[STGOD] Primary Story Thread

[Stormbringer]

As for the Asgard holding the position of Minister of Fleet Assets, we do not believe there will be any problems- unless, of course, the Minmatar try to force Asgard commanding officers onto the bridges of Floater vessels.

You needn't worry about that. Our naval officers are presently occupied and then some with our current naval expansion.

Besides, the regard most Floater ships are glorified death traps.

[Spyder]

Excellent. The fleets will be supplied by Floater fleet tenders, which will provide refueling, repair, and rearmament in the field.

We will begin construction of maintenance posts/outposts, from which ITASF vessels will operate, and from which any ITA merchantmen can call for help, or set in at for emergency repairs.

As for the Asgard holding the position of Minister of Fleet Assets, we do not believe there will be any problems- unless, of course, the Minmatar try to force Asgard commanding officers onto the bridges of Floater vessels.

Then it is settled. We'll make a note to have Floater and Asgard personel serving on the same vessels.

(OOC: I have this image in my head of an officer wearing a red uniform chasing an Asgard captain with a cattle prod through zero G now)

[Stormbringer]

{Asgard Interstellar News}

The trial of the Black Forest rebels continued today. The defending JAG has put up quite a spirited defense against the overwhelming prosecution case. What effect that will have on the judges remains to be seen.

So far his key assesrtion has been that the Kokand crewmen and officers could not possibly have committed mutiny as they were not Asgard Navy. No oath of allegience has been administered and as Kokander's they also signed no cease fire. Hence they were fully protected naval crews.

So far the prosecution has been unable to challenge this assertion. What effect this will have on the long term effects of the trial remains to be seen.

The final arguements are not expected before tomorrow though legal experts have been favoring a defense victory.

[Straha]

Sergeant Janson, well really he wasn't going to be a sergeant much longer, walked through Trafalga Square. He walked through and double checked that he had the two military issue pistols underneath his shirt, just over the armor he had. The pistols had been smuggled through customs, he had paid dearly for the case that had hid them, and were all that he had of his last vestiges of belonging to the Monacoran Army. He had been part of Duncan's Division, and had helped storm bunkers bringing death where he went. After he had gotten back to base he learned that the absolute worst had happened, his brothers, parents, and wife had all been killed by Kokkand Atomics in two seperate shielding failures. Since then he had been planning, hoarding, and now he finally had the chance to get them back for his family. Taking leave from his unit had taken time, but now he had done it. After attending the burial of his family, and grieving he went out and bought his ticket to London, and to what was now Kokkand land. His leave had expired yesterday, but the military would never find him here, right now he was "Tony Jackson" a mild mannered insurence agent, out to have some fun in the land of his ancestors.
Looking about he saw another group of tourists come in, and in them more Kokkand, and more murderers. Taking out the first pistol he pointed it into the crowd, and fired and fired. Each bullet cartridge held 16 rounds, and underneath each pistol was a small laser designed for burning away armor. And he had two pistols, and ten cartridges, and all the training in the world, and you know what he would show them here, and at his trial when he would accuse them of being bloody murderers!


Thirty minutes later, after Sergeant Timothy Johnson had killed thirty-two people, and wounded fifty more the police finally neutralized him. It had cost three policemen's lives, and when he had run out of ammo the gunner had knocked one more unconcious with his pistol but. After they put him in a SWAT patty wagon they were forced to sedate him to keep him from strugling too much, and to stop his rantings and ravings about how he would "show those murders."


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The prince watched as the meeting was finally coming to an end, he hated these political planning sessions, he had grown up all his life waiting to fight and to become the proper military prince. And when he was he showed great courage and fought with much skill, but now he was a fighting diplomat, having to worry about two fronts, luckily James was a great man, and a wonderful advisor."My prince, one last thing." James said, after giving one last note about some big oil company.
"Hmm?"
"A AWOL vet just went on a killing spree in London, killed quite a few people."
Standing up the prince stared banefully at James, "Well issue a statement of regret, and offer our condolences."
"Sir, the Black Forest crew is about to get off the hook."
"So? Oh...."
"We have their precedent, and it can't be denied, we also had nothing to do with it. He's a bi-polar depressive who stopped taking his meds after the Kokkands killed his family, he would probably get off with five to ten years of parole after a brief interment in a mental institute so he can regain his composure, and it would throw a whole lot of political dirt in their faces."
"Would we win?"
"Yes, or make them seem really hypocritical."
"Okay, do it but don't go too far over board."
Turning to his secretary the prince said, "get Fedayn in my office in ten minutes, tell him we have some backup plans to work out.

[Alyrium Denryle]

"You mean to tell me those Kokand terrorists will probably get off the hook?"

"Yes sir, the charges of mutiny will probably not stick, just like we thought they wouldnt."

"Oh in all the stars of... They have killed thousands of defensless civilians, and they will probably be aquited of the charges aganst them, charges that do not even fit the crimes they commited. This was intentional. Get me the director of espionage. This must end."

[The Yosemite Bear]

Neo Alexandria Nodal Cult
Avatar time


In hyperfreecast it was just little bits of information nothing amid all of the noise. still, they were watching.

The high Cathedral, The Cult assembled in thier virual "Alexandria" domain. They were all conviently under their "Avatars Guises" the "Anubis" and "Horus" teams would be sent out many songs had been scilenced during the terrorist attacks, untold mysteries would never be unraveled. Yes Judgement and Vengence had been dispatched to the site of the trials.

[Thirdfain]

General Freecast:
-Source- Zarathrustra--

"It has become obvious to us, over the last few years, that mankind is yet unprepare to accept life without borders, life where conflict is settled peacefully, and justice follows basic, human concepts.

We have broken our own creed, attempting to bring the Peace of the Void to others. It is obvious that the scribers of lines, the formers of boundaries, still hold sway. Their actions bring death, fear, and pain."

"Nothing could have proven this more then the recent trials in which condemned murderers are let free, for political expediency, to pander to ridiculous, unjust laws."

"Space is vast, with room for all. We will embrace the Void, moving to the edge of this Reality, abandoning this society for the next."

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On the Clusters of Xanadu, Kharam, and Zarathrustra, great convoys of starships and subclusters began to stream out to the hyperlimits, springing into FTL. The Cluster of Zarathrustra, bereft of it's myriad subclusters, was a quarter it's original size, vast, untouched.

The Fortress Asteroid, with it's massive military databanks and Command and Control equipment floated untouched, abandoned.

In Kharam, the Womb had been stripped of it's massive accompanying Cluster. Inside it's bays, six half-completed Dreadnoughts lay in their moorings, alongside fifty lighter craft in various stages of construction.

The Womb's ten massive Monitors hung in space, abandoned intact. They had no FTL drives, and were useless to those fleeing Known Space.

The Xanadu cluster's warehouses, and it's central station, remained, but most of the Cluster had split up and dissappeared into FTL.

Mohaim remained, blissfully unchanged, except for the extra subclusters strapped on. The former URN First Fleet was moored along Mohaim's bulk, receiving the first shipments of DE shield generators. They would soon be shipped off to the Minmatar, for inclusion to the ITA.

In the Durandel system, the fledgling Cluster in the Oort cloud had tripled in size, as those Floaters who had decided not to leave hooked their subclusters up.

[Straha]

Marines rushed through the abandoned fortress asteroid, data was downloaded for backup wherever they could. Espionage banks were opened, and scanned. The Monacoran command was confused on why the floaters would leave, but they would not let such a valuable thing as an abandoned command center slip through their fingers.

[Straha]

Monacoran National Nws Network
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The Monacoran government has announced its support for the brewing law-suit seeking billions of dollars from the Asgard government, and the crew of the Black Forest pirate ship, and its various escorts. The suit claims that the government should have made sure that no ships could have gone pirating like the Black Forest did, that the oaths of loyalty should have begun immeadietly, and it was jokingly added by the lawyer, Sarah Simone, "shouldn't of assigned the dumbest lawyer in the fleet to be prosecutor." This law suit is open to all victims of the Black Forest attacks, including the Floaters who were killed in the last engagement of the fleet.

Story Developing

[Thirdfain]

-General Freecast, ITA-
Mohaim

The freemen/bondmen/lovebound of Mohaim propose a vote before the ITA of No Confidence for the Asgard Empire. In their obvious disregard of interstellar law, and their failure to fully persue the charges against those to be unfit for the position of Minister of Fleet Assets.

Should not a Minister of Fleet Assets be able to control their own fleet? The Asgard allowed an TWO entire task groups, one of Asgard ships and one of Kokand ships, to go missing. This sort of near-criminal negligence has caused tremendous economic loss, both in cargoes lost, fleets diverted to convoy duty, and repairs and damages.

Such behavior is a sign that the Asgard are ill-suited for the position of Minister of Fleet Assets.

[Straha]

-General Freecast, ITA-
Mohaim

The freemen/bondmen/lovebound of Mohaim propose a vote before the ITA of No Confidence for the Asgard Empire. In their obvious disregard of interstellar law, and their failure to fully persue the charges against those to be unfit for the position of Minister of Fleet Assets.

Should not a Minister of Fleet Assets be able to control their own fleet? The Asgard allowed an TWO entire task groups, one of Asgard ships and one of Kokand ships, to go missing. This sort of near-criminal negligence has caused tremendous economic loss, both in cargoes lost, fleets diverted to convoy duty, and repairs and damages.

Such behavior is a sign that the Asgard are ill-suited for the position of Minister of Fleet Assets.

The Monacorans would like to second this vote.

[Alyrium Denryle]

We vote yea.

The Asgard have also failed to bring murder charges against the Kokand terrorists. But instead mutiny charges that they knew would not hold up. This is an outrage.

[Darksider]

Marines rushed through the abandoned fortress asteroid, data was downloaded for backup wherever they could. Espionage banks were opened, and scanned. The Monacoran command was confused on why the floaters would leave, but they would not let such a valuable thing as an abandoned command center slip through their fingers.

Four hours after the Monacoran marines left, a Krytos Transport vessel filled with elite Krytosian Guard troops attached itself to the abandoned command post. The Elite Guard quickly moved througout the station, securing areas and setting up a holocomm link to centeral command.

"Sir?"

"What is it lieutennant?"

"The entire database has been wiped clean, it looks like someone beat us here."

The commander turned to face the lieutennant

"What? Who was it"

"We don't know sir"

just then, a trooper noticed somthing shining on the floor of the command center. He picked it up and ran over to the commander

"Sir, i think i know who did this"

The commander took the object from the trooper.

"Is this a.... candy bar wrapper??? Are you out of your mind lieutennant?"

"Look at where it was made"

the commander looked at the wrapper

"Monocarans, figures theyed beat us here, they've always been better at collecting intel than us, contact the ship, we're going home"

The emperor watched the hologram with great interest

"So, let me get this straight. We're basing our entire assumption that the Monacarns have the data on a CANDY BAR WRAPPER?????????"

"Yes emperor"

"Bring me the head of covert intelligence, and my gun"

[Straha]

TIGHTBEAM TRANSIMISSION, CODED, and DELIVERED BY DISGUISED COURIER SHIP
To: DE, KSE, PSR
From: Monacora
Regarding: Arrangement of a meeting

We request that you please send a small party of top ranking political and military officals who can keep a secret, discussion will involve plans for future after recent Floater isolation, and discussion of future politcal practices, deadline : 3 days. Clearence codes attached.

[Thirdfain]

General Freecast

-FROM: Mohaimese Republic-

With the passing of many of our brothers and sisters into the Void, the Bondmen/Freemen/Lovebound of the Republic of Mohaim would like to once again raise the standard of the United Floater Republics, taking over where our Zarathrustran brothers and sisters left off. We will observe all agreements and treaties of the former UFR.

To facilitate the reformation of the UFR, we would like to declare the fledgeling Cluster in the Durandel System a Republic of the UFR. The new Cluster, dubbed "Shiva" by it's populace, will stand besides Mohaim in this. We reassure our allies that while many have left, some remain, to stand by our friends and allies.

[Alyrium Denryle]

The DE grants citizenship to all Floaters living in our territory. They now have all benifits of being naturalized citizens.

[Beowulf]

OU Defense Intelligence Agency:

"We have discovered from a source that the Moncorans are planning a meeting regarding the recent exodus of the Floaters from Known Space..."

[Thirdfain]

New Republic Broadcasting


Ladies, gentlemen, sentients of all ages, welcome to the first freecast of New Republic Broadcasting, news-service of choice for the free peoples of the Durandel system!

Today, in a ceremony held in orbit over the homeworld of Durandel's Empire, the new government of the Shiva cluster was sworn in. Diplomats from the DE were present.

All citizens of the Shiva cluster were given citizenship in the DE. Representatives met, and eternal brotherhood and friendship was sworn.

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The vessels entered the Taiga system, fast and quiet. Dozens of transports closed in around the remains of Xanadu. The massive warehouses, only partly emptied when the original occupents Crossed Over, were divested of their cargoes. Megatons of precious minerals, blocks of electronics, weapons systems, massive containers full of pharmaceuticals, both recreational and otherwise, were loaded up.

The ships left as silently they had arrived.

[Stormbringer]

{Asgard Interstellar News}

The perpetrator of the murderous rampage in London was shot and killed in police custody today. He attempted to escape police custody and after attacking several more officers he was beaten to the ground. At that point he attempted to grab and officers weapons and was shot. He died seven hours later in the hospital.

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The trial of the Black Forest rebels is nearly at a conclusion. The panel of judges is deliberating on the charges laid before them. Experts are predicting a verdict later today. Most say the prosecution despite fighting the defense hard was unable to overcome the simple defense of the prosecution.

The crews of the hijacked Vampyres have already been let loose. They were declared unwilling accomplices.





(OOC: Never lost a second taskgroup. You guys just missed the big freaking clues I dropped.)

[Stormbringer]

The Asgard have also failed to bring murder charges against the Kokand terrorists. But instead mutiny charges that they knew would not hold up. This is an outrage.

War is not murder. Should we likewise try the Floater militaries for their numerous murders in the same war? And perhaps the Krytos as well? And the Monamoracans? And you?

Please, don't utterly forsake your pitiful grasp on sanity. War means death, if you don't like that don't get involved in them.

[Stormbringer]

Should not a Minister of Fleet Assets be able to control their own fleet? The Asgard allowed an TWO entire task groups, one of Asgard ships and one of Kokand ships, to go missing. This sort of near-criminal negligence has caused tremendous economic loss, both in cargoes lost, fleets diverted to convoy duty, and repairs and damages.

Such behavior is a sign that the Asgard are ill-suited for the position of Minister of Fleet Assets.

We were disrupted and disorganized by the war your people started. Surely you do not think we lose battlegroups on a regular basis? The Black Forest taskgroup was the only one lost.

And if you do not wish to deal with the problems war stirs up perhaps you should not start them. After all, this matter is of your own making.

Needless to say we vote no and issues our veto.

[Thirdfain]

How would you classify soldiers with no legitimate government backing? Do you classify them as a legitimate army? do you classify them as freedom fighters? Exactly, Asgard Representative, what government was it which was waging war against the Floater, DE, Roman, and Monacoran governments when the Kokanders destroyed civilian shipping?

There was no war, Asgard Representative. There was only murder. Terror.

[Beowulf]

We question the ability of the Floaters to count, and also vote no to their attempt to remove the Asgard from the position Minister of Fleet Assets.

(OOC: what you are presumbly calling the second task force consisted of two Vampyre-class carriers, and two Jakarta class escort cruisers, all of which were stolen.)

[Thirdfain]

We were disrupted and disorganized by the war your people started. Surely you do not think we lose battlegroups on a regular basis? The Black Forest taskgroup was the only one lost.

You lost at least two large warships, of Asgard design, to the Kokand pirates. Our sources tell us you lost, in fact, more than two vessels. These ships, it appears, worked alongside the Kokanders. These vessels were lost months following the end of the Four Hour War.

[Stormbringer]

We were disrupted and disorganized by the war your people started. Surely you do not think we lose battlegroups on a regular basis? The Black Forest taskgroup was the only one lost.

You lost at least two large warships, of Asgard design, to the Kokand pirates. Our sources tell us you lost, in fact, more than two vessels. These ships, it appears, worked alongside the Kokanders. These vessels were lost months following the end of the Four Hour War.

No, me lost them while they were in convoy with the orginal taskforce. We know exactly when all fourteen vessels were lost.

And yes, the Asgard vessels worked along side the Kokand vessels. Haven't you heard of prize crews? Kokand officers were in charge of the vessels and had been since their seizure.