NationStates Jolt Archive

Jane Callahan was tapping her foot anxiously. She had already read the report on Xessmithia's last meeting with the ECF leaders and she wanted to get going.

"How much longer?" She asked the pilot of the diplomatic corvette Geneva.

"I don't know ma'am. We've sent the signal to ECF already, they should have gotten it by now. We just have to keep on waiting till they show up."

Jane sighed and leaned back on the couch. For a converted military ship the Geneva was surprisingly comfortable. She took out her PDA and began to re-read the reports, she had a lot of time on her hands.

OOC: This is the thread we talked about on MSN.

A Small flash of light, and then it appeared.

" Open a Channel " The captain ordered, he stood up and looked at the main viewer. " This is Captain Wells. On the Battle Cruiser Enterprize. It's been over 120 years snice our last contact. And I do look forward to meeting your people.
We are to discuss an alliance, as well as a major purcahse. Those are my orders/
Waiting For Response Enterprize out. "

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The message played quickly over the ship comm. "Well, what are you waiting for Steve bring us along side so we can dock."

"Yes ma'am." Said the pilot, Steve. Jane keyed the radio.

"We're coming along side to dock. It says in my report you have teleporters but to be honest the idea gives me the creeps so I'm going for a hard dock. And I also look forward to our meeting."

" Premission Granted, Dock on the starboard docking port, I'll meet you at the air lock. Enterpize out. "

The Captain made his way to the airlock, 5 Marines were in tow.

They rounded the corner into the turbolift. " Deck 87, Starboard turbolift "

A Few minutes later they headed for the airlift. Several Clear Conduits were running on the ceiling of the brightly light hallway. Two were blue, and one was green.

They reached the Airlift, and he simply pushed the button.

" Hello, ummm conferenace room? Unless you want to talk in the hallway "

The Geneva moved slowly to align itself with the docking port. Steve matched the velocity and extended the ships docking tube. The indicator bulb winked from red to green, "All right ma'am you're good to go. I'll be waiting here so call if you need me."

"Will do Steve." Jane said as she grabbed her bag and headed out. The docking tube was clear and offered her a close up view of the ships hull.

The airlock door slid open to accept her entry and she was met by a group of six people in the corridor. Five were carrying rifles, part of the ships marine contigent no doubt.

The last had the look of an officer about him and he was who Jane approached. "Captain Wells I presume. I'm Jane Callahan here on behalf of the Confederacy. Shall we go to the conference room then. The hall is a bit drafty."

" Shall we head up to the conferance room? Follow me, Marines fall out, do whatever "

" Aye Sir "

The Headed for the Turbolift " Deck 8 conferance room. "

The Turbolift was clear, at one point the glowing Quantum Converter could be seen.

The occupents felt a slight tingling senstation as they passed near it.

" Thats just some Excess Quantum Energy, it's perfectly harmless. I think it feels kinda cool. "

A Minute later they ended up 3 doors down from the Conferance room.

They headed into the room, the captain took a seat at the head of the table. Several Offcers were seated in the other chairs.

" Please have a seat and lets get started "

"Thank you Captain. You have a very nice ship." Jane smiled slightly, "I may have to get your decorator to do my apartment."

She chuckled to herself quietly and opened her bag taking out per PDA and numerous data cards. "Now I think we can both agree to a non-agression pact as of now. However we should talk about increasing out allyship. But first you mentioned a large purchase, how can I help you with that?"

" Ummm thanks, I think "

The Captain shifted slightly in his chair, and pulled out a Padd. And tossed it on the table, it landed with a slight smack, he picked it up and looked over it for a few seconds.

" I know we can already agree on the 1st. However the latter is a more pressing matter.

Let me put it straight. We do have a partical based system, but we know you have a supior system to our Phasers. This ship does not carry phasers, But its weapons cost to much money soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

We wish to purchse desings, and all produciton rights for low level and the highest level of LinAC weaponary.
We are willing to pay a nice tidy some. Oh I dont know, 18 Trillion?
And yes I do have the money. The federation has more money than The Federal Union. "

"You want production rights to our LinAc technology? That shouldn't be a problem." She grabbed her PDA and pulled up a file. "Now just so you know the difference between low and high end LinAc weapons, the low end weapons can only fire neutral hydrogen atoms as the mass and have long recycle rates because they lack the superior cooling devices present in the high end weapons. The high end weapons however to have superor cooling and have faster recycle rates, they also have the ability to use any form of matter as the accelerated mass. You can get some interesting effects if you use exotic particles such as anti-protons and any matter with a charge will cause the beam to diffuse en route which shortens the range but gives you a shotgun effect."

Jane took a breath, "Now you said 18 trillion is your offer. I'm not authorized to sell at any offer under 15 trillion, you can pay more than that it you wish."

" This is not a problem I'm gonna need desings for every single models. You'll get your payment.

Now, about an alliance............. "

"Ah yes. Now that depends on what kind of alliance you want. I think a defensive and trade alliance would be best. How about you?"

" Well for an alliance I'd like to invite you to sigma octovuis. To Discuss this with Admiral Willing. No offense to your piolet, but this ship is much much faster than his. We can give you guys a lift. And that little ship of yours should fit into the docking bay.

"Oh we know our corvettes aren't the fastest. They're supposed to piggyback on larger ships Alcubierre waves. I'll get him to get in your bay now."

* * *

Steve Klimpke was playing Tetris when the comm buzzed. "Hey Jane what can I do for you?"

"I need you to disconnect and fly the Geneva into the Enterprize's docking bay." She answered.

"No problem." He turned off the comm and switched on the engines. The docking tube retracted and he nudged the ship away from the hull. He activated the maneuvering thrusters and moved the ship until is was aligned with the docking bay. He tapped the ship forward and it slid into the bay. A dull clunk was heard as the Geneva brushed the edge of the bay wall. Once he was in he deactivated the ships systems.

"Alright," he said to himself, "How am I gonna open the door now?"

In The Bay: " ummm, dude it's not gonna work, Transporter room! Transport this guy out into the bay! " The engineer yelled into his comm badge.

A second or two later he appeared next to the engineer.

They both started at the seemling huge ship sutffed into the docking bay.

" Nice park job!, Wanna see the engine room? Prehaps a game of poker tonight? "

In The Conferance Room:

" Alright, get us under way. "

The star outside changed to a vortex for a second, and then images of streched out stars flying by the windows appeared.

" Well it's getting late. Dinner is being served in the mess hall. If you want to get somthing to eat. After that we'll show you to your quaters. "

Steve was trying to open the emergency top hatch when he suddenly appeared next to a person. Before he could say anything he was invited to a poker game.

"Umm, what did you just do to me?"

* * *

Jane was hungry, "You know I could use some food. Why don't you point me to the mess hall."

In the Docking Bay:

" Well it's quite simple really. You were broken down into a string of pure energy, put into a transporter buffer, and then reassembled here. The whole process only takes a second or two. It's been on our ships for over 1,000 years.
It's a great machine, beats shuttles. I dont know about you but for the 1.2 secoinds your inside the buffer, it feels kinda cool. "

He noicted that the Piolet fell to the ground and started crying.

" Ummm are you ok?"

****************

In the Mess Hall:

" Well yes, you can get whatever you want in your Quaters, but this stuff is freash from the homeworld. Snice this mission was only a few days, We had the previlagd of taking with us. Much better than the replicators. More Chicken? "

Steve had stopped crying, he was curled in the fetal position on the ground. "I'm not me anymore, I'm not me anymore, I'm not me anymore." He started rocking back and forth muttering the same words over and over.

This went on for a few minutes before he froze. He stopped blinking and fell silent.

* * *

"Hmm, interesting." Jane said while taking a bite. "So tell me, why don't you just use freezers? You can't be worried about room or energy. And the food is still the same as the original, expecially if you use quick freezing techniques."

" Ummm dude are you ok? Ummm, your going to the consular.

The Engineer starts dragged the crying pilet to the consulars office.






In the Mess:

" Well replicator matter doesn't take up nearly as much room as food does. It may be much more expensive, but it saves ALOT of room. And it lets you have whatever you want, here Let me show you, Computer, GIve me some water, and I dont know, Gralic Bread! "

The said 2 items appeared on the table.


" You see it's quite simple! "

* imsert message about the transporter and arrival time.

" I do apologive about the transporters, We wont let it happen again. We should be arrving in about an hour, Care to try Steak? "

Jane read the message and a look of worry came over her. "No I'm full. And I really need to go see Steve. Can you show me to where they took him?"

" Follow me! " They ran down into the turbolift.

" Maximum Speed to Sick Bay! Hang on! "

The Turbolift moved at an incredble speed, they were pushed onto the wall for about a second.

They rushed into sickbay, 2 Marines were restraining him, he seemed to be very angry.

Steve was trying to get at the engineer. He was confused, he had been catatonic moments earlier, and now he was furious. He was vaguely aware of new comers as he struggled with the marines holding him down. He managed to get an arm free and punch one of them in the face.

Jane was nervouse, "Steve calm down. We don't need and interstellar incident here!"

The Captain Rushed into the room stopping just short of the physcotic piolet.

" Ok Ok Calm Down, We had NO IDEA! "

The Crazyed Piolet lashed out at the engineer.

" HOLD YOUR FIRE, I Got this! "

The Crazed alien came directly at the Engineer.

The Engineer cought him and grabbed him into a headlock.

The crazed alien struggelde. And The Engineer spun him over his head, and slammed him onto a medical table.

" I was a Commando in the KGB for 4 years, You gotta step it up a notch! "

Steve was in no mood to play games, he punched out over his head and connected with the engineers crotch. The other man doubled over and Steve bashed his fists into the side of the others head.

As the engineer was reeling Steve rolled off the table and launched himself at the captain. Hoping to bowl him over with his momentum and then turn his face into a bloody pulp.

But it was not to be, the captain saw the move and side stepped his Steve's lunge. He slammed into the wall and before he could turn the captain had grabbed his arm and was throwing him across the room.

Steve managed to grab the captain's uniform mid-spin and pulled him down on top of him. Steve landed his left fist into the captain's face and received several punches in return.

The captain bent back to get in another punch but Steve pushed him off with his knees. Steve quickly stood while the captain reeled and moved towards him. As he moved for a finishing blow the captain kicked out with both feet and landed them squarely on Steve's chest. He fell to the ground winded and the captain wasted no time rushing over him.

He placed his knee on Steve's neck and held it there, just before Steve passed out the captain said, "You really shouldn't have knackered my engineer."

The Ambassodor just started that the captain.

" You have to admit, that was a prepetual asswhooping! Anyway."

The Helm Chimed in " Sir we have arrived. The Clinton is in the system, surprising. "

Over the Comm.


" Hello all, this is Admiral Willing. Ahhh, the delegate, I already heard the report, and I apologize. We never had any idea about your peoples morals when it comes to transporters. Anyway, a SHUTTLE is on the way to pick you two up, and come aboard the Clinton, the so called " Pride and Joy " of StarFleet. I actually hate talking over the comm, so I will see you here. "

The Captain shouted out loudly " Lets get to the bay, I've never seen the clinton close up, this is gonna be GREAT. 12km of pure Killing power! "

"Hold on. I know this meeting is important but I need to make sure Steve is all right first." Jane saw the look on the captain's face, "I'm not saying that he was right to attack you but he is my friend."

" Of crouse, But then make your way to the SHUTTLE bay. I'll be waiting there. If you wish to bring him, he can come, but he needs to stay undercontrol "

Jane nodded said a few words to Steve. He nodded back and seemed to relax a bit.

Jane then followed the guide to the shuttle bay. She entered the hatch on one of them and found someone waiting for her.

She held out her hand, "Hello, I'm Jane Callahan. Lets get this thing moving shall we."

" Alright, lets get this thing moving. Normally we dont have to use these things, but in light of recent events.... "

The tiny shuttle moved near the Clintons Massive Loading Dock, on the way they were afforeded a view of the entire ship.

" I never thought it was THIS BIG! "

Jane whistled, "Wow. I've only seen space stations that big before." It was a short flight to the Clinton, and Jane was infinitely glad to take it rather than a trip through the death machine they called a transporter. Poor, Steve. She thought, I really hope he's going to get better.

With a soft clunck the shuttle docked and Jane stepped out to meet the waiting people.

" Death Machine? I've been through it, ALOT, I dont seem very dead! "

The Captain Stepped out 1st, Admiral Willing was waiting, The Captain Stood at Attention and saluted " ADMIRAL! Ambassodor From Xemissthia, SIR! "

The honor guard shodered there rifles, and held perfectly still.

The Admiral Waiting for her to say somthing. ( he is actually only 21 )

"Thanks for having me on board Admiral." She looked at him carefully, "You seem awfully young to be an admiral though. You must be good."

She yawned heavily, "As much as I want to get to business. I've had a very long day and I'm exhausted. So if I could just get shown to where I'm staying?"

Admiral Willing nodded and one of the marines motioned for her to follow him. She did and was escorted to what appeared to be VIP quarters. "Thanks for the escort." She told the marine. She quickly went to the bed, got in and fell asleep in her clothes.

" Admiral Your Wife is on Line one, She says you should be in bed by now!, Considering you have not slept in 3 days, and I think she has somthing else planned.! "

He turned the communicator off " Alright, I'd love to talk to you, but Im tried, and the wife seems frisky! When you wake up, feel free to look around the ship.
Night, If you need extra cloths, ask the computer to replicate some. If your hungry, you can also ask it to replaceate some food. Night. Oh a personal message was forwarded from the Corvettes computer, you can ask the computer for that to. "

The Admial Walked torwards his quaters, and 12 minute later when he got there, put a " Do not disturb " message up "

Jane had a fitfull sleep, she kept worrying about Steve. She awake early in the morning ship time and pulled a new set of clothes out of her bag. She changed quickly and set out, she was looking for a map.

"Now where is the Admiral?" She said to no one in particluar.

"I can help you with that." Said one of the crew working on repairing the damaged hall. "Computer, locate Admiral Willing."

"Admiral Willing is in his quarters on deck one-hundred and twenty-four." Jane was startled by the calm female voice.

Stupid talking AIs. she thought to herself. "Thanks for the help officer and umm computer." Jane said. She set off for the nearest lift carefully avoiding fallen wall panels and bare wires. When she reached it she saw it was out of order. "Hey how do I get to deck one twenty-four from here without the lift?"

The officer replied quickly, "Take the ladder in the jefferies tube ma'am. It's down the hall on your left."

Jane spotted the access and thanked the officer again. She looked at her deck number, it read 147. Only twenty-three decks. That won't be hard. She started to climb.

The Admirals Wife was just stepping out of their quaters, after a somewhat long night.

She spotted the Ambassodor comming out of the Jefferies tube, she seemed quite sweaty.

" Oh high, Head up to the Bridge, thats about 123 Decks up, Oh wait. I remeber he is not on the bridge. He headed out to engineering, The Quantum Core has been having some issues lately. Just head down 2 Decks, and go about 8km towards the stern, Engineering is 203 Decks tall, it's hard to miss. Bye! "

She headed down the Hallway.

"Only eight kilometers huh?" Jane looked at the lady, presumably the Admiral's wife. She noticed something subtle and smirked, "Had a good night eh?" The other woman blushed.

Jane, smiling, started walking, she got a few steps before the other woman tapped her shoulder and pointed her the other direction. It was Jane's turn to blush now, she never had been good with her bearings on starships.

She made it to engineering forty minutes later, "Admiral Willing. Please tell me you're here."

The Quantum Converter was about 30 Decks Tall, and Provided power to the entire ship.

" Oh over here! It's an impressive feat. And so are the 5 WarpCores in the Aft Section of the ship, I've never had to use them but and........... thats not right. I've never seen this and that doesn't look. "

A Massive White cloud of smoke begins spearding from the Quantum Converter.

COMPUTER AI: Bringing Quantum Converter offline, Cooling system Damaged, EVAC EVAC.

" OH SHIT, A COOLING LEAK, EVERYONE GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! COMPUTER BRING THE NANITE REPAIR SYSTEM ONLINE, BRING ANTI MATTER FAILSAFES ONLINE! "

They all ran out of the room.

The Admiral looked at the ambassdor " I am so sorry, The nanites should have us back at 100% in a few hours, coupled with crew repairs. They'll have that back online.
Now I want the talks to start soon, So go to Conferance room 2A, about 300 Meters away and 2 decks down. The Turbolift is back online, so we can take it. lets go! "

Jane was rushed out of engineering as soon as the coolant leak happened. She was in the lift before she could even make sense of what happened. She was panting heavily, "Do you always do things so damned fast?" The Admiral looked at her funny. "Never mind. Lets just get down to business. Where do you want to start?"

" Ahh but of crouse, Sorry, I'm pretty tired, I dont know how it is in Xmesthia, but here, Women tend to be alot more arggseive than the males.

Anyway, We thank you for the LinAC research and produciotn rights, for such a cheap price.

Now about an Alliance, I'm gonna let you start. Because I dont have any actual terms, yet until I know what you want. "

"Well I think we can both agree to a mutual defence agreement. If one of our nations asks for help against a hostile force the other would be obliged to help. This would be compulsory in scenarios where either of our nations is not the agressor and optional if we happen to be the agressor. Which is not likely in Xessmithia's case. We don't go picking fights." Jane said slowly. "If you agree to this we can start working on developing a joint quick reaction fleet under dual command. After that we can look at research and intelligence agreements. What do you say?"

" Of crouse that is perfectly appectable. Now, We do have steve on board. He's doing better. I put him in a Quaters, with gruads outside. We are keeping an eye on him, He's not sucidal anymore.

Anyway, for the Defense pack to be made permamnt, We need to make a trip. Would that be ok? Oh and you have to swear on your LIFE, that you and your nations NEVER tells ANYONE about this. And that MUST Stand, Beterying that would be seen as an act of war. Is that appectable? "

"Of course. Any secret location revealed to me will remain classified information known only to top goverment and military officials. Now where is it you're taking me?" Jane said quickly not really thinking about it. She was more worried about Steve.

"Oh and can I see Steve? I'm really worried about him."

" Oh Dont worry about that, Steve is already on board. Now you've been recorded, and that means it's time to get going. "

The smiled a bit. And tapped a Panel on the Table.

" Jump in 20 Seconds. Thats an order, Leave the escorts behind. "

The Ship begun to shake.

" This is gonna get bumpy, oh, and for about 10 seconds, well just dont freak out. "

The Ship vanished, and everything turned white.

Everyone seemed to be free from there bodys, It was peaceful, you could fly, and not even know it.

Then as sudden as it started, it ended.

They all came back to there senses. They were back, But everything seemed differenent.

They were near a Large Planet, with hundards of System Defense Platforms.
And over 3,000 ships were flying about, From Shuttles to Battle ships. Most were privaty owned, but star fleet never let up it's preseance.

" We have arrived. Take a look. "

Jane couldn't take a look. She was doubled over clutching her stomach trying not to vomit. She didn't know what just happend but it felt like she was turned inside out, turned into a spaghetti string and tied into several knots.

The extreme nausea and diziness lasted for over a minute before she regained her composure and could finally stand and look out the viewport. It was an impressive amount of spacetraffic.

"So, where are we?"

" Well it's really quite simple. We are in the Homeworld of the Federation, Athens. Take us in at 1/3 Impluse.

You will notice that most types of FTL dont work in here, expect for the 1,000 Year old+ Warp Drive. Now we will be going to the station. Oh steve should be here about now, I want you to calm him down.
"

Steve Walks into the door with escorts.

Jane saw Steve and rushed over to give him a huge hug. "What happened to you was awful. Do you feel okay?"

"No I don't feel okay. I feel like an impostor, that all of my memories of my life, all my feelings all belong to someone else and I just took over his life."

Jane opened her mouth to respond but Steve intereupted her, "I mean I know that I'm identical to the original in everyway. Right down to my scars and birthmarks, but I'm not the original. He was vaporized by these creeps and they built me instead."

Jane was frowning, "Steve, I can't even imagine what you're going through. And quite frankly I get sick just thinking that these people do it so often and don't even think of what it means and don't even care." She paused, looking at the other people in the room and not carring what they thought right now, "The fact that you do know and do care makes you much better than them. And I know that I can love a copy just as much as the original."

Steve smiled weakly and sighed, "I know you're right. But it's so strange. I really need to do a lot of thinking on this."

"Of course you do. I would have to in your situation as well. But know that I'll always be there if you need me."

An Engineer spoke up " Well I know I can't help, but you are exactly the same, The transporter merely turns you into energy and then sends it into another place. No Copys were every made, your still the orginal string of energy you always were. No Copys were made. At Least in most peoples onpinion. Your still the same energy signature you always were. It was simply moved. "

The Admiral Stood up " La Forge! Heel, Let her talk to him, He can ask if you is he wants to. Anyway, I need to berif the brass. So you two can ask the engineer anything you want. "

He pointed to one of the Captains on the Table, there were 10 captains on board the flagship, Known by the brass on the necks.

" Captain Wells, Your with me, Captain Nedeia You have command of the ship, see to it that you get this thing back together. Prep a Shuttle for those two to be taken to StarFleet Command. Send them down in Half an hour. Command! 2 to beam down! "

They Dissapered into the air.

Jane watched as the two people disappeared in their transporter beam, not a care in the world. She looked back at Steve, he was glowering at the engineer. "Hey, why don't you go back to your quarters and try to relax. As far as I'm concerned you're still the person I know and love. Whether or not you're the copy of the original doesn't matter to me. You had no choice."

Steve nodded, "Okay. I still need to do some thinking, at I can do that in my quarters."

Jane smiled at him, "Good, I'll see you when I get back." She turned to one of the people in the room, "Take me to the shuttle bay."

In the shuttle................

" Entering Atmpohsere, Tochdown in 3, 2 1. "

They Walked out of the Shuttle, and 2 marines escorted her into StarFleet command, a Good deal of brass was waiting.

"You folks really are a show bunch aren't you. Always rushing around and making huge displays. Wouldn't get that on Xess." Jane saw that the assorted commanders weren't going for it, "Right let's get on to talking shall we?"

The Admiral was sitting at the head of the table.

" This is Star Fleet COMMAND, Command would normally mean there would be alot of commanding officers. So they can command the fleet. Anyway, I'll allow you to start. "

"Yeah, I know. I was mostly reffering to your rushing everything. So you should already know the plan I presneted. Let's hear yor thoughts."

The Admiral Looked at her Straight in the eye " Are you aware that we are a member of the GE? Would this be a problem? "

Jane held the Admiral's gaze, "It very well could be." She replied coldy, "Don't expect us to come to your aide if the GE does something to endanger you."

She leaned closer to the Admiral, her voice ice cold and fear inspiring, "And mark my words Admiral, you do one thing, one thing, for the Empire we don't like, and you'll see just how powerful we really are."

" We are attempting to reach a compromise. We wont do anything that puts your Confedcary in danger. Prehaps we can work somthing out. "

Jane backed away a few centimeters, "Very well. The lets start with the fact that Xessmithia won't support you in any way with any action or events relating to the Galactic Empire. If you can't agree to that then these negotiations are over."

Willing gave her the coldest look possible. “I’ll put it to you nice and simple. In the event of a war between the GE and your Nation. WE WILL REMAIN NEUTURAL IN THAT CONFLICT, WE WILL NOT FIGHT FOR EITHER SIDE!!!!!!!!! "

The Temputure in the room rose. Sparks and Fire Flew out of the Admiral.
(Yes he can do that, He's not exactly human.)

After a few minutes. The ambassador seemed to be terrified.

He asked cheerfully “Is that ok with you?”

Willing gave her the coldest look possible. “I’ll put it to you nice and simple. In the event of a war between the GE and your Nation. WE WILL REMAIN NEUTURAL IN THAT CONFLICT, WE WILL NOT FIGHT FOR EITHER SIDE!!!!!!!!! "

The Temputure in the room rose. Sparks and Fire Flew out of the Admiral.
(Yes he can do that, He's not exactly human.)

After a few minutes. The ambassador seemed to be terrified.

He asked cheerfully “Is that ok with you?”

Despite what the Admiral may have thought, his little pyrotechnic display hadn't phased Jane in any way. "Perfectly alright. We won't make an agressive moves on your nation provided you keep up your end of the bargain."

Jane leaned back in her chair, "Now is there anything else we need to discuss?"

" It's Agreed, That in any war Between the GE and your nation. We shall not fight. We will not help you, nor will we help the GE.

Now, Would you like to Leave? Or stay a few days. Because I'm quite busy, and need to get going. Captain Gallaso will be your escort. "

The Admiral walked down a hallway, towards the KGB section of the base.

Jane turned to Captain Gallaso, "Please take me where I have to go to leave. I get the feeling I'm not welcome here."

The Captain begun escorting her to the shuttle bay. " Dont mind Willing, It's not that he doesnt like you. He has been under an incredible amount of Stress for the past few months. Dont hold it aganist him. Alright, I was going to use the Transporter, but you people seem to have problems with that. So lets get going. "

They were walking up to a Type 4 Shuttle, Waiting to leave.

"Thanks Captain. Although I do find it odd that you in the military seem to find such an inconveniance to spend ten minutes in a shuttle fora foreign VIP." Jane said as she strapped in. "Get me back to my ship, Steve should already be in there."

With that the shuttle took off.

" I hate Flying these fucking things.

I'll tell you why. Becase when you have a way to transport somone in a few seconds to anywhere on the planet. Shuttles seem kind of stupid. "

Several StarShips Dropped out of Warp near the Shuttle.

A Greenway pulled them through the Jump Conduit it had recently jumped out of.

The Small corvet was sitting near the GALE Drive Nachell.

They docked. " So long, If you can work out somthing with your goverment, that would be good. Because StarFleet really doesn't want to send a delegate. "

"I was given authority. All the deals and agreements I made have the full support of my government."

The shuttle docked with the corvette, Steve was quick to open the airlocl. "Come on Jane. Staying here gives me the willies."

"I see you're feeling better." Jane said smiling.

"Well I had a lot of time to think. Turns out you were right." Steve said smiling back. Jane nodded goodbye to Captain Gallaso and quickly boarded the Geneva.

Steve had already done all the pre-flight checks and the ship disappeared in its Alcubierre wave within moments leaving the ECF planet far behind.