"It just doesn't feel right Arbiter," said Lord Admiral Terrence Hood. By all normal accounts, he and the arbiter should be dead. However, thanks to new genetic research, the life span of all of the member species has quintupled, so hood and arbiter have been able to remain alive.
"I know how you feel my friend, but it is our duty to reclaim these artifacts. You should feel more strongly about this than I, these are your ancestors and their allies, you are the successors of the forerunners, and both of these reasons should enforce finding the Precursors. Your people were meant to inherit the mantle from the Precursors, then the forerunners took that away, then that resulted in the flood ravaging the galaxy and the firing of the halos. Then came your second chance, then the covenant nearly stole that as well, resulting in the flood being released and the halos almost firing again," replied Arbiter.
"It isn't the artifacts I am talking about, it is seizing this galaxy from its inhabitants, we are not even from this galaxy, what right do we have to rule it?" questioned Hood.
"You have seen the intel we have gathered from the probes and AI, this galaxy is tearing itself apart, and they don't even realize that palpatine and dooku are manipulating them into letting him become emperor of the galaxy, we are the only force that stands in their way," reasoned Arbiter.
"Okay, at least we won't go in guns blazing," conceded Lord Hood.
"Sirs, the Republic delegates are here, masters Windu, Anakin, Obi-Wan, and padawan Ahsoka," reported Utkarsh.
Ahsoka POV
As the diplomatic shuttle flew through the 100,000 strong fleet, she was amazed at the size of them, it was as though they simply emitted power.
"I must warn you Jedi, our species has connection to the force, nor do any of the other species in our coalition, just making that clear to avoid confusion and in case you attempt to sabotage our ships," warned Utkarsh.
To say the Jedi were shocked beyond belief was a massive understatement. It just did not seem possible, all life forms had some presence within the force.
"The commander here had explained to me that they came from an entirely different galaxy than us, we can't expect the life forms to be similar to us, despite the fact that one of the species here is human like some of us," explained Obi-Wan through the transmitter.
This served to somewhat ease the Jedi. When they approached the capital ship after following the fighter-bombers they noticed that there were no hangar doors open. Just when they were about to crash, a small portal appeared, which sucked them in a gently set their ship down.
When they got over their surprise, they took a glance around the hanger. Everyone, especially Anakin, was agape at the size of the hanger and the variety of fighters stored within. They also took note of how the platforms kept disappearing and reappearing in streaks of blue light, and different parts of the ships seemed to just fly right onto them with the use of robotic arms.
"Greetings, Jedi. I am Commander Utkarsh, I will escort you to the meeting room. Because of security reasons, we can't allow you to scour the ship until we work out an agreement," Utkarsh. As the trio followed Utkarsh through the hallway they heard something from a random group of soldiers that talking amongst themselves.
"Did you hear the news, they have finally made the plasmids safe for use, they are testing them out in the combat center right now."
As if on cue they walked by a room with see through metal lining it. Inside there were several soldiers shooting lightning, fire, plasma, water, ice, strange insectoid creatures (look up terror bites from time crisis 4) out of their hands. Others were using telekinesis and throwing large objects around or picking up guns and swords and fighting without eventoching them.
Eventually, they reached the meeting. Standing there were two figures who were projected as very accurate colored holograms. One was appeared to be a high ranking officer, standing in a prestigious uniform. The figure appeared to be a reptilian alien with four mandibles instead of jaws and wearing what appeared to be some kind of ceremonial armor.
"I am Lord Admiral Hood of the United Orion Defense Coalition," spoke the human.
"And I am Arbiter Thel 'Vadam of the UODC," spoke the other alien.
The delegates then recited their titles.
"We were hoping that we could settle an agreement for your government to join the Republic and allow easier access between our forces and ease into this galaxy," started Windu.
"I am sorry master Windu we can't give up our sovereignty to you, besides we have our own galaxy to watch over, and we barely have a military presence here. And we can't officially declare war without our own civilian population protesting. They do not want another war," replied Arbiter.
" I understand, perhaps you could sell us some off your weapons so we can gain an edge over the separatists," offered Windu.
"You must understand we are a bit wary of our advanced technology falling into the hands of an unknown civilization, so we have a counter offer: we can't declare war, but we can set up multiple private military and shipping companies to deploy small but adequate amount of forces to aid you and provide shipping for your supplies. Our slip space drives travel through miniature black holes nearly instantaneously, so you won't have to rely on hyperspace lanes," offered Hood.
"This seems like a good offer, your forces have already demonstrated that they can easily destroy ships and droids, but we will have to find a system to settle yourselves into." said Obi-Wan.
"Not a problem, we can terraform any planet quickly. We will just set up our base in the system where the ring world is once we transport it back to our galaxy," interjected Utkarsh.
"Alright well that is settled. Now, we have heard of your space superiority to the separatists, however we would like to see a demonstration of your ground force to cement your support with us. We were going to invade ryloth to liberate it from the Separatists, but since you are here, maybe you could do the honors," requested Anakin.
"Commander, Admiral Brian is here with that new species that recently joined the U.O.D.C.," alerted Aiden.
The species was known as troopers. The species real name was impossible for anyone to pronounce, but when translated it meant trooper, so they were designated that name. (look up alien trooper halo on google and clink the link to the halo wiki to see what the alien trooper and other deleted alien species that I may or may not add). They seemed to be the perfect combination of elites and brutes. Combining the tactical mind and refined fighting skill of the elites with the strength and brute force of brutes. When their military force was merged with the U.O.D.C. armed forces, a portion was put under the command of Admiral Brian, a rookie with a reputation of using unconventional but surprisingly effective tactics.
"What a coincidence, it seems we will both be testing something new today," remarked Utkarsh.
Admiral Brian was having the time of his life. For the first time he will be seeing some real action, in another galaxy no less. And he was in charge of leading the new trooper forces in their first battle. While he had the utmost confidence in them, any failure would be blamed solely on him so he was weary of making any mistakes.
"Admiral, this is Utkarsh have you read the briefing on everything we know about this galaxy?" questioned Utkarsh.
" Yes sir."
"Good, a jedi by the name of Aayla Secura will be on the bridge to evaluate the battle. Don't do anything to crazy! The last thing we need is to get the jedi and/or the troopers wiped out. Do I make myself clear?"
"Crystal."
Eventually a jedi starfighter came out of hyperspace and docked with the capital ship. Eventually Aayla appeared on the bridge.
"I have to admit, she does look hot," mused Brian.
"Admiral Brian, I presume," said Aayla.
"Welcome aboard the Olympus Mon jedi master, we almost left without you, nah just messing with you," joked Brian.
However, Aayla was not amused.
"I see you don't have sense of humor, ok let's get this over with, Andrew plot coordinates to Ryloth, execute maneuver 75," ordered Brian.
"Yes sir."
Soon a rupture in space appeared and all of the ships jumped through. The moment they came out of slipspace, they appeared right in front of the separatist ships instantly ramming and destroying the blockade without firing a shot.
"Alright lads, let this first battle be one for the scrapbooks," exclaimed Brian!