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Post by Alan Haskayne on Jun 21, 2013 3:15:25 GMT -5
Natalie sat back, increasingly annoyed by April and her companion, along with Nathan for his silent agreement with them. Her features twitched slightly "My parents, first my mother, then father. Were tortured to death in front of me, while I hid in a closet. These people were Plutoan terrorists, they wanted a totally free Pluto, free from GPF protection. That is what happens when people believe their planets can be free. You would bring that whole idea back after we crushed it in the Uprisings Wars. More people would suffer like I had to as a child, and more children will be homeless on space stations, forced to join.the military at 14 for food. I save children from that." to his whole idea about being a common citizen she waved it off by simply saying "I would be alive enough to resent me for it, and without fear from Lunan blitzes, or Venusian kidnapping." she looked genuinely confused when he seemed to have no idea what she was talking about and managed to half calmly say "Xean... Xean will explain how, I'm not sure myself."
Natalie frowned slightly at what Nathan said about throwing him into forced labour "I ment no harm by that Commander, I will of course not harm you here, on your own bridge. I only wished to state what people like you, or Aria, or Alan get in my universe." she looked rather annoyed with him when he asked how she could bring Adair into this "I expected a peaceful negotiation, and she wants to be part of the GPF government someday, and I figured seeing negotiations would be good for her." Adair quietly said "I want to be the Propaganda Minister someday." Natalie rubbed her head a little but looked increasingly distrustful of Hawke and his men "Order your men out of the room and disarm yourself and we shall hand over all weapons. Have those terrorists disarm too, I don't trust them, they have killed our officers in cold blood. They destroy our prison ships, leave our children orphans, and raid our cargo haulers." she nodded a little to April and Roy. When he repeated his question she frowned slightly and said "I am here to collect your interdimentional engine. Then to assassinate you, or convince you to kill yourself. That is why Dakota is here, she is our best assassin." Xean quickly explained "The Engine you touched on Venus, it is occasionally blasting radiation into other universes when activated. Alan claims with full certainly, and I agree, and Xiana will too if I might show her the reinvent data, the only way to stop this is your termination thus the loss of connection between you and the Engine."
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Post by Edenecho on Jun 21, 2013 4:01:12 GMT -5
"If you gave them freedom, they wouldn't have to torture people to free their planets!" April gasped, exasperated. Roy shook his head and said,"April, forget it. She's too utterly insane and corrupt to see sense." April seemed to agree with this, and they both fell silent. Hawke seemed dissatisfied with her answer, but said nothing more.
"You meant no harm by saying I should be thrown into slavery?" He said, sounding like he thought she was weird. "People like me? What, people who give everything to help innocents? Your world sounds awesome," The last part was clearly very sarcastic. "You brought an awful large amount of guns and soldiers for if you truly believed that this had no potential to go wrong, and if you saw any potential for it to go wrong, you shouldn't have brought her." He looked at Adair, his eyes softening. "Adair," He sighed,"You have such a pure heart, I wonder how it is that you come to support someone who would kill innocents." He sounded like he thought Natalie corrupted her. "No." He said bluntly to her telling him to order his men out of the room. Roy and April looked rather insulted. "We don't have weapons," Roy said, patting himself down,"We are the only ones who seemed to grasp the whole peaceful thing." He narrowed his eyes,"The only time we kill your people is self defense, not cold blood. We free innocents from your prison ships, and I'm pretty sure we have never raided any cargo haulers of yours. If we leave anyone orphans, it's because we killed someone in self defense. Besides, you don't really care about that. You left a whole planetful of children either dead or orphans. Or you killed people's son's and daughters." Hawke listened and shook his head,"Natalie, how did you become this?" He said softly. He looked at her. "Not here to hurt me on my own bridge, are you? Not sure how you plan to assassinate me and not hurt me at the same time." When she said that, Hawkes men seemed to get all the more vigilant, and it was pretty clear none of them were going to lower their weapons or leave now." He looked at the Xean hologram, then tilted his head. "You are aware that Alan has the machine I touched on Venus, right? He's the one who's activating it. My machine is a copy, and I will never activate it if it will harm your world."
Now Xiana spoke up. "What Hawke says is true. The Machine that was on Venus is in Alan's hands, and he is the one who is activating it. The one we have here has never been used to travel to another world, and has merely been activated to be tested. You can trust Hawke when he says that he will not use it if it harms your world."
Roy crossed his arms, then said,"Nice to see that Alternate Natalie seems to care more about innocents." He muttered this to April, but it could be heard by Natalie if she was paying attention to them. He then spoke louder,"Natalie, if you were the one in possession of this machine while Alan was building an army from other worlds or whatever's going on here, and someone from another world came to tell you it was killing people, would you stop using the machine, thus disabling your ability to recruit people from other worlds?"
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Post by Alan Haskayne on Jun 23, 2013 2:37:39 GMT -5
Natalie didn't respond to what he said about throwing him in prison for protecting innocents, in fact she even looked a little ashamed of herself for saying that. She practically growled at him for saying she brought a lot of guns "I have three commander, and two military personel with me. I hardly believe that is a great number of troops and guns commander, I have no intention to go wrong, these two are a show of my force to keep April in line." Adair hid slightly behind Natalie and Dakota twirled her sword as she walked in front of Adair "Do not speak of the Field Marshal like that in front of Adair." she sounded fairly threatening, but to a good ear they would realise Dakota herself was scared, and just trying to keep Adair calm. After Roy and April claimed to be disarmed Natalie nodded to Dakota who put her sword away and asked "May I confirm that?" walking toward them. Natalie glared at them for a few moments before saying "I hardly call what you do to our troops as self defence. I believe they are defending themselves when you are the ones who board their ship. What would you call that Nathan? Wouldn't you my officers were defending themselves, and my ships." her attention snapped to Nathan again "I watched my parents tortured to death as a 10 year old." she again shook her head "That is a plan of last resort, I wish to have you agree to accompany me back to the Hegemony."
Xean watched Hawke and nodded slightly "We are aware that Alan owns the machine, however we can not oppose him, we simply don't have the manpower to board Errant Venture. And, there is another problem, even if we acquire it, our worlds are already damaged with radiation, Earth is a wasteland, and our mining colonies have started falling apart. If I might, Mr Hyperion explains it best." another hologram appeared of a Lunan who had mid length hair and was wearing a exosuit plus a very fancy implant. He smiled and began "Mr Nathan Hawke, I'm Viktor Hyperion, Regional Governor of Luna." he gave a grin to April and Roy, knowing they despised him, probably like Natalie. He was known to work his slaves half to death in mining pits across Luna and Mercury. He put his hands behind back and continued "According to my surveys, we will face the total collapse of the GPF within 2 years because of the losses from earth. Now with the machine we can strip mine your worlds to supply our own with new life."
Natalie, quickly anticipating things getting worse ordered "Vittorio, take Adair back to the mothership immediately." her Vittorio stepped forward to do it but she quickly put her hand across his chest "No actually, Hawke, would you mind having your Vittorio handle this?" she turned her head to then finally discuss with her nemesis "No I would not, however if I recall you people liked Alan before his Hegemony was wiped from the face of the Galaxy."
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Post by Edenecho on Jun 23, 2013 20:54:59 GMT -5
"I don't think she needs a show of force to be kept in line, and the fact that you think that she does she be enough of a reason not to bring Adair into a potentially dangerous situation," Hawke pointed out. He didn't look the slightest bit intimidated by Dekota, and in fact glared at her,"I'll speak the truth when I see fit. If anything I should tell you off for threatening my on my own ship." Roy shrugged, then nodded,"No reason not to," He said. Both April and Roy were completely disarmed. Of course they could defend themselves with fists, but they had no guns or knives. "If they fired first, it was self defense from us. We would have just walked in peacefully, freed innocents, and left, leaving you with the real prisoners. No one had to die, but they fired, so we fired back," He said. Apparently Leroy's alternate version was more talkative then the June-Aria mix alternate. Hawke tilted his head, then looked her straight in the eye,"I believe that we should not become the people we have suffered from," He said. He raised an eyebrow at her,"Why would I go to the Hegemony? So they can kill me?"
"So, your solution would be to murder the one person keeping this galaxy from falling apart?" Xiana asked. Hawke listened to Xean with narrowed eyes. He then glared at Viktor. "That's Commander Nathan Hawke," He said. "Strip mine our worlds?!" He scoffed,"No! I'm not just going to lay down and die so you can ruin everything I've worked to protect." He looked at Natalie,"Now, do you have anything to say that doesn't involve destroying the worlds I protect? If I can help in a way that doesn't involve you strip mining 'my' worlds, then perhaps I will."
"Yes, I would in fact," Hawke said, crossing his arms,"Why would you want 'my' Vittorio to do it, rather then 'yours'? Think mines more trust worthy? I'm sure he is, but I have no reason to believe you're not just going to lead him into a trap." Roy raised an eyebrow,"Whether or not we like Alan from our world doesn't matter. What matters is that you wouldn't do it. You would sacrifice whole other universe for one war. A whole universe of innocents," He then looked at Hawke,"Would you?" HAwke frowned,"That's not an easy question. I would hate to do it, if I had no other choice," He then looked at Natalie,"I will die to save your universe, a world that means nothing to me, but I will not lay down and let you strip mine my worlds. But I think there's another way to keep your universe from being ripped apart. Join me, and we can take down Alan and stop him from using the machine. You just have to be willing to do what I say. Just know that I will not let you strip mine my worlds."
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Post by Leslie on Jun 25, 2013 11:10:13 GMT -5
Vittorio pretty much stayed quiet throughout the entire thing until his name was mentioned. Then he started to step forward slightly, seeming uncertain and glancing at Hawke, but then stopped completely when Hawke said he would actually mind if his Vittorio went with her. The only reason he started to even go was pretty much waiting for what Nathan Hawke had to say about it, which is why he was going slow instead of immediately over to Natalie. So in other words he remained silent and was standing in the area separating the two groups, though he was slowly moving back to Nathan Hawke's side while listening to what the both of them had to say.
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Post by Alan Haskayne on Jul 25, 2013 19:15:53 GMT -5
"It is a risk, I will admit, but a minuscule one, I would gladly give my life for my daughter's, and I assure you, if you or her lay a hand on her, my fleet, and my army will hunt you down. And once they capture you, my integration teams will make things very unpleasant." Natalie said in the idea that anyone would hurt her precious Adair. Dakota cowed down between Hawke and the fact Natalie gave her a stern glance, but she did sheath her sword and walk over to the two criminals, slowly patting both of them down. She looked at Natalie and told her "Field Marshal, they are unarmed." Natalie nodded slightly and gave the two a mildly surprised look "I'm impressed." she then growled a little at the idea of it being self defence for them "Hey, I guess if it is self defence, Xean, order two battalions of our marines to board various criminal ships, take back any GPF equipment they obtained for our ships, and get Hyperion to get his mercs to take back all weapons, ships, and equipment made by his company." she then grinned a little at April "And if they resist tell our marines to act in self defence." Xean nodded slightly and got their com systems fired up. She shook her head to Hawke "I give you my word as an officer of the Galactic Provisional occupying Force that my troops will protect you from the Hegemony."
Xean shrugged slightly to Nathan Hawke "Commander, the GPoF can and will protect this universe in your place if you are indeed to fall." Hyperion thought for a few moments at Hawke's response, looking at various things offscreen onboard the Hyperion corporate flagship Hyperion's Generosity then said "We can of course move our civilians and military forces to this universe, only those loyal of course, April And Roy can have our destroyed worlds. After that we can of course relocate both the GPoF and Hyperion Industries to an uninhabited universe." Hyperion nodded slowly to himself "Yes yes, that would work well."
"Vittorio is a trusted advisor, and mostly pure of heart. That is why I wanted him here, he is one of two people in the galaxy that can get me to calm down and reevaluate my ideas, and my orders. Besides, I wanted to give Adair a change to speak with someone of your universe, I thought it would be a very interesting for her." she listened to them debate back and forth about the universes, and who would give their lives for which one. She then nodded oddly enough to his last thing "Yes, yes, we could kill Alan... Again! He will learn that no one threatens Natalie Hawke and gets away with it." she then turned to the hologram and barked "Hyperion! Move your manufacturing ships to this location, order our civilian transports, along with 80% of our fleet to move to a star system not yet discovered in this universe." she then turned back to Hawke "I would like to post some of my crew, along with a detachment of marines to this ship. I fully expect you to have some people on my ship as well. Loyalty is created that way." she then glanced over at Roy and April "And you, don't get your ships within 500 kilometers of my fleet, or we will shoot them down."
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Post by Edenecho on Aug 2, 2013 12:26:44 GMT -5
"Whether you would give your life for her is irrelevant, or what your fleet would do to me. You shouldn't have brought her into a situation that might have be dangerous, even if you don't expect it to be. It's as simple at that," Hawke said. Roy and April both just calmly let Dakota search them for weapons. "Why are you impressed? We've tried to be more peaceful then you, it's not particularly that impressive. "Any equipment we have from the GPoF or Hyperion, we have perfectly legally, which I'm pretty sure we don't have any stuff from the GPoF and anything from Hyperion we bought," Roy said, and Hawke shook his eyebrow,"Xiana," He said simply, and she blocked Xean's transmission. "And your word is supposed to mean something to me? Words are just words," Hawke said.
"You don't protect people, you oppress them, from what I can see. You beat down anyone who you think is a threat to your power. Roy and April are proof of how far off the path of good you've gone. If you really are alternate me, I know you must know deep down that what you do is wrong. I would never stoop to your level, Natalie. You may have defeated the bad, but you're defeating the good, too, can't you see that?" Hawke's voice was gentle, not angry, not annoyed. Closer to disappointment then anger. "For you," Roy said when Natalie said 'that would work well',"Which seems to be all you care about."
"Here's the thing, Natalie. I don't trust you," Hawke said, rather bluntly,"Get your own Vittorio to do it." Hawke frowned slightly,"Alan's not all bad. Though, I'm starting to re-evaluate my opinion on that now." Hawke shook his head,"I prefer to create trust, not just loyalty. And I'd say having people on the others ship doesn't show much trust." Roy rolled his eyes,"Don't worry, we'll just hang out with this Hawke, we like him better, anyway," He said to her, and Hawke smiled. "Feel free to keep your fleet around here," He said,"Some of your people can come aboard for medical attention if they need it, too."
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Post by Leslie on Aug 3, 2013 14:57:35 GMT -5
Once again, Vittorio didn't really know what to say related to everything going on. It was all so crazy and weird. And there was a lot of chatter he was just listening to or it went right over his head because he was more on high alert then listening to others alert. So once again he just kind of stood there listening to the rather long conversation back and forth that he was surprised was still going on. Hawke's words pretty much confirmed to him that he wasn't going over with Natalie, and he wasn't sure if he minded that all that much but if he was told to go over he would. He gave a glance at Hawke, then back to Natalie, and went back to just keeping his ground near Hawke.
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