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ORIGIN: 8 Light years up-spin of 188604
It had been years. The NMX had been defeated but not broken. The Gartagen Union had tasked me and my unit the 147th Kith and others like it with tracking and eliminating NMX strongholds, pirates and splinter groups with the expressed purpose of not allowing them any peace. If NMX ships were sighted, they would answer, engage and destroy. A simple task, I had once said. But it wasnt so simple. Now I was the only one left, the only commander and the only Kith associated with the mission still in existance. The other Kiths had either chosen death and glory, or had been absorbed into the 147th.
The fleet however was another matter. Made up of mostly priviteers initially, Home fleet has since absorbed personel to operate it too. Unfortunatly the last engagement with the NMX saw the Destruction of Admiral Costanza. So that means I am acting as the defacto leader of the fleet and army until I can find a replacement. General Ruu has taken her Beserkers...for lack of a better term to root out any of the remaning guerilla activity. The 147th Ki---the Army...Is no longer Gartagen. It may have originated with my people, but it has grown into a cooperative force built around a central idea: Defense of anything from Tyranny, Genocide, and persecution.
Of the 23,784 people in the army, only about 4000 are Gartagen and they make up exclusivly the exo troopers and Rjo's Beserkers. The rest are people we have set free from the NMX. Former slaves, neko, Yamataian, Nepleslian, and other creatures I have never dreamed of seeing.
I maintain my former rank and commission, the mission has not failed, but has been wildly successful. I do not know if home is even home. Tell my parents I love them. I am alive. We are in the western sector....where, I do not know. We have managed to liberate an urban colony populated by yet more Nepleslians. I am awaiting the NMX's officer's surrender as I write this report.
~General of The Newly named Army of the Northern Cross ~
Gobiash Arta
P.S. I know I am not a General in the Union, but the troops have seen fit to "promote me" Due to my policy of splitting the spoils of battle with them all equally. I have adopted the rank, as I now seem to command an Army, rather than a platoon of Gartagen troopers......
Arta sat on a large throne as her troops lined up in well disciplined fashon. Light infantry holding mostly NMX pulse rifles and wearing cobbled together ballistic armor rigged together from wreckage She noted she was the only Gartagen in the room. Her dusty old Edjia armor had fared better, But she kept it looking almost brand new. It was polished and cared for, except the scars of battle. Arta still had her issued revolver, though her old rifle had long since been destroyed.
Her Sheshka had been replaced by a strange energy sword that had been given to her by a horned alien as a gift on aiding his people. The new blade was far more significant to her. It was won, by sticking to their morals. Though Arta recognized that some time those morals needed to be challenged due to the nature of the creatures they are fighting.
Arta touched the five stars that were pinned to her torso plate, a gift from the Nepleslians who opted to stay and aid the cause.
Arta's purple eyes looked down at the NMX officer who was kneeling, and presenting her pistol as a sign of surrender. "We surrender this world to you and your forces. " He said flatly. "We have taken it by conquest and you have done the same. We are at your mercy, General."
Arta looked at her men. "Mercy."
"I mentioned nothing of mercy NMX." She said looming over her former enemy. "You landed on this world. Raped its people. Enslaved them. Then when we finally came. You almost immediately surrender? Because you want mercy. "
"No, you wont spend your days resting in comfort on Yamatai. I accept your surrender."
Arta then drew her pistol and aimed it at the NMX Officer. "Now then the Trial. You will have to forgive the impromptu nature of the trial. But we have millions of witnesses, including my own army. We also have it on record that you gave specific orders for your men to break this world...which before your invasion had barely developed steam capable technology....That alone is a death sentence on my world...which death is not really a big deal for your people so." She then lifted her pistol.
"I find you guilty of Invading a pre-warp civilization, raping and enslaving its people, and conspiracy to do the same to every world in the Kikyo sector."
"I sentence you to life in solitary confinement. Seize him." Arta said as her soldiers moved forward and hauled the man off.
ORIGIN: 8 Light years up-spin of 188604
It had been years. The NMX had been defeated but not broken. The Gartagen Union had tasked me and my unit the 147th Kith and others like it with tracking and eliminating NMX strongholds, pirates and splinter groups with the expressed purpose of not allowing them any peace. If NMX ships were sighted, they would answer, engage and destroy. A simple task, I had once said. But it wasnt so simple. Now I was the only one left, the only commander and the only Kith associated with the mission still in existance. The other Kiths had either chosen death and glory, or had been absorbed into the 147th.
The fleet however was another matter. Made up of mostly priviteers initially, Home fleet has since absorbed personel to operate it too. Unfortunatly the last engagement with the NMX saw the Destruction of Admiral Costanza. So that means I am acting as the defacto leader of the fleet and army until I can find a replacement. General Ruu has taken her Beserkers...for lack of a better term to root out any of the remaning guerilla activity. The 147th Ki---the Army...Is no longer Gartagen. It may have originated with my people, but it has grown into a cooperative force built around a central idea: Defense of anything from Tyranny, Genocide, and persecution.
Of the 23,784 people in the army, only about 4000 are Gartagen and they make up exclusivly the exo troopers and Rjo's Beserkers. The rest are people we have set free from the NMX. Former slaves, neko, Yamataian, Nepleslian, and other creatures I have never dreamed of seeing.
I maintain my former rank and commission, the mission has not failed, but has been wildly successful. I do not know if home is even home. Tell my parents I love them. I am alive. We are in the western sector....where, I do not know. We have managed to liberate an urban colony populated by yet more Nepleslians. I am awaiting the NMX's officer's surrender as I write this report.
~General of The Newly named Army of the Northern Cross ~
Gobiash Arta
P.S. I know I am not a General in the Union, but the troops have seen fit to "promote me" Due to my policy of splitting the spoils of battle with them all equally. I have adopted the rank, as I now seem to command an Army, rather than a platoon of Gartagen troopers......
Arta sat on a large throne as her troops lined up in well disciplined fashon. Light infantry holding mostly NMX pulse rifles and wearing cobbled together ballistic armor rigged together from wreckage She noted she was the only Gartagen in the room. Her dusty old Edjia armor had fared better, But she kept it looking almost brand new. It was polished and cared for, except the scars of battle. Arta still had her issued revolver, though her old rifle had long since been destroyed.
Her Sheshka had been replaced by a strange energy sword that had been given to her by a horned alien as a gift on aiding his people. The new blade was far more significant to her. It was won, by sticking to their morals. Though Arta recognized that some time those morals needed to be challenged due to the nature of the creatures they are fighting.
Arta touched the five stars that were pinned to her torso plate, a gift from the Nepleslians who opted to stay and aid the cause.
Arta's purple eyes looked down at the NMX officer who was kneeling, and presenting her pistol as a sign of surrender. "We surrender this world to you and your forces. " He said flatly. "We have taken it by conquest and you have done the same. We are at your mercy, General."
Arta looked at her men. "Mercy."
"I mentioned nothing of mercy NMX." She said looming over her former enemy. "You landed on this world. Raped its people. Enslaved them. Then when we finally came. You almost immediately surrender? Because you want mercy. "
"No, you wont spend your days resting in comfort on Yamatai. I accept your surrender."
Arta then drew her pistol and aimed it at the NMX Officer. "Now then the Trial. You will have to forgive the impromptu nature of the trial. But we have millions of witnesses, including my own army. We also have it on record that you gave specific orders for your men to break this world...which before your invasion had barely developed steam capable technology....That alone is a death sentence on my world...which death is not really a big deal for your people so." She then lifted her pistol.
"I find you guilty of Invading a pre-warp civilization, raping and enslaving its people, and conspiracy to do the same to every world in the Kikyo sector."
"I sentence you to life in solitary confinement. Seize him." Arta said as her soldiers moved forward and hauled the man off.
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