The Fedral Union
13-09-2008, 20:16
The noise of voices faded in and suddenly stopped , as a middle aged pale skinned, brown haired and blue eyed man walked through two large ornately decorated doors in to a large room with chairs positioned around a metal table. Several people were there already , two young directors one female and an older man, all seemingly waiting impatiently. The man coughed a bit, a nervous chuckle escaping under its veil . He rushed over to the nearest chair and said aloud in an apologetic voice.
“Sorry I'm late.”
The older man just sighed frustratingly and spoke in response .
“Right since every one is here albeit a bit late... now we can get on with Business.. “ he glared over to the man who just walked in.. the mans name was Jeffery Stavros the chief civil engineer for the Terran Federation he had experience designing every thing from small inflatable habitats to huge civilian ports and mini moons.
The older man started to speak again leaning back on his chair folding his hands over each other. “Right well I've called you all hear for several reasons, first things first how ever let me introduce every one .. “ He started to point at people , Jeffery was first
“this is Jeffery Stavros, the chief civil engineer for the department infrastructure and construction, and this is Kate Murphy, working for the state department , and last but not least this is Michel kayborn , chief of internal security for the federation... now you're all here because we need various things done, the president has called on me to organize it and frankly we're going to do this well, no more lateness and no more bsing alright?”
Every one nodded in unison looking at the older man who coughed and spoke again.
“Alright now down to what we're here for, first off the Terran Senate has authorized some thing called project nova sol , not what your thinking, its a project to restore our reputation in the sol systole, were various nations reside, frankly the government reversal in recent years leaning towards peace before war has paid off, so its hoped it might pay off in this project. Why we need all you specialist is because we have discovered a planetoid in between mars and earth, just inside the asteroid belt on the mars side , this planetoid is going to be the site of a new colony and base , as well as a port of call and an embassy row its hoped.. all of you have been assigned your task and will leave tomorrow morning on the UTS Ranger.”
The group nodded, the female spoke up how ever raising a question. “we're going on a war ship? The state department said we would be going on an unarmed freighter, wouldn't the ranger , witch is a heavily armed cruiser mind you, raise suspicion and tarnish our already charred reputation some more? “
The old man responded “The government tired to get a number of ships to book you including the construction vessels that will be constructing every on the colony, yet none could provide adequate security, or any room, an no star line has ran out their since the collapse of the old government”
Michel raised an eyebrow at the mention of security and interjected.
“Security? Its Sol its a neutral ground why would any one attack an envoy of peace , especially one arriving in an unarmed ship.. I personally feel its not necessary..”
The older man sighed and moved forward slightly responding .
“Before the old government fell they had a huge issue with rouge pirates in the belt, and the government dose not want to take that risk , I don't agree with it either, but your safety is paramount.”
Jeffery interjected as he leaned back on his chair. “It doesn't add up though if we're preaching peace why send a war ship to support our operations? Unless we think some one will attack us it makes no sense..”
The old man shrugged. “Well The government hardly makes sense, unless they have Intel we don't on the system, but in this case it would be best to trust the presidents decision.”
Michel just shook his head and sighed “What ever, I just hope Logan knows what hes sending there... I frankly don't want to be in the middle of another idiotic cluster fuck caused by poor diplomacy.”
Every one nodded, the old man waved his hand and said loudly as he stood up. “Meeting dismissed”
--
The next day things were hectic, Jeffery was running around gathering his “papers“ and digital holo cubes and identa car for the trip, Kate was already at the port looking down the long smooth and metal coordinators of the military vessel ,and Michel was still asleep, nonetheless two and half hours late, all of them were finally on the ship. The commander of the ship stood in the middle of the massive command center he looked around as the ship began to shift in to faster than light. The engines rumbled throughout the ship energetic noises echoed through the busy command center as the tactical avatar materialized in the middle of the bridge.
Jeffery walked on to the bridge his suit well pressed and well ironed , his hands to his side as the other two advisers walked in behind him, he nodded to Kate and Michel who stood by one of the larger immersive consoles. The commander looked back and with a friendly voice he said. “Ahh yes, welcome aboard the UTS ranger I'm commander Sheridan Odessa, I hope you like your quarters?”
Michel chuckled and said casually . “Their fine not a first class star liners room, but they do.”
The massive metal ship traveled through the crackling slip drive tunnel, the blue and white light p reflecting on its smooth and sleek hull bits, its form ominously looming over the smaller metal cylindrical colony and construction ships, bolts of lighting like energy rushed past them as they moved through the uniform seemingly never ending tunnel..
It would take a few hours for the ships to arrive at sol, nonetheless time droned on . Jeffery was associating with various crew, Kate was reading her usual diplomatic suspense novels and Michel, was busy drinking as usual.
Hours droned on, and finally over the PA system the holographic tactical Avatar shimmered in to each location, and notified each of them in a blanket message.
“We are arriving at your detestation, dropping out of FTL in 5.. 4... 3... 2....1..” her voice was soft and angelic, her hair long black and wavy, eyes blue . The ship jerked slightly as space was ripped open, a crackling portal of blue and white energy swirled with arcing bolts of lighting like discharges reaching out in to the darkness of space. The large heavy cruiser rushed out its hull smooth and slightly glimmering from the soft yellow light followed by a rush of cylindrical ships, behind it..
On the bridge All three department liaisons and the commander him self stood, they peered out in to the glory of the old solar system every one used to call home, many hundreds of years ago... the holographic screen switched to a view of a planetoid, a rocky planetoid covered with ice floating in between several massive rough asteroids , in the distant, distant back round the red rusty color of what could only be mars could be seen, of course it was about an AU away , no place close. The rocky cold world would the be new home of several million people in waves.. the engines of the cruiser and the other ships streamed particles of white and blue behind them as the portal closed, streams of plasma and particles fading away several meters from the engines.
The gravimetric drives pulling the ships forward as they were pushed by their conventional engines. Construction drones and worker bees blew off from several cylinders swarms of small ships melted off from the surface of the ships leaving their super structure exposed. The Grey masses moved towards the planetoid already beginning their work , most went towards several asteroids to start mining, how ever a good portion rushed towards the surface of the planet starting to bore and drill with lasers and plasma cutters habitat entrances in to icy rock of the planet. The main colony would be situated on a large cliff over looking a crater it was facing sol her self, and got plenty of sun light, even so far away from earth , the orbit of the planetoid would be modified by the constructors to keep that area sun lit for food production and various other things including anesthetics....
The three state officials would be working from the ranger until a more suitable diplomatic ship arrives, Jeffery would over see construction , Michel would over see security arrangements and placements of offices and defenses, and Kate would facilitate any sort of contact or meetings of any foreign powers in the system...
“Sorry I'm late.”
The older man just sighed frustratingly and spoke in response .
“Right since every one is here albeit a bit late... now we can get on with Business.. “ he glared over to the man who just walked in.. the mans name was Jeffery Stavros the chief civil engineer for the Terran Federation he had experience designing every thing from small inflatable habitats to huge civilian ports and mini moons.
The older man started to speak again leaning back on his chair folding his hands over each other. “Right well I've called you all hear for several reasons, first things first how ever let me introduce every one .. “ He started to point at people , Jeffery was first
“this is Jeffery Stavros, the chief civil engineer for the department infrastructure and construction, and this is Kate Murphy, working for the state department , and last but not least this is Michel kayborn , chief of internal security for the federation... now you're all here because we need various things done, the president has called on me to organize it and frankly we're going to do this well, no more lateness and no more bsing alright?”
Every one nodded in unison looking at the older man who coughed and spoke again.
“Alright now down to what we're here for, first off the Terran Senate has authorized some thing called project nova sol , not what your thinking, its a project to restore our reputation in the sol systole, were various nations reside, frankly the government reversal in recent years leaning towards peace before war has paid off, so its hoped it might pay off in this project. Why we need all you specialist is because we have discovered a planetoid in between mars and earth, just inside the asteroid belt on the mars side , this planetoid is going to be the site of a new colony and base , as well as a port of call and an embassy row its hoped.. all of you have been assigned your task and will leave tomorrow morning on the UTS Ranger.”
The group nodded, the female spoke up how ever raising a question. “we're going on a war ship? The state department said we would be going on an unarmed freighter, wouldn't the ranger , witch is a heavily armed cruiser mind you, raise suspicion and tarnish our already charred reputation some more? “
The old man responded “The government tired to get a number of ships to book you including the construction vessels that will be constructing every on the colony, yet none could provide adequate security, or any room, an no star line has ran out their since the collapse of the old government”
Michel raised an eyebrow at the mention of security and interjected.
“Security? Its Sol its a neutral ground why would any one attack an envoy of peace , especially one arriving in an unarmed ship.. I personally feel its not necessary..”
The older man sighed and moved forward slightly responding .
“Before the old government fell they had a huge issue with rouge pirates in the belt, and the government dose not want to take that risk , I don't agree with it either, but your safety is paramount.”
Jeffery interjected as he leaned back on his chair. “It doesn't add up though if we're preaching peace why send a war ship to support our operations? Unless we think some one will attack us it makes no sense..”
The old man shrugged. “Well The government hardly makes sense, unless they have Intel we don't on the system, but in this case it would be best to trust the presidents decision.”
Michel just shook his head and sighed “What ever, I just hope Logan knows what hes sending there... I frankly don't want to be in the middle of another idiotic cluster fuck caused by poor diplomacy.”
Every one nodded, the old man waved his hand and said loudly as he stood up. “Meeting dismissed”
--
The next day things were hectic, Jeffery was running around gathering his “papers“ and digital holo cubes and identa car for the trip, Kate was already at the port looking down the long smooth and metal coordinators of the military vessel ,and Michel was still asleep, nonetheless two and half hours late, all of them were finally on the ship. The commander of the ship stood in the middle of the massive command center he looked around as the ship began to shift in to faster than light. The engines rumbled throughout the ship energetic noises echoed through the busy command center as the tactical avatar materialized in the middle of the bridge.
Jeffery walked on to the bridge his suit well pressed and well ironed , his hands to his side as the other two advisers walked in behind him, he nodded to Kate and Michel who stood by one of the larger immersive consoles. The commander looked back and with a friendly voice he said. “Ahh yes, welcome aboard the UTS ranger I'm commander Sheridan Odessa, I hope you like your quarters?”
Michel chuckled and said casually . “Their fine not a first class star liners room, but they do.”
The massive metal ship traveled through the crackling slip drive tunnel, the blue and white light p reflecting on its smooth and sleek hull bits, its form ominously looming over the smaller metal cylindrical colony and construction ships, bolts of lighting like energy rushed past them as they moved through the uniform seemingly never ending tunnel..
It would take a few hours for the ships to arrive at sol, nonetheless time droned on . Jeffery was associating with various crew, Kate was reading her usual diplomatic suspense novels and Michel, was busy drinking as usual.
Hours droned on, and finally over the PA system the holographic tactical Avatar shimmered in to each location, and notified each of them in a blanket message.
“We are arriving at your detestation, dropping out of FTL in 5.. 4... 3... 2....1..” her voice was soft and angelic, her hair long black and wavy, eyes blue . The ship jerked slightly as space was ripped open, a crackling portal of blue and white energy swirled with arcing bolts of lighting like discharges reaching out in to the darkness of space. The large heavy cruiser rushed out its hull smooth and slightly glimmering from the soft yellow light followed by a rush of cylindrical ships, behind it..
On the bridge All three department liaisons and the commander him self stood, they peered out in to the glory of the old solar system every one used to call home, many hundreds of years ago... the holographic screen switched to a view of a planetoid, a rocky planetoid covered with ice floating in between several massive rough asteroids , in the distant, distant back round the red rusty color of what could only be mars could be seen, of course it was about an AU away , no place close. The rocky cold world would the be new home of several million people in waves.. the engines of the cruiser and the other ships streamed particles of white and blue behind them as the portal closed, streams of plasma and particles fading away several meters from the engines.
The gravimetric drives pulling the ships forward as they were pushed by their conventional engines. Construction drones and worker bees blew off from several cylinders swarms of small ships melted off from the surface of the ships leaving their super structure exposed. The Grey masses moved towards the planetoid already beginning their work , most went towards several asteroids to start mining, how ever a good portion rushed towards the surface of the planet starting to bore and drill with lasers and plasma cutters habitat entrances in to icy rock of the planet. The main colony would be situated on a large cliff over looking a crater it was facing sol her self, and got plenty of sun light, even so far away from earth , the orbit of the planetoid would be modified by the constructors to keep that area sun lit for food production and various other things including anesthetics....
The three state officials would be working from the ranger until a more suitable diplomatic ship arrives, Jeffery would over see construction , Michel would over see security arrangements and placements of offices and defenses, and Kate would facilitate any sort of contact or meetings of any foreign powers in the system...