[center][h3]The Meeting Place - Sol[/h3][/center] In the system that had been the cradle of humanity, orbiting a dead planet many considered hell, that's where the meeting place is. In there a recently established embassy definitely had its work cut out for them, not even the time to finish building the main room that a war had broken out, by terrans nonetheless. To complicate matters Hyginus had lacked the need of diplomacy for over a century and new untrained ambassadors had been sent to the meeting place, but slowly as inexperienced diplomats went to and from foreign embassies more and more questions would find answers. Where are the Terrans? Who did they attack? Do they have any allies? What is their military capable of? When enough information had been gathered and the vetuste fleet finally prepared for new action, it had come the time for the official declaration of war, no one doubted this time would come, it would just be a matter of when and how. Ortiz was considering how to rewrite parts of the official declaration before sending it out to the rest of the meeting place, he had been moved to being a diplomat after showing at least some skill at the job, which was enough to make him a senior diplomat among the mass of his inept colleagues. He decided it would be best to remove a few phrases so to make sure it wouldn't anger other nations that also had [i]earthen[/i] names. Now it was time for him to send the message. [hider=Declaration of War on the People's Union of New Terra] [b]OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION FROM THE EMBASSY OF THE HYGINIAN FEDERATION TO ALL PRESENT EMBASSIES ON THE MEETING PLACE[/b] It is by means of this message that the state of war between the [b]Federation of Hyginus[/b] and the [b]People's Union of New Terra[/b] is formally communicated to all nations presently recognised by the meeting place and with an established diplomatic corp; as enacted by the Senate of the Hyginian Federation during the Assembly and approved by First Star Admiral and Second Star Admiral, who are hereby dictated and empowered to use the entire land and space forces to such extent as may be necessary to carry this act into effect. [/hider] [center]----------[/center] [center][h3]Capital Ship 'Mértolle' - Cygni Geminae[/h3][/center] Aboard the ship there was more activity than had been seen in several decades, if not over a century even, the generators rumbled with final purpose, moving the hull that slumbered for over 20 years while the crew inside ran around in a not so orderly manner. The huge metal beast was moving, this time it was not an exercise, it was not being moved for a refit and it was definitely not being moved to just bomb an empty waste of ice, it was going to war. [color=000080]"All systems online, moving into position within the fleet."[/color] they would be sent as the first wave of the assault fleet, with reinforcements planned to arrive soon after. In reality it was likely the rest of fleet would be ordered to evaluate the situation and choose to jump based on the first waves early reports, even then they were a well armed force ready to take on the enemy with plenty of cannons and missiles, the Federation wasn't going to pull any punches.