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Apr 17, 2010 18:18:09 GMT -5
Post by The Anean Star Empire on Apr 17, 2010 18:18:09 GMT -5
As they both entered the next room, Nova quickly thanked the Scientific-minds to have provided the ''samples'' so quickly. The room was a rather wide, but much more long room. The right half of the room was like a firing range and was separated by what ''could'' look like a thick wall of ''glass''. The left half was entirely empty, but the ground had many lines and panels connected together. Near the entrance, on both sides of the double-door, there was 2 tables with various equipments on them. Nova-voice : '' I will start with something that have the potential to be used for a Civil or Military purpose.'' Then he took and put on him what looked like a simple gray-blue vest with a few dark colored squares on it. '' This vest here is in fact an ''Omni Medical-Armor'' and is the latest union of our medical and advance robotic technology. This vest monitors in permanence ALL the health signs of the person and will react to them accordingly...'' '' If I cut myself, get hit with a bullet, get burned by an energy weapon or anything physical, the OMA immediately dispatch various medics in order to stabilize and heal the person, if the damages are light. In case of heavy damages, the system will release a controlled quantity of medical nano-bots. The OMA also have a special ''Hazards Detection Unit'' that allows it to detect and analyze almost any chemical, biological and radiation types known and to dispatch what's needed to counter them, along with nano-bots if the exposition is heavy. The armor properties are also pretty high, since its made from some strong, but light metal alloys and a material that I will show you soon.'' '' But before I continue, do you have any questions ?'' OOC : For the ''Sapphire Transparent Material'', that I will soon talk : www.photonic.saint-gobain.com/transparent-armor.aspx Colonel Nakhi Welhan"Interesting armor indeed. Our combat armor is similar, but we don't have the nano-bots. Our Emperor was rather... afraid of robots to be honest. However, if I had the full set with me, then I would show you, but I don't have the full set. Well, I don't have the heavy armor anyway. That is the one with all the features in it. The best thing about the light combat armor is that if you wore something over it, no one would ever notice. "Anyway, please continue."
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Apr 17, 2010 21:10:43 GMT -5
Post by Kingdoms of Cal on Apr 17, 2010 21:10:43 GMT -5
The duke smiled at one of his honour guard who folded what looked like silver paper into a bird and placed two wires to it. Then threw it to the ground, it landed with a tinkle.
The duke said nothing as it had landed in front of a guard, he expected that a guard from these people would stand on it. He was likely to find him self in need of medical care. The crane was solid metal now and very sharp. The commonwealth did not have FTL, but was advanced especially in materials.
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Apr 17, 2010 21:21:26 GMT -5
Post by The Anean Star Empire on Apr 17, 2010 21:21:26 GMT -5
General IX
I saw one of the soldiers from Cal messing with something and then toss it to the ground. I walked toward the back of the room and saw something on the ground. I kneeled down and picked it up. I took a look at it and, since I assumed it was paper, I tried to crumble it up.
It cut my hand and I dropped it. Calmly, I said to the Duke, "What the hell was that?"
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Apr 17, 2010 21:28:25 GMT -5
Post by Kingdoms of Cal on Apr 17, 2010 21:28:25 GMT -5
Leck smiled "You asked us to show our technology, well there you have one example. Paper that turns to metal, when a small charge is applied. I am sorry you got cut, but us backwards nations would have thought you would have known that."
Leck smiled "We after all so inferior to you."
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Apr 17, 2010 21:37:19 GMT -5
Post by The Anean Star Empire on Apr 17, 2010 21:37:19 GMT -5
I want to kill the Emperor right now. I also want to knock the Duke out. However, I will refrain from doing the latter and save the former for later.
I whispered to the Duke, "Don't ever use words that are not mine against me. The Emperor is bluffing all this, for the most part. He hates war and won't use it. Just figured I should tell you that before he directly threatens a war. Can you please get rid of that thing as well?"
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Apr 17, 2010 22:01:14 GMT -5
Post by Kingdoms of Cal on Apr 17, 2010 22:01:14 GMT -5
The duke was picking up useful information he whispered back "I am truly sorry, I assumed the emperor spoke for you. As for this" he continued indicating the crane.
"File down the edges and it would make a good gift for someone, if they know it's metal, perhaps your mate?"
Leck was just finding out where his people stood. He felt the emperor was bluffing anyway, as he was to willing to threaten people. It smelt of someone who could not produce the forces he was used to.
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Apr 17, 2010 22:06:35 GMT -5
Post by The Anean Star Empire on Apr 17, 2010 22:06:35 GMT -5
"Oh okay. I guess that'd work then."
I picked the crane up and headed back toward the front of the room. I stuck it carefully into one of the pockets of my uniform. Now I just have to listen to the Emperor's lies for another... well, until this ends.
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Apr 17, 2010 22:19:39 GMT -5
Post by The Union of Tinis on Apr 17, 2010 22:19:39 GMT -5
Cecil was curious about the dynamics of the situation. Despite the language barrier it was very obvious that Cal was posturing, the Aneans were focused on trying to establish themselves as a strong but peaceful people, and the Miokalians were being enigmatic observers.
The curious bit about the exchange of course was why Cal gave an example of their material techniques? And to even explain it a little? Maybe they were trying to back down without looking like they were. If the Aneans were as advanced as they seemed to be insisting they'd surely either already have this kind of thing in some form or else be able to take it apart and figure out how to recreate it. So by providing a 'firm example' of the Cal advantage they were effectively saying 'well met' while continuing their posturing. Of course Cecil wasn't to keen on the uses of the technology so maybe it was the equivalent of a gag gift. So the Baron was either foolish, doing some sort of round about gifting, or just being a trickster. Cecil could live with any of these. He had never met Leck previously and was kicking himself for not reading up on him before the meeting.
But still the mystery of the Emperor and the General. The usual games were not totally evident. But that was likely as they came from worlds very far removed from this one. But the nearest he could figure was a poor attempt at bad cop good cop. But either the Emperor was very bad at being a good cop or was trying to be a very very sneaky bad cop.
Cecil needed more information. He looked at the Miokalians with the look of 'aren't you going to say something?'
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Apr 17, 2010 22:30:15 GMT -5
Post by Kingdoms of Cal on Apr 17, 2010 22:30:15 GMT -5
Leck was putting thing together, the empire had FTL, but was not that far ahead of the rest of the fed in other respects. Certainly not the southern powers, these people were not a supreme alphas as they portrayed them selves and were not as united as they appeared. He was a lupine so though in these terms, but one unlike his 'father' who could think in other ways.
The emperor was weak here...hmm.
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Apr 17, 2010 22:50:47 GMT -5
Post by miokalia on Apr 17, 2010 22:50:47 GMT -5
Meanwhile the Miokalian delegation looked on in some degree of shock at the bizzare direction things were taking.
Plumaas, who was already on edge, practically expecting spontaneous escalation by either side to erupt again or further than it had, finally spoke:
"If this is not a good time to have a cautious and friendly diplomatic conference with the intergalactic entity which just landed on this planet then perhaps we should do this conference at a different time.
Since everyone else seems to be ignoring diplomatic politeness in a situation which honestly demands it, I'm going to be blunt." She then addressed the emporer, "I apologize, the Calie delegation may come off as confrontational, but they don't mean to be offensive and they can be really great trade partners once you get to know them."
She then turned to Zoro and asked privately, "Why the hell didn't they send someone closer in to Salato, this Duke must have lost his mind, allowing a member of the Anean delegation to be injured by that veritable booby-trap of 'demonstration' object."
Targh had a claw on his firearm, expecting something to go wrong after that stunt. Although he wasn't particularly confident about it. He privately said to Plumaas and Zoro: "Dol soshanse ekkoruut do darlanghareh nargen sulpoh kuh korry dankizee" "There is a considerable possibility that if things escalate violently, then our firearms will be insufficient for self defense."
Plumaas awknowledged with a concerned look.
Zoro looked considerably preoccupied with a paw on his forehead.
Over the earbud, Sd. Andertol was considerably perturbed by what he was hearing of the conference through Plumaas' headset.
He said over the earbud: "I've sent a communication to Calie Prime Minister Eye Salato regarding the situation at the conference. I hope she can reign-in the duke some.
Apparateur Qualt has put us on POSCON 4* due to the Anean Emporer's language. He doesn't want to take the risk if it turns out he's not being rhetorical and the fleet that he said he is "not afraid to use". He's being cautious."
*POSCON - Miokalia's scale of alert posture for the military and civil defense services which is analogous or similar to the DEFCON scale in the US. (Where POSCON 5 is normal peacetime status and POSCON 1 is a definitely imminent conflict.)
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Apr 17, 2010 23:02:41 GMT -5
Post by The Anean Star Empire on Apr 17, 2010 23:02:41 GMT -5
General IX
Nakhi watched me walk back up to the front, but I grabbed his arm and pulled him out of the room. He went with me willingly enough, but he is going to be pissed.
I said to him, "What the hell do you think you are doing? We are not dealing with galactic powers. You need to hold back a lot. We may have 300 million soldiers, but they cannot help us if we go to war. I am turning control of the conference over to K'an."
Nakhi said, "What? You cannot do that!"
"You gave me control of this colony, so this is my territory. If you continue to argue with me, I will kick you off this island."
"That is treason!"
"Watch where you throw that word around. You are endangering millions. I will NOT stand for that! You are not coming back into the room."
I walked back in and headed over to K'an. I whispered to her, "I kicked Nakhi out because he was causing a danger. I want you to take it from here.
She walked up to the podium and said, "I am sorry for any threats that my husband made. He's too reliant on military power, even if we are in another galaxy. Whatever he said was grossly exaggerated. I did not want it to come to this, but I did not want to step in yet. Anyway, let us continue this meeting and hopefully forget anything that was said."
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Apr 17, 2010 23:17:14 GMT -5
Post by Nova25 on Apr 17, 2010 23:17:14 GMT -5
Colonel Nakhi Welhan"Interesting armor indeed. Our combat armor is similar, but we don't have the nano-bots. Our Emperor was rather... afraid of robots to be honest. However, if I had the full set with me, then I would show you, but I don't have the full set. Well, I don't have the heavy armor anyway. That is the one with all the features in it. The best thing about the light combat armor is that if you wore something over it, no one would ever notice. "Anyway, please continue." OOC : I would kindly try to remember at some people to not try to be God-Mod... right... This is valid to any people with advanced technologies, since a Nation can't have developed EVERY SINGLE technologies possible for EVERY technological paths possible... OOC : I am not targeting someone in particular... Just try to be careful with the ''technological superiority'' thing, ok ? ------------------------- Nova smiled at the Colonel mention of their lack of nano-robots. Nova-voice : '' Here in Suikodan, we like to use nano-bots for various reasons... We also like AI, even if we have few of them, for now at least...'' Nova then took what looked like a small metallic backpack and installed it on the back of the OMA he was wearing and a small reddish pistol. '' I will now show you 3 things at once, but before that... Just step back a little and stay behind the protective ''material''.'' Nova went to the empty space, in the left part of the room, then pressed a button. Suddenly, what seemed like a large wall of glass went up from the ground and closed the left part of the room. '' I will show you the high resistance properties of the Sapphire Transparent Armor material, the power of this Laser-pistol and the Personal Shield Generator... Activate simulation #1.'' From the panels located on the back wall and the ground, came various turrets and some small walls of STA near Nova. He quickly run to take cover behind a wall of STA and pressed a button on the small metallic backpack. What could seem like a cloud of static-electricity appeared at a few centimeters around Nova and then he got up from behind the barricade. As the turrets were firing various sizes of bullets at him, Nova quickly went from a barricade to another while firing quick shots of his laser-pistol. Any bullets that were able to hit him seemed to simply stop right on their track and fell on the ground and every bullets hitting the STA walls weren't able to make a scratch. Every shots of the laser-gun were doing devastating damages to the turrets, making them melt while the few shots that were hitting the STA walls weren't doing much to it. Then, almost as quickly as it started, everything was finished. Everything returned inside the spaces behind the panels and the separation wall slowly went down. Nova-voice : '' Humph... I don't do that very often... I hope I didn't surprised you too much... or I mean that I hope this demonstration surprised you a bit...'' Nova was recovering his breath, while he was waiting for the comments of the Colonel, hoping this ''bright'' demonstration would impress the Anean Outsider. OOC : Sapphire Transparent Armor : www.photonic.saint-gobain.com/transparent-armor.aspx
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Apr 17, 2010 23:45:50 GMT -5
Post by The Anean Star Empire on Apr 17, 2010 23:45:50 GMT -5
OOC: I think I might have said that part wrong about the armor. By all the features, I meant that it had like a HUD in the helmet, heartbeat sensors, a display showing armor damage. I didn't mean it had everything possible.
Colonel Nakhi Welhan
"Now that was impressive! I wish we had stuff like that. I am sure we could trade something for that. I guess we are much different than your people. We went a route of more armor, more metal kind of thing. I am sure that that stuff is light.
"About the only thing I can show you now though is our light armor. Only because I am wearing it right now. Remember what I said about being able to wear something over it and no one noticing? Well, I might as well be completely honest with you. I wore it only because I thought that there was a threat when coming here.
"I would go into another long story, but I would rather not bore you again." I laughed a little hoping that he would know that was a joke.
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Apr 18, 2010 1:49:54 GMT -5
Post by miokalia on Apr 18, 2010 1:49:54 GMT -5
At the Ice Tray, in ZCFD, Miokalia
Secretary Tajir Vuela Konig had assembled the entire cabinet and the Malych cabal due to the situation at the conference.
"Gentlecritters, it seems that we're looking at the possibility of finding ourselves faced with a scenario previously limited to the realms of science fiction. You will all find in front of you a transcript of the exchange which occured between Duke Leck and the Anean Emporer. That is: the Emporer of that Intergalactic Empire which can hustle something across roughly a ten-thousandth of the diameter of the entire universe in a handful of hours. In the event that this turns sour and diplomacy collapses, we cannot be certain of what this power will do. We do not know nearly enough about them to make specific assumptions. So then, we must assume then that any combat action they take on this planet in response may be global regardless of jurisdiction and they may conduct war in a manner which is exterminatory to civilians."
She paused for a moment, letting the severity of that hypothetical worse-case scenario sink in.
"Of course, he may also just be trying to scare the Duke. But I do have to say he certainly is doing a great job of scaring everyone else too. I hope to the gods that there are some reasonable people in the Emporer's circle who can keep this sabre-rattling from turning into something like a US-Cuban Missile Crisis.
If this situation does escalate, the only technologies I'm aware of are going to be of minimal effect. With that I yield the floor to Apparateur Qualt."
She sat back down and let Qualt take over from there, "In a best case scenario, even if we are able to get in contact with our closest extrasolar ally, Corona Beta VII.MZ* is still 2 lightyears away, and we're closer to FTL than they are. Based on our dialogue, they would likely not be able to protect us from the possible and implied size of the Anean fleet.
I am going to be very clear with you...", said the robot dragon to the cabinet, "There is no way we can fight a war with them, even technology aside, they have far more resources. We must avoid armed conflict... " He avoided adding "...at all costs" to avoid starting an ideological argument among the cabinet members.
Vuela stood up again and said, "Well, that is... sobering.
Now that we've addressed that terrible possible scenario somewhat, we need to get another diplomatic envoy on standby so we can restart dialogue with the Anean Empire if the current one collapses."
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at the conference
Plumaas said, "Madam K'an, I respect your intent to start fresh with this meeting, and I am willing to do so as well. However, my country is in an elevated state of defensive alert in response to the direction this conference was taking prior to the General's intervention. So I need reassurance that the Emporer did not just go back there and order the annihilation of billions of people. I don't mean to be impolite, but I am obligated my by duties to address this matter."
[[[OOC: * I have cleared this with Izixs. It is a (completely fictitious) planet 2 lightyears away in orbit around a small brown-dwarf star (easily overlooked by telescope) which the Federation has made contact with and has a limited communication with. There has been no physical travel between the Federation and this planet yet during the modern era at least. It is not a colony of any fur-fed nation. I'm working on the write-up. ]]]
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Apr 18, 2010 7:20:24 GMT -5
Post by The Anean Star Empire on Apr 18, 2010 7:20:24 GMT -5
at the conferencePlumaas said, "Madam K'an, I respect your intent to start fresh with this meeting, and I am willing to do so as well. However, my country is in an elevated state of defensive alert in response to the direction this conference was taking prior to the General's intervention. So I need reassurance that the Emporer did not just go back there and order the annihilation of billions of people. I don't mean to be impolite, but I am obligated my by duties to address this matter." Empress K'an Welhan"I understand and share your concerns. To be honest, he is too used to having to threaten with military power to get a point across. However, that was in a galaxy where just about everyone was out to kill us. He hasn't changed with the times so to speak. "While yes, we do have an army of about three hundred million, and yes we do have a massive space fleet, we are not going to use them. Genocide and war are our last intentions. If the General had not intervened, I am sure that the latter might have happened. "To be honest, the Emperor has a natural dislike for any Federation. The reason for that is that the Anean Empire fought a war against the Galactic Federation back in Andromeda. That was a long destructive war. Billions were killed and a whole generation was scarred with the horror of true combat. "Since then he has been a militaristic ruler. Our military power has increased by leaps and bounds, but at the cost of any real diplomacy. I am more or less for that. Anyway, the cooler minds are back in control. "To directly address your concern about an order, that specific kind has to go through the Senate and through me. We need confirmation from half the Senate and my approval. If even my approval is not there, then it cannot go ahead. If he were to give that order, then I am sure IX and Rio would intervene quickly."
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