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Above an Unknown Planet:
The strangely shaped vessel spiraled out of control, leaving a trail of fuel, air and shortlived flames as it tore through space toward the blue planet. Its three remaining crew members struggled with its controls in a vain attempt to pull it back into a course that might not end in death.
All three Tandu (Sort of large mantids with hands) were missing limbs, either crushed, burned or simply lopped off. Behind them the headless corpse of the ships former captain was walking resolutly into a wall with a steady thump, thump, thump, while greenish blood spurted from its neck.
This was the last refuge on the ship, the rest was vacuume, and while a Tandu COULD survive in a vaccume for some time it was not a pleasant experience, especialy considering the ruptured fuel lines flooding the rear compartments of the spindly scoutship with caustic fuel.
BOOM!!!
The ship shook again, the fuel apparently contacted one of the electrical systems currently fizzing. The one functioning sensor on the ships rear showed its main thrusters plummeting away and breaking up.
The new captain clicked its mandibles in irritation and put the ships fast dwindling power supplies into its shields, possibly that would be enough to keep the ship whole, normally he would attempt to ensure the destruction of the remains of the ship, but this was a special case.
The growing rumble of turbulence shook the ship as it punched through the upper atmosphere toward a hopeful looking lake.
...
Two hours later the crew shook themselves and counted their limbs again, no major damage. They grabbed a pulse rifle each and stepped out into the light of the strange, yellow sun, and would have been wearing slightly worried expressions if their faces had been capable of any such actions.
As it was they clawed up a bank and started to ferry items out of the remains of the ship. The lake was a good deal shallower, and steam still rose from the ships forward section.
The accidents fault had lain with the captain, who was at present attempting to move though a long beam had impaled his abdomen, so a Tandu corpse was now suspended from the ceiling, walking on air, though its movements were now jerky and slow.
The captain had been attempting a manual course correction around a belt of asteroids, generaly unsafe, this belt was rather unpleasant. And sure enough it had steered them directly into an asteroids tail of interstellar detritus, which meant that chunks of rock the size of a Kr'i'thi beast had created a neat series of holes and killed most of the crew.
Leaking fuel and desperate the crew had begun to search for a habitable planet, finding only one they had set out for it, coasting along at near lightspeed, then using their remaining fuel to brake and attempt an orbit before they landed.
The final blow had been the first explosion, throwing off the scoutships course and sending it into a neardeath spiral, killing the captain when the gravity generator started fluctuating, dropping a decorative sword on him, sixteen times.

For now though, the three Tandu settled in, a portable heating unit had been set up after a good meal of some kind of odd furry deer, the skeleton of which was sitting nearby for use later.

OOC:
First off, hi! How are you? Im good.
I first posted this on NS, but nobody seemed interested in responding, so maybe Ill have some more luck here.
If you happen to be one of those Rebelled Elf puppets, dont post here, I dont want a war in this thread.
Basicaly:
The Tandu leader sent a scoutship out in search of other life, bad things happened and it crashed in a country on some planet, feel free to join.
I would prefer if these three didnt die right away befor theres any chance at peacful contact of some kind. The Tandu arent normally friendly to mammels, but a this point these fellows are kind desperate

5 Small Scout ships passed over the planet.
"My lord; evidence of recent trauma to the planet; an impact of some kind."
"Detailed Analysis?"
"A ship, sire, of yet unknown origin."
"Bring us down; contact the other ships. Have our Khornate brethern take a look; we of Slaanesh shall follow suit"
"Yes sir..."
And with that the small Chaos force dropped through the atmosphere; controlled, calm, collected; one would always think that there was some order in their method...

OOC:
Gotta leave for school, see you in six hours :)
(Two more years, two more years)

OOC: Well, i'll join in, i'm in an RPing mood...

IC:

A Vampire Scout Cruiser on a routine exploration mission a few light years beyond the point the Shadows wished to conquer phased into real space from hyperspace. It was just in time to see five smallish ships pass over the planet... they stank of Chaos... an exhilarting smell for a Shadow vessel... the race of pure Chaos...

It looked down at the strange planet and conducting a basic scan... it indictaed it was habitable and that there was evidence of a ship crashing recently... as for survivors it indicated three very unusal life forms in contrast to the other life... they must be the survivors...

The ship sent a signal back to 'The Eye' as a form of report about the planet and the incident...

OOC:
Im back.

IC:
The three Tandu clicked and buzzed to each other, startled that their mini scanner had started chirping so soon. Startled they grabbed their arms and vanished into the nearby woods, staying close to the camp but undercover, their greenish exoskeletons blending very well with the surrounding flora.

A Zircon Scoutship, commonly found sweeping the galaxy in thier unending search for the enemies of Neo-Mekanta, paused as it noticed a disturbance around the planet.

The Zircon, knowing how many primatives mistaking the living vessels for asteroids tended to fire missiles, hung back for a moment, just broadcasting a message on many advanced channels, as well as psionically.

WE ARE THE ZIRCON ARMADA... WE SEEK COMMUNICATION...

OOC: For those who know me, Don't worry most of my ST stuff will be replaced by my own stuff in a RL month or two.

An lone ECF Starship was heading through space at millions of times the speed of light. It detected a system that could have been capable of supporting life.

And it dropped out of warp, at yellow alert, just in case.
It detected a planet, with a very badly damaged ship. And a few lifeforms on the planet, that appeard to have some form of communation device. The captain made the descion to investigate in person.

They beamed down near the lifeforms, about half an mile away. They had donned there hazard Suits, which should provide decent protection from an energy weapon. Just in case. The had Compression Rifles just in case. The sniper looked into his Sniper Rifle and saw the 3 lifeforms on the Snipers scope, which was very good at detecting Senitant lifeforms. They activated the universal translator, which was an massive improvement from the old one.
The Sniper Yelled out " We come in peace! Are you in Need of Assistance?! Our ship is in orbit, we will provide whatever aid or services you need, your ship appears to be destoryed!"

The ships (new) captain blinked once or twice, astonished at humans ability to state the obvious.
It clicked something to its crew, then stumbled on in English, "We ssssthank you f-...for your assssistance, hooman. Oour ssssthip is ba-adly damasged."
The three cautiosly stepped out, their rifles held in a way that was just short of being on-guard.

OOC:
Tandu are basicaly large mantis with hands instead of bladey things, bit eyes and such. They can speak most languages though they do lack vocal chords (Same way crickets communicate, they rub their rear legs on their wings).
I dont think any sort of translator would be much help, Tandu language doesnt really resemble anything a humanoid would be capable of speaking, its mostly clicks and screeches.
Be warned that they have VERY good aim and reflexes, they move via a sort of hydraulic system instead of muscles, liquid is pumped where it needs to be to move their limbs.

OOC: My Translators are pretty good, btw my Tech is about 34th centuray

The 3 lowered there rifles and walked closer to the strange beings. The Translator beeped to life. " You appear to be injured, we wish to beam you up to our starship we can fix you up. We would also like to host a formal dinner for you. Our captain is always interested in meeting a new race." His sniper was lowered but the creature seemed to scare him.

"Med-issal assssistance not reqiiereed, we would appressiate usse of yoour ssssthips commmunicatshooon devices sto contackt our planettt."
The Tandu seemed almost as frightened of the Humans, the two at back were chittering at each other quickly and their fingers twitched.

The sniper slinged his rifle over his sholder, with his hazard uniform on and the glowing TED over his eyes, he looked like a real badass. Though it looked like they needed medical attetion but he didn't give a 2nd thought to it> "Munro to Enterprise E 6 to beam up." And with that the 6 beings dispeered.

They ended up in the Sleek interior of an Federation Starship, it was about 700m long and had all the basics you would find in an ECF ship. It was comfterble and ultrialin at the same time. They were lead to an conferance room where an full crouse dinner was waiting and the captain was waiting. They all sat down. He looked a bit scared by the aliens, he greeted them " Always good to meet a new race, so please tell me how you ended up in this backwater area of space? Don't worry we are working on getting the communications array back on, it went down after a computer crash.

"Vhe have eaaaten alreadeey. Our sssthip was ssstruck by a meeteor while vhe weere explo-oring thisss area, vhe craasssh landed in sthat lake wheen our eeengines went oout.
Azs it ees vhe aree enterested in contascting mooore alieeens, eef posssible doo you haf a placee vhe coulddd uce? Vhe deetected many sheeps in thee area and areee eenterested in contacccting theem."
The three had arranged their abdomens into a sort of mobile chair, folding them around and crossing their two sets of legs, to any human it would look quite uncomfortable.
This close it was possible to notice the caste markings in purple on the heads and arms of the Tandu, the captains were moderatly fancy, the other two had what appeared to be part of the same pattern, but to a lesser extent.
Remembering something the Humanoid Relations Office had taught it, the captain held out a three-fingered hand.
"Aye am (Series of clicks and tweeting-noises), Aye doo not sthink thes translate ento your languaaage."

The captain shook the strange aliens hand. The command staff looked dumbfounded, prehaps from the shock of seeing an alien race that was so different.

The captain looked out the window to see the Zicorn scoutship " maybe thats not such a good idea" He thought to himself. Hes heard roumers about them and is not excatly pleased with them, they were far to "out there".

" If you want to contact the other ships then feel free, but I suggest you contact your homeworld before they realize whats happened to your ship, which by the way my engineer took a scan, it's beyond repair. The communications array is back on, just tell the computer where to send the single and talk, the computer will pick it up."

OOC:
Assume the cute mispellings and wierd pronunciations, its a bugger (haha) to type :P

IC:
The captain blinked again, wondering how such people got into space if they were so busy repeating things.
"We are aware, we think the engines are most likely entering the atmosphere now. They exploded when the fuel lines ruptured and caught fire. I will contact Tandu."
The capain entered a conversation with the computer as to the location of Tandu IV, and sent a situation report.

The Vampire Scout cruiser recieved it's instructions, it was to go down and make contact with these creatures they seemed to be of unusual biology.

It descended gracefully, not indicating the fact that it's death ray and quantum cannon were actually armed and ready to fire in a fraction of a second. The organic black shimmering skin and the general shape of the ship made it look truely alien even insectoid. It stopped just above the place of landing and hovered there studying these creatures and listening to the communications sent between the ships and them...

The Five ships tore through the atsmophere, screaching as they plunged to Earth; orbed in fire, swathes of jungle incinerating as the roar of jets scorched the surrounding foliage.
Chaos Space Marines, loyal Nurgle and Khorne, bearing the Marks of their Dark God; poured out, 30 in all.
The planet seemed uninhabited; but they had detected something...And even know the Psyker, the Sorcerer amongst them, sensed something.
And their roars of bloodlust and dark prayer echoed through the area

OOC: Sigh.. its not my place to talk.. but why does everyone have to show up at once in some of the most unlikely ways possible? Oooh.. lucky i can do it too! lol, and seeing as no-one decided this was their space, its now mine, Muahaha, hey.. it works! :D

IC:

This planet was one of the few untouched, not that a planet mattered much to the Imperium, space was home, and home was space, planets were just obstacles, obstacles to the Imperium.

Now, Undisturbed for so long, the system was defiled, not by one, not by two, but three unknown's, Along with the Zircon, but they were a friend, a neutral, of sorts, for now.

The rupture of subspace foretold the entry of a vessel, high above the planet, specks of red intermittent among the black foreboding ship slipping out of the rupture.

To most, it could not be seen, except for the the red lights, telling there must be something there, the blackness was illuminated slightly, as engines powered forwards.

A simple relay with the satellite nearby, one crashed unknown, 2 Other unknowns, those who could would feel the wrath of the Imperium.

The message was compiled, and sent.

"All Trespassers of the Imperium, Except those of known (Read ESUS associated in anyway, thats you, Zircon boy, as neo is associated with normal Mekanta, and thus ESUS ;).) origin, must leave immeaditly, or be destroyed."

"Don't reply..." The commander hissed as the signal went out over the radio.
"Spread out, find the crashed vessel....We will see what they have to offer and then we may leave; if not, well, the gods will drink deep today! And Khorne will be exalted!"
"Spare us your zealotry..." A low hiss came forth as a champion of nurgle came forth; decrepit, thinned and diseased, his skin pale with an almost yellow hue.
"Grandfather Nurgle will reap this victory on the winds of most glorious plague..."
"Regardless; we will triumph"

OOC:
The Tandu are on the ECF ship now, Im not entirly sure where that is.

OOC: It wont be going anywhere, FTLi Systems on the relay nearby would of activated shortly before my ships arrival

OOC: It really depends what kind of FTLi your using, there is no universal FTLi feild. Besides my ships have seveal kinds of Drives, "Jump" which isn't FTL so I could escape like that. Warp Drive would probably be stopped, and so would transwarp. It all depends on the type of the FTLi your using.
Heh, my ships just LOOK like ST ships, the tech on them is nothing like ST so don't think you can go in and just make a threat you can't back up, just kidding
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The Captain Seemed pissed " If you want the shit that was down there then go down and get it, I don't have time to waste. I don't trust you, I don't know who you are and I don't trust you, and this space doesn't even show up on the map. So what do you care? If you want the beings crashed on the planet your more than welcomed to them, I have a mission to get back to."

Above the planet, three cylindrical, small craft, appeared out of H-space. Their engines flared green, and they themselves had a greenish glow around them, but other than that oddity, they were realtively low-tech.

"This is the Concordiat recon group FS-3. We picked up several radio messages on various bands at this location. We will not fire unless ship appears to be hostile. Awaiting response. Over and out."

OOC:
I would prefer that my guys didnt die before they got to talk to anybody :P

IC:
"I dont suppose we could claim diplomatic immunity? Anyway, may we offer a solution? Part of the Tandu fleet will be arriving soon, likely with an official diplomatic envoy, since we informed them that numerous nations were represented here.
Would it be possible to hold of hostilities until we have departed? We realize that war is not so strictly govorned anymore, but is it not considered appropriate to allow noncombatants to depart before commencing a battle?"
Even as he spoke two Tandu destroyers popped into existance close by. They had the appearance of a skeletal robotic dragonfly, sticklike and angular. As with most a Tandu ships they disdained armour for increadible speed and power, especially for capital ships.
Each one was well equipped with a number of conventional energy weapons, as well as an array of the more disturbing probability weapons and psionic projectors.
"You will transport our crew members to our ship now, you are not to communicate with them any further. Arrangements for a diplomatic confrence will be made but until then anybody harming a Tandu citizen will be regarded with extreme hostility. We are not joking."

"Hello, Tandu Systems. We represent the ONI Concordiat. We do not wish to appear hostile...and we will assist you in returing your ship's crew to your ship safely. One of our battlecruisers will be jumping in-system in a moment, on board is a high officer of the Fleet. You may address him about any futher concerns."

Just as he finished talking, another rift opened in space and an elongaded, step-down, conical ship appeared. The end of the cone protruded into the muzzle of a massive cannon, and missile and cannon turrets swiveled on the flanks and top of the ship. The underside held three nuclear missile silos, all of which were closed. The ship had the same green sheen as the destroyers.

OOC: I'll be back in a sec...I suspect...

OOC:
Theyre on the ECF ship.

OOC:
Theyre on the ECF ship.

OOC: Ok

IC:
The battlecruiser deployed long-range communications gear and began to transmit a secure signal to the Tandu ships.

"This is the Concordiat 3rd Group flagship Unyielding Fist. We are here to learn:
1. Who the Tandu are? Are you willing to sign a temporary no-fire pact?
2. What this planet is and who it belongs to.
3. Why the ECF takes such an intrest in the planet.
4. The human presence was here before us. What awesome power brought them here faster than our Rift engines...or were they already here?
5. The possiblity of colonizing worlds.
If you could possibly answer any of these questions, please do. Our sensors detect more ships than just the Tandu and the ECF...what other nations have a presence here? The crashed ship, was it a warship?"

The battlecruiser's docking bay doors opened, and several-thousand dropships spead from the bay and towarsd the planet, making firey ionized streakes in the atmosphere.

The two corvettes were passing by the system, with no business at all to complete there. In actuality, they were late for a rendezvous with a battlecruiser that would help them complete their current mission.

"Captain," the operations officer called, "there's a lot of activity going on in the system. I count four... no, five ships in orbit around one of the planets."

The captain had a great curiousity for many things, and thought about heading over to see what the problem was.

"Disengage the Teldra. Take us into the system. Notify the Ariake to follow us in. I'm sure Captain Sato is thinking the same as I am."

The ships--cloaked, as a standing order of travel-- entered the system and arrived at the planet.

"Let's hang back awhile," the captain said, as the planet and ships came up on the viewscreen. "We'll see how this plays out."

The Captain Seemed alot more pissed than usal. He gave the order to his officer to beam the 3 over to there own ships.

" Well are you happy? I beamed your 3 crew members about 3 meters away from you. Now What else do you want?"

He Spoke to the Tactial Officer " Bring the QC Reactor to full power and bring sheilds and weapons online, But don't fire on anyone. I want the Quantum Beams online and bring the Phaser Banks up to 12,500,00 Terajoules. And bring Torpedobays online, get me Sheilds now."

The other ships would have detected a massive power surge in the ships systems, like a Sun was going to go nova but it did not happen. Little did they know that ECF starships have been able to hold off multi enemy capitalships, this was no scout ship, this was a state of the art warship.

The Captain spoke to the other ships. " I do not want to fight, but it appears we seem to be in a pickle, who wants this planet? It doesn't show up to be claimed, so I suggest we work it out."

"Impudence! Did we not TELL you that we would shortly be holding a confrence? Be patient or we will withdraw our invitation. We will sign no pact with you until we have met you in an official manner."

(Public channel)
"Now, with the return of our citizens we will host a diplomatic confrence, please send your representatives to the S'k'tja , a beacon will be activated shortly to show you which ship this is. Representatives of the Tandu High Council will be there to negotiate diplomatic treaties, trade contracts and suchlike."

OOC:
Theyre bueracratic xenophobes :P

OOC2:
ECF posted the same time as me. Sorry :P

The Captain Seemed even more pissed " Please tell us where the conferance is being held and when, I'd love to stay and chat But I am on a mission, if you can tell us where it is being held, I can have a diplomatic ship sent there, right now I am on a very very important mission, but it could be postponed, I think"

"Captain, one of the ships is powering up its weapons," the tactical officer reported.

"Is there any reason to think they've detected us?"

"No sir. None of the ships has taken a stance to counter our position."

"Prepare weapons systems. Raise the alert level. We'll stay here as long as we're undetected. See if we have any Ryukus near here. We'll relay a message to them."

There was one Ryuku on its way to the same rendezvous point as the corvettes. It reversed course and set up at the edge of the system. Although the Ryukus could transmit messages more efficiently than the regular ships, save for Lord Kentaka's personal ship, their primary job was intercepting other messages and acting as mobile listening posts. Their cloaking devices were also the best in the fleet, again save for Kentaka's ship.

"Message sent to the Ji. They're standing by at the edge of the system."

"Very good. Maintain observations."

"Weapons spike detected sir. They have energy shields as well. They might be against us, there is some heated debate going on. I'll bring our countermeasures and weapons online as well sir. The three destroyers are already gaining flank angles. We await your command, or until the others decide it for us."

The battlecruiser's main gun traced a bead on the powering up ship, and the destroyer's thrusters spead them around the flanks of the enemy. Their nuclear missile silos opened, and several countermeasure pods deployed from their sheaths and awaited decoupling and detonation signals.

Several dropships raced towards the surface, but one broke off. It headed for the S'k'tja for the conference. The other ships landed and troops and tanks began to deploy. The Concordiat Army was completely obsessed with tanks, and many of the vehicles unloading were the massive Guderian II heavy tanks, which Concordiat generals called the Slicer-and-Dicer

"Captain, another ship is powering up its weapons. It looks like it has nuclear weapons."

"Nuclear? I hope they're planning on firing those on the planet. They won't do anything to even the most rudimentary energy shields. We're still hidden?"

"Yes sir, they're also sending down massive amounts of dropships... Sir, it also appears that some smaller shuttles are convening at one position. I'd say they arranged a meeting of some sort."

"Thank you, lieutenant. Continue the observation."

OOC: That means my intended area for conquest probably borders you... interesting :) Btw my area exists on the North-Eastern Rim of the Milky way (home planet is almost the last one in that direction before the blackness between the stars. And we have to arrive somehow... since I stated before that I was flying Recon flights outside my proposed borders I think it's fine... but yeah I think it would have been better if we had an idea where it was relative..

Btw, how big is your ship?

IC:

The Vampire Scout Cruiser screeched... it was audiable in the air space and ascended to meet this threat to it's mission. The black shimmering vessels ascended into the blackness of space above the planet and stoped a mile or two from the new Ship...

It sat there looking inquisitive and then it sent a message in Interlack, which hissed as follows:

'Who are you? What do you want?'

The ship awaited a reply but had already sent of a tacheyon enhanced tranmission to the nearest Shadow forces... they would be here in a few hours... if this turned out to be a threat it would be eliminated just like all the others... nobody stood in the way of Chaos...

OOC: Oh my god.. why the hell does everyone have to turn up even after i say "My territory!" and "FTLi is up!" jesus..

Its a Sathanas, which is 5678 Metres.

People, you may want to notice the ship, its one of the strongest types in the Armada, not to mention most of the fleet from Bastillion can be anywhere in seconds.. go interlink node system ive yet to tell anyone about! :O lol, Conquering me? Nooo! Theres 3 of us in this Area of space, (North West, Here, "Gamma" Quadrant in Trek Speak)

IC:

A single message, on very open frequencies came in reply.

"We are who we are, and we are what you are not, Leave, Now, And Give us the Visitors"

As if to further emphasise the point anyone would notice two more vessels of the same class making their presence felt.

OOC: Theres a myth on one of the planets my new "occupiers" (Read the imperium) found, it details Ancients that are Tandu like beings, so thanks for looking like you do, Tandu Systems :).

Flamers cut through the jungle as the Chaos Space Marines charged forward; plants withering in the presence of the foul servitors of Nurgle or being ripped asunder by bloodthirsty Khornate Berserkers.
The cries of their rage, fury, hunger for battle at any cost; resounded as the 5 Deathclaw scout vehicles took to the air; surveying the area while still in contact with the ground forces
"We are the forces of Chaos! Yield to the Dark Gods! We will not harm you if you surrender, worms!" Echoed across loudspeakers; Slaanesh Amplifiers blaring with inhuman volume and majesty from the ships...

OOC:
Blast you Arenumberg, getting me mixed up in your legends :P
Ever read the Uplift series by David Brin? I sort of based it off of his species of Tandu, but I took some from the Predators.
BUT the Tandu are rather ancient, they formerly had a huge star empire and bajillions of giganteroid ships, standard Space Opera stuff. They were into genetic manipulation as well, so hey, maybe they ARE the Ancients.
BTW, theres two of their ships right now.

IC:
And on the planet a cricket, while vaugly similar to a Tandu, was only about a fiftyith of their size.
It chirped at the marines and hopped away, where it was joined by a number if its comrades in chirping.
There was only one worm, it was being eaten by an early bird.

V^V^V

In orbit the Fleet Lord clicked angrily, its stinger appearing and disapearing at the left wrist while it thought of horrible things it could do to Humans.
"We will NOT give you our citizens, meatbags! However if this is, in fact, your territory we will leave. I was against this mission from the beggining, negotiations with underdeveloped wolflings such as yourselfs. Warm up the probability dri-"
The comm cut off.

OOC:
Basicaly it is majorly pissed off, most Tandu practice a sort of Buddhism which gives them a good set of emotional controlls, and they dont like 'meatbags' like you :P

OOC: I feel neglected, lol

OOC:
You could capture the crickets, it might have strategic information on Arenumberg.

OOC: A damn site bigger than a 350 metre Scout cruiser then...

People don't often fully read the RP before joining...

Btw if you've ever watched Babylon 5 this is a Shadow Scout. Thus it is far more dangerous that it's size would indicate but it would be blow to bits but a full size battleship :D..

IC:

The Vampire Cruiser sent back a hissed message:

'We will leave but know we have noted your hostility. Do not cross our path again, you will not so fortunate next time. In the mean time we suggust you mark you territory more effectively...'

With that the Vampire accelerated and faded in hyperspace...

OOC: A potential rivalry I suppose :)

OOC: It used to be marked by broiling clouds of Psionic energy, it wasnt very nice. lol.

IC:

The Transmissions demanding departure were directed towards the surface, warning of impending orbital bombardment..

OOC: Hey, is there any Tandu left around?

OOC:
Theyre all on the ships, asking for a confrence.

OOC: I beamed them over, Lets not hog the 1st contact? And I won't do it in this RP, but for future referance you'll know WHY my Warp Drives can work in FTLi feilds. It will be explained in the ECF factbook, due out after xmas. But I'm going to pull a 'jump' which means My ship will be leaving you universe, but I don't want to do it.
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" Do you mind telling me when and where the conferance, Im eager to leave"

"The confrence is being held upon the ship with the beacon activated. We will hold it here if the Arenumberg military will allow us, this would be most convienient and would not affect their planet. We wish to establish peaceful contact with the galaxy and it seems a fair number of its peoples have shown up here.
If they will not allow us to host it here we will transmit the coordinates of Tandu IV to you and hold the confrence there. It is a rather inconvienient distance away."

The Fleet Commander, meanwhile, was chewing the former captain out.
"YOU TOLD THEM WHAT!?"
"I attempted to conceal as much as possible, secrecy was our goal."
"Fah! You are unworthy of your caste markings. The Progenitors gave US the divine right to rule the Galaxies, we do not make friends with the meatbags! You have failed, as such you are commanded to go to my quarters and remove your head. There with your last impulse place it upon my trophy rack."
The (former) captain bowed.
"May the next one I grow serve you better."
It walked out.

OOC: Heh, I don't want to start a fight, I'm worried about Arenumberg he poses the biggest threat, I want to get a conferance underway, or a war or somthing. I'd like to pit my ship agnist the Tandu systems ship, But not now, later.
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" When will you appect a diplomat?"

"A diplomat will be accepted, do not attempt to teleport them over. If you do not have fighters or shuttles capable of transport one can be provided."

OOC: Just ignore whats going to be emitted from the ship, I'm not going to fire so keep that in mind, it's a part of the quantum arming process.
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" The Diplomat is flying over to your ship now, He does have armed guards, If it was up to me he wouldn't but regulation cleary states that I HAVE to have them, Just don't mess with them and they won't mess with you, I want to keep this peaceful. He is eager for it to start, we need to get out of here as soon as possible" He closed the channel.

"Bringing Quantum banks online"

With that a sky blue wave emmited from the ship, only the most advanced ships would have any idea what it was, though in an amount this small it was harmless.

The first thing a person would notice on entering a Tandu ship would be the temperature.
The Tandu prefer an atmosphereic temperature of 50-65 degrees farenheit, it helps them relax.
The next thing would be the total lack of decorations of any sort, the walls were totaly blank aside form an occasional direction in Tandu. The walls themselves were either steel gray or purpleish, depending on the section of the ship. The cooridors were a bit wider than those of a normal Human ship, mostly to accomidate longer Tandu who would be unable to turn without some trouble.
The room where the delegates were meeting was slightly warmer and had plants in it, but since the High Council had no idea what sort of beings they were going to be meeting they had forgone much decoration. Two Tandu guards stood at the door, beam rifles shouldered.
There was a trophy rack as well, with what appeared to be a very old Homo Erectus skull on it, as well as a number of other more unidentafiable bones and stuffed corpses.
Tandu Ambassador Kree'chi'it reclined in a Tandu style chair (A sort of couch, occasionaly popping a wriggling morsel into his mouth, which squeaked loudly as he crunched it with his mandibles.
When the ECF ambassador arrived he rose and welcomed him in English, much better pronounced (almost no accent) than the late captain of the recon ship.
"Greetings, Human. I am Kree'chi'it, appointed Ambassador of Tandu, the Progenitors chosen ones. I greet you and grant you a seat, until the time when further delegates arrive we will have to abstain from deliberations of international issue."

The Deletgae " I am honored that you appect me in this meeting, What do you wish to discuss 1st?" As another blue pluse drifted past the ship. The 2 Guards had StarFleet Hazard Suits Donned, protecting them from most energy weapons for a short time, They had there compression rifles set on heavy kill. There fingers noticbly close to the triggers, they were trained like that.

"You will please remove your guards, I assure you that if we wished to harm you we would have done it while you were in your shuttle. For the first matter the Commander wishes to ask you what the crew of the scout ship told you. It is merely out of curiousity, it had an unfourtunate accident on the way back to its quarters and cannot inform us itself."
Tandu are very good at poker, they have no facial muscles.

OOC: I need to keep them, it's standard projejure
IC:
" I wish I could get rid of them, but under law I have to, Commanders Sling your rifles and stand at ease" The grauds slinged there rifles around there sholders, but the LED still glowed a healthy red. " Well I don't know much about it, all they seemed to be worryed about was contacting your goverment."

OOC:
Assume standard small talk.
Assume 'Bump'.

The crew had determined that a sort of summit was happening on one of the newer ships to the system. Not to be without a presence, the captain decided to send a delegation over as well. It would be silly to launch a shuttle while cloaked-- they might as well just decloak at that point. But that would be giving too much away, the captain thought, so they would do it the hard way.

"Conn, take us to the far side of the next orbiting planet and launch a shuttle. Send Lieutenant Commander Masuko, and a Tekken along with him."

The Tekken were Crimson Sparta's latest advancement in robot technology, with the ability to complete millions of complex computations, all while crushing an opponent's skull. They were large and powerful, but also smart, and built to be loyal to the Crimson Sparta chain of command.

The ship moved out of position and flew towards the outer edge of the nearest planet. It stopped and assumed a similar orbit with the planet. The docking bays opened and an Archangel-class shuttle emerged from it. The Archangel was the only shuttle with FTL capability, and it might be needed to explain how the ship arrived at this destination.

The corvette took up a defensive position behind the shuttle. If it was attacked, the captain was sure to drop cloak and respond. However, this seemed like a peaceful meeting, and all hoped it would stay that way.

Masuko hailed the ship that was receiving shuttles. "Attention vessel, we request docking to attend your conference. I have myself and a robot translator onboard. Please respond."

"Bay six is made avalible, dock there. Guards will be sent to escort you to the meeting area.

"Acknowledged."

The ship's navigational computer lit up with a map of the ship and a red flashing dot on top of docking bay six. Masuko let the computer take control and pilot the ship in while he sat back and looked around at the ships that were present.

The docking procedures were compete, and Masuko walked out with the Tekken at his side. The guards met them and showed very little surprise to a "translator robot" that was almost as tall as they were. Of course, they didn't have it so bad as Masuko, who, while tall at an even 6 feet, felt like a midget compared to the large bugs and robot.

They were taken to a conference room and found another party that had arrived. While this man had brought armed guards with him, Masuko hoped that the Tekken would be seen as a helper and not as a threat-- though the other humans wouldn't be much of a threat at all to the large insects in close combat. Pleasantries were exchanged, and the commander sat down with the Tekken standing behind him.

The guards didn't seem to notice the new guests, and neither did the captain. Everyonen was busy wathcing the 2 guards spin,twirl, throw and bang the rifles on the ground. The alien captain seemed to be amused as he watched the guards throw the rifles to each other and performe other complex moves.

OOC: Im watching, and waiting, and please, im lenient, but most people ignore people that have things that get around the most commonly accepted and used anti-FTL blanketing field.

The Tandu ambassador watched the guards strange behaviour, he had heard of rabies. He was wondering if it was contagious.
He greeted the Spartan delegation, gaze hovoring on the robot for a short time, then told them to take a seat. He continued his previous conversation, gesturing for the Spartants to join when they felt like it.
"Anyway, the Tandu are currently interested in establishing embassies with the outside Galaxy, as well as trade agreements and alliances. There may be rich reward in the trade contracts, the Tandu possess...interesting artifacts and art, as well as abundant natural resources, and while our genetic skills are not what they were two thosand years ago we are still quite capable."

The 2nd gaurd missed a flying rifle and it made a loud clang as it hit the bulkhead. " Ok Sir we are done, He needs more work anyway"

The Ambassdor finally spoke up " We would be interested in knowing a little bit about your culture. Tell me abit about this ship, the captain feels threated by it"

* Another Blue Pluse eminates from the ECF ship as the Quantum Banks reached 100% *

The ambassador replied with a lengthy monolouge, detailing a number of points where "Tandu culture obviously suprassess that of the human meatbags.", as most Tandu would say.
He phrased it a bit more politly though.

The Blue Pluses from the BattleCruiser contined to eminate, It was amazing that no one noticed the massive Quantum BuildUp comming from the ship.

" We will see about that, Hows your econmy doing, because ours is a powerhouse!."

teach me how to roleplay "correctly"

OOC:
You couldnt have telegrammed that?

IC:
The ambassador embarked on another discussion of the obvious superiority of Tandu industry, commerce and such.

OOC:
Kinda tired today, I have semester finals next week and its bugging me (haha). Dont expect high-quality stuff :P

" Heh, lets compare ships " He goes into a 20 minute speech about how why the ECF ship is better than his ship.

This was by far the most boring thing Masuko had ever lived through. It was like taking the Diplomacy Class at the Academy, taught by a pompous windbag that probably wrote his dissertation on the social ramifactions of using a salad fork instead of a dessert fork. He had failed that class, and he soon made that point clear.

"I didn't come here for a pissing contest, gentlemen. I really don't care whose economy is better or whose dick is bigger. All I want is to know what I and my country are going to get from an agreement with your people." He saw the blue flash out the window. "And would you turn off your damned laser light show out there?"

"... Well maybe if your sheilding system wasn't so WEAK! You wouldn't have that kind of problem and I.... Oh yes sorry, I didn't mean to get into a debate like that, And No I cannot shut it down, it's the Quantum Banks discharing excess energy."

OOC:
Your talking to an 'It' ECF, %90 of Tandu are nueter.

IC:
"We must concur with the delegate from Sparta, this debate is pointless and it annoys me that I became entangled in it at all.
The point is that the Tandu are here, and are offering trade and diplomatic treaties. We wish to have...contacts in the outside galaxies, several thosand years of isolation have left our planet somewhat isolated from the Galactic Mainstream.
There is a basic summary of Tandus resources, what we can offer in trade and how far we are willing to go with diplomatic treaties. Some of the High Councils basic policies and latest actions."
A small screen rose in front of each seat of the table, displaying a number of lists in badly translated English. The list of resources displayed a few elements which were not found at all on Earth, some which were very rare. The list contained a number of mercenary services, and an ecological survey team. Most of the rest was the normal 'Iron for $whatever per pound, a few rare materials were avalible for a good price though.

" I don't know about the other delegate but we do not hail from Earth, or even this universe, lets say we exist in our own universe, there are several other powers there, but it's quite peaceful. However we do have several insetlations inside this universe. We are looking for trade contacts, however we could also use military allicanes as well. Though now that looks like it would never happenm, with ships like this, However I would be quite interested in some of these elements, I've never even heard of some of them. What did you have in mind for trade? Just to let you know, we don't do slaves of any kind."

"My people used to come from Earth, but our population grew too fast for us to contain the sprawl. We conquered many lands in the search for new living space, but finally we bordered up right with our closest allies. We didn't want to fight them, and we couldn't build high-rises fast enough. So instead of risking war with our brothers-- at least what they used to be-- we left Earth for a new home.

"Crimson Sparta still has close ties to Earth and the surrounding systems, and a trade route has been established between many nations and ourselves. As for military alliances, we have no interests in that area. We and our current allies can defend ourselves well enough.

"However, we have many outposts where we would welcome your people. We have many shops and places to live on those stations, and there would be a wealth of knowledge you can learn about human interactions while you're there. You can catch up on the time you lost while in isolation very quickly."

The ambassdor gave a slight grin. " We are just as human as one from Terra, In fact maybe a bit more human, which is a very lose term. Our life span is about 120 years, and we are as strong as humans, and slightly more intelligant and arrgerrsive and as you can see we look like humans. We were never in isolation, we've always existed . There are about 7 Major powers in out universe, the FoxTrot empire is probably the most powerful one by far, You don't want to mess with them, though trade sounds good"

" The Quantum the weapons continue to dump excess energy in greater amounts, this pluse was very very birght and would show, massive readings of quantum energy*

(OOC: I don't know if you mistook me, but I was talking to the Tandu people)

OOC: Sorry, You didn't say WHO you were talking to,

OOC: How many other formerly isolationist non-humans are present and looking into trade and diplomatic agreements?

OOC: You Mom? Sorry, anyway.
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IC:
" Could we please get underway with an non agression pact? And prehaps an trade agreement, We are on an very important mission."

The Blue plusing begins to become more feqent.

OOC:
Gonna have ta wrap this up soon, finals are starting and I wont have much time :)

IC:
"We agree, here is the treaty, please sign. we would also like to establish embassies with your nations, there is a seperate document for this."

Masuko was hesitant to agree to such a hastily-drawn treaty. Either they drew it up before the parties arrived, or they were a haphazard species. Neither of those reasons gave Masuko any reason to trust them.

"I am not in a position to commit my government to a treaty, and I believe our ambassadorial ship is nowhere near this sector," he said, not quite sure there even was ambassadorial ship other than Lord Kentaka's own. "We can have a flag officer here in a short amount of time, or he can contact you at a later date."

The Ambassdor responded " Tell me where you would like to make contact, I dont have time for this, Soldner this is the ambassdor 3 To beam up"
* The 3 Disapered and ended up back on the ship *

The captain Yelled into the comm " Whoever has this stupid FTLi up bring it down, were on an important mission "

OOC:
I would REALLY like to end this quickly, I have studying to do.

IC:
"If now is not a convienient time we can hold an official confrence on Tandu IV. We will contact your govornments in a few months with the location of this arrangement, this should give you more time to prepare."

OOC: I understand, but this is kinda quick. It'd be more realistic if we waited a few "time periods" after first contact anyway. If you can pick this up again in the spring, telegram me.

IC: The lieutenant commander looked surprised. "I guess they weren't really that interested after all," he commented on the quick exit of the other party that once sat across from him. "I can assure you that my people are, and now that we have made contact with you, I'm sure we can show you that not all humans are that bad."

Masuko stood. "Well, if that concludes things, we must be getting on our way. Thank you for having us." He bowed at his hosts, the respectful custom in Crimson Sparta, and left the meeting area for his shuttle.