NationStates Jolt Archive

The twin suns rose, basking the planet in glorious sunlight. Twinkling beneath the beneovlent star silver settlements awoke, the power of light driving the machines of harvest.

The Lacraeme had awoken.

Robed in simple white cloth, the people of this proud race began their day like any other, with hard work, with hard play. While machines that shone with chrome rolled in unison from production lines, tables of Linto, a decendant of that most ancient game of chess, stood awaited conflict. These people, lightly tanned skin with large dark eyes and slightly bulbous heads, had arisen, and the galaxy would take notice.

Meanwhile, a civilian vessel struck out into the vast void of space. Unarmed, unprotected, it was aimed to impress upon others the Lacraeme's peacefull intentions.

“Captain? We are detecting a small civilian craft to our aft it appears unarmed.”

“Run the ship designs through the database.”

“Already doing it sir.”

“Nope sorry captain, it does not match to any of our designs or specifications in the archives.”

“Hmm a first contact. Very well they will have to learn to deal with the Empire sooner or later. Why not now.”

The Eighteen Kilometre long Super Star Destroyer slowed as it moved out of hyperspace pulling the civilian craft along with it.

“Helm open hails.”

From across the bridge a faint “yes sir” could be heard.

“Unknown craft. You have entered a region of space controlled by the Galactic Empire. You will be boarded, cut power to your engines.”

Tractor beams pulled the unknown ship aboard the Revenge.

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a liberator crusier was petrolling space
a crewman said thiers an unknown vessel attaking a unarmed craft sir''

the light crusier haild the bigger vessel release your tractor beem or else

Actually seph this was all agreed upon.

Ambassador Sel had offered no resistance as his craft was pulled on board the Revenge. He stepped lightly from his silver ship, and drew himself to his considerable full height. Tall and thin, dressed in a white cloth robe and with his long wispy hair braided, he was an imposing figure, easily taller than any mortal man. He spoke aloud, his thin rasping voice breaking the silence.

I am the most esteemed ambassador Sel. Who might you be?

“Sir we have an enemy ship to port. They are ordering us to cease what we are doing.” The bridge erupted in howl of laughter.

“What, that thing there, the captain pointed. Are you sure?”

“Yeah crazy isn’t it.”

“Okay….. OPEN FIRE. All gunnery turrets and turbo laser batteries concentrate all fire power available onto the cruiser. Launch all fighters and bring us about. Is the transport on board yet?”

“Yes Sir.”

“Excellent.”

A barrage of over one thousand turbo lasers impacted the Sephrioth vessel while the mass of fighters swarmed from the Imperial ship.

The ship now inside one of the many shuttle bays littering the destroyer was now surrounded by a host of Imperial Strom troopers. At the lead was a tall thin man with a pointed face. “I think not ambassador. I will be asking the questions here. May I ask what you are doing inside Sith space, there is a war going on. One of our Star Destroyers may have mistaken you for a spy. And what we do to spy’s is very unpleasant. Unfortunately Imperial doctrine forces me to question you before diplomatic staus is obtained. If you would please follow me and do tell me about your race and where you come from.” It was not a request.

The ambassador was led at gun point towards the interrogation centre seven kilometres away from their current position

The ambassador sighed, this was all incredibly petty. However his alien mind was able to discern that the command of a situation belonged to those who had weaponry, and he followed. As he walked, he spoke relativly freely.

As stated previously, my name is Ambassador Sel. I am representative of the Lacraeme race, who inhabit the planet of Loen and maintain many colonies in that region. We are not here to harm you, we are an industrious and intelligent people who have avoided attention up until now in order to get our system in order. I am here now to extend relations to whoever cares to recieve them. As you have already made clear, you ask the questions. Well ask away.

A Heavy Imperial Cruiser hovered nearby.
"A new race of Xenos, my Lord."
"Indeed..." The commander of the vessel stood; watchign through the viewscreen. The biosignals emanating from the ship the Sith had just picked up were different.
The ship began to move forward.
"Esteemed Sith; we would like to examine a subject from the vessel; to see if these Xenos pose a threat or a....harvestable benefit for the Imperium"

several AU's from the area, space-time erupts, a momentary flash of light as energy swells out, a disk-like shimmering event-horizon left in its wake. Within seconds, a 13.8 metric ton, 1.2km long vessel plows from the surface...... energy from the craft registers as a small sun for a few minutes, winking out shortly thereafter, and on cue the massive event-horizon behind it slams shut with an equally spectacular flash of light.

"Sir, I'm reading odd energy signatures, approximately 2 AU's from our position, at 023 mark 13. Possible weapons fire." says a young lieutenant.

"Weapons fire?" says Rear Admiral Wadrill... "Better take us in for a closer look. Helm, full impulse....."

"Aye sir, we will be within defense range in 20 minutes...." says the the young officer at helm.

The massive vessel jumps to 90% the speed of light, hurtling towards the ships....

The Commonwealth of the WIck notes with extreme distaste the Sith's imperialistic expansion and subjugation of such a fine race the Lacraeme appear to be. Another addition to the ever expanding empire no doubt...

Long Live the Rebel Alliance, death to the SIth....

OOC: Sith ant that bad of a guy really...but sooo evil

Comeing from nowhere, a ship that looked much like a Greek Quadtheam. It had two side rams, and on each the light sheaths stood proudly, as did the largest one in the middle. The Raidian lines converted the light energy into the engine power. The Captian sat in the pilot box, and the crew made sure the ship's radian lines did not burn out, or the light sheaths overload. The Corsairs stood ready at the Ballista, catapults and Flame throwers. The Bowmen stood with their security lines attached, and arrows knocked. The craft moved towards the Imperial Crusier. It did not engage any weapons, but the men where awed at the size of them. THere own ship able to house the crew of 30 and 50 warriors. The Captian looked at his radio, and tried a message.

Hail to the Ship near our own. We are asking for a place to dock, in return we can give 10 slaves and a body worth of gold. We await your reply.

Now within a small cell like room guarded by two Sith knights the second in command began to “debrief” the ambassador.

“Soooo Mr sel. My questions are these. Just standard protocol. Where is your empire located? How many Star systems do you hold. Are you allies with any of the Empires enemies shown in this list here.” A list was brought up on a holo platform and what do you hope to gain by this endeavour of fist contact?”

Upon the bridge the place was in a small flurry of activity. “The enemy ship has been destroyed/full retreat sir.”

“Captain a raised voice boomed we have an unknown vessel approaching vast. Minimal threat.”

“Keep the shields raised and hail the ship. Ask them why on Earth they are moving towards Sith space, and if they do not retreat they will be opened fire upon.”

“Sending signal now sir.”

Sel's reply was calm and moderated, but it was also curt and quick.

We know not what you define the celestial map as, but I can tell you that I travelled a considerable distance to attend this meeting. We control a single system, which has been extremely heavily industrialised. This is known as the Loen system. In addition, we know not of any of these races or alliances, obviously we have attended this meeting to create such relations.

a huge group of 12000 planet killers flew in proud formation there mission was simple revenge
attention hostile vessel thier is no way you will destroy this task force surrender the crew of the small vessel

a huge group of 12000 planet killers flew in proud formation there mission was simple revenge
attention hostile vessel thier is no way you will destroy this task force surrender the crew of the small vessel

OOC: I'm not really an expert RPer or anything, but I'm pretty sure there's no way in hell you have 12000 "planet killers". In order to construct that amount of hardware you would have to control a helluva lot more planets and their resources than a 1.2 something billion pop nation could ever manage. I realize that alot of futuretech stuff isn't all that realistic, but seriously, you're way overboard.

OOC: Aye, it will earn him a big Ingore blast for Siths uber Ignore cannons to i'd say.

a huge group of 1800 planet killers flew in proud formation there mission was simple revenge
attention hostile vessel thier is no way you will destroy this task force surrender the crew of that vessel and prepare to be destroyed at that coms broke off

Seph, this is a diplomatic RP, so can we leave out the war please?

OOC: Im always looking for trading partners, and clues for my nation's past. As such maybe when the thread is a little less busy, I would like to establish contact with you.

Orange state are somewhat less heavy handed with their negotiation tactics too.

they fired first im acting in self defence

Aye, but I didn't think he was being serious.

the planet killers aimed at the ship and fired 10 harbinger gravity missiles each.

OOC: Look i know its not my business but can you just fire the bloody IGNORE cannon at him and get it on? I'm curious to see whats gonna happen and i don;t want to read "I got 12000 Planet Killers...oooohhh...fear me!"

OOC: Spehrioth ignored for so many reasons I can’t be bothered to type them up.

The officer looked up from his small date pad interested and curious. This alien did appear to be telling the truth. Their technology did not appear to be too advanced and they did appear peaceful. The Empire is in need of more colonies, and territory perhaps this is a viable solution? No matter, instructions would be sent from Curoscant shortly. Meanwhile they had orders to hold the ambassador and his ship within Sith space.

In the cargo bay storm troopers and science teams were pouring over the transports computer systems. Not that advanced parallel if not a little below the Empires technological value, what one would expect from a rising species. The data core was being downloaded and thankfully the species syntax communicative methods were very like other races encountered allowing conversation. Their cores would not be that hard to interpret.

Inside the brig the commander was still talking to the ambassador discovering more and more about his race and people. “We have relayed your request for a diplomatic audience with the emperor ambassador however things do take time. The Empire is in the middle of a major military campaign right now and his time is scarce. If he can not meet with you I am sure Lord Vader or Lord Hital will be available.” This an obvious ploy for time would test but hopefully not invite curiosity from the ambassador. “Sadly we cannot let you go within our space without a military escort assets we do not have to spare currently and therefore once again I am even more disheartened to tell you that if you do not wish to meet with any of our diplomats on Curoscant you will not be able to leave for five days. We are currently heading towards a defining engagement with the Rebel Alliance and their UFP allies. Hopefully we will be able to end this galactic war quickly. We will provide accomadation for you and your comrades however due to the nature of this vessel we must confine you to the observation platform. The view is stunning. Commander Andrews here will escort you.”

The commander extending his hand motioned towards the door way. “If you will come with me please sir.”

Sel rose, almost majestically, from his seat. He gave a slight inclination of the head to his interviewer, and left with the Commander. As they walked, he talked slowly and mournfully.

This war you talk of, what is the background to this conflict? Is there any probablitity of involvement?

OOC: Spehrioth ignored for so many reasons I can’t be bothered to type them up.

The officer looked up from his small date pad interested and curious. This alien did appear to be telling the truth. Their technology did not appear to be too advanced and they did appear peaceful. The Empire is in need of more colonies, and territory perhaps this is a viable solution? No matter, instructions would be sent from Curoscant shortly. Meanwhile they had orders to hold the ambassador and his ship within Sith space.

In the cargo bay storm troopers and science teams were pouring over the transports computer systems. Not that advanced parallel if not a little below the Empires technological value, what one would expect from a rising species. The data core was being downloaded and thankfully the species syntax communicative methods were very like other races encountered allowing conversation. Their cores would not be that hard to interpret.

OOC Was that me? I just would like you to know, LOL We have no land, we are nomads and slavers, we live on huge ships, and we go around the universe kicking civilans while staying away from armies

The TRSS Titan, droped to 0.2 c... as it entered into defensive range of the alien vessels.... and then opened up general communications channels.


This is Rear Admiral Wadrill, Commanding Officer of the Tekanian Republic Stellar Ship Titan, we are on a deep space intergalactic exploratory mission. We have detected enegy signatures in the area consistent with weapons fire, and request a situation report. We are on a peaceful mission.... Titan out.


The Titan hung in space awaiting a response from other vessels in the region.

This war predates almost every armed conflict in the Galaxy. Five thousand years ago the Jedi and their fledgling republic began to rise in the galaxy, they disapproved of our “ways” of law and use of the force. Sadly I am not a Sith lord so my knowledge on the force is limited however what we all know is that it is drawn from all walks of life. Plants, animals and even humans. How we control the force is what separates us from the Jedi. They believe in using the force not to kill but as an ally. They will not use it in conjunction of strong emotions such as hate and jealousy where as the Sith will. We believe that using the force with these emotions we can become stronger and more adept. We can truly become in equilibrium with the force.

It was only a matter of time before a war broke out and sadly we lost the war and were almost drove into extinction however our masters were cryogenically frozen and preserved until a time came when the Jedi were weak enough for us to return.

We ascended from our slumber to the drum beats of war. We rebuilt our fleets, we rebuilt our forces and we struck the Jedi with a ferocity and lust for revenge which drove them into exile. They are the ones now extinct.

A small jolt rocked the ship as the came out of hyperspace. With our weapons with our expertise we will bring order to this Galaxy.

From the window of the observation deck a large metal sphere was coming into view surrounded by hundreds of ships, it was the Death Star and half of the Sith fleet.

I am pleased to let you know that Lord Vader will meet with you. He will be here in a few hours.

OOC: This is before the ship has moved into hyperspace.

“Captain we have an unknown vessel entering the area. Unknown configuration.”

“Open Hailing frequencies.”

“Channel open captain.”

“Unknown vessel. You have entered space claimed by the Galactic Empire without proper authorisation, you will either shut down your weapons and engines or be fired upon. This intrusion can be considered an act of war. You have ten seconds to comply.”

Away from the channel the captain ordered a Faster than light inhibitor field to be raised preventing an quick escape from the enemy.

--- Onboard the Titan...

"In comming message from one of the vessels sir..." responds a young Lt. at comms.

"Patch it through, Lieutenant..." Commands RADM Wadrill.


Unknown vessel. You have entered space claimed by the Galactic Empire without proper authorisation, you will either shut down your weapons and engines or be fired upon. This intrusion can be considered an act of war. You have ten seconds to comply.


"Sir", remarks the officer at ops. "They've raised some form of subspace and hyperspace dampening field... Engineering reporting it is having resonate effects on the Alcubeir drive, but no effect on the Kraskinov"

"Ops, let's sort of give them what they want.... Drop shields, leave armor online, disengage impulse drive... Ops, plot K-tube coordinantes for 2ly's outside the system..." commands RADM Wadrill.

"Sir, Computer reports ready for K-tube insersion...." the ops responds.

"Engage the Kraskinov...." commands the RADM.

Outside, the shields drop on the Titan, and within seconds, massive enegy begins building as the vessel drifts from her momentum.... within seconds a massive rift begins opening in space mere meters in front of the Titan, as the vessel drifts into it... and vanishe from all sensors for a moment.... but suddenly, her massive energy signature re-appears 2 light years outside of the system... the massive rift still holding in space...

---
however, readings after Titan's shields drop start filtering into all vessles in the region...

Several hundred metric tons of neutronium...
Other readings include tritanium, duranium, titanium...
then sensors go nuts.... unknown element, atomic number 299.....

The massive rift is encompassed in exotic energies, capped with an event horizon... and seems to have similar properties to a worm hole..... it's energy and stability are presently undergoing minor flucuations.

Sel gave a deep bow, his thin frame bending easily as he kept his escort in clear eye contact.

I look forward to meeting this Sith Lord at last. Please lead the way.