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Chapter Twenty-Four: Building Tomorrow.
Date: May 28, 2007. Time: 0900 Hours. Location: Space Station Liberty. Alexandria Bay.
Dr. Daniel Jackson, one of the original members of the SGC to head through the Stargate. A man of myth and legend, he who cracked the code of the Stargate and was the spark that launched humanity into a new age of space exploration. He is a man who was once destined to be forgotten by the annals of time and yet now he shall go down in history among men like Galileo, Albert Einstein, Neil Armstrong, and other titans of history.
This man is currently whistling a happy tune as he walked over through his latest adventure: being the commander of the Alexandria, the second city class ship to fall under Tau'ri control.
At long last, she has finished her repairs and upgrades and is now ready to head into the darkness of outer space and begin her own series of adventures in the wild Pegasus Galaxy.
For the last two months, massive amounts of repairs and upgrades have been done to her hull, transforming the city ship from a four kilometer in diameter snowflake shaped ship into a massive 19 kilometer in diameter snowflake shaped vessel. In addition, a massive amount of personnel and supplies have been transported to the station and then put onto Alexandria. The Atlantis Expedition was a rushed venture, with the lack of warships capable of making the trip across such a vast distance, and with a single drained ZPM to power the wormhole, the Expedition had a limited time frame in which they could get supplies onto Atlantis and so they had to move things on wheels or have them be easily carried by hand through the gate.
Alexandria is having a much more civilized launch, with people calmly placing supplies onto the city. Also, many more comforts have been allowed onto this city, with several full sized theater's spread throughout the city, full sized swimming pools, arcades, restaurants. The city feels less like a military installation and more like a actual city that it is meant to be. Something that a large amount of people back on Earth forget is that these cities were meant to be lived in, they were meant to be homes, they were never intended to be weapons of mass destruction. That is why when they actually treated this place like a real city, it felt like home instead of another military base. It feels special.
Shaking his head of those thoughts, Daniel then saw his long time friend Samantha Carter walk into the control room.
Sam had come from Area 51 and helped out finishing Alexandria. Sam was already in love with the city and was already hard at work creating her latest invention.
Jackson was going to stay as far away from Sam's lab as possible, she now has access to knowledge and technology far in advance of anything Area 51 has available and she has been given complete ability to build anything she wants to by the President. Jackson is very apprehensive about the things Carter is going to be building now.
"Hey Daniel. You ready to head out?" Sam asked.
"Yep. All the ZPM's are in place, as well as the Protoculture Reactor's and the Star Drives have been repaired. We have all the supplies in place and everyone is here they are meant to be. All in all, the city is ready to launch. You excited?" Jackson asked.
"You know it. I mean, there is knowledge in this city that I cannot even begin to fathom! It will decades to fully understand the vast amounts of data this city has. I already have ten new projects in the works already." Sam said with an excited smile.
Daniel smiled and said, "Good to hear. Well, let's go."
Daniel then walked over to where the four control room technicians were and contacted the control chair where a Colonel Steven was waiting for the word.
"Colonel Steven, everyone is on the city and we have been given the go ahead for launch. Please take us out of Space Station Liberty at one-tenth sublight. I want to make sure that we don't break anything." Daniel said.
"Understood sir. Moorings are detaching, shields are coming up, we are now beginning to leave Space Station Liberty." The Colonel replied.
The vast series of moorings and clamps holding the large city detached and for a few seconds, the city hung in the zero gravity environment before her newly rebuild shield emitters activated, causing her translucent shields to rise around her.
Once her shields were raised, the mighty city began to move down Space Station Liberty until she came to the bottom of the cylindrical portion of the station which opened up like a flower, allowing Alexandria to leave the station.
Surrounding Space Station Liberty is the seven city ships stolen from the Asurans after their demise. These city ships have been given the names of: Camelot, Shangri La, Rivendell, Minas Tirith, Lemuria, Erebor, and Iacon. They will all be given the same upgrades as Alexandria once Atlantis has finished her own upgrades.
Alexandria moved past the smaller city ships, her massive size easily dwarfing their entire hill as she silently slide past them as she moved further out of the nebula.
After a few minutes, the city ship was clear of the nebula and once she was free, the city ship activated her Star Drives once more, the massive city tearing a hole open to hyperspace before her and quickly vanishing into the tear so fast she became a blur. Within a second, the city ship was gone, on her way to her new home at the planet of M35-117.
Time: 0910 hours. Location: Atlantis.
Weir walked into the control room which was in a state of barely controlled madness as the technicians rushed to make their final preparations for the city ship before she left her ancient home of Lantea to head to Space Station Liberty for her massive series of upgrades.
Fafnir, head of the Furlings walked beside her. The Furlings, Asgard and the Nox made a very unusual offer.
They were all going to aid in the series of upgrades that are to be given to Atlantis. Atlantis shall be given technologies and the knowledge of all members of the Four Great Races. That way if something ever should happen to that member of the Alliance, their knowledge and their technology shall be left in the hands of those that are worthy.
None of the other city ships are going to be given any of the upgrades that are going to be given to Atlantis. The Tau'ri shall have to learn how the technology works and how to replicate it of they wish to upgrade their other warships or city ships to the same level. This is so that the Tau'ri shall learn the value of having to struggle and work of the technology and knowledge instead of it just being freely given to them. With these upgrades done, Atlantis shall be one of a kind city ship.
When asked what the extent of the upgrades will be, the other members of the Alliance have kept their silence and told her it shall be a surprise.
While Atlantis is off to Liberty for her repairs and upgrades, the Sixth Fleet of the Tau'ri have been station at Moon Base ALUCE, which has been vastly expanded to accommodate all these new long term residents as well as her usual complement of coming and going warships.
Currently, the Tau'ri have completed their First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and now Sixth fleets, with the Seventh, Eight and Ninth fleets going to coming online by the end of September.
The First, Second, Third and Fourth Fleets have been stationed here in Pegasus while the Fifth fleet is patrolling the Milky Way galaxy. The Sixth, Seventh and Eight Fleets will join the other fleets in attacking the Wraith once they are ready and Atlantis has returned, while the Ninth shall join the Fifth fleet in patrolling the Milky Way galaxy.
No less then seventeen Wraith controlled worlds have been located all across the Pegasus Galaxy, planets were Wraith warships are grown and made ready. These planets have been marked for attack, with orders that any and all Wraith on the planet are to be destroyed without hesitation or mercy.
After these planets are cleared, the ADF will begin a campaign of purging other worlds that have Wraith forces on them. This will hopefully cause the Wraith to fall into disarray and make it easier to take down the individual fractions one after another.
Weir walked over to Chuck and asked, "Are we ready to launch?"
"All sections of the city are reporting that they have completed their inspection and that everything is ready to go. The ZPM's are connected to the power supply and powering the city, Rodney, Lang, Zor and Zelenka have gone over the Star Drives several times and have reported they can reach Space Station Liberty. Shield emitters are primed and ready and Colonel Sheppard is in the control chair and just said that he is ready to go. We are just awaiting your order." Chuck responded.
Weir nodded and then said, "Tell Sheppard to begin lift off. Let Neo-Macross know we are lifting off and that tidal waves might be caused, so get their storm shields up and running."
Chuck nodded and sent the call out. A few moments later, along the edge of the continent, shield emitters activated and caused a large wall to appear. This is the storm shield, a system devised to create large shields to protect Neo-Macross and the entire continent from large scale weather phenomenon like tidal waves caused by Atlantis coming and leaving Lantea. It doesn't happen often, but it is a necessary system.
After that, Sheppard who is in the control chair sent the mental signal for Atlantis's anti-gravity generators to activate as well as the shield.
The small generators activated without any preamble, lifting the massive city from the ocean as the large translucent shields wrapped around the snowflake shaped city.
Higher and higher the city arose, the citizens of Neo-Macross looked on in awe as the glorious looking city flew through the air until she broke through the atmosphere and went into orbit.
Atlantis quickly moved past the many ADF vessels sent to guard her as she made her way into hyperspace. Joining them was a few O'Neill class warships and even 15 Furling warships as well. All of the warships had their shields and weapons armed and ready to obliterate anything that came near the Atlantis as she moved towards the point she can make the jump into Hyperspace.
A few moments later, the mighty city ship created a Hyperspace window and quickly entered into it, the ancient city ship heading to Liberty for a long overdue series of upgrades unlike anything before.
Time: 1000 hours. Location: Bastion Prime.
Fran was currently as the super massive Replicator core as many new reports were coming in of various projects the Replicators are working on.
Thanks to the help from the Alliance of Great Races, Bastion Prime has been completely rebuilt back to where it was back before the attack by the Asurans. The capitol has been repaired, the land has been healed and their people have recovered their numbers from that horrific attack.
As the Replicators rebuilt their planet, they have also been rebuilding their military. Their shipyards have been repaired and since then, their fleet has increased by a vast amount.
The Forward Unto Dawn has proven herself a valuable warship, and so two more Retribution class warships have been created, the Pillar of Autumn and the Nevermore.
After that, four new classes of warships have been created that fill in the roles of Frigates, Destroyers, Super carriers and Stealth Corvettes.
For the stealth Corvettes, the warship model that was chosen was the RSF-X29-Amathia class Corvette.
The Amathia class is 350 meters long, 130 meters wide and 90 meters tall. The frame of the warships is slime and narrow, having a sleek design profile that allows for quick and nimble movements. The ship is colored in the same light grey with blue-green flecks that the Forwards Unto Dawn has and the frame has red glowing red side panels of the sides of the ship, while the rear portion has three large sublight engine nozzles.
The Amathia class has a five small Reflex Furnaces that add up to equaling a three quarters of a single Atlantis class Reflex Reactor.
The Amathia has shields that are slightly less powerful then a Horizon Mk. II class, but in exchange is much faster and much more maneuverable. The only ships that are faster and more maneuverable are Variable Space Fighters and the Amathia is darn near close to those things.
Her cloak is much stronger and much longer lasting then that of the Retribution class Dreadnoughts, but she sacrifices firepower and thicker hull in exchange.
Her sensor suite and communication equipment are on-par with Horizon Mk. II warships.
Her weapon complement consists of 28 x Terminator CIWS turrets, 4 x Javelin cannons, 2 x Energy Torpedo emitters and a single Entropy cannon mounted in the bow of the warship. A very light amount of weapons, but considering she is a Stealth Corvette, if she gets into a shooting match with someone, something has gone very wrong indeed.
She has a very fast Hyperdrive that can keep pace with all quite a few ADF vessels.
In summery, the Amathia class is a very well designed purpose built Stealth Corvette.
Next comes the Frigate class warships, of which the RSF-X65-Savitar class Frigate.
The Savitar is 1,200 meter long, 500 meters wide at the widest and 390 meters tall. The frame has a large triangular front half, with a rounded underside underneath that has a light blue glowing spinning energy done at the forefront, while the side's of the ship are tear drop shaped and have two pointed panels for the top and bottom, the ends of the sides narrow down into the sublight engine nozzles, while middle section of the ship also narrows down into the engine nozzle.
This ship is very maneuverable, yet also has much stronger shields then the Amathia class warship.
This ship has three Reflex Furnaces that are twice the size of the Amathia class, giving the Savitar a little bit over double the power of the Amathia class.
This ship has a cloak, but it is around the effectiveness of the Retribution class.
Her weapon complement consists of 54 x Terminator turrets, 8 x Javelin cannons, 4 x Energy Torpedoes, and 2 x Entropy class cannons, giving her a far bit more firepower then the Amathia class.
Her Hyperdrive is much faster then the Amathia class, but she is still not even close to the Retribution in terms of speed.
She is a very well rounded Frigate class vessel.
After the Savitar class comes the RSF-X78-Valcorian class Destroyer.
The Valcorian has a long and narrow frame that stretches out for 3,500 meters in length, with 700 meters in width and 620 meters in height. The frame has an open bow that has a large triangular slightly upwards facing protrusion, with a smaller downward facing protrusion. This gives the bow an almost shark mouth look to it.
The Valcorian is slow maneuvering warship, so she has extremely tough shields that are on par with Shimakaze class vessels.
This ship has a single Atlantis class Reflex Furnace along with 2 smaller Reflex Furnaces that each are on par with the Savitar class Reflex Furnaces.
The cloak is on par with the Retribution class as well, being capable of hiding the ship from all but the most power of sensor equipment.
This ship has 80 x Terminator turrets, 40 x Javelin cannons, 6 x Energy torpedoes, 8 x Entropy cannons and a single Tesla cannon in the bow of the ship, giving her the second highest firepower of any Replicator ship class in existence.
Her hyperdrive is very fast, easily keeping pace with Shimakaze class or even Aurora Borealis class warships.
The Valcorian is a very dangerous warship that will strike fear into all, but the most powerful of warships.
The last of the new warships was the RSF-89-Nightingale class Super-Carrier.
She is a large warship at 4,980 meters long, has a width of 900 meters, and a height of 800 meters. The frame is very sleek in it's design, it's bow is also a little bit rounded and has two slight indents into the frame itself which ends as a simple thin line.
As a Super-carrier, her shields are only a little bit better then a Third Generation Daedalus class warship, as she trades firepower, speed, maneuverability and shield strength for more carrying capacity.
This ship has a single Atlantis class Reflex Furnace along with three more smaller Reflex Furnaces that are each on par with a Savitar class Reflex Furnace.
The ship does have a cloak that is slightly better then a Retribution class cloak.
This ship has 100 x Terminator CIWS turrets, 20 x Javelin cannons, 4 x Entropy cannons, and 5 x Energy torpedoes emitters.
Her hyperdrive is on par with the Retribution, allowing the Nightingale to cross vast distances at a incredible rate.
The Nightingale can carry over 750 of the newly developed Jaeger Veritechs in her hold.
She is an incredibly dangerous warship to go against.
As for the Jaeger Veritechs, they are the Replicators version of the Pendragon class Veritechs.
The Replicators originally wanted to simply design and build their own things without any influence of the ADF so that they could truly say that they built their own civilization all by themselves, but after the attack against them by the Asurans, they decided survival is much more important then their pride, so they asked for the designs of the Super Pendragons and then tinkered with the design until they managed to develop the Jaeger.
The Jaeger is basically a slightly upgraded form of the Super Pendragon. The Replicators with their mastery of dimensional technology managed to slim the Super Pendragon down to the point that the Jaeger has all the benefits and advantages of the Pendragon, but is more slimmed down, allowing for more maneuverability and ease when flying.
The Jaeger is a little bit bigger then the Pendragon in terms of size, being 19 meters long, 16 meters wide, and 4.08 meters in height.
She has two micro Terminator cannons in either side of the cockpit, while also having a larger Micro Tesla cannon as the primary armament. The Micro Tesla cannon can fire a single long range energy blast, or it can fire smaller, faster energy blasts at the same rate as the GU-221 Gun-Pod, has two energy cannons as a turret on the underside as well and finally, the Jaeger can fire 120 energy torpedoes at once, same as the Super Pendragon.
The Jaeger is just a bit faster then the Super Pendragon and has slightly stronger shields, and a equally strong cloak, but all these advantages over the Super Pendragon comes at a cost: Jaeger Pendragons have a severely limited run time of only 35 minutes before their reactors start to overheat and need to purge otherwise they explode violently.
Additionally, Replicator pilots might have better reflexes then ADF pilots even with the Augmentations they have been given, however ADF pilots are much more inventive and creative when flying, they can also think on their toes and adapt to ever evolving situations much faster then Replicators are capable of.
Even with these flaws, the Jaeger Veritechs are most definitely going to prove themselves to be a great asset to the ever increasing Replicator's military power.
If the projections of the ever increasing numbers of Replicators stays the same as well as their ability to increase the fleet size goes according to plan, the Replicators should have numbers equaling the Tau'ri by the time the Tau'ri finish up their ninth fleet.
With a optimistic smile on her face, Fran went back to checking over the files before her.
Time: 1100 hours. Location: Earth.
President Hayes walked through the newly constructed Into Eternity facility located in the middle of the Atlantic ocean.
Into Eternity is a massive monolithic construction, easily the largest thing built on Earth. The facility is constructed into the shape of a half sphere on the top, with a thinner cylindrical middle section that stretches downwards. The facility stretches a grand total of 5 kilometers in diameter, is a kilometer in height of the sphere and a four kilometers for the cylindrical section.
Into Eternity is a joint project developed with the help of the Furlings. The facility is massive series of computers that contains vast amounts of data that no other facility can possibly try to contain, save for Atlantis after her upgrades and Serenity station, of which the Tau'ri have still been incapable of locating. Into Eternity has been created so that the moment the world learns of the Stargate and all that has happened since the SGC was created, Into Eternity shall rise up and serve as the main focal point for the scientists of Earth to get their feet wet so to speak. Here they will learn and study alien technologies and sciences in a place of complete safety and more importantly, supervision. The stations purpose is to help ease the transition of Earth's population as they are shown what humanity has been doing for the last decade.
To prevent Into Eternity from being discovered before Disclosure, the facility has a number of Shadow Devices that operate in tangent. As one set of Shadow Devices approaches operational limit, several backup Shadow Devices activate to allow the first set to cool down and when the backup go to their operational limit, they are turned off and the originals are turned back on once more and thus the cycle continues. So far, no systems have failed and everything is proceeding right along perfectly.
Hayes is definitely impressed as he saw two personal manipulating hard light holograms as they went about their work, unaware of the presence of one of the most powerful and important men on the planet.
Hayes and his little group left the room and were taken to an area where a massive computer console was stationed at, this one having silver computer circuits pulsing with energy every few seconds. (Think of the lines of computer code that flash whenever Cortana appears in hologram form.)
From the console appeared a Furling looking hologram who said, "Greetings Inheritors. I am Furling AI construction 4-TY-99-00-ZZW2, but I am also designated as Praetor. How may I help you?"
"I am President Hayes of the United States of America. I am here to see this amazing facility for myself. What can you tell me about it?" Hayes asked.
Praetor disappeared as a holographic representation of Into Eternity appeared as Praetor began speaking again, "Conceived by the vision of Dr. Bill Lee and approved for construction on April 16, 2007 by the governments backing the Stargate Program, Into Eternity is to date the largest construction on Earth. Into Eternity will serve as the central hub for scientific research for civilians following the unveiling of the Stargate program to the general public. Capable of housing no less then 100,000 individuals at a single time, Into Eternity is the most advanced facility on Earth, outstripping Area 51 and the SGC due to Furling technology added onto existing Asgard, Ancient, Nox and Tau'ri technologies. This facility is capable of raising a shield almost as powerful as a first generation city ship, allowing the facility to survive from intense enemy attacks. The facility is also equipped with a number of Shadow Devices that create a powerful Shadow Field to prevent detection."
"Impressive. How soon until the facility is completed?" Hayes asked.
"This facility shall be completed by October 28, 2007. All of the outer hull has been completed, a large portion of the inner sections of this station are either partially completed or haven't been started at all." Praetor responded.
"I understand. Praetor, can you tell me if the commander of this station is on sight now?" Hayes asked.
"Indeed. The commander is currently in the stellar cartography observatory right now on the upper decks." Praetor said a the technical readout of Into Eternity changed to show the top portion of the sphere portion of Into Eternity glowing.
Hayes nodded and gave the AI a smile and said, "Thank you very much Praetor I hope we can talk again soon."
Praetor changed back into his regular form and said, "I hope so too. Have a good day."
Hayes and his entourage quickly left the computer room and headed to one of the many teleporter booths and quickly selected the stellar cartography observatory.
A second later and the group emerged from the booth into a massive spherical observatory that is at least 100 feet tall in every direction.
A long path connected the booth to the other side of the observatory, with a large set of hand rails on either side, while a large circular control console sat in the middle of the room were a certain scientist is busy at work asking sure the controls to the observatory are in tip top shape.
"Dr. Lee. Good to see you again." Hayes said, causing said man to quickly turn around.
"Mr. President! How unexpected! I'm sorry, I didn't realize your trip here was today!" Lee said as he quickly took Hayes hand and gave it a firm shake.
"No problem. I have just been checking out the station and I got to say, very impressed by what you and the others have done here." Hayes replied.
"Thank you very much sir. We are very proud of Into Eternity, she is really incredible. Hey, you want to see the new stellar cartography system? I just finished getting everything set up." Lee asked.
"I would be delighted to." Hayes said.
Lee grew an excited grin on his face and quickly got into the control chair and turned the system on.
Immediately, the entire room grew dark as the lights dimmed down a bit as suddenly, the entire room was filled with thousands of small little dots of light of different colors.
"What you are seeing here is currently the most advanced interactive hard light holograms known to us. Each of these lights represents a star in the universe and if you are to select a specific one.." Bill trailed off as he pushed in a few coordinates.
The room suddenly shifted as stars blurred past the group until a familiar looking solar system appears before the group as a blue and green world orbited by a singular moon appeared.
"You can be shown the planet along with all the information we have about said planet. Weather patterns, oxygen levels, planet life, etc etc. This room is constantly updating and expanding as new information given to us by the Four Great Races is processed and put into the data banks. It is really a marvel." Bill said as Hayes looked around the room in wonder.
"Quite a sight, isn't it?" Bill asked with a knowing look on his face.
"This sure beats the observatories I went to when I was younger, that's for sure." Hayes said.
"I predict that a lot of people are going to be spending their entire days in here. We have plans to create another of these just for the tourists and teaches once the Stargate is released, but this is going to be the most powerful and advanced of them all." Bill further explained.
"Can you show Pegasus galaxy planets?" Hayes asked.
"Sure." Bill said as he punched in a few new coordinates and the group watched on as the room shifted once more and quickly shown the Lantea solar system itself, complete with a view of Moon Base ALUCE.
"Cool." Hayes said with genuine excitement in his voice.
"We can see a large portion of the planets personally visited by the Asgard, Furlings, Nox or the Ancients using this station. We can also see ADF facilities." Bill further explained as he punched in a few new coordinates and the hologram shifted once more to show a view of Space Station Liberty inside of her nebula home.
"Very interesting." Hayes said.
"Yeah. Is there anything else you wanted to see sir?" Bill asked.
"No, that's enough for me. Just want to talk to you about your deployment as commander of the Into Eternity." Hayes said.
"Okay. Just let me shut down the system." Bill replied as he then punched in a series of commands that turned off the holograms and turned the lights back on to maximum brightness.
Once that was over, Bill walked with Hayes's group out of the stellar cartography observatory.
"So, how do you like being the command of such an important facility?" Hayes asked.
"Well, it is a lot more work and I have a ton of paperwork that I have to do now and it is kind of strange giving orders instead of following them, but I got to say, I really like the position." Bill said.
"That's good to hear. Since you came up with the idea of this station, we thought you might be a good pick for running her. So far, you haven't given a single reason for myself or the other leaders to regret that decision." Hayes said as the group walked through the halls of the facility.
"That's a relief to hear sir. I have been kind of worried I might screw something up and get myself fired." Bill confessed.
"Don't worry. Just keep calm and make sure you think through your decisions before you make them and remember, even if you do make a mistake as long as you don't blow up the facility itself, we probably are going to forgive you." Hayes said to the man.
"Thanks for the advise sir. Anything else I can help you with or show you sir?" Bill asked.
"I do have a few questions for you Bill." Hayes said as the two lapsed into a conversation, unaware of how close a new enemy is.
Time: 1300 Hours. Location: Robotech Universe, Earth.
Inside one of the mighty Azashar Warships, a council of three Elder Robotech Masters stood around a large circular platform that was green and looked slightly organic as one of their many underlings gave them a report.
"The Science Masters have run a number of tests on the spot Breetai and his forces last reported Zor's Fortress. From the scans they have run, the Fortress's Fold Sphere was badly executed in the worst ways possible. They have found out that due to the immense amounts of energy beyond a normal Fold Operation, along with the primitive technology of the inhabitants of this world led to a catastrophic chain of events that caused to the Fold Sphere to overload and send the Fortress away. The Science Masters, after much research, have been able to finally locate the Fortress." He said and then stopped, trying to find the correct words to say to his masters.
"Well, get out with it then. Where is the Fortress?" One of the Elders Masters said.
"From what the data we have recovered suggests, the Fold Sphere sent the Fortress to another dimension entirely." The man eventually said, decided it is best simply to get the information out.
For a long while, silence reigned supreme in the chamber until one of the Elder Master's said, "Explain."
The clone gulped, he knew that tone the Master just used meant explain now or suffer the consequences. And considering what the Master's did to those that failed them, the clone was starting to get very nervous.
"The Fold Sphere remnants around the area show's a significant amount of Fold energy and from that the Science masters have been able to determine that the Fold Sphere had a combined energy equivalent of seven regular Fold Operations and due to this excessive amount of energy, they determined the Fold Sphere would send the Fortress punching through dimensions. However, even with the Fortress several dimensions away, the Science Masters have managed to find out which dimension the Fortress was sent to. They are currently creating a large Fold Generator which shall be calibrated to that exact same Dimension and once completed, we can then head into that Dimension and restart our search for the Fortress." The clone said, hoping this news might be able to appease the Elders.
They said nothing for a long time and then said, "Leave us."
The clone quickly bowed and got out of the chamber as quickly as he could, praising his luck that he was able to get out of there alive.
The Elders then turned to one another and one of them said, "This situation is most disadvantageous to us. To construct such a device and then transverse to this new universe and then have to search for the Fortress which might not even be activate anymore, for all we know the Fortress has been destroyed and if the Fortress has been destroyed, then we will doom ourselves. We risk everything on the small chance the Fortress is still intact and the Matrix is still operational."
"You speak the truth Brother, however we cannot afford to wait anymore. We need to find the Fortress and we need to find it now. If we do not find the Fortress and a new source of Protoculture soon, we face extinction of our race." Another said.
"I have to agree with you brother. There are but two options for ourselves and our race: We either find a new source of Protoculture and ensure the survival of our race, or we fail and watch on as we slowly run out of Protoculture until the last few drops are used up and we are left alone in the giant husks of what was once our glorious empire. We have everything to lose, but we also stand to gain everything. There is no doubt in my mind that although there is a great risk to ourselves, we must do this. We have to find the Fortress, no matter the cost. I suggest we gather all our people from all corners of our empire and gather them here so that when we head to the new universe, we have a substantial workforce ready to help us reclaim our fading glory." The last of the Elders said.
"Agreed. Pull all available forces and resources, we have one chance, we must make sure we cannot fail." The second Elder said.
"Then we are all in agreement. All Tirolean forces across the stars shall converge here and prepare themselves for the moment we can go after the Fortress." The last Elder said.
Their orders were given to a solider who quickly ran and made sure the orders were carried out.
A single vessel left the fleet and quickly went into Hyperspace, her reactors among the few that are fully charged, allowing her to make the journey to Tirol within a few weeks. Once there, she shall let all Tirolean forces know that their masters are calling them and they are to answer the call or face the consequences.
Time: 1500 hours. Location: Unknown.
Above an unknown world, a vast fleet of magenta colored disk shaped vessels flew alongside on another, while a much larger vessel was in the middle. This vessel was magenta as well and has a much more organic look to it.
Inside the vast vessel, inside a throne room stood a massive female looking humanoid figure. She is massive, standing 15 feet tall and is wearing a large red dress around her body, leaving her bald head free.
This is the Regess, queen of the Invid and the being Zor met when he first discovered Optera centuries before.
She is currently looking at the report a number of her children brought to her attention after months of spying. Apparently every single Zentraedi in the universe, along with all the Robotech Master's have gathered around a single planet in the Local Group of galaxies.
Not only that, but the Master's have been conducting experiments on a single spot of the planet, after wiping out the inhabitants of the said planet.
This was greatly confusing to the Regess as she has never before seen such actions from the Master's and she knows that those beings never do something unless there is the possibility of some kind of gain for themselves.
After much spying, her scouting party finally managed to crack the encryption codes of the Masters and the Zentraedi and then discovered why so many warships were above a single, now dead world.
Apparently, Zor's warship had crashed landed on the planet and had been rebuilt by the inhabitants of the planet, who seemed to never realize the power of said Fortress as they lacked Protoculture energy cells, shields and other advanced equipment. Apparently a single fleet commanded by Breetai was sent the planet to retrieve the Fortress and the Protoculture Matrix inside, however the natives of the planet, seemed to have taken an action too desperate for most other advanced races to consider: they performed a Hyperspace Fold Jump inside of the planet's gravity well.
The Fortress seemed to disappear in a blaze of light and then nothing. After much searching, the Zentraedi forces couldn't find the Fortress and so the rest of the Zentraedi forces appeared to destroy the natives of the planet and search for any trace amounts of Hyperspace Folding to try and find the Fortress.
The natives put up a fight and almost killed more Zentraedi in a single second then the Invid have across their long and brutal war against the giants.
Watching the footage of the massive Reflex cannon destroy millions of Zentraedi warships in seconds brought a great sense of joy to the Regess and she almost felt sorry the primitives were lost. Perhaps they might have made a good ally to help further their goals, but alas, they are now gone.
After said extinction of the natives, the Master's themselves appeared and began to try and find the Fortress and after much experimentation and searching, they have finally found where the Fortress has gone to.
Apparently, the Fortress has been sent to another reality entirely and the Master's are building a giant Fold unit to send themselves and their soldiers to said universe to try and capture the Fortress.
This news greatly troubled the Regess. The Master's have been pushed back further and further as their empire is now collapsing around them, however if they get the Protoculture Matrix back, the Master's will once again be capable of defeating and enslaving all known races. This is something she will not allow ever again.
The question is, what shall she do now?
Her plan is simply to allow the masters to construct the reality hoping device and as they are going through, launch an attack with all her forces to try and check them off guard and allow herself and her people to head through the portal and to take back what is rightfully theirs.
This plan has a large amount of danger, because if she underestimates the power of the Master's vessels and if her timing is off, she could lead her people to being overwhelmed and destroyed by the Master's and their soldiers. So coordination and timing are key to allowing the plan to secede. Launch her fleet too soon and they'll run into the Master's and their forces. Launch too late and the portal leading to the last source of unlimited Protoculture is gone, possibly forever as she is extremely doubtful she and her people can recreate the portal at a later date, meaning it has to be when the Master's are using it.
It is a risking maneuver, but if she pulls this off correctly, she and her people can recover the Matrix first and use it to crush the Master's and their infernal Zentraedi soldiers first.
As she thought their pondering, the Children of the Shadow were on the move.
Time: 1520 hours. Location: Unknown
Around a dead world, massive cylindrical warships that appeared to have been built out of countless small blocks floated in formation. There were hundreds, if not thousands of warships here while even more small disk shaped fighter craft flew around the fleet in patrol patterns.
In the center of this massive fleet is a massive warship that is of the same league in terms of size with warships of the Retribution and the SDF class. The ship is much larger, more bulky and more menacingly looking.
In the bowels of this warship is a large room where the only light against the eerie black is a single red light that is coming from a large curricular construction that has eight spikes in the middle of the object arranged in a circle surrounding a red glowing core that has countless lines of glowing circuitry.
This is the Awareness, the leader of the Haydonite race, one of the most dangerous beings in existence.
He is currently monitoring the progress of the Master's in their construction of the device that shall lead to the new reality.
Cracking the encryption codes for the Master's was almost too easy. Their computers are not protected against hacking by a mechanical race such as the Haydonites and so the Haydonites were able to get the information they wanted and required very easily.
The Awareness is incapable of feeling emotion and so did not feel shock when he saw the findings of the Robotech Master's in regard to where Zor's battle-fortress went to, but it did catch him off guard. Nothing like this has ever happened before as far as the Awareness is knows. However, this changes nothing.
The Haydonites shall bide their time and wait for the Master's to do the hard work and get themselves and their soldiers to this new reality and wait for the Invid to appear.
His spies did in fact see the Invid. They can hide themselves from the Master's and their cloned armies, but the Haydonites will always be capable of finding them, no matter how far they run.
With this knowledge in his hand, the Awareness has ordered all his forces to come to this planet only three hours away from the planet where the Master's are at and to wait for the Master's to complete their work.
The Awareness has calculated the odds and a full blown assault against the Master's and the Invid, plus the Zentraedi has a 67% chance of resulting in the destruction of all their foes.
The Zentraedi may outnumber the Haydonites, however that little fact is being rectified. Thanks to new deposits of Ryithium, the element that powers Haydonite technology, the Haydonites have tripled their total forces and shall continue to do so. The Master's are of little concern as although their technology is on par with Haydonite technology, the Haydonites don;t have the problem of having almost all their ships running out of power. Their warships are fully charged and fully capable of ripping apart the Zentraedi, the masters and the Invid.
The Invid are the only concern here, as their own forces are extremely numerous and unlike the Zentraedi, their warships have limited energy shields and can regenerate from damage, meaning that even the deadly Quantum Lances that are specifically designed to melt through Robotech alloys are less effective against them.
However, the Haydonites have faced and driven back the Invid before and they shall do so once more. Nothing will stop the Haydonites from destroying their enemies and claiming Zor's battle fortress for themselves.
Inside the dark halls, the Awareness waits in the shadows for the time to launch the final assault against his foes.
And that is it for this chapter!
I think this chapter was a very nice one to type. Very calm, kind of a filler chapter to be honest. Nothing much of importance happened except for a few things.
As for ship designs, you can find the Amathia class by typing in "Amathia Class Corvette by IonfluxDA on DeviantArt" into google. First ship you see, it is the very sleek one with the red glowing sides.
Next the Savitar class warship can be found by simply typing in "Take off by Kailyze. deviantart .com on DeviantArt" into google. Should be the first ship you see on the left, triangular hull and everything. Just remove spaces between "Kailyze." and "DeviantArt" to make it all one word.
The Valcorian class can be found by typing in "Spaceship art by Ronald Fong" look for the ship with the shark like bow on it, just remove the wings and make the frame a little narrower and a little slimmer and you got it.
The Nightingale can be found by typing in "www.1zoom. me /en/wallpaper/407348/z1083/1920x1080" into the search bar, remove the spaces between the "." and "me", "me" and "/" and you are good to go.
The Jaeger can be found by typing "YF-29 GW custom by gwydion1982" into google search, first image on left.
Another codex entry for you guys.
ADF Files. Authorized Personal Only.
Designation: ADF-MDV-103 Mordred Heavy Assault Destroid
Dimensions:
Height: 15.7 m
Depth: 7.0 m
Breadth: 9 m
Armaments:
2 x 30 mm Heavy energy cannons on top of shoulders
2 x 4 missile tubes on sides of the cannons
2 x eight barreled 36 mm rotating energy cannons on either forearm
2 x twin 26 mm energy cannons on hips of the mecha
2 x twin 26 mm energy cannons buried into the waist of Destroid
1 x chest mounted 72 mm energy cannon
Crew:
1: Pilot.
Power Plant:
First Models:
2 x Protoculture/Naquada Reflex Furnaces
Later Models:
2 x Protoculture/Naquada/Omega Particle Reflex Furnaces
Shields:
6 x Shield Emitters
6 x Fold Shield Boosters
Hull:
11 inches thick, composed of Naquada/Trinium with Robotech Alloys for additional reinforcement
Thrust:
2 x Anti-Gravitronic Thrusters on back
Auxiliary Features:
-Alterran Designed Puddle Jumper Cloak
-Puddle Jumper level Sensors
-Shadow Field as back up Cloak
-Mental Interface System
Description:
A Destroid designed to be a one mecha army unto itself, the Mordred has exceptional firepower, shields and has a respectable amount of speed as well.
First saw combat at the Battle of Taranis where these units along with the rest of the Destroid compliment of the Macross fought and helped to destroy a sizable Wraith fleet.
Units have seen mass production and are deployed on nearly every single Tau'ri facility with a few exceptions here and there as units of their firepower are not needed to guard every single facility.
Designation: ADF-MDF-122 Ascalon Destroid
Dimensions:
Battleoid Mode:
Height: 11.3 m
Depth: 5.8 m
Breadth: 8 m
Armaments:
2 x 100 mm Laser/Particle cannons on back
4 x 15 mm auto cannons located in the chest
6 x missile tubes on outside of either leg
4 x missile tubes in waist
2 x 25 mm beam cannons located on forearms
2 x 16 missile tubes in to large missile launches located on either side of chest
1 x GU-221 Gun Pod.
Crew:
1: Pilot.
Power Plant:
First Models:
2 x Protoculture/Naquada Reflex Furnaces
Later Models:
2 x Protoculture/Naquada/Omega Particle Reflex Furnaces
Shields:
5 x Shield Emitters
5 x Fold Shield Boosters
Hull:
7 inches thick. Composed of Naquada/Trinium with Robotech Alloys added in for extra strength.
Thrust:
2 x Small Anti-Gravitronic thrusters located on back of legs
1 x Large Anti-Gravitronic thruster located in middle of back
Auxiliary Features:
-Alterran Designed Puddle Jumper Cloak
-Puddle Jumper level Sensors
-Shadow Field as back up Cloak
-Mental Interface System
Description:
Created from the Spartan and Tomahawk Destroids with the purpose of creating a Destroids that has good all-around specs, the Ascalon Destroid has a large amount of firepower, yet does not sacrifice speed or defense for this firepower.
Units first saw combat at the Battle of Taranis. The Ascalon's of the Macross were crucial to the victory at Taranis, destroying a large percentage of the Dart's while doing minimal damage to the Hives and Cruisers themselves.
Class of Mecha has seen vast mass production, serving at all important Tau'ri installations in large numbers.
End of Report.
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