Star Wars: The United Terran Federation
Chapter 7: Deals, Plan's and Plunder
35 BBY / June 2056
Carrack-Class light cruiser | TDFS: Temprence
The Kontos System / Terran Space
In orbit of the 4th planet of the system: Duntose
The Kontos System, the fourth system colonized by the Terran people after they 'acquired' the designs of a hyperdrive from the Republic. The planet of Duntose was only colonized only one month ago, it was rapidly expanding, and had a current total population of just over 100,000 people, with around 80% of them living on the planet Capital of Vrego.
Most of the planet population works in either the mines of the planet gathering raw materials or working on the many farms on the planet. However, some did work in the Tibanna Gas refinery on the systems gas giant of C2-113.
Compared to the new Colonies of Reach and Tau Ceti and their home world of Earth, Duntose was considered to be an unimportant planet in the minds of the Terran people. At least for now.
Though considered an unimportant planet, it didn't mean it wasn't unprotected.
On the planet was a garrison of a single understrength army infantry battalion of around 300 personnel, with an additional force of another two understrength and undersupplied Militia battalions of around 600 members.
However, in space, the Kontos System was defended by the Terran Defence Force.
With a force of two Carrack-class light cruisers and six CR70 Corvettes, it wasn't the strongest force, but it wasn't the worst either.
It was further supported by a single squadron of Z-95 Head-hunters with another squadron of older f-35 atmospheric fighter Jets at an air base on the planet's surface.
Throw some might wonder how the Terran Defence Force got these said ships. That could be answered by a few simple words.
The Corellian Engineering Corporation.
Just a little after a month after the disastrous meeting between the Galactic Republic and the Terran Federation, a Corellian Engineering Corporation ship arrived into the Sol System.
A few days after they arrived, a deal was structured between the two parties. A few Tibanna Gas mines would be set up in local Gas Giants and the Terrans would add in some better computer equipment (not their best quantum computer equipment but good enough to make a good Profit for the company).
In exchange, 70% of the gas would go to the Corillian and the rest would go to the Terrans, if they would train at least half of the staff of the facilities from Terran workers.
The Terrans were also going to receive 5% of all money made by the Tibanna Gas mines that went to the Corillian's after a five-year period. This five-year free period was used as payment for the purchase of three Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser, eight Carrack-class light cruiser, fourteen CR70 Corvettes, sixty-four Z-95 Head-hunters fighters to arm the New Terran Defence Force, along with ten Consular-class cruisers as cargo ships with minimal armaments so that they could be used to ferry needed supplies to the new Terran colonizes.
They also came with the needed training crews to teach the Terrans how to use the ships and how to keep them running.
After being trained how to run the ships, the Terrans decided to refit all the ships with the latest of Terran computer and scanning technology. By the end of this process, a ship like the Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser, that needed a crew of 16,000, would only need a crew of just under four hundred because most of the ship was run by mostly Automation and the use of newly acquired droids.
Throw that new crew complement was the bare minimum necessary to run the ship, it was still a great improvement from what they had once been.
This was one factor that commodore Edward James loved as the Commanding the local Terran Defence Force Patrol Fleet in the Kontos System.
Being a 42-year-old sailor, his first command was the old USS Big Tom, an old Sea Based destroyer, where he and his crew did battle once in the Third World War, his ship was lost. He missed the old ship, but his new ship was more than enough to make up for it. However, it wasn't exactly the ship he wished for.
While the upgraded Carrack-class light cruiser was good, its maximum range was around 1,000 kilometers to hit something with its turbolasers, while one of the new Terran made Mississippi class destroyers, with four of the Terran six-inch magnetic accelerator turrets that had a maximum range of around 4,000 kilometers with a accuracy rating of above 80%, with another two ten-inch magnetic accelerator turrets with a range of around 6,000 kilometers with a accuracy rating of above 80% on average, she could out range any ship she went against.
However, with that range advantage comes with some weaknesses. Rate of fire being one of them.
While turbolasers have a rate of fire of one per two seconds, compared to the single round per six second of the Terran batteries. Meaning that in a knife fight, the Terran weapons would be out matched up close, if matched against turbolasers, even if the Terran weapons could produce twice as much damage then Republic weaponry could per shot.
But not to look a gift horse in the mouth, he was still happy to be in command of something.
He looked over to a window, showing the planet of Duntose, showing the planet's many grass plains, mountains and the capital of the planet, Vrego.
'I still have to go shopping,' Thought Commodore Edward James, thinking about his oldest son, Jason's birthday. 'Can't believe he's soon going to turn sixteen in a few weeks.'
The old officer reached for his cup of coffee to take a sip of it, when a voice spoke up.
"Sir, the CEC vessel New Riches is sending out a general distress call, there under attack by unknown ships and requiring assistance." Said his com officer, right from the beginning he could tell who was attacking.
Pirates.
For the last two weeks since the creation of the Tibanna Gas refinery on the systems gas giant of C2-113, small amounts of Pirates had been attacking the shipments of the gas.
At first it started out small, one small ship and a few fighter craft, however, as more attacks came and left, they came in greater numbers and firepower. The last time they attacked, they had brought around twelve fighters, with a few very well armed corvettes.
Something was going on and he didn't like it, however, he had to follow protocol and respond, but before he did, he asked, "What about the second patrol squadron, are they closer?"
He was wondering what the second patrol squadron was up to, while both squadrons had the same amounts of ships, one Carrack-class light cruiser three CR70 Corvettes, from the last battle with these pirates, one of his CR70 Corvettes was still damaged since it didn't have a chance to repair back in a proper dockyard.
Unfortunately, his hopes were dashed when he heard the response, "No sir, the second patrol squadron has just been attacked by another pirate force, conceding a Carrack-class light cruiser and three smaller gunships."
"Well, set courses for the distress signal, full speed." He turned to his tactical officer and ordered, "Red alert battle stations."
His four ships power up their weapons and shields, as they accelerate to the ship in distress.
Same time, Sol system, Planet Earth,
(POV Ambassador Terrance Ford)
Location: Washington DC, White House | Sol system, Planet Earth
Terrance Ford was nervous, again.
After three months of perpetration of this meeting, he was still not sure of himself.
When they had copied the Republic database, they had gained access to the Republic version of the old internet, called the Holonet.
It had taken a few tries, but the OTI had been able to establish an untraceable connection into the holonet to gather more information about the rest of the galaxy.
He himself had been allowed to access it for his own research project.
The Mandalorians.
A race of mostly human warriors who at many times had control of large parts of the galaxy. Normally honorable people and generally trustworthy.
However, that wasn't why he had looked them up on the holonet, it was because of what the republic ambassador said. Something happened to them that banned the use of nuclear weapons and technology.
The Republic Nuked almost the entire of their home world!
Apparently, a few hundred years ago, the Mandalorians were gathering control of many planets, in their local hyperspace routes area. However, when they attempted to take a major economic planet in the mid rim, the republic had sent out a task force to deal with them.
Short story Short, the republic screwed them over and turned most of their world into a radioactive wasteland and killed millions and forced them to live in dome city's. However, they didn't stop there.
They then installed a puppet government and began to actively destroy their culture.
He felt bad for them. Because of the large amounts of radiation on the planet's surface, nothing could ever grow they're for hundreds of years. He wished he could do something; however, the technology required was under strict supervision and protection.
He was just about to give up on helping them when he noticed something, something that could be used as leverage, as well as a chance to bolster their military forces.
The Mandalorian shipbuilding company MandalMotors.
Apparently, after the Mandalorian-Jedi War, the company, that had been once one of the best manufacturers of war ships, were smashed down by the Republic's Restrictions and the new Mandalorians pacifist policies.
And because of both the Republic's Restrictions and the new Mandalorians policies, they were currently in an economic depression.
It was at this moment that a full plan had begun to develop.
Offer the use of their Radiation collectors to help restore their world, in exchange, the New Mandalorians would not interfere in the Terran attempt to create a contract with MandalMotors to build Terran designs warships. They could even sweeten the deal by adding better computer tech.
And if they won't allow fully armed warships to be built, then they could build most of the hull at a lesser price and other needed systems and install the weapons once they arrive back in Terran Space.
Being happy and comfortable with his plan, he peppered a full plan of 'attack' for the joint chiefs and the president.
After a few days of planning, He was ready.
However, even though he was ready for the presentation, he was still nervous, terrified even, about his presentation.
As he pushed aside his thoughts about what he could have missed, any possible mistakes in his presentation or counter arguments to opposing arguments that could be made, he entered the meeting room.
As fate would have it, many things would change because of this.
One hour later
Joint chiefs and ministers meeting with Ambassador Terrance Ford
3rd person
Location: Washington DC, White House | Sol system, Planet Earth
"Mr. Ford," said the minister of defense, "This plan of yours is insane."
"Why do you think that minister?" Replied Ford, hiding his slight fear of the man.
"We prevented ourselves from being reliant on the republic, and now, you want us to become reliant on these people to build most of our ships?"
Before he could reply to the minister, the raging man continued his rant.
"And you don't know for certain if they will even do it in the first place, because their planet's leadership is a pacifist. A pacifist, for f**k's sake. Don't you know there are the number one people who don't build warships?"
After the minister finished his rant, the ambassador took a moment to think about the question before giving an answer.
"Lady's, Gentlemen, to answer your first question, we won't become reliant on these people for our ship building needs, more like exporting the work out temporarily." They all gave him a questioning look, before he continued to explain, "Currently at the moment we only have shipyards that are only able to produce ships no bigger than the new Mississippi class destroyers, yet we need bigger ships."
"Yes, we are building new shipyards to accommodate the building of larger ships, but they won't be ready for another six to seven months, and it would take another few months to build just a few of these larger ships."
Most people in the room started to nod in agreement. The shipyards for the light Cruisers had recently fallen behind schedule because of manpower issues to train and transport them to their construction sites in space. Even still, it would be a few months before production could start, and for any on the heavier ships it would be still even longer for their shipyard to be completed.
"By doing this we one, allow the need to construct of possible some of the larger we need to defend ourselves and our growing territories and secondly, we would instead make them somewhat reliant on us."
The man stood up from his seat and began to walk around the table.
"Currently, the planet's economy is in a bit of a major recession. By allowing us to make those contracts, they can quickly bring their economy out of the gutter, and if we play our cards right, we could make them somewhat reliant on us at least in a part of their manufacturing part of their economy."
He then arrived behind the minister of defense seat stopping for a moment, before continuing his speech.
"And in regard to your main point minister, yes pacifists don't make warships, that's true." The ministers gave an arrogant smirk, then lost it when the walking man ended with the words, "Most of the time."
The skilled Terran diplomat was given looks of confusion, in which he responded with a smile and asked them a question, "Does anyone know what happened to the majority of their home world at the end of the Mandalorian-Jedi War?"
Everyone was confused with the question and gave him a stare in response, before he answered the question.
"The Republic used large amounts of WMD to destroy the major of the planet, nuclear weapons were on that list of WMD used by the republic." He paused for a moment, letting the gears inside his fellow colleagues' head catch up before continuing again, "And because of the remaining radiation left by the many nuclear weapons used, they are forced to live in special dome city's."
Just a few moments after he finished, half the room was in deep thought about what he meant, while the other half went into an uproar.
"Have you lost your mind!"
"You want to give up classified tech to people we don't know."
"No, absolutely not."
"Gentleman, ladies please be quiet," a strong Russian voice spoke up, "Let the man finish."
"Thank you, Mr. President. We won't be giving them the tech, but if they allow us to get the needed warships built there, then in exchange, we use the Radiation collectors and begin to help out to repair their world."
The President, Alexander Petrov then asked, "Why are you so sure about this," he looked over the report, finding the name of their leader, "Duchess Satine Kreisler will agree to this?"
"Sir, what would you do, if your home was nothing but a pile of rubble, and someone offered to help you rebuild it. She will have to accept, even if she's extremely against the use get warships. If her people found out that she refused such an offer, they would demand for her head."
The Russian male looked at him with wonder, weighing the benefits with the risks.
"This plan of yours is very risky, we could lose our most valuable technology and are current cloak of secrecy against the republic …" Doute could be heard in his voice.
"Sir, I..." "I like it."
The man was stunned, he was expecting much more resistance.
The President then continued by asking a question, "How long will it take you to get your diplomatic team ready to do this?"
Terrance quickly responded, "I already have most of my team ready to go, just give the wording, and we will be on our way by tomorrow."
Then the President of the Terran Federation looked up and said, "The word has been given."
All of a sudden, a young naval officer enters the room in a hurry, the head of the Admiralty then asks the young man with noticeable concern in his voice, "Son, what happened?"
"Sir, a large Pirates Fleet has just invaded the Kontos System."
Carrack-Class light cruiser | TDFS: Temprence
The Kontos System / Terran Space
In orbit of the 4th planet of the system: Duntose
15 minutes ago
Alarms blared; the ship sacked as turbolasers hit the unshielded ship.
Some smoke had filled the bridge of the light cruiser, sparks jumped into the air after each hit.
They had only been in battle for just over half an hour and were already being battered.
Commodore Edward James patrol squadron had first only met a single corvette when they had responded to the cargo ship distress call, and unlike the previous times of falling into hyperspace or saying and fight, it just ran into the asteroid field. That should have turned on the alarm bells in his head, but unfortunately for his people, he keeps up the pursuit.
Eventually figured out something was wrong, but it was too late, the trap was sprung.
Suddenly, a Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser that was hiding on the other side of an asteroid, came out from behind the asteroid guns blazing.
Most of his squadron was able to get out before the full volley from the pirate cruiser, most being the key word.
One of his CR70 Corvettes, which had been damaged from a raid before, couldn't avoid the full strength of the Dreadnought and was pulverized, completely destroying the ship along with its entire crew.
Now after the last 30 minutes of fighting, his ships' well trained crews were able to eliminate the escorting pirate corvette and had been battering down the Dreadnoughts shields by using his ship's superior speed and maneuverability so that his ships could hit the real target, the engines.
While the Dreadnought out guns all his remaining ships, in comparison to his ships, it was slow and bulky.
Meaning they could stay out of the sites of the main guns of the Dreadnought, while they could disable their engines. After the engines were down, they could sit right behind that Dreadnought and blow it to bits, or at least that was the idea.
The Commodore reoriented himself after the last turbolaser hit, then spoke to his tactical officer, "Static's report."
"Sir, shields just came back online, but they're only at 10% strength."
His com officer then spoke up, "Sir, the Close Encounter has lost their shields and are taking damage, and the last hit on the Vigilant breach the outer hull and they are venting atmosphere, she's currently out of action."
This battle was starting to go bad, with another one of his ships out of commission, the sudden dread that they would lose the battle, the feeling that his family could be at risk from these pirates' bastards.
When all seamed losses, a shimmer of hope appeared in a few quick words from the tactical officer.
"Sir, Dreadnought shields are down."
That one statement changed the whole atmosphere.
The ships commanding officer then spoke up with power in his voice and commanded his crew to do one thing;
"All weapons target their engines and Fire at will."
The remaining two Terran defense force ships with what remained of their weapons fire with their full might at the Dreadnought. After a min, the Dreadnought started to drift out to space with its engines destroyed, while the remaining Terran Ships rescued the fellow comrades from their life pods. Then they headed back off, back to the main colony.
As the ship made it out of the asteroid field, a message came in from the TDFS Firebrand, a CR70 Corvette from the systems second patrol group.
When the channel opened the first thing the Commodore asked was, "What happened."
The response was disturbing.
Apparently, the second squadron had been ambushed by a very large pirate fleet, and that the captain of the second Carrack-class light cruiser had stalled the enemy fleet for her other ships to escape back to the first squadron. But that wasn't the worst news.
There had also been transports along with that fleet, meaning one thing.
Invasion.
The rest of his crew looked at him, wondering what they should do.
Then he turned to his com officer and said, "Send word to the colony, tell them that they're going to receive company," he paused for a moment, "Then send word to command, we're going to need help."
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