Hello everyone, BlackHawk571X here. And this story is an idea that plagued me for some time and I want to see if this idea takes off. Hope you all enjoy but first a little prologue to start this journey.
Year 2098 - 30 years after the First Terran Galactic War.
Unknown regions, Galactic Republic/ Andromeda Galaxy
In the outer arm of the Andromeda Galaxy, on a space vessel known as The Voyage Tempest, a patrol craft, radio operators listen in the vast emptiness of space of yet another boring patrol shift for the Terran-Andromeda Colonial Defence Force. Radio operator Heins Taiko along with his friend Billy Volsto is in their fourth hour in their 8 hour patrol. Hein's is a 5'6 man with blue eyes and black hair. Heins is German-Japanese born from the Mars Colonial Habitation Hub who had gotten lucky to be the first of many to colonize the Andromeda Galaxy's Outer Arm closest to the Milky Way galaxy. His friend Billy Volsto, a 5'5 Italian-Spanish man with brown eyes and blonde hair from the Venus Colonial Habitation Hub, who also got lucky to join, became friends with Hein's during the journey to Andromeda's colony settlement and got jobs as radio operators for TACDF. In that journey, Heins and Billy had the honor to be present to a live speech by the Leaders of Humanity and Colonial Governors of the United Terran Federation of Systems or The Terran Federation for short. In that speech, they bore witness to humanity's greatest group of leaders, The Risen, as they gave them and the 40000 colonists-to-be for the Terran-Andromeda Colony System, a speech about the expanding reach of humanity, to be the shining light of good and justice. Ever since Earth become a part of the rest of the community known as the Milky Way Galaxy, Human's had been under a second-class race until 30 years ago when the Terran Federation defeated the strongest empire in the galaxy, The Imperial government of Kriego or The Kriegon Empire. Since that war, human's had been treated better and the Terran Federation had been considered a superpower in the galaxy. And now, to avoid border conflicts after obtaining numerous territories from the Kriergon Empire as payment for the war, the Terran Federation plan to expand to the closest galaxy to their own, the Andromeda Galaxy. After letting this information known to their neighbors, the Kriegon Empire and The Galactic Federation of Light, the Terran's started to colonise the closest arm of Andromeda, which had a few terran planets. At the start of their journey, they helped the Terran colonists and military in bringing a tether station from the Jovian shipyard near Jupiter, along with 4000 warships to not only guard and escort the station but also to join the other warships already in Andromeda to form TACDF. But now, after 5 years in Andromeda they're starting to regret being radio men for they now sat in silence and listen to...nothing.
"Damn man, I wish we didn't have this shift. I rather be a colonial marine than being stuck to this job." Heins said
"Well, it was the only jobs that got us here in the first place, and the pay is great so I wouldn't complain about it too much" Billy said.
"Yeah, but for the last 4 months, it has been nothing but silence since the homeland stop sending colonists here. And besides the usual cargo transfers, nothing else happens."
"Your friend is right Mr. Taiko, I wouldn't complain about it too much if we were you" Both of the radio men turned to see their commanding officer, Captain Raka Deran from the Jovian Moon Titan Habitation Hub.
"Well, with all due respect sir, we had this sector for a year now, and nothing except cargo or military ships pass by. I swear, there is nothing out here. Why are we scanning for signals other than ours?" Heins said, making his captain sigh.
"I know your frustions, I want us to be posted near at Andromina, but we were forced here due a weak signal that came from this direction, so until our superiors said otherwise, we are struck here Sgt Heins. Don't worry though, just a few more months and hope we can get posted in a better sector" The captain said, making the bored radioman less happy about the situation.
"Well, no disrespect to the superiors or anything but they should've sent scout ships to that direction so we didn't have to have to sit here listening for noise when clearly there's nothing out there! " Heins said a little Loudly before hitting his console lightly with his hand, pressing a certain button. Before the captain had anything to time to discipline the sergeant for insubordination, the very key on the console start to making electronic magic as that key was meant to be used to open up radio frequencies from strongest to weakest to be heard by both radio men. And as they were more farther from radio traffic of TACDF than they need to be and got no signal at all...
Beep
Except one.
Beep
One signal.
Beep
That changed everything.
Beep
As they sat and listened to the SOS signal ringing out in the open, both Heins and Billy looked at each other with shocked expressions on their faces, soon turned to their captain to see his eyes widen and his mouth open agaped. They sat there staring at each other for a few moments until they remembered one thing at that moment. Their job.
Within a second, Heins and Billy put on their head set and begin scrambling to pinpoint the source of the signal while Captain Deran began to call TACDF HQ at Andromina, the colony's capital planet, but only got static. Leaving him no choice but call nearby forces, meanwhile Billy found the source of the sos and listened.
"/Mayday ma~STATIC~, this is the ~STATIC~ of Naboo! We hit ~STATIC~stroide durin~STATIC~ ace jump! We are ~STATIC~ unknown region ~STATIC~ith dead engine! Please ~STATIC~ anyone hel~STATIC~ over! ~STATIC~/". And with that, Billy acted.
"Unidentified vessel, this is the UTFS Voyage Tempest. We received your sos and are immediately sending an relief team to your position over" .
"/Oh thank the ~STATIC~ I thought we was doomed to ~STATIC~ here. Thank you Voyage Tempest, may the force be with y~STATICSTATIC~/". The radio cut before the captain spoke up.
"Alright men listen up, TACDF couldn't be reached due to how far we patrolled out here, so I had to call nearby ships to help. Billy, did you get the location of that sos?" Deran asked. The answer he got was from Heins.
"No sir he hasn't. While he's the one pinpoint the source of the frequency of the sos, I'm the one that pinpoints it's location. They're about 1.7 Juips from here near a gas giant sir." Heins said, getting a nod from their captain.
"Very well Heins, you and Billy continue to lookout for more signals while we get close to radio traffic to raise the horn on TACDF HQ at Andromina to let them know we found something at last. And Heins, when this is all over, I will discipline you for that little fit you had. You are may be a radio man as of now, but through and through you are a Terran Federation officer. The Fuhrer of the federation expects the highest examples of excellent service and military discipline while here in the Andromina system. If you truly can not the work here, I can send you back to Mars to your job as a potato farmer. Do I make myself clear, Sergeant Heins?" Captain Deran said sternly, getting Heins to gulp dry spit.
"Transparency crystal sir" Heins said. Getting a nod from the captain.
"Good, keep listening in the frequencies while we head for Terran radio traffic to report this. Just because you found one signal, doesn't mean you won't find another one. Keep listening and keep up the good work." Deran said, walking away. Sighing as he had his head down, his friend however grinned at his misfortune.
"So there's nothing out there huh?" Billy asked, teasing his friend. Heins then glared at his friend.
"Shut up Billy." Heins said, making Billy laugh as they worked to find other signals. But one thing is undisputed now. There is something out there, and it was not Terran.
At the Rajun Prime ring station
Rujan Prime
Five warships set out to head to the sos signal. One carrier that looked like the old world war Independence aircraft carrier, two cruisers that looked like the Japanese cruiser Myoko, and two destroyers that looked like the Arleigh Burke class destroyers. All the ships styled as the warships of world war 2 are in a temporary rescue fleet to save whoever sent the sos.
"Rajun Prime, this is the UTFS Saratoga, with the cruisers Mizuko and Hijima and destroyers Barnes and Drake. We are heading to a gas giant where the Tempest Voyage patrol craft believes that an sos is being played out there, so the temporary fleet is now attempting a rescue operation. Be advice, the signal is believed to not be Terran or any known MW galactic frequencies. So the signal is alien and " The captain stops to sigh, feeling troubled by the event "this may be grounds for a first contact scenario. I repeat, we may have a first contact scenario." The captain said, while looking at the crew on the bridge, who was looking shocked at the revaluation.
"/Copy that Saratoga, this rescue operation is on grounds for a first contact scenario. You have permission to commence rescue op. Good luck Saratoga, Rajun Prime out./" The commander of the ring station of Rajun Prime replied.
"Roger that, Saratoga out." The captain said, before hanging up and signing to himself.
"Captain Bekil?" The radioman beside him asked.
"Yes corporal Richards?" The captain said.
"Are we really gonna find aliens out there?" The corporal ask. The reason being is that after the war with the Kriegons, the term alien was being used as 'unmet life forms', meaning that any intelligent life not met by the Terrans, the word alien is used in appropriate manner. After meeting them, the word is not appropriate for they would use their races name instead.
"Perhaps corporal. Let's just hope it didn't cause an galactic conflict all too soon." The captain said as he walked to his chair, and then sighed.
"All ships, prepare for Juip jump!" The captain yelled out, get the crew to snap into action.
"Locking coordinates for Juip jump!" One of the crew yelled.
"Kiber Flux Engine activated!" another yelled out.
"All external equipment and weapons locked in place for jump!" One more yelled out.
"Kiber Flux influencers locking!" Another yelled.
"Coordinates locked for jump! The fleet is ready to jump sir" The first one said.
"Good work men, lets jump!" The captain said.
The ships engines suddenly cut out as a clock of visible blue and white energy surround the bows before making its way to the sterns. As the energy reached the end, the fleet disappeared in a flash of light as trails of white was left in their place as that too disappeared.
Gas Giant near the borders of the Terran Andromeda Colony.
2098
Near a green-yellow like gas giant planet twice the size of jupiter and triple the moons drifted a lone spacecraft. A starship that look like a flying wing aircraft rather than the usual spacecraft made throughout the galaxy, with it's passengers that once lost hope before someone responded to their sos. They now wait for the relief team to rescue them. As they wait, one of the passengers was recalling how they ended up like this, for she could not believe the event had befallen her and her royal guards. The young woman, who is named the queen of the planet called Naboo, is in her 4th year of her rule where she was coming back from her trip to Coruscant, the capitol planet of the galaxy wide union called The Galactic Republic, when her ship was attacked by pirates. They would have been captured if not for the hyperdrive malfunctioning to jump to hyperspace to a unknown region of the galaxy. The queen would have continue her thought when suddenly one of the pilots yelled out.
"Your majesty, we got incoming!" The pilot yelled out.
"Is it the relief team?" The queen asked
"I..I don't know. The signature is... not hyper space but some sort of energy flux." The pilot said.
"Energy Flux? Who uses energy flux?" The queen asked with interest. However, before any oral answer was given, a visal one was given by the arrive the fleet before them. The ships exited with blue and white rings expelling from them one by one from left to right as the middle ship came last to dwarf the Nabooian ship before them. The crew was shockingly mesmerized by the strange looking vessels as the radio sparked to life.
/To all and any ships in the area, This is the UTFS Saratoga of the Terran-Andromeda Colonial Defence Force. We have received an sos signal coming this region and have come to rescue anyone in dire need of relief. If anyone is out there, please respond./ The message as the request to respond shook out the awe of the pilot, as everyone else looked at awe as well, before responding.
/UTFS Saratoga, this is the Naboo ship Mooncaster, we have received your message and are waiting for relief./ The pilot said.
/Ah thank god, I was beginning to worry about any language barriers we may have had. Very well Mooncaster, send us your coordinates and we'll begin the rescue operation./ The Saratoga replied.
/Actually Saratoga, you're over us right now./ The pilot said.
/Ah, sorry about that. Our ships tend to by very precise with their influx drops. Very well, we'll position ourselves over your to perform a LEE, a Life Elevator Evacuation. Basically what it is is that we send a pressurized tube to attach to the hull to cut a hole in your ship and send marines to receive you. Please stand by./ The Saratoga said as it position itself above the ship to perform lee. The ship stops as a collapsible metal tube descends to their ship. The tube stop just on the hull as eight two foot legs lach on the ship and the heavy duty suction cups suck on the ship to keep it from moving. Inside the tube, a device is lowered with marines on top to cut a hole in the ship as eight plasma torches were being primed for cutting. As the device rested on the hull, suction cup lach on as the torches swoop down from the sides of the device and begin heating the area to cut through. 30 seconds later the plasma cutters burned through the hull and the device turned slowly to one side to make a 360 degree cut but it only went 45 degrees as there were eight cutters. Soon the cut was made and a small pocket of air escape into the ship meaning that their air supply was low, and descended down into the ship with a piece of the hull intact. Soon it stopped on the floor as the marines disembark to see the survivors...only to stop in shock as expecting to see a new alien species only to see humans instead. After getting over their shock, they begin asking questions.
"How many of you are there?" The lead marine asked
"Theres about 40 of us, more than half are wounded and need immediate medical attention." One of the crew said, to which the marine nodded and put a finger to his helmet.
/"Captain, we made contact with the survivors. We count forty and more than half need medical attention immediately." The marine said.
/"Understood marine, get the wounded onboard first and then the rest will come on. Is this First Contact?"/ The captain said, getting looks of shock from the Nabooian crew as the marines took a few seconds to reply.
"Yes sir..this is first contact scenario. I repeat..we have made contact with our galactic neighbors...and they're human." The marine said waiting for a reply. On the bridge, all the crew look at their captain with absolute shock on their faces as the captain look on with wide eyes and jaw drop. If what the marine said was true, then it will rewrite the history books of not just the history of humanity but also the history of life itself. He had to wait before returning to Andromina to have those answers, but right then and there he need to save the people that needed to be rescued.
/"Very well marine, get those people on board and hurry. Their transmission is heard on all frequencies. Whoever is responsible for this is still out there."/ The captain said as his marine got a move on, preparing for a battle he knew was to come.
20 minutes later
After loading the last wounded survivor in a vertical hospital bed in the very tube that was locked into the ship, the last of the crew began to be repeal up into the Saratoga while the queen waited to be lifted up onto the ship. Before waiting behind 5 other people an alarm suddenly blard to life, the pirates have found them. On the bridge the captain saw 15 ships suddenly appeared, to which he saw didn't much of a threat compared to the ships in his fleet. But his train of thought was halted when one of the crew reported that the lead ship was requested to speak with him. The captain gave permission believing that this will not end well and tell the crew to prepare for battle. Lucky for both of them, the terran ships had a holographic screen, to which a person appeared to reveal a whole other species that looks human but neglected care as their skin looked brown and had other non-human characteristics.
/"Ah, hello there, my name is Keira Ohnaka, the honorable piratess, and I request that you return the people you are saving to us."/ The pirate called Keira had requested that the people that they are saving tells him she was hired to capture them. The captain was not alone as the high ranking officer of this mission as he is joined by the Admiral of the Terran-Andromina Colonial Defence Force.
"Evening pirate, I am Admiral Jonathan Sovenroyi of the UTFS Saratoga, proud carrier of the Terran-Andromeda Colonial Defence Force, TACDF for short. And as for your honorable offer, allow me to give you a counter offer. Turn your ships around now and jump back to whatever scum infested parasitic shit hole you and your men crawled out from or I will make sure you meet your maker swiftly here and now." The captain said with a voice dripping with much venom as possible. Some pirates looked very discouraged at the very threat the captain said. But Kiera looked indifferent at the threat made as she replied.
/"Well, that was very rude of you mister Sovenroyi. But seeing as I have never heard of this TACDF before, you must be new to this business. And you may have never met a pirate like me before so../" Keria said before being interrupted by the Admiral.
"Forgive my interruption, but I am not new business as you called it. For I have served my federation, the United Terran Federation of Systems for over 50 years now and had my share of dealing and executing scum like you. And as for meeting a pirate, the last one I've met begged for his life as we torched his entire planet with him and a million of his followers when he decided to test us and killed a 1000 of our people who was beginning a new life of being colonists." Jonathan said, getting looks of shock of not only the pirates but also the rescued crew as their conversation was broadcasted throughout the fleet.
"Now I ask you, one more time. Run...or die." Johnathan said. The looks of fear was evident on their faces but Keira sighed.
/"Haaaa... well then, looks like we have to get our hands dirty then. You're lucky I don't have all my men to crush you and your puny fleet."/ Kieia said.
"Trust me when I say this pirate, you're gonna wished you did." Jonathan said as he disconnected the call. Moments later the pirates begin attacking the fleet, which showed no sign of damage. Jonathan then stood up and walked to a console to slam his hand on a button to address the fleet.
"Crush them!" Jonathan said with venom is his voice as the fleet began to fire back, this time with results as rail-cannons, airless turrets, and a shit-ton of anti-space batteries cut through there numbers until only 3 ships remained as once again was being hailed by Keira. Ordering his fleet to cease fire to receive the call. The holographic screen showed Keira, who was a little nervous and had fear in her eyes, a look which done to humble to pirate for her argence.
/"Hey mister Sovenroyi, forgive my attitude from earlier, it seems we had a misunderstanding so we will be leaving now. Good day sir!"/ Keira said before cutting out, only to see the remaining pirate ships turning around to jump to hyperspace. Satisfied by how the pirate understood aggressive negotiations, he ordered his fleet to jump to Andromina to begin the first step towards meeting the rest of the galaxy.
Because Jonathan knew that after this day, nothing will ever be the same again.
Alright, that was Star Wars The Clone Wars: The Terran Wars. Hope you guys enjoy it and ask for more. And by the way, I'm fixing the story a bit since some of the info I used is wrong and needed to be correct. Expect the story to be better than it was before! :D
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