[b]The Confederate Senate Building, Forge, Crucible.
[i]First meeting of the Forge Confederate Senate.[/i][/b]

As Mr Nailbrain sat in his chair and dedicated the necessary amount of functions he needed to in order to pay attention to what was being said by the honored members of the newly formed Senate, keeping track of their actions and judging when it would be time to step in if things started to get out of hand and they were letting their emotions cloud their judgement, the Speaker of the Senate had enough programs left over to think about other subjects of his own choosing. The subject of choice was almost always the same through... the past and future of his people. 

He was not the ruler of his people, nor did his mind ever consider the possibility that he could or should become so; When he had been picked up and adopted by the crew of the Event Horizon as one of their own so many hundreds of years ago, he knew in his circuits that he had finally come home and joined his family. He couldn't help but feel something that he had long considered pride at just how big his family had gotten, growing from a single ship to a Coalition of ships and peoples and now it had finally claimed a planet for its own and became a Confederacy of different people's. He could only wait and see where it went from here...

The first meeting of the Confederate Senate of Crucible lasted for quite some time due to the maybe subjects that had to be brought up and discussed due to setting down roots on a new world; While setting up bases of operation on planets had happened in the past they had only been short term things, designed to be left behind once they had gotten what they had come for. There was also the issue of their neighbors that had to be addressed... the Event Horizon Confederacy might have been something of a fresh start, but as the old saying went 'Forgive but never forget'. 

And of course there was the current matter at hand that needed to be discussed... the strange orb in space that was heading in their direction.

"Do we know what this orb actually is?" Voice Senator Willow, a descendant of gene slicing with non-human animals; In her case, her body was covered in a remarkably beautiful set of ruby feathers, her arms wing like but unable to provide actual flight. 

Senator Nines shook his head a little, the veteran android member of the Senate answering the question. "At this early stage no. It's simply to far away at this point for the early warning systems we've currently set up to properly identify. We have estimated that if it maintains its current speed and passage, it will safely pass us by in two to three years."

There was a brief silence as this information was absorbed by the various members of the Senate. Not a single one of them thought for a second that the fact that it was 'estimated' to pass them by meant that it wasn't a threat to them in some way. The peoples of the Event Horizon had been through far, [i]far[/i] to much to believe such a pipe dream. 

In the end it was Mr Nailbrain that broke the silence. "Ladies and Gentlemen, what shall be our course of action?" 

Unsurprisingly, it was Senator Nines that spoke up first. "There is very little that we can actually currently do about it that we are not already prepared to set into motion. Restoring the [i]Event Horizon[/i] and building a functional shipyard to allow ourselves access to space once more will allow us to investigate this strange object further and if need be destroy or evade it completely if the situation requires it."

It was Senator RF-5 of the A.I enclave that responded next, his almost painful blast of what was seemingly white noise being borderline painful to human ears before his translator kicked in. "While I agree that regaining the strength of our wings while raising and preparing our young to fly beside us as we swore through the vast void of the heavens once more is the wisest cause of action, we should not be so hasty to pass up this blessed period of respite we have been given to better ourselves and our descendants. The Enclave has taken great pains to preserve the ideas who's time had not yet arrived over the course of our flight for such a day that their time has finally come; Today is that day."

Some of the newer Senators to the Senate itself and especially to the manner that Senator RF-5 presented itself were quite clearly confused as to what the A.I was saying, but were quickly enlightened by another veteran of several Senates, Senator Ker-mit. Ker-Mit's group of gene sliced ancestors had aiming for the ability to survive on land and water equally, having planted their claim on a world that was mostly water; Ker-Mit himself appeared largely how scientists believed that green tree frogs would have looked like had they evolved into humanoids. 

"What Senator RF-5 was trying to say is that he agrees that having space ships is a good idea, but this is a good time to get some fresh research and development done; The Enclave has records of ideas from over the course of several hundred years that for one reason or another couldn't be tried out or tested and they think now is a good time to crack the vault open and change that. That isn't a bad idea either; Why settle for making the Event Horizon as good as new when we can make the old girl [i]better[/i]."

The idea was absorbed with a few moments of silence before the smallest member of the Senate asked the biggest question. "Do you happen to have any ideas stored away that have... military applications?" 

"Care to explain yourself fully Senator Grimsson?" 

Senator Grimsson rose to his feet... an action that did little to boost his height due to being born a dwarf. "By my reckoning, we're going to need some new toys if we want to gain the advantage in our little corner of space; Even if this orb isn't a threat, those bloody 'Truth' preaching nut jobs sure as hell are and if they stay true to their past actions..." 

More then one of the Senator's peoples had been driven from their homes to join the Event Horizon Coalition by the worshipers of the so called 'Truth'; It was a very valid argument. It wasn't a matter of 'If' they would be going to war with the zealots of the 'Truth', but when. 

The meeting lasted a while longer after that to work out the details, but they had the three major cornerstones of their agenda set in stone now.

1)Reclaim space flight.
2)Research, Redesign and Develop technologies new and old.
3)Train and prepare the military for war.

The Event Horizon Confederacy would not be losing their new home world without a fight.     

((OOC:[@NickinTy] is next I believe.))