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All beings, once they are born, long for the stars. They look up into the dark skies, and feel the call of the small sparkles of light. They look at them and find gods, hope, mysteries, or even the future. Even as they are constrained to their own planet, entire civilizations have their existence decided by what their members see in the stars. But stars have far more to offer than religion, constellations or astrology. In their quest to reach for them, one after another, countless civilizations developed the technology to escape their homeworlds, their home systems, and finally, to become faster than light itself, only to discover that they were not alone. The Milky Way is a galaxy thriving with life, some of it more bizarre than the rest, but all of it moving ahead, following the same path of evolution and development. The galaxy is filled with countless nations traveling between the stars, or still being confined beneath their skies. A thriving galactic community exists, thriving, communicating, trading, and expanding. But when peace exists, war must also come, and this cycle is endlessly repeated everywhere. No one truly knows if something as fickle as fate even exists, but if it does, the fate of the galaxy is decided in every moment by those living in it.<br>
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You are the leader of your own nation, be it one that has already conquered the stars, spread throughout countless planets, or one that has yet to conquer the skies. Or maybe you are the leader of a faction, a group, or an organization somewhere between the stars. It is your duty to lead your people to greatness, and to ensure their survival in the vast emptiness of space. There are plenty of stars friend, and you will be the one to write your own Star Chronicles.<br>
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Hello, and welcome to Star Chronicles: A New Light, the reboot of the old Star Chronicles roleplay. It is a sci-fi roleplay set in the Milky Way galaxy, where you can play as your own nation or faction, interact with others and decide the fate of the galaxy. You will create your own nation and faction and lead them throughout the roleplay. As in most nation roleplays, you will control your nation mostly through your characters, but also through normal actions. Our main focus here is to create interesting stories that all participants can enjoy. If you are new to such roleplays, do not worry - we will be more than happy to help, and if you are already used to them, make yourselves at home!<br>
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The booming crash of thunder dominated the overcast skies above this region of Endoval IV as the day was subject to another seemingly endless rain storm. Cold beads of rain fell into the dense tree line in copious amounts, leaving the terrain soggy and treacherous. The intense jungle swallowed up what little light reached it just as much as it drank up the rain too, forcing its inhabitants to rely on their low-light vision or other means to navigate.<br>
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Deep within this impossibly dark natural labyrinth, the remains of an ancient frigate lie in pieces, partially buried by plants and old nests which grew in cracks and holes in the vessel’s ruined hull. The wreck is but one of many dotting the landscape of Endoval IV, remnants of a long abandoned attempt at colonizing the planet many years ago.<br>
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The relative stillness of the rotting ship is quite suddenly broken, as the crack of gunfire rains out from its lower deck, and several bullets clang off the inside of its hull. More sounds of combat follow suit all throughout the vessel as a pitched battle between two small bands of Sein’Hae warriors breaks out over the area. Each warrior stands unique in its structure, some larger than others, but it is clear which Sein’Hae belongs to which warband by the markings they carry to distinguish themselves. One band’s warriors have weaved many bones into their masses, forming crude skeletal structures that make them almost resemble bodies made of bone and muscle. The other warband’s fighters instead resemble hunched figures wearing cloaks made of interweaving metal plates, which clatter and rustle like suits of plate armour.<br>
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The combat that ensues through the ship is quick and fierce, the combatants utilizing a mixture of salvaged technology and their own forged weapons to engage one another in close range firefights, leaving many wounded or dead on both sides. The ship is rattled and damaged often in the low visibility battlefield, with every small hole and crack being put to use as an opportunity to flank and ambush the enemy. The battle on the ship’s former bridge is particularly fierce, as two elites of their respective tribes come to blows after dispersing the lesser foes around them. The two clash in a flurry of blows, causing damage to the sensitive consoles and terminals around them.<br>
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Unbeknownst to both tribes, one failed strike manages to rouse the ship from its slumber, long enough to cause a brief spike of activity from its barely functioning emergency power banks. Detecting that it has crashed, the automatic distress beacon is brought to life, quietly transmitting an ancient cry for help to the local stars. The feuding Sein’Hae remain completely unaware of the ship stirring around them, continuing to scrap even as their numbers are depleted.<br>
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"Tell me, Speaker, when those<i> conniving criminals</i> you seem oh so willing to write off begin cutting entire planets from the Council's control, will they be a big enough problem then?"​</div><br>
That query led the entire Chamber of the Council to quickly become rife with mumbles and grunts of disapproval. The one who had just spoken it, Sir Grinthel, lowered his hindlegs and reclined into the cushion of his seat with a smug expression as he watched the High Speaker look over the other members of the council with what he could easily read as cautious displeasure. The Council of Ordenna was being called into session more and more as the situation for the Consulate grew more precarious, the Councilman recognized the growing number of assemblies with a mix of humor and disgust equally. All around the chamber were various Drovakki and Trokoids, many of whom could only attend via projections onto drones or androids sent in their stead. There were not many who could join the Council's assemblies as often as he, but the Trade Union he represented had rather comfy property on Wesla-3.<br>
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As he sat back and watched the chattering continue, he found his amusement interrupted as the High Speaker of the Council, Madam Drivan, leaned up in her seat and gave a sharp hiss that silenced the other attendants. Only once she'd regained control of the conversation did she turn on Sir Grinthel.<br>
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"We have been aware of the situation for some time and have looked into methods by which we may alleviate the outer systems of their burden." the Speaker stated before narrowing her gaze at him "But surely you must know that directing a force the size of which you deem necessary away from the Zen front is-"<br>
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"Completely out of the question, you snake!" <br>
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All eyes went to a large service Robot who had the likeness of General Thorm appearing on its chest. The General was pacing back in forth within his Warship, his massive frame no doubt sounding with every step he took. <br>
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"This beast devours my men daily, and you wish to concede more territory to it?!?" The general turned to face Sir Grinthel "Perhaps your stock has taken hits, but surely you do not seek to cripple an entire portion of Consulate Space just for that! Has Admiral Yan's efforts been too little for you?!? I hear word she's captured twelve whole ships worth of smugglers in the last few days alone! What else do you demand? That she root out every fraudulent penny-pincher within your diseased carcass of a Union?!?"<br>
<br>
His outburst only threatened to send the Council into further debate, something which the Speaker could not allow. Standing tall she raised her hands to her sides.<br>
<br>
"Please!" she demanded attention before shaking her head at Thorm, "While I believe our dear General could've worded it better, I must agree that the risk involved with diverting troops at this stage is simply too great."<br>
<br>
She looked back to Sir Grinthel, who hadn't lost his smirk throughout the entirety of the General's words, "Perhaps if you and the Admiral coordinated better you'd find her success at rooting out your lawless competition easier. Until then I'll have to say that this assembly will be adjourning for the moment and reconvening with the next issue for today, time is precious after all."<br>
<br>
She leaned back in her seat and leaned down to tap a button on its side, which cast the entire council chamber in a dim yellowish glow as many of its members arose from their seats or cut off their feeds. Once about half of them had left their seats, Madam Drivan frowned before hopping from her seat and scurrying across the chamber's central table to the General's droid.<br>
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<br>
"You know what he's been doing with those outer worlds, Madam." the General returned to his pacing "No matter how well he plays that <i>for the people</i> drivel, he's only looking for gaps in our oversight to exploit."<br>
<br>
"That doesn't mean you can just rant and rave at him during an assembly!" she bit "Sir Grinthel has the ears of far too many Council members already, do not give him a chance to go for more or he will end up running you by the end of the year."<br>
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The General stomped closer to the feed and leaned down to face her fully, "You cannot allow him to pull forces from our front out here. The moment he does that blasted Hivemind will surge through the gaps and the next thing you know, he'll be campaigning against our <i>ineffectiveness</i> within days."<br>
<br>
"I know General," she sighed "believe me, I know."<br>
<br>
Thorm glared at her for a moment before his expression softened, "Then that's all I can ask for."<br>
<br>
The feed cut out, and the drone went into standby mode as Drivan turned and made for her own carry-mech. Sat beside her seat at the council's table, this mech was only slightly taller than the chair itself. Its cockpit opened upon her approach, and soon she was hopping into it as she dug around the compartments for something. As she searched, a notification appeared on a monitor nearby, with her face falling once she saw who it was from. Setting down an oddly colored leaf, she accepted the transmission before trying to relax in the cockpit.<br>
<br>
"Look, that portion of Consulate Space is currently under Admiral Yan's jurisdiction," she stated whilst crumpling up the leaf "if its a matter of something that does not require Military intervention then the ETU have offices there that-"<br>
<br>
But she was interrupted by angered yelling that led to her pausing with the leaf still clutched in her tiny hands. The Speaker's head turned to look at the transmission once again, confusion worming its way onto her features. Eventually she shoved the leaf aside and stood within the cockpit as she began to type at a console built into the side of it.<br>
<br>
"Hold on, hold on!" she shouted "I want you to repeat yourself properly this time."<br>
<br>
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<br>
The majority of those in the bridge with her were Drovakki, with numerous androids moving between consoles and only one Trokoid operating a mech as he looked over a star chart. On this chart was a blinking purple light some distance out from the map it showed, with an orange light approaching it steadily. On their hunt for pirate filth, automated recon ships had picked up the signal first and relayed it back to the Admiral. After her recent battle with a faction of smugglers that had attempted to push illegally sourced resources through the planet below, Yan had been just as ready and willing to continue her hunt. Who'd have thought that she'd find something like this instead? A signal beyond Consulate Space, not similar to any signal they'd ever known before. Many of those serving in her fleet were  cautious, since the last time a signal of this nature had been found they'd run into that hivemind on the other side of Consulate Space. <br>
<br>
But the admiral was far more optimistic of something grander.<br>
<br>
She believed they'd found it, the secret station where the numerous pirates and smugglers they'd been hunting down were based. Some of the captives had let slip rumors of it, and Admiral Yan was ready and willing to strike at the heart. They'd sent a single ship to scope things out, with Yan ready to call in more forces from across the system the moment they had confirmation. As the  star chart showed this advance ship growing closer, Yan clacked her claws together as her jagged teeth stretched into a giddy smile.<br>
<br>
Only for it to grow confused when reports came back of an entire system located, and for the signal to be tracked not to a space station, but an entire planet that reports labeled as habitable.<br>
<br>
Murmuring broke out across the crew, of how they'd know of this if the Council hadn't slowed down exploration in favor of dealing with the Zen situation, of how close they were to a perfectly useful location. But Yan was of a different mind, pushing past another angered Drovakki and grabbing hold of the Trokoid's mech.<br>
<br>
"Tell them to get me eyes on that Planet," she hissed to him "For all we know them pirates could be dug in all over this thing."<br>
<br>
The Trokoid smirked at her sudden seriousness before nodding as the arms of his mech reached forward, "Captain, the Admiral demands we get IRDs on that planet as soon as possible." he relayed "Please target that signal and localize deployment in a radius around it."<br>
<br>
The gruff tone of the Commander returned as they got a feed of IRD pods being launched, "It has been done."<br>
<br>
These pods were quick to pierce the atmosphere far above the planet, with their armor falling away once they'd reached a certain altitude. Soon the drones broke free of their casing and slowed their descent as much as possible, eventually pulling up into flight as they began their duty of scouting out and surveying the source of that signal.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><b><span style="font-size: 18px">The Tel’tsu Commonwealth</span></b><br>
<i>First Contact Expedition<br>
System 11927<br>
SF-1072 Vlaycli</i><br>
<br>
<b>Persons of interest</b><br>
Captain Awndhersun Toezeer<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
The frigate appeared out of emptiness as silently as if nothing had occurred, slipping out of warp and coasting along its trajectory without a pause. It’s massive thrusters propelling it towards its intended destination.<br>
<br>
Vlaycli was the forerunner of Expedition group 12, a small team of ships outfitted for extended deep space deployments. SF-1084 Zamier, SF-1009 Uainscot, and MF-018 Elæseh were approximately two hours behind Vlaycli‘s schedule. Close enough to cut the time drastically and come to their forerunners defense, far enough that a mission abort could be done with ease.<br>
<br>
ExGru-12 had been exploring systems for almost a standard year, surveying and cataloging system resources for future endeavors. They had explored a number of systems that had shown promise for life bearing worlds, and a few did in fact support life, though none of it sentient, or at least none of it advanced enough to be sure. Certainly no space fairing species.<br>
<br>
System 11927 was different.<br>
<br>
“Unknown craft on scope, radiation indicates piloted craft. Five marks on the board. Estimated origin unknown planet designation 11927.4.” The Officer of the Deck announced.<br>
<br>
“Open hailing channels, begin first contact procedures, steady ahead.” Captain Toezeer calmly ordered. “Bring us to ready stations.”<br>
<br>
Lighting flipped from white to red as a series of three steady beeps sounded throughout the ship. The crew shifted from mundane tasks to focus on stowing loose items and preparing the ship for any possible high G maneuvering. Half eaten meals were discarded into trash shoots, minor repairs were abandoned and tools stowed in boxes that would be securely fastened to the ships walls, showers were abandoned as those taking them quickly dressed and made their way to their designated stations.<br>
<br>
Properly bringing the ship to ready stations was one of the most critical tasks a crewman was taught. It was considered such an important task that any officer of any rank on watch could call to bring the ship to ready at any time, for any reason, and that call would be considered a binding order to every member of the crew, be they Cadet-Crewman or Admiral.<br>
<br>
Tel’tsu naval combat often involved sudden and severe course and speed changes, which would cause anything not properly stowed to apparently act as a violent projectile within the confines of the ship. In practice the object was actually just continuing on its original trajectory while the ship flung itself around it. This had caused injuries as insignificant as a minor scratch and as severe as death. It was a self inflicted risk that the Tel’tsu navy did not abide.<br>
<br>
The ships com became a chorus of confirmation responses,<br>
<br>
“Ready Stations Engineering Decks.”<br>
<br>
“Ready Stations Com Decks.”<br>
<br>
“Ready Stations Fire Control.”<br>
<br>
“Ready Stations Combat Information Control.”<br>
<br>
“Ready Stations Gunnery Stations.”<br>
<br>
“Ready Stations General.”<br>
<br>
“Ready Stations Command Deck and Conn.” The Officer of the Deck announced, “Ship reports Ready Stations.”<br>
<br>
No more than two minutes had passed since the order was given.<br>
<br>
Awndhersun lowered himself into the Captain’s chair and pondered the displays lining the walls of the bridge. In the centuries since first contact with the Mika the Tel’tsu had only occasionally had brushes with other space fairing races, most often they were cases of two ships happening upon each other by hundreds of thousands of kilometers, exchanging mostly unreturned hails, and moving on. The occasion shot was traded, but no more.<br>
<br>
In this instance they were investigating a system presumed to be habited. Their initial scans had shown evidence of space fairing technology, though the full extent hadn’t been revealed. Here five ships were approaching Vlaycli and her captains intention was to make contact. The rest of the exploration group would be warping into the system within two hour, until then he was alone.<br>
<br>
“No responses from unknowns, sir.” The Operations Specialist reported, “Coms continuing to hail. Linguistics processing prepared for incoming.”<br>
<br>
Captain Toezeer drummed his fingers lightly on the arm of his chair. “Have they maintained course and speed?” He asked.<br>
<br>
“Yes sir.” The Operations Specialist replied, “No change. Correction, slight change relative port. Receiving transmission. Linguistics processing is active.”<br>
<br>
Finally, something to use. The computers would need plenty of data to learn enough to translate anything useful, but they had to start somewhere. “Continue hailing. Lets see if we can get a line of communication going before they close the gap too much. Prepare to flip and burn, let’s give ourselves some extra time.”<br>
<br>
The ship alarm sounded again, this time three sets of three whistles signaling the crew prepare for the flip. For a moment Vlaycli‘s engines shut down and the vectoring thrusters ignited, spinning the entire craft 180 degrees. During this a period of weightlessness occurred within as the crew made sure to secure themselves by way of mag boots and hand holds. Then the engines sputtered and fired back to life, now slowing the ship as it continued on the same path, seemingly now moving backwards. A sense of gravity returned within.<br>
<br>
Seconds ticked by as little changed other than distance. Vlaycli‘s crew stood ready throughout the ship, waiting for the next thing, the next order, the next response. Waiting. Seconds passing felt longer than the days they had spent in warp to get to the system. Some of the crew could feel the knot of anticipation growing in their stomach, a nervousness that grew in the absence of action. 285 souls waited.<br>
<br>
Then it happened all at once.<br>
<br>
The ships alarms started blaring “Incoming missile fire!” An Operations Specialist yelled through the ships coms. Warning lights flashed on all decks as the siren blared. “60 seconds to high G maneuvers.”<br>
<br>
The PDB’s had already started going off, the muted sound of their cannons spitting short bursts out into the emptiness could be heard faintly reverberating through the superstructure of the ship.<br>
<br>
“Fire Control ready all hands, ready all stations. Fire Control ready all hands, ready all stations.”<br>
<br>
The gunnery teams shifted their seats from their ready safe positions to combat ready positions, redundant checks were called out and shells loaded into the firing tubes. “Gunnery Stations ready hot. Gunnery stations ready hot. Awaiting target.”<br>
<br>
The Blakely’s thrusters shut down again, the ship rotating 140 degrees before commencing a hard burn. The PDB cannons continued to spit rounds at the incoming missile fire until the threat was neutralized.<br>
<br>
“Maintain ready hot. Are we still getting a hailing signal?” Captain Toezeer asked calmly.<br>
<br>
“Affirmative Captain, hailing signal is still being received.”<br>
<br>
“Maintain heading and velocity. Continue hailing. Let’s remember we’re in their backyard here.” The Captain maintained his calm demeanor. It was one of the many reasons his ship had been selected as a forerunner. “Open a line to the exploration group. Update them on the situation and suggest pushing arrival back until we have a better idea of how hostile our new friends actually are.”<br>
<br>
The ships continued to close the gap between themselves and Vlaycli. Over the next minutes they quietly maneuvered around each other in the empty space between planets until finally the sussing out tilted to aggression. The hailing signal coming to Vlaycli stopped suddenly as the five ships unleashed a barrage of missile fire at the frigate. Still a respectable enough distance away that it had little trouble picking them off with PDB fire, but the main gun fire came on the heels of the initial missile salvo.<br>
<br>
Vlaycli spun and changed heading and velocity with dizzying speed. “Okay, Flip and burn people, we’re not here to get into a fight.” The Captain ordered. He had been tasked with retrieving linguistics data and attempting to make first contact, they had done all they could on that front, “Inform the exploration group system hostile, drop out of warp at rendezvous alpha. Let’s go people we’ve overstayed our welcome.”<br>
<br>
Orders were relayed and the ship plotted its course away from the system. “Prepare for warp.”<br>
<br>
“Go.”<br>
<br>
As the space around the ship shifted and the warp bubble formed a single shot slipped through at the precise moment the electromagnetic shielding and PDB’s went offline to allow the warp field to come online. The chances would have been minuscule. Nearly incalculable. A statistical impossibility.<br>
<br>
Vlaycli shifted from the impact as the warp drive engaged, launching itself off course at a rate of millions of kilometers per second.</div>
				
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Once, in the past, the Astral Flame used to be a cutting-edge diplomatic space station for a nation whose name had long been lost. What peace deals had been negotiated on its hallways is a fact long lost to history, with details depending on who told the story, from evil Invaders being convinced to turn around in human tales, to ancient living stars having agreed to stop their conquests right in front of it. Not that it really mattered anyway. The space station had been damaged at some point during some sort of a battle, which large sections still bearing the marks of such combat and being uninhabitable. The station had been simply abandoned in orbit around a small solar system that lacked any inhabitable planets, its main reactors, engines, and FTL drive long dead. But someone had come upon it by chance, and had somehow managed to fix the secondary reactors, restarting the life support systems. It changed hands a lot of times, from rebel groups, mercenaries, drug traffickers, and even a few religious cults, and they all patched it and repaired it as best as they could. The Astral Flame had become sort of a legend, a space station with no ID checks, not controlled by anyone, easy to find by everyone. Nowadays, the station was part black market, part transportation hub, part secret meeting spot. Nearly anything you could desire. Xalion in a bottle, as it was sometimes known.<br>
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Today however, the space station was going to hold a particular meeting. A secret one, that is. Everyone who arrived on the Astral Flame had to go through the same beautiful experience. After either landing their ship in one of the few still functioning dockyards, or taking one of the ships that made regular runs to it and back you had to either pay an entrance tax or somehow avoid the armed humans and aliens collecting it, including a red, muscular alien armed with a huge machine gun that looked suspiciously much like one that had been ripped straight from a defensive turret. Leaving the dockyard then led to a more or less deadly maze of hallways, and only few of which still had their own lighting systems functional. Of course, few people were going to actually start a fight there, but the walls were absolutely lined with aliens and humans selling anything from weapons to slaves, with drugged people lying with their backs at the wall, more or less alive, with small mercenary bands looking for new members, to a group of old men trying to sell some crystals which they claimed could see in the future. Just the regular stuff.<br>
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But this was the regular experience. For a few people had been invited, and they would have known exactly where they would go. The door separating this particular conference room from the hallway had been scavenged long ago, but it was guarded by two sort of human looking fellows, both in pretty tattered, old, dark blue uniforms, but armed with impressive looking dual-use kinetic-laser weapons. They would have remained silent, only welcoming two people inside, and there, a woman was waiting.<br>
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She was human, sort of. She had long black hair, an overall human form, and was wearing what were clearly human forms  - a military uniform, including a coat, a peaked hat and a mantle, but entirely white and colorless, from the material to the buttons. The uniform also notably lacked any sort of insiginia, no collar or shoulder patches, no sort of identifying marks. The main issue with simply describing her as human were her eyes - with golden irises, and vertically split pupils.<br>
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She didn't seem to be too concerned about that however. "Welcome", she told the two of them rather coldly, motioning for them to enter and take a seat at what had once been a fairly large, round and metallic conference table. Without waiting for a response, she took out a small cigarette box, and took out a small and rather thin cigarette of sorts out of it,  with a yellow ring right at the end. She twisted the end off, right where the ring was, before she took a drag on it, exhaling yellowish smoke. The smell of lemon quickly spread in the air.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><span style="font-size: 18px"><b>Astral Flame, Stateless Space</b><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(85, 57, 130)"><b>Xi Jiao Shui</b></span></span><br>
<i>~A Fateful Meeting~</i><br>
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Status:  Nominal<br>
Wearing: Spacer wear<br>
Carrying: <i>SC-2 Holdout Pistol <i>(concealed)</i>,</i> <i>Mk I Field Knife (concealed)</i><br>
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"<span style="color: rgb(85, 57, 130)">The Astral Flame...</span> "<br>
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Xi Jiao had read about this place in many of her intelligence reports, most concerning the manner of assets and equipment that could be obtained here with little scrutiny.  Documented as a lawless, anarchistic hive of scum and villainy, she doubted there was a much less reputable place for her to be chasing a lead for a potential job in the galaxy... so in a word, it was perfect.  Though just now getting her feet wet with the concept of freelancing her work, there was little doubt that the kinds of places where her skills in particular would be in hot demand would rarely be in the public eye, though perhaps one day a client with an extravagant lifestyle (and even more extravagant coffers) might choose to meet her in some secluded pleasure-world where all one's desires were just a comm-call away.  But for now, she would be playing on the level of back-water cantinas and (semi-)derelict space stations far, far from the lap of luxury.<br>
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As the ship settled down into one of the few remaining operational bays, taking advantage of its diminutive size to squeeze into a spot between two larger freighters, she glanced over at the other member of her traveling party, the man currently in charge of piloting the particular spacecraft she rode in.  Seth Libanori he had said his name was, and Xi had no reason to suspect otherwise.  Standing quite a bit taller and a fair bit broader than she, Seth was the image of a man who threw caution to the wind as a regular philosophy; adventure and recklessness were his watchwords as he went about his life, wrangling the <i>Salvatore</i> as he worked at a variety of odd jobs and hitting every watering hole in the sector while he was at it.  She'd met him at one of those very dives as he was between jobs and she was just beginning to search around for hers; when a hit came in that required her to get to a certain particular out-of-the-way (semi-)derelict space station, she'd offered to split him in on the pay if he was willing to partner up with her.<br>
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A sudden jarring thud that reverberated through the ship's hull indicated they had touched down, stirring Xi from her rumination.  She reached down with a gloved hand to unbuckle herself from the secondary command station's chair on the <i>Salvatore's</i> bridge; though they had not needed any particular navigational or comm-channel prowess between their last stop and here, the bridge was still a preferable locale to pass the travel time in compared to either her own small bunk or any of the various cargo compartments.  Plus it gave her a chance to keep a eye on Seth and begin to observe him quietly, and boy, the wealth of information she got just from that was overwhelming.  She found herself astonished that a man with as many conflicting personality traits as he was able to keep it together well enough to function as a human being, much less fly a complicated piece of machinery several times larger than himself, and yet he showed a level of prowess in piloting that she actually was able to relax slightly on the trip over, as high-strung as she tended to normally operate.<br>
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Standing and dusting off her synthhide jacket and reinforced spacer trousers, she quietly made her way towards the rear of the ship while Seth to finished up his landing procedures.  As she heard the final few clicks indicating the impulse drives had successfully spun down and were now venting, she thumbed the button to open the inner crew hatch airlock doors and clambered inside, her ad-hoc pilot following suit shortly after.  The process of equalizing pressure was graciously quick thanks to the docking bay's artificial atmosphere, and but a few minutes and one ladder later, they were now in the "welcoming" corridors of the Astral Flame... after paying the appropriate fee, of course.  She was in no mind to go toe to toe with whatever manner of goliath felt it reasonable to arm itself with the main armament from a defensive fortification.<br>
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The Astral Flame itself was everything she had suspected it would be: dim, ill-kept, chaotic and loud.  Not three steps had she taken into its confines when she had already been offered a free sample of a illicit substance banned in 95% of the galaxy.  Worse, possession of the drug carried the death penalty if one was caught with it; she knew because she'd planted a vial of the substance in a mark's pockets as part of an assassination.  She hadn't expected the target to go down guns blazing with the police when he realized what had happened, but as long as the target was eliminated, she considered it a successful hit.  As Seth caught up to Xi's purposeful strides, she took the moment to wave him close, cautioning him him a low voice to keep an eye on his possessions lest they disappear as a matter of happenstance.  Just as her contact had made sure to remark, the interior corridors was a veritable rat's nest of hallways and rooms linking to each other in occasionally illogical manner, with some corridors being blocked off either deliberately or sheerly through decay, leading to the denizens of this labyrinth to cut their own passages through previously solid walls and service tunnels.  Thankfully the map Xi had been provided was clear enough to lead them directly to their destination, though she did note some of the vendors' wares for her future perusal on the way out.<br>
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As she approached the conference room, Seth in tow somewhat like a faithful canine companion, Xi caught sight of the two blue-clad sentries standing guard on either side of the door.  Their uniforms said either "wannabe merc", or "former military", but the potent weaponry toted by both said there was no "wannabe" or "former" involved.  In comparison, the pistol she had tucked under her shoulder was almost a laughable notion, a dangerous one undoubtedly, but utterly outclassed by serious hardware she was now facing.  <i><span style="color: rgb(85, 57, 130)">Two instances of being outgunned at close range in a confined environment.  This job is either extremely sensitive or they're expecting an entire battalion of raiders to show up at any moment.</span></i>  Given the nuances of the Astral Flame, neither observation particularly stood out as the clear winner, which hinted at the entirely likely possibility of both being true.  Regardless, she pressed onwards, announcing her presence to the guards before they got itchy trigger-fingers and stooped to testing out their new toys on her.  As the doors slid open revealing the sole occupant within, she took a deep breath, steeling herself for what was now before her.<br>
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~~~<br>
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Well well well... she'd been out of the employ of the Triple Eye for maybe a month tops, and here she found self yet again being thrust into the world of infiltration and espionage.  "<span style="color: rgb(85, 57, 130)">Information continues to be the most valuable resource in the galaxy, I see,</span>" Xi Jiao mused aloud to herself even as she projected a stony facade, her lips a straight line of neutrality. Her arms crossed gently as she raised a finger to touch her chin in thought. The woman across from her, resplendent in her stark white uniform and coat, her hat and mantle giving her an air of refined power, like an emperor standing before the masses at a coliseum; she claimed to be a broker, but Xi knew better.  The enigmatic woman speaking in civilian words such as "clients" and "payment", but Xi had seen too much, been in this business for too long to accept her as anything but someone else who was in "the trade" as she once called it.  Even Her long dark hair, her glowing slitted eyes, her complete lack of identifying insignia... but for the whims of fate, Xi might have be looking at herself come some years time.  This was clearly another spy, word choice be damned.  Of course, Xi made no presumptions that the woman across from her, who radiated an air of complete control over this situation like a prison warden in a jail cell, had not sussed out her own history from similar observations; she didn't dare take this woman for a fool, not if she wanted to be leaving here alive with all of her organs intact.<br>
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Still, just because she knew what Xi once had been wasn't necessarily a cause for worry; the code of the trade was always professionalism until professionalism needed to be set aside.  Besides, it was entirely likely that just as much as Xi had originally bitten on this job offering due to it being a good fit for her skills, the job itself had been structured as a siren song for those who considered unlawful search and surveillance a normal workplace risk.  So, taking in a small breath and releasing it slowly, she gave a small nod and began to speak anew.  "<span style="color: rgb(85, 57, 130)">Very well then.  The mission parameters are within my preferences, so I am agreeable to the terms.  I would indeed ask for a decent amount of the payment to be up-front, as I see the equipment costs for this mission to be... not insignificant.  And yes, we will be using a ship in our own personal inventory; however I do have one question concerning that.</span>"  She crossed her arms fully now, leaning forwards towards the "broker".  "<span style="color: rgb(85, 57, 130)">As you have made very clear the clients are not to be contacted, and you speak of our tasks in the first personal plural.  Do you and your..." She paused to lift a hand towards the doorway to indicate the bodyguards standing outside "... <i>companions</i> plan to join us in this journey, as if so, I fear for the internal space of our ship.</span>"</div>
				
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With the preparations done, the Jump Drive began to charge, emitting a loud, terrible screech that could be heard in all corners of the ship. Even the most hardened crewmates had a look of unease on their faces, while the greener crew started to weep and scream in terror. Then, the jumps started. The experienced crewmates took a large swig from their bottles of their preferred hard liquor before shouting at the terrified newbies to return to their posts, sometimes even resorting to beating them with batons before they finally returned to their senses. For this voyage, the Lwarp decided to take 10 light year jumps to it's destination instead of the safer 5 light year jumps, as the captain wished to get to Drak Noi faster so that he could attend his brother's wedding on Qwerk in 3 hours time. Despite how unsafe 10 light year jumps sound like, it is only 8% more likely to result in mistakes than the more commonly used 5 light year jumps.<br>
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Unfortunately for the captain, luck was not on his side. A small error in the system caused the ship to jump just 0.00000000000001 light years off it's supposed position, but it was right inside of an asteroid. Suddenly, the insides of the ship melded into the rock, alongside it's contents, both living and unliving. The unlucky crewmates' faces were frozen in terror as they realized their fates just a split second before their bodies were utterly destroyed by being suddenly teleported inside a huge space rock. However, the rear was spared the cruel fate, only to be subjected to one that wasn't any better: stranded in nowhere with no food, no water, and no life support. The surviving crew immediately activated their distress beacon, in the vain hope that someone would rescue them before it's too late.</div>
				
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Smaller beasts more closely resembling exotic birds fled in large flocks, flying in every direction and squeaking noisily to signal danger to their peers. An IRD Pod caught just above one flock found itself battered clumsily by tiny wings as birds carelessly crashed into it in their retreat.<br>
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Two of these hulking creatures, only a little smaller than the IRD Pod, directed their attention to the hovering drone as the flock attempted to fly by it. Shrieking noisily at the alien contraption, the two beasts beat their wings and raised their talons, attempting to collide with the Pod’s hull and tear it apart with claws seemingly designed for tearing into armoured flesh.<br>
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<i>A fateful meeting<br>
Astral Flame, stateless space</i><br>
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Seth took a deep breath and let the tension release from his shoulders. He had stuffed <i>Salvatore</i> into plenty of tight squeezes and had long ago sussed out that the ship had been design with such maneuvers in mind. He made a few final system checks and went down the standard checklist for docking before finally exiting the bridge.<br>
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He made his way quickly through the mess and galley, down the ladderwell to the common area, checking a few minor details as he went, not breaking pace. He caught up to his client by the time he made the next ladderwell. She was cold and quiet and had spent the entire trip on the bridge just taking it all in, it had been a little unnerving if he was being honest. But there was supposed to be pay at the end of this jaunt through the void and it certainly hadn’t been unnerving enough to sour him on a good paying job.<br>
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Xi Jiao relayed some words of caution about Astral Flame from her contact, which Seth politely listened too, though he was well aware of the Station and its <i>particular</i> charms. The airlock hissed softly before the onboard <i>simulated</i> intelligence unit bid them “Hope you don’t die! Have a nice day!” Ever since Seth had acquired the ship he had his suspicions about where the unit actually fell between <i>simulated</i> intelligence, <i>artificial</i> intelligence, and <i>self aware</i>. Unfortunately the closest he had been able to get to figuring it out was that the original simulated intelligence unit had been <i>heavily</i> modified with new code to present the semi sadistic feminine persona that it now had.<br>
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Stepping onto the docking floor the hatch closed behind them. Deep in the back of his head Seth was always a little worried that it wouldn’t open back up again, but the situation had yet to arise. As the unlikely pair made their way through the various check points Seth hailed “Maxwell!” and waved at a strange mostly humanoid creature who’s name was most certainly <i>not</i> Maxwell well but who did respond. The creature said something toward Seth in a language he didn’t speak. “So you’re still mad about that? You’ll come around!” Seth replied casually, “She’ll come around.” He assure Xi Jiao who more than likely did not care.<br>
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He was quiet the rest of the way as he followed Xi Jiao to their destination. They were greeted by muscle at the door, causing Seth’s mind to go to the overclocked hand cannon of a plasma pistol hanging below the small of his back under his jacket. The goons let them in with no fuss and they were greeted by a mostly human woman wearing all white. “Very inconspicuous.” Seth couldn’t help but comment softly.<br>
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The conversation started, Seth nodded a confirmation when the assumption that one of them had a ship was made, having fully expected they would be using it, after all why hire a ship and its captain if you’re not planning on using it? Other than that he let Xi Jiao handle all the business, he was just along for the ride. Or, providing the ride more accurately. Either way, he was just here to get paid.</div>
				
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Person of Interest: Simmion Ektashi, Chief Petty Officer, 43rd Border Flotilla, Union Fleet</span></u></b><br>
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The green glow of the screen illuminated Simmion’s face, the last of his youth was fading now, a few more permanent lines crossed his forehead, and the bags beneath his eyes grew by the day. Join the Union Fleet and see the galaxy they said, flashy adverts wrestling smugglers and beings from beyond and then back home in time for tea and medals. 15 years later and here he was, stuck watching tumbling piles of data and information, the vibrant green burning into his eyes. To the layman it would have seemed like purely random data, string of numbers and fluctuations on graphs, but Simmion could see the messages in the noise. There was chatter from a merchant convoy passing through space lanes further into Union Space, a small spike of background hum from some long distant supernova, the echoes of this now long dead star still echoing across the galaxy, and adding to the vibrant background noise of a living Galaxy. Out here on the very edges of Union Space the noise was pretty quiet, especially compared to the deafening roar of Union Space proper. Even the raiders stayed away from here, so far removed from the trade lanes pickings were slim, smugglers didn’t bother as the sector had a dearth of habited planets. It was a dead zone, but it came under the Federal Government’s remit, and if anything was to emerge the Principle Planets would be hollering about dereliction of duty and a failing by the higher powers. A couple would go further, try and withhold taxes or dues, break a few regulations to flash some power. That’s why he was here, the instruments of Volund Station pointed out towards the void, waiting for an enemy that would never come, not since the collapse after Earth was lost had anything been spotted, and certainly nothing since his rotation had begun. He glanced down at his watch, still another hour to go, then he could get an hour of lunch before another 4 hours back here. Would it be lunch? Time didn’t really mean anything this far removed from a planet, everything was artificial from the orbit to the perceived time, station time, didn’t mean a thing off of Volund Station.<br>
<br>
It appeared out of nowhere. One minute there had been just the banal regularity of the readings, and next it was there. It was weak certainly, the signal just breaking through the static, a light flickering in the cold darkness of space. He found himself staring at it for what felt like hours, but in reality must only have been a matter of seconds. Lurid stories from his childhood whipped around his head, of the horrors that lurked beyond the boundaries of space, nothing ever came from out there, not in this part anyway. Simmion settled himself though as he fell into the routine of washing the background noise away and isolating the pulse, there was comfort in routine, like riding a bike, no conscious thought, just years of muscle memory. As he did the fear continued to slip away, it was a known signal, a military signal. Nothing recent though, the last time he had seen one of these was back at the training academy, and even then that was in a history lesson. The signal was old. Almost impossibly old. Happy that at first glance this wasn’t some barbarian horde of intergalactic horrors descending on them, he reached for his communicator, this sort of situation wasn’t exactly in the standard handbook, and so was well above his paygrade. This was going to have to go upstairs.<br>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 22px">UFV Jaxtus, Rassillon G-Class Destroyer, Endoval System<br>
People of Interest: Captain Julius M’Butu (Union Fleet), Major Joseph De Jong (Union Rifle Corps, 3rd Orbital Deployment Battalion “The Broncos”)</span></u></b><br>
<br>
The Jaxtus jumped into the Endoval system, if it wasn’t for the vacuum of space, the sound of thousands of tons of metal crashing into reality would have deafened half the system and put the other on high alert. But like a hot knife through butter it simply slipped in. On the bridge the lights slowly flickered back on, the hum of computer banks began to fill the air, their absence noticeable as they began to boot up again post jump. M’Butu gripped the hand rests of his chair, the leather squeaking slightly as his fingernails dug in, this was always the hardest moment, there could be an entire armada waiting for them out there, guns trained on them and about to unleash hell, and they’d have no way of knowing. Everything had to be powered down for the jump, otherwise they’d emerge with a host of fried systems, sensors and weapons especially, the violent nature of the FTL drive would have ripped anything that was secured externally from its mountings, everything from communication equipment to gun batteries had to slowly be extended once more, and it was one of the most well drilled exercises any crew had to go through, in the last test they had gotten the procedure down to 84 seconds from the end of the jump to being combat ready. This was approaching the minimum time now, delays now more mechanical than human, but by the gods it still felt like an age. It was the main reason why the Colonial response consisted solely of them at this point, to jump an entire fleet formation essentially blind? The Admiralty were conservative and risk averse when it came to more regular operations, and this was anything but regular. The signal had been picked up by a sector station in the middle of nowhere, Volund Station, sort of place that warranted little more than a footnote on an incredibly comprehensive map. It was a distress beacon, one from the annals of history, Endoval. It had been down to the historians to dig anything up on this one, one of the many lost colonies after contact with Terra was lost, the list was long, the collapse of the frontiers beyond the formal area of control had contained thousands of worlds, survivors fled where they could bringing tales of fire and invasion, but Endoval was one of the many that simply disappeared without a trace, little more than a name entered into the database of the lost. Lost no more it appeared. Thankfully the Principle Planets had yet to pick up on the signal, and the news remained solely in Federal hands, not for long most likely and then the vultures would descend, clamouring for the right to add it to their zones of control, rights to the technology that waited there, the secrets from a time long past. The political fallout would be messy, but that was on the backburner for now, for now it would have to be secured and investigated. They weren’t exactly hopeful, a graveyard was expected, bones, dust and little more, the chances of anything having survived from those original colonists was slim to impossible, there wasn’t going to be a rescue, but there could be a recovery, clearly something was still functioning there. So much had been lost in those tumultuous years that had seen this lonely bastion of humanity besieged, this was a chance to claim some of that back.<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">“Sensors online,”</span><br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(250, 197, 28)">“Communications online,”</span><br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(65, 168, 95)">“Weapon systems online,”</span><br>
<br>
The chorus echoed around the various bridge stations as the ship systems reported green across the board, and for the first time they were able to properly view the system as they slowly began to accelerate towards Endoval IV itself. M’Butu activated the communicator to the crew decks 10s of feet below him. Unlike most Rassillon Class Destroyers, the Jaxtus was specifically built to the standards of the Union Rifle Corps, and was one of 20 such vessels that they could rely on. Many of the torpedoes were stripped out, as well as the subsequent storage areas, in their place shuttle bays and additional crew quarters had been constructed, in theory 200 Riflemen could be transported, along with all of the support aircraft, vehicles, ammunition and miscellaneous supplies that were needed to conduct a large scale operation. They had less than half that number however with only a single company made up of 3 platoons and the Company Headquarters. The URC were an odd bunch, seen by many as a relic of a bygone era when the ground forces were the backbone of any force. As such many of the members of the URC had something of a chip on their shoulder, especially towards the naval types. Luckily M’Butu and Major De Jong had served together on a number of operations now, it hadn’t exactly bred a friendship, but there was at least a spirit of cooperation.<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">“10 minutes till we enter shuttle range Major,”</span><br>
<br>
The Captain refrained from making any comment on making sure that they would be ready, that was just the sort of perceived Naval pompousness that would ruffle feathers and set De Jong on edge. As such the silence that was received was by no means a negative. Instead his focus was set on the new sensor readings that were flooding in as the planet hove into view in front of them. The verdant green of the near full encompassing jungle was lit up before them, much of it obscured by rolling grey clouds, so dark they were bordering on black in colour. Lit up only by the occasional flash of lightning.<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">“Focusing in on the distress beacon sir… life sign readings are going wild sir, we’re looking at single readings taking up huge areas, most likely interference from the storms, I’m not sure how much faith to put in them,”</span><br>
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The sensor officer was right, the readings were wild. The viewscreen of the planet was lit up like a christmas tree, but constantly in flux and moving, there seemed to be no rhythm to it, and some of the readings seemed impossible. Some of these individual readings were several kilometers wide. M’Butu shook his head, he hadn’t expected it to be easy, but the loss of accurate readings was going to make the ground operation even harder.<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">“Keep on working on it, I want as clear a picture as…”</span><br>
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He was cut off as an alarm rang out across the bridge, its harsh wail cutting above the low level conversation.<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)">“Contact detected! Ship in orbit around the planet, maintaining a position not far off of the distress beacon. No Colonial transponder detected and I’m receiving no match of our register of known ships,”</span><br>
<br>
Seems like they weren’t the only one to pick up the signal. It was about now that M’Butu would have given his left arm for some form of backup, a Union Fleet Cruiser hoving into view perhaps. But it was just them, and to be proactive and take the initiative was their best plan.<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">“Inform Major De Jong that our plans are accelerating, we’re going to want the area around that area secured as soon as possible, I want him making planetfall now. For now I want an intercept course on that vessel. Once the transports have entered the atmosphere proceed to hail them,”</span><br>
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The minutes slipped by as they approached the vessel, nearly invisible to the naked eye against the backdrop of the planet. A black dot against the rolling green and grey. Without the complement of torpedoes to calibrate, it was the multiple deck mounted gun turrets that circled round, locking onto the vessel. The size of the destroyer restricted the use of laser and plasma weaponry, which were only in place on Cruiser and Battleship class vessels, but these smaller mass drivers could still do some damage against smaller vessels, at the very least it would show that the Jaxtus’ teeth were bristling.<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(250, 197, 28)">“URC shuttles are away Captain,”</span><br>
<br>
On the viewscreen 3 smaller dots disengaged from the Jaxtus, bearing planet side. The Corvus Class Shuttles doubled effectively as both a gunship and transport, deploying troops to the ground before being able to bring their suite of support weapons and sensors to bear. For now Major De Jong would have to rely on them as the Jaxtus changed its course ever so slightly, placing itself between the unknown ship and the transports as they descended. M’Butu adjusted his uniform, straightening the navy blue tunic as he turned a steely gaze towards the viewscreen, the deep browns of his eyes unblinking as a line of communication was established.<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">“This is Captain M’Butu of the URC Jaxtus to the unknown vessel orbiting the Colonial Union Colony of Endoval IV. Your ship is currently trespassing in Colonial Union Space and in breach of our sovereignty. You will withdraw and and all forces and equipment from the surface and declare your presence and intentions. The Union Fleet has been informed of this breach of territory and reinforcements will be arriving shortly,”</span><br>
<br>
Now the last part of this was a lie. The message had only just been sent via a high speed packet of their encounter with the unknown vessel. Without the dedicated comm buoys that dotted Union controlled space, it would take at least an hour to reach the Admiralty, then factoring response time and any decision being made to commit more resources, they were hours away from any real reinforcements arriving. M’Butu was counting on the fact that was unknown to this 3rd party however.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><b><span style="font-size: 26px">The Drokoi Consulate</span></b> <br>
Endoval System<br>
Commander Burnish of the CF-Jorkhann<br>
<a href="https://www.rpnation.com/attachments/locust_theron_guard-png.805185/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.rpnation.com/data/attachments/742/742145-b71587f28ccc64d1b4327ab4c6338027.jpg" class="bbImage " style="" alt="Locust_Theron_Guard.png" title="Locust_Theron_Guard.png" width="100" height="100" loading="lazy"></a>​</div>Overseeing a recon mission was nothing new to him, he'd done it plenty of times before under the Admiral's orders. His drones had salvaged ships and sniffed out pirates for years, but that was all in home territory. What he expected to be surveillance of a Pirate owned station camped just outside of Consulate Space turned into becoming the first to examine an unknown planet in half a decade. He believed that his machines were still up to the task, unwilling to disappoint the Admiral in such a tense situation. That damned signal had led them to this planet, and he wouldn't be the one to let the trail grow cold. <br>
<br>
So he paced amongst the bridge of his ship, the majority of those staffed around it were Droids. But beyond them, the Drovakki onboard were undoubtedly intrigued by the seemingly fertile planet below. Upon spotting it, Burnish had been enraged at the idea of such prime real estate going to waste just outside of Consulate Space. If anything, such a planet would be a magnet for any pirates hoping to continue their  activities unmolested. If they had bases here than it would explain far too much about the scale of their crimes on the outer worlds. <br>
<br>
Once the drones were deployed their activities fed intel back to the Jorkhann, where many watched from live feeds as the Drones attempted to focus in on the source of the beacon. The Lifeforms on the planet were diverse as they were intrusive, with it not taking long before one of the drones became the enemy of a number of flight-bearing creatures. The drone attempted to outmaneuver them on its way to the beacon, but those attempts were in vain as far larger creatures took note and made for it instead.<br>
<br>
As Burnish and his crew looked over the readings they were feeding back to the Admiral, he was gestured over by one of the droids who brought up the scenario with him. Groaning at the problems those winged beasts could cause if they were led to the signal and the other drones, he ordered to divert the drone they were targeting off-course. As per his orders, the droid took direct control of the drone and began maneuvering it away from the beacon in an attempt to disengage from the flying lifeforms.<br>
<br>
But that was not to be the end of the problems, as soon alarms flared as an unknown ship were picked up entering the system. Commander Burnish  immediately called for identification of the vessel, only for all results to come back negative. There were many different types of ships that could be made by numerous manufacturers in the Consulate, but for not a single one of them to have any connection with that which had just strolled into the system, there could be only one answer.<br>
<br>
Another Space-Faring society had picked up on the Signal as well.<br>
<br>
Burnish was already ordering details to be transmitted to the Admiral, who would have a far more easier time funneling it to the Council themselves. As for now, Burnish had the Jorkhann's weapons readied but put into standby. This was far from an ideal situation, as most of the other species they had on record hadn't been more than primitive compared to them, all being observed on Reservation planets to study them with minimal interference. The only other time they'd encountered something that this was not, ended up with them fighting multi-system spanning war against a planet eating Hivemind. Burnish would be damned if he let himself get blindsided just because they weren't already being fired upon.<br>
<br>
The Unknown vessel undoubtedly took note of them as well, with  the Jorkhann's crew keeping careful watch of its movements as it not- so subtly placed itself between them and the Planet. From this alone he figured his idea of the Signal drawing them in was looking more and more accurate by the second. Shield were raised, and automated fighters were scrambled, but Burnish knew the Council would never overlook things if he fired the first shot. He needed to be ready for their attack, as acts of self-defense would lighten the load of Bureaucracy the General would already face from today. He had far more important things to deal with after all.<br>
<br>
And so they waited and watched, communications between them and the Admiral's fleet with second by second playback of the scenario. Even as the Unknown vessel launched ships to the planet below, the Commander merely paced whilst waiting for either contact or word from his superiors. So far they were ordered to hold position while things were relayed back to the Council, and that was exactly what he planned to do until it finally happened.<br>
<br>
They were being hailed, the only possible source of it being the unknown vessel before them. Burnish immediately gestured for the communication attempt to be accepted, soon finding himself looking upon a short biped wearing blue. The commander continued pacing, eyeing up everything the transmission showed him, only for his expression to change into a grimace once the unknown species began talking.<br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">“⏁⊑⟟⌇ ⟟⌇ ☊⏃⌿⏁⏃⟟⋏ ⋔’⏚⎍⏁⎍ ⍜⎎ ⏁⊑⟒ ⎍⍀☊ ⟊⏃⌖⏁⎍⌇ ⏁⍜ ⏁⊑⟒ ⎍⋏☍⋏⍜⍙⋏ ⎐⟒⌇⌇⟒⌰ ⍜⍀⏚⟟⏁⟟⋏☌ ⏁⊑⟒ ☊⍜⌰⍜⋏⟟⏃⌰ ⎍⋏⟟⍜⋏ ☊⍜⌰⍜⋏⊬ ⍜⎎ ⟒⋏⎅⍜⎐⏃⌰ ⟟⎐. ⊬⍜⎍⍀ ⌇⊑⟟⌿ ⟟⌇ ☊⎍⍀⍀⟒⋏⏁⌰⊬ ⏁⍀⟒⌇⌿⏃⌇⌇⟟⋏☌ ⟟⋏ ☊⍜⌰⍜⋏⟟⏃⌰ ⎍⋏⟟⍜⋏ ⌇⌿⏃☊⟒ ⏃⋏⎅ ⟟⋏ ⏚⍀⟒⏃☊⊑ ⍜⎎ ⍜⎍⍀ ⌇⍜⎐⟒⍀⟒⟟☌⋏⏁⊬."</span><br>
<br>
Burnish immediately grunted before calling for one of his crewmates to get the commander's Translator on the line. The situation was far too tense for language barriers to be added in as well. As he did so, the bipedal creature finished speaking its unknown language, prompting Burnish to shake his head and raise an eyebrow.<br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)">"Fleukhausan liavavle creaavure aren'av avhey?"</span> he asked half-jokingly as he turned to some of his crew <span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)">"Noav auk vadokiprus lookaumn auk avhe hive hugi, noav aav gith!"</span><br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(251, 160, 38)">"Pleauke commandas, leav uuk allow avhe admiral'uk guausan avo handle avhiuk"</span> One of his subordinates lowered her head before gesturing to a blinking light on the Commander's chair.<br>
<br>
Rolling his eyes, Burnish stepped back to his seat before leaning back into it and pressing the button. <br>
<br>
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<div style="text-align: center">Admiral Yan, Head of the OWDR Fleet, CF-Primus<br>
<a href="https://www.rpnation.com/attachments/5d2f01ff39844fe5ede4e90b1957ccd01a9f48a5r1-700-1125v2_hq-jpg.805200/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.rpnation.com/data/attachments/742/742160-b0e6f3c3e3a22d58aa64eebbc3900bc9.jpg" class="bbImage " style="" alt="5d2f01ff39844fe5ede4e90b1957ccd01a9f48a5r1-700-1125v2_hq.jpg" title="5d2f01ff39844fe5ede4e90b1957ccd01a9f48a5r1-700-1125v2_hq.jpg" width="63" height="100" loading="lazy"></a>​</div>Reports were coming in of the Council in chaos over the discovery of a new Space-Faring Race. Arguments over what actions to take were keeping them stopped and stalled, leaving the immediate situation almost entirely in the Admiral's hands. And to say she was excited would be an understatement.<br>
<br>
"A whole Unknown species!" she chittered whilst performing stretches in the center of the Primus' bridge, her claws flexing and unflexing as she worked off her excess energy the only way she knew how "Oh just think of the brawls erupting back on Wesla-3, they must be going absolutely mental!"<br>
<br>
"Something we should be taking into account of as well," said the Trokoid known as Sir Drestas, her second-in-command and personal adviser "They haven't opened fire upon the Commander yet, so perhaps we can avoid another line of defense after all."<br>
<br>
His own team of Analysts were doing everything they could to gleam information from images of the vessel alone, but that idea went right out the window once a communication channel was opened between them. Immediately recognizing that the two vessels were unable to communicate naturally due to a particularly strong language Barrier, Drestas was already calling for one of his team to prep for a transfer of communication. After encountering enough species with differing methods of vocal communication, not to mention the various minor differences the great Drovakki populations had amongst them, manners of translation became a necessity for all exploration efforts. Their war with the Hivemind had ground these to a halt, but luckily having a linguistics expert available to each fleet was still common practice.<br>
<br>
The one they had upon the Primus was Sir Norflux, who Drestas had called upon immediately. Soon the Unknown Vessel's communication feed was transferred to him, with Norflux flexing his tiny fingers before tapping away at his console. He'd already pieced together some fragments of the Unknown creature's speech patterns through what had been said so far, all he needed was more in order to build more of a reference log, at least enough so that understanding could be accomplished.<br>
<br>
So looking upon the blue-suited human before him, Sir Norflux proceeded to do just that very thing, <span style="color: rgb(26, 188, 156)">"Mequ Mequ, semgyumao ckoupot hel no, Vyukojur.</span> <span style="color: rgb(26, 188, 156)">Yug in your ieal vocg interest geh do so."</span><br>
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<i>Ecclesia System<br>
TB-08 “Zoeteph Keeleen”<br>
Above Eberon</i><br>
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<b>Persons of Interest:</b><br>
Admiral Ahlyxee Aendov<br>
Lord Niqholaj Vrasch<br>
<br>
The lights were low in the Admirals study except at the desk, an Avarian sat hunched over the display top sorting through a stack of files. ExGru deployments, SysPat schedules for currently unoccupied but claimed systems, future expedition routes. All the minutiae that made the 4th Fleet run. There were of course scores of crewmen under him doing the majority of the work, but Admiral Aendov still had to approve operations and sign off on plans. It made him long for the days of simply commanding a vessel.<br>
<br>
An alert went off as a message icon appeared on the desk. Waving a hand over it the message popped open “Admiral, sir, we have received an urgent communication from ExGru-12. SF-1072 Vlaycli has gone silent following a first contact engagement.”<br>
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Ahlyxee sat up, the feathers atop his head ever so slightly raised, but otherwise in control. “Fleet command staff in the sitroom in five minutes.” He said and waved the communication window away.<br>
<br>
They hadn’t had a ship go silent in ages. On the whole the 4th fleets mission had been uneventful, though not unfruitful, over the last few decades. He would never say it out loud, but a part of him was glad they had something real to deal with.<br>
<br>
Leaving the study the marine on watch snapped up and fell in line behind him as he made a path through the flag decks. Unlike the rest of the ship the flag deck was polished and refined. All of the provisions of a warship were there of course, and it wouldn’t be confused for a luxury residence, but it was certainly nicer than the standard decks, even standard officers decks on most ships didn’t have the polish of the Flag deck. The small perks of being an Admiral.<br>
<br>
He made a detour to his aide’s office, “Lieutenant.” He acknowledged the younger officer, who stood and saluted before grabbing a data pad and following the Admiral through to the briefing room where Lord Niqholaj Vrasch and the command staff were already waiting. The officers all stood to attention as the watch officer announced “Admiral on deck!”<br>
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“Admiral.” the diplomat nodded politely.<br>
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“Lord Vrasch.” Ahlyxee returned the courtesy and saluted his officers before taking a seat, the others following suit. “Perhaps you’ll be putting that diplomatic skill of yours to the test after all of our time chasing the void. Gentlemen, as I’m sure you have heard SF-1072 Vlaycli has gone silent following a first contact engagement.” Waving a hand he pulled up the dossier pertaining to the situation. A hologram of system 11927 appeared. Another officer stood, “ExGru-12 has diverted to their designated alpha rendezvous point, but have not been able to hail Vlaycli since they lost contact. Vlaycli did relay the linguistics data they gathered to the group, we are currently working this against our log of general interstellar linguistics data to find a possible match, as well as what combat data was available. The last confirmed communication any of the remaining ships had with Vlaycli was a warp vector confirmation.” The Officer sat having completed the report.<br>
<br>
“Options.”<br>
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Commodore Jiih brought up a file, “Patrol groups 13 and 21 are within a few days warp of 11927.”<br>
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“Remember we’re trying to make contact not start a war, sirs.” Lord Vrasch calmly interjected, though his tone was not facetious, it was simply his job to preface these types of discussions with diplomacy in mind.<br>
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“Of course Lord Vrasch.” Jiih acknowledged, “But the species we are dealing with has proven to be hostile, and we must operate under the impression that they have destroyed one of our own.” He maneuvered the data to show SysPat groups 13 and 21 in the hostile system. “A show of power is not necessarily a show of force. We must send ships to investigate Vlaycli’s condition. ExGru-12 can spearhead any continued contact effort but if the locals become hostile again it behooves us to have the ability to return aggression in kind. We can not afford to throw away lives and ships. Parking SysGru 12 and 13 on the edge of the system may well be enough to deter further unprovoked aggression.”<br>
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“And if it isn’t?” Niqholaj asked calmly.<br>
<br>
“Aggression in kind Lord Vrasch, in so far as necessary to ensure our own peoples safety. To that end we will also have Red Dragon and her escorts deploy to the current Rendezvous Alpha point. We don’t know the extent of their naval power, but we will not be unprepared if things turn to the worst.” Ahlyxee stood, the others following and standing to attention. “Thank you, may the High Lord’s Sword and Shield be with us.” He turned and exited the conference room.<br>
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Lord Vrasch followed him quickly, waiting until the command staff were out of earshot, “Admiral I do hope the long decades of peace are not spurring this response to be more than necessary.”<br>
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“Lord Vrasch I do hope you are not questioning our response to the possible loss of a Sword Frigate.” Ahlyxee replied before stopping his aide’s office, “Niqholaj, I may have spent far more time at a desk over the last years than I would like to admit, but it is not in the Commonwealth’s interest to start a war with the first space faring species we’ve encountered in earnest. You’ve known me long enough to trust me on this.” <br>
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Niqholaj nodded, “Of course, but it’s my job to ask the question.” He patted his friend on the shoulder. “Will you be coming?” Seeing the Admiral’s questioning expression he clarified, “To the Red Dragon? Surely you don’t expect me to not be there.”<br>
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“Oh, well I suppose you would go. But no, Commodore Raht is on the Red Dragon, she is more than capable of commanding this operation. I will sadly return to signing orders at my desk, and may we both hope things go smoothly enough that that is where I must stay.”<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><b>Endoval System<br>
Endoval IV<br>
Western Lowlands<br>
Contested Sein’Hae Land</b><br>
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The jungle below the three Corvus Class Shuttles looked all the more intimidating up close, an impenetrable sea of green broken up only occasionally by jagged rock formations and particularly tall specimens that towered above their rivals. With the rain still beating down unimpeded at this altitude, visibility was low too, and each of the shuttle’s pilots would need to be on their game to avoid crashing into obstacles.<br>
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With no obvious landing sites on the horizon, the pilots would be left with no other choice but to break through the jungle’s dense tree line and attempt to land. The shrieks of scattering wildlife could occasionally be heard as the three ships sank lower and soon disappeared into the trees, shattering branches and scattering leaves as they made a careful descent to the jungle’s surface. All three shuttles were forced to land a distance away from one another, so complex and impassable was the descent. Whether all three shuttles hit the ground intact or not was completely down to the skill and nerves of each pilot, as the trees around them felt like they were ready to enclose the vessels and trap them for good.<br>
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The planet’s surface was hardly better than its skies, though a great deal more vibrant. The marines would be met with dense, vicious looking foliage that limited their visibility to their immediate surroundings. The ground below was sodden with rain and mud that threatened to trap the group’s boots forever, broken up occasionally by mossy, rocky terrain that provided a little more stability. Further afield from the immediate landing zone, the terrain dipped and rose sporadically in many places, greatly limiting the effectiveness of anything but light infantry and small machines.<br>
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Oddly, the area felt much quieter than before, with only the weather above making significant noise that wasn’t sourced from the fireteam itself. It was likely any wildlife had scattered in the wake of such large machines crashing down atop them. The distress beacon they were tasked with securing continued to transmit from several miles to the south, where the terrain appeared to be sloping downward.<br>
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Skies Above Western Lowlands</b><br>
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Above the jungle canopy, the Consulate’s deployed IRD Pods were having a far easier time locating the area above the distress beacon than the Union marines further afield. The area seemed to sink far below its surroundings, and so was likely a valley of some kind. Any Pods that attempted to descend into the trees would find themselves doing so slowly, oftentimes sending a feed of nothing but leaves and branches to the waiting vessel above. One Pod making this treacherous journey would be lost as it became entangled in a vast web hanging between branches like a net, which left the Pod stranded but still transmitting a view of very little besides the drained carcasses of creatures caught in the web. A second Pod would find itself battered by a tree-dwelling mammal of some kind, akin to a Terran ape, which assaulted the drone from its perch in an attempt at defending its territory before it scattered for cover.<br>
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Any remaining Pods that successfully navigated the terrain finally gave Commander Burnish a distant, unreliable visual of their prize, partially buried by terrain and almost invisible to those not actively searching for it, such was its naturalized state. The vessel was still and silent beyond the meek signal it transmitted, and simply looking at it would draw the conclusion of it being completely abandoned. The Commander might also note its design similarities to the ship currently pointing guns at his own, albeit this crashed ship looked a lot older and less refined, most certainly a much older model.<br>
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Significantly far off course from its brethren, the lone IRD Pod that had come under attack managed to evade the flock of beasts as it left the vicinity, the creatures returning to their sudden feeding frenzy after leaving the Pod with plenty of rends and tears in its hull. Stuck idly flying in the wrong direction as the situation elsewhere drew the Commander’s attention, the solitary drone and its temporary pilot found themselves surveying the landscape a number of miles from the intended target.<br>
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It began passing out of the lowlands and toward higher ground, where the rocks turned to mountains and the skies began clearing, improving visibility significantly and allowing the drone to get a greater view on its surroundings, especially the wildlife that occasionally scattered in its wake.</div>
				
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Persons of Interest: Doroni '5, Heliogovernor of Raila<br>
Ergoth '2, overseer of Terrel Task Force<br>
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"You may enter," Doroni said from her throne, peering through the crack in the door. "We something to discuss."<br>
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Unlike the other seats, the chair was much more simple than the thrones. Five other heliogovernors, or at least their life-like holograms, sat in carefully woven thrones from the purest of woods.<br>
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Ignus nodded lazily. "Doroni, tell us, what is this about?"<br>
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Doroni nodded. "This is Ergoth '2, the overseer of the Terrel Task Force. He's uncovered some information that he wishes to share with us all."<br>
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The overseer nodded quickly and took out a few files. "Um, one of my agents has managed to infiltrate the organization known as The Fire. We've worked them up into a good position, and they've managed to pass along information about their organization."<br>
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He pushed one file to the middle of the table, where a scanner processed the object and materialized a digital form of its contents in the front of Doroni.  It was labeled "RESOURCES", and Doroni started to look through them as the overseer continued. "As you can see, we've got a lot of information about their resources, including their ships, their food and ammo supply, and their technology. It seems as if they are focusing a lot on combat-related technologies, and they've surpassed us in that front."<br>
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Rarii, another heliogovernor, spoke up. "It says here that they have five hundred ships. How's that possible?"<br>
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"It's mostly because they've got a lot of minerals and are... preparing for war a lot more than our own forces are," Doroni replied absentmindedly. "Speaking of, I don't suppose Ignus has approved of my plans, have you?"<br>
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"No," Ignus insisted coldly. "As I've said, it would be unwise to let The Fire dictate our lives. The fleet's time will not be spent unless they are absolutely needed."<br>
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At this, Doroni clenched her teeth. It was evident that they needed to squash the rebellion before it grew into an actual threat. So why did Ignus say otherwise? She almost pushed the matter but decided that it would not get her anywhere.<br>
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"Well, it looks like they're building up substantial supplies," Rarii said. "Does your agent have their plans at all?"<br>
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"It seems that at the moment, no. Most of what he's dug up does not lead to a plan at all, although there could still be one."<br>
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After that, Doroni lost interest in the conversation. It was obvious that her efforts would not get her anywhere. Ignus would not budge. Doroni would need to try to cause some action behind Ignus's back, possibly hiring some other group. Hopefully, Ignus would never find out, but if she did... Doroni would have to push back.<br>
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Long after the meeting, Doroni sent out a mission briefing to her Darknet contacts. Disrupt the faction, with a reward of 50,000 credits for taking of their HQ/leaders and a reward of 10,000 for finding crucial information. She could offer only money and information; no equipment, for if anything went missing from their stockpile, Ignus would notice.</div>
				
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Despite the rather decrepit appearance of the conference room they were in, with what looked like the stains of smoke and even of something vaguely resembling a mix of very dried and old blood from multiple species on the walls, the air system still seemed to be perfectly functional, with the filters working silently in the background, dissipating the yellow smoke that the woman was continuously exhaling. She was at the third cigarette in the span of a couple of minutes, even if she seemed to be completely and utterly calm, a relaxed smile on her face. Even if the two ragged guards were still outside on the hallway, guarding what had once been a door, too far away to intervene if either of the two mercenaries would decide to do something, even if two armed guards were quite nothing compared to how many desperate people were normally on the Astral Flame, even if she didn't seem to have any weapons herself, she was so carefree that one might even feel like she was in her own living room.<br>
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<i>"Of course"</i>, she replied, giggling a little. <i>"We can not expect true professionals to their job without proper compensation now, can we? The first part of the payment is right here, in a mix of Terran credits, Colonial marks, and other League approved currencies, all with scrambled identification markers to ensure that they can't be tracked. They can also be easily converted and sent to a bank account of your choice."</i>, the woman explained, putting a small metallic briefcase on the table. <i>"The briefcase also contains the approximate coordinates of the planet - it shouldn't be that difficult to find once you reach its relative area. A long abandoned ship seems to have had its warning signal activated unintentionally, probably as a result of degradation. The final part of the payment will be calculated depending on what you find on the planet or bring back, and it will be payed in whatever way will be the most convenient for you. My employers appreciate professionals that can be counted upon, so you can be sure that if this mission if successful, your services might be sought again in the future. Full discretion ensured, of course."</i><br>
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Her aura of complete professionalism was slightly cracked by her reaction to Xi's last question, as for a moment there she seemed to be struggling to stifle a laugh. <i>"You do not need to worry about that, me and my companions will not join you on your journey. My companions haven't set foot on any planet in years, so I doubt that they would be of any use, as for me.. let's just say that I fancy office work much more than practical applications of my skills. Now of course, neither me, nor our employers have any desire to interfere with your team, but considering the importance of the contract and the money that they are paying, our employers do wish to keep track of things, so to say, so they have gone to the extra length of hiring a third contractor."</i><br>
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Right on cue, another person silently entered the room, without the guards making any motion or sound about it. It was another sort of human character, a woman. At first sight, one might have seemed to notice a vague resemblance to the first woman, but only then - as it quickly became very apparent that they had nothing to do with each other. This second unknown woman had irises of a sickly, yellowish color, her skin pale and vaguely ocherous. Her pupils were completely normal however, and so was the rest of her appearance, with the exception perhaps of her long, silver blonde hair. She seemed to be wearing a uniform that was perhaps similar to the ragged uniforms of the guards outside, but it was difficult to say - hers was in perfect condition, and of a much darker shade of blue, with accents of vermilion red. Of course, the same theme of there not being any identifying marks, ranks, or patches continued, but the uniform did not seem to be there only for aesthetic purposes. Underneath it, and very vaguely visible above the collar, there seemed to be some sort of a light, black, armor suit. The newcomer was also very visibly armed, with a dual-use kinetic and laser rifle on her back and what looked like a short sword in a black sheathe.<br>
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<i>"You wouldn't have to mind her too much - I'm not even sure if she can speak, and she doesn't occupy much space. You can just throw her in the back of the ship, and she will follow like a loyal dog."</i>, the first woman tried to explain. The newcomer just remained standing, merely acknowledging the other people in the room with a nod and with a vague smile as a reaction to the woman's remarks. Finishing her last cigarette, the white-clad woman stood up, clapping her hands. <i>"Everything should be alright then. Best of luck in your mission."</i><br>
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Seth had remained silent through the meeting, it was uncommon for clients to have their own member of a crew,  but not entirely unheard of, “Right, grab your bags ragazza.”<br>
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The Astral Flame was more of the same on the way back to the Salvatore. Seth looked more or less line one of the locals, his new friend decidedly did not, but then again that wasn’t saying much. It was a weird dichotomy of the station that most of the people on the station didn’t look like they could be considered “locals” and the ones who seemed “local” usually not.<br>
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Finally arriving back at the docks the creature Seth had addressed as ‘Maxwell’ stepped into his path. The alien was taller than Seth by half a head so the scowl on her face was somewhat intimidating. “Going so soon?”<br>
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Seth kept a respectable distance, “When ya gotta go.” He quipped. Subconsciously his had made way to his hip, ready to throw back his jacket and reach for his plasma pistol in a blink if this go turned violent. “We don’t have a problem do with Maxwell?”<br>
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The alien cocked her head slightly, eyeing the other person with Seth for a moment, gazing at his hand on his hip. “Next time Libanori. Calling your debt next time.” She stepped out of his path and returned to whatever she had been doing prior to noticing him returning to his ship.<br>
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Leading the final few hundred meters Seth smacked the crew hatch access panel. “Open up woman!” He demanded.<br>
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After enough time to wonder if he needed to hit the access panel again the outer door slid open. “I see you managed to not die. I’m impressed, I suppose.” The ship welcomed them “And made new friends.” The outer hatch closed and the chamber equalized before allowing the two into the ship proper.<br>
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“Common area is on deck two, pick any room that doesn’t have someone else’s junk in it.” Seth explained as he made his way up the first ladderwell. “Galley and mess are on third, along with the bridge, which is where I’ll be prepping for push off. If a door is locked you’re not supposed to be there. If I find you there I’ll shoot you. Other than that we’re pretty easy to get along with, feel free to poke around the common area, we’ll take off as soon as Xi Jiao gets back onboard. Hopefully this little cigarette run will be uneventful, though if your employer felt the need to send you maybe they expect otherwise.” Seth continued up to the bridge to begin prelaunch checks.</div>
				
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<span style="color: rgb(147, 101, 184)">Xi Jiao Shui</span><br>
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Status:  Nominal<br>
Wearing: Spacer wear<br>
Carrying: <i>SC-2 Holdout Pistol (concealed)</i>, <i>Mk I Field Knife (concealed)</i> <br>
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Despite initial appearances, the purpose of Xi's sudden departure was not to make some dramatic gesture, but actually to expedite heading straight to the cavalcade of vendors she had passed in the way in.  Like it or not, she was going to have to dump a good portion of what she'd been given ahead of time to get back to an operational state for the mission she was about to undertake: the only things she had on her were the paltry few items she was able to salvage from a survival cache she'd stowed in a storage locker three jumps ago.  Now, purchasing items on short notice and without intel on the vendor wasn't a practice she particularly was fond of mind you, but admittedly the situation left her little other choice; she was certain all of her normal equipment contacts were well and truly burned by now.  She was going to have to rely on old fashioned observation and monetary encouragement to be able to procure what she wanted.  But before that, in an out of the way alcove, she broke down the piles of cash inside the suitcase into much more reasonable folds, tucking each away in one of the various pockets of the utilitarian clothing she was wearing.  It wasn't that she didn't trust the woman who'd given her the case not planting a tracking device on it... in fact she ENTIRELY expected she had; but the reason for hiding away the large sum of credit was to lower her profile as she walked around the black market affair; nobody walks into a place like that with a suitcase of cash without making <i>some</i> waves, and those were waves she did not need.  Tossing the case down a garbage chute, she adjusted the jacket to hang better, and strode into the wonderfully weird assortment of vendors of the Astral Flame.<br>
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~~~<br>
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A short time later she returned to the <i>Salvatore</i> her financial burden significantly lightened but her physical burden now far greater than before.  As she jammed the button on the rear cargo hold hatch, waiting for the ramp to descend, she took a final look back to ensure she hadn't been followed out of the station proper before tromping up the steel alloy ramp into the cargo hold itself.  She smacked the button to reclose the cargo hold before thumbing another one near by to open a comm channel to the bridge.  "<span style="color: rgb(147, 101, 184)">Seth, I've returned.  Open the access door between the hold and the main passageways, I need to bring a lot of equipment in.</span>"  The door to the interior of the ship slowly began to trundle open as Xi hefted the various duffel bags and sacks she carried, looking like some overburdened tourist returning from a soiree through a souvenir shop.  She clambered her way through the halls until she got to the common area, spotting the unknown guest idly sitting on one of the provided chairs, and dropped her inventory of equipment not but a few feet from her.  "<span style="color: rgb(147, 101, 184)">You may report to your <i>employer</i> that our equipment purchases have been fulfilled, if that is such your duty.</span>"  Without much additional decorum, she began to dig through the various containers, beginning to put together the necessary kits that they (or at least she and Seth) would need for their foray onto the planet named.</div>
				
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Onboard Salvatore en route to Endoval IV</i><br>
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Seth settled into the pilots chair and strapped in, “Alright folks, let’s earn a paycheck.” He announced over general com before easing the Salvatore out of its place on the docking floor and navigating it back through the stations access lanes. The place was absolutely jammed with ships coming and going, of every size and type. It was a wonder things managed to move at all without smashing into each other and spinning off into the blackness of space. But somehow the ever moving dance continued, a microcosm of the galaxy itself. Endless objects on their own trajectory for their own purposes with no regard to others somehow not resulting in the utter end of all involved.<br>
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At least not yet.<br>
<br>
Seth punched in the coordinates they had been given to the planet, “Don’t say I don’t take you places.” He said to the ship around him as he engaged the warp drive. Checking the coordinates again he set the drive to spool up to max and engaged auto pilot.<br>
<br>
“Sure, leave me to stay awake and fly the ship. Have a nice nap I guess.” SIDNI quipped. Seth gave the console a pat and left the bridge and made his way to the common area. “Well, we’ve got some time to kill so don’t everyone be silent and brooding all at once.”<br>
<br>
—-<br>
<br>
“You’ll probably want to see this sir.” SIDNI announced over the direct com to Seth’s quarters. He stretched groggily, “See what, Sid?”<br>
<br>
“Navigational scanning of the plotted warp exit shows craft in orbit around the destination planet.”<br>
<br>
Seth sat up as the information registered. Seemed like they weren’t the only ones interested in whatever was going on with the planet. He climbed quickly to the bridge from his quarters and looked at the scans, multiple ships, multiple core signatures. Looked like more than one group. He drummed his fingers on the display for a moment, he certainly didn’t want to deal with someone trying to play customs agent.<br>
<br>
“Sid, explain to our passengers that we’ll have company upon warp exit.”<br>
<br>
As he made his way quickly down to the lower deck and into the pressurized cargo area, making his way to a suit locker he punched in the code to open the unit. He put the eco suit on with the precision and speed of a man who had plenty of practice doing it under pressure. Testing the pressure seal he pulled the access latch for the unpressurized cargo airlock. “I hope you have your helmet on.” SIDNI warned as he stepped in and pulled the inner hatch shut behind him. The airlock purged quickly and the outer hatch popped open.<br>
<br>
He took a cursory look around the bay to be sure everything was properly stowed as he made his way to the rear hatch. Switching on the mag boots on his suit just to be sure he pulled a large bright red lever that read ‘WARNING! DO NOT PULL!’ which opened a panel with a large red button that read ‘WARNING! DO NOT PUSH!’ Which he promptly pushed.<br>
<br>
An alarm blared as SIDNI announced “And here I was starting to like you too.” before the rear hatch opened to the expanse.<br>
<br>
—-<br>
<br>
Seth returned through the airlock and made his way quickly back up toward the bridge, sealing the lower ladderwell as he went. “Sid prepare to broadcast a distress alert for hull pressurization failure. Okay ladies looks like we’re not gonna be the only ones interested in whatever it is down on this planet. We’ll be venting some pressure from the cargo area when we drop out of warp and ignoring hails if anyone tries to play traffic cop. They can’t hold us in space leaking atmo so it’ll at least get us planet side without anyone getting froggy. No promises after that but I’d suggest whatever we plan on doing we do quickly. Strap up and strap in, this elevator don’t stop until it hits ground floor.”<br>
<br>
—-<br>
<br>
Salvatore dropped out of Warp closer to the planet than Seth had originally intended, spurred by his desire to make the landing seem like an actual distress landing if they were spotted. SIDNI began transmitting the proper distress signals for loss of hull pressure integrity, and carefully venting just enough atmosphere from pressurized cargo to be readable on a scan. Seth flipped a few switches on the com receiver that would cause it to emit a “transponder fault” code as an auto reply to any external hails.<br>
<br>
Strapping himself in his hands hovered near the controls, content to let SIDNI guide the ship unless something unexpected arose. Luckily they had dropped out of warp on a blind spot of the planet, ships would certainly see them on scans but they had a clear decent path, and if they were lucky maybe they wouldn’t even notice something as relatively small as Salvatore at all under the circumstances. They made a direct line to the planet, careful not to divert toward the general landing area until they were in atmosphere.<br>
<br>
Seth pulled the cargo hatch over ride switch once they were deep enough in the planets atmosphere that they were no longer actively venting, closing the rear hatch. Scanning the planet, even from their current altitude, it was clear this was not going to be a fun landing exercise. He peeled off their direct decent trajectory and made a line toward the zone of interest.<br>
<br>
“I read multiple ships in the area. If you somehow have not been noticed I would suggest landing here to possibly avoid detection.” SIDNI chimed in and indicated an area on the map that had been triangulated against the ships she had picked up. “Always have to find a better parking spot don’t you?” Seth quipped as he adjusted his heading, “Sid, did you bother to determine if there was an actual landing area here?” He asked as the trees continued ahead of them.<br>
<br>
“There is a landing area below the tree line. This ship was designed to withstand impacts inherent in asteroid mining, I assure you it will not be bothered by a few trees... unless you’re just chicken.”<br>
<br>
Seth rolled his eyes. “Simulated intelligence my ass. Right, bumpy landing incoming.” He announced, “strap in if you’re not already.”<br>
<br>
The Salvatore smashed its way through the tree line, forcing itself down through the foliage, the sound of massive limbs snapping under the weight of the ship and scraping along its hull echoed within. It must have been seconds but it felt like minutes to Seth as he watched the sky disappear into green. Finally a soft, firm thud and a groan as the ship settled down onto its landing gear. “You take me to the nicest places.” SIDNI mocked.<br>
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Many of the feeds projected to it were of nothing but oceans of green, the Drones who had went deep into the dense foliage in search of the signal had mixed yet promising results to share. Many wound up having to manuever through the unyielding smorgasbord of a forest, with the Overseer having to take direct control multiple times to keep the drones from getting stuck. But even then there were complications, the forest's inhabitants were predictably hard to anticipate. Though one had gotten stuck in a web, the Overseer would consider such a fate a mere pittance compared to the assault another suffered at the hands of one of the forest's more bipedal inhabitants. It gained itself a wobble as a result, and required more of the overseer's attention to keep from crashing. <br>
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Yet even with these hold ups, a number of drones made it to the source of the signal. Many were still busy trying to manuever the dense forest, but now they finally had eyes on what they had been drawn to. <br>
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"Visual on source acquired." the Overseer stated, drawing Burnish's attention.<br>
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With a grunt, Burnish approached before looking over the android's shoulder towards the screens. It was a ship, no doubt. Seeing it through the distant eyes of the drone didn't give too many details, but what they did give was enough for the moment. Though he was far better at leading vessels than building them, it didn't take dockyard knowledge for one to note similarities between the ship emitting that signal and the one they were currently in a standoff with. Burnish's gut instinct screamed trap, that the vessel had lured them here using this broken wreck's signal. But no, the vessel looked ancient compared to what they were looking at. Unless he was dealing with pirates who just couldn't resist utilizing a specific part of their latest find, that couldn't be it.<br>
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But the possibility remained.<br>
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"Get eyes inside that vessel." Burnish ordered as he leaned back "Old or not, maybe it could clue us in on who we're dealing with here."<br>
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"Affirmative, Commander." the Overseer input several commands and watched as the few drones who had made it to the vessel began moving to examine the vessel "Let it be noted that the ecosystem on this planet is difficult to traverse, even for IRDs."<br>
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"Eyes on the prize." Burnish responded as he began to pace again, "As long as we don't have intel on these pink-skinned creatures, We need every advantage we can get."<br>
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The Overseer nodded in compliance before returning to its screens again, "It should also be noted that one of our IRDs has been chased far off course from the woods by the wildlife. Moving it back into position from its current location would only endanger it again, its current damages makes it unlikely to survive another encounter."<br>
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Burnish rubbed at the bridge of his nose, "Then have it perform high-altitude reconnaissance." he grunted "So far getting a picture from inside those woods has been a pain in the arse, maybe the rest of this rock will be more forthcoming."<br>
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"Affirmative, Commander." the Overseer turned and had the Lone Drone Pull up into the air before setting it on a high-altitude recon of the mountainous region it had found itself in. As the Overseer worked, Burnish watched with a grunt of annoyance as another small ship showed up on scans. With the unknown ship resting between them and the planet, Burnish assumed it was allied with them and returned to his pacing. The ships that kept getting sent towards the planet's surface were concerning, but as far as he cared they were nothing compared to the standoff they were currently engaged in.<br>
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"Keep track of any aliens spotted down there." He shouted towards the Overseer before clenching his hands into fists, "They're sending a whole lot of em down there, and I want to know what they're up to the moment we've got footage."<br>
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<i>Unknown system in Iniia space<br>
SF-Vlaycli</i><br>
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Captain Awundhersun Toezeer<br>
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Alarms blared.<br>
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The helm computers were spitting out error messages and warnings so fast they were basically unintelligible. <br>
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“Sir, we are off course and the computer is failing to calculate current heading or placement.” The helmsman called over the noise of the bridge. “Should we disengage?”<br>
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Awndhersun drummed his fingers on the arm of his captain's chair “Emergency disengage warp drive.”<br>
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As orders were relayed a voice from engineering came over the ship com, “Emergency disengage malfunction, switching to manual emergency disengage. Thirty seconds.” <br>
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Thirty more seconds directionless in warp. They would travel some 50 million kilometers in that thirty seconds, on the scale of the galaxy it was barely a measurable distance, and still it was a terrifying prospect. They had already been off course for minutes, as vast and empty as space was, pointing oneself aimlessly towards the stars and moving through them at 656 times the speed of light could only end poorly, even if they were more or less safe while they actually maintained warp. Still, they needed to drop out of warp while they were still theoretically in the space between systems.<br>
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“Five seconds to emergency warp disengage. Four, three, two, one.”<br>
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Everything fell silent for a moment. There were no stars, there was nothing. Captain Toezeer studied the view intently. Was there anything? Then he saw it, a ring of light just on the edge of blackness. <br>
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A wormhole.<br>
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Suddenly the stars returned. <br>
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“Placement report?” The Captain asked calmly.<br>
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“Sir, nav computer is still in error. We can’t get a placement reading. It appears the Q. E. A. interface has been damaged. Mid range scans show a system well within sublight range.”<br>
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Without the Quantum Entanglement Array they couldn’t communicate with the rest of the 4th fleet. The array was also responsible for pinpointing the ship's location on the galactic map. The Array itself was nearly indestructible and had redundancies built in to insure Vlaycli was never completely dead in the water, but with no interface the QEA was useless. Luckily it was a repairable problem.<br>
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They also had structural damage to inspect and repair, the hit that sent them off course almost certainly did more damage than just frying the QEA interface.<br>
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“Make for the system, scan rate high, I don’t want to be surprised by any spacefaring inhabitants. Begin assessing ship damage and internal repairs, and someone get my Q E A interface back up.”<br>
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SF Vlaycli’s engines flared as it accelerated towards the unknown system.<br>
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Former Confederate Navy personnel, many of the crew had arrived in Colonial space years before after a wormhole generator sent the DCS Agincourt there.  Once she stepped into her boots, St. Clare began walking through the halls of the ship, towards the bridge.  Every footstep, every doorway, and airlock brought back memories.  The Envouira had been purchased from a group of unscrupulous salvagers, and slowly restored.  150 meters long, the ship was relatively small, but agile, tough, and heavily armed.  <br>
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"Not long, Captain," Helmsman and Navigator Jacob Larousse answered.  "Jumping in seven minutes.  Like I said, the signal isn't far from here at all."<br>
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<b>Unknown Space, Lwarp Signal Location</b><br>
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As the Envouira arrived in the system, they noticed the catastrophe that had befallen the freighter crew.  <br>
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<span style="font-size: 22px"><b><u>People of Interest: Captain Julius M’Butu (Union Fleet)</u></b></span><br>
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The figure that filled the screen hadn't exactly been expected. It was under M'Butu's watch that first contact with an alien species was being made since.... well since the collapse. The borders had solidified after that tumultous years, the Colonial Union knew what was out there, but had no interest in contacting it or being contacted, a hard taught lesson from history. The bridge crew had gone silent as a figure emerged on screen. After generations of history bordering on mythology lessons on the various races and species that had broken the frontiers and descended with tooth and nail, the small furry creature that filled the viewscreen hadn't exactly been expected, and was far more at odds with the hulking brute that had filled it previously. M'Butu's eyes narrowed as it spoke, the odd word filtering through, either progress was being made by them or by truely remarkable set of Galactic coincidences, their languages weren't all that different. Almost certainly the former. He turned towards his Communication's officer.<br>
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"I want all of this filtered through the translation software, everything that thing said earlier and everything this one is saying,"<br>
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He had no idea if it was going to work. It was a prototype at best, and had passed all sorts of field trials, but this was the first time it wasn't just dealing with a complex linguistics puzzle some Suatern anthropologist had come up, this was a real world situation. "I want everything gathered so far sent back to the Admiralty. Ship scans, everything they've said so far, and keep it sending. We're too far to receive help or even a message back for now, but we can keep broadcasting." <br>
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M'Butu cleared his throat and focused back on the screen. Interest to do so... that had been clear. A threat perhaps, a warning? This was uncharted territory, regulations only dealt with incursions, but as much as they were claiming that this was Union Space, Endoval hadn't really been part of Union space for generations, driving them out whilst stinging their heels with munitions wasn't the best option here, he didn't want his name going down in the history books for being the spark that lit a powder keg, 'M'butu's War'. Keep up the communication, see if they could get through to each other, time for the software to work its magic, as well as whatever they were using.<br>
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"Whilst your presence here is a breach of Union sovereignty, we hope that this was a oversight as opposed to a planned incursion. The distress beacon originates from one of our ships, and any attempts to interfere with the rescue operation will be met with a similar response. Any survivors, technology, or materials are Union owned, and any move to salvage or claim this for yourselves will once again result in a forceful response." He paused for a moment, a few beads of sweat were pooling at the base of his neck. "We wish to avoid any conflict here. This is a ship of war, but today I extend an olive branch towards you, I say take it,"<br>
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As the Pegasus flew deeper into the massive freighter, Blaise's commandos looked for life signs on the gunship's sensors.  As they got closer to the survivors, all of them strapped into rocket packs, sealed their armour, and put their helmets on.  When the gunship doors opened, the boarders secured harnesses, and descended into the darkness of the ship.  Helmet lamps flickered on, low light vision modes were activated, and the spotlights of the transport tried to make the area as bright as possible.  <br>
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"Lampago Company to Captain St. Clare.  Boarding successful," Blaise said into his helmet's comm system.  <br>
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Almost immediately the Captain of the Morfus had turned the stolen vessel towards the signal whilst yelling for the crew to prepare for a raid. Laughter and roars of eagerness echoed throughout the Morfus' halls, the only proper response from true Rustafan Raiders. Drones and hesitation were the staples of those Consulate dogs, true Drovakki like them knew nothing but glee at the mere prospect of combat. Still, the Captain attempted to curtail her excitement, from the sounds of it, this wouldn't be much of a fight for life. Their target was in distress, far from any Consulate aid, ripe for the plundering. Best case scenario is the desperate crew put up enough resistance for a good time, worst case is that they get a bunch of free scrap to haul outta there.<br>
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But that wasn't exactly what they found when the Morfus tore out of the warp and sighted the source of the signal. Sure, the battered and semi-destroyed ship was right where they anticipated, but there was another ship as well. <br>
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"A trap?!?" One of the raiders piped up as the Captain slapped him over the back of his head.<br>
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"Use your eyes you pus-sucking filth!" she shouted before pointing "Only one o' them, they's takin' our loot!"<br>
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Snarls and growls of anger flared up as the Captain reached over and slammed a fist on a button which filled the halls of the vessel with her voice, "We got us some two-bit scavs tryin' to make off with our find, lads! Let's hope they's willin' to brawl for it!"<br>
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Pulling his hand back, the Captain shouted over to another Raider, "Get me a line over to whoever these things is!" she shouted "I wanna look 'em in the eyes when we start's blasting!"<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">When Blaise and the others entered the room where the survivors waited, they were surprised by the small size of the beings in the room.  When the leader of the survivors spoke, Blaise was filled with a strange sense of unease.  He couldn't figure out what was driving it, but there was something very unsettling about the little creatures.  After a moment, he shook off the feeling, at least for a moment.  The commando officer had fought in dozens of battles during his career, and conversation with friendly life forms shouldn't bother him.  <br>
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"Yes.  We came from the Envouira.  I'm Ensign Blaise Bescond, of Lampago Company.  It's nice to meet you.  And it's no problem to rescue you.  We heard your signal, and weren't far when we received it.  We don't have much time, with the air venting.  Follow me to the transport.  The Envouira is waiting to take you out of here."<br>
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Switching to an internal helmet comm, Blaise said, "Captain St. Clare.  We've found the survivors, and are going to depart soon.  Something about them is odd though.  I don't understand why, but every time they speak, waves of uneasiness was over me.  It isn't rational, but it's here." <br>
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"Understood," the officer replied.  "I just spoke with the captain.  It seems we have unknown company in system.  If you don't mind me saying so, we need to leave the ship before it falls apart or our friends decide what to do." <br>
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The Salvatore's landing onto the planet was a messy and nerve wracking affair as the ship attempted to breach the treeline. This jungle was a gargantuan and ancient beast, its trees unmoving sentinels far more resilient than even fortified strongholds. Repeatedly, the vessel bounced off particularly thick branches and tore through clusters of vines or leaves, each impact mauling at the hull and threatening to leave it a stranded wreck like so many others buried on the ground.<br>
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The bone-shaking impacts continued for several agonisingly long minutes as SIDNI would be put to its limit navigating without ending up entangled in the trees. Finally however, the ship touched down with an almighty crash, awkwardly coming to land on what looked like a patch of reasonably flat rocks. There was a loud creak and a crumbling sound as the ship leaned forward, the rocky terrain below giving way and collapsing a few feet into a swampy ditch, bringing the front landing gear with it. Mercifully, that seemed to be the extent of the collapse, leaving the Salvatore awkwardly parked on a slant with its cockpit staring down into a muddy pool of water.<br>
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As the sounds of the impact died out, even inside the ship the crew could hear an orchestra of noise outside as their landing had left wildlife scattering for safety. Screeches from above, hoots and bellows from all around, yet these sounds were getting quieter. It seemed they had avoided attracting the ire of any such creatures, as the ship was left be, the worst assault received caused by a few stray branches smashing down atop it from their impacts up above.<br>
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A tense quiet pervaded the area as the few IRDs left flying approached their quarry, giving a close up look of holes in the hull and what little of its exterior markings were still legible underneath rust, wear and foliage. The pods began filing in through gaps where they could find them, requiring light sources or other means of darkvision to view inside the hull. What they could make out was a chaotic mess; evidently this ship had been abandoned for several lifetimes, such was the sorry state that it was in. plants and small nests occupied many walls, nooks and gaps, and the floors seemed littered with vines and flowers.<br>
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A perceptive individual might note with some difficulty through the camera feeds, there appeared to be debris and particularly torn up plantlife in some areas of the ship, as if a battle had taken place here. The occasional beaten looking, crude weapon on the floor, a pile of strangely shaped metal plates or a few scattered bones, some of which still smoked faintly.<br>
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During its foray into what looked like a cargo bay, a lot more expansive than the rest of the ship, one IRD maneuvered around a corner and got itself caught on a vine, gently tugging at it as it tried continuing on its way. Yet, the vine seemed to be caught up in its chassis, causing it to veer a little off course and into another viney tendril, then another, then another. It had become stuck, its camera feed unable to identify the source of the hold, then it started to sputter and malfunction as the vines started secreting an oozing sap-like substance onto the IRD. The sap ate away at the pod, breaching holes in it and exposing its delicate innards to the unseen predator attempting to break in, its tendrils seeping into the IRD and sabotaging its interior. Burnish was left watching a dark cargo hold, the occasional sway of a vine and the sounds of his pod being damaged. The feed glitched and faltered, though managed to continue transmitting as the pod was jostled about and started moving a little, as if it were being carried.<br>
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Many, many miles away from the crash site, the single IRD pod that was off course had begun clumsily sailing the skies, scanning the jungle from a safer distance. The rain clouds had been left behind for now. It weaved around mountaintops and large trees, eventually travelling up along a massive ravine that had split part of the jungle in two. A river flowed down below, and even from up high the pod could identify it as being teeming with peculiar aquatic life. The ravine’s cliffs were populated by bizarre alien reptiles of some kind, which clung to the rocky surfaces with claws, using long, flexible necks to reach down and drink from the river, or pull prey out from below its surface. Certainly a pretty and fascinating sight, but likely of little tactical advantage to Burnish.<br>
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What did seem promising however was nearer to the other end of the ravine as the pod followed its path, where it would find an overgrown hole in the cliffside at about water level. Even beneath all the plantlife it was easy to see that this hole was manmade, what with its neat semi-arch design and metal plating. A small, half-sunken platform jutted out from its front on both sides, with a narrow canal flowing into the hole, suggesting that this was some form of docking platform for a water-based craft. It looked disused, collections of bones and scattered debris strewn about around its entrance, though it remained open enough for an IRD pod to easily fly inside of for a look.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><b><span style="font-size: 26px">The Drokoi Consulate</span></b><br>
<i>Endoval System<br>
Commander Burnish of the CF-Jorkhann <br>
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		</a> <a href="/members/succuboi.68427/" class="username " dir="auto" data-user-id="68427" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" id="js-XFUniqueId52">Succuboi</a>​</div><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">"⍙⊑⟟⌰⌇⏁ ⊬⍜⎍⍀ ⌿⍀⟒⌇⟒⋏☊⟒ ⊑⟒⍀⟒ ⟟⌇ ⏃ ⏚⍀⟒⏃☊⊑ ⍜⎎ ⎍⋏⟟⍜⋏ ⌇⍜⎐⟒⍀⟒⟟☌⋏⏁⊬, ⍙⟒ ⊑⍜⌿⟒ ⏁⊑⏃⏁ ⏁⊑⟟⌇ ⍙⏃⌇ ⏃ ⍜⎐⟒⍀⌇⟟☌⊑⏁ ⏃⌇ ⍜⌿⌿⍜⌇⟒⎅ ⏁⍜ ⏃ ⌿⌰⏃⋏⋏⟒⎅ ⟟⋏☊⎍⍀⌇⟟⍜⋏. ⏁⊑⟒ ⎅⟟⌇⏁⍀⟒⌇⌇ ⏚⟒⏃☊⍜⋏ ⍜⍀⟟☌⟟⋏⏃⏁⟒⌇ ⎎⍀⍜⋔ ⍜⋏⟒ ⍜⎎ ⍜⎍⍀ ⌇⊑⟟⌿⌇, ⏃⋏⎅ ⏃⋏⊬ ⏃⏁⏁⟒⋔⌿⏁⌇ ⏁⍜ ⟟⋏⏁⟒⍀⎎⟒⍀⟒ ⍙⟟⏁⊑ ⏁⊑⟒ ⍀⟒⌇☊⎍⟒ ⍜⌿⟒⍀⏃⏁⟟⍜⋏ ⍙⟟⌰⌰ ⏚⟒ ⋔⟒⏁ ⍙⟟⏁⊑ ⏃ ⌇⟟⋔⟟⌰⏃⍀ ⍀⟒⌇⌿⍜⋏⌇⟒. ⏃⋏⊬ ⌇⎍⍀⎐⟟⎐⍜⍀⌇, ⏁⟒☊⊑⋏⍜⌰⍜☌⊬, ⍜⍀ ⋔⏃⏁⟒⍀⟟⏃⌰⌇ ⏃⍀⟒ ⎍⋏⟟⍜⋏ ⍜⍙⋏⟒⎅, ⏃⋏⎅ ⏃⋏⊬ ⋔⍜⎐⟒ ⏁⍜ ⌇⏃⌰⎐⏃☌⟒ ⍜⍀ ☊⌰⏃⟟⋔ ⏁⊑⟟⌇ ⎎⍜⍀ ⊬⍜⎍⍀⌇⟒⌰⎐⟒⌇ ⍙⟟⌰⌰ ⍜⋏☊⟒ ⏃☌⏃⟟⋏ ⍀⟒⌇⎍⌰⏁ ⟟⋏ ⏃ ⎎⍜⍀☊⟒⎎⎍⌰ ⍀⟒⌇⌿⍜⋏⌇⟒."</span> Sir Norflux tapped at the console before him happily as the alien continued speaking, tiny hands flexing every once in a while as he hummed and cooed at what was displayed before him <span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">"⍙⟒ ⍙⟟⌇⊑ ⏁⍜ ⏃⎐⍜⟟⎅ ⏃⋏⊬ ☊⍜⋏⎎⌰⟟☊⏁ ⊑⟒⍀⟒. ⏁⊑⟟⌇ ⟟⌇ ⏃ ⌇⊑⟟⌿ ⍜⎎ ⍙⏃⍀, ⏚⎍⏁ ⏁⍜⎅⏃⊬ ⟟ ⟒⌖⏁⟒⋏⎅ ⏃⋏ ⍜⌰⟟⎐⟒ ⏚⍀⏃⋏☊⊑ ⏁⍜⍙⏃⍀⎅⌇ ⊬⍜⎍, ⟟ ⌇⏃⊬ ⏁⏃☍⟒ ⟟⏁"</span><br>
<br>
And with a twist of a few knobs and  a few flashing lights, comprehensible words began to ever so often filter through. Surprisingly enough, Sir Norflux found that much of the creature's tonal inflections were similar to a much softer version of the speech primarily used by the Drovakki. As a result, many of the Drovakki working on the Admiral's ship turned their heads as they took note of the translated words first.<br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">"breach... sovereign... planned incursion...beacon... our ships... Union owned...forceful response... conflict... warship... branch... take it."</span> came spewing out in something far more comprehensible to the Admiral's crew. All of which was still being overheard by Burnish as he paced throughout the entire conversation.<br>
<br>
Hearing the words coming out of the translator, he narrowed his gaze before stepping forward and leaning over a rail to look down at several Drovakki and androids at a console before him, "Prime all forward facing weaponry." he stated.<br>
<br>
"Sir?" a Drovakki asked while glancing back<br>
<br>
"Just keep 'em ready to start firin', there was a whole lot o' shrahk in that sentence that I didn't like." he growled, hand clenching into a fist as the bridge crew moved to follow his orders. All across the Jorkhann, weapons systems that had previously been left on standby were now being brought out in full, with droids and Drovokki alike prepping munitions and generators for a combat scenario. Outwardly, lights began turning on along the Jorkhann's sides as the two sides of the ship extended ever so slightly from the central body, with a number of compartments opening among them.<br>
<br>
This however, did not go unnoticed by Sir Norflux, who had been attempting to focus on translating the Alien creatures' and their language. When he began getting warnings that the Captain's ship had essentially entered into a battle-ready state, he reached over and reconnected him to the transmission, essentially turning his chat with the unknown aliens into a three way call. As soon as Burnish reappeared on the transmission, Sir Norflux leaned forward and went about figuring out what he was doing.<br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(26, 188, 156)">"Quoug ozusgri ulo iea jeot, Sukguyum?"</span> he asked whilst continuing his work on the recieved translations<br>
<br>
Burnish didn't hesitate to point towards the screen, <span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)">"Theuke creaavureuk cannoav be avruukaved, trokoid! their worduk! theausan expandaumn inavo our averriavorausan wiavh warukhipuk!"</span> he explained <span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)">"noav gonna leav avhem caavch alnej parmab rog!"</span><br>
<br>
It seemed the dear captain was convinced that these creatures were aggressive expansionists, and was feeling a tad uncomfortable in close proximity to them. This was not a good sign to both the Torkoid and the Admiral, who began aggresively calling for him to stand down until word from the Council came through. Sir Norflux rolled his eyes at this, everyone here knew the Council wouldn't be able to formulate a proper response for a while, the Admiral's Anti-Pirating fleet and the Nueropan Trade Union were the only sizable forces in this region thanks to that damn war with the Hivemind they were still stuck in. And in complicated situations like this, it almost seemed like the Council took longer to give any word or oversight. No, they would have to handle this themselves, and that meant Norflux would have to work quickly before any misunderstandings pushed things further.<br>
<br>
Using what he'd translated so far, he was beginning to get a basic understanding of how the alien creatures formulated words. Its similarities to Drovakki were actually uncanny for a moment, but the Trokoid wasn't about to waste time worrying about coincidences. Instead, he hurried to type up some kind of response that they could give the creatures before Burnish's worry drove them to fire first. <br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(26, 188, 156)">"Gli chyuc, Sukguyum, iea nui hyumja yug nelo cayuguvro hel sennamyusugyuemc"</span> he said whilst sending a hastily assembled jumble of broken Alien-Speak to Burnish.<br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)">"Ain'av avhiuk your buukineukuk!?!" </span>Burnish grumbled at being made designated dignitary in spite of the Trokoid's position, but Sir Norflux was positive that any speech would be far more comprehensive to the creatures if passed through a  Drovakki's mouth.<br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(26, 188, 156)">"Sukguyum."</span> he said sternly, with Burnish eventually relenting and leaning towards the console.<br>
<br>
His words were broken and he had to pause several times to sound stuff out, but finally a message was conveyed through no small amount of effort, <span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)">"Warship...d-distressed...distress our ukhip... beacon p-planned presence... broughav oversight of Captain. Captain p-presence becauuke beacon d...distress."</span><br>
<br>
Sir Norflux pinched the bridge of his nose, the Captain's attempt at communication was essentially assembled piecemeal out of what the translator had managed to rip from the given communications. It was as much of a jumbled mess as one could expect for such a hastily made response, and there was far too much Drovakki slipped in for his liking. He could only hope such words could stall the coming of blows long enough for him to be able to translate more of the messages and assemble something the Captain would have an easier attempt at sounding out.<br>
<div style="text-align: center"><a href="https://www.rpnation.com/attachments/brucebailey91-recon-drone-1-536b00e4-zrnf-jpg.816420/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.rpnation.com/data/attachments/753/753380-0c8951d0c79151b42a391fe695cbfcff.jpg" class="bbImage " style="" alt="brucebailey91-recon-drone-1-536b00e4-zrnf.jpg" title="brucebailey91-recon-drone-1-536b00e4-zrnf.jpg" width="100" height="63" loading="lazy"></a>​</div>But for now, Burnish grumbled at the words he was sounding out. They tasted wrong on his tongue and he hated it, he flexed his fingers before taking a step back and flexing his neck muscles. But he didn't have long after his attempt at speech before the Overseer rom before called to him. Turning away from the forward console, he looked over another rail towards the Overseer just as they pulled up images from the IRD Pods. They finally had eyes inside the vessel, and Burnish was not pleased by what he saw. He had at first been entertaining the idea that the signal had been a trap set by these creatures in orderto lure them out to attack. But as he looked over the ship, he was forced to admit that the signal seemed to have been the result of some kind of brawl that took place in its halls.<br>
<br>
Given the creature that had assaulted one of the pods earlier, and the primitive nature of a number of busted weapons found amongst the carnage, he was now under the impression that the jungle had some sort of primitive sapients that had fought something in there. Primitive sapients were much more of the Consulate's expertise, as they'd come across several in their time amongst the stars. And from visuals alone, Burnish was feeling pretty confident that he was at least close with his approximation. However, this information didn't help them identify the true nature of the creatures they were in a standoff with. It was definitely one of their ships, but Burnish had grown increasingly determined to gather some kind of tactical information the longer this standoff continued. <br>
<br>
Instead, he got yet another drone being disabled by the jungles exceptionally hostile wildlife, a plant this time that had managed to get the machine stuck in more vines. How many had that been? Far too many in the Captain's opinions, they only had so many eyes inside that vessel now, and the signs of recent battle had convinced him that there were dangers about than they'd even seen so far. Thankfully, the drone's feed hadn't been interrupted, which he considered a saving grace, as it would still be able to catch sight of anything moving around down there. But as it was dragged off, he found himself raising an eyebrow before turning to yet another feed the Overseer was observing. <br>
<br>
Somehow, beyond all of the expectations that had been instilled by that congested nightmare of a forest, the single damaged drone was still going strong in its survey of the area away from the ship. It showed an extremely diverse picture of animals and plantlife, with a ravine rife with life that reminded Burnish of several forest planets he'd seen before. It was such a natural and relatively tranquil sight that it almost looked completely different from the jungle that had been swallowing up his pods one after another. The Consulate could gain much from a planet like this, but it offered even less than what the ship did in terms of tactical significance. <br>
<br>
Or at least, that was what Burnish assumed. <br>
<br>
But then the Overseer brought something else to the Captain's attention, a structure that the pod had spotted below that was undoubtedly made by something more than mere primitives. It was in a state of overgrowth as well, and its metal build had Burnish thinking that it was a similar remains of whatever the Aliens had left on the planet. He cursed himself for focusing on the ship alone now, even though he had no way of knowing there could be more sources of intel on the planet. And with the alien ship in the way, the idea of sending more pods down was out of the question for now.<br>
<br>
He had a choice to make here, and it wasn't easy. Though it wasn't a vessel, another source of intel was far too tempting to just pass up. And so far the area beyond the jungle had proven at least notably less hostile, but the drone was already damaged in its tussle with the avian creatures earlier. It wouldn't take much to put it out of commission, and Burnish wanted to know if there were more overgrown wrecks. But time was of the essence, and very quickly the situation up in orbit could turn bad.<br>
<br>
"Assume direct control and get eyes in there touchin' as little of the fauna as possible." he ordered the Overseer who nodded as it brought the solo drone towards the structure with careful yet unbalanced movements due to its damage.<br>
<br>
<div style="text-align: center"><b><span style="font-size: 26px">The Rustafan Raiders</span></b><br>
<i>Unknown Space, Morfus<br>
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		</a> <a href="/members/the-governor.44142/" class="username " dir="auto" data-user-id="44142" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" id="js-XFUniqueId56">The Governor</a>​</div>"Hey boss! We got it! Ready to transmit on your orders!" one of the raiders shouted whilst preparing to contact the vessels before them<br>
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"Get ready to fire!" the Boss shouted as she approached the head of the bridge "Send a signal to our kin in case they's filth got any tricks up their sleeves!"<br>
<br>
Soon enough they hailed the vessels, with many grunts of eager confusion coming from the raiders as they realized the creatures they were contacting weren't Drovakki or Trokoid. But that mattered little to the Boss, who hadn't even looked at the screen and instead immediately began displaying just how royally their quarries had messed up by trying to take their pickings from them.<br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(243, 121, 52)">"Greeavinguk weaklaumn ukcum!"</span> She greeted with the appropriate number of insults whilst pacing angrily and gesturing to herself <span style="color: rgb(243, 121, 52)">"jiak kij katu avo delivas meukukage ro nalkren vadokan lat liwo ukoon be."<br>
</span><br>
Spinning, she pointed towards them accusingly with a snarl of rage<span style="color: rgb(243, 121, 52)"> "Savealaumn pickinguk awaausan ukhall be puniukhun wiavh immediaave deukavrucavion!"</span><br>
<br>
Slamming a fist into her palm, she stomped a foot on the ground before clenching a fist in front of her face, <span style="color: rgb(243, 121, 52)">"Trausan avo mat like ukoldier, filavh!"</span><br>
<br>
Gesturing to her crew, she pointed towards the ship on display <span style="color: rgb(243, 121, 52)">"Blaukav avhem!"</span> she ordered, and soon the Morfus opened fire with energy beams blasting from protrusions at the head of the vessel. The energy beams were obviously targeting both the Envouira  and the Lwarp due to their close proximity. Collateral damage didn't seem to be much of a thought for the attackers as they moved to continue their assault.</div>
				
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Xi found herself being tossed about the bridge of the Salvatore far more than she'd expected even with knowledge of the emergency Seth was emulating.  Thankfully her straps held, holding her in place as the ship ricocheted off massive trees with thick branches and surprisingly elastic vines, until finally their tumltuous decent had ended, the ship coming to rest at a less-than-reassuring angle that threatened to pitch them into the murky deep at any moment.  "Well," Xi began, pulling off her straps and clambering up the no longer level deck, "if your intent was to emulate a crash landing with no control whatsoever, I must commend you on your skill in replicating such."  She listened as the hallmarks of their arrival began to slowly fade away, leaving only the occasional groan from the hull to accompany her thoughts.  "I will meet you in the common room; do not tarry."  And with that she toggled the rear bulkhead to permit her exit from the control center.<br>
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As the gunship took off, the pilot noticed several beam weapons firing, and spun the gunship in furious arcs to avoid them. They had just left the interior of the Lwarp, and fortunately for them, the relative safety of the Envouira's hangar was close by.  Blaise could see the weapons fire through the Pegasus viewports, and wondered if the newly arrived enemies would be bold enough to board a ship filled with veteran mercenaries.  Whatever the newcomers decided, Blaise would be preparing for their arrival.  <br>
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He turned on a comm and said, "Oliver.  I'm still outside, heading back towards the ship.  I don't know who these enemies are, but get ready for them to board.  I want us to be ready." <br>
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"Way ahead of you sir," replied Midshipman Oliver Banks, second in command of Lampago Company.  As he spun the barrels on a rotary laser cannon, he said, "The Captain had the same idea already.  We're also under fire, so your landing may be a bit challenging.  See you soon." <br>
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"I didn't understand a word of that," Captain St. Clare said on the bridge.  "It doesn't matter though.  They've fired on us.  Cut power to main engines, and to life support on cargo and storage decks.  Divert it all to forward weapons and shields.  Damage control teams in place, prepare the jump drive in case we need a quick exit.  All hands, prepare for battle and open fire.  We're about to show them we're no cargo ship!"<br>
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Although she hadn't understood the transmission, St. Clare suspected the new ship was filled with pirates intent on taking the goods from the damaged Lwarp.  And although she intended to defend the Envouira, she also understood the Lwarp was probably low on supplies from the hole they had blasted into the side of it.  The derelict wasn't worth taking major losses to her crew and ship over.  Once the survivors were safe and the jump drive was ready, she planned on leaving the system.  <br>
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"Look's like we's gettin' a fight, my lads!!!" the Boss shouted as the Bridge of the Morfus was drowned in roars and cheers. <br>
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As the Gunship made for the Envouira, the Morfus moved in a slight arc to get a better aim on the rear portions of the Envouira. As it was pelted by retaliatory lasers, the Morfus released several modified civilian transport ships that opened fire as they sped for the vessel in a chaotic frenzy. Of course, many were caught up in the crossfire between the larger ships, but the remainder focused on giving their quarries more lines of defense to focus on. Two even sighted the gunship as a target and attempt to manuever through the Envouira's retaliation in order to fire upon it.<br>
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Inside the Morfus' bridge, the ship's boss was grinning ear to ear as she ordered for the ship to turn on its side so they could focus aft-mounted weaponry on the vessel with ease. As the ship began to turn, blasts struck its shield over and over again. Upon seeing that their own lasers had similar effect on their quarry's shield, she cooed in delight.<br>
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"Ooh, so its to see which goes down first, eh?" she grumbled to herself, glancing away as a hand waved for her attention "What?"<br>
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The pirate who had called for her immediately pointed to his console, which blinked with a light indicative of someone attempting to contact them, "Its the missus, boss! Think we went past our check-in time!"<br>
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The boss gritted her teeth, the prospect of battle having taken her mind off of the boredom the day was supposed to be. They were supposed to be keeping an eye out for any traders who moved through this area, many of whom fled instead of standing their ground when attacked. They sailed under the Unquenchable's banner, and therefore had to report their haul and findings to her so she could coordinate their movements easier. But there was no way that they could divert attention away from the brawl before them, and the Boss yelled as much.<br>
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"Tell her we's in a scrap," she shouted before nodding "she'll understand. And somebody get those aft-blasters pre-charged, first volley's gotta be a big one!"<br>
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As it turned, moving in an arc now instead of a direct push, the Morfus' aft-mounted blasters began visibly charging as they readied to fire.</div>
				
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<b>persons of interest</b><br>
Captain Awundhersun Toezeer<br>
Major Āhmz Aikkirow<br>
<br>
Vlaycli floated silently through space on a trajectory for a nearby planet. Her engines were dark, allowing maintenance crews the benefit of zero gravity to operate at various unorthodox angles in making ship repairs as they coasted along.<br>
<br>
For the majority of the crew work continued as normal, whether buckled into a workstation or enjoying the freedom of zero g, there were few tasks that occurred on the ship that couldn’t be accomplished in this state. Hails continued to be sent out as computers broke down the various signals they could receive from the system, AI linguistics working to decipher a functional communication method. <br>
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A monitor on the comms deck flashed as a new signal appeared on the scans.<br>
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“Sir, picking up a ship that just dropped into sub-light.” The petty officer at the station announced, “They are transmitting multiple test signals, our computers seem to have a fix on one as binary, others seem to be native linguistics, the system is processing.”<br>
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The comms chief floated over and took a look at the display. “Doesn’t match the original sources we’ve gathered from the system. Single ship, may be another exploration vessel.” Turning she moved back to the command station and opened the bridge channel. “Unknown craft has entered the system, broadcasting signals in language patterns that do not match initial system signals. Form of binary and, from early computer models, Terran. Linguistics deciphering a direct communications protocol. Awaiting further orders”<br>
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On the bridge Captain Toezeer’s feathers flexed up slightly as he thought. They had encountered a plethora of Terran signals through the decades but had never made contact with any of the species that belonged to them. From their initial models it appeared to be a loose conglomerate of nations sharing some similar heritage. The distinction was only so helpful because they seemed to use a number of different linguistic variations with only some apparently stemming from the same base language. It had taken some years for their linguistics AI to even realize some of the signals were related at all. They had stumbled into this system by sheer chance, and now they found themselves in the unique situation of doing so at the same moment in history that another species did.<br>
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The Captain had the same thought his comms Chief had, perhaps this was an exploration vessel. “Send a hail, native binary and whatever Terran linguistics the computers have enough information to make a confident guess at ‘hello’.” He commanded, then switched his com off and turned to his aid. “Request Major Aikkirow report to the bridge.”<br>
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“On the bridge sir.” The major reported as she floated up the ladderwell. “I believe you’ve made history Captain, three first contacts in less than one day. Exciting.” She offered a quick salute.<br>
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The Captain returned the salute, “It will be more historic if we only get shot at once. In our current condition I’m not sure we’d survive another engagement long enough to have the contacts verified to fourth fleet command.”<br>
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“With your permission sir,” Aikkirow paused for the Captain to nod, “as diverse as the Terran signals we’ve picked up are, surely they are a relatively peaceful group to have such a diverse conglomeration of linguistics?”<br>
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“One would hope.” The Captain replied.<br>
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<u>Solar Space</u><br>
The sleek form of the exploration cruiser hovered in space contemplatively. Then, suddenly, they received a ping from a single signal in the outer zone of the star's influence. The crew rushed about, preparing the comms relay. Several dishes slowly turned, angling towards the ship to ensure a full transfer of packets. The First Officer aboard the bridge paused, finding humor in the alien's greeting. No doubt they were just using whatever data they had available, but he still felt a sense of irony as he transferred back the other half of the greeting. "Wa alaykumu s-salam," He murmured, nodding his head as he signalled the Comms officer to begin transferring a full language docket of basic Magnolian language - very similar to Terran, but with language deviations that originate from spending several centuries in isolation. Once the transfer was complete, the First Officer waited for several seconds, looking out the viewport. Finally he turned to the screen and nodded to the Comms officer, transferring a simple video communication offer to the alien vessel, his hands instinctively smoothing down his uniform as he waited for them to accept or deny the call.<br>
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<u>Auriga System</u><br>
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SF-Vlaycli</i><br>
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Captain Awundhersun Toezeer<br>
Major Āhmz Aikkirow<br>
<br>
The AI display on the comms deck flashed an alert, it was receiving a massive linguistics packet. The crew exchanged celebratory pats on the back and congratulations. It was a historic moment, they hadn’t had this kind of direct communication with another sentient race since first contact with the Mika, and even they were hardly what one would call spacefaring at the time.<br>
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With the new data the AI was able to unlock puzzles it had been working on for decades, if not longer, and soon they had an entirely new mode of communication. A similar linguistics packet was returned to the vessel containing the basic Avarian language and what connections the AI had already made with both Terran and Magnolian, anything they could offer to quicken the translation process.<br>
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The news was relayed to the bridge where another round of polite celebrations occurred. Major Aikkirow gave a slight bow to her captain, the feathers on her head flaring in respect of an achievement, before a return to calm professionalism. The Vid display flickered as the direct line was hailed. Captain Toezeer activated his mag boots and stood from his chair, “It’s an honor sharing this moment with you.” he addressed the crew for a moment. Momentarily the comms deck signaled that the AI had cracked a rudimentary translation program robust enough for direct visual communication. The captain's feathers rustled with excitement, he took a deep breath, “On screen.”<br>
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“This is Captain Awundhersun Toezeer, SF Vlaycli, exploration and first contact group, Fourth Fleet of the Glorious Union for the common wealth of the Empire of Tel’tsu. On behalf of High Lord Isoh and the Glorious Union, I am honored to make this first contact between our two species.”<br>
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<i>Shit, meet fan.<br>
Endoval IV<br>
Western lowlands<br>
Contested Sein’Hae Land</i><br>
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“Yeah, let’s see you park a ship this big in the middle of this mess.” Seth quipped. “Shut up Sid.“ He preempted any smart remarks from SIDNI as smacked a few switches down as the ship settled on the uneven terrain.<br>
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Making his way to the common room he sorted through the pack of equipment Xi had picked up on the Astral Flame. “Well that’s nice.” He pulled out the assault rifle. She had certainly been well prepared, though some of the things were redundant, she hadn’t known about his exosuit at the time after all. He left the armor vest, strapped the ammo pouches to various hard points on his suit, attached the optical recorder and data drivers, and strapped the arc welder to the supply rack on the suit’s back plate. Moments like this always made him glad he had procured the suit, it made carrying loads more or less effortless.<br>
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“You really came prepared for a fight.” Seth commented, “seems like you had the right idea.” He attached his plasma pistol in its holster in place on the right thigh plate of the suit. He glanced at their third member, who had been as untalkative and generally strange as Xi had been on their initial flight together, and nodded. “Let’s go salvage some goodies shall we?”<br>
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As the exterior hatch opened SIDNI wished them her sarcastic ”Hope you don’t die! Have a nice day!”<br>
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He followed Xi into the jungle.<br>
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The seconds dragged on as the communications array received the linguistics packet and the computers began parsing through them, using the connections between Terran and Magnolian to translate before finally creating the necessary translation program. Then the First Officer stood, waiting before the camera as the other ship prepared itself for video communications. Once the link was established, he looked at the viewscreen. It rendered a fascinating looking creature. If the viewscreen was drawing to scale - which it should be - the captain of the other vessel was a good deal shorter than him, with strange feathers atop his head. Adil assumed it was a him, anyway - biological information was not on the screen, since it tended to clutter. Once the captain finished his greeting, Adil bowed, giving himself a moment as he considered a few things. Clearly this nation was much more centralized than their polities. Straightening his back, he offered his counterpart a soft smile without teeth, unsure if showing them would be aggressive. "I am Adil al-Mansur, elected first officer of this ship and representative of the Reorganized Orionic Polities within this system. It is my pleasure to receive your greeting on behalf of the worlds and unions of my homeland. I would be interested in docking and meeting in the flesh, if it is possible for both our species'. It is customary back on my homeworld of Eutropos to give gifts to new friends, after all." He says with easy charm (the same charm that got him elected - Second Officer Ramirez is more competent, but the First Officer is the polities' representative in any first contact scenario.) "If it is not possible, however, we will not begrudge you for it. This is an excellent day for our people regardless."</div>
				
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The mercenary kept her stoic vigil as the ship finally departed, even if she did take a look at Xi's supplies now and again. She had clearly decided against sleeping or doing much, and not enough time had passed between their departure from the Astral Flame and their arrival near the planet for the others to have fully noted that, and her acting as the human equivalent of a statue did slightly help her remain unnoticed, as if she was just a part of the ship. The blaring of the alarms was the first thing that actually seemed to attract her attention seriously since her arrival, but even then, she wasn't able or willing to do much, other than strapping herself down to the her seat and being thrown around as they crashed into the planet. The experience once again didn't seem to affect her at all, and she actually remained where she was for at least another minute after Xi left the common room without moving - but as the other two were getting ready to leave, she suddenly sprang to her feet - and said something for the first time.<br>
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"Preparing for a fight is wise.", she finally mentioned, as the hatch of the ship was opening. Her voice was pretty soft - and yet somewhat hoarse, as if she wasn't that used to talking out loud - which wasn't that surprising, all things considered. "If there are others on this planet chances are that they're after the same thing we are. But we should be careful. We would be unable to return with any salvaged technology if we die - if the odds will be against us, we can leave and find another way to return." She removed the safety from her rifle, as she followed Seth and Xi into the jungle. "If such a thing happens..I shall distract the enemies and give you two time to escape.", she mentioned hesitatingly,</div>
				
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As volleys of laser fire continued to connect with the Envouira's shields, the ship shook, and its shields dropped at a similar rate to those of the enemy. <br>
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"Continue the attack, redirect all non-essential power to shields and engines. Jacob, bring us around to face them."<br>
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"Yes, Captain," Ensign Larousse answered. As he did so, power was redirected, and the Envouira moved quickly through space as it turned, its white turbolasers lighting the dark vacuum before hitting the pirate shields. When the next volley impacted the Envouira, Captain St. Clare felt the impact, and almost fell to the ground. She caught herself on a tactical display though, and looked at its backlit information as the power redirects left the much of the bridge in darkness. The shields were holding, and the drive was nearly ready, but they needed to wait a little longer. <br>
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<b>Unknown Space, Pegasus Gunship Interior</b><br>
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As the Gorstak began to lose their minds aboard the gunship, Blaise became concerned. Not because some of the Gorstak were attacking them. The commandos' armor could more than handle physical attacks from smaller humanoids. Some were fighting their restraints though, which would make them very unsafe if the transport actually took a hit. <br>
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He pressed a button in his gauntlet. The pilot received the signal, and suddenly the gravity of the ship increased many times its normal setting. All of the Renegade personnel hoped it would help keep the Gorstak safe for the remainder of the journey. The pilot could see the hangar, and in spite of the combat situation, they were almost there. <br>
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Then the gunship shook hard, and the port auto turrets became unresponsive. As the shields over the hangar dropped, the pilot deployed all of the emergency drag measures, as well as the reverse thrusters. The ship slowed down, although not completely, and slammed into the metal hangar deck before sliding to a halt far from its usual docking space. When it finally stopped, the doors opened, and the gravity on the ship shut off.  It had been replaced by the Envouira's Earth like gravity and atmosphere.</div>
				
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<i>Empty Space, The Gourmanti</i><br>
<a href="https://www.rpnation.com/attachments/fbnzabc-jpg.820643/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.rpnation.com/data/attachments/757/757603-b8220587a057e9166433eb3ef21015e6.jpg" class="bbImage " style="" alt="FbnzabC.jpg" title="FbnzabC.jpg" width="100" height="70" loading="lazy"></a>​</div>Far from any known planet in consulate space, a large warship drifted in the vastness of space. Many of lights were off, with others flickering as sparks emerged from others. The ship was in a blatant state of disrepair, the signs of battle evident on its entire form, in some places sections had been completely torn open and bared to the empty vacuum of space. From some of these damaged sections, the corpses of Drovakki floated out along with something else, something unnatural.<br>
<br>
The bridge of the vessel was a bloody mess, the poisonous fluid that flowed through the Drovakki had been spilt everywhere. Bodies, heaps of mangled flesh, the entire place would be devoid of life if not for the figures lumbering around its bridge. They halted in their movements as a message reached them, empty glowing eyes turning to look forward as the Gourmanti automatically accepted the signal. The figures were unable to give a response, but could hear the alien words of the Polities' call. The message began to loop, echoing throughout many empty halls, with the lumbering figures unable to interpret it.<br>
<br>
But they were not the only ones aboard the Gourmanti who could have heard it, for far deeper in the facility a figure peaked out from the busted auto-sliding door of what had been the munitions facility. Not too long ago, the majority of the munitions figure had been detonated from within, leaving a gaping hole nearby that had many of the lumbering figures writhing and floating in space. The airless atmosphere seemed inconsequential to the figures, who writhed even as inertia led them to float out in the great emptiness.<br>
<div style="text-align: center"><a href="https://www.rpnation.com/attachments/butcher_render-png.820644/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.rpnation.com/data/attachments/757/757604-047fd8874885c8c41440d9f0f8ee5863.jpg" class="bbImage " style="" alt="Butcher_Render.png" title="Butcher_Render.png" width="72" height="100" loading="lazy"></a><a href="https://www.rpnation.com/attachments/hunter-png.820645/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.rpnation.com/data/attachments/757/757605-7bd524ad16e4e8d1eb188c8e2b6bc2be.jpg" class="bbImage " style="" alt="Hunter.png" title="Hunter.png" width="69" height="100" loading="lazy"></a>​</div>Watching several from a window was a large Drovakki coated in the blood of his own people, or at least what had once been her own people. A hulking form with numerous old wounds, this Drovakki tightened her grip on a massive cleaver that tapped against the floor beside her. She heard beeping from behind, and turned to look back at the only other surviving members of the Gourmanti's crew. An engineer who was working an extremely focused cutting apparatus on an unmoving mech, and the Trokoid who resided in said mech. With no functioning legs and only one capable arm, the mech was more of a hindrance now than a boon. Besides, the last of its munitions had been expended when they destroyed the rest of the Munitions facilities.<br>
<br>
The mech had started beeping, something the cleaver-wielding giant knew from her years of experience meant they were receiving a message.<br>
<br>
"That sound..." she grumbled in a throaty growl that caused the engineer to look back to her "Lady Nurstrom, are there-?"<br>
<br>
"Stifle that hope of yours, dear cook." a voice called out from the mech "It comes not from the Gourmanti."<br>
<br>
"What?" the Engineer returned to cracking open the busted up mech "That mean we got rescue incoming or-?"<br>
<br>
"You know that's not it, Grus." the Cleaver-Wielder said as she turned back to look at the emptiness of space once more "This far out, I'm thinkin' pirates. Meaning we gotta blast this ship faster than I thought."  <br>
<br>
"Not quite that, either." the Trokoid chimed as the Engineer finally began wrenching open the mech's entranceway<br>
<br>
"Then traders? If we can tell them to keep a distance we might still have a chance, Norlaq!" Grus turned to the giant "We can still blast Zen and get off this rotting hunk of metal!"<br>
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"Not that either, dear." a green Trokoid with a long-neck finally poked her head out of the mech before turning to gesture towards a broken screen inside her machine "Its aliens."<br>
<br>
"Excuse me?" Norlaq grunted "Don't know if you've noticed but this ain't exactly the time for games, Nurstrom, Zen ain't gonna wait to turn the Swallowed on us again, we gotta-"<br>
 <br>
"No games, watch." Lady Nurstrom gestured to the screen before tapping a button on the side of it "Most of its unknown, but some of its rather promising."<br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(65, 168, 95)">"Ptaual. sjek wux re receiving nomeno charric vur re capable di travelling, petranas tafiaf sva wer wiilirkir coordinates ekess initiate diplomatic contact mrith wer reorganized orionic polities"</span><br>
<br>
"Orionic Polities?" Grus looked to Lady Nurstrom as Coordinates passed along her screen "What exactly is we lookin' at here?"<br>
<br>
Norlaq groaned, "Whoever it is, alien or not, its a fishin' line for contact with others. Ya heard that didn't ya?"<br>
<br>
Looking over the coordinates, Lady Nurstrom turned to look up to the two Drovakki "These coordinates are closer than any Consulate Space in the area. even with the ship in its current state, it could-"<br>
<br>
"No..." Norlaq shook her head "We'd have to bring the Gourmanti close, ain't lettin' Zen get its slimy mug anywhere close to anyone. If it even gets a chance you know it'll take it!"<br>
<br>
"My apologies, chef, but I don't necessarily feel satisfied dying aboard this mess." Lady Nurstrom reached back inside the mech and pulled several wires, after a few trails of smoke emerged, she soon hopped out of the mech with the entire console the scree had been attached to dangling off her form with several thick cables "We get to Security and override the Bridge's control of the ship, then we make it to Emergency Avionics and get us close to those coordinates. Then we can destroy the vessel after taking our leave."<br>
<br>
"You're mad if you think I'd ever help with that!" Norlaq stepped forward before gesturing towards the Trokoid with her Cleaver "I didn't gut my own staff and fight through a horde of Swallowed just to get a buncha prissy diplomats swallowed by that bastard! They won't even have any idea what'd be tearin' its way into they's lil' meet n' greet!"<br>
<br>
"We could warn them?"<br>
<br>
Both Norlaq and Lady Nurstrom turned to Grus as he slipped his cutter into a toolpack on his back and bent down to pull a large blaster out from under a nearby overturned cabinet "I ain't fit to go dyin' in here, but I ain't about to blindside them alien folk either." he said before jerking a thumb to the door "Comms is on the way from here to security. It should have a checkpoint we can stock up at. Think you can get a warning out to them xenos, Lady?"<br>
<br>
Nurstrom reached back and pulled the console around to look at it, "It would seem their own translating equipment is rather good. The words they sent actually had vocal specifics similar to what you and yours use. So if I keep wording simple we should be able to get them something decent, I'd just need some time without Zen interrupting."<br>
<br>
Both she and Grus turned to Norlaq, who looked out the viewport again as one of the Swallowed thrashed and swung its bloated and disfigured arms through the space around it. Even with its body molded and torn into something unnatural, she could still see the ID of one of the Maintenance Crew on its chest. Squeezing her eyes shut, she glanced back to what was the last of the Gourmanti's Unswallowed crew.<br>
<br>
"If even one part of your plan goes south, I'm taking this ship down with us." she stated as she turned and made for the door "Keep the Trok safe, Grus, no matter what we end up doin she's the only one who can kickstart this dump's destruction."<br>
<br>
When all was said and done, the Trio made their way back into the depths of the Gourmanti. Throughout the vessel, the Polities message echoed on repeat, with nobody on the Bridge or in Comms to to stop or regulate it, the message would continue on repeat until a new one was received. When it wasn't punctuated by the sounds of roaring Swallowed or the blasts of the Trio's weaponry, the message became the only tangible sound in many parts of the Gorumanti. It continued until half an hour later, they managed to reach Comms.<br>
<br>
Finally, the Polities' Diplomatic Station would receive a garbled yet legible message. The Display was fuzzy and out of focus, but a small creature could be seen working a console desperately as numerous figures moved in the background. <br>
<br>
It looked away from the console to call out to something behind it, only to be briefly lit up by the flashes of a laser weapon blasting somewhere beyond the little station it had settled at. Reaching down, it brought up a screen and leaned towards the console before speaking.<br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(26, 188, 156)">"Danger.... Danger here... Ship Swallowed... Enemy on Ship... Warning..."</span> was what it was translated as saying, struggling to carefully word its speech  <span style="color: rgb(26, 188, 156)">"Coordinates... receive... trying escape...prepare... danger."</span><br>
<br>
Eventually, its words were briefly cut off by a hulking figure smashing through another console behind the small creature. Jerking its head back, the visual feed went fuzzy as the figure chased it off. The visual feed went dark, but the audio gave the sound of a weapon firing several more times before it went silent as well.<br>
<br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><b><span style="font-size: 26px">The Rustafan Raiders</span></b><br>
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The Morfus continued to trade blasts with the Envouira, its ships flickering just as dangerously as theirs. Even so, the Pirate Boss seemed to only grow more excited the more hectic the situation become. She watched with a massive grin as the two ships continued pelting each other's shields with laser blasts. Behind her, several pirates were running around as an alarm blared throughout. Several were crowded around one Drovokki who was desperately trying to maintain the shield under prolonged combat. Having evacuated several portions of the Morfus and shutting down life support in those areas in order to keep up with the energy needs, certain portions of the vessel were getting more and more crowded. <br>
<br>
Another Pirate was getting a denser patch of sweat forming on his brow as he watched the shields strain with all the damage they'd had to deflect, they'd be relying on the vessel's armor afterwards. But mirroring his boss, he too only sported a massive smile as he turned and called out the strained shields to his fellow marauders.<br>
<br>
"No biggie, that dinky little tub's gonna have to turn up the heat if they want's to cut through our passion, lads!" the Boss shouted, only for a fellow marauder to reach over and clap her on the shoulder "Oi, what you doin'?"<br>
<br>
"Lookie boss!" he pointed to another display "Some o the lads got past!"<br>
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<a href="https://www.rpnation.com/attachments/grenadierprintvertical_nologo_signed-jpg.820685/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.rpnation.com/data/attachments/757/757645-fad73626b6d1e81bcd234406b7ebf124.jpg" class="bbImage " style="" alt="GRENADIERPRINTVERTICAL_NOLOGO_Signed.jpg" title="GRENADIERPRINTVERTICAL_NOLOGO_Signed.jpg" width="85" height="100" loading="lazy"></a>​</div>While the vast majority of the retro-fitted vessels they used as fighters had been utterly decimated whilst trying to get through the laser light show that formed between the two ships, just over half a dozen had made it through. While most had focused on attacking the Envouira's less defended flanks, two had other goals in mind.<br>
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Having just barely made it past the crossfire, the Pegasus Gunship hadn't been the only ship to slide into the Hangar. Not a second after they'd made it through, one of the Rustafan fighters careened into the hangar after them with even less grace and far more collateral damage as it just barely kept from exploding and instead crashed against the rear of the hangar in a trashy heap. The Second Rustafan Fighters that attempted this didn't make it in one piece. Having sustained damage from the crossfire, this one was unable to aim properly and instead crashed into the side of the open hangar, exploding along its edges and raining debris inside.<br>
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Meanwhile, the First ship had two doors on either sides of it get yanked open as several Raiders pulled themselves from the broken heap. One of which yanked himself out from the destroyed cockpit and called out to his comrades in glee despite bearing several notable wounds from the crash, his roar seemed to inspire the Rustafan Boarding Party to begin opening fire on anything that wasn't them with Solarium Energy weapons.</div>
				
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SF-Vlaycli</i><br>
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Captain Awundhersun Toezeer<br>
Major Āhmz Aikkirow<br>
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Captain Toezeer cast a glance at the Major standing just off screen, welcoming emissaries from other species on the ship certainly fell within their standard operating procedures, but did they risk revealing the state of their ship? These seemed to be diplomatic explorers like the Vlaycli but there was always a risk. Still, having their Captain come aboard also lessened any real threat from manifesting. His feathers reflexively moved as he processed these feelings, to which Major Aikkirow responded with a reassuring display of her own.<br>
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“We, perhaps, do not exchange gifts in the fashion of your people Captain. I would, however, welcome you aboard Vlaycli. Perhaps our mutual gift will be a budding relationship between our two great nations.” The Captain replied, “With regret I can not engage in a direct hard docking. Such maneuvers would be in violation of our operational codes, a shuttle however we can accept, either in our bay if small enough or parasitically.” Pausing for a moment he contemplated his next words carefully. “As you have no doubt detected, we are currently not running under thrust, Vlaycli is in a zero g state at the moment to facilitate minor upkeep. If this is an acceptable state we will have life support verify the compatibility of our two species and prepare to welcome you aboard. I pledge my life for your safe return, though I understand if you require collateral aboard your own ship in this circumstance.”<br>
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Toezeer was comfortable with the amount of truth as to the state of the Vlaycli, the definition of ‘minor’ may be argued but he felt confident that if this first officer al-Mansur were to become aware of their entire situation he would not begrudge the guarded approach. It intrigued him that he had referred to himself as “elected first officer.'' The concept of election was not entirely foreign to Tel’tsu society, but the idea that it might be used to determine the seniority of an officer of a ship was well beyond him. Perhaps if this face to face meeting occurred he could steer the conversation toward that phenomenon at some point.<br>
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Adil watched the captain carefully. When he mentioned the state of his ship as being low upkeep, Adil could not help a look of worry from flashing on his face. Anything that threatened a new contact was likely a threat to the Polities, so if this was an issue he would need more information on it. However, he found himself optimistic regardless. Despite the other captain's hesitance to share gifts, he was already preparing several things in his mind -  the hold had several artifacts within intended for trading in the event of an encounter. Adil nodded his head after his counterpart finished speaking. "We would of course accept. We can transfer over with a shuttle - if our biological requirements align, so be it, but if not we can always use EVA suits, so long as you are not past their extremes," He said with a pleasant smile.<br>
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"We shall bring gifts regardless, merely as a sign of our well wishes and for doing us the honor of allowing us to be guests," He added after a moment. "I shall compose my team of envoys and send another message when we begin the flight over on the shuttle. If all goes well, we should be there within the hour." Offering a polite bow, he ended the call after the counterpart exchanged his own farewell. Adil quickly began composing his team, speaking in hushed tones with his Deputy communications officer as well as the head of Biology on board. Jane Graham stepped carefully into the hallway, holding a data pad in her left hand. "So, what are we dealing with life support wise?" Adil asked, looking to her.<br>
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"Well, we're looking at largely similar life support profiles - they breathe at a lower saturation of oxygen, but their variability is high enough that they can tolerate our level for a meeting at the minimum. Should be no need for the EVA suits," She said, folding the pad into a small square and tucking it into one of her uniform pockets. Adil nodded his head, heading to engineering for a detour - several of the artifacts were stored within.<br>
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 "I'll meet you on the shuttle," He said simply. Graham nodded, accepting the dismissal and heading towards the shuttle bay. After picking up the necessary artifacts - several pieces of communications technology, three printed books of great importance - The Bible, the Quran, and at the behest of several of his more drama inclined crewmates, the complete works of William Shakespeare - as well as a sculpture of a phoenix in flight, made purely of laser-cut steel. The gifts prepared, Adil made his way to the shuttle bay, several Engineering crewmembers cursing at one of the broken down shuttles, trying to get it fixed up. Adil nodded to the head of Engineering, who beckoned him onto the only other shuttle in the bay with a disinterested gesture. While incredibly intelligent and handy, Fundani was not exactly a people person. Adil shrugged, stepping onto the shuttle. The pilot was going through the preflight checks, and after stowing the artifacts, Adil sat down and strapped in, watching as the rest of his delegation gathered and sat. After close to twenty minutes, the shuttle slowly drew back before turning and accelerating on a course of intersect with the counterpart cruiser. Adil breathed a sigh of relief, ready and waiting.</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><b><span style="font-size: 26px">The Drokoi Consulate</span></b><br>
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<i>The Gourmanti</i><br>
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The Diplomats and military forces of the Station had ample time to scrounge together what defenses they could, as they received no further words from the Gourmanti. The video and audio feeds that they'd initially made contact with were essentially silent,  and so no further pre-warning had been given before the Gourmanti made its warp. What seemed like open space located at the coordinates given suddenly seemed to fold in on itself before the large Gourmanti burst into existence from Sol-Space. It came to a stop not to far from where it had entered, trailing several wisps of energy that faded into nothing until the vessel's movements slowed. <br>
<br>
The torn up ship was in even worst shape than before if possible, entering Sol-Space in its condition had led to several of the already damaged sections to be subjected to extreme heats. As a result, large portions of the ship appeared as if they'd been scorched by laser weapons, metal still glowing in some places. From appearance alone, it was easy to identify the vessel as nothing less than a warship. If it were in better times, the sheer amount of firepower such a vessel could wield would undoubtedly prove a threat to the station and its military defenders. But as it were now, the bigger question it provided was how it was still holding together at all. Most of its weapons systems seemed either destroyed or offline, and the scale of damage in some parts was undoubtedly critical. But despite its arrival, still no further signal had been sent.<br>
<br>
Inside the vessel, pounding footsteps echoed through the halls as Grus hefted a Solarium machine-pistol in one hand whilst cradling the unmoving form of Lady Nurstrom against his chest with the other. Behind him, Norlaq was keeping pace, though her head kept turning towards the sounds of roaring and fleshy footsteps behind them. A tendril burst through the wall between the two during one of these glances, with Grus turning around in surprise only for an auto-door beside him to fly open as a pair of arms reached out to him. Knowing the ship's mechanics, the Engineer immediately swung his weapon around and fired upon the door's covered control panel set in the wall beside it, causing the auto-door to slam down and tear off both of the arms.<br>
<br>
He looked back to see Norlaq finishing her way through the tentacle before gesturing for him to get moving, behind her the figures moving in the darkness had grown closer. Gritting his teeth, Grus turned and sprinted once again, with his eyes widening beneath his helmet upon spotting exactly what they were looking for: an Auto-lift connected to the hangar. <br>
<br>
Grus stumbled in first, immediately dropping his pistol so he could quickly press a button for the hangar. Norlaq squeezed in just before the bulletproof glass and metal door could close on her. The two of them looked back through the clear portions of the door to see the hallway behind them had rapidly emptied itself, their pursuers nowhere in sight. The only sign that they'd been there were the torn up grates and vent coverings they'd used to crawl back into the ship's walls.<br>
<br>
"It's trying to cut us off." Norlaq grumbled as  the auto-lift began its descent "They're probably skitterin' their way to the hangar right as we speak."<br>
<br>
"Zen ain't got nothing big enough to crack the maintenance shuttle once we're on." Grus looked up to her "Nothing it could get there fast enough, we just beeline for the shuttle and we's home free."<br>
<br>
Norlaqu narrowed her eyes at that, "Hmmm."<br>
<br>
But Grus kneeled down to retrieve his pistol before looking down to the wounded Trokoid in his arm, who had been hastily patched and bandaged "You hear that ya lil' tech junkie? Gonna be a pain in the arse dealin' with them xenos without ya."<br>
<br>
 Norlaq looked away from them as the auto-lift slowed, with the opposing door finally sliding open to reveal the hangar. Much of it was empty, save for three shuttles. One was in a state of disrepair, the other  hadd been abandoned mid-maintenance, and the last one sat as a shining beacon of hope to Grus as he scrambled to his feet and stepped out of the lift.<br>
<br>
"Its still in one piece!" he practically cheered to himself before looking back "She was right-!"<br>
<br>
The auto-lift doors shut before he could get any further. Grus blinked as Norlaq stepped back from them and moved a hand towards the Lift's controls.<br>
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"Nors?" Grus said, causing her hand to hesitate "What are you doing?"<br>
<br>
"I'm going back to the reactor," she stated, raising an eyebrow at him "I refuse to allow even the slimmest chance of the Swallowed gettin' off this ship."<br>
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"B-But we already rigged the place!" Grus slammed a fist on the door "Nurstrom said-!"<br>
<br>
"It'll work in a best case scenario, grub." Norlaq turned away "We both know this ain't it, and I ain't fit to leave my business unfinished."<br>
<br>
Grus could do nothing but watch as the lift carried Norlaq away, and left him cursing her as he kicked at the door. But as an engineer, he knew any attempt to stop the auto-lift at that point were meaningless. But after everything they'd gone through to get off this hunk of swallowed metal, he didn't deny how sick her actually dying made him feel. But he had other things to worry about, namely to the barely-breathing Trokoid in his grasp.<br>
<br>
That and the sound of rending metal coming from the side of the hangar. As the sealed double doors rended open, a vent beside it burst as a figure pulled itself in. Grus stumbled away from the auto-lift before breaking into a run as the figures filed into the hangar using the vents. Even as the solarium energy blasts punched holes into the forms, they kept surging after him, several breaking into a run as he reached the maintenance shuttle. Often used for delivering large equipment to outer maintenance crews when unable to dock properly, the vessel would be more than enough to get them away from the Gourmanti.<br>
<br>
Trying to set Nurstrom into an empty crate as easily as possible, Grus sealed the vessel's door before throwing himself into the cockpit. He tried to ignore the pounding of limbs against the shuttle's hull, hands flying between buttons and levers as warning lights began flashing along the sides of the hangar. The platform the shuttle was on rotated, with Grus spotting a larger figure pushing its way in through the busted doors. He cursed as this figure immediately began opening fire on the shuttle as it was lined up with a large tunnel which opened up. Grus piloted the shuttle into the tunnel, which depressurized as soon as it sealed behind him. Despite the literal wall behind him and the shooter, Grus was unable to calm down primarily to the pounding sounds still echoing from the outer hull of the shuttle.<br>
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The end of the tunnel approached fast, with the source of the pounding revealing itself as one of the Swallowed yanks itself onto the viewport. Grus swerved the shuttle a bit to dislodge the figure as he finally reached open space. Sailing away, his breath evened out as distance between him and the Gourmanti was attained. He didn't hold back, victoriously pounding a fist against the side of the cockpit and releasing a yell of relief before hopping out of his seat. But his celebration lasted only until his eyes fell upon the crate where he'd left Lady Nurstrom. Peaking in, he found that she'd been jostled during their escape, but her patches had held. Now with more time, Grus hurried to find the shuttle's on-board First-Aid. <br>
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It was in the midst of this search that he glanced out the viewport and took note of the diplomatic station in the distance. Hurrying over to the cockpit he tried to activate the comms to call for them to ready some kind of aid, but found that the shuttle's communications were far too short-range to reach. Eyes going from the console to the Station to the Gourmanti and finally to Lady Nurstrom, Grus groaned before activating the Shuttle's distress beacon and moving to continue giving what aid he could to Nurstrom.</div>
				
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Watching with patient care, Wang Xi gave a nod to one of the officer occupying the comms station. Several pings bounced off the ship, but no communications returned. Frowning and shaking his head, he gave a nod to one of the other diplomatic officers, who opened the line to the battle group. "Move ahead, captain... keep an eye out for any survivors," He said simply. The Frigate captain nodded and the ships slowly glided through space, several corvettes acting as point defense, their smaller cannons swivelling, searching for any enemy targets. Suddenly a beacon lit up the screen of the comms officer, and the frigate slowly changed course, decelerating as it neared the shuttle. <br>
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She was breathing, something that Grus was thankful for. He wasn't a Doctor, he fixed ships for most of his life. His medical skills only went as far as stabilizing folks in the case of workplace accidents. The Trokoids weren't known for warrior-like capabilities, and the moment they lost her mech he knew she'd be in more danger than any of them. The fact that she was even alive at this point was a miracle to him, yet she wouldn't be able to help him in this state. And it was help he most definitely needed, especially as the foreign ships approached.<br>
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He could only assume they belonged to whoever the Polities were, as their design was unfamiliar. He supposed he was thankful it hadn't been a pirate trap, with how things had been going lately he'd been hesitant to get his hopes up. As the threat of Zen's Swallowed faded, the very real realization that he'd have to be the ambassador for this interaction came closer and closer to the forefront of his mind. The Consulate had met numerous primitive species in the past, many of which were being safely observed at that very moment, but never before had they met another species capable of space travel or communications like these Polities. <br>
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Even despite that, the Consulate did have people for this, it had experts who could work this kind of thing out. Nurstrom would've had an easier time of it, Norlaq would've probably had teh experience needed to handle it, Grus was not the diplomatic type. Which meant he'd have to hope that they could help Lady Nurstrom, she could get everything fixed if she'd just wake up. As the Foreign creatures tethered the shuttle from outside, Grus found himself trying to get a good view of them from the shuttle's viewport. From what he could see, they were at least shaped like Drovokki, though the space suits they were utilizing didn't reveal much. As they were pulled into one of the ships, Grus kneeled beside Lady Nurstrom and found himself staring down at her whilst stuck in contemplation.<br>
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Eventually, the ship came to a stop and Grus had to scoop Nurstrom into his arm before standing at the door for a few seconds. He found himself rubbing the handle of his Machine Pistol, fingering the trigger a bit before grunting and sliding it into a holster on his side. Clenching his hand into a fist several times, Grus eventually reached over and opened the shuttle's doors. As they opened, he reached up to press at the side of his helmet, which sealed up as he stepped out of the shuttle.<br>
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Armed bipedals awaited, and Grus fought the urge to bring his hand closer to his weapon. He reminded himself that the Consulate would probably keep armed gaurds around if the roles were reversed as well. Even with the gear, he found these bipedals on the shorter side, but could not bring himself to care at the moment. Comparisons and physiological differences were for scientists and researchers, he didn't have the time or interest for such things and instead immediately brought up a hand to point to Nurstrom in his grasp.<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)">"Za ash bolkum ghulum,"</span> He said whilst gesturing towards the portions of her form that had been hastily patched up with Rev-Gel and a form of biotic wrappings <span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)">"goth skazg ul"</span><br>
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As the large biped stepped forth from the shuttle, the soldiers tensed for a moment before it pointed at the other wounded crewmember. Looking between themselves, one of them took the initiative. "Thank god Xi ordered doctors onboard. Hernandez, get a stretcher. Rookwood, you go with him, bring this one to Aft Bay 6, that's where the med-heads are stationed. They should be able to help." Cooper was a bit informal, but a damn good shot. Speaking of... the remaining two put their rifles away, instead taking a bio scanner and running it along the one still walking in case it needed any assistance. Once it returned only minor injuries, they beckoned it to follow them to the cafeteria for some food while they waited for the frigate to dock with the station. and their gear to transfer over. The two sent off returned with a stretcher, placing the crewmate onto it gingerly and wheeling it off to the medbay.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><b><span style="font-size: 26px">The Drokoi Consulate</span></b><br>
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Location: OPS <i>Wilted Willow</i><br>
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<a href="https://www.rpnation.com/attachments/1609dd9b68d664057cffdb463702872e-jpg.821921/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.rpnation.com/data/attachments/758/758881-d925458ec2613d66986c21e5af82677a.jpg" class="bbImage bbImageAligned--right" style="" alt="1609dd9b68d664057cffdb463702872e.jpg" title="1609dd9b68d664057cffdb463702872e.jpg" width="58" height="100" loading="lazy"></a>Grus was thankful for his helmet, as it allowed his eyes  to survey the 'Polities' with impunity. It also hid the suspicious looks forming on his face as they spoke to one another in alien tongues. At the first speaker's words, two holstered their weapons prompting Grus to let his own hand go somewhat lax until they raised another device towards him. He released low growls as they ran it along him, with him hoping that it was some form of scanning device and nothing more. What a pain would it be to survive a Swallowing yet to get taken out by some kind of alien radiation?<br>
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That thought alone was what encouraged him to keep his helmet on at first, even as the display inside of it showed no signs of harmful environmental statuses. <br>
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After they 'scanned' him, Grus begrudgingly followed their hand motions as they showed him deeper into the ship. The motions were far easier to interpret than their speech, a small boon to the engineer as a duo approached with a stretcher. Though hesitant to relinquish Nurstrom, Grus had told them that she needed aid. Whether they were able to understand his request or not, he admitted that these creatures would probably have a better chance at figuring out what was wrong with her than him. They were smart enough to form space travel and send out signals, so Grus had to hope they'd be able to handle foreign biology and aid. He passed her over, watching as the two of them whisked her away.<br>
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For their part, the doctors would find that the small green creature has sustained several large lacerations across its body, much of which had been kept closed due to the gel and bandages. Furthermore, signs of head trauma could be found along with small splats of blood that were not the creatures own dribbled along its fur in several places.<br>
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<a href="https://www.rpnation.com/attachments/grenadier_elite-png.821922/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.rpnation.com/data/attachments/758/758882-94def2bba7f992c8a0f175510ea6c47b.jpg" class="bbImage bbImageAligned--left" style="" alt="Grenadier_Elite.png" title="Grenadier_Elite.png" width="87" height="100" loading="lazy"></a>Grus was led to what he figured was either a meeting hall or eatery, the latter seeming more likely due to the offerings that were soon offered to him. Grus could feel his stomach grumbling at several cooked meats, but he refrained from partaking in any. Even as a mere Engineer, he wasn't eager to discover what types of chemical reactions the meals standard to this species would cause in his own body. Even after nearly a day of fighting and surviving on the Gourmanti, he just wasn't at that state of hunger yet. He waved off all of the offerings, even though hesitated with several. But the line of meals was eventually interrupted by the feeling of the vessel stopping.<br>
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He figured they'd reached that station nearby, and soon found his deduction at least partially proven when new figures entered. Watching as these ones brought in equipment with them, Grus could finally note that their skin seemed far too soft. Even from a distance he could tell that these creatures had a resounding lack of natural grown defenses, not even any fur like the Trokoids. The Consulate had run into a number of primitive creatures, and he knew beings with skin similar to these existed, but it was seeing it for himself that threw him for something of a loop. <br>
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But the arrival of new Softskins prompted Grus to reconsider the potential hazards of the environment. Briefly checking his helmet's internal display again, he gave a grumbly sigh before reaching up and removing his helmet. Setting it on the table beside him just as they slid what looked like a speaking device in front of him, Grus adjusted his jaw and flexed his neck muscles before watching as one of their own sat across from him with a similar device and spoke into it. It was here that Grus took note of the machine that these devices were linked to, and slowly he heard several words come together in the mess of speech the machine soon produced. It was far closer to something legible, and the message was clear as the Softskin gestured for him to do the same.<br>
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It must've been some kind of translator device, faulty yet a blessing to the engineer as he realized it was time. With only vague ideas of what the council expected from its diplomats, he had figured the safest bet would be to simply put forth his rank and designation. Treating this as if being screened by a recruitment officer would bring at least some level of familiarity.<br>
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Reaching forward to draw the device closer to him, he did that very thing.<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)">"Izg'm zongot Grus ob the CF-Gourmanti, third-gen lufut lundar ob the Drokoi Consulate."</span> he stated whilst looking to gauge the Softskin's reactions<span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)"> "Travelaumn with Trokoid firukav claukuk Technician, Nurstrom rank ukeven."</span><br>
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But like that, he found himself narrowing his eyes and leaning forward, <span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)">"Graaviavude for aid, Trokoid bettura for communicaavion"</span></div>
				
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With deft hands, the doctors were soon working quickly, closing and sealing the smaller wounds with a biodegradable gel which would encourage tissue regeneration and prevent further bleeding. The larger lacerations were slowly and deftly closed by hand, the creature's tiny body making it difficult but not impossible. They tested its biological compatibility with several different drugs, landing on a pair that would encourage blood regeneration and one which would maintain the deep state of healing until it was ready, ensuring it would not wake up in an unfortunate situation. Then its head was washed as the doctors searched for external injuries to the head. Finding none, they finished up before putting their tools away, leaving the creature on the bed with only some basic devices and an IV while they waited for it to awaken. Then they headed to the Cafeteria to report, leaving only a skeleton crew to ensure the creature's safety and recuperation.<br>
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"Thank you for informing us of this," He began, nodding solemnly. "Once your crewmate awakens we will speak to them and figure out how to communicate with your nation. Until then, can you answer some questions?" He said. "What attacked you? Is this station in danger from them? Are there any other crew mates we need to rescue or assist? Should we demolish the ship?" He asked, speaking slowly so the translator would have a higher chance of working. The doctors appeared, entering from one of the doorways. "Xi, we finished patching up that other creature. Depending on its healing rates it shouldn't be terribly long," They confirmed. Then they looked Grus over, nodding their heads. Wang Xi turned to Grus. "It seems that, ah, Nurstrom has been patched up and will be fine with time," he added.</div>
				
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Major Āhmz Aikkirow<br>
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“We look forward to this momentous occasion.” Toezeer bowed slightly as they ended their communication. The deck was silent for only a moment before business erupted. The Captain turned to the chief of the watch, “Prepare the officer’s mess. This meeting should be happening on Elæseh, we will have to make due. Direct their shuttle to dock to the officers deck airlock and prepare to adjust life support on that deck to suit our guests as closely as is reasonable.” <br>
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The Chief bowed and left the bridge to see to it that everything was put in order. While others returned to their normal duties Major Aikkirow, still floating, awaited instruction. “Major, you will be one of our welcome party, select an executive staff guard, XO Arhem will join us,” he paused for a moment in thought, “Senior Chief Silas should be there as well, he is the senior most Mika aboard, they deserve to have a representative at this historic event.”<br>
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Aikkirow bowed her head in lieu of a full bow accounting for her floating state. “Chief Silas will be most humbled by the honor sir. I will prepare the guard.” She turned and kicked off a railing toward the ladderwell. She navigated the halls and ladderwells with impressive skill, even among those who were so accustomed to zero G environments. Where most of the crew was proficient in maneuvering in zero G, the pace at which they did was never quite as fast as it was under thrust, Āhmz seemed to be even faster in this state. She expertly shot herself from point to point, electing to travel headfirst down ladders and hallways as opposed to the more traditional method of keeping one’s feet relatively pointed “down”. This was to avoid the disorientation that could occur when transitioning from zero G to thrust, Tel’tsu marines spent countless hours of practice so that even the most sudden change in orientation didn’t disorient them.<br>
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She floated through the marines birthing and called out several names, “Jiar, Thessalian, Gehoh, Kedwhard, executive guard, thirty minutes, OS1.” The four marines acknowledged her order and sprung from what they were doing to prepare.<br>
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Her own quarters were just beyond the general birthing area. Entering she shut the door and allowed herself a moment to gather her thoughts. She was about to make the first face to face contact with a new species. The weight of the situation was not lost in her, even in her weightless state. Pulling her service uniform off she opened a locker and retrieved a finer service dress uniform. It was primarily the soft red of the Tel’tsu flower with one broad and two narrow vertical white stripes down the left side. From her shoulder many ainguilette’s were draped, each for a different service distinction. A decorative gorget was fastened around her neck, a hold over from warrior of eons past when Avarian warriors wore elaborate armor in combat that has been historically described as “elegant death”. Now it serves less for protection than to highlight the dangerous task ships marines were trained for.<br>
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She adjusted everything in a mirror and took a deep breath. This was something she had been trained for, but only barely. Vlaycli was to lead ship in their exploration group, but Elæseh was the diplomatic relations ship, Vlaycli was a military vessel first and foremost. Still, this was history, she would have to swallow what nerves she felt. Engaging her mag boots, floating around in service dress was simply not something one did, she left the room.<br>
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Less than a half hour had elapsed from leaving the command deck when she entered the officers' mess where Captain Toezeer, XO Commander  Arhem, and Chief Silas were already present. Their uniforms contrasted her red and white striped design with all blue with yellow trim accents. The navy had adopted ribbon bars in lieu of the armies ainguilette’s, but not to be out done for pomp the Captain and Commander wore paludamentum over their left shoulder, tucked neatly aside so as to not obscure the ribbon bars. Senior Chief Silas’ uniform was more understated, but no less sharp for it. <br>
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“Apologies on my tardiness Captain. The guard will be here shortly.” Āhmz, bowed.<br>
<br>
“No need Major, you had a task. Now, I know we all expected this would be in the hands of Elæseh and her crew, but I have worked with you all for years and have every confidence that you will represent our glorious union to the utmost. Thank chance and fate for being given this opportunity, and may your ancestors rejoice. Let us meet these new visitors with open arms, and be remembered for opening a new and prosperous relationship among the stars.” The Captain finished and received bows from his new emissaries.<br>
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A voice came over the coms  “sir, shuttle approaching now. Directing them to OS1 lock. T minus 20 minutes.”<br>
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On the coms deck a controller exchanged telemetry data with the incoming shuttle pilot, guiding them carefully into the ship. Engineering had quickly determined that internal docking would be the simplest solution for their guests, avoiding unnecessary complications trying to make an airtight connection for parasitic docking with an wholly unfamiliar craft. As they approached they would see the bay doors open and a shuttle slide out into space, assuring them plenty of room to dock their craft.<br>
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From the Softskin's words that were translated properly, they seemed confident that they had a chance at fixing Lady Nurstrom. Grus wanted that more than anything at this very moment, but knew to temper his expectations. The Trokoid had been slashed hard enough to send her head-first against a solid metal wall, and probably would've died if not for Norlaq's medical capabilities. He didn't doubt that a space faring nation would at least hold suitable medical capabilities, but again the physiological difference could be damning. Grus wasn't even sure she could be helped, as Norlaq only had enough time to seal the wounds before they became life-threatening. They had no way to tell if there was internal bleeding, and the bruised head alone had told them there could be further injuries they were unaware of.<br>
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Grus forced himself to stop thinking about that, as he'd already rolled the dulce by trusting her with the Softskins. Time would tell whether luck would be in his favor. Until then, the Softskin began asking about danger in a questioning tone, the words that got through implying they wanted to know about what was threatening them on the ship. Grus released a deep breath at that, as he just now realized they may not even understand the concept of Zen. It would be a long explanation that would surely stretch the capabilities of their translation technology, and already he was thinking about ways to abbreviate as much as possible.<br>
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But then they started saying words like survivors and demolish ship, with Grus narrowing his eyes in response. But slowly he realized that while he'd been caught up in getting Nurstrom help and escaping that blasted ship, he'd overlooked a stinging detail that should've been obvious a while ago. <br>
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The Gourmanti hadn't been destroyed, Grus was certain everyone would take notice if Norlaq had actually made it to the Reactor. <br>
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<span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)">"Ship ukavill there..."</span> he muttered before shaking his head before leaning it forward into his palm <span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)">"Oh Norlaq..."</span><br>
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There'd be no way to know if she was still alive unless by sheer coincidence they contacted the vessel while she was close to communications. But even then, the place had been torn up after their message went out. No, even if Grus wanted to implore these aliens to go look for her, there was still a chance that she had just slowed down and would cause the reactor to implode at any minute. He couldn't risk anyone going in there, even if she'd wound up changing her mind on that whole unfinished business thing,<br>
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He had been silent through this contemplation, looking up only when the Softskin implied that Nurstrom would successfully recover. Taking a deep breath, he shook his head at the Softskin.<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)">"Don'av go par ship, iavuk Swallowed."</span> he warned before leaning back and held up one finger <span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)">"Maybe ni ukurvivor... maybe."</span><br>
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He leaned forward again and frowned, <span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)">"Too dangerouuk."</span> he stated before gesturing all around them<span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)"> "Zen ukpreaduk quick, conavaminaave ukavaavion um noav careful."</span></div>
				
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As the gunship crashed, Blaise's head slammed into the bulkhead.  A shock of pain ran through him, and he worried what would have happened if he hadn't been wearing his helmet.  As things were, he could hear the sounds of battle just outside.  Shouts and moans mixed with the echoes of laser rifles and explosions.  He removed his restraints, and charged through the transport doors.  A laser bolt slammed into his armor, and he felt the shockwave of a turret exploding.  He could see the Ascendant Ones' defensive line now, and the young soldier knew Seraphim Company wouldn't take it without cost.  <br>
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As Blaise opened fire on nearby enemies, another explosion happened, knocking him to the ground and blowing apart less fortunate NAC personnel.  Through the ringing in his ears, he heard a single voice saying, "Get up, Blaise.  We need you."<br>
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As he returned to consciousness, Ensign Blaise Bescond could feel one of his friends shaking him, and hear alarms going off in the Envouira hangar.  "I'm here," the commando officer said as he got to his feet and drew his sidearm and a detonator.  Seeing the Gorstak had taken up defensive positions, Blaise requested covering fire, and walked into the storm of lasers outside.  He was still dazed, and shot quickly at the boarders.  He felt some of their shots flying past him, and could see where some of his commandos had already fallen.  <br>
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"Lampago Company, on me!  We're going to send these pirates back into space!" As Blaise gave the command, he threw the detonator, and fired off a volley from his CI-56 pistol before running behind a cargo crate for cover.  As for the commandos already in the hangar before the new arrivals, about a fifth had been killed by the various crashes, and combat afterwards.  Still, they outnumbered the pirates, and understood the environment much better than their enemies.  <br>
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"We have good news and bad news, Captain.  Blaise and the survivors are safely back, and the jump drive is ready.  But some of the pirates landed in the hangar." <br>
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The empire was in disaray, now that it was known to the public that the health of the emperor was declining. The different factions formerly united by the emperor were now grabbing more and more power out of the sickly hands of the emperor. The huge economic boost that the empire had may have been for nothing. It lead to the expansion of the empire but now it will maybe lead to its decline.<br>
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“Emperor you can’t do this you’re still too weak”<br>
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“If I don’t make this public appearance there will be nothing left for Myrion to inherit. You know that Baeryon, I trust you as head of the imperial guard to protect my son and advice him. He’s young and naive Baeryon, he isn’t yet ready for the heavy burden of the crown.”<br>
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“My lord” Baeryon kneeled right in front of Lyraethis “I swear on my honor that I will protect your son no matter what.”<br>
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“Stand up Baeryon we have to go” Lyraethis smiled. A few days later Lyraethis began his grand journey throughout the vast territory of the empire. He began in the city of Artemis on the planet of Yraethis. Everything went smooth, crowds of people were waving at to the god emperor some even tried to touch him but were quickly stopped by the imperial guard. Lyraethis was loved by his people, under his rule the empire became big and technologically advanced. While Lyraethis had been striving for peace the last 100 years, his son supported by many nobles had other plans. Lyraethis knew that if his son Myrion were to inherit the empire now, he would be simply used as a puppet.<br>
“Garaerys!” The chanting of that word took the emperor back to reality. Garaerys is a word used as battle cry or greeting to the emperor literally meaning ‘ten thousand years (of life to you)’.<br>
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Suddenly one of the carriages in front of the emperors carriage was blown to pieces. Pure chaos errupted people screaming and imperial trying their best to maintain order. It was the carriage of Baeryon, Lyraethis climbed out of his carriage and walked in the direction of the crash site. “My lord you shouldn’t be here, it isn’t safe” With the guards lacking a leader it was obvious that killing the emperor would be way easier now.<br>
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Lyraethis was suddenly pushed inside an armored vehicle and brought to safety. He was brought to one of his nearby estates (which were always heavily guarded). Lyraethis walked through the grand door of his castle like palace and was met with faces of relieve. “My emperor” the man kneeled “ you’re still alive, we’re sorry for our incompetence” the man that kneeled next to him said “yes please forgive us”. “The only way you can atone for your incompetence is by finding the scum who did this”. “Yess yess of course we’re already working on that”. “Good then I will now continue my tour around the city if you wouldn’t mind”Lyraethis began making his way back to one of his carriages. ”My lord, with all due respect but we haven’t found them yet. It will be far too dangerous to continue”. “Hah! I will not give in to terrorism, if we do that we will have lost all credibility, and i shall not discuss with you. The conversation is over”.<br>
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It was over indeed, Lyraethis continued his journey without making any alteration to the route. This time someone did manage to blow up the right carriage. It was only a couple hours after the first attack, the emperor died that day because of his foolishness not because of his illness. Out of this we can conclude that even gods can be fools on occasion. It is said afterwards that Lyraethis dead marked the end of an era for the empire of Alaeryian.<br>
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“The emperor is dead my lord”. “I know” he smiled “It was me who gave the order”. It was the grand prince Asaryth Lirion III who is also the head of the Alaeryian parliament. “You can go now” the servant stood up and walked away. Asaryth turned around and walked towards his ballroom. Once he walked inside, he said “Attention attention my dear lords and ladies. You have all gathered here to celebrate the death of the Emperor. It isn’t only speculation anymore though, it has become reality”. The crowd of lords and ladies began clapping. “We can finally start working to make our vision a reality. That is the vision of claiming our rightful place of the number one power in the known galaxy” he looked around and unsheathed his decorative sword and hold his sword up <b>“Garaerys!” </b>​</div></div>
				
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The jungle that awaited the party was fraught with difficult terrain and uncertain dangers, resembling a Terran rainforest taken to the extreme; Wet, swampy terrain that threatened to swallow men whole, jagged rock formations and exotic foliage with all kinds of bizarre qualities. All around, the cries of wildlife momentarily broke the relentless pattering of the rainfall from above, though actually seeing any of the alien creatures on the planet proved to be a rare occurrence.<br>
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A few miles into their journey, the group found a momentary break in the rough terrain in the form of what looked like a narrow dirt trail. The trail had been eroded and overrun by wildlife over many years, but a careful eye could still follow it with some difficulty. A short ways up the road, the remains of a vehicle was present, abandoned at the trailside and long since turned to an unusable wreck. It was of Terran design, that much was obvious, and seemed to have once been designed for pathfinding based on its suspension and reinforced framework.<br>
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The hijacked IRD Pod skulked through the halls of the shipwreck purposefully, its movements unnatural and alien to those used to how they typically flew. This one hung only a few feet off the ground based on its still transmitting camera feed, and now appeared to be stalking the remaining drones through the ship. It trailed behind them, dodged away from sightlines and retreated when it was close to being detected.<br>
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Whatever creature had hold of the drone was not alone as Burnish was soon to find out, when another pod found itself being hijacked in a similar manner, this time through the floor as it was dragged downward violently before its visual feed cut off, the cameras possibly broken by an unseen impact.<br>
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Much, much further away from the wreck site, the damaged Pod on its own was having more luck gathering information. The entrance led into a small, abandoned dock, likely used for patrol craft rather than any kind of warship. At the further end of the dock, the Pod could make out fortified doors leading deeper into the cliff face, as well as what could only be described as a tiny, primitive village built over and around the dock. Huts and small walls built from a mixture of plants, wood and salvaged materials formed a crude perimeter, almost blending in with their surroundings and looking like little more than rubble to the untrained eye. As the pod peered closer, it could briefly make out the shapes of a few creatures quickly darting into hiding behind cover, lacking a uniform silhouette between them. Before the pod could approach any closer however, one of these mysterious creatures poked itself up from behind the wall.<br>
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It bore a vaguely egg-like shape, composed of various metal and polymer panels crudely bound together by dark green vines, which sourced from within the shell. Fitted to its front was a hodgepodge array of small lights and sensors, which blinked and shone at the pod to illuminate it quite suddenly. With the new light source, Burnish could make out the shape of a heavy-duty machine gun mounted to its top, loaded with ammunition and connected to the shell by a swivel mechanism. Really, the creature looked more like some kind of sentry gun than a living being, and yet Burnish would be met with this thing barking out a message to him through the pod, spoken in garbled, robotic tone but also a virtually identical language to those on the ship he was in a current standoff with.<br>
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<b>“Halt! You are unrecognised, traveller! Speak now of your person, let us know what guides you here.”</b></div>
				
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"Broadside the bastards!" she roared "That hunk o' junk's leavin in flames!"<br>
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The Morfus, despite its numerous damages, continued to release a broadside of blasts after the Envouira as it made its escape. The moment the ship made its jump, she had to shout around the command deck in order to get her crew to stop their flurry of attacks. But once it was over, a cheer rang out through the ship with Rustafans chest-bumping and raising fists to their victory.<br>
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The Captain was less than satisfied as her crew, having wanted to destroy their targets instead. But it was the nature of the weak to run, what mattered was their prize. Standing up, she shouted for them to get to work on repairing their ship, whilst also sending messages out to the Rustafan Fighters still out in space to get to scavenging the ruined ship that had been left behind. <br>
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Truly, the battle wasn't over until the last of the Boarders had been taken down. It had stretched on for far longer than it had any right to, with the hangar being scarred by energy weapons explosions and more. But finally , the last pirate collapsed, laughing even then as he waved an empty energy pistol at the air, pulling the trigger repeatedly until he passed out from his wounds.<br>
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They felt as though they'd need to destroy the ship, which they definitely did. Grus was still furious at the idea of letting Norlaq die after everything she did to help Nurstrom and him escape, but she'd made her choice. <br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)">"Yeuk,"</span> he nodded to them before pointing to the Gourmanti <span style="color: rgb(235, 107, 86)">"Ship no be boardun, cannoav be ignorun, must be deukavroyun!"</span><br>
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Boarding it was basically sending people to their deaths, Zen had the advantage inside the vessel now, and no matter how much Grus told the Pinkskins there was no way they'd be prepared enough to counter it without prior experience fighting it. Just leaving that ship alone would just let Zen fester in there until some poor, dumb scavengers touched it and unleashed a scourge across this entire star system. Destroying it and letting space swallow its remains would at least nullify a majority of the threat it posed, but it wasn't as though the Gourmanti was some simple freighter. Luckily both Zen and them had both damaged a number of portions of the ship, meaning it was nowhere near as sturdy as a Warship of its caliber usually was.<br>
<br>
Honestly, losing a vessel like it would cause grumbling among the Consulate, but they knew the procedures to properly deal with a Zen outbreak. Grus did not, and was not willing to take chances with the Gourmanti.<br>
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<br>
The only problem was the local ecosystem getting in the way time and time again, that one being that had taken ahold of one of them was actively stalking the others if the visual feed was any indicator. It was keeping out of the way for the most part, but yet another drone went dark just as it was being dragged way by some unseen force. After all the work they'd done to get eyes into this vessel, Burnish wouldn't be satisfied with anything less than a complete comb-over. But with the rate their last drones were dropping off, there was a good chance that wouldn't happen.<br>
<br>
"Captain, you may want to view this." the Overseer stated before gesturing to a screen.<br>
<br>
Burnish leaned over and raised an eyebrow at the sight of what was obviously a dock, old and abandoned but a dock no-less. As Burnish scanned the feed, he narrowed his gaze before taking another deep breath of Crognac Sizzle. It was as he was letting his heart rate calm down, that he noticed it.<br>
<br>
"Hold up, over there." he pointed "That... those are structures."<br>
<br>
The Pod stopped its scanning of the dock and focused upon the primitive buildings, carefully approaching as Burnish took note of the construction. He'd seen similar construction done by primitives, but these had incorporated scrap from more complex structures in their buildings. As the Lone Pod examined this seemingly-makeshift villa, it took note of the figures moving just out of sight.<br>
<br>
"Captain-"<br>
<br>
"I see 'em." Burnish stated before gesturing towards the robot "Keep it steady, if its anything like the wildlife we've seen already it could pounce at any-"<br>
<br>
And then an egg jumped out on screen, causing Burnish's words to dry up as it aimed what looked to be some kind of ballistics weapon at the pod. It wasn't completely machine, as through the cracks in its shell were the blatant signs of plant-life holding it together. But the sight of an odd plant-machine hybrid jumping out of nowhere with a gun was by no means the oddest thing before Burnish. But when it started speaking that some alien drivel that the small pink-skinned creatures in that other vessel spoke, the Captain's expression visibly tightened into a grimace.<br>
<br>
Without hesitation he upturned his tube of C-Sizzle and downed it, prompting the Overseer to look to him and tilt its head.<br>
<br>
"Captain, that product is not recommended to be administered in such a-"<br>
<br>
"Shut up and get this to the fleet," he grunted before tossing the empty tube away. He was about to take a step away before pausing an glancing back to the screen, "Actually, move aside."<br>
<br>
The pod had come to a stop, hovering before the local in silence before finally something came through its speaker. It was Burnish's voice, stiff and awkward due to the struggle he still had with the language. Only knowing what he'd gathered from the work of the Fleet's Trokoids. He had to keep it concise and straightforward, but he needed info and wasn't about to let the stunted bureaucracy of the Council get one of his last Pods destroyed.<br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(226, 80, 65)">"Planet... claimed by... Union."</span> his voice came out, straining with the words <span style="color: rgb(226, 80, 65)">"Here to...investigate...claim."</span><br>
<br>
He was actively gripping the side of his head in frustration, the words he spoke felt wrong in his mouth. But hopefully, he'd be able to get across his need for info. Negotiation wasn't his specialty, and dealing with Primitives was far from his department, but he'd make do with what he had for as long as he could.<br>
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Gran Kanarus had always been an enigma to the galaxy. That secretive nation that secluded itself in the galactic west was as mysterious as it was involved with international affairs. They were, as the humanocentric organizations of the universe would say, humans that had aligned themselves with a xenos race that shook in shame of its past. The stories of how one of the colonization groups of the human expansion saved an alien species from reptilian predators were quite well known in the rest of the worlds and systems which the boot of man had stomped upon.<br>
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Its agents stalked the shadows of its underground cities and sprawling metropolises, seemingly keeping dark secrets out of the light. Fearful whistleblowers make claims of monsters being forged in the laboratories and black sites of Gran Kanarus, only for them to forget all that they knew the next days. The peoples of the nation laughed at this rabble rousers, thinking that the nightmare creatures that these speakers of doom were no more than products of excessive use of narcotics. The shadowy agents of the state whisper amongst themselves in the darkness; It is all according to plan.<br>
<br>
Orvud was a system of no great importance. At least, it isn't one now. However, during the halcyon days of the Jotorun Federation, the avians had built several Gateway portals on its planets, turning it into a hub of activity and productivity. It was a prime shipbuilding site; thousands of ships were constructed using minerals from its thick asteroid belt, as well as the barren moons of its gas giants. That all changed when the Shako invaded; the reptilians destroyed each of the Gateway portals, and fell upon the populations of the worlds below in a ravenous feast, the remnants of man, woman, and child being spat out unto bloodied piles of millions. The entirety of Orvud's population was completely devoured, with the sole exception of the occupants of a dozen cruise ships that managed to warp out in time. It would be no exaggeration to say that the Jotorun had no desire to resettle a land filled with the bones of their dead; even their human comrades found the images of the bleached piles and blasted ruins distateful for a relocation site. As such, the Orvud system had remained abandoned for the last three centuries, with only random patrols and research stations being the only signs of life...<br>
<br>
Now, though, there was something else.<br>
<br>
"Captain?", a concerned bridge crewman swiveled his seat around to face the captain of the frigate they were all in, "I'm picking something up in the sensors. Medium sized object, with movements too precise to be that of a celestial body."<br>
<br>
"Do we have visual?", the captain asked?<br>
<br>
"Not yet, as we are still too far away from it, but it's within communications range."<br>
<br>
<i>Just what we need to make this patrol on a site of mass murder to be a little more interesting. </i>"Hail them."<br>
<br>
"Link is now open, captain."<br>
<br>
With both a spoken and text message, a communique was sent to the mystery vessel; "This is Captain Raphael De Costa of the GKS <i>Amenecer.</i> Identify yourselves, and prepare to be boarded for a routine inspection."<br>
<br>
The captain leaned back on his chair, and joked. " Gotta hope that those are one of those smuggler ships with meat products. I haven't eaten a steak in a while."<br>
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<b>Classified Location<br>
Arcturus Forsythe</b><br>
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The <i>Defiant </i>floated lazily over the space station, the faint flow of the red dwarf illuminating the surface of its hull with a sickly hue. It wouldn't be long before its engines started up, flames of blue quietly accelerating it away from the orbital facility...<br>
<br>
"No luck?", Trajan Pyke asked as a pair of feet stepped out of the shuttle, before the next few other pairs. "We're having a bad week, eh, Arcie?"<br>
<br>
"Well, we always have next week to turn things around, right?", Arcturus Forsythe winked as he patted Trajan on the head as if he was his child. "Speaking of which, what are the new files that the agency has given us through the courier ship?"<br>
<br>
"Ah, right.", Trajan threw open a tablet, which then projected a hologram of a... man... thing. No one can tell, really, as he had tentacles for hair.<br>
<br>
Arcturus shook his head as he began reading through the file. "Damn, what did the SciTech Division do this time?"<br>
<br>
"Apparently, they tried to make a human-Yukara chimera." Trajan then clicked on the screen to show a video of the containment breach that resulted in the chimera's escape. "Ten people on Site 21 were killed at a breach. Several experiments escaped, but by far, this one's the most concerning."<br>
<br>
Arcturus drank tthough a flask, and furrowed his brows at the text. "Why is that?"<br>
<br>
"Well, the chimera is... uh... it's intelligent-"<br>
<br>
"He." Arcturus corrected. "Poor sod, the SciTech Division tries to make more monsters and he's their guinea pig, and now we have to get him before he causes real damage. Anyway, carry on."<br>
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"He poses a serious security leak risk. If he gets to, like, the Federated Colonies or the Confederacy, he could expose everything bad that has been happening in all the black sites, as he was created to be a living hard drive."<br>
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"I wouldn't say that those psycho eggheads with their damn motto of 'science requires sacrifice' don't deserve it..." Arcturus tapped on the tablet screen's, shaking his head. "But the risk of being embargoed by the rest of the entire galaxy will destroy our economy. Any leads?"<br>
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"This is Captain Raphael De Costa of the GKS <i>Amenecer.</i> Identify yourselves, and prepare to be boarded for a routine inspection."<br>
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Once the comm link was open, the ship would stop and begin slow movement towards the <i>GKS Amenecer stopping once visuals could be generally gotten. Through the path there was only silence coming from the ship, but there was also no signs of weapon systems being turn on or even shields.</i><br>
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After the ship stopped, there was a reply sent in Galactic and Confederate Standard text.<br>
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"This is Wanderer Ship <i>ACS U27-W11</i> of the 27th Exploratory Fleet of the Acruani Collective. According to our maps, this system is unpopulated and unclaimed, and we are in the process of checking whether or not it is appropriate for development. Has this system been previously claimed?"<br>
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"Regarding inspection and boarding, there is no area in this ship that organics may access, we are open to scanning if this is part of your nation's territory."<br>
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The Acruani Collective had a few dealings with a few other nations though usually limited to small trades or technology sharing. Their systems are spread out through and near old human space, but they seldom claim systems as theirs save for the ones with population.</div>
				
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As she looked down on the planet below, Agent Tara Gladstone raised a glass of Nova-Cola to her lips, and recalled her mission objectives as she took a sip.  Some sort of dangerous alien had been spotted on Jorayont, and it was causing damage to Government Property and killing Confederate citizens.  It would be terminated like all the others, and in most cases, a less senior member of Confederate Intelligence would respond.  But this was a new threat, and Intelligence's Head of Xenocide Operations wanted to see it for herself.  According to the information they had, it was probably from far away, and was extremely dangerous.  It had killed several civilians, and most of the local police force.  For that reason, Governor Lalande had requested assistance.  <br>
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As she walked towards the turbolift to the hangar, Tara checked her reflection in a powered down monitor.  Her dark blonde hair was neatly brushed, her dark green eyes were covered by black glasses, and her fit body was covered by a long, white coat, with a grey combat weave shirt and pants underneath.  A silenced laser carbine was slung across her back, as well as a trisilviate longsword.  Finally, a CI-28 laser pistol hung at her waist.  Her final weapon was her body, trained in many forms of combat.  Whatever waited on the planet below, she could handle it.  <br>
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Tara was still cautious however, and had brought a platoon of forty STAR Commandos from Inferno Company to help terminate the creature.  They were already waiting in a Pegasus gunship, and as the descent to the planet began, Tara briefed their leader on the mission.  <br>
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"We've been sent to kill a dangerous alien life form.  We dont know exactly what it is, but reports said it had tentacles, high intelligence, and enormous strength.  Even so, it's probably not as bad as the monsters from the Ascendancy.  We have to be careful though.  It could still surprise us."  <br>
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"Of course.  We know all about bad intel, Agent Gladstone," Midshipman Maurice Leblanc replied.  "We should be able to handle this thing though.  Like you said, it can't be worse than the Delieggen."  Maurice's armour was grey and orange, and much larger than standard Naval Assault Corps gear.  It had to be to accommodate them.  The STAR Commandos were those that had completed the procedures of Project Super Sapien, and were much stronger, larger, smarter, and faster than baseline humans.  Soon, the final descent alarm blared through the ship, and it set down on an old landing platform.  <br>
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<b>Planet Surface, Jorayont</b><br>
As Tara and the commandos disembarked, they walked through dark streets.  One of the old strongholds of the Ascendant Ones, this neighborhood had never been rebuilt after the Confederate Civil War, and unstable, bombed out ruins remained where beautiful spacescrapers once stood.  Only their sympathizers remained in this area, and they had been most of the creature's prey so far.  No one really cared that former terrorists were being massacred, but eventually, the creature would move on to more loyal areas.  Tonight's mission was about preventing that.  They walked slowly, and kept alert for anything out of the ordinary.</div>
				
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"Acruani Collective?", De Costa scratched his head, not sure where he had heard that name from before. "Pull up the database and the archives please, and search for any references to this Collective."<br>
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Several holograms began to rapidly shift, showing a stream of information from the entire database of the Gran Kanarus. After a few moments of awkward silence, several holopanels lit up with text written in Galactic Standard.<br>
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De Costa read the information intently for a little bit of time, taking it in as he looked over the dot on the holomap that represented the Acruani exploration ship. "So we don't know a lot about them other than the fact that they're mysterious robots that like to wander around..."<br>
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Clearing his throat, he then spoke, addressing the Acruani vessel. "Ah, yes. This system was claimed in the past, but it has abandoned after the massive slaughter that its population endured in a war three centuries ago."<br>
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He then turned to the nearest crewman, motioning with his head for footage of the destruction of Orvud to be transmitted to the Acruani, as well as images of its present situation. The former would show armies of towering reptilians devouring millions of Orvudians while the skyscrapers fell from withering hellfire. The bones of the dead would be piled up high, and spy drone footage captured a Shako feast that entailed the invaders taking their victims out of cages and then placing them on dining plates as if it was a free for all buffet. <br>
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"This is the system's past. Do you still wish to linger here?"<br>
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<b>Jorayont</b><br>
<br>
The Defiant, as of this moment, was parked above Jorayont. Its engines were inert and cold; it had shut them off in order to conceal its position from prying eyes as shuttles and fighters from its underside hangar descended upon the planet.<br>
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"This is bad. Very bad." Trajan Pyke looked a little worried as he gazed on the screen of his tablet. "The chimera has begun to kill people on the planet."<br>
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"Of course.", Arcturus replied. "What else did you expect? That a human and a marine apex predator being put together would be as cuddly as... you?"<br>
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"God, no.", Trajan rolled his eyes. "Come on, it's your cue."<br>
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"Ah, yeah. Right. Ehem." Arcturus cleared his throat as he put the communicator on his mouth to address the rest of the task force that sought to neutralize the creature. "Everyone, this is Arcturus Forsythe speaking. We are en-route to some pretty dark ruins, and we have intel that says that the Confederates are already having trouble with the chimera down there. We have to get it before they do, lest it exposed you know what. Stick together and shoot to kill when you see it. That's all."<br>
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The Confederates wouldn't need to wait long for the creature to come along. A few tense moments passed before a nearby wall exploded into a shower of rock and metal, revealing a monstrous abomination charging straight out of the bowels of hell and the jaws of death. It was at least 20 feet long and five feet wide, with insectoid looking jaws filled with serrated teeth. It had an elderly man in an advanced state of consumption wrapped in its tentacles, as well as a hard exo-skeleton covering the rest of its body.<br>
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It then spoke, a hissing sound that read like a snake. "What is this? More food for my stupendous stomach? You just saved me the trouble of hunting for more."<br>
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"Oh no." Trajan gasped. "We found it, but it has engaged Confederate agents."<br>
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"Damn it.", Arcturus hissed. "All shuttles, full thrusters. We need to get the teams there as soon as possible, covertness be damned. If they capture it, it will expose us. Fighters, shoot it with kinetic weaponry as soon as you get into range. And Trajan,"<br>
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He tapped his long time partner and friend on the shoulder, and winked. "You know what we always do."<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">As Tara took in the sight of the massive beast, she took some steps back, and said over a comm, "All units, engage!  Lieutenant Rochette, lock on our life signs.  If mine and Inferno Company's all go dark, bombard our position from orbit.  This thing can't escape!"<br>
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Meanwhile, Maurice signalled the men under his command to open fire.  Some of them hurled grenades at it, and many hesitated.  While they were used to fighting the Delieggen in their monstrous, natural forms, this thing was something else entirely.  Or was it?  The Confederacy's oldest enemies were known, talented shapeshifters, and this one could just be a more creative one. <br>
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Maurice and Tara dismissed the theory at the same time though.  While the Delieggen could take a number of forms and regenerate lost limbs, they couldn't have produced as many as this thing has tentacles.  While Tara sifted through the data streams of her glasses' scanners, Maurice raised his vibrosword, and swung hard towards one of the creature's tentacles.<br>
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As Lieutenant Jean-Luc Rochette received Tara's transmission, he said to the ship crew, "All weapons, target the planer's surface, lock on the response team's life signs."<br>
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"Sir?" a confused gunner replied.  "Why are we targeting them?"<br>
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"Because Agent Gladstone herself wants us to bombard the area.  Whatever's down there, it's taken our Head of Xenocide Operations and the veterans of Inferno Company by surprise." He added after some consideration, "I think they'll be able to handle it.  But if for some reason they can't, we make sure it doesn't escape."<br>
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"Sir!  Contact on sensors!  Shuttles and fighters, making for the planet's surface!  Should we move to engage?"<br>
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The L'Toile Marine officer gave the question some thought.  Technically, he had authority to engage unknown vessels in Confederate space, but the design suggested they were human.  And they definitely weren't Ascendancy.  Even if they were foreign and unidentified, it really wasn't the job of Confederate Intelligence to detain them.  <br>
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"Negative.  We're here to kill a hostile alien, not detain mystery vessels.  Bring us closer, and run scans on them, but keep our weapons and targeting systems on the team's location.  And if they choose to contact us, we'll answer."<br>
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			<div style="text-align: center"><b>Gran Kanarus</b>​</div><span style="font-size: 15px"><b>Orvud System</b><br>
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"Acruani Collective?", De Costa scratched his head, not sure where he had heard that name from before. "Pull up the database and the archives please, and search for any references to this Collective."<br>
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Several holograms began to rapidly shift, showing a stream of information from the entire database of the Gran Kanarus. After a few moments of awkward silence, several holopanels lit up with text written in Galactic Standard.<br>
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De Costa read the information intently for a little bit of time, taking it in as he looked over the dot on the holomap that represented the Acruani exploration ship. "So we don't know a lot about them other than the fact that they're mysterious robots that like to wander around..."<br>
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Clearing his throat, he then spoke, addressing the Acruani vessel. "Ah, yes. This system was claimed in the past, but it has abandoned after the massive slaughter that its population endured in a war three centuries ago."<br>
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He then turned to the nearest crewman, motioning with his head for footage of the destruction of Orvud to be transmitted to the Acruani, as well as images of its present situation. The former would show armies of towering reptilians devouring millions of Orvudians while the skyscrapers fell from withering hellfire. The bones of the dead would be piled up high, and spy drone footage captured a Shako feast that entailed the invaders taking their victims out of cages and then placing them on dining plates as if it was a free for all buffet. <br>
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"This is the system's past. Do you still wish to linger here?"</span>
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After a short delay, a voice reply came through the comms. The voice sounded androgynous but human-<i>like</i>, but it still gave an eerie feeling that it was just something generate rather than spoke. "<span style="color: rgb(247, 218, 100)">We understand, thank you for the information!</span>" Generated or not, there was a hint of excitement and sincerity in the reply, "<span style="color: rgb(247, 218, 100)">As long as the system is currently unclaimed, we would like to continue with scans to also obtain mineral and radiation information. We won't touch any cultural sites as to preserve history.</span>" There was a small pause, "<span style="color: rgb(247, 218, 100)">Also, would you say which nation your vessel represents, there is no information pertaining in our immediate database.</span>"<br>
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The images and information obtained were quickly transferred to their fleet which would later transfer it once again to the rest of the Collective. At the very least, the Acruani in control of this vessel would gain some access just given the historical information just obtained, maybe even more if proper resources are found in the system or if a trade relation can be obtained.</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper">As Tara and her Confederate commandos began to engage the monstrosity, the creature screamed in anger and pain. It was a chilling shriek, one that could give a fully grown man nightmares for a thousand years. Under the moonlight, its monstrous features would become more prominent. It was a humanoid creature, though it walked on all fours. Its tentacles hid a white jaw and sunken golden eyes; its breath reeked of death, and warm blood still dripped from its teeth. Maurice's vibrosword cut cleanly through a tentacle, much to the monster's chagrin, which quickly jumped towards a nearby building side in an effort to escape from a battle that it knew it couldn't possibly win. Even if killed a lot of them, it will not be able to do so in time...<br>
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Six pairs of floating headlights burst into life, all pointing towards the creature that had anchored itself on the wall of a ruined apartment. The light of the moon would cast shadows; six fighter craft, which immediately opened fire at the creature. It, however, towards one of the hovering starfighter, ripping at the cockpit with its teeth and sending the pilot towards the ground. The other fighters broke away and started circling the area, their headlights still shining bright in the midnight air.<br>
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The monster dropped back into the ground, cracking the concrete street in its descent. It would, however, be met with withering gunfire, not from the Confederates, but from a team of Gran Kanarus agents, some of whom clung on building sides with magnetic shoes in order to have the high ground advantage.<br>
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Several individuals, suited in special power armor, hovered around the monster and shot it with harpoons, each of which ran a high voltage current of electricity. It raged and screamed, and grabbed one of the harpoons and nearly flung the man on the end to his death, but it was beginning to weaken, and the agent disconnected his harpoon just in time.<br>
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As if in cue, a squad of jetbikes sped right up to Tara and her squadron. Arcturus Forsythe and Trajan Pyke stepped off their bikes, landing their boots upon the ruined ground of the ruined planet. "Apologies for the trouble, miss.", Arcturus said, bowing as the creature's shouts still reverberated in the background. "I'm afraid that he is our fugitive."<br>
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A smashing sound interrupted into the din of the ensuing conversation. Arcturus turned to see that the creature had still broken loose, and the fighters were unloading gunfire at its form to little avail. "I think we will need to use the cognito sedatives... the big ones..."<br>
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A reply was quickly in order. "This vessel represents Gran Kanarus. And, legally, it still owns the system. I will have to relay this to my superiors in order for proper negotiations to be begin."<br>
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Once that was done, the captain turned his chair around, nervous that the Jotorun would immediately block any efforts for anyone to settle this system. Some of them, after all, had declared Orvud a cursed place. It probably was.<br>
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"That was oddly enthusiastic.", Raphael said to the bridge crew as the Acruani gave its reply. "We literally just sent it footage of one of the worst mass murders in galactic history... why is it so... happy?"<br>
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			A reply was quickly in order. "This vessel represents Gran Kanarus. And, legally, it still owns the system. I will have to relay this to my superiors in order for proper negotiations to be begin."<br>
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Once that was done, the captain turned his chair around, nervous that the Jotorun would immediately block any efforts for anyone to settle this system. Some of them, after all, had declared Orvud a cursed place. It probably was.<br>
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"That was oddly enthusiastic.", Raphael said to the bridge crew as the Acruani gave its reply. "We literally just sent it footage of one of the worst mass murders in galactic history... why is it so... happy?"<br>
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Regarding the previous seemingly enthusiastic voice, it was due to how Acruani could obtain higher ranks, better resources and the like within the Collective; obtaining more meaningful information and diplomatic connections. They also had a thing for 'practicing' and emulating emotions. While uncanny at times, some did implement such functions to the point they'd become affable. That said soon, a reply came, "<span style="color: rgb(247, 218, 100)">Understood, we we will append to the database. There is very limited information regarding Gran Kanarus on our database as it is. And apparently, no formal diplomatic ties.</span>"<br>
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"<span style="color: rgb(247, 218, 100)">It would be very good to be able to have proper negotiations regarding this system, and other matters if necessary. It seems that I will be the responsible for negotiations. I may be addressed as Rank 4 Acruani Kiitsu, Currently In Charge Of Relations With Gran Kanarus.</span>" The voice did return to a stable, serious tone, even if this was great news for the Acruani. Had the mothership of this Wanderer been in this system, it'd have to transfer control over the negotiations to them, but as they aren't and there is no previous responsible for this specific civilization, it was up to it.</div>
				
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"It would be very good to be able to have proper negotiations regarding this system, and other matters if necessary. It seems that I will be the responsible for negotiations. I may be addressed as Rank 4 Acruani Kiitsu, Currently In Charge Of Relations With Gran Kanarus." The voice did return to a stable, serious tone, even if this was great news for the Acruani. Had the mothership of this Wanderer been in this system, it'd have to transfer control over the negotiations to them, but as they aren't and there is no previous responsible for this specific civilization, it was up to it.
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"Very well then, Rank 4 Acruani Kiitsu, we will send a message to our superiors." The space station orbiting Orvud Prime itself was immediately notified of the recent developments concerning the Acruani Collective and their seemingly benign intentions. Several messages streamed back and forth between the patrol frigate and the station, with the station's commander being a little too lazy for his own good. He questioned if the frigate could just send the message by itself; the immediate answer was a curt no.<br>
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Begrudgingly, the station sent out a message towards the nearest communications array, which would then relay the message to the Gran Kanarus High Command within the hour. As such, the frigate and the Acruani vessel would simply stare at each other rather awkwardly. Had their guest been organic, De Costa would have invited them over for tea in the ship's mess hall, but given that it was just a single artificial intelligence, such formalities were out of the question.<br>
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After two hours that seemed like an eternity, a trio of warp signatures appeared over the planet of Orvud. The ships breached the fabric of space and time, coming out headfirst as they came to rest over the ruined world that still echoed of ghosts and death. If one were to look at the markings of the hulls, they'd know that these were no ordinary envoys; these were vessels commandeered by the right hand men and women of the overlords of High Command. Those fools couldn't be bothered to leave their posts, so it was these second in commands that led the charge to meet the machine race that had just surprised them.<br>
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The three ships were the Speranza, a stealth destroyer with advanced cloaking capabilities; the Aurelios, a diplomatic cruiser; and the Cabrera, another destroyer of less lofty description. These three then advanced towards the Acruani vessel, with the destroyers sticking closely to the envoy vessel.<br>
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"This is Terrence Blackmore of the Aurelios, designated envoy to the Acruani Collective. We shall now commence negotiations… by first sharing our history and culture to you."<br>
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The Acruani ship would then receive a data stream, a full timeline and history of Gran Kanarus and its predecessors, as well as the varied culture of the myriad peoples that live upon its worlds. This will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship…<br>
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As the creature screamed, most of the Inferno Company fell to the ground, or pushed their hands to the side of their heads. While the shriek was haunting enough for Tara, the near-sonic shriek was much worse for the STAR Commandos with their highly enhanced senses. As Maurice removed his helmet to wipe blood away from his ear, he saw Tara talking to a pair of foreign agents. He didn't know who they were aligned with, but they were obviously other secret intelligence operatives. They seemed to have the creature well in hand though, so the midshipman signalled his men to hold their fire until further notice.<br>
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As for Tara, she observed the outsiders with interest, especially as they engaged the monster. When the jet bikes stopped beside her, she listened to the newcomers. Eventually she said, "There's no need to apologise. Even though it's a little different than what we usually handle, this is another day at the office for me. My name is Tara Gladstone, and I'm the Head of Xenocide Operations for the Dothvalian Confederacy. My division doesn't kill every alien we encounter. But when certain dangerous ones like this one are in our space, we're the specialists called to respond."<br>
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After a moment's pause, she said directly to the one who'd spoken first, "And while we could have handled this, I'm glad handsome strangers like yourself were deployed to respond, Monsieur..." Tara trailed off, inviting the newcomers to provide their names.
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"Thomas Leonhart." Arcturus refrained from using his true identity, as that could lead to serious repercussions not just for his crew, but for the entire nation of Gran Kanarus as well. "And this right here is Alejandro Salazar."<br>
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In the background, several more of the soldiers that spared through the air with specialized power armor fired at the creature, this time using gas made with a highly potent sedative, with each blast capable of putting a Terran elephant to sleep. They hovered all around the eldritch monstrosity, gassing the damn thing right at the face until its movements slowed and eyes began to droop. One of the fighters was currently stuck in one of the nearby ruins as a smoldering wreck… something that the Kanarusians would quickly deal with once the situation with the Confederate agents was resolved in the quiet way that the operatives of Kanarus had always found to be successful: amnestics.<br>
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"Well, now that's done… we're deeply sorry for the damage that the creature has done to your… place." Arcturus bowed at Tara; he would seem to be sincere in his apologies. "It had escaped containment, and now, we're bringing it right where it came from-"<br>
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Crack. The creature's shell began to shake and crack, as if it was an egg that was beginning to hatch.<br>
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And it did.<br>
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The whole monster exploded into a mess of blood and insides, leaving in its place not one, but two additional creatures; smaller ones, sure, but their eyes were glowing, and had these weird growths on their hands that also glimmered in purple. One of them immediately discharged a chemical bolt at one of the hovering starfighters, which was avoided very, very narrowly.<br>
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"Oh, bloody hell." Arcturus drew out a rifle from the jetbike's seat compartment, shuddering at the sight. "It was merely a shell being controlled by a pair of chimeras augmented with ranged corrosive weaponry… ah, damn it. They never told us about this part… are the idiots trying to get rid of me?"</div>
				
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As he scanned the room, Autarch Yiska of Zocrinus considered the state of things in the Delieggen Ascendancy.  He knew that as things were, they were at an impasse.  The intelligence documents before him suggested that despite its heavy losses during the war, the L'Toile Marine was more than powerful enough to destroy several Ascendancy worlds.  Even if the humans couldn't destroy the planets themselves, large detachments of groups like Inferno Company and Xenocide Operations continued to massacre his people.  Yiska didn't truly care about the lives lost on other planets, but his was a slower-breeding race, and every death was a blow to the larger Ascendancy.  There was no doubt about it.  The smaller nations, strong as it was, needed help.<br>
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As he took a bite from a serving of roast Dothvalian, the Autarch looked across the table at his human advisor.  "What do you suggest, Lucas?  Your former people in the Confederacy were always better at interacting with others.  Who could we approach?  We need someone to even the playing field against them.  Preferably someone we can use."<br>
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"We will prepare meetings with each then," the Autarch said evenly.  "Make the arrangements with the diplomatic staff.  I'll contact both groups."<br>
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With that, Yiska left the room, and approached a large communications console.  After pressing a broadcast button, he said in Galactic Standard, "Greetings.  I am Autarch Yiska of Zocrinus, a planetary ruler of the Delieggen Ascendancy.  I am reaching out to the nations of the Acruani Collective and Gran Karanus for a meeting, and hopefully relations.  We can trade you high quality plasma weapons, and other pieces of technology." Pausing to twist his monstrous natural body into the much smaller frame and appearance of a human, Yiska added, "But I think we have some less concrete advantages that will interest you much more.  We hope to hear from you soon."<br>
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			"Very well then, Rank 4 Acruani Kiitsu, we will send a message to our superiors." The space station orbiting Orvud Prime itself was immediately notified of the recent developments concerning the Acruani Collective and their seemingly benign intentions. Several messages streamed back and forth between the patrol frigate and the station, with the station's commander being a little too lazy for his own good. He questioned if the frigate could just send the message by itself; the immediate answer was a curt no.<br>
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Begrudgingly, the station sent out a message towards the nearest communications array, which would then relay the message to the Gran Kanarus High Command within the hour. As such, the frigate and the Acruani vessel would simply stare at each other rather awkwardly. Had their guest been organic, De Costa would have invited them over for tea in the ship's mess hall, but given that it was just a single artificial intelligence, such formalities were out of the question.<br>
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After two hours that seemed like an eternity, a trio of warp signatures appeared over the planet of Orvud. The ships breached the fabric of space and time, coming out headfirst as they came to rest over the ruined world that still echoed of ghosts and death. If one were to look at the markings of the hulls, they'd know that these were no ordinary envoys; these were vessels commandeered by the right hand men and women of the overlords of High Command. Those fools couldn't be bothered to leave their posts, so it was these second in commands that led the charge to meet the machine race that had just surprised them.<br>
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The three ships were the Speranza, a stealth destroyer with advanced cloaking capabilities; the Aurelios, a diplomatic cruiser; and the Cabrera, another destroyer of less lofty description. These three then advanced towards the Acruani vessel, with the destroyers sticking closely to the envoy vessel.<br>
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"This is Terrence Blackmore of the Aurelios, designated envoy to the Acruani Collective. We shall now commence negotiations… by first sharing our history and culture to you."<br>
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The Acruani ship would then receive a data stream, a full timeline and history of Gran Kanarus and its predecessors, as well as the varied culture of the myriad peoples that live upon its worlds. This will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship…
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A few hours of wait were nothing for Kiitsu, for an Acruani of its rank even waiting an eternity would feel no worse than a moment. However for this particular Acruani, the wait was more than worth it. Usually, meetings like this could end with a vessel blown up, the minor interaction ending with no further follow ups, generic establishment of diplomatic ties or in the best of the cases, the <i>immediate </i>sharing of information.<br>
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The Acruani Vessel remained still as it had been for the last hours as the three ships advanced towards the Acruani Vessel, once communications resumed, there was a reply.<br>
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"<span style="color: rgb(247, 218, 100)">Greetings. This is Rank 6 Kiitsu of the Acruani Collective, currently responsible for interactions with the Gran Kanarus. We appreciate the information, there may be a small delay as we analyse the information transmitted.</span>" And then there was silence. The same stream of information the Acruani vessel just received soon was retransmitted to outside the system. The Acruani vessel, being a Wanderer class vessel, had the required equipment for such long distance transmissions.<br>
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There were less than 10 minutes of silence before another reply came.<br>
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"<span style="color: rgb(247, 218, 100)">We are sorry for the delay. Thank you very much for the depth of information transmitted, The Collective is pleased!</span>" Although up to this point the voice was mostly monotone, the hint of excitement was clear in the last sentence, "<span style="color: rgb(247, 218, 100)">We will be sending a similar set of information briefly. Regarding the negotiations, our request is control over this system and its celestial bodies. It contains resources we require and its coordinates facilitate jumping through this area. We are open to compensate for the acquisition of this system and we will keep it open for civilian traffic if necessary. We are also open to further necessary demands given, Historic Value of this system to your people.</span>"<br>
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Just as that was spoken, a stream of information was sent from the Acruani vessel to Gran Kanarus. The information was mostly current state of affairs of the Collective with relevant information such as what the ranks meant, how were organics treated, what was an Acruani and lastly, a brief history on them. On a note, rank 6 is the highest ranking an organic has gotten in the collective and among other things is already capable of representing and directing a populated planet, or acting as an impromptu envoy to any previously unknown entity. Something that is made clear in the files to be something that gives many benefits to the envoy regardless of how future negotiations with said entity goes.<br>
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			<b>Zocrinus, Meeting Room</b><br>
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As he scanned the room, Autarch Yiska of Zocrinus considered the state of things in the Delieggen Ascendancy.  He knew that as things were, they were at an impasse.  The intelligence documents before him suggested that despite its heavy losses during the war, the L'Toile Marine was more than powerful enough to destroy several Ascendancy worlds.  Even if the humans couldn't destroy the planets themselves, large detachments of groups like Inferno Company and Xenocide Operations continued to massacre his people.  Yiska didn't truly care about the lives lost on other planets, but his was a slower-breeding race, and every death was a blow to the larger Ascendancy.  There was no doubt about it.  The smaller nations, strong as it was, needed help.<br>
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As he took a bite from a serving of roast Dothvalian, the Autarch looked across the table at his human advisor.  "What do you suggest, Lucas?  Your former people in the Confederacy were always better at interacting with others.  Who could we approach?  We need someone to even the playing field against them.  Preferably someone we can use."<br>
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"The Acruani Collective, Underlord Yiska.  They care primarily for knowledge, and don't have the same scruples as the Confederacy.  If we offered them knowledge and technology, I'm sure they would give something in return."<br>
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"Very well.  But why the Acruani specifically?  Surely there are other nations the Confederacy knows of that would be interested in relations?"<br>
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"Perhaps Gran Karanus as well.  They have long been distant neighbours of the Confederacy.  I don't know much about them, except that they are rather secretive.  They might also help us, but I'm really not sure."<br>
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"We will prepare meetings with each then," the Autarch said evenly.  "Make the arrangements with the diplomatic staff.  I'll contact both groups."<br>
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With that, Yiska left the room, and approached a large communications console.  After pressing a broadcast button, he said in Galactic Standard, "Greetings.  I am Autarch Yiska of Zocrinus, a planetary ruler of the Delieggen Ascendancy.  I am reaching out to the nations of the Acruani Collective and Gran Karanus for a meeting, and hopefully relations.  We can trade you high quality plasma weapons, and other pieces of technology." Pausing to twist his monstrous natural body into the much smaller frame and appearance of a human, Yiska added, "But I think we have some less concrete advantages that will interest you much more.  We hope to hear from you soon."<br>
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The reply came in 'shortly', a few minutes later. After all, listening to transmissions was a pastime for Acruani. "<span style="color: rgb(255, 64, 0)">Greetings Autarch Yiska. This is System Overseer Shadai, Rank 4 Acruani of the Acruani Collective. My system is the one closest to yours, therefore I'll be responsible for our interactions. We are interested in the technology that you offer and we are willing to have further negotiations. We can send an envoy ship for us to personally meet once a time and location for a meeting is decided. You may send a reply in this frequency.</span>" That said, the same message also contained the location of the Acruani system Shadai hailed from.</div>
				
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