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With that out of the way lets begin

Arcturus System, Arcturus Station, January 7th, 11:00 Earth Time

Hendrickson was sitting in his office filling out the daily paperwork, requests to and from the council and generally having a boring day. That was until his secretary came in, "Sir, you have a call from the Special Region, they didn't introduce themselves but say its urgent" he stopped what he was doing, whatever it was, when it came from the Special Region it was always very urgent and important, and when they were adding that it was urgent you could not underestimate the importance of such news.

"Thank you Karen, put them on line 2" he said to his Secretary who nodded and left the room. He stood up and walked over to his communications device installed in his office, he punched in some buttons on the keyboard and a blue hologram of a man in Alliance officer uniform appeared.

"Yes what is it?" asked Hendrickson, and the answer he received was a major game changer, "Prime Minister, we have found the system in which the Special is located" these few words meant a lot. Hendrickson said "Please wait a moment" and did something on the Keyboard again, shortly after the hologram Image of Admiral Hackett appeared. "Yes Prime Minister, what is it?" asked Hackett.

Hendrickson pointed to the Intelligence Officer that originally brought him the news, "Admiral, we have found the system in which the Special Region is located" Hackett realized the importance of such news and said "I'm listening"

The Intelligence Officer started "During the time we were here multiple shuttles were equipped with sensors and scanners to scan the surrounding planets and stars. And we have found a Mass Relay on the outskirts of the system. From our speculation it is connected to a Mass Relay located in the Arcturus System." Both Hendrickson and Hackett were surprised but skeptical and Hendrickson said "But we have mapped all Relays leading into the Arcturus System years ago"

Hackett on the other hand said "Not all, after we found the council we didn't map 3 relays leading into the System, it is possible 1 of them is leading to the system that the Special Region is in." the Intelligence Officer said "It does, and thankfully the System is already in our borders, as you can see it is a short jump from Arcturus" he said while pointing on the map of the Arcturus sector.

"We have also made a monumental discovery; the planets moon alone has enough Element Zero as Thessia and Omega combined. We have also detected traces of it on the planet itself in specific regions of the planet but also in the rest of the system." That news was perhaps as important as the news that the Reapers were coming.

Hackett realizing the importance of such Ezzo stockpile spoke first "If we control that vast amounts of Ezzo we could become the leading exporter of it, finally dethroning the Asari from being the Economic powerhouse that it is, it could also allow creation of several new fleets.

The Systems Alliance became more militaristic after the reaper war and created fleets with Battlecruisers to bypass the Treaty limitations just as they did with the carriers. Hendrickson knew however that it was also a massive problem as much as it was a blessing for the Alliance "Such vast amounts of ezzo could also cause the market to collapse and if we do create fleets it could finally drive the Turians, Asari and Salarians to make additions to the treaty as a way to limit us. Not to mention keeping that secret will be a massive undertaking because of the STG"

Hackett countered with "Not necessarily, we are about to finish Operation Deceit, and we know the STG will have no way of cracking our encryption then, they failed to crack those codes for the past decade" Hackett had a point, if they used the codes they got from Cerberus HQ and modified them, then the STG would never crack them,

Hendrickson thought for a minute before he said "Alright, go forth with Operation Deceit and activate that relay secretly, tell the Diplomat team to add to the peace treaty that we get the mining rights to the planets in the system excluding Falmar itself. And Hackett, send a few ships to assist our boys and girls on the planet."

Hackett nodded and disconnected from the call, he typed in something on the communications console and after a while a hologram of a woman with Vice-Admiral bars on the shoulder entered the frame. "Hanna, I have a job for you"


Orbit above the Special Region, January 11th 2195, 02:00 Local time.

The calmness of space, it was something very beautiful to an observer, but that didn't last long as 2 ships bearing the Systems Alliance colors stretched back into existence above a planet larger than earth. The Carrier SSV David Anderson and the cruiser SSV Geneva exited FTL above the planet that the Special Region was located that was now known as Erilia-3 in the Erilia System.

The Planet was 5% larger than Earth and had 4 continents but intelligent life was detected on only one. The planet however was of little concern for the Alliance, the System was by far the important part and the Gate that lead from the planet directly to earth.

Vice-Admiral Hanna Shepard was looking at the TACMAP from the bridge of the SSV David Anderson, she had orders to assist the Alliance forces on the planet and she was keen on doing so, after all her Daughter-in-law was deployed there and the longer she spend there the longer her grandson was growing up without a mother. As such she pulled a few strings in Alliance command and had Sword squad assigned to her Ship along the Marine contingent.

Sword Squad was a N7 Commando squad consisting of the best of the best N7's that faught during the Reaper war, it was the best Commando squad the Alliance had to offer and it outdid majority of the Turian Blackwatch, Asari Commandos and Salarian STG. It was also the ex-squad of her Daughter-in-law and James Vega, the best of the best. Only her son and his old N7 team had a better and more distinguished service record, but all the members of that team were either dead or retired after years of fighting.

"Open a comm channel to Icarus command, tell them we made it through" she said to her comms officer who nodded and went ahead to carry out the order. She was only awaiting the confirmation from Icarus command and then she would deploy Sword squad, they knew what their task was. Afterall the empire attacked Vancouver and took some of the citizens as slaves which was discovered by the intelligence office and confirmed when Slaves from Japan were liberated 6 days ago.

Any peace treaty was out of the question until all of their and Japanese citizens were accounted for, and if the Empire refused to return any of them, well, then the SSV Geneva would be getting some action outside of escorting the SSV David Anderson. No one wanted that to happen but Alliance Command specified that all weapons were on the table to get their citizens back, and she would be damned if she would sit idly by while her people were being enslaved.

"Icarus command agnowledges and send over the mission for Team Sword" said her comms officer, she smiled and simply said "Let the talks begin" and the order was sent for Team Sword was sent down to the Imperial Capital to join the diplomat team there.

On the way down there the Squad leader went over the task again "Listen up, let me say it one more time, we will be joining Ashley and James down there, while they provide security for the Diplomat team with their squad we are tasked with breaking out any slaves that we can but only if the talks break down and we have to use force. SSV Geneva is in low orbit ready to extract us if need be in that scenario. Remember what our job is here pray for the SOB that he doesn't have to find out what we can do"

It earned him shouts of approval from his Squad and when the Kodiak touched down at Jade palace where the diplomat team was located he said "Alright, move it ladies we don't have all day!" and very fast sword team began their new operation, they would strike fear into the hearts of the enemy and would be the last thing they see if they had to fight, they would make sure of it.


Jade Palace, Special Region, January 11th 2195, 02:30 Local Time.

Pina was awoken by the loud sound of the thing the Alliance people call a 'shuttle' landing in the courtyard and quickly taking off again, she walked out to see the people that arrived. She was told that more people were coming to provide security for the diplomat which she could understand but the people that came scared her if she was honest.

One of the soldiers had a skull painted on his helmet while another one had red glowing eyes and another one was very bulky with red lines instead of eye's. All of them had 1 thing in common with the other people that were already staying at the palace, their armor color and the N7 logo on it. She didn't know what it means but she thought she didn't want to and was to scared to ask them herself.

Soon she was joined by the JSDF people who told her to tell everyone in her palace to get out of it immedietly, and then the Alliance people said the same. She didn't know why, but she soon found out as the ground started to shake. She and her servant thought that the world was ending but when she looked up she found the Alliance and JSDF people standing there as if nothing was happening.

The Alliance person that was in charge she heard being called 'Captain' or 'Ash' say "Command states it's a 3.8 one" and Itami saying "Feels between 3.7 and 3.9" when she asked him he told her that it was common in their world and it would soon be over and as he said it, the shakes ended.

She had to check on her father since Itami and the Alliance person said that there would be aftershocks, but at first they didn't want to come with her saying that they were still at war technically and since the negotiations weren't supposed to happen until tomorrow the Alliance said that under normal circumstances they would be meeting a leader early so they could kill him, but after a while they agreed to follow her and explain what they said to her a moment ago to her father.

When she and her father entered the throne room Itami alongside mister sugawara with 2 of his soldiers was waiting a bit further away from the Captain of the alliance her 2 soldiers and mister Henderson.

Pina started explaining what she was told by the 2 parties when her brother entered the throne room and caused all the hard work she did to go to waste. "Father! Good you are still alive. We have to leave at once!" Pina asked him "what do you mean brother" he told her how the aftershocks were coming and they had to get out when asked how he knew this he mentioned a girl called Noriko and signaled for his men to drag her in.

A girl with Asian fetures was dragged in wearing something that could be described as a potato sack instead of clothing and with chains around her arms. Ashley talked to her squad in their comms "That might be our target, Noriko Mochizuki, before we call in code serpent lets make sure that she is who we are looking for"

Zorzal tried to force her to tell his father what she told him, but she made him look like a fool when she didn't talk, that is when he hit her and she spoke in a language that he didn't understand and knew was her barbarian language.

That was as much of a confirmation that needed for the commandos and a trigger for the JSDF to react. Itami rushed Zorzal knocking him to the ground and his soldier Kuribayashi rushed over to her to free Noriko from her chains.

When she got there she heard steps behind her and a mechanical sound, she felt a hand touch her on the shoulder as Noriko was being comforted by Sugawara. She found the Helmet of the Alliance folks looking at her with pistol on hand, she received a nod from the Alliance soldier and soon the soldier spoke in Japanese with the distinct mechanical female voice from the Helmet "Get your rifle ready and watch your side, prepare for extraction" Tomita, Kuribayashi, Itami and Sugawara took it as a sign that the entire situation was about to turn nasty.

The rest of the Alliance squad took their weapons and even the diplomat carried a pistol, Zorzal stood up and told them how big of a mistake they just made and snapped his fingers and then soldiers lined up to fight them. Before Itami could give the order to fire however the Alliance soldiers opened fire, and as quickly as the imperial soldiers assembled they died with Zorzal being a coward on the floor.

Zorzal was grabbed by the throat by Ashley and dragged infront of the JSDF where she said "You have 2 minutes to make him talk, then we are leaving at once" Itami nodded and told Kuribayashi to deal with him. Which she accepted with a smile and put her gloves on, the prince was in for a nasty surprise.

Quickly Zorzal was on the floor again, being beaten by Kuribayashi who stopped after a while and Itami asked him what happened to the others who were kidnaped and once he told them that the men were sold to the mines. The Alliance troopers turned to the Emperor and pina, the emperor having a neutral face while pina was in utter shock.

"As stated by article 7 paragraph 5 of the Sapient Life convention, the Systems Alliance is ceasing all diplomatic relations with the Empire, until any and all Slaves originating from the Systems Alliance are Returned. With the additional clause of all Japanese citizens also being returned" and turned around to walk out.

But the emperor made a remark how their love for their own people was a major weakness that was easily exploitable but was shot down by the JSDF, Ashley told the JSDF group "30 seconds" and they were preparing to get out, they also tried to hit Zorzal for good measure but were stopped when Tyuule run inside and stopped James from doing so, this confused them for a while but soon James grabbed Tyuule by her wrist and pulled her in close whispering "stay close to us and you will get out of here" into her ear.

After the 30 seconds passed a explosion rocked the palace for a moment causing confusion in the imperials, but the Alliance took it as their sign to start running and the JSDF took it as a sign to follow them. Both groups were now running through the halls until they found a smoking hole in the walls on both the right and left.

The group of Alliance soldiers that arrived before the Earthquake left with a group of female slaves behind them quickly nodding to the Lead Alliance trooper who said "Alright listen up, extraction is 2 minutes away, we have to hold out in the garden until then if the empire choses to fight us" no one questioned this and quickly followed her. The 30 oddgroup waited with no attack happening when 3 kodiaks approached and opened up letting them step inside.

Itami and his group for the first time have seen and been inside one of the Shuttles they seen so much, They found a spacious inside with comfortable seats. They quickly took of and made their way to Icarus hill where the Slaves would be checked by medical staff to make sure they were okay.

The News was told to Noriko and the JSDF group that 6 days ago during a raid on a Slave convoy they have found her fiancée Hiroki which was a very good news for Noriko who feared the worst has happened.

While the Alliance and Japanese were flying to Icarus at great speed, the Emperor gave his consent for all slaves from the worlds to be returned and for Peace negotiations to begin.