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The Prime Candidate could tell he was still rather nervous about the whole thing. She had hoped that this final one on one with her would help ease a few of those nerves. Both for her personal reasons as well as the fact she wished for him to perform her duties to the best of his abilities.
"You have a point in that. We are about to lose a great deal of men and women to essentially nothing. Make sure the survivors of your people do not lose their morale after the death toll comes out. Keep them in line if you can, at any cost. We can not begin to imagine the level of stress you and your people are about to have to endure for the sake of human kind."
To the point of his final remark she took a moment to assess something mentally before she responded.
"To most extents yes. However with the fact we are not alone and we could be facing invasion any day we have alerted all of our outposts across the system and are in the process of building more ships to combat the enemy we may now face. Infact one of our first acts when we become the leader of this country would be to further boost the budget to our orbital assets to better protect the planet from any extraterrestrial threat we may encounter. As well as reinforce our terrestrial means of combating them."
Menu loved feeling Anunsei's warm touch, so he fondled her hand for a bit and hummed softly. He then looked at Sita's face and giggled as he thought she looked confused, but he remembered their species and cultural differences, so she might have been hungry... who knew. As he listened to the question, he looked into the horizon for a moment. Perhaps they would be somehow aware of his land's history just enough to understand some references.
- "Yes, a Prince, because I am one of the sons of the previous King. On one paw, it means a lot of privileges, but on the other, it also means many restrictions, some on prupose and some accidental. For instance, I am not allowed to travel abroad without the King's explicit permission, nor pick whatever job I want. And it also makes it a bit harder to make friends because most people fear crossing the King. Nevertheless, it's a very comfortable life, so I can't complain."
He chuckled as he shrugged and then looked at Sita and the at Anunsei again, asking them both his next question.
- "And when did your people have a monarchy?"
"I do not believe I will tell them what the actual death toll is. Every single one of them is a soldier that understands that death happens. The best way to handle it is to complete the mission to honor those who will inevitably lose their lives. Whether we're successful or not in the mission doesn't matter in that regard."
In a way he envied his Overlordian colleagues. From what he could see from the most part, emotional connection was unimportant to the majority of them. If they lost comrades, chances were they'd be able to move on without heavy hearts. Something he knew his people could never accomplish.
It was kind of funny for him to know though that life on the planet he was born on would continue to operate as it normally would. He'd definitely be thinking about it during his journey.
"I see. It's comforting to know that this place will at least be sort of safe while I'm going. I prefer to be reassured that when we do complete our mission we'll actually have a home to return to, you know? Have anything to return to. Who knows, maybe I'll have grand nieces and grand nephews when I get back. WOuldn't that be strange..."
He sighed when he thought about it, wondering how long he'd be gone and what he might be missing. What the state of his country would be when he got back. If there would be war or peace. It was actually quite frightening for him.
"I wish you good luck when you do eventually assume control of the country. I'm sure you'll be just as good of a leader as your predecessor, if not better."
Upon mentioning that he wished her to be better even then her predecessor for a moment she stood in silence. It was clear part of her wished to say something, however the fact that she was still a citizen and under monitor seemed to change her mind.
"Even living up to our predecessors standard would be enough for us to be satisfied. But one such as ourself can not hope to go beyond perfection..."
She glanced down for a moment then back at him.
"Goodluck Admiral. We will see you again in several years. Take care of yourself...and your men."
She gave him an Overlordian salute and slight bow of her head before she dismissed him to go and see about his own peoples final preparations. In the meantime she once more took seat in her command chair, re-interfacing with the entire fleet as she began making her own preparations for the final launch sequence of the mission. The reality of it all still weighing rather heavily on her mind.
By the 12 hours to launch mark every crew member of the Overlordian fleet had boarded their assigned vessels and were in the process of securing and final system diagnostics. They wanted to be absolutely sure to give the mission the best possible chances of success, so no hitches on their side that they control were going to be allowed to slip past any of the screening processes. The final checks went down to counting every single ration aboard every single ship, and even a final stress test on the materials to build the gate. If anything was to go wrong it was then or never.
The fleet had also begun to move into launch path near the Lunar Jump Gate. The Gate itself was positioned and calibrated for the jump to the desired system, and was ready to jump the entire fleet to the other galaxy. Once activated it would be over in an instant, no travel time necessary. Final countdown would commence soon.
Almost immediately after he was done speaking turning back and looking to the both of them it would seem in which his response would seem to interest the both of them, almost disproportionally interest the both of them, Anunsei continued to hold him seeming not wishing to move her face that of joy or excitement seeming to be based on his answer or something else, while Sita would seem to grow more curious and wonderous.
Looking at him with a careful gaze, noticing something within the distance and pointing to it, speaking as she would;
- | "It is not a Vestian thing, yet we were under a Monarchist state... There's a saying albiet a hurtful one to a specific population, [ "All troubles of the Universe can be traced to the Blue Ghost" ] it is our way of coping with it so to speak... |
| Besides even if we are independent now, cutoff from the rest of our nation we are still apart of a greater empire has the name The [ "Celestial Empire" ] been mentioned to you at all before?" |
As Sita would point off towards the distance behind them should he look behind him he would be able to faintly make out a silver statue of an alien figure, not one of Vestian nor of Sita's kind but of a different one eventually Anunsei would begin to speak;
- | "Sita's Kind has seen the worst of our well monarchist period, while officially she is Vestian like myself, both Biologically and genetically she's another separate species we've just called our own which still does bring the question of how we are related but I'd guess there was... A "Moment" at one point or another." |
| "But we were ruled by another empire as she mentioned, let's just say it was not fun for us nor any of the other's they've forced into their rule, the legends and myths we were told as she told me a few years ago was apparently to Quell anti-Monarchist sentiment and even though their hasn't been another monarchist in rule since our arrival and colonization needless to say it's still taught to us" |
Project Eden
Several years ago the planet of Mars was successfully terraformed into a habitable world for humanity. The project took nearly 60 years to complete and represented a pinnacle achievement of humankind. Trillions of dollars and millions of people devoted their entire lives to the completion of this project. Nations from across the Aerth sent their best to the project. And the results over these recent years have been nothing short of astonishing, with over 2,000% biomass growth in the last quarter alone. In Overlordian population alone there are now millions of inhabitants living comfortably on the surface of Mars.
This success coupled with the still explosive population growth facing humanity has lead Overlordian scientists to once more look to options. Not for our modern era but for the future of humankind. The more area we have to grow and expand the healthier our race can become and the further we can advance ourselves on our quest to gain the knowledge still just beyond our grasp. Thus the next logical step in the process of terraformation fell to the next planet in our own solar system not far from our home planet. Venus.
Venus posses several unique challenges over the predecessor Mars. Firstly the atmosphere is composed almost entirely of toxic gases, in a density much thicker then Aerth. The gases prevent sunlight from escaping, causing the planet to have incredibly high average temperatures. In addition the surface pressure of Venus exceeds the Aerth's surface pressure more then 10 to 1. Venus also lacks a magnetic field of it's own similar to Mars, meaning that any atmosphere artificially created will instantly be stripped away by solar winds. And finally the lack of hydrogen on the planet will create an issue when moving to later stages of terraformation.
The Plan
Step One-An L1 Venus Lagrange point Electromagnet similar to that constructed for Mars shall be constructed to shield Venus from that harsh solar winds that strip it of it's atmosphere. Two smaller electromagnets will also be constructed for later deployment onto the poles of Venus in order to provide a failsafe in case of Lagrange Point failure.
Step Two-An Overlordian Fleet will position itself in high orbit over Venus. Once all vessels are in position they will begin a bombing run of the surface. Te goal is not the creation of gas but rather the vaporization or expulsion of the gases on the surface from the planet. To do this the highest yield warhead ever developed will be fired multiple times at the planets surface. The ZPE Nuclear Warhead is the first warhead developed to infuse Zero Point Energy in a nuclear process. The explosive yield of a single warhead is estimated an excess 50 Gigatons.
The Warheads will be dropped with several hundred smaller yield kinetic and conventional nuclear weapons. The goal of the initial wave of ZPE Warheads is to push the gases in the atmosphere into space. The follow ups will continue to push the gas further away while releasing new gases on the surface. The gas released is significantly less the the gas pushed away, thus maintaining a semi stable pressure without the heat entrapment.
Step Three-With the atmosphere cleared of gas an array of Solar Shades will be deployed to help lower the temperatures and reduce the remaining pressure. By this point some gas expunged will begin to return, and if necessary another bombing run will be deployed. However if not necessary then the solar shades will begin to freeze a majority of the gas as it returns, continuing to lower temperature and pressure.
Step Four-By this point in time the atmospheric pressure and surface temperature will need to be below or at habitable levels. Bacteria pods will then be deployed as the seeding process begins. The bacteria will convert the remaining carbon into oxygen as we slowly begin to oxygenate the planet.
Step Five-Using gravitational assists as well as a devoted fleet ice covered asteroids and chunks from the belt will be directed to crash into the surface of Venus. The goal is to aid the creation of water as the surface oxygenates, thus spreading moisture into the atmosphere as chunks burn on entry. Simultaneously hydrogen will begin to be pumped into the atmosphere.
Step Six-Once the surface has reached a stable enough level larger scale lifeforms may begin to be moved onto the planet and Human habitations may be constructed for early dwelling as a natural layer of top soil begins to form. At this point in time only minor corrections of the solar shades to keep the atmosphere at the correct temperature and pressure will be needed until the planet can naturally sustain itself. At that point in time the Overlordian Terraformation will be completed to a degree that widescale colonization from the Aerth home world may begin to move to the planet and aid in their own ways the continuation of the planets process.
The estimated timeframe to completion is 25-30 years. Using resources from the Mars terraformation as well as developed processes during that time have lead to an increased ability to terraform the planet. This level is not full terraformation, but rather completed to a degree that the natural progression can be taken over the course of the next several hundred years.
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Menu carefully listened to everything they said and looked behind at the statue, staring at it for a moment before looking at them once again. He raised his eyebrows as they mentioned what sounded like species-based abuses, as he heard before from Anunsei.
- "Oh, I see. Theb your experience with monarchy sounds a lot like what most 'natives' -as you would call them- have gone through. Even Kemet saw a time of seemingly never ending abuse and discrimination. Of course things aren't perfect now... not even close, but I can understand how you feel regarding some forms of government and their policies. By the way, what do you mean by 'Blue Ghost'?"
He asked with his head slightly tilted while fondling Anunsei's waist with his big paw from the side.
"Nonsense. You've already handled this situation with a stunning level of maturity. Your predecessor would be proud. I'm sure you'll surpass even her accomplishments in due course. It's just a shame that I may not be here to witness your achievements."
He smiled at her, something quite rare given his personality, then bowed his head and began making his way for the door. He paused, like he wanted to say something to her, but in the end just nodded his head as thanks for her wishing him good luck and then departed. By the time he arrived at his flag ship, the crews of all ships in the Russian fleet had already gone over systems checks multiple times and were more or less prepared for the final launch.
Communication with their Overlordian counterparts was constantly maintained, with each ship sending the okay to both Russian and Overlordian command once its diagnostics were complete. Before he had arrived, the crews of the ships had had a message from the Empress broadcast to them, expressing her gratitude to them for embarking on such a dangerous mission and making clear that she was proud of them, an honor that was very sought after within the country.
As a result, morale was quite high and there didn't appear to be much anxiety, which surprised the Admiral when he entered the bridge in which he'd be commanding from. He spent the remaining time before launch receiving briefings and system checks from his subordinates while commanding the fleet into position to prepare for the jump. Once in their launch path, it was a matter of waiting for the final countdown.
He had made sure not to speak to anyone about anything other than the preparations due to not wanting to create any possible attachments to the crew at that time without knowing who would survive and who wouldn't. Once in the desired launch path, he sent the all clear to the Overlordian and Russian command. All he had to do then was wait and see whether he'd come out alive or whether he'd suffer what would likely be instantaneous death.
As the hours counted down the final checks throughout the fleet went about as normally they would. They had been planning for that moment for months, and now finally that it was here the preparations has paid off. Not a single flaw had been detected that wasn't of minor inconsequential and that could not be quickly and efficiently rectified. All was going as best could be hoped for.
Once Overlordian Command received the clear signal from the Russian members of the fleet the countdown to Gate activation began. The fleet positioned themselves near the gates opening as the gate made final calibrations for the desired destination point. The interior rings of the gate beginning to spin one by one until each ring was rapidly turning. A blue energy field began to form inside the rings of the large gate, and moments later a blue glow emanated from the interior of the gate. In the darkness of space it easily illuminated the nearby fleet of ships as the final countdown began. All that was left was for each ship to pass through the Jump Gate.
The green light was given and one by one each of the Overlordian vessels enabled their shields and sub light engines. The power to the engines was on minimum as the vessels each drifted forward very slowly until they entered the energy field and vanished from the sight of the rest of the fleet. One by one the ships entered, until the entire Overlordian fleet had cleared through. All that was left was for the Russian vessels to follow suit.
The Other Side
The Jump was virtually instantaneous for the crew aboard the OSS Tiberion. One moment they were stationed in their home galaxy orbiting the Moon they had all seen, the next their ship was pointed out into the blackness of a totally unknown star system. Immediately the crew went to work, trying to lock onto the probes sent previously to establish their position.
"Status report number 1."
"Reports from across the vessel are giving the all clear signal Captain. All crew members reporting at full capacity. Ship status at nominal capacity. We made it sir."
"Navigation, status."
"Tracking sir. We are way off course. Our sensor array isn't detecting any other vessel of our own. Nor any object within sensor range of the vessel. We're in the middle of nowhere sir."
"Establish beacon. Open the long range sensor tower and lower the shields. Get us comm links with the rest of the group."
The crew swiftly went to work following the Captains orders, trying to pinpoint just how far off course they had landed so they could reestablish connection with the rest of the fleet. However they could not know how lucky they were already.
Two systems and over 12 lightyears away the OSS Gaul exited the Jump to the sound of metal tearing followed by several systems. The vessel hadn't entirely been transported through the jump, the entire forward section of the ship completely missing. The shield held the atmosphere in for mere seconds before an explosion took out the array as deck by deck the ship was exposed to the vacuum of space.
The Captain and the entire bridge crew had been taken out in the rear of the forward section, leaving command momentarily out of equation as the remaining crew struggled to stabilize the vessel. Moments later the reactor would go critical as several sections had been entirely removed in the jump. A brilliant flash of light illuminated the area as the OSS Gaul was entirely atomized with all hands lost a mere ten seconds upon entry into the new galaxy.
The same could be said for the OSS Lorins and OSS Rogal, both vessels completely destroyed moments after entering the galaxy. The OSS Opris never exited Jump. The OSS Wilindu exited jump inside of a star in the target system, utterly annihilating the vessel in seconds. And finally the OSS Spire, which exited jump halfway inside an asteroid field. Though valiant efforts from flight attempted to salvage the vessel an asteroid had been embedded within the primary engine reactor at the instant the vessel entered and several dozen sections had been severely damaged. Though the ship cleared the field it would soon lose power, drifting into the gravity well or a planet and moments later crashing to the surface.
Of the original 20 vessels 6 had been lost upon entry into the Galaxy. 5 had suffered damages but had been saved. 7 suffered minor damages. 2 entered with no damage of any kind reported.
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Space
The OSS Tiberion engaged it's sublight engines to full power and quickly accelerated to the nearest planet. A beacon had been detected on the long range sensors indicating an Overlordian vessel was in distress. The beacon belonged to the OSS Spire, which had suffered critical damage upon entry into the Galaxy and fallen into the planets gravity well. Though unlikely the OSS Tiberion was duty bound to search and rescue any survivors as well as scavenge and scuttle anything that remained of the Battle-Cruiser.
Eight Lightyears from their location the planet designated gatehouse was now orbited by two of the Overlordian warships. The OSS Ronin and OSS Daxos. both ships had suffered minor damage but were otherwise perfectly operational.
Already they had begun to establish themselves in the system. The OSS Ronin was an established guard dog, carrying defensive platforms for defense of the gate such as automatic drones and sensor equipment. The OSS Daxos was a designated work ship, carrying hundreds of tons of supplies for the gates construction. Thus the Ronin begun to deploy it's stockpile and set up the ground base while the Daxos began unloading equipment and attempting to contact the rest of the fleet.
Several other Overlordian vessels were also on their way to the Gatehouse location, deploying their long range sensor probes and creating their circle of defense around the gatehouse location.
The OSS Tiberion meanwhile arrived in the planets orbit after 9 hours at maximum sublight. They slowed once they came within close range sensor range and established themselves in the planets orbit.
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The Captain stood infront of the primary display screen of the bridge. The screen displayed one of the cameras mounted to the outside, giving the impression that the screen was a giant window gazing out from the deck of the ship towards the nearby planet.
"Lifesigns?"
"The planet seems capable of sustaining life sir, but so far we haven't detected anything."
"The magnetic field of the planet is throwing off our sensors sir, according to this there are no lifesigns aboard our ship."
The Captain glanced back at the display, noting the lack of any signal despite the fact he knew for a fact he was still alive and so were his crew.
"Is there any way to boost the signal?"
"Not without raising the shields sir. And if we do that we won't be able to detect anything on the surface. We're blind to what's on the surface sir."
The Captain took a step away from his screen, changing the display to his ship status.
"For all we know there could be anything waiting for us down there then. Usually we'd order a more cautious approach...is the distress signal still broadcasting?"
"Yes sir, location is remaining steady."
"Then we will have little choice. Prepare the away team."
"They are in the shuttle bay already sir."
"Excellent. Display comms and visual on the forward display. We want constant updates. Have medical on standby and prepare a second away team for further extraction and aid."
As he spoke the shuttle departed from the hangar bays, displayed on the screen as the 8 man away team departed to the surface to begin the process of locating the exact wreckage of the ship and attempting to rescue the remaining survivors. Little known to them or the ships crew that they were no longer the only ones interested in the signal being broadcast from the wrecked ship.
Overlordian Androids
With the massive global success of the Hybrid human market for several decades producing billions in revenue for Overlordian companies the next big step was to find another desire for citizens of the globe. The sales of hybrids proved that the market was willing enough to accept a product created in Overlordia. It also proved that many citizens of the globe would be willing to spend money for a long term product. One with little chance of generating their own wealth but would instead work to make their lives easier and provide a personal touch of service.
It is now known however that hybrids themselves had several drawbacks that have made them a less desirable product for many people. For one hybrids themselves are individuals with their own ability to think, and thus often developed complex social lives that reduced their desired traits for the client. Some even broke their restraining chips and managed to break away and live and reproduce on their own, which was not at all intended. And with hybrids rights activists and governments creating hybrid equality laws all over the globe a new product without these drawbacks needed to be produced.
To solve these issues Overlordian companies turned to what many of them knew best, mechanics. Many Overlordian companies specialize in making machines. In particular success The Overlordian Peacekeeper, which has been produced for decades as a standing and lasting design for combat and control. This design infact was the inspiration that lead to the creation of the new Overlordian product.
We are now pleased to sell to the world at full scale sale a brand new product for the home and for the lives of your global citizens. The Overlordian Android!
Overlordian Androids can be ordered with a completely customizable body structure, ranging from size to hair color, eye color, skin tone, etc. The Androids come installed with a Multi-stage reformative AI program, which can be given whatever name desired by the client. The AI program that runs every Android will learn from the owner how to behave, react, and obey commands. The client is finally in full control of our products. The AI is also equipped with a restraining bolt built in to prevent the learning algorithm from allowing it the ability to freely think or disobey the commands given by the owner. Nor can they disobey the base programming of the AI, which will prevent them from ever harming a human being.
The Android will run on internal battery, capable of running without end for up to one weeks time, however can easily be recharged by placing an adapter into a home wall socket. Replacement parts will be sold to customers at an as needed basis, and every Android comes with a customer satisfaction guaranteed warranty lasting ten years.
The body of the Android is lined with a synthetic skin resistant to wear and tear as well as weather effects. The internal structure is also extremely durable, and the Android is capable of running full systems diagnostics on itself in the case of any error or systems failure. Androids have a shut down switch at the base of the neck, or a verbal command chosen by the owner can be uttered. Androids are prohibited from attempting to pass as human and are prohibited to harm any human in any way, including for self defense of the Android of the owner.
Androids memory banks are not networked and can be erased at any time by the owner. We do not record any data taken from the Android. Customers who purchase and own multiple Androids may link them together in a private network.
Androids do not require any food or drink, however if the owner wishes may eat and drink to sample food and drink. Any contaminants will be registered and waste will be disposed of at the owners choice.
Androids can be purchased for a lower price with default settings. This includes one of six looks for both genders. All Androids are adults of varying sizes. Androids can not be ordered to look like any living human being past or present without special circumstance requests processing and permission by a local government official.
Additional information can be found in the Android bylaws page of the Overlordian sales site. Overlordian Androids are now for sale, shipping to anywhere in the globe in one weeks time for a stock model and one months time for a custom model.
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Well, it's just a bit grim and crude than IRL... I mean, as much as close as you can get with Aliens, Advanced Nations and so on...
True, albeit he has a point too.
That's a fair point too... Now regarding the actual one... Yeah... 50/50
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