The Rebel Faction

Tzhali shook his head. Those idiots..... he shook his head, he knew those pilots had gotten way to close to the ship and most likely freaked out the bridge crew on board. He had given specific orders NOT to come near the ship under any reason, but it seems some pilot wanted to have some "fun" and decided to get close anyway. "Think i'll have a talk with that pilot when this is over...." he mumbled under his breath

Meanwhile, aboard said fighter

The pilot was nervous, he hadn't been paying attention to his flight path and had wondered amazingly close to the Coalition ship, he had veered away just in time and avoided a collision, but knew he had gotten way way WAY to close. "The Admiral, for BOTH fleets are going to have a field day with me" the pilot sighed

Aboard the Wookie flagship

Tzhali's second in command was already tapping his foot hastilly, "when that pilot lands, send him to my office...." the wookie said with a hint of anger and annoyance in his tone which made every officer on the bridge work a little bit faster

“We know the T’Doshok in charge of the T’Doshok ship very well ambassador.” Silliss said. “He wouldn’t do something so stupid to provoke the ship his own allies are aboard. My guess is that he’s just trying to keep his ship between us and potentially hostile forces, with the unintentional result of making the crew of this ship nervous.”

“We can assure you that the Rynok destroyer Bloodfang is of no threat to this ship.” Naosha added. “We can’t say the same for the Wookiee ships out there.”

Bloodfang

“What are those darn fool furballs playing at?” Tiosk hissed frustrated. For the past several minutes he felt like he was being stalked by these ships, but while he was certain he could take them out if things got ‘real’ ugly, he knew it would be with a terrible cost to his own ship. He didn’t know the Wookiee’s intentions, only that they outnumbered him ship wise and that they were trying to crowd him.

“Not like you to use an insulting word toward the Wookiees sir.” His second in command, Konik, said.

“Blame the stressful situation.” Tiosk muttered.

“Sir we are getting a bit close to the Ambassador ship.” His sensor officer said.

“Great…and if we try to back out we’ll end up within range of the Wookiee ships weapon fire and possibly provoke them into attacking.” Tiosk grumbled.

“What should we do sir?” Konik inquired.

Tiosk thought it over for a moment. “Swing our bow toward them and hold our current position.” He commanded. “Keep weapons and shields powered down but be ready to bring them up should it appear they are about to attack. Tell the fighter pilots to get ready for combat just in case. What other ships in our fleet are out there should this come to blows?”

“Uhh…according to the latest check in sir, the FangGore and RedClaw are thirty minutes away at sublight speed.”

“Send a message to them to close in on our position, but to stay out of sensor range. Alert them to the potential hostile intentions on the Ambassador ship from the Wookiee ships present.”

“Aye sir.”

The captain of the Coalition ship had to make a judgement call.

Two racial enemies appeared to be charging up and moving into position - on either side of his far too easily destroyed ship. Though he could understand the possibility that the ambassadors onboard could perhaps calm the situation down, there was always a chance that they were even advocating this sort of thing. The captain wasn't exactly up on current affairs.

As if to make matters worse, a fleet of unknown ships came out of nowhere. There is a line where duty is overruled by self-preservation. The captain grabbed his comm.

"Ambassadors! Evacuate immediately! We're picking up a massive fleet arrival - potential invasion force! You have half a minute to get off this ship before we're leaving for the fleet!"

Needless to say, it caused ripples in the meeting. Jargur paused, and pressed the security panel comm "Captain, what's going on up there?" But security protocols had initiated, and the comm reached no one.

In a panic, Coalition crew rushed in, directing both sets of ambassadors to the doors. In the confusion, Jargur and Oaxaca were swept up - despite feeble, unheard explinations that they were in fact supposed to be there.

"No time to explain!" exclaimed a Coalition security personnel as he guided the ambassadors to their ships. "The ship is under attack! It looks like three fleets are fighting over our heads!" (sheer exaggeration, but how was anyone to know that?).

The Coalition used that polite but firm manner that suggested that they could reduce the polite and up the firm at a moments' notice as they hurried the delegations off to their own ships - rude? Probably, but as the unidentified ships came closer and the movements of each side outside suggested increased hostilities...

The captain paced nervously, and said "Are they off the ship?"

"Nearly, sir." said a replying voice from a comm "Just leaving now."

"Good - they're charging weapons, for gods' sake, and we can't raise the shield until the delegates are off! That reminds me, where are our ambassadors?"

"Didn't see anyone in the conference room, sir." the voice said "Just a bunch of Wookies and Trandoshans and stuff."

"The ambassadors are Wookies and Trandoshans, crewman."

"Aye, sir, and they're just leaving now. Didn't see our guys, though."

"No - I mean, our ambassadors are Wookie and Trandoshan."

"What? Well if the Wookies and Trandoshans were our ambassadors, who were they meeting with?"

"Well, not all of them -"

"So were ours the Wookies or the Trandoshans?"

The captain slowly rubbed his face. "They're gone, aren't they?"

"Probably for the best, sir." the crewmen replied "It'll probably save us a lot of confusion in the long run."

GC Ship

Tzhali snarled as the Coalition security pushed them out of the meeting room and to his respected ship, as he got back on board his security guard's approuched him. "Meeting over so soon?"

"A slight 'delay'" Tzhali said as he strapped in

"Umm... whos that?" The security guard pointed to Oaxaca

Tzhali glanced over his shoulder. "Sorry about this Ambassador, apperently you got mistakened, but no time for that. Get me back to the Kessel" he said to the pilot, the shuttle flew out of the hanger bay and toward the flagship, as they flew through space Tzhali noticed the Seren fleet. "Damn it.. what the hell is the Serendivus 2nd Emergency Contingent Squadron doing here?"

The pilot glanced at it. "If thats a squad... I'd hate to see what a Batallion looks like"

"Still.. why did the Serendivus send so many ships?" A pilot asked

Tzhali shook his head. "Someone pressed the panic button it seems"

"Obviously" The co-pilot said as the shuttle docked with the flagship.

None of them realized that Oaxaca had overheard their talk about the Seredivus Fleet….

Aboard the Serendivus 2nd ECS Flagship Star Vella

The captain stared at the screen. "What the hell is the Coalition doing here?!"

"Don't know sir, suffice it to say there probably trying to orcestrate agresstions between the two races." The tactical officer said as he checked targets. "Two shuttles just left, ones wookies the others trandoshan"

He looked over at his weapons officer. "All ships are reporting armed, sir, two of our ships are NOT responding to stand down orders..."

The captain glanced at the screen. "Wh-"

"Weapons hot, there aiming for the bloodfang" Tactical yelled as she relayed her own set of orders

A small ship flew out of the under belly of the flagship and flew toward the Bloodfang, it was so small it couldn't be picked up on sensors, well, active anyway, passive could

The two rogue ships turned around, there turbo laser banks armed.

"What the fuck are they doing?" The captain bellowed. He watched as the tiny ship on ths passive rader flew directly under the bloodfang

The two rogue's opened fire, filling the space between the two ships (and roughly 20 feet above the GC ship) with laser fire

The tiny ship flew up and over the Bloodfang and sat infront of the massive ship. As the laser fire continued the sensors picked up a shield flare up from the trandoshan ship, however the AI aboard the tiny ship ignored that and instead, projected a shield wall infront of the ship

Another such wall suddenly appeared in front of the wookie flagship Kessel. Laser fire from both rogue ships slammed into the barriers, disepating with each shot until the turbo laser fire ceased. The AI recorded the damage done and relayed it back to the flagship

"Hmmm... the lasers where set to fire in low power mode.. not enough to do damage.. more like a warning shot... like those we use to break up attacks between civvy and pirates."

"Still.. get those captains on the horn." The commander of the squadron snarled. The captain of the ship turned his head. "You know the Coalition is probably going to target both ships"

The squadron commander sighed. "Unfortantly, we had to show our hand. Recall those shield bots and move our fleet into this position" he pointed to an area on a cross map

"That'll place us inbetween both the Wookie, Trandoshan AND Coalition fleets... we'll have NO defense in the event they all attack at once" The tactical officer said

The captain shook his head. "The wookie's know who we are, same with the Trandoshans, and both sides know that our squadron is only summoned when major dispute's erupt between two partys."

"That being said, only authorization from BOTH governments will cause us to leave." The communications officer said with folded arm's

"Despite all that.. I want to know WHY the Coalition is here... and get a message back to Lavality..." The squadron commander said.

"Yes sir..."

"If we can't get her to come here to help settle this dispute, then AT LEAST she might be able to send a holo." The commander said

It was then that the communications officer got up from her position and accessed a holo database. "She already made one."

"She did?"

"Yes sir... when Tzhali mentioned the possible arrival of the TNO, BD or Coalition, she created a holo descriping our goals, what we do in this system, and, in TNO's case, not to get involved." She said and smiled when she found it. "How to get it to them is another story."

He shook his head. "We'll think of that AFTER they power down there weapons... until then.. get those two rogue captains on the line NOW!!" The commander yelled

Bloodfang

There was some slight rocking from the blaster fire, which unnerved the Vice Admiral even more. If he hadn’t known what was at stake, he would have ordered his crew to return fire. “Damage report?” He asked when the Wookiee ships stopped firing.

“None sir. The shots were low power: didn’t even dent our shields, plus the Sev had some sort of shield ship providing us with extra shielding. According to sensors they did the same with the Admiral Tzhali’s ship.”

“Well, their command had some brains then.” Tiosk muttered. “Still, they are gonna have to answer for this and I bet Tzhali is ripping a few arms off as we speak over it. The Sev’s overreaction may have cost us this allegiance.”

“Sir.” Konik announced when newcomers arrived on the bridge. “Speaker-Above-All Naosha, Silliss, Varcanna and…who the heck is that?”

All eyes on the bridge turned toward the stranger, Tiosk raising a brow as he rose from his chair and approached the small group. The Vice Admiral is a laid back kind of man, but he can strike an imposing figure when he wanted to and sometimes when he didn’t mean to. Unlike the rest of his crew he didn’t wear the standard Fleet uniform, instead wearing his usual ‘warrior’ attire which consisted of a simple pair of pants and open vest. The vest provided easy access to a bandolier full of throwing knives, known as H’skzi Zur and his belt was full of the same, with the addition of two long, slim fighting daggers. With the exception of having orange eyes, Tiosk looked a lot like his son Silliss: seven feet tall with yellow ochre scales and a very similar head crest.

“Vice Admiral Tiosk.” Naosha said, gesturing to Jargur. “This is Ambassador Jargur from the Coalition. In the confusion of the evacuation, he ended up with us.”

“Welcome aboard the Bloodfang Ambassador.” Tiosk said. “Looks like you’ve been away from proper T’Doshok culture for far too long.” The Vice Admiral looked him over and was about to make a comment when Naosha interrupted.

“What happened up here Admiral?” Naosha asked. “We had little information to go on the situation before we got forced off the ship.”

“I was keeping in eye on things up here when a pair of Wookiee aligned ships kept getting closer and closer.” Tiosk explained. “I didn’t want to fire on them so I had us stay out of their firing range. Unfortunately we kept getting closer and closer to the Coalition ship, which must have unnerved them. Thinking back, I should have communicated with the Coalition ship directly and explained the situation….perhaps this could have ended differently. But…when the wookiee ships powered their weapons that’s when all hell broke loose.” Tiosk sighed. “I know the Sevs would be keeping in eye on things here and I knew there were two of their ships under Admiral Tzhali’s command present. Those ships powered up and ignored power down orders from the head of their Fleet.”

“And that’s when the panic button was hit.” Naosha said with a sigh. “Lavality wouldn’t have reacted like that if she was here…nor would Fikan if he was still alive.”

“Mother, is it wise to speak about the Serendivus so openly in the presence of the Ambassador?” Varcanna pointed out.

“Miss…” Tiosk said. “Considering what just happened the Coalition knows they are here and they are gonna have to explain themselves pretty quickly before the Coalition puts them on their ‘enemy’ list.”

“Sir! Multiple incoming hyperspace signatures!” His comm. officer warned. “It’s the Coalition, they brought the whole Fleet that was in our system.”

“Kazuk…they didn’t take this situation very well at all. I hope Tzhali’s on the ball and keeps the Sev’s from hitting the panic button again. Last thing we need is a full scale war between the two.”

“Considering the Sevs are still recovering from the Battle of Trandosha like we are, I doubt they would survive it.” Naosha muttered.

“Incoming Transmission sir.”

“Let’s hear it.” Tiosk commanded.

~This is the Coalition advance expedition. We insist the immediate return of our ambassadors them being one Trandoshan and one Wookie and that the unknown fleet stand down and be identified.~

At Tiosk’s prompting, a comm. line was opened for him. “This is Vice Admiral Tiosk of the T’Doshok Fleet.” He said. “One of your Ambassadors is safe and sound aboard my ship. During the evacuation of your ship he got mixed up with our own representatives. We’ll be happy to return him to you as soon as possible. I can have a shuttle primed and ready right now for this purpose.”

Naosha was tempted to offer an apology on the behalf of the Serendivus, but knew that wasn’t her place. Besides…they got themselves into this mess….