NationStates Jolt Archive

The nations had been scattered after their last war with the allies of 1010102.

Some had stayed in this 'verse, gradually reforming around the nucleus of Ryu, the Last Ghost.

More had fled, leaving this universe and jumping through others in their search for the old home of TAP.

Now, they have returned. In the characteristic yellow-green explosion, the new fleets of the three lost nations returned, appearing in orbit around New Shiloh, the nebula enshrouded system that was formerly TAP's most secret world.

As the leaders of the Three Lost Nation landed, they where met by the Dragon-made-flesh, the former Ghost Ryu.

Now the four nations where forming a new Empire, and Artemis, daughter of the Leader of The American Privateer, was creating a new, Digital Empire to serve her father.

The Five leaders met and laughed, as they unloaded their new toys, mechs, fighters, and ships that had been designed on the long journey of exile.

The Knights of the Longinean Order landed, displaying their new Speeder Bikes. Designed to exploit the weaknesses of the average tank, the new Mustang-Speeders were the most maneuverable speeder-bike to have ever been created.

The knights also showed off their new, Ceramic Plate Armor. Naturally white, the armor was specially designed with Chromium built in, giving the armor a mirror-white shine that reflected the energy of laser weapons away from their bodies.

Their pikes were also new, and could fire off bolts off bolts of Tachyon Particles like a Staff Weapon, or cause a massive energy blast upon contact similar to the blast sword that hung on the left side of their belt.

Also visible where their Lightsabers, all of them bearing silver blades upon activation.

The Knights formed an honor guard, their armor gleaming, as their Grand Master, the Cardinal Juan Diego de Guadelupe, stepped off his transport, the Santa Fe, or Holy Faith.

As he stepped off, a transport bearing gleaming, chromium plated "Knight" Mobile Assault Mechs.

Seraph Fighters flew over in formation, their chromium bodies and six wings gleaming in the noon day sun.

The Grandmaster stepped up to Ryu, and shook hands with the proud re-incarnation.

The Mobile Infantry Stepped out of their Retrieval Boats, resplendent in their Chromium Plated Armor. They looked like giant gorillas, though they could crush a Gorilla with a thought and take on a squadron of tanks without blinking.

They formed Ranks, Serving as an Honor Guard. Zeus Hover-Tanks, with their twin Tachyon Cannons elevated, formed the guard farther down, and the Conventional Infantry Units, used mostly for Homeland Defense formed the Final Guard.

On each side of the ranks stood the various Mechs of the TAP'ian armed forces.

Admiral Jack Ray stepped out of the shuttle from his new flagship, the USS Leviathan, and out into the sun. He did not even squint, as his prosthetic eyes ploarized in the bright sun light. Deep scars ran from his eyes in both directions, indicating some injury suffered in the long exodus.

He too walked up to Ryu, and grasped the ex-Ghost's hand, smiling as he did so.

As he took a place on the other side of Ryu from the Grand Master, he shared a warm, excited smile. this universe had been his home for so long, that his old one, the one where he and his Ghost Daughter, Artemis, had been born was a stranger to them.

The Army of Niall Noiglach, decked out in greens and oranges stood at attention as a verdant carpet was rolled out from the royal shuttle Boudicca. Aidan O'Neill stepped forth from it, his green and orange uniform resplendent in the sun of the noon.

The king walked down the green carpet to the Dragon-made-flesh, and bowed deeply while shaking his hand.

He too shared a smile with the others. Unlike the rest of the nations, Niall was orphaned, his home universe had been devastated by a massive asteroid that had missed the earth by AU's in the other universes. The survivors had been allowed into Niall Noiglach, and had become some of the most loyal citizens, even serving as his honor guard in thanks for their survival.

Artemis, the First Councilor of the Council of XIII, materialized before the four leaders, resplendent in a gown of mixed western and eastern influences.She bowed before Ryu, who bowed just as deep for her.

Artemis's Cyber Empire was being built by her sub-routines even as she focused her full attention on the grand show being presented.

Ryu smiled at the assembled peoples. All of them had come so far since their nations first started, and had interwoven themselves together into one nation since the beginning.

"My brothers," Ryu called out to the people assembled before him, "For all of you, through the torment of war, are my brothers. My Brothers, let us bring upon this galaxy a new age. An age of peace, an age of tranquility, an age of hegemony."

The crowd roared, and Ryu began to feel himself swell. He knew it was happening and could do nothing to stop it. He had engineered him self to literally feed off of the pheromones of pride and joy.

Turning to his fellow leaders, "Come, let us adjourn to the Grand Hall. I believe that all of our various Houses have met within."

OOC: let it be. I will go my ways and you will go yours.I retconed it. that means thatthe war never happened. you can return to your old worlds like nothing ever happened.

Admiral Jack Ray stepped into the Grand Hall, to discover that it was, in fact, big enough to house the thousands of representatives for the Five Nations.

The Admiral took a seat by the section of the Chamber reserved for the House of the People.

OOC: if you want iwe can fight to the death in a pre-arranged war, with none of that running away stuff.