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beckoning wave to one of the anterooms, the harsh sound of uniform boots on polished floor shattered the ominous silence of the meeting.
“Majesty, an honour,” the voice of a young adult male sounded respectfully around the Throne Room.
“Yes,” Lullina said languidly, and then noticed the young Officer, “and what do you have to present to us, Junior Fleet Officer?” she suddenly brightened up.
Always with a ready eye for a handsome young Officer, Lullina noticed the pleasing features and handsome physique of the young male before her, and sat forward on her throne.
“Majesty,” the young Officer bowed and began nervously, “I have just completed a cultural, political and demographical survey of this so-called Universal Alliance, and I believe I may have discovered a military weakness that we can exploit.”
“A weakness,” Lullina smiled, “how interesting; do tell us more, Officer Batarrien.”
“Majesty,” he bowed once again, “I have taken the liberty of looking further into the composition of member species within this upstart Alliance; this is an area where our own Intelligence Services are remiss. I have also looked at the species within Alliance territory that are not Alliance members, and, hence, not considered to be a threat to the Empire,”
“How exciting,” Lullina praised, “do continue,” she waved her hand daintily to indicate for the handsome Officer to proceed.
“Majesty,” he began again, “there is a group of five solar systems within the Nezadir galaxy that have no affiliation to the Universal Alliance. They are strategically located between the two main power blocs of the Alliance; the Thexxian...”
“Do not mention that name in my presence!” Lullina snapped, her mood changing in an instant.
“Majesty, a thousand pardons, but I merely wish to demonstrate a weakness that could well lead to the destruction of that, shall we say, troublesome, species,” Batarrien bowed once more.
“Really?” Lullina suddenly smiled sweetly to the young Officer, “please tell us,” she simpered.
“If I may, Your Majesty,” Batarrien activated a huge holographic Display Screen that projected from equipment hidden in the Throne Room’s high ceiling, “the current territorial extent of the Universal Alliance,”
On the huge screen, two large intersecting blobs, one blue and one red, indicating a schematic of the Universal Alliance as viewed from above.
“To Your Majesty’s left, centred around the planet of Gardarus, we have THAT species expanding out towards the unclaimed territories beyond our frontier,” he indicated, “to the right, we have the bloc centred around the planets of Colos, Therallian and Skrax that are pushing out towards the Ganthoran frontiers and those unclaimed territories.”
“Yes, that’s all very nice, but we are well aware of the Alliance’s geography,” Lullina started to lose interest even in the handsome young Officer.
“But with Your Majesty’s permission, the Alliance is not a unified body within that territory. There are systems and species that have refused to join the Alliance or are uninhabited or are considered too primitive for membership, and are, thus, undefended,” the young Officer activated the screen once more where patches of black appeared within the red and blue, “if I could draw Your Majesty’s attention to this section.”
The image zoomed down to five black areas, bordered by white, at the edge of the red sector that formed a ragged path from one side of the very edge of the red bloc to the other. The Empress, a very strategically aware creature, like most of those on her Military Advisory Council, stared open-mouthed at what appeared to be a fatal weakness in the Alliance’s territorial possession.
“What are these systems, Officer?” the Empress watched the screen intently scrutinising the details and a plan forming in her mind.
“Erm, they are Praxos, Terra, Sidionas,” Batarrien began to list the
“Majesty, an honour,” the voice of a young adult male sounded respectfully around the Throne Room.
“Yes,” Lullina said languidly, and then noticed the young Officer, “and what do you have to present to us, Junior Fleet Officer?” she suddenly brightened up.
Always with a ready eye for a handsome young Officer, Lullina noticed the pleasing features and handsome physique of the young male before her, and sat forward on her throne.
“Majesty,” the young Officer bowed and began nervously, “I have just completed a cultural, political and demographical survey of this so-called Universal Alliance, and I believe I may have discovered a military weakness that we can exploit.”
“A weakness,” Lullina smiled, “how interesting; do tell us more, Officer Batarrien.”
“Majesty,” he bowed once again, “I have taken the liberty of looking further into the composition of member species within this upstart Alliance; this is an area where our own Intelligence Services are remiss. I have also looked at the species within Alliance territory that are not Alliance members, and, hence, not considered to be a threat to the Empire,”
“How exciting,” Lullina praised, “do continue,” she waved her hand daintily to indicate for the handsome Officer to proceed.
“Majesty,” he began again, “there is a group of five solar systems within the Nezadir galaxy that have no affiliation to the Universal Alliance. They are strategically located between the two main power blocs of the Alliance; the Thexxian...”
“Do not mention that name in my presence!” Lullina snapped, her mood changing in an instant.
“Majesty, a thousand pardons, but I merely wish to demonstrate a weakness that could well lead to the destruction of that, shall we say, troublesome, species,” Batarrien bowed once more.
“Really?” Lullina suddenly smiled sweetly to the young Officer, “please tell us,” she simpered.
“If I may, Your Majesty,” Batarrien activated a huge holographic Display Screen that projected from equipment hidden in the Throne Room’s high ceiling, “the current territorial extent of the Universal Alliance,”
On the huge screen, two large intersecting blobs, one blue and one red, indicating a schematic of the Universal Alliance as viewed from above.
“To Your Majesty’s left, centred around the planet of Gardarus, we have THAT species expanding out towards the unclaimed territories beyond our frontier,” he indicated, “to the right, we have the bloc centred around the planets of Colos, Therallian and Skrax that are pushing out towards the Ganthoran frontiers and those unclaimed territories.”
“Yes, that’s all very nice, but we are well aware of the Alliance’s geography,” Lullina started to lose interest even in the handsome young Officer.
“But with Your Majesty’s permission, the Alliance is not a unified body within that territory. There are systems and species that have refused to join the Alliance or are uninhabited or are considered too primitive for membership, and are, thus, undefended,” the young Officer activated the screen once more where patches of black appeared within the red and blue, “if I could draw Your Majesty’s attention to this section.”
The image zoomed down to five black areas, bordered by white, at the edge of the red sector that formed a ragged path from one side of the very edge of the red bloc to the other. The Empress, a very strategically aware creature, like most of those on her Military Advisory Council, stared open-mouthed at what appeared to be a fatal weakness in the Alliance’s territorial possession.
“What are these systems, Officer?” the Empress watched the screen intently scrutinising the details and a plan forming in her mind.
“Erm, they are Praxos, Terra, Sidionas,” Batarrien began to list the
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