Star Wars: The United Terran Federation
Chapter 16: Opinions and Aftermath
34 BBY / October 2057
Planet of Earth
"All rise. This military Tribunal will come to session."
In a medium size military Courtroom, behind a large table, were five High ranking admirals.
They were Admirals, Manoj, Issur, Felix, Claude and Fleet Admiral Jonson Whitlock, The CTNO.
In front were two sets of two people, each set behind their own table. Along with dozens of civilians, news reporters and military personnel from all branches of the military.
The left table had the JAG Prosecutor Officer and his assistant, while the Right table had the JAG defense lawyer, along with her client, the Famous Terran Admiral Christopher Gamble.
Ever since the Rescue Force had returned to terran space, the Admiral had been under house arrest. He was then soon charged with dereliction of duty, disobeying orders from a superior officer along with many others including the cherry on top, Treason.
To the general public it looked like the military was trying to throw him under the bus. However, if you just look a little closer, you would see the Truth.
It was just a show.
Since the withdrawal of the Task Force, the Republic senate had been mad as hell and had demanded Gamble's Head.
So, to keep face, the Terran Government ordered a trial to keep up appearances, however, have it set up, so that he wouldn't get into too much trouble.
Over the past few weeks, charges had been thrown out one after another.
Now, today, was the last day of the trial and the Terran was about to 'face the music'.
"Admiral Gamble, stand up and come forward."
The man in question stepped forward, hat under his navy man's left arm.
"Admiral Gamble, this Tribunal has found you Guilty of Insubordination and Dershion from your Post in the The Delta Chandra System as overall military commander."
The mood of the room soured, until the Higher Ranking Admiral smirked.
"However, due to your past commendations and records, along with the fact that you were able to return the young child back to her family while not chasing any casualties of any kind, your sentence shall be reduced."
"From your five Step demotion and one year military suspension, I reduce your sentence to a one week military suspension without pay, along with a pay reduction, equivalent to one year's pay standards pay for the next three years. This trial proceedings are over."
Terran Embassy
Planet of Coruscant
An hour later
"The man nearly killed hundreds of republic citizens, and you're just giving him a slap on the wrist." Said an enraged jedi Council member.
Shaking his head, Ford contorted "The Admiral has been found guilty on multiple charges, I don't see why you're complaining?"
"You have to understand, Mr Ambassador, since he nearly ended the lives of so many, many people in the republic demands his head and…"
"And that doesn't matter since this is a Terran matter and doesn't consiored the Republic and the Jedi."
Another person, Chancellor Valorm of the Republic spoke up and stated. "The man nearly laid siege to the Jedi Temple…"
"After they took a Terran child from her home."
A few moments of silence passed before the Jedi asked when could they see the child again, insting on preventing the child from falling to the 'dark side'. The Ambassador's response was not what they were expecting.
"Well, you wouldn't have to worry since the Terran senate has decided to place a ban on all Jedi in Federation space."
"WHAT!" Shouted the Jedi. "The Jedi order are the peacekeepers of the galaxy, you can't just ban us."
"Well, too bad, we don't want you. Any Jedi found in Federation space without diplomatic credentials or Permission from my government will be arrested on the spot and be deported back to Republic space, with force if necessary." Said the Terran Ambassador to the Republic, before looking at the time and giving a fack look of alarm. "I'm sorry, I have a meeting with the Senator from Kuat. Have a good day Master Jedi, Chanslor."
Before any words could be said, he ended the holo call before asking his secretary for a black cup of coffee.
Earth
602 Club Bar
Few hours After Trial of Admiral Gamble
"Barky, give me a whiskey with a shot of riley."
The young bartender, seeing who it was, nodded and made the drink.
The customer was about to pay, but the bartender stopped him before saying. "It's on the House Admiral Gamble." Then giving the customer a quick salute, then left to serve another customer.
Slowly nursing the drink alone, thinking about what was happening the last few days of his trial, the grand celebrations he was invited to and attended with his crew, with him now late at night enjoying his drink.
A voice asked, in a plie and female tone. "Burning the midnight oil… Admiral."
Not even looking at the person behind him, he responds casually. "I guess so, though I see you're also doing the same. Right, Admiral?"
Turning his head to the left, in order to see his former naval academy classmate, Rear-Admiral Caroline Clément, taking a seat next to him in the bar.
"You know," Started the Young lady. "You did the Right thing."
"What? You call almost starting a war single handedly a good thing?"
She shakes her head in response, before stating, "You performed your duty to protect a citizen of the federation, while making a statement that we won't be bullied around."
The man in question stared down at his drink for a few minutes, seemingly completing the mystery of the universe. He then completes the rest of the drink in one gulp, then orders another.
"Thanks for the assurance Caroline."
"No problem, Gamble."
"So, why are you here?"
"Your XO asked me to check on you, and said that you were really stressed out. And seeing that this is our class's favorite bar, I had a good guess where you were. So, what's wrong?"
Thinking about it for a moment while having his third drink, he stated out flat what was on his mind with a mumble.
She asked for him to speak up, and he did so, in a somewhat pissed and snarky tone, as if he had been cursed.
"I'm f***ing force sensitive."
Surprised at what he said, she asked in response, with a curious tone. "Isn't being force sensitive supposed to be a gift?"
The male off duty admiral started to laugh, before explaining what he was talking about .
"Some might think that getting force powers is cool, but in my opinion, it's a f***ing curse. And I got my three reasons why.
One; it amplifies your emotion way too much. To make it a comparison, it's like when women have mood swings while they're pregnant…" She interrupted him and spoke in a cheeky voice. "What, so your Pregnant?"
Giving her a slap to the side of the head, he continued. "As I was saying, if you're not stone cold like a droid or at least have some sort of deep emotional control, you tend to go overboard a lot.
Secondly, you get caught up in all this space magic. Religious mumble jumble about how the Dark side and the Light side of this, Mysterious energy field, is the reason why there's good and evil. What a load of Bull.
I admit there are both good people and bad, it's not because some energy field makes them that.
And finally, no matter what you do, once you have these force powers, this energy field ends up taking over your entire life in every aspect you can think of, from the constant badgering of the force this and the force that."
Sighing in annoyance, he ended his rant. "I don't like something that I don't understand taking control and ruling over my entire life."
Looking at his deprest and slightly drunken state, his former classmate decided to return the slap to the head that she had received early, getting a "What's that for?" from Gamble.
She starts to speak in a lecturing tone of voice. "See here Mr. Don't go all cry baby on me. You are one of the best, if not the best goddamn Admiral in the whole of the terran navy, and I know for a fact that you are too stubborn to be forced to do anything you didn't feel was the right thing to do."
"Thanks Caroline. I needed that."
"No Problem, it just means you owe me a beer."
"I get it right now. Barky, get beer for my wonderful friend here, and I'll pay."
Unknown Planet
Unknown System
Unknown Palace
In a large grand chamber, larger than any ever made on earth (30 meters wide, 87 meters high, and 71 meters long), sat a grand throne (colored in Jewels of many kinds, with solid gold seat which expanded with gold vines that stretched to the far sides of the chamber).
A six feet and two inches pale blue skin alien with obsidian hair, and eyes slightly larger than human eyes that were piercing ice-blue, wearing what appeared to be royal attire.
Within the grand chamber, on either side large groups of people of the same race in numerous different sets of clothes, some wearing more expensive clothes while others wore similar uniforms that indicated that they were military.
Before the head alien was another of his kind, kneeling in front of him, wearing a black and white uniform, with a number of metals on the right side and a large emblem that indicated his high rank.
The alien Ruler began to speak to his servant, control and power were in his tone of voice. "Tell me my Chef War Master, are we prepared to take their worlds for our use as new colonies?"
In response, the head alien Chef War Master responded in a strong but restful manner.
"Yes, their technology is far weaker than their own.
Since they have no real ground forces, our army's will be able to take their population centers and take large amounts of slave labor.
And only sporting a handful of combat capable craft, they won't be able to put up much of a fight, meaning we are able to put down whatever pitiful resistance they might bring against the Imperium's fleets."
"Good. However, I heard you have been having problems locating their home world.
If we are to force them into submission under the Imperium as slave labor, we must have their homeworld under our heels of your boots."
Looking up at his Leader, the same military officer responded with the same confidence "Have no fear, Great Crown Leader. We shall know the location of Xyrlon soon from their data banks."
"Very good, prepare our fleets and armies for the invasion of their worlds, we shall conquer them. For the glory of the Grand Imperium."
"For the glory of the Grand Imperium."
/To Professor Wolfram Möller, Head of R&D, Terran Armed Forces/
/From OTI Director Jack Harper, CTNO / Fleet Admiral Jonson Whitlock, Fleet Admiral Li Zhao / Head of Recon Division of the Navy/
{Delta 2413 83DJ 793 Encryption protocol}
Subject: Project Shadow Sneaker / [Redacted] Ship production
Good afternoon Professor,
This message is in regards to Project Shadow Sneaker and the development of the new Cloaking device.
The last report that was detailing the progress for the new clocking device. Command is happy with your current process, however, Command is requesting that a working prototip be ready by around Mid to Late December.
The Reasons why Command is requesting this is because of the new Dust class [Redacted], TFS Dust currently under construction at the [Redacted] shipyard, and it's hoped to be tested with the Cloak before the new year at the [Redacted] naval base in the [Redacted] system.
If the test is successful, the next batch of Dust Class [Redacted] will be put into production immediately along with the Cloaking devices.
If necessary, it is approved to redirect funds and manpower from all other projects.
Project is a Top priority project, it must be completed within at maximum six months.
Keep up the good work.
From OTI Director Jack Harper, CTNO / Fleet Admiral Jonson Whitlock, Fleet Admiral Li Zhao / Head of Recon Division of the Navy
/To OTI Director Jack Harper, CTNO / Fleet Admiral Jonson Whitlock, Fleet Admiral Li Zhao / Head of Recon Division of the Navy /
/From Professor Wolfram Möller, Head of R&D, Terran Armed Forces/
{Delta 2413 83DJ 793 Encryption protocol}
Subject: Project Shadow Sneaker / [Redacted] Ship production
Progress report
As of [Redacted] [Redacted], 2057, Project team believes that commands requests are possible to be completed without diverting any additional resources.
However, we do request additional Hibridium and Stygium crystals from [Redacted] in order to even begin to start production.
Sincerely Professor Wolfram Möller, Head of R&D, Terran Armed Forces
/CTNO / Fleet Admiral Jonson Whitlock, Fleet Admiral Li Zhao / Head of Recon Division of the Navy /
/From Reach Charlie Bace Shipyards/
{Alpha 3516 9EW2 410 Encryption protocol}
Subject: The Mermaid Class Deep Space Exploration Vessel
First batch of three The Mermaid Class Deep Space Exploration Vessel will be finished construction by mid December.
Specification of the ship Class follows in attachment.
The Mermaid Class Deep Space Exploration Vessel
Maximum acceleration 4000 G
384 meter long, 78 meter wide, 73 meter high
Armaments
- Two forward and Aft Light Duel Turbo Laser Turrets
- Two Iron Beam Laser, one on each side
- Point defense | six auto-canon point defense turrets on each side, four brand new x-ray laser batteries on each side, Two Iron Beam Laser one on each side
Has a Class 2 Hyperdrive
Minimum crew 260 personal
Quad Heavy Sensor packaged
Secondary emergency thrusters
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