Part 1 "Cursed"
After the Earth Alliance enters the war against the Dilgar it turned the war against them, they lost battle after battle by the hands of Humans. With the war now in a decline the Dilgar saw that it was time to initiate their second plan just in case the main plan failed. Hundreds of transport ships were gathered in orbit of the Dilgar home world, and a evacuation of best and brightest. 312 evacuation ships with the escorts of 80 destroyers,12 heavy cruisers and single Mishakur class Dreadnought left the home world in a direction that they had never explored before, not with ships at least. After almost year of wandering, they finally found a quiet place from where they can rebuild their Empire. At the time they arrived near a large Cerulean Nebula, the Dilgar surrender to the Earth Alliance and the League of Non-Aligned Worlds forces. They found a star system inside the nebula with several planets, one of them barely able to supporting life. But the Nebula they found was perfect, it was not dangerous but it interfering with some ship equipment, like sensors, weapon locking, and even navigation. The Dilgar deployed dozens of probes that created a safe path to their new home world and move in to settle their new home. New Omelos is what they named it. And since it was barely habitable the survivors create large closed city beneath the surface. The system turned out to be rich of Quantum 40 and other needed minerals for rebuilding their civilization and their war fleet. And in a few short years they created a space dock and shipyards near the planet.
A few scouts are sent to find out what had happened to their race and the home world. Only to return with bad news, their race was extinct because their sun had gone supernova. Unknown to Earth Alliance or any other races, 2 million Dilgar survived in the harsh conditions of their new home world.
In 2245 one of scouts report back that the Earth Alliance was at war with the Minbari Federation. So the Dilgar sent scouts to observe the Earth Alliance and as time passed the scouts reported very good news. The humans were losing the war and their extinction would be soon, only to see the Earth Alliance wins this war as well. The humans survive the war, and this was a bad shock to the Dilgar.
They observe the known worlds, but they also explored the nearby systems. About 20 years after they settle on new world they find a race called the Kanari. The Kanari just started to explore space, or at least their system. The Dilgar seen this as a blessing, because they can use the Kanari as slaves for an even speeder recovery. They also start to increase their population, with no prohibition in the numbers of children a pair may have. It took only a few years for the Dilgar to launch their first invasion from their new world. Fifty warship and fifty transport ships full of soldiers set course to the Kanari system.
They didn't announce themselves, they simple jump in and destroying every spacecraft made by the Kanari, and strategically bombed the planet itself as they needed the population mainly intact to be used as a work force. In half day's bombardment, the population of Kanaris is reduced from 3 billion, to almost half that number. It was after this that the ground troops are deployed to secure the planet and to begin the processing of their new work force of Kanari. Those that survived become slaves, working in the most dangerous places, and the dirtiest jobs for their new masters the Dilgar. It didn't take long for the Dilgar to construct a new war machine, even stronger than the first one.
...
2274
Cerulean Nebula – Edge of Milky Way Galaxy
New Omelos, Population 4.5 million
Main Capital, Orthan City, Population 1.4 million
Orhtan City was one of few cities built beneath the surface of New Omelos. It has a large cubic in shape buildings and was mostly built in a style of the Drazi cities with small streets barley wide enough for two persons.
In the city center stand a large pyramid like building with the top cut off. It was the Dilgar Command center.
Two Dilgar talked on the last level of the building.
"We are almost ready; our ships are being built with greater speed than we could have hoped. The Kanari seems to be good workers. "The First Dilgar called Ra'shan states
"When will the fleet be ready for launch? And how many ships will we have?" ask the second Dilgar known as Dha'ur.
Dha'ur was tall, with long hair, and his cat face was full of bruises and scars. He was old in Earth terms at 75 years old. He was one of few War masters to survive the war. Even his sister didn't know that he survived. His sister known as Death walker Jha'dur believed he was killed in the battle of Kiran, which was the last battle before the battle of Omelos. In fact his superiors choose him for evacuation, and falsified his death during the battle. Dha'ur knew that Jha'dur was survived thanks to help from Minbari Warrior cast. When others asked to send scout to pick Jha'dur and to return her to New Omelos he refused. But when Jha'dur was killed by the Vorlons ship in 2258, he could only say "it was for the best". Dha'ur soon gets the rank of supreme war master, a rank that he holds with pride.
"How many ships are ready." ask Ra'shan then looked at Dha'ur and ask Ra'shan again with anger in his voice.
"Well, we have 250 Sehkmet class Heavy Cruisers, 440 Ochalvita class Destroyers, 100 Ochalvita Ki class Command Destroyers, 700 Omelos class Light Cruisers, 220 Tashnat class Missile Cruisers and 45 Mishakur class Dreadnoughts, plus 182 other ships, many of which are Frigates and we currently have 50 support ships." Replies Ra'shan
"Is that all, in the 50 years we have been building and that is all. You think that we can attack the Earth Alliance with that? I need five times that and more ships then we have now Ra'shan." Dha'ur yelled.
"Understood Sir! We have another 50 Sehkmets Heavy Cruisers, 120 Ochalvita Destroyers, 100 Tashnat Missile Cruisers and 45 of the new Targath class Battlecruiser under construction, our shipyard capabilities are limited at this point and we are working to expand them as fast as we can." says Ra'shan
"What about those new shipyards? They should have been finished ten years ago! And they are not even at 50%. I demand a explanation as to why those shipyards are not finished by now." Demanded Dha'ur
:Sir a Majority of our resources are being transferred to the active shipyards to build new ships. We have increased the slave labor force on the new shipyards and they will finish those shipyards in half year sir, and production will start immediately thereafter."
"And improvements on our ships?"
"That is good news, all our technology has been improved and is stronger, much stronger than what we used 50 years ago. All our ships now have a very high level of automation, that will allow us to man more ships and with a much smaller crews than in the last war. We improve the bolters output by 54%, spinal lasers and mounted lasers damage by 45%, the missiles and torpedoes have a 60 %greater range and a 35% greater damage ratio, the energy mines have been improved by at least a100%, and our new battle lasers should come as a surprise to our enemies. Our Armor is also upgraded, and all the capital ships have been outfitted with the new crystal mesh armor which is 60% stronger then old armor. The Engines are upgraded to, only the Mishakur, Sehkmet and Ochalvita Ki classes' of ships currently have gravity, and all others are without it to decrease cost and construction times. We will however upgrade all Ochalvita class ships in their first refit." Ra'shan stop for the second listing other upgrades and continue
"We looked into the heavy losses in our fighters in the last war and have initiated a program to upgrade our fighter force. Since we currently have only 15 Kir'rnau class Carriers. They started their lives as transport ships that we refitted to support 80 fighters each. We invented and constructed a new way to carry and launch fighters without building a new and massive carrier. All ships can be upgraded with grappling hooks so each capital ship can carry over 40 fighters into the fight attached on their hulls. Our primary Thorun fighters are obsolete, we upgraded it but it won't stand a chance against Earth Alliance fighters. However the new Kron class fighter will be more than enough to deal with earth Aurora class and maybe even with those new Thunderbolts and Mustangs class of fighter our spies have told us about."
"Very well and what about the mass drivers and the AI programs"asked Dha'ur.
"Well some Dreadnoughts and Heavy Cruisers can be fitted with the mass driver launchers but not the entire fleet; they are too expensive and too heavy. Those few upgraded can be formed into bombardment squadrons, but I don't see the point in this refit sir? Our heavy cruisers and dreadnoughts can level any planet in matter of hour. About the AI program, we are working on AI for the fighter based on Kron and Thoruns. This will allow the AI to run the fighter instead of a pilot so the entire craft will be piloted by AI. Artificial Intelligence will be more than a equal to the earth pilots, they will learn and adapt much faster than living pilots. And it will decrease our losses."
„Hmmm, not bad. Our brothers and sisters that died would be proud of what we created in just 50 years. The name of our race was cursed; for all that we did during the war. Very soon we will have our revenge over those who defeat us! The Earth Alliance and the League of Non-Aligned Worlds." said Dha'ur with satanic smile.
"Sir I don't think it will be so easy, there is no more LONAW, it is a Interstellar Alliance now, if one member was attacked the other members will rush to help their attacked allies. And frankly we don't have enough ships to deal with all of them."
"Ra'shan that's where you are wrong, luckily we have a lot of biochemical agents that my dear sister designed, we will eliminate them one by one in secret. But Earth will not be harmed in the same way as the others. We will deal with them as they deal with us, we will destroy all their colonies and outposts, we will confine them to their own home system and then once we have achieved that we will deploy our last weapon in our arsenal, a prototype of antimatter graviton bomb, it will destroy their sun and it will destroy the entire human race. Stragglers that we find will be killed without mercy. There will be no mercy for the humans or any other races that were the instruments of our doom 50 years ago".
After Dha'ur speech, Ra'shan leaves to attend his jobs. Leaving Dha'ur with a cold smile watching over on the Orthan.
„We will have revenge my sister, very soon we will"
...
12.5.2275 Minbar, Minbari Federation
Tuzanor, Presidential residence
"Do we really need to attend this, it is the seventh ceremony this week" asks President Sheridan
"Yes, John it is important, you know that as president you must attend each ceremony from each race" replies Daleen
"But this is not a ceremony, it's a celebration of the ending of the Shadow War"
No matter how much Sheridan likes his role as President, he wished to be in commander of the Agamemnon or B5, it was much simpler than being the President of the ISA. Commemorations, receptions, and celebrations. He was simply not a man for that stuff. But he loved Daleen so much that he endures everything for her, and their 18 year old son David.
After all, Sheridan took deep breath and got ready for one more celebration, hopping it will be the last.
When David was only 16 years old, an accident happen, old Centauri urn that Emperor Mollari gives Sheridan for his son was destroyed. David itself destroyed it by accident. It was found that it had had a keeper inside, and the keeper exited the urn and attach itself to David. And in their desperation President Sheridan, Daleen, Vir and Dr. Franklin leave for Centauri Prime to find out more information. They soon find out that Mollari was under the control of a keeper spawned by a Drakh called Shiv'kala. Vir Cotto kills Shiv'kala, and the keeper on David dies, and the keeper that holds Mollari also dies, but since it had been attached to him for so long, it creates had created a symbiosis between Mollari and itself, Mollari dies soon after that and was replaced by Vir Cotto as new the Emperor.
...
New London system – The very edge of Earth Alliance controlled space
New London was system often know as a Shadow system, since strange, unusual reading shows from time to time.
London space station
Commander Fraser watched the console in front of him, several strange readings are been shown in last couple of hours. It was well known that thanks to some strange cosmic forces the sensors didn't work to good in this system. The Sunflower Nebula at the edge of system was partially guilt for strange readings but these are a bit stranger than usual.
New London was one of recent colonies that were established just few years ago. It had population of around 5,000, and had the London space station and two Lupo class Frigates as support.
"Lieutenant Forbes, send the scout probe in sector 17 – I want more details on those readings in that sector." – ordered Commander Fraser
"Yes sir, but it is probably nothing, this system is known for its ghost readings" – respond Forbes
"That maybe but I still want to be sure that is nothing out there."
On the outer edge near the Sunflower Nebula a ship sits with all systems except sensors at a minimum level. A Dilgar Omelos Light Cruiser specially upgraded version for spying, sit and scans it enemies for information. A few minutes later it powers up and jumps away.
Asteria system – Earth border with Cho'lans Hegemony
There was not station or colony in Asteria, only a mining outpost with a few dozen mining ships. It was not a strategically important system in any way but it did have resources and since the Cho'lans show a unhealthy interest in it, the Earth force dispatched some ships to guard it in case of a attack and as a visual reminder to the Cho'lans that this was Earth Space. Two Nova class Dreadnoughts EAS Mastodon and EAS Glacier Bay and the Nike class Battlecruiser EAS Sirocco acting as flagship for the three Lupo class Frigates patrolled the system.
Commander Taggart sent a scout in the form of a pair of Mustang starfuries into the asteroid belts just for caution. It was well known that Cho'lans wants those asteroids. They are full with Quantum 40, and other minerals that the Earth wanted.
The Mustang's were new fighters developed for the Earth forces just five years ago, in fact it is one man version of Thunderbolt fighter. The Thunderbolt is more agile and has a far greater maneuverable, but with a slightly weaker armor. It has the same main weapons of Thunderbolt plus four interceptor missiles two on each side. For the pilot, LT Terrance Sander it was his fourth run in this system and its asteroids.
While passing one of the last asteroids something directed his attention near the last large asteroid he saw it a ship? A ship that he recognized and then it hit him? It was a Dilgar Omelos class Light Cruiser! He approach slowly and start scanning the ship, the ship looked dead in space. Terrance send his fighter even closer, he had already send a message back to Sirocco about his findings when suddenly the ship come to life, but before he was able to do anything the ship open fire on him, without much space for maneuvering he was hit in one of thrusters.
Sanders to Sirocco I'm under attack by a Dilgar Light Cruiser, I repeat I'm under attack by Dilgar li... and that was all that Sanders sent before his fighter was blasted apart. The Cruiser then opened a jump point and jump into hyperspace.
"Dilgar Light Cruiser?" asks Commander Taggart
"It seems sir, Sanders found the ship near last asteroid in belts two, he came close to investigate and get in a few scans, he started transmitting when he came under attack, and this was his last message." Replies first officer Semis
"What the hell is happening there, send a recovery team and I want every part of that fighter found, we must analyze the debris"
"Yes sir"
Sol system – Earth (Geneva) Earth Dome
"Are you sure about this reports General" asks President Henderson
"Yes sir, Commander Taggart reports that his fighter scouts were in asteroid belt two, when they found a ship hidden behind the last large asteroid in that belt. From the reports the pilot was curious and start approaching and scanning the ship when the ship came to life and start firing. Our fighter was destroyed and the ship jumped away" – replies General Westfield
"And that is true what it said in the report, that it was a Dilgar Light Cruiser in our territory after almost 50 years."
"Yes sir"
"But how? The Dilgar are extinct. Is it possible that ship was salvaged by another race and use in the attack" asked President Henderson
"Yes it is possible Sir, but except for that damaged Sehkmets class Heavy Cruiser we found 30 years ago near Balos no other ship were find or at least not in one piece. But it was possible that there was a hidden base somewhere out there hidden, and that somebody found it and used the equipment and ships" said General Westfield
"What do you think Paul?" the President asks another man in the room
"Well sir we send the fighter debris to the Orion research lab, they will tell us soon is that really a Dilgar ship or a ship that only looked like one." Respond Paul Walker, the head of research and development section.
"I doubt sir that the Dilgar would give their technology to others. They are savages, but also it might be that this ship survive the war and is seeking revenge" add General Westfield
"One ship alone for 50 years? I don't buy it, something is wrong here, and I want some answers gentlemen."
...
Xenith Nebula - New Omelos
"You fouls, attacking a Earth force fighter in front of the eyes of their ships, who allowed this" asks Dha'ur
"Supreme Warmaster, Captain Arinth did his best to stay hidden. The fighter was simply too from the ship to get anything from sensors. But a visual look it was not impossible. The Human that piloted that fighter must have seen the ship and started scanning it. The Use of weapons was a last resort." Warmaster Tu'ran tries to explain.
Tu'ran was the Chief of the Stealth Program. Spying on the enemy without been caught, he was the person who created a attack plan for attacking the Earth Alliance.
"Really, and now the humans know for our presence!"
"They don't have any evidences. A single Omelos Light Cruiser is not a threat to them, and they will think that somebody has taken that ship from the Darkus supply depot."
"The Darkus supply depot was destroyed together with all our other installation in our home system, do you think they will be stupid to believe that."
"No sir, but there is no evidences that will point to us, for all they know, we are extinct."
"Continue monitoring them, but I don't want any more incidents, or I will kill you myself"
"Yes Sir my Supreme Warmaster"
This will only speed our plan up, thinks Dha'ur, or maybe even it won't. Ether was it was a distraction.
...
I hope first chapter was got you attention, I originally had plans to return Jha'dur and making her death by the Vorlons a fake. Who knows maybe she survived...