UEG-Section 8 1st Recon
5/22/3863-ALR
SHANXI-ODP PLATFORM

So much for that down time, I lamented in my head. It had been one week since the Turians attack on Shanxi and I had been transferred to one of the six ODP platforms now in geosynchronous orbit around Shanxi. The platforms had already been underway to Shanxi before the attack but the scientists were to overzealous in the activation of the
‘Mass Relay ‘and had paid for it now they were here to make shore another invasion would fail in it happened.

The Orbital Defense Platform (ODP) is a kinetic Rail Gun installation on pair with a NIGHTMARE class Dreadnought’s main gun, it fires a 3,000 ton round at 12,000Km/s and has an impact force of 51.6 Gigatons of TNT, and has a fire-reload time of five seconds, this gun is able to destroy any ship in the fleet including the NIGHTMARE class Dreadnoughts, it is theorized even if a ships shields or armor could take a ODP round and hold the thermo-energy transfer would vaporize the target. This is why every colony has at least three in orbit at all times and the home world has over five hundred in orbit packed into clusters in geosincranis orbit above major city centers, with Canterlot having the largest with fifty.

Also the relay is now under heavy guard with over one hundred ships within firing range of the relay and fifty DISCORD class AI’s on jamming duty should anything come trough the relay.

“This is the dreadnought VICTORY the relay is live, repeat the relay is live.”

“Speak of the devil, perfect timing don’t you think?” Cynder asked me.

“Ya, I almost feel bad for the birds, there is sixty Dreadnoughts in firing range alone, not to mention the big guns in the ODPs.”

“This is VICTORY relay transport complete, AI’s are jamming, wait…. Theirs only one ship and it dose not match known Turian designs specifications.”

“Does not match, what could this mean?” I asked Cynder.

“I do not know, the ship appears to have no weapons and it is sending out a signal that has been repeating every ten seconds, the AI’s are trying to find out what it is.”

“ This is VICTORY the ship is sending out a first contact message, they call themselves ‘Asari ‘ and they appear to want to talk and resolve the conflict before it escalates into full blown war.”

“Damn, the princesses will just LOVE this shit, ‘Sorry we wiped Shanxi on the map can you please not kill us?’

“It is better then open war Steven, besides we do not know what there really capable of, for all we know the Turians at Shanxi could have been pirates or slavers, besides it is not for you to decide that is the Princesses jobs.”

“True well let’s get to CIC and watch.” I said as I started to pick up my pace.

Council political ship
Asari
Five minutes before relay jump

Matriarch Benezia could not believe the actions of the Turians, they had attacked race of un-known aliens for trying to activate a Mass Relay. A dangerous action yes and it is against Citadel Council law, but this new species could not have known either facts, but alas the Turians with their military zealousness had open fire on the obviously harmless vessel and then had the gal to attack the world the ship had came from.

Then in a horrifying act the Turians basically wiped the colony off the map. They took the survivors of the attack and detained and studied them. The race appears to be quadruped in stance like the Elcor, but that is were the similarities end. They are only three feet in height. They are covered in a coat of fur that can apparently be any verity of colors. There are also three distinct types of the four legged organisms, one type has wings and are capeable of flight although this is unknown how because of the relation of the ‘wings’ and the mass of the body, another with a single horn on its head. These are the ones that interest her the most because every one of these types posses Biotics, and another with neither wings nor a horn. They were almost completely peaceful and the Turians did not have a single casualty.

That all changed one week after the colony was taken, seventeen ships had appeared on the edge of the system through unknown means and put out an
Order, ‘Stop attacking or die’ was the gist of the message. Instead of accepting the offer the turain general had spat in the face of the enemy commander and paid of it. From the reports the largest ship was just larger then the flagship protecting the citadel. But the size of the ships was not what was of concern to her, what was of concern was the way the majority of the fleet was destroyed the Turian Dreadnought was completely shut down by massive tec attack carried out by AI’s. Then all coms were cut and the enemy fleet opened fire on the Turian ships. Each impact resulting in a destroyed or disabled ship, a total of twenty two ships to four enemy ships destroyed. In short a war with this race would be devastating, their ground side abilities are unknown but likely small consitering their biology. So the Asari were sent in to hopefully defuse the situation before it turned to total war.

“Ms. Benezia we are exiting the relay soon.” Said the navigation officer.

“Good be ready to transmit the signal and jump to FTL just in case” She replyed.

“Exiting in 3… 2… 1… no-“

At that moment every shipboard system was cut off line except for gravity and life support.

“WHAT JUST HAPPENED” yelled Benezia.

“We just lot control of all systems were locked out… Just like the Turians” answered a technician.

“Get me a picture of the surrounding space.”

Benezia soon regretted that request.

“Here you are ma’am”

What she found that the fleet of seventeen ships had been replaced with a fleet of well over one hundred and fifty war ships and a cluster of in-orbit defenses.

By the goddess, all of this in a week? Benezia thought. Their must be peace war would be problematic.

“Um. Ma’am we have COMs back.”

“What, how did you do that?”

“I did not, they just came back on, nothing else just COMS. What do we do?”

“Send the message, and pray they answer.”

The com officer sent the message and the crew whated for a reply. Thirty minutes latter they got one.

A female voice came over the coms and said “You will be boarded, move all crewmembers to the bridge, any resistance will be met with lethal force this is your one and only warning we will not be as merciful as we were to the Turians.” And then the COMs were turned off ones more.

A lingering thought echoed in her mind and she voiced it to the crew of her ship.

“They were merciful to the Turians?”

UEG-Section 8 1st Recon
5/22/3863-ALR
SHANXI-ON WAY TO ASARI SHIP

So the Aliens want play nice now that we kicked the shit out of them I thought as the Sky Crane docked with the Asari ship. NAVCOM had decided to allocate three members of the 8th for this fun little endeavor, I had never worked with these two before but that would be no problem as per protocol we were to name each other by our numbers I was S-003, the other two were P-045, and J-117, and of coarse each of our Alicorn class AI’s. According to the Shipboard AI’s that hacked into the ships systems there should be twenty Asari onboard the ship and little forms of weapons onboard. The AI’s still had a hold on their systems and had taken all the data the ship held on the UEG and apparently they had no knowledge of the humans of the UGE so there was bound to be a scare and we were told to only fire unless in danger of casualties.

“Makes me wonder why we even brought guns, the weapons off the manifest are unable to down your shields before you would be able to safely pacify the shooter.” Said Cynder aloud.

“Yes, so no firing unless I say so.” I said.

All that came as a response was two green lights on my HUD. At that moment the doors opened and we stepped out denting the floor with our multy-ton weight.

“Move to the bridge and secure the crew” I ordered

ASARI

The bridge crew we whispering to themselves as they waited for the boarding teams to arrive, Benezia was about to try and calm the assembled Asari but was interrupted by an officer saying “Stop, did anyone else hear that?”

“Ya, I think I did hear something.”

“SHH. Be silent.” Benezia warned.

There was a sound, it was a thumping that was getting closer, and it sounded like a group of Krogan but…. Heavier. And by the sound of it they were getting closer.

THUMP

THUMP

THUMP

It stopped? Their at the door, and said door decided it would be a good time to stop working and not open.

“Some one see if we can get that door open, we must cooperate.” Benezia ordered

A tec was about to do just that when a loud sound stopped everyone in there tracks.

BOOM

“Did they just try to blow the door off?” someone said.

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM.

Benezia then saw something that made her face pail slightly and made a guard ask “Is that a dent?”

Her answer came in a form a fist punching through the door and disappearing back through.

“They just punched through an air tight door” said an officer flatly.

As the pair of armored gantlets was in the act of dismantling the locking mechanisms on the door Benezia steeped to the front of the group and put on a calm face. The door was then forced open and three vary intimidating things steeped through the now open door.

What she assumed was a mech was around seven to eight feet in height. Bipedal in stance, and covered in armor as blue as her skin, there were also bright white spots on the knee, elbow, and shoulder areas; it also had four ‘eyes’ which were scanning her crew. Just a she was about to speak it interrupted her in a robotic like voice.

“Are you the captain of this vessel?” the one in front of her asked.

Benezia only nodded her head hopping the mech would understand the gesture.

“Vary well, you will come with me, you and your crew will be detained onboard the Dreadnought VICTORY, any hostile action will be seen as an act of war, am I understood?” The mech said.

“Ok, go with them peacefully.” Benezia told her crew.

The mechs began to take the crew to there ship that was now docked with her ship and the one in front of her gilded her to the docking port.

“Will my crew be harmed, were are you taking them?” Benezia asked.

“Your crew is being taken to the hanger, they will not be harmed, not unless they try to harm us, in that case the hanger doors will be opened” The mech answered.

We at least they gave us the benefit of the dought. But she had one more thing she wanted to know.

“Were are you taking me?”

“You are being taken to the war room you may talk to the Captain there, and if nee be one of the Princesses. If you do talk to one of them be as respect full as possible the crew is vary…..loyal to them, and so am I.”

“If I may ask, what are you?”

“I am Human, the other major races in the UEG govermints are the ponies, and the Assembly”

Pony, hmm so that’s what they call themselves, and this ‘human’ his kind is vary…. Impressive, but what as this Assembly? Benezia thought.

At that moment the airlock on the docking clamp opened and she was treated to a wary pleasant sight. The UEG apparently puts a lot of care into the design and construction of there ships, and has massive amounts of resources... There was gold, and other inlays all throughout the hall she was in, the walls were designed in a vary comforting way, it mad her feel at peace, she could not belive this was a ship of war. Then she took in the other races that surounded, ponys only took sideways glances at her a retuned to their work and some even smiled at her, not to be rude she smiled back. But something was nagging at her.

“Were are the Humans?”

“The ships of the fleet are many crewed by ponies, there are some humans onboard but they would be in the hanger or fighter bays.” The Human answered.”

They then reached a door and the human typed some commands into a touch screen to the left of the door and then the door opened to a fairly large room in which a large table dominated the room. The human stepped in and she fallowed him in.

After a couple of minutes the door opened to revel a pony. It was purple in color and had an odd symbol on its flank, a group of stars. The human and pony exchanged words in there native tongue, witch sounded heavenly even when the Human spoke it. After a couple of seconds of talking the pony looked at her and smiled.

“Hello I am General Twilight Sparkle commander of this fleet, and you must be Matriarch Benezia.”

Benezia stood up and introduced her self, “Yes General, it is good to meet you.”

“Please call me Twilight; now I want you to tell me about your self and this Citadel Council your race is a part of.”

“Well Twilight that is a long story.”
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I am so sorry for the long time, my flash drive and I had an epic game of hide and seek and I just found it today.