-Warped Mirror-
-Chapter Zero-
-Glory to the [E]mpire-
-For those that did not read 'Warped Humanity' up to the end of Chapter 2, here is the synopsis of the story so far-
Zefram Cochraine launched the Phoenix from its first stage that was once known as a Titan Missile, He then extended the Warp Nacelles and aligned the Phoenix for a jump to Alpha Centauri. While making a check, and double check of everything before the Bold Jump to where no Man has Ever Gone Before some sort of bright flash appeared a mere mile in front of his ship: Bunker had jumped from its own dimension to this one.
After meeting with the YoRHa Commander, 9S and 2B Zeff made an alliance with them offering to share his Warpdrive for their aid in unifying Earth.
Earth was trying to rebuild after WW3, there were some seriously messed up Nations and then there was Central USA from which Zeff had come from.
Inside the Command Center of Bunker, White and Zeff discussed the future of Humanity. They had chosen to send a video and audio only message to all remaining factions, to come and meet them at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco.
They had one month to appear for the meeting, and Bunker had one month to make a place for the meeting itself.
Hortens flew out of Bunker and the YoRHa started building a base near the Gate, they had chosen to build a walled area to host the meeting. Beside the base, they built an armory and a communications center. The main building would be the most important part of the compound they were building, as it would be the very place to host the meeting itself.
With a landing site for air and space crafts, a motorpool for land vehicles and even a shopping mall to suit the needs of the dignitaries. There were restaurants and even a hotel for them, and of course the hall for the meeting.
In the middle of the compoud was an artificial set of ponds and even a garden of sorts, the name for the compound was simply put: The United Earth Compound.
Zeff was being flown back to his home and had gotten some friends to come with him to San Fransisco, even if they were a bit wary about the YoRHa. 4 Battle, 4 Gunners and 6 Sensors were the core of the YoRHa presence in the Compound. With Zeff and White being the two 'Consuls' of the new 'Council'. As everything was about to be ready, the first dignitaries arrived.
With the appearance of an Alien Threat, possibly even Alien takeover by force: Earth became united for a common cause.
YoRHa worked overtime to create the first United Earth Warship, the Gotha. It was not much more than an old cargo hauler fitted with the Phoenix's Warpdrive and then given a spin by the YoRHa. It had YoRHa armor, shields, sensors and weapons. With 122 Guns taken from spare parts of Hortens, 14 Photon Cannons and 1 single Energy Sphere Launcher it was all they could make in such a short time. At 90m long, it looked more like a long brick that anything else.
When the Vulcans would come, Earth would be far from ready. But as if that would stop them from giving their best, the Vulcans would be in for a surprise!
A trio of D'Vahl -class patrol ships approached the Human/YoRHa Homeworld, brim with calm confidence of Vulcan superiority over these barbarians that had nearly wiped each other out. The D'Vahl was smaller than the Gotha, but there were three of them. Commander White had attached three Hortens to each side of the ship, to provide more options for battle situations. Yet the Vulcans did not even bother with the six small crafts being launched from the Earth Ship.
"Engage tractor beams, target the primitive vessel" Ordered Commander Nashok, he did not put much faith in the sole primitive ship these "Terrans" had managed to assemble from whatever their war had not destroyed. After the capture of their vessel, they would have to board the station. And then finally, they could start civilizing these barbarians.
The Gotha felt as if was being punched hard, but like a professional boxer it rolled with that punch. The three tractor beams did not go past the YoRHa shields, but they did slow the ship for a mere 15 seconds. 2A was given command of the Terran Republic's first and only spaceship, she was far from exctatic about it. But with the longest combat record of all the YoRHa, she was the obvious choice. She had a Copy of Blue Girl, one Healer, one Operator, One Battle, four Gunners and 100 Humans. Her XO was the Black Girl, for obvious reasons. The Healer was the Chief Medical Officer, the sole Operator acted as the Chief Engineer. The Battle was the Chief Tactical Officer and the four Gunners were divided into two teams: One led the Hortens, while the other led the Defence Grid Command. She allowed two Humans to work on her bridge: One was the Helmsman, and the other was the Communications Officer. And since they had no time to spare to desig nany kind of new uniforms, they all wore YoRHa uniforms. Sensor for males, Battle for females. The Terran Republic Symbol was a Golden YoRHa symbol over the Earth, it was not perfect but it was what they had the time to make.
"Target those capture beams" Ordered 2A "Yes Captain" replied 9B as she targeted 12 of the 14 guns on the three ships.
The three Blood-red Vulcan ships were closing on the Black Terran ship with their tractor beams doing their bests to try to lock past the damned YoRHa shields. The every single photon cannon that could be fired forward did so, with four cannons hitting a Blood-red Vulcan ship each. At first it seemed that the Vulcan shields would hold, but a second salvo dropped their shields to 15%. It was then that every Vulcan Commander tried their best to compensate by switching power from other sections to the forward shields, and as the Terran cannons fired once again the Vulcans had their forward shields at 1-3%. Then the unthinkable happened, the Gotha fired its Sphere Launcher. Red energy spheres flew past the Vulcan ships' bows, well past their mid-section. And crashed into their rear-section, exploding. Commander Nashok was loosing his composure, and instead of action he chose to meditate. His ship had lost its engines and its warp nacelles,
the other two vessels did not fare much better. the Terrans fired 100 machine cannons at the three Vulcan ships and blew them to hell, thus starting the process that would eventually lead to rise of the Terran Empire.
The YoRHa grabbed whatever tech they could from the debris of the Vulcan ships, luckily they managed to find some interesting finds: Tractor beams, phase shields, warp communicators, long range sensors, an antimatter reactor and Warp 5 engines.
It was a dark day for the Vulcans, the barbarians had won.
Next on Warped Mirror - Chapter One 'The Eagle flies [O]nce again'
An eagle above a fireball, or that was what it looked to Zeff. "Its a Phoenix, isn't it?" he asked White, who answered "It is your American Eagle above our Glorious Flame". After a few re-designs, the symbol looked more like a Phoenix than an eagle being grilled over a fireball.
The first ship built using what they got from the Vulcan invaders was being fitted with YoRHa tech at the Bunker's new Shipyard, after pondering what to call it they had settled on 'Avenger'
And so the Council passed their last resolution as they voted unanimously for founding the first Terran Empire.
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