NationStates Jolt Archive

The darkness of space was suddenly broken by a small fleet of ships bursting through Trans void space back in to the more well lit sphere of the normal universe, the Terran federation had just grown in population significantly. To commemorate the event the Senate with a 500 – 480 vote had passed a new bill allowing for the expansion of Terran borders and claims, even in to contested Territory.

The Fleet was lead ironically by the brand new Warrington class cruiser Enterprise, flanked by two destroyers four frigates, two survey ships and three reliant class attack ships their mission was to escort a soon to be arriving Habakkuk class freighter filled with colonist and automated mining and replication equipment to a opened up border world. The ships moved forth toward the inner system at full speed, space ripping open behind them as the massive freighter came barring in to normal space.

The cruiser and other ships had spread out flanking the colony ship in a defensive pattern, the commander of the Cruiser was Mark brandston, he was a veteran of many other commands and had just graduated to the prestigious assignment of this cruiser. He stood in the middle of the massive bridge his eyes looking out in the darkness of space and in to the light of the systems sun. he smiled his hands folded behind his back as he watched the planets of the system come closer. The Enterprise was just commissioned several weeks ago as the newest addition to the federation fleet as a replacement for the UTS Warrington witch was just retired after 55 years of service in the fleet. Modified armament,shields, propulsion systems, it would be the forerunner for a new generation of Warrington cruisers the block three b type. It was even the test bed for a new kind of armor, it was the pride of the cruiser fleet, and it would spear head the expatiation of federation forces and people.


Mark was a classy fellow by most standards, he enjoyed much of the things all Terrans do, fine art, Good food , fine whines and liquors, exotic things and weapons.. he had several antique earth weapons in his quarters witch included a winchester 1890 repeating rifle, and an M1 Grand rifle, as well as a .357 old style magnum revolver with ivory gold handles. He wandered over to a floating chair just up two short steps in the middle of the bridge, he sat down crossing his legs, his well pressed well ironed out blue uniform seemingly the envy of other officers, as they always looked at him now and again. He was handsome brown eyes black hair masculine but skinny. He idly twiddled his fingers of his right hand on a pen like thing while reading up on the orders he had received on the monitor at the side of his chair.

He noticed that the orders to move in to contested territory did not include military escorts to avoid conflicts with who ever has contested it with the union, but thankfully they were just going in to unknown space near some borders.

The Federation as of late had wanted to hang on to his clean living style nearly non existent crime, and constant supply of goods. They could no handle rough living as good as people raised in scarce cultures could.

The ships came to a stop several million mega meters away from the planet, as the freighter continued moving forward already starting the colonization process, automated drones flying out of its bays, matter disassembly transporters moving items to the surface of this rather odd looking Terran environment world. The blue jewel was covered with dense forest, islands and huge oceans it seemed primeval, it had just came out of the pre-life stages,a the planets were primitive fern like and advanced animal life had yet to be seen.

The perfect environment for a colony. As the enterprise and its ships floated around this blue and green globe of life, mark wondered what was in store for the union In the future. For now though he had a mission at hand, he him self thought surely there would be better uses for a brand new federation heavy cruiser than to escort a bunch of colonist and mining equipment to a system. But alas his commanders thought different. It was in fact a strategic point containing a wormhole ... it was classified information to even the crew and mark didn't even know it was there he would find out when the next set of orders came through. The system was known as JS-190, it was standard ten planets, three gas giants, many rocky worlds.. a yellow sun, nothing out of the ordinary it seemed to mark, just a run of the mill system with an earth like world .

The wormhole connected the delta, gamma quadrants as well as the Andromeda galaxy and many more locations, it seemed to be a naturally occurring wormhole junction to federation scientists and thus this colony would serve as an out post of security and exploration in to the darkness and eye of the unknown.

OOC: Tagging for future post and asking what you want to happen in this thread.

(ooc: pretty much I'm leaving it open the main place for any events would most likely be JS-190 (soon to be renamed) as it is an important focal point it has access to two distant corners of the galaxy and a few other galaxy, it has the ability to become a cash cow, a diplomatic hub or an exploration hub, think DS9 style)

bump)

The eyes and ears of the Kirisuban nation were still the Exploration fleet. Even with being surrounded by the Federal Union on all sides they preserved their independance and own interests.

The NKS Amarasuki was the name of a carrier ship that had helped preserve the Kirisuban Empires neutrality during the 1940's back on Earth. Like now they believed in armed neutrality and the only way to discourage hostiles was to be well armed yourself.

So this typical refitted pioneer class was now painted white and had a Persai AI on board. In this case she was Ensign Yumiko Takagi and had chosen the form of a girl who looked barely 16 years old. As well as having a physical body she could enter the ship and become a hologram anywhere on board.

So this ship was running uncloaked having picked up the Federal fleet and having nothing to fear. They were still good neighbours after all.

OOC: Dammit I forgot that my first post for this never went through >.<

IC:

A Greywatch Worldstarter along with a few frigates dropped out of PSR travel sending a huge gavity pulse through the area. Anything close by would've been easily destroyed by the free-flowing energies of the rift but luckily they weren't near anything. The ships began preping for normal travel and began moving toward a new world.

(OOC I'm going to have you guys jump in several weeks after this discovery so we actually get an outpost set up for you to appear at)

The Enterprise Had been orbing JS-190 For several weeks now , an outpost was taking shape, the magistrate of the out post Ricardo daystrom would arrive in the next few days, but for now mark was in charge of the operation. As he sat on the bridge looking out in to the darkness of space his eyes panning the utter vacuum, he was thinking and contemplating, he had a few days before been notified about what was going on and why this system was so important, so far nothing hostile had appeared on sensors, and every one was rather dulled out of their minds. Mark would have to wait until he was authorized to open the wormhole junction and attempt to explore it.

Mark stood up from the chair, just as sensors picked up several readings, in fact one was unknown the other obviously familiar, consoles beeped, as officers attended to their stations quickly, marked jumped back on to the floating chair grasping the armrests. The Enterprise ominously floated over most of the ships in the area, its form being emphasized by the orange fiery sun .

The tactical avatar stood over him its angelic glowing and shimmering female form peering down at mark starting to talk.

“Sir have several ships approaching, and we are detecting Kirisuboin star ships de-cloaking off of our port section, what are your orders commander?”

Mark looked up his eyes priced the soft glass like veil of the avatar as he looked toward one of the maps. He said muttering gently, just loud enough for the crew around him in his immediate area to hear.

“send a message to the Kirisuboians and then send a second one to the unknown contacts on sensors. Ill speak..”

The avatar nodded and started to float in defiance of gravity over head opening one channel first to the Kirisuboians.

Mark stood up adjusting his well pressed blue uniform, his voice reverberating through the comn system coming across diplomatically .

Welcome allies to the new Federation out post at port junction as we call it, you may feel free to beam down to the outpost under construction, an opening of a special thing today, if you wait around a few days we might be able to explore it if you want to come with us and assist”

he adjusted his uniform once more and then nodded, the message was sent, then the Chanel was switched to the rapidly incoming unknown ship.

He spoke with a harsher more candid but equally diplomatic tone.

“Unknown ships you have entered federation space please identify yourselves... this is the United Federation Ship Enterprise, representing the united Terran federation”

bump

OCC: Scraping the nonsense I had here earlier.

IC:

<We are hailing from the Empire of Greywatch, we are here under peaceful orders to expand our territory. We have no quarrel with you if you've already taken this planetr as your own.>

OOC: Just did, I edited my post.

Welcome allies to the new Federation out post at port junction as we call it, you may feel free to beam down to the outpost under construction, an opening of a special thing today, if you wait around a few days we might be able to explore it if you want to come with us and assist”

Captain Mei Takahara personally replied switching her view screen on. The bridge scene was the usual one you'd expect to see but the AI was in her holographic form in a seat beside the Captain.

The ensign was wearing a holographic uniform kimono as she was learning how this ship ticked and looked like she had a childlike interest.

"Greetings Port Junction comand. I am Captain Mei Takahara commanding the NKS Amarasuki. We can lend our assistance and protection if you want it.

I'll transport once I have co-ordinates" she replied.

The Terran Ships floated in the utter darkness of space, as their ally had sent a response and the unknown power moving in to the system spoke back to them , mark was some what adamant of the whole situation , he sat back on his floating chair peering out in to space folding his his gloved hands on his uniformed lap. A grin came over his young pale face as he started to speak in to the comn system.

We have indeed claimed this system for our people, how ever we are willing to open up diplomatic exchanges here if you wish we seek to better our understanding of other cultures, as well as gain allies and friends in this area of space, we invite you to come to the out post and meet with our Representatives
A second message was sent to the Kirisubian ships.

we would like our representatives to meet with you as well to discuss joint ventures with in this colony

A smaller freighter flanked by two executive shuttles came in to normal space bursting through the chaotic portal of trans void space, they moved towards the planet shimmering gently in the orange hue of the sun. the executive shuttle began entering the earth like planets atmosphere , heat began to build up around its force field as it descended through the thick oxygen rich air at high speeds, clouds began to part from the shuttles as they moved towards a moderately sized city, several buildings clustered around a curricular nexus, arches utilized in construction rather commonly.

As the shuttles touched down the chief magistrate of the colony steeped out from the shuttle, his suit well pressed and his tie clamped upon him as he walked down the metal hall way, the floor paved with blue and white marble like metal plating , his shoes taping upon the surface , he was an older man, salt and pepper Grey hair , semi muscular he seemed wise and with age as his face had a few wrinkles around it. How ever the younger counterpart that was walking behind him was the vice magistrate of the colony, he was young, black hair brown eyes, tall slim yet muscular form, the the magistrate, was named Magnuson, he as an experienced local politician in the core worlds and decided he needed a change some place for fresh opportunity so he took a young politically astute man with him and got an assignment to run the Junction colony. He didn't know what he just got him self in to. The Vice magistrate was Richard B Xavier, he was young just getting in to politics in the core worlds when he struck out with Magnuson to pave his own way in to fame.. they both had no idea what was in store for them in this colony. They they wandered over to the main hall they noticed people setting up sort of a reception.

Droids carrying refreshments, tractoring tables , hover chairs every thing to make a party, many Terran cultural items were present, including food, including rare foods from Tyrian, Torm and Gryphon. Dragonic whine , pastries noodles, chicken, beef.. every thing and every thing to make a feast. The large circular room was decorated with Terran flags all around, Sentinel waring troops stood like sentry's, holding their compressed PGR-190 Beam/pulse rifles in hand, their shielded and armored forms making it seem like a fortress in there.

Magnuson started to speak wandering up to one of the coordinators for this event.


“Excuse me sir, may I ask what this is about and why me and the vice magistrate have not been informed of it?”

The receptionist responded in shock and a bit taken aback as she swiveled around, she turned out to be an officer in the terran federation star navy. She saluted standing up at attention saying with all haste.

“ Sir we were ordered by the enterprise to set up a reception party for several diplomatic guest that are arriving, it was prudent to do so, you did not get any word on this?”

The magistrate responded as he placed his hand on his fore head with a sigh, mumbling before he spoke out.

“No m'am we did no, but I guess we are stuck with this for now, and I am charged in an official capacity to represent the United Terran Federation so I should have been notified, how ever no issue I must now prepare to be diplomat.”



The female officer nodded and returned to her duties coordinating a few things with droids. The magistrate and vice magistrate went off to go get settled in their quarters, moving down a long well decorated blue and white hall way, holo graphic windows on each side of them , they could see the utter beauty and paradise of the world they were on, lush green fields of grass rolling around them, flowers and forests around the large compound it was a persons dream. The planets lowest temperature was 65 degrees during its winter period. It was a mild world In fact one of the mildest in the galaxy.


The Enterprise floated in defensive formation in orbit, along with the rest of the fleet, hopefully nothing would go wrong as these ships guarded the new Paradise with ease.

<Are we allowed to move forward? We're waiting for a green light.>

(yeah I'm inviting you to a diplomatic function)

OOC: Wasn't sure

IC:

<This is Greywatch Worldstarter Celestial, we are moving forward. Our ship is 37Km long and we have several frigates. If we may be so bold, this ship is supposed to land on planet surfaces to set up new colonies. We have never met you but we do feel that this planet could be easily shared. And we are perfectly willing to share, it would be the first joint-colonization in Greywatch history. Of course, the decision is your and we will not push the issue any further should you decline.>

A joint venture did sound interesting to the Kirisuban Commander and being invited to a meeting about one she made a snap decision.

"I would be honoured to attend this meeting. When and where would you want us?" she replied over the comms signal all business as usual.

They had just originally been passing though the star system as their own mission continued. Mei was able to represent her nation if it came to it.

In the great expanse of space it wasn’t too uncommon to find derelicts of past ages floating about. Either warships that were cracked open in some great battle or archaic probes that marked a civilizations first incursions to space, these weren’t unusual to find. However, it would be quite unusual to find something several hundreds of centuries old, a space probe revealing technology that might belong to the first seeds of a space empire, that belonged to a civilization which was just making its first incursions into the galaxy it was located.

But that was what was found. A probe, awakened by the sudden energy signature of a UTF vessel nearby it buzzed to life, a machine several meters in length and apparently armored by an archaic alloy that might have eventually developed into the Emprium utilized by the Sertians. It was built to survive the crushing forces of an unstable wormhole that opened and closed at random, the explanation seeming to be that the mouth at the other end, presumably the Sertian controlled end, was stable while the one in the junction lacked a source of negative gravity to keep it opened, and thus was opened randomly by seepages of the energy from the other wormholes.

Thus the probe was built like a tank, and it was because of this sturdiness that it was capable of surviving centuries of exposure to micrometeorites and vacuum exposure. And, once it activated, it was easily detected by the various, ‘elementary’ scanning systems that examined the vessel that awakened it, and vainly sent out a compressed radio message to a random direction, long ago loosing the location of the home wormhole.

Before any reply was sent to any one, the Federation exploratory destroyer UTS Ulysses came in to normal space , crackling vortexes of blue and black energy forming around it as it rushed out of High trans void speeds, its small 467 meter body shimmering gently in the orange sun, it moved over the smaller reliant class ships ominously growling as it moved towards the Terran formation.

The Commander of the enterprise replied to both his ally and the strange new beings that seemed to have entered the area.

Before any thing is set and done, and it will be we would like both of you to beam to the reception center at the colony's magistrate residence there, you will be met with by a sanctioned federation diplomat.

The tactical avatar shimmered in to existence right in front of the commander it started to speak a robotic soft voice reverberating through the spacious bridge of the ship.

“Sir we are detecting UTS Ulysses on sensors they have just jumped in to real space several million mega meters from our present position, and have singled us.

The commander raised an eyebrow and said waving his hand, leaning forward and peering out to the switching holographic screen. The screen switched to another man and a female XO standing on a bridge similar in design yet much smaller and more cylindrical shaped.

The commander of the enterprise greeted first “Welcome commander Jameson to port junction the brand new federation colony in this sector, so what brings you here?”

Jameson replied leaning back on his own hovering chair and peering back in to the larger ships bridge with his blue eyes.

“We were assigned by the federations star navy to explore this wormhole when we are authorized to open it, and as well as map several systems on the other sides of it.”

“Ahh” the enterprises commander responded with a hint of curiosity and a smile coming across his pale face.
“It seems we might be relived soon so we can go to more pressing matters I assume?”

Jameson replied back waving his hand as he shifted in his chair “ Maybe but until we open that and we're sure its safe for at least 40 % of the time we're exploring, then you might be able to leave, but then again I don't know star fleet, jameson-.....

quickly the commander of the enterprise responded “Wait are your sensors detecting what my avatar is?”

“Yes!” Jameson said as he looked to his own avatar “its a signal unknown species about an AU or so away from here”

Mark said rubbing his chin as he responded quickly “some one should go out and scout that thing, this is a war ship and dose not have many scientific instruments for peace, the Ulysses on the other hand..”

Jameson nodded “yes we are part exploration ship, we'll head over and check it out, Jameson out...”

Quickly the Destroyer turned on a dime its medium sized body glimmering with the light of the sun as it moved at high speeds towards the signal ominously it shadowed most small objects, but was shadowed it self by huge asteroids... scans were going at full power to determine what that probe was. The ship came to a dead stop several meters away from it .. looming over it...


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<Understood, we are sending one of our diplomats now along with some bodyguards. Standard procedure, just give us coordinates by messgae so we know exactly where to go.>
The Worldstarter moved forward until it was in orbit.

(ooc just did told them to send a diplomat down to the planet)

(ooc just did told them to send a diplomat down to the planet)

OOC: I'll just pretend that I got the specifics from you then.

IC:

Two transports head down to the planet below, it would probably be a thirty minute. Aboard were two diplomats as well as several officers and guards. After twenty minutes a message was put through.
<Greywatch transprs radioing in. Where would you like us?>
They were nearly there now and closing in fast.