United Earth Government

Dokkisse

With much delay, a response to the UEG delegation comes through.

"We will gladly uphold our promise with the Vanguard Fleet. Release them at your earliest convenience, and we will duly return the Vanguards to their planet."

An agreement to sell raw materials to the UEG is being worked out, with compensation for Alsinian Alloys being the current topic of debate.

Va'ar Hal't says: "The absolute minimum that the ADL will accept on their goods is a 10 percent markup for the materials sold. The transit fees alone will increase the price at least by thirty percent, and this is required for our economy to grow."

ONI

Dokkisse With much delay, a response to the UEG delegation comes through.

"We will gladly uphold our promise with the Vanguard Fleet. Release them at your earliest convenience, and we will duly return the Vanguards to their planet."

An agreement to sell raw materials to the UEG is being worked out, with compensation for Alsinian Alloys being the current topic of debate.

Va'ar Hal't says: "The absolute minimum that the ADL will accept on their goods is a 10 percent markup for the materials sold. The transit fees alone will increase the price at least by thirty percent, and this is required for our economy to grow."

”Thank you.” The UEG diplomats converse quietly about the cost of this deal. After a few moments of communicating, they come back and say it’s a deal.

Now both economies would prosper. However, there is one small issue. Defence. Defending transports shipping goods would be an issue as noted with the Vanguards, navy assets are father behind than the current gen III ships the UEG possesses. How will the ADL step up to protect vital shipping lanes?

Dokkisse

ONI

Having expected the aging UEG fleet to relinquish the defense duties of the convoys, in a rare case of cooperation, the ADL delegation had sent an urgent message back home to drastically increase the construction of Y and O-Class Frigates. The recent construction of the first Cunicule-Class must be postponed, to much chagrin within the Planetary Congress and especially Alsinian Alloys, who are making most of the armor and armament. But, the orders for the Y and O-Classes are going through them anyways, so it's a minor annoyance at worst.

Va'ar, relieved from the ease of cooperation, sends this message: "We have recently increased the production of escort frigates 3-fold, that will cover your concerns."

Jared

ONI
The fighters are able to start up their warp drives and just escape with their lives, however the frigate talking heave damage receives critical damage shutting down their engines and their warp drive systems.
The Frigate sends a message
//Incoming Message//
We have no blood for your nation, let us leave and we will remain out of your way, our blood is for those Human demons
//Transmission Ended//

ONI

Jared "Sir incoming transmission. It's from the enemy." "Patch it through Lieutenant" "Aye Sir, patching it thorugh."

The transmission plays through the bridges speakers. The captain waits a moment before giving an order. Ignoring the message as they are humans themselves he says: "Akita, fire the MAC." "Aye Aye sir, MAC firing solutions found. Fire on your command" "Send those bastards to Hades."

The bridge lights dim as the MAC gun is fired at the frigate. The vibrations under the rubberized floor of the bridge are felt underneath the crews feet.

Jared

ONI
As the incoming shots rip through the frigate escape pods are seen being ejected out, while the bridge is seen disconnecting itself from the rest of the ship, readings also show a critical spike in the reactor of the ship, as the escape pods fly out the frigates core is seen to glow bright white before explosive are seen all across the ship, the escape pods move towards the now detached bridge and dock to it, once docked they power up their emergency warp drives and flee

Back with the diplomatic fleet they send out their emergency broadcast and slowly move towards the closest UEG station

ONI

Dokkisse "thank you. Now lets get this deal signed and set in stone." The UEG would assign **Cutlass II Fast Attack Corvettes and a few smaller frigates, and a station acting as a middle point on the trade route to protect it.

ONI

Jared The prowler, finally moved in. Recording the ongoing battle this entire time it moves forward to examine the wreckage of the enemy frigate. Perhaps it will take samples of the debris as well.

The closest station is a medium sized civilian station used as a transfer point for cargo and people to load and unload orbiting a smaller sized planet.

A couple of light frigates come to greet the oncoming ships.

Jared

ONI
The wreckage seems to show signs that the explosion was in part controlled to ensure the ship could not be captured, or scavenged for anything of significant use.

The fleet make their way towards the station and open comms with the approaching frigates
//Incoming Transmission//
Hello, this is Yulia Davinsky from the Terran Citizens Union, we were on a mission to meet with your leaders, however as you may can see we were attacked on our way here, we were wondering if we could dock at the local station to tend to our wounded, do the last bits of light repairs to our ships and be granted to set up a meeting with your leaders or other diplomats. Thank you.
//Transmission Ended//

ZendikaroftheWest

ONI
The probe finds that this room must have been one of the ammo storages, as the room is scattered with shells and missile warheads. The submarine is not found, but a small (About 1m by 1m) spherical device is found.

ONI

ZendikaroftheWest The corvette scans the strange device for any potential threat signatures before taking it on board after it is deemed "clear".

They also scan the nearby shells and warheads, maybe they could be of some use for reasearch down the line. It takes them onboard as well once they are deemed "clear" too.

ONI

Jared The transmission goes through, they are given a green light to proceed and dick. As the possible lead ship comes closer, a docking ring extends from the station to connect the two together.

ZendikaroftheWest

ONI
The device, as soon as it is brought onboard, opens, revealing a message capsule. Inside is a handwritten message, reading: I have brought you to this place to show you something. Look around you. This used to be a great warship, built by ancient peoples to fight in their wars. But what is it now? A wreck devoid of life and glory? A piece of scrap, left to rust in the ancient seas beyond the world? A civilisation is remembered not from its glories or successes, but from how it fell. We are all the same, whether you accept it or not. We were once great, but now we are but a shadow of the true power we once wielded. I hope we meet again. -Flakken
The shells are somewhat intact, however, whatever propellant inside of them has long since disintegrated, washed away by the "water" of this place.

Jared

ONI
The diplomatic cruiser moves forwards and docks with the station. Once docked the team enters the air lock and wait for the doors to open.

ONI

Jared The airlock depressurizes and regulates the rest of the air within the station. The diplomatic crew are met by two personnel in fatigues who politely escort them to the recently strung together diplomatic meeting.

ONI

ZendikaroftheWest

The shells can still be considered useful, despite the "washed away" propellant. The alien metals and materials will be a great study for materials groups within the military.

The crew are baffled as to who had written the message. This Flakken character has no data records at all and even more puzzling was that the message was written in English.

ONI

Life in the United Earth Government continues on. New leadership provides hope to its citizens with democracy, trade, industry, and protection from the unkown. Great colonial expansions continues on with new systems such as Rosetta, Gaberiel, and Cardoba being settled, adding to the great territory of the United Earth.

Only time will tell what happens next in the story of this United Earth and her people.

”Ad Astra per Aspera”

ZendikaroftheWest

ONI
Suddenly, another message is shown.
This capsule has a single use dimension drive that will allow you to get home. I recommend you you use it, as the ocean is not empty of creatures that will harm you. I wish you luck.
After the message is shown, a small object pops out of the capsule. It is an odd, datajack like thing, meant ot be inserted into a computer terminal.

ONI

ZendikaroftheWest What creatures… the crew are puzzled. Based on the vast information of secretes they have based on their job, they have never heard of creatures living inside another dimension like this.

not even [Redacted] records show that anything lived within hyperspace or whatever you want to call it.

They insert the device safely, after they throughly investigate and confide that it is safe.

ZendikaroftheWest

ONI
After installation of the device, the prowler's engines suddenly flare to life, and a rift begins forming above it. As the prowler enters the rift, a low, booming hum can be heard. Once they have entered the rift, they exit at the same location they entered, close to the disabled station. As the rift closes, the device burns away, leaving no trace of what brought them back.

ONI

ZendikaroftheWest id say this arc is done as crossroads exists now