April 30th, 2583
LOCATION: REACH AT EPSILON ERIDANI SYSTEM, CITY: NEW ALEXANDRIA, FLEET COMMAND HEADQUARTER.
In the conference room, the holodeck hummed to the life, showing the AI figure. "Hello, sirs, here's the data from Captain Reynard in his exploratory mission in the galactic core, as you can see that he has made first contact with other species but to our surprise, there was another human race in another galaxy." Serenity replied. "Another human nation in different galaxy is called System Alliance, rising galactic power among other species under Citadel."
"Please explain about Citadel, Serenity." Fleet Admiral Hood asked.
"Citadel is a seat of galactic power across the galaxy, handled by main three super powers (among adding fourth one), starting with Asari, Turians, Salarians and finally humanity, they were responsible for upholding laws and protecting its citizens from any possible attacks from enemies. Also, they use four councilors as main representatives of their respective nations to negotiate on their behalf when they meet with other new species." Serenity answered.
"At right now, the Citadel is guarded by inter-species fleet, consisting of Turians, Asari, Salarian and Humans. According to the database, Asari is designed for diplomacy relations/negotiations, Turians as military operations and Salarians as intelligence/scientific developments or research. Humans are all rounded in their respective skills."
"Additionally, the Citadel has several strict laws that would potentially restrict us if we decide to join their council- for example, outlaw of Artificial Intelligence due to their paranoia of A.I going berserk (look at Geth history)." Serenity continued on.
"This law would be a problematic for us, as we have been using A.I's for centuries. We will have to figure out on how to negotiate on this if we ever decide to meet with Council in future." Fleet Admiral Harper chimed in.
"Agreed." From various council members.
"Anymore to add, Serenity?" Hood asked.
"Yes, there is other treaty that would restrict our military strength, it is called as Treaty of Farixen, limiting the build of "dreadnoughts" (an kilometer long warship) in various citadel races, for example, Turians were allowed to build five dreadnoughts, Asari/Salarian with three and lastly, System Alliance (humans) who have saved Destiny Ascension and has earned the Council seat due to their actions, allowing System Alliance to build three dreadnoughts, while other lesser races allowed with one dreadnought. Noting that, we have several types of ships that are much larger than their dreadnoughts and more numerous, for example, our cruisers (including light, heavy and super heavy) are considered as "dreadnought" sized ships, while our carriers, super-carriers and infinity-class warships are much larger than dreadnought size." Serenity answered.
"This is another problem, I see. We cannot limit our navy strength as we need those navy assets to protect our colonies." Harper sighed.
"I believe that it is best for us to not join Citadel council but we can formulate a plan to establish the trading with Citadel with basic technology of us?" President Winifred suggested.
"This is best course to take for future of UNSC and future of alliances to ensure the peace." Serenity replied.
"I agree with this course." Hood answered. "Anyone have any objections towards to this?"
"One problem is that we don't know how strong is those species is, so I propose to engage some recon over the species with the prowlers in case, if we ever go war against them." Admiral Danielle suggested. "After all, according to the information, they lack FTL sensor and their detection technology is below us, we can safely use prowlers with active camouflage to spy them for a week to gather information before sending Fifth fleet to meet up with System Alliance at Andromeda Galaxy."
"That is fine, it's better to know about those before we take any drastic actions in future." President Winifred agreed.
"As we have no objections towards to establishing the alliance between Citadel races so we do not have to be restricted by this ridiculous laws and treaties. Now, on other hand, I would like to propose to establish the military/trading alliance to System Alliance, since they are humans, so I suppose we can trust them at some extent, so we'll be offering basic technology and other things for now." Hood suggested. "Anyone agree with this proposal?"
Numerous 'Aye' is heard throughout the council room. "Very well, then, the meeting is adjourned. I will contact Admiral Lasky about this and tell him that he will be acting representative to our military while we will send two representatives from UEG and Covenant Alliance." Hood ordered as the meeting has been adjourned then numerous members left the room.
"Serenity, contact Admiral Lasky, please." Hood ordered as Serenity affirmed then established the connection.
April 30th, 2583
LOCATION: UNIDENTIFIED SYSTEM NEAR THE GALACTIC CORE OF THE MILKY WAY GALAXY, APPROXIMATELY 10,000 LIGHT-YEARS FROM SOL SYSTEM.
UNSC Fifth fleet is sitting around near the mass relay, waiting for the orders from the FLEETCOM and High Command at Reach and Earth. UNSC Infinity commanded by Admiral Lasky were sitting in the middle of the Fifth fleet near the relay.
"Sir, transmission incoming from Reach, Fleet Admiral Hood is requesting to speak with you!" Communication officer bellowed.
"Affirmative, patch him in." Admiral Lasky acknowledged.
"Admiral Lasky, I have a task for you to proceed through. Your mission is to make contact with System Alliance first with Fifth within two weeks after our diplomats arrive from Sanghelios and Earth." Admiral Hood ordered.
"Yes, sir!" Admiral Lasky saluted crisply. "Good luck, you'll need it, Admiral Lasky, Admiral Hood out." Admiral Hood replied as cutting the transmission off.
April 30th, 2183
LOCATION: ARCTURUS STATION IN ARCTURUS STREAM IN ANDROMEDA GALAXY
Two days after making first contact between other human species, the meeting is called for all System Alliance military officials and Parliament officials to discuss about possible negotiations. Captain Henderson arrived to the meeting place after docking on Arcturus Station with SSV London.
"Hello, sirs and ma'am, I have some information bought by this First Contact with other species, to my surprise, they were humans in different national government in different galaxy, they are called as UNSC, stands as United Nation Space Command, they are military branch of the main government called UEG, standing as United Earth Government." Captain Henderson explained. Numerous official members were shocked at reveal of "Earth" in name, exactly same as System Alliance's home world. "To add that, sirs and ma'am, they have alien allies as well, they are called as Covenant Alliance consisting of multiple races. Information about them is being forwarded to your omni-tools and data-pads for further reading, sirs and ma'am."
"Tell us about their technology or warships if you have gathered enough information, Captain Henderson." Fleet Admiral Hackett asked.
"Aye, sir, I have some data on it. Now bringing it up on the screen." Captain Henderson replied as two blocky design of ship is shown in the screen.
"This is roughly 575 meters long warship, classified as heavy frigate and another dreadnought-sized ship is a one kilometer and four hundred meters long, classified as heavy cruiser by their specifications, they are heavily armored and apparently they have some kind of shielding technology. Also, their energy reading is completely different, as well, sirs, they don't use eezo, readings shows that they use antimatter reactors to compensate for large size ships without losing mobility. Also, front of the warships determines that they are using mass accelerators, possibly more powerful, judging by their size and usage of antimatter reactor, sir and ma'am." Captain Henderson answered. "They seem to be using their own FTL, as they are massively faster than ours as they confirmed that it took them ten days to travel 10,000 light years from their location to trans-galactic relay located in galactic core in their galaxy."
"Antimatter reactors? That is beyond our capabilities of reactor technology!" Admiral Nitesh Singh exclaimed. "Not mention that their FTL speeds are impossibly fast!"
"Nonetheless, are they willing to negotiate with us to establish the alliance?" Rear Admiral Hannah Shepard asked.
"Yes, ma'am, they are willing to and also they know about Citadel Council, they wish to form alliance with us first then them. They said that it will take a week to prepare their diplomats and they are waiting for you to disclose the location to have a meeting point." Captain Henderson answered.
"I, Admiral Anderson and Minister Jameson will be handling this negotiation then have Fifth and Fourth Fleet to meet them at their location while Third and Sixth Fleet are tasked with defending Arcturus Station in case. Then First Fleet, Second Fleet will be allocated with defense of our homeworld for now and rest of them patrolling our borders." Fleet Admiral Hackett replied. "Good, then it is decided. We shall be meeting with those people in two weeks. Dismissed."