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Yagdrassil Tree, the gulf of Ador, Sisguardia. Earth:

it was a fine morning, the asure blue of the sky and the low winter sun cast a wonderful cold hailo arround the Yagdrassal tree, the capitol city of Cairn Tarra, things were quiet though, in what had become knowen as the 'sea of leaves' the waters arround Yagdrassal sat hundreds of ships, camly floating in the water as if waiting for somthing, a slight surface mist began to form as the sun rose higher.
Like a flock of birds, in unison, the ships rose out of the water and ascended vertically toward the asure blue sky.

The space above the region of Sisguardia. Earth:

In the void above Sisguardia, a little shimmer, not more then a speck on the edge of perception, exploded to from a hyperspace decelleration gate, blue uppon blue. From the gate emerged three ships, just big enough to earn the prefix 'capitol', but compaired to the other weopns in the sysguardian navey. pritty pathetic. Behind them, a plethora of smaller ships emerge, some 9 in number, including several transport ships.
Ahead of the three ships was the cluster of smaller tarran ships approaching from there home in on the surface, transports, private shuttels. and the diplomatic envoys, including the Phoenix, recientally retuirned from humanatarian aid servace in support of the piloneese colony on mars. Some advanced slowly towards the new arrivals, some held there space.
an uncoaded transmission is sent from the lead capitol ship

"This is Cainteoir Isthus Treeson, Acting steersman of the Stormcaller, first of the Triumverate of Cairn Tarra. Today we return, home from a long absence, whith the three new pieceships of Cairn Tarra, may they bring about a new age of Honour and understanding, expansion and knolege. We thank our eternal allies, the Vortex Cooperation and the Sysguardian peoples, for making this verture possible."

a reply was sent from the phoenix, on a coded channel.


"This is speeker Adious Morainne, my words are those of the council, and will be obayed as such..
Treeson your staff will surrender themselves to the tribunal, you yourself are to be held at Yagdrassil pending your charge of unsanctioned interaction with the foreigners. Until this hearing, you speak in no council and with no authority. Your ships become the joint property of the learned council and of the chancellor of the fleets.
May the goddess forgive the harm you have brought upon us.”

a moment or so passes... on the bridge of the Stormcaller Isthus smiles slightly, on an uncoaded channel the response is returned

"Such is the welcome in Cairn Tarra for those who bring progress. Very well, if it is the will of the council I submit myself willingly to the trial, justice and honour will be served as is the way."

Isthus deactivated the transmitter and sighed,

“Let the Witch trials begin.... you had better hurry up Teo”

Outside, several transport ships detached from the main Tarran flotilla and docked with the three capitol ships, there was a hasty exchange of greetings, both formal and informal, and the new crew took control of the three ships. The 9 smaller craft set there courses for Yagdrassil escorted by ships baring the insignia of the First Wittan.

on another ship sat Ayhryean Fallenleaf, the current high speaker for sciences in the high council, in the absence of Teo and her husband Tain. She folded up a piece of paper in her lap and opened a secure broadcast connection.

“This is Cainteoir Ayhryean Fallenleaf. The council of sciences respectfully request that the Triumvirate remain here in orbit to allow our crews to complete there examination and evaluation of the ships”

“Cainteoir Adious Morainne, we agree. it would be wise to work out and remedy what that crack pot revolutionary has done to the ships... Fitting tarran ships with weapons... may nine decades of shame rest upon his shoulders.”

Ayhryean closed the connection and turned to the other members of the council in the small ship, she had a smile on her face.

“as soon as those Fascists leave orbit, get the transport vessels to work towing the Phase Gate into possession,”

She opens a connection to Te'ar Eannais, the captain of the Tarran fleets.

“Te’ar, my dear, ill assume everything is in possession for us to get to work?”

Upon hearing the good knews of the Tarran homecoming, Corporate officials and scientists rejoiced and shook hands with their collegues. It was not every day that TVC could help an ally, yet everytime it was possible to do so, it was good to help allies advance.

((OOC: Taggage.))

Approaching Yagdrassal. Gulf of Ador. Sisguardia. Earth:

Teo Holtzman-Wisewood was 56 years old today. He sat at the control seat of the diplomatic envoy Unicorn, Yagdrassil was just appearing on the horizon and he allowed himself a sigh of relief, despite the amount of work he still had to do...
Ja’annis had given him a very special birthday present... silence... she had opted to fly back with the transport ship Macha, looking after the maker it kept on board.
Teo checked the aft view. The transport ship broke from formation and slowed... it was over the sea of leaves now, the home of the nine makers. the biological supercompositers which formed the backbone of nearly all tarran achievements.
Teo sighed and began to alter the course of the ship gradually angling its nose upward. he wasn't going straight home....

The sleek body of the Unicorn landed gracefully on one of the 7 landing pads surrounding Yagameed, the council chamber. A transmission came across the cabin speakers, clear and present.

>>Hello Teo. You shouldn't be here you know. your not really in the high council again yet, Yagdrassil is empty this morning, everyone is in orbit looking at the Triumvirate... what news of my children.

“Nice to hear from you too Lamas... I have a little request it concerns your children...”

>>I listen cautiously

“You can see what is going on in orbit?. i don't think Councillors Morainne and Earthson will allow us to outfit the ships with your children. But we can change that.”

>>You are aware of my directives

“yes, is it honourable to give our allis, whom have defended us, aided us, built and learnt for us and even died for us nothing but a wall of Xenophobia, presented by the council at present”

>>But councillors Morraine and Earthson are the only really xenophobic members of the council at present

“Earthman and Annis are required by there under councils to vote with Morainne and Earthson, its where the power lies Lamas”

>>There is a kind of wisdom in your words. Please don't bring war upon us Teo.

Teo smiled, it may be a good day to turn 50 after all

“I wont I don't ask much. I wish to send one pre formatted transmission, with the councils blessing, to the place, Tevashii Island...”

Sisgardian TAG :D

ooc: PAYNTS... CRAYP.... :P

OOC:
/me take aim with a tranqulizer rifle, fires, hits
/me walks up to the now sleeping thread

(in his best crocidile hunter voice) "OY! This 'ere's a Beauty"

/me tags the thread in the ear and hurries off before the thread wakes up and bites his hand off

ooc: that was a bit OTT lab mouse :P

phase gate 3 (disused). High Geosynchronous Orbit, Sysguardian space. Earth:

The old phase gate stood, a disused relic of the second age of sisguardian expansion, now surpassed many times over by the combined technological might of Sisguardia. Around it several unmarked Tarran transport ships were moored. The Triumvirate was moored to the gate also. Engineering crews being moved to and from it by smaller transport ships. There was a lot of work going on within the ship. The bridge was being tidied up. Bodge jobs were being replaced by the final circuitry, and all was being prepared...
Te'ar Eannais, the commander of the tarran fleets, stood on the bridge of the Stormcaller, re-calabrating the central command console, she received a communication.

The sea of leaves. Gulf of Ador. Sisguardia. Earth:

Teo had returned to his ship and was holding possession about 2 miles off Yagdrassil, skimming low over the kelp rich water to avoid detection, he wasn't really essential to the plan anymore but he wanted to tag along for the fun.... He had one last responsibility...

“Wisewood?.. its Ja’annis”

“HOLTZMAN-wisewood... what is it?”

“the packages are ready. and the umbilical will be finished in 7 minutes, please send the message to the gate.”

Teo smiled. However his smile was short lived as he saw more of the ships returning from there recent orbital rendezvous. He spotted the ships of the council members heading towards the spire of Yagdrassil, Yagameed. think fast teo... his fingers flew over the keypad of the ship, typing a hasty message to Lammas

>>INTERUPT REQUEST, Priority 1:
>>target > Lammas main communications rig, sub NIN 3
>>action > for I = 1 - 30 begin sweep of infrared spectrum
>>ERROR: this will interrupt transmission monitoring subroutines
>>Override. password = *********
>processing
>executing

he allowed himself a slight sigh as he scrambled the communication channel to a UHF frequency channel and began transmitting to Triumvirate

“midwife, were ready ETL 9 minutes, best of luck”
“midwife here, understood, thanks”

Stormcaller (bridge). High Geosynchronous Orbit, Sysguardian space. Earth:

Te'ar Eannais closed down her communicator. she glanced around her once more, the place looked half finished and she was getting nervous. Peoples careers were on the line here... She stood and said loudly, broadcasting to the ships internal microphones as well.

“10 minutes everyone, eta 30 minutes until zero”

there were a few worried looks shot at her form the people working on the bridge.

ooc happy birthday to me in 20 minutes :S godd.d.. im nearly 20... :’( im too old for this

OOC: yea, it was, but if i'm just going to be average about it, why bother? :lol: besides if you knew me IRL you wouldn't be suprised

Makers 3,5,7 and 4. See of Leaves. Gulf of Ador. Sisguardia. Earth:

The sleek shells of the new creations emerged slowly into the water of the ocean. three simple devices, designed to carry there payload to orbit as quickly as possible then return to the ocean to be composted. there were three of them, floating in a 10 foot proximity of each other, One simple command in there operating system “WAIT UNTIL TOLD”. Out of maker 4 emerged the last one, identical in design and purpose, there was a pause, then, slowly at first the four shapes began to rise. Little solar sails emerging from there sides. there drive systems leaving a trail of heavy water behind them, ascending to the surface.

a small tarran utility submarine surfaced beside Teo’s stationary ship. Ja’annis boarded aquardly, just as the four packages broke the surface of the water at some speed, ascended and accelerated towards the sky. Teo glanced down at his time piece, the council would be reviewing the days international action about now... he was surpassed he couldn't hear the scream when they discovered what he had done.

Ja’annis taped him on the shoulder

“Get a move you idiot, i don't want to miss this event”

with ought stopping to be angry teo put the ship into a steep climb, following the course of the packages, and, dumping Ja’annis onto the floor behind him... he nearly burst into laughter but decided not to look round as he need all his attention to hide in the miniscule radar shadow of that which he was pursuing


Yagameed. Yagdrassil. Gulf of Ador. Sisguardia. Earth:

“WHAT! he did WHAT?!? how? why?”

Adious Morainne looked totally insenced, as if someone had just done him a grave dishonour, he had not reacted well to the news brought to him by the scribe, thought technically the two men were equal, Adious was the ‘speaker’ of the council, a title he had adopted himself, where Bo'rath Annis was the speaker of bureaucracy, a scribe, a yes man

“We don't know, everyone was in orbit at the time, the skeleton staff report that there was a transmission send from the council chamber, it was signed and sealed, they thought it was a delayed resolution so they let it pass. It would be a diplomatic disaster if we were to retract the application, it would be an out and out insult to the WTE”

“ARRGAA! Lammas, who composed that transmission? and when?”

>Teo Holtzman-Wisewood, this afternoon. 21 minutes ago actually.

“where is he now??”

>he left Yagdrassal on a trip to the Maker fields. he didnt specify a purpose...

*bump*
ooc:
any critisms / thoughts about my first static rolplay?

Approaching orbit. 5 miles above Yagdrassil, Sisguardia, Earth:

the view from the ship bled slowly from blue to the cold black of space, gravity begins to let loose its grasp on the ship as there acceleration continues, higher into orbit, towards the as yet, un-visible phase gate several hundred miles ahead of them.

Ja’annis approaches him.

“We are not going to have much time before they find out what's going on...”

“We will have enough, ”

Teo attacks a few data panels on the control surface of the ship, reefing the sails to give a smaller radar cross section, and opening a narrow band channel to the Stormcaller.

“we are on our way. make ready”


The Sea of Leaves, Gulf of Ador, Sisguardia, Earth:

Guardsmen of the first wittan scoured the navigable areas of the maker fields for hours, looking for Teo, above the water in Yagameed a debate about the punishment of the scientist was well underway. Adious Morainne was standing and shouting as was his want to do...

“...nothing short of treason... that means exile in accordance with the laws...”

“it cant be treason.. he didn't countermand a council Edict”

“he FORGED a council decree! Fraud! agents the sovereignty of Tarra, with ought the will or consent of the Third Wittan, nearly 20,000 years of governance set to ruin.. Countermanded by his inflated sense of... of... bohemian sociophilly”

*mumbles “that's not even a word”

>> Incoming transmission from the maker fields via NIN

“play it Lammas”

>>--”Sir, Teo isn't in any of the facilities, and no one ‘recalls’ seeing him. Surface intrusion detection radar here shows a small number of objects... four or five we cant be sure. none of the maker logs show anything untoward. but they could have been tampered with...

“that will do.. end feed... The coward must have made an escape for orbit... why? what's up there... oh goddess... the Triumvirate... its a... ... Coupe... We need to send the First Wittan up there.... destroy or dismantle the ships this must end now...”

“no, not a chance, we should wait until he returns... we cant just go charging up there until we have a firm idea of his motive”

“you would have us leave the Yagdrassil undefended”

“Who knows what those foreigners have tainted his mind with... they are probably backing the whole thing. sitting in there sterile bored rooms thinking on how to brake us up for there profit.....”


phase gate 3 (disused). High Geosynchronous Orbit, Sysguardian space. Earth:

Around the gate, the three ships were moored, noses facing outwards. the 5 tiny objects that flew toward them slowed and split, 3 of them went to the ships, the last two, one a 4 man transport orbited held its distance beside another small package... which began to open out... unfolding to form what appeared to be a communications dish.

Bridge of the Tarran piececraft Stormcaller. High Earth orbit:

>>interface... ... ... carrier found ... ... ... ... connect ... ... ... ...
>>---failed : carrier mismatch, out of range---
>>re focus: 28.8mHz @ 30^phase 24 bit error correction
>>interface... ... carrier found ... ... ... ... connect ... ... ...
>>ESTABLISHING....
>>LAMMAS interface remote communication node three

"Lammas, are you there?"

>>Yes Teo im here, your in a lot of trouble teo, the council found out about your forging the application for the WTE

"ill pay for my mistakes, but now is not the time for this, your children will soon be born, they need a naming, and we want you to be here to see them and tell them about us."

>>.... i am overjoyed... i have been thinking a lot a about this moment.

"have you thought of a name for them"

>>yes! the stormcaller, will be Morrigan, after the ancient goddess of war, worshipped before the writings, Shadowseeker will be Isis, goddess of plenty, and the voidstalker will be Hectate, the old goddess of the dark arts.

"interesting............ well i should very much like you to wake them, the connections are all in place. whenever your ready..."

teo looked round at the other people on the bridge with a frown then a smile. everyone looked back with a mixture of fear and preparation in there eyes. the birthing of a BioAI had only been done once, and only 5 people still lived who were present for the first time, and only 3 of them were aboard the triumvirate.

>>transmission starts... .. 0 0 0 1 - 0 0 1 1 - 0 1 0 0 - 0 1 1 0 - 1 0 0 0 - 01001100011011011011101100110010101101001011100110110000101101 10001
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>>transmission ends...

there was no change at first then, around the control room, some lights onm consouls went on, nothing fantastic, no pyrotechnic, no one evern noticed

>>Morrigan an Lammas: I am. what of my sisters?
>>Isis an Lammas: Sister I hear your presence.
>>Hectate an Lammas: mothers words are with us all. let us bide them,
>>Morrigan an Lammas: we must be told our purpose, then we can begin to learn.

the main view screens of the three ships went blank, then in plain green text on the black background stood the legend

“céard do ordú?”

there was a rapturous if reserved applause form the crowd and many relieved faces and teary eyes, it looked like everything had come together, teo typed out a short response,

“Tá muid sasta do scéala a fháil faoi tú féin... glac do shuaimhneas”

he turned from the console,

"Onriche Cainteoir Te'ar Eannais, you have command of the Triumvirate"

he bowed slightly and made his way back to the small dock to fetch his ship, months of work lay behind him completed, but now he had to face his punishment...

[ooc: the fleet is now working, so ill update everyone on how i intend to use the ships should they enter into a battle situation, The ion cannons and Mass driver are pretty standard kit... The effectoral shields, can divert pretty much any matter based projectile, at pretty much any range, it can also divert any energy weapons, assuming the firing source is more then 20 nanolightseconds away... ao about 5 or six km. and any light weapons which for whatever reason travel slower then light, it is useless agents tachion based weaponry, and weaponry based on obscure forms of matter / antimatter which are not dependent on gravity.... comments?
tehcrefence sites (if still active)
effectors: http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=77401&highlight=
computers: http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=80075&highlight=
tarra: www.coreline.net/tarra
thank you for your attention... ill wrap this up in a few posts with the fate of Teo.... hehe! *scheming hat on* ]