(OOC @X-Calibur)
Asmelia was surrounded by debris from long ago. Different satellite parts, and most unsettling, station debris. Heather smiled at the sight of her home planet, but that smile soon faded when she saw the debris. "Oh my god.." she whispered under her breath. She soon started pressing buttons on the HUD. Trying to avoid eye contact with the debris.

Sarah woke up, her eyes dreary and her senses clouded. She hadn't slept much for ride was bumpy. But soon she just assumed it was them jumping to the repair depot. She walked to her window, one of the few on the Aurora. She almost fainted. She had to catch herself so she didn't fall. She quickly grabbed a picture.

She held the picture up to the window, it was a picture of Asmelia, her home. She fell to her knees and started to cry, it was a mix between sadness, homecoming, and sadness. Her arms dropped beside her, she dropped the picture and wept. A she cried and cried, it had all been worth it, Every bit.

Heather pressed a few buttons and CAT's voice echoed through the cockpit "disengaging all protocols for FTL travel."

Heather then pressed the same buttons before, including the lights. "Attention all crewmembers, Varanus and Human, this is a monumental moment for us, for we have come home, we have returned to our rightful place among the stars. In these past few weeks we have run into complications, but none the less, we should feel more unified, our two dominions and races working together for one cause." A smile appeared across Heather's face as she looked at Captain Williams. "Together, we shall rebuild the Atrata Federation! We will renew our home!" Cheers were heard throughout the Aurora as the crewmembers hear Heather's declaration.

Captain Williams made an mental note of the debris orbiting the planet then looked to the pilot.

"Prepare to enter the planet's atmosphere and find us someplace to land.Once you found an location notify me."

Captain Williams then watched as the ship orbited the continental world of Asmelia,the large amount of debris floating around indicated an station once existed here now destroyed by unknown forces the protectorate fleet would do well to salvage the debris once they arrive.First things first they needed to establish an outpost on the surface of the planet,then recon the planet for any survivors or signs of hostile forces.

Luckily they had some combat engineers from the Engineering Corps so establishing an outpost would be an simple task,however given the small team of Orbiters and the remaining Aurora-crewmembers it would be hard to reclaim control should hostile forces exist on the planet.

The Captain then stood and began walking towards the exit of the cockpit. "I am going to brief the crew please notify them to meet me in the cargo bay."

Rid'z the Varanus medical officer and his medical team remained in the cargo bay now turned temporary clinic.There was little talk between the Imperials and Atrata crewmen mostly because of an unsettling fear over what Barris did.

The Plum-scaled doctor knew that the small "incident" put the Orbiters on edge and now with Captain Williams taking control of their arsenal he feared that other Aurora-crewmembers might cave into xenophobia and fear especially now that they have returned home expecting to find warm greetings and the comfort of family......Only to find ruin,it reminded the doctor so much of the crash....How hopeless and afraid his people was...He did not care much for rebuilding another empire but was glad to be of assistance...Even if the price paid was his son.

It was just one of the costs of service....

Heather nodded to Captain Williams. She then focused on the planet, trying her best not to get emotional. She then pressed a button "All Aurora Crewmembers, please report to the cargo bay for a meeting. Thank you" she pressed the button again and then said "they'll meet you in the cargo bay." Heather went back to work on the HUD, pulling up a diagram of the planet Asmelia. The Aurora was equipped with a top of the line Atrata Federation Planet Scanner.

Sarah had calmed down now and heard the announcement by Heather. She walked over to her closest, and started searching through it. She finally found a intact pilot suit, it was the Captain's Pilot Suit, instead of grey and blue it had a white under suit and orange thick rubber flack protectors. She quickly got dressed, the tight suit being quite difficult to put on. she fell twice trying to get it on and then finally pulled it over her chest and finally zipping it up. The back of the suit had the name 'Aurora' printed in bold blue letters.

Heather was going through Asmelia on the HUD when suddenly a file appeared over the HUD. It was a personal file of Sarah's. She was curious so she skimmed through it. Her face suddenly turned a light shade of red. "Oh my god.." she was so embarrassed about going through this incredibly private diary entry.

Sarah walked about the hallway towards the cargo bay. Her steps were a bit sloppy, but she was still tired and hadn't waken up completely. She stumbled and then caught herself on the wall. She blinked a bit and then got back up and kept on walking, obviously more awake now.

Heather kept reading until a beeping sound signaled the turning on of Gaea. Heather quickly closed the file and continued looking for a landing place. A small amount of red still lingering on her face. Gaea suddenly appeared next to the HUD. "Greetings Captain Heather, welcome to Asmelia, again." Heather smiled and thanked the A.I before a three burst beeping sounded,
"Got it!" Heather said in triumph, her hand suddenly clicked the intercom button. "Attention Captain Williams, please report to the cockpit when you can. We have found a landing zone."

Captain Williams made his way to the cargo bay adjusting his naval uniform and checking his revolver strapped to the side of his torso hidden by his coat.With an deep breath he entered the cargo bay.

"Alright listen up...As you may well be aware Asmelia is an ruin....We have no idea who or what may still be down there so I am going to execute this by the book...Standard Imperial Recon procedure."

Captain Williams allowed some time for the Aurora crew-members to shed tears for Asmelia before continuing.

"First things first we establish an outpost on the planet preferably in the same area as our landing site,then establish an line of communication for the eventual arrival of the protectorate fleet and then investigate what happened to Asmelia."

Captain Williams spotted Sarah stumbling into the cargo bay and rushed towards her helping her to an empty seat before he returned to the center of the bay.

"Ahem....I want three teams....One to assist the engineering corps in establishing an outpost,one to scour the landing zone area for potential threats and finally one to establish an communications tower either by hand or by use of any local towers still operational."

Captain Williams clapped his hands together.

"Right lets go rebuild an federation shall we?"

The Orbiters saluted in unison then formed together in a line awaiting further orders.

Captain Williams walked towards Sarah but stopped in his tracks as the intercom called him...He patted Sarah on her back..."Welcome home.." Before he turned towards the cockpit.

Without delay he entered. "Report pilot...."

Heather cleared her throat and said to the Captain through the intercom, "we have found an exceptional place to land near The Capitol. It may be a bit hairy getting down, but our spot is snug next to Aurora-Main, that will give us some protection from the elements." She pressed the intercom button and switched it to receive voice instead of protect it.

Sarah smiled, still somewhat tired from her slumber. "Welcome home.. indeed.." Sarah then walked up in front of the crowd, some cheers were heard in the crowd but they died out quickly. "Today, we stand on the threshold of our old home, I know all of you didn't come from Asmelia, some from Cabrion and Betheshee, but we are all human! And this system is our home. The Varanus are our guests, they are our lifeblood, they will help us be great again!"

Cheers ignited in the crowd, all the Xenophobia dissipated then and there for the Captain, who had lost so much, like the rest of the Aurora crew, had created a small bond with the Varanus in that speech.

Heather prepared the Aurora for landing, by trying to bring the retro boosters online. They were online in no time. Gaea helped by testing the initializers for the boosters aswell as running a diagnostic. Heather grabbed a religious pendant on her neck. "Archangel, guide us."
"Preparing vessel for planet landing, blast shields up." Suddenly the HUD went black, "Attention all crewmembers, prepare for planet side landing." The same dark blue hue replaced the white again

"Initializing auto landing.."
"Complete.."
"Auto pilot engaged, target, Longitude:" CAT read out some coordinates. "Latitude:" more coordinates "confirm coordinates"
"Coordinates confirmed."
"Attention all crewmembers, prepare for impact."

Captain Williams watched as the Aurora landed somewhat hard into an open forest clearing,the landing shook the Aurora and as it landed on the overgrown grasses the Imperial Captain made his way to the cargo bay.

The Orbiters formed two teams splitting their force of 8 into teams of 4 alongside the Aurora crew-men who would join them.The teams formed two separate lines opposing one another as they awaited the opening of the airlock doors.

Captain Williams took point on Team Alpha who's objective would be to investigate the nearby ruins and to find an communication tower to contact the Protectorate fleet that would arrive within 4 hours.

"All right form up men,recon code 8...Aurora crew just stay close to the orbiters...Do not engage any local lifeforms unless engaged....I repeat rules of engagement is return fire only."

The doctor and his team remained behind alongside the engineers until the landing zone was confirmed safe.

The Aurora crewmembers had lined up with the Oribiters. There was mixed emotions in the Aurora's Ranks. Some excitement, others fear of what was lurking outside the vessel. Just then Sarah walked up to the Captain. "May I have the key to my armory please?" Sarah knew that the Capitol would be crawling with some creatures that could harm the crewmembers and she was asking for their safety.

Heather let out a sigh of relief as she opened her eyes, To see the sunlight of Asmelia gleaming through the HUD. She then spoke "Gaea, damage report" Gaea was silent for a moment anf then spoke "retro boosters offline, light lower glacis plate damage, and left wing-engine offline."
"Thank you Gaea." Heather was surprised by the lack of damages, although it would be a moment before the Aurora flew again.

Sarah thought of something that would help one of the teams get to the Capitol. "Gaea, wgats the status of the crawler?"
"Ma'am, the crawler is slightly damaged, only missing a track and a plasma charge, aswell as one of the track wheels are slightly damaged."
"Thank you Gaea" Sarah turned to Captain Williams, and said "the crawler is a all terrain vehicle, basically a truck on tank tracks."

Heather checked the systems again to see if there was any damage, none was found. She then pressed a button on the HUD, the cannons suddenly flipped out of the ship readying to fire. She pressed the same button and the guns flipped back inside the ship. "Oh! I know what I can do."
"Gaea, reroute power from Carbon dioxide scrubbers and open the air lock and then reroute power from the CO2 scrubbers to the research floor."

"Yes ma'am." Suddenly the familiar hum of the co2 scrubbers stopped. And then the air lock opens, it let sunlight and the sound of birds chirping into the Aurora, "open all bulk head doors." Every single door opened suddenly letting in more sunlight and most importantly, oxygen. "Alright, now turn off the interior and exterior lights" not much difference was seen.

Captain Williams gave the key to Sarah smiling.

"Get your people armed....I'll take an squad out to secure the LZ."

Without another word he motioned for the Orbiter team to follow him,cautiously they would exit the ship with their weapons raised splitting off into groups of two scouring the area around the ship.

"Sector clear" Each Orbiter team would call in under their closed masks.

Captain Williams then radioed the Aurora. "LZ secured no threats."

The engineer team would exit first and begin setting up an array of tools and gear outside the ship,without delay the engineers deployed Data spheres to scan the area leading up to the large wall...Captain Williams spotted an tower of sorts behind the treeline.

"I want an team to check that tower." He ordered among the crowd of Orbiters and Aurora crew men that began to appear from the ship.

"See if you can identify any broadcasting equipment in or from that tower." He turned to the other squad

"Team Bravo secure an 10 meter half-circle perimeter around the LZ." He turned to the Aurora crew.

"After we establish contact with the protectorate fleet..You will be free to...visit your former homes...I know it's hard but we cannot allow any of you to leave the designated perimeter until we are sure that the planet is safe.Whatever attacked the planet may still be present."

Sarah took the key into her fingers, "thank you.." She then walked off, she walked in the direction of the armory calling for a small team of HEPS operators and a few researchers. The small team gets to the armory and Sarah walks up to the door, she then inserts the key into the door, its suddenly beeps and the red light on the top of the door turns green. Sarah opens the door and walks inside inspecting the HEPS when suddenly she grabs the shoulder of one, it instantly turns on and gives a salute after scanning the face of Sarah.

The small team gets into the HEPS and arms themselves with small arms, mostly SMGs and pistols. The team quickly walks to the airlock, they quickly jump out onto the ground. The HEPS operators and Sarah make a half circle around the researchers only armed with pistols, they the. Spread out perfectly until they determine the safety of the LZ and move back closer to the researchers.

Heather comes walking out of the cockpit kind of tired, a small bit of sweat has formed on her brow. She then sees they have landed near a creek. She suddenly brightens up, and it was in the LZ perimeter. She walks out calmly, basking in the sun light. Her eyes close and she sits there, her arms above her head as she stretches.

Sarah turns around in her HEPS and looks at Heather, jealous of her freedom outside of a Human Enchantment suit. She walks up to her and her helmet collapses into the suit, "Heather, what are you doing outside?"
"Being home Sarah."
"Enjoy, according to this, we have the whole day ahead of us. Its only 12 where we are standing."
"Oh I can't wait!"
"Why don't you go over to that creek, go swimming, I'll join you after this operation."
"Okay Sarah, be careful."
"You too.." Sarah said sweetie under her breath.

Not loud enough for Heather to hear. Then her helmet came back over her head and she turned around and reunited with her group. Sarah checked her gun, her helmet hiding her blushing face. What was happening to her, she was beginning to get deep feelings towards Heather. She tried to brush it off, but it still nagged at her. Sarah made a gesture with her hand and the group, along with her, knelt down, their weapons trained in front of them as they waited for the Oribiters to catch up to them.

Suddenly a large bird-like creature with red wings and a black body jumped up, it had talons the length of one of the Aurora's small nose cannons, it swiped at one of the team members, sending sparks off the HEP suit but not cutting through it. Sarah turned and shot it once in the head. It died immediately "Hey! Say captain! Nice shot for 300 years of no practice!" One of the team said "Who wants gilled Cullo tonight?" Said another, obviously these creatures where common on the planet "I've never seen one so big!" Finally said another.

The sudden appearance of the large bird shocked the Imperial team that remained at the Aurora.

Captain Williams shook his head. "This an common creature on Asmelia?" He took position at an table-like structure the engineers began setting up.Piece by piece it was put together and then it was connected with one of the cylinder-like power cells that hummed with blue energy.Without warning the table lit up into an 2-D holographic projection of an map being made as the spherical data spheres the engineers deployed earlier scanned the area.

Alpha team continued their way towards the tower without delay....

Bravo Team scoured the marked perimiter around the LZ and found no hostile threats....They returned to the Aurora and assisted the engineering team into establishing an temporary command center outside the Aurora itself.

Yet to arrive was the Protectorate fleet that consisted of 3 Drak-Class destroyers and 20 Pherix V-5 Corvettes,led by Admiral Dor'sha they would warp into the Asmelia system and await communication from the planet surface....Then the protectorate fleet would reroute the refugee force they picked up from Vadubar to act as Asmelia's "new population". While an alliance has yet to be discussed by the Court the Admiral had full authority to resettle the displaced human colonists.

Admiral Dor'sha was not happy with the protectorate....She argued that it strained the already thinned out Armada...They needed results....And as far as she was concerned this Protectorate had little to offer.....It would take at least several years for their nation to fully recover.....She argued it was better to take what they owed and leave.

But it was not for Dor'sha to decide.....She was but one voice in the court of the empire.

Suddenly a ship flew over head, Sarah looked at it and without a second thought said "SOMEONE GET THE JAVELIN! Fire at will at that vessel!" The vessel obviously didn't belong to the Serpentum Imperium because the patterns and colors didn't match. Several bullets hit the shuttle but no damage was visible, then a heavy HEPS came out and shot it a few times woth the 50. Caliber machine gun, it tore several holes in the small vessel but it kept flying.

Finally another crewmember came out with the Javelin Missile Launcher. But the vessel was long gone by then. Sarah then turned and quickly walked back to the Aurora. "Looks like the grave robbers finally discovered the federation." She then grabbed the Javelin Missile Launcher from the crewmember. She then walked over to the Armory and put it on a box after unloading the missile.

A small deer-like creature suddenly appeared at the landing zone, no one fired on the creature for it was an endangered species by the time of 2200. It then scampered off into the woods. An alarm blared in the Aurora, Sarah quickly tapped her ear "What's the situation?"
"Ma'am, heavily damaged vessel spotted in the hourly scan, its a large one but it's falling apart."
"Can you pinpoint the origin of the vessel?"

"According to the limited data from the map, it came from the Lucian Dominion.. demons.." Sarah cursed and ordered "Get that Javelin back out, and Gaea, prepare vertical engines.. time for the 21st kill.."
"Yes ma'am.."

Bullets rang on the shuttle's hull, as it quickly ascended back into space, heading for its cruiser. Kyras roared, "Those were Serpentum soldiers! We must leave at once!", bursting through the doors as it docked with the larger cruiser. The demons inside were already preparing to flee, revving up the engines and setting the coordinates for their next jump to a planet they knew would bring them in.

Kyras crawled to his throne, a crude machination of welded scrap metal and pipes into the shape of a chair. A mechanical arm lowered and grasped around the Demon's torso, separating it from the spider-like prosthesis, and implanting it into a base on the throne.

"Fire up the jump engines," the Enlightened growled to a demon of lower stature,waving his pincers in an aggressive motion, "Set course to Tantir, Navigator. I have a feeling they will be in dire need of assistance with the reclamation of our power..."

The imp at the controls nodded, typing in new coordinates. The intercoms blared "SETTING COURSE FOR; TANTIR. PREPARING LIGHTSPEED JUMP IN 5...."

The Demon Warlord leaned back slightly in his throne, thinking that the worst was behind him. This world was meant to be his! And a bunch of reptiles beat him to it! But the presence of the odd ships did make Kyras think of the presence of yet another, albeit small, power in the Galaxy, vying to destroy his kind on the very notion of their existence.

"..4..."

The Demon shook off this notion of genocide. Not one empire he knew would do such a thing. Things might of changed within the last three months, however, as his last new knowledge of the rest of the Galaxy was the imprisonment of Lucifer himself.

"..3..."

Kyras sneered at the Imp, "Hurry up! The Imperial most likely are already mobilizing to destroy this vessel!"

The Imp responded with a loud hiss, before slamming down a button. "LIGHTSPEED ENGINES FIRING," the screen said, as the Luciferian Cruiser whisked itself away at the speed of light harrowingly towards the northeastern reaches of the Galaxy's never ending seas of darkness.

Meanwhile in the space above Asmelia just after the demonic cruiser warped away arrived the Protectorate Fleet.

The command ship which was one of the three Drak-Class destroyers took point among the loose formation of ships.Following the Imperial fleet was an collection of civilian vessels of refugees that fled the demonic attacks in the sector.This collection of humans and other racials from Vadubar would serve as the new workforce and colonists for Asmelia 

The admiral would smirk as one of the ensigns would report traces of FTL energy radiating in decay near the planet.Something else was here but the first concern for the fleet would be establishing communications with the planet.

The Imperial team had shortwave communicators thus the ground force needed an powerful communications beacon to communicate with the Admiral.

The Orbiter team neared an old abandoned security tower and began to scour the area for an entrance.

Sarah and her small team caught up with the orbiters at the security tower. Sarah looked up to the top of the tower. She sighed and said; "this is only accessible from the other side, there is a long distance communicator in there. She then activated her grappling hook from the HEPS. "We'll get you up to the wall when we get up there, and then same with getting down. Don't worry, we'll be fine." Sarah was then whisked away to the top of the wall followed by the Orbiters.

Once the team was to the top, they turned around and shot their grappling hooks down to where the orbiters were located. Soon after they signaled for them to climb. There was only three HEPS assisting in the retrieval of the orbiters at the base of the wall, the rest were going ahead and making their way down the opposite side of the wall. Soon the orbiters where at the top of the wall and the rest of the HEPS went down the wall to regroup up with the rest of the HEPS whilst they helped the orbiters off the wall. 

A small squad of HEPS went into the main entrance of the Security tower. A small but tall tower with an antennae jutting out of the tip of the roof. The HEPS cleared the tower and found some weapons including a sniper rifle and 1,000 credits this would be useful to trade with the imperium. Soon the HEPS located the radio. Its console was overgrown but mostly intact. Sarah sent a short range transmission to all the HEPS and Orbiters "We've located the console, it still works but i don't know how long it will be able to last."

Captain Williams smiled and relayed his message back to Sarah.

"Good work see if you can establish an signal towards space,I'll join you all once we confirm our plan of action with the fleet." He would then order bravo team to reroute towards the wall to map the area.

The fleet would remain in orbit around Asmelia awaiting any signal from the ground,the ships maintained formation around the small fleet of refugees who eagerly awaited the chance to settle on their new home.Most of the refugees come from raided colonies in the wake of the Lucian Kingdom's fall most of these colonists where able to work but an good number of them where wounded to the extent that they would never work again.

The Imperium wasn't known for helping random colonists but this workforce is what Asmelia would need to rebuild itself,with the expertise and assistance of some of the Engineers and builders of the Imperium of course.The fleet brought enough food and medical supplies to maintain the colonists for at least two months until Asmelia is fully self-efficient once more.

Sarah replied to Captain Williams "will do, lets see if this old antique can still manage a signal." Sarah pressed a button on the side of the console, for a few seconds it was black, then a blue screen, finally the Atrata Federation Seal appeared. "at least it works" Sarah said as she tore away some of the plants that strangled the touch screen. Suddenly Sarah's APDA lit up, it said Signal Acquired, Sarah let out a sigh of relief.


Sarah initiated the set up through the system and soon it was ready to broadcast. Sarah initiated ground to orbit broadcast and began to broadcast to the fleet. "This is Captain Sarah Jane Trace of the Atrata Federation, we have landed safely on planet Asmelia at these coordinates." She read off the digits that where given to her by Gaea. She soon finished telling the coordinates and looking at a 3D holographic map of Asmelia that was made up by the radio signal. She waited for a response. 

Back at the Aurora-7 the crew-members where working hastily to get a colony dome set up. it was to be 3D printed, which would take hours because the dome itself is about the size of half the Aurora-main. The plans had been stored in the research floor. In a few hours the dome was set up, but it would take a few hours to get the life support system to pump enough oxygen into the dome. Solar panels where set up on the dome which powered the whole entire dome, in the dome there was several separate quarters for the crew-members to be set up in. Due to the Varanus also being with the crew, they had to set up yet another interconnected dome, this one albeit smaller, had beds and all utilites the Varanus would need.

Although more domes had to be printed, they were running out of materials to print it with and would need to scavenge some from the city. Soon a large city of colony domes would need to be established to house all the refugees that where bound for Asmelia. Only when that is complete would Asmelia be completely reclaimed.

Captain Williams assisted in directing the engineers to assist the Aurora crew-members in building their colonial dome,despite the fact that the Imperial fleet ensured that they would have enough tents for the suspected refugee population.

The Protectorate fleet homed in on the signal that gave them coordinates to an ramshackle foundation hastily being built by those on planet.The flagship Destroyer entered the atmosphere first and hovered above the landing site of the Aurora casting an shadow that stretched for miles.Suddenly the ship hailed Captain Williams who activated his holo-gauntlet.

"Captain Williams here go ahead."

On the other side was an crisp and rather soft voice of the Admiral who already had much to say over the whole situation.

"Good day Captain,according to the Commodore you say these Zodarrin are worth our time and effort....Their planet is in an pitiful state and their population an mere ten or so correct? Come now Captain I know we have our honour to keep in this treaty but the armada is short handed as it is,there has been an rise in piracy and the looting of our metal routes have left our shipyards behind schedule."

"What!?! How can that be....Why are these pirates so well organized?" The Captain said as he shook his head.

"We suspect an official in high command has become corrupt and is feeding information to these pirates for an cut in the loot....We already have an team investigating Naval leadership. But it's good to hear from you Captain...Keep your eyes sharp and claws sharper."

"I will" He chuckled.

"Gather the leadership of this protectorate to meet in this clearing in one hour. I will arrive to establish an holographic connection to the Court."

The Captain signed off and breathed deeply before calling Sarah. "Get back to the Aurora you have an 'VERY' Important call."

Sarah received the transmission from Captain Williams and said "10/4, we'll be headed back as soon as we can." Sarah then held up one finger and spun it around on a circle. The orbiters in the tower understood completely. Suddenly an alarm blared on the console and Sarah's APDA. Warning! unidentified large space craft detected, identify or be destroyed! Asmelia was equipped with ground to orbit guns, it was used to deter invasions of large vessels. 

Since the Aurora was a Atrata Vessel it was ignored by the security system, but the imperium's vessle was considered a threat until proven otherwise. Sarah cursed and ran back over to the console. "Identification of Ship; Serpintum Imperium, set as friendly and disengage." 
"Required two items of proof."
"Gaea link in with the Ground to Orbit Railguns and set the imperium as friendly!"
"Yes ma'am.." Two or three minutes pass by. 
"Friendly vessel on Asmelia, welcome Serpinetum." Sarah let out a sigh of relief. 
"Alright! lets get moving!" 

In 15 minutes the team of Orbiters and HEPS had returned from the excursion, Sarah was the first one to get into the Aurora, she took off her helmet quickly and ran to meet up with Williams. "I apologize for the delay, but we had to stop our Defense railguns from blowing that ship out of the sky." She gave the captain a smile, "The imperium is now considered friendly and free to land on each of the planets in the Eon Triangle. But I would steer clear of Betheshee if i were you." 

Soon Sarah was dressed in her uniform, it was a different uniform from the one she was wearing but it looked the same. She fastened a medal to her top and smoothed a crease. She inhaled and then exhaled deeply. "Heather, would you mind coming with me?" Heather had since come in from bathing in the stream, "It would be my pleasure, Captain." she smiled and walked off to get dressed.

Sarah would let herself be whisked away into the drop ship. When she got to the ship she let out a shaky breath and straightened a few things on her uniform. Diplomatic meetings where always very stressful to her, she was never quite skilled in the ways of diplomacy. She then stepped into the drop-ship and looked around a small bit before moving to the circular platform in the middle of the ship. 

When the hologram started Heather and herself were caught a bit off guard, they then settled down and looked up to the leaders of the Imperium. She bowed as well did Heather to the leaders. She then sighed slightly quiet enough for the Varanus leaders not to hear her, she was incredibly stressed at this point but was determined to keep herself under control. Then the Leaders began discussing and she let them speak but she also listened. Like a child, she didn't speak until she was spoken too. 

Suddenly a question was asked of her and she looked up and replied to the question in a calm and collected voice. "We can offer lots of things to your great Imperium. Such as, A surplus of raw materials including but not limited to Gold, Tungsten, Titanium, and Miscellaneous Precious stones. These could be used to improve your fleet size so that your forces are not as spread thin. The Eon Triangle could also be used as a, theoretical bridge to the Southern galaxy." 

Sarah gulped and then continued "The surplus of materials could be turned into fuel and then the Triangle could become a port for repairs and a resting point for staff and soldiers coming back from deployment." Sarah's heart pounded as she anticipated a response from the high ranking Varanus.

The figures nodded and then entered an conversation in an alien tongue with only an few english words such as yes and no mixed inbetween their native language,they broke into argument that was soon silenced with tapping from the large distorted figure.The nobles all turned to the figure and bowed muttering apologies.

The one noble that addressed Sarah turned back to her now standing from the chair as he wiggled his claws,he hissed in thought then raised his head to speak. "These materials would benefit our own development but there is more to this then you would believe......Hmm....Very well to make this benefical for us we will require 35% of your gained resources for an agreed period alongside whatever you have to offer in surplus goods.....In return the Serpentum Armada will establish an military port above your planet which will after an set term be transferred to your naval forces,your status as an protectorate will be lifted once the Atrata can produce an GDP of at least 10 million credits and have an standing army consisting of at least 10 infantry regiments with an fleet of 20 ships.I recommend opening diplomatic relations with the nearby GSU to determine your standing in galactic affairs."

The noble breathed and grinned.

"As for the refugees we brought they are to become citizens of your nation and we shall provide temporary shelter through tents and planned ration distribution until your nation has an stable crop or source of food production.During the rebuilding period your people will be an protectorate under Imperial law and once the period is complete will full power be returned to the Atrata government."

The demands where high but the Imperium offered to help build their civilization until it would be self-efficient.They planned on using Asmelia as an outpost for operations in the Southern Galaxy and among other things the Imperials required massive amounts of metals not just for their fleet but for something only the highest officals in the Court knew about.There was little protest over Viscount Raxus's suggestion after all he was an master diplomat and the richest Varanus in the Court.

The distorted figure stood and walked closer to reveal an Varanus much much older then the others,his wings dwarfed the others with horns that doubled as his crown,his scales golden reflecting the light that shone across the rendered hall.The nobles looked down as he passed them looking down towards Sarah with an grin that was either satisfaction.....or contempt.The Emperor clenched his golden sceptre and tried to smile before talking.

"Are these terms reasonable child?" His hands were shaking slightly and the nobles behind him looked concerned and.....sad.

Sarah looked up to the Emperor and nodded. "They are steep, but we will agree to the terms." Heather then whispered to Sarah and she then looked back up at the Emperor "The shelters for the refugees will not be necessary, You would be exhausting your existing resources, we will set up other colonization domes using recycled building materials from the near-by capital." After the conversation was completed the two walked out of the shuttle and began walking towards the Aurora. Soon the grand federation would be sending several materials to the Imperium. With 35% of the materials being sent out, the Federation advanced slowly but were able to get a small fleet of mining ships which the refugees gladly flew. 

Soon the Federation had a secure industrial company going and the federation had built a few buildings for people to stay in other then the domes. They had finally reclaimed their home, now.. They looked to Cabrion to aid them in the high demands of the Imperium. Sarah plans to take the Aurora to the same place she was built.. What will await the Federation then? What secrets will Cabrion hold about the old Federation?