Hoff’s transmitter went off again as the reply from the Xenos was received, he read it over quickly two times over and sent his final reply before finally meeting in person.
Message to: Matthew Gibbs of the Xenos Alliance, Refugio Base, Tau 45 System
CommID: Fleet Admiral Dustin Hoff, The Kemosiri, Omicron Minor System
Transmitting...
We’ll be there, but we won’t be bringing a transport.
Transmission Complete
Hoff wasn’t stupid, he wasn’t going to risk brining a weak and close to worthless transport to transport three of the highest Admirals of the Order so near to Order space. No, Hoff had a better idea. “Lieutenant! “
“Yes, sir!?”
“Get to the deck and give the order to prepare the Kemosiri for long distance travels and to have Order Guard members to come on board; we have a meeting to get to.”
Hoff walked to the command deck as well while opening a voice comm with McKinley and Malacos, giving them the order to get on board the Kemosiri and prepare for long distance travels. Both of them accepted the order without a word and shut down their comm devices.
The command deck was full of crewman working the controls and devices in the room, with the viewing windows at the end. Two Nepythus were seen launching from Planet Toledo, piloted by Mckinley and Malacos. The ships engaged their cruiser engines and requesting docking procedures with the Kemosiri’s docking bay. “Their ships are on board, Admiral.”
“Good, don’t waste time then. Set course for the Unknown jumphole.” Unknown… The horrid system filled with it’s green clouds and asteroid fields, the semi-active Nomad lair. The radiation and technology for the Nomad lair cut most and if not all navigations on board the Kemosiri, but not that it mattered, little nav beckons were placed on the asteroids leading directly to the Tohoku jumphole.
Tohoku… The system was quiet as it usually was, only the arch in the distance. Hoff began to wonder what the Xenos would think bringing a war ship so close in range of one of their only three bases. Not that it would matter too much, as good reason was behind it. The Hokkadio jumphole was nearing.
Hokkaido… “Active the cloaking devices, last thing we need is Kusari knowing were here.”
“Yes sir! Cloaking devices activated, setting course for the New Tokyo jumpgate.
“New Tokyo? … No, we won’t be going through Kusari’s capital, not with the Kemosiri at least. Set course for the Kyushu jumphole, keep clear of their police bases.”
Hokkaido would be one of their biggest systems to travel through; Kusari to close within range it would be so simply for them to detect the Kemosiri if it wasn’t for the cloaking devices built in to the Osiris itself. What Kusari would do if seeing an Order warship within their space would be a disaster if not worse, but their paranoia began to thin as the Kyushu jumphole was activated. Kyushu… The jumphole lead in to the middle of one of the fields in the higher sectors of Kyushu, leading a direct and easy path to the Shikoku jumphole. Hoff went back to thinking about the proposal the Xenos had made, preparing his words for when they were to speak, watching his two Admiral do the same behind him. The time was nearing as they jumped through to Shikoku.
Shikoku… Course was set for the Galileo jumphole, to prevent getting locked down at the Kepler jumpgate by Kusari. Hoff had his speech prepped for the Xenos, and walked over to speak with his other two Admirals.
“Ready?”
Both of them nodded, excited almost, the opportunity to have a base of operations wasn’t something that the Order would come across so easily. One of the Admirals began to speak until the navigations asked them to be seated for the jump to Galileo.
Galileo… The jump was short between Galileo and Kepler, simply avoiding the Hacker base between the two jumpholes and jumping to the Kepler system.
Kepler…
“Admiral, we require the coordinates of the Xenos location”
Hoff opened his comm device again and uploaded the coordinates to the Xenos freighter’s location in to the navigations system and the waypoint was set. Hoff looked at his two Admirals again; both were looking out the viewing windows waiting for the Freighter to come in to sight. But something else came in to range, it didn’t look like a cloud, not an asteroid fields, but Dark Matter.
“Cut the Cruise engines! Take this one by impulse.”
The Kemosiri began to slow, moving through the field as the freighter came in to view, the battleship decloaked and comms were open.
“Fleet Admiral Dustin Hoff of Black Squadron and the Order to Xenos Freighter X3442, respond.”
“Ah Fleet Admi… WHAT IS THAT!?”
The Xenos were surprised by the Kemosiri coming in to view of their scanners, but it didn’t stop them. “Kemosiri requesting merging rights.”
“Err… Uhh… Access Granted.”
The Kemosiri lined up next to the Xenos freighter and a passage way from the battleship connected to the Freighter itself. The three Admirals and five Order Guard walked off the Kemosiri and in to the Freighter where three Xenos waited for them inside.
“Ah, Admirals, glad you made it safely. Follow me; Copperhead and Coachwhip are waiting for you in the meeting room.”
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