NationStates Jolt Archive

March tenth ... Star date 10920...
Federal defense forces ship yards ..



the huge complex of cylinder like light silvery grey yards, floated over the blue jewel of the world, the oceans clearly visible from the massive comples of ship yards, star bases and defense platforms. around the corner just over a large coast floating thousands upon thousands of miles above, was large ship yard,its prongs connected to a huge 1.9 Km Long ship the ships hull bared the name USS Martin Luther king with an FDF Eagle emblem on the side , its hull lights blinking off and on all over the place as its gleaming silver hull reflected bright white light from the large yellow star, just peaking over the horizon of the planet.


the hull of the ship was compleat, its engines stood silent ...


on the base people gathered around d, the new capitan had just walked in to the ship and on to the bridge. the young 18 year old tall commander with black hair and brown eyes looked over his new ship, the holographic table ahead of him , as tons of large state of the art tactical stations, sensor stations blinked and beeped he grinned with a sense of pride , this was the newest,best, and one of the most powerful ships in the fleet ... he looked over to his con officer, she was older about 28, she looked down at her station as the commander spoke an order with a proud tone "Prepare for departure.."
the bridge became busy people working on consoles, handing out reports rushing around getting every thing ready for departure, augments and androids wandered around securing and working on objects consoles and computer systems..


the con officer taped her holographic console time and time again.. cameras floated all around the ship yard and planet looking at the ship, its engines powered up with a rumbling glow, mechanical noises reverberating throughout the star base followed buy woooshing noises as the ship floated out slowly cameras panning in on the emblem, the ship flew out majesticly with its gleaming silver hull and blinking lights its powerful presence made it self known just by being there.


the commander grinned and said to his con officer who swiveled to listen to him on her leather like chair, while others worked around in a busy moment. "Our first job is well, to go in to un charted territory with a diplomatic fleet... of about 5 ships"

the con officer nodded and taped her console bringing up the star charts and looking over for the location, the commander sighed and sat on his large chair ... the looked down, the con officer
looked up and nodded "sir, shall i engage jump drive?" the commander gave a confirming nod .

the con officer tapped her console, mean while out side the ship began to be absorbed by quick flashes of grey,blue ,green light its entire body absorbed in a bubble, then it simply vanished.... it would take a little bit to reach its destination even though the drive could instantly get the ship there, they wanted to take it slow.


Mlk Specs
http://www.deviantart.com/view/29762810/

The large 1.9km ships bursted out of Chronoshift drive, quickly it floated gently and slowly towards a fleet of five ships, this was on the TFU border with unknown nations and un charted space, the mission hear was to make contact... the large sleek hull of the USS Martin Luther king gleamed in the light of distant stars, as the FDF eagle emblem was shined upon by hull lights.

the fleet began to move slowly out side Federal space, about an hour later they were in uncharted space..

the commander on the USS Martin Luther king sighed and sat back on his large chair watching every one work, and attend to there duty's, nothing yet on scanners, nothing yet on com. signals it was quiet. officers , augments and AIs rushed around attending to there duty's as the fleet rumbled its way in to darkness as the light of bright stars dimmed across there rough but Sleek hulls.

The Galactic Federation, Witch Finder Fleet - Detrius

Captain Tyrus, stood on the deck of his Battleship "His Merciful Shadow" the Witch Finder fleet had traced a Technomage insurgence at a near by planet and had just finished the Prima Purgatis... The Planet was deemed Cleansed and pure, but in reality what was left in the Wake of the Witch hunters was a scarred and desolate planet, nothing more than a dark grey sphere...

Tyrus was like all the other Captains in The Galactic Federation, Imposing, Well Set, but looked and sounded ill, his voice like all others of the Federation was dry and coarse, like a pound of sand had been forcefully fed into his mouth, and his eyes were black, like two pools of oil, his skin was pale white, palid, almost dead... but other than his apperance, he was of perfect health for an ordinary Officer within the Witch Finder Fleets...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v399/HorusGodEmperor/The%20Galactic%20Federation/HDS1.jpg

A scanner, a Criminal mutilated and hooked up to machines, a cyborg in perpeptual limbo, never alive and never truely dead, their only purpose is to search the cosmos for anomalies and Technoplagues...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v399/HorusGodEmperor/The%20Galactic%20Federation/Cyborg1big.jpg

the man, machine rose up slightly to speak, its voice was dry and coarse like the others, but it sounded more machine like than the others.. a myriad of wires and tubes snaked from its head into various consoles and monitoring equipment...

"Systems Detected a Large vessel making a Faster Than light Travel, 800,000 Parsecs from the Fleet Position"

Tyrus turned to face the machine...

"Interesting... Inform the Witch Finder Generals... The Technoplague may have spread as far out as here.."

Neat post :P) Unbenouced to the exploration fleet, they were being monitored, the ships slowly continued on there engines rumbling as they made they're way in to the unknown area.


the MLK was leading the convoy,2 carriers and other escorts slowly moved on with it the rest of the ships behind lagging a bit in a cluster.

(OOC: Thanks, Trying to build up my FT nation, I keep trying to get involved but its difficult)

Tyrus stood infront of two Witch Finder General's, their red eyes shone in the darkness, a set of goggles worn by all Federals when outside the Home world, it protected the eyes.

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thousands of Millenia ago, The Technomages rose to power, controlling the computers and machines with their un-natural ability, thousands of years the Technomages ruled without Peers, their power unmatched, until finaly the populace rebelled, Burning the sky, and in a fit of dispair, destroying the Star of their system, The Black Star it is now called...

A Black Sphere of Darkness, throwing the System into perpeptual night, Temperatures plumeted and the people suffered even more, people became ill, thousands died, the Technomages fled the planet, unable to survive in the Conditions now rife through out Draconia...

But People change over time, they grew stronger because of their actions, The Great Purge as it is now known threw The Federals into a Dark Future, Technomages constantly returned, taking over machines and weapons of war, constantly trying to wrestle control of the planet from the Federals, but the people had changed, Vast Legions of Stormtroopers specialy trained to fight Technomages, Witch Hunters and special fleets equiped to purge planets of The Technoplague....

Tyrus spoke to the two Witch Finder Generals, informing them of what the Scanners had found...

"It may be a trap..." Tyrus spoke, pointing at the system read out...

"We cannot afford to send the Fleet against a Technomage strong hold.."

"It is our Duty Captain.." Spoke the First Witch Finder, his eyes obscured by the red glowing lenses, his rimmed hat tipped forward as he looked at the Data read out...

"Then What do we do?"

"We move in on the Vessel and Observe it, We shadow it... Request a meeting with the Captain... we can decide then wether or not they are of the Technoplague"

"As you wish, Witch Finder General..." Tyrus bowed, turning away from the Two to prepare his Fleet...

The fleet had moved just out side a barren system there engines glowing slightly as , they floated in th darkness towards the system.

The hull lights on the combat ships blinked and shined on there FDF emblems, un knowingly steeping in to some thing.


The commander stood up and looked around the large busy bridge, he sighed and said "well start scanning full power, i want to see whats out there"


the con officer nodded tapping on the sensors system scans starting all around the ship, augments walked around taping on consoles working as well, as the officers stood in wait for results. So far nothing had happened yet, the fleet was still alone, that was a both good and bad thing.

The con officer spoke out looking at the results, "well sir this system is rich in minerals and Fusion-able plasma.."

the commander " Good spot for a resource base make a not on logs..."


the ships continued to scan and wait..

the New Kirisuban exploration vessel was running scans off a dead planet.

the 'Hankoteki Na' was of the Kagemon class, the most advanced ships they had come up with. They weren't warships but they had shields, hull plating and were very agile.

They were also reasonably well armed since they operated alone on missions and needed the firepower in case they got into trouble.

The female Captain Fujiko Abe consults with her female XO, Commander Nobuko Akechi and her male science officer Commander Ichiro Yoshima.

"Captain sama" he says "this was done fairly recently. I won't know for sure what caused this until the computer processes the scans but whoever or whatever did this may come back"

The Captain orders a yellow alert with the hull plating magnatized and weapons on standby in case they have company while they explore this dead planet.

ooc: Kraven, this is the planet your ships have left.

The Kagemon class has features off 22nd century romulan warbirds and the NX-01 Enterprise. it's lines are romulan and its a gun metal colour. weapons are plasma based and theres shields but no cloaking device.

top speed is warp 9 and its very agile at impulse. maximum crew is 60, all human

Anyone observing the system on scanners would have seen four signals tear into the system like banshees, shredding space time as they returned to realspace. Four ships spun out of hyper, leaking energy and shedding small pieces of armor. These craft were chewed up almost beyond recognition, the fact that they had made it this far was a testament to their crews and manufacturers.

A frigate staggered about in space, missing its portside engine cluster. Its sister frigate had large pieces of hull missing, and most of its weapons were melted into gaunt shapes. A cruiser leaked reactor mass out its ventral engine cluster, an odd glowing trail behind it. The ship in the best condition was a tiny escourt carrier, missing hunks of its forehull.

The small fleet gathered back together, it had entered the system spread far apart. It was only now that they noticed the other ships in the system. The craft made for the nearest moon, sliding behind the far side.

No Endorse ships from Fleet Beta to unknown sentients. Please state your alignment and origin.

the hail came in on the Martin Luther king, the on officer tapped his blinking holographic panel and played the message back , he looked over to the commander who looked back and nodded, the con officer tapped his console again to open up a frequency.


the commander stood up and spoke with a command presence, he said "this is the Federal ship USS Martin Luther king we are here on an exploratory survey mission, please do not be alarmed... may we ask who you are?"


the tactical officer looked over as 2 AI's and an augment stood over a console the tactical officer said "looks like those ships been in a hell of a fight, allot of chunks are missing its a metrical they are still flyable, and i don't think there here for a fight not in there condition.."


the commander nodded " yeah, but we have never seen them before you cant be to careful"..

Cartwright strode out onto the bridge, his long black coat lifting slightly from the breeze created by his stride...

"Hail The Fleet we are shadowing, Inform them of our Witch Hunter mission.."

"As you wish, Master Witch Finder..."


Attention Unidentified Vessel, This is the Witch Finder General Fleet, "Detrius" Please stand down your weapons and await to be boarded, Master Witch Finder General Cartwright will be leading the Investigation into a possible Technomage Plague, Please Comply... Captain Dessius Out"

Dessius's Voice was dry and coarse, it sounded slightly machine like in its tone, it sounded like a frail old mans voice, but the body behind it was something competely different...

(I assume your speaking to my fleet if not ignore the post)


the con officer raised a brow , "sir we have a hail coming in from an unknown source, they want us to drop shields and prepare to be bordered ... some thing about a technoplauge.."

the commander scoffed a bit "we wont comply but we don't want to start a fight either, truthfully i don't even know what there talking about.. i don't want to risk an un necessary combat situation,
hail them"

The con officer taped on his holographic console bringing up a line the commander spoke with a rather commanding voice again his uniform gleaming in the light of the busy bridge. "Un known source, we would like to ask what your ref fering to... we also wont comply to unfounded demands, we don't want a fight, we just want to know what your talking about and how it affects us, we are mearly here to explore, if you try to bored us by force we will suppress it .. please respond"

Mean while the Ship floated a little closer to the fleet its hull lights gleaming as its engines mad there way words the center of the formation.

(OOC: Yes it was to your fleet)


Dessius Turned and walked across the Bridge in front of him, hung a massive banner, it was the banner of Federation, a huge silver skull, beautifull and disturbing at the same time, The Deaths Head Seal...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v399/HorusGodEmperor/The%20Galactic%20Federation/TheGalacticFederation.jpg

His fleet was now moving into position, The Witch Finder Fleet easily dwarfed the number of ships currently present in the quadrant of space occupied by The Federal Union's ships.

The ships were of a blatant military design, each one had ornate carvings of Deamons and various figures... they bristled with guns, and huge torpedoe tubes lined the various vessels Prows.

The Fleet Closed in and once again Dessius spoke to the Fleet that his ships were approaching...

"I am Captain Dessius, We request to Speak with you in person, from there we can divulge further information... Please Comply"

Cartwright strode into the bridge once more, flanked by two of his Witch Finder Generals...

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"Prepare your Stormtroopers Captain, I suspect they won't be of the helpfull kind.."

"Understood Master Witch Finder..."

The commander had listened to the message and took it in to consideration he nodded to his con officer who opened up communications again. the spoke again with a commanding voice " I'll agree to meet with you, how ever we request that you send one shuttle in to our bay.."

The com was cut he nodded to his tactical officer, who then pressed a few buttons, teams of Marines and Military police, rushed to the bay the Commander made it Down several moments after , there were three hand full of men.. standing in a peace full guarding stance, the shields around the shuttle bay were drooped to alow the shuttle to enter.

The Aquila Shuttle Departed the dock bay of Dessius's ship, inside were Two Units of Federal Storm Troopers, Captain Dessius, Master Witch Finder General Cartwright and Several of his Witch Finder Generals..

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/aquila.htm

Within a few minutes the Shuttle had traveled the distance and slowly docked with The Federal Unions Vessel, the shuttle touched down as its vast engines whined down, a Ramp, obsidian Black Steel lowered to the deck, on its surface The Vast Deaths Head Skull of the Galactic Federation...

Marching down the ramp in two formations were the Federal Stormtroopers, clad in black armour, with long black jackboots and red glowing goggles they spread out, an intimidating force, they flanked either side of the Shuttle, as slowly the Dark figure of Captain Dessius followed by Cartwright and his witch hunters moved down the ramp...

Dessius spoke, addressing the Captain of the Vessel...

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(Captain Dessius)


"I am Captain Dessius of the Witch Finder Fleet, We are The Galactic Federation, This is Master Witch Finder General Cartwright and these are the Witch Finder Generals..." his voice sounded the same as it did during the transmissions... "And these... Are the Federal Stormtroopers"
Dessius spoke while holding a long grey claw like finger out at the Troopers flanking the vessel...

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The commander smiled and walked from between his white power armored marines and MP's, his feet taped on the concrete like floor as the marines and MP's lifted there rifles in a defensive position , the MP's used weapons that looked like MP-5's with a grenade launcher, but these had a few modifications HE Rail rounds fired at .3 c , and stun grenades , apical scanners, the marines were armed with AR-72 Pulse Rifles (think combine pulse rifles). they all observed the troopers very closely at a moments notice ready to suppress any attempt at attack.

the commander walked up to the being that had walked down to the ram he held out a hand and said in a rather friendly tone " Its a pleasure to meet you"

Anyone observing the system on scanners would have seen four signals tear into the system like banshees, shredding space time as they returned to realspace. Four ships spun out of hyper, leaking energy and shedding small pieces of armor. These craft were chewed up almost beyond recognition, the fact that they had made it this far was a testament to their crews and manufacturers.

A frigate staggered about in space, missing its portside engine cluster. Its sister frigate had large pieces of hull missing, and most of its weapons were melted into gaunt shapes. A cruiser leaked reactor mass out its ventral engine cluster, an odd glowing trail behind it. The ship in the best condition was a tiny escourt carrier, missing hunks of its forehull.

The small fleet gathered back together, it had entered the system spread far apart. It was only now that they noticed the other ships in the system. The craft made for the nearest moon, sliding behind the far side.

"Captain sama, we've got a message coming in" the comms officer says and puts it in speakers.

No Endorse ships from Fleet Beta to unknown sentients. Please state your alignment and origin.

As Captain Abe listens she says "short, sweet and mysterious. send this reply.

This is the New Kirisuban ship 'Hankoteki Na'. Captain Fujiko Abe commanding. We are humans and explorers. We practice neutrality and our mission is to seek out new life in all its forms"

the message is sent and they wait for a reply as the investigation of the planet below them continues.

Dessius Ignored the friendly hand shake, his face was obscured by the long dark robes, the Witch Hunters stood at the back, their red glowing eyes surveying the guards, looking for a Technomage infection...

Cartwright strode forwards and offered his hand..

"Forgive Dessius, Galaxians are not noted for their pleasantries..."

"You asked about our Mission, well I can tell you more, but our Mission is of the upmost importance, so the sooner we can complete it the better..." Cartwright spoke with a tone of authoritory that required respect... Master Witch Finder Cartwright was one of the Highest Ranking Officials within The Galactic Federation although The Federal Union would not know this, but Cartwright has No equal other Than His Merciful Shadow...

The commander of the cruiser paced the tiny command center, deep within the ship. He almost jumped when the communications officer called out.

"INCOMING COMM! I'm throwing it over main audio now."

"this is the Federal ship USS Martin Luther king we are here on an exploratory survey mission, please do not be alarmed... may we ask who you are?"

"Exploration is a beast like that? Bull-"

"-Captain! Another incoming!"

This is the New Kirisuban ship 'Hankoteki Na'. Captain Fujiko Abe commanding. We are humans and explorers. We practice neutrality and our mission is to seek out new life in all its forms"

"Why are all of these guys popping up here? A thousand years* without seeing a soul, and suddenly dozens? Transmit this response, tightbeamed to those who responded..."

We are ships from No Endorse Fleet Beta, fleeing engagement with Laski aligned No Endorse vessels. We are all that remains of a one-hundred ship detatchment, guarding the flank of a rapid deployment fleet.

Our mission was one of violence and destruction, although it is now one of evasion. Sighting of any hostile ship will result in attack without warning.

ooc: * 'A thousand years' means a thousahd lightyears. NE Slang

Captain Abe listens to the reply sent back and send this back on voice only.

"No Endorse vessel, we mean you no harm but we will defend ourselves if we are fired upon.

If you want to discuss matters face to face you can send a shuttle craft over to my ship and we can meet face to face"

The commanded nodded and smiled "Well, we would like you to explain all of it to us, we are rather new to this area of space, and don't know it well but our scans revile some habitable worlds, how ever we will get to that after you have told us about yourselves and your mission, we don't wish to engage in hostility ." he smiled respectably then said again "we would like to lead you to our conference room, follow me please , the commander smiled turning away his grey and black uniform gleaming in the light as he began to walk with 2 of his flag officers following behind.


mean while a communication was sent to other ships in the area, "you are invited to a conference on bored the Martin Luther king, you may beam or land with a shuttle aboard, we will accept any one with open arms"

The Hankoteki Na's comms officer recieved the message and informed the XO of its contents.

"its interesting" she comments quietly "but we'll need to consider it first and we have our friends out there as well. they look like they're in trouble"

"Incomin again!"

No Endorse vessel, we mean you no harm but we will defend ourselves if we are fired upon.

If you want to discuss matters face to face you can send a shuttle craft over to my ship and we can meet face to face

"Well, send a response. Something that sounds diplomatic and proper, I'm getting down to damage control. See if we have a usable shuttle on the carrier. If so, I'll puddlejump to them."

You are not hostile, at least we hope not. Since we have no idea who you are right now really, but we know you're not Laski, you should consider yourself quite safe. Especially considering the state of our ships. We wish to find friends more than we wish to pick fights right now. Any Laski ship encountered, however, will result in a full-on assault.

We will send over a shuttle, assuming we still have one that is operable. If not, you might need to send one yourselves.

Shortly, a very ugly looking pile of metal heaved its way out of the carrier's hangar. It retained the approximate shape of a standard Lambda T4 shuttle, but there were many jerry-rigged repairs made to the craft to make it space-worthy again. It slipped to the cruiser, and then out into open space. A scan would be surprised, as there was no atmosphere onboard, the passengers and crew wearing space suits.

It neared the Kirisubo ship, and transmitted a message.

Shuttle Aqua Foxbat Three to Kirisuban ship, requesting landing clearance. Be advised we are not pressurized right now due to problems that should be all too evident. Shields are up, but we don't know how well they will remain so.

The Galactic Federation, Witch Finder Fleet - Detrius

Captain Tyrus, stood on the deck of his Battleship "His Merciful Shadow" the Witch Finder fleet had traced a Technomage insurgence at a near by planet and had just finished the Prima Purgatis... The Planet was deemed Cleansed and pure, but in reality what was left in the Wake of the Witch hunters was a scarred and desolate planet, nothing more than a dark grey sphere...

Tyrus was like all the other Captains in The Galactic Federation, Imposing, Well Set, but looked and sounded ill, his voice like all others of the Federation was dry and coarse, like a pound of sand had been forcefully fed into his mouth, and his eyes were black, like two pools of oil, his skin was pale white, palid, almost dead... but other than his apperance, he was of perfect health for an ordinary Officer within the Witch Finder Fleets...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v399/HorusGodEmperor/The%20Galactic%20Federation/HDS1.jpg

A scanner, a Criminal mutilated and hooked up to machines, a cyborg in perpeptual limbo, never alive and never truely dead, their only purpose is to search the cosmos for anomalies and Technoplagues...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v399/HorusGodEmperor/The%20Galactic%20Federation/Cyborg1big.jpg

the man, machine rose up slightly to speak, its voice was dry and coarse like the others, but it sounded more machine like than the others.. a myriad of wires and tubes snaked from its head into various consoles and monitoring equipment...

"Systems Detected a Large vessel making a Faster Than light Travel, 800,000 Parsecs from the Fleet Position"

Tyrus turned to face the machine...

"Interesting... Inform the Witch Finder Generals... The Technoplague may have spread as far out as here.."


ooc. wow, your scanners picked up the ship from 800,000 parsecs? that's over 2.6 million light years (approximate distance from the milky way to the galaxy andromeda is only 2 million). impressive

Shortly, a very ugly looking pile of metal heaved its way out of the carrier's hangar. It retained the approximate shape of a standard Lambda T4 shuttle, but there were many jerry-rigged repairs made to the craft to make it space-worthy again. It slipped to the cruiser, and then out into open space. A scan would be surprised, as there was no atmosphere onboard, the passengers and crew wearing space suits.

It neared the Kirisubo ship, and transmitted a message.


Shuttle Aqua Foxbat Three to Kirisuban ship, requesting landing clearance. Be advised we are not pressurized right now due to problems that should be all too evident. Shields are up, but we don't know how well they will remain so.

"Shuttle Aqua Foxbat 3" the comms officer replies "we are opening our shuttle bay now for you"

the great doors begin to open to space and from behind the protective compartment the male technician can see Captain Abe approaching with a pair of security guards. He bows and she says "they do look in a bad way. they may need work done on their shuttle before they can get back"

Fujiko watches the shuttle approach and the all female welcoming committee is ready.

ooc. wow, your scanners picked up the ship from 800,000 parsecs? that's over 2.6 million light years (approximate distance from the milky way to the galaxy andromeda is only 2 million). impressive

OOC: Yeah, I know. Yet you managed to scan one of my fifty-metre long ships from over fifteen times that distance away, analyze the type of weaponry it used, and how it was built. And you think half of that is impressive. Seriously, now. Perhaps reading the stickies could help you. A lot.

the lambda class shuttle lands in one piece and Captain Fujiko Abe approaches it with two female security guards.

She wearing a scabarded Katana in a belt, a red wrap over jacket and black trousers.the female guards have plasma rifles lowered and are dressed the same as their captain

"welcome to the Hankoteki Na" she says to the people on board.

ooc: Gyah! Forgot about this! Civil War over now, but I'll keep the RP movin in that timeframe.
IC:
The landing ramp for the shuttle hit the ground with a clatter, its hydraulic units failing in the full gravity. A woman in a vacuum suit stepped down gingerly, testing each foothold. She pulled her helmet off, a mane of brown hair fanning out. She wiped her forhead, dripping with sweat. on her sleeve. "Well, I made it amazingly. Sorry about that, we've had some serious problems with a few rebels. I'm Captain Kelly Fisher of the NES Starfire."

"its good to have you on board Captain Fisher" Fujiko replies to the woman "our engineers can take a look at your shuttle and effect repairs if you want them too.

in the meantime we can adjourn to my private dining room and you can tell me whats been going on with your ship and these rebels you mentioned"

the doombringer dropped out of trans warp
tatical whats out there a ship from The Fedral Union amongest others
coms to fedral union vessel this is the sephrion flag ship the doombringer we bring diplomats for a first contact with you