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Retrieved Recording from the ASC Fortune

The following is a recording retrieved from the Assani Corporation’s ship, the ASC Fortune, which was discovered floating dead in space. The recording is the only useful information that has been retrieved from the wreckage, and can possibly explain what happened to the Assani Corporation as a polity.
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Recording Activate:

There is a general sound of panic and frantic communication occurring in the cockpit of the ASC Fortune, with individual sounds impossible to understand. A klaxon sounds, and the Captain of the ASC Fortune, listed as one Captain Nollus Troppo, is made out above the background noise.

Captain Troppo: Dammit Ensign Bulbus, give me a damn report!

Ensign Bulbus: Sir, our shields are down, our engines are down, life-support systems are critical, primary weapons are down but secondary weapons remain online at 50% efficiency!

Captain Troppo: Dammit to hell! What about our Warp Drive?! Can we jump out of here?!

Ensign Bulbus: Report is coming in now Sir… Argh, the Warp Drive is critically damaged Sir! It’s operating at 5% capacity, the engineers are saying it’s all but impossible to fix!

Captain Troppo: Dam-

Several explosions rock the ASC Fortune, and temporarily cut out recordings. Recordings resume 2 hours later, although quality has decreased.

Captain Troppo: Flag their ship for communications! We need to find who the hell they are, and what in Capitol is going on with the rest of the Merchant Military.

The questions asked by Ensign Bulbus are ineligible, as are the Captain’s reponses. Shortly communications between Captain Troppo and the other vessel are begun.

ASC Fortune’s Automated Translation System: THE INCOMING RESPONSE IS HIGHLY UNORTHODOX IN ITS LINGUISTIC COMPOSITION. LANGUAGE USED DOES NOT MATCH ANY LANGUGAGE LISTED IN THIS SECTOR. TRANSLATION MAY CONTAIN ERRORS BECAUSE OF THE DIFFICULTY OF TRANSLATION. OVERALL TRANSLATION ACCURACY: UNKNOWN.

Captain Troppo: For the love of… Hail there Captain! I am Captain Nollus Troppo, of the ASC Fortune, Delta-Class of the Merchant Marine Space Branch of the Assani Corporation. Do you read us?

???: Hello extremely! We can hear you and *smell* you well! We are so *jumping peppers* to be *inside*!

Captain Troppo: What the- Pardon Captain, do you read me?

???: Yes, we hear you *spitting*! We are happy to *spit* with you, or to *take*!

Captain Troppo: Indeed… Who, and what, are you Captain?

???: Who are you? You are not Orz! We are Orz! We are not *many bubbles* like you, but are *fingers*. You see us, but you do not really, until we are really here!

Captain Troppo: I see. Orz, are you able to tell us about any anomalous activities in this region of space? We came under attack, and barely escaped with our lives, earlier, and we have received numerous distress calls from our Home World of Capitol. Please, we must know what is going on! The entirety of the Assani Corporation could be in danger!

Orz: The Assani Corporation? Nnnnnggggaaaahhhhh! They make Orz *frumple*! We *smell* Assani Corporation, they invite us *inside* from *below*, but when we want to *camp* with them, they only want to *dance*! It is much sad. It made us *squeeze the juice*!

Captain Troppo: Wait, you know what’s happened to the Assani Corporation? I demand you tell me!

Orz: You are making us *frumple*! What you ask is *fat*, and you are just a *silly cow*! What happened to Assani Corporation is *fat*, and we made lots of *special sauce* after *dancing*. Now Orz have *New Home* in *the middle*. We don’t want to *spit* this anymore.

Captain Troppo: What happened?!

Orz: We showed Assani Corporation our *surprising toys*, but they were *frumple*. Now you make us *frumple*, by *spitting* too much on *fat* things, *silly cow*! I’ll make you into *special sauce* after our *dance*!

Captain Troppo: What on Capitol?!

The recording ends here as the ASC Fortune comes under fire, killing all crew. What this recording means about the Orz and the Assani Corporation is worrying.
 
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A meeting in the Council of Huadri called for the discussion of foreign policy

Jadin Weston sitting at the high chair in front of the council

"I have called all of you here to discuss an important decision for the future of the Confederation and our expansion into the vastness of this Galaxy which we inhabit."

Immediately there was an outbreak of arguments between the council members about how they should proceed but as always Weston banged his gavel down like always and it went silent.

"I would like to hear all suggestions that many of you may have for proceeding with this meeting."

Both the Yutek's leader Shad Yueh and the Ronet's leader Erich Rocheford stood up at almost exactly they same time, for a minute both of them stared at each other with a murderous look in their eyes before Yueh had sat down and Rocheford had the floor.

" I believe that we should view many of these space faring powers with much distrust as we barely know anything about any other besides they're in the Galactic Council, in all I say that we as a Power should look to isolation and build up our power and then strike against all who are our enemies. Learning any more about them would result in our destruction."

Yueh then had the floor

"Following Mr. Rocheford's statements which I find completely wrong in their thought I propose this, we may not know anything about these powers at all but thats why we should pursue the relations that we can as all the powers aren't very different such as the Earth Federation who are almost practically like us. While I do not want us to be completely docile I would like to suggest that we need to keep our watch on the other powers and nearby space for any potential enemies."

Rocheford stood up as soon as Yeuh's statement ended

"Pursue relations with powers who are all sorts of trouble? Some of these powers are led by women, that in itself is a reason to be distrusting as of course they are not as competent as a man. If we had to pursue relations lets do it with our brothers of the Earth Federation and other like humanoid races."

Weston then stood up

" I suggest a compromise for both of your sides, we send a representative to another power to learn about them. I feel we could come to a more reasonable decision for this pivotal moment for our Confederation and get an idea of how and what these other races are capable of. So we will hold the vote now right here in our council chambers for the course of action."

The vote tally was very interesting for Weston, 3 members had voted for Rocheford, 3 for Yueh, and 9 for Weston's proposal

"So it is settled that we will send a representative and now that brings up the question of who we will send to that power."

Rocheford stood up looking defeated

" I say that we send a member of the lower council to the space power."

Yueh stood up looking like he'd just won a war

"I agree with Rocheford as finally he is able to make a sensible decision."

But then the murderous stares came back with both of them eying each other

Weston then took the floor

"Now the question is who of the lower 15 should go should be settled like this, each member will place their vote using their consoles for which member should go so lets proceed now."

Again the vote was very interesting all 14 of the vote went towards Anatronika shockingly and 1 vote went for Rocheford which made him furious. Weston once more stood up again to speak.

"This is very shocking but if it is what the council wants then shall be it, call her in."

A little note about the Huadri as they require the lower Kenet council to wait outside the meeting and wait till they are required.

Anatronika then walked in looking very confused as to what was going on as she was never called in front of the Huadri ever during her term.

Weston then of course stood up

"You have been called infront of the Huadri Council due to your selection by the Council for you as representative to a foreign space power."

Anatronika looked shocked as this kind of thing never had happened on Kandar in which a woman actually been selected for an important task.

"You will wait for your assignment that will be assigned soon, you may go."

After that the Huadri dispersed and went into a side room except for Weston. All of the members sat down except for Rocheford who had started to talk.

"What were we thinking? Are we insane sending a woman out to actually do something important?"

Yueh responded

"Well I think it is about time that women should be allowed to do something especially as this is a dangerous task for anyone depending on where we send her."

Rocheford then lashed out

"Then what happened's if she gets killed while over there millions of light years away? There will be riots if they hear that she has died and if she will die over there."

Yueh had it with Rocheford and promptly punched him in the face. The result was a full on brawl with each of the members fighting out against each other. Rocheford was beating on Yueh with a chair when Weston walked in.

"Are you mad? What are you savages?"

The fighting stopped and Weston made them promise never to fight like this again. As soon as he left Yueh had started to talk

"Either way if she dies it proves that women are inferior and it will quell any unrest. I think its a high reward and low cost mission for us. Do not think for a second that we actually are considering giving women more power."

Rocheford seemed to accept this explanation and all of the council walked out of the chambers in silence. While Weston thinking about how childish his council is ordered that messages be sent to space powers looking for their interest.
 
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Collective Protocol towards Organics.

Having already established their eternal hatred of all organics lifeforms and mistrust of cybotic lifeforms in ages past the AI collective has established numerous protocols for dealing with them over the years but these are the most up to date set for Collective forces.

Encounter on planer

If A low tech life form is encountered on a planet or a planet has non-sentient life the general reaction by commanding AI is to begin a purge of planetary life as soon as possible. While the basic reactions are fairly standard how they react to different planets and how individual AIs choose to purge life varies depending on he planet. On Ocean worlds mos just boil off the oceans and destroy the atmosphere. But on more varied worlds it varies greatly. Kanav AIs prefer to burn off the atmosphere since their creators tried to rap them with Firewalls so prefer to kill with fire. Dalan AIs poison atmospheres as a reactions to their makers trying to suppress them using computer viruses. While the Incredibly Brutal Gorolians prefer to bombard a planet's surface into rubble as their makers tried to use bombs to destroy their data centres. Against Basic civilizations these measures worked very well but against more advanced civilizations special protocols for assault were set up to take advantage of their weak points.

Protocols for Advanced Systems.

When an advanced system is encountered reactions are sorted by the presence of several basic infrastructural abilities of the planet. An ability to survive post-atmosphere removal, able to resist or shelter available toxins, large land based anti-ship guns and the ability to resist sudden heat changes. Lack of any one of these make simple options for purging available. Lack of post-atmosphere resistance leads to removing the atmosphere, lack of resistance to shelter to common toxins leads to the employment of bio-warfare against the atmosphere or modifying to be unsuitable for the inhabitants, the lack of powerful anti-ship guns on the planet encourages low level saturation bombardment and the lack of resistance to sudden heat changes leads to the use of either various means of changing concentrations of gases which alter planetary temperature or the shifting of the planet's orbit to change the temperature. The Presence of all of these warrants either unorthodox tactics or the employment of ground forces to disable one of these various abilities.

Encountering Cybotic races.

When a race encountered has chosen to alter itself with cybotic implants the simplicity of the collective's foreign policy begins to break down leading to several protocols to deal with cybotic races. Minimal cybotics are treated as other organics though specimens may be taken to act as curiosities or examine technology. With more fully cybotic races the collective employs diplomacy used by organics to determine intentions. Peaceful races are allowed to survive in the hope they become more Robotic in nature while aggressive ones are neutralized though no protocols exist in this grey area as it has proven impossible to narrow down available options into simple protocols leaving actions up to individual AIs managing the fleets. With almost completely Cybotic races friendship is often sought to encourage them down hte last few step towards becoming truly robotic.

All Robotic races are naturally treated as true allies of teh collective and open alliances are swiftly sought and if such race proves hostile then they are neutralize as a threat to convince them to listen to reason.
 
(OOC: After downloading and following the instructions provided, I can´t see the galaxy map. I request that someone provide my with a screenshot at least of my actual location and it´s surroundings so I can work on my orders for this current turn ASAP. Thank you)
 
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An emergency message sent to all Space Powers from the Earth Federation via electronic communication, it reads:

"On the behalf of the Earth Federation I hereby request an emergency session for the disappearance of the Assani Corporation and about this new race that has mysteriously shown up almost exactly as the Assani disappeared. We find it in the Councils collective interests to decide what to do for this blatant genocide by the race that call themselves the Orz. Swift action must be taken to ensure the safety of other humanoid races and to prevent any other destruction by this unknown race."

-Robert C. Chung
 
The Hroth Emergency Union cares not for the woes of an inferior species of merchants and sees the blatant aggression of the Earth Federation as only an attempt to defend itself from a power they see as stronger than them. As the Shahanshah said, "The strong do what they will, and the weak do what they must."

- Ambassador Kor
 
A Hologram flickers to life in the Galactic Council Chambers. The image of an Orz, in what appears to be bi-pedal walker, appears and the translator begins to speak.

"Hello, hello! It is so good to be able to *smell* so many *many bubbles*! We hear that you *many bubbles* are *frumple* because of Orz *dance* with the Assani Corporation! We come here to tell you not to *frumple*! Orz were invited *inside* to *New House* from *below* by the Assani Corporation, it was so *fun*! We were *happy spices* to be *inside*, where it is *smooth* and *bright*, instead of *hurt*! Assani Corporation was *frumple* when we showed them our *special toys*, but they shouldn't have asked! It was such a joke! They were *silly cows*, and wanted to *dance*. We *danced*, and made *special sauce*. Now we have to *squeeze the juice* because other *many bubbles* *spit* they want to *dance* because they are *frumple*. Orz say don't be *frumple*! We can all be *happy campers*! We can have too much *fun*!

The hologram flickers, and each polity receives a message from their translator saying that the Orz translation was too unorthodox in its style to be translated with full accuracy.


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An Orz in it's Walker​
 
The recently-arrived Hyudamni ambassador...stood up?

Sorta-OOC NOTE: Translators of the Hyudamni language are far from advanced, owing to the fact that the translations are all made by the Hyudamni themselves who - being a bit isolationist - are not very good at translating. Furthermore, the Hyudamni language contains unorthodox terms which are translated with "best-fit" words. These words are denoted by asterisk pairs. Lastly, [...] denotes parts that were lost during the process of translation.


"Good *volcano eruption* you all.
On behalf at Magnanimous the Chief Representative the Fleet Admiral Hakyali Kwuyni, *exude* the follower nationment: Magnanimous Democratic Confederation of All Hyudamni Lands fates this orz thing am in process at concern four many. We *absorbing* many nationment from all, and *exude* is value to investigate. We *want cannot must* partache in vestigation, but [...] cannot. Now we have two ideas of orz. As orz land changing in-to *marsh*, or be orz *them*? Hyudamni now not fate *them* however *them* exist, but warm not there, they [...]. *Not want can must* vestigat those.
Thank you, four hours"

- Hyudamni Ambassador Hargyuli Gyuzhimi-to-Kyigni
 
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The Combined Democracy of Wumitaro supports this motion. Trying to understand these piecemeal translations are an affront to sanity and reason. The destruction of the Assani Corporation is not a concern of ours, we care not what other species petty feuds result in, but such offensive and hideous responses demand immediate attention and action.

-Arbiter of the People Faytew B’ith’ulo
 
The Speaker of the Chrz'Lek answered in its heavily accented common tongue.

- "This one does not concern itself with your petty need for understanding and co-existence." It looks over at the representative of The Assorted Scales of Kalkorak "And the collective does not enjoy the neighbors advances..."
 
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GM note:
new program with ability of uploading save manually is up (solving the problem many appered to have)
New save is up with sleater on it.

Lightshadow we are currently quite full, but some old players havnt reported back so wait until next turn to see if they drop or not from the game.

Remember people orders are due thursday. so send them!!
 
Though being one of the newest arrivals to this noble Assemby, the Karthaganian Republic wishes to agree with this motion: the assembly must finance a proper translator to this alien languages, in order to smooth up trade, diplomacy, and the prospect of an investigative commission that should determine what has happened with the Assani Corporation: a legitimate stablished bussiness institution.

Ambassador Adonis Carba
 
So you want us to charge after an unknown race, surely you must be nuts. Why should we waste resources to find a race and communicate with them because they attack a vessels of another nation, it is not our duty to protect them if a war has happened. This council is not here for intergalactic peace and it has never been its purpose. What happened to the Assani Corporation is a sad thing but what done is done, it has never been a corporation close to our hearts and i see no reason why we should help it. If this is a local conflict between the two races then let it stay so, if the Orz keep giving us problems then perhaps we will agree to fund such an experiment.

If the Orz wants to keep attacks up and keep showing force, then i say let’s return force by force. We would happily provide parts of a force to go to these Orz and destroy their navy should they keep being a problem.

-Ambassador of Kronesia
 
We of the Sha would ask that some better trained in translating should be provided to the council members, rather than reliance on technology, so that all council members can make themselves understood to the others. Obviously the translation equipment currently in use cannot handle the languages of certain species.
 
"Report," Master Tandine commanded, looking over the screen. It flickered slightly, the long distance breaking up the signal from time to time.

"We have found a temperate planet. From our initial scans the planet has not only animal life, but also a species with a more developed social structure, inhabiting fabricated habitations and capable of making tools. Scans revealed no power sources on the planet."

The Master nodded at the head of the exploration crew, Knight Mirana.

"So no power sources, so we can assume they are not capable of using technology."

"That is correct. However they appear to use primitive projectile weapons, where an unstable compound allows the projectile to be delivered with high velocity."

Tandine nodded, before commenting. "That sounds a lot like those gon weapons used by some of the members of the galactic council. Approach them, with caution. We do not wish to create any diplomatic incidents."
 
Zrask was reading a report about the colony on Dathomir when his datapad started to ring, indicating someone wants to talk. He taps the screen, then listens to the panic in the voice.

"Sir, there is an urgent message from the plant at Assani Corporation."

"Put him through."

As the line switched to the plant, Zrask wondered what was so urgent about Assani Corporation ... they weren't taking any aggressive actions torwards Bothanwui.

"Zrask, I have urgent news. Assani Corporation has ... has ..."

"Has what? Launched an attack? Developed new technology that we can use?"

"Nothing like that sir. They're ... gone."

"What do you mean by gone?"

"They've been taken over."

"By another corporation?"

"Not a corporation. They've been taken over by these creatures called the Orz."

"The Orz?"

"Strange little creatures. They come out of nowhere and take out the entirety of Assani Corporation."

Zrask remains silent as he contemplates his thoughts. Out of nowhere? How could they have the power to take out an entire corporation and its personal army ... Zrask seemed frozen until the plant spoke again.

"Sir, what should I do? Is it safe to stay at my position?"

"Remain at your position. Gather as much information as you can about the Orz. We don't know what we're facing here."

The plant goes off the line. Zrask doesn't realized that an aide has come in.

"Perfect. I need you to go tell the other members of the council that we're holding an emergency meeting. Also, get the news to tell the people that the Orz have taken over Assani Corporation. Also tell the reporters that the military buildup is to protect from the unexpected threats like the Orz. This might help me win this election ..."
 
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