The Great Houses - RP

[Lotus Blossom she/her]

Emresse Xandin Ancasia sat up in his seat. He was muttering to himself. He leaned in to one of his officials, about to say something under his breath. He was quickly cut off by Emresse Marianla Ancasia, as she glared at him. Once they made eye contact, she gave a small warning motion with her hand and Emresse Xandin decided to stay quiet. The three officials were furiously keeping track of everything that was being said.

[Through the Living Elan He/Him]

"This," Lord Yaelar said, "Was not my house. There is, on my planet, a group of terrorists and extremists that wants to completely wipe out every other race. We do not condone their actions, and as we speak they are being taken care of. I promise this will not happen again."

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Far away...

The first ship finally exits hyperspace into Skyvid territory. It quickly begins to fly towards its destination, not slowing down.

@Aeoliae

Edited August 25, 2023 by Ancient Elantrian

[Experience he/him]

2 minutes ago, Ancient Elantrian said:

"This," Lord Yaelar said, "Was not my house. There is, on my planet, a group of terrorists and extremists that wants to completely wipe out every other race. We do not condone their actions, and as we speak they are being taken care of. I promise this will not happen again."

"We have some information we would like to reveal." Nrump presses a few buttons and a video shows up on a screen in front of everyone. Nrump presses play.

@Ancient Elantrian

[Mat he/him]

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Ooop late to the party

This can be fixed with... flashbacks! :P.

~~Earlier that week~~

Anders Durral looked left, then right. And because he was a rigget of no fear-- or at least no fear of any potential consequence in this instance-- that was all the precautions he took before entering the hanger. The ship he had his eyes on was a standard Astor Cruiser, the kind used by the Council and the rich. He could have taken his own private jet, but he wanted to appear more... aligned with the Council than he truthfully was. Anders had seen the message about the galactic meet-up before anyone else had, and had been quick to block access to it. It seemed like the perfect opportunity to leap far ahead of Tiana and the others.

His shortsightedness did not pay off. As soon as he attempted to enter the cruiser, the door panel buzzed, denying his access, and he knew that someone would be alerted of his presence. He sighed, inventing a story he could sell to whichever bumbling security guard was on shift at the moment.

Instead, Tiana Clarian, the Head of the Council of Astor, strode into the room. Anders tried to hide his shock, and didn't miss Tiana having to do the same. The limber fingers of her mech tightened upon seeing him of all people standing there. Anders had always thought her choice of mech was strange and silly. Wasn't it better to have an extension that was strong and capable, rather than lithe and... breakable?

All pretenses of a made-up excuse vanished. "Tiana," Anders said. "What brings you here?"

"Don't play dumb with me," she snapped. "I know where you're going. You didn't really think you were a skilled enough coder to completely remove an important galactic message from our servers, did you?"

Ah, Anders thought. Brilliant. "Yes, actually, I did. Come to stop me?"

"Actually, no. You could be useful. I'm here to join you." Tiana strode up to the cruiser and unlocked it with a touch, a casual flaunt of power that Anders didn't appreciate. "You better get in. We'll be late if you don't."

Anders wordlessly obeyed, the reprimand he had been expecting nowhere in sight. It would probably come later, in a more public setting. Something to look forward to.

They blasted off right as a security guard ran into the room, ready to apprehend a non-existent would-be thief.

[Through the Living Elan He/Him]

A Ydras appears on the screen.

"I," The Ydras says, "Am one of three men sent on missions to three different planets. We were each sent with a large payload, and were told to detonate it in important buildings and told to cause chaos. Our orders were given by him," The Ydras pointed at Lord Yaelar. "I do not agree with these methods. Lord Yaelar has gathered an army of spies and assassins, and has extensive plans on how to collapse each individual house. At the moment a ship is on its way to House Skyvid, planning to destroy an entire one of their space platforms. Lord Yaelar is lying. He is completely at fault for all the deaths caused by the explosion, and if you don't stop him now he'll just cause more."

Lord Yaelar paused, then said "This is clearly a fabrication! Someone made this up to frame me!" He tried to keep a calm face, but everyone could hear the fear in his voice and see his face pale.

@Experience

Edited August 25, 2023 by Ancient Elantrian

[Lotus Blossom she/her]

Emresse Xandin leaned in and whispered to Emresse Marianla something about trust.

Emresse Marianla nodded. A smile played on her lips. As if Emresse Xandin said something humorous. She suppressed it, however.

Stay quiet. This is important.

The Ancasian guard tensed up as she watched the recording. Emresse Marianla noticed but said or commanded nothing.

Edited August 25, 2023 by Lotus Blossom

[Mat he/him]

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Can someone give me the short version of what I should know about this bombing? I haven't been keeping up with the thread and I don't want Anders/Tiana to just have no idea what's going on lol

 

[Experience he/him]

6 minutes ago, Matrim's Dice said:

 

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Basically Ancient Elantrians someone sent bomb ships to crash into government buildings.

 

[Mat he/him]

5 minutes ago, Experience said:

 

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On their own planet or someone else's planet?

 

[Through the Living Elan He/Him]

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Sent to blow up someone else's planet gvmt buildings.

 

[Experience he/him]

Nrump waits for someone else to speak up.

[Through the Living Elan He/Him]

Lord Yaelar and the Ydras traitor look around. Neither of them speaks.

[Lotus Blossom she/her]

It was now that Emresse Marianla Ancasia stood up.

"House Ancasia agrees with the sentiment that King Adonis previously presented. We believe there should be some form of compensation. However, it is controversial to punish for war. Retreat does not mean surrender. We should use what has happened as an example to set for future occurrences. Any direct attacks on government buildings, such as this bombing, would be a declaration of war. We suggest to have House Yaeler compensate the Great Houses for these acts of violence if they wish not to make such delcaration."

She sat down politely. Her guard kept close watch. Emresse Xandin gave her a short nod of approval.

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I'll have to log off now. Goodnight!

I'll add more tomorrow, but since this will continue without me, House Ancasia will depart back to Karal once the meeting is dismissed.

 

Edited August 25, 2023 by Lotus Blossom

[Through the Living Elan He/Him]

Lord Yaelar stood up. "I will not compensate the Great Houses. If this means war, so be it." He turned and walked out of the room.

On Yaelar hundreds of ships, listening in on the meeting, jumped into hyperspace.

 

Edited August 25, 2023 by Ancient Elantrian

[Experience he/him]

Nrump sent a transmission to the Council to prepare his ships to defend in case of an invasion.

"We must not stand for this! We cannot! If we let this pass, then in the future others will only do the same because they know there will be no consequence. I believe we need to act out against this agression. What say you about our best course of action?"

[Unintelligenius he/him]

"I apoligize but I must be going." King Adonis picks up a small transmitter and starts speaking into it as he exits the room. Some officals overhear bit and pieces, "come now.... bring... arrive at... hurry..."

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Secret 1

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King Adonis is transmitting to the transports from earlier to come to the main meeting building.

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Secret 2

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He is ordering his armies to come at full speed. (remember that all my armies are on the planet)

 

 

 

 

[Aeoryi she/her]

50 minutes ago, Ancient Elantrian said:

"This," Lord Yaelar said, "Was not my house. There is, on my planet, a group of terrorists and extremists that wants to completely wipe out every other race. We do not condone their actions, and as we speak they are being taken care of. I promise this will not happen again."

The first ship finally exits hyperspace into Skyvid territory. It quickly begins to fly towards its destination, not slowing down.

@Aeoliae

This is for ancient elanrian only:

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It gets destroyed by an unknown cause, within 6 seconds of its arrival 

 

[Through the Living Elan He/Him]

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Ima bow out for the night. See ya later!

 

Edited August 25, 2023 by Ancient Elantrian

[Aeoryi she/her]

Just now, Ancient Elantrian said:

 

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Yeah I would too. Especially after what happened there 

 

[Scars of Hathsin he/him]

House Griffin representatives, who yell out sorry as they leave, rush out of the meeting, jumping into the spacecraft before going off home. In case war is heading to the planet

 

Edited August 25, 2023 by Scars of Hathsin

[Experience he/him]

Nrump is dumbfounded by the number of Houses that seem to not care, and instead leave the meeting without a response.

[Channelknight Fadran]

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sorry what

 

[Mat he/him]

12 minutes ago, Experience said:

Nrump is dumbfounded by the number of Houses that seem to not care, and instead leave the meeting without a response.

Anders raised a hand. "I agree with the statement you put forth. Of course, I put myself in an awkward position in doing so, as we have publicly allied with some who fled the scene just now. But it is, at least, worth upping galactic-wide defenses."

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idk fadran i'm just going with it

elantrian bombed some folk and won't apologize, no one wants to go to war with them and/or are summoning armies for whatever and whatnot

etc

 

[Experience he/him]

Clorg cleared his throat. We have just recieved information through an ally's spy that House Min'oTaar has ordered their armies to come to this building. I believe it is time to adjurn this meeting for the time being and that we all retreat to places of safety.

@Unintelligenius

[Unintelligenius he/him]

The ships dock and hundreds of Min'oTaars rush out of the transports onto the land platform. They meet up with King Adonis and run into the building, this time not putting aside there huge axes. the King notices a few ships flying off into space and mutters "Darn it they must have seen all the transports amassing here." The Min'oTaars secure all exits and slowly go through the building door by door capturing prisoners and taking some lower tech devices that have been stashed away. Thankfully only one attendant had tried to fight back but after a well placed axe blow by one of the High Shezen no one else fought back. King Adonis lets out a long held sigh of relief and pride at having captured the hub planet of the galaxy.

Nexus is officially the Min'oTaars