of your crew must stay here in Otto, so that we may learn everything there is to learn about what we have not yet discovered. Congruently, I would believe it beneficial to both of us if we also sent an emissary of the Othari back with you to wherever it is you came from."<br>
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"Your words are kind, your lordship, but I would be lying to you if I told you that I had any control over where the fleets of the Deun'tleh spread their sails. Ultimate power over the State Fleet rests with the Grand Council and Moff'vas Ripa, our leader. But, I assure you that if you repair my ship and send your emissary back to Sen'Heim with us, I will do everything in my power to attempt to convince the Council that action against the rats is urgently needed. So far, the Ratmen of Rasla have not attacked our trade routes and thus we have considered them a minor frontier nuisance at best. The situation of your empire, cut off from the rest of civilization by the neverending siege of Ratmen, may move the Council with empathy for your people..." He paused. "But this is all I can promise. I will take your emissary back to Sen'Heim with me, and in exchange I will leave you one of my unwedded officers who have, perhaps, fifty years of wanderlust in their souls before they attempt to settle themselves. When we arrive, I will help you plead your cause before the Council. Moff'vas Ripa is a fair and honorable ruler, he will not refuse your request without good cause and wise council. This is the most I can offer the mighty Othari." (done)<br>
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"Do not mistake the favors I have done for you as charity, dear captain. In exchange for the aid and information we've given you, you <b><i>will</i></b> let this Grand Council know about the demands of the Assembly. Until we receive what has been asked, this Assembly will not release the crew member that must stay. If this Moff'vas Ripa is as honorable as you say he is, then I am sure we will come to an accord quickly." Dieter stood from his throne, his metallic-clad claw tips raking the metallic floor of the ship as he approached O'har. A click of a button summoned a holographic display of Vorun, Ensign Ol'fas, and other crew members. "Vorun, how are the repairs? How quickly can you get our visitors back into space?" (done, leaving the repair time up to you).<br>
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O'har nodded his demands. They were twisting his arm, but he saw no other way of procurring a safe passage and repairs for his crew. He was dismissed and left to oversee his ship and who would be left behind. <br>
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Repairs lasted for three days, in which time the Othari had a good look at the ship's weapons systems. They weren't particularly more advanced than Othari weapons, but they did use a more compact fuel source. To their dismay, however, the weapons threw off an unnerving amount of radiation. Not unsafe levels, but it was clear that Deun'tleh pysiology was more resistance to ionizing radiation than they thought. They quickly found that this was because their energy cells used a somewhat outdated microfission design to generate large amounts of power at the cost of throwing a lot of rads. The ship itself was beautiful, consisting of steel whitened with some unknown enamelling agent that coated the ship and served as a small layer to protect against energy weaponry. It was vaguely shaped like a narrow, sideways vase with a tapered bow and a wide stern that housed a series of small impulse thrusters . The ship had an unusually small reactor because, as they discovered, Deun'tleh travelled the hyperlanes by use of sails made of a special alloy to use tachyons, faster than light particles, as propulsion. The sail currently affixed to the front end of the craft was tattered, but they had a replacement in their cargo store .All told the crew of the ship was thirty men, mostly scientists, and a young scientist named El'vas Vori had volunteered to stay with the Othari to study their people and their ways. When repairs were finished, O'har appeared  again before Dieter.<br>
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Throughout these three days, Captain O'har and his crew were given hospitable shelter. They were fed and kept in decent rooms aboard the arbiter, and were allowed to study up on the Othari and the nearby star systems along side some of the engineers and scientists aboard the Arbiter. While awaiting for the Othari fleet to arrive in order to set up a defensive perimeter pending the potential rat incursion, the Arbiter remained in stasis as a bastion while other ships arrived. <br>
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Once repairs were finished, O'har and his crew were brought down to the hangar where the Von'hari laid dormant, looking bright and shiny new. Dieter found himself standing next to it along side the engineers who worked on it, patiently awaiting the arrival of the Deunt'leh. "Alas, visitors, your vessel is once more worthy of travel. In order to return, you will have to traverse back through Rasla and into Isaztur. These systems are heavily contested by the Vermin-- it is unlikely that you will return home alive, or at least unharmed. Dieter turned towards the blue forcefield separating the hangar from the void of space. Portside, several ruptures appeared as fleets of Othari warships began to arrive from hyperspace. "The Metal Tusker will escort you beyond Isaztur, alongside three capital escort wings. After that, you will be on your own." As the corvette Metal Tusker arrived from a rupture, Dieter gave it a wave, though nobody on that ship could see it obviously.<br>
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O'har nodded in gratitude. "I will always remember the friendship of the Othari, and hopefully the Council will as well." Coming from the ship was El'vas Vori, a Deun'tleh that was slightly shorter than O'har but had the same spindly, twiggy build. El'vas was dressed in a white coat and trousers and dark boots. He had with him several thick Deun'tleh books - leather-bound volumes with silver-colored pages - and a host of writing equipment. O'har introduced him, and El'vas bowed at the waist.<br>
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"El'vas is a historian, xenohistorian, and xenolinguist. He will likely be speaking your language without the translator before too long." O'har said. He added, "El'vas can also tell you anything you want to know about our people - our laws, our customs, our religion, and our history. He will serve as a dutiful "Wis'was," an advisor." O'har crossed his arms behind his back. "Is there anything else?" (done)<br>
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Dieter clicked his claws together suspiciously. "Splendid..." He growled under his rebreather, turning back to face O'har and El'vas. "Yes, one more thing. Your translation devices. I will have one of them."<br>
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"We would be happy to gift you one." O'har motioned to one of his officers who hadn't been talking anways. The crown, much smaller on the Deun'tleh's thin head than Dieter would need, was handed over by O'har. "Now, I'm not certain if your kind <i>can</i> use our headsets." He said with something approximating a frown. But wait...Deun'tleh had no faces. Why did he get the impression O'har was frowning? <br>
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"Why don't you try it on and see. It should be callibrated to speak and understand Deun'tleh." <br>
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The Archfiend took the little crown, looping it around his claw like a hoola hoop. "A fine gift. The Asembly expresses gratitude." Dieter proceeded to ignore the captain's instructions-- he didn't want to use it anyway. He instead handed it to a science officer for research and future replication of these complex translation devices. "Now then. The time has come for your departue, Deunt'leh visitors. The Metal Tusker will lead the way." Dieter waves his hand, and another deckhand gives the signal for three star fighters to take off, forming up with a space in the middle reserved for the Von'hari. The engines of all the ships roar as they take off and form up in space. "Farewell. We shall meet again, Captain O'har. Divinity has foretold it." <br>
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Dieter placed his hand behind another Othari who was standing nearby, guiding him towards he Von'hari. "Castren will be sailing with you. I trust he will return unharmed when the time is right." Castren, clad in his exo-suit and rebreather, sauntered forward. There was a very heavy tank attached to his back, and he carried two carts of essentials to travel with him on this journey into unexplored space. (done)<br>
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When the <i>Von'hari</i> had finally been provisioned and crewed, the ship was able to bring itself out of the hangar using its smaller side thrusters. When she was clear of the sidewall of the<i> Arbiter</i>, the main sail was unfurled and the ship rapidly increased in speed to match pace with the Othari escort ships as they made way to the hyperlane that would take them back through to Rasla. While the odds of being ambushed by ratmen were high, O'har was confident that with an escort he could get his ship free of the Vermin Conglomerate's space and back towards Councilliar State space. As they approached the hyperlane entrance, the<i> Von'hari</i> reefed her sublight sails and raised her tachyon sails in a great, billowing golden sheet in front of the narrow bow. The Deun'tleh ship lurched forward, then disappeared from sight as it caught the tachyon wind and disappeared followed quickly by her escorts. <br>
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El'vas watched the ship go with a combination of anxiety and awe. All Deun'tleh were generally emotional about starships, especially ones like the<i>Von'hari</i> with great, beautiful sails. El'vas looked away when the last bits of light from his ship had disappeared into the dusty red sky of the Othari's nebular home. He then turned to Dieter, "I am to be your advisor on Deun'tleh affairs, I suppose, my lord," El'vas said with a withering glance towards the yellowish star in the distance that he knew to be home for him. Or at least, what seemed a glance given that El'vas didn't<i> technically</i> have eyes. He knew that if O'har did not successfully convince the Council to join in a war against the Ratmen, he would never see the desert dunes and the clear blue sky of Sen'Heim again. It did not trouble him so much, he thought, for he could always see them in his dreams.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><b>Force Command Master Chief Jack Harper, OHN 'Hellbringer' Battlecruiser, Task Force Exodus; en-route to <i>Thainsin</i> from <i>Hadrian. </i></b><br>
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<i><b>'Rap rap rap!' </b></i>"Commander Harper? Sir?" The figure nestled comfortably in his bed was otherwise slowly jostled awake by the sharp sound of bone hitting metal. Not only a moment later, the Captain swung himself out of bed and groggily sat upright just as another barrage of knocking assailed upon the quarter's metallic door frame. Glancing at the clock which read 0900 hours, he growled lightly and shook his head. Getting up, he quickly placed his uniform pants and undershirt on as he moved toward the door. With a whisper of hydraulics, the door slid open to reveal a pale-faced Crewman mid-knock, who immediately jumped into a salute upon recovering from his paralysis. Jack Harper sighed, looking at the obviously frightened man as he briefly flicked his eyes over the man's nametape. "At ease, Edwards. What do you need?" The shorter of the two men ran his left hand through his light brown hair as he lowered his arm from this chest and placed it back to his side, speaking up hesitantly as if he were about to be scolded. "S-Sir, Officer O'Connor told me to inform you that we're one jump away from the Th-Thainsin system." Jack could already tell that the man wasn't much afraid of speaking to him as he was about entering mission territory, and this prompted Harper to chuckle softly. "Thank you for relaying that information to me, Edwards. I'l be sure to meet him right away. As you were, son." "Sir!" Edwards snapped a crisp salute to the man and began to walk off, but not before Jack called out to him. "Edwards! One more thing: we're going to be <i>fine. </i>Go see Valentine if you're anxious; I want everyone at their peak performance today and that includes you. Understood?" <br>
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"Understood, Sir! Right away Sir!" The man sputtered out, turning on a clumsy pivot and speedwalking away. Jack stepped back into his room as the door closed and locked in front of him as he sighed. Aside from conducting training exercises, this would be Exodus's first major operation, and it was already spanning to be one of grave importance. Still, though, perhaps he'd find the time to lecture everyone on <i>not </i>making Sir sandwiches. Stepping away from the door, he strode to his bathroom and, minutes later, stepped into the freezing waterfall of a cold shower. After grooming himself to at least a presentable quality, he suited up and stepped outside his quarters; making his way to the bridge. <br>
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Clearing the Security Checkpoint that lead to the bridge, Harper went up the slanted walkway that lead to the center of the bridge. The atmosphere changed immediately as a crew member glanced over to see who entered, before snapping to face Harper and announced loudly, "Commander on Deck!" All seven Bridge crew stopped what they were doing, and in unison, turned to give Harper a Havenian salute. Returning it, he spoke up "At ease." Scanning the crowd briefly, he saw a short-cut strawberry haired green eyed man sitting at his terminal, with his chair facing Jack. As Jack strode over, the Navigation Officer known as Shane O'Connor spoke up with a notable heavy Scottish accent after a momentary silence. "Commander, Sir. Apologies fer gettin' ya up this early, but I figured you'd want ta be awake fer coordinatin' our objective. We have at least one more jump 'fore we reach Thainsin." The Scotsman concluded his report, to which Jackson nodded in approval. "Excellent. Officer Foxwell, give me a readout of everyone's ready status." A male officer with short blonde hair and blue eyes turned to face Harper, and pulled down his earpiece. "All ships are five-by-five and operating at 100%. Subsystems, weapons and power are reported from Engineering in the green. We're ready to take the plunge when you are, Sir." Jack gave a satisfied grin, before his face hardened and he spoke up, slamming a button on the side of his terminal next to Shane's as a large top-down holographic projection of the system map materialized into view. He removed a black pointer from his pocket, flicked it once and strode over to the map. "Alright, everyone, listen up. Intelligence may have briefed us on the objective, but I'm gonna run through it a second time. We are to make the jump into the Thainsin system and travel to the other side of the system and get as close to the two hyperlane points as we can to provide an adequate screen cover. The reason for this is because Thainsin acts as a center most 'bridge' between every other system. If a ship passes through here and manages to get away, our Arthurian friends are, quite literally, a jump away from Thainsin. If the ship tries to jump back into its origin wake, they have the possibility of getting attacked by patrolling Terran fleets. However, we <i>can not, under any circumstances, let any ship through Thainsin into Hadrian. </i>Doing so will result in an immediate compromise of our objective- and we cannot fail our people, the Terrans or the Arthurians."<br>
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Jack cleared his throat before he continued. "The OHN <i>Snake Eater </i>will remain in constant contact with us in case it picks up a signal of the other side of the system. If the ship does not respond to our attempts to hail it, it will be intercepted, interdicted, and boarded. Strike craft and our own weapons are to maximize engine damage and leave everything else unscathed- the Terrans want this individual alive and brought to justice, and that involves immobilizing the ship by any means possible. Since we're in close contact with the Arthurian Union and Terran Leaque on this, we'll be operating on a multi-band to keep them informed of the situation. If the target is successful on taking his own life before we can get to him, we relay this finding to the Terrans and Arthurians, and await further orders. Am I understood?" A loud thump of in-unison salutes and acknowledgements of orders made Jackson return the guesture, before he deactivated the holomap and glanced over to Shane. "O'Connor, punch it." The firey-haired man grinned wildly, pulling down his earpiece and tapping away at his console as everyone else scrambled to their respective stations. Jackson strode over to his Command terminal, placed his headset on his head and keyed the PA system. "Commander Harper to all hands; prepare for hyperjump." Chatter of various crewmembers filled the ship as a low, steady drone of charging reactors began increasing in volume from the belly of the battlecruiser. "Eighty.... Ninety.... One hundred. Waiting for other ships." The cold, stoic voice of the Hellbringer's Systems Operator, Micheal Jensen, sounded off across the room of the bridge. Each ship's Captain sounded off on a channel that they were ready, and once finished, Shane gave the green light. The FTL drive activated with a low, intense bass-booming through the ship as the edges of the windows began to appear slightly blurred. Light from the distant stars began to stretch and elongate into horizontal white streaks as the blurred edges of the window were slowly overlapped by darkness. Finally, the ship suddenly stretched and lurched forward almost as if it was being pulled like taffy in between two cosmic hands- leaping into a dark void barely illuminated by those same white lines of light traveling quickly against them.  <br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">The heights above Kathmandu were commanding, even to Westerners or Chinese who had spent their lives around the steel skyscrapers and concrete mountains of Earth's largest cities. Great towers of Earth stretched out over the highlands, and as the day slowly faded into night time and the chilly early-spring wind crept over one's skin, you could see the lights of thousands of candles burning in the halls of the monasteries high up upon the cliffs. The people of Nepal were happy - jovial and well fed and confident in their several hundred years of independence from China. Like nearby Bhutan, they were unwelcoming to outsiders on principle, but in practice were open to the thousands of Westerners per annum that still streamed in to climb Sagarmatha, Mt. Everest. <br>
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Edna Carol lived in a small shack - although it had both running water and electricity - on a small cliff overlooking the village of Kabhresthali in the Shivpuri Nagarjun National Park, an expanse of pristine mountain alpine woods. As a portion of the government strike team began their infiltration, riding into town on a small electric truck with a canvas cover, they were waved through by Nepalese soldiers who - unbeknownst to Edna - had closed off the village roads to outgoing traffic effectively trapping her inside. As the truck entered the village, it had to find purchase on a slippery gravel road owing to the recent rains which had washed out some of the routes. The truck came to a stop in front of a carpentry shop, where the League troops were invited inside to take tea with their host before the raid. <br>
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Their host, a nearly toothless old Nepalese carpenter, shook his head and raised his tea cup to his lips as he pointed out the house in question up towards the top of the slope. <br>
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"I knew there was something suspicious about that woman. We don't get many American women around here, you can probably tell," he managed to communicate in an English-Nepalese pidgin. "At first, some of the village men were excited. Blonde woman, like you see on telescreens," he gestured to his battered two-way television sitting unused in the corner of the parlor, "But, she is like the...what do you call them? Cat lady? Always alone. Only a few other American women and one Nepalese come to visit her ever, even then that's rare. She comes to the village to buy food, but she doesn't speak Nepalese. At first the shopkeepers were ripping her off, but then I guess the guilt set in." <br>
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He glanced then at all the special agents. "I guess she's done something really bad." He quipped. He was living in a secluded part of the world, but he wasn't ignorant or dumb. He couldn't fathom that the mastermind of the bioweapons attack on Avon was living right next door. <br>
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They all looked out the window then. The sun was beginning to set behind a tall mountain and the hour to act had come. <br>
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Agent Danvers smiled at the kind man across from him, enjoying his wonderful tea. "Let's just say that you should buy the shack, as the comercial value of this persons residence as a museum will go through the roof in a couple days." He then stood, and placed 100 credits on the mans table. "If you wouldn't mind, please buy me some of this tea while I deal with this, I am simply enchanted with it. In my humble opinion, you could start a small shop in the capital with this blend."<br>
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"It is my neighbor's special blend," the man replied, raising his cup in a kind of salute, "but I will tell him you like it." The Nepalese didn't decline the credits, however, and took the string of money into his pocket before scurrying off to be free of the commotion. The other troops had arrived and were concealed outside Edna Carol's residence. The time to strike had come. <br>
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Danvers smile faded, and it twisted into a grimace. He looked up the mountain, to the small shack that seemed so normal. He walked up the path to it, passing the hidden soldiers and stopping just before the door. He stood there silently for a minute, then reached up to knock on the door. "Mrs. Carol, please open up. If you don't respond in 10 seconds, we will be forced to break down the door." He motioned for the battering ram to be brought forward.<br>
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It took about five seconds, but finally bolts began to be undone and the door swung open. A middle-aged woman in a night-gown opened the door and peered at Danvers from behind thick glasses. "I was wondering how long it would take you people," she said with a sigh. She looked down at her bare feet, dejected, disheartened, and thoroughly defeated.<br>
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Danvers moved forward, and placed a hand on her arm. She felt a small prick as something in his palm stabbed her, and she jerked back reflexively. "That should take care of any toxins in your system, I apologize but you will need to stand trial. We can't have you taking the easy way out."<br>
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She merely murmured something inaudible and held her wrists out again. After the cuffs were placed on her, she was marched down to the waiting vehicles to be taken out of Nepal. Moving up the hill, a small squad of soldiers emerged with a small group of women in tow with ages ranging from about 20 to 45. Only one of them was a local. <br>
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"We found these hiding around the bottom of the hill in a woodshed," the platoon captain explained, "I'm assuming you want them too?" <br>
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"Yes, well done captain, send them to the transports as well. Are there any communications data from the group that we were able to recover?"<br>
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"Yeah, a couple of flashdrives." He said, holding out the hardrives to the agent, "We'll have to send those back ASAP. We've got a VTOL on standby for extraction if you think we need extra security for the buggers." The women that the agent had in tow were sullen, and said nothing.<br>
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"Send them to Atlantis Encryption Unit immediately, the on site team should have a secure connection to the capital." He then turned to he scientist who was part of the team sent with him. <br>
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"Ensure none are carriers before allowing them into any non-enclosed area. A direct transfer to the underwater facility is currently the safest course of action." Danvers signaled the rest of the men to move out, and moved with them towards the ship. He let Edna move in front of him, watching as she and her cohorts entered the plane from behind. He quietly entered, and moved quickly to the cockpit, away from the sight of the rest of the team and the captives.<br>
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"I'll fly us home" he stated, not giving them any time to protest before shutting himself into the cockpit. It was only when the door locks engaged that he punched the wall, the slam hidden by the thick seal. He sat heavily in the chair, and slowly began the prep for takeoff. He waited until he saw that his entire team was on the ship, including the pilot who had given up on sending him com messages, and was sitting right next to the cockpit door looking pissed out of his mind. He smiled briefly, but when his eyes panned to Edna it dropped. He aggressively stabbed the rest of the buttons for flight prep, and jerked the flight control stick roughly The whole ship jerked and everyone who was still standing was almost thrown off their feet, as it accelerated towards the southwest, the stars the only light forced to cast itself on their path.<br>
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Several of the knights were spread out mostly keeping to themselves and eating their rations, while Ophrine was observing the facility in their little makeshift camp sight. She was wondering if what will happen inside will happen to her squad when they were patrolling or if it would be the same old thing that had been happening since they had gotten to this godforsaken planet. Heaps if inaction and idle deforestation, would the ecosystem even recover from the amount of ash in the atmosphere and the orbital bombardments she wondered. It was, intriguing to think that a planet such as this would be a mere system away from Agrippina, the capital system. She found a mix of both reassurance in that reinforcements werent too far away but at the same time discomfort on the idea that if they failed here and if whatever is happening in this planet could happen to others, Alternium is right next door. Her ai, Laminant assured her that the navy and system defenses would not allow anything getting through the hyperlane, and if it did planet fall would be near impossible. She supposed he was right.<br>
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Her thoughts and worries were interrupted as some of the locals, or better yet, auxiliary as the water breathers called them asked her a question about bad spirits, turning around to them she gave them a look over. Several of the strange plant people, Deun'tleh, if she recalled correctly, and the Mohain soldiers that they were originally meant to assist in this operation, taking off her helmet so she could see them with her own eyes and for them to see her. Revealed your average human, black hair, brown eyes, fair skin, with the only unusual part being the blue cybernetic lines running up her face and into her right eye. "Bad spirits or not, i wouldn't wish what happened here to the foulest of enemies." Her expression was straight before her eyes gave way to emotion, looking at the group before looking to the floor and sporadically to the brush, she tried to hide it by look up into the sky and towards the facility.  "i like to think there is a explanation for everything but so far none of our AI can make any sense of what is happening."<br>
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She pulled out a chip from her armor's breast plate and held it out in her palm and a hologram of a man in a business suit came up bowing to the group. "Laminant at your service." coming back up from the bow he explained to them what they have so far. "We know that there is an origin point from what we were given, but locating that origin point will prove harder than expected, and we dont even know if what is causing this can move or not. But we do believe it is alien in origin, perhaps some kind of reaction to an outside influence, if you will. The planet may even be sentient or this flora as a whole may be a single organism acting as one body and views us as a sort of infection."<br>
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<b>The Beli Corona bother</b>​</div><br>
Isolda Eyleene pinched the bridge of her nose as the reports of minor nobles refusing to pay their tithes came in one after another, perhaps it was a form of protest or it could be a sign of disloyalty. Either way it cant go on forever and she was beginning to think this was a simple ploy for their houses to store some extra credits, groaning she stared off beyond the reports that were infront of her. When her eyes refocused back to the hologram detailing what was happening in Beli Corona she had a sort of epiphany, writing a reply to the reports she instructed the high nobles to put the tithes back to what they once where but slowly increase them as payments went on. Reasoning to them that the lesser nobles couldnt keep up with demand and a slower gradual increase in tithes would be less impactful and less noticable. They would also have her permission if they were to try this stunt again that hostile force will be permitted to deal with this and any actions similar to this will be dealt with as if it were an insurrection.<br>
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Mazrah City, Yastia, The Yastis System</u></b>​</div><br>
The great houses of the Qirnian Hoard-Lords were impressive, gargantuan structures built with the slave labor of millions that stretched from the bottomless pits of Yastia's core-mining shafts to the tips of the sulfuric clouds. Ash and soot rained from the yellow sky and fell gently like grey snow on the black uniform coat of Corvok Karonin, the Pretender King of the Traiverux. Corvok, with his grim face drawn back in a scowl and his arthropod body rigid and at attention, moved his featureless white eyes to survey the work crews below as the maglev sped along at a moderate pace towards the hall of Hoard-Lord Mazrah, one of the most powerful and richest (as the two words were synonymous) of the Qirnian leaders. <br>
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When Corvok reached the interior of the palace, he was escorted by two drone soldiers with polearms from the antechamber into the private quarters of Lord Mazrah. The Qirnian, a fat and bloviating little creature that was as loathsome to Corvok as any of the galaxy's wormiest scum, sat in a comfortable, gilded chair watching two scantily-clad human slave women engaged in debauchery for his amusement. Corvok, while not particularly bothered by such treatment of slaves, found Mazrah's inability to control his pornographic habits a sign of rather poor character which only served to deeper ingrain his prejudice against the amoral caterpillars of the galactic commonwealth. The drone soldiers dragged the women away to make way for Corvok, who stood where they had been taking extra care to ensure that his feet did not touch any loathsome residue. <br>
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"Lord Karonin," Mazrah said in an overly-enthusiastic greeting, "it is a pleasure to finally meet you!" The Qirnian, whose bulging eyes were filled with lustful glee and whose corpulent hands and cheeks betrayed a startling array of vericose veins, leaned back in his chair upon his fine silks.<br>
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"As it would seem," Corvok mused under his breath. The Traiverux warrior wondered how far his people had fallen that he was forced to go to this peddler of vice and corruption to finance his campaign. The Traiverux bowed at the waist. "Lord Mazrah, my envoy informed me that you were willing to finance my return to Xavin? This was to be granted on condition of my coming to Yastis to see you. Is this still your wish?" <br>
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"It is, but," said the Qirnian, "I have other matters of business. First, tell me, what intrigues have caused the noble prince to leave the Court of the Strong?" <br>
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"I am rightful heir to the throne by virtue of my right as firstborn, but the disgrace that my mother has brought upon herself by her affair, which is common knowledge to the people, caused my father to dispossess me of my inheritence. Maylor now sits on the throne, my younger brother, and his incompetence knows no bounds. If not for the good of my people, I would be content to live in exile, but Maylor's incompetence could spell the final death of the Heirarchy."<br>
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"Is it not true," the Qirnian interjected, "that the Traiverux king may dispossess sons of their inheritence at his discretion?"<br>
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"That is what is written in our Ancient Codes, but these are modern times. Maylor threatens the stability of the empire with his wasteful displays of ostentatious wealth, his friends carry blank charters for his treasury, and the whole of nature is up in arms against the unnaturalness of his rulership. Do the Ancient Codes know more than the gods?" <br>
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"Yes..." Mazrah muttered, not too fussed about any of that but ready to jump into the part that most concerned himself, "And so you ask for my financing? A fleet and mercenaries to fight your war?"<br>
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"Some of the Traiverux admirals and generals are loyal to me, and will defect when given a show of strength. Others are more hidebound, legalists, loyalistic. They will follow Maylor to his ruin, I suspect. The battle will be hard fought."<br>
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"And if you win?"<br>
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Corvok sighed, "As we discussed, upon my ascendance to the throne, I will lift the Restrictions on Foreigners allowing commercial traffic within the empire and allowing for limited immigration. Specifically, we will allow limited access to Xavin's jumpgate."<br>
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Corvok paused, then continued, "And the ships of Lord Mazrah will be exempt from tolls." <br>
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Mazrah smiled. "Yes...now, let us see what ships we can outfit for your...homecoming, Lord Karonin." <br>
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It has come to the attention of the nations of the galaxy that the Pretender King Corvok Karonin is raising an army to challenge King Maylor for leadership of the Traiverux Heirarchy. He is backed by the influential financier Lord Mazrah of Yastis and his vassals. <br>
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The ships stationed in Proxima held position near the lane to Arcturus and went the referendum resulted in the people deciding to join the UTL they assisted the otherwise small garrison in checking passports and otherwise verifying ships passing out, as well as assuring all newly made citizens of the UTL they were welcome to apply for citizenship with the Union. As saddened as they were to see so many leave the safety that was Proxima. The government, as well as many within the Union, were against the idea of Proxima joining the UTL as they had seen it as a neutral, protected system between themselves and the UTL, to allow them to protect humans seeking freedom from their governments without forcing them into the dangerous depths of space. Nevertheless, they were happy to see the UTL use democracy to attain the territory rather than the means generally used by the other nations. From the Unions understanding, there was no foul play and such it was a just referendum. Once the sudden rush of people leaving the system was over the ships left the border guards to it. <br>
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The King paced up and down as he was being caught up to the situation in the Traiverux. A Civil war, against the incumbent king. It could be an opportunity... a chance to show the power and influence of the monarchy or a disaster showing how strong monarchs result in tempestuous and unstable kingdoms. "Very well. Let it be arranged for me to speak to the king. See his offer and where he stands for we cannot have a long drawn out conflict. No matter the result we must ensure it is swift and with as little loss of life as we can manage... if we can win trade with a wealthy closed-off nation at the same time then that's a win all around. Find out what you can about the pretender and try to arrange a parley with the King." he said to his advisors <br>
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Lord Faustus stood in the Admiralty Building, overlooking the plans for the new Corvettes and the Ordinance Frigate being designed to act as a new force to hunt pirates and patrol neutral space so that the main fleet will be able to use fewer resources in achieving the same goal and be more able to defend against the growing threats the region faces. Making the fleet more able to move as a whole and strike at the heart of the nation's threats. "How goes the work gentlemen?" He asked "Swiftly Lord Faustus, all going well the new force should be protecting the freedom of trade for all in no time!" they replied, which got a smile from their leader, "Good. the void shall be protected for all to use. Much as the Antarctic treaty of old, we shall ensure the tenants of the old Outer Space Treaty are kept for generations to come. Excellent work Gentlemen... I am sure future generations will remember the work done by us in securing their freedoms, even if they don't know us by name."<br>
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Assist people leaving Proxima, ensuring the current security infrastructure isn't overwhelmed by mass migration<br>
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