Chapter 2: Contact:
Alderaan System, edge of the Graveyard:
Task Force Alpha dropped out of hyperspace at the edge of the Graveyard and set course towards the Savior, which had its fighter wings flying patrols around it. Han Solo's 35 ship + strong fleet came to a halt as they came up along side the Savior. As they did so the 3 other task forces dropped out of hyperspace in 3 different places in the system and made their way towards what they had designated Rendevouz point Savior.
"Captain Onoma for you sir on the com," the calamari communication officer said to Han Solo. "Thank you lieutenant" he replied as the face of the calamari captain on the Savior came up on the screen. "Captain, its good to see you again, I haven't seen you since our hunt for Zinsj. So where's this wormhole you discovered then?" Han asked with interest. The Calamari captain closed and opened one of his eyes and worked some controls, making the Savior move away from its current position, revealling the wormhole at the far edge of their scanners. "There you go General Solo," Captain Onoma said. Suddenly, just as Han focused his eyes on the wormhole an alarm sounded, from the Savior through the com.
"General Solo, we're detecting 4 ships emerging from the wormhole, 1 of them is around a hundred meters, and the other 3 are around 650 to 700 meters," Captain Onoma said calmly as he watched the sensor data on his screen. "All ships go to high alert. Communications, try opening a com channel with them," Solo said quickly.
"Captain, we've exited the wormhole and I got a fix on the ship in the Defiant records and…… uh oh," Ensign Crusher at the helm said. "What is it Mr Crusher?" Ensign Crusher worked some controles and the viewscreen changed to show the massive fleet of ships in front of them. "Picking up strong communications sir, attempting to put on the viewscreen", Commander Data said calmly, too calmly for Picard but he said nothing and waited for the viewscreen to change. 10 seconds later an image of a man came on the screen. "This is General Solo aboard the Mon Calamari Cruiser Remonda, welcome to the Alderaan system. Now, before you're allowed to come further into the system I request you lower your shields and power down your weapons." Captain Picard, being diplomatic smiled at the man on the screen, saying "By all means General Solo, we're powering down now," and gave a sign to Worf to order all ships to power down."My name is Captain Jean Luc Picard, commanding the USS Enterprise of the United Federation of Planets, the other ships in my task force is Defiant, Sovereign and Liberty. We're here on a diplomatic mission as our home galaxy has been overrun by a species known as the Dominion." He went into detail of how close the Dominion was to invading the only system the Federation had left, Sector 001, Sol System, Earth.
After an hour of talk over the com and another 30 minutes of General Solo in communication with the New Republic senate, General Solo was appointed the New Republic emmisary to the Alpha Quadrant and was ordered to take with him Task Forces Rogue and Beta in addition to his own to help the Federation push back the Dominion. Task Force Wraith under General Wes Janson's command was ordered to stay in the Alderaan system to guard the wormhole, until another Task Force, under the Bothan General Kre'frey arrived to take over.
"General Solo here Captain, we've been ordered by New Republic senate to aid your Federation. Welcome as an ally of the New Republic", Solo said "Lead the way Captain Picard." Captain Picard smiled at the good news, not expecting it to go this fast but said "Thank you, on behalf of the Federation, we're in dire needs of allies now. Commander Data, set a course through the wormhole. General if your ships would fall in behind us we can get this show on the road." General Solo nodded and sent the order to all his ships. They proceeded through the wormhole.
Captain Hanson of the Galaxy Class starship USS Trinculo was patrolling the outer edges of the solar system, ordered there after Enterprise had gone through with its task force. "Captain, we got contact, Enterprise coming through," the ensign at the sensor station said. "On screen ensign,"the captain said and a second later the screen showed Enterprise and its task force coming through. "Incoming transmission sir, Captain Picard orders us to clear away from the wormhole." The captain nodded and told the helmsman to move away from the wormhole. As the ship came to its new holding position Hanson looked at the view screen, a ship came through of a configuration he had never seen before. And behind that ship came more capital ships of enormous size, even compared to a Galaxy class ship. In the end over 30 capital ships and a few smaller had taken up position behind Picard's task force. The com chimed and after the captain nodded at the communications officer the image of Picard came up. "Captain Picard, i hope you've brought friends, because our fleet here is in no condition to take on an additional enemy," Hanson said. Picard nodded in understanding, "Don't worry captain, this fleet is here to help us push back the Dominion."
2 days later, in Earth orbit:
The Enterprise sat gracefully in orbit, about a 1000 meter from Mon Remonda. The day before, the only thing arriving through the wormhole was a New Republic Shipyard, being towed by a powerful tug. It could hold the biggest ship in Solo's fleet and was placed there in preparation for the fights the fleet would go through, they had also reinforced the defence perimeter with Golan Defense platforms. The additional task forces that arrived in the Alderaan system was still there, with Task Force Beta on call for immediate reinforcement of the Sol System if it should be needed. Task Force Wraith was tasked with local missions, in case of emergencies in the New Republic space, while Task Force Rogue was the key to the New Republic's defence against the Dominion coming through the wormhole.
General Solo and Captain Picard was walking the corridors of the Mon Remonda, Picard getting a tour of the ship after Solo getting a tour of the Enterprise the day before.
"You have a nice ship General Solo", Picard said as they entered the last area of the tour, the Bridge. "Thank you Captain, and i would like to introduce my captain, Captain Shakran, he's an Mon Calamari, the same race that made these Cruisers." They came to a stop in front of Captain Shakran. The captain gave a bow and started talking in his raspy voice "Welcome Captain Picard to Mon Remonda, i hope your tour was satisfactory". Picard smiled and politely bowed back since he didn't know how to greet a Mon Calamari, " Yes very good thank you, it seem to me the Mon Calamari make great ships."
Suddenly an alarm went off, and from the sensor station came a call, "Contact, contact, i read 50 ships, sensors tag them as Dominion fighters".