History of the Galaxy II

[Fyron]

Transmission from the Five Tribes of Heru to the Invexus Corporation and the Tyrean Federation:

We will remain neutral in this conflict. You will not send any military vessels through our space, period. Doing so will be considered an act of war against the Tribes. Keep your disruptive wars away from our people.

[Unknown_Enemy]

From Tyrean Federation to Tribes of Heru

The Tyrean Federation has no intentions to cross your territory.But we have a question for the tribes : what would they do if the Chairman of Invexus Corporation started to run deep in your territory in an unarmed ship ?

We have around 6 millions motivations to capture that criminal.

On other subject with the Tribes, could you please care to explain why the unarmed explorer "Fleet of the Damned" was lost in your territory while under armed supervisions from your navy ?

Did you keep the wreck ? If yes we would appreciate to be involved in the inquiry.

Thanks for your attention.

[ March 18, 2003, 14:26: Message edited by: Unknown_Enemy ]

[Fyron]

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Transmission to Tyrean Federation:

We will remain neutral in your quest. If their chairmen decide to flee into our space, they will be allowed the same rights as all Invexus according to our treaty of trade. They can travel along with whatever civilian trade vessels they wish to. We will not make judgement on your case. Expelling their chairmen from our space would indicate that we have sided with you, which would violate our neutrality. Maintaining the status quo, they already have the right to travel to parts of Heru space. This will be preserved. Your warships and military personel (and the same with the Invexus) do not have the right to enter Heru space though.

About your scout ship: we have had trouble locating any old engineers that know enough about the ancient Ion engine technology to make an adequate assessment of what happened. We assure you that our ships had nothing to do with the explosion. They were heading back to dock when it happened. The vessel is currently being towed to Mensa V* at a rate of one sector per month.
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Transmission to Invexus Corporation:

You have illegally sent warships into Niobe. Turn them around immediately. We will not tolerate foreign warships in our space.
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Executive transmission from the Overlord throughout Heru space:

People of Heru, the time to act in self-preservation is upon us. The Invexus have violated our mandate of neutrality. After much deliberation with the High Council, we have decided that all Heru forces must mobilize immediately. We will not be quietly ignored. Our words are not meaningless.
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After sending off the transmissions, the old Overlord sat down, wondering where these days would take his people next.

OOC:
* IE: move it one sector closer to Mensa V each turn.

[ March 18, 2003, 20:32: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Unknown_Enemy]

From : Tyrean Inner Council
To : all nations

After the murder of millions of Tyrean citizens, war has erupted in this quadrant. Covert operations has already began, but our war objectives shall be known by all.

At the moment, we would be ready to accept a peace treaty with the Invexius Corporation under the following conditions :

- The corporation will evacuate systems Helios, Rossa and Harridane.
- Price of Tyrean war effort will be afforded by the Corporation at a rate of 15000 minerals/2000 organics/5000 radioactives per months for 2 years.
- The complete corporate direction board will be transferred as prisonners to Tyrean authority.

The Tyreans do not expect to achieve these objectives by the mean of diplomacy.

[sachmo]

To Tyrean Gangsters:

The delusions of your leadership are laughable! Why in the universe would you think we would pay such a bounty to interlopers?
While the deaths of your people are unfortunate, and regretable, it should be known that you were given a reasonable period of time to evacuate Invexus territory. If you assumed that by ignoring us, the issue would resolve itself, you were sorely mistaken. We will defend ourselves in this unjust war, and if you continue to fly this close to the flame you will be burned.

Contact us when you are ready to end this madness.

[ March 19, 2003, 02:32: Message edited by: sachmo ]

[capnq]

Even after almost eight years in command of the _Speculation_, Rerta Malre still enjoyed the spectacular color displays of a wormhole transit. Most of the original crew was gone, having left the ship's company to spend their newfound wealth, when they returned to Eifral space to refuel. Malre had stayed on, even after the payoffs for the ship's journeys had dropped to almost nothing. Most of the systems they'd visited recently either had no colonizable worlds at all, or had already been colonized by the Tyreans, like Ursula, the system they were about to leave. After this jump, they were headed back to the refuelling station on Fypxu in Mamor.

The crew of the _Speculation_ never even saw the Katana warship that pounced on them as they emerged from the wormhole in the Bellatrix system. The first salvo took out the bridge and engines, leaving a crippled hulk for the second salvo to vaporize. There wasn't even time to send out a distress signal. Eifra's first interstellar spacecraft simply disappeared in a hail of anti-protons, its fate a mystery to everyone but the Katana.

[sachmo]

"Eliminate the Tyrean colony. Until further notice, treat all Tyreans as hostile."

Chief of Corporate Security Bill Langley looked up from the video console and into the face of the security agent who had delivered the recording to him. The man looked as if he wished he could be anywhere but in this room.

"You've told no one else about this, Sweers?" Langley asked.

The nervous agent started at his superior blankly for a moment, then jolted into reality.
"That's right, sir. No one else knows. I'm sure of it."

Langley nodded and rewound the recording, watching it one more time. There again was the Board Chairman, the most powerful man in the Invexus Corporation, and therefore in Cherek society, ordering the death of six million Tyrean colonists. It was almost too fantastic to believe, but the reality was right in front of him.

He ran through the story which the Board Chairman had sold the public in his head. The Tyreans had colonized a planet, Fortress Odahir Two, in Harridan system. This system had previously been claimed by the Invexus Corporation. After repeated attempts by Invexus to reach a diplomatic solution to the issue of planet ownership, a Fleet Services Task Force had been ordered to the system to protect the Invexus planet already colonized. When the Invexus task force reached Harridan, they were engaged by a Tyrean fleet. The Invexus ships gained the upper hand in the battle, and had persued the surviving Tyrean ships to the Fortress Odahir Two, where they were engaged by ground based defense bases and the surviving Tyrean ships. In the ensuing battle, the colony on Odahir Two had been destroyed, but at the cost of the entire Fleet Services Task Force 7. Four brave ships destroyed.

On the masses were told of this, support for the war was a forgone conclusion. They were behind the Board Chairman one hundered percent.
Now, Langley held the truth in his hand. The war was a lie.

There had been no Tyrean ships that intercepted Task Force 7. They had been ordered to orbit the Tyrean planet for a bit of gunboat diplomacy. When the Tyreans refused to parley with the Board Chairman, he ordered the Task Force to destroy the colony. Unfortunately for them, there was a previously undetected minefield surrounding the planet, and it was activated before the colony was completely destroyed. The minefield destroyed all of the ships in the Task Force, but there was no self defense in this action. It was a shameful attack on a neutral colony, and now people on both sides were dying. Tyrean agents were running rampant throughout Cherek space, wrecking all sorts of havoc. They had even seized an Invexus Cruiser, which destroyed two other Invexus ships before it could be destroyed. And it was all for the ego of one man, because of some perceived insult.

Langley knew that his duty was to protect the company. Normally, this would translate into keeping the Board Chairman safe from harm, and with the tenacity of the Tyrean agents who were after him, that had been a rough job recently. Now, it was clear to him that when the Board Chairman himself was a danger to the Corporation, it was his duty to eliminate the threat. However, he wasn't so naive to believe that the most powerful man in this quadrant would just willingly hand himself over to the authorities. He needed to gather his allies before he made his move.

He locked his steel gaze on the agent standing before him. "Agent Sweers, it seems we have come to a fork in the road. On one path, we fight the Tyreans in a galactic war. We don't know how that will end, but millions have already died, and it has only just begun. On the other path, we bring a lie to an end, and possibly ignite a civil war that could destroy the Cherek race. Which one would you take?"

Sweers began to shake as the enormity of the situation washed over him. "I-I-I think we should do...we should do what is right. We should protect the corporation, sir." With that, he began to cry.

Langley gently eased his pistol back into it's holster and slowed his breathing. Agent Sweers was his first ally. He hoped that he would be able to find more, and quickly. Otherwise, the truth would no longer matter.

He began to activate his web of agents whom he hoped were loyal, and had them transmit a message to the Tyrean Federation. He had to see if they would even listen to what he had to say.