CHAPTER 4- A SHOCKING DISCOVERY
6 MONTHS BEFORE MARS ATTACK
LOCATION: CDF QUARTEL, COMMUNICATION ROOM, 1 YEAR AFTER THE APAROID INVASION
It's been a year since Star Fox, along with Star Wolf, defeated Queen Aparoid in the home world of the Aparoid, Lylat is once again at peace, and the planets are rebuilding and rebuilding society.
The city of Corneria, on the main planet Corneria, was completely rebuilt after the invasion, thanks to an economic boom that occurred after Queen Aparoid was defeated, the city is now back as it was before, everyday things happen.
The Corneria HQ tower stood tall and proud, overlooking the large city that stood beside it.
In a communications room, it was full of scientists and operators doing their job, they were being coordinated by the General of the CDF called General Pepper, he was a very old hunting dog, he was wearing his red uniform with many medals, he he watched the scientists and operators working around the clock, but soon he had to go back to the office to do the paperwork and stuff.
Workers came and went with paper and other office supplies and chatted with one another filling the room that had a huge screen and lots of computer tables, Corneria had launched a satellite into deep space in search of a new one alien life, so that they could establish relationships and make commercial negotiations.
On a table, a gray fox was sitting in a scientist's lab coat, his name was Martin Vulpine, he was looking at the computer screen, and he received a signal from the satellite they launched, and he captured positive signals, his eyes widened in surprise , he soon called the chief research scientist.
'Sir? The S80 satellite, he ... 'then a black jaguar named Klaus Black who was the chief scientist went to Martin and asked.
'What was Martin?', Then Martin replies.
'Sir, we have positive signs of deep space', so Klaus looks at the screen and then at Martin, his eyes wide with surprise and speech.
'Positive? So it means ... ', and Martin responds.
'Yes, there is extraterrestrial life outside of Lylat', so Klaus speaks.
'I have to talk to the general about this, come with me', so the duo started running to the general's office, they passed corridors and people who looked at them, and then they got to Pepper's office door, so Klaus there was a knock on the door and a voice spoke from within.
'Come in,' so they went in and closed the door, the room itself was simple, a business table with a holographic computer and office stuff, three chairs, two in front and one behind the table, a big window in the back, with looking out over the city, a bookcase full of books on the left of the room, two armchairs in the middle of the room, and there in the chair behind the table looking out the window, was General Pepper, he turned and saw them both and said.
'Ah Klaus, Martin, what happened? Sit down, 'they both sat down and then Martin said.
'Sir, the satellite that we launched, he detected positive signals coming from deep space', so Pepper looks at him with shock and said.
'Positive? So is there life outside of Lylat? ', The two scientists nodded to Pepper, so Martin said.
'We tested positive for extraterrestrial life on 2 planets and a handful of moons in a star system called the Solar System', the general looked at him confused with the idea of living on moons.
'Living on moons? I never thought this could happen ', so Klaus responded with a slight tone of fear.
'The star that the planets orbit is called the Sun, and apparently yes, it seems that this civilization is much more technologically advanced than Lylat', Pepper looked at him with a raised eyebrow and asked.
'More advanced? I hope this is not a problem, but what do you mean how advanced? ', So Martin replied.
'We still don't have much information about their progress, but we know that they have a space fleet hundreds of times stronger and in greater numbers than us, and that the third planet is defended by a powerful planetary defense system that can make a ship. in millions of pieces, and the fourth planet has an extremely defended flight zone, nobody can enter or pass through that zone, that's what we know so far ', so Pepper approached Martin and looked him in the eye and said.
'If what you said about this system is true, and that these planets are more advanced than us, then send more satellites to observe this so-called Solar System, and let me know first if you find anything related to the militants, as I am interested in what you said, 'then Martin and Klaus stood up and saluted him.
'Yes sir, we will have more satellites being sent and we will make them track this signal for this star system, and when we have more information we will let you know', then the general replied with a smile.
'So, get down to business,' and the two scientists left the general's office and left him alone, Pepper stood up and looked out the window and wondered about these aliens.
Could you study this Solar System? Would these aliens be friendly? Could they make contact? These questions, still made him very doubtful, since the last time they had contact with aliens called Aparoids, it almost destroyed the entire Lylat System and its fleet, and if these aliens now, since Martin and Klaus said that the fleet of that System Solar was far superior in all aspects, he had a lot of doubts to answer himself.
After a while, like 30 minutes, during this period, the general talked with the Star Fox and Star Wolf teams about the discovery of alien life outside Lylat, both teams were surprised by this discovery, and the general also said that if should they establish contact with these beings, the two teams would be Lylat's representatives in that Solar System, and after this conversation, Klaus returned to Pepper's office with a concerned face and said.
'Sir, one of our satellites just lost connection, he was shot down', so Pepper looked at him with concern.
'Dejected? For what? ', Then Klaus responded by placing an image on the main screen he had in the office, the image shows the words" lost connection "in strong red.
'For some kind of spaceship, we have a video of her approaching the satellite', so Klaus ran his fingers over the screen and shows the video showing a small gray and red planet that was Pluto, but an object appeared nearby, it was an alien spaceship very strange looking, painted in black and neon blue, then a voice spoke.
'Warning unknown satellite, you are entering the black zone of UNSA, I am allowed to shoot it', so orange and red lights were seen flashing from the spacecraft, they were space naval artillery cannons, which did a quick job on the satellite that orbited Pluto , then Klaus replied with a tone of little anger.
'We have just realized that some areas of the Solar System are restricted to the general public, so we will have to be careful when launching our satellites', Pepper understood this and responded.
'They are just doing their job, this was not an act of war, create strategies to place the satellites in strategic locations, but if any spacecraft in the Solar System appears here in Lylat it must be shot down immediately, how did you see that one there? It's a deadly machine! ', Then Klaus asks.
'Are you sure, sir? If they send one of their ships over here and just want to make contact? Since they have our technology in their hands? ', Then Pepper responded.
'They must declare their intentions first, but if they are hostile, we will eliminate their vessels', and Klaus responded by leaving the office.
'Yes sir', Pepper is once again left alone in the office, was he very angry about what happened, a no-go zone in space? He never heard of such a term, but he knew that launching a large-scale invasion would be useless, since Martin said the armed forces and his fleet were superior in every way, he could not start a war with a newly species. - discovered on impulse, he would have to wait for the results, but his hopes would be in vain, more satellites they sent would be destroyed not by UNSA, but by the 4th Reich of Mars.
2 MONTHS LATER
'Another satellite destroyed? Whoever these aliens are, they don't want us around, 'said the general in his office after learning that another satellite was destroyed, this is the 30th satellite to be destroyed after 2 months, Pepper was very unhappy with the same routine of 2 months, wasting time and money on a satellite that can be destroyed.
General Pepper declared the Solar System a possible future threat to Lylat and put all Arwing teams on high alert, along with him was Klaus who responded.
'It seems that way, but they are always destroyed by a ship different from the first one we saw, a black and red one', then the general said.
'Okay, Spots, from now on, we will build long-range radar satellites, we may be lucky not to see our satellites outside that strange red and gray planet', then Klaus replied.
'Yes sir, I'll fix this', he left the office leaving Pepper alone, after a few minutes, he decided to leave the office too, he had his hand on the door handle, until his computer started to ring, he looked at confused computer.
'Uh? But who calls me at 10 at night? ', Going to the table and sitting on the chair, he looked at the screen and did not recognize the number, but he answered the call, but all that was shown was the empty vacuum of space, he soon saw the numbers in the corner and realized it was one of the satellites they sent, and there were two astronauts on the satellite looking at the camera, Pepper was surprised that when he saw two astronauts looking directly at the camera, they looked like soldier astronauts, wearing gray shines that glowed gold with the sunlight, there was also a planet very similar to Corneria in their background, had SATO initials on their helmet and were armed with some kind of rifle, had NV4 letters written on the sides of the weapons, one of the astronauts said in a voice female.
'* BIP * I think it's transmitting CJ', the other astronaut whose name CJ responded in a male voice playing on the camera.
'* BIP * Yes, but whoever sent this satellite can see and hear us, but we can't see or hear them Edina', so the astronaut whose name is Edina replied.
'* BIP * Ok, and here we go, hello to anyone watching this broadcast, 2 months ago your satellites started appearing in our Solar System, and due to the tensions of the United Nations Space Alliance on Earth and the 4th Nazi Reich Martian of Mars, we thought they were spy satellites of the reich, but when we retrieved the satellites and decoded them, we found that they were not owned by the reich, but by "Corneria?" if that's what you say? As you pronounce it, on behalf of the entire United Nations Space Alliance or UNSA for short, we just want to say that we truly and genuinely apologize for destroying your property, we are on the verge of war here and we were not thinking straight, we asked sorry for our recklessness', then CJ replied.
'* BIP * So, for any form of life that is watching our broadcast, everyone on Earth expects you to have a good sense and understand our concern, and we apologize, we hope you are willing to forgive us for destroying your property, but you need to stop sending satellites here, as we are being forced to hide them from the public, we will keep them activated, but under no circumstances, try to use them to initiate an invasion on Earth, because A you will not make any progress and B you will be wasting time and lives in this invasion, we will return your satellites when the tension is over, so whichever corneriano is watching this broadcast, we apologize for destroying your satellites, we hope you understand, maybe in the future we can find and form an alliance with UNSA together with SATO and SCAR, they would love to find extraterrestrial life, even the people of the land would like to meet you, so we hope you understand address our concern, and forgive us for our reckless actions ', then Edina replied.
'* BIP * Anyone looking, tell Corneria that the Solar System is not a threat and that we would love to meet them one day', then CJ replied.
'* BIP * And if you're wondering, the planet in the background is our home, the Earth, isn't it beautiful?', He and Edina soon left the field of view of the satellite camera to have a broader view of the planet called Earth , the general looked with astonishment at the alien planet in the background, and was very similar to Corneria, but it seemed to have more water on the surface, he was immediately startled when a warship appeared out of nowhere after making an FTL jump in the background, so Edina answered.
'* BIP * We hope you are not alarmed by our warships, they can be big and scary, but they are only used to combat space piracy, escort people of very high value and to protect our beloved planet from any evil in the universe known or unknown ', then CJ responds.
'* BIP * In reality, we'll be sending an FTL team into deep space if there's no stalemate in the process', and Edina responds.
'* BIP * Whoever you are, Cornerians, you know your technology well, but you're a generation or two late', and CJ responds.
'* BIP * If the time comes, we can show our technology, and maybe you will show yours, along with the military, civil, culture, history, and all these good things', and Edina responds in a tone of joy.
'* BIP * I still can't believe we're talking to life outside the Solar System, the possibilities are endless', and CJ replies.
'* BIP * We'll call you back when the power runs out, we'll put your satellites back in orbit and if you want, we can send them back via FTL', then Edina looked at an alarm from her left wrist and said.
'* BIP * CJ, I think they're tracking our signal, we need to hang up now', and CJ replies.
'* BIP * We have to end this transmission, don't worry, we're going to fix your satellites and keep them safe, when the time comes, we're going to give them back', and Edina said.
'* BIP * And please, don't start a war, we don't want a conflict, we just want to live in peace, and maybe when we're not afraid, we can know more about our species, goodbye the one watching, peace to the dead', and CJ did the same.
'* BIP * Peace to the dead', and he went to the satellite and disconnected the transmission cable, and then there was "lost connection".
Millions of questions went through General Pepper's mind, but he was relieved that they were peaceful and did not want war, and were eager to get in touch with them, but the so-called 4th reich was more cautious with them, he was happy to learn that you didn't need to be afraid of them after all, and they too will keep their satellites hidden from the public and return them after the stalemate is over, but why was a war imminent in the Solar System? And why were those aliens saying "peace to the dead"?