Chapter 9-Countdown to war
In a system not far from Aschen Prime, forces were gathering. This system was now the official Capital world of the confederation, but with barely 60 million citizens, formerly controlled by a governor who was preparing for independence from the confederation, it was strangely enough the best option for the capital. Ever since the great fall, as it was known by many, many of the colonies were showing severe tendencies of rebellion, some openly at that. The only member left of the government in a high enough position was first ambassador Molum, who many believed was responsible for this tragedy for happening in first place, was chosen to become the current Supreme Leader, head of the Confederation.
His first order was to implement martial law throughout the confederation, in an attempt to rally the worlds together. He knew exactly that many of the non-Aschen members would use this opportunity to stage an uprising. Many of the world's populations took only 10 years for them to discover the sterility that had was quickly spreading across the planet, and what little uprising they did was quickly squashed. But a simultaneous uprising on 16 member worlds, and with the fleet spread so thin, it was a difficult situation.
Then a race was brought to their people's attention, a single ship was found cutting through their space at a slow hyperspace speeds nearly 4 years ago, in a brief stop it was forced to recharge its hyperdrive in the Barrios System, the current capital of the confederation. The ship was gigantic, even against a Mothership, it must have had an incredibly powerful power source. Scanning the ship the Aschen discovered something that shocked them. A controlled singularity.
These people could possible reverse the damage done to Aschen Prime, negotiations were an immediate priority, but the hail that was sent out to the alien ship was met with a salvo of plasma blasts that obliterated the sheildless vessel. Soon a battle was ignited, the alien ship proved to be primitive, but a powerful warship none the less, before the finishing blow could be delivered to it, it jumped to a sector of space unknown at that time.
It was the first battle, of a war that has lasted over 4 years. The Vulcan/Tau'ri threat was a mere distraction in the grand scheme of things, of course until the destruction of 3 confederation worlds by the Vulcans hands, it pushed this war into a two front battle for survival. The Vulcans did not attack after the initial assault, however the unknown threat increased their own with renewed vigor, it didn't take a military genius to realize these two factions were allies.
Soon the war was turned, battle against the Vulcans was made, their pitiful attempts at resistance were laughable, worlds were destroyed in vengeance, entire populations wiped out in less then an hour. It was a mere 7 ships on this attack, dozens of Vulcan ships were destroyed by this small fleet, 4 losses of their own in 4 months of engagement. The final strike on Vulcan was too come, only to be averted by Tau'ri interference.
These turn of events lead for the gathering of possibly the largest Aschen fleet ever, for the attack on Vulcan, and the eventual attack on the Tau'ri home system.
The one of two remaining Bio-Weapon Platform stood motionless in the gathering of ships, after the lose of the home world, the ability to construct the bio-weapons was greatly reduced, many of the remaining bio-weapons were placed into a specially designed ship. Essentially a highly modified Mothership, using the most powerful weaponry and shielding, even if the Tau'ri concentrate an entire fleet of ships against the shields, they will not fall.
Several Degerus class vessels jumped in, leaving all but Commander Gerol and his Mothership to complete the fleet and begin the attack. Precautions were made just in case, the generator was set to overload on the signal, the chaos caused by it would leave the defenders in a confused state when the Aschen arrive, vengeance would be appropriate, and deadly.
Andoria –Procyon System
A star-system relatively close to Sol, a mere 11.4 light years away, stood home to another unlikely sentient species, the Andorians. The system was the emphasis of blue, the home world was blue the gigantic gas giant it orbited was blue, the star was blue, and yes even the people were blue. The people who lived here were not of the stereotype from the star trek show either. Sure they were as militaristic as hell, but one thing was for sure, they weren't in constant war with the Vulcans, or for that matter anyone else. Over 400 years of development they had yet to engage in any thing more then a skirmish, all of which occurred outside their space. It was like their was a barrier of protection around Andoria and Vulcan that prevented anyone from attacking, of course the theory was thrown off in the recent Aschen attack.
But the strange occurrences happening in local space could not be denied, or even stranger ones will take their place. This new race from Earth, the Tau'ri they called themselves, they had brought the Vulcans hope with the defeat of the Aschen, but even they will not be enough for the next attack. That is why they were here, the 54 Andorian vessels of various classes stood in formation in a high orbit, when the order was made, the sky in Andorias surface seemed to completely distort, as every ship jumped. Their destination, Vulcan.