NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC: If you can read this it means windows was kind enough not to crash while I typed this and given the magnitude of this you should send me a fruitbasket in celebration.

IC:

General Smith looked out the window of his office on the Remembrance, which doubled as a orbiting memorial for all those who had parished in the service of the Dominion's space exploration programs and the largest of five Fusion class orbiting defense platforms. General Smith looked towards the planet, a view only the rich usually enjoyed, windows could greatly weaken the integrity of a craft in space and as such were kept to a minimum. Despite 127 years of existance the space program had never sent humans beyond Titan, the third moon of the planet Herxia, what the planet had named itself tens of thousands of years ago, long before the wheel had been invented Herxia had been around for hundreds of years. For over 100 years the Dominion had known that intelligent beings existed in the universe, that was when the Dominion first started receiving off world radio signals, thousands of messages received sproratically over the last century, billions of dollars had gone into trying to decode these messages, multi-million dollar super computers and the Dominion's greatest analytical minds had not been able to figure out what the messages content were. Although the radio signals and probes confirmed that life was out there they could not confirm the source, except that it was not within range of conventional transport crafts.

Today could possibly prove to be the greatest day in the history of the Dominion's space program. A device that the scientists called a faster than light drive/engine but was more commonly referred to as an FTL drive would be tested today. The plan was theoretically simple, a Falcon (http://www.battlestargalactica-online.com/encyclopedie/technologies/Raptor/galerie/2.jpg) had been outfitted with an FTL drive and it would jump from one side of the planet to the other, assuming everything went correctly. Today's events would be televised all around Herxia and the three moons, Titan, Europa and Earth (I know, unoriginal, if you have a problem with it bite me, but not on the knee, I have sensitive knees.) and transmissions would be sent into space. The President would be coming on board the Remembrance to witness this event, this would be only the fifth time a President had visited an off planet facility, the first time in 20 years. Even with one hundred years of constantly refining their techniques the space program still experienced about four accidents a year, approximately 1 in 150 flights from the surface to a facility in orbit met with disaster.

General Smith saw the President's shuttle approaching and put on his butt kissing lips, if this test proved successful the Army and Airforce would become of secondary importance and the space program would receive a large part of their budget, but so long as the fleet's capabilities remained as limited as they were the three branches would share almost equal parts of the budget. Which was not all it could be since the Dominion was not in imminent danger.

Six hours later.....

General Smith listened as the entire crew of the station let out whoops of joy, the falcon suddenly appeared in sight before the Pegasus' transmission confirming the disappearance of the falcon arrived. Within the next few months further tests would be conducted, however the General already had teams working on plans for deep space explorations the likes of which had never been imagined before. Several planets which showed signs of being capable of supporting life had been picked out and if the next several tests were successful falcons equipped with FTL drives would explore those planets in hopes of finally making contact with other intelligent beings.

OOC: Any FT nation wanting to reply feel free to do so, currently my military is almost entirely MT but with several hundred of the Viper Mk. II's (http://www.battlestargalactica-online.com/encyclopedie/technologies/Viper/galerie/4.jpg) and falcons being my only military spacecraft. Any MT nations wishing to reply will be ignored, I skipped the part where my nation unified the planet I call home and as far as my nation is concerned you are all dead to me.

Bump. If you see an opening feel free to respond.

Let's do another bump, for old time's sake.

Also, if anyone has any opinions not related to the RP feel free to throw them in. I don't mind it when people hail my geniusness in public, but when they starting touching me in private and saying "Whose a big boy" in baby talk I start to get upset.

OOC: Hmm, another Battlestar Galactica tech nation. Are you using the new BSG or the old one?

IC: I.S.S. Atlantis - Main Bridge

"Sir, we are picking up F.T.L. energy spikes!"

"Could it be anything else?"

"No, sir. Not with these energy patterns."

"Then plot a course and engage."

"Aye, sir."

Exterior

The curved form of the Atlantis class (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10177399&postcount=4) advanced command battle cruiser shimmered and dissapeared as she Phased into Hyperspace en route to the system where she detected the F.T.L. jumps.

OOC: Just an F.Y.I., but I use Stargate tech for my core, but I use Babylon 5 tech and Star Trek tech to fill in the blank spots.
OOC: Last post for the night.

New Monterrey Sector, New Dornalia-

The Tsolikovsky-class Science Ship of the Commissariat of Science were still exploring New Monterrey, though settlement and technological integration had dumped a massive amount of people into the area already. As it was, they were flying and scanning for Ion Storms.

They picked up the FTL spikes, which came from a system outside of New Monterrey's surveyed borders. Noting the unusual presence (no life had been surveyed in that area) of the outsiders, they quietly moved into the zone, and began scans, also sending out hails with the words, in English, Spanish, and Abh:

"Foreign Ships-

If you hear this message, you have appeared near the sovereign space of the Workers State of New Dornalia. In the Name of the Workers And Peasants, we bid you greetings. We ask what is your business appearing near our borders. Please respond."

OOC: I intend to use new BSG as my future space craft, however my first "destroyer" shall be the Prometheus, from Stargate because it is by comparison to the Battlestars simple to build and a good jump forward. I also intend to use BSG tech because from my rather limited understanding of physics and what I have seen on that show it is the most realistic. Except for the whole Vipers losing control and crashing into each other in the pilot. They would have kept going on their same course and speed when they lost power, unless they were being pummeled with pebbles that were unseen and unheard.

IC:

General Smith was awakened at a relatively early hour, an aide stood in his room and looked rather excited.

"Sir, we are receiving more of those myserious messages."

The General responsed rather angrily "So what, we have been getting them for over one hundred years."

"No sir, not like this we haven't, we have pinpointed the source as being within our own solar system. It's a ship sir."

Now the General looked alarmed. "This message, can we decipher it?"

"No sir, it doesn't make any sense, if these people are so advanced why are they not sending messages in a manner that would be able to decode? You know, something using math as a decoder so that we could communicate. It appears that there are multiple languages here, but who really knows for certain?"

"Notify the President, have him taken to a secure location, send a little greeting party to these new visitors, how long would it take for a flight of Vipers to reach them?"

"Approximately 8 hours."

"How about our Falcon?"

"Sir, a Falcon would take the same amount of time to reach there."

"No, I mean our new, experimental Falcon, with the FTL drive."

"I don't know if that is very wise sir, we would be putting the pilot in grave danger."

"We need some recon on this ship, order the pilot to jump, conduct a quick scan, and jump back at the first sign of trouble, we need to know if this ship is military or scientific in nature."

"Yes sir, the ship should jump in about 20 minutes."

"I hope to be at the command room by then, that is all Captain."

The Atlantis Phased back to Real Space at a position that was at a forty degree vertical angle and 120 horizontal angle from the New Dornalia ship.

Main Bridge

"Captain, we have reached the co-ordinates."

"Sir, we're picking up at least one New Dornalian transponder signal."

"Send a greeting to the locals and hail the New Dornalian ship."

"Aye, sir."

Messages

Broadcast to the West Pacific star system, in binary:

This is the I.S.S. Atlantis 8100 of the SeaQuestian Empire. We have come in peace in response to your signal. Please respond.

Transmitted to the New Dornalian ship:

This is the I.S.S. Atlantis 8100 of the SeaQuestian Empire. We recognize you as a ship of New Dornalia. Please state your intent in this system.

The Science ship got the message, and replied:

"I.S.S. Atlantis 8100, this is the Commissariat of Science research vessel M-4. We are a science vessel that was out in the New Monterrey sector scanning for ion distortions. We detected unknown FTL spikes; we came to investigate. We had hailed the vessels, as it was, we have nothing back yet."

A small Defiant class frigate dropped out of coaxial warp to investigate the strange FTL signiture in a presumably uninhabited reagon of space. It found two ships. It then sent out a general hail
"Unknown shipsss.... and seaquest we greet you in the name of the empire of waterhelper."

OOC: My last post was to New Dornalia (probably spelled that wrong) because quite frankly I was tired, sick, and it's spring break so my mind isn't exactly working on all cylinders. I will try to patch this up in my next post, and I have decided to ignore the whole language barrier thing, seems like most people do anyways.

Captain Leopald began the jump procedures, the 10 second clock started counting down, as the timer approached zero he braced for the gut wrenching feeling that went along with the jump. Nobody knew what to expect when the FTL drive started but given the wild speculations that were thrown about he considered himself lucky to have survived. Suddenly the countdown stopped and he heard over his headset communicator "Stand down, remain at ready, we are receiving communications from the unknown ship."

Meanwhile

General Smith felt the hairs raise on the back of his neck, for the first time in the history of the Dominion they had made contact with sentient beings. Unfortunately these people were within the territory of the Dominion and as such could pose a threat to the Dominion.

"Sir." Said a technician "What shall our response be?"

"Tell them that they have entered the Dominion's Space, explain to them we did not suddenly appear here, we have been here for thousands of years. Also tell them that we will be scanning their ship to assertain it's intentions, unless they feel comfortable divulging of that information willingly."

To the ship from New Dornalia

You have jumped in the Dominion of West Pacific's Space, we would like to welcome you to our home sector, however since you have suddenly appeared in our space it is necessary for us to inquire as to your intentions. What is the nature of your visit? Will you allow us to scan your ship to make sure it is not hostile in nature? Please respond.

"Sir!" said the technician again "We have another ship on radar, this one appears larger than the first and is closer to Herxia than the other ship, it is also hailing us, they claim to come in peace."

"Send a response similar to that of what you sent to the first ship."

To the SeaQuestian ship

We are pleased that you have responded to our signals, despite your claims to peaceful intentions we must ask that you hold your current position and not approach our planet or any of our off-planet facilities. Given the sudden arrival of two unknown ships we can not afford to trust anyone, as we are currently in a rather delicate position.

"Sir!" the same technician squeaked "A third ship has appeared on our scanners, this one is in the same general location of the other two ships. It is sending out a signal but it would appear to be directed towards the two unkown ships, I see nothing in this message wish shows it could be intended for us."

"What more could possibly happen in one day? Ok, send a message to this one, telling it to identify itself and hold position, also inquire about its intentions."

To Unkown (waterhelper) ship

You have entered the Dominion's space, hold your current position. Why have you unlawfully entered our space? Please respond.

"Ok General, all the messages have been sent, your orders?"

"Now we wait for their responses, in the meantime call up the reserves planetside and order all Viper pilots to be ready to launch at a moments notice."

"Yes sir!"

Messages

In response to the West Pacific message:

Acknowledged and understood. We would probably be as jumpy as you are if we were in your shoes. Holding position as per your request.

In response to the New Dornalia message:

Not much for nameing ships, huh? Ahh well, too each his, or her, own, as they say. Oh, and we're here for the same reason you are, we also picked up the F.T.L. energy spikes.

In response to the Waterhelper message:

Welcome to the party guys.

To the ship from New Dornalia

You have jumped in the Dominion of West Pacific's Space, we would like to welcome you to our home sector, however since you have suddenly appeared in our space it is necessary for us to inquire as to your intentions. What is the nature of your visit? Will you allow us to scan your ship to make sure it is not hostile in nature? Please respond.

Reply to WP Ship-

"Again, we must state that we detected FTL energy signatures near the border in our territory of New Monterrey. As it was, we jumped across the border, and landed in your home sector. We are a science vessel, we have some armaments, but mainly of a defensive nature and not enough to actively wage an aggressive war. We will stand down our weapons, to prove we are trustworthy, and allow you to perform scans."

OOC: Seaquest- That's what Socialism gets you- little to no ship individuality, except for a few times when I feel like it :D .

General Smith picked up the phone in his office. "Good day Mr. President, what can I do for you?"

"What the hell are you doing, General? I hear rumors that you sending threatening messages to our first visitors from another planet, is this true?"

"No sir, we were merely telling them that they have illegally trespassed into our territory and that they need to hold their position until told otherwise."

"And how will we make them, General? They are quite a ways beyond your reach right now and they hold enough firepower to destroy our limited defensive capabilities in mere minutes. I suggest you invite them to the Remembrance where I will meet them personally."

"Sir, I will consider your suggestion, but in the meantime we have a duty to look out for the well being of the Dominion, and that means keeping possible threats at a distance as much as possible."

"General, since you clearly can't take a hint, I am ordering you to contact the ships and invite them to the Remembrance where I will meet them personally. My shuttle leaves in 25 minutes General, if I do not wish to be late I need to leave immediately. Any questions?"

"No sir."

"Good, I will be there in three hours."

Message to the ships in our system.

You are all invited to the Remembrance where we hope you wil meet with several heads of our government in hopes of establishing relations between our nations. We lack docking facilities for ships of your size so you will have to shuttle over in whatever craft you may have. Our President will greet you personally once he arrives. We look forward to establishing friendly relationships that may last generations. Please be ready to meet in four hours.

General Smith
Commander of the Remembrance

to WP ship:
"We are investigating a anomaly as according to our star charts this is supposed to be uninhabated, but then they are no good 1/2 the time unless we are withing 500LY of your home planet. to prove your intentions... no wait you cant our armor can absorb most types of sensors." (not gravimetric because we cant hide from those even in our carbon nanotube armor which was tailor made to be resistant to many types of weapons (not Antimatter but lasers (need a might powerful one to over heat and disintegrate), plasma, phasers, projectiles, EMP, and other weapons))
secretly several nanbots were sent to what appeared to be the capitol of the planet to infiltrate their computers. (they will be hard to find if you don't know what you are looking for because of your limited technology)

A squadron of the new Light Cruisers were on a regular patrol when all the local activity sparked their interest. They were soon at the edge of the systems Hyper Limit, and translating out of the Alpha Band in a display of Gravitic "fireworks" that would announce the Terrans presence to anyone with the sensors to detect Gravitic Spikes. They wouldn't appear on plaetary or orbital RADAR for several hours yet as they made their way in system, but their transmission would arrive in approximately 45 minutes, transmitted on an open channel, in plain english, it should take no effort to decypher.

Transmision:

This is Terran CruRon 42, we were attracted to this place by the spike in activity recently, and we were wondering WHY activity had spiked. As the inhabitants of this planet we assume you will be knowledgable concerning these matters.

You are all invited to the Remembrance where we hope you wil meet with several heads of our government in hopes of establishing relations between our nations. We lack docking facilities for ships of your size so you will have to shuttle over in whatever craft you may have. Our President will greet you personally once he arrives. We look forward to establishing friendly relationships that may last generations. Please be ready to meet in four hours.

General Smith
Commander of the Remembrance

The M-4 immediately knew that this demanded somebody with more authority than they.....they were a mere Science Vessel, and only somebody with governing authority could act in the name of New Dornalia. So, they radioed for somebody in Farrellsgrad, capital of New Monterey, to come on over and handle negotiations.

Oddly enough, Sensei Harold Farrell of the People's Acolytes, who was Acting Governor, was not busy at the moment. So, he teleported onto the M-4. Still unused to teleportation technology, he he leaned up against a wall for a it, before reading the message and getting the information about events.

He then said, "Get me one of your Gagarin shuttles. I'm replying in person. Tell them I am coming."

Sure enough, they prepped one of the onboard shuttles for duty, and they replied to the WP message:

"We are getting ready now. Rememberance, prepare to meet one of our Shuttles, it will hail you when it gets there. Do not be alarmed, it has the Governor of our region on it."

OOC: Ah ha! NS couldn't keep me blocked out forever! Muwahahahaha!

IC:

President Johnson, General Smith, Congressmen Dilbeck and Robberson awaited the Governors arrival. The President was rather disappointed, only one diplomat had arrived even though three nations had been invited. Well we will just have to milk our one lead for what it’s worth.

"Greetings Governor Farrell and welcome to the Remembrance, the Dominion's largest installation in orbit over the planet Herxia. As you may have noticed as you walked the halls the Remembrance is not just a defensive installation, it doubles as an orbiting memorial to those who have died in the service of the Dominion's space program."

The President is cut off as an aide rushes to General Smith's side.

"General Sir, we have another contact, this one doesn't sound as polite as the others."

"I'll be right there." The General whispered back.

"You'll have to excuse me gentlemen, it seems there is a situation that requires my presence. I will rejoin you in the Estate Room as soon as I possibly can."

"Very good General. Now, Governor Farrell, if you'll come this way we will go to the Estate Room where we will hopefully discuss the possibility of establishing relations between our two nations."

Message to unknown ship.

You are now in the space of the Dominion of West Pacific, we have recently completed our first test of a ship with FTL capabilities and that has sparked a lot of interest in our region. We are currently in the process of meeting with a delegation from New Dornalia in hopes of establishing relations with that nation. If you have a diplomatic team on board you are welcome to join us on board the Remembrance. Please respond.

ic a sephrion star destroyer dropps out of trans warp a new race became ft this required a formal grreting from the empire
coms to new ft race this is the sephrion star destroyer bain of rebels who ore what are you

OOC: Sorry about the delay.

Time to use Fluid Time to catch up.

IC: Messages

In response to the West Pacific message:

Acknowledged and understood. Would it be permissible for us to place our ship in orbit around the planet so we can keep track of where she is while the diplomatic team is aboard teh Remembrance?

Exterior

A lone Trident II class (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10178056&postcount=23) executive shuttle launched from the hanger of the Atlantis. It started on its course for the Remembrance. Captain Mark Andrew Ainsley, as the highest ranking SeaQuestian officer in the area, was in charge of the first contact situation. So, he, and some of his command staff, were aboard the shuttle en route for the Remembrance.

Reply:

Activation of a new Faster Than Light device often attracts a great deal of attention. The Captain of the Fearless is the closest thing we have to a true Diplomat, she will meet with you. Her pinnace will arrive some time after we have entered orbit, in approximately 3 hours.

And the Terrans continued on their way into the system...

OOC: Is my message being ignored? EDIT: Ok, I thought that was for one of the Federation nations. And this is a Cruiser Squadron, several ships.

OOC: MM, I believe that West Pacific's last transmission was directed at your ship(s).

OOC: Ah ha! NS couldn't keep me blocked out forever! Muwahahahaha!

IC:

President Johnson, General Smith, Congressmen Dilbeck and Robberson awaited the Governors arrival. The President was rather disappointed, only one diplomat had arrived even though three nations had been invited. Well we will just have to milk our one lead for what it’s worth.

"Greetings Governor Farrell and welcome to the Remembrance, the Dominion's largest installation in orbit over the planet Herxia. As you may have noticed as you walked the halls the Remembrance is not just a defensive installation, it doubles as an orbiting memorial to those who have died in the service of the Dominion's space program."

The President is cut off as an aide rushes to General Smith's side.

"General Sir, we have another contact, this one doesn't sound as polite as the others."

"I'll be right there." The General whispered back.

"You'll have to excuse me gentlemen, it seems there is a situation that requires my presence. I will rejoin you in the Estate Room as soon as I possibly can."

"Very good General. Now, Governor Farrell, if you'll come this way we will go to the Estate Room where we will hopefully discuss the possibility of establishing relations between our two nations."

Message to unknown ship.

Harold nodded, and then followed them, looking at the Rememberance's surroundings. He then interjected, with a slight bit of interest, "Fascinating. Your people have quite an outfit here."

He then entered the Estate Room, and sat down. These people seemed alright, but it was their first time out in Space. Naturally, they were going to be very nervous and protective. So, he meditated a little, and centered his proverbial Chi...in this case, his command of the Force. He would need it to get these guys to trust him.

After that was done, he said to the President, confidently and calmly, "The Workers State of New Dornalia is interested as well in establishing positive relations with the West Pacific state. After all, your nation and my home territory do seem to share a common border."

grab thier attention tatical fire a low out put shot at the remeberance

"Sir the Sephrions are firing at the unknown race."

"Well, what's the range on their ship?"

"Call it one light minute, flight time on MDMs at this speed is approximately 3 minutes, shall we fire?"

"Prepare for a full volley, off-bore shots and broadside armament, lasers and grasers as well. Blow them out of space."

"Aye sir, transmitting. Squadron prepared to fire. Firing."

The Terran Heavy Cruisers fired off their entire broadsides, using their off-bore capability to set even more missuiles into space. When they reached 30,000 kilometers from the Star Destroyer they would detonate, sending stilettos of laser-light towards the ship, as the broadside lasers and grasers of the Heavy Cruisers lanced through space, garaunteed to reach the opposing ship sooner than the Missiles could make their attack.

the ship took considerable dammage

The 12 Heavy Cruisers of the squadron waited for their missile launchers to cycle, taking a few minutes, before firing a second double-broadside at the hostile Sephrion ship. The Sephrions had fired for no apparent reason, and hostility like that against a stationary platform was uncalled for, and unacceptable.

The President stood up to greet the diplomat from SeaQuest when suddenly several Fedayeen (No, my nation is not an Islamic nation, I just like the sound of the word Fedayeen, that and Mosad are my two special forces/intelligence divisions.) ran into the room and grabbed the SeaQuestian diplomat. Before the President could raise his voice in protest he too was grabbed along with the delegate from New Dornalia.

"Sirs, we must get you out of here immediately and to the disaster pods, this facility has been fired upon by an unknown ship."

"Where is General Smith?" Shouted the President as he was being hussled through the corridors.

"He is in the command and control room Mr. President, now please if you will just come this way."

General Smith couldn't believe what was happening. An unkown ship had fired upon the Remembrance an act of war against the Dominion and very threatening to that nation's relations with SeaQuest and New Dornalia, who had delegations on board the Remembrance who were engaging in possible treaty negotiations. "Fire a salvo! All 128 tubes, launch the Vipers, this ship could be carrying nukes and/or fighters!" Smith shouted to anyone who was listening. "Make sure the President's and the delegates are safe. Send word to the ships in and around the Remembrance, inform them of the situation and tell them that they should make sure to keep a large distance between the Remembrance and this unkown ship. Tell them their assistance would be appreciated in dealing with this menace."

General Smith now looked towards Herxia, the planet which had not seen war for hundreds of years, not since the Dominion had defeated the Imperialist Alliance which had tried to launch a surprise attack against the Dominion in hopes of a quicky victory. General Smith had possibly brought war to his home, he had urged that the Dominion move forward with their tests of the FTL drive, he had insisted when others had questioned whether it was safe for the Dominion to expand, what dangers lay ahead? many had asked. Of course nobody had knows the answer at the time but now it was quite clear.

"Sir, a fleet of ships had engaged the unkown ships already, shall we engage anyways?"

"Yes, we can ill afford to appear weak, having other nations provide for our defense."

'Aye sir."

General Smith looked out the window, he could see the missiles leap out of their firing tubes, cold start weapons, they would launched from the tube by magnetic impulse and once free of the ship the rocket motors would engage, thus allowing for faster reload and no need to clean the tubes after only a couple firings as the grime build up that would go with a hot start was avoided. What have we done? thought the General, a war had possibly started, one which the Dominion could not fight and was at a terrible disadvantage in.

"Lieutentant, I want you to take a message to the President, tell him that once this ship destroyed or disabled I advise we move these talks to Europa."

"Sir, why Europa?"

"Because that moon is practically a ball of titanium and the delegates will be safe their."

"Yes sir."

the ship was heavily dammaged and cloaked

the ship was heavily dammaged and cloaked

The Cruisaers fired one last time. If it was as badly damaged as their sensors indicated opne more Broadside should do it, and with the steadily closing range accuracy was going to go sharply upward. Once again they fired at the very obvious Gravity disturbance produced by the other ship.

the ship was destroyed

The President, General Smith and the assembled delegates met in the Estate Room once again. "Well gentlemen" said the President "Hopefully we can get this conference underway without any further interruption." The President's eyes darted over towards General Smith, although the President was showing no sign of his anger on his face his eyes betrayed him. Fire and rage were in his eyes. "You let them sneak up on us and open fire General! Because of you the Dominion appears weak and unable to defend it's own assets, now these delegates know just how weak we are. Another mess up like this and I will expect your resignation."

The General had not just sat back and taken though. "What did you expect to happen Mr. President? We are on a space station in a fixed orbit, we are very vulnerable to whatever whims of these other nations, we have no long range capabilities, they would destroy us in the blink of an eye if they so chose. You chose the Remebrance for the location of this conference against my own advise, now I once again reccomend we move to a more secure location."

"Absolutely not, we are going to continue this conference right here, without any further delays, General, and you will be going with me."

"Why might that be, sir?"

"Because you have already proven yourself to be less capable than I had hoped at protecting this station and I want you by my side so I might be sure that you aren't trying to plot against me."

"Yes sir." General Smith grumbled.

"Gentlemen, today is a great day in my nation's history, after years of searching we have finally made contact with another, intelligent source of life. Now, our general purpose here is to establish long lasting relationships but in actuality we have a far more specific motive here. Out planet, Herxia, is in danger of becoming over populated, we currently have no long range transportation means and within 80 years we will be starving our planet of its resources faster than it can resupply them. What we need from your nation's are ships and the technology to build them. We have zero ships with FTL capabilities other than our experiment Falcon and..."

"That's not exactly true Mr. President."

The President looked at General Smith, thinking he had misunderstood him. "What did you say, General?"

"Mr. President, I have up till this point kept secret a few things that I think should be made public right now. The Dominion currently has under construction three ships, we have named the flag ship Prometheus. These ships have FTL capabilities and can carry up to six Vipers and two Falcons. I kept the existance of these craft secret because we did not know if they would be capable of FTL jumps and would be useless without that ability, their failure would be a major black eye on our little project here and we could not afford that information to be made public. These ships are however not as capable as we would like, we do still desperately need help from your nation's if we hope to save our planet and our people. What we need now is the technology that will allow us to build ever larger ships, enabling us to move at least 1/5th of the population from Herxia to a new planet in less than 80 years. 800 million people gentlemen, 800 million people need to be moved in 80 years, that ten million a year, we desperately need your help."

OOC: Ok, sorry about the delay, I hope this post advanced the treaty somewhat. I want to skip a few steps, obviously New Dornalia already has a diplomat on board, SeaQuest and MM, if you would like just jump in as if you have diplomats in the room already, we can just bypass the lengthy greetings and go right for the jugular or however you spell it. Let's just say "grab the bull by the horns." sound good?

Specifications for the Prometheus
Type: Long Range Hyperspace capable warship

Operational Area: Atmospheric - Local Space - Deep space - Hyperspace

Weapons Array:
10+ Missile bays launching presumed High Explosive and Nuclear weapons.
8+ CIWS Point Defense Cannons.
Multiple defensive Railguns.
Primary offensive Railgun.
4+ VLS Cells Forward.

Defensive Technology:
Electronic Warfare equipment.
Heavy titanium alloy hull.

Support Craft:
Hanger bays support six Vipers and two Falcons.

Crew: 180 (20 Officers, 160 enlisted)

Troop capacity: 90 troops.

http://www.stargate-tech.net/pagepics/x303small.jpg

a second ship twanswarped in we come in peace they commed the capatain of the last ship wasa hotheaded fool

"Sir, a ship has jumped into the area, they claim that the ship that attacked them originated in their nation and that the captain was a hotheaded renegade, not acting on orders."

"Send them a reply, acknowledging the mistakea nd politely asking them to leave."

"Yes sir."

To Sephiroth ship:

We ackowledge your message but at this time must request that you leave our space, after the last icident we are sure you will understand why we are so hesitant to trust your nation, regardless of your claims.

coms understood scan our ship our weapons are inactive

-snip-

Farrell then said, afterwards, "Mr. President, General, we have the technology that will enable you to move out into the stars, and save your people from certain death."

He thought for a moment, and said, "We have, for example, teleporters that can enable you to move large amounts of materiel and men from ship-to-planet and back again. We also have energy reactors that are fueled with antimatter, and even singularities, that can produce an astounding output in terms of kilowatts and even terawatts."

He then paced around, and said, "We even have personal and industrial replicators, which use energy to produce many types of objects and tools. Though they do work faster with a little bit of material similar to the item you want to speed it along. We also have advanced composite alloys made with a material called Leninite, which is actually quite common in our State, that can produce ships of incredible durability."

He then sat and said, "This sounds a little fantastic, I will admit. But, I will be happy to demonstrate any of these technologies if you wish."