stDarNES1: Stars!

[TerrisH]

1: the plans are in place. the dummy plugs have been installed on every SJAC built. they do not notice this anomlys equitment being installed duriing their construction.

G: exccelent. and the placement of a control on the B---h Lady Misato?

K: procceding slowly. we should be able to securre success on the aquisition of her child Lady Asuka within 5 years.

S: the Cecent contact with the adgressors in the Kalekka system, we finialy have a patsy now, should something go wrong. the public is a little shocked that there is an Activly adgressive nation out there. they already are biased with distrust toward them, and it will be a simple matter to plant the blame on them, excepssily if we make sure relations stay, less then good.

G: unexpected, but pleasing news.

G: anything further to state?

1: Not over a comunication. you will all be recivind a courrier shorthly. read and burn, okay?

G: accepted.

H: confermed

S: roger roger!

K: *nods*

G: goodbye then.

(G has signed off)

(H has Sighned off)

S: night.

(S has signed off)

1: they are a Big Bloody bunch of Idiots, arn't they?

K: yes, Misato. they have failed to Relize that we have already removed two of their members.

1: Atleast I'll finially be able to behead that bloody Ba--rd. threatine my Daughter, will he?

K: *chucckle* I'll meet with you off line dear.

1: of course, dear Kaji!

OOC: yes I know the speling is bad on this post. it's supposed to be.

 

[Darwin420]

2 Orders in, a few stories... usually more by now.

Can I entice anyone? I'm willing to run the update early if all orders are in early...

 

[Kamilian]

Shalia Crost remembered the day her son died two years ago as if it had just happened yesterday. The young man was fresh out of the Harpellian Royal Military Academy and it was his first assignment to the Harpellian Hegemony's fighter squads. It seemed like just a routine wargame fighter sortie, to practice if ever real enemy invaders came. On AI simulations he and others in his graduating class did excellent, knocking out the sim-invaders with relative ease. Unfortunately, the real thing - the first real wargame he would engage in - went much more tragically. There was a communications breakdown and part of the fighter fleet got the wrong coordinates and 20 fighters burst apart as they collided with each other. Shalia Crost's son was one of the doomed pilots. Ever since, she and others who had lost friends and family in that tragic wargame had been on a determined crusade to prevent it from happening again. She had been a city mayor prior to the tragedy, and it was this expertise in politics that allowed her to lead her faction to gaining a voice in the Harpellian Senate, with Shalia being elected Senator. Despite having only a handful of seats in the assembly, the citizens - and lawmakers - of the Harpellian Hegemony sympathized with Shalia's faction and her initiative to introduce rigorous training to educate pilots to check their instruments and ensure that there are no errors before going into wargames passed into law easily.
But still, Shalia had no satisfaction - her son was still dead. Nothing could bring her son back. Having no other children, and her husband was among the Harpellians chosen to colonize Qomoc to explore the Old Dominion ruins so she hadn't seen him in a year by now, Shalia felt completely alone. Her fancy apartment was empty. Who had she to live for? Her comrades in her faction? They were doing quite well-off already, and had sympathizers in all the political organizations, so even without a majority in the Senate, many of their proposals would likely pass.
Friends told her she would make a great Queen and could strengthen the Hegemony in numerous ways. But Royal Elections weren't going to happen for another 3 years. Shalia didn't know if she would be able to conquer the immense sorrow.
Yet... every time she considered suicide and saw various ways being virtually on-hand, she hesitated and couldn't go through with it. Could she possibly be stronger than the pain? Would she make a great Queen after all?

 

[Global Nexus]

Whee, another story and orders coming ASAP. I got a new, good video card [compared to my previous integrated one, anyway] so every game I have runs super-smoothly now. Had a binge yesterday. ^_^

Story:

There she was…the Jeigan. One of five transport vessels being loaded with colonists and equipment. One of five transport vessels which will found the first colony of the UCCT outside of the Totalus System. Ruth Harris gasped as she realized just how big it was – video images just didn’t do it justice. Truly it looked like it could hold five hundred colonists complete with vast resources necessary to build up an infrastructure from the start.

“Amazing!”
“Wow, I never would’ve imagined…”
“Absolutely incredible.”

Various whispered responses to the ship echoed through the crowd of soon-to-be colonists. Ruth for one grand moment felt a common bond with the citizens of the Corporations, a common excitement for the coming mission. Together, they would – after a journey on the Jeigan, Marcus, Titania, Seth, and Wallace – forge a new society on a new world in a new system. No matter how the old system would attempt to force the new one in a certain direction, it would still be vastly different by its very nature.

And perhaps it would be people of Crisium and other future colonies that would finally destroy the old Corporate control system…

 

[Kal'thzar]

FLEET:
-Home Fleet: 12 Cruisers, 3 Carriers(100f)

The Home Fleet grows bigger year by year, as new contacts are established and potential threats analysed, the discovery of an Empire calling themselves "Haven" to the south, and the unexplored south gate has led many on Hr'Tor to fear for the safety of the Homeworld.

Govermental Plans: Will most likly stay put although another fighter squadren has been ordered for the Carrier HMS Deliverence, the Full Fighter Compliment has already been Named "The Hawks" in remeberence of The HMS Hawk which was destroyed in the Battle over Kalekka.

The New Cruiser's names:
HMS Thunderbolt
HMS BattleStar
HMS Iron Duke
HMS Reaver
HMS Gaia
HMS Farsight
HMS Indomitable
HMS Intrepid
HMS Unix
HMS Tempest
HMS Providence
HMS Mirians Fire

-ColonyFleet: 2 Cruisers, 8 Transports (4k) (en route Arakis 1/2)
-EF2: 1 Scoutship (en route to Arakis 1/2)

The Colony Fleet and Expeditionary Fleet 1 Enroute to Arakis has been given an if Statement for their arrival in Arakis. If the Scourge is present, Flee, if the Colony is Habitable and there are no other human Life forms, colonise, and make peace with those small Factions.


-WarFleet: 4 Cruisers, 2 Carriers(82f) (Kalekka)

The War Fleet in Kalekka Resides victorious over the System, only the planet remains, and with research on a new Ship class, capable of planetry bombardment, it is simply a case of waiting.

The Fallen Ships are being given a Military memorial, the ship the HMS Hawk is to remain in orbit as a sign of the Bravery of the Mirian people. The Fallen personal are being recovered all the time.

Military Expeditionry Force 1 Cruiser (kalekka)
The HMS Implacable has been given special orders to explore another system, with the system under such firm control.

-CF2: 2 Transports (1k) (Ingram)

This Colony ship has finally found its system, the colonisation will beging almost immediatly.

-EF1: 1 Scoutship (Venever)
The Scoutship Venever is heading towards Hr'Tor for refitting immediatly, having made contact with Haven

 

[Kal'thzar]

^^ above not really up to the quality i like, but i've been rushed.

Anyway Diplo to kalekka

Stand DOWN and be absorbed into the Mirian Empire. lest Planetry Bombardment occur.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

From Astral Sojourners
To Dysonians
Are you amenable to an exchange of technology?

 

[Darwin420]

From: Dysonians
To: Astral Sojourners

What do you propose?

--

Transmission from Kalekka (audio only)
Addressed to Mirian Fleet

Remove yourselves from our System and never return.

 

[TerrisH]

Darwin, everyone, I sent out a diplomancy earlyer, can I have a reply?

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Tara pushed some foliage out of his way and waved back to her followers.

"Follow me please."

Kellis, the other guide, was right stepped up right behind her, leading a group of twenty or so curious children and adults.

"We'll have to be quiet now." said Kellis to the group. Their chatter ceased instantly.

"The Crownbeetles have a settlement right ahead. They don't mind humans coming along, but if we just tramp into their home they- well, what would you do if an alien creature suddenly burst into your house?"

Some of the children laughed nervously.

"Now if you could look-"

"Look at that!" shouted a young boy from the back. A group of 6 or so iridescent blue insects, each about half a meter tall, wer skittering towards them along the soft earth, making shrill chirruping sounds.

"Don't touch it. Stand back and watch this." said Tara. She felt the ground shake. She knew what was coming, and grinned. Kellis led the group into a covered area. For a second as the insects passed, there was no sound at all.

Then, faster than most humans could follow, huge dark creatures leapt at the fleeing insects. Pincers and other appendages moved with lightning speed, striking down each one with precision. Within a second, every insect was dead. Their attackers suddenly slowed down to a visible pace.

They were definitely Crownbeetles, Tara noted.

The group stared fascinatedly as the creatures lifted the bodies of the smaller insects onto short, tentacular grasping arms just below what appeared to be a neck. Once the insects were all securely held, one of the Crownbeetles made a whistling sound, and the hunters set off into the underbrush. The humans followed.

The Crownbeetles took a sharp turn to the left, and entered a clearing. Tara and Kellis cautiously followed, behind them was the excited group.

another story to be continued

 

[Darwin420]

To: Trinity
From: CorpState of Imerik

And how would this be profitable to us?

 

[Disenfrancised]

Orders sent.

There will be a (crappy) story later so watch this space...

Location: High Madya Orbit

The hundred yard shard of drifting rock flared with a thousand tiny stars. The ruby red beams of the seveteen nearest rocks defense grids cut the metallic boulder into hundreds of pieces of debris. There was a moment of calm, then each fragment, seen now only in IR, flared with their own light. Something that had be orbiting Orpha since its parent rock had been split asunder, or even coagulating out of the dust cloud itself, was now but a trace of dust again.

The swarming traffic between the rocks of the Halo made not the slightest adjustment of activity to compensate for the slaying of this intruder, trusting to the ever-viligant AIs of the defense laser grids. Indeed the AIs themselves, always staring outward like the Argus of old, remember the rock for no more than a few milliseconds, before considing it to archiving and letting its vector and composition sink beneath successive non-sentient overlays.

The Conclave had laboured long to build such a home for themselves; they would not be wiped from the map by the wandering hand of fate...

 

[TerrisH]

To Imerik: it would be an even trad, so both parties profited equally, was are saved the massive cost of researching lvl 3 Energy pysics, and you are saved the cost of researching Construction lvl 3. it will also present you in favorible light, and we would not be disinclined if goods would start flowing between us. (we'll set up a trade route next turn with you if you do this)

 

[Global Nexus]

Orders:

1) Fill five transports with 500 colonists each and ship them to Crisium with a one Carrier escort [with 50 fighters in its hold]. Remove these from their respective fleets, if necessary. The colonists will, of course, be used to found a colony on the best planet in the Crisium system. (Totalus -> Crisium)

2) Spend 2 EP on research into Energy technology.

3) Bring the Cassini Fleet back to Totalus. (Crisium -> Totalus)

4) Spend 1 EP on the construction of another Scoutship.

5) Spend that final EP on the construction of 50 more fighters.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

(Sorry for the late response, I was banned for a few hours)

From: Dysonians
To: Astral Sojourners

What do you propose?

It is in our interests to arm you rather than harm you, <implied subtext>Haven</implied subtext> so right now we will give you our blueprints for spaceship weapons, which we are sure you have the ingenuity to adapt for your designs, and we ask that you be willing to trade with us in the near future, once we have determined what avenue of research we wish to pursue.

 

[Darwin420]

To: Astral Sojourners
From: Dysonians

We will accept your trade, and offer you some of our technology in Construction.

-

To: Trinity
From: CorpState of Imerik

We will agree with your technology trade, and look forward to open trade between us.

 

[Darwin420]

Update Started.

 

[Darwin420]

Update is nearing completion. It will probably be up later tonight or tomorrow. Sorry for the slight delay, but I have not had as much time today as I usually do. (darn real life!!)

 

[TerrisH]

BREAKING NEWS!! SCANDLE IN THE HARI SYSTEM!

Early today, System Govener and his two asossiate goveners were arrested erlyer today after Consort Kaji uncovered a plot by them to kidnap his and Emperor Misato's daughter, Lady Asuka. As this contatues Hightreason, they will be placed on public trial and excuted. this will end the legacy of the Bloody Bastard, and we hope will bring about a more prosperous future for Trinity as a whole.

we now return you to your regularly sceduled update.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

So... what's the ETA for the update?
I'll post some fleet stats while I wait.

Bringers of the Dawn &#8594; Sabro

Spoiler :

Current authority: Rear Admiral Vandergon
Carriers:
Phoenix under Vandergon (25 fighters)
Narsilian under Commander Denilith (25 fighters)
Aurora under Commander Shathe (25 fighters)
Also in the fleet are 10 transport ships containing 1500 civilians and 7500 infantry. The army units are assigned to 15 Brigadiers who report to General-Major Arn Kossir.

Interstellar Bus &#8594; Enemsi
20 transport ships ferrying civilians to the new systems. Move along.


Border Patrol &#8594; Broder

Spoiler :

Current authority: Commander McAifim
Carrier: Sulimo under McAifim (20 fighters)
Carrier: Frostflower under Colonel Domorpos (20 fighters)

(Do the "&#8592;&#8595;&#8594;" characters show up for you guys? I just discovered them.)