Project: New Life

[Aluez]

5 A.S.

It had been three years coming since the purchase of the orbital battlegroup from the Colonial Republic, it had been three years coming for them to escape from this planet for some, for others, a chance to make an unlivable world into something amazing.

Now the project known only as 'New Life' stood ready for launch. All eleven ships they had repainted, refitted with special launchers, and loaded with their ammunition for this project. They just hoped no other nations would catch onto their project and try to interfere.

Tod stood on the bridge of the UNS Victory, looking down at the planet below, a smile plastered across his face as his three year old child stood behind him, who was just as awestruck as he was at how pretty the planet was when they could actually admire it's beauty. For reasons unknown, he was wearing his TEL uniform, yet had the markings and merits from both sides.

"Mama? What will pleuto be like?" asks James, looking up at his parent with a curious gleam in his eye.

Tod chuckled a bit at the cute mispronunciation from his child. "It'll be icy, and cold... and dark, but once we are done with it James, it'll be livable and able to be called an almost second Gaia within about 30 years or so"

"Soo I'd be a big boy by time it ish like here?"

"Indeed... Tisra, report on your end" he smiled as the window came up on the view screen.

"We're ready to go once our escort starts to move, well... escort and teacher I should say" she chuckles and smiles a bit. "Think Indigo is driven insane yet?"

"Never know, Ricky is always a hyperactive kit... I'll go check on him in the lounge after we reach pluto"

[The Anean Star Empire]

Fleet Admiral Luca Rio, ASF Enterprise II

IX's hologram followed me down the hall of the Enterprise. He's been briefing me on everything about this mission. I've been saying, 'I know' for the last 20 minutes.

"Just stay safe alright? It'll only be a couple years. Once you come back, Haroma will be unrecognizable... compared to now."

"What's the worst that can happen? I am in the most advanced and powerful Anean starship in the Milky Way."

"Fair enough."

I stepped through the door and into the bridge. I adjusted my Fleet Admiral uniform. This is tighter too compared to when I first got it 4 years ago. I need to lose a little weight.

I sat down in my seat and IX's hologram sat down in the one to my left. I opened communications through the ship and said, "Are we set to start the mission?"

"This is Engineering, everything is green."

"Life Support here, everything is online."

The First Officer sat down. "We're good to go ma'am."

I opened communications to the Aluezi ships. Before I could say anything, IX spoke. "This is Emperor Isaiah Xaimoungkhoun of the New Anean Star Empire. The Enterprise is ready for the mission. Carry on with the mission when everyone else is ready."

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Annihilator I
Annihilator III
Annihilator IV (Enterprise)

[Aluez]

10 Annihilator I's and a III, all of them bearing the traditional white and red coating of the Elite Guard. Even the engines were burning a different color compared to the Anean ships.

"This is UNS Victory, we are ready to proceed whenever you are" says Tod, before moving over to his chair and sitting down, his son crawling up into his lap and a single arm coming around the youngsters waist to hold him close. "Ships report in status"

"UNS Baghdad, Shields are down, but we are ready to move"

"UNS Lou, we are ready to move on your order"

"UNS Hawaii II, we are ready for action"

"UNS Hawaii, ready for duty"

"UNS Frankfurt, reporting for duty"

"UNS Helsinki V, Engines are fine, reporting in"

"UNS Mad Man, lets kill a planet!"

"UNS Liberty, Reporting for duty and honor"

"UNS Manhatten, reporting for duty and honor"

"UNS Beijing, reporting for duty"

Tod nodded and took rollcall, before smiling when all checked out. "Enter warp in 3... 2..."

The battlegroup began to move forward before engaging their hyperdrives, disappearing in a flash of blueish-white light.

[The Anean Star Empire]

Fleet Admiral Luca Rio

"Activate the warp drive and get us to Pluto." Several seconds passed with nothing. I asked, "LucAI, is our warp drive online?"

"Negative. There seems to be a malfunction. I recommend proceeding on impulse power."

"Why didn't you tell me that?"

"Because you sitting there with a determined look for those seconds was priceless before realizing it didn't work."

"How long until we get it fixed or until we reach Pluto like this?"

"On impulse, up to 12 hours. Unless we figure out what happened, then it could be about the same. I will inform you if it comes back online."

"You do that. Get us to Pluto on impulse power."

I stood up and took the uniform jacket off. I don't need it right now. Unless I get this fixed, it's going to be a long flight. I am heading down to Engineering to see if I can do anything about it.

As I got on the lift, I said, "Luc, put me through to the UNS Victory."

"Connection established."

"This is Fleet Admiral Rio, we have encountered a problem with the warp drive. Unless it gets working, we'll be arriving in 12 hours according to the AI."

"Would you like me to put communications from them through to whatever room you are in?"

"Please. Even though I'll probably be working on the warp core."

This isn't going well. If I get down there, hit it with a wrench multiple times, and it works again, someone is dying.

[Aluez]

Tod overheard the news before replying. "Right, we will hold off on stage one until you arrive, don't wanna miss the fireworks show now do ya" he chuckles softly before smiling when the group came out of jump, in orbit of the icy world.

The ships slowly surrounded the planet and prepared to fire their weapons on the command that they were ready to begin phase one of the project.

[The Anean Star Empire]

Fleet Admiral Luca Rio

I stepped off the lift and into Engineering. There's only a few people here and no one seems concerned with the warp drive. Nor did anyone even notice me.

With a sharp whistle, I got the attention of everyone. "Hello! We have a warp drive malfunction and yet you're doing nothing to solve it! Get on it or I will have to do it myself!"

No one moved.

I picked a wrench up off a table and headed for the core. It will require me to crawl through a small tunnel to get in a position to "repair" it.

LucAI played Tod's response through the tunnel.

"Good to know he's so thoughtful."

Once I got to the other side, there were two engineering people working on the drive.

"Luc, have you figured out what's wrong?"

"Negative."

I took the wrench and bashed it against the side with a loud clang. "Better?"

"No."

I did it 3 more times before LucAI finally said, "Damn, it worked. The warp drive is online. Heading to Pluto. Also putting you through to the Victory. Connection established."

"This is Rio again. You won't believe it, but apparently 4 well placed wrench hits will fix a warp drive. Don't try that on your ships. We'll be back with you in... 5 to 10 minutes."

[Aluez]

Tod blinked when he heard the news, how odd... Figures the Anean ships liked abuse! "Great!" he clapped his hands before doing a surface scan of the planet to log what it looked like before the process. "At least you'll be here in a faster mode, and so the planet can be bombarded!" he chuckles softly before lighting up a strange cigar. "I will see you soon I suppose!"

The ships continued to orbit the planetoid as they scanned the surface, finding a very unusual structure on the surface. It seemed that someone had been here before them... but not for very long as the structural decay indicated it had been there for at least 2000 years.

[The Anean Star Empire]

Fleet Admiral Luca Rio

We dropped out of warp as soon as I sat down on the bridge again. IX's hologram disappeared so I assume that he went back to work on Haroma. Hell if I know what he's up to there. Probably helping the people rebuild the palace so he has a place to live.

I would tell the Aluezi I am here, but they probably already know. If not, then 'Enterprise' is very clearly pained on the front. If they miss that, then they must be blind.

An ensign brought a cup of coffee over. I took it, took a sip, and then set it in the cup holder. I managed to convince IX to build the new Enterprise with one just for my coffee.

Screw it, I'm talking.

"Rio again, we've arrived if you couldn't tell."

LucAI said, "Oh, forgot to open communications. They're open now."

I sighed and said, "Rio again, we've arrived if you couldn't tell."

[Aluez]

They of course noticed, and as soon as they hailed in, the first phase began. All across the planet, rockets were fired down into the atmosphere, exploding at a certain depth and causing immense electrical activity throughout the atmosphere of the icy world. The planet itself being covered in silvery flashes as they bombarded it, a few even impacting on the surface from going too deep.

"Tisra speaking, Tod is out" she smiled and squirmed about in his chair, watching the fireworks show as it began to occur all over the planet, knowing they were going to be here a while. "Hope you're enjoying the show as much as I am Luca, maybe one day this planet will be a second earth!"

"Ma'am, something strange is happening in the atmosphere near the northern poles!" shouts one of the ensigns, zooming in on the anomaly which showed what looked like a hurricane the size of north america beginning to form at the north pole. "Is... that normal?"

"Yes, we expected such an anomaly from the sudden rise in temperature... looks like my fears were right and our project is gonna be stuck for a few years" says Alison as she came into the conversation from the UNS Liberty. "The wind speed on the storm so far is 200 Km/H, but we expect it to get much more violent and dangerous as time progresses... at least until the planet stops having a temper tantrum"

"Right," Tisra snorted softly. "Continue the bombardment, expect the planet to fuss... as long as nothing starts shooting at us we're fine"

[The Anean Star Empire]

Fleet Admiral Luca Rio

"Enjoy? Feels like I'm back in the Third Fed War with my ASF task force. Then again, we've never caused storms like that in our bombardments.

"I enjoyed it though as I am enjoying this now. Brings back memories I thought I'd never live again.

"Also, since I hate speaking like this to people not too far away, would you mind if I came aboard? Easier for me to work like that."

[Aluez]

Tod chuckled a bit as he walked back on the bridge, carrying James upside down by his ankles and having Ricky clinging to his back. "You gonna give up, son?"

"NEVER!"

Tisra giggled a bit at the question before nodding. "But of course, you're always welcome on this ship Luca" she smiled before looking over at the two bickering foxes. "You two look adorable when you fight!"

"Yea? Well he shouldn't be so mean to his brother" he snickers and spins him right side up, setting him down on the floor before ruffling his hair. "Now you gonna be nice to Ricky?"

"Yes mommy..." he pouts a bit. "But will he be nice to me?"

"Yes he will... he's harmless!"

[The Anean Star Empire]

Fleet Admiral Luca Rio

Let's be funny.

Thankfully I know how these ships work and I doubt they made any changes to the systems and I know about where the guest seat on the III's bridge is.

"LucAI, set the transporters to take me from here to the guest seat on the Victory."

"Really? Are you that damn lazy you won't even get up?"

"Yes."

"Fair enough. Beginning transport."

After what felt like only a moment I materialized in the seat. I sure hope there was no one there already or I'd be sitting in their lap now...

Though I wonder how many would complain about that...

[Aluez]

Tisra squeaked out when she felt something sit down on top of her. Something heavy. After squirming about, she poked her head out between Luca's legs before glaring up at hir. "I hate to say this. I like your crotch in my face, but dammit, get up offa me!" she says, trying to pull herself from under hir.

Tod blinks and walks over to the two, snickering a bit and covering his mouth as he did so, only to snap his attention back to the two boys when they started to play, watching them closely to make sure they weren't going to start fighting again.

[The Anean Star Empire]

Fleet Admiral Luca Rio

I got up pretty fast when I heard that. I guess I accomplished the funny part.

"Shit, sorry. Never know what's going to happen with those transporters. Especially when I use them."

I walked over and gave Tod a hug.

"How's my little doggy?"

If I remember correctly, he hates that.

[Aluez]

Tisra stood up and shook all over before hopping over into Tod's chair, growling a little before smiling softly at the two hugging, wagging her tail slowly. "Aww... two lovers find one-another again?" she snickers before getting glomped by the two kits. "EEP!"

Tod grumbled a bit and pinned his ears back when he was called a 'doggy', pressing noses with hir with a soft whimper. "Please don't call me a dog..."