The small expeditionary ground force included 50 shadow fighters, 12 upgraded destroid tanks led by Captain Dana Sterling (Forgot the name of those used in the 3rd robotech war.) and 500 Cyclones were sent down using the Horizon dropships into the icy planet to a drop point nearby the Rebel base.
Rebel Base Echo, Command Centre
"Admiral, we've detected several dropships coming into the atmosphere. They're not like any craft we've ever seen before. Do we open fire?"
Raddus replied to Sean: "No, only open fire if they start hostilities. It doesn't seem like they're from any faction."
Leia interrupted Raddus and said: "Admiral, may I go in our snow speeders to discuss diplomacy with them?
Raddus replied to her: "You may, but instead of using our snow speeders, take the millennium falcon and a squadron of us on there."
Han said: "Let's go Leia, Chewie start up the engines."
A small rebel force boarded the Millennium Falcon and the frigate took off going towards the dropships which had just landed on Hoth.
Within minutes the Falcon had several fighters surrounding it, fighters which it couldn't even detect until they got up close.
Leia said on the Falcon: "It's no wonder they won the empire… We probably wouldn't even have noticed their fleet if they activated it before warping here."
A message was given to the Falcon and Han had received it. He said: "Here it goes…" as he put it on the loud speaker.
"Attention, unidentified vessel heading towards REF Dropships, state your purpose and disarm yourselves or we'll have to fire."
Han said to Leia: "Why the hell do we have to close our weapon systems?"
She replied to him: "The first thing that happened to them after they arrived was a fleet of Star Destroyers attacking them, even I would've told us to disarm."
Han sighed and said: "Chewie, close all weapon systems."
A growl could be heard from the Wookiee, as he flicked the switches for the Falcon's turrets.
The Falcon soon landed on the sight of the dropships. They saw human soldiers, inside what seemed to be suits with assault rifles larger than a minigun. But there wasn't only that, there was huge robots-walkers with multiple cannons armed on them… But their size was smaller than that of a AT-AT. Beside these large robot-walkers, were humanoid robots with a gun on their hands. On the ground, there were several more different fighter like craft.
Colonel Max Sterling landed his Super Shadow Fighter where the unknown ship and their own dropships had landed. His wife, Lieutenant Colonel Miriya Sterling landed next to him. They both took out cyclones and went into armor mode for the Cyclone. They walked to the landing spot, with several Shadow Fighters transforming into battaloid mode to prepare for any incoming threats.
Surrounded by soldiers carrying what seemed to be rifles, a woman, a furry creature with brown fur and a man at around his 30s came from the ship.
The woman introduced herself: "I'm General of the Rebel Alliance and former Princess of the now blown up planet known as Alderaan, Leia Organa. To my left is Commander Solo and his Co-pilot on my right, Chewbacca."
Chewbacca let out a roar, and Solo said: "Calm down Chewie, they aren't going to shoot us… Yet."
Max was startled by Chewbacca, but introduced himself: "I'm Colonel Maximilian Jenius of the Robotech expeditionary force, and next to me is my wife and daughter, Lieutenant Colonel Miriya Jenius of the REF and Captain Dana Sterling, commander of the current ground forces here. I'm only the commander for the fighters onboard of our fleet, if you want to do diplomacy then I'll ask you to come with me and Miriya. We'll escort you with our fighters up to the SDF-3 Pioneer.
Leia ordered her forces: "Back on the Falcon, let's follow them ti their flagship."
The rebels boarded the Falcon, and it lifted off, while Max and Miriya had already started it's own fighters.
The Millennium Falcon took off, heading towards the REF SDF-3 Escort Fleet, with two Super Shadow Fighters following behind, one blue, one red.
Han read his scanners… Amazing… Even at this proximity we can't detect them. If we had that kind of tech against the Empire we wouldn't ever be caught… And if I had it for smuggling… Heck, no more running from Jabba.
The former smuggler sighed, knowing his wishes was impossible. Now that this foreign fleet was here, the galaxy would never be the same again.
The Falcon approached the SDF-3 fleet, escorted by Max and Miriya in their Super Shadow Fighters.
The frigate approached the red, blue and yellow coloured ships. The ships appeared fully cloaked, and none of the Falcon's sensors could even detect them. Clearly, their cloaking technology far surpassed anything within this galaxy.
A bay door was opened in the SDF-3, allowing the Falcon and the two Super Shadow Fighters to land. Rick and Lisa travelled down to Hangar bay 3E.
The Falcon landed inside the Hangar bay with the two Sterlings, who quickly got out of their helmets and Veritech's to go next to Rick.
Rick felt his body tense up, as he prepared to start talks with the "Rebel Alliance". His beloved wife was beside him, who had far more knowledge in the art of diplomacy and had helped him persuade the Local groups to form the Sentinels. He nodded at Lisa, giving her the go forward to take full command of discussions, even for terms that he himself didn't like.
Lisa understood what her husband had meant, and had walked forward herself towards the ship with the other REF officers trailing behind her. The frigate's doors opened, and a female was escorted by around 30 soldiers, a man with a pistol and a brown furry with a crossbow.
The female walked towards Lisa, and introduced herself: "I'm Princess Leia Organa of the destroyed planet Alderaan and General of the Rebel Alliance. On my right is Commander Solo, and his co-pilot Chewbacca."
C-3PO Helped her translate, and said what the princess said in english.
Lisa replied to Leia: "I'm Ambassador Lisa Hayes of the Robotech Expeditionary Force, and next to me is my husband." She said while pointing to Rick. "Admiral Rick Hunter of the REF. Come, let us take you to the conference room. We'll begin talks there."
C3PO, understanding the language Lisa had just spoken, repeated what Lisa had said in English. Leia ordered the Rebel soldiers to remain here, taking only Chewbaccaand Han as her escorts, with C3PO only as her translator, while Rick had several Cyclones follow them to the conference room.
Han whispered to Leia whilst pointing to one of the Cyclone soldiers: "You think those things can take out AT-AT's? They seem to carry large enough guns. If we can just snag some tech off these people we'd be well on our way to win the war against the Empire."
Leia replied: "But we have nothing to trade, they've literally proven that they're technologically superior to us in any way possible…"
Han confidently argued against Leia's reply: "That's not true. From what I've seen we have one thing they don't."
Leia looked at him and asked: "And that is…?"
"The Force, Lightsabers."
Leia sighed and said to Han: "That doesn't mean we can produce them though, only Jedi can. And before you ramble Yoda or Luke will, chances are Yoda won't because of some mythological reason. And Luke is barely a Jedi in the first place, so how'd he do it?"
Han sighed: "There goes our one hope, let's just see what they're going to tell us…"
The Rebel Ambassadors entered the conference room, and sat down. They were given snacks and drinks whilst the meeting started.
While eating the food, Han and Chewie paid barely any attention. Whilst Leia asked Lisa: "Why're you here, what're your intentions… And what do you plan on doing here?"
Lisa responded: "We're from the Robotech Expeditionary Force, we're here due to an accident from a fold, and we plan to return to our galaxy, the Milky Way as soon as possible."
Leia then pressed on and asked: "So you're from another galaxy huh… Mind showing me proof?"
Lisa nodded, and turned on the projector. She took out what seemed to be a radio or comm device, and said: "Tell them to load up the history documentary we've got from the first robotech war."
The screen near the end of the table started glowing, as the history of the humans from earth began…
Lisa explained for the documentary: "It all began when ASS-1, aka Alien Space Ship 1 crashed down onto our planet. In the middle of a world war… It managed to bring peace to the planet through fear that extraterrestrial races would attack us…"
And thus, went an hour of explaining the terrifying nightmarish history of the Robotech Expeditionary Forces. Leia barely managed to prevent tears from falling after seeing the Rain of death at the first robotech war. Han asked: "So if that's all your history… 40 years in space, how'd you get more advanced than us? Forty years ago we were using about the same technology during the clone wars, except that there were more droids n' clones."
Lisa replied to him: "Our technology was adapted from the millennium old robotechnology from the robotech masters."
Han was about to ask another question, when Leia put her arm in front of him, signalling him to sit down.
Leia then said: "Let me explain our situation then. We are the Rebel Alliance, the military you've just fought is the Empire. The Empire was formed from the Galactic Republic, our old government which has consisted of senators from all around the planets of the galaxy to rule the galaxy as a single government. Around 30 years ago, the Galactic Civil war had begun against the separatist droid army and the Galactic Republic enlisted a clone army ordered by the treacherous chancellor to fight in this war. The Jedi, a vanguard which wielded the psychological weapon known as the force with lightsabers fought as generals during the war and it was only thanks to them that the Republic had the advantage. The separatists were nearly defeated after the battle of Corusant… In an effort to capture the Chancellor. However, the Jedi rescued him not knowing the true nature of that wicked man. He was the lord of the Sith, Darth Sidious. The Sith are basically people who misuse the power of the force for evil, and let negative emotions consume them… Basically opposite from the Jedi. At least from what I know."
The REF High Command was heavily confused from all the information they had to intake. The long history of the Galaxy far surpassed their own, and the complexity of the mysterious force known as the "Force."
Leia sighed, and continued despite seeing the confusion of the REF officials: "After the battle of Corusant, in weeks after an order named Order 66 was placed, which was a forced order and made to be obeyed by the clone army we had by using the chips implanted in their brain to force obedience. Due to the eternal war between the Jedi and Sith, most Jedis were killed by their own subordinates, and the survivors were hunted down. Any planet allowing them in as refuge, were called treasonous and the planet would be taken down by the Imperial Navy by force. The Galactic Empire was then formed, after the Emperor manipulated the disillusioned senate to give him absolute power. Because of the events which followed, and the actions of the Emperor… Rebel splinter factions rose up after the creation of the Galactic Empire… And several years ago, a Anti-Empire Senator named Mon Montha defected from the Senate and gathered all of the splintered rebel factions together… Resulting in what we know today as the Rebel Alliance. Our mission is to reform the galaxy into a Galatic Republic, like the one which was formed before the Empire."
Rick sighed: "Another repeat of the Tirolian Empire?"
Leia continued on: "From what we've heard about the Tirolian Empire, fairly similar in terms of the government rulings. In any case, we would like to ask you to help us in the war effort against the Empire. If we can win the war, we'll help you find a way back."
Lisa nodded, and the REF officials sighed.
Lisa said: "Rick… You know we have to…"
Rick said: "I know sweetheart, but we also have to consider the war back home…"
Lisa replied to Rick's argument: "If we help the Rebels win… there's a chance we can use the resources here to somehow go home…We've got no chance of asking the Empire that, now that they shot us within seconds of first contact."
Rick sighed and looked over to Max: "So buddy, what's your take?"
Max replied: "Miriya and I both agree with Lisa, we should help them. It'd be easier to face the Galactic Empire if we do, since from what they're saying there's more than a thousand star systems under it's control…"
Rick sighed and shook his hand, and said: "Alright General, I'll promise my fleet will help with your Rebel activities, however we will not provide you access to our technology, as it's too important to our survival. We also hope that you'll share your star charts with us so we can navigate throughout this galaxy."
Leia sighed, she had hoped they would share tech, but even she knew that there was close to zero chance they would.
Han broke the tension by asking everyone: "What's with all the sighing? What is this a secret ritual no one told me n' Chewie about?"
Leia said to C-3PO: "Don't translate that."
The droid nodded, and spoke of nothing.
Leia then stood up and spoke: "I accept your terms and appreciate your support, Admiral Hunter, Ambassador Hayes. I hope this alliance between us will last throughout this war against the Empire."
Lisa stood up and replied: "We hope so too."
Leia shook both Lisa's and Rick's hand and was escorted out of the conference room of the SDF-3 to the Millennium Falcon which soon was escorted by Max and Miriya back to the Rebel base on Hoth.
After the Falcon landed, 30 minutes. Rebel Base Echo.
"Admiral Raddus, I believe it's time to gather the fleet at Hoth. With our allies to protect us, we can finally fight the empire's fleets on a full on scale."
The Mon Calimari Admiral stroke his alien-like beard and said: "You're right Leia, let's call the fleet here. Sean, call the fleet to the Hoth system. Summon all fleets immediately, tell them we've got something special for the empire.
