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RP: NSS Alliance Dignitaries and Diplomacy

Tom

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ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL: 29034867XFVY21

Nepleslian Command:

First expedition to the galactic northwest has proven successful. Preliminary research on Planet X indicates strong mineral deposits as well as potential habitability for a colonization effort. Attached is our science team's findings:


-CAPTAIN JACK MILLER
NSS ALLIANCE


PLANET X COMPOSITION:

Planet X resides in a star system approximately 10 LY to the galactic Northwest of Kxi'ran. The system consists of two gas giants and a single planet orbiting a sun. Of these, the two gas giants are located fairly close to the star. Distances are measured at 45 and 68 million miles, respectively.

Of more interest is the lonely planet in the star system. Due to the relative size of the star and distance from Planet X (hereto referred as "Xâ€
 
Adrian woke up in a small alley way lying in a heap of trash with a throbbing headache and his shirt back pulled up over his head. At that moment he vowed never to drink absinthe again. Unless he didn't have to pay for it.
He stood rather shakily and stumbled out of the alley, digging through his pockets to make sure he hadn't been ripped off in the night. Through some incredible twist of fate, all his stuff was still with him. He wondered if he could make it back to the ship in his current state.
Would be easier if I knew just where the hell I was...
He saw a group of slightly more sober marines talking amongst themselves. He breathed a sigh of relief and yelled to them.
"Hey guys! You know how to get back to the Alliance?"
 
The musty apartment room slowly filled with brackish sunlight as morning dawned. The room itself was one of the cheaper varieties, fairly evident through the shoddy patchwork furniture, various unknown stains littering the floor, and the indescribable smell wafting from what could've once been a restroom. It was in these humble setting that Rico jerked awake from his face-down position on the couch with a loud yawning snort.

It took a minute for Rico to realize where he was, but after a few moments he rolled onto his back and looked around the apartment, hoping to gather some information on what exactly happened last night.

Okay. No woman sleeping next to me, guess I was too drunk to care.
Alright, head feels...moderately fine. Must've taken some medicine before I slept.
Mmmkay...shitty apartment. What a surprise...


Rico smiled after his check-up, quickly got up and stretched a bit, and commenced with a few morning exercises. He felt like taking a shower, but after quick look at the bathroom door, he realized he didn't need one that desperately. After finishing up his routine, Rico took a moment or two to groom and admire himself in the broken mirror next to the door, turning his face side to side to make sure he didn't miss anything important.

"Lookin' good Rico. Damn good.â€
 
Two armed ID-SOL guards flanked her. Each had a stone-faced expression, several large bags, and huge high-powered rifles; the kind you gave your guards not because you expected combat, but for showing off the fact that you were important enough to bring out the big guns.

The woman who called herself Soreta, flanked between the two soldiers, certainly loved to feel important.

She didn't have the looks of a diplomat, however you sliced it; being a Geshrin she had the same sickly good looks as every other PNUgen model, hiding them under what could be, of all things, good clothes for jogging; a form-fitting red windbreaker with white trim and markings, and warm black cargo jeans. Her hair, too, was genetically designed, an unnatural cyan hue that draped over her shoulders, and bangs that completely obscured her eyes from view.

Her mission was, according to her handlers, to go to Elysia, and make a deal for peace; or perhaps even an alliance down the line. It was deceptively simple; Nepleslia, with the support of the Nerimians, could easily wipe out the dwindling 'Angel' population in any armed conflict. But the Elysians were proud, and they may not take so kindly to associating with the kind of riff-raff Nepleslia represented.

Well, that was good too. Soreta loved a challenge.

Soon enough, Jack Miller's attention was demanded by the young diplomat, who requested official permission to board. Sure, she probably could just waltz through the airlock right then and there, but that would be far less fitting of someone in her position. She needed to impress.

Sure, she could probably do her job without all the fuss, but what would be the fun in that?
 
The marines had been kind enough to point the medic to the ship, especially once they were promised extra morphine if they ever got shot down. Thus, the hungover, disheveled, and rather dour soldier found himself standing about 10 feet behind a blue-haired Geshrin diplomat with two ID-SOLs who kept giving him extremely nasty looks.
Of course, Adrian was way too far gone to notice. After a bit, he simply walked forward, tapped the oddly clothed woman on the shoulder and asked a simple question:
"Hey, can you please just hurry up and go through? I seriously need a shower and some different clothes. The door's unlocked, man."
 
Soreta turned around and glared - or at least, seemed to glare - at the rude soldier who grabbed her attention. The two ID-SOLs next to her pointed their guns at him menacingly, but she waved them off.

"I'm trying to contact your captain so I can gain formal permission to board...although I don't suppose a grunt would know anything about protocol." Diplomatic immunity did have its benefits.
 
"Captain, our dignitary is here," Ally said, carefully brushing her hair. "Shall I escort you to see her?"

Miller shook his head.

"Inform her that I am currently distracted by ship maintenance procedures, but that I will welcome her at my earliest convenience. Give her an officer's quarter to rest in and tell the kitchen staff to prepare something special for her arrival."

"Yes, Captain."

With that, the A.I. disappeared out of the door to meet with the new arrival.
 
Adrian answered the glare with a raised eyebrow and a slightly confused expression. He wondered what was up with her rather unorthodox dress, considering that they were on a military installation about to board a military vessel. Probably some civilian scientist with an over-blown ego.
"Yeeeeah, listen, I'm pretty sure you have all the clearance you need. Miller's pretty loose. Just go on in. And, uh, can you tell your friends to stop pointing the shooties at me? Not like I'm gonna stab or you or anything..."
He rubbed his eye with his left hand and remembered the person had no idea who he was.
"Uh, I'm soldier third class Adrian Decane. I'm the medic."
He held out his hand in an offer for a shake, but kinda doubted it would happen.
 
"You will address me as Soreta," was all the woman said, as she and her bodyguards disappeared into the airlock and completely ignored the offered handshake. From the look of things, Adrian's guess wasn't too far off the mark.
 
Adrian watched her go and muttered a stream of profanity, mostly consisting of the words "Hard-assed bitch."
Once she was inside he followed and headed to the showers. The ship was running with only a couple techs here and there, and the Alliance felt very empty. Kind of an odd feeling for someone who had been totally surrounded by others his entire life. He stripped down and turned on the hot water. It felt awesome. As he stood in the spray, he kept wondering just who the hell the woman was. He doubted scientist, considering the rather mean looking security detail. Which led him to assume politician.
Just what I need. Some snobby punk running all over the place spitting in my face...
 
Jet had casually boarded a day before and had been lounging in his quarters, thinking about where to center the security of the ship when he'd heard about the dignitary. He could only think how much of a pain in the ass it'll be to cater to some idiot. Of course he had gotten up to go greet this person and groaned at the sight of the guns. "Overzealous are we?" Jet mused to himself. "You must be the dignitary that was mentioned would come aboard. I'm Lieutenant Endurain." He said with a passing greeting.
 
A clean-out-of-the-shower Benji watched the Diplomat and one of his to-be fellow crewmates interact. He cast a single glance at the ID-Sol's accompanying the Greshin and heaved a light sigh. He read over his tiny paper of written orders and then looked up at the ship again. He sighed and then reached down and effortlessly slung his heavy pack over one of his shoulders and started off towards the ship.

As he approached he ran a metal hand through his hair, spiking it. Of course it natturaly stuck out at odd angles, but sometimes it needed a little direction change. It was instantly clear he was a cyborg, especially because of the glint of sunlight off of his light steel limbs. From the shoulder down his arms and hands were all metal and wires and of course adjustments to his muscles and spine to support all the weight. That and his eyes, each of them used for diffrent things.

When he finally walked up to the ship he studied it and then, not sure of what quite to do, he asked for the CO of the ship with a request to board, being a rookie and all. He had no idea what to expect and wasn't about to waltz onto some space ship with out somekind of introduction, formal or not.
 
Kokuten Gaiasis Chiaki the 5th had awoken early that morning. It was finally his time to go and board his first ship. He had heard stories of ships like these, he had heard stories of the might and fury the soldiers on thes ships weilded. Though he was never sure of how true these stories really were. He had heard most of them from some drunk bastard in a bar.

He was standing outside of one of these ships, this one called the 'NSS Alliance' smoking one of his favorite cigars. The tall Nepleslian adjusted his medic band so it faced outward, and then straightened his beret. He shifted his duffel bag into a more comfortable position on his shoulder. Kokuten made sure to load up his duffel bag with all he could. Most of it's contents were clothes, though it had more personal contents as well: a small picture of the family, his .45, a few dirty magazines, and a case of his favorite cigars.

Cybernetic eyes clacked as they blinked open and closed, cleaning the metal eyeballs under them of foreign particles. His metal arms shinked and clanked as he moved them around to make sure they working properly. He didn't want to look like a mess infront of his new crewmates, his arms had a bad habit of making horrible screach if there was build-up that the cleaning parts inside them missed.

He took one last puff of his cigar and let the smoke fly, promptly dropping it and stamping it out with his foot. This greenhorn of a medic approached the ship and entered. His only hope, that the guys on this ship arn't as hard on him about being a rook than the guys at the bars.
 
"Move, boot motherfucker!" Ran pushed the newly arrived medic out of the way as he ran into the ship, his pack rather lumpy and suspiciously chinking with what sounded like glass. Outside, two vomit-covered police men frantically searched around the port for someone, and soon gave up as they saw several more Marines entering the port to re-deploy. Breathing hard and peeking around the doorway, he sighed in relief and hid again, seeing a very angry-looking Neko girl and her..."chaperone" search for him as well.

"Fucking assholes...just leave me alone already!" As they left, he stood back up and helped the Medic back to his feet, brushing off whatever dust he got when he fell down. "Sorry 'bout that, son. Name's Sergeant Ran." He heaved the pack over his right shoulder and bent down, looking the medic square in the eyes, that mohawk on top of his head looking like some terrible hairy creature ready to pounce. "I hope you're in my squad, son."

With that, he smiled wierdly and ran off to his room.
 
The Soldier 3rd class stood there, wondering what just happened, and what just talked to him. He shuffled his Duffel Bag, stopped, then looked inside to see if anything had fallen out...

Cigars... Check... Picture... Check... Yummy Yamataian... Check... Assorted Clothes... Check...

He then placed his Duffel bag back over his shoulder.

Hm, squads... The CO of this place should be able to let me know what squad I'm in or if I'm Medlab Personel.

His right eye clacked, then his left.

Where would I find the CO...
 
Two men introduced themselves to Soreta; as common courtesy demanded, she bowed at both and told them her name. "Could one of you show me around the ship? I need to know my way around if I'm going to be stuck here for the next little while." At least she was a bit more polite than she was with the grunt who interrupted her entry.

The two guards flanked next to her saluted at the soldiers - evidently, they were not of high rank.
 
Not a morning person

On the spread out futon Chris shifted as a message kept trying to get his attention. Grudgingly forcing himself up he looked at the notice with a stern disgruntled look.

<i>Time to go back huh? Well I can't say it's been a fun shore leave. Still I could of at least been allowed to sleep in for a few more hours.</i>

With the complaints out of the way he took his time getting ready to leave, paying extra special attention to his long orange hair. After applying some product he brushed it over and over until it had a nice shiny flow. Finally he added just a soft touch of blush to his checks and headed out.

Arriving at the ship once again met with what appeared to be a commotion.

<i>Oh boy I just love it when things like this happen. Probably some male trying to appear important or one of the dumb-asses avoiding the law.</i>
 
Jet sighed, noticing the slew of greenhorns coming on board. "I imagine all of you want to go meet the meathead captain." he smirked, jokingly. "here I'll show you the way to his quarters, what you do after tha tisn't my business." He said and started into the ship toward Miller's "office" or the bridge. "coming?"
 
Valo having carried more then one person back from a bar the night before had just finished cleaning the vomit off of and sanitizing both his uniform and synthetic flesh.

Valo began to make a normal patrol of the halls of the ship. The massive Custodian stopped as the new medic came into view. Valo lifted a large hand in salute "Welcome aboard Sir"
 
He turned into the direction of a voi-

D-GOH, HOLY SHIT.

The 6'2" Nepleslian stared up at the tall 8 foot custodian droid that had just spoke to him. Needless to say, Kokuten was taken aback by the size of it.

"Er, sir? What do you mean, sir? I'm Soldier 3rd Class, man, but thanks."

Jet Endurain said:
"I imagine all of you want to go meet the meathead captain." he smirked, jokingly. "here I'll show you the way to his quarters, what you do after tha tisn't my business." He said and started into the ship toward Miller's "office" or the bridge. "coming?"

Kokuten's left eye shifted in the Nepleslian who mentioned the captain of the ship. Now he was getting somewhere, at least, if this one was sane.

"Me, right here!" Asher said, waving his left hand, since his right was occupied by the Duffel Bag. He rushed forward to keep up with the Nepleslian leading the way.
 
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