(Newbie) Galactic Combat 3 - Story Thread

[Cyrien]

2404.3

First Artificer was intrigued with the ruins. The first reports where intriguing. The ruins appeared to be some form of Massive Planetary Shield Generator. The Alteri had never seen anything like it before and already several basic and primitive copies where being made on several core planets and strategic border planets, causing a great but managed strain on available resources. The shields where however, but one bit of great news within the Unity. First Speaker had secured for analysis a colony ship designed for gaseous planets and with it a small collection of Argon population. The final stages of technological evaluation of the ship where being completed and plans where being laid to send the Argonian population to several worlds with breathable atmospheres to maximize their potential. Some scientists were even suggesting that it might be possible to join the Argonian minds to the Unity. This was an intriguing idea worth investigating. So far limited experimentation on the minds of a few aliens that had entered Alteri space for trade or diplomacy had resulted in little more than being able to create great confusion and pain in the minds of the unwitting test subjects. Military command however believed this could be applied as an effective weapon should the need arise. Resources were being dedicated to examine the feasibility of this. A pending trade of ships with the Rorg would soon render all planets colonizeable to the Alteri. The scientists looked forward to prying the technological secrets out of the ship that would be recieved. There was a little dissapointment that no population would be included this time.

First Commander was abit troubled about reports of a large Rorg fleet close to their borders, however the report stated they were all frigates which would not be much of a match for the new Carrier ships that would soon be entering production. More worrisome was the silence that had continued for several years from the Free Democratic Socialist Republic.

First Speaker and First Commander were both in agreement however that other prospects looked much more promising. The Argon seemed as if they could become a strong and reliable ally with several territorial agreements completed along with the ship exchange and the Argonian population that had come to live within the Unity.

The Narrewian Federation also seemed promising with territorial agreements in the works and looking very promising.

Several other races had also been encountered but most had agreed to respect Alteri territory and engage in basic trade in exchange for similiar territorial respect. Only a few were an unknown quantity.

In all things looked very promising for the future. The biggest problem seemed to be a lack of ice planets to colonize. But with the new knowledge of other world types being gained from other races this would not be a problem for very long as colonization of gas and rock type planets could soon begin.

First Speaker was beginning to gain vague stirrings from the minds of neighboring species that made him think perhaps now he should appoint a First Spy. It seemed other were taking an interst in this area and it would not be prudent for the Alteri to leave themselves open to covert actions from other races, with the increase in traders, alien scientists and diplomats entering Alteri space from other empires it was becoming very difficult for the Speakers to keep track of them all. It would be very usefull to have a branch designated for just such alien monitoring.
Additionaly it might not be a bad idea to keep track of the old disgruntled Speakers. Their criticism of the new methods for doing things was great and they might just overcome their aVersion to his own methods enough to attempt to employ them themselves.