Hey Pals.

I wanted to thank you all for your support; this story blew up pretty quick. I honestly was quite amazed by this.

I read some of your reviews; most of you voiced your disapproval of the Nazi regime and wished for them to be blown to kingdom come. This sadly won't be the direction I'll be taking. Someone said the Turians should be the good guys, well they certainly have a higher moral ground, but 100 years have passed since the beginning of the Reich, a much more civilized face has been put on.

While resistance is largely gone, there are still small pockets of it left on earth. A few latin America countries remains free. Will they help the citadel forces overthrow the Nazis if ever need be?

20/4 2045

On board the DKM Hedi.

Göring cluster.

Captain Emil Bendel was standing at the CIC looking over the Göring cluster, named after Hermann Göring. They alongside another frigate DKM Nordsee and several research vessels had departed from the colony of Neu Dredsen to active the nearest relay.

Since the Reich discovered the Charon Relay near Pluto, they have been expensing at a rapid rate, activing every replay they could find. Germany now had over 15 different colonies around the galaxy. The newest being Neu Dredsen with about 68.000 inhabitants. This newest relay wasn't supposed to be any different. Every relay was a risk, what if the Aliens finally visited them?

First contact protocols had been made to ensure a safe contact. Don't fire unless fired upon, Germany have no way of knowing the strength of the alien race, so declare war blindly isn't the smartest thing to do.

Emil was looking over several reports, this relays looked like them all, making this an easy job. He still let out a small sigh. Some gut feeling was telling him something was wrong, but he couldn't put his finger on it. It was a feeling he never had before.

"Good morning Captain" First officer Bernhart Suhren said.

"Good morning Suhren, how are you?" Emil asked.

"I'm fine, I'm just not sure about this relay. Are you sure it safe?" Suhren asked back.

"All scans show it as just any other relay, but I have a weird feeling about this too. Let's just hope its nerves" Emil replied. Suhren nodded.

"Research ship Diana to DKM Hedi, repeat, Research ship Diana to DKM Hedi" The comms at the console called. Emil walked over to the communication officer sitting at the console.

"This is DKM Hedi, what is going on?" The officer answered, Suhren joined Emil.

"We are ready to begin the process of activing the relay, are we cleared to proceed?" The voice said.

"Affirmative Diana, begin" Emil said, cutting of the officer sitting at the desk.

"Copy that" The voice said, then the call ended.

Emil went back up to the CIC map and opened communication with DKM Nordsee.

The captain of the Nordsee appeared in the form of a hologram.

"Emil, what's going on?" Captain Jannik Mummert asked.

"I want you to guard the rear of the squadron, I got a bad feeling about this relay" Emil said.

"Are you really that certain that something will go wrong? It's practically identical to all other relays!" Captain Jannik asked.

"I got a gut feeling, they aren't usually wrong" Emil replied.

"If it helps you sleep better, I will position myself to guard the rear" Captain Jannik said.

"Thanks Jannik, that's all" Emil said as he closed the hologram.

Emil took of his visor cap and put it on the nearest table; he was feeling rather hot in his tight-fitting uniform. He took a moment to breathe in through his nose and out through his mouth, enabling more oxygen to travel to his brain, making him calm down. Surely he was just overreacting.

15 minutes passed as Reseach ship Diana, Lisa and Liebster was busy getting the relay active.

Emil was walking around the CIC, just checking if anything was alright, suddenly he heard a crew member say something from the other side of the room.

"What? That has to be an error" The man said, he was one of the few people reasonable for picking up heat signatures. Emil quickly rushed over there.

"What is going on?" Emil asked

"It's obviously malfunctioning, it saying that several ships have entered the other side of the cluster, quite impossible" The man said.

"Does it tell what types of ships it is?" Emil asked further.

"I can't tell as of now, but the error will probably go away in a second. Fritz! Do you any signatures on your screen?" The man asked to his buddy sitting close by.

"Yes I do! It doesn't look like any of our vessels. A small scouting fleet or small patrol" Fritz said in disbelieve.

"This is beyond coincidence!" Emil asked as he rushed over to the comms.

"This is your captain speaking! I need all hands on deck! We may have a first contact situation coming up" Emil said into the comms. Instantly every crewman went to their respected post and waited for further orders.

Emil opened communication with DKM Nordsee. Captain Mummert appeared.

"Captain, are you seeing the same this as us?" Emil asked.

"We have picked up several unidentifiable ships entering this cluster, should we alert the Oberkommando?" Mummert asked.

"Yes, we need to tell them, otherwise stick to protocol regarding first contact." Emil said, Jannik nodded as the hologram disappeared.

Let's hope these aliens are friendly. I don't want to start a war. Emil thought as he followed the ever approaching patrol fleet.

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7:43

Turian Frigate Kujik

Leadship in the patrol fleet.

Commander Purick was baffled at what was happening before him. The patrol fleet had travelled to this cluster in order to complete their monthly observation of the 314 relay; this was a job so often uneventful. What was happening before him was shocking, a couple of vessels were trying to active the relay, the design of the ships seemed to indicate that it was a species not yet discovered.

They were currently trying to do an illegal action, Purick thought about his next action. He couldn't let this stand idly by, what they were doing could have dangerous consequences for the rest of the galaxy. Should he send them a massage? No they wouldn't be able to decode it in time.

Purick really wanted to avoid a battle, but he saw no other option. He knew the Hierarchy would demand action, and a good Turian always follows an order.

"First officer, prepare the guns. Fire on my command" Purick said.

"Sir, are you sure?" The first officer asked.

"Yes, link the entire patrol fleet up to my command" Purick replied.

The first officer nodded and began to shout commands to the crew member; afterwards he called the other vessels on the patrol fleet, giving them all orders.

As the ships began to near the relay, the tension was at an all-time high, what would happen now was going to go down in the history books.

"Spirts, they are almost done activing the relay! Start firing!" Purick said as he realized what was happening.

"First officer!" Purick yelled, the first officer came running up to him.

"Yes sir?" He asked.

"Send a message to the Hierarchy; tell them we have a hostile first contact going on!" He yelled, the officer nodded.

"Spirts watch over us" Purick said as the gun began to fire.

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7:58

DKM Hedi

"Ehm, sir?" Fritz said as he kept his eyes locked on the screen.

"Yes Fritz?" Emil asked.

"We may have a problem" He said.

"How so?" Emil asked.

"The vessels are on intercept course, charging up their main guns" Fritz said.

"Mein Gott" Emil said to himself.

"Has the messege gone through to the Oberkommodo?" Emil asked the communication officer.

"Not yet sir, I'm afraid it won't make it in time." The man said.

"Damn, get me through to the reseach vessels!" Emil demaned, the officer put in a few commands on the console.

"This is Captain Emil Bendel speaking! I need you stop what you are doing! Get back to Neue Dresden and alert the Reich!" The captain demanded.

"Open up for the DKM Nordsee!" Emil demanded.

The deed was done quickly and soon Jannik was standing before him in his hologram form.

"Emil! Have you sent the research vessels away?" Jannik asked.

"Yes, they don't have any armor or weapons! I'm afraid we might have to make a stand here" Emil said.

"But how? They got 3 frigates and a couple of destroyers!" Jannik observed.

"I don't know, we'll have to hold out until the third fleet can reach us!" Emil said.

Suddenly their conversation was ended by the DKM Hedi getting hit by a shell from the Alien lead ship. Emil feel on the ground.

"RETURN FIRE! RETURN FIRE!" Emil yelled as he tried to get back up.

The crew stopped their panicking and began to follow order along the chaos. Soon the frigate was return fire alongside the DKM Nordsee.

One of the shells hit an alien frigate dead on.

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8:12

Turian Frigate Kujik

"Captain! They are returning fire!" The first officer yelled to Purick.

"I can see that! Send the Tyric to flank them" Purick ordered, the first officer nodded as he carried out the order.

Suddenly a crew member shouted something out inside the CIC.

"Giklucks have been disabled! It sitting ducks!" The crew member yelled.

"But how is that possible? From a single shot?" Purick asked.

"I have no idea Captain, but they are still outnumbered" The first officer said.

"Continue the plan, have the destroyers take over the Giklucks duties" Purick ordered.

"Yes sir!" The first officer said.

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8:32

DKM Hedi

"OUR SHIELDS CAN'T TAKE ANY MORE!" Jannik yelled over the comm. Emil was having trouble avoiding the fire himself and couldn't really help out his colleague.

"Try to hold out, these aliens are giving us a beating!" Emil said as he trying to get his bearing after having been thrown on the ground again.

"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Jannik yelled as he was set on fire, the DKM Nordsee was official the first human casualty of this war.

"JANNIK!" Emil yelled, he was in complete shock over the loss of his friend.

"Full power forward!" Emil yelled to his first officer.

"But sir, are you certain?" The officer asked.

"I am indeed! Let's show our teeth" Emil said, several crew members cheered at that.

The DKM Hedi began to drift forward at a rapid paste.

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8:40

Turian Frigate Kujik

"Spirits, what are they doing?" Purick asked.

"I think they may be trying to ram us sir" An officer answered.

"Don't be absurd!" Purick said, but his mind slowly began to believe the officer.

"Have the destroyers circle around them!" Purick ordered, once again his officers did as asked.

"May the spirts watch over us" Purick said to himself.

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The space battle was a sight to behold; the actions of the DKM Hedi would certainly go down in history as heroic, well at least the Nazis history books.

The charge looked very similar to that of the "Charge of the light brigade" from the Crimean war.

During its course to charge the enemy fleet, it fired several of it rounds, a few of them were lucky hits. A turian destroyer was blown to pieces by the powerful shells the DKM Hedi was firing.

Eventually the DKM Hedi was immobilized herself; she was slowly drifting through space.

The Turian vessels began to slowly approach the ship.

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9:02

DKM Hedi

Smoke was filling the air of the vessel; a lot of the crew was getting ready for the boarding party from the aliens. Emil even found himself grabbing an assault rifle. A lot of people had already lost their life, the rest were pumped up with adrenaline.

"Show them no mercy; once they come through that done, blown their alien ass back to whatever hellhole they came from!" Emil said, everyone gave a cheer.

Soon the doors began to be wielded off by the boarding party; everyone trained their aim at the door. Everyone fueled by an indescribable desire for revenge.

Soon Aliens began to pour through the door; fire was exchanged between the two groups.

"Für Deutschland!" Someone yelled, it gave everyone more morale when fighting, to know it was for the fatherland.

Emil was hit in the leg by a bullet from the aliens, he was dragged by a fellow crewmen to safety, he could hear the firefight happening, eventually it died down and Emil somehow knew they had lost for now. Soon some weird alien creature was standing before him.

Emil's uniform was quite damaged after the firefight and his leg was bleeding a lot. The aliens said something in a weird language, nothing Emil could understand.

Emil was dragged from the CIC to the airlock, to be transferred into the Alien ship. He fell unconscious on the way, not knowing what kind of interrogation was waiting for him.

The Reich had lost their first skirmish with an alien race, but the fight was far from over.