NOVEL NEXT Chapter 20: Citadel
The Citadel the center of Galactic politics, where every leader and politician and merchant eventually arrives at this grand structure to conduct business diplomacy and potential peace.
Ever since it's discovery, it has been the center of the galaxy and everyone in it now the Citadel Council, conveniently before they announce the galaxy newcomers to the Galactic stage.
But for now, such discovery would be kept secret because the Victorian patrol fleet was destroyed hundreds of ships and thousands of personnel gone when the second patrol fleet arrived the end vessels have been long gone, gone through a different relay into unknown space while the one they came through remains open.
Each of these three counselors kept arguing over what to do, and how to achieve their own individual goals for both their government and for themselves.
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Citadel Council Chambers-
turian counselor: We must invade their space!! they destroyed countless ships already left unchecked they will become another scourge of the galaxy!!
The turian counselor says to his colleagues with a voiced very much raised and upset over the loss of his fellow people and his governments patrol fleet being destroyed. The retrieving of their flight, recorders and black boxes revealed the enemy, having high levels of technology mass accelerators about evenly match with their own, but also bearing laser weaponry they bypass their shields, thankfully, the armor ships were able to stand several shots of lasers.
But eventually, those ships became destroyed. The fleet was overwhelmed with sheared numbers and fire power, as well as the deployment of those unknown machines.
They moved faster than siders to maneuver past anything the ships through at them, and based on the black box recorders these machines had two arms and two legs and head, and several of them had different designs of these boxes types of these machines.
One was numerous simply because of how many there were they weren't as fast as the second model, but they still firepower punch through ships and fighters.
The second model shown by the black box was much bigger many times more faster and carried firepower that punched a hole right through the dreadnought of the patrol fleet maneuverability was quite shocking to the Citadel council as a whole.
salarian: invading their space while knowing nothing of it is foolhardy at best send the STG my people can get it done. We'll find out more through espionage.
Slaarian counselor gave his own opinion and his own recommendation for a plan of action which seemed far more reasonable than just throwing soldiers at the problem, hoping for it to go away as well secretly planning to steal pieces of this new species technology, especially a few of those enemy ships that were down in the process of fighting at least dozen of those ships still within the system just waiting to be torn apart by his peoples engineering team.
asari counselor: For all we know, this could be a massive misunderstanding based on the black boxes the patrol fleet did fire on them first forcing them to defend themselves are most logical and reasonable action should be diplomacy and seek peace and cooperation. Then we can slowly integrate them into the citadel as we've done with Other races.
Asari counselor gave her opinion between their heated discussion. Her two colleagues continuously, budding heads as she herself has to be the middle woman between the two, but she herself is quite intimidating by the level of technology and the weapons deployed by this new race. Her only hope is that they're not similar to the krogan.
As the three of them continued to argue for many more hours, they eventually came to understanding the send a small patrol fleet through the relay. The Unknown ships came through with both Espionage personnel of the STG and diplomats of the Asari.
Within weeks orders were sent ships were gathered personnel were mobilized, and a new patrol fleet was sent through the relay 314.
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Systems alliance invasion fleet-
Systems alliance Fleet admiral, Richard leading one of the massive counter attack against the league ever since large parts of the league began retreating several their worlds were stripped bare, while talking forces were left behind to stall the system alliance after so many years of fighting. Richard cannot believe it they're winning.
He was there at the opening act of the league war he saw firsthand what war does to people and what people in power do, but now he's in a position to push back against the corporate monsters that threatens humanities freedom.
He's also very confident in his fleet, one of the most largest within the systems alliance 4 dreadnoughts, 200 cruisers, as well as 50 destroyers, not only that his invasion fleet was outfit with the best soldiers, including N7+ teams at least three of them the best of the best.
Not only that one of the formal league pilots of Those NEXT machines It was a tall, white monsters machine, and it's pilot is mute, apparently he became like that through the league experiments creating the Lynx as well as his handler and operator, Fiona Jarnefeldt.
Fiona is a good Woman by Richard standards, as well as having a good moral compass, as well as her pilot the two have a good relationship going from what he could understand.
When the league started to slowly lose, they were the first two to leave it at bare minimum a total of four Lynx defected from the league joined the systems alliance.
Line ark still promised a machine to could match the leagues NEXTS, there has not been much progress in that one, forcing the alliance to withdraw most of its funding from the organization in order of the fuel, its own war efforts against the league.
Line ark is Still a very good manufacturer for weapons and the systems of line still buys their products but just not as much as they used to with this war going on.
Richard Fleet draws closer to the mass effect relay in order to get to the Pacific system that they're going to invade where the league has been retreating as of late his orders to find out where they're going capture and eliminate any league personnel as well as secure any planets comes across as well for the systems alliance.
His fleet reaches the relay and within moments they are propelled to the next system in Richards heart he just hopes the fighting will end soon because the first thing on his mind is seeing his child again, with the Solomon promise to return and be the best father he can be to do that he hast to survive, but more importantly, he has a make sure this war ends first for a good life for his child.
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