Glowing Energy?

OOC: Zzzzzz....

(OOC: Well, I did send your guy a message...)

The Burninites offer the OrdenReich humanitarian support and offer to help rebuilding infrastructure.

They also send the University of Planet a congratulatory thank you note for their help, and a full copy of Thorgood's macro with explanations and partial explanations of teleporter technology as well.

And with that, the Rhean fleet gives with nary a "so long and thanks for all the fish."

The Centauri fleet cautiously departs, and returns to regroup in the Alpha Centauri system, though defensive preparedness remains high. They too offer developmental aid to the OrdenReich, offering large amounts of minerals suitable for civilian construction and the services of experienced terraforming crews, arguably the most so in the galaxy thanks to the hostility of Chiron's environment.

In the meantime, the University of Planet reviews the updated macro, analyzing it and incorporating some of the elements into their own already extensive algorithms. They also do so for the explanations of the teleporter technology. Though similar technologies already existed on Chiron, they were not as flexible or transportable as the Burnite teleportation technology would be. For the most part, although it was still beyond their current understanding, it gives them some ideas of what they would need to do to develop such technologies themselves.

*The Ordenreich is hesitant to accept the aid but does so reluctantly. The Ordenreich believes in being as self-sufficient as possible and accepting aid seems an admission of weakness. They plan on using the aid to rebuild their civilian infrastructure but military infrastructure is still the highest priority*

Commander Marrus, having moved the fleet, finally received orders from the homeworld. With no discernible enemy in the galaxy, the fleet is order back to the Veridia Prime. A monitoring satellite is launched to remain in the system, directed to monitor Ordenreich space in hopes that if the Gar''zhog returned, the Dominion would know about it. After such, the ships of the fleet make their hyperjumps back home.

(OOC: I'm sorry for inactivity guys. I'll post more as soon as I stop being swamped by work.)

After a month without seeming incident, the device the Hildenburen gave to the Veridians glows red.

The button flashes.

It seems to...call...for whoever is nearest it to press that button. Some kind of psionic link...

*In the Ordenreich, the military had used all foreign aid and its economy to rebuild its military might. The various productions facilities across the Ordenreich had been queued up to produce miliary ships to replace the lost ships from the war. With this done the military, under Knight Commander Jager, handed power back over to Hochmeister Micah who rebuilt the Hierarchy. The Hochmeister appointed a new OrdenMarshall and appointed a whole new set of Paladin Komturs for the Council (Knight Commander Jager being made one of them). With this established the newly reestablished civilian government began rebuilding the civilian infrastructure and cities. The priority was the Ordenreich homeworld of Livenstein which suffered greatly from the alien invasion and the FOAB strike on its capital city (it is still being determined whether the strike was accidental or a last ditch effort from the former high command to stop the invaders.) While it would take years for Livenstein to recover the Ordenreich was hopeful that the planet would once again be the grand center of Ordenreich culture and power. The Ordenreich also took some brutal lessons from the war. One such lesson was the decentralization of military command. Ordenreich High Command was based out of the High Citadel on Livenstein along with the O.S.S.C and many other military departments. The civilian government was based in New Konigsburg which was only a few milies from the High Citadel. When the FOAB strike hit Konigsburg it cut off the heads of the civilian and military branches of the government. The Ordenreich was not going to repeat this mistake. The civilian government which was the Hochmeister, OrdenMarshall, and half the Teutonic Council would remain centralized on Livenstein for convienence reasons. They would continue to rule from Konigsburg when it was rebuilt (For now they rule from New Kassel, a city on Livenstein that was the least damaged of them all). The military branch of the Ordenreich, which was the other half of the Teutonic Council and all the Knight Commanders, would be spread out across the Ordenreich. The Knight Commanders would remain with their fleet and ground assignments at all times (except when on leave) and the Paladin Komturs would be stationed in militarily strategic zones like colonies that focused on military production, raw material production that would be needed to keep the fleets and armies alive (fuel, food, etc.) or systems where fleets were the most concentrated. The wereabouts of these Paladin Komturs would be highly classified and when they met for the annual combined military readiness report it would be over teleconference on encrypted channels. The Ordenreich has rescinded marshal law but conscription is to remain in effect until the Ordenreich achieves its former military strength and it holds its military readiness at Combat Alert Beta until further notice (downgrading the alert from Combat Alert Alpha when it was under attack)*

(OOC: Let's say that the Port Garland Crisis takes place during that month lull, shall we?)

(OOC: I agree. This one needs someone on VP to press that button :p)

(OOC: OK, if I can catch him on Skype, I'll spam him to get his attention )

Dominion Starbase 4...

The Hildenburen communication device had remained at Starbase 4 and while the Veridian had not used it since their last communique with the Hildenburen, they remained suspicious of the device never the less. It remained in a sealed room and the room itself was always monitored by the station's security officers. Ambassador Adamus, who had been originally dispatched by the Dominion for discussion with the Hildenburen had been permanently stationed with it until such time as the Triumvirate believed the situation was finally over. A month already into what was now viewed by the Ambassador as a jail sentence, the Ambassador wondered if he'd ever get off the station.

Watching over the monitors of the station as the generally did, it would be the security officers who first noticed the device was active. "Hey S'Ten.....S'Ten" Rh'vaurek called out.

"What Rh'vaurek, what is it?"

"Its the device...its...flashing"

"Hmm, better call the Ambassador" S'Ten said as he made the call.

Adamus, who'd been pleasantly sleeping in his quarters was a bit unnerved that he'd been awoken as such an our. After all, it was the middle of the night back on the homeworld. Those feelings quickly changed however when he was informed that the device was flashing. A call...must be a call he thought to himself as he put on his suit and made his way to the room. The door firmly sealed behind him and slowly approached the device. His caution came from the simply reminder that not a month along the Dominion had put in motion a plan designed to kill the Hildenburen and their apparent enemy the Gar''zhog.

Knowing he'd only get answers by pressing the button he did, somewhat reluctantly and with a deep breath before hand.

A Hildenburen appeared. It seemed normal, but then flashed gray, and several more appeared.

They each hold a canister, the first dropping his and falling to the ground, dead.

The canister smashes on the floor.

The other Hildenburen to appear are also dead.

They continue to appear. Ten, twenty, thirty Hildenburen, all dead, appearing wherever there is space. Then when the space runs out, the pile of bodies grows towards the ambassador, threatening to crush him.

Adamus panics as it becomes very apparent to him that he will quickly be without space given that the room is relatively small...relatively. Moving towards the door he motions to the camera. "Let me out...now!" Both S'Ten and Rh'vaurek had been monitoring the entire, brief exchange. S'Ten is about to press the button that would unlock and open the door when Rh'vaurek stops his hand.

"No" he says, "we have not done a sweep of the room."

"But he'll die" S'Ten exclaims.

"An so could we if we let something out that shouldn't be there" Rh'vaurek retorts in an equally alarming tone. All the while the room continues to fill and if Adamus was not claustrophobic before, he's becoming so now. More and more just continue to appear and the door continues to be sealed. He begins to scream and while it is unnerving to both security officers, Rh'vaurek shuts off the intercom and begin the process of sweeping the room for any detectable alien contaminates.

Oh, there are detectable contaminates all right. Pretty serious stuff. Nothing that's obviously something common, like smallpox. It's all been engineered. Some of that stuff looks like it could kill penicillin.

So yeah, that was a good call on the part of the sec officers, especially given that their friend is probably dead already, being in the exposed section.

In any case, the bodies cease after filling the room up to the point where the ambassador is nearly crushed. But he remains un-crushed for now.

"You fools," a voice says. "You have meddled with powers you cannot even begin to comprehend."

And with that, this story goes once again to where it began.

With a strange, glowing energy signal, and a distress beacon, obviously Gar''zhog, generally outside Centauri space.

Though somewhat wary given all that has happened in the past months with the unusual energy signatures, a small unmanned probe is dispatched to the site of the energy signal. The Planetary Defense Force hopes that in doing so they could avoid another abduction scenario, and perhaps avoid some conflict if they could find it at all possible.

Burnination prepares to send overwhelming force to the Gar''zhog signal, requesting permission for military presence so close to Alpha Centauri from the Centaurans, and notifying the Rheans and the Ordenreich.

*The Ordenreich government replies that currently there is too much on their plate. Ordenreich forces were spread thin recontacting lost colonies. They would defer matters to the powers moving on the Gar'zhog.*

The Planetary Governate assents, as the probe begins to head towards the source and document what appears to be present, if anything.

In the meantime, the fleet is quickly readied, having been in high alert since the Port Garland Crisis not so long ago.

"What do we know?" Triumvir Sabinu asked, his holographic image now standing before the security crew

S'Ten and Rh'vaurek saluted.

"The room is full of foreign contaminates" S'Ten said. "We've not been able to establish contact with the Ambassador, all evidence suggests he died of exposure and if that, then he's been crushed under the weight of the dead Hildenburen."

"The Dominion is going to want a sample of those contaminates and a secure body" said Sabinu. "Once you've got both as well as the communicator, dump the rest into space. We need that room cleansed."

Both S'ten and Rh'vaurek saluted again and Sabinu's image disappeared. The Dominion was a bit cautious as to what the message the Hildenburen was sending meant. Though they were aware of yet another energy ball, they declined to show any force. Instead, the called their fleets to the homeworld in preparation of an attack, if any was to come at all.

(OOC: Will post after my calc supermassiveepic test if Panpan doesn't want to interject.)

(OOC: Nope. Not interjecting at the moment.)

The Gar''zhog begin broadcasting in the correct language. And frequency. Well, mostly on the language bit.

"Which are the one that attack Hildenburen with small creatures?" asks the transmission. "Great danger. Great danger."