Due to public demand, I give you Chapter 17
Chapter 17
Seeing the new neighbors
While the Minerva was being repaired and modified by a UN Ship tender, Captain Gladys, her XO and three other members of Minerva's crew have arrived on the Prometheus as to answer an order from the new chairman, Gladys will be acting military advisor for the talks with the Spacys. Nearby is the Zaft and EAF fleet watching the UN Spacys.
The Zaft Mobile Space Carrier GODWANNA and twenty Zaft ships brought the New Chairman of the Plants to the SDF-2 Prometheus for some talks with the UN Admiral. Upon their arrival, Zaft MS came out in force as a show of strength, for like the EAF Second and Third Fleet, who are close by and staring down at a lone Heracles class ship trying to intimidate them but failing, they are a bit nervous about the new kids on the block.
On Zaft side, 300 Zaku Mobilesuits is playing a glaring match with the REF Armored Excalibur's and Valkyrie II numbering only about 50 fighters whom doesn't look at all worried about them as Zaft expected them to match their numbers yet they haven't.
The Spacys were not that worried about Zaft or the EAF intimidation tactics. The 50 fighters armed with RMS-1 'Angel of Death' reactive missiles and ten VB-6 KÖNIG Monsters perch on a nearby asteroid watching their backs and two squadrons of on stealth VF-17 Nightmares on stand by was good enough security to watch their hosts of this world.
On the Prometheus Bridge, Capt. Scott Bernard is looking up at their main screens and another screen shows the Captain of Sojourner Bright Noa, his ship is nearby and cloaked from sight
"They don't look too happy, do they Scott" Capt.Noa on board his ship beside SDF-2. He noted that the Zaft MS look like they are about to attack but they are not actually but posturing.
"More like they are edgy with a dash of paranoia Captain Noa," Scott answers "72 hours ago they just found out that aliens really exist, they got bigger ships nastier guns and bad attitude. Then next, we told them that, the UN People came from another Earth at the opposite side of the galaxy" he said finally breathing in afterwards
"I guess you are right" he said agreeing "You'd be paranoid when someone told you something like that and accept it as is, heck! We didn't believe that there are other Earth out here and one with a worst history of war and bloodshed than ours even before Zor's Ship arrive, and while were fighting a war of ideology, theirs is a war of genetic discrimination.
Natural born and the genetically enhanced Coordinators, 'shesh' what were these people thinking tampering their kids DNA just to make them smarter, stronger or faster?" Noa question
"It's an attractive idea Noa, shaping or giving your child superior abilities before they are even been born, giving them a greater chance for a better life,"
"We do have our own form of genetic enhancements on our own people Scott, but never the type of enhancement that they do, 'sigh'. These people are like the Tirolians"
"And the Tirolians have been doing enhancements for hundreds of generations and that made them a powerful people and with Protoculture," Noa continued the sentence
"-It made them into a galactic empire" he finished and ads
"An empire that fell from with in and out, an empire that fell when they lost their 'Golden Egg' in a time when their civilizations is in rapid decline after eons of prosperity, and at that same time, the Invid came barreling thru their doorsteps. They tear down of what remains of the Tirolian civilization in their search of the Protoculture which the Tirolian stole.
Tirolian superiority were no help to them as the Invid gutted their empire across their galaxy, and worst of all, the countless generations of continuous enhancements caused mutations in their DNA, making them dependent on the Flowers of Life' in order to continue their civilization, they are like the Dinosaurs on Jurassic Park."
He refers to the famous movie made in the late 20th Century about the Dinosaurs revived from ancient blood found in the bodies of amber preserve mosquitos. The Dinosaurs were revived thru genetics but modifiedto be depended on Lysine and without it, they die.
He took a deep breath and started to remember the time when he and the Admiral visited the last trace of the Tirolian race, a 'Chromosome Bank' the Tirolians living now are clones of the unaltered original people that died long ago, they were considered breeding stock made for the purpose of creating a source of stable gene stock for the revitalization of their dream society.
In the decline of their empire, the Robotech Masters fled their galaxy, came to Earth to find the Protoculture in order to establish a new empire with a new Tirolian society, molded by their hands like gods, molded them according to their vision of a society, minus the unwanted traits like freewill. A society completely obedient to the state and yet make them far superior than the original. Also, to create a new army of invincible Bioroid soldiers who are more loyal than the Zentraedi soldiers that they first created, manning more advance Battaloids and ships fueled by Protoculture.
All of the Robotech Masters Dreams of Grandeur ended at the edge of Ranma's sword.
What remains of the Tirolian civilization is now on a small settlement on a protected planet being watched, protected not interfered by the UN Spacys and Galaxy Police much like the other worlds still developing in their part of the galaxy.
"Speaking of the Tirolians, you know those coordinator scientists who are part of the delegates? Well, we showed them a few of the aliens we've encountered thru the years" Scott pointed out the reactions of a few who were allowed to see the data on other sentient races; they got a special look at the Tirolians and that caused an incident.
"They were impressed at the number of alien species we've encountered out in the galaxy, but one of them seemed a bit disturbed when they got a close look on the Tirolians race, and I don't know why but, that guy threw a few words at the Admiral that it needed a dictionary to know what they means… the guy was throwing names in the Admiral face of all the dumbass things" he told in disbelief of the man's actions
"Name calling? Either the guy is brave or stupid to do that in front of the Admiral" Scott nodded in agreement
"An Idiot is most likely. A few words describing certain things yet it wouldn't flinch the admiral from doing something harsh to him it just annoyed him" he told him
"The Admiral suspected that it's got something to do about the Data on the Tirolians, to have him say those things" he said describing to Noa of what happened next
"That guy got thrown out by the Admiral and the Plant Chairman had to apologize about the man's rude behavior turns out that he's one of Dullindal appointees in the genetic research dept."
"Well the man's behavior towards us is of no help to the situation, there are bigger issues here than one jerk with a petty attitudes or bad feelings towards us, 'sigh' sure wish the Mainfleet arrives in time," he said hoping
"Minbari ships are still coming out of that damn wormhole and those unidentified clouds, more of them came out of that thing yesterday along with thousands more ships and Vorlon Planet Killers"
"Having pessimistic thoughts are we?" Scott inquire
"I am unsure of these people abilities to fight as whole Scott" he answered
"You know their history better than I do Scott. That guy throwing names on the Admiral face is of any indication then you'd understand my concern" Noa pointed
"The only exceptions I can see are of those allied with Terminal and that small country called Orb. The EAF and Zaft would most likely want to shoot each other than work together for a common goal; their hostilities to each other could be a problem to us in the future"
"Well hopefully the Admiral talks with their delegates minus a few unwanted idiots, he can get them to work together, otherwise none of them will see tomorrow, if the Minbari shows up today with guns blazing"
"Now speaking of delegates, I heard that Lt.Ashta is playing hooky with some of our guest from Zaft, what's that all about?" he asks and Scott smiled at the thought
"Well," Scott scratch his head at that "Several officers from Zaft is given a tour of our fair city, Judah volunteered to take some of them" he look amused
"But if you ask me, he's trying to impress a woman he has his crosshairs on for quite a while now"
Macross City
Upon their arrival Judah Shanghaied the Minerva crew and his service as a tour guide for and like all first visitors who come aboard they were at awe at what they see especially seeing the Macross City.
"So, this ship is a colony ship then?" Gladys ask with wide eyed at everything she sees
"The first of her kind actually, SDF-2 Macross class II is a Battleship/Colony vessel" Judah answered
"She's designed from the specs of the first SDF-1 'Macross class I' designed as a long range colony ship with a small city for 50 thousand people but capable of carrying up to a 100 thousand. She's sixteen hundred meters long and over twenty million metric tons. At that time when she's being built, there was some debate about giving it the classification SDF-2 since there is already an SDF-2 Megaroad-01 class seriesbut that was of no concern.
This SDF-2 Prometheus however is a prototype designed with a second city built within a subspace environment in its belly, a new innovation created by one of our greatest scientist in the United Nations of Earth"
"Subspace? I don't understand, what do you mean?" Judah just smiled to Talia as they are nearing their destination
"You'll see it when we enters Prometheus City"
When they got there and got a fantastic look at the fantastic city with a space that spans larger than the Plant Colony inside a ship, they were more than impressed to see a self contained world inside a ship.
The city alone symbolizes how highly advance the Spacys are along with a number of REAL honest to God ALIENS they have seen working hand in hand with them and that shows maturity unlike theirs.
Once inside, Judah decided to take a shortcut thru the Zentraedi Quarters instead going straight ahead which was faster, he took the scenic route and his guest were more than awed to see humanoids the size of Mobile Suits and a shocker to one Minerva crewman, is that they are descendants from genetically enhanced clone army that fought against humanity years ago.
Rey Za Burrel interest just peak upon hearing that
While Judah brought them to an observation platform on top a mountain, there Judah tells them of the many places and districts in Prometheus. Meanwhile, the Admiral and the other were getting impatient and Admiral Saotome is regretting that he let Judah do the Chaperoning to the rest of the delegates.
Meanwhile back at the Admiral's Mansion
Admiral Ranma Saotome looks at his watch and sees that Judah is an hour late
"That boy, what is with that him lately?" he asks no one in particular but Char answered him anyway
"Well it seems to me that Judah got the hot's for the Minerva's Captain lately and he, as they say, trying to impresses a girl" Char said coolly
"You are talking about Captain Talia Gladys of the Minerva, how do you know that Char?" he ask him curious
"Well for one thing Admiral, Judah has a 'ahem'… a number of full photo edited body poster of her in his quarters tapped on his bedroom ceiling…" Char answered slyly which Ranma just look at him with one raised eyebrow
"It was an accident…saw it once on a visit"
"Oh, I see" It did not take much of an imagination as to why though, Ranma just shook his head smiling
"That Kid" he gave a full blown chuckle in amusement "I stand corrected; he's now a man with manly desires, ohhh his folks would be so proud of him"
"Judah really got it bad Admiral"
"Well good luck to him then," he stated "let's start the meeting without them and hopefully we can make a strategy to deal with the Minbari"
Just then a chime from his comm system sounded up and Ranma walk towards it and answer it
"Yes?"
"Sir we have a priority one encrypted communiqué from the Sixteenth Fleet, Admiral Claudia Black is on the line"
"Put it on"
Immediately the main viewer was activated and shows the image of an old friend and his wife (one of them actually)
"Ritsuko, Claudia, It's good to see you again"
"Hi Sweetie" Ritsuko wave to him from behind Claudia "And it's good to see you too Ranma"
"I take it that you guys are not that far from us now?"
"We are only about a thousand light years from your location at sector 75 Gamma 4,"
"Good, the Minbari is only about 100 light years from Earth and have you received my report?"
If look into a two dimensional map with a kind of north, west, south, east direction. Earth is in the north while the Minbari wormhole is in the east of the compass and the Sixteenth Fleet is in the west meaning that the fleet is only 100 lightyears farther.
"We have and it's not good" she replied "Your report confirms our worst fears, so" she ads
"I have sent an EYES ONLY report to you via courier I can't risk sending this to you thru the comm, the Minbari now has subspace technology and we can't risk of them detecting our stellar comm, so along with the courier, the Seventh and Eight Battlegroup will be sent to you for extra defense and Washu is with them"
"W- Wait a minute!" Ranma know she just sent and then the look of absolute dread for some reason "Seventh and Eighth, isn't th-that's J-Jura and Barnette battlegroup and you sent them here"
"They volunteered," she smiled to him like a shark to a fish "They said that, they misses you a lot especially Jura and insist that her battlegroup will be the one to reinforce your fleet and you know Barnette, those two are never far away from each other"
"I could've gone with them and Misato would love to come also but 'sigh' my work as a doctor is never done and Misato has her obligation to her battlegroup" Ritsuko added and giving a dramatic touch in her sighing meaning trouble for him
"Our nights weren't fulfilling anymore because you and the others are not around, but unlike Jura I am much more patient and can resist my sexual desires in seeking you out" she said lusciously that gave Ranma a tomato red blush but he's not the only one blushing as Char is turns his back to hide a small nosebleed
"Ritsuko please!" Ranma exclaimed with an embarrass voice and was about to complain when he sees that Ritsuko was laughing at Ranma expense, meaning that the jokes on him
"Oh Ranma, you are so easy" she said giggling "Jura is a Professional soldier so relax Anata," she said with assurance
"The Battlegroup will be there in an hour 'giggle' have fun now, bye" and with a wave of her hand the transmission ended
"Wait!" Ranma cried out
Meanwhile Char is looking away and started slapping his face as he's trying not to have a mental picture after hearing Dr. Ritsuko somewhat perverted words.
'Think a nice thoughts, think nice thoughts, think… nice sexy… gorgeous, ladies negligee in bed, the Admiral in her female form and his wives all twelve of them...NOT THOSE NICE THOUGHTS!…huh? (sudden uneasy feeling of imminent death)…'
"Ohh Charrrr, my good man" Ranma spoke low with a dark voice of doom and the sound of knuckles cracking
Char slowly looks behind him and sees the Admiral with a kinda Wrath of God type look with glowing red eyes and cold blue flames coming out of his body. Few people have ever really seen Ranma angry, most of whom ended up dead but when times he gets a little teed off at someone. They live but take a permanent residence in the hospital for immense bodily harm
'Ok it's official, I'm taking resident in the hospital' he gulps hard
"Uhh, yes sir" he was giving off cold sweat from on and under his helmet
"I really do hope you're not having a disgusting mental picture of them and my girl side?" from somewhere Ranma pulled out a ten ton mallet with an inscription, an advertisement 'AKANE'S TENDO'S MEGA HARDWARE STORE we supply Mallets big and small,' or its just Char imagination going into panic mode
"WHAT! ME! NO, NO, NO, NO SIR! Perish the thought really sir, really I swear!" waving his hand scared
"Settle down Char" Ranma said as he calms down which made Char heartbeat normalize and wipe the sweat from his face.
Ranma can't blame Char. Throughout his life since the world found out he can change gender, he's either being ridiculed or desired by the perverted hentai populace of both genders with bizarre fantasies. It made worst when Lady Kamiki Seto of Jurai got her claws on him and ended up getting married to twelve 'drop dead gorgeous' women in a political marriage that solidify an alliance between the Galaxy Alliance and Earth.
Ranma would never have agreed to become a 'sacrificial lamb' but the UN Spacys were exhausted as threats from other alien races were imminent after the defeat of the Robotech Masters. The alliance between the two discouraged many invasion threats and Earth and her people is safe, However, Ranma life since then would be describe as a mix of pleasure and pain in a galactic scale
(Pleasure: Ranma is married to Twelve gorgeous all of whom are headstrong and equal in power and despite the politics, they all love him as time pass by as they got to know him better, and now fought for his attention for a while but soon made an agreement to share him equally.
Pain: Ranma's disclosure of his aquatransexual abilities have open himself to ridicule and at the same time, it made him the unchallenged sex symbol, the most desired man and woman and has been the target of hentai perverted fantasies of both genders from the human and aliens which is worst)
"Anyway," he said exhausted "We better tell our allies that, two Battlegroup's of the Sixteenth Mainfleet will be arriving shortly," he told him "I don't want them to freak out once those ships arrived"
"Uh, yes sir"
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The Seventh Battlegroup is one of 12 in the Sixteenth Mainfleet and each group is over 10 thousand ships strong and it is the strong arm of the UN Spacys Main Fleet. The Seventh Fleet comprised of the 1 Nirvana Class Battleship (Flagship), 100 Neo-Nupetiet Vergnitzs-Bis class II Zentraedi Flagship, 300 Heracles-class Command Cruiser, 500 Thuverl Salan-class Heavy Cruiser,500 Gloria-class Battleships, 700 Stargazer-class Stealth Frigate, 500 Izumo-class Battlefortress, 300 Ark Royal-class Escort Battle Carriers, 300 Palomino-Class Light Carrier, 900 Tokugawa class Super Dimensional Battleship (refit) 500 Shimakaze-class Battlecruisers, 500 Valivarre-class Super Dimensional Battleship, 700 Dundee-class Corvette, 700 Pasadena-class Frigate, 1000 Ophelia-class Sub-Light Destroyers, 1000 Garfish-class Super Dimensional Scout Cruiser, 500 Normandie-class Terran superdimensional general passenger/cargo vessel (SAG) (formerly, Quiltra Queleual-class multi-purpose transport), 500 Megaroad-01b class Super-Long Range Colonization Ship and 1000 support ships and 1 ND-001 Nadesico and 1 ND-002 Cosmos not pat of the fleet.
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Zaft Ship Godwanna
"The Spacys have a vested interest in keeping peace and believe me that if they wanted a war, neither the EAF or Zaft could stand up to these people, so don't underestimate them"
"So what do they want?" Yzak asks
"Well, the primary mission here is trade and the establishment of a diplomatic relations with us especially with Earth because they want what the Earth has in abundance"
"And that is?"
"The Resources of the Planet's Natural Environment" Waltfeld stated something that got everyone all ears as he explain
"For the past several months, they have been running around Earth basically unnoticed, collecting and buying wildlife of all kinds the flora and fauna, heck they even collected ants, crickets and Earthworms. This was their primary mission of their 'First Contact', but officially they won't do that until the alien race has achieve a form FTL (faster than light) travel, but they decided to do it now; the need to access Earth's natural resources was too much a temptation for them, it is in order to help restore theirs world."
Colonel Waltfeld was about to show on the screen, the Image of Earth but not the Earth they know he gave them a word of warning
"What you are about to see is real, make no mistake that these people are in a word, 'in a league of their own' where we haven't even imagaine"
The Colonel press the play button and on the screen is Earth with no space colonies or debris fields, just the image of an unknown ship, a UN Spacys ARMD Carrier near lunar orbit facing…millions of giant ships colored green and bristling with weapons and looking down on Earth like a plague of locusts. Colonel Waltfeld explained what they are seeing and who was the Spacys was facing against and what they did to Earth.
The 'Rain of Death' a fleet of nearly 5 million warships unleashed a heavy particle beam bombardment that made the GENESIS look like a pea shooter in comparison. Dearka felt like his blood rushed down to his feet even on zero-g as he watched the surface of the planet cratered beyond recognition.
Yzak felt like his heart skip a beat for a few seconds as they watch a people who fought against an enemy, overly superior in numbers and technologically better and yet the UN Spacys won. But what surprise him are the aliens they fought against.
The 'Zentraedi' genetically engineered clone race, forty feet tall or taller. Bred first as laborers and miners for heavy gravity worlds then made to become soldiers in a galaxy spanning empire.
Waltfeld watched their expression change as they watch a glimpse of the UN Spacys past since the end of the first war and up to the present. He wanted to make it clear to them that the UN Spacys are not to be trifled with for they are not the type of Naturals they want as an enemy. He continued on as the movie stops
"First Contact was changed when they saw Junius 7 falling to Earth or 'Delta Earth' as they call it, now that scene disturbed them for seeing another Earth about to be destroyed brought back painful memories and realized that the governments were too unstable to initiate first contact. So they made a change in their plan, to make contact covertly" he said
"They decided to make contact with the Atlantic Federation first, those among the more liberal and open minded people, hoping to create a diplomatic line of communication as they are aware that, as a whole, the AF is an unstable administration being 'string move' by Logos and their pawns the Blue Cosmos.
Captain John Sheridan of the EAF ship Lexington were the actual first contact the Spacys have with Earth and thanks to him, a line of communication was established to the EAF as well as Orb and the Plants and from then on"
"So these 'UN Spacies' guys were here just to get Earthworms, and they overthrow the former AF administration just to get that?" Dearka said confused
"Well, let just say, they made the environment for change without actually doing it directly" Waltfeld said "Though their actions created alot of migraine for many people in power in the AF and Logos, they never once plotted the overthrow of the former AF administration despite the few encounters they have with them"
"What about interfering with Zaft business?" ask by an officer and Waltfeld spoke back to the officer
"Which Zaft business were you referring to? The one that Zaft sent a commando group to kill Miss Clyne or the one about the exposed fake nuclear attack on the Plants being blamed on the EAF"
Everyone was shock to hear that Zaft tried to kill Ms.Clyne and well aware that the Nuclear Attack was a fake and that quieted everyone down
Right then a female officer spoke up from her comm station
"Excuse me Colonel, there's a call from Captain Scott Bernard from the Prometheus on the line"
"Patch it thru" he ordered and on the screens Captain Scott Bernard face is shown
"Captain" Waltfeld acknowledge
"Colonel, were sending an engineering crews to the Godwanna and other ships, they will begin the modification with shield emitters and sensor packs, it's a rush job and not a refit like the one we did to the EAF ships…we may not have enough time" he said
"So, I take it that there's an agreement been made?" Waltfeld inquire
"More or Less" Scott answers "The Plants got more to gain with the peace treaty but there are some parts they wanted to change and are now being negotiated." He said
"However, our main concerns is the Minbari, our long range scouter's are watching them from afar and sees a few unidentified alien ships that keeps pouring out of that damn wormhole"
"What about them sending their own scout ships?" Waltfeld ask concerned
"That's the strange part colonel because, they are not sending any scout or even sending explorers to establish tachyon beacons in J-space"
"Excuse me" Spoke by one Zaft officer and introduce himself "Lt. Commander Dearka Elmsman sir, I have a question"
"What's J-space?" Scott answers that for him to make some things clear and showed an image of a ship entering Jumpspace Dimension and exiting it and now Scott went into his teacher act
"It's a layer dimension; hyperspace is treated as an alternate dimension where the distances between spatial bodies are significantly shorter than in realspace, but we call it jumpspace because ships by definition 'jumps' into this dimension thru an opening using Q-40. Jumpspace is utterly featureless, with no points of reference to navigate the gravitational eddies, so a ship uses the hyperspace beacon system - a network of transmitters located in known points in realspace but usually its a 'jumpgates' an artificial constructs design to open Jumpspace for spaceships and it is the primary means of travel for alien races in the Beta Quadrant like the Minbari and Centauri"
"Wow" Dearka said just to sound impressed at the explanation where in truth, he wasn't exactly paying attention as he's preoccupied in watching the videos
"So do you use this type of space travel?" Yzak asks and Scott shook his head
"No we don't Commander Yzak, The Spacys use several different forms of FTL travel and one of which called 'Warp' that's Ships traveling within a small subspace bubble in normal spacetime, rather than by entering a separate realm or dimension like hyperspace a Spacecraft at warp can interact with objects in normal space"
"Uhhh, what's a Subspace bubble?" Dearka asks confused "Sorry, science is not exactly my strong points." He apologize
Scott can see that it may take time for them to understand the numerous means of FTL travel and that it's not the time to discuss such things
"I think we should put this on the side for now, were wasting time" he suggested "Colonel, we really need to get the ships modified"
"Of course you are right, I'll inform everyone captain" he agreed
"And also, we will be getting reinforcements in a few minutes, so can you tell the others not to freak out when they see what's coming"
"What kind of reinforcements?"
Somewhere in L2
Several minutes pass and somewhere in the L2 sector a Junk Guild ship Marseille III class transport ship whom by sheer stroke of luck, have just got themselves a Minbari Nial fighter, its pilot killed but his fighter is intact enough to be salvage for advance technology which makes it a prize worth its weight in gold for salvagers like them.
Lowe Guele, Pilot of the MBF-P02 Gundam Astray Red Frame, was watching the fierce battle against the aliens and the UN Spacys close by and when it was over, salvagers like him were eager to get a piece of alien technology no matter how small, but as soon as they try to enter the battlefield, Valkries cornered them and warning other to keep out. Lowe would be returning to HOME empty handed, until he spotted a Nial fighter buried inside a derelict O'Neill class space colony.
His crewmates were very much celebrating as they start taking the ship apart while the Captain of the ship known only as 'The Professor' is doing her version of the 'UFO Alien Autopsy' of the dead Minbari pilot inside an isolation bubble. Cameras recording and sending it to the ships HOME main computer and being observe by someone.
'This is fantastic' the thought excitingly as an M.R.I. scans body while another part of her makeshift lab is analyzing the DNA of the aliens "Heavy bone crown, the ears is highly sensitive to sound and a brain with 10 percent more mass than a human and 15 percent more muscle than a human" she look back to the body on the table and she thought 'I thought that this species is weak and sickly because of the pale skin, guess I was wrong'
Right at that moment the ship shuddered all of the sudden, as no one was watching outside and see over twenty thousand ships came out of warp and right in the path of the Marseille III is a kilometer long vessel Nirvana-class Battleship, 'Nirvana'
The Nirvana sees the transport ship at its path but did nothing to avoid it. Instead the Nirvana tractor beams the vessel and towed it from behind towards the aft hanger bay.
"Well that's it" said Washu who is at the Nirvana science station manning a console to activate their tractor beams
"That ship is nicely secured at Hanger bay 12 and the marines are watching it Barnette"
"Any lifesigns Ms.Washu?" she ask Rear Admiral Barnette Orangello Saotome of the Seventh Battlegroup Sixteenth Fleet
"Reading 4 people human, I am also reading Minbari lifeform but no lifesigns and also a Nial Fighter, interesting" she said
"Most likely a bunch of salvagers from this Junk Guild I've heard about, Gascogne," she presumed and looks towards her second Captain Gascogne Rheingau "See if you can get them to come out peacefully"
"Aye" she replied and walk out of the bridge
"Where's the Prometheus? Ezra" she ask her navigation officer
"Found them Admiral, sector delta 120,000 kilometers from our position" Barnette acknowledge and then called the helmsman
"Bart, set a course to the Prometheus" Garsus helmsman of the Nirvana unique helm control
"Aye Sir,"
As the Nirvana and several ships went to where the Prometheus is located the Seventh Battlegroup went into combat group formation in 100 kilometers distance apart from each other. The closest EAF or Zaft ship was only four thousand kilometers from the wall of ships but they can see clearly the giant vessels at that distance with long range visual and they felt a cold chill down their spine at the site of kilometer long ships surrounded by thousands of smaller ones the size of their ships but just bigger than theirs.
L5 Plants
The Eight battlegroup appeared right behind the Plant colonies and leisurely passes them without Zaft making any signs of a challenge. Ten thousand ships of varying size with firepower they can only speculate after seeing the UNS Hawaii in action they surmise that the others could be equal or greater than the Gloria. Unlike the seventh, the eighth has an unusual group of ships that doesn't seem to be military vessels. For starters; some of them look like glass ships, others look like A Sunflower and there is even one that look like a riverboat from the 19th Century United States.
The Eight Battlegroup Flagship, Mejer Glory is a New Macross class 25 or Macross 25 class battleships are the new generations of New Macross class exploration and colonial vessel for long distance travel as a replacement for the New Macross-class 7 vessels and the Megaroad series. Like a giant clamshell, it opens up to reveal its treasured pearl, a city built for a 10 million people within the 15 kilometer long colony section of the vessel.
The battlegroup park themselves beside the Plant colonies at 20 thousand kilometers away. It was later on known that, the Eighth battlegroup is part of the Sixteenth Mainfleet that handles the civilian life from the commercial, entertainment, industrial, research and development. The fleet are the Mobile Nation of the United Nations of Earth in order to insure mankind's continued existence.
Prometheus City
"Jura" Ranma groans as he rubs painful part of his forehead as he watch the Seventh and Eighth arrival.
For of the 12 wives, Jura is perhaps one of the most…energetic of them (one of 12) all as well as the Number two of the top ten Galaxy Alliance super models second only to Miss Amane Kaunaq of Galaxy Police and wife (one of 8) to Ranma's cousin Yamada Seina of Galaxy Police. Barnette Orangello, who turns out to be Jura ex-lover and partner in the super model business is also engage to Ranma via Lady Seto of Jurai. Barnette is a man hater or was one after she got to know Ranma personally.
At a bookstore where Judah Ashta took his charges some souvenirs as they tour the city, there Arthur Treise is looking at a poster of two very beautiful ladies posing for an oversize bed commercial. Another is a redheaded girl in a Kimono walking together with the same two ladies from the first poster but doesn't look like a commercial. The other two Zaft officers are also staring at the first one, to the annoyance of their captain and another female crewman.
"That's Ms.Jura Basil Elden and Barnette Orangello, the Galaxy Alliance former super models, former commanders of Galaxy Police and now Commanders to the Seventh and Eight Battlegroup of the Sixteenth Mainfleet…and one of twelve wives to Admiral Ranma Saotome" he said which all his charge is looking at him with shock and confusion to what he said
"Judah…did you just said…ONE of twelve wives of THE Admiral Saotome?"
"Uhhh, yeah that's what I said…long story"
"And probably an interesting one I bet" Gladys said and then asks "And that cute Redhead who is she another wife?" right then, everyone seems to pause
"Uhhhmmm.." Judah couldn't say that she's the Admiral in his female form or the Admiral would kill him if he finds out. The other people in the store heard her question and strangely disappeared, fearing that she might starts asking them about the redhead. No one would dare tell anyone who doesn't know about it and so they kept their mouth shut.
It was right then that a public address broadcast came up and informed the populace of the arrival of the Seventh and Eighth Battlegroup from the Sixteenth Mainfleet came to reinforce theirs and that brought a city wide cheer from everyone. The news also means that the Mainfleet was not far behind. For Judah he was grateful for the interruption 'whew, Save by the bell'
"The Seventh and Eighth Battlegroup, isn't that," Arthur realized who it was and Judah confirmed it
"That's right" he said as he gestures his hand to the two ladies on the poster "I think its time we go the Admiral"
TO BE CONTINUED