NationStates Jolt Archive


From the ashes arose a phoenix

The WIck
03-04-2005, 22:12
Ticonderoga System
Capital of the Ticonderogan Concordat

The Ticonderoga System was a very inhospitable system devoid of any form of sentient life. It seem that all odds were against anyone ever colonizing the system even though it held an abundance of raw materials, which was something rather unique in this region of barren space previously only inhabited by something alien, the Vakutu. It was for that reason the now dead WIckian Commonwealth establish a fleet base in the system to keep an eye on their neighbors. The Wickians and the Vakutu always distrusting of one another and skirmishes were often a pretty regular thing. It was ironic because the Wickians were the closest thing to aliens the Raumreich had, and the Vaku were the aliens of the Raumreich making both targets for the xenophobic Ortagan’s. There fights over the years seemed to not make any sort of sense or reason, perhaps the Valinor were right when they joked that there had to be something weird in the radiation emitted from the stars of the southern march because its inhabitants were just plain eccentric and often foolish in their actions.

The tensions between the two nations erupted into full scale war in the Great War, when the commonwealth made its attempt shatter the defenders of Cronos, the bloody affair was beaten back leaving both sides to leave the other to their own affairs for the next few decades, to date an uneasy truce was in effect.

During the dark times that followed the fall of Thetis the shattered remnants of the Commonwealth fell back to their last bastion, the old fleet base at TIconderoga and the proprietors of vast mining and refinery complexes. In those dark days the survivors worked hard to rebuild and no one could ever doubt a WIckian’s ability to survive when he should have died long ago. The Vernii Imperium was vital in the rebuilding process it was not completely an altruistic effort, it was just as much for their own economic gains as it was for rebuilding the TIcondergan economy. The Imperium’s Orbitals Corporation, Gregor Corporation, Kiel Industrial Group all played a vital role in establishing what now was the TIconderoga System.

A massive effort that would not have been possible without Verniian injections to the Ticonderoga economy transformed the former merchant guild colony into a bustling capital of a small republic, that replaced the former commonwealth. It was perhaps even more ironic that all this rebuilding was made possible by the Concordat’s close proximity to the Vakutu, whom the Ortagans dared not attack at this point for fear of Valinor reprisal. It was not always so in the past and some theorized that the war the Ortagans raged to subdue the WIckian Commonwealth saved the Vakutu from a similar fate.

And so what once was a barren system only inhabited by a few thousand miners and merchants was now capital of the former WIckian Commonwealth.
Vernii
03-04-2005, 22:32
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Lunatic Retard Robots
04-04-2005, 00:57
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Perhaps a freighter will pay a visit to the system, for RP purposes...
Valinon
04-04-2005, 02:35
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The WIck
09-04-2005, 22:17
Vencetti Naval Annex
Ticonderoga System
Capital of the Ticonderogan Concordat

“At ease Captain” Admiral of the Green Perrign told the officer before him. Perrign was one of the few senior officers of the new Concordat Navy that could trace his service back before the days of the Great War of the Lion, indeed he had over Seventy years of service in the CN quite an accomplishment when the average term of service was less then twenty, the Solar Navy had exacted high attrition on the CN. He is also considered by many to be the Father of the C.N’s Light Attack Craft corps. He was the officer who fought the Boroglians to a standstill in the skies above Stocrum, a considerable fleet back when the Boroglians were considered to be some of the best pilots of the Raumreich and the Wickians thought to be only mere neo-barb upstarts.

He considered the young captain before him. He had been a commander of a fleet destroyer at the Second Battle of Thetis, and equated himself well there protecting the fleeing transports and freighters from the larger numbers of released Ortagan Monitors. His ship accounted for two personal kills in that rear guard action, and barley escaped herself heavily damaged and her commander incapacitated. The commander earned his blood name in that fight and now he stood in front of him recently promoted to captain, recently stated to be of sound enough mind to be fit for duty by the fleets Docs… Perrign understood what that was like having one’s command shot out from under them, ones own body being torn apart, he too was blood named. It was a tradition only an officer who has shed blood in battle can attain, it was a rank of honor though one that no body wanted for 90% of blood names were given to those who died.

“Have a seat please captain, would you like something to drink or smoke?” Perrign asked the officer who was considerably his junior.

“Just water sir, I have had a nasty experience with alcohol and do not wish to repeat it.” Perrign only grunted at that, it was some admission especially to one of his rank, but Perrign liked officer who knew their weaknesses and their limits, no man was a god. His steward brought them both some ice water, after the admiral squeezed some lemon into his he continued.

“I have a particular mission for you to complete with your new command, it will require some diplomatic skill, and understand that you have experience in such maters?” He asked of the Captain.

“Yes sir, I served as the assistant ambassador to LNH before the Great War.” He told his superior.

“Well then let me get right down to it, I need not make you aware of the tenuous relationship that has existed between our people and the Vaku. Since the Great War we have had a sort of non-aggression pact with them, even though there has been some skirmishing between our light forces over the years but nothing major. Your mission Captain will be to travel to Cronos and initiate relations with the Vakutu. We are not expecting miracles but a form non-aggression pact is you minimum goals, you will be authorized to establish trade negotiations and also to secure a mutual defense pact to protect both of our nations against an invasion from the Solar Navy. Your orders are outlined in detail in this packet as well as the ships under your command, you will be the commodore of CruDiv 16. You are to proceed once your ship is refitted. Understood? Good. Dismissed Commodore!” With that Commodore Alex Yusko stood to attention, saluted and left the Home Fleet’s COs office.