31-12-2003, 11:34
"Today Fleetworlds celebrates its 2nd year of peace following the end of the reaper war this war as many space nations know took its toll on our brave fighting men and women and reduced our fleet to almost half its operational compacity further to this our colonies on the rim were attacked and destroyed and millions of fleetworlds colonists were killed
2 years to the day the last battle of the war was fought near Voranash 7 combined Jitano and Fleetworlds ships beat back the reaper tide and saved our people from annialation at the hands of an ancient enemy"
the picture cuts to a cenetaphe and President Aryen Sun laying down a wreath she steps back and salutes the memorial the delivers a speech
"We should give thanks thanks for our fighting men and women for the forgeworlds of KT-2 for the fleet for our allies for the ancestors who look down upon us and bless us with protection and for 2 years of sustained peace in the coming years many of our children and their children will look back and say that possibly the last great war in the Republics history was fought and won on a knifes edge that we are lucky that the odds were truly against us that we fought a unwinnable war but i tell you our enemies came we beat them back they came to the very walls of our capital world to the skies of beautiful Kalidan but we beat them back we claimed victory in this war and i give thanks every day that we have brave fighting men and women and a galiant fleet soldiers of the republic we salute you"
camera pans across the crowd who are cheering the front row delegates from many worlds get to their feet in a standing ovation
then begins the roll call of the dead thousands of names read out by priests of the ancestory church it is memorial service it is long and very very sad
2 years to the day the last battle of the war was fought near Voranash 7 combined Jitano and Fleetworlds ships beat back the reaper tide and saved our people from annialation at the hands of an ancient enemy"
the picture cuts to a cenetaphe and President Aryen Sun laying down a wreath she steps back and salutes the memorial the delivers a speech
"We should give thanks thanks for our fighting men and women for the forgeworlds of KT-2 for the fleet for our allies for the ancestors who look down upon us and bless us with protection and for 2 years of sustained peace in the coming years many of our children and their children will look back and say that possibly the last great war in the Republics history was fought and won on a knifes edge that we are lucky that the odds were truly against us that we fought a unwinnable war but i tell you our enemies came we beat them back they came to the very walls of our capital world to the skies of beautiful Kalidan but we beat them back we claimed victory in this war and i give thanks every day that we have brave fighting men and women and a galiant fleet soldiers of the republic we salute you"
camera pans across the crowd who are cheering the front row delegates from many worlds get to their feet in a standing ovation
then begins the roll call of the dead thousands of names read out by priests of the ancestory church it is memorial service it is long and very very sad