[Event] Destinations of a new empire

ZendikaroftheWest

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"Ah. Do you need us to send ships there, I am sure we could help."

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ZendikaroftheWest "We will be fine, hopefully. We are already putting our new technology to good use. This starbase is more important. It will give our people hope. It will not only be an ark for our civilization, but also will help us in exchange of technologies and coming out of our isolated solar systems." half the exterior is already in place. Now the fabric ship moves, to insert itself at what would become the center of the starbase, with its hangar to the top.

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The Starbase comes close to a finish. The armor for now is quite impressive, even though it lacks some typical HDC armor elements, it is dozens of meters thick. The weapons are 8 heavy duty laser beams, able to cut through most smaller targets without problem, but with a slow turret turn rate. There is a huge amount of missile launchers present on the hull. It has some primitive shielding. It also has a bunch of small caliber high velocity guns on the lower end. The hearth of the Starbase is the factory, together with the constructor. It was redesigned to build all kinds of ships. It can even build smaller capital ships (around 4 km), but it takes some time. A very small cloning facility was also installed.

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The now heavily fortified Starbase is finished. next to it, the constructor begins the construction of a smaller, non military one

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As the construction takes place, at the edge of their system, a lone FTL signature is registered, the size could be attributed to a cruiser.
The ship, using its sub-light engines to power its way towards the starbase, is now more closely discernable:
It is colored a dark grey with red and black accentuations, with large armaments covering the hull. There is a white Balkenkreuz painted on the side and the lettering "Deutsches Weltraumreich - Schwerer Kreuzer Albert Obernstett".

The cruiser sends off a transmission on open channels:
//Transmission: Open Code//
"Guten Tag, ve are zhe German Space Regime. Ve mean you no harm, zhis cruiser noticed some proceedings happening in zhe system, so ve went to investigate it. If you vould be so nice, could you tell us vho we seem to have stumbled upon here?"
//Transmission End//
The cruiser stops outside of weapons range, and awaits a reply.

Hannizio

boombox The Starbase aims all its weapon systems at the arriving ship. making itself combat ready. It starts to spin slightly.
"We are the Human Defense Coalition. You seem to come from earth too. Even trough it doesn't look like it, we are here in peace. We want to establish a presence here while also preventing not so friendly mined people from destroying everything we have build so far"

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//Transmission: Open Code//
"Ve are not here to stop you from doing zhat, or to harm your progress in building up a future for yourself. To show zhat, ve propose a diplomatic meeting, and would send over an unarmed shuttle. Vould zhat be acceptable to you?"
//Transmission End//

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boombox "We don't have any inner defences yet. I would prefer to meet on your ship. We will send out our captain, one pilot and two companions for the captain. We wont take any weapons with us" The starbase slows its turn speed until it stops, aiming its massive laser weapons onto the cruiser

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The cruiser has its armaments idling turned forwards and is showing no signs of agression, its bow turned sideways away from the station.

//Transmission: Open Code//
"Understood, ve will be awaiting you. Please dock on zhe port side."
//Transmission End//

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boombox "yes, we will send the shuttle" The shuttle notices that its docking device has the wrong size. It scans the dock of the other ship, before leaving to the starbase and returning a few minutes later. Now it can dock. Out of it there go 3 persons. The first one wears a Uniform locking like he is a high ranking military leader. The other two behind him wear white lab coats. The pilot stays in the shuttle

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(Question: how does the docking station look like? Is it like a small hangar, or an ISS style dock?)

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They are greeted by a small number of soldiers with their rifles standing at attention, and two men in officer's uniform, with their hands behind their back. One seems to have the rank of a captain, the other of a lieutenant. The first thing to notice about them is that they are much larger than normal humans, standing at 2,50-2,70m height. Their uniforms are a dark blue with golden accentuations while the soldiers are wearing black.

The captain steps forwards to the uniformed man in the front, extending his hand for a handshake.
"Willkommen. .. er.
Welcome on zhe heavy cruiser Albert Obernstett. My name is Ulrich von Plauzhausen, and I am zhe captain of zhis vessel. It is a pleasure to meet you."

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boombox The person in the uniform shakes the hand of the captain "It is a pleasure to meet you. I am Captain Septilimus. You said you want to stop us. How do you plan do do so? And more important, why?"

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Hannizio
The captain seems very confused and looks at Captain Septilimus.
"Stop you? Vhy would ve want zhat? And vhen did I say zhat?"
He questioningly looks at his lieutenant, who simply shrugs, then turns back to Septilimus.
"Ve vere simply passing zhe area and noticed some signals zhat had not been here zhe last time ve cartographed zhe area, so ve came to investigate. Ve are not here to stop you from building up an existence for yourselves."

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Here is how the starbase looks like:

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boombox "Sorry, I misheard you. I overheard the "not". Anyways, it is always good to meet other humans. As you can see, our Starbase is nearly finished, only a few things on the inside need to be done. The weapons might seem intimidating, but dont worry, they are more of a way to defend ourselves. This is our arc ship. If our civilization faces doom, it will stand as a last hope. You may also noticed the smaller Starbase we are in the middle of constructing. This one will be a communications hub for everyone to join. We are planning on setting it up as a neutral ground to trade resources, ships and technologies with other factions."

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The captain nods understandingly.
"No problem. You are right, it is nice, zhere are many dangers out zhere, human and alien alike. Be cautious on your travels. Do you need any resources to build up zhe rest of zhe communications hub? Ve might be able to get a freighter here within few days."

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boombox "We got all the resources we need so far from asteroids around here. If you know anyway to make better armor, or other materials that would be useful, we would of course accept, but for now we only lack in crew members. On the hyperspace jump out of our small, isolated part of the galaxy, our 2 troop carrying ships got destroyed, so we only have some carrier crew left. Reinforcements are planned to come soon, and we still have to set up the whole electrics and smaller, more complex mechanisms, so every help is welcome."

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"Ve could send over some workforce, yes. A construction ship sent off now vould arrive in two days, I'd wager.. Zhey could assist you in building up inner defenses as vell as zhe communications hub."
He takes out a tablet and starts typing on it..
"Vhen do you think your trade hub would be operational? Zhe Reich is always interested to establish new trade routes."

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boombox "The trade hub could have its outer shell ready in a few days. The inner stuff would still need some time, depending on how many workers can do the electivity. Im sure you can understand, if we want to keep the inner security of out military base to us, but it would be great if you could help with the inner security and management of the trade station. But sadly, the trade hub wouldn't be of much use for us now, besides trading ships/ship designs, because we would need some sort of deep hyperspace drive to come around the barriers that keep ships from entering or leaving our boarders undamaged."

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"You do not have a hyperspace drive?"
The captain looks confusedly at them, but nods slightly.
"I may be able to get in contact with some higher ups and channel over an older version of our hyperdrive systems, zhe newer one is protected under military law.. And yes, ve can surely help vith zhe trading hub."