**Taoshe**

Velka let out a particularly feminine giggle prompting her accompanying officers to crack a few chuckles. Velka smiled and blushed embarrassed by her outburst, turning a darker shade of green around the cheeks before covering it with her hand. Although she was the commanding officer of the ship she maintained a casual attitude with her officers, joking was not forbidden, as long as it was in good taste, and this certainly was.

“ Interesting eye for fashion Commander” an officer said as he walked behind the formation, joking with his comrades. It was good to be home and off the ship, no matter how the crew felt about each other confined spaced worked on everybody’s nerves. The group continued to walk down towards the center of the station, towards the space elevator where a delegation from the concordant was already waiting. To Commander Vellais’s surprise Valag Timonus himself was with them, causing her pulse to jump rapidly as she bowed to greet the leader of the Concordant. 

	"Welcome back Commander, was your time in the void fruitful? I see that you brought back a guest?” Valag said as he sized up the Lorca “ From what your communications have told me, I expect nothing short of greatness from these new beings”. Valag and the delegation joined the group as they boarded the space elevator “ It seems we are popular now Commander, Terran vessel landed in the Oceans on Jul on Icarus a few weeks past and a small detachment is coming to Taoshe to discuss our war with the Eternal Union. I trust you are eager to hear how that war is going commander?” 

Velka nodded politely “ Yes sir” she said, waiting to be briefed on the current war situation. The view from the elevator was simply breathtaking, the entire northern hemisphere of the planet was within view with the sun just starting to rise. Soon the sun illuminated the landscape, showing the large mountain ranges and valleys that was the planets trademark. Valag spoke both to the Lorca and the Syren’s crew as he explained the tactical situation. By his reasoning, if they were here then they had already made their choice on who to side with. He informed both groups about the current offensive by Falacia and how that was going, then he discussed his plans for a new training regiment and the new directives of the nation. 

New Directives:


- - Pulling back all forces for specialized training
- - Joint training with new allies
- - More world colonization 
- - New tech research begins 
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**Icarus**

The shuttle had landed and the small delegation was already in orbit by the time the Terran diplomat spoke. The captain simply nodded “ Size matters not…” he said flatly, his mind too occupied with his own thoughts to come up with any other answer. The flight into orbit was a short one, stopping only to dock with the larger diplomatic shuttle before making the short jump between planets. The docking procedure was uneventful and the delegation made their way down the same elevator that the Syren’s crew had taken shortly before them. 







**Falacia**

Task Force Blue

Admiral Kalai grumbled as he read the latest orders packet “ They want us to return to Shao IX?! For what?!” he said, sighing before closing the holographic window. The orders came straight from the leader of the concordant himself and there was no questioning the validity of them, but he was curious to see what his cousin was up to.

“ Call the scouts back, ceasefire and lets make for Shao IX at full burn..” he said as officers began sending orders. Soon the entire fleet was out of the system, disappearing like ghosts into the vacuum