Thrace
Worshipping Emilia-tan
The Provisional Government of the Federated Colonies
Die Provisorische Regierung der Föderierten Kolonien
"Einheit, Freiheit, und Gleichheit!"
"Unity, Freedom, and Equality!"
C.S.S. Astral Flame
Neutral Space, Milky Way
A gargantuan space station was slowly orbiting a large and obvious uninhabited gas giant, around a red dwarf. In the pale light of the star, the station was vaguely hidden by the interference of the gas giant, but it would be easy to find for anyone looking for it. The gigantic battlecarrier next to hit would also clearly help, as the station was guarded by the flagship of the Kriegsflotte, the C.M.S. Hegemon von Scheerling. It would be pretty difficult to miss two space structures of the size of the space station and the spaceship. Not that they were trying to hide. The space station would be pretty familiar for certain people that had seen it before, though the Astral Flame had been repaired and finally upgraded in all the time that had passed from the events that had started the Second Intergalactic War. The station had maintained its size, but it was now fully black, fully armored, fully armed, and fully prepared. Even if well, the last time that the Flame had been used for diplomatic purposes, it ended up hijacked, a terrorist act that led to a diplomatic incident that had provoked an entire Intergalactic War.. the Colonials had never been the type of people to believe in superstitions. As such, as soon as it had been possible, the Astral Flame had been repaired, its upgrade had been finished, and the station returned into official Kriegsflotte service, given again to the Federal Foreign Office, for diplomatic use. It was perfect for negotiations, since the station could be moved into neutral space, and especially during first contacts, the size of the station was more than enough to convince foreign nations that the Colonies were indeed, something. And now, the Astral Flame was ready for a new assignment. To host a diplomatic meeting, that could perhaps lead to the first concerete steps taken by the Colonies to fix their relations with certain nations. The first steps towards peace. The first steps, towards harmony.
It was quiet, in one of the many conference halls of the Astral Flame. Five people, five beings, were presently inside of it, waiting for the foreign delegations to arrive. Upon arriving and docking to the station, all the delegations were going to be directly sent here, to this particular hall, so there was no need for the Colonials to wait for the others in the hangars. The hall was much more suited for a diplomatic meeting, and after all, this was where most of the discussions were going to happen. The hall itself was medium sized, with a large round table in the middle, a table that projected a holographic map of the known universe and the major galaxies in the Local Group, from its center. In the black, in a semi-darkness, a big emblem of the Colonies, the twelve stars in the a circle, around a single twelve pointed star, the so called Stars of Unity, was visible on the black wall,the golden stars slightly glowing, and in front of them, there were twelve statues, their features hidden by the semi-darkness, presumably those of the twelve original founders. A lot of twelves.
Meanwhile, three persons were sitting at the table, with two soldiers on both sides of the door, both soldiers wearing nanosuits, and both soldiers having the armband of the Volunteer Corps, the blue-red armband with the skull and the crossed bones of the Freikorps. The people at the table however, were far more interesting.
The first one, was a familiar person to those that had contacts with the Colonies before. Largely human looking, a young man, that could even be considered to be a young boy, with a messy black hair, and golden eyes that were slightly more towards orange than towards yellow. He was wearing a black suit, although it was somewhat messily arranged, with a black tie and a shirt with black and white lines. All pretty normal, until there. But on his back were two angel like, white wings. He was among the first Genome users ever created by the Science Division of the Colonial Armed Forces. Angelo. Not exactly an original name, but of course, no one would even dare to tell that to him, directly. Because even if he was the living example of calmness, it was very wise to avoid him, in battle.
The other person was slightly stranger. A young boy, looking younger than Angelo. But while the calmness of Angelo had a certain awareness in it, the other boy simply seemed not to be there, his empty, gray eyes looking in the distance, not focused on anything. His gray hair was messily arranged, though slightly neater than the angel's, and he was wearing a dark suit, with a light gray shirt and an even darker gray tie. A lot of gray, but it seemed to fit his personality. The boy was quiet, but he was sitting in the middle of the three Colonial officials, and as such, it wouldn't be difficult to realize that he was the highest ranked there.
The third person was not a human, even if it had a humanoid form. The best way to describe it would be as a blue-yellow, gelatinous slime-like mass, taking the form of something that looked like a human woman. Mostly blue, with the exception of a yellow part that kinda looked like hair, with green eyes, generally looking pretty human, if one were to ignore the entire slime part. She was wearing blue clothing, in a human fashion, with a uniform like shirt, and skirt, though it seemed to be made from a special material. The most important part of her though seemed to be the red, crystal like part right over her chest. Weird.
But well, they were the Colonial delegates. And now, they just had to wait for the foreign delegations to arrive. The matter that they had to discuss was very important.. the renegotiation of the Treaty of Luna. With the Keltakens all but gone, the HCA had declared the Treaty null and void, which meant that they were preparing to do something in the Andromeda.. and the ProvGov couldn't just stay and watch. And the only thing that they could do for now.. was through diplomacy. No matter how difficult it was going to be.
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