History of the Galaxy, part 1-Story Thread

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Ship Lords' Log, Alpha Tau Spaceyard

I was ready to pilot the Wisconsin class right through the lines of the Praetorian, along with a dozen warships behind me. But it appears the praetorians have withdrawn, and said nothing, so at Last it seems we we are at peace, if only for a moment.

Life on a ship equiped for construction and repair is rather different than anything else. First order I made was rechristening her the Alpha Tau. Laru has called the fleet she's in the "Elite Guard".

I suppose it fits his idea of a proper force. He's much more militant than I am, but his strategies are mostly defensive.

Since we are orbiting homeworld, Laru and I have stayed in touch. There's been a hell of a lot of fowl ups with colony ships trying to colonize where a colony already is.

There's quite a bit of communications about a transport and minelayer rushing back to homeworld. It appears our demonstrations of Fazrah freedom and Fazrah gold have converted 2 ships fed up with Amon'krie's totalitarianism.

Unfortunately they have to pass through space teeming with traffic from 3 different empires. We can't reach the Amon'krie directly, because we fear sending our main fleet through some of the systems filled with the Norak would draw their wrath, and because we still don't know what the Praetorians are planning.

With a bit of time, and a lot of delicate manuevering, Laru plans to learn about Amon'krie technology through this. I have no moral objections, for we are releasing these citizens of Amon'krie from a life of burden and orders, and giving them wealth and freedom.

Strange as it may seem, his choices for research are very wise. He is studying stellar mechanics, trying to find out if there is any way to reach the Amon'Krie without going through Norak space.

I feel like this is aiming for the moon, but considering how surrounded we are, it may be the only way to spread our interests past the Norak and Praetorian borders which constrict us.

The Norak seem to be galactic peacekeepers with their own agenda as well. They have a presense in the systems of every empire we've seen. They've set up shop in our territory, preaching that book of theirs. I'm sure some of the poorer members of the Fazrah will be convinced. Relatively speaking, our poor people rarely riot, as there are few truly poor, while most people have moderate incomes.