RISAdmiraltyBuilding, Walderann
1730 Hours 5.1.2551
Commodore Dirt Wantillese was silent as he rode the elevator to the fith floor of the Admiralty Building. He wondered why he had been called from the Academy on Carditta to come here, all he knew was that it was highly classified.
"You floor, sir," said the elevator operator at Dirt's side.
"Thank you," Dirt replied.
After walking a few corridors and going through a six meter thick blast door, Dirt entered a room, sitting was Chief of Naval Operations Fleet Admiral Wick Perry, 3rd Fleet Commander Vice Admiral Woratio Wormblower, and President Weia Worgana.
"Sirs, Ma'am."
"Thank you for coming Commodore," Weia replied diplomaticaly. She then turned over the floor to Fleet Admiral Perry.
"Thank you for coming Commodore Wantillese. He turned off the lights and a holographic display came up. On it was a picture of a strange purple spaceship Dirt had never seen before.
"On of our cruisers, the Wendor, encountered this object while on patrol in the Outer Rim. After broadcasting a crypric greeting, Captain McWeill of the Wendor opened fire in compliance with his orders." The picture started moving; beams of green turbolaser fire came form the Wendor, hitting the enemy ship, the ship glowed as appareny enemy shields took the hits. Four streaks of blue light then came, hitting the Wendor with no apparent damage. The Wendor fired another salvo, and the enemy ship exploded in a giant fireball. Next another ship appeared, this one was smaller than the first, and black-gray, bulky instead of the graceful first contact.
"This ship," Perry continued. "Attacked without warning." The screen came to life as two balls of white thunder came streaking from the new ship, the first projectile hit the nose of the Wendor with no apparent damage, the shields held. The second projectile grazed the top of the cruiser, finishing off the weakened shields, and leaving a small hole in the top of the Wendor.
"That ship, is obvoiously of different origins, the builders of this ship, are called "Humans."
The hologram began playing again, the Wendor returned fire on the human ship, green streaks of turbolaser fire sliced through the ship, explosions covered the surface, it quickly exploded, but not before two more huge projectiles slammed into the rear of the Wendor. The screen went black.
The lighting soon came back on in the briefing room. Perry continued talking.
"The Wendor was crippled, another human ship arrived and boarded, the attackers were repulsed, and th Wendor is in-tow; that's where you come in Wantillese.
Dirt looked dumbfounded. "I'm a pilot, not a diplomat."
"No Dirt," Wormblower piped in. "We're giving you a command."
"What? I'm the Supereindendent of a flight school, not a ship commander."
"Your orders are to lead a squadron of warships to extract the Wendor crew, as well as assist the "Humans" in anyway you can, also, you are to prevent our first encounter, apparently an enemy of the humans, from finding our galaxy, by any means necessary, take the fight to them."
"Sir-"
"You are hereby promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral. You will leave in three days, that's an order. Dismissed."