The Rebel Faction

The captain wasn't the most diplomatic sort - that's why he moved ambassadors, instead of being one. He read both the incoming transmissions from the Wookies and the Trandoshans, and weighed it all up in his mind.

"Well... it looks like there aren't any open hostilities between the two yet. That's good. Maybe things are back on track?"

"I wouldn't bank on that, sir." said an aide "They both say they'll return the ambassadors, but neither seems to want to reestablish the meeting. I think they're spooked."

"Yeah... and it still doesn't explain the third party..."

It was then that he witnessed the rogue ship's attack.

"What the hell was that?!"

"Sir! It appears one of the unknown ships turned on its' commander and disabled it! We've got a comm from the command ship of the unknowns, but the shot cut out its' communications - the message is badly garbled."

"Give me what we got, then." He took the message in hand, which read for them somewhat like this:

This is Fleet Admiral Arch- ... -divus 2nd Emergency Collasps Squadron. Coalition For- ... -e, and we will stand down. This doesn't need to end in a full scale battle wh- ... -destroy both worlds, we both have the ships, we both have the weapons, and I'm sure the two go-... -ddle of their system.

"Well, that's as clear as mud. Sounds unaggressive, though, but I don't like the sound of that 'destroy both worlds' bit." He rubbed his chin "No, I don't like this situation at all. What's the status on their rogue ships?"

"They're open targets, sir. We've recieved confirmation data from the unknowns to bring them down. Should I give the order to engage?"

"What? No! We don't know anything about this situation - in fact, I don't want anyone doing any firing. Here, give me that comm. Give me an open frequency, mark it as high priority. We're the galactic superpower here, right? They can't have us just shooting people we hardly know."

"What, it's rude to shoot a stranger?" said the aide with a smirk, as he passed the comm.

"No need for familiarity, I just think names are a good place to start with your enemies." replied the captain, who took the comm in hand. "All right, all armed vessels in the area, this is the captain of the Coalition Advance expedition. We repeat, stand down and be identified - all vessels, including the identified 'rogue' vessels. Any further aggressive actions by any party towards any other party will not be tolerated until we figure out who's who." He put the comm down, and frowned.

"Not exactly diplomatic, but we've wasted enough time. Whoever fires next, we target."

"Er... sir, isn't that a little trigger happy?"

"Do you appreciate the situation fully, lieutenant? An unidentified fleet has broken up a peace conference of two heavily armed nations and is now fighting itself and trying to get us involved. I think we can afford to lay down a little law and order, don't you?" He cursed quietly "This is ambassador work, where the hell are those two anyways?"

"You didn't actually ask for them back, sir."

"Aw hell, they can stay there - fat lot of good they'd do."

At this moment, in fact, the ambassadors were accomplishing very little good - unless you counted differing styles of righteous indignation as good.

Jargur's first response to hearing the comm was irritation "What, and we're not worth a mention?" but as he realized what the captain was planning he quickly stumbled to Tiosk, trying to look diplomatic and said "Your honour - er, your majesty - er, sir, or... um - hey listen! That captain's a nutjob. He does not speak for us - the Coalition I mean! I need to get on the comm right now, or he really will shoot the first one he percieves as a threat!"

Oaxaca, however, was more confused "Why is that Serendivus ship attacking his commander? Shouldn't we help them? If that ship crippled his commander with one shot, we should do something!"

Tiosk was all rearing to relieve some stress when the go ahead came from the Sev flagship to destroy the two rogues, but when the Coalition threatened action against the first ships to take aggressive action he sank back into his seat, sulking. At least until Jargur stumbled into him, babbling a bit about talking to that commander.

"First off, you refer to me as Admiral Tiosk." Tiosk said, coming across a bit more harsh then he intended. "Second, calm down. That Captain obviously has no experience in diplomatic situations and was unnerved by the sudden appearance of a third Fleet."

"I heard rumors that the Coalition is at war with another large group." Naosha added. "So any tension on the Coalition's end is to be expected. War can make people react oddly to certain situations."

Tiosk nodded in agreement. "What should we do Speaker?" He asked.

Naosha sighed. "I think we should try to explain what happened. I know Tzhali will back us up with what he knows. It will be up to Sev's themselves though to confirm their position."

"I'll have a comm line opened for you." Before he could give the order however, one of the rogue ships started firing upon Tzhali’s ship, but failed to damage it. The rogue ship was promptly destroyed by Tzhali’s ship and shortly after the second rogue ship, which had started to fire upon the Serendivus Flag ship again, was destroyed as well by what had to have been Sev stealth fighters.

“Kazuk Tzhali…you could have left me one to play with.” Tiosk grumbled.

“Sir, there’s a general broadcast coming from Admiral Tzhali’s ship.”

“Well patch it in. I bet ya it’s the Sev’s ‘mission statement’.”

He was right. It was a recording of Lavality herself detailing the Serendivus’ mission and purpose in the system. Naosha nodded approvingly and requested a comm. line be opened for her to speak.

"This is Speaker-Above-All Naosha, representative of Trandosha and her people." Naosha said. "I confirm Admiral Lavality’s claims in regard to their purpose here in the system. If it wasn’t for her organization, Wookiees and T’Doshok would still be fighting each other. They came to us in our time of need to learn the reason for the sudden increase of fighting and to discover the reason behind the sudden attack on one of their relief convoys by our fleet, an attack my predecessor, Hyossk, ordered for fear there were rebels within it. It was that senseless loss of life that connected the Serendivus with the Separatist Movement, along with a number of Wookiee supporters. Despite assassination attempts, pirate attacks and betrayals we succeeded in bringing peace to this system, though all three sides have suffered great losses in the process. Unfortunately, as you just witnessed all three sides have factions that want nothing more then for the peace to end.

“I would like to take this opportunity to say that I would like the talks to continue, now that some things have been…cleared up. One last thing...I think your T'Doshok Ambassador wishes to say something." She smiled at Jargur and took a step back.

Tzhali got up and gave a few orders to his officers, mostly to prep there shuttle. "Lavality is the daughter of Fikan Serendivus, she's the youngest officer in the fleet and has the knowledge of an experienced commander." He gestured for the ambassador to follow him. "She's only twelve years old, in human terms that is, but she's very smart for her age, but does suffer from immaturity from time to time, like all kids."

The shuttle was prepped and ready to go. "She's also a ruling voice in that organization, but right now she is away." He said as the two went up the ramp. "I'm sure you'll meet her soon enough provided the meetings go well, and I already piped the message over to the Seren's flagship. Oh! one more thing, don't tell the other ambassadors, I plan on letting Lavality's aide doing the talking and seeing there reactions." A grin formed on Tzhali's face, he was going to enjoy the look of shock on there face, and he was certain that Naosha would as well, after all, the two of them where shocked when they found out such a child was an admiral of such of a group, although he also knew that her influence had weakened slightly over the past few years, she was still a figure head in the Serendivus, and a role model for many of many children and cadets AND officers in-training... no doubt she would make an apperence to the Coalition provided everything went as planned. But.. he wondered.. would she give anyway any secrets related to there starship design, after all, he had heard some rumors that the Seren's had a cloaked shipyard in system that was currently creating a new type of frigate, and not the one he had heard about a day ago

Their shuttle lifted off the deck and soon made it's way to the meeting ship

On the Seren's Flagship

Angella Cresnoya walked down the hallway leading to the shuttle bay, every male crewmen turned head's at her. "Damn.. she's beautiful" one said before getting hit upside the head. "She's a coronel you dumb ass! You never say that to an officer!"

"Yea.. but look at her boo-" The same crewmen said before being drop-kicked by the same female crewmen, who then walked away. "Men.........."

Angella walked through the double doors and onto the hanger bay floor, where lambda shuttle was waiting for her. "Is she stripped?"

"She's the speed model, she had no weapons, minimal shields, she's faster than your typical shuttle, and highly more agile, so if it come's to it you should be able to out-run any attackers." The crew chief said

Angella nodded and got aboard, the ramps closed and the shuttle exited through the ships aft hanger bay. They where about ready to come about when the proximity alerm came to life. "Where?!" she yelled as a sudden turbulance slammed into there shuttle, a ship appeared just above Tiosk's ship, she glared at it in shock. "What the hell is that LRDHAS prototype doing out here!!!" She yelled as she recalled the spec's. "Long Range Direct Hyper Assault Ship." she said and stared at the ship, the ship scrapped against Tiosk's ship before moving upward, it was then that the Rogue ship opened fire on Tiosk's ship

Meanwhile, in some shuttle

"SHOW OFF!!!!" Tzhali roared as he slammed the console, which caused there shuttle to do an inverted loop, throwing both him and his fellow officer on the ground. "ow..." before the shuttle continued to the meeting ship

On the Sev's diplomatic shuttle

Angella sighed. "Lavality's not going to like this...."

"Not going to like what ma'am?" The pilot asked

"That ship was of her design and she personally wanted to test it..." The coronel shook her head. "At least that crazy trandoshan disabl-" she said before noticing both sections blossuming. "YOU CRAZY TRANDOSHAN!!!!"

Tzhali stood there looking out the shuttle's transparisteel window. "This 'strange force' is what stopped us from blowing each other up." Tzhali said in a rather stern voice, he was getting quite tired of people treating the Seren's like some Imperial Order. "If they hadn't of intervened and helped out the Seperatist Movement, odd's are Kashyyyk wouldn't even be on the galactic map anymore!" He turned and stared the ambassador straight in the eye. "They command no respect or obedience from ANY of us, we CHOSE to give it to them for all their help. They provided food, medical supplys, they even went as far as providing SHIPS to help make communications and travel eaiser for the two governments..." Tzahli snarled and turned back around.

The Lambda shuttle came around the side of the meeting ship and into the the hanger bay, around that time the Seren VIP ship also docked and the young lady disembarked. Almost immediantly several hanger crew men stared in her direction, noticing what she was wearing, her glare in their direction caused them to get back to work. A Coalition Staff officer escorted her to the meeting room, another escorted Tzhali to the same room