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The third and last discovery fleet of the first generation of HDC ships leaving their home solar systems arrives, far from the connection point. was the second smallest, but most well equipped for nearly everything but fighting. There were multiple science vessels, a 2 km long carrier, but it didn't carry any dedicated fighters, escorted by only 3 frigates and 5 corvettes. The proud of the fleet was a prototype ship, with no weapons, but many factories and other production facilities. It was around 1km long, but it could use materials of nearly any kind, to build ships, or extend itself, using many smaller mining and construction ships. They arrived at the wanted location: A star, only orbited by a big asteroid belt, and a large gas planet, which's gravity prevented the asteroids from forming a planet. The fleet flew right to the outer asteroids of the belt. after coming into range, there flew swarms of small and big mining ships out of the carrier. After all where out, a bigger, ship came out of it. It looks weird, and is not build for combat in any way. It goes flies to the nearest asteroid, which was only around 200 meters by itself, and started extending long, antenna like pipes to the side. The factory ship docs onto it. The first mining ship get back and deliver materials to the factory ship. The factory ship "consumes" them, and gives out usable materials to the other ship, which now begins to construct a massive objects, many times its size.

<Rules: 1. first try to communicate, than shoot 2. Say what kind of weapons you fire and where, but the other one has to tell the damage, because he knows his armor/shields better 3rd. you can join anytime, all the time>

    Hannizio
    Five light cruiser's arrive, along with a transport ship. The cruisers (Kelpatia-class), form a defensive perimiter around the ships, while the transport ship arrives with volunteer workers for the HDC.

      ZendikaroftheWest one of the frigates opens communication "Hello. I guess you are Neu Gamilan ships? We got some reports about you from our first fleet. We are happy to see you. As you might notice, we are building a starbase here, the first one outside of our territory. We plan on fortifying our position here first, before we will continue with further plans. You come just at the right time, we are cut from any reinforcements by a sudden attack at the exit of our territory, only hours after we passed"

      The first parts are constructed. Its already a few dozens of meters big. The first exterior armor plate is also ready. The reactor, which cant be produced by the factory, gets pulled out of the carrier. It occupied a big part of the hangar space. It gets covered in all essential systems as soon as possible

        The starbase already takes form. The reactor is already well armored. Its the newest reactor tech of the HDC and much bigger and more powerful than the most. The first part of the outer hull is done. Its made out of dozens of meters of armor, than a walkway infront and than the weapons. The walkway is armored with a few centimeters and is used to get repair crew to the weapons. The main weapons are rockets, together with very heavy laser beams. There is a lot of laser point defense on rail systems. The next thing to be done is the turning mechanism. For this, very heavy metal rings are put inside the station. They will be located in a vacuum pipe with a magnetic field. It will be turned/stopped to rotate into one direction or the other.

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

            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.

              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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              8 days later

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

                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.

                  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"

                  Hannizio
                  //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//

                    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

                      Hannizio
                      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//

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

                        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

                          Hannizio
                          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."

                            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?"

                            Here is how the starbase looks like:

                              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."