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The second largest nation on Lotus used its anicent (200 year old) technology, a solid rocket, to launch a massive spaceship called Eris. This spaceship is a direct answer to Deth Dune's modular ships.

Eris is the first space ship to have guided missiles (in reality the first warship ever produced). When asked about the name, Rema Avalon said it came to her in a dream, that Eris would be a befitting name to a Goddess of Chaos.

An artists depiction of Eris:
http://izlin.free.fr/eve/ships/cormoran.jpg


News Broadcast:

Soft Female Voice: "... So then we decided to speak to Rema Avalon, head of Avalon Industrials."

Soft Female Voice: "Miss Avalon, why launch a warship into space?"

A strong stern voice, cold and ruthless and direct to the point answers: "Space is last the frontier and it is not monopolized, to keep our interests safe we need to protect ourselves and our technology from less desirable people. That is our goal, Miss Figro."

Figro: "Will this start a war?"
Avalon: "In time it will, though any action now would be chaotic on any side."
Figro: "Are there any plans for more warships."
Avalon: "No comment. No more questions."
Figro: "Thank you for your time Miss Avalon."

A 10 second pause follows.

Figro: "Well, there you have it. A rough and shakey future lies ahead for all of Lotus. The technological powerhouse against the industrial powerhouse, with the fanatical Exodus Movement and mysterious Collatas not far behind."

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OOC: Signs of internal war on Lotus. The two nations (companies really) are preparing to defend themselves from attack and increase their power.

the Kirisuban cruiser 'Wang-liang' was the newest Kagemon class exploration ship in service. it had completed a short shakedown cruise and was on a year long exploration mission.

for its all female crew it was a normal working day as they cruised along at warp 5 stopping occasionally to gather information on comets and other planetary bodies.

they didn't know it yet but they would stumble upon the Eraclea star system within the hour..

ooc: the ship is silver with a disklike hull, 5 deck and a crew of 50 asian humans. it has matter-antimatter warp drive, strong shields, a cloaking device and two powerful plasma assisted phaser banks. their main defence although is the ships agility and their cloaking device.

the ship looks like this only theres no big bird;
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a354/nihongaz/cricketclass.jpg

Eris turned towards Deth Dune's ship and started reading its make up and gathering information. Radar, Infra-red, everything in its arsenal was being used to find the quickest way to render it a pile of garbage. It's watched as the ship which was previously motionless scream to life in a pulse and leaving a large ring like burst in its wake shoot towards open space.

Eris's targeting computers had begun the final launch of three guided missiles, that shot out after the ship as it came to life. The thrust on the missiles was great, but it was clear they were special in nature, and although losing contact they exploded one by one in 30 megaton explosions, creating a large burst of light and heat, noticable to the people on the ground.

Through the weakened transmissions (from the nuclear weapons going off)

Woman: "Miss....*crackle* *hiss* *crackle* tar-*crack* miss*crackle hiss*"

The slow moving Eris used its Ion Engines to pursue the ship, but it was essentially flying blind as the interference was messing with the sensors.

Its only goal:
Destroy that ship!

the Wang-Liang's science officer Commander Akiko Toho was scanning ahead when she picked up the radiation from the nuclear explosion.

the first officer Commander Arisu Takahara looked at the readings with interest and alerted the captain.

Samurai-Captain Alyssa Noguma strode onto the bridge wearing her wakizashi sword and the usual uniform of the dark red jacket, a knee length black skirt and tall black boots which was coming more into vogue.

a silver comm badge of a circle with two crossed swords embossed on it and 4 silver pips on her jacket above the badge completed the look.

"set a new course warp 7" she ordered as the cruiser increased speed heading towards the readings..

ooc: the ship should get to the fringes of the system by the next post

The two ships flew off, the Eris just out of range of Deth Dune's ship.

On the planet the EMP blast fried a good portion of Avalon's nation. The Empress would be extremely furious, there was hell to pay. Transmissions sounded and it was not more then three minutes after the explosions that the entire world was on the verge of a nuclear war. The five leaders of the world met on an encrypted channel.

Eraclea: Romuan! Avalon! Dune! Lethos and Rethos! What in blazes are you all doing!
Avalon: Inital reports estimate 90% of my nation is without power or functioning computers. I am only here because of the shielding of my home.
Lethos: Who launched an attack?
Rethos: We demand to know!
Avalon: Know one knows, but Dune is the only one capable of it.

----Avalon Nuclear Missile Silo------

NMC Lian: Systems online, nuclear weapons ready.
NMC Jian: Systems online, password prompt.

Lian and Jian: For Avalon.

Computer voice: Accepted. Ready to fire.
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Dune: My ship was attacked by Avalon's. Unlike her ships, mine are capable of Tacheyon Transmissions! Faster then light and very helpful through EMP pulses.

(your post would be now at c7)

ooc: this will be last post for 5 days

ic: as the 'Wang-Liang' warped into the new star system the science officer picked up the radiation and EMP bursts and got the shields raised in time.

The computers would continue to function but any analysis of the world nearest the readings would be difficult.

However the comms officer was picking up news reports and relayed them to her captains ready room.

Samurai-Captain Alyssa Noguma pondered these transmissions which sounded like the sabre rattling prior to a nuclear war..

For days, the Copens had been keeping an eye on the people of Lotus. Transmissions had been relayed back and forth between the exploratory fleet and its home galaxy via fold-space transmissions, and it was evident that these people were in need of some tinkering with.

From behind the moon, two teams of three mobile suits, each team consisting of two Den'an Zons and one Den'an Gei, moved in towards the mining operations on the lunar surface.

Activating their beam flags, they were to represent the Copen Galaxy as a whole, with each flag of each member nation being shown by each mobile suit. The lead mobile suit, flying the flag of the founding nation, opened a transmission to the miners, translated directly into their language.

"Greetings to the peoples of the fair planet Lotus. We of the Copen Protectorate welcome you to the vastness of space, and wish to bring peace to your planet for the greater good of your people.

If it would so please you, we suggest that you forward this message to your planetary leaders, so that we may converse about trade between our glorious planets."

Copen Exploratory Fleet
Chivvay-class x1
-Den'an Gei x2
-G-Cannon x2
-Den'an Zon x4
Musai-class x2
-Den'an Gei x1 each
-Den'an Zon x4 each

The three huge explosions were seen moments before by some of the mining crew and the relatively small operation was in awe. Blue and Purple suits of armor held their pilots in a state of awe, exaggerating their natural response to the point of almost falling over.


The standard 9ft Mechs calls DMS (Dune's Mining Suits) held a pilot inside that was sitting in steep angle. A mass of steel and computer readings lay all around them, it was a complete chaos, thousands of lights and buttons, information grids steeped upon more grids, giving pilots total overwhelming information, but the mass of wires had a large cord enter the skull, a brain tap that allowed information to be flowed in and perform complex movements without the use of the body for balance and control.

This technology pioneered in the days of medicine research was a way fro those with a disease called Zans 'the Zans' which would essentially cause the blood flow in the body to be less and less, causing the death of limbs and later the entire body if not controlled. In a global effort the Empress combined with the four major powers put a global effort into destroying the disease, but it was found to be uncurable and kill the bugs that transmit it, the only option was to develop medicines to combat the virus with an extremely complex and adaptable core, the work produced some of the first man-machine cyborgs of Lotus. The Eracleans became efficent in cyborgization out of nessessity. The average life of a fisher was just 25 years, the cyborgization and medicine combatted the disease and allowed them to live into the high 50's (1.5x Earth years).

The mech suits allowed even crippled miners or confined to a wheelchair or even the elderly the ability to be productive, and as it was, the elderly and the injured were the main workforce of Deth Dune's mining operation, dangerous and risky, the rewards were amazing provided they lived long enough to enjoy their spoils. The suits gave them increased ability and protection, but it was common that careless miners would hit a pocket of gas or detonate the unstable minerals that they were told to mine. Work was hard and the men and women who did the work did it for their own reasons, but their was no happiness in it.

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A blue suit jumped out of the cockpit of a rather large mining ship, on its back was very heavy drills and drill bits. Its arm had a modified build, a super-powerful laser was in it, instead of extra drill bits. They communicated by radio transmission (Tacheyon Transmissions require immense amount of power and what the miners call 'magic dust' to work, a joke about Higgs Bosons.) and the blue one was the leader. Major Biggs.

"Alright, what have we got here, my sensors are going off the charts."

Two suits next to him, a red one with the number 4782 and one with the number 5021. The first said, "Avalon is trying to start a war, who the hell knows what those Geons are up to."

A gasp followed on the radio as he uttered a very foul curse to the leaders of the world. Major Biggs laughed though, "Chuck, you know how to brighten a day, but that was almost me in that explosion, my craft is essentially shot on communication and I'll be flying blind again."

The second suit turned towards him and tapped his arm as a fresh drill bit shot out of the suit like a casing from a gun, grabbing it and attaching it with his left-hand drill the pilot said, "Least the pirates aren't around, they took down Mary the other day, burned up in the atmosphere, carrying almost half a billion in ore to." With a sudden burst of spark and flame the ground ruptured and melted down several feet as Biggs used his laser on it. The old men in the two suits laughed a little, "Young bastard, we've been at this sheet of rock all day and here you go blasting a hole in it. Well... finish the job."

Biggs sighed and looked at the power meter on his laser, "Jeeze, this slab is three feet thick or forty!? Switching engines to maximum." At last a strong steady beam of the laser resumed, it was functioning at 1 gigawatt as the stream heated the rock up to over 5000 degrees F and melted it away. It would take him a good hour to finish cutting out the marked slab of 2000 square feet. Then would come the hard part, using the industrial lasers (considerably less powerful) and burn the underside, rip the slab out and use all three of them to load it into the cargo bay and repeat the task.... that assuming the 700 ton slab didn't come crashing down on them. (This is also very very fun to fly in when the ship's hull is screaming under the weight)

During this process Major Biggs and many of the miners heard a transmission and they all started laughing. Major Biggs and a few of the old men (practically wheezing) said, "Sure! Riley, get your asses here, your team is late! Nice suits."

"Whippersnappers, look at them, they are flashier then Marissa Marlo!"
"HEeeee *gasp* *wheeze* They look different to these old eyes."

Major Biggs was the first to do a search on the newcomers and he pointed his laser at them, "Get off this rock, go back to your territories, Dune owns this piece, Avalon is not wanted here, I'll kill everyone of you scummy bastards for what you did. This is your only warning. I will not trust your kind here, you are not aliens and you are not welcome."

A few of the old men rallied behind the mining operations leader, "Shmaatching Pirates." "Dastardly dogs, you will not be messing with us!" "I bet they are just after our gold." "Copen Protectorate? A fifth now? Jeeze, how do these guys keep getting to space." "Peace to the world, hah, not while these old bones remember their treachery."

The welcoming that the Copen Protectorate expected was not exactly a happy one, they came across ticked off, racist, war dogs and old men who had seen the horrors of the Great Wars. The technological differences and cultures of the five people of Lotus have been developed seperately and on a super-hyper space as they have been at war constantly when some greater threat has not threatened all existance. (Ideally 10x worse then humanities drive of Greed, Lust, Power, Hatred..etc They thrive in war and the current war has been off and on for the last thousand years, but this is the first space combat.)

A second transmission came over the comms.

"If you believe us to be one of your petty planetary factions, think again. We are of the Copen Galaxy, a galaxy so far away, you and your people could not even dream to reach it within your lifespans with your current technology."

A short silence came over the comm before the leader spoke again.

"If you need proof, then look above you. SDF-2, you are clear to move in."

Should the miners look above them, they would see a large ion storm as a wormhole was torn open through the space-time continuum to allow the Megaroad-class SDF-2 Poseidon into Ecud's orbit.

The massive 5000 meter plus long ship carried a full compliment of fighters, and a large land-engagement force to deter boarders should they have the gall and the luck to even touch the ship with their feet.

As soon as it had appeared, the three exploratory ships arrived and docked with it for fuel and supplies.

Copen Ambassador Fleet

Megaroad-class SDF-2 Poseidon ( http://mahq.net/mecha/macross/flashback/megaroad.htm )
-Excalibur Heavy Fighter x400 ( http://www.wcnews.com/ships2/wc3excalibur.shtml )
-Longbow Bomber x130 ( http://www.wcnews.com/ships2/wc3longbow.shtml )
-Eardrum Buster x200 ( http://mahq.net/mecha/macross/sdfmacross/adr-04-mk10.htm )
-Tomahawk x500 ( http://mahq.net/mecha/macross/sdfmacross/mbr-04-mk4.htm )
-Spartan x500 ( http://mahq.net/mecha/macross/sdfmacross/mbr-07-mk2.htm )
-Phalanx x200 ( http://mahq.net/mecha/macross/sdfmacross/sdr-04-mk12.htm )
-Longtom x100 ( http://mahq.net/mecha/macross/sdfmacross/hwr-00-mk2.htm )
-Type 61 MBT x1000 ( http://mahq.net/mecha/gundam/msgundam/type61.htm )
Chivvay x1 ( http://mahq.net/mecha/gundam/msgundam/chivvay.htm )
-Den'an Zon x4 ( http://mahq.net/mecha/gundam/f91/xm-01.htm )
-G-Cannon x2 ( http://mahq.net/mecha/gundam/f91/f71.htm )
-Den'an Gei x2 ( http://mahq.net/mecha/gundam/f91/xm-02.htm )
Musai x2 ( http://mahq.net/mecha/gundam/msgundam/musai.htm )
-Den'an Zon x4 each ( http://mahq.net/mecha/gundam/f91/xm-01.htm )
-Dahgi Iris x1 each ( http://mahq.net/mecha/gundam/f91/xm-06.htm )

A single Solari Carrier arrived in the system, attracted, as most were in such situatiuons, by the sudden flurry of activity. For the time being they would stay back and watch, but eventually intervention might be required of them. They would be ready and able to do that as well...

Major Biggs looked up in awe, many of the DMS suits suddenly jetted off the moon and towards their craft, a flurry of screams and gasps, Major Biggs stood in awe and jumped back to the ship, within seconds the world would know, by being behind the moon their was no possible means to detect the ship, their was no chance to predict it, and their is no possible way to fight them off.

Biggs, an ex-military Major of the last Avalon conflict, his IQ was over 200 and his brash attitude hides the calculating mind and his vicious true nature. Unlike the rest of the miners, Biggs knew any attempt was futile and the only way out of this was at their mercy, he had a flashback to the last nuclear standoff of just 10 years ago which brought the world once again to the brink of destruction. To him the universe is a cruel and power joke which commonly makes its occupants feel insignificant and no more important then a grain of sand on an endless beach spanning into eternity.

He radioed back, "Interesting that you speak Eraclean. I would not suggest revealing yourselves, our world is at constant war and struggle, for what purpose do you try to spread peace?"

"We have been watching your planet for the last twenty years, and we wish to mediate the situation as soon as possible before the entire planet is annihalated."

The lead Den'an Gei moved forward towards Biggs, obviously presenting himself as the speaker. The thirty-foot tall mobile suit stopped just ten feet short of Bigg's own mining suit before the cockpit opened to allow Fironen, son of General Feronen, to reveal himself.

He was the spitting image of this father at his age, 6'2" tall, 165lbs., slim, and a hairless face. His only difference between his father and himself was cat tail protruding from his hind-quarters, showing he was a cat anthro-human hybrid (his tail being covered by his suit specially designed for his features).

"You seem like an intelligent man, Major Biggs," he said, revealing that he knew his rank and name during the war. "How do you think we should go about this?"

((Just trying to keep this thread alive.))

"We have been watching your planet for the last twenty years, and have discovered that the nation of Avalon is ready to launch two nuclear salvos. The locations are codenamed Lian and Jian. However, we have been unable to locate the location of the weapons, and we wish to mediate the situation as soon as possible before the entire planet is annihalated."

The lead Den'an Gei moved forward towards Biggs, obviously presenting himself as the speaker. The thirty-foot tall mobile suit stopped just ten feet short of Bigg's own mining suit before the cockpit opened to allow Fironen, son of General Feronen, to reveal himself.

He was the spitting image of this father at his age, 6'2" tall, 165lbs., slim, and a hairless face. His only difference between his father and himself was cat tail protruding from his hind-quarters, showing he was a cat anthro-human hybrid (his tail being covered by his suit specially designed for his features).

"You seem like an intelligent man, Major Biggs," he said, revealing that he knew his rank and name during the war. "How do you think we should go about this?"

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OOC: Umm... You can't tell what another nation is doing and infact you are wrong, its the names of the officers controlling it, they aren't launching, but this is essentially the peak of the cold war standoff for Earth, except they have not been giving permission to fire (in the real cold war it came down to a single man who stopped it (captain of a soviet sub))

If you want to rewrite it that's okay, but just know this is not exactly an uncommon thing in this planet, its been this kind of hot and cold warfare for hundreds of years, same as Earth. This is the chief reason why technology is different and I can have many RP stories without passing off a 'secure' world as many other canons and nations show.
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(ignoring the first part for this case)
IC:

Major Biggs smirked, his body and face still hidden by his suit, but his posture that the suit mimiced gave away his body language, at last he spoke, "If you've been here for twenty years and have not found the answer to that either then it just might be their is no answer without the genocidal war that would ultimately follow. Just live for the day."

bump for responses.

"There's always an answer to every problem, Major," replied Fironen. "The only other problem is finding that answer."

By now, the Poseidon had landed, an a temporary base-camp was being set up, with several fighter patrols zooming here and there. The Phalanx Destroids and the Eardrum Busters had also been set up at key locations on and around the Poseidon itself, making for added protection against any threat.

OOC: I been waiting for Hok-Tu, though I have a feeling he won't be back. Go on without him?

ooc: i'm back now after a LARP weekend.

at the moment the Kirisubans are just sitting out of the way trying to figure out whats going on

ic:

Captain Noguma pondered the latest arrivals and the transmissions that they were picking up.

her mind made up she knew she had to be noticed.

"helm assume a standard orbit of the planet and we'll wait to see it we're noticed planetside" she orders.

the order is obeyed and the Wang-Liang slips gently into an orbit ready for anything..

((Keeping the thread alive. C'mon, Eraclea, I can't respond until you make yours about Hok-Tu's action.))

OOC: Sorry for the delay. Been hectic the past few days.

IC: Major Biggs nodded and said, "Your best off not getting into our matters, your technology will only boost our own destructive powers, peace is not something that is wanted it seems. It is almost genetic hatred that has kept our world both on the brink of disaster and spiraling ever deeper into Jyokin."

Edit:
* Jyokin is a metaphor or place that a translator won't pick up. And for the record it does not mean Hell, its far worse. Also I did my research on this, its a seperate side-story which I hopefully never have to use, but the reason your translator won't pick it up, even if it is a neural-scanner translator is that the idea is abstract and has no singular meaning or translation, its very ambigious. For IC reasons I decided not to tell you OOCly, but if you try and figure it out anyone can understand what he is talking about through the code and subtle hints.

bump >.>

Desperate bump.