Codex Entry - STG Agent's report on the United Terran Regions (UTR) government: 'The various Regions of the UTR are by all means Military Juntas, while usually this form of governing is prone to corruption the various regions of Earth have proved capable of avoiding dictators. Most regions operate similarly with the Gym Leaders protecting the leagues interests in most major cities, Gym Leaders report to the Champions Council, or Elite 4, and they answer to the Champion. A simple line of communication, and when reinforced with their communications very unlikely to be tampered with.
While the Regions run similarly their ideologies couldn't be further from united, like the Volus and Krogan clans each region has its own agenda: Sinnoh plays the political game much like the Asari, are more likely to stangle its opponents coffers than their soldiers. Kanto loves shock and awe tactics, overwhelming military force and vassalization, approaching them with caution is advised. Unova plays to the people, branching its culture and media into the world, and should war happen they can influence civilian support. This tactic would have little effect on Turian or Salarian morale but could disrupt an Asari war effort enough to make them claim neutrality in any conflict.
Threat Level: Caution'
I could really use a strong drink right about now. Shanxi was supposed to be a quick stop to make sure the teleportation system was operational and keep Steven safe. Now I had to deal with an imminent UB invasion, and these 'Turians'. I had Kanto researchers working alongside the engineers to figure out just what made the turian's ships click, however their own engineer was being watchful of what she allowed us to access.
Luckily none of their currently available systems seemed to be able to detect a Rotom, and the mischievous pokemon was quickly compiling any information available on their surviving onboard systems. Whatever data wasn't corrupted beyond Vesta's ability to repair was being sent to Champion Lash's terminal, and the Kantonian Ranger Database. I was more interested in the aliens than their technology however, it was bizarre seeing aliens so dissimilar to Pokemon.
Humanity had dealt with aliens before, Beheym and Elgym, the Staryu line, even Deoxys. None, other than the Ultra Spacians, looked so human. It was unnerving knowing that another space faring civilization was out there, in our galaxy, and we had only recently achieved spaceflight. What wars were waged while we toiled away on Earth, ignorant to the greater galaxy. What could've Human and Pokemon been subjected to had we not achieved spaceflight before first contact.
These Turians raised many uncomfortable questions in my mind, my gut twisting in apprehension at what the regions of Earth could have endured. Now was the time to focus, the Turians are stuck here helpless for now, and the Ultra Beast are the true threat I should direct my forces at. "Vesta, show me patterns of previous Ultra Beast invasions." The Rotom had an affirmative reply before a map of Earth appeared, it quickly zoomed in on Alola and a red dot appeared where Ultra Wormholes were spotted.
"Ultra Beasts, while extremely powerful, seem to lack any rhyme or reason behind their attack patterns when not led." He watched at a wormhole tore open on Melemele Island and a horde of Buzzwoles confronted Kahuna Hala and Hau, "Certain Ultra Beast however possess enough intelligence to lead armies of lesser Ultra Beast, these being: Nihilego, Necrozma, and Eternatus, we suspect Solgaleo and Lunala also possess this ability.'' Vesta showed Ultra Spacian footage of the aforementioned creatures leading some of the lesser Ultra Beasts. "When led Ultra Beasts usually target areas with large populations, as Shanxi's only city Maroon Town is the most likely to be attacked." A ruin of an old Ultra Spacian colony was now displayed, the buildings that still stood a testament to the engineering talent of their creators.
"So brutal urban warfare, we can't afford to lose the town, if we lose Maroon the teleportation arrays would be out of our control and we'd be Wooloo for the slaughter." I looked over the layout of the budding city, with the help of Ground type Pokemon temporary barricades could be raised to great choke points, "Call all Kantonian and Alolan Ranger Forces to Shanxi, also notify the Indigo and Alola leagues that all 5 Badge and higher trainers are to be conscripted, Alola is to send anyone who has passed their second Islands Trial, have any other regions offered assistance?"
"Yes Mr. Haggen, Sinnoh and Hoenn have begun mobilizing forces for teleportation to Shanxi; they merely await Champion Lash's permission to proceed." I nodded and created new pins on the map labeled Sinnoh and Hoenn forces. Yes this could work, the garrison of Shanxi was a skeleton crew of 50 trainers but with the incoming reinforcement and proper planning Shanxi had a true chance of repelling the invaders.
"Sir, Turian Captain Athurius wishes for an audience." I frowned, why did the alien want to speak with me, I nodded for Vesta to allow him in.
The door to the office slid open with a hiss revealing the dog-legged humanoid, his suit concealing his body from head to toe to protect him and his crew from any potential human illnesses. The man saluted to me before speaking, "First I want to give you my thanks, had your people not interfered my whole fleet would have been lost to those creatures." I smiled at the man and beckoned for him to sit to which he obliged, "That however brings me to why I'm here, these 'Ultra Beasts' as your species calls them completely decimated a Turian fleet with minimal to no losses, they are a galactic danger not seen since the Rachni or Krogan.'
I didn't recognize what a Krogan or Rachni was, but if the captain so readily compared them to an Ultra Beast I didn't want to know. Just what the galaxy needed, homegrown eldritch abominations. "The Turian Hierarchy needs to know to be on guard should these creatures show up in council space, I would ask for any knowledge on these creatures's weaknesses and help with repairing our ships comms system."
I smirked, "That's unnecessary, tell me how would your people like to repay that debt now?"
Dulse silently poured over a report from the recent skirmish in the sister dimension, the grand fleet left the battle relatively unscathed. A great moral victory in a war that left a once sprawling empire clinging desperately to one planet. The planet was the pride and joy of the Ultra Spacian Empire, an ecumonopolis of it's like the twin dimension have never seen, now the bastion of a dying torch of a long dead empire. He looked balefully at the tower that once held the creature that powered the planet, Necrozma, the living Dyson sphere.
One being single handedly toppled us, forced us into conditions lesser species would have died under. How many Ultra Spacians hadn't seen their homeworld, what he liked to think was once a beautiful jewel like Earth now a frozen sphere in the void. How many hadn't felt the warmth of the sun, the orange waves beating off their ice blue skin. How many hadn't even known peace, without the threat of Ultra Beast invasions finally breaking the defenses of Megalo.
"Excuse me Mr. Dulse, incoming communication from Earth." Dulse sighed as he switched to the holo-caster function on his tablet. Three holograms appeared, two being people he recognized, and one a rather strange looking Pokemon, "Champion Lash, General Haggen I expected to hear from you but this was much sooner."
"Good morning, Squad Leader Dulse, I would like to introduce you to Admiral Athurius Valentius of the Turian Hierarchy." The Turian gave a salute, "Your fleet assisted in their rescue from the recent Ultra Beast skirmish in our dimension, and we'd like to ask one more favor."
Dulse nodded, pouring himself some water from the nearby pitcher, "The Ultra Spacian's will help in any way we can, however we can't send more military aid as we still have to defend our own planet from Ultra Beast incursions."
Ethan smiled, "This won't require a fleet merely a ship big enough to carry the Turian crew and a diplomat from each of our nations, we plan to contact the Turians but we need your Wormhole tech to do so." Dulse leaned forward as he looked at the star map provided by the Turian Captain, the wormhole to Palavan wasn't impossible, in fact it would be trivial. The problem is how would he sell this to the Elder Council, getting them to allow the Recon Squad to contact the Aether Foundation required so much tooth pulling that he knew that he wouldn't be able to pull it off again.
"I won't be able to get this approved, but Captain Athurius can petition the Elder Council in person, his presence could sway them to more open negotiations." I began typing, readying the request for an audience with the Elder Council, "Does this work for you Captain?" The Turian nodded.
"Sir Shanxi has been completely evacuated of civilians, forces from Earth are teleporting in and awaiting orders." I nodded as I poured over the map in front of me, this would be the last chance to plan before contact and I wouldn't waste it, "Champion Berlitz has sent Bertha to lead her forces while Alola has sent Nanu."
"Fine, give them the key to our comms, tell them two of my Ranger Corps will hold Main street while the other two assist the recruits with holding the West and East quadrants." I began playing the simulation of how I hoped the battle would play out, "A sustainable defensive position, we'll hold them down at Main, while hopefully Nanu and Betha can flank the West and East attackers before finally nailing their coffin here on Main."
"Sir, this plan is risky, asking two squads of non-military personnel to hold two points of high enemy contact is asking for a mass rout." Haggen nodded to Vesta.
"It is a risk, however they are led by two extraordinary generals, Williams and Shepard will hold. They have to."
Athurius hadn't expected the meeting with the Ultra Spacian elder council to go as smoothly as it had. Captain Dulse had seemed extremely concerned about their willingness to interact with a new species that weren't the humans, but they agreed to Dulse's plan with minimal push back. He and his remaining crew were being loaded onto an Ultra Spacian craft that Kera had retrofitted with a communications system from one of his fleet's surviving frigates. Hopefully with the IFA from the Endless Dawn pinging from the Ultra Recon fleet Palavan command would see fit not to blow them out of orbit.
"Captain Athurius, things are finally ready and Earth has sent their diplomats, are you ready to take your people home with some new friends?" the captain of this fleet, a small girl barely reaching his thighs known as Zossie said with bubbly cheer. He wasn't sure how a child, who couldn't possibly be in the major years of her species, could be trusted with such a vital mission yet Dulse trusted her. She seemed to rock from the balls of her heels to her toes as she excitedly waited for an answer.
"Yes Captain Zossie, I thank you for what you and the Ultra Spacians are doing, the Hierarchy will not see this go unrewarded." He said trying to ignore the weird feeling of addressing such a young looking being as an equal. Zossie however took it all in stride as she waved off his kind words.
"Our people are hardly doing this out of humanitarianism, the Humans have been a huge boon to the Ultra Spacians and the Turian Hierarchy, with this Citadel Alliance of yours, could prove to be the power to swing the war against the Ultra Beast back into our favor." To hear such words spoken with a childlike innocence was disconcerting but Athurius figured everything about these new aliens would be so, "Now enough dallying about, the wormhole generator isn't gonna get anymore accurate with time."
Athurius nodded and made sure his Omnitool was sensing the Endless Dawn's IFA signal, hopefully the Primarch was in a listening mood. "Captain Zossie Wormhole drives are primed and ready, waiting for your orders."
"Open the wormhole, let's greet the Greater Milky Way galaxy." Athurius felt the ship unexpectedly rock as it ripped a tear into space-time, a beautiful sea of color as a rim formed and on the other end he could see Palavan and its moon. It was so surreal seeing his Homeworld so close yet knowing he was in a different galaxy from it all together. Quickly he typed away at his Omnitool hoping to get in contact with Palavan control before they mobilized for invasion.
"Palavan Command, this is Captain Athurius Palandros of the Endless Dawn fleet, this is a First Contact situation, do not fire." He prayed to the spirits that the wormhole wasn't interfering with his transmission and released a sigh of relief when he received a response.
"Captain Palandros, we thought you and your fleet were destroyed, send any information you can about this species and inform them to remain on their side of the anomaly." Zossie nodded and relayed the order.
"Now we wait."
"This is amazing and concerning." Primarch Keldros couldn't help but agree with the Primarch's assessment, he and his council had spent the last twenty minutes looking at the information supplied by Athurius and it painted a grim picture. These Humans and Ultra Spacians while not seeming to boast much of a space fleet would be a terror comparable to the Krogan on the ground. Many of his colleagues, including himself, had expressed disbelief at the notion of these 'Pokemon' and 'Ultra Beast', but the UTR supplied video evidence of their existence also showing some of the damage that the Ultra Beast had done not only to what remained of the Endless Dawn fleet, but also remnants of the Ultra Spacian Empire.
"These creatures made an entire Turian fleet look like it was patched together by the Quarians, spirits Athurius even reports that the enemy faced no casualties until the Ultra Spacians arrived." one Primarch spoke his mandibles twitching as he tried to think of a way to battle such an enemy, "Not to mention that these creatures appeared in Council territory, what would be our fate if they appear on Thessia, Surkesh, or worse Palavan and the Citadel itself."
"They could single handedly cripple the Galaxy and we wouldn't have the power nor speed to defend what they take, our own extinction event." Keldros said slowly, the thought filling him with dread. The fact that the Ultra Spacians had been fighting them for hundreds of years, and only had one planet to show for their sacrifices terrified him. They had technological parity that the Turians and much of the Milky Way lacked, especially with these Humans and Pokemon now standing as their allies, yet they still hadn't made any significant progress besides battling the Stellar Devourer to a standstill before containing it.
"Perhaps they are hoping to flee their Galaxy, let the Ultra Beasts claim the Cigar Galaxy until we can assist them in its reclamation?" Keldros shrugged, not willing to try and predict an unknown species, especially one that wasn't even native to the Galaxy.
"We won't know unless we open communications, inform the Citadel of the First Contact so the Asari and Salarians can send diplomats, until they arrive we shall be the voice of the Galaxy." the others nodded and Keldros sent a message to Athurius to key the other species into the comm system. Not long after three holographic figures stood one being Athurius himself and two who were bipedal one resembling an Asari with fur and something protruding from the sides of their heads and the other was covered head to toe in a suit much like a Quarian, all he could notice was the ice blue skin.
"Hello representatives, I am Primarch Keldros Tiberius of the Turian Hierarchy, I speak for the Turian people alongside my council." he gestured to the men and women sitting around him. The asari-like creature nodded before speaking.
"Hello Primarch Keldros, I am Caitlin Shirona member of the Unovan Elite Four and representative of the United Terran Regions, I temporarily speak for all Regions of Earth." the woman bowed her hair seemingly floating beside her, potential biotic user Keldros thought. After her the suited person nodded and spoke.
"I am Soliera, member of the Ultra Recon Squad, I speak for the Republic of Megalo." The woman seemed to coldly study each Turian in the room, her stare reminding Keldros of an Asari matriarch, she had influence and power he could tell, and she wasn't above using it to her advantage. He quickly composed himself and spoke to the two women.
"Firstly I like to extend my thanks, the servicemen of the Endless Dawn will not be forgotten but due to the actions of your people their crew wasn't entirely lost." his fellow Primarchs around him sent Captain Athurius nods, "Captain I'd like to commend you as well, despite the odds you and your crew held and fought with honor, you did the Hierarchy and your ancestors proud with your performance." Athurius saluted but remained silent, "Now, what brings you to Palavan?"
"As you know the Endless Dawn fleet was met with aggression from Ultra Beast invaders in the system neighboring Shanxi, or what you call System 314, this was a scouting fleet and it's the prelude to a full scale invasion." in Caitlin's place a map of the the galaxy appeared, "They will enter System 314 and from there they will expand their presence, their first target will be Shanxi where from they will begin an assault on Sol, our Homeworld, the concern for the Turians is what they will do once they learn of the other species in the Milky Way." Keldros watched as the territory of the Batarian Hegemony was highlighted, "While they don't use conventional space travel much, they are capable of sustained FTL when not in combat and they will begin conquest on the Batarians and from there the rest of the Galaxy."
Soliera then spoke, "These were the tactics used to break the back of our once mighty empire, our vassals were consumed, and we were left alone to battle the behemoth; this is a fate we don't wish to see the Milky Way fall to." she pointed at Shanxi, "The UTR is already planning a stand at Shanxi, to break the back of the invaders there, while the Republic flanks the Wormhole that will be in our Galaxy, however the Human alone don't have the fleet to keep from getting overrun on Shanxi and will require assistance, Turian assistance."
Keldros looked at the battleplans that had been shared, it was definitely a risky venture, it was also against Turian war doctrine to allow the enemy to invade the homefront and force yourself into a defensive war. This would be a tough sell to the Turian people if he agreed to this, not to mention that the Turian fleet was of the same make and model of the Endless Dawn and that battle went horrible. One Primarch raised this exact point to Caitlin and Soliera, "Yes the Republic and UTR understand the disadvantage Turian Shielding technology has against Aura based attacks and we've agreed to allow Psychic Trainers to be put under command of Turian Captains and Generals during this war, the shields they generate will protect your warships just as they did our."
This gained Keldros's attention, their shields were created by living beings? Biotic shielding wasn't a foriegn concept, the Asari mastered that kind of warfare long before the Turians were spacefaring, but these shields were apparently not Eezo based but 'Aura'. "Could you explain what this Aura is? Our species has experience with shields created by biological beings but even they aren't stronger than the shield generated by our ships."
Caitlin nodded, "Aura is a energy shared by Pokemon and Humans, although the amount of Aura in Humans is usually not enough to utilize in combat or day to day life, Psychic Humans are humans with abnormals levels or Aura, allowing them to use abilities usually found in Pokemon." her eyes glowed as her hair was suspended by heart shaped energy balls, "I am one of these Humans, as for its strength, Aura barriers and light screens have more potency than Biotic barriers, making them more durable but this potency comes with rarity."
"The UTR is also willing to share its medical technology, from Medigel to our Potion line of products, the Hierarchy will surely benefit from being able to modify medicine with instant healing properties." This definitely got Keldros's attention, medicinal advances had been megre for Turian biology due to Salarians being the lead developers of medicine in the Galaxy, and they were focused on studying the aftereffects and potential cure for the genophage, "We've also like a Research Agreement outside of the one sponsored by the Citadel Council, the Turians will have the opportunity to access our Teleportation Arrays, as well as Aether and Rotom technologies although you will be forbidden from reproducing Aether and Rotom style products."
Keldros thought over the proposals, the Ultra Beasts were an enemy the Turians would have to face eventually, if they did this preemptive strike they'd have two allies who knew how to wage war against the enemy, two allies who had tech they were willing to share to keep Turian lives safe and would make the fight less of a blood bath. Accepting however would put the Hierarchy at risk of denouncement by the Citadel Council, the Salarians and Asari were always too slow to notice a threat, and too brutal in how they suppressed one. There also was the issue of how thin spread the Turian navy was, between the peacekeeping operations in Council Space, maintaining the Krogan DMZ, and suppressing piracy leaking from the Traverse the navy had barely enough to keep the Heirarchy's own territory peaceful.
"These terms are agreeable, but due to current circumstances we would need to add proposals for this to work, the Turian navy as it stands is stretched thin, if the UTR can send its navy to the Krogan DMZ here," he pointed to the system that held Tuchanka, "we can free up a big enough force to act as Planetary Support, we'd also need the UTR to agree to become a client race of the Hierarchy, the Council can't punish us if we are acting in defense of one of our clients."
Caitlin frowned, "What would become of us if we agreed to become a client race?" Keldros noticed the rebellion hidden in her eyes, these Humans were proud like the Krogan and wouldn't bow to foriegn influence, at least not for long.
"Client races are protectorates under the Hierarchy, for this protection they can't declare wars on foriegn powers without our support, can't make trade deals with foriegn powers without our suport, pay a tax of 10% of your economic surplus whether that be in Credit or Mineral good is your choice, and must abide by Council law." he brought up pictures of the Turian client races, the two most notable being the Volus and Vorcha, "You maintain autonomy and rule over your planets, systems, and government and gain an embassy on Palavan, where you can advocate for your people, and ask for freedom if you so desire." Caitlin frowned and spoke into her wrist device for a moment, after a couple minutes she nodded and turned to Keldros once again.
"The UTR isn't fully prepared to becomes a client under the Hierarchy, but we ask that this agreement only be temporary, once we feel the UTR is versed enough in galactic politics and the Hierarchy won't face reprisal for their involvement in our war we will demand our freedom, we also won't renege on our agreement to the Republic, if you agree to these terms the UTR will become a client." Keldros nodded, "Very well, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd fleets are being ordered to begin travel to Ultra Megalopolis where they will then jump to the Krogan DMZ, we look forward to future cooperations between our people Primarchs."
Keldros nodded and stood to salute, "And we the Turian Hierarchy welcome you to the greater galaxy."