Chapter 2

I could see, that I had surprise it. At hearing that the Attourien Empire had survived.

And it said, as much. It said; you lie, there is no Attourien Empire, we Kashi have destroyed them many millennia ago. I said; oh is that so, then how do you explain that your meager little fleet, only took out two small fighter. And yet your fleet, has lost over half of it own. Can you tell me? What do you think will happen, if I do not stop my scout fleet from shooting you all down.

It said; you don't have any other ship's, human. This fleet of your's, are nothing but Draconian ship's. They are all there is. Oh really, do you think, I would come after a force that is at least eight of your ship's, to one of mine. If I didn't have more ship's coming in from deep space. If you would like to come to earth in say three week's. I think that is your flight time to earth.

I'll be glad to introduce you to our regular fleet, witch is so much of a larger fleet. It should be here in this system in about twenty three hour's.

I could easily hold you off until they arrive. I could fell his uncertainty of by words.

I said; Bloc' ac you are to shut down all weapon's and surrender or face total destruction.

I then gave It a choice to choose by saying; you have one hour. Bloc' ac said angrily; How dare you to assume, that you have such a fleet. I said; Bloc' ac, I assume nothing, if you wish to wait, then that will be fine with us. You have our time table. Fell free to guess wrong, and know that you have given your people a death sentence. I could now fell his fear, that I wasn't bluffing.

Then as I waited for him to make his next move. Our Communication officer said; Sir, we have an incoming massage from one of our fleet's. I said; open a Chanel please. There someone said; Sire, I Dinkas the of Chengdu will be arriving within a few hour's.

I asked; Dinkas for what purposes, do you come to this section of space. The voice said; Sire, we come to render aid, to your majesty as our solver in. They went on to say; as do the ben' ay' Shea, and the Toukley. Our fleets will be there shortly. Please hang on if you can Sire.

We only wish to aid you with your pliant.

I said; too the ship calling in, with out closing our open Chanel to the Kashi.

Please tell you captain's, that it seem's these Kashi dog's, think I'm a fraud. I have already taken out half of there merger little fleet, with just our scout ship's. Would you please hold your ship's to the out realm of our space, until we have their decision.

There was a rush by the Kashi commander and the Valine ship's to surrender after that. I said; So, I think you believe me now, do you. Bloc' ac, did in deed believe that his ship's were going to have to do battle with at least four fleet's. "But if he only knew that the ship that had called in had only been my sister's, out on the fringe of space in their new ship's, that they had been testing". They had heard that the Kashi had attacked, and they worked up this ploy hopefully, to scare the Kashi off.

The Kashi, didn't like the thought of surrender. But they also didn't like the thought of being totally wiped out either. I had a communication sent to Talcunt, to sent her people in and take over their ship's, and the care the prisoners. Shortly after that there was a reply from her asking; what they were to do with our prisoners. I told her that we would work that out later and that she was to put them into the hold's of the ship's until I made my decision, one way or another.

Now the Valine were a lizard type being, they didn't breath the same kind of air we did. So they were all put into their own holes for safe keeping. Talcunt told me that there would be many more ship's coming to us shortly. I asked her what she meant. She told me that since the Kashi and the Valine had surrendered that all their lesser world holding's, would be surrendering also.

I had Talcunt take the Kashi, to a very high gravity planet. Where they would find it hard for them to move around. They would then, be given food and supplies, and be striped of their space ship's. So they would have to learn to survive from there on their own. " They didn't like it much, but to bad for them." There was nine hundred thousand of them at last count, each was fitted with a monitor, so we could know what they were up too, then they were sent to the planet's suffice. We would check on them from time to time, just to make sure they didn't get into any more trouble.

The Valine wanted to just go back to their own world. I gave them the choice, of returning to their world and have their ship's taken from them. And have them, not being able to build any other's ship's, for five hundred years. Their life span, times three. " for they lived for over one hundred and fifty year." Or they could also be set on a world like the Kashi, where they would have nothing but their own mind's to learn from. They chose to return to their home world and be striped of the space flight for five hundred years. Icsh' a, took care of them for us. "Oh, Icsh' a, was Talcunt exec. Officer, and he was now captaining his own ship. " The tempest, witch was a frigate".

He had shown a good sense of mind, to think before acting. He was a truly good person, he had a wife and four son's, all were now part of his crew. He was enjoying the promotion, he had earned. He was then to go on patrol around that sector of space. The Kashi had brought all their ship's, so with all their fighting people somewhere else, they didn't have anything to say when the remainder of the Kashi world's were told that the Attourien Empire had retaken their world. And that they were now members of my Empire, And would be treated as such.

It had been a few month's since the attack of the Kashi, when there was an alert from the sensor bank telling of incoming ship's. I was informed that there was a small fleet of twenty ship's coming in just over four hour's. I asked who they were. The communication control, told me that they didn't know, and that they haven replied to hail's. I ordered ready a small detail of ship's, to meet them at Ort cloud our outer asteroid belt.

The Protector, the Nautilus, and the Chien were there with in twenty minutes. As the small fleet, came within range they were stopped by the Protector, and asked where they were going.

The ship returned our hail and told us that they were of the Ben' ay, Shea. " I didn't know that there were any ben' ay Shea left, but that too would be a big surprise."

The Ben' ay, Shea were a regal people everyone ware white. They looked much like us, but lived in a much higher gravity, and were much stronger, faster and also a keener sense of their surrounding's. They came aborad the Vengeance to meet with me, and my family. We were asked by Mr. Bloom to return to earth before the meeting, so that they too could get to meet with these aliens.

It turned out that earth's governments had come to accept that they were to be part of the Attourien Empire. They would be known as the Terrain Defense Force. And would be responceable for the safety of earth. There would be only one government from now on.

It would be under the united nations, peace keeping force. They would make sure that no law was broken and that everyone would be a members of the defense force.

I had sent a shuttle to pick up the security counsel member's, so they too could be in on the meeting of the new allies. The world had changed for the better I hoped, but we will see.

There's no telling, what the future holds. The meeting's had gone well the members of the Ben' ay, Shea, and they had given me a really large plaque. They told me that king Thetas of the Attourien people had left it with them, four millennia ago, in trust for his hare. I asked the ambassador, how he knew of my accedence to the thrown.

He said; we received a communication, that the king of the Attouriens was at war with the Kashi. Puzzled, I asked again and was told that someone had heard the call from one of their ship's, that they were coming to aid the king of the Attouriens.

I smiled to myself about that one, but didn't say anything about my sister's. I thanked them and offered them food and drink and a place to rest. I told them that they would be able rest, and I would see them later and that I would host a meal for them later in the day.

" After all it was nine o'clock in the morning." I took the plaque to my room and studied it for a few minutes. It was not like anything, I have ever seen before. The thing was about five feet tall by three feet wide. The shield was yellow with a black upside down V on it. Below that was a W that had writing on it too. Then there were crossed swords at each point, with a black line going from one to another all the way around the shield. Right in the middle of it was a armored head, also with word's, I couldn't read. Mom came in and looked at the shield and said; that is the language of the old one's. I asked if she knew how to read it.

Mom said; I will try, but Grand Ma Elbeth, can read it better then me.

We had a nice dinner that night with the Ben' ay, Shea and they told me that they were guardians of the thrown. They have lived a peaceful life for over ten thousand years. Their mental power's were very strong and they had a good sense of humor. I asked them, if they could read the word's on the plaque, they said they could, and would teach me their language and help me in anyway they could. We all went to bed that night with a sense of peace in our mind's. Something that has not been going on in almost a year. I slept great that night, and so did everyone else.

We showered and dressed, I gave orders to start the day. Then meet with Bunya, the leader of the Ben' ay, Shea. We worked for hour with them teaching me, how to say their word's. I leaned them very well too. I found out that night that the shield was a oath of office in a sense.

It read; I high lord of all under me, shell I protect. To all that beguile me, I shell smyth. To all that aid me, I shell aid. Then it hit me, there was a cross that ran in three's. All the word's that the shield held, were a three sided code, that the true king could only figure out. It was easy after that. The shield was to represent three thing's. Mercy, Strength, and Knowledge. " That is something, in it self, I thought".

The Attourien home world was long gone, thanks to the Kashi. So I now chose to make earth my home world. It would become the center of the new Empire. I talked with the Ben' ay, Shea and told them that the Empire would be know from this day forth, as the Terrain Alliance. And they told me, that it would be so known.

We settle down after that to a peaceful life, with the other races as came to earth with congratulations and their planets oath of aid. We had gotten to know many different races, thirty three so far. Mostly all peaceful. Now that the Kashi and the Valine had been dealt with. The Reptilians that had survived, were able to send word to earth threw our patrol ship in that sector, asking for help.

Their planet had been attacked by a race called the wolfish, they were a permeative race in some ways, they looked like vampires, with a really white skin, and red eye's with two front fangs. They have had space travel for thousands of years, but had been keeping quite so the Kashi or the Valine didn't mass with them.

They had a planet ten light years from Luxor, ( " the Reptilians home world").

Now Luxor is fifteen light years from century prime, witch is four light years from earth. Icsh' a said; that the reptilians didn't have the power to defend it selves anymore.

And that the wolfish were taking advantage of that fact. I asked if he needed help to deal with the wolfish. From what he could tell me. The wolfish were taking their women and children. I asked if he wanted me to send more ship's to help.

He wouldn't ask for help at first, but after telling him I thought that he was in over was head. He told me that, He didn't think, he could take back the reptilians without the help. I asked him, how many ship's he wanted me to send. He told me that the wolfish had fourteen very large ship's and they had taken over fifty thousand of the reptilian women and children. And they had killed over ten thousand men in doing so.

I asked what they would do with them now that they had them. Icsh' a, told me that they would breed the women, and use the children as slaves. Angrily I said; Slaves. I then said; I'll be there with help within a day or two. Keep guard until we get there, and stay safe. He replied; yes sire, thank you for your help in this. I said; Don't mention it friend, we'll be there soon.

I ordered a fleet of forty ship's to get ready to go to Luxor, and aid in the recovery of the Reptilians's from Omuta, ( " the home world of the wolfish"). The fleet set out to Luxor with enough ship's to take the whole system if they wanted too. Their order's were to recover all Reptilian's and return them to Luxor.

I few days later, I received a call from Icsh' a, saying that they had the Reptilians and were returning to Luxor. But they had to lie waste to ten of the wolfish fleet. I asked if any one was hurt. He told me that the only causalities were the Wolfish. They had tried to flight my guy's and they lost ten of their twenty six ship's, before surrendering to us.

The wolfish ambassador came to earth, asking for trade with us. They said; We have many thing's that your people can use, but we needed people to mine our ore's, as well as breed and care for our young. They said; they since we took their slaves that they didn't have the force's to do what had to been done. I told them, that slavery was not to take place anywhere inside my domain. And if they tried it again, they would become the slaves, themselves.

They didn't like the thought of me lording over them. They were going to be trouble, if we didn't deal with them soon. I told their ambassador, that if they wanted their ore mined, then they should do it themselves. He said; majesty, as much as it would fix that problem, we can not do that. So I asked ; and why is that, Lupin, your people are fit, are they not. Yes sire, they are fit to do that kind of work. But to do it would belittle us, when there are so many other races, that will do it for us.

I told Lupin, that he and his people were to work their own mine's, and any other task that they would have another race complete. He got insulted and said; you ask that we wolfish of Omuta, to do slave work. You are asking for a war, he threatened. I said; So be it, Lupin, if that is what you want, then you will have it. But know this, after we destroy your ship's, and take your planet, where will your surviving people, go. He didn't say anything else, he turned and walked away. He left earth and returned to his home world. We didn't hear from them for some time, after that.

Then over the last year there had been some attacks of small ship's, and no one knew who was doing the attacks. We had sent a ship into that sector to patrol as an observer, but there wasn't any sign of any attack's, while they were there.

Then in late December of 2011, a freighter, called the Coria, from the planet Uruguay. They Had sent an alert that three small ship's, had been following them since they had entered that sector of space. They were in fear that they would be the next target of the raiders.

Captain Walker, of our new frigate Carstairs, had heard of the raider ship's, and asked what the ship's looked like. I view was sent from, Coria's data bank. Walker, ran it against, all known ship's, and couldn't identify them. So now he knew, what they looked like and that their were someone new to worry about. Captain Walker, watched as they attack the freighter, they had some kind of force field, for when Coria returned their fire, it did nothing to them.

The Carstairs went to the aid of the Coria, but didn't get to her in time to stop the attack on her from starting. But they were able to stop them, from taking her crew and store's. The Carstairs pursued the smaller ship's to a planetoid called, Vesture, one of the moons of Omuta. Where the ship's, just disappeared from view and sensor's. Walker called in telling that the ship's had disappeared, and he didn't know, where too.

I received a request from the Uruguay to aid with the recovery of their ship, and it's people.

Walker had tried to fine any sign of the small ship's, but had no luck at all. We had talked about a way to find them. I called a meeting later in the day, to deuces what had happened to these raiders. Mom told me that they were their, and we just had to find them. I asked if anyone would like to give some thought on this predicament.

There had been fourteen advisor to the decision of where had these raiders gone. Then Walker asked if he could try something with some of his stinger fighter's. I told him to do what he had to do to find out where these ship's had gone. So we had to wait to see if anything came up. Walker set four stinger's around the asteroid belt, as a way to hide their presents.

It worked very well too. They had been there for seven hour's, when another ship called in that they were being followed by yet another three ship's. After data had been sent to the Carstairs, walker told the captain that they were on their way. As the Carstairs came into scanner range the small ship's ran for their base again. Only to find that the small ship's had opened a gate in the planetoid. One of our stinger's, had been able to see the last ship disappear inside the gate as it closed. Ensign Beth Franks, in her stinger, from the frigate Carstairs called in with her finding's.

Captain Walker, then called earth, asking for help with this mission. He had sent a data dump of information about this base. I reviewed it with our advisors as to how to handle them. We talked for better then five hour's about how to take the base. It came down to just blowing it up, and we hoped that we could do it. Well word was sent to walker, that he would have a fleet at his side within a day. And that he was to wait for them, if he could, but were not to let them get away. As walker reviewed his orders about how to handle this threat.

He started to ask if anyone had any idea's of doing that.

Helm's men Gurge, from the planet Cainito said; Sir, why don't we just hit them with our pulsar cannon's. Surely they couldn't withstand the fire from them for very long, sir.

That's a thought, Walker said out loud. He then turned to the helm's men and said; con, bring us about. As Walker stood on his bridge the unknown ship's were inside their planetoid, waiting for these aliens to leave the area once again. They had moved into the sector of space just over a year ago, and had met with their sister race the wolfish. This race has been known as the Lupine. They were also a race that believed that they were better then any other race.

They for millennia, had taken any slaves they wished. Even the Kashi, and the Valine didn't want a fight with them. They have shown that they didn't fell they had to respect any other races. To them the other races were just slaves to be used, then when they were no longer useful as slaves they were killed, to feed their other slaves.

The lupine were a very technical race, they had made many advances over the years. But mostly they had worked off other races advancements. They had found that they could have slaves early on in their space travel. And had taken to being the dominate race from there on out. They were immune to telepathy, and never feared the Kashi. As the Kashi started the war with the Attourien, they were taking Attourien slave's as well as other race's.

And over the years, they dominated most other races. If they found a ship in space, they would capture it, and use their technology to fit it to their own ship's. After the Kashi, had lost their rain of this sector, their was little to stand against them.

We back on earth had heard nothing of these Lupine. So when we received word from Captain Walker that these ship's had force fields, we started to think that there was another race that was as strong as us. Here was something that we needed to worry about. Their ship's were smaller then our's, and they didn't have as big an arsenal as us. But they were able to move around with out us finding their base, or at first, that is.

Captain Walker sent word that he needed help with these new aliens. And that they were faster then our ship's. He told us that these ship's were moving around without him finding any sign of them. After I had told him that I was sending a fleet of forty ship's to aid him with the capture of these new threat. He seemed relieved that he wouldn't have to deal with them alone.

That night, Mom told me that there was something wrong. She couldn't tell me what it was though. I told Captain Wesleyans, who captained the Carrier Freedom, that I would be going with them. I was taking the Vengeance as well as the Damocles, and the Tempest.

We set out at six bell's, at warp eight, we would be there within ten hours. Along the flight, we planed out how to capture these new aliens. Icsh' a, told us that they hadn't known of this race in a thousand years. And that they had been a very peaceful one back then. I said; well some how they have gotten very loud lately, and we have to shut them down.

Walker told us that he was sitting right in front of their base acting like he didn't know they were there. There had been a few probes sent out looking for any other ships, that could be trouble.

None were found at the time, but we were doing our best time in getting there.

As we exited hyper space, we met up with Walker and ambassador lupin. Walker told us, that they hadn't opened their gate yet. I told our ship's to spread out, like we had planed. We opened fire on the planetoid with everything we had. They had the damn thing shielded pretty well, and we had bearly shook there base. Or so we thought. About thirty minutes after we started, the base opened their door, and out came a small ship, asking to speak with who ever was in charge.

I received their shuttle on board the Vengeance. Their ambassador told me that we were trespassing on their space. And we were to leave before they retaliated. I told them that they were the one's trespassing, and that they had to surrender. The ambassador laughed at my demand, and told me that their base, could take uncounted attacks from us. And that they would open fire on us, if we didn't retreat. I told him that we, wouldn't do anything of a kind. He told me that he would give his commander my demands, but didn't think he would surrender.

But as he was leaving my office. Mom came in with Lupin the ambassador from Omuta. Now lupin, I could read, where ambassador Draco I could not. But as Lupin passed Draco, his mind came to full awareness, of who he was, and what he was doing there. I had to stop Draco from leaving, as my mind read how they had worked together to under mind my orders about slavery in my domain. The Lupine race had known from the start that they were braking my law. And that they worked with the Wolfish to take slaves for the Wolfish mines as well and the Lupine's off world ventures.