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| Fight for Peace | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 12 2016, 12:59 AM (1,880 Views) | |
| Magus Stormtalon | Feb 16 2016, 10:56 PM Post #16 |
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Magus smirked, "No Empress." He led them into the conference room. Admirals Tomarrah and Sandoval were having a tense discussion in one corner with several Imperium officers. A raised voice would float a word or two before fading back into the background. They turned when the dignitaries entered and their discussion came to an abrupt halt. Magus nodded to Sandoval as he found his seat. Rebecca returned his nod and took her seat next to Tomarrah. Magus settled into his seat next to his Hylon general. The two exchanged pensive glances before sitting to wait the development of the festivities. |
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Magus of the House Stormtalon, Lord of the Vale, King of the Five Kingdoms, Emporor of the Narlin Empire, Protector of the Weak, and Defender of the Faith. | |
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| Julie Lei | Feb 17 2016, 12:51 AM Post #17 |
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Julie took a sip of her water and looked around. "So, are you people expecting me to go nuts and just start killing people?" she raised an eyebrow as she looked at Nick. "I love how you've told everyone who listens about everything I ever did while we were married." "I'm sure you've told everyone about me." Nick replied. "Everyone loves the story about how you mistook a tube of dielectric grease for personal lubrication." Julie whistled. "Tomarah... can you order an airstrike... I want to crawl into a nice dark hole." Nick said with a grumble. "I'll second that." Julie laughed as she raised her hand. "Alright alright... enough banter... now, there is one thing I want to see change. I need new weather control satellites. The ones we use take months to build and test. Mexico has turned into a mud pit with all the rain." |
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Empress Julie Lei Former Leader of the Terran Imperium/Empress Mum AKA: Lady Whisper | |
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| Magus Stormtalon | Feb 17 2016, 01:11 AM Post #18 |
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"Our engineers on Gorvan Prime can fabricate a few of those if you get us the specs. I'd like to consult with Tony Ryder before we hand them over... just in case you snuck in a weapon." Magus replied. "In return we could use 400 tons of grain. Wheat, barley, rice whatever. Your occupation disrupted planting and harvests, and many Narlins are going hungry. "
Edited by Magus Stormtalon, Feb 17 2016, 01:11 AM.
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Magus of the House Stormtalon, Lord of the Vale, King of the Five Kingdoms, Emporor of the Narlin Empire, Protector of the Weak, and Defender of the Faith. | |
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| Nick Ryder | Feb 17 2016, 03:59 AM Post #19 |
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"I think that can be arranged." Julie nodded her head and made a note. "Occupation was partially my idea but mostly Tiberius. I just wanted your dilithium." she admitted honestly. "And we do have plenty of grain and plant based things, about all we have a surplus of since our weather patterns got changed." "We can supply a few satellites but let's be honest here Jul... Empress." Nick corrected himself as he spoke up. "You complain that humanity has lost its way, let the planet resume it's natural patterns, warts and all. We've done well with minimal weather control systems, basically to keep the more extreme weather at bay, but we let things happen. Even if my wife gets annoyed when her prize roses need to be pruned and covered in winter." "Perhaps... but we do need something. Let's be blunt, the Alliance destroyed them, at least a couple would be a big help." Julie said and folded her hands on the table. "Another matter is while we are going to be firm that Earth is the Terran homeworld and should be predominantly human, just as every other race limits its 'alien' population, the parts of Earth that were modified for a non Terran race will be reclaimed for Terran use, but we will allow representatives from those races to remove whatever artifacts they left. Except for Georgia, that will need to remain as it is, we've been exploiting some of the newfound minerals and elements in the soil." "Underwood will hate that." Nick mused as he noted that down on his own padd. "That IS why they all left for your planet and if we are going to strive for independence then we need to use every resource at our disposal within reason." Julie said and drummed her fingers against the table. "Which is why we might also need to keep some of the POWs for their skill, we would change their status... they wouldn't be prisoners but they would be required to remain on Earth for a time." "As long as we can do the same." Nick and Tony said in unison and looked at each other. "Haven't done that since we were at MIT." Tony rolled his eyes. "Brothersssss..." Nick chuckled lightly at Tony's expression. "Seriously though, there are some of 'your' people we've found useful as well. They should be given the choice of returning or remaining, as long as they are not treated as second class citizens or somehow treated unfairly." "Good... because one of our POWs is someone close to you and Sandoval." Julie said and smiled slightly "Ethan Talon. We saved him from Vulcan, invested a lot in his medical care and recovery. More than we probably should have but my son is an honorable man and saw something in him that prompted him to extend that care to him." "What?" Nick was in shock at that revelation. "What? I thought he... of course..." he slapped his forehead. "You used bunker builders as weapons... that's what it does." "We're also charging you for that. Those are proprietary AlphaTek designs." Tony said as he pointed at her. "That's another thing, you will cease and desist using all AlphaTek designs and equipment your license was revoked and we can and will do what we did on Vulcan and remotely shut everything down." "Ethan returns to Terra Alpha." Nick said firmly. "Oh the President becomes a dictator now." Julie said with a slight nudge to Claire. "See, family is his weak point." "His name was not on the official roll you sent... so what else did you neglect to tell us?" Nick said and looked at Stormtalon. "See this is what I had to deal with." |
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Nicholas "Nick" Ryder President Emeritas- Terra Alpha Alpha Quadrant Alliance Founder and 1st President
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| Rebecca Talon | Feb 17 2016, 08:35 PM Post #20 |
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"Ethan..." Rebecca gasped. She looked around somewhat embarrassed by the outburst. While she had never met the older version of her son, she and Trinity had grown somewhat close, and she was starting to feel like she knew the man that one day her young child would become. "Excuse me," she muttered. "Sorry for the interruption. I was just shocked." |
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"Nothing of consequence happened today. " -- Diary of King George III, July 4, 1776 | |
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| Julie Lei | Feb 18 2016, 10:39 PM Post #21 |
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"I ALMOST considered not telling you at all, but... my son Kaikoa told me in no uncertain terms that I inform you of his status or the dreaded 'or else', not that I'm afraid of him but it doesn't look good when there's family dissension." Julie said with a hand wave. "We know how THAT is." "So why play games with him?" Nick said as he made some notes. "Because we DO need him, he's been working wonders with our ranching operations, we're actually able to raise cattle and not rely entirely on replicators in some of our more remote communities. Plus it's nice to have real steak now and again. Frelling Tiberius got me hooked on medium rare steak sandwiches." "You actually eat meat now... hell truly has frozen over." Nick teased. "So... this is my terms for HIS release, he's given a choice, stay or return but if he stays he stays for at least a couple years and helps us rebuild our ranching and cattle production capabilities. And if she choses, Trinity can stay with him, but they have to stay the two years or so. They're still technically enemies but we would ensure they're well treated. Of course I'm sure people would consider that being a collaborator." Julie added and laughed. "Always two sides, and if he returns then well... he's fair game again in future conflicts. Just like any other. Provided there ARE no future conflicts but we both are intelligent enough to realize that it could happen, with or without me in power." |
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Empress Julie Lei Former Leader of the Terran Imperium/Empress Mum AKA: Lady Whisper | |
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| Rebecca Talon | Feb 19 2016, 06:04 PM Post #22 |
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Rebecca bristled like an angry mama bear. She started to shout, but something stopped her. She wanted to hurl the ceramic coffee mug in her hand at Julie's smug face. She wanted to yell threats, and tell Julie that she would personally lead the invasion. She wanted to wipe that smug expression off of Julie's face. Softly, but there was a deadly menace behind her voice, "Nicholas you cannot let her do this." |
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| Nick Ryder | Feb 19 2016, 06:46 PM Post #23 |
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"I'm not." Nick said firmly. "He's coming home if I have to pick him up myself." "Well Nicholas... then what will do you in return for the loss of a good ranch boss?" Julie said and reclined slightly. "I have two ideas. One. Tiberius dies. Publically. As it should have been done according to HIS Imperium's law." she crossed her legs and fluttered her eyelashes. "I had two divorces and neither of them ended up with my ex-husband's balls in a jar. I let you keep yours. Not for lack of trying." she held up two fingers. "Second idea... you send a suitable replacement for him at your expense. I provided food, housing and security and work instead of sitting a POW camp. AND you tell whoever is hijacking our POWs to stop it. We'll release them, but it's got to be one for one. You captured a lot of our people too. LIke I said, the crazy ones keep, execute whatever. BUT I'm not letting Earth get the sour end of the deal. Remember... YOU didn't win anything. I didn't win anything. Neither of us won, neither of us lost. This isn't a terms of surrender deal." "Never said it was anything but. Although Tiberius dying is too good for him." Nick said as he held up a padd with a live feed from his cell. "He should suffer in a prison for the rest of his life and Kirks live a long time... when they aren't being stupid." "Well, if you don't release him, I'll release how much it costs to keep him to your opponent. Claire... you do have the figures do you not?" Julie grinned. "I'm sure your rival would simply love to have one more thing to use against you." "Technically we're paying for it with YOUR seized assets my dear." Nick said with a grin. "Which you could be using for other needs 'dear'." Julie retorted. "I'll give Ethan back if you give Tiberius to me. And I do whatever the hell I want to him. He betrayed me, he used the Imperium for his own needs and he made me go places I really didn't want to go. Looking back... I was a sadistic bitch with him. More than I thought I was. I want to return the favor. Do to him what we did to so many others." "I can't condone torture. Even to Tiberius." Nick stated as he looked at her. "Then you're a bleeding hearted fool." Julie said bluntly "Kill the asshole and be done with him. You talk a big game about ME, everyone wants to kill me. Well. I'm sitting three feet away from you and you're somehow able to restrain yourself. But you have easy access to Tiberius and you're letting him sit in a cell safely for the rest of his life." |
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Nicholas "Nick" Ryder President Emeritas- Terra Alpha Alpha Quadrant Alliance Founder and 1st President
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| Claire McKenzie | Feb 19 2016, 07:57 PM Post #24 |
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Claire picked up a PADD and entered several commands. "Right here Empress." She also handed her another PADD containing information on various Alliance expenditures that were questionable. Including heafty sums being diverted to Tony Ryder's AlphaTek The clatter of a broken coffee cup drew everyone's attention. Rebecca was now standing. A mother's rage steaming off of her. A shard of ceramic was in her hand. She was squeezing it ao hard that it was drawing blood. "Next I suppose you'll make plans to trade Aimee too!" Her voiced roared. "I..." she paused looking at the faces around her and dropped the shard before storming out of the room." Magus grinned and looked at Julie, "I do think she wanted to kill you." Edited by Claire McKenzie, Feb 19 2016, 07:59 PM.
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| Julie Lei | Feb 19 2016, 09:58 PM Post #25 |
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"Like to see her try." Julie said and shook her head and stood up. "One moment." she nodded her head to Nick and Stormtalon before walking out of the room, motioning to Claire to give them the padd with the financials. She gave the guards a look and they let her pass and she crossed her arms as she approached Becca. "If our positions were reversed, what would you do?" Julie said calmly. "We never did see eye to eye, I'm sure you wondered what Nancy saw in me and I know I wondered what she saw in you. Frankly I would have been against Aimee being in our military if she didn't go by another last name. Exactly what I would have thought happened happened, she was captured and defected, let her own hate get the better of her." she handed off a smaller padd. "This what he looks like now, a little scarred up, obviously minus some limbs, probably what you thought was all that was left of him. We gave him state of the art, well state of the art as of two or three years ago, AlphaTek Medical makes a better limb, but your Secretary of Defense and my daughter made it so that anything with their chips in them useless to us." crossing her arms as she kept her distance. "Then let's simplify the terms of his transfer. Mother to mother." she removed her earrings. "Fight me. You know you've wanted to for years. After you and I fight... I don't want any more outbursts and I send a message to my son to forcibly send Ethan back here. And you and I will be even. Of course if you end up killing me or crippling me then well... the whole talks break down and we're back at square one." |
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| Rebecca Talon | Feb 20 2016, 12:15 AM Post #26 |
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"That's my damned son you are bartering with like... Shit I don't know! He's a human damn it!" Rebecca took a deep breath to center herself. She wanted to cry, and for a moment focusing that pain on anger worked. That was until Julie talked to her. The confrontation seemed to bring to a head how foolish her outburst was. Master Ja'larin had taught her a few tricks before she went undercover on Earth. Rebecca used them to center herself, but she was no Jase'dasis. The wall couldn't take much before breaking down. "No, Julie I will not fight you. I fear if I start, I will kill you. You know that my husband isn't Ethan's father? I was raped by one of Tiberius' goons." She sat on the edge of a foutain trying not to lose it. "That goon is Ethan's father. Conroy. A big fella. Probably 6'4" 280 pounds. All muscle. I'm not a small woman, but I never stood a chance against him. He took advantage every chance, and your former lover knew. He never lifted a finger to stop it!" Again, Rebecca inhaled through the mouth and out through the nose, "I'll never forget that face, and I'll never forget the look on it when I killed him. A mixture of shock and fear. You see I was completely unarmed, and I discovered something in my captivity. I had a power I never knew I had. It manifested in that pain and anger. You see, I threw Cronroy against the bulkhead and crushed his throat with my mind. I never put a finger on him. That is what I almost did to you a few minutes ago." Rebecca stood and prowled up to Julie. "You need ranch hands? I got about 8 POWs who are on my ranch. They have been personally trained by Milo Talon. The man who ramrods the ranch. There's none better. Milo doesn't care for half-measures. And you want Tiberius? He's fracking yours. I'll make sure Nick releases him. Just do one thing, keep him alive as long as you can while he's being tortured. He deserves every second." And with that Rebecca slapped Julie, "That's for not telling us about Ethan, and then using him as a bargaining chip." Edited by Rebecca Talon, Feb 20 2016, 12:21 AM.
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| Julie Lei | Feb 20 2016, 01:10 AM Post #27 |
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Julie wiped the blood off her lip as she looked at Becca, she had wanted to really gloat, but the way she opened up to her, it reminded her of those long ago nights when all of them used to get together after a night out. Nick never really ever got 'drunk' but somehow they all managed to end up in these deep, confessional conversations. Things always came out during those and she always suspected that was part of the reason why Rebecca never quite liked her. Although now, stone sober, there was a kind of ice that was broken, at least to Julie it felt that way. Although the revelation about her having powers did pique her interest, but she wouldn't address it just now... but it was interesting. "I never knew exactly who did it, I knew about Cronroy... Tiberius liked him because he put fear into the female slaves." Julie sighed and sat across from Rebecca. "I'll be entirely honest with you right now... he wasn't always like that, when I originally brought him in, he was a pretty decent guy, but then give him a uniform, power and the license to do whatever he wanted as part of Tiberius' Elite... it changed a lot of people. Changed me. I never liked torture just because. That was Tiberius' thing, I indulged him because I didn't want him thinking I was fair game." she closed her eyes. "We all got caught up in the excess, the whole... hedonistic sexual thing. It was addicting. But we went too far. I didn't realize just how far we went until he was screwing K'n'zy on the side and then pushed me away because she was just as cruel as he was, she was a former slave, so she could be the submissive when it suited her or the dominant." she looked at Rebecca. "I really didn't quite mean to make Ethan a pawn in all this. But Tiberius needs to be returned so we can get some closure and so I can shut down what remains of his loyalists once and for all. They still think he's coming back. Oh he'll be back, but in chains and he's going to suffer. I'm good at that as I found out." Julie reached into her pocket and unfolded a very old scrap of paper. "Although I would have hoped dangling the deed to your family ranch would have been a good way to keep Ethan on Earth, but as long as you send good men, then the ranch will be your's, if you and your's ever come to visit." she handed it to her. "This was all we found of the original deed it's a copy on period paper that we found. I actually considered raising the old building up to a hill, let you use it as something of an embassy. Too dusty, Kaikoa ruined a 100 year old rug because he came back from it with so much dust and sand." |
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| Rebecca Talon | Feb 20 2016, 04:51 AM Post #28 |
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"Thanks. This should go to Aimee. Although I doubt she'll be welcomed there, or wether she even wants it. But, it's been in the family a very long time when Philip the III granted the illegitimate son of his closest friend, Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma this tract of land near Santa Fe in 1602." Rebecca stared at the deed. "What's happened to us huh? To go from roomates to this?" She sighed and held up the deed, "I see what Nick saw in you. Maybe I judged you a little too harsh over the years. Lord knows I'm not perfect. But this? This Empress thing... well that's over the top." |
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| Julie Lei | Feb 20 2016, 05:12 AM Post #29 |
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"Well, your judgement wasn't entirely off Rebecca, I'm not a good person, I know I'm going to hell but when that day comes, it'll be clear why I did what I did. I'm sure you've heard my daughter Olivia call herself a 'sin eater', basically taking on the worst of everything on herself so other's can have a clear conscious. Granted the old Indian 'sin eaters' literally ate food slash sin offerings but still... better that I be damned than others." Julie glanced at the room and put her earrings back on, "I'm not sorry for anything I've done in my career but I do regret that our 'unit' broke up like this. I'm sure my little sister is on Earth plotting my assassination and the downfall of my government. And my son is still dead at the hands of one of your people, controlled by a woman that I have killed dozens of her clones of in retaliation." then she winced slightly. "Ready for another... I wouldn't say secret but... something I've withheld at least until I've been sure to reveal it." |
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| Isabella Price | Feb 20 2016, 10:43 AM Post #30 |
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If Eli bitched one more time about the heat Isabella was going to kill him. No one told him he had to wear a damn suit. As a matter of fact, she had told him twice to run a holoprogram so he could be prepared. Did he listen? Of course not the dumb bastard had been more concerned about other things. Now here they were him sweating buckets and her still looking as fresh as when she stepped off the shuttle. In Eli’s defense she did have some genetic help. One of the many things she inherited from her mother was a tolerance for heat and greater stamina. While Eli was grouchy and tired she was just as spry and alert as when they arrived. Taking this into consideration she really shouldn’t be annoyed with him but she couldn’t help it sometimes he was just a baby. Isabella found Vulcan to be a rather beautiful place. She spent a lot of time with the Xenexans as a kid and developed an appreciation for deserts. Vulcan was hotter then the deserts on Terra Alpha and almost as hot as Xenex but it was still beautiful. Kinsey would have loved it here- Isabella couldn’t help but think. But Eli’s bitching was starting to ruin it and as much as she loved him she couldn’t spend another minute listening to him. She walked into a waiting area type room where she assumed the aides were supposed to wait. It felt a little cooler but she briefly wondered why the President did have them ‘guard’ in here. She didn’t dwell long on the thought as she walked in on Julie and Becca. Isabella never dealt with Julie in her time line but she had heard stories from both her parents and Kinsey. She knew Julie was a woman who shouldn’t be trust and this play at peace wasn’t something she believed to be true. Julie had a track record of being, well, two faced. Isabella was sure there was some hidden agenda she just didn’t know what. She even said as much to the President but she didn’t think he took much notice to it. Sometimes she really missed Kinsey, he always listened to her. As Isabella moved further into the room she couldn't help but pick up the last of Julie's words. "Ready for another... I wouldn't say secret but... something I've withheld at least until I've been sure to reveal it." “Oh please don’t keep us in suspense.” Isabella said dryly. Edited by Isabella Price, Feb 20 2016, 11:09 AM.
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