NationStates Jolt Archive

-Somewhere in the Mekantan Nexus

Another major pirate group, another one sided battle, another few thousand whining, crying, organics.

AT-150 stalked around the holding pits for these organics, most still wearing ragged clothes from thier attempt to escape Mekanta's ruthless AI forces. Some of the survivers cried, mourning the loss of thier comrades who fell in Mekanta's surprise blitzkrieg on thier base of operations.

The modified merchant vessels they used to try to prey on Mekantan resource transports had put up a decent fight, but Mekanta's forces were too much for them, or the pirates on the ground, to handle.

Much of the base was captured before the rest even realized that thier defences had been broken. They had been stupid and built many small buildings. None of which with an armory.

It was too easy.

{Of prisoners, of pit to bring out of.} A command entered AT-150's head in Mekantan, the Akumu looking down at the prisoners in one pit before stomping over to a control and interfacing with it directly.

Bars of energy appeared from floor to celing as the floor of the pits rose, stopping at the same level as AT-105. It was quiet a moment, until the prisoners started yelling.

Thier leader's corpse dropping into the room, horribly disfigured, stopped them. It was followed by another male... and another... until the entire all-male command structure of the pirate organization was lying in a naked, bloody, mangled heap.

"This is what happens when you oppose the Steel Imperium!" A Shinigami type AI said in thier language, striding into the room holding a severed Human head. It tossed it into the pile, looking over the prisoners. "You will all be sold to the highest bidder, as is our proceedure with captives of your nature. Are there any objections?" Something about the AI's voice and the way it flexed its hand and curled it into a fist seemed threatening, like the question were really a challenge.

Most of the prisoners knew to be silent, but a young woman, probably no more than sixteen, started shouting. The bars near her vanished as the Shinigami chuckled, shaking its head.

"So be it." It held out its hand, a psionically generated wave of force yanking her off her feet and into his waiting grasp. "Let us show these wretches what the alternative is..."

The girl's eyes shot open as she saw over the Shinigami's shoulder, seeing four Neo-Syokusyu hover into the room.

The next twelve hours were spent with the room full of the girl's screams as she was slowly tortured to death, the other prisoners seeing everything that happened.


And everything, from the slow torture of the leaders to the death of the girl, was recorded and sent to Earth and other Space nations.


-Message

"The Steel Imperium of Mekanta has recently come into possession of 13,752 prisoners. These are guilty of piracy and crimes against the Steel Imperium."

"There are 5,202 males and 8,550 females. All will be sold in one auction, to any nation willing to pay the most. Be they a primative Earth nation, or a space dwelling nation."

"Bidding will end at our discretion."

We find the practice of slavery disgusting and below all human lofe forms, not to mention the supposidly more advanced mechanical ones. Your practices have earned you a sub-human reputation throughout our land. Crawl back to whereever you came from and hide there.

(nothing personal, its just the IC response)

To: Mekanta Diplomats
From: Vrak Diplomatic Corps
Subject: Slaves

We will take 500 males and 500 females. We want the slaves to be in good health and not to be rigged with any form of traps. We shall send one cargo ship along with a small escort. If the slaves are based off-world, then we shall make the necessary arrangements for transport.

We caution you; any form of treachery on your part will result in your destruction.

"Vrak..."

"We will sell the slaves as one bulk amount. While normally we would be happy to make accomidations, your threats prompt us not to."


"BLARGHistania..."

"We are sadened you feel that way. It is Mekantan custom to either sell those who have sinned against us into slavery, or make sure they suffer slow, long, painful deaths."

"As you seem concerned about the welfare of these creatures, perhaps you would wish to ensure they are not tortured to death like these...?"

As the AI finishes speaking, a transmission showing the slow tortures of the other prisoners is played...

OOC: And this is exactly why my government has an anti-AI stance...

IC. Our bid is $10,000,000 USD.

-OOC-

And what'll really rattle the stick up your government's ass is that Mekanta's organics are behind that policy...

Besides. I'm an evil nation. Bad guys. ^_^


-IC-

"The present bid is at ten million by Vernii, fellow ESUS members."

"Vrak..."

"We will sell the slaves as one bulk amount. While normally we would be happy to make accomidations, your threats prompt us not to."

To: Mekanta Diplomats
From: Vrak Diplomatic Corps
Subject: Slaves

Grow a hide. You are the one selling slaves and yet you are condemning us because of threats? Read over our earlier message. We can make the necessary arrangements for transport. All the remains to haggle is the price. If you wish to offload the entire population, then we will take them off your hands.

We do not know what kind of people you are hence why we lace our proposition with friendly warnings. Truthfully, we don't think much of slavers and past experience has taught us that those type only understand force. If you honour your part of the agreement, then you have nothing to worry about.

To Mekanta

We would like 500 males and 700 females.

We will pay you what you wish for the slaves as long as it is reasonable.

If you choose to accept you shall dump them on the back water planet of Matthesian at the main landing bay.

To: Mekanta
From: Vrak

We bid 2000 USD for each male and female slave. In other words:

27,504,000 USD

"Vrak has dominant bid."


-OOC-

It's getting late here. ^_^

G'night. I'll be back tomarr- wait... In the morning. Central Time Zone: 3:00 AM.

Dear leader of Mekanta.

We exhort your way of handling prisoners. The dictatorship of Tottobacco would be happy to take charge of your prisoners to use them in public executions. Because of our for-the-moment unstabile economy we can do nothing but to offer you our friendship which can be necessary in a war based on the ground. Our fanatic infantery is unmatched in jungle operations.
If you may want other resources we will be happy to discuss it.

/The diplomats of Tottobacco on behalf of our loved leader Tott.

-OOC-

Yeah, I know. I said I would go to sleep. I will when Detective Conan is over. ^_^


-IC-

"The Steel Empire is interested..."

"Your assistance would be helpful if one of the nations under our heel, Fera, rebels. They are a Terran nation, quite primative, yet they can match our far superior forces due to thier mastery of jungle fighting."

"We will consider your offer, depending on later bids."

The Dictatorship of Tottobacco thank you for you concideration. We are a very defensive nation and therefore we learn our people at very young age the art of jungle fighting which our nation is based on. Our knowledge can be used also in other jungle nations which has been proved before. In that terrain, we have never lost one single battle.

(OOC: Relatively well handled. Technically, I shouldn't really be bidding against Vrak, but, meh.)

IC: We shall raise the bidding to twenty eight million 'dollars' and have already dispatched a transport vessel of sufficient size to collect your prisoners.

The Dragon (http://www.necrontyr.plus.com/images/Dragonav3.jpg)
Supreme Commander of the Necron Fleet, Lord-Lieutenant of Mephet'ran.

100 Million, and I want all of them brought to my nation.

open comms from hive @ Mekanta:
*Voice of the overmind crackled over the airwaves (Star craft)*
We are the hive, we are perfection. We request that these slaves be turned over to us for biological resurch. Your payment shall be 10billion USD and 100 million tons of any material you require. For the perfection of the swarm!
We are the hive, we are prefection.

(Sigh, I always have to do this...)

Let's see...budget says...oh, alright.

50 Billion, and we'll give you a cracker.

100 billion USD and 500 million tons of any mix of materials you require.

(Remember, you do have a budget to follow, and I doubt that you have 1 trillion for slave buys ;))

100 Billion Pounds and we'll provide transportation.

ooc: bah! It was all nice and good until some fools decided that their nation would somehow be justified in paying some 7 million plus USD per "slave". So much for being budget conscious. So please, sell the slaves to the fools and then I will steamroll them as they'll no longer have any budget left to maintain a military or government :headbang:

The People's Republic of Sevaris roundly condemns this evil practice. Slavery is an offense against man and God and should be abolished. It is a shame to see nations still performing this backward practice.

Premier Alec Mannerheim

(P.S., READ THE GENEVA CONVENTION!)

The Grand Imperial Empire of Aust offers £900 million honour Pounds (1 Honour pound 3 dollers) for these people.

"Hive Fleet Imodius has dominant bid."

The hive requests information regarding the materials that you will require in order that they are prepared for your collection or our delivary should you have a particularly rare choice.
We are the hive, we are perfection

"We require 30% Titanium, 70% Diamond."

"Bidding shall remain open a while longer."

We are the hive, we are perfection.
The Titanium shall be delivared in bar form. However would you like a single entity of diamond to assimilate at your will or would you prefer individual pre cut diamonds? Please state your requirements or even the potential use of the diamond in order that we may prepare it for your use.
We would also request that this be an opening bid to enhance our relations, we will pay a similar amount for biological organisms to be turned over into the custody of the hive should you have need to dispose of such a "nuscence".
We are the hive, we welcome you to us.

The Dark Empire is willing to offer you 60 Billion USD for the slaves and rights to mine 5% of all Endor Astroid feilds and 2.5% of Dark Crystal (the stuff thats really rare and that makes my armor grate).

OOC: basicly it means you can make any form of Endor armor you like with out reprocussions and even make your own forms of Endor armors

im willing to go up to 100 Billion USD and 6.5% mining rights of endor and 5% rights to Dark Crystal

if needs be i will pay 5 million more then anyone elce per head (slave)

We are the hive, we are perfection.
CorpSac, as our ally's we demmand that you stand down from this auction. If nessacary then we may split the slaves between us once gene harvesting is complete or if we deam them to be worthless they shall be handed over to yourselfs.
We are the hive, we welcome you to us.

ooc> We should have dome diplomatic talks somtime soon so we have a record of them on the new servers. Also I take it you will be attending the TFU peace talks?

"Hmm..."

"Corpsac and Hive Fleet Imodius are presently tied in terms of dominant bid."

JD- I'm disgusted and denounce this all of it! Stop!

"How about no."

An AI's robotic form, a Humanoid Shinigami type, appears on screen. With all the same fluidity of a human, the AI flips off Josh Dollins.

Message to Hive:

the Stigmata is in need of new....cores for its fleet (an RP im building) how about we split the Slaves 50/50 i take Half the males and Half the Females you take the other half, we split the cost between us, that way its cheap for both of us.

Signed ~
--Unnamed--

Message to Mekantan incase they intercepted the Message to Hive:

we do not mean cut the slaves in half and give us half a male and half a female (that would be pointless as they would be dead)
Signed ~
--Unnamed--

OOC: nope in not goin to the confence over TFU (hes still on my ignore list) and yes maby we should make a Diplomatic thread on this new forum :D

Why do the prices have to be so high, well, maybe someone else is selling slaves.....

OOC: i sell slaves of all kinds i just clone a race (if i have the right Gentic data) modify it then sell it on as a new race (and thanks to the 7th day law that passed when i was a post modarn tech nation clones have no rights and are not deemed er...whats the words begining with S..... im lazy so someone elce can spell it )

oh oh I know....
Sloppy :D
Is it possible if I could purchase some? Moulders experiments requires some....er......volunteers......

IC- 600 billion dollars for all the slaves you currently have for sale here.

(occ- I plan to free them all)

NNNOOOOO

Everyone, lets pool our money to out bid him(which I think Hive Fleet and Corpsac can do it alone)

"Communist Mississippi has dominant bid."

To: Mekanta Diplomats
From: Vrak Diplomatic Corps
Subject: Slaves

We withdraw from the auction. The prices are too rich for our blood.

=====

-Billions of dollars and millions of tons of metals?
-That's what one bidder put forth.
-Ridiculous. They are just slaves. Our maximum would have been 5000 dollars per head. Remember, this doesn't include transportation, food, and accomodations that we would have to expend. Not to mention training, diversion of manpower, etc...
-Yes, but it seems that some people are willing to pay outrageous sums of money irregardless of economic consequences.
-It would seem so. After all, can anyone really verify that these exhorbiant amounts would even be paid? This gives me an idea. Contact our manpower division. What did that Barnum fellow say again?
-"There's a sucker born every minute?"
-Indeed.

We are the hive, we are perfection. The hive tires of this folishness. 1,000 billion tons of any materials your require in addition 10,000 billion USD. The hive's resources are unlimited we are perfection!
The hive also threatens war upon the next scum to attempt to out bid us.
We are the hive, we welcome you to us.

ooc> Yes i can have this much money and materials. It doesnt cost me anything to feed my kind we simply devour entire planets as we come across them and sell the materials that we harvest from the planet. We are even devising a way to harvest the hydrogen and helium of a star in order to strip a system totaly barren.

Has it ever occured to any of you that, by treaty, SELLING PRISONERS OF WAR IS ILLEGAL? This takes the already evil practice of slavery and takes it into even greater debauchery. We demand that this stop or else we will take measures to ensure this is stopped.

Premier Alec Mannerheim
People's Republic of Sevaris

We are the hive, we are perfection. The hive tires of this folishness. 1,000 billion tons of any materials your require in addition 10,000 billion USD. The hive's resources are unlimited we are perfection!
The hive also threatens war upon the next scum to attempt to out bid us.
We are the hive, we welcome you to us.

ooc> Yes i can have this much money and materials. It doesnt cost me anything to feed my kind we simply devour entire planets as we come across them and sell the materials that we harvest from the planet. We are even devising a way to harvest the hydrogen and helium of a star in order to strip a system totaly barren.

OOC: It always costs something in order to process materials. Maybe not in your case money, but wear and tear on equipment, fuel to power your stuff, manpower hours, etc...

But I suppose that doesn't matter since you will just conjure up OMG amounts of $$$ and materials from thin air cuz you're perfect.

-OOC-

Sevaris, keep in mind...

I'm assuming you're modern tech, because most future tech nations have the sense to know Terran treaties rarely apply.

You're threatening a nation FAR larger than you, has advanced weaponry, is a member of one of the largest space defense alliances, and one who has no qualms about killing... What is it? 73, maybe 80 million civillians by the time Mekanta gets to you. And logic dictates that any "barrier" between Modern and Future tech doesn't apply when the both nations consent, or a modern tech nation is stupid enough to be the one who provokes the future tech nation.

Just a friendly OOC warning before you get a much less friendly IC warning in the form of an asteroid launched at your nation. Mekanta is known for its patience, not its tolorance. ^_^


-IC-

"Hive Fleet Imodius has won the bidding."

"We will arrange a mobile station to meet your fleet."

Sevaris, Mekanta has several large and powerful allies who would have no qualms about enslaving your entire civilization. Myself included. You had best be quiet while you can.

IC: We applaud Mekanta. You are always finding new ways of murder and torture! Unfourtunately, the price has gone far too high for us to place a bid, but we still think it is a great idea.

*sits ther unhappy* and i was goin to offer my Stigmata Ship tech to you Mec (plus 500 billion USD and the rights to endor and Dark crystal why did you have to finish this befor i got home from work :() oh well

-OOC-

Eh, it won't be long until Mekanta captures another pirate group...

Or the population of an underdeveloped pre-warp planet that just happens to be in the way of Mekantan plans. ^_^

But holy zen, man. You must be desperate for slaves. I'll have to hit Fera for you. Will the kitties work?

CM must withdraw our bid. We have upcoming operations that will need the money more.

We would like to get 10,000 slaves when you get another batch. I'll pay $5,000 dollars. I just need a healthy population of both males and females to test some new virus samples we got.

"$5,000 for 10,000 when we just got bids in the billions for 13,000?"

"$5,000 for 10,000 when we just got bids in the billions for 13,000?"


I meant 5,000 per person. 50,000,000 total.

The nearest fleet to your sector is our scout patrol patucus. Rendevous with them at the following co-ordinates. Bring what protection you deam nessacary. Please also state the quantities and state you require the materials in and also material type if it has changed due to the new quantities.
We are the hive, we are perfection.

Patucus:
1 Norn queen
13 Royal guard
250,000 swarm ships

"Our previous resource plan will do."

"We have the stations Exterminatus Now and Machall en route with the slaves and are ready to take the resources."

A small disturbance of real space occured as two huge moon sized ships jumped into the system, one carrying the Titanium in bar form the second had tenticles wrapped around the largest diamond any living person had ever seen. It had been harvested from the core of a dying star and weighed over 2,000 billion of tons. Smaller ships moved towards the large diamond activating cutting plasma.

comms from Norn queen Avatar @ Exterminatus Now and Machall
We are the hive, we are perfection.
Inform us of suitable docking procedures for the collection of the slaves. Also would you like your dimond in solid form or processed?
We are the hive, we welcome you to us.

ooc> The hive harvested the hydrogen and helium of the dying star leaving only the carbon core - under the intence heat and pressure of the star the carbon's core was diamond. A similar thing was descoverd by scientists on valantines day said to be the biggest diamond known to man. It also was at the core of a star. Just dont ask me how they knew it was there :D

"We shall take the diamond in its raw form. It is easier to process it in that form into Zirconic Armor."

"If your vessels have any airlock-equivalents, those will work."

The Cutters began to slice the large diamond into the correct size for the weight required while the first cargo ship moved towards the nearest ship tentacles swirling out preparing to wrap around its target.

comms:
Very well, please prepare for docking rotate in order that adequate docking region is loctaed towards the hive vessel approaching your own. You may collect the diamond upon completion of its harvesting. Fear not the norn queens, they will wrap around and a skein will form linking the ship to your airlock / docking bay so that transport of materials can take place.
We are the hive, we welcome you to us.

ooc: bah! It was all nice and good until some fools decided that their nation would somehow be justified in paying some 7 million plus USD per "slave". So much for being budget conscious. So please, sell the slaves to the fools and then I will steamroll them as they'll no longer have any budget left to maintain a military or government :headbang:

Sketch, you know I was going to set them free. I pay alot for freedom.