(UEC)

"Come on, Come on, Come on." Commander Polar chants standing beside his command chair.

"Exiting Warp bubble in 3...2...1. Exiting." The helm officer reports as she glanced behind her chair at the commander. The unmanned deep space anchorage appears in the viewport of the ship.

"Helm, get us to next Jump point now!"

"But sir what about the Commendable it's not as fast as us?"

"Leave it behind, they'll buy us time to get to the homeworld untraced." Polar answers staring his helm officer in the eye.

"...yes sir" she responds solemnly.

"Jump in 40 minutes." The navigations officer reported.

"Sir we are getting comms from the Commendable, they are about to come under attack by the two unknowns."

"Video." Polar responds.

"Commander Polar this is UECS GK Commendable requesting assistance." A gryphon says from the other end of the video screen. There are flashing emergency lights, smoke, and screams of anguish in the background audio of the Comendables bridge. The commander takes a deep breath and regains his resolve before responding.

"Negative Commendable the Shimmer is almost at the Jump point. You are ordered to hold them here, and buy us enough time to get home."

"You bastard, you're going to leave us here alone what about the planet, what about the colonists?"

"That planet is under hostile control, and their is more than one way to get their we will shut down the jump gate . The U.E.C thanks you for your service."

"The unknowns are slowing."

"..... No..... Please tell my...."

"Jumping."

After two days of jumps Warp Net bubble flares to life and above the Planet Eques the U.E.C Light Destroyer the EQS Shimmer limps from the warp field its hull a blaze and full of holes. unknown to those inside the Defiant had left them a little gift magnetized to the bottom of their hull. After the Commander was off and on his way to meet the council for his debriefing the gift began counting down.

On the planet a group of humans sang on their way to the execution post. Unfortunately the group never made it because as they were led around a corner another group of humans leaped out and killed the UEC guards. Then there was a flash of light in the sky and despite it being mid day their is a tiny pin prick of light like a distant but bright star. All across the planet those who watched the feed from the Camelot Fleet know the brilliant flash of a human nuclear device detonating in orbit.

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(equestria)

"How could this happen?" King Thorax asked massaging his temples.

"They must have placed one of their archaic nuclear devices on the ship!" Zebra delegate said.

"How?" The changeling king responded.

"I don't know. but they destroyed one of our repair yards." The buffalo delegate said.

"Perhaps we should seek a peaceful solution, find a way to negotiate with this NAC." A yellow pegasus named Fluttershy said

"Impossible, these Humans simply can not be the same as the slaves that have been key in the slave cast of our culture."

"How do you know?"

"Because no human would ever set a child, let alone my sister on fire. They may be savages but this NAC must be eliminated." Rarity said

"Well what about their ships we need a way to counteract their..." The gryphon king began

"I’m sure Twilight would know a way." King Kharne said cutting him off.

"Leave Twi out'a this. We need'a make the NAC pay for what they did to Apple bloom!"

"Well what are we going to do? The humans are in open revolt." Another noble said pounding her fist on the table for emphasis.

"We need to tie this NAC up, slow their advance before it truly begins." Monarch Celestia said calmly.

"But how? With their weapons they can blow our ships out of space before they get close."

"We have taken that into account." The room grows silent as Princess Twilight enters the room followed by a Human of all things dressed in the garb of one of her guards a sympathiser. A Miralos whose chitinous two clawed feet chattered on the tiled floors, The Miralan was being led by a chain around her neck. But The human was wearing the human version of the UEC uniform and carrying an older version of the rifle the humans used slung across his back. He looked to his charge and upon receiving a nood stepped forward towards a display screen.

"Remember we were able to hold our own until the NAC's big ship our analysts have designated as Manticore got into the fight. So if we can engage them without that ship we should be able to take them. While they might be more advanced, security footage from onboard the Dragon's Breath shows that their ground units can be killed by our weapons." The human said as the screen changed from footage of the space battle to the battle on board the Dragon's Breath showing UEC soldiers exchanging fire with the NAC boarding party.

"But Darling what about their ships in orbit they can just bombard us from space." Rarity asked

"I have an idea of how to fix that." Twilight said stepping forward the human immediately steps back standing at parade rest.

"We have fed them intel of a planet we hold close to camelot. We pulled the Reinforcements that were meant for Camelot back and positioned them at the planet Bagmare to reinforce the garrison and fleet there."

"If we can hold them in one place, we can fight them on our terms, they are aggressive, so we think defensively, I have a new defencive measure that I have been working on to try and negate the NAC's orbital bombardment capability."

"Then princess what do you need?"

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(Fallon)

"GO! GO! GO!" The LT shouts as we land on the planet Camelot for the second time. I can see the buildings ahead of us lighting up as the UEC troopers begin firing on us and two lankies. All around us Drop ships are landing and discharging their payloads of Space borne infantry and Territorial army troopers. The wedge shaped Mule LAV's and squat Grizzly main battle tanks with their modular weapon mounts begin rolling out of dropships as shrikes streak overhead. In the distance and in the sky I magnify my helmets display and see Lankie seed pods streaking towards the planet's surface trailed by Wasp and Dragonfly dropships in their wake.

"I almost feel sorry for them." I hear Forbes say beside me as a Lankie emerges from the seed pod that landed one hundred meters from our landing zone. It lets out its ear splitting wail before three more lankies emerge from the pod and begin lumbering towards the UEC's entrenched position. I look behind me to see Miiora who has been embedded with our platoon to act as a liaison between the Slave cast of camelot and NAC ground forces.

"Remember! We are here to evacuate as many people as we can, humans and slave cast only." the Captain says over the platoon channel. After the Lankies proceed to level the offending building we move in. The UEC is more preoccupied with engaging the lankies to worry about us and allow us to meet up with local resistance members slave cast leaders and begin escorting them from the city. The Mules are empty to allow us to ferry more civies back to the fleet in orbit. No matter how you look at it we don't have enough space to evacuate everybody and i know that we are going to leave many of these people to die when the Lankies are done with the UEC. After five hours of taking sporadic fire from UEC troopers we retrieve the order to fallback to the dropships.

"INCOMING!" someone yelled over the squad channel and i see four red threat icons.

"Raid warning, raid warning! get to cover!" I yell over the squad channel as a flight of four Dash delta wing fighters shriek overhead. I see one of our number who failed to find cover fast enough get torn in half by the machine gun of one of the fighters.

"Banshee flight this is Sigma-eight requesting support. Enemy fast movers at sector one-two parallel, heading for the LZ." I say over the fleet channel.

"Copy that Sigma-Eight. Banshee flight inbound." The calm voice of a Shike pilot responds and I hear a boom so loud i have to cover where i assume Miioras ears would be. Two shrikes burst over our heads at supersonic speeds their machine gun that fires forty millimeter grenades at two thousand rounds per minute at the lightly armored UEC Dash fighters, who seem to disintegrate in the distance. Then to my horror one of the shrike's wings explodes as a missile slams into it from the right. The pilot must have been eith knocked out, killed, or unable to deploy the ejection module because their is no shoot as the shrike slammed into the Seed pod in the distance. This is the most dangerous part of an operation any tactician worth his salt would hold his troops back until now to hose down the fat drop ships while they load. But they appear to be done fighting us because i hear another lankie shriek in the Distance as the last of the civilians are loaded into the dropships and we grunts board and we leave.

We land on the Flight Deck of the Leathy most of banshee twos drop ship full of slave cast and body bags. We landed one thousand soldiers on that planet and are coming back with nine hundred, most of the casualties were caused by lankie related collateral damage. but we accomplished our mission and intercepted a transmission from the UEC. We know where we are going after we rearm and Repair at the closest NAC controlled planet with an anchorage.

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(Miiora)

I stand under what the shower washing the dirt, mud, and bits of bulk head out of my scales when my entire body develops a low level ache signifying that the humans have entered the Warp bubble or alcubierre node as they call it. According to Avery Fallon there's another planet only four hours in transit from Camelot, apparently the planet is a mining colony key to refueling the reactors and filling the water tanks of the NAC's ships.

The fact that the NAC uses water to fuel their ships is fascinating the UEC uses large magic reactors to power their ships. I exit the shower dressed in what appears to be a modified version of what the humans are waring modified because it has a hole cut out for my rail to fit through. I see Fallon talking to the one called forbes there's a thin film of smoke in the room as the two of them are smoking. I understand the need to keep me and the other former slaves under watch and i also under stand that there isn't enough room on the ship for everybody to have their own rooms.

But still having Fallon assigned to watch me makes me feel like im a slave again. I can't go anywhere without him with me short of the bathing chamber or head as he called it. This ship doesn't have any windows i don't know how they do it every ship in the UEC has windows but Fallon said only an idiot would put a window on a spaceship. saying that is would cost to much to do and make the ship weaker and on top of that you can get the same effect with camera feeds.

"Enjoy the shower?" Forbes askes stipping his rifle.

"Actually yess. the UEC doesn't allow for the slave cast to take showers at will only..." I begin only to remember that they only allow showers after what they call “strenuous” activities.

"Hey it’s fine you don’t have to tell us. Well here unless we start rationing you can shower whenever you want." Fallon said playfully punching Forbes before blowing into a part of his weapon and scrubbing it with a brush.

"When was the last time you ate?" he asks

"I haven't eaten since before the battle with your fleet." I respond.

"Well what does your kind eat?" Forbes asks brushing the nozzle of the flamethrower.

"Well my kind can eat almost anything other races tend to think that we Tymerians are strictly carnivorous but we aren't."

"Well let’s go get some chow."

We the ache in my body dies instantly as i lie in the birth? under fallon who peeks his head over the edge making me jump back in surprise. He climbs down and walks over to a panel on the wall before pounding on Forbes's bunk. He presses a few icons on his PDP and a planet is displayed a large blue gas giant with a white moon. The moon is pristine, covered in ice and snow but the best part is the fleet of Commonwealth defence corps fleet ships above the planet.

"Welcome to fomalhaut lady and asshole. The colony moon of new svalbard one of the key refueling and water station passed the thirty. We have a bearing of where we are going to go next. But Miiora we have a question to ask you and the other former slaves."