NationStates Jolt Archive

As an apparent result of successful negotiations with the nations of Kyanges and Einhauser, the Ascendancy Sphere decided that the time had come to open the trade borders a bit wider.

Thus the following message was sent through all known space. (..and that meant 'all' known space. The Gaians had learnt 'much' by now.)

:: ~ Here ye all to note, those that choose to do so.

We are opening our borders to 'any' star faring nation of Dimension D-3 that wishes to do so, to engage in creating strong trade ties with all said nations, as of this day forth.

While we are 'well' aware that there are uncountable alliances military, economic, and otherwise in existence, we still decide to take a step along the same lines, to offer a possibly unique oppritunity to trade through us, the master entiries we are now allied with.

In other words, trade with the Heavens. It's more prolific than you'd think.

As such, it's out intention to create new Gates, not unlike the Intracel Gate, with permission of other participating nations, about ten light-years away from each border of each participating nation, that requires special transport to the heavenly realm, and our own.

This is so to provide easier access for commodities to transfer back and forth, as well as to give non-Fold Jump standard nations equal ease of travel for their merchant fleets.

We also will be constructing new, specialized trade centers in specific neutral locations throughout this Universe for those nations that wish another alternative for trade, as well as for those that find the Heavenly realm distasteful. Gates will be placed nearby to give continuing options for trading partners to still access Heaven if needed.

In essence, we are giving permission for trade, unrestricted, and with no regard to history of friend or foe alike. Out intention is simply to strengthen ties with both elder nations, and new ones alike. This also bypasses a Trade Conference to get direct trade on the way. All that would be needed is lists of contraband material each nations would find restrictive of their own nations. This is to prevent diplomatic incidents, as well as maintain stability for each participating nation.

Military forces would be from all nations that choose to participate, to defend their own fleet convoys and merchants as needed. Our own would be at each location to protect our own assets, and nothing more.

When ready, within six months (NS) ties can be very strong indeed. Also all will not find said trade hubs difficult to find, if for sheer size if nothing else.

These, and other trade concerns can be discussed by any method chosen, through all channels needed. We await your hopeful participation.

Regards,

Lady Seto Kamiki
Gaian Prime Foreign Advisor ~ ::

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Now the Ascendancy would simply wait.

...and waits.....

....yup.... waits... =^^=

The Workers State and the Ascendancy have been through a lot together; it is only natural that we announce our willingness to begin renewed and expanded trade with the Ascendancy.

Given the surprising circumstances of the Angelic conflict, we are not unwilling to go to the Heavenly realm to do our deals, if needed.

-Commissariat of Trade

The Workers State and the Ascendancy have been through a lot together; it is only natural that we announce our willingness to begin renewed and expanded trade with the Ascendancy.

Given the surprising circumstances of the Angelic conflict, we are not unwilling to go to the Heavenly realm to do our deals, if needed.

-Commissariat of Trade

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The Ascendancy welcomes this oppritunity for your nation to further our relationship. Your presence amid the Upper Planes should prove very spiritual for your people as well. Come at your lesure, though we'd still prefer that list to prevent any problems during trade transactions.

Regards Continued,

Lady Seto Kamiki
Gaian Prime Foreign Advisor

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The Ascendancy welcomes this oppritunity for your nation to further our relationship. Your presence amid the Upper Planes should prove very spiritual for your people as well. Come at your lesure, though we'd still prefer that list to prevent any problems during trade transactions.

Regards Continued,

Lady Seto Kamiki
Gaian Prime Foreign Advisor


OOC: List?

IC:

We thank you for this opportunity. We will begin directing trade traffic to the Ascendancy soon enough. Would this include tourist traffic?

-Commissariat of Trade

Whatever traffic you wish. Just be advised on manners when any enter said realm.

Yada yada,

Lady Seto Kamiki
Gaian Prime Foreign Advisor

((OC- The list mentioned is something that came up during the diplomacy thread with Einhauser and Kyanges. Essentially a worry about restricted products and materials that neither nation wanted coming into their realms, out from mine.))

A list of contraband material would be-

-Illegal drugs
-Illegal arms
-Lolicon
-Propaganda that promotes anti-government activity
-Known disease vectors (computerized or biological) that have not been deemed "safe."
-Illegal immigrants
-Counterfeit materials of any kind
-Anything unannounced or announced that does not meet Border Patrol inspection on the grounds of disease or threats to the Workers and Peasants, unless it has approval by the Government.

That is all, really.

-Commissariat of Trade

OOC: Thanks to Kyanges for some portions (drugs, Questionable AI's). Otherwise, it's mostly original. (Elastic Clause at the end there, etc.)

OOC: Thanks to Kyanges for some portions (drugs, Questionable AI's). Otherwise, it's mostly original. (Elastic Clause at the end there, etc.)

(OOC: Reh?! Drugs? I never sent you drugs... And what "Questionable AI's"? Please explain?

@GA: Actually I was referring to anything coming from anywhere, going to anyone. I hope you didn't think I was singling your nation out?)

The Imperium is interested; in all aspects of dealings with other planes; however, they are specifically interested in acting on the Gaian invitation; and by association reopen relations with the Gaian Ascendancy. It has been too long since we have had talk and parley amongst the stars; and as such, we find it nessecary to both accept this deal; and offer our hand in renewed friendship.

-Remiel De Drakan, God-Emperor of the Imperium, Emperor of the Galactic Empire

(OOC: Reh?! Drugs? I never sent you drugs... And what "Questionable AI's"? Please explain?

@GA: Actually I was referring to anything coming from anywhere, going to anyone. I hope you didn't think I was singling your nation out?)

OOC: I browsed your conference with the Gaians and Einhauser. That's where I found those little clauses. Mind, I was borrowing laws, not insinuating anything involving smuggling!

((OC- @Kyanges - Well it was a three way direct negotiation.

@N.D. - Now ya get the snapshot. =^^= ))

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The Gaians thanked the Dornalians for their list, and added it to their new trade restriction archives. They would be stripped apart and studied by diplomats to ensure that the list was understood, along side the Dornalian's own goverment and cultural standards.

That way the list to the mind the Dornalians sent, would be governed as if the Gaians were 'thinking' like Dornalians. Trade would then go more smoothly as a result, where the lists were concerned.

As for the Chronosians...

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:: ~ The Gaians welcome the might of the Imperium among our continuing friends. We understand the contact with the Heavens may be uncomfortable for your civilization, so we hope our soon to be constructed trade centers will be more to your comfort.

If you wish for specific cultural comforts to be included in the Centers, do please send whomever you wish to format the approporiate areas for your satisfaction. The Centers 'will' be well over 1 AU in size each and therefore have more than enough room for your needs.

If that is what you prefer. Direct contact however is still easily available.

Regards,

Lady Seto Kamiki
Gaian Prime Foreign Advisor

P.S. ~ His Excellency is also interested in another matter for your attention. ~ ::

We are pleased; indeed, we are pleased. Your efforts are much appreciated all throughout the Imperium. You may not know it, being so barely vested in this plane, but the Imperium has respect for you; and now, we must ask....What is this other matter?

-Remiel De Drakan, God-Emperor of the Imperium, Emperor of the Galactic Empire.

The Ascendancy response was a bit more reserved this time..

:: ~ *Direct Laser-Comm Feed*

Forgive this more secretive response, but it involves His Excellency's need for one of your strongest warriors/representatives/ect.. to come to our homeworld for a short time.

There he will inform you in person of his personal request. (One I feel is way out there in my book honestly..)

Come at your own behest when capable, please.

Honored Regards,

Lady Seto Kamiki
Gaian Prime Foreign Advisor (again) ~ ::

the united states will take you up on this offer, and wish to meet with one of oyur leaders to negotaite.

the united states will take you up on this offer, and wish to meet with one of oyur leaders to negotaite.

Response about an hour later..

:: ~ Hark to thee, better and better.

I can personally meet with your own representatives, or leader more like, either on our homeworld, or yours. Either is fine, and security would be our responsibility either way, since this is all our idea in the first place.

More Regards,

Lady Seto Kamiki
Gaian Prime Foreign Advisor (working alot today..) ~ ::

((OC- Bumpage..))

*Weeks later*

The Gaians delivered on their promise, and were very busy constructing new Trade Center superstations, along with the enourmous Gates that would link them all together. Fifty were made between the Virgo Supercluster, Archonis Supercluster and several other Superclusters 'nearby'.

Each station was huge. Huge huge huge..

A set of three concentric superstructure bands that ran an entire AU in size. The process was only so quickly done, due to existing structures that the Heavenly forces commonly made as their interspatial fortresses. The concept here was similar, and the size was easily dealt with through infinite foundries and construction centers in the High Planes.

As entire sections, some thousands of kilometers long were created, half docking port centers and half habitation rings, the entire structure would sparkle from countless running lights, viewports, and port lights. It was to be the one place of neutral trade made in the universe. Anf there were fifty of these being constructed. It would take a year to finish, but the first ones, one in the Milky Way, and another in the Inner Core Galaxies, would be replete in every advanced technology the Ascendancy had at it's disposal. The only variations would come from the cultures of the other civilizations participating.

The Milky Way AU-Complex, as it was called for this Trade Center, was located at the outer edge of the Galactic Core. The first traffic would be ready after three weeks into the construction phase, and placement of the Gaia Gate. (A second Gate in the Milky Way Galaxy was seen as a necessity after the events of the Barrier Battle.)

At the start of the third week, the first Ascendancy merchant fleets began to arrive to open the new markets, as promissed. Representatives of thousands upon thousands of races in the Sphere and Confederacy Alliance began to come here.

Now they just needed the host nations to also come.

((OC- A 'not-done-here-yet' bump.. =^^= ))

The New Dornalians arrived at the Milky Way-AU Complex with their wares and representatives, plus some "booth babes." Replicators, singularity drives and reactors, computers, AI's, and other things. They also brought a Government Inspector and a man with the Border Patrol, to ensure any goods traded would meet the codes of New Dornalia.

They also brought plenty of cash. They would never know what they'd find here....


They then hailed the Harbormaster, or whoever was in command-

"Milky Way-AU, this is the Karinka Maru, representing the Workers and Peasants of New Dornalia. Requesting clearance to dock, over."

The Karinka Maru arrived to see a growing stream of Gaian trade merchant vessels and DropShips passing through the Gate, to the complex itself.

Controllers acknowledged the Dornalians arrival with...

:: ~ Very well met Karinka Maru, please choose from the six indicated docks on your screen, as this will be your choice for your trade zone on this station.

You should find ample room for your needs. ~ ::

The docks indicated were sectors B-17 to B-23, each encompassing an area as large as a star destroyer.

The Karinka Maru arrived to see a growing stream of Gaian trade merchant vessels and DropShips passing through the Gate, to the complex itself.

Controllers acknowledged the Dornalians arrival with...



The docks indicated were sectors B-17 to B-23, each encompassing an area as large as a star destroyer.

The Karinka Maru docked at sector B-17, and was indeed, dwarfed by the size of the complex. The Karinka Maru was a large ship indeed, but in relation to the area it was in, it was a mere insect.

The New Dornalians began to unload their stuff; out came the crew and the Government Inspector and the Border Patrolman. The goods would come out later, as the crew signaled for the people responsible for unloading the goods to get them unloaded. If they had to do it themselves, well, they hired plenty of Kroot and Catgirl stevedores to do that job.

The Autocratic Triumvirate of Nili, though still lacking a third member, finds this project a magnificent undertaking, one in which we would like to be involved with. We shall soon be sending some of our traders to the station designated Milky Way-AU. The following are a list of objects we would prefer not have sent to the Zeres Star System.

Ambassador Obsidian,
Autocratic Triumvirate of Nili


Objects not allowed within the Zeres System's Borders...


Foreign nanotechnology.


Offworld anti-government Propaganda.


Black hole based weaponry.

The Dornalians would find a huge storage area, as well as preslated droid and automated units of all sizes, shapes, and both free walking/floating, and wall mounted. (Even rail and magnetic disjunction into freefloating.)

The area was tiered and had vast numbers of computer, console terminals and holoscreens, as well as alterable control access nodes, so the local national merchants could reformat the computer interfaces and directories as needed.

There were at least fifteen major tiers, with adjoining stairs, teleporter pads, ect, to ease the transit of goods and shipments. The only thing missing here really, was imagination. That was up to the merchants.

Each zone was also assigned local merchant controllers, and inspectors, as per restrictions the other nations inscribed to. In other words, the Dornalians didn't need their own help so much.

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As for the Nili, Sectors L-503 to 531 were available, and their list was stored in holographic archives.

The Gaians would prove to be strict the letter of those lists.

To: Gaian Asendancy
From: The Serene Death

We have recived your trade offer, and are willing to open our nation up to trade with yours. We do not require any space on the trade centers, but request a small section saved for our private businesses to use. Both our federative and private merchant fleets will be ready to trade all we have to offer: foodstuffs, raw materials, and arms ranging in size from the smallest pistol to the large cannons on space fortresses.

As requested, we have made a list of what items are not to be allowed to be traded into the Serene Death. It follows below:

-Illegal drugs (Barbiturates, Nicotine, Hallucinogens, and Mutagens)
-Any foreign arms
-Any forms of fuel for space- or planet-based powerplants
-Propaganda that promotes violent anti-government activity or violent anti-minority activity.
-Known disease vectors (computerized or biological) that have not been deemed "safe."
-People who mean to cause harm or violent disruption to the government or society
-Counterfeit materials of any kind
-Anything unannounced or announced that does not meet Border Patrol inspection.

Any and all of these may be countermanded by a direct order from the President, or the Executive Council at any time. Thank you very much, happy to do business with you. May both of our peoples prosper.

Faith Shiomi
Dominar of Commerce and Trade

The response was courteous, and simple..

:: ~ Zone E-191 is yours if you wish to do otherwise eventually, and however you wish, within trade guidelines. (reminder this area and Trade-AU is a non-military force zone, save for basic defense.)

Please conduct your affairs as you see fit. Your list has been processed and acknowledged. Do note our outgoing merchant line might have you want the space anyway in short order.

We do have a nigh-limitless amount of goods arriving for shipment by request. Minus the listed items of course, upon mutual inspection. ~ ::

We thank you for your courtesy and concern, but our nation prefers to make trades through individual ships and our trading bases within our borders. We must also request from you that your trade only goes through our trade system Dynba in our outer borders. It is the only system made for trade, and the only one in which trade is allowed to come through. A spacial anomoly there (a type of wormhole) has been harnessed to created a two-way portal which can be used to travel to and from multiple areas simultaneously.

The system is set up to be able to handle any load of incoming traffic, and any overload can easily be passed off to surrounding systems.

Faith Shiomi, Dominar of Commerce and Trade

The TSD demands were easily met. The 'overhead' however would become more than Dynba would expect. Not from mass numbers of vessels coming all at once, but a truly stead stream of countless Ascendanct merchant ships and dropships attached. Some of the sizes of the merchan ships easily even surpassed the SSD size, since the Gaians had become effici8ent in removing LARGE amounts of cargo in a short time.

A requirement in a multi-intergalactic empire.

The traffic not only at the Milky Way-AU Gate, but within weeks, six other activated Gates around growing Trade Center-AUs would become heavy as well.

Trillions of credits were just waiting to find new markets in the universe enwhole. The Confederacy Alliances were just pure wellsprings of commerce.

"Are you sure this is the right place?" Zack XXIII said calmly, his voice, while artificial, seemingly showing a bit of disbelief at the massive Trade outpost, "It certainly is... large..."

Though the Arusian Merchant Ship was almost two kilometers long, it was still dwarfed by the massive thing, which was larger than the Triumvirates seven kilometer long capital ship itself. The crew was almost entirely made up of Androids, most of whom were upgraded Arusian Maids with sentient AIs. Aboard the crew, the closest things to actual flesh and blood sentients were a group of cyborg mercenaries hired by Zack, leader of Arusia.

"Sir, shouldn't we inform them of our arrival?" A physically attractive android said as she stood behind him on a second computer, next to a third which was being operated by an android identical to her.

"Ah I suppose we can't remain here gawking at it, correct? Aoi I and II, inform the rest of the crew that we've arrived and to get our stock ready."

"Aye sir."

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To: Milky Way-AU
From: Arusian Trade Ship X92/Arusia; Autocratic Triumvirate of Nili

Greetings! This is Zack XXIII of Arusian Inc. We are a sovereign entity existing under the Autocratic Triumvirate's watchful eye. We have received word that we may trade here as well from the government itself. If that is alright we will begin docking and preparing our wares.

Arusian Captain,
Zack XXIII

:: ~ Welcome lords of the Triumvirate, Sectors L-503 to 531 are available to begin your business with us. Begin at anytime, and inform us of any other details we need to be considerate of. ~ ::

..and on, and on... =^^=