Arcturus Station
High Council Meeting
Around the conference room seated all the Around the table in a room with the Arcturus sun visable on display illuminating the room, only Admiral Hackett and the president were present with all other Admirals and the vice president on the QEC systems of Arcturus. The Admirals were all dressed in their formal uniforms while president Karl Franz and vice president James Huss were in suits. ''We received a report from Shanxi three hours ago that mass relay activated and an unknown fleet came out, it was later found out that these unknown forces are called Turians and apparently fled from a Pirate armada that is hot on their tail and is only about two thirds of a day out,'' says Admiral Hackett in a deep and confident voice, he looks to Admiral Shepard. ''What is the status of your fleet Shepard you are the closest main fleet to this threat and because of the wormhole station not being delivered there yet you won't have reinforcements till you use the Valhalla to establish a wormhole corridor so what is your time of arrival.'' He asks in the same voice.
Shepard nods her face Grim. ''The fleet was already about to go through a relay when the call came in now as you know my fleet is all ways ready for combat in case of the most likely first contact we were to discover but without the wormhole station that what would usually only take an hour to arrive at the colony has forced us to take the long route the expedition fleet will be there in 81 hours. We were lucky that my fleet was mobile at the time otherwise this could have taken much longer to just organize and get underway, we got lucky,'' she says in a measuredly.
The president nods. ''We were lucky as is I am going to have the fifth fleet mobilized into a war fleet. The elements from the second and third fleets are being put into effect to cover the area of fifth fleets operation I want the expedition fleet to head for wherever their seat of power is for this alliance and I want the expedition fleet renamed into the retribution fleet you will handle our counter-offensive, Shepard. Admiral Hackett you are going to be active around all relays that could enter our space we need to send a message we will not take this provocation lying down. This council seems to have no spine if they are unable to deal with simple pirates that they could actually become such a threat, we will show them how to do the job. Now that we have discussed our immediate actions once our fleets are done I suggest that we use this to spur the economy into building more ships for the military as we have seen if pirates are able to field such large numbers it will not be good for us. Therefore I am suggesting that we double our colony defences while it will have to pass through the parliament we have to be careful we are alone and this coalition may be a danger to us also I want two new fleets to begin construction immediately and to also bring the exploration fleet to a fully fielded fleet to match the others,we will use the emergency fund to get that going so that we can manage the more than likely wave of expansion that is to come or the very strong possibility of war, therefore, we should also prepare plans to go to a war footing should that occur. So what do we know about these aliens.'' He asks in a kindly with an air of Authority.
Admiral Hackett was the one to reply ''The reports I received indicate that they are heavily dependent on element zero for all there technology which means that they will be very interested in our technology and the good news is that from what we can tell is that these aliens consider anything above 800 meters to be dreadnought class ships which means that in heavy vessels we have them outnumbered but we can easily speculate that they have a much larger number of small vessels also there industry could possibly out size us by are large factor but it would seem that they fail to see how useful strike-craft really are in this manner it would seem they have not developed them and use only a light amount of point defence for protection and that there own strike craft are more or less used to support them in planetary invasions and they are under developed to the point of a non-threat at the moment I also suggest that we up the production of smaller vessels instead of the larger ones to increase our fleet size if they do make use of smaller ships more than large ones, but we should keep the current composition of fleets and just add the smaller vessels to ensure our tactics are not effected. Then we also have managed to take information that was confidential as we managed to discretely hack from them we have had the AI analyze the information and have found some glaring issues that need to be discussed for our own security.'' He says warily.
''The first thing that has to be discussed is the treaty of Farixen this-.''
The Citadel Asari Embassy
Tevos was seated drinking Thessian tea going over the day's reports of what the Matriarchs had planned as well as demands from both the volus and Elcor on council seats. She sighed it seemed that it was mostly repetition as of late with all the requests and trying to keep the Turians from going on a warpath in the terminus systems. She could only think that it was a useless waste of life to try and clean up the pirate vermin that held that sector of space it was not as if they suffered not with it being the Asari and Salarians who had the most interest in the areas. She could see why they wanted to stop it but it just would damage there own interests and with the secret agreement that the Salarian Union and Asari Republics had to ensure that the Turians remained good little guard varren doing as they were told. It did not help that they were beginning to have doubts about the council with all the stonewalling.
She looks to her Omni-tool when it flashes alerting her to a priority message she groans had today not been busy enough she would have had a smile with all the plans coming to a head. ''Arysa prepare a transit shuttle to the council room it would appear that an issue has come up,'' she says in a bored and tired way that is easily conveyed.
''right away councilor shall I alert the Council of matriarchs to be ready for when you are done with what has come up.'' her receptionist asks in a lightly, Tevos nods to her reply while heading to the shuttle, A short ride later.
Once arriving at the council chambers were all important matters were discussed Tevos enters to see that both Varlin the Salarian councilor and Caivus the Turian councilor were both already seated and waiting for Tevos she puts a fake smile that is perfectly practiced. ''What was so important that it required our attention to be called so suddenly Varlin I am pretty sure that all matters have been discussed today,'' she says confidently with a slight air of superiority.
''Yes yes all has been discussed that we knew about but new information greatly troubling a relay was activated 3 days ago.''At this, he gives a pointed look to Caivus. ''BY THE TURIANS! Who was attempting to flee a pirate fleet,'' he says violently.
Tevos looks to Caivus with a glare. ''What are your people thinking Caivus are you trying to cause an issue like the racni war again they had better not have caused such an issue or your people will suffer greatly.'' ''Sanctions make for lovely punishments and it will cause there already weak economy to collapse if not maintained good thing they will always be in our debt,'' she says threateningly.
Caivus looks at Tevos with rage. ''Does she truly think that good Turians should die for the possibility of another racni war, yes it could happen but that was so long ago.'' ''That is completely out of the question that was over 2000 years ago we could have handled it I have argued that the law on relays should be changed because of a ridiculous idea that we will find something we don't like! but if we opened them we would find any threats much earlier as of this moment. Let's not forget that your two's idea of stopping any kind of Turian response to the pirates and slave raids in the terminus not to mention that the Batarians are causing more issues if you would let us do as we are supposed to then nothing like this would have happened in the first place. I can only hope that you see what you are doing because my government is getting tired of all the crap we do how long have my people been patrolling your territory we would be less pressed had you let us do our jobs.'' he raves at them.
Before a heated debate can break out Varlin interrupts. ''ENOUGH! While there are a few issues that should be discussed that is not why I called it appears that there was an unknown race on the other side of the relay which resulted in a first contact,'' he says firmly
Tevos is the first to respond.''Then we have to send a diplomatic envoy to ensure that this is just an accident and not an act of war.'' she says confidently.
''Relax Tevos it would appear that the Turians of the 67th patrol fleet managed to get in contact with this new race and tried to defend the colony that was there with this species own forces, which I might add were extremely effective even though the entire combined fleet was only 200 odd vessels and outnumbered by roughly 9 to 1 odds they have inflicted close to over 70% damage the pirate fleet. The STG team that was monitoring the relay stated that there were more forces on the way to this colony but most disturbing is that this race had five dreadnought class vessels nearby so we speculate that either they have different classes for there vessels and are in an element zero rich area to be able to build so many. We also now know that strike-craft is a dangerous weapon when used correctly this race had 26 vessels dedicated to the use of deploying them and are responsible for roughly 23% of the destruction of the pirate fleet. That is all that our team managed to learn there firewalls were extremely advanced we can assume they were like this because of the battle nothing else was recovered.'' he states slightly dejected.
Caivus looked both stunned and happy. ''So what your saying is that my people fought alongside unknown species and fought and took down a good portion of the pirates, I am impressed at there abilities but I have to ask what are the chances they pose a significant threat to us.'' ''and are they a better choice down the line,''
he says jovially.
''We do not know but the fact that they leave dreadnought class vessels to guard their colonies either means they have an abundance of large capital ships or we are dealing with a race who has a small amount of territory,and as much as I hate to admit it your people helping to defend a colony world of there's will help for that I suggest that we get to sending a fleet to help these people,'' she says with slight amount of venom coating her words directed to Caivus.
Tevos nods a large number of thoughts going through her head. ''Yes Caivus I want this to be done quickly so we can avoid a first contact war, what is the status of a nearby fleet been able to get there,'' she asks carefully measuring her voice.
Caivus looked uncomfortable shifting in his seat. ''A fleet was already on route to that relay system when we got an emergency wide burst signal used for events like this they will be there within 3 days from the system with relay 314,'' he states confidently.
Tevos just stands up heading for the door. ''I have to alert my government about this so we can get things underway this first contact is bad enough as it is,'' she says urgency easily seen in her voice.
As she leaves, an unseen battle under the surface with the circumstances that had just happened.''This is great so many new things we could learn and cultures to learn, but how will the others react to this plans will have to be put on hold for this at least it would keep the Turians busy now and stop complaining about all of this.''
As she made her way down she would never know the world of politics to be so simple ever again and how little the Asari were prepared to be left stumped by these newcomers.
Caivus
As the other councilors left he could not help but be happy with this turn of events and began to move towards his communication room he had to alert the Primarchs and the Admiral of this development. He was no fool the STG had been detected more than a few times in the past he was certain that they were not watching the relays and were watching them instead. The Turian people were getting tired of the way they were used, countless generations of good Turians dying for Citadel space only to be repaid with more warships and an economy that was hardly staying afloat as it is. Thinking back to the meeting this new people seemed to be militaristic no other way they could have learned what it meant for combat vessels to be so good and most of the other races would have suffered far worse not to mention run away while his people suffered but this race had dreadnought class vessels also which means they know how dangerous they are. At least this race had the honor of fighting beside complete unknowns. arriving by the communications room keying the Primarch.
''Primarch Fedorian we have a development the 67th patrol fleet activated a relay trying to escape a pirate armada they have inadvertently caused a first contact which they are now helping to defend this new race,'' he says worry clear in his voice
''I understand I will alert the others to this also why not just send a priority message instead of talking,'' he asks carefully while looking questionably at him.
''I would have done that if I had not learned something that would be extremely beneficial towards us it would appear by what we know so far that this race is militaristic because they have dreadnought class ships,'' he says happily
''I see so why do you think they can help us I doubt that this new group will be anything useful to us, I doubt they have any significant navy or infrastructure,'' he says with a small amount of confidence.
''Yes but they have a different approach to warfare it seems.'' He brings up an image of the Carriers.'' These vessels carry large amounts of strike-craft that were extremely capable of harming the pirate fleet, I suggest we seek them out and try to get them as allies they may be a better option the way things are going.'' he asks hopefully.
''I will consider it but not before we have more information if your observations are correct we may do just that,'' he says gravely.
''We don't have a choice we can't keep the secret that civil unrest is getting critical with how things have been going either this species unites us and we stay as we have or we join them,'' he says completely serious.
He disconnects the call and takes a seat relaxing into the chair trying to calm down with all the issues that he has to deal with.''We will not falter at such a critical time.''
Codex
Ramming Speed in the Alliance: Not the traditional sense as it used to be used in surface warfare in the navy space ramming in the Alliance is an In system FTL Jump to the target ship and the detonating of all ordinance onboard the vessel along with its reactor which leads to hypervelocity shrapnel damaging the target.
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