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Tiara Star System…..
Royal High Guard Starbase Delta 001...




Grand Duke Aaron of Tiara sat in his command chair in the Executive Quarters of his Starbase. The Grand Duke had rightfully ruled Tiara’s Star System for approximately 25 years of his 57 year life. He was an experienced leader who also had the responsibility of being in charge of Her Majesty’s High Guard in both it‘s ground and space operations, as such he had inherited all it‘s responsibilities including the most important one.

It was his responsibility to keep everything quiet about the happenings in the frontier of the Star Kingdom’s space. The common man of low birth that lived under the protection of her Majesty’s government was kept blissfully unaware of the happenings of outside world. This was to prevent panic and confusion of the thought of the many human and alien powers that were in this galaxy and several others.

The Royal High Guard was originally meant to be the fighting arm of her Majesty’s military taking the fight to hostile alien powers and to liberate other wayward human colonies and incorporate them into the Star Kingdom’s fold. The problem was that this policy had changed over the last eight decades. The Star Kingdom had done it’s job as acting like a surrogate government for the many wayward human colonies that left Earth those many hundred years ago and had been forced to live on their own worlds as literal serfs to survive.

The space outside the sector was more established and had a stronger presence of larger human and alien civilizations that posed a problem for the over growing Star Kingdom of Hansia. The ruling Queen had decided to use the High Guard as a barrier between them and the core worlds of the Kingdom. This forced the Star Kingdom into dividing it’s military into two factions. The High Guard and the Home Guard.

The High Guard continued it’s policy of leading the way and expanding the Kingdom by fighting off the enemy, but they also did so by killing off any possible threat to the Kingdom at the point of a plasma rifle. The Home Guard had better weaponry and star vessels due to being in the inner territory of the Star Kingdom but they acted more like a police force than an actually military branch. They mostly patrolled the central worlds hunting down pirates and ragtag rebel groups based on the many worlds of the star kingdom.


The Star Kingdom had expanded well beyond it capability to populate and the outer borders were being vigorously patrolled and guarded by High Guard Fleets to ensure outsiders both human and alien were stopped and if need be eliminated for the good of her Majesty’s subjects. It was their sworn duty for God, Queen, and Kingdom…


The Grand Duke had a lot on his mind as he looked at various reports on the frontier. He laughed to himself at the absurdity of holding control over this much space when the Star Kingdom was already large enough to support her populace. It was really to act as a buffer zone for the outside powers and keep the innocence of the people intact. It was probably the most tightly guarded conspiracy inside the Kingdom considering it was starting to become a death sentence to be in the High Guard.

The Grand Duke looked at his paper work and saw something marked top priority. He picked up the report and had the computer give him a quick synopsis of this report. The computer calculated the information and put together a quick summary:

Secret IC:

Star System: Messia Star System
Date: 1378 A.E. (After Earth)
Subject: Human Life Discovered


The Messia Star System has four planet that revolve around a single star. It has a former human colony world on the planet dubbed Messia IV. The Messians are a trading people that have had contact with the outside world. They have expressed interest in establishing trade agreements with our Kingdom. They are located inside our Frontier and have vessels capable of interstellar travel. We have reason to believe that they have knowledge of the outside world and if they managed to start trading with our people. We could have a serious problem keeping our subjects unaware of the happenings going outside our fair Kingdom.

I have been instructed to send this report to you with the recommendation of starting a policy of extermination immediately to silence this menace quickly before they leak serious information out that has been classified by Her Majesty’s government. The Messia Star System is near the border of the Frontier and as such must be dealt with quickly before other powers come snooping about and see us exterminate them.

By Order of the Queen Anne I…….

Signed,

Lord Admiral Virgil Boleyn II
Commander of the 3rd Royal High Guard Expeditionary Fleet…

End Secret IC

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The Grand Duke listened to the encrypted report and a look of disdain came to his face. The extermination of fellow humans was terrible but the Queen had made her decision years ago and that order had to be fulfilled…

The Grand Duke opened a highly encrypted channel to the Commander of the 7th Royal High Guard Combat Fleet, Lady Admiral Elizabeth Harrington I….

Secret IC


The Grand Duke said in a authoritative voice, “May Lady, I am afraid the time has come for the Royal High Guard to do our duty and stop a dangerous influence from possibly effecting our citizens. I have been instructed by the throne world of Hansia Prime to give the order for you and your Fleet.

You are to go to the Messia Star System and purge their fourth world of all inhabitable life on the planet. You are to refer the Messians as aliens and that they have killed the original human colonists on the planet in your report. We shall spread the story to the core systems and thus make this whole incident seem like some minor brush fire war with an unknown alien power that has taken residence near our frontier.”


Lady Admiral Elizabeth Harrington knew her duty and kept her composure despite the fact her Queen was asking her to murder millions of people to protect some massive secret from the rest of the Star Kingdom. She eventually sighs and said, “If that is the will of her Majesty, I will not protest this assignment. The Messian scum will be exterminated to stop these aliens filthy infestation from reaching our beloved Star Kingdom’s borders..”

The Grand Duke smiled and realized she was playing along with the assignment. He laughs and adds, “May God and Her Majesty watch over you and your men while you fight this brutal hell war to protect our people from the alien scourge..”

The Lady Admiral smiled and replied the Royal High Guard’s motto since it’s foundation, “The Royal High Guard leads the way!”


The encrypted channel fades into darkness……

End Secret IC



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The 7th Royal High Guard Combat Fleet
Flagship: HMS Trafalgar
Royal High Guard Starbase Delta 045



The bridge of the Trafalgar was rampant of chaos as the Battle Fleet was beginning to leave port from base to the border of the Frontier to “wage war on the aliens.” The truth was they were going to start a little genocide to keep everything on the Frontier quiet and to keep this buffer zone safe from outsiders both human and alien alike.


Lady Admiral Elizabeth Harrington watched as her task force commanders began sending in their ships one by one via artificial wormhole. The fleet was slowly but surely going to arrive together but the initial force was meant to blockade the planet with the excuse of quarantine.

The Messians were going to be immediately annexed once the first Hansian vessel entered the system. The plan was to catch them unaware and unprepared for the treachery that awaited them…


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The Messia Star System..
Time: 23 cycle from Throne world.
3rd Royal High Guard Combat taskforce

The taskforce had successfully exited out of the wormhole that connected them to Starbase Delta 045. The ships in the taskforce promptly turned on their weapon systems and prepared to get into attack formation. The total number of starships was 30 with two Dreadnoughts (http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c309/Xharnia/CyborgDreadnaught.gif)leading the attack.


The Rear Admiral William Shaw knew the whole reason for this attack. The entire Royal High Guard knew about the truth but they were powerless to do anything about it. The Queen demanded this and so in her name it would be done.

Rear Admiral Shaw called out, “Okay initiate our orders surround the fourth planet and blast anything coming out of it or trying to get to it. This is an official blockade by royal decree it shall be done!”

The Captains of their respective ships promptly began to take orbit over the fourth world causing surprise to the people on the surface…


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Messia Star System…………
The Golden Sparrow….

Zula was a young Messian merchant that had traveled around this part of the galaxy for a quite along time. She had successfully gotten back from her last trade voyage when all of a sudden the Star Kingdom’s warships suddenly descended above her home of Messia IV.

Zula watched in amazement as the massive ships began to surround the planet and to her horror she watched them fire upon the orbital satellites and shoot at several escape shuttles trying to escape off the planet. It became clear in a split second to her what this was an invasion from their closet neighbor!


She began to turn her merchant vessel towards aft direction and begin a desperate jump to hyperspace when a single Hansian Frigate (http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c309/Xharnia/CyborgFrigate.gif) began to fire at her vessel….

She tried to maneuver her vessel but had no luck as the Hansian warship's weapon systems locked onto her vessels signatures. The Frigate’s plasma batteries sent plasma bolts that struck her hull and ripped her vessel in half. The Golden Sparrow was destroyed and her crew KIA. This was a taste of what the people of Messia IV were about to experience as the blockade began to tighten it's choke hold on the desperate world...

Messia Star System
Time: 13 Cycle of the Throne World

The 7th Royal High Guard Combat Fleet…
Flagship: HMS Trafalgar Commanding Officer: Lady Admiral Elizabeth Harrington


The rest of the 7th fleets forces moved onto the system the next day. The blockading force had done it’s job well in choking the crippled planet of it’s planetary defenses as the orbital defense satellites and make shift fighters were swatted out of the air like flies.

It was not to surprising, The Royal High Guard had used stealth to catch the Messian people unprepared for the sudden attack. It was now time to begin the second phase of the attack. The part that Lady Admiral Elizabeth privately dreaded….

She had to give the order to begin planetary bombardment of the alien settlements on the world below….


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Lady Admiral Elizabeth watched the view screen at the planet of Messia IV. The planet was populated by human inhabitants and they were slightly better off than most old Earth colonies. They had managed to make an FTL drive and begin trading with other star systems. This meant their technology was one step up from most human colonies that needed to rely on the Star Kingdom for protection against the various problems that ran rampant in the galaxy.


The Lady Admiral sighs and finally said, “Prepare to fire upon the cities on the Northern continent. I want to decrease their fighting ability for when the Marines land.”

The Tactical Officer of the ship replied, “Aye, Aye, Sir!”

The HMS Trafalgar’s deadly arsenal came to bare upon the Messia IV as plasma bolts rained down from the sky….


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On the Ground……..


The Domed City of Atkilia was a quiet city on the northern continent, It was just barely dawn for the city as waves plasma fire started to strike the city. The crackling plasma energy struck the upper layers of the Dome and smashed through it allowing fallen scrap metal to hit the exposed city bellow..

The people were in a panic as many tried to flee the streets as more plasma bolts started to hit the buildings and streets of the city. It was terrible a group of people here or there would explode into a fiery pit of hot plasma and disappear into a crater of rubble and debris..

Then the Alpha class torpedo came a large projectile fell from the sky heading at top speed to Atkilia. It struck the center of the city and the entire city disappeared into a blast of destruction. It was over in a matter of seconds all that was left of Atkilia was a massive crater…

Atkilia was one of many cities that suffered this same fate as the fleet took position and started to repeat this process on many other cities….

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HMS Trafalgar…
Drop Pod Room….

The Royal Star Marines, The Star Kingdom’s genetically engineered dogs of war. These fearsome soldiers were all six ft tall with superhuman strength, speed, and cunning. It was no secret they were going to land to finish off “The alien scum.”



“Left, Right, Low, Right, Your Left! Your Right, Your Left,” sang, the cadence caller as the Marine formation marched to their respective pods. They moved in perfect unison marching completely instep to the cadence. They had on their Royal Star Marine Combat Suits (http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c309/Xharnia/XharnianDeathKorps.png) and were prepared to march into hell armed with plasma assault rifles along with various other weapons and vehicles that were to be landing with them…


The drop pods were quickly loaded up and several of them began to make planet fall….

A Battle Zone……..


The Royal Star Marines had taken positions along the ground as the explosions from Messian artillery began to strike back. The already scorched earth began to fly in turrets of destruction as firepower from both sides began to strike at each side equally.

The sight of Messian resistance was not unexpected as a few ragtag bands of survivors and country folk began to fight back against an enemy they could reach. The Messians were fighting with primitive blaster rifles and old style beam cannons that were out of date by Hansian standards this did not make them ineffective however and several Marines fell to enemy fire despite the best efforts of their armor and their energy fields that protected them..



One Royal Star Marine Tanith charged with his brothers in his squad to engage the enemy in close quarters. The bayonets were fixed and set while firing repeatedly into the ranks of Messian resistance fighters. They charged with no fear of death completely oblivious to the carnage around them as fellow Marines went down for Queen and Kingdom in blazes of glory…

Tanith and several of his comrades made it into Messian lines and Tanith could feel the life of his opponent end as his bayonet struck him in the chest. The razor bayonet ripped into his lungs and tore out a good chunk of his chest as he pulled it out and started firing into a group of fleeing Messians.


Tanith screamed out loud, “The Royal High Guard leads the way!” and advanced forward with his squad. They were not going to halt they were going to take this ground and push for more of it. A few Messians pleaded for their lives wounded and dying, Tanith and his fellows had their orders. They took aim at the cowering Messians and fired a volley of plasma fire at them.

They were all dead or dying on the field as more Hansian Marines started to land to support the beachhead operation. This group came in with Dragoon APCS and Predator Fast Attack Tanks. The Royal Star Marines cheered into the air as their brothers brought down more equipment to kill the enemy…


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In Orbit above Messia IV…..


The 7th Royal High Guard Combat Fleet held position providing fire support and equipment for the operations on the ground. It was all going according to plan and the reports being sent back that were not heavily encrypted said the operation was against alien forces.

The Star Kingdom’s conscience was clean as the Royal News Network sent out reports to the public that the Royal High Guard was engaged in vicious combat operations against the vile alien invaders of Messia IV. The Star Kingdom’s many worlds were seeing holo videos of Royal Star Marines combating alien forces that were really altered by the RIA. (Royal Intelligence Agency) The Messian forces were made to seem like aliens that were using primitive technology to fight the vastly superior Royal High Guard’s Star Marines.

The people also saw the fleet bombardment action against the planet with the domes looking like alien hives that were being shattered with plasma fire and torpedo action. The lie was working perfectly from the frontier to the central worlds the ruse had succeeded and no one suspected the truth…

The Messians had just recently had come to the attention of The Garbage Men, an interstellar garbage collection service, though they do alot more than garbage.

A small 5-person team of mixed species had landed upon Messia IV to enter into negotiations to set up shop on Messia itself and perhaps work with their traders to expand markets for both the Messians and the Corporation together.

That was until the Hansians had surrounded, declared a quarantine and wiped out all traces of the team (including their ship and many Messians) from the surface of the planet. No communications or other transimissions were able to be transmitted by the team before they met their demise but somewhere far away... someone would realise that they were overdue.

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****Mid-level Assesments Managerial Meeting****

"And what about Team 273? They were going to Messia IV for negotiations." The chairman of the meeting spoke as he was reading down the list of current assessment teams being deployed.

"We have not heard anything from them since they landed on Messia IV, no emergency, no normal post-meeting de-brief, nothing."

"We have to assume their dead, and if that's the case they'd have to be on Messia IV."

"I agree, this should be a marketing matter, not an operations matter."

"I would like to put forward a motion to transfer this matter to our opposite numbwers in the Marketing Department."

"I second."

"Motion put forward and seconded, those who agree with the motion please say 'aye'."

There were a chorus of 'Aye' as the question was asked

"And any against the motion?"

A single Nay spoke...

"Alright motion carried, the plight of assessment etam 273 will be translated to the Marketing department for further review. And what about 285..."

**** A bit later in marketing ****

"Hey, got in contact with the Messians originally?"

"I did" a women raised her hand, her name was Janice.

"Good, get in contact with them again, see what's happened, but becareful to not imply any wrong doing on their part. We may still get a contract out of this."

About 10 minutes later Janice sent a message using a standard artificiail wormwhole protocol to communicate over FTL in Real-time.

"Messian Representative, <insert name>... This is Janice of The Garbage Men marketing department, I believe that members of our assesment team are planet-side, and wondering if we could please speak to them. "

The Messians had just recently had come to the attention of The Garbage Men, an interstellar garbage collection service, though they do alot more than garbage.

A small 5-person team of mixed species had landed upon Messia IV to enter into negotiations to set up shop on Messia itself and perhaps work with their traders to expand markets for both the Messians and the Corporation together.

That was until the Hansians had surrounded, declared a quarantine and wiped out all traces of the team (including their ship and many Messians) from the surface of the planet. No communications or other transimissions were able to be transmitted by the team before they met their demise but somewhere far away... someone would realise that they were overdue.

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****Mid-level Assesments Managerial Meeting****

"And what about Team 273? They were going to Messia IV for negotiations." The chairman of the meeting spoke as he was reading down the list of current assessment teams being deployed.

"We have not heard anything from them since they landed on Messia IV, no emergency, no normal post-meeting de-brief, nothing."

"We have to assume their dead, and if that's the case they'd have to be on Messia IV."

"I agree, this should be a marketing matter, not an operations matter."

"I would like to put forward a motion to transfer this matter to our opposite numbwers in the Marketing Department."

"I second."

"Motion put forward and seconded, those who agree with the motion please say 'aye'."

There were a chorus of 'Aye' as the question was asked

"And any against the motion?"

A single Nay spoke...

"Alright motion carried, the plight of assessment etam 273 will be translated to the Marketing department for further review. And what about 285..."

**** A bit later in marketing ****

"Hey, got in contact with the Messians originally?"

"I did" a women raised her hand, her name was Janice.

"Good, get in contact with them again, see what's happened, but becareful to not imply any wrong doing on their part. We may still get a contract out of this."

About 10 minutes later Janice sent a message using a standard artificiail wormwhole protocol to communicate over FTL in Real-time.

"Messian Representative, <insert name>... This is Janice of The Garbage Men marketing department, I believe that members of our assesment team are planet-side, and wondering if we could please speak to them. "

In Orbit of Messia IV…….


The marketing department’s message never reached the Messian representative sadly about 75% of the Messian population was killed in the bombardment action. Any possible returning message was also being jammed via the ECM capabilities of the combined force of the 7th Royal High Guard Combat Fleet.

The message was most definitely intercepted by the Fleet. After several hours of sending it up through the chain of command, It finally landed at the feet of one Lady Admiral Elizabeth Harrington. The Lady Admiral was not pleased to be getting this report and decided to deal with it short brisk and Hansian….

The HMS Trafalgar powered up it’s communication array and sent a message back to the Corporation explaining the reason for the long silence of the Messia system….

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To: Janice of The Garbage Men marketing department
From: HMS Trafalgar: Commanding Officer Lady Admiral Elizabeth Harrington
Subject: Annexation and Blockade

The Messia system is hereby under the sole jurisdiction of her Majesty’s government. We have been sent here to purge this world of the alien menace that has infested it. I suggest you leave this world to us. Your team is mostly likely dead considering most of the population of Messia IV has been wiped out by the alien invaders. We are currently doing all in our power to stop them from infesting into our frontier…

End Transmission…..

*TAG*

for possible participation

*** Within the Marketing Department ***

"Well, send a message to the Ops dept. that they've lost AT 273." Janice commented "Got a report from one Lady Admiral Elizabeth Harrington that Messia IV had been targetted by 'alien invaders' that have all but wiped them out."

"That sounds a bit iffy, and far too soon. According to the file they arrived at the planet and reported back to base and later in the day, not only had an alien invader force had wiped them from the face of the planet, but the Hansians have deployed a strike force and wiped out the alien invaders. It's much more likely that simply that it was the Hansians invaded and annexed the Messians."

"Well, in either case we need to verify that our technology hasn't fallen into other hands, and there is also a possibility of expanding our business into Hansian markets.

"So what? I should send a message saying that we want to try and recover the bodies of our team and bring them back. also saying that we are sorry for the deaths of the Messians and any Hansian life lost in their valient attempt to defend the Messians against an invaiding force and see if I can start negotiations with this Lady Admiral?"

"Yeah, sounds good."


To: Commanding Officer Lady Admiral Elizabeth Harrington
From: Janice of The Garbage Men Marketing Department
Subject: RE: Annexation and Blockade

It saddens us to hear of the destruction of the Messians, they were a good people who were only interested in trading. They could have made great partners in joint commercial venture. I am sure that the Messians would of appreciated your help in their combat against this Alien Invasion should you of been their in enough time to be of assistance. We have no problem in the annexation of the planet after the alien invasion has been finally dealt with.

Though we do have a request, we wish to retrieve the bodies of our team that were on the planet so we can return them to their loved ones and perform a proper burial. A ship will be dispatched soon so we can prevent as much decay of any remains we find as quickly as possible, we hope this will be alright, and don't worry as the team will be responsible for it's own security should fighting be continuing on Messia IV when they arrive. Also I'm sure the Messians would like business to continue as normal despite this tragedy as such I would like to meet with an appropriate member of her majesty's goverment about providing services of The Garbage Men to her majesty's people. I have attached a brochure to this message to provide soem information about us and what we do.

I look forward to hearing from you in ragard to these matter shortly.

*** Within the Marketing Department ***

"Well, send a message to the Ops dept. that they've lost AT 273." Janice commented "Got a report from one Lady Admiral Elizabeth Harrington that Messia IV had been targetted by 'alien invaders' that have all but wiped them out."

"That sounds a bit iffy, and far too soon. According to the file they arrived at the planet and reported back to base and later in the day, not only had an alien invader force had wiped them from the face of the planet, but the Hansians have deployed a strike force and wiped out the alien invaders. It's much more likely that simply that it was the Hansians invaded and annexed the Messians."

"Well, in either case we need to verify that our technology hasn't fallen into other hands, and there is also a possibility of expanding our business into Hansian markets.

"So what? I should send a message saying that we want to try and recover the bodies of our team and bring them back. also saying that we are sorry for the deaths of the Messians and any Hansian life lost in their valient attempt to defend the Messians against an invaiding force and see if I can start negotiations with this Lady Admiral?"

"Yeah, sounds good."




To: Commanding Officer Lady Admiral Elizabeth Harrington
From: Janice of The Garbage Men Marketing Department
Subject: RE: Annexation and Blockade

It saddens us to hear of the destruction of the Messians, they were a good people who were only interested in trading. They could have made great partners in joint commercial venture. I am sure that the Messians would of appreciated your help in their combat against this Alien Invasion should you of been their in enough time to be of assistance. We have no problem in the annexation of the planet after the alien invasion has been finally dealt with.

Though we do have a request, we wish to retrieve the bodies of our team that were on the planet so we can return them to their loved ones and perform a proper burial. A ship will be dispatched soon so we can prevent as much decay of any remains we find as quickly as possible, we hope this will be alright, and don't worry as the team will be responsible for it's own security should fighting be continuing on Messia IV when they arrive. Also I'm sure the Messians would like business to continue as normal despite this tragedy as such I would like to meet with an appropriate member of her majesty's government about providing services of The Garbage Men to her majesty's people. I have attached a brochure to this message to provide some information about us and what we do.

I look forward to hearing from you in regard to these matter shortly.





The 7th Royal High Guard Combat Fleet was currently going it’s ongoing operations with the Messian resistance fighters on the ground when the message from the Garbage Men Marketing Department was received by the HMS Trafalgar.


The Communications Officer immediately sent it to her Ladyship and promptly left from the long streaming curses that followed….

“G-d D-mn it!” cried, Lady Admiral Elizabeth shrieked for the eight time in front of her Command Staff. She read the letter repeatedly and added, “Do these people not understand! We are trying to cover up this incident?

The last thing Her Majesty needs is to hear how her Royal High Guard failed in a mission because some outsiders decided to investigate the unfortunate deaths of some of their people on this pathetic piece of rock!”

The Tactical Officer replied bluntly, “I guess not, we must be doing a d-mn good job of making the galaxy think we are fighting aliens instead of committing an atrocious act of genocide on a defenseless world!”

Lady Admiral Elizabeth glared at him and balled up her fist and said, “Okay, They want to enter a war zone, let them and order the special forces on the ground arrange for their deaths. I don’t want them to come back alive from this trip. We can also blame their deaths on war zone issues…”

The TO however added, “What about the bodies, We don’t even know where they are! We could have them enter any number of places looking for those corpses plus the added fact we look like a kid with his hand in a cookie jar. They could probably tell that our forces are fighting Messian resistance fighters on the ground. I think we need to come clean and play this off as an invasion from us.”

Lady Admiral Elizabeth looked up at her TO and asked, “How do we do that and keep them from notifying the rest of the galaxy?”

The TO responded, “The goal is not to inform our own citizens of the outside world. All we have to do about this is keep them from getting inside our space and sending messages to our own people. To hell with the rest of the Galaxy. I doubt half of them will care about one small insignificant trading post..”

The Lady Admiral said, “Okay, We come clean with the outside world and keep our internal reports the same. We deny them access to our markets on the ground of the Kingdom’s national security and let them go on this d-mna-le rock and get those bodies provided they were not vaporized in the orbital bombardments…

The string of “Aye, Aye” could be heard through out the Command Room by the various officers present…


A message was promptly sent back:


Secret IC:

Highly Encrypted
Transmission……..

To: Janice of the Garbage Men Marketing Department
From: Senior RMI (Royal Military Intelligence) Officer: Harry Braddock
Subject: RE: RE: Annexation and Blockade


Okay, You have found us out, This is an indeed an invasion of the Messia System. The invaders are not aliens but our own war fleet. We have been ordered by Royal decree to annex this system and people into the Star Kingdom by any means necessary clause.

The problem is that the Messians being a fiercely independent people refuse to just surrender and accept Her Majesty’s decree without a fight and so our fleet has quarantined this unruly colony for the good of it’s populace.

We were forced to perform some rather harsh measures on the planet and several cities have now been eliminated to break this colony's will to fight. We fear we may be slightly responsible for the deaths of your trading team and as such we shall privately compensate both your company and their families for the loss.

We ask that this information be kept quietly under wraps in exchange the Her Majesty’s government will open up several border posts to allow you to meet with some of her officials on matters of trade.


End Transmission…..

End Secret IC:
It now depended on the Corporation would they keep quiet about the invasion/genocide or would they spread the word and put the Star Kingdom in an embarrassing political position. It did not really matter to the Hansians as long as it never reached the ears of Her Majesty’s subjects…

The Southern Continent………


The fighting had escalated as The Royal High Guard’s ground forces continued to push deeper into the southern area of the planet. The Messians were in very dire straits considering they had lost communication with each other thanks in no small part to the ECM jamming fields being erected over the most densely populated areas.


The Royal Star Marines had already landing in another Four Brigades of combat infantry along the southern lowlands. The land was perfect for the drop pods that kept falling from the sky dropping hundreds of these ruthless soldiers…

The Fleet in orbit had begun bombing operations upon the mountain range along the western area of the continent. This is were the Messians had set up a safe haven for their people as more Hansian forces continued to destroy every settlement in their path causing a path of carnage that originated north and head down to the south….


17th Royal Star Marine Brigade

This Brigade had been given the honor of bring the Messian scourge to heel in the mountains. The Lady Admiral wanted to make the clean up of the Messians as quick as possible before the Corporation’s ship managed to reach the system. It was believed if all the Messians were dead by the time they got here. The outside world would have no way of pinning the incident on the Star Kingdom.

It was believed that if the Messians were wiped out who would care?


Tanith and his squad were part of this Brigade that had seen action in the initial beachhead of the planet. The 132nd squad had reassigned to help support the attack against the now heavily entrenched Messian positions in the mountains.

Tanith watched as plasma bolts hit into the mountain from ground level of his earthen trench. The explosions were massive as earth and rock turned into rubble under the brutal barrage of plasma energy fire. His helmet’s optical sensors calculated the damage sustained by the attack and realized that not only was the fleet hitting the Messians but the artillery action was also being performed by several Whirlwind class artillery tanks.

The Whirlwind was meant to fire smart missiles into entrenched targets and sometimes also used to take out heavy armor that the Hansian battle tanks could not get close enough to take out.

Tanith sighed and realized that the Messians were being softened up for the coming charge in which his and several other squads would charge up into the mountain with the goal of dislodging the Messians and eliminating them once and for all in this sector of the continent…


The bombing suddenly stopped from both orbit and from ground locations at the same time. That instant the call of “Over the top!” could be heard as Hansian Marines climbed up the makeshift ladders that lead up to top level. They started to move up and charged into the enemy as before…

The Messians took aim from their beleaguered positions and fired. It was not as powerful like the last three attempts to take the mountain and only a dozen or so Marines fell as Tanith and the others moved forward at full speed firing back with plasma rifles in hand..

Tanith’s helmet’s optical sensors began to calculate the distance and time and gave Tanith the best targeting advice possible as his hands raised and fired a rapid burst of plasma bolts at the Messian beam cannon that was raining devastation upon the advancing Hansians just below…


Tanith could tell the bombing operation was effective because as he gained more ground up the mountain. He saw corpses of Messians that had been killed in the barrage. He also saw human body parts along the field…

The sight slightly unnerved him but he had his training and conditioning and that was all he needed as he continued to fight on……….

"Well, they've owned up, they did attack the Messians."

"Well, guess it's a lost cause, there is no chance of getting any sort of military force to make a difference and even if we did the Messians would be demolished. Our best course of action would be to forget Messians' accept the offer for reperations of the Assessment team and equipment."


Highly Encrypted
To:Senior RMI (Royal Military Intelligence) Officer: Harry Braddock
From: Janice of The Garbage Men Marketing Division
Subject: Trade Negotiations

Thank you for the truth in regards to the Messians. We will abide by your requests in any business dealings we have with your people, though we believe that a secret like that cannot be kept forever. Perhaps we could help by participating and helping plan staged events to gradually and in a controlled manner reveal the information?

Obviously these are currently only raised as a suggestion, and would certainly be up for discussion within the negotiations. We will be dispacting a team shortly, and perhaps could help making the current military hotspot a suitable location for resettlement.


The ship was about the size of a large corvette it was travelling using it's FTL engines to one of the pre-determined border-controls.

A point of light appears in space near the planet, and spirals outwards into a swirling blue tunnel into... well, apparently, into nowhere. From the tunnel, as if from a great distance, flies an Axis Novan Omega class (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9748283&postcount=9) destroyer. The immense vessel's emergence is unfortunately timed-- obviously the crew had no idea what was going on and no reason to expect anyone to be here, as the ship narrowly misses collidiing with a Royal High Guard Fleet vessel, and maneuvering thrusters light up as the helmsman frantically attempts to maneuver the massive black vessel through what appears to be some type of battlezone or fleet assembly point without colliding with anything, which is proving to be quite a bit of a task-- a vessel massing almost fourty-five megatonnes is not exactly something easy to maneuver.

The light from the sun falls across a neatly lettered registry on the bow of the vessel (the registry itself also appears to be illuminated by a number of running lights positioned for the purpose), revealing the name ANN St. Petersburg...