SE:IV B5 RP

Kojiro · Post by **Kojiro** » 2006-09-13 05:36am

M6

"The Vorlon Empire demands an explaination from the Brakiri for the deaths of it's people." Lyta's tone was angry, though seemingly worried. "A large Brakiri fleet has taken control of a jump gate in Quadrant 27 and destroyed two vorlon vessels attempting to move through the gate." she paused a moment.

"The vessels, and Extension class and a Future class are completely unarmed. The former is a colony ship while the later a construction vessel." Lyta opened a folder and removed four official pieces of paper, bearing the logo of several major factions.
"This is a clearance from the Corporate Sector, allowing the vessels passage through thier space." she slapped the paper on the desk.
"This is a clearance from the League for the ships to pass through thier space." Another slap.
"This is the clearance from the Dilgar" Another slap "and this is the formal permission notice to set up a colony in Centauri space. " She slammed the last piece of paper down. "The entire flight path, cleared and lodged with all four governments we had to cross the territory of. Explain your actions in setting up a blockade, or we will clear the path ourselves."

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-09-13 11:09am

"The Corporate Sector has given the Vorlon Empire permission to enter its space. However by Interstellar Law, the jump gate from Canton to Quadrant 27 is controlled by its principal inhabitants, the Hurr Republic. The Corporate Sector no longer has any control over the Hurr Republic.

We also would like to inform the Council that the League of Non-Aligned Worlds has requested the gate between Quadrant 27 and Canton be temporarily closed. It will be relocated in the same system within one standard time unit. All commercial traffic will be diverted through the Nocalo and Trembas systems to the jump gate to Earth Alliance space." Chen smiled. Alshain would be happy for a chance to tax millions of merchants.

"The jump gate relocation is important for the defense of the Hurr Republic. I suggest the Vorlon Empire travel through Earth Alliance territory and use the jump gate between Tala and Trembas. The gate will be closed for a short while regardless, so debating whether the Vorlons are permitted through Quadrant 27 is moot."

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2006-09-13 01:15pm

"Give me one reason why I shouldn't sack you right now."

Vir sighed. The war was really and truly over, at last. All that remained was formalities and enacting the change of territoritories. The Dilgar had stepped away with more territory than Reefa had hoped. Much more. Namely, all the formally Narn planets, plus the Cascan system, and a few planets in Yonog.

"Because nobody could've handled it better than I did," Vir said. He felt so drained, both emotionally and physically. He just didn't care if Reefa fired him or not right now and didn't bother to act respectful. "And maybe if you hadn't recalled the Expeditionary Force from Vreetan so quickly I could've gotten more concessions, or maybe we wouldn't have lost three and half billion more Centauri."

"You--"

"Of course, as emperor it is your perogrative to dismiss me and replace me with Ivan or whoever you wish," Vir went on. "But I'm telling you there's no one who can do my job as well as I can."

Reefa scowled. "Very well, Mr. Cotto. You remain the Republic's ambassador to M6. For now."

The MesCom screen winked off. Vir had to resist the urge to put his fist through it.

***

"So many of our people, left behind," Na'Toth, former aid to Chairman G'Kar said. "The Dilgar will not be kind to them."

"I know," Dmitri said sadly. "Vir told me he tried his best to get the Dilgar to agree to evacuate them, but Rai'Jal was adamant."

They stood on one of the balconies of the Imperial Palace, looking out at the night sky as Londo had so long ago.

Dmitri was only too pleased to be out here in Na'Toth's company rather than back in Reefa's office. When Reefa wasn't demading R&D create fighters on par with those of the Vorlons and weapons platforms that could single handedly ward off fleets, he was harassing the Department of Colonization to fully develop almost untouched colonies in under a year. He thought the impossible was only what he was due.

"All my people ever seem to know is suffering," Na'Toth said mournfully.

Her eyes held a haunted look to them. Dmitri wondered if she was remembering the last time she'd been on Centauri Prime. So much had changed since then, and not all of it for the better.

"It's not a total loss for your people," Dmitri said. "Despite the Dilgar's best efforts, many of them will be coming to live in the Republic."

It was more due to G'Kar's evacuation efforts than anything the Republic had done that a good number of Narn would escape living under the Dilgar.

"Where does their destiny lie?" Na'Toth asked. "Sanctuary?"

Dmitri shook his head. "No, they will be sent to Forge."

"Forge?"

"Our colony in the Riat system, as far away from the Dilgar as you can get within the Republic, except for Fir'mill and the world the Corporates recently gave us," Dmitri answered. "It's been newly renamed. Reefa intends to turn it into a major manufacturing center. There will be many opportunities for employment there. Your people will be prosperous."

Na'Toth scowled at the mention of Reefa. "The new emperor cares not for our plight."

"He is indifferent to you," Dmitri admitted. "But he does not dictate the day to day affairs of government. I do, and I swear your people will be treated as Centauri citizens."

"Amazing how our greatest enemy has become our ally," Na'Toth commented. "Thank you, Dmitri."

***

ISN

"Emperor Reefa of the Centauri Republic announced today that in the wake of the devestating Centauri-Dilgar War he was 'throwing open the door to immigration' to the people of all nations. Restrictions on immigrating the Centauri Republic have been greatly lessen and the the process of gaining citizenship has been temporarily eased dramatically."

(OOC: what this means is that I want people, and I'm willing to bargain for them. I'll take anybody, and groups as small as 50M or as big as you want. If you're interested, just drop me a PM and we can talk. Just please no RP about how they're being forced to go or with me mistreating them. I'm looking for on the up and up immigration here, not slaves.)

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2006-09-14 01:40pm

Kojiro wrote:M6

"The Vorlon Empire demands an explaination from the Brakiri for the deaths of it's people." Lyta's tone was angry, though seemingly worried. "A large Brakiri fleet has taken control of a jump gate in Quadrant 27 and destroyed two vorlon vessels attempting to move through the gate." she paused a moment.

"The vessels, and Extension class and a Future class are completely unarmed. The former is a colony ship while the later a construction vessel." Lyta opened a folder and removed four official pieces of paper, bearing the logo of several major factions.
"This is a clearance from the Corporate Sector, allowing the vessels passage through thier space." she slapped the paper on the desk.
"This is a clearance from the League for the ships to pass through thier space." Another slap.
"This is the clearance from the Dilgar" Another slap "and this is the formal permission notice to set up a colony in Centauri space. " She slammed the last piece of paper down. "The entire flight path, cleared and lodged with all four governments we had to cross the territory of. Explain your actions in setting up a blockade, or we will clear the path ourselves."

"Ladies and gentlemen," Krull started theatrically, "I hope for the sake of sentients everywhere that you are not buying this tripe. The fact of the matter is that two unidentified Vorlon ships approached our battlegroup, without informing us that they were coming, and without responding to hails. Since Vorlon ships cannot be scanned, we had no way to know they were not armed. It seems rather obvious to me that the Vorlons knowingly sent those ships against us in order to score political points and make the Brakiri look bad. Well, we will not allow them to use our honored Black Sabbath fleet to start a war. As of yesterday, the Brakiri have formally made an offer to gift all Black Sabbath ships to the League of Non-Aligned Worlds in the interests of galactic peace and stability. That is all." Krull stepped down.

Kojiro · Post by **Kojiro** » 2006-09-14 11:37pm

"Suggesting we set up a flight path, months before your blockade appeared, to throw away our people's lives for political points is so far beyond ridiculous it's insulting to the intelligence of this council."

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-09-14 11:54pm

Canton System...

A small group of Sharlin War Cruisers hung in space, undocking from suborbital habitats in the clouds of a beautiful blue-green gas giant.

They remained in orbit of the colony world, and openned a channel to a 68-ship Brakiri Flotilla waiting at the jump gate. It was a standard video image, with a black-clad Minbari male standing within the holographic command chambers of his Sharlin.

"Brakiri Vessels, I am War Leader Rakar, commander of the Shi'rala Squadron. The presence of such a large fleet of heavy capital ships in space jointly controlled by Earth Alliance and Minbari Federation mining interests is concerning. State your business for entering our territory, and your destination."

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2006-09-15 01:02am

Kojiro wrote:"Suggesting we set up a flight path, months before your blockade appeared, to throw away our people's lives for political points is so far beyond ridiculous it's insulting to the intelligence of this council."

Krull smirked as he replied, feigning shock and surprise. "Yes, the Vorlons would NEVER show such callous disregard for sentient life."

Meanwhile...

Nephtys wrote:Canton System...

A small group of Sharlin War Cruisers hung in space, undocking from suborbital habitats in the clouds of a beautiful blue-green gas giant.

They remained in orbit of the colony world, and openned a channel to a 68-ship Brakiri Flotilla waiting at the jump gate. It was a standard video image, with a black-clad Minbari male standing within the holographic command chambers of his Sharlin.

"Brakiri Vessels, I am War Leader Rakar, commander of the Shi'rala Squadron. The presence of such a large fleet of heavy capital ships in space jointly controlled by Earth Alliance and Minbari Federation mining interests is concerning. State your business for entering our territory, and your destination."

The Brakiri Admiral got on the horn. "We have nothing to say to you, bonehead, and we go where we please." *click*

He chuckled, "Let them chew on that," he muttered to his XO. If they marshalled the fleet they had in the system against the Black Sabbath fleet, it would be a slaughter, and by the time they marshalled bigger guns, the ships wouldn't be Brakiri anyway so they'd have no cause to fire on them.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2006-09-15 02:08am

Mesopotamia Six

Retief spotted the Brakiri Ambassador walking through one of the corridors of Green section, and approached him.

"Ah, Ambassador!"

The Brakiri rolled his eyes, then put on a diplomatic smile and turned to face the Terran. "What is it, Mr. Retief?"

Retief pulled an envelope from his jacket, bearing the official seal of the Earth Alliance, and handed it to the Brakiri Ambassador.

"EarthForce is formally filing a flight plan for the Cooke-Canton jump point. As I'm sure you're aware, we currently have a cargo convoy making it's way through this star system. That convoy is on a direct course for our colony in the Canton system. As we have not yet re-established mutual identifier databases due to the jump gate closures a few months back, an accidental rendezvous of our respective ships could prove an extremely costly mistake. We therefore want to make sure that the passage is completed smoothly. Our ships will be making the jump sometime this month. And..."

Retief pulled another envelope from his jacket.

"...here is an official proposal to re-negotiate civilian traffic protocols so as to re-establish trade between our two nations."

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-09-15 10:15am

"All-points bulletin from the Corporate Sector."

"Patch it through."

.

"We would like to remind all star nations that effective this time unit, the Cooke Canton jump gate will be closed temporarily for relocation. All merchant vessels are to divert through Earth Alliance territory through the Tala to Trembas jump gate to access galactic southward and galactic eastward destinations. This applies to military, government and interstellar traffic. Thank you."

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2006-09-15 10:35pm

Excerpt of conversation between Rick Sandoval, Vice President of Interstellar Transit for the Colonial Movers company, and EarthDome Interstellar Commerce Department Representative Bob Neuhart

"...and I wanna know on whose fuckin' authority the Cooke-Canton jumpgate is gonna be 'closed temporarily'! We're tryin' to establish a mining op', an' I got timetables, tightly coordinated plans, freighter jockeys what git paid by the month - don't ask, fuckin' union bullshit I tells ya - and Suit Space pulls this shit on us? We was told it'd be the Q27 to Canton gate that was bein' closed! I want answers, and I fuckin' want 'em now!"

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-09-16 11:35pm

"Protests rage across the Corporate Sector as the newly inagurated Prime Minister officially orders the destruction of the final warships of the Corporate Navy. Our regular viewers will remember Dr. Gunther. Welcome."

"It's good to be here."

"What does the Corporate disarmadment program mean for the galaxy at large?"

"Now that Benjamin Marxis is ousted, it represents a radical shift in galactic politics. Out of the more than five hundred orbital construction yards that produced every Corporate warship from the Iowas to the United States super battleships to the Terra Imperia's for the League, there's about seventy left, all scheduled for decomissioning. What this means is the Corporate Sector will no longer produce warships for foreign governments. But..."

"The new factories."

"Yes. The Corporate Sector's military industrial complex isn't giving up. Instead, they've moved to smaller, mobile factories on ships, using technologies not prohibited by the Prime Minister's ten point plan. Most controversial is this idea of a kill switch. Corporate warships in the Narn-Dilgar war killed arguably billions of sentient beings. The kill switch was considered decades ago for PPG's and abandoned due to impracticality. With new technology, it's apparently possible to build in a deactivation code in military vehicles. The idea is, should a foreign government use Corporate weapons to commit war crimes, that the Corporate Sector could disable the weapons."

"How popular is this idea with the industry?"

"Not at all. Needless to say no foreign government would purchase equipment from the Corporate Sector with an achilles heel. However, my contacts in the industry say Bombardier, Raytheon and BAE all have long term plans in the Corporate Sector for their highly skilled workforce. I believe the Corporate Sector will continue as the largest galactic arms producer into the next century."

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2006-09-17 08:46pm

"Excellency, the Centaurum has approved the budget you proposed for this year," Dmitri reported, walking into Reefa's office.

"Very good," Reefa replied, not looking up from what he was doing.

Dmitri wasn't unnerved at Reefa's lack of surprise, as the Centaurum's approval had already been a foregone conclusion. Reefa's proposed budget included massive spending for reconstruction of the infrastructure and the military, with a small amount being left unspent to gradually restore the depleated treasury. Many of the members of the Centaurum had protested the military spending, saying that they should more quickly refinance the treasury first.

In way of reply, Reefa had addressed the Centaurum in a closed session and told them that if they didn't approve his budget, he would dissolve the legislative body and make sure that enough of new legislators were his puppets to make the Centaurum a rubber stamp for his decisions.

It frightened Dmitri, but perhaps the Republic needed strong leadership after their disasterous war. In any case, he wasn't ready to do anything about it. At least, not yet.

"Have we had any word from R&D?" Reefa asked.

"They report that the Kraken-III prototypes performed up to spec and are ready to go into production," Dmitri answered. "Additionally, they have developed a design which the Corporate US warships can be retrofitted into, the Scion class. They've assured us that the Corporates will no longer be able to exercise any type of control over them after being retrofitted, and that a similar project for the Black Sabbaths should be completed soon."

"And the fighters I want? The weapons platforms?"

Dmitri held back a sigh. Reefa had been badgering the R&D chief so much that the man was going to accept a transfer and a 20% pay cut. "Same as before, Excellency. R&D reports they'll have a weapons platform design for your approval ready shortly, but that your request for a fighter which can match those of the Vorlons is not forthcoming any time soon."

"Tell the R&D chief that if he wants to keep his job he'll make it happen some time soon," Reefa said.

The corners of Dmitri's lips quirked upwards. "Yes, Excellency."

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-09-19 01:23pm

Lennier was growing more concerned with Delenn's continued absence. She was on some 'special assignment' at homeworld, but he still didn't like it. At the usual weekly meeting, he spoke up at his turn.

"Regarding the resent transfer of many Brakiri warships to the Hurr Republic, we acknowledge their right to possess such ships for defensive purposes, but their placement within our border expanse shared with the Earth Alliance is something we do not believe is an action accomidating to continued interstellar relations. What assurances can we have that they will be moved back into your territory, Ambassador?"

GuppyShark · Post by **GuppyShark** » 2006-09-19 06:15pm

"What assurances do we have that your fleet in striking distance of our homeworld will not be advancing?" the League ambassador snorted, a touch irritably. "We will maintain a presence in the system in order to observe the recent military buildup in a previously quiet sector. We have had a picket there for quite some time already."

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-09-19 07:14pm

GuppyShark wrote:"What assurances do we have that your fleet in striking distance of our homeworld will not be advancing?" the League ambassador snorted, a touch irritably. "We will maintain a presence in the system in order to observe the recent military buildup in a previously quiet sector. We have had a picket there for quite some time already."

"The simple assurance is that our fleet, consisting of a dozen war-cruisers and smaller support craft, is clearly not in the league of your fifty-dreadnaught force." Lennier remarked. "I am not a member of the Warrior Caste, but I will be so bold as to assume even their proudest would not hold any dillusions that such a squadron could do any damage in an attack aside from waste their own lives." he said with a stoic nod. "Our forces are there to help oversee development of our own worker-caste colonies. In our territory. Surely the league is not as paranoid to assume such an anti-piracy group could be a threat to your soverignty."

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-09-19 10:15pm

The Death of the Battleship

By Brian Stewart

This week, Jane's Defense published photographs of a previously unseen type of starfighter. The starfighter appears unremarkable. However, in one of the photographs the crest of the Corporate Sector is visible. Photography experts have authenticated the photographs.

"It appears to be a standard starfighter produced from off-the-shelf components," Nathan West, a defense analyst, said. "I don't see any reason to get excited about it."

However, the Corporate Sector has been retooling its factories for months, to comply with the new ban on capital ship weapons. Leading warship manufacturers in the Corporate Sector have expressed to their stockholders it is business as usual, despite Prime Minister Nunziata's banning of all warship construction.

"The industry hasn't slowed down at all. Despite the demolition of major orbital yards, they are retooling for a new kind of warfare," Dr. Vansen of the University of Geneva said. "With the capital ship weapons ban, they can't possibly construct anything but unarmed hulks."

Or fighter craft.

Fighters don't make any sense in space. The equipment to keep a man alive and the fragility of fighters have always forced them into secondary roles in space navies. However, fighters were not discussed in the peace talks between the Earth Alliance and the Corporate Sector, and nothing in the new treaty forbids the construction of fighter craft. The Corporate Sector could construct tens of thousands of fighters a month, and with their low maintainence costs compared to warships, fighters may be the weapon of the future. A single manned fighter with a powerful warhead can easily defeat a battleship's armor.

Are we seeing the beginning of the death of the battleship? Only time will tell.

GuppyShark · Post by **GuppyShark** » 2006-09-20 12:21am

Nephtys wrote:"The simple assurance is that our fleet, consisting of a dozen war-cruisers and smaller support craft, is clearly not in the league of your fifty-dreadnaught force." Lennier remarked. "I am not a member of the Warrior Caste, but I will be so bold as to assume even their proudest would not hold any dillusions that such a squadron could do any damage in an attack aside from waste their own lives." he said with a stoic nod. "Our forces are there to help oversee development of our own worker-caste colonies. In our territory. Surely the league is not as paranoid to assume such an anti-piracy group could be a threat to your soverignty."

"You'll have to forgive me if I'm not willing to risk billions of lives on the military assessment skills of a clergyman."

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-09-20 12:46am

GuppyShark wrote:
Nephtys wrote:"The simple assurance is that our fleet, consisting of a dozen war-cruisers and smaller support craft, is clearly not in the league of your fifty-dreadnaught force." Lennier remarked. "I am not a member of the Warrior Caste, but I will be so bold as to assume even their proudest would not hold any dillusions that such a squadron could do any damage in an attack aside from waste their own lives." he said with a stoic nod. "Our forces are there to help oversee development of our own worker-caste colonies. In our territory. Surely the league is not as paranoid to assume such an anti-piracy group could be a threat to your soverignty."
"You'll have to forgive me if I'm not willing to risk billions of lives on the military assessment skills of a clergyman."

"More than a clergyman. While Delenn is recalled to Minbar, I am the representative of the Minbari Federation." he said softly, but still with that basic firmness characteristic of Lennier. "I think your desire to keep ships in someone else's territory is unwarranted and founded upon folly. I will ask that you think of what consequences such rash acts may entail if you choose to continue on this path."

GuppyShark · Post by **GuppyShark** » 2006-09-20 01:13am

"I don't have to think about the consequences. I know about them. How many unaligned races have been subjugated by your Federation?

Your threats are unnecessary. Those ships are only there because we have just received ownership of them."

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-09-20 01:17am

GuppyShark wrote:"I don't have to think about the consequences. I know about them. How many unaligned races have been subjugated by your Federation?

Your threats are unnecessary. Those ships are only there because we have just received ownership of them."

"The Minbari Federation has welcomed any race willing to join us, and have not ever fired a shot in anger upon the members of our protectorates, nor moved ships into their space without permission. I do not speak in threats, Ambassador. My interest is in the furtherment of interstellar relations." he spoke.

"As these ships are merely passing through as you say, because you recieved ownership, we have no further issue."

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-09-20 08:52am

Chen stared at Ambassador Fox through all this. That the Minbari didn't chastise the Earth Alliance for their modern carrier battlegroup, compared to the League's Corporate and Brakiri handouts, was telling. There had been rumors that the new Omega class Earth Alliance vessel was more advanced than any ship ever fielded by Earthforce, but how much of that was due to Minbari scientists and engineers?

The Minbari Starfleet was the most powerful in the galaxy. They could easily have stationed a hundred, or two hundred or five hundred warships in Canton instead of twenty. But... the Hurr Ambassador had a point. One warship could kill millions, and the Earth Alliance and Minbari combined in Canton had more warships than the League. Given that, the League had perfect reason to match foreign warship deployment ship to ship in the star system one jump away from their homeworld. Why hadn't the Hurr Ambassador brought Earthforce up? Probably because he didn't want to strain relations with Earthdome.

And the Earth Alliance was setting up colonies everywhere. Was Earthforce so powerful they could protect millions of colonists on the edge of their territory? And where the fuck were the two carrier battlegroups Nunziata negotiated for? The Prime Minister had told him to keep quiet, but days had passed and no Earthforce ships guarded Corporate jump gates. Was Earthforce stretched thin?

An aide gave Chen a note. Well, this would complicate things.

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2006-09-20 11:16am

Ambassador Krull chuckled. They could have just as easily sold the Black Sabbath fleet one system away, but Kullenbrach wanted to see if they couldn't make the Minbari or Vorlons look bad and strain relations with others while he was at it. That the Vorlons had either intentionally or unintentionally sent two ships to their doom was just an added bonus.

Kojiro · Post by **Kojiro** » 2006-09-21 03:01am

M6

"We would like to call attention to the latest in Brakiri Vorlon interactions." Lyta rose and directed the room to the screen. The display showed the Koula jump gate. The remnants of the last Brakiri fleet to engage the Vorlons had taken up position on another jump gate outside thier territory. A single Vorlon vessel was also present. This one however, was a military vessel.

The battle is replayed from the jump gate recorders and the Vorlon vessels own data. Three baseships move to engage the smaller ship but are destroyed before they can close the distance.
"Unsurprisingly the Vorlon ship quickly identifies and engages the hostile vessles. In a matter of minutes the most heavily armed Brakiri ships are destroyed."
The Vorlon ship then pursues the remainder of the fleet firing on one of the vessels, but not destroying it.
"You will note that it doesn't fire on any of the four unarmed ships at all. Nor does it destroy the fourth armed vessle once it's weapons are disabled, despite the Brakiri's assertions we do not value life. We do however value justice. Those ships contain the crews that were responsible for the death of our people. A satisfactory apology, recognition of their error will be forthcoming from the Brakiri, and soon. Otherwise we will instruct the ship to deliver justice on it's own."

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-09-21 10:10am

Eye on the Corporate Sector

"Prime Minister Nunziata announced a one billion credit reward for information leading to the capture of Benjamin Marxis. Thousands of bounty hunters are renting interstellar craft searching every sector and system in the galaxy for the deposed leader."

"In other news, the Corporate Sector has laid the keel for a Merchantman class transport. It is rumored to use previously classified military technology in its engines. Most galactic trade is conducted by small DC-8 class vessels. The Merchantman class transports are as large as military scouts. Galactic trade will be significantly boosted by the fleet of sixty-eight cargo ships. 'It's about time we got something bigger,' Abdul Singh of Trinkets 'R Us said from his asteroid resort. After the Merchantment are constructed, the Corporate Sector is expected to demolish its final orbital shipyards."

"The Interstellar Board for Free Trade has published documents accusing the Corporate Sector of closing and relocating vital jump gates for its own profit. Corporate officials have said the relocations will result in faster, more efficient jump transit."

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2006-09-21 12:07pm

Kojiro wrote:M6

"We would like to call attention to the latest in Brakiri Vorlon interactions." Lyta rose and directed the room to the screen. The display showed the Koula jump gate. The remnants of the last Brakiri fleet to engage the Vorlons had taken up position on another jump gate outside thier territory. A single Vorlon vessel was also present. This one however, was a military vessel.

The battle is replayed from the jump gate recorders and the Vorlon vessels own data. Three baseships move to engage the smaller ship but are destroyed before they can close the distance.
"Unsurprisingly the Vorlon ship quickly identifies and engages the hostile vessles. In a matter of minutes the most heavily armed Brakiri ships are destroyed."
The Vorlon ship then pursues the remainder of the fleet firing on one of the vessels, but not destroying it.
"You will note that it doesn't fire on any of the four unarmed ships at all. Nor does it destroy the fourth armed vessle once it's weapons are disabled, despite the Brakiri's assertions we do not value life. We do however value justice. Those ships contain the crews that were responsible for the death of our people. A satisfactory apology, recognition of their error will be forthcoming from the Brakiri, and soon. Otherwise we will instruct the ship to deliver justice on it's own."

"As usual, the Vorlons are so full of deceit they probably can't even tell the difference between the truth and a lie. After approaching a Brakiri battlegroup at full speed and without hails, two Vorlon ships were destroyed two months ago. The battlegroup was then sold to the League of Non-Aligned worlds, and the support ships in the fleet were sent home toward Brakiri space. The cowardly Vorlons, blaming we Brakiri for their own mistakes, then pursued the support ships, mostly crewed by civilians and not military personnel, and destroyed three of them, damaging the fourth so heavily that all hands were lost. The three armed ships were not warships, but mobile ship yards. The fourth had no weapons to destroy, as it was merely a minesweeper. And the only reason that they did not destroy all of the ships present is because the Vorlon ship traveled at full speed for so long before engaging that it ran out of supplies and needed to recharge.

The Vorlons also fail to mention another encounter where a Vorlon ship approached our new battlegroup and opened fire, luckily doing no damage, before it was destroyed. Given that no peace treaty between the Vorlon and Brakiri to end the war caused by the failed Vorlon invasion of the Brakiri home systems was ever proposed or signed by either party, we do not grandstand and claim that there was anything wrong with firing upon our military assets, unlike our Vorlon counterparts. But unlike our ships in the incident two months ago, they did have the capacity to scan the vessels they destroyed, and they could have seen clearly that they were civilian vessels who were either unarmed or armed lightly for their own defense.

This entire incident is just another example of the Vorlon capacity to lie, to manipulate, and their willingness to murder civilians, something that we Brakiri have never done in the history of our empire. Even when we conquered a world, we did it with careful destruction of military assets by ground troops. The Vorlons, on the other hand, have bombarded worlds with billions of inhabitants until no one was left alive. I'll leave it up to all of you to decide who is more trustworthy."