NationStates Jolt Archive

It had been a year since Neo Zeta had fallen. A year of war with the former colonys in the Viper Supercluster. The Zeon Republic.....Republic only in name. Zeon was ruled by a Emperor... Long since had to senate been destroyed by the powerful genrals. Tho they still hold much power the Emperor can and offten dose overrule them.

The Year and a half war with the former colonys was a bloody one. But it proved the fears of Neo Zeta. Zeon was one of the nations that did whatever it needed to win. They fought hard and oppressed all who they took prisoner or whos worlds they took. This was their war time view points.

Atlast the colonys gave in a surrendered and Zeon became the pracitcal ruler of the region. Their military was greatly pleased with how it had done in the war....but they feel it can be much better.

Some felt that Zeon should join join the Majin Empire in a allience to boost its power. But the Emperor Darius II felt it was unwise. And he forbid it,to the great anger of his son. He was old and hoped to shape Zeon enough so that his son whould have a much strounger nation to work with. But also limite his power.

His son atlast could not take it and planned to kill his father.... The elite troops and imperial bodyguard the Immortals were loyal to the son. He just needed to wait for his chance to kill his father and take the throne for himself...

OOC: The Colonys of Neo Zeta were in a area of space where the only way to reach it was by a large Stargate. Whitch now has been transferd to a unnamed nation for safe keeping. There is offcourse one on Zeons side but even if if they use it they would half to know what codes are used to dial. Whitch only a few now know. And all of them are either dead,in coreworlds or in the unnamed nation.

It was a cold morning on the planet Alexandria.... The Emperor sat alone in his room looking out his windows while drinking a cup of tea and going over his morning reports. He looked deep into the city of New Titan the capital. He watched young ones play and people going off to work. Woman young and old sitting outside on the lovely morning telling each other the newist gossipe.

He turns as the door opens behind him as his son and four immortals walk into the room.Darius looked at his son " My son i thought you were going to Oversee the construction of The Soloman Sace Fortress?"

His son pulled out a energy blade and smiled as he walked towrd his father

Darius looked in shock " What are you doing my son!? Do not do this!!"

He only replyed " I do this for you my father and the empire"

He stabed Darius II many times into the chest. As Darius fell the royal ring that the emperor or empress wears fell onto the floor.

His son picked up crying not for what he had done but the time he had hoped for all his life had come. He was now Emperor of Zeon.

As he slipped the ring on " Let it be known today that not only a new age for Zeon begians but a new age for the Viper Supercluster aswell. I Darius III The Great King of The Viper Supercluster will rule all in my sight. They will serve me."

Hours later is was announced Darius II died of a stroke. A national week of celebration on his life and the crowing of a new Emperor would be held.

Lord Rahl along with all his adivisors, wife and grandfather looked at the symbols to the star gate that the Emperor had told them to keep safe. It was a planet that only a few select people knew about in the Abh Empire it none could get to without special markings on the ship. The planet was protected by magic impowered by the Lord Rahl himself. The last line of defense was the making of his new Galactic navy anchored by a SSD.

Richard looked the gate up and down then looked to his wife. "Do you know what this means?"

"No dear I do not. It is not in any of the language logs and it certainly isn't high D'Haran."

Zedd walked up to it."Do you think it is magic?"

"No but whatever it is it needs to be kept safe. Have the First Phial posted here to guard it and inform me of any changes." Richard hooked his arm around his wife Kahlan and walked off letting his grandfather Zedd inspect it.

Darius III headed up the week long events from the funarle of his father up and into his crowning. He reviewed the nation and its military. They were both stroung but byfare not to the point he would wish. He felt a good decade would be enough to get his empire to a point he would better enjoy.

Another thing he was going over was the stargate the Fayth had built millions of years befor. They were doing research on how to use it.

Lord Vicious head of the secret plolice and the syndicate. He looked over the markings on the stargate controles. A large black mutated raven rested on his shoulder as he looked on at the markings. His Katana at his side he atlast smiled " You.......privet inform Darius i have figured it out.... He may come or not but inform him my ship leaves in four hours."

The man looked at Lord Vicious " But sir whould be not test it?"

With a flash of light Viciouse removed the mands head with one cut as he placed his katana back. He then looked at another man " Do as i say or suffer his fate"

The man nods and runs off to inform Darius

Zedd in his simple robes walked about the control ship for the Stargate as he continued the study of the ruins. A Mord-Sith walked in the room bringing Zedd some food. She wore her tigh brown leather since there were no tortures scheduled for the day. She laid the bread and stew on the table where he would see it.

"Have you figured it out yet Wizard Zorander?"

Zedd turned around after checking on the last symbol. "Oh hello Catrina. Well yes I think I am making some progress. It seems that these symbols move. I would imagine that it is some sort of combination like a safe. I believe I have found a way to open the portal. Now if you please, bring my grandson Richard and the First Phial into the room."

The Mord-Sith walked off.
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About two hours later.

Lord Rahl entered the room along with his wife Kahlan and a twenty soldiers from the First Phial. Their leather armor form fitted each soldier. Some had swords while others brought bows. Every soldier had an assortment of weapons. Axes glistened off belt loops, swords hung from their sheaths, and quivers full of arrows with metal tips were tied to their hips.

The Lord Rahl walked up to his grandfather with the Sword of Truth strapped to his hip. "Well Zedd, what did you figure out?"

Zedd took a step back and off the platform. "This my boy." He waved his hand infront of the symbols. Zedd used his magic to "feel" for the right combination of symbols. They finally stopped moving and ...

With a thunderus boom the last symbol locked into to place as the stargate shot out a blueish plasma as it pulled back into the gate the portal was open. No one could see what was on the otherside. The smaller stargate in the controle ship had also opened.

Darius looked on in his normal uniform from his days in the Secret Police. Vicious looked at 15 Immortal's ( name of them) they rushed threw the gate with their long energy staffs. They were able to shoot a disrupter blast from the tip as well.

After the jumped threw Vicious and Darius went threw as well. As they travled threw they saw many stars,systems and even galaxys rush by at great speed. They came threw the other side the Immortals already on high alert and ready for a fight with whatever they found on the otherside.

Vicious in his black robs and Katana would look to be the high ranking persion. His aura also would be picked up by those who could feel such things. They would know indeed he was a great warrior and a very evil one at that. Darius had no such aura but looks and feel dont always tell the whole story.

OOC: The Immortals would look like Jaffa Warriors in stargate except with a more future looking armor.

OOC: FT Sword of Truth. o_O Is Sword of Truth the name of Richard's ship? :p

Tag, might get involved later if I can.

(OOC: :p Zetans! Oh how I would like to meet this new "Republic", but alas, you have said that it can only be accessed by the coordinates of the stargate. Welcome back, hopefully you shall be more wise than last time. I'll try and get in on this if I can, a.k.a getting the co-ordinates from the Abh somehow...)

OOC: The Sword of Truth is an actual sword. If you haven't noticed, every soldier there is carrying a medieval type weapon. Two people in the room are wizards.

IC: Soldiers of the First Phial bristled at seeing men come through the gate with weapons and in close proximity to their Lord Rahl. Several strung bows and notched arrows while going to a knee. Others drew swords and axes. Catrina drew her Agiel and rushed infront of Richard.

Richard raised his hands for everyone to calm and placed a hand on Catrina's soldier to calm her. "I am Lord Rahl. Identify yourselves and your purpose." He let his anger build up and feed into his sword. The magic within him and his sword would be but a flick of the wrist away if he needed it.

Darius spokes in what seemed to be a version of ancient egyption. His eyes flashed as the Immortals went out of attack postion but kept on their toes.

Darius and Vicious walked slowly past Lord Rahl almost ignoring him. He then turned and talked down to him in The strange take on ancient Egyption he said " What are slaves doing here." Darius said

Vicious speaking the same as Darius " Maybe this is where the slaves come from. They do seem cleaner then the slaves"

Darius laughs as he looks at the abh females in the room looking them over judgeing their fittness to the slave females.

Darius nods " Indeed they are the same."

Vicious then eyes Lord Rahl and says in their toung the best he can " Your kin of the stars are you not??? Your slave serves us well as slaves."

The Abh female guards that had rifles on them almost gave in to the urge to shoot the new arrivals but hel their anger in check. They instead slowly lowered their rifles.

The Mother Confessor, Kahlan, walked to the side of her husband.

Richard looked Vicious in the eye, returning the stare just as intense. "No. The only Abh here are the couple women in the room and those that are in the ships patroling this space keeping my people safe from powers that use this new technology. The rest of us here are humans though all of us have already been dead. This planet is full of those that once belonged to a great Empire and had perished. I don't have time to go into my people's history but with the aid of the Abh and Gaians, we were resurrected." Richard's anger began to build and his war wizards outfit fed off it. His golden cape started unfirl even though there was no wind.

Vicious smiled " So you live off the gifts and aid of a race we have enslaved. So this would make you lower to slaves. I will not talk to somone below a slave." He smiled and waited to see the reaction.

Before Richard could stop her, Catrina had her Agiel in her fist and struck out driving the Agiel into Vicious's neck. "I've killed men for less than this. You will show the Lord Rahl respect, dog."

OOC: I should get involved later, if I can, although getting anywhere is hard without the aforementioned coordinates or my C'Tan

IC: The Tomb-World stirred, gigantic machines awaken by the signs of life. A Stargate had opened somewhere, where this was, of course, was unknown. In either event, however, the automated protocols awoke the machines, bringing them to life for the second time in seventy million years.

Vicious smiled as he unsheeted his sword and had his blade at her stomic. " And i have gutted fools who think they can kill me for less."

His bird flew from his shoulder crowing. Vicious was about to spill her guts on the floor and risk whatever she delt but Darius spoke.

" Vicious this is no time for your games. She is not worth your time nore mine. This is their land remember that well."

He turned to Lord Rahl " You must forgive him where we come from no one ever dares challange him or talk back. Other then me ofcourse. How did you come into owning this Stargate. Last we heard the Zetans had it then they collapsed. We have since drove them from the viper supercluster."

He then turned and looked around " You people dont seem to enjoy the showing of wealth and luxury one your military vessles? We find it enjoyable for nobles to have a flare to their own ship and stations as long as it dosnt destract the crew or commander."

Catrina withdrew to the side of Lord Rahl. Richard released his white knuckle grip from his sword and his cape calmed itself. His jaw was still set firm, flexing as he calmed himself. "This is the most secure planet in the galaxy. The Zetans gave the gate to the Emperor of the Abh Empire who inturned trusted us with it since it would be the safest here."

His wife walked up and hooked her arm around his. "As far as showing wealth, this is merely a control ship for the gate. We do not see a need to make it lavish. Our own fleet is a bit more extravagant than this. However, we see no need to make anything flashy. It doesn't make the ship anymore deadly in battle and the money can be spent on more worth while things. If we new we would have been entertaining such 'wonderful' guests, we would have rolled out the red carpet for you."

OOC: intresting.....I will try to get into this Rp as soon as I can.

Darius smiles " Its just starange the last time we were in this galaxy Mankind Worshiped us as gods."

He looked around some more then smiles " Seems you have advanced a good bit since then. Maybe a working relationship may be usefull."

The Antarans had long since feared that fragments of Neo Zeta might still be around. The Antaran Hegemony and the Imperial Intelligence Core had been sending cloaked incursions into old Neo Zeta space. The Intelligence Core figured that possiable cells of Neo Zeta may have been inside the Abh Empire. The risk of sending a mission in to the Abh Empire was high but it had to be done to confirm the enemy was indeed destroyed. three Antaran Ghost ships launched a wormhole jump into Abh territory. The Ships had on there most powerful cloaking device a ghost cloak.

OOC: Think Cloak used by Ancients.

OOC: Even if ya went threw the stargate the shield would be up on the large one. Phase cloak cant even get threw it. Tho the Zeon's dont know how to reproduce it. Somthing left by the Ancients. Besides even if you did you would have to deal with Ori sooner or later. Also Bump for the Abh

OOC: This is an intelligence gathering operation, The operatives may not even find the Stargate. The Ships are basically trying to find elements of Neo Zeta's Empire. We are not here for hostile action especially not with the Abh.

OOC: Deatharon, even if you did manage to figure out where this was taking place without being destroyed you wouldn't be able to reach the planet. Think Wrath of Khan but the cloud that surrounds this planet is more powerful and only the ruler of the planet can navigate. You're more than welcom to go through it but you won't make it through unscathed.

IC: Catrina glared at Darius. "Mankind must have been primitive indeed if they worshiped the likes of you.

Richard silenced her with the wave of his hand. "What is it that you want? It better be important and you better become more civil. The desire to destroy this gate grows with each passing moment."

The Antaran ships attempt to scan local systems for the signs of Neo Zetas Empire includeing: species that existed in there nation, and technology. They do this while cloaked. The Antarans hoped the Abh could not pick up the scan from there cloaked positions.

" You must forgive us we are not use to dealing with other nations. We long since brought our side of the Stargate under our controle except for the little Neo Zetan attempt to take it. As for what we can offer our tech is very useful. Our Jaffa Warriors are very stroung and loyal. We wish to form a possible allience. But i must show you our power so that you can be sure of our worth. Do forgive me for what i must do."

Darius' hand glows blue as he thrust his hand out in the direction of a Female Abh guard. A shock wave sent her flying into the wall. Once she had fallen Darius rushed to her putting his hand on her head. The pain he energy sent threw her would feel like her body being put into acid. Once she was dead from the pain Darius then held out his other hand as it glowed white. Placeing it on her head he brought her back to life.

" As you can see we have powers that you have. But we are able to bring back the dead with out the use of cloneing or machines. A God is one who can creat and destroy life is it not? So to younger races we are gods. Infact we have created a few races from scratch."

The room was shocked as they witnessed the spectacle. Catrina jumped in front of Richard while the soldiers posted redrew the swords and notched arrows.

After the woman was brought back to life, grips on their swords were loosened and bow strings were brought back. Richard just stood there grim faced.

Richard walked up to one of the Immortals. He drew out his sword and let his anger build up. His forearms flexed and his knuckles whitened as his gripped tightened around the hilt. He looked into the warriors eyes and knew that the man had done nothing wrong. With that, the blade of the Sword of Truth turned white. Richard thrust the sword straight into the warrior's heart and peircing the spine as the tip exited out the back.

Richard retracted the blade and let the man slump to the floor. He then sheathed his sword and got down on his knees. He placed his hands near the wounds of the warrior. He fell into a river of pain as his hands turned white. He could feel the presence of another being in the body but ignored and went after the problem. He stemmed the tide of blood and began to repair broken veins and peirced heart with Additive magic. The blood flow finally stopped and he turned the man over. He fell back into the pain and began mending the broken spinal cord and vertebrae.

Finally completing his healing task, the warrior was able to stand back up and return to his ranks. Richard looked at Darius. "You do not need to impress me with force. Too many nations do that already. As you can see, I too have similar powers though they are not the same. If you wish to form an alliance, then I suggest treating us as an ally. I believe we can benefit each other here but we must speak as allies."
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Attack vessels on patrol passed by the cloaked Deatharon ships but did not pick up any readings. The Abh pilot's extra sensory organs told them that something was wrong but the pilots couldn't pin point it. They circled back around the area trying to sniff out what was a miss. There were no guarantees that they would find anything though.

"Treat you as a allie hmmm? Maybe one day but not now. It is too soon to allie our selfs with humans and their offshot races." He then turns and looks at the stagate.

"But we will be willing to make a non-agression pact and a right of passage treaty. As well as trade."

Richard nodded. "Sounds fair enough. We can remain standing here or we can go to the surface of the planet and discuss the details of this agreement. The choice is yours."

Darius nods " The Planet will be fine for the talks"

"Then follow me" and Richard sweeps everyone out of the room in his wake. He leads them all to a shuttle that is standing by. Zedd stays behind along with the twenty soldiers from the First Phial to watch over the stargate.

(too speed things along with the shuttle down on the planet)

The shuttle lands in a large open court. Instead of a futuristic sceneray, the area takes on a bit of medieval sense. High walls surround the open market where the shuttle lands. Richard leads them up a stair well that passes through many towers. The palace itself laid on top of the cliff. Many more merchants set up shops in little out croppings in the walls. They came to a middle stage where the area flattened out into a court. Here the everything was a bit cleaner and more ornate. Fountains were located at intersections along with vegetation.

A hundred armed soldiers come running down the next stair well to greet the lord Rahl. They gave Captain gives the customary salute to the heart with fist and begin to clear the path for Richard and his guests to follow.

Finally reaching the People's palace itself. Here the floors are layed with intricate marble patterns. Marble scupltures are everywhere along with paintings depicting grand battles. Along the way the pass a hall with all formal Lord Rahls' depicted on canvas. This section no one tends to visit in the palace. Gold letters are etched into the floor in the High D'haran language that only a few understand.

Richard finally turns around to those from the Zeon Republic. "Welcome to Neo D'Hara and this is the People's Palace. It has been identically rebuilt to the way it once was ages ago."

The Antarans had there orders for this mission. They would destroy anyone who had seen them. If they failed that they would destroy the ships and themselves. To make it impossiable for the Abh to place the blame on the Empire. The Antarans prepared for the Attack Vessels, they had there system jammers ready to deploy at a momments notice. The Three Antaran Ships powered up there Distengrator cannons. If the Abh found them the Antarans would make sure they killed them in the first volley. The Antarans however decided to avoid the Abh first before shooting them into the void. The Antarans stay on radio silence and try to avoid the Abh ships while holding a lock on to them for possiable first strike option.

OOC: the System jammers would just cut any communication or transmission. This will be to keep the Abh from radioing back to there superiors.

After a few patrols of the area, the Attack vessels cannot find the anomonily. They make one more quick pass before deciding to head back to the rest of the patrol fleet. Though they couldn't find anything, the commander of squadron decides it would be best to still report this. Mostly likely the report will be dismissed anyways but better safe then sorry.

The Antaran Ghost ships leave after finding nothing once out of Abh territory they recieve new mission orders. start a massive covert action agaisnt the Abh Empire from behind there own lines.