Chapter 7

"Put the other one through, hopefully, this one will be more sensible".

"Ahh our saviors were the Sanguisugion race, we did not recognize you from your uncharacteristic flagship design; firstly we would like to thank you for destroying that despicable blockade".

"Naturally, we were coming to conquer you, how could we let our prey get taken" Aleister had laughed with a big warm smile, seeing that smile and hearing his response the Stigquit had gone from a beaming smile to a horrid frown.

"Surely there is a mistake, we are a peaceful race".

"Peaceful, 23 different merchants were detained without release, while their valuable cargo was completely pillaged," Aleister said with the same almost fake, creepy smile "Now this is how it will go, you will bring your remaining ships into the system and into orbit; all the while you will deactivate your shields around cities and the such or we destroy any ship that enters the system and paint my new 'Carrier' with the blood of those not sensible enough to realize they are beaten".

"I'm v- very sorry your ex- excellency but I don't have such powers, please give me a reprieve so I may discuss it with my superiors".

"You have five minutes, any longer and I'll reduce the capital to slag, then we will talk again" the Stigquit visibly was about to argue such a brutal strategy but the line was cut off before it could continue speaking.

"Keep an eye on any gravitational fluctuations of an FTL Jump, if the ship or ships have any energy signal coming from the guns, destroy them, also immediately prepare to jump to The Waddonia System after 5 minutes," Aleister said to the Admiral before walking out of the bridge and back into the room the higher ranking members had been in before the battle.

'Holy shit, I was not expecting that. Two heavycruisers and three cruisers, if we had not caught them with their pants down then we would have been wiped out, even if this ship's quality was better than their battlecruisers' Aleister thought while slouching down into a comfortable leather seat at the side of the room.

After an extremely long five minutes, the same white-uniformed assistant walked through the doors "Your majesty, they have chosen to surrender".

"Wise, leave behind a frigate and two corvettes, Begin the FTL Jump to the Waddonia System," Aleister said hoping that he would be able to catch yet another Caesseian fleet with their pants down, and because he would believe that the main fleet would be in the capital system this would be the important fleet to destroy even at the cost of every ship other than the battlecruiser.

Every time Aleister looks through the bridge the only thing he sees is, for a lack of better words strangeness, On Aleisters previous planet and the planet he now possesses there wasn't a way to describe what he was looking at. how could there be? traveling at thousands even hundreds of thousands times of C shouldn't be possible, yet here it is. Shaking himself out of the daze he turned to the lower bridge and told them to shut the blinds, only reopening them 10 seconds before the end of the jump.

"Prepare the guns, prepare the fighters, prepare the shields at medium strength, after they start to fire back, put them to the max and put the output of the gun to medium" Aleister ordered while walking to the talking pair of admiral and vice admiral.

"Ahh your majesty, what can we do for you?".

"I simply want to ask, what do you think about the ship?".

"Well I obviously believe it to be an amazing ship, the proof was a mere half-hour ago – even if it was a complete surprise attack, I can only imagine what kinds of terrors would be merely supported by such a ship".

"Well with the expansion into three systems of the Stigquits, and maybe the eight Systems of the Caesseians it would be possible to make a few more of these and a more massive fleet of cruisers, frigates, and corvettes. my only concern is how many planets the army can hold, a suspected five planets isn't going to be easy to police and enforce even if we put five million troops on each planet. with only three grand armies completely functional after reorganization only two worlds can be properly policed," Aleister said to the admirals in the lit corner of the bridge "Your majesty, matters involving the army aren't my specialty that would be Grand General Crizabbion's, who is in the Legions quarters, but the most obvious answer is, just recruit more people, there is a population base of billions in the three systems that we do have; Reeducation and military training and after 6 months you have a fresh soldier who would do your bidding".

"Yes, indeed th-".

"Your majesty we have one minute before the end of the jump" although good news Aleister was slightly getting annoyed at the man who keeps interrupting his conversations, or breaks yet he knew that he was just doing his job, therefore, did nothing of it.

After the jump was complete, the entire crew expressed extreme joy at the sight of there only being one Heavycruiser and a dozen cruisers, a fleet like that would have made them freeze but now it didn't look as scary. Although the fleet only having these capital ships was a very good thing, what was even better was that the ships were ferrying dozens of large troop transports and supply ships that looked like they each held what they would call a regiment.

Because of the unique way shields work, only energy could pass through the back side of a shield, if for example, a large regiment carrying ship was within the range of the shield then, they couldn't activate it without destroying the transport if it was unlucky enough to be bisected or to run into it.

"Full power fire, focus on the heavycruiser," The Admiral said while Aleister was simply watching out of the Bridge. All around the Orpheus was 290 fighter and bombers, all with FTL drives meaning they didn't have to lower the shields to get out of the ship. All they had to do was fly into battle.

Due to the complete lack of a shield, the heavycruiser took a full volley, but unlike the other heavycruisers, this one was still 'standing', even if it was standing on a needle with a broken leg, it was still impressive. Almost instantly a blue bubble-like barrier was erected outside of the battlecruiser, cutting half a dozen supply ships in half, and making another dozen fly straight into it.

"Your majesty, their guns have gone cold and they are attempting to hail us".

"Wait stop!!" the man in the hologram yelled "We surrender, your honorable warrior way wouldn't allow such a despicable genocide right?".

"Your right, we do not commit genocide for no reason, have all ships including transports cut power to engines and guns, you will lower your shields and prepare to be boarded any resistance and your ship will be reduced to scrap!" The Admiral said before disconnecting the line.

"Have a corvette go back to friendly territory to give the go-ahead for the first, second, and third Grand Armies. As planned the first goes to Naston, while the second either invades or occupies K'tus. Lastly, the third army occupies any space infrastructure – especially those shipyards" Aleister said before retiring to one of the VIP chambers.