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The space was calm, stars sparkled and such, untill ships began appering. First came the 25 ship 2nd combat fleet of the Taliosian Space Force, this was followed quickly by the 3rd combat fleet. On board the TSF Handlor, flag ship of the 2nd fleet, this was noted.

"Sir, the 3rd is here, they're clearing the jump zone," came the report. The Commander simply nodded, not saying anything.

It was only moments later when the huge convoy appeared. Over 200 ships all carrying the nessasary equipment to colonize a new planet. The convoy ships wern't part of the military, so their jump drives didn't have the endurance of a military grade drive. They were also limited to pre calculated jump points, and couldn't have new ones input.

"The convoy is here, and.. so is the 4th fleet," the sensors officer reported, the commander simply waved his hand for them to proceed to the next jump point.

The Taliosian people had found that space wasn't the nicest of places to be. People out there, like most other places, only really had their own intrests in mind. So the 200 ship convoy had a 75 ship escort, and not just some hired fools, they had the actual Taliosa military surrounding them. The convoy took up a cylinder like formation with the Military ships working slow spirals around them.

"How long?" The Commander asked.

"Well, looks like stellar geometry is against us on this jump sir, it will be just under 20 hours before we get to the next point," the navigation officer responded, causing the Commander to grone.

"This convoy is a pirates dream come true, can you speed it up at all?"

"It's not us that's slowing the trip down, the convoy dosn't have military grade engines, and they're going as fast as they can."

"Alert me of anything," he said gruffly and turned for his ready room.

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*My Lord, The Mon-Kiegh have a number of ships heading near us.* The mind speech intruted apon Lord Liocinara.

-What are their intentions?-

*We are not sure my Lord, but they are moving very slowly, they would be easy prey.*

-For the time, Commander, we shall mearly move along side them, make sure they know we are there, then stop them.- The sound of Mental laughter was heard. -Let us use these ones.-

Along side the ships, a number of Void Dragons slipped out of the Webway, using tiny Portals that created massive Openeings. The Gates immidietly followed, and the ships quite easily move alongside the Talisoan ships. They did nothing, mearly stride along the side, making short fluid jumps to match speed.

The Valsharians had arrived.

"ummmm, sir?" The sensors officer said, just as the commander was about to walk through the door.

"What?" he asked, turning.

"Multipule contacts, unknown, matching speed and formation."

The commander groned and walked back to his chair.

"Set alert condision two fleet wide, charge weapons and sheilds, tell the rest of the fleet to do the same. And broadcast our intents while your at it," the commander said, hoping this would be another boring ride again.

Message broadcast in clear on all channels:

"This is a Taliosian convoy, we mean no harm, we are simply moving through the system."

Message ends and repeats.

"Now," said the Commander simply, "it's their move."

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Trekys vessels, when not acting in a war, or protecting some trade route or something else that requires force, go on exploration. They usally travel with other captians or commanders, but usally the limit is around 5 to 8 ships. This one particular force was around 11 Ships.
Commodore Emanural Nikitty had gotten all his friends together and decided to go out exploring in force.

"Sir, we are about to jump out of Jump Space." said the LT Harrison at helm

"Very good, once we drop out, begin scanning the area and catalogueing anything of importance." said Commodore Nikitty

"Aye sir." said LT Harrison

"Aye sir, preping sensors." replied Ensgin Nocotu at science

The USTS Pride and Joy came out of Jump Space near the edge of the system. She was stunning, one of the best looking ships in her class. She was a Freedom Class [Refit] Destroyer, one of the most recent produced and given to the Commodore as a gift from the President. Following in suite, 2 Freedom Class Destroyers, 5 Utopia Class Cruisers and 3 Scout Class Scouts.
(Specs are in my Factbook)

The moment the USTS Pride and Joy dropped out, her sensors began to scan and picked up both sets of ships, however both were unknown to each other.

"Sir, picking up MANY unknown contacts." said Ensign Nocotu

"Tactical Alert, tell the rest of the ships to follow suite and get in cloud formation." said the Commodore, "LT, begin to hail both sets of ships."

"Aye sir, hailing now." said LT Montu at Communications


This is the USTS Freedom Class [Refit] Destroyer Pride and Joy from the United States of Trekys. We are here with the rest of Exploration Fleet doing recon on as many systems we can reach within the next few weeks. Please, both unknown fleets identify yourselves and rely to us your intentions....I repeat...

The message was repeating over and over agian....and it would do so until someone responded.

"Another set of contacts, sir, they're transmitting a message, text only... it's not a language the computer knows, we're running it through the translation algorithums, but don't expect much."

"How many are there?" The commander asked, now thinking he should have chosen the longer, better mapped route.

"Only 11, I don't think they pose much of a threat, they are at one of the jump points at the edge of the system, take them a couple of hours to get here at soonest."

"Then ignore them for now, we have bigger problems."

The 4th Expeditionary Fleet was returning from a mission to repair a damaged science probe for the further study of a nearby nebula. The mission would normally require only two ships, however regulations required that when venturing into deep space the fleets consisted of at least six vessels in case something was to arise. The 4th expeditionary had that exact number. Two Nebula class exploration vessels, one Olympic class science/medical vessel and two Akira class cruisers. They intercepted a transmission from an unknown source:

"This is the USTS Freedom Class [Refit] Destroyer Pride and Joy from the United States of Trekys. We are here with the rest of Exploration Fleet doing recon on as many systems we can reach within the next few weeks. Please, both unknown fleets identify yourselves and rely to us your intentions....I repeat..."

Captain Brenner, aboard the one of the two Nebula vessels, the VSV Endeavour was in command of the fleet. "Was the message intended for us?" Brenner asked with a frown.

"Unknown, sir. Running sweep of system now." The operations officer paused. "Sir, ship...ships detected."

"Drop out of warp, engines to stop" Ordered Brenner. It was regulation to contact unknown vessels in case assistance was needed unless the captain thought it was unfit. The six ship fleet broke out of warp and came to a stop.

"Comms, open a channel. They may have been talking to us." Brenner said, standing in preparation to speak.

"Open, sir."

"Greetings, Pride and Joy. I am Captain Brenner of the Vi2oian 4th Expeditionary fleet, aboard the VSV Endeavour. We are currently returning home after repairing a science probe. We mean no harm. Do you or someone else need assistance? I have a medical ship on standby if needed. Brenner out." The channel was muted.

"Notify command that we have made contact with another fleet. Relay our position."

Command, Star Base 0135 was only 27 minutes away at warp factor 6, the standard cruising speed of most Vi2oian vessels. They would have many more vessels ready for dispatch if the situation required it.

"Even more ships sir, they are closer then the last set."

"Great," moaned the commander, "how close are the closest ones?"

"They are, within MTP cannon range," the senors officer said.

"Ok, tell them to get away from the convoy or we will open fire, and tell the rest of them not to get with in... gunnary range of us or the convoy."

"Yes sir"

Message follows:

"Attention all in system ships, please remove yourself from gunnary range of Taliosian convoy. We are escorting non-combatants and equipment to another planet for colonization, any ship that approches within gunnary range will be fired upon. This will take effect 5 minutes after the start of this transmission."

Message repeats

"Set aleart condision 1 fleet wide, all hands to battlestations, turn our sheilds on and launch a couple of gun drones."

The powerful triple layer shielding of the Tenlar Class battleship came on, the ship appeared to flicker then be surrounded by a giant silvery globe, before returning to normal as the shields came on.

Also gun drones began launching from the ships. Gun drones were, simply put, MTP cannons with an engine. They were very basic in design, but effective. The engines powered the cannon and some ECMs, which confused enamy sensors. The drones were biult to be expendable, and they were, costing less then half a car each, but they got the job done.

OOC: Hey Vi2o, hows it been?
IC:
Greetings, Pride and Joy. I am Captain Brenner of the Vi2oian 4th Expeditionary fleet, aboard the VSV Endeavour. We are currently returning home after repairing a science probe. We mean no harm. Do you or someone else need assistance? I have a medical ship on standby if needed. Brenner out.

The Commodore looked around the room, three unidentified races, all possibly unique. The Commodore saw this as a perfect chance.

"Hail those vessels." ordered the Commodore

"Channel Open sir, voice only or camra?" asked the communications officer

"Camra..." said the Commodore, "This is Commodore Emanural Nikitty of the USTS Freedom Class [Refit] Destroyer Pride and Joy. We do not need assitence, however, we jumped into the system to find two other fleets of ships. What they are doing is anyone's guess, we've been trying to hail them for sometime now. I was just curious as to why they were here, and what their intentions are, I did not mean to take you away from your duty, however, you are welcome to help us investigate. Oh, and no medical assitance is required, thank you though."

"Sir, a transmission from one of the unknown fleets." said the comm officer

Attention all in system ships, please remove yourself from gunnary range of Taliosian convoy. We are escorting non-combatants and equipment to another planet for colonization, any ship that approches within gunnary range will be fired upon. This will take effect 5 minutes after the start of this transmission.

"Hrmm....begin to move in-system LT, Captian of Vi2o vessel, care to join us?" asked the Commodore

(OOC: heh, pretty good, Trekys.)
(OOC 2: Taliosa, I actually intended to be farther from you than the Treckys fleet, hence I have them in range, and not you until now.)

"Sir, incoming transmission from another unknown source. Just picked them up on sensors." The comms officer announced, as the message played on the Endeavour :

"Attention all in system ships, please remove yourself from gunnery range of Taliosian convoy. We are escorting non-combatants and equipment to another planet for colonization, any ship that approaches within gunnery range will be fired upon. This will take effect 5 minutes after the start of this transmission."

"Well, pretty feisty for non-combatants." Noted Brenner. "Stay out of their way, but I want a full scan. Don't start anything here. If they are who they say they are, hostiles are soon to arrive."

"Sir, they are powering shields and launching smaller crafts of some sort..." Reported the tactical station

"Keep our defencive systems powered down, we don't want to show signs of aggression." Ordered Brenner, still keeping it a peaceful mission

Another message was broad casted from the Treckys fleet:

"This is Commodore Emanural Nikitty of the USTS Freedom Class [Refit] Destroyer Pride and Joy. We do not need assistance, however, we jumped into the system to find two other fleets of ships. What they are doing is anyone's guess, we've been trying to hail them for sometime now. I was just curious as to why they were here, and what their intentions are, I did not mean to take you away from your duty, however, you are welcome to help us investigate. Oh, and no medical assistance is required, thank you though."

"Open channel" Brenner smiled. "Brenner to Nikitty, we will also remain in the system to investigate, however, I suggest we do not get in the way of that convoy. They seem to like there cylinder of space. Brenner out."

Relay a message to the Taliosa fleet. Tell them that we will remain around here, but will try our best not to bother.

The 4th Expeditionary Fleet powered up all scanners, which, on a science fleet, were very powerful and scanned the entire system and all of its fleets.

"Sir, we have more contacts..."

They had just spotted the Valshare vessels.

"Looks like we already have guests..." Mumbled Brenner

OOC: eh, I'm a 200 ship convoy of non-combatents being escorted by a 100 ship fleet of military grade ships, it's kind of hard not to detect us... *shrug* our sensors have longer range then yours.. i guess

IC:

"Sir, one of the fleets had said that they will try not to bother us, nothing from the others though."

The commander sighed before speaking, "They have another couple minutes before we open fire... right?"

"Yes sir"

"Ok, charge weapons and have the Sheild busters accelerate to attack speed."

The sheild busters are long pointed ramming ships. The long spear like ship electrifies the outer hull, causing metal and other substances to melt of it as it penatrates through a ship, it also short ciructs the sheild arrays and a bunch of other fun stuff. In order to penatrate through most sheilds the SBs have to accelerate to around 60% the speed of light. This creates a spectaculare display. The ships pull out from the main body of the fleet and start up all 8 of their huge ion engines. These are thrown into full burn shortly after that, and the ship grows a tail of flame 8 or 9 times longer then the ship itself.

The SBs began a long acceleration loop around a near by planet, they will then whip out to the fleet and back in, giving them good coverage of the convoy while at attack speed. In total there are only 8 SBs, but they are freaking hard to hit at their speeds.

"Still no responce from any of the fleets sir," the com officer reported.

"They still have time..."

OOC: Chrono better post...although, i hope we don't have a slight war like last tiem chrono, so i'll be good if u are lol
Taliosa: i doubt ur sensors are better, wat kind of tech are u? Battlestar Galactica? if so, Vi20 is using Star Trek Tech (Like The Fedral Union) and they have some of the best sensors
IC:
"Brenner may I inquire into what your last mission was?" asked the Commodore

"Sir, all ships report ready for hostile force if the need arises." said the comm LT

"Good...Ensign, begin scanning their vessels...and launch all fighters, i want the figthers to move in a defensive pattern around our ships." said the Commodore

"Aye sir, scanning and relaying your orders to the flight decks." said the Ensign

"Now, LT start moving us towards the Vi20 ships." said the Commodore, "This is Commodore Nikitty, I wish to move my 11 ships near yours...and would also request an audience with you if it is ok? My superiors would be greatly exstated if i were to come back to Rigel III with news of a new race. Commodore Out."

"Sir, shall I tell Trekys Space Command what we have detected and our current position?" asked the comm LT

"Yes LT, good idea. Go ahead and tell them not to worry." said the Commodore

OOC: I am using Battlestar like tech, except for a couple things: I'm using Mass to plasma conversion weapons (MTP cannons), and I have centrifical gravity generation (spinning tube thing). My sensors are longer range, but they don't have the clarity of ST stuff and there is a slight delay from transmission to reciving.

(OOC: Well, it really doesn't matter much. I was just RPing it so that I detected the Trecky's ship first, instead of being like the usuall and finding a thing in space and warping in... it's to common, but yes, the advantage of ST is the clarity and accuracy, not always range... espically when it comes to science vessels. I am going to stop posting IC until Valshare responds, this way we dont ninja-post him/her and mess up the RP.)

Bump so Valshare can post something

OOC: Bump...Valshare c'mon and post lol

(OOC: Whatever. I'll just make and insignificant IC post)

"Are those vessels escorting the Taliosian convoy?" Asked Brenner with a frown.

"They don't seem to be of the same ship design, sir. Unknown." Reported the operations officer.

"Whats their intent? Hail them." Ordered Brenner.

"Open, sir"

"Attention unknown vessels. This is the VSV Endeavor, please state your intents." The message was short, but what else was to be said?

"Sir, the Trekys fleet is requesting permission to come within proximity and to have an audience aboard." The communications officer said, with hesitation in her voice.

Brenner halted for a moment before turning to the comms officer. "Granted, only if their offencive systems are powered down. Inform them that they may send a shuttle craft into bay two with the audience. They, however, will have to turn in any weapons before going any further than the shuttlebay." Brenner now turned to the operations officer

"Prepare shuttlebay two for docking. Inform the lounge that we will be having guests aboard." He turned to the tactical officer. "Security team to shuttlebay two. You have the bridge, Commander."

Brenner turned toward the turbo-lift and headed to greet the guests once they arrived.

"Commodore, they've agreed to an audience, however we must power down weapons." said the comm LT

"hrmm....Tactical, power down weapons." said the Commodore

"Aye sir, powering down weapons." said Ensign Naka at Tactical

"LT you have the ship while i'm gone," said Commodore Nikitty, "This is Commodore Nikitty to Marine Squad 6, please assemble in Hange Bay 1."

"Aye sir!" said Private Norman on the intercom

"Good luck sir, i'll keep her in tip top shape." said the LT who was at the comm

"I know you will." said the Commodore.

He precedded to the door. When it opened, he continued to the end of the hall and walked into the Elevator.

"Deck 13, Hanger Bay 1." said the Commodore.

The elevator went as fast as it coudl to the Hanger Bay level. When it stopped, the doors opened and the Commodore made a right, cause left was to Hanger Bay 2. When the doors opened, the Commodore saw the troop transport that he will be riding in. It was somewhat small, only able to carry 25 Marines and 2 pilots, as well as a vechile in the underbelly. But for this, the Commodore only needed his defense team, Squad 6 followed the Commodore where ever he went, they were only 7 men, but all were welled trained.

"Sir, the transport is ready. We are to launch in 5 minutes and dock in a 'shuttlebay' on the Captians vessel." said Private Norman, who was well attune with these types of ships as he studied The Fedral Unions ships in some detail.

"Good, then lets get underway." said the commodore

"Yes Sir." said the Private

The other 6 men were already strapped in when the commodore walked in so they only gave him a slight nod. When he was fully strapped in the ship began to move. Within 15 minutes, the transport was within hailing range of the ship.

"Private, hail the Captians ship and request clearance to land." said the Commodore to Private Wilson in the cockpit

"Aye sir, hailing audio only...This is Private Wilson of the Commodores Transport, may we request clearance to land?" asked the Private

A new voice crackled over the channel "This is shuttlebay 2 on the VSV Endeavor. Docking clearance granted under Captain Brenner. Please retreat controls of your vessel, we will guide you in from here."

Two low-power tractor beams emitted from either side of the shuttlebay and locked onto the craft and pulled it into the bay, setting it down in the center. The shuttlebay was then re-pressurized after the deflector field had turned on, and the bay doors closed. Double-doors on the other side of the bay then opened and two security officers took their positions on either side of it as Captain Brenner briskly emerged. "Thank you, Mr. Neal." said Brenner, passing the shuttlebay supervisor. He approached the craft and waited for his guests to off-load.

OOC I had to work, soz I took so long, but I haven't been on for a while.

IC The ships didn't move, why would they? The other races where inferior to them, they would not be a bother. THis is the thoughts that races through Eillinara's mind as she hears the translated message. She nodded, and, with smooth arrogence detected that seemed to flow from the ships themselves, move CLOSER to those on the craft.

Then a message was detected, it caused through the Wraithbone of the ship, and it took mear moments for Eillinara to hear it. She sighed, before standing. As she did, the Nural Cord became apparent, sticking into the back of her head to link the ship to her emotions. She smiled, flashing a number of buttons on the consol in front of her before speaking.

++To: VSV Endeavor++

You are Mon-Keigh No? Why then should we tell you our own intents, they are not yours to know, but ours to keep. We will not harm these ones unless they open fire to us, I suggest you make sure they know this.

++From: Eillinara++

"The ships are not moving sir," the sensors officer reported.

"Ok then, time our attacks with the next time the sheild busters are on their loop towards us. Crush one ship before moving on to the next, and launch all drones," the commander said.

The only indications, if any, that the Taliosians were going to attack was a slight increace in encyrpted signals around the fleet and a rise in drone launching. Neither of which gave enough warning for anyone to do any real thing.

The shield busters lanced in so fast that the sensors from their targets were blue shifted out of detectability. As soon as they rammed their targets and were gone the main combat fleet openned up with their MTP cannons. The MTP cannon was basicly a supercharged microwave. It fired a blast of energy at their target, enough to turn basicly anything it hit into plasma. Since plasma exists at a much lower density then the armor of the hull that it was moments before, it expands with explocive force, spreading super heated plasma everywhere.

This first volly of MTPs was followed closly by the drone assult, where hundreds upon hundreds of simple gun drones charged in, firing their own MTP cannons, and messing with enamy sensors with their ECMs. This, combind with the ship board ECMs was enough to cause most sensors to see hundred more targets then there really are, each one stronger then the other, making it difficult to chose the actuall ship.

Of course, the civilian ships had non of these, except maybe sheilding, it was hard to find them, but they themselves were still visable on sensors, if only as one of thousands of targets.

As the first volly of gunfire was launched, the commander of the Taliosian fleet prepared for the return fire.

OOC: death count please... just for kicks (yes, this does amuse me)

(OOC: Err...that was intended for the Treckys vessels, correct? Also, I'll post IC after Treckys.)

OOC: errrr, no. That was to the Valshare guy. He's the one who is WAY to close to my convoy for comfort. And since we have no way of knowing their intentions, and they didn't pull back when warned, we shoot. I don't belive they ever raised their sheilds or anything so... this will be fun.

Just a force count from me:
Combatants: 100 ships and 4800ish drones
Non-combatants: 400 ships

OOC: Sorry for the delay, it is after all FRIDAY and there are STARGATES!!!
IC:
The rear door lowered and the Commodore's 'Royal Guard' ran off and made a line directly infront of the Captian, weapons lowered, but safties off. The Commodore then walked off and told the Squad to stand at ease. After the 7 men lowered their weapons, the Commodore began to talk.

"Hello Captian, i'm Commodore Nikitty. I'm sorry for the sercurity, but they insisted." said the Commodore, chuckleing slightly.

--On board 'USTS Pride and Joy'--
"Um....sir, the Taliosaian vessels have fired on the ships closest to them...What are your orders LT?" asked the Ensign at science

"Um....crap, full defensive and offensive systems online, Tactical Alert now...All Hands, this is the Acting Captian, battlestations...Repeat, battlestations...." said the LT, now Acting Captian.

OOC: i have 11 ships, all combatant. The Pride and Joy is the biggest, strongest and slowest out of the 11. Its a destroyer, the Utopia Cruisers are not that much weaker, but are faster and the scout ones are the fastest and weakest of the bunch

Brenner smirked. "It's alright, very understandable." Brenner paused and glanced at the weapons. "I am afraid that your weapons will only be allowed in low-clearance sectors of the ship. Who ever wishes to enter the bridge for observation will have to be unarmed... if this is not acceptable, you may stay in our observation lounge, also the conference room, and use the computers there for monitoring. I'm sorry, its regula-"

"Bridge to Brenner!" the startled voice of the tactical officer came over the captains communicator.

"Go ahead, bridge."

"The Taliosian convoy has just attacked the unknown fleet. Casualties unknown, scanning now." Came the report from the bridge.

"Understood, go to fleet-wide yellow alert. I'm on my way to the bridge."

The lighting on the ship dimmed slightly and yellow emergency lights lit up along walkways. The deflector dish glowed as the shields where turned on, and the fleet took a new defencive formation.

Brenner turned back to Nikitty. "If you wish to accompany me to the bridge, follow me and you will have to turn in your fire-arms to my security officers before entering. They will be stored in our armory. If you do not wish to give up your arms, then Mr. Neal will escort you to the Observation Lounge. You may split up, if desired. I am sorry that I cannot be more talkative at the moment, but as you can see we have a bit of a situation..." Brenner said, pointing out to the general direction of the Taliosian convoy.

"Quite alright Captian...Private Norman...Private Glass, turn your weapons in...The rest of you, follow Mr. Neal...I wish to see their bridge." said the Commodore, letting a slight smirk escape him, "Lead the way Captian...Oh, and Captian you must forgive me, i'm not used to taking orders from a...well...Captian."

"Private Smell, your in command." said Private Norman

The Commodore fell in line behind Privates Norman and Glass as they walked up behind the Captian. The other marines reluctently let the Commodore go off without them, and they followed Mr. Neal to the observation deck.

OOC: I really don't know wats under private...and i'm sorry for the short post, but i really don't know what else to post about lol

OOC: Thought i'd let everyone know my last post will be tomorrow at around 12-ish, as i'm going to an overnight wedding and won't be able to post agian till 4/5 o'clock sunday

"Heh, well then just call me by my name, since we are on the same rank. My full name is John Brenner." Brenner nodded to Neal as the group split. "This way, Mr. Nikitty." The group entered the turbo-lift and headed to the bridge after a security officer had collected the arms and started for the armoury. Brenner went on to tell a bit about the Nebula starship. "This ship is one of the medium sized in the Vi2oian fleet. She's 442 meters in length with a crew of 750 on 32 decks. Our weapons consist of 6 Type-X phaser arrays and 4 rapid-fire photon torpedo launchers, and she can reach a speed of Warp 9.9. The Nebula is one of the fastest in the fleet."

The door to the bridge opened and the group walked off the turbo-lift. "Nikitty, you are welcome to have a seat here." He motioned to the seat to the left of the captains chair. "Your men may stand where they like, just...heh...don't touch." Brenner walked up to the Operations station. "Report?" he asked.

"No further activity, captain." was the operations officers response.

'Very well. Open a channel to the Taliosian and unknown fleets."

"Open, captain."

"This is Captain Brenner of the Endeavor... we have noticed an obvious clash between your two fleets. Please, both of you state your intents, and reasons for hostility." Brenner had to establish quickly who was the friend, and who was the foe before this was to escalate to something worse.

OOC: heh Commodore is higher then Captian
IC:
"Ah...ok John, nice to meet you..." The commodore said as they walked through the hallways. The Commodore listened intently as John spoke about his ship...he seemed to know it inside andout and knew much about the crew...The Commodore thought he'd make a find well...Commodore in his fleet...

When they entered the bridge, Nikitty, Andrew Nikitty, sat down where John told him to sit. His marines stood behind him waiting to act if they needed to. Andrew watched and listened. The bridge was quite whenever the captian spoke he assumed...but he listened to the captian. So sure of himself in the face of a larger force. When the Captian was finished hailing the unknown vessels Andrew spoke up.

"John, you can call me Andrew, Commodore Andrew Nikitty." said Andrew, "I was wondering John...are you sanctioned to do peace talks? I was wodnering that perhaps after this little...debacle or whatever you wish to call it, our nations could be friends?"

Andrew looked around the room.

"On another note, i must say that your bridge is nice and bright, compared to my bridge it looks like the sun. Your officers are dressed nice and neat...and everything is placed in such order." said Andrew, pointing to the forward station, "I assume thats helm? And that, over there to your left is science? and that to your right must be tactical...am I right Capti...ehh...John?"

"Peace talks? Well, not exactly. In the academy we are taught that diplomacy is more important than marksmanship." Brenner took a seat next to Nikitty and continued, "Now, Vi2o and Treckys are already familiar...or friendly nations. At peace, obviously. To create an actual alliance, however, a more formal diplomatic meeting would have to occur. Also, about the lighting and such... This isn't a war vessel, if, however you where to go on the bridge of the Akira class cruisers, you would see a ship wholly designed for combat. Science, and explorer vessels are often fitted with diplomatic grade luxuries and such. The Nebula class vessels are a little cousin of the Galaxy class cruisers, which have a diplomatic grade comparable to star bases."

ooc: I'm going to let valshare post before i reply to your hails, so I don't get ahead of him...

ooc: does valshare work on weekends too? (yeah, i'm back)

OOC:... and how would I know this? lol. I'll just wait for him, and as we do, some jokes!

It seams that the Pride and Joy is your pride and joy!
Trekys is a treky.
insert bad pun here.

OOC: you leave my pride and joy out of this...for all you know its huge
I am indeed a Treky...and its Trekky lol but for some reason i typed in Trekys
If the chicken laid the egg, who laid the chicken?
If God is all powerful, what made him?

OOC: eh, your PaJ vs 4800 gun drones... give or take... I win

OOC: my ships have nukes :p two of them should do it lol

OOC: that's if you can lock onto the gun drones before their too close. remember they have ecms, and 4800 ecms all going at once can conuse basicly anything. Then you launch a nuke and 2000 or so gun drones turn it to plasma...

(OOC: I have a defence against them. I just started to employ "Tannal Wave Emitter" torpedoes on my vessels. Basically its a giant FT ECM grenade in the form of a torpedo. Its not very easy to defend against either, its designed to over-load shields, then continue to disable all electronics on the ship. A think a few well-placed shots with that could hinder most of the drones...since you don't really have to lock onto a target - just fire in the general area of a large number of enemies and let the blast radius do its job, kinda like artillery.)

Ooc: Valshare Post Damnit!