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The galaxy known to the humans in this particular galaxy as "The milky way" was now under total control of the Borg Collective. A hive-minded race with no mercy. Yet they still yearned for conquest. A great Gateway was created leading the Borg to an uninhabited, but mineral rich system of a neighboring universe. This division of Borg would be lead by a specially constructed queen as they will be out of communication with the main collective... but they will adapt. For they are borg.

A detatchment entered the gateway, containing a grand total of 3 billion drones.

(Note: The detachment is as follows:

4 tactical-fusion cube class dreadnaughts
2 fusion cube command ships
10 tactical cube advanced battleships
30 cube class mainline battleships.
100 assimilator class frigates
400 stand-alone spheres (mission configurable)
20 diamond-class explorers
10 Cylender class drone transports

OOCness: Are we to assume that this represents a new start for you, and that the collective controlling the Milky Way is some variation of the Star Trek OTL, and that the above hived-off (Couldn't resist) sub-collective is the sum of your assets?

Standard Borg Cubes carry approx. 640,000 drones each

3 billion drones means your fleet is comprised of the equivilent of 4,688 Cubes...

OOC: Uhm, Chrono, I think that is the case. Otherwise, I can't figure out what his reference to 'another universe' would mean.
As for you, Mr. Borg, I'll consider joining IC'ly.

Standard Borg Cubes carry approx. 640,000 drones each
They could carry far more. In every depiction, the density of alcoves is rather high. You can cram 640,000 people standing up in alcoves into a very small space. Assuming one drone per 75m³ - assuming one borg every five meters, rather conservative, and a three meter deck height, they're much more densely populated than this - they would have a carrying capacity of three hundred and sixty million. This generous carrying capacity makes sense, given the modus operendi shown in 'Dark Frontier' - A small number of cubes must be capable of carrying an entire planetary population away to be redistributed among the collective's assets.

Additionally, he threw in 'drone carriers' there, as well.
3 billion drones means your fleet is comprised of the equivilent of 4,688 Cubes...
While it would be very classy to RP them as tin boxes that any fighter worth its salt can plink, I doubt he wants to loose the 'invulnerable juggernaut' aspect of the borg.

OOC: Uhm, Chrono, I think that is the case. Otherwise, I can't figure out what his reference to 'another universe' would mean.
As for you, Mr. Borg, I'll consider joining IC'ly.

OOC: Feth, missed that one:P

OOC:

I might be interested in joining at some time.

Godulan Tag For Later Reading and Possible Participation

(OOC I apologise for my lateness something came up, anyways I'll answer each question individually.

Are we to assume that this represents a new start for you, and that the collective controlling the Milky Way is some variation of the Star Trek OTL, and that the above hived-off (Couldn't resist) sub-collective is the sum of your assets?

Precisely. Although I have a means to call reinforcements if I have to, I'll save this for hopeless scenarios.

Standard Borg Cubes carry approx. 640,000 drones each

3 billion drones means your fleet is comprised of the equivilent of 4,688 Cubes...

true, but that's at "normal operating capacity. CTAN is right in that I'm packing these cubes to the brink.

Also, I AM loosing the unstoppable juggernaught aspect of the borg... my fleet is TINY, I'm just mostly using it to kick-start a planet into gear... but it's starting the snowball down the hill. EVENTUALLY I'll gain the unstoppable aspect but I won't have it right away)


START:

The Fleet recovered from the dimensional warp to encircle the system. The new queen assembled herself within one of the diamond class vessels and began dictating the fleet's actions. It was... Smaller then she was used to. The trillions of voices condensed into only a few billion... it was quiet, almost disconcerting.

The diamonds approached the usable planets first scanning them for hostile life, then the cylenders approached, 3 for each of the main planets for colonization and 1 for an outlying mineral-rich captured asteroid, began mass-transporting drones to the surfaces of their respective worlds.

The surface of the worlds were industrialised over a matter of hours as massive amounts of borg began efficiently restructuring them into an image similar to that of all the other borg planets.

http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/en/images/c/cf/AssimilatedEarth2373.jpg

The other ships offloaded their extra drones and assumed standerd orbit of the system opening long-range sensor sweeps of the area.

A few spheres began laying transwarp conduits and sensor buoys it would be very difficult for nearby systems not to notice their presence now, the queen mused. But who said the borg were ever subtle?

OOC: My nation has just reveiled itself to the known worlds, so I don't have much in the way of tech. Except for scavanged stuff we find floating through space. So if I do overstep my limits let me know.


IC: A small 5 man ship was in a system nearby its homeworld looking for space junk to collect, when the fairly unreliable long range sensors reported that a massive fleet just appeared in a nearby system.
"Captain, we've been out here a long time and found nothing, I think that we should take a look at this 'fleet'." said the newly commisioned "tactical" officer (very little in the way of weapons, just a cutting laser).
"Set course..." It was the hoarse voice of someone who had to yell over the sounds of machinery that was constantly buzzing. "Bring us just close enough to get a look, then we head back home."

(OOC: The only limit I see you overstepping is that of risk-taking... it is within the character of my borg to assimilate-on-sight... but I'll do my best to plausibly roleplay them not doing that.)

Start: The Borg sensor bouys picked up a small salvage vessel near their parimiter using a primitive form of faster-then-light travel. A cube was detached from defencive duty to intercept it, unfortunately not enough transwarp conduits were placed as of yet so the vessel entered standard warp speeds at warp 6.

Pact of Iron Strategic Command, War-World VII Beta-Episilon:

"Borg!?"
"Yes. The ultimate SPACE BOLSHEVIKS."
"Then we have no choice. Alert the Primo and his Grand Fleet."
"The Grand Fleet?"
"For the Space Bolsheviks, there can be no overkill."
"Only 'open fire' and 'reload', yes sir. Notified at 02:23:24 local time, sir."
"Excellent."

ASV Action, Grand Fleet Muster Point 271:

"Well, Captain-Generals," began the Primo, "PISC has given us our orders and we must fight. Questions?"
"No, Primo," chorused the commanders of the Grand Fleet's Imperium-class vessels. One raised his head from his notes, and added, "Will the Skgorrians be aiding us?"
"Yes, Geranov, and we can expect to see the Golden Ship as well."

At the mention of the Golden Ship there was a collective gasp, followed by murmurings amongst themselves.

"Dismissed."

Borg-Inhabited System:

As one, the Grand Fleet dropped out of shift:jump a single light-second from the main planet. Its nine Imperiums, with their spinal superlasers charged and ready, blazed forth nine individual beams towards the assimiliated world - each beam being in the 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000* megaton yield range.

This done, the Fleet's escort vessels - ranging in size from drone fighters to Super Star Destroyers - began to fan out to engage the survivors in space.

At the same time, on the other side of the system, some 4 AU from the engaged world, the Golden Ship arrived. All 90 million miles of it.

GRAND FLEET ORBAT:

Ultra-class Superbattleships (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Atopian_Space_Force#Ultra_Class):
1) Atopian Space Vessel Action, Flagship of the Grand Fleet and home to the Primo of Atopiana.
2) ASV Victory
3) ASV Grossetape
4) ASV Inevitable Conquest
5) ASV Unbreakable
6) ASV Revolution
7) ASV Grantham
8) ASV Grand Line
9) ASV Mosley

90 x Imperial class Star Destroyers,
45 x World Devastator super-factory ships,
18 x Interdictor Star Destroyers,
18 x Executor class Super Star Destroyers;
36 x Victory class Star Destroyers.

A very large amount of: Fighters (at least 5,760 - that's the complement of the ISDs alone), bombers, dropships, transports, Daggership assault boats.

The Golden Ship: 90,000,000 mile long vessel of indeterminate origin with a superlaser and point-defence super-heavy turbolasers.

OOC: * I think this is 10 million trillion. Or thereabouts. It's A Lot, anyway.

As one, the Grand Fleet dropped out of shift:jump a single light-second from the main planet. Its nine Imperiums, with their spinal superlasers charged and ready, blazed forth nine individual beams towards the assimiliated world - each beam being in the 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000* megaton yield range.
[...]
The Golden Ship: 90,000,000 mile long vessel of indeterminate origin with a superlaser and point-defence super-heavy turbolasers.


OOCness: This is satire, right? A compelling argument why, if I plan to do anything with BLACKGRUE (and I do, just not sure which nation gets the biscuit) I shall have to make it in a closed thread.

"Sir, A ship broke off the main group and is headed our way, fast, another fleet appears to be on the way as well."
"There was a gas giant that we past in the last system..."
"Yes Sir, course set. Do you want to go all the way in Sir?"
"Half depth for now. Keeps sensors on our follower I want to know where he is at all times."
"Very good Sir."

*The small ship made a sharp turn and headed back the way it came. Its FTL drive under full stress (warp 3) having recently been salvaged and installed was leaking a small partical trail behind the vessel...

(I will be roleplaying a race that has sought out the Borg and actually wish to be assimialated. That oughtta be original eh? PM me if I can participate)

OOC: I make it a policy not to enter into battle with any nation that has not arranged it with me prior... especially ones who OVERKILL WITHOUT NEGOTIATING WITH GODMOD SIZED VESSELS. Therefore you leave me no choice but to ignore you... and to do so in a manner befiting a technogeek like myself... with a lengthy and unnessicary tech descriptions for things that most people use as RP devices

START:

Against the 2 arriving fleets, the Borg were forced to deploy their latest weapon. The diamond-class vessels formed an I.G.N.O.R.E.* energy web to envelop their entry points as they exited from FTL. This locked them into a state of alternate reality forcing them into a timeline where the Borg have chosen not to invade this particular universe.

*Tech exposition time!: I.G.N.O.R.E. or Isotemporal General Non-Ordered Resonance Emitters are an energy web based weapon transporting vessels into a timeline similar but not the same to the current one they are in. The Borg use this technology to transfer to a timeline where the Borg do not exist, this energy web can affect vessels with shields running under any known form of energy due to the isotemporal nature of the weapon, even so-called "temporal shields" because this weapon does not affect the current timeline in any way because it in-effect also transfers all the Borg vessels into a timeline where the target (and any vessels related to the target) do not exist as well due to the Borg hive-mind.

OOC: Well, I had posted a big OOC explanation last night but NS forums seems to have eaten it.

Basically, the Golden Ship is a ruse de guerre, it's got a few point-defense weapons around the really small command ship/engine block bit, the rest is an ultra-light foam lattice that's impervious to most scanning. It's a huge distraction.

The Superlasers really are 1E22 (10 million trillion) ton yield weapons, it's been mathematically proven by people far nerdier than I (e.g. Star Destroyer dot net).

Anyway, as you're going to be BORING and use Ignore-level weapons...

IC:

ANNOUNCEMENT OF TOTAL AND UTTER VICTORY BY THE GRAND FLEET OVER THE SPACE BOLSHEVIKS

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c51/GenSteiner/empire-vs-borg-cube.jpg
Above: The last surviving cube before its complete destruction by elements of the Grand Fleet. The flare in the top right-corner is the exploding planet.

OOC: Atop, the SD.net stuff is biased and wank. The generally accepted NS measure for an Axial Super Laser is 1/3rd the strength of the GE's Death Star, just enough to crack the surface of a planet.
Oh, and nice Godmod, there in your last post. Black was in his full right to ignore you. Something like that god ship of yours should take RL years to design and build, not overnight.

OOC: He's ignoring me, so what does it matter? I could quite happily have announced that 10 million clowns ran off with his solar system's star :p

Instead I posted a pretty picture. :)

Oh, expect a TG.

The use of said godmod ship is unrelistic in any universe, the use of such a laser could only be a planet based weapon and even then that planet must have an extraodinary power supply. A highly focused Plasma Partical Cannon using antimatter charged particals is more efficient and more reasonable, although still extremely advanced and instant attraction by the Borg would commence. My 2 cents.

The use of said godmod ship is unrelistic in any universe, the use of such a laser could only be a planet based weapon and even then that planet must have an extraodinary power supply. A highly focused Plasma Partical Cannon using antimatter charged particals is more efficient and more reasonable, although still extremely advanced and instant attraction by the Borg would commence. My 2 cents.

Take any issues with the Golden Ship up with Cordwainer Smith, then.

As for the Superlasers... I'm not the one doing the maths, I just use the results. *shrug* Besides, it doesn't matter as I've been ignored :p so carry on derailing his thread, chaps, I don't mind. :)

(checks for pulse)

It's official... this RP is dead. Now saying that, I don't know why Blackgrue-san here had to ignore these fine folk. If you consider Star Destroyers a threat then... heh. (Granted that's another dicussion for another time) Now, saying that, you people shouldn't go into the finer details of how a superlaser works or whatnot.

It still makes things go boom.

Now you lot kiss and make up, shut up, and RP. In my opinion you people are nitpicking for no reason. At all.

The Superlasers really are 1E22 (10 million trillion) ton yield weapons, it's been mathematically proven by people far nerdier than I (e.g. Star Destroyer dot net).
My username there is NecronLord. I'm a supermod on SDN. Therefore, if you're appealing to the collective authority of the site, you must also take mine on board. Namely; The Galactic Empire's homeworld alone had a population of not less than a trillion people (RotS novel. Palpatine). Quadrillions or even Quintillions throughout the Empire. While the Death Star wasn't a massive undertaking for them, it was notciable enough that it needed to be hidden in their budgetary statements (Moff Jerjerod, commander of number two, was officially in charge of a 'power generation research project'). You have a population of 1.5 billion. You are not the Galactic Empire. Using the SW tech base, you cannot afford to make what they can. Let alone your super-ship, which out-displaces the entire Imperial Fleet, and its Merchant Marine by orders of magnitude.

You are not even equivalent to an insignificant fraction of the Galactic Empire. Of the millions or even billions of warships in the Galactic Empire's fleets, you could afford maybe...

A squadron or two of fighters.

Using SDN figures, of course.

OOC: Atop, the SD.net stuff is biased and wank. The generally accepted NS measure for an Axial Super Laser is 1/3rd the strength of the GE's Death Star, just enough to crack the surface of a planet.


Actually, there's worlds of difference. That figure's just something spectacularly ignorant produced by the EGVV writer. In actuality, you'd be talking maybe a few teratons to crack the crust; a few hundred for a good sized blast from a ship the size of the Eclipse, scaling the existing figures.

OOC: @Ctan: Just following the advice of others (like Chrono), and my own personal preference, of not really giving a damn about stats. I prefer character interaction. Sure, I may have the base stats for my stuff, but I don't really give a rat's ass about doing the hard math data Atop's ranting about using.

Can you please take this discussion to the Arguments Thread linked in my sig. This RP has been hyjacked by the discussion and it should be given a chance to continue without a multiple posts sidetracking the Thread.

Thank you

The Scavenge vessel arived at the gas giant and headed into the atmosphere...

"Sir, Sensors and communications are now out of commision, a partical trail has been disovered leaking from the engine, it appears to be reacting to the atmosphere."
"How so?"
"The particals are igniting a small trail of the gas, I'm not sure why. I sent the engineer to fix it but the enviroment suit we have won't hold up for long in the heat."
"We'll leave the plane then. Send a message to Atantium Prime let Synth Corp. know where we are. Give themthe details we got about the fleet nearby. Advise them to send the BlackBird to take a closer look."
"Sir"

A transmission was sent to Synth Corp. it would arrive to late, the small vessel's engine would not stand up to the stress of the flight...A huge explosion would be detected by the BlackBird, it was running surveys of the Blue Dwarf in Atantium, as the scavenger ship would go critical and the explosion would react violently to the Gas Giant and its Atmoshpere.

(checks for pulse)

It's official... this RP is dead. Now saying that, I don't know why Blackgrue-san here had to ignore these fine folk. If you consider Star Destroyers a threat then... heh. (Granted that's another dicussion for another time) Now, saying that, you people shouldn't go into the finer details of how a superlaser works or whatnot.

It still makes things go boom.

Now you lot kiss and make up, shut up, and RP. In my opinion you people are nitpicking for no reason. At all.

I'm ignoring him because he is using tech-wank level weapons on that "golden ship" of his (which cooincidentially is about double the size of jupiter) I'm ignoreing his ally for failing to negotiate with me. And that's about it.

OOC: What the vessel looks like http://www.gearsonline.net/gunbuster/aliens/bw68.jpg

IC:

Slowly the vessel explored the space around it. The combine had found a rather rich mineral galaxy. The creatures aboard the vessels collected data from each planet they passed. They where enslaved ones. The collars around there neck showed this and made sure they did not escape. Quietly the ships took note of each planet and the stragtic, tech level and minerals the planet had.

A few hours later they noted there was activity withen the region. They had picked up a very large force of an unknown race. They seemed to be invading the galaxy itself. The creatures searched and searched the information they had but no record of whatever this race is. The Combine had never seen such an invasion fleet and worst of all they had no idea how to combat it if needed...

(OOC: Can't say fairer than that, I'll delete my older post then if you want

sure, you can still participate if you send a proper first contact fleet rather then a battle fleet... but it is not my policy to deal with people who declare war within 2 seconds of seeing my forces for the first time.)

The shell-like vessel was picked up by the borg sensor network, a sphere was sent to investigate. eminating from the vessel was a subsspace collective network signal, similar to the borg's own. The sphere continued to close in on the vessel, weapons unpowered.

Dimensional breaches, such as the one created by the Borg 'Colony Fleet' or whatever it deigned to consider itself, resounded throughout the universe like a gong. Some of these resulting waves of disruption traveled at relativistic velocities, and others moved far faster.

It was this latest disruption that caused a rather large number of sensory nodes to turn towards a system of the Milky Way... the old and decrepit point of humanity's origin.

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Does it match any recognized method of superspace travel?

Analysis does not recognize any exact match, but indications read as a possible variant of Transwarp. Energy and sub-space fluctuations support this conclusion. The manipulations are very precise, however, indicating a high probability that the originator of this disruption was Borg or some variant thereof.

Ah, kindred spirits, though a tad too rigid for our tastes, hmm?

There is no guarantee that this variant is as dour as previously observed. The probability, however, is quite high in any event.

Still, why would they wish to go THERE? That place is too crowded.

There are still unsettled sectors, few though they might be.

Eh. Lets send a survey mission, see if we can get any information from them about their dimensional breach. This is something different enough to warrant exploration, hey?

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And so it was that not too long after the arrival of the Borg Sub-Collective, or whatever they deigned to call it, that five Kython Slaughterkings materialized at the edge of the system and sent out a rather loud ping on all frequencies, in order to announce their arrival and also prevent the 'Locals' from thinking they were being snuck up on.

The Slaughterking Destroyers simply held position and waited for a vessel to approach them.

The Borg queen heard the ping being sent out by the 5 new ships arriving, unlike the previous few contacts in this system, this group seemed to actively be contacting the collective rather then simply looking and then running away. She decided to answer them personally, Her diamond took off to their position flanked by a pair of cubes, They arrived shortly thereafter, opening a hailing frequency.

The BlackBird was Atantium's Flag ship, a relitivly new cruiser design that NuTech had acquired. It had been fitted with the new magpulse engine system, it had 4 rail guns and 1 missile turret. It reached the Borg occupied system but the captain had never heard of such a race. The magpulse engines slowed and dropped out of FTL, the ship had just been through all ship assesments, and was a fully operational Electronic Warfare Platform, decked out with a technology stolen from a damaged ship, the Warp Web, along with standard EW equipment, empolying this as soon as they were in the system. Any antimatter based engine would have a decrease in efficientcy, effectvly slowing the ship by 15%.

"Lets hope these... cyborgs, are willing to let us run some EW tests"

A missile was launched at the nearest bouy, the Web was holding the bouy...

“Sir.”

“Yes Lieutenant?”

“We have picked up a possible dimensional excursion. Godular has units on site and we are getting signals through the Kython Link. It appears another civilization has just arrived and is setting up shop.”

“Is the planet they are occupying inhabited?”

“The catalog shows that to be a negative.”

“Send in a representative, but keep support ready. Make contact with them and find out more. We cannot proceed without knowledge first.”


Later:

A wormhole tore itself open near the edge of the system. A single ship flew from the maelstrom which collapsed behind the tiny shuttle. The single silvery ship headed into the system. Slowing to a crawl near the Slaughterstars, it stopped and sent a message.

“Greetings, from the Balrogga Empire. We wish to open communications with you and would like to meet.

A ship approaches. A diamond-shaped affair that seems to be of significance to the collective. Sensors show that the Collective Link seems to emanate from the vessel as if it is some form of hub. Analysis suggests that this would be the Queen, according to previous documented encounters.

Ah, the one that refers to itself as 'I' rather than 'We'.

We are being hailed.

Well, we would not have pinged if we had not wished to be communicated with. Open the channel.

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Almost as soon as the Borg Diamond initiated a hailing frequency, a response came, though only through auditory channels.

Greetings and Salutations. We are the Godulan Legion. We desire to initiate a dialogue, in... 'person' preferably.

The Atlantium incursion was mostly ignored, the action did not seem hostile nor powerful enough to cause concern. A repair sphere was dispatched to repair any damage to the bouy.

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The Balroggan arrival was met with a sphere hailing it, the Borg queen lamented the fact that drones are not effective diplomats and there was only one of her... but she shook it off, the collective will speak as one.

"WE ARE THE BORG. NEGOTIATION AND DIPLOMACY HAS BEEN DEEMED PRUDENT. WE REQUEST TO SEND A REPRESENTATIVE TO YOUR VESSEL TO SPEAK FOR THE COLLECTIVE."

---

The queen turned her attention to the Godulan vessels now, she mentally manipulated the holo-console before her to allow visual contact to be established with them.

"I speak for the collective. Diologe does seem prudent in this situation, I humbly request permission to beam aboard your vessel."

The collective y'n of three billion minds compressed into one oscillating thought pattern rippled though the seas of nothingness. Shivers of /cold-ice-fingers/ flicked over the nitrating glands of the /adept-hold-conscious/ as they mined the colossal vesicant spores of RedLeaf Planet. Plumes of acid burst from their pores as they worked the wet mining fields.

The shiver carried inward to the /secondary-greater-thought-pattern/. Impressions of a massive mind encased in steel symbiotics, of billions of wriggling souls trapped within an endless, empty unity of purpose.

Trace ripples across the surface mind
seek we the stone body
Toward the center
Travel to the center stone

A million minds away, a hundred phosphorous tipped organic antennae vibrated in the silence of a vacuum space. A /space-worm/ was excreted from its surface then floated through the multi-fissures of the asteroid's core toward its surface. It broke free from its rocky egg and oozed through space toward the collective and the gathering alien hosts.

"Sir! A level 5 Z-space shift is approaching rapidly, orders?!"
The captain's eyes widened, a level 5 shift would rip the ship apart before sending them back to normal space, "Helm! Drop us out, NOW!"
The helmsmen tapped rapidly, and repeatedly, on the panel in front of him, "the Z-space shields are not responding!"
"Well shi---" the ship lurched, control panels ripped from their bases, sparks flew, and through one of the port holes the white cloud that was z-space moved before it turned black. The captain groaned and slowly picked himself from the floor, "Damage report?"
"Shields, main power, and grav-plating are down. Life support is at 38%. And 40% of the outer hull is... gone. The casualty report just came in... The good news is we have too much life support, the bad news, we are down to 5% crew..." the operations officers face was grim.
"Seal off everything that needs to be, and find out where we are!" the captain touched his face, feeling his eyes. They were open, but he could not see. "And could someone help me to med bay?"
An ensign helped him to his feet and to the med bay. His ship was in peaces and most of his craw was dead, the lord would have his head on a platter.
"Sir?" the operations officer found him lying on a med bay, waiting for the only med tech to come to him, "We found something,"
"Where are we?"
"20.53 light years from the Dictatorship, but that’s not what we found!" the Ops officer replied, "This system has a tech level 50 culture!"
"What?!" the captain bolted up, this would save his job.

Again, solely on auditory channels, the response came almost before the Queen even completed her transmission.

We apologize, but we are unable to acquiesce to your request. Our ships are solid. There is nowhere for anyone to beam to. We would suggest an envoy of our own boards your ship or, barring that possibility, interaction on some form of neutral structure.

The /space-worm/ slithered through space, feeling its way over the gravitational eddies and whorls created by stars. Though the void was silent, the bubbling oil in its head cavity was a constant, murmuring lullaby that filled its senses.

Weeks passed in the /then-now-later/...

On the edge of the system was an outlying asteroid field. Though processing a brain no larger than a human fist, and unable to conceptualize the /home/ abstractive, the mineral rich cluster of planetoids produced /seek-pleasure-response/ in its tertiary limbus system. The /space-worm/ slid into the cluster, easily losing itself to the mild gravitational pull of the assorted mass and slipping over the surface of one asteroid after another. It settled in a hovering pattern over one silicate heavy planetoid approximately 35 km in diameter, holding absolutely still for exactly 1056 seconds before wiggling its serpentine body in a wave to a new position and holding for another 1056 seconds.

The asteroid could provide sustenance for the /space-worm/ and it waited now with infinite patience for some internal signal to dine.

The Balroggan arrival was met with a sphere hailing it, the Borg queen lamented the fact that drones are not effective diplomats and there was only one of her... but she shook it off, the collective will speak as one.



"WE ARE THE BORG. NEGOTIATION AND DIPLOMACY HAS BEEN DEEMED PRUDENT. WE REQUEST TO SEND A REPRESENTATIVE TO YOUR VESSEL TO SPEAK FOR THE COLLECTIVE."

The small shuttle replied a few moments after they received the transmission.

"While I appreciate the offer, is there a place I can meet with you? The shuttle is only meant to be transport and not a meeting place. If there was space available we can meet on your vessels or even a planet. I apologize for the inconvenience.

If the shuttle was scanned it would be found scarcely large enough for a couple humanoids and the presence of weapons was completely missing as well as anything more powerful than typical navigational shielding.

The BlackBird just sat there after it had fired off its missile. The buoy was not affected much by the premature blast caused by the Web. On board sensors detected the incoming Sphere, hull plating charged nanobots ready to repair any damage the ship might take. The rail guns stood on stand by, and an automated transmission was sent out to the sphere.

**( now that we have some of your attention, the BlackBird is a suitable place for communication between you (the Borg) and the other Aliens that have come to this system if there is need of it. )**

The message was sent in binary so that it would not need to be translated.

After the message had been sent the BlackBird’s magpulse engines carried it into the Warp Web and to the buoy. Once there an electronic array was aimed at it…

OOC: Tag for possible involvement. Where's Species 8742 when you need em?

Starfleet had taken notice of the Borg invading the galaxy. The threat was very real, but with the Cardassian War just ending and the fact that the Dominion was now allied with the former foes and preparing for a strike, it was doubtful Starfleet would muster many ships if any at all to fight the Borg while they remained outside of IDF space.

The specter of the upcoming Dominion War was just too much for Starfleet. Shipbuilding as at an all time high and they had just finished replentishing a depleted and damaged fleet. They couldn't go through another rebuilding phase during a time when the fleet was needed to grow from 615 vessels to 2,000.

IDF:
"Where's Species 8742 when you need em?"

((Species 8472.))

Atlantium:

The Sphere opened a hailing frequency via the collective's universal translator.

WE ARE THE BORG. YOU HAVE FIRED UPON PROPERTY OF THE COLLECTIVE, WE DEMAND AN EXPLANATION BEFORE DIPLOMACY CAN COMMENSCE

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Godular:

The queen smirked and replied.

Borg vessels do not normally require diplomatic quarters... But perhaps as you implied negotiations would be easier on a neural interface, I'll beam over a neural tranciever, we can communicate through that.

Before the vessel's pilot could respond a small device appeared on his console in a green flash.

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Balrogga:

The collective knew they were in a weaker diplomatic state with Balrogga, lacking the diplomatic face of the queen, they had to aquiesce to the vessel's request.

The collective replied,

PROCESSING... CONFIRMED, SENDING COORDINATES OF COMMUNICATIONS POINT, SIGNAL WHEN YOU WISH TO BE TRANSPORTED.

Xa’Non concentrated momentarily and strengthened his PK field to harden his projected form. They would find it easier to lock upon his "body" and transfer him over to their ship.

“You can initiate transfer at any time after my transmission.”

OOC: I meant it when I said that the ships were solid... any scans of the Kython ship would show a solid mass of crystalline matter with no recognizable pockets of air or vacant space. The ships also register a rather large power signature, but they are relatively powered down at the present time.

The neural interface, unable to find a viable place to materialize, simply reappeared upon the borg vessel as though it had never left. As soon as it reappeared on the diamond, a message came in response:

We sense an attempted transport onto our ship. We hope we did not cause anything to discorporate.

We feel it necessary to clarify. By 'Neutral Interaction', our intent is to convey the notion of a meeting on a neutral ground of some form. A relatively uninhabitable planetoid would be an effective site, and we take note that this system has many of such things.

Audio Recording...
...Start Trans...

To the Borg:
The missile fired exploded before impact, it was meant to get your attention. We did not feel comfortable going into heavily patroled space. We have repaired what we could and adapted our communications array, to the same frequency as your ships. No hostile action was intended, hence the Web.

I now designate the BlackBird Neutral Territory. All systems onboard will be on minimum power. Please, provide atmosphiric conditions in which you will meet the others, a cargo bay will be prepared.

Use of the BlackBird comes at a price however... Terms will be laid out after conformation.

Prometheus,
Capt. of the BlackBird

Communication with all Borg and other Aliens autherized by the 8 Mega Corporations of the Atantium State.

...End Trans...

One of the Kython Slaughterking destroyers broke formation and moved towards the Atantium Blackbird, going from a standstill to a blistering speed nigh instantaneously. Its power signature spiked as well, showing a rapid increase to a level far beyond what should be normal for its size. It appeared as a great crystalline disk, darting out towards the Atantium vessel.

For a moment, it seemed like the Kython destroyer was intending to ram the ship, but as quickly as it got to full speed, it came to a halt, though this was not the end of the momentary spectacle. A great surge of energy ripped forth from the Kython's bow, with no obvious source of the burst, and tore its way through space across the Blackbird's bow, so close that the ship's proximity sensors would go off, and the sheer amount of radiation coming from the bolt of energy would cause the Blackbird's hull to sizzle for a moment.

As soon as the bolt dissipated in the distance, a message went to the Blackbird.

Now that we got your attention, HI!

On another note, wandering into a system held by another power and then causing an explosion 'to get attention', followed with rather heavy-handed declarations, is generally regarded as a hostile act, the same as you might consider us 'getting all up on your grill' and firing a Protium Arc blast so close to your nose we would not be surprised if you got rugburn.

For future reference, if you want to get one's attention, it is called a hailing frequency.

Xa’Non contacted the computer in his shuttle.

"Autopilot, record and send message to alien ship firing upon our location. Afterwards, send for reinforcements and keep them Uplifted."

"Yes Ambassador."

Moments later the messages were sent, one on regular frequencies and one coded transmission send via the shuttle's Space Minus Transmitter.

Dear sirs

It is not in your best interest to fire upon a diplomatic vessel of any sort when attempting first contact meetings. The act of firing on any vessel is generally taken as an aggressive act of war and usually replied by like actions in retaliation. Your subsequent destruction of the aforementioned missile could also be taken as either mocking the ships in question or even showing you do not possess the resolve to carry through with the threats you implied.

Furthermore, you add insult by offering your ship, the one targeted by every weapon system in range as neutral territory “for a price to be determined later”. You should undertake different tactics for filling your conference hall bookings because those will not work. Because of your actions, the Balrogga Empire does not recognize your vessel as Neutral aligned territory, rather as hostile territory until further notice. I am only speaking in my behalf so if you want the opinions of the others, you will have to ask them. I believe one of the others has already spoken to you about that very fact.

Thank you for your time and consider these words as delivered with the utmost confidence that we can in regards to you examining your actions and making a positive change.

Ambassador Xo’Non
Balrogga Empire

...Audio Trans Start...

To both Balrogga and Godular Vessals.
I have taken your reactions into account, but the actions that I comanded were, designed in a way for My ship to adapt its comm frequenices to your levels. Our normal comm chanels are sesigned to be sent to HomeStation, the frquencies we use are ment to travel through the void of space between systems. We have made repairs to the Borg buoy as well, bringing it up to its normal function level.
I apologise for my actions as they were, interperted. I will in the future remeber your words of advice and they have been relayed to HomeStation.
As coming from Atantium State, I am accustumed to the 8 Mega Corporations Idealology, Do everything for profit.

To Godular Vessel.
Please, move out of the Warp Web. I will shut it done when you are outside of it. There are certain types of particals that it reacts to, it will halt all Warp capable ships. Your ship is lucky not to have said particals in your weapons system.

To the Borg.
Your buoy has been repaired.

...End Trans...

OOC. The warp Web disables all warp engines. Certain particals will react with it causing it to explode, currently being modified to fix this. Salvaged tech can sometimes be dangerous. The explosion is not so powerful that it would destroy a crusier sized ship or bigger, but it can knock systems offline, and shields. (it's EMP)

Within moments of the Atantium vessel's response, the Kython vessel hovering mere kilometers away vanished from existence, rematerializing next to its compatriots as if it had never departed their company.

OOC: Godulan vessels do not use warp, though they know the fundamentals of doing so. The only particle weapon they have is the Protium Arc Disintegrator, which is essentially an area-effect fusion cannon. Godulan Heavy Artillery. Otherwise, Godulan vessels leave no particle traces in their path nor do they incorporate exotic particles into their operating processes.

Atlantium:

The sphere began charging it's EM Field and adaptive shielding as internal configurations were shifted from repair to combat, no weaponry was charged nor any additional weapons constructed.

ATLANTIUM VESSEL, YOUR ACTIONS THUS-FAR HAVE BEEN UNDIPLOMATIC AND HAVE BEEN DEMED HOSTILE, PREPARATIONS ARE BEING MADE TO ACCOMIDATE THE OTHER DELAGATES, YOU ARE WELCOME TO JOIN BUT IT WILL BE ON OUR TERMS. ANY FURTHER HOSTILE ACTION WILL BE RESPONDED IN KIND. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.

---

Godular:

The queen cursed their translation software for a moment and considered

"I and my drones are capable of surviving in any environment as well... perhaps if we were to meet on the surface of say the cube to the starboard of my vessel. Would that be sufficient?"

---

Balrogga:

The pilot of the vessel was transported to junction 6 of the nearby Borg sphere. This section was chosen as only a single drone was present there and the room itself could be reconfigured.

http://ditl.org/internals/GMiscSphere2.jpg

The drone detatched itself from it's alcove and spoke.

"I am designated 13 of 128, primary adjunct of Unimatrix 001. I speak for the collective."

The shell like vessel had trouble communicating. The aliens on board where never meant to serve as speakers. Just slaves and collectors. They tried to send a message to the sphere but only useless sound and screeches came out. Luckly a real Combine ship was montioring the siuation and moved in.

It had been stationed at a near by planet to keep an eye on the slaves as there had been fears they might have tried to escape. The ship quickly overshadowed the smaller one.


Transmission begin: Hello unknown beings. We are a collective race called The Combine. we have been traveling galaxy to galaxy searching for planets with raw materiels or to sell. You are not in our current records of known space faring species. To fix our records we wish to know what you are.

End Transmission....

“Greetings 13 of 128, primary adjunct of Unimatrix 001. I am known as Xo’Non.”

“We have a desire to contact your species and initiate dialogue with you. Foremost, due to actions taken by a third party, there are reinforcements approaching this system. You might not be able to detect them but if your sensors are able to locate their presence, I don’t want you to be alarmed. I am certain you were monitoring the recent broadcasts and thus understand my actions.”

“Where would you like to begin?”

...Start Trans...

To Borg.

I will accept all terms.

...Hold...

A message has been recieved from HomeStation... A diplomatic ship has been sent. The BlackBird has been recalled and I shall not see another system. The ship that will take my place here is commanded by Apalat, CEO of Apalat Corp. He is the standard ambassador.
Prometheus, Capt. of the BlackBird.

...End Trans...

The Magpulse drive systems of the BlackBird were charged ready for its flight back home.

Shortly after the frigate, ASDF (Atantium State Diplomatic Frigate) jumped into the system. Along with it were two Fast Attack ships that formed up with the BlackBird to take it home.

<Trans>

Greetings to all. My name is Apalat, I am the CEO of Apalat Corporation and diplomat of the Atantium State. I am imbarassed at Prometheus' actions, he will be 'reeducated' in the ways of diplomatic affairs. I wish to talk with all species present. And after certain events I will comply to your terms.

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
Adaption in all situations continues survival.

Untill the conclusion of all diplomatic talks, no Transmission will be sent to HomeStation. We will make no further mistakes.

<End>

OOC. This happens to the first time that NuTech sent out a ship outside the system. NuTech Captains are trained to be somewhat 'trigger happy'. Apalat is the oldest Corp. and has the most experiance with diplomacy. (One small disadvantage to having 8 MegaCorps. running the State, no central government.)

There was a slight pause from the Slaughterkings, as if to show some amount of deliberation amongst themselves, before the response came.

The location is suitable. Notify us when you are ready for our arrival. We assume you will have a method to communicate in vacuum?

Xen:

The diamond near the shell-like vessel replied.

WE ARE THE BORG. WE SEEK TO IMPROVE OURSELVES AND QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL SPECIES BY ASSIMILATING BIOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS INTO OUR COLLECTIVE. WE ARE NOT NATIVE TO THIS TIMELINE, AS SUCH DIPLOMACY HAS BEEN DEEMED PRUDENT AT THIS TIME. WE WISH TO ENGAGE DIOLOGE WITH YOUR SPECIES.

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Balrogga:

The drone nodded "The Atlantum vessel has not acted according to diplomatic protocols. It has been warned by our forces to discontinue it's actions or it will be assimilated. Your reenforcements are apprecieted but unnessicary."

The central pylon in the room slowly descended revieling a table, nanites and replicators in the constructor bay had already scanned their guest and constructed chairs to accomidate him and the drone, these were beamed in to the room.

"We should start at the beginning, We know non-collective races sometimes give varying degrees of authority to their members. How far are you authorised to say on behalf of your people?" the drone said sitting in the chair designed for him.

---

Godular:

The queen smirked again. "I am Borg. The shields are down, come in for a landing when ready, my drones will send any gravitonic data you require." in a green flash she was transported to the surface of the chosen cube.

---

Atlantium:

A transmission was sent to the new Atlantium ambassidor.

ACCOMIDATIONS ARE BEING MADE FOR A GENERAL MEETING. THE COLLECTIVE WOULD LIKE TO SEND A REPRESENTITIVE TO YOUR VESSEL IF THAT IS ACCEPTIBLE.

(OOC: why did you toss in resistance is futile there? I know I said that, but it was for like 2 conversations ago)

About half a minute after the Queen arrived at the designated meeting spot, one of the Kython Slaughterkings twitched almost imperceptibly. In normal atmospheric conditions, the arrival of an Avatar of the Swarm would be accompanied by a loud *PWUMM* sound as the air displaced itself to make room for the newcomer, however, as there was no air to carry sound, the Avatar's arrival came unheralded by light or by sound.

One moment there was nothing, the next there was the Avatar.

Standing six feet even, it seemed for all intents and purposes to be a typical male human being with pale skin, black hair, and unnaturally perfect musculature. Its eyes blazed a vivid green as they looked out with impossible intensity, glowing with some form of inner energy, and its clothing consisted of a simple vest and pants, both ornately embroidered, which posed something of a counterpoint to the fact that the Avatar stood barefoot. It clasped its hands before its chest, holding onto what appeared to be a magnificently shaped crystal cane, upon which rested a golden cougar of similar craftsmanship. Every so often, a crackle of light green-hued electricity coursed across the surface of its body, as though its own body struggled to contain itself within its vessel.

It turned its serene yet palpably strong gaze upon the borg queen, displaying a disconcerting smile. As it did so, a strong voice began to speak in the queen's own highly-trafficked mind with perfect enunciation and strangely clipped words.

Greetings. We are Ajax. We are the voice of the Legion for the purposes of this encounter. We hope we do not intrude by utilizing the same channels as your collective.

The scans would reveal Xo’Non was actually hollow. There were no internal organs present and only a strong psychokinetic shell formed his external shell. It could be compared to a hologram but without any energy source or projector.

Xo’Non bowed his head in respect to his host.

“I apologize if I exceeded protocol in reminding the alien vessel of their manners. I did what I thought was right at the moment.”

Xo’Non took a seat in the indicated chair and waited for his host to take his.

“That is apparently all behind us at the moment. Where would you like to start? I believe a good place would be to clarify a mistake assumption you made about me. Your comment about us not being a collective is wrong. All Ta’Nar are connected as well as our Childer. We all have a group conscious as well as an individual one. All members of the Diplomatic Services are vessels for the Emperor and have the authority to act on the Empire’s behalf. Nhur-Galladu is able to experience anything I encounter and he can speak through me at any moment.”

“The Ta’Nar and the Childer are pure minds. We evolved out of our bodies long ago. The Childer were the humans of Balrogga before we evolved them into their current state. You could say they are our children in a way. We project Psychokinetic energy shells to act as out bodies so we can interact with others.”

“I felt that disclosure was necessary to show we were not hiding anything.”

Godular:

The queen smiled brightly using the collective's subspace channels to reply.

"Not at all, this mode of communication is much more efficient then verbal communication anyways. Where shall we begin?"

---

Balrogga:

The drone nodded "I apologise on behalf of the collective for my mistake. Perhaps we should move on to a proposition." the drone extended his assimilation tubules into the table, the nanites within the tubules reformed some of the internal workings of the table into a holocube displaying charts and graphs of the raw materials of the planets the collective had just assimilated.

"These planets were chosen because of their high mineral and organic content. The collective will however be short on finished goods and advanced materials for some time. For this purpose we are willing to trade large quantities of these raw materials in addition to schematics of Borg technology in exchange for industiral technologies and advanced composite materials."

“We don’t need to trade raw materials. We can send you some Orbital Factories to create those products as a show of good will between our nations. You can use those raw materials as a base for the manufactured goods through molecular rearrangement the industrial replicators uses to break down and reform them into the required end product. The only problem is the difficulty of the upper end of the periodic table. Heavy elements takes some time but it can be done.”

Ajax made no motion to acknowledge the Queen's response, but the voice responded immediately.

For some time, we have sought all possible information regarding the workings of the universe. Basic manipulations are our focus, with technology, telepathy, and even the mysteries of the arcane finding themselves under our scope.

We seek perfection, much as you do, but we do not do so by appropriating the fundamental aspects of others into ourselves, as we are technically minded enough to apply basic principles with suitable proficiency to match their forebears. It has proven quite useful in strategic circles, but more than anything we enjoy the challenge of deciphering the most intimate aspects of the universe.

We come to you because you have information that we find important. We detected your arrival in this system, and also that you came here from another universe entirely. Analysis shows that this was achieved via a specific perturbation of transwarp that enabled a more complete breach of the dimensional wall. We wish to learn how. We would also like to learn about your Adaptation capabilities.

In return... we would offer weapons technology that you might find lucrative.

Balrogga:

"This is acceptable. Once we construct our industrial replicators, heavier materials will become easy to produce... it's gaining the composite materials needed to construct those replicators that is the problem." the drone wheezed slightly. Seeing the balroggan ambassidor's confustion he stopped. "I apologise. It is sometimes deemed useful in diplomacy to attempt humor, the collective seems to have failed in this endevor."

---

Godular:

The collective processed this, ensuring to encrypt this particular line of thought. The encrypted process was labled with an audio-tag in the queen's voice "We all need some secrets don't we?"

The queen finally spoke. "I will grant you technological specifications of the universal gateway which can breach alternate timelines as well as the timeline viewing wetware required to aim the gateway, only under the condition that it is not used to go to our home timeline. In addition I am willing to trade adaptive shielding specifications as well as the nano-augmentation allowing easy installation of such shielding in vessels and personell under the conditions of a non-aggression pact signed by our people." She smirked again "We don't want our own toys used against us do we?"

We consider any new entity that we meet to be under a mutual non-aggression pact. We do not start fights. We simply finish them.

The timeline scanning and nanotech implementation methods are unneccessary concessions. Our own dimensional scanning methods have served us well, and there is no installation required as our nature makes us... quite mutable.

In many ways we are not unlike the Borg. While the Borg can adapt defenses against a multitude of weapons, we can ourselves duplicate the effects of any weapon or technology of which we have percieved the utilization. If we see how something is done, we swiftly acquire the capacity to match. Similar also is that the minds of all Godulans are bound together, though each mind retains its voice, we answer to the collective will.

I am Legion...

The next phrase came in a nigh overwhelming pulse of voices all speaking in unison. Billions of voices all speaking the same three words with the same tone and enunciation:

We are one.

Godular:

The queen smirked again, the shielding of trhe cube changed a little bit and the cube vented some atmosphere into the area, a number of speakers were beamed to the surface.

These speakers boomed out. "WE ARE THE BORG! WE WISH TO IMPROVE OURSELVES AND QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL SPECIES. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE."

The queen couldn't help but giggle. "I beg your indulgence, I have a flair for the dramatic you understand."

Xo'Non smiled politely at the drone's joke.

"Is there anything else that we can do for you?"

Balrogga:

The drone thought a moment. "We are willing to trade elements of our technological distinctiveness for yours..." he tapped into the holocube emmitter in the table for a moment, the image shifted to some basic primers on Borg technology. "We are always looking for added technological advances."

Xo'Non glanced at the display.

"Do you mind if I take a closer look at your data? I need to examon it to see if it is different from ours."



OOC:

Check TG (The real purpose of this post. HAHAHA)

"Yes, we have recordings..." Ajax replied with a different voice than had been used with the collective lines, even though his mouth did not move even slightly as he spoke. "Dramatic, but hardly original. It is the same line used as some of the other borg lines found in this universe, and we have found little variance in the usage between the different 'versions' of Borg that we have encountered in our extraplanar travails as well.

"Truth be told, we were somewhat surprised that you had not endeavoured to use that line as you approached us. We felt it quite an honor, and still do, as a matter of fact, that we speak not with a giant speakerbox, or even with an adjunct imbued with temporary avatar status. Indeed, we feel we have been paid a significant compliment in the fact that we have initiated contact with the hub of the collective itself. It shows an unexpected level of trust in our nonhostile intentions far beyond what even we would pay to newcomers, however amicably they make their appearance.

"Honored indeed are we by this situation. Intimidated however, we are not. Might I have your permission to remove a portion of hull material from this vessel? It will be a miniscule amount, no more than a handful..."

Balrogga:

The drone pulled a device from underneith the table, it was rectangular and fit easily in his palm. "This is a Borg information node. It contains the data you need."

---

Godular:

The queen smiled brightly. "Well even if you destroyed my physical self, the collective is programmed to rebuild me immediately... however, my communicating with you personally was a matter of our need to establish trust with you."

The queen then did something somewhat unexpected, her assimilation tubules snaked from her hand into the hull, the nanites reforming a slice of the hull seperating it from the cube, allowing it to float upwards in zero-gravity as the nanites reformed it into a sword... a Klingon would have called it a bat'leth.

"Our hull material i designed to be easily manipulatible with nanotechnology. It's what allows us to repair our vessels so quickly." She took the sword from mid-air gave a practice swing and then handed the sword to Ajax. Noticibly the groove where the material for the sword was taken began to reseal and within seconds it was fully repaired.

"I don't need the device, with your permission I can access the data directly without assistance but I wanted you to allow me the access so you can only have the data you wish shown available."

"What aspects of our technology are you interested in? Drive technology? Sheilds? Replication? Gravimetrics? We have many unique technologies. I will provide examples if you wish."

Xo'Non used his CyberPsi to connect to the device the drone was holding and implanted several different examples of Imperial technology. Along with the visual representations was some basic technological statistics but nothing that was classified.

"Nor do we fear death ourselves," Ajax replied as the weapon was handed to him, "for we cannot die. If our body is destroyed, our minds rejoin the legion and a new avatar is spawned to accomodate us. Though, for the most part, in such hostile situations, destroying us is as bad as letting us continue our operations."

Ajax inspected the Bat'Leth for a moment, then adjusted his grip on the weapon and jammed it into his chest without so much as the twitch of an eyebrow. As soon as the weapon poked into his chest, however, a curious green glow began to emanate around the vicinity of the penetration. In the slightly thin air, electricity crackled across the surface of the weapon with a blistering hum of activity as Ajax readjusted his grip on the weapon again and began to push it further into his body. With each inch passing into him, the crackling electricity grew stronger and stronger, until arcs of energy were leaping off of him onto the surrounding ship hull like some form of emerald tesla display.

After a few agonizing moments, Ajax pushed the last bit of the weapon into himself, and brought his hands out to reveal that no wound remained, no sign existed whatsoever of the weapon that the Avatar had impaled himself with... save for the fact that Ajax now stood a full inch taller, and his musculature seemed to become more pronounced.

"We are not unlike the borg... we seek to learn information about the workings of the universe, but we also seek to appropriate matter and material... we do not use nanotechnology to bring external matter into our collective, we simply take it... bit by bit, atom by atom. We hope we did not cause any concerns with our actions... my intent was to show why we do not fear the prospect of assimilation, specifically by showing that we have our own means of achieving a similar end."

Balrogga:

The drone noticed the connection and nodded "You have permission." he then injected his assimilation tubules into the information node. "Your drive systems seem... intregueing... we are willing to trade our power generation and regenerative hull technologies for them."

(OOC: Power generation for the collective uses artificial quantum singularities and generates energy from the gravitonic activity, it has the added benifit of also providing artificial gravity for their vessels.

OOC Cont.:Regenerative hulls involve creating a composite material easily manipulated by nanotechnology and microgravitonic influences to regenerate the hull quickly and efficiently.)

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Godular:

The queen thought of an appropriate response, and then the answer came to her. "Well then, in the intrests of proposing a trade, technological, and political alliance." The queen then disconnected her right arm from her body, and handed it to Ajax. "I give you my hand in friendship."

The Barudiite vessel entered the system after hearing reports on the presence of their mechanical counterparts: The Borg. Seeing a vessel of unidentified race called Blackbird and a Borg sphere the Barudiite vessel attempted to open up communication with the Borg sphere. Meanwhile they sent a message to the Blackbird.
"We are the Barudii, lower your shields and prepare for integration. Your biological distinctiveness will be added to our own. We have no interest in your technology.
Resistence is Futile."

(((OOC: Is it too late for me to join in. I am new to typing online roleplaying, and my nation has technology equivilant the Battle Star Galactica the new series, i.e. before the fall of the 12 colonies. Missles, Guns, Jump drive, no sheilds.)))

Barudii:
(OOC: The blackbird has left... they replaced it with a diplomatic frigate or unknown name.)

The sphere intercepted the messege sent to the diplomatic frigate and turned to the newcomer.

[quote]YOU HAVE JUST THRETENED A VESSEL IN ACTIVE DIPLOMACY WITH THE COLLECTIVE! REFRAIN FROM SUCH BEHAVIOR IN THE FUTURE OR WE WILL BE FORCED TO FIRE UPON YOU TO RETAIN ACTIVE RELATIONS WITH OUR POTENTIAL ALLIES. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.[quote]

---

Orthodox Gnosticism:

(OOC: You can come in... but I'd warn you that my borg prolly won't take you seriously because of your tech...)

(OOC: You can come in... but I'd warn you that my borg prolly won't take you seriously because of your tech...)

(OOC) that is ok with me, It would be a waste of your time trying to assimilate me :) )

IC: The Chase has been going on for two weeks. BSG 45, the colonial Battlegroup consisting of 2 Mercury Class Battlestars and 5 Valkyrie Class Destroyers, had been chasing two cylon basestars through out the known limits of space.

Admiral Cain: Have you found out where those damn toasters have gone yet.

Lt. Jameson. I believe so sir, they seem to have gone past the red line. I can not be certain though sir, since jumping past the red line causes many vairiables.

Admiral Cain: Make the jump.

After the jump:

Captian Markus: Draidus Contacts Sir, I am picking up multiple ships, none with Colonial Transponders, this must be them. Um... Sir a few of the ships seem to be 4 to 5 times larger than the standard Basestars.

Admiral Cain: Action stations, prepare the alert fighters, and load tubes 1-12 and prepare for a Nuclear strike.

Commander Johnson: Sir they appear to be outside weapons range, and the cyclons are not lauching their Raiders.

(OOC: Since my ships have never encountered another sientient race, outside that of what they created, my basestars are mistakling the Borg, and other ships in the area to be the cylon fleet they were chasing. Also forgive me if my RP'ing sucks, as I said this is my first time :) )

Ajax smirked slightly at the offering, then reached out to 'shake' the proffered hand with a third arm that manifested itself from the Avatar's chest. He then returned the borg arm to its previous owner while his arm re-integrated itself with his body.

He then reached up and removed his head from his shoulders in the same manner as one would remove a hat from their head, and executed a curt bow. Returning his head back to its rightful spot, he spoke again.

"Theatrics aside, there remains the point of what particular weapons technologies you would wish to procure in payment for accepting our proposal. While we cannot allow anyone our more advanced weapons, we have a great deal of other technologies that we have 'procured' from others. In order to determine what might be effective, we must first know what it would be that you require."

20 minutes passes on board the BSG Pegasus, Admiral Cain stares at the Draidus in CIC.

Admiral Cain: Find out what in the frak is going on, I want a raptor to launch in 5 minutes for detailed scans and analysis.

Commander Johnson: Yes sir.

Admiral Cain: Stay at Condition one, but do not launch the alert vipers yet, and order the fleet to say at Condition one.

(Here are the Stats of my ships)

http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Valkyrie

http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Mercury_class

The space worm had eaten its fill then burrowed a tiny den within the asteroid. It nestled within the silicate rich rock, its mind adjusting to the shifting frequencies of the group consciousness. The cylinder mining the asteroids had taken no notice of it but it could still track their movements by the relentless, grinding drone of their hive mind.

As the creature customized itself to the noise, another tune slipped through the ethereal void of space, it was lighter and more pleasing to the space worm's /lower-mind/. Then a third, discordant and unpleasant.

The sounds of space were manifold and endless, if you had the right ears.

Orthodox Gnosticism:

(OOC: If I was you, I'd also RP the ships doing what they do, not just their crews TALKING about them doing it, observe how I RP,

Also for the sake of potential combat (if you're up to it) all posts dealing with you are taking place after all the other diplomats have left the system)

The vessels jumping in using their aptly named FTL drive were quite large compared to most of the vehicles that the collective encountered in this timeline. A cube was sent to investigate scanning the vessel with a large positron beam. The collective processed their findings, the vessel's weapons were impressive if a little low-tech, and it's defences were pitiful, without shields the cube could easily assimilate the vessel on it's own.

The cube finally sent a messege.

WE ARE THE BORG. YOUR VESSEL HAS ENTERED SPACE CONTROLLED BY OUR COLLECTIVE. YOU WILL EXPLAIN YOUR PRESENCE HERE OR BE ASSIMILATED. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.

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Godular:

The queen reattached her arm. "Our negotiations with Balrogga have turned up an interesting piece of technology your people developed jointly with them. I believe the term you use is ion disks. We would certainly be interested in procuring such a weapon."

"Our light discs?" Ajax replied, as if in a small measure of disbelief. Then turned in the general direction of his five ships overhead. As if on cue, one vanished, but rematerialized shortly afterwards with a small asteroid in tow, only a short distance from the cube upon which the Avatar and the Queen were standing. With what amounted to the Slaughterking equivalent to a flick of the wrist, it sent the asteroid darting towards its four compatriots.

The four slaughterkings spread outslightly, angling their disc-like forms as if targeting the asteroid, then with a brilliant flash, ignited great blades of green crackling energy that surrounded the Kython vessels along their circumference. Issuing forth a great telepathic roar that the Queen and likely every other sentient in the system could feel in their own minds, they surged toward the asteroid with phenomenal speed.

The first Slaughterking sliced the asteroid cleanly in two, the second broke off at the last second and came back to slice along a vertical axis relative to the initial cut, rendering the asteroid into fourths. As the third and fourth arrived, the other two had already wheeled about and the fourth Slaughterkings set to dividing the asteroid into smaller and smaller pieces until little was left but a small cloud of ionized mineral vapors.

"The only issue," Ajax said as the four Slaughterkings finally broke off and returned to their positions, "Is that the light discs require a disc-shaped vessel to be effective. They are not easily adapted to the blocky and utilitarian nature of borg architecture."

The queen nodded "Not nessicarily a problem. The technology could be adapted to a single-seated shuttlcraft sized vessel specially built for it... or even a multi-stage torpedo systen if we can miniaturize the technology enough. We borg are nothing if not resourceful."

(ooc: thank you for the roleplaying tips, and for your patience.)

3 of the Valkyrie Class Destroyers move along side the Pegasus. Out of one of it's starport flight pod, a lone Rapter takes off. As it launches it begins to scan the new ship.

3 squadrons of Mark VII vipers take off from the flight pods of the Valkyrie Destroyers, but are holding off positions outside of weapons range.

Raptor 1: Pegasus this is Raptor 1. The ship does not have any radition signatures matching nuclear weapons on board, and we see no sign of known weapons technology. However there is a strange emission surrounding the vechile.

Admiral Cain patch me through tot he unknown vessil.

(Audio signal's only)

This is the colonial vessel Pegasus. We were chasing an enemy fleet and ended up here. Who are you, and are you affiliated with the cylons? If you are not and wish to have a peaceful contact please reply and we will send a diplomat onbard a raptor to your central ship.

Orthodox Gnosticism:

(OOC:...Also for the sake of potential combat (if you're up to it) all posts dealing with you are taking place after all the other diplomats have left the system)."

I have no problem with either diplomacy or combat, but if this does turn to combat I will have jsut a few questions to ask.

1. In the Star trek universe, the borg seem to be able to be able to adapt to energy weapons, but melee, and kenetic they can not. (See Star Trek First Contact when Captian Picard orders the crew to attack the borg in melee combat or when he shots 3 of them with a tomigun) Is this still the case?

2. Your gravon Torpedoes, how much more powerful are they than nuclear warheads? I only ask so if you do decide to attack, that I can RP the appropriate damage that I will be taking.

OOC: sorry Ive been busy with school so thats why I havent talked.

... Start Trans...
To Borg vessal I regret that I can not come over to your ship in person, as ships captain I must have a steady connection with my ship. Please transmit coordinates that I can send a hologram.
... End Trans...

OOC: Barudii, is your trans directed at my frigate or have you cut it off?

"It needs no miniaturization," Ajax replied, bringing his right arm up and bringing forth a blade of crackling green energy from the palm of his hand. "The simple issue is that the size of the blade is relative to how much power one puts into it, or more generally, the size of the vessel that creates the blade. A simple shuttle or torpedo would not be capable of a blade the size of which you witnessed our Slaughterkings employ. It is not a matter of miniaturization at all, but a matter of cost-benefit analysis. Smaller vessels would simply be incapable of dealing significant damage to enemy targets...

"However, the discs were crafted as a derivative to several more mundane technologies that we would be willing to relinquish unto you. The base technologies were longer-ranged energy cannons, which of course do NOT clash in any way whatsoever with the blocky nature of Borg architecture. While they might be somewhat generic (Star wars Turbolasers/Ion Cannons), the modifications that we have been making to them over time are most assuredly not. No doubt you might find further use for them as well."

Orthodox Gnosticism:

(OOC:

1. We CAN adapt to kinetic energy, individual drones can't but the ship can and drones inside the ships can put up forcefields. And don't use the tommygun argument, it was a HOLOGRAPHIC tommy gun, that counts as a weapon the borg hadn't encountered. and it took more then 3 shots from the gun to knock him down... more like 20. As for melee. to get to melee range, you'd leave yourself in assimilation range as well. So the borg don't bother adapting to it.

2. Gravitonic torpeados can't really be compared to nuclear weapons because in practice they are comperable to federation quantum torpeados which are in theory equivelent to a couple thousand hydrogen bombs strapped together in an armor-peircing rocket (Calculating the fact that official sources say they're igniting 20 kilos of zero-point energy). Gravitonic torpeados also make things harder because the damage they cause isn't caused by the explosion, the torpeado casing is flung at an enemy and as it approaches the hull, an anti-graviton generator and 3 smaller graviton generators activate. This creates a unique pressure on the outer hull as the epicenter of the impact pulling to rip the hull out and an outward shell pushing in to tear it from the hull's framework, the end effict is a nice neat 4 foot wide circular cut that floats away from the impact site like a jellyfish, with that particular hallway depressurizing. This leaves the ship more-or-less intact for assimilation as it lessens the chance that I'll destroy anything vital.

And also I'm ITCHING for some combat... sry 'bout that but that fleet is meeting a cube.

Oh and one quick newbie reminder, Don't RP your weapons HITTING my ship, I do the same. Only the person BEING hit determines the damage extent and if it hits at all... it's an imperfect system but a fair one.)

START:

The cube ominously peered at this small fleet, it was obviously technologically backwards compared to them, possibly good targets for assimilation, but probably hard to combat in larger numbers. Judging from the vessels, the collective doubted that they were capable of producing the large fleet numbers needed to take on the cube. The collective finally responded.

"WE ARE THE BORG. SPECIES 'CYLON' DOES NOT EXIST IN OUR DATASTORES."

before the fleet could respond however the cube began charging weapons.

"YOU HAVE HOWEVER INVADED SPACE CLAIMED BY THE COLLECTIVE AND LAUNCHED FIGHTERCRAFT. SURRENDER YOUR VESSELS. WE WILL ADD YOUR BIOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS TO OUR OWN. YOUR CULTURE WILL ADAPT TO SERVICE US. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE."

The cube then lumbered forward using it's graviton drives spinning slightly as all six sides charged their graviton torpeados.

---

Atlantium:

"TRANSMITTING COORDINATES." the coordinates were for a secondary junction in a nearby sphere class vessel. Again only a single drone would be dealing with their ambassidor.

---

Godular:

"Of course." The Borg queen gave a slight polite courtsy "Well then, I'm sure you're aware that the collective is transferring all the data you require on an encoded subspace frequency to you. The encryption key is a hexadecimal sting translating to 'I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.'" The queen giggled. "Unlike my predicessor from our home universe, I can appreciate a good joke."

Space battles, being ominously silent affairs, are generally easy to sleep through. That is unless a particle stream hits your asteroid and you're rudely dumped into the void as it shatters around you. Or if you're a space worm that navigates and travels via the bends in space created by gravity, and someone starts to charge up a mess of graviton torpedoes. The effect is one of mild vertigo, and enough to jolt one out of semi-dormancy.

The space worm slithered from the den it had burrowed in the silicon rich asteroid. The drone transport still hovered 'above' the asteroid field. Dead, yet pulsing with the minds of thousands. The worm looped upward toward the cylinder, as it had slept, its mind had adapted to the constant, low drone of the borg /upper-mind/ and it had sent the necessary information home. It now swooped near the vessel, so like and yet so unlike the Kesshite's own mother ships.

(OOC: I was not attempting to use an arguement with the tomigun, I was just asking in general :) And thank you for the power comparison of the graviton Torpedo. I am curious though why you are attacking me when there are also a few other people here, and have not chosen to attack them. I am only asking, there is no criticism intended. I have no idea if you have seen the show or not so if not this is how the battlestars fight. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCwQTkr-ZBk&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqc4ssstQnI)

Admiral Cain: Frak. Fire all main batteries and prepare the flak cannons for a full auto spread to intercept fighters and missles. Turn the safeties off the Nuclear missles and prepare to fire.

Commander Johnson: Using nuclear weapons, Sir with all due respect isn't that a bit over kill?

Admiral Cain: Sargent at arms Relieve the Commander at once I will not explain my orders. Target the center of the cube and begin to fire at once. Launch all avialable Vipers.

The Pegasus, Triton, and the 5 Valkrie Destroyers begins to fire its 24 Main anti ship cannons at the Borg cube. It's fire rate is impressive for it's size firing 4 shots a second, per cannon.

Out of the flight deck of all 7 ships lauch about 4 additional Squadrons of FIghters each and 4 squadrons of Raptors. (Bringing my total of fighters up to 610 Vipers and 60 Raptors) THe raptors begin to attempt to jam targeting systems, as the Vipers move in Cannons blaring and missles launching.

THe Valkyrie Destroyers Begin to lauch an array of missle barrages, lauching in total 42 Anti ship Missles.

All of My ships begin to power up their FTL drives.

“Perhaps you would like to view some of the systems in operation before you decide what is most desirable. There will be things we will not trade but perhaps a look would be all you need to decide. I have a destroyer holding, the one I called when that other ship was firing at us in his misguided sense of diplomacy. I can bring it here so you can see it.”

Orthodox Gnosticism:

(OOC: I told you before... all the posts dealing with you take place AFTER they left. Time in NS is fecking wierd anyways. I'm attacking you because I think I can win... simple as that. and I'm itching for a good fight :mp5: )

As each respective side of the cube began rotating to face their opponents, 6 gravitonic torpeados fired at the larger vessels. Steady streams of torpeados began saturating the space between their targets traveling at speeds approaching 97% of the speed of light.

As the fighters came closer, cutting phasers began firing slashing at some of the more tightly packed groupings, of them, as some of the more adventurus fighters began firing their weapons, they ark towards the cube's shielding... and deflect off harmlessly into space. A few fighters were given the "Honor" of being beamed directly into the cube's hanger bay behind a force shield. They would be assimilated later. When more energy can be spared for them.

When the nukes finally arced their way to the ship. the first few were stopped by the shielding but slowly the barrage began to dent the shielding to the point of breaking. 5 of them got through leaving large impressive scars on the cube... at first. Over the next while the scars began healing holes began sealing as the cube's auto-regenerative armor kicked in. Trillions of nanites began repairing the vessel,

(OOC: I'm WAY overpowering your nukes here... I could take a couple thosand photon torps (which make heroshima look like a firecracker) as shown during the battle of wolf 359... but meh)

While most of the cube's processing was on the battle, a small portion noticed the vessels charging a faster then light drive. small teams of 4 scout drones were beamed aboard each of the larger vessels in small out of the way maintainance ducts. There they waited, not trying to attract attention to themselves... yet.

There seemed to be an orifice on the floating cylinder, opening occasionally to emit egg like bungles that flew around the asteroids. Interesting. The worm skimmed its metallic surface. The vessel had an artificial gravity that the worm used to orient itself. If it got the timing right, it could slip into the ship when the orifice opened.

(OOC: ok thank you for clarifying the time, you are right it is weird, but it is workable ;) Also I assume and tell me if I am wrong but the graviton torpedoes are in a normal casing? If they are not and are a pure energy weapon I will edit this post. I appreciate you overpowering my nukes, but to give accurate stats on my nuclear warheads they are the equivilant of 50 Kilotons for ship to ship nukes and 100 Kilotons per warhead, they are basically a more advanced version of what we have on earth, by about 50 years :) Also I really have no illusion of winning this fight, it would be foolish of me to think I can, but hey it can be fun to have a battle I can't win under normal conditions ;))

In the first volley of the cutting lasers from the borg cube 25 Fighters were imediatly destroyed. The flak barrage began to lock on the torpedoes and fire. 5 of the torpedoes hit the flak cannon barrage and are destroyed.

Raptor 34: Pegasus this is raptor 34. Sir you will never believe this but, gods, nut frak this shit is out of a bad sci fi novel. They are repairing instantly and have some sort of lasers, our attempts to jam their targeting systems have failed. What the frak, Sir, a number of Vipers and Raptors have just vanished. Since the Vipers do not have FTL jump drives we know that they did not jump sir.

At that moment one of the graviton torpedoes hit's the flight deck of the Valkyrie destoyer, BSG Nymph. The port flight desk is completly destroyed. The internal atmosphere begins to leak out into space as the auto sealing doors close off the effected areas. Total souls lost by this torpedo 439.

Commander Robertson on board the BSG Nymph: Pegasus Actual, we are taking massive damage, the armor plating seems to be doing little to protect the ship. I have sealed off the area connecting to the port flight pod. Sir their weapon emits no radation, what ever they are shooting at us we have never encountered it before.

Pegasus: All Ships DO not land your fighters, fighters continue to attack the enemy, when we detect a new volley of weapons fire from that ship all ships Jump. All ships switch to salvo (or armor peircing explosive rounds) fire in your cannons. The use of Nuclear weapons have now been authorized, and may the gods have mercy on their souls. The Valykrie Destroyers launch a new barrage of missles from the ships, ranging in number 42 more ship to ship missles. The Pegasus and triton launch their nuclear ground strike missles each containing 20 Nuclear warheads of 100 Kilotons each. 7 of these missles are enough to take out a continent.) Pegasus and Triton Launch 9 each for a total of 18. The cannon barrage is continuing also. The fighters begin to launch their ship to ship missles making the total number of convention missles in the "air" 1212 Missles and they strafe the borg cube with cannon fire. The total number of Nuclear missles in the air both ship to ship and ground strike is 38.

(OOC: When I jump do not count me out of the fight, I am just fighting like the colonials usually do when they are outnumbered and out gunned which is quite frequently ;) )

9 Fighters and 4 Raptors were directly beamed into the Cargo Bay. The Raptor crews are a bit stunned as well as the fighther crews as their engines continued to go, Vipers fire their missles and cannons, and the Raptors fire their SHip to ship nuclear warheads inside the ship.

(OOC: BTW how am I doing at this typed out RPing?)

((OOC: Mind if I also join in? I'll be roleplaying my Warhammer 40,000 Chaos Legion Black Draconis. Possibly be joining in with the battestar group fighting, after the diplomacy and all...))

Ajax stopped for a moment, relaxing slightly as he did so. His eyes seemed to flash back and forth over and over, as though he was reading something. After a few seconds the motion stopped and Ajax returned to apparent normalcy, nodding at the Queen in acknowledgement.

"We now have researchers set to the task of understanding and possibly upgrading these technologies. Should you wish it we would be willing to divulge any progress in such endeavours to you as it comes. It is, after all, your technology.

"We feel it necessary to query whether you would require any other technologies. You have provided us with operational specifications of two of your most fundamental technologies and all we have returned is two types of cannon. Perhaps you would like alternate FTL drives or inhibitors? Perhaps even cloaking technologies that we have... 'procured'?"

A holographic image of the nearest thing that the captain might look like appeared at the specified place.

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o113/AntoniusApollo/eggers_part1.jpg

OOC: This is at the heart of every Atantium Ship. It gives the Capt. direct control over his ship. The crew are there to assist in loading weapons and maintenance. (Based off of the Caldari state from the "EVE-online" universe, Rail guns, and missiles are kinetic energy.)

IC:
The hologram was simply and egg like shell floating in the air.

"Greetings I am Apalat.

I am curious about your kind. From your appearance it looks like there are several species among you. Our R&D Corporations are always looking for more technology to apply to the ships still in the shipyards. Our current ship that we are working on is the Ferox Class battlecruiser. We may not have much to trade with but what we do have for "Current" (current is based on the frigate in the system. And the BlackBird Cruiser seen earlier.) technology will be open to trade."

((OOC: Mind if I also join in? I'll be roleplaying my Warhammer 40,000 Chaos Legion Black Draconis. Possibly be joining in with the battestar group fighting, after the diplomacy and all...))

((OOC: As far as I am concerned, this thread seems fairly open and I would love to have some assistance, as I am trying to figure out a way not to lose my complete battlegroup. I mean even if by some miracle I can destroy the borg cube he has 2 more tactical cubes and more ships in this one fleet than I have in my entire navy. Of course my ships will be kind of busy trying to survive, but after the fight if any are left, then diplomacy could occur.))

As the Barudiian vessel recieved the Borg threat and the information of their mistaken sensor input, they decided to further pursue other Borg vessels. Kicking into warp nine, they left the system. Finding a battle between a Borg fleet and fleet of unidentified origin an hour later, they hail the Borg cube.
"Borg Cube, you are under heavy bombardment and these aliens appear to be eligible targets for integration into the overmind. The Barudii offer their assistance in this battle and technologies which you may find quite useful. Our similarities are very great as we both have collective minds between our members. You seek to completely mechanize yourselves and we have deemed mechanical technology inferior in favor of biological technology. We seek to integrate the entity 'Tin Man' as well as the species who defeated you at the battle of Wolf 39. Your knowledge of their locations would be very useful. "

On board Pegasus:

Sir another fleet has come intothe system, no known transponders. Sir if they become hostile, we will not be able to hold of both forces.

Admiral Cain: Frak ok on my mark Jump.

Sir we are getting reports from several ships that they have been boarded, our marines have been dispatched and have shot the intruders.

Admiral Cain: How the hell did they get on board.

SIr we have no idea, no boarding ships made it past the defense parimiter.

Admiral Cain: To all fighters come home combat landings are authorized. When all ships are on jump back to Caprica.

(OOC: what is the damage from my massive missle attacks, and the missles going off in your cargo bay from the fighters and raptors you beamed on board firing their nuclear missles on the inside.)

When the fighters land all ships disappear in a quick flash.

OOC: Ok I think now that there seems to be a fair battle going to happen I'll, add a twist in events...


Borg Treaty: Failure
Cause: catastophic explosion onboard Apalat's Frigate... Taken as hostile.
Reply: BlackBird is returning to a battle between three fleets, calls in the Atantium Navy.

Atantium Navy: 1 Raven class Battleship (Torpedo Boat) - Prototype
3 Ferox class BattleCruisers (Rail Guns - primary weaponry)
1 BlackBird class Cruiser (Electronic Warfare -scramblers,etc.)
10 Kestrel class Frigates (Bombers)
2 Merlin class Frigates (Rail Guns)
All Based off of same named ship in EVE Universe. Heavy Electronic Warfare based combat.

I'll be siding with Orthodox and the Colonial Fleet.

(OOC; thanks atlantium :) as I said in an earlier post just because I jump does not mean I am out )

On board Pegasus the Admiralty and the Commanders of the other battlestars begin to review the combat footage, to find a weakness in the enemy ship. The Pegasus sends a proiroty message to Colonial Defense, with the full tactical information from the battle with the borg, as well as the dead Borg bodies.

THey definetly look like a new form of cylon. Why they are calling themselves "Borg" now I can not understand, but they seeminly have the ability to teleport people into other areas.

Admiral Cain takes a sip of her whiskey. Ok, I want one raptor loaded down with nuclear weapons. Order the Nymph to head to base for repairs.

Sir orders from Colonial Defense jump back to the coordinates and begin to take out the Enemy Vessel. We need more information about the enemy. Admiral Cain you are ordered to stay behind and give us a debriefing, but your fleet is to go into combat. The Columbia will jump to your fleets coordinates and aid them.

At that moment 5 of the 7 Battlestars jump back into the engagement zone, firing the cannons. The Valykrie Destroyers begin to unload their missle barrage, totaling 35 Ship to Ship missles. One lone raptor leaves the flgiht pod of the Triton fully loaded with Nuclear warheads, about 6 "50 Kiloton Missles" under the hull and 14 "100 Kiloton" warheads inside the cargo compartment. The Raptor is spinning up it's FTL drive. Triton are firing all of their cannons again. The Colonial flak cannons are firing a suppression fire to prevent any missles from hitting the ships. Moments later the Battestar Columbia Jumps into the sector. None of my fighters have left the launch bay yet.

On board the Triton Commander Husk: all ships keep your FTL drives spun up, this is goign to be rocky. Targetthe borg Cube and set auto flak cannons to supression fire. Main batteries target the damaged section of the cube and fire. Raptor 32 you have your orders.

The fleet of 6 battlestars takes up a spead formation to keep volleys of weapons from hitting all the ships.

Major Akar: Sir the unknown fleet is still in the sector. They are defiently not "Borg" or what ever the cylons are now calling themselves.

Commander Husk stares at the Draidus screen. If they become hostile, then target their lead ship with the port and ventral cannons and fire. Prepare all Vipers for launch and 2 squadrons of Raptors.

Major Akar Sir about 16 new contacts in the area, design unknown but again certainly not the "Borg"

Commander Husk: Great just what we need, track their movements as well if they begin to take aggressive action against us we may now have no choice but to jump.

(OOC: For all of those who are going to aid me, please understand my ships have never encountered aliens before and the first one's they have are the Borg. They are very wary at the moment. If you wish to persue diplomacy with me, it will have to be after the battle. )
New Fleet Stats:

1 Columbia Class Battlestar http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Galactica_type_battlestar
1 Mercurry Class Battlestar http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Mercury_class_battlestar
4 Valkyrie Class Battlestars http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Valkyrie

“Perhaps you would like to view some of the systems in operation before you decide what is most desirable. There will be things we will not trade but perhaps a look would be all you need to decide. I have a destroyer holding, the one I called when that other ship was firing at us in his misguided sense of diplomacy. I can bring it here so you can see it.”

OOC:

From Post #92 in case you missed it...

OOC:

From Post #92 in case you missed it...

OOC : Forgive me but talking on forums like this is odd. Were you talking to me because my ships never attacked you. If you were not talking to me then please disregard this message ;)

OOC:

The battle takes place after all the negotiations are done. Blackgrue stated something to that extent a while back when the combat started.

At the time I was talking to his drone. I will not participate in the battle unless he requests me to because it will be in good probability that I have leaft already.

The confusion is a side effect of running two different chronological events at the same time in the same Thread.

As the Barudiian vessel recieved the Borg threat and the information of their mistaken sensor input, they decided to further pursue other Borg vessels. Kicking into warp nine, they left the system. Finding a battle between a Borg fleet and fleet of unidentified origin an hour later, they hail the Borg cube.
"Borg Cube, you are under heavy bombardment and these aliens appear to be eligible targets for integration into the overmind. The Barudii offer their assistance in this battle and technologies which you may find quite useful. Our similarities are very great as we both have collective minds between our members. You seek to completely mechanize yourselves and we have deemed mechanical technology inferior in favor of biological technology. We seek to integrate the entity 'Tin Man' as well as the species who defeated you at the battle of Wolf 39. Your knowledge of their locations would be very useful. "
The Barudiian vessel repeated it's message, hoping that the Borg would respond. If they didn't, the unidentified aliens would have to be engaged anyway.

I'm pondering whether I should join Orthodox.

The Atantium Fleet warped in the system, standard defence pattern.

...Start Trans...
Raven Prime command ship to...
Unidentified human fleet, we have no issue with you, but it looks like you are fighting these Borg. Would you care if my fleet were to provide more cover for your ships. Our BlackBird has ECM and ECCM capabilities, our bomber can coordinate with you ships, with the Ferox battlecruisers providng cover fire.

We have detected that your ships are using a strange FTL drive, looping the energy to keep it "hot", if we are to survive this conflict then I will have a trade agreement for you.
...End Trans...

The Raven battleship moved toward the other fleet, firing up its shield enforcments. as it neared it banked and came to a stop 50K from the capital ships. The rest of the fleet folowed but remained fairly neutral in power. waiting for instructions.

On Board the BSG Triton:

Sir, another fleet has jumped into the system.

Are they hostile?

Apparently not, and surprisingly they speak our language fluently.

How is this possible, are they colonial ships.

Negitive sir, they are asking if we wish for their assistance, and if we wish to have a trade with them.

Signal the ship that sent the transmission:

This is the BSG Triton, currently the flag ship of this Colonial Fleet. Your assistance would be appreciated, but as of a trade, we wish to know what you would like to trade. Please respond. Your assistance in taking out the hostiles will be greatly appreciated.

May I join? I am interested in helping out Orthodox here in the combat seeing as how he is slightly overwhelmed here.

(((OOC: what is it only slightly over 500 borg ships vs my 7, low tech ships :) Seriously though, I would love to have any help that anyone wishes to give to me. Also I would like to say thank you to all of you who wish to help me out. However black grue has not responded in about a week, so the battle as far as Is am concerned is on pause until he/she comes back in. If he/she is not back in about a week RL I will jut jump my fleet away. In the mean time if you wish to have a diplomatic conversation with my nation please come to http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=517769 . My ships are busy fighting, so their will be little room for diplomacy with my fleet til after the fight or when I jump away after 1 week RL time. BTW it is nice to see you again Ladenea :) )))