The Human Republic was officially neutral in the war between the Glorbulan Empire and Zorblaxian Confederacy...

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Oh, are we going hard sci-fi? I'd thought the setting was space opera, where 'scientists' discover 'incredible new uses' for relatively common elements that makes them extremely valuable. Or something like that.

Inter the crew, hand over the ship.

Tell the Zorblaxians that we will allow the Glorbulans to repair their ship, and that we will deliver them back to our borders. Colony drop the Zorblaxian's capitol if we even so much as sniff trouble coming their way.

Do. Not. Fuck. With. Earth.

Humanitarian reasoning would allow for safe haven for the crew, not for the ship. We are not in the business of servicing foreign warships. It is to be impounded until such time that it's proper owners can pay for its retrieval and tow it back to their own territory, assuming of course it is not dangerous to the local system. If it is at all dangerous to any human settlement or station, it's going into the fucking sun.

They're blockading an entire republic sector? Thats not just an act of war, thats a flat out declaration. Inform our allies, the Xandar and the Bongolians that we mobilize immediately. And somebody call First Grand Admiral Sir Duke Lawrence Augustine MacArthur Napoleon Ender McBadads Grizzlebeard and tell him to come out of retirement, we need him and his plucky band of officers.

Found the Zarldonian

Get the Earth Hegemony involved.

I mean, shit we are in bad terms with them, but we humans have tonatick togueter

We should call up our allies let them know we might be in trouble the Glorbulans and Zorblaxians have been threatening anyone that tries to get in the way of their war.
Someone needs to put their foot down and tell them to keep it between them.
As for the ship, Its a military vessel that entered our space without permission we can impound it until such time that we an negotiate with the Glorbulan.

Make the crew refugees and blow the ship up. The Zorblaxians don't know they've been rused of course.

is there a name for these kinds of threads?

"off topic"

The Zorblaxians just lost a major engagement to the Glorbulans.

They are over-reaching in this critical time. Let them know that a continued blockade will force the Republic's hand into siding with the Glorbulans.

If they don't relent, then declare for the Glorbulans and liberate the sector.

I can respect your boldness but were trying to keep out of this war and this isn't the first time Glorbulans have violated our territorial sovereignty.

None of their violations have been as dire as this unwarranted Zorblaxian blockade. What kind of Galaxy are we living in where a neutral power can be attacked for providing relatively minor humanitarian support for a single critically damaged ship?

Not one I would wish to live in.

But is getting into war with them to stop a blockade truly worth it?

That still doesn't make deuterium rare.

Listen! Spineless worms like you is the reason the Glorbulans think they can blockade us and get away with it in the first place! We never should have taken the ship in in the first place, but now that it is, the consequences are our responsibility. Someone get me the Earth Hegemony and the Xandar on the lines ASAP, we need to call in every favour we can. And give the Glorbulan embassador, the ultimatum to cease this act of hostilities within 48 Earth hours or face an allied war effort against his bellicose empire.

If they can blockade us at a whim with no response, we may as well be a Zorblaxian vassal.

It's the Zorblaxians, Senator, not the Glorbulans, who are threatening blockade. Do try to keep your stellarography up to day.

I believe we should go for a more nuanced approach. Now as we all know during the 2050's scientists were able to create a nanobot bomb that would consume every bit of material in a select area defined by a complexly networked AI. However, this type of weapon was abandoned during 2101 because in space it becomes a tad more difficult to control. That said, I believe we now have the technology to covertly utilize this technology to quite literally deteriorate the blockade. It will like be difficult for them to determine the cause of their hull breach and drive failures until they get into their own territories, by which time the nanobot should of self-destructed from being too far from the AI.

Er, that's what I said! We must issue an ultimatum to the Zorblaxian embassy post-haste!

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Were already aware of the situation The hegemony doesn't abandoned its people if can.
We can get a small support fleet there in an hour to make them think twice about any preemptive attacks.
Give us another eight and the nearest SECCOM can get you some real firepower.

Senator has your republic made a decision?

Hold position outside the blockade for now, its still the saber rattling stage at this point. With a unified show of human force, we may get them to back down.

That being said, at tbe girst sign of hostilities, open up on them and our fleet will do the same from our side adjacent you, meet ya in the middle.

Just remember the Hegemony Navy needs another 6 hours to get a decent sized battle fleet to the edge of republic space.

((I got to go if this threads still here ill be back in a few hours))

We at the mercantile guild find this blockade outrageous. Tell the Zorblaxian ambassador that we will cut our ties with their empire if they continue. And if they refuse to listen, then our own retinue of troops and fleets will support the forces of the Human republic

Load up some of our best operatives, send them into Zorblaxian territory and tell them they have ten minutes to stand down. When they respond "we can't feasibly react in ten minu-" we shoot their leaders in broad daylight.

Their war is over a petty dispute, anyway. Their saber-rattling antics is something no stellar empire should have to deal with, and we plan to keep it that way.

I can make a few calls, if running our troops through the blockade is out of the question. There's a list of mercs a mile long to call on.

Don't be silly, even if I disagree what the Zorblaxians are doing at the moment, I strongly oppose the assassination of their leaders, several who I spent some time and money in convincing to let me open up trade within their empire.

Would you risk the overall economy of the sector for small-term gains? Deals can be made elsewhere in a single lifetime, but a tanked economy will stay tanked for several generations.

We can find a suitable part of the totem pole to make a statement with, if it's so important that we keep these treaties. Start adding crippling penalties for severing your agreements.

>blockading an entire sector for one ship

sounds like overkill something must be going down. if they have enough ships to blockade off an entire sector, they must have enough ships to fight a war on two fronts. this reeks of Zorblaxian military expansionism, similar to what happened when they annexed the Caldoria directorate. this is casus beli to start a defensive campaign should they decide to press for the Glorbulan ship

That's true, I can always look for new business opportunities for the guild elsewhere. Is the Urgox enclave still at war with the Tretts? I seem to have a surplus in battle automatons that I could sell

deuterium is found in water so unless you live on a desert world...

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Gentlemen I can patch you through to the highest ranking officer back at high command if you want to speak with him.

They're clearly talking about dueterium-X, the key component in the construction and maintenance of the wave-flux drive which is essential to all interstellar travel.

Attention Human Republic this is the supreme commander at the head of Sector fleet Omega strike. Brought the big guns incase either of these guys think they about getting outa line.

Can we turn this into a setting? Or make a map of the galaxy and all the factions so far?

It sort of highlights how easy it is to make the bare bones of a setting. Have a scenario, make up some silly names, and just see where things go from there. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't, but if you're willing to not take yourself too seriously, it's fun. This ought to be a new type of thread. Not Mage's Guild, but a close cousin. Someone comes up with a random event in a random universe and people adopt characters that have a stake in it.

these threads have been done before from what I've seen its pretty laid back and flexible space opera RP where we throw ideas are and just have some fun

Harboring enemy combatants and allowing them to repair and resupply at our stations is definitely not a neutral thing to do.

These Zorblaxians seem like overreacting assholes, but it's their war, not ours. Unless we have a valid reason to side with the Glorbulans, I don't think it's reasonable to lend them any direct aid. And if we do choose to aid them, it shouldn't come as a suprise that the Zorblaxians are treating us as their enemies.

I'd say we either tell the Glorbulans to get out and fight their own wars, or accept the Glorbulans as refugees while handing their ship and weapons over to the Zorblaxians. In fact, allow the Glorbulans to choose between those options themselves.

You're INSANE! I won't let you gloss over exactly why this technology was abandoned. I'm sure everybody here remembers the tragedy at Numia. The nanobots grew faster than anticipated, breaching the containment field that had been set up for the field test. Several civilian ships were deconstructed before we were able to regain control over the situation, and even then, the only thing we could do was block off the system until the swarm starved itself. And now you want to do it again, less than a hyperklik from a populated planet? There's no need to take such reckless measures, when all we need to do to make this go away is give up a ship that had no business being there in the first place.

I must agree with Mr.Bolt here plus that tech was actually sanctioned and placed in one of our high security vaults you wont get it out without clearance from the president myself and several other high ranking members of the government.

Hello humans, our ambassador informed me of the situation while I am here visiting your republic on holiday. The Zorblaxians had done the same thing to the Crustacean Leauge in a similar situation during their war with the keltians.

Do not back down, this blockade navy is but a "paper tiger" as your people call it. If you let them coerce you, it will give them justification to set you as the next target for their aggression.

If need be I am more then happy to aid you with the Leauge's fleets. You are too valuable a trading partner, and stability for this region of space to end up a Zorblaxian vassal.

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>All A class reserve personnel is required to report for duty at their designated posts, in all of Republic Territory, within 48 standard hours.
>All A and B class reserve personnel is required to report for duty at their designated posts, in blockaded sector AN-74, within 48 standard hours.
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This is the Supreme Commander whos in charge at Republic high command?

Shouldn't those grassy habitats near the center of the ring be inverted?

Damn it Robert! We are on the brink of interstellar war! Do you not understand the gravity of the situation?

How are the garden thing ate laid-off just pissed me off, you would have negative gravity there holy shit.

gentlemen an entire sector of human space is being blockaded and under threat of war this is not the time to be discussing the design of an old colonization wave station.

It's obvious that this blockade cannot be allowed to stand, and that to allow it to do so would be not only be allowing a grave insult to our race to go unchallenged, but would also hurt us economically for decades to come. I will personally ensure that if it comes to it my voice is heard on the senate floor urging us to defend our honor and territorial integrity.

That being said we have no business supporting the Glorbulans in a war we stand to gain nothing from. We should open a diplomatic line to the Zorblaxians and Glorbulans immediately, to negotiate the terms of our neutrality between them pending the cessation of this blockade.

Many of you think this is not our war, but allow me to voice my objections. For a decade now the primary ideological axis of Zorblaxian Confederacy was the concept of their being chosen to "save the galaxy" from an unspecified fate and their divine mandate as the only righful galactic superpower. Any action by the Confederacy to this end is considered justified.

(I know this may sound alarmist, but you just read what they completely seriously discuss on the StarNet. Really, read it.)

Regardless of the pretext for the war with the Glorbulans, its true goal is removing a military rival while gaining resources and manpower for further expansion. Our Republic kept its neutrality while Zorblaxians invaded Caldoria, then when they attacked keltians, in the name of "avoiding the escalation of the conflicts", but I think by this moment anyone can see that the conflicts don't stop escalating, and they won't stop in the future. I said it then and I'm saying it now: we, the galactical cpommunity, need to jointly curtail Zorblaxian expansion before we end up defeated in detail.

Republic High Command is a collegiate organ consisting of high ranked leaders from different branches of military.
During peacetime office of Commander in Chief is vacant.
Administrative duties and de facto leadership lies in chief of staff.

Mr. Senator.
RHCOM advises issuing ultimatum towards Zorblaxian Confederacy and preemptive strike against non allied military crafts within Republic space if they decide to continue the blockade.
Military believes that if we do not respond with force we will appear weak and it will lead to further transgressions of Republic Space.
We are ready and await senate sanction to act.

On behalf of RHCOM
col. Corazon Santiago, communication specialist RHCOM

Is there a GM here, pushing this forward or are we all just squawking at a situation that won't move?

RHCOM before you decide to issue the preemptive strike I can put in an order to mobilize several other fleets from the core and central colonies.
not sure

I feel I must remind you that the Republic's military is not authorized to engage in offensive action against a neutral entity without the authority of the Senate. Should they fire first of course, I wish you the best turning their fleet to radioactive dust.

In the mean time there is still time for diplomacy, if the Klauen-Korbat Konfederation and the Blackulans could find a diplomatic solution, so can we.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we at the Mercentile guild might have a solution; as you all know the Mercentile guild is not a part of the Human Republic since we control a few starts ourself, but we have managed to secure free passage and trade permits for over 200 years. This has made us very, very powerfull. You can see in our "motivational" propaganda holo vid our large standing force, and even the newly build exterminator class battleship.
So, with our forces we can brake through the blockade without putting the human republic in danger, and we have the means of defending our own holding for quite some time. All we ask is that you lower the taxes placed on our trading and shipping deals in the republic.

I don't think so.
Senator we assure you that military will never do anything without legal sanction fo the Senate.

The Guild is free to conduct trade within Republic as it likes, however due to our current problems we can not guarantee safety for Guild's ships.

If the Zorblaxian problem would solve itself, both of the Navy and Army will definitely "not" take it into consideration when choosing new supplier of military goods.

In event of unthinkable we may require assistance for Task Force Mahatma, form Claox System on vector 3,-6,3, Sol as frame of reference.
Estimated enemy strength will be sent via secure transmission.

On behalf of RHCOM
col. Corazon Santiago, communication specialist RHCOM

What your proposing could very well bring The Zorblaxians wrath down on your guilds I wont stop you but will I warn you this has a chance to backfire horribly.
Task force mahatma will take twelve hours to get here if you want its assistance I can also get the Sargaethian system raiders, Jerhico reach carrier group, and a half a dozen docked patrol fleets. to amass all these assets would take about sixteen hours.

I bring news from my contacts on the other side of the Zorblaxian empire, it seems they have increased the production and output in their mines, forges and shipyards by 60%, something big is happening gentlemen...

The orders been given and I've got an assault force on the way as well rounding up spare assets from over a dozen systems while smaller fleet elements make their way to republic space on their own, they'll arrive at Republic HQ.

I've just heard in from the Sol shipyards and the President, the words been given to deploy four dreadnoughts to Republic space.

Excuse me sir, about the habitat repositioning proposal I submitted three months ago? Have you had a chance to read through it yet? Oh... this is a bad time...

Turn the farms upside down and you're good.

If needed, you have the Crustacean League's navy as well. I do believe we are going to witness one of the greatest wars of our age.

Does the Human Republic require the aid of the Guild if needed?

If you could have your fleets ready to assist in a show of support it would help
Keep in touch with your contacts

We still hope for peaceful solution.
But should it become unavailable we predict we will be able to fight without Guild's military assistance.

We would be grateful if, in event of conflict, Guild could make use of it's merchant marine help us with logistics and troop transport.
For fair price of course.

On behalf of RHCOM
gen. Govert van Reimerink, logistics department.

I think we can work something out if the situation demands it.

I've got new intel from my contacts withing the Zorblaxian Empire, it seems like they have begun to almost rip apart an ice moon of it's ice. Reasons for this it still unknown, but they might use it as coolant from something...I'll have my people look further into it.

That much coolant could only be for a massive weapon or a lot of smaller ones.

Unless they have constructed some terror weapon, it is probably for the newer point defense lasers, or to cool their mass drivers for continuous fire.

The blockade fleet won't be the danger, but if they bring over a real military fleet, we will be hard pressed to shoot down all those ships.

In a spot of good news, the 3rd fleet is right outside republic space with a gate ship in tow.

I brought in a lot of extra fire power the dreadnoughts and carriers will be especially useful.

Republic's military have it's hands tied. Without order from Senate we can't do anything about this potential threat.
But if something bad would by accident happen to one of our allies while inside our space, we would be forced to react immediately, without need for political approval.

Now it's a good one. I should not have been swearing there too.

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Ive created this secure channel for us to discuss this away from the Zorblaxians prying.

So, me and the other higher ups in the guild has been planning on outsourcing our soldiers in favour of battle automatons, but we thought that it was best to check with the members of the Human Republic so there isn't any law or anything alike that forbids the use of robots as an armed force. The reason for this is simple, there is too much upkeep on living soldiers.

Ive found they aren't very reliable as a main force

*snaps pincers slowly before speaking*

According to sources I have, it seems the Zorblaxians have started to push on the Glorbulan home system.

If the glorbulans cannot repel them. Then that ship you humans saved could very well be the last of their navy.

Well, our prototypes are still in development. But they will be ready for fieldtesting in 4 to 6 months.

Cheers luv, the Calvary's here!

Zorblaxians, pushing on the home system? What in the Ancestors are they thinking? They can't hope to hold that much territory, they've got three habitable worlds and four Habitation Stations.

The Caldigax lend their aid to the Humans if the Pinnacle Zorblax won't listen to reason. It shakes my tendrils to imagine if the Zorblaxians are setting out on the unspeakable... I beg the gathered Humans, if this turns into campaign of extermination, it will require more than your stern disapproval.

They're gathering water for their fusion reactors. They're mobilizing, that's the only explination. The Caldigar ask the assembled representitives to accept our humble pledge to assist them should they escallate this further.

The Zorblaxians have been on a warpath pretty much ever since we first encountered them. When we first met, they were at war with the Xallians, they were conquered. 5 years later, it was the Blaltars, they were absorbed in to the confederacy 2 years after a horribly one sided peace treaty. The Axriai were wiped off the face of the galaxy just 6 months ago. Now are battering the Glorbulans, and have possibly wiped out practically all Glorbulan Millitary ships on this side of the Graneth Gulf. After them, It could be us, it Probably will be us. We should strike now rather than wait for them to roll over us like those before

Admiral what are the current force of seventh fleet that are available for action within 24 hours.

Before you even you humans encountered them, they had destroyed the Chidori, Driven the Parthiax out, and forced the Keltians to join the League when we drove them off our borders.

If all of us should strike, i agree with the human admiral, we strike now and do not relent.

The drums of war are again silencing scientific discovery, an Earth Republic-Xothanxac combined archaelogical expedition has just uncovered artifacts that could prove that certain tiny ice moon is the place in the universe where life first started.

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For the glory of the republic!