Chapter One - Rude Awakening
CE 71 December 21st
Sol System
Attican Traverse
Non Citadel Space
Martiobarbulus -Class Assault Frigate (Repurposed as a Military Freighter, Roughly current Destroyer Size)
THPMCS-078325-D2 "Pride of Attica"
Situation:
Approaching Gas Giant 1 of unknown star system
"Crixus, give me readings on those gas giants - we need to get Helium-3" said Captain Spartacus of the Turian Hierarchy Space Exploration Vessel "Pride of Attica". Lieutenant Commander Crixus gave the Communications Officer Lieutenant Naevia the following order: "when we reach the first one, scan it for anything - especially Helium 3".
As the Pride neared the first of the four gas giant of this system, Naevia noticed something on one of the moons "Captain, we have a positive on Element Zero on one of the moons". The entire crew of the Pride cheered, they had finally found what they needed to get back home.
Within the cargo hold of the Pride lied an alien escape pod, the engineers were too busy focusing on Eezo Scooping to notice that the seals on the pods door came loose. What they did do notice was the hermetic seal coming offline and the pods athmosphere mixing with the cargo bays own. The alarms went off as the high oxygen air mixed with the nigh nitrogen air (while turians and humans could breathe the same air, both races had preferences on the airs oxygen and nitrogen percentage. And the human pod was from ZAFT, which meant Coordinator regulated garden world purity air: high oxygen).
Fflay was terrified, first she had been launched inside an escape pod with only one mission: get to the Archangel. She had noticed that there was a battle between OMNI and ZAFT, not only that but the ORB fleet consisted of elements of both OMNI and ZAFT? - She tried to send a message, but insted cried out for help in the comm "Somebody, rescue me! This is Fflay Allster, Please!". There she floated between three fleets ready to shoot each other as from nowhere her pod was eaten by the cargohold of the Pride of Attica. The pod was anchored magnetically to the floor of the cargohold, and Fflay clearly felt artificial gravity kicking in. Unknown to her, she had become the first human to make first contact with an alien species, albeit still within an escape pod and without meeting any of the aliens...yet.
"This should do" said Ascher, the Cargo and Deck Chief of the Pride, as they had unloaded the scoop out of the hold into the bottom of the ship. "Captain! the Scoop is locked and ready for use." he said into the intercom. "Affirmative! good job Ascher, keep me posted on the pods situation while you are at it." replied the Captain intot he intercom. the pod! -thought Ascher, fuck! I forgot all about the alien pod we got in there... His thoughts were a bad omen as the Pod in question opened and they were having a first contact situation with quite probably the worst possible crewmembers of the ship.
meanwhile back between PLANT and the MOON...
"Where the hell did the pod go? give me some data!" yelled Natarle Badriguel to her bridge crew. "Nothing on passive sensors, and only a faint signature on active, Captain" replied the sensor operator of the Dominion, he was still a bit nervous about the floating dead body of Muruta Azrael, as the body continued to float slowly but surely towards him".
"Contact the Archangel, and the Eternal on tightbeam!" ordered Natarle. "Aye, Captain" replied the comm officer. "Contact established to both ships, Captain". "Good, patch me on then" Natarle replied simply as she started her querry to both her former Captain Murrue Ramius and the former prisoner she had Lacus Clyne. "Ladies, I picked only a faint reading on the mirage colloid operating stealth ship that stole Fflay Allster from all of us, did you manage to get a better reading on what we are dealing with here?".
Onboard the Eternal, which had the best sensora array of the known human space - came some rather disturbing info:
Ship: UNKNOWN
Class: UNKNOWN
Faction: UNKNOWN
Armament: 8 Dual GAUSS cannons and possible Missile launching systems 4 + 9 energy based light defence CIWS
Propulsion: UNKNOWN
Stealth Systems: UNKNOWN
Launch Bays: one primary bay and two possible secondary bays
Sensors: UNKNOWN
"Let me use my SeeD mode to analyse the raw data" said Lacus.
Her eyes became dead focused as her mind dived into the data, she compiled all that the sensors had managed to get into something that started to make sense...
Ship: UNKNOWN
Class: Light Frigate
Faction: UNKNOWN
Armament: 8 Dual GAUSS cannons and possible Missile launching systems 4 + 9 energy based light defence CIWS
Propulsion: Magnetic field modulator with Thruster assist
Stealth Systems: Mirage Colloid
Launch Bays: one primary bay and two possible secondary bays
Sensors: Tachyon based
Either we are dealing with a first contact situation with a non human race, or this is a faction we know nothing about. We are going to have to ask Malchio to see what he knows about this. -thought Lacus as she exited her SeeD mode.
"Magnetic Propulsion?" Said Murrue, she had never heard that it would work but then again it was theorized as part of the Mars Expedition Project's possible means of reaching to the red planet alongside the Voiture Lumiere that PLANT was running experiments on...
Aboard the Vesalius, Rau le Creuset knew something was off "You felt it too, Mu?" -he asked telepathically. "Yes, these are not humans, meaning not natural, not coordinator either but real bonafide extrasolar aliens" -replied Mu La Flaga. "This changes everything" -said Rau both telepathically as well as out loud.
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A loud clang that shook the pod she was in, forced Fflay into a panic. She closed her eyes and cried, tried to prey to whatever gods were out there that she would not be tortured or worse. The shaking stopped as did the noise. A full 3 minutes of utter silence where she could hear her own hearbeat. the the hatch exploded open, leaving Fflay's spacesuit in dust and anti-fire foam.
We have a live one -yelled Ascher. Two marines pulled Ascher aside and aimed their rifles at the white foam and dust covered space-suit.
Fflay tried to wipe the foam from her visor and saw space lizards pointing guns at her, she fainted... This had been too much for her for one day.
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The Vesalius and the Dominion came to join the talks with the 3 Ships Alliance under a truce flag. While tensions were a bit high, everyone knew that these were the good OMNI and the good ZAFT.
Dearka, Yzak, and Shiho joined Rau as the ZAFT delegation.
Natarle came alone as the OMNI delegation.
the Junk Guild had assembled some people that were definitely not Junk Guild members: the Zahaku Twins, Gai and Lowe, Ed the Ripper and Sakura Burst.
From the 3 Ships Alliance would be gathered as representatives of these talks: Marue, Kira, Athrun, Cagalli, and their leader Lacus.
All in all these talks would be something for the ages.
...but as they were about to meet in the large oval office within the Eternal, a lone marseilles III joined this fleet and Reverend Malchio merele suggested that some youngsters join as representatives of Terminal: Canard, Prayer and Goud himself.
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So, she is a lot like an Asari? asked Spartacus. Yes and no, replied Mira. She does not have those biotic organs, nor does she have a single microbe of Eezo.
How is that possible? everyone has at least some Eezo on them. Yelled Gannicus. maybe they do not have any elemet zero nor mass effect technology said Crixus. How can this be, have we run into some primitives? asked Spartacus. Could be, replied Crixus. She's waking up, said Angron.
They all gathered around the bed in the med room, Crixus, Gannicus, Angron, Mira, Naevia, and Spartacus. The girl stirred in her ZAFT greed uniform she had worn under the spacesuit.
Fflay opened her eyes, and six lizards stared at her, The strangest thing was that they wore clothes...
How do you feel asked one Lizard. They speak english? she thought. why are there lizards in clothes speaking english to me? she fainted again.
as the red furred Asari fainted again, Spartacus said to Crixus -you went too hard on her, I just asked her how she was doing, Skipper.
Maybe seeing us all at once was too much for her, said Naeva. you all go, I will stay and watch over her said Mira.
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-FROM THE AUTHOR-
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