OOC: Didn`t find any information on Xal 3 so I have to make this up...so I`m taking it over in this rp...blaa..blaa...

A Longsword frigate of the Galactic Coalition name as Dreamer passes the stars in hyperspace while it`s crew regains strength and prepares to make their first independent act away from other Coalition ships or planets. Their lastest and first assingment had been one rollercoaster for them at some points cause there had been high hopes on them since they were fresh blood from the academy to the Coalition fleet. The captain Daren Telcrot sits in his chair in his quaters login into his diary about the past events on his life.

"The first assingment surely was hard on me cause having a ship under you few hours after you have stepped out of the academy, not to forget that meeting with Jan Dondana. I`m beginning to feel comfortable here at least, but that`s small relief because a new mission awaits, we are to search the planet Xal 3 on the outer rim and offer protection to it`s possible inhabitants. Also we are ordered to search the surface for possible resources, that could benefit the Coalition in any possible way and If the planet seems to be empty then perhaps take it under the Coalition banner. Mira seems to think, that few signals some coalition stations have recieved have come from the planet are from a new race cause the form is unknown to the coalition, but I have my doubts on that because you don`t no what might move on the outer rim space. Bounty hunter, mercenaries, hutts or perhaps The New Order ships who knows? Propably some group are using a new signal wawe, that the coalition just doesn`t know about or doesn´t recognize. But leaving that aside she is a good officer and I couldn`t have been luckier cause I would propably have messed up everything with a good second officer. Some of the crew have been restless of this unexplored planet because they are affraid, that we would confort a hostile force, but that`s quite unusual cause many new races would be propably wise enough to take diplomatic actions before attacking an unknown power, which they know nothing about. Out her.."

Daren stops writing and closes the diary when he hears a knock on the door, he walks to the door and opens the door, Daren raises his eyebrown when he sees one of the technicians in front of him.

"What`s the problem?" Daren looks worried, but slightly hard.

"How do you know there`s a problem?" The man asks worried.

"Well then what are doing on my door, if there isn`t a problem? Anything wrong in the engine`s? Or is something jammed in the control`s? You could have used the comlink for these things." Daren walks back to his chair and stis down offering the technician to sit down, but he refuses.

"It`s more of a personal thing you see, me and the boys are worried about this new planet, which we know nothing of..." The man says and Daren automaticly continues the sentence to the end knowing what the crew was worried about

" And you are worried, that we run into some new hostile race, that will blow this ship to thousand bits as we enter the planets atmosphere?" Daren smiles slightly " Relax good man... If you or your buddies knew about diplomacy you wouldn`t be so stressed... No race is stupid enough to start blasting unknown powers before they know what their facing so I would have to believe, that we are complitely safe, if there even is a new race..."

The man smiles now reliefed "I guess not..I`m sorry to bother you sir..have a nice day...or is it evening, you lose the image of that in space."

The man leaves and Daren turns back to his diary and begins to type after deleting the start of the sentence.

"The crew are truly affraid for their skins and hope, that I don`t make any aggressive acts because they don`t really trust me cause one mission doesn`t grant the captain the crews favour. Some think, that I am a rich fool, that got to this seat only because my father is quite wealthy man, which seems funny to me." Daren pauses and looks out of the window where star flash by the ship, then he continues. "I trully miss Serenno with all the people I know there and of course my family, but I took this duty and I`m not going to quit. This might seem ironic and foolish, but in away a man like me who is ready to die for his cause is much like the jedi, who have to let go of their families and posessions. Fortunately I can at least pay a visit there someday when I might have enough time, but the fear is still creeping in me. The fear of imperials taking over Serenno has haunted my since day one when I took up this duty. The only hope is that I can run faster than the Imperial grip can reach towards my planet, but hope is an illusion or so many have said to me and sadly I`m beginning to believe, that myself."

Daren finishes writing and marks the text day, he takes a deep breath slightly cleaning his jacket and curses once again, that those hats hadn`t arrived or been even propably made alltough he had complained about those already. He sighs straighting his hair back and leaves the quaters towards the bridge, he salutes few crew members and steps on the bridge, which was quite close to his quaters. The men salute and he salutes back, many had been partying after their first mission because some had red eyes and one even gotten a black eye from a bar fight he supposed. Daren sat to his chair knowing, that if his calculation were correct they should be arriving to the planet anytime soon and perhaps they could make a contact with someone on the surface, if there was anyone. Daren checks few latest reports from the ship, the engine`s and weaponry were all right, there were some fighting on dining hall, but the fighters were taken to the cell block to cool down a bit and few problems had appearred within the crew about the mission at hand. Many didn`t trust him and some just doubted his leadership, but they were driven by unnessecary fear and they would cool down when Daren would show, that there was nothing to be affraid of even, if there were strangers on this planet. The stars turned to normal and the ship slowed, ahead Daren could see the planet and he turns to the controllers.

"Take the ship to the planets orbit where we can look at those signals closer and perhaps intercept some, but keep aware in case this is some kind of an ambush made by some pirates."

The ship pushes itself forwards and turns slightly to the planet`s orbit, then Daren began to give orders.

"We must a have a search team or a diplomat ready to depart to the planet so prepare a shuttle ready for take off and begin scanning the planet surface for possible instalations and begin intercepting any possible messages."

Daren crosses his arms.

"Now we will have to hope, that everything will go right..."

The Frigate the moves to circle the planets orbit and everything seems quiet on the bridge, but there`s a huge bable on the lower decks now, that they had stopped to circle the orbit. Daren waits for a moment and raises his eyebrown when he looks at the crew members trying to intercept some messages.

"Well? is there something or not?" Daren asked suspicously

The crew member nodded uncertainly and pushed some buttons. "I don´t actually know...There are few signals, but they are weak at the moment and we can´t hear any of what they say..."

Daren turns to look at some other that had been scanning the planet surface.

"And has anything appeared to be on the surface?"

One of them shakes his head.

"No sir...only mountains and grassy plains, few seas seperated from each other keeping the planet quite dry, the atmosphere is suitable for us, but no sight of any installations or something like that." The man answered. "But there`s something troubling cause there is some sort of movement on the surface and it`s well...quite big."

Daren looks at the man amazed. "Big movement? What do you mean by that? some huge animals or machines?"

The man looks at the computers once more.

"I think it`s something metallic and machinery, but now it`s stopped..." Suddenly the crew man on the communicators yelled something, which passed Daren`s ears while he was looking the other way.

"What now? Do we have some of sort contact?" Daren turned and asked anciously forgetting his voice while speaking, which made Mira to try her ears, that she still heard something.

"Sir it seems that the signals are comming from, that big movement we just found, but it`s weak because it doesn`t seem to be steady for some reason like they wouldn`t have a longer range transmitters. Shall I answer?"

Daren began to sweat slightly, what if it was the new order and that was some of their walkers or something like, that and soon they would get caught for something like entering their space. They could just flee and say, that there was nothing there, but was there trully a threat? Daren calmed down realising, that he was over reacting like some of the crew members and he nodded while took a nice position in his chair. Daren looked at Mira.

"What´s your opinion on this? The crew are wetting their pants already because there is no one to cover our backs like the last time and now we have contact. Contact I wish to take, but there are few things that bother me..."

Daren looked out of the window at the planet and then turns to Mira.

"I believe we should take first contact and go slowly forwards, but carefully and don`t create any misunderstanding, then we would have a battle in our hands for those on the surface..."

Daren nods. " Know your enemy, but I hope we don`t have to go there." Daren turns to the crew members "Take contact and remember that I will speak, because I have responsibility of this ship and it`s crew."

The communicators nod and turn to do few things, then a voice speaks something, but it is nothing, that any of the people on the bridge would know. Daren looks at the men raising an eyebrown.

"What are we going to now when they don`t speak language?.."

Suddenly the voice changes and speaks in a clear voice in common language.

"Unknown vessel identify yourselves and explain why you have began to circle our planet?" A low voice says " As a warning I must tell you, that we can shoot at you from here." The voice continued and the bridge crew was dead quiet.

Daren began to smile and rised from his chair with a glance of joy in his eyes.

"This is the captain of the Dreamer speaking and we are from the Galactic Coalition, our purpose is offer protection to this planets people and I garantee you, that while close to your planet we will not open fire unless we are endangered."

The speaker goes silent for a moment and then he yells something, which brings a huge babble to the channel, which they couldn`t make anything out of. Then few comments are exhanged on the other side of the channel and someone coughs finally answering to the channel.

"Do you wish negociate about these matters down here on the planet? We at least have no intentions of comming up there and we wish to meet face to face with the creatures, that we are dealing with."

Daren takes few steps back slightly smiling to himself cause they were called cratures and whispers to Mira. "Is the shuttle ready? We also need few guards because I have no intentions of going out there alone and you wil have command while I`m gone."

Mira smiles and whispers back" The shuttle is good to go, I`ll have the blue fighter wing escort you at the surface and it will take about a minute to have the guards assembled."

Daren takes a step forwards. "But of course the coalition believes in peaceful negociations and doesn`t want any harm come to others, or at least if they don`t threaten us. I will personally arrive there in about 5 minutes, of course if you know such thing."

The low voice answers and suddenly shuts down. "Then it is settled, you can land on our only landng pad in the back parts of our crawler."

Daren was quite amazed. "A landing pad on a crawler? it must be quite bg crawler..."

Daren leaves the bridge leaving Mira in command and goes to his quaters to make himseld more representive in the meeting or meetings, if this would not be one of those easy negociations, which could end up in a miraclous agreement, both parties leaving furiously out of the room or blast each others. Daren hoped, that these would be a long negociations because he didn`t believe in miracles as some fool would, besides it was against all logic cause no puzzle piece fits for the first time unless the one who was making the puzzle knew where, which would go. He looked himself in the mirror encourging himself in a strange way, which was a greet and then he left the room to the elevator, which would take him to a quite small hangar bay because it only contained 2 fighter wings and 2 or 3 shuttles for such purposes as this. The elevator dings when it arrives to the top floor and Daren steps in while few crew members step out, they were moving some supplies to the upper deck storage and quaters. The elevator shoots down soon after Daren has pushed the floor button and soon he walks to the hangar where a fighter wing is ready to go, but the guards weren`t in or around the shuttle. Daren sits behind the 2 pilots and knocks the one in front of him to the shoulder.

"Are we ready to go?"

The pilot pushes few buttons " Yes sir, but I got informed that you weren`t going alone to the surface."

Daren grins as an answer and looks outside from the landing ramp seeing a group of 6 armed men closing at the shuttle, Daren goes to the top of the ramp and rises an eyebrown as the men approach. The highest ranking man stops to daren while the others greet him and then take their seats.

"Security team 1 reporting for duty sir." The Sergeant mumbles out.

"Now I thought, that you would be here before me? I was in my quaters for about 5 minutes cleaning up and I was told you could to that in 1 minute, any explenations sergeant?" Daren couldn`t hold his smile because the men were obviously breathing heavily.

The sergeant nods" Well you see the boys were laying low thinking, that we wouldn`t be called in and they had fallen asleep so I had to waked them up, Then someone took the elevator up and some dum took it all the way down, our quaters is in the half way so, that is also why we are late...."

Daren smiles mysterously to the sergeant " Yes..good enough...All kind of fools move in those elevators preventing others to fullfil their duty.. " Daren moved to his seat enjoying the thing, that his crew was unexprienced and that he didn`t have answer to anyone except to the higher ranked leaders, which made his presures more bigger than anyone`s else, but playing in the expense of his crew members made him slightly reliefed. He sat down and the shuttle ramp began to close as the last of the guards sat down, then the shuttle began to rise when it had it`s permission to leave. The shuttle swooped out of the hangar to space and the fighter wing soon following them, Daren took contact with them from the shuttle.

"Blue leader this is the captain, place 2 of your men to the sides of the shuttle, leave one slightly behind and over the shuttle, but you may take the lead by going lower and in front of the shuttle. Understood?"

The answer came soon as the fighters began to take positions. "This is blue leader I copy that, we are now moving to formation." Daren closed the connection and watched as the new pilots began their first mission. The formation was taken and the ships entered the atmosphere, Daren didn`t worry about the fighters cause the strangers didn`t know yet what purposes the ships were or what they could so they would freak out for no reason. The shuttle got visual the the vessel after a while of flying, Daren ordered the fighters above them as they began to close the huge vehicle, which like Daren had never seen except for the sandcrawlers of the Jawa, but this one was hole different from it`s form. Instead of wheels it had treads and it was more lower than the jawas crawler, but at least 2 times more wide and that nade it look like an moving installation, which it propbaly was and a home to this new race. The shuttle took contact and was granted the permission to land on it`s only landing pad, which was actually on the rooftop of this crawler. Daren ordered the fighters to return, but told them to keep the silver wing ready for take off in any emergency and if necessarry even the blue one once again. The fighters broke off wishing luck as the shuttle began to land and few figures began to group at the landing pad, the shuttle landed nicely and few mechanical arms gripped on the shuttle to keep it still as the crawler would move. These people had really tought of everything, the people in the shuttle didn`t yet see the one`s who were waiting them outside and Daren straightened himself going as the first one to the landing ramp as it began to open. The ramp was down and Daren steped out looking slightly amazed at the aliens before him, he could tell that the feeling was the same for them and Daren decided to make the first move as the guards followed him. Daren put out his hand for a handshake.

"Hello there, my name is Daren Telcrot the captain of the Dreamer and the representive of the Galactic Coalition..." Daren kept his hand offered and waiting for an answer.

Daren and his men were quite suprised because the out look of these aliens were propbaly not quite what they had expected, they had propably thought of seeing small jawa type creatures, but instead in front of them was pale skinned creatures. Few of them were at their level and few were only few inches lower, they wore black and brown robes, but few on the sides who were working had black tunics. The arrival` s were stared with small, yellow, but very intelligent looking eyes. The eye were in a head that reminded a leaf of a tree and it got thinner in the end, their mouths were wider than a humans, which seemed to make them more fish type race. Daren kept his hand still offered towards them and noticed that few of these robed aliens were keeping some sort of blasters and staffs at hand in case of any aggressive movements towards them. No wonder because no other race might not have met them before so they had every single reason to be causious. The one of the black robed aliens stepped forwards and others did too after it, but it said something to them as in their native language and they backed away where they stood before, but were now even more causious. Daren looked at his men with a message, which they got to follow the aliens example and the alien approached Daren. The alien grabbed Daren`s hand and shaked it, which made Daren feel uncomfortabke because this alien had a cold and hard grip in his hand. Then they released and Daren had made many conclusion of these aliens by their looks, their small strudy hands were obviously skilled in working with small things such as electronics. Suddenly he was shaken out of his thoughts when the alien began to speaks.

" I am Ya´mena one of the elders of our people and I welcome you to our crawler as you might call it, we are willing to begin some sort of relatioships, but we need a more comfortable space." Ya`mena looked at the guards "I trust that your men aren`t going to hesitate captain Telcrot?"

Daren smiled at Ya`mena and shaked his head. "I promise, that alltough they might be nervous they are not violent, but could I ask something before we begin our negociations, because I am quite ancious to know more of your people."

Ya`mena made a strange gesture with his hand to his partners who began moving towards the door inside and signaled them to follow, when they got inside they were surrounded by a guard escort. Daren looked at the guards with a angry look on his face teling them not to panic, then he walked next to the alien Ya`mena. The walls were covered with a metallic silver color and the doors were slightly inside the wall, they opened as four parts went inside the wall when someone approached them as an intention to go in.

"Is this your home?" Daren asked while looking around noticing many other of these aliens around them watching out of pure curiosity and Daren noticed, that some of the aliens were wearing some sort of dresses, but they had few differences compared to the one`s that didn`t have dresses. They had blacks spots in their skin and their heads were smaller, than the males or so Daren tought, that these were female`s.

Ya`mena answers without looking at Daren. "That complitely depends on us captain..."

Daren rises an eyebrown "What do you mean by that? I meant this vehicle cause there seem to be women and children aboard."

Ya´mena continues mysterously walking forwards with legs, that had 4 toes in the front, but one smaller than the others in the back or it could just be their heel.

"Some of us live in our farms and small villages, but mostly we live here and you must ponder why? We are wanderers captain, we roam trough this planet and always use what we need our villages are scattered all over the planet. Few of us wish to stay there, but most of us wish to travel and the one`s, that stay and farm give us supplies when we need them as we arrive to the villages. Sometimes we hunt down the animals of this planet, but only few times a month and let them mate so, that they won`t be extincted."

Daren processed this new information trough his brains as walking towards the negociation room, but soon he had to snap out of them and when he hears a door open. They walk into a room with a round table in the centre and 12 chairs around it, behind these chairs there were 6 other chairs obviously for parties, that would negociate and their leader would position in the centre. Being equal seemed to be an important feature for this race and Daren liked, that and it would make the negociations more easier. Daren sat down to one of the chairs and on the other side of the table 5 aliens positioned, one of them was Ya`mena and the others were propably elders of this race also. Daren greeted them before sitting down and had to struggle to get the chair comfortable for him, which made the elders amused and Daren was slightly embarassed while some of the guards had the same problem. At least Daren wouldn`t be joked about back at the ship, but these for these aliens the chair was designed and it was certain cause the chairs had a hole where the head was to be leaning.

Daren began speaking " I`d like to know something first before we start this, what do you call yourselves? I mean what is your race?" This question made the elders whisper to each others with their own language.

Ya`mena began to speak " In our language it would be too hard for you to spell, but just in so called common language we are called as the Meradians, because we call this planet Merad in our own language, which means the great plains. Now..is there anything else or shall you begin with telling us about this Coalition, that you spoke of?"

Daren began to smile "Most certainly your highness. As I`ve said before The Coalition is a peaceful organization and we are uphold peace, justice and freedom in the galaxy. This planet, which we know as Xal 3 is just in the edge of it cause I believe, that you haven`t been to space?"

One of the elders shaked his head. "That is not true actually, once we had few space ships and with them we travelled here until we got into a meteor field, but we didn`t have any weaponry so our ships go crushed in the end and few survivors got to this planet. Our crawlers are svagenged from the wrecks of our ships, but if we join this coalition of your we would have a chance to have new ships am I not correct? And what type of ships is your ship and is the most powerful type, that this Coalition posesses cause it seems 2 time big as our crawler."

Daren nodded. "Yes you are and your people can volunteer to our fleet, if they wish and travel in space. My ship is a longsword frigate Dreamer and it is quite small compared to the battleship, so it`s safe to say, that this is almost the tip of the mountain...." One of the other elders interrupted him.

"Many of our people are fond of this planet and our way of life so very few of us are going to leave this planet ever, but now you can go on about the coalition and what does the Coalition protect the galaxy from with ships of such power?"

Daren fell silent, because this was an fact, that these aliens wouldn`t propably like and Daren raised his finger "may I"? Daren then points at the holocron reader at the centre of the table and all the elders nodded, so Daren put a holocron in the centre, which opened showing the hole galaxy. Daren highlighted few areas with different colors and the pointed at them.

One of the elders got impatient" What is the meaning of this?"

Daren looked back and began to move his finger at the areas as he spoke.

"This here is know as The New Order it is remains of a empire, that once ruled the hole galaxy and there is nothing funny about that cause you won`t find true freedom or justice from there. Next stop is the Black Dragon Empire, which name tells you a lot, it conquers planets and makes people to live their way."

Daren takes the holocron away.

"The Coalition is offering you protection and as long as there is no war the others will not dare to attack cause they won`t start a war only because of one planet. As you are a part of us you can still have your own religion and leaders, but in return for protection and goods we would like to use this planets rescourses, if possible and give a nice part for you. We also might make a stabase to your orbit to protect you and bring colonists to this planet. There will be no cheating or violence. So what we propose is living together so, that both sides benefit and that the stronger protects the weaker."

The elders fell quiet and began to talk in their native language, Ya`mena looked at Daren and said something to the guards, then he turned back to Daren.

"Captain the elders are considering the proposition and it might take a while, so the guards will take you to an empty quaters to rest. We will come to you when the decision is done and perhaps we have to change it slightly, but now you must be tired so you can rest and eat."

Daren gets up and bows to the elders, he tells the others to follow him as the guards escort them to a room where there`s few beds and coaches, but the thing that got his people attention was the food. There was some meat and fruits, the others sat in a nice table where they ate while daren took an excotic looking fruit and sat on one of the beds unpleased by his own act and praying, that the elders would accept. Daren ate the fruit and then began to rest, he was thinking his speech over and over only to realise how ironic his life would be in the future. He would save other planets while his own was under the same threat , but all the way on the other side of the galaxy soon to be conquered by the new order. When one is saved the other must suffer, that was how life was and there would always be loser in this galaxy, but Daren only wished that they wouldn`t be him or his homeplanet. Daren fell asleep in his thoughts and was only to be awakened by the sergeant, he looked at the sergeant with tired eyes and began to sit on the bed.

"Sir, they are waiting outside to see you and they have decided about joining they say."

The sergeant informed trying to maintain a positive attitude and Daren got up. Daren looked at the door buttons and opened the door wondring why was locked in the first place, then he looked at the guards furiously, but had to calm down when the Meradians walked in and formed a row in front of Daren. Ya`mena had a serious look on his face and Daren greeted them, then Ya`mena stepped forwards to tell their decision.

"We are most happy to tell you, that we have just agreed that we will join, but there are few things, that need to be changed and I wish you to take these things to your superiors. We wish to have word from the coalition soon so, that relationships can begin and we wish you luck captain Telcrot. Now we you can leave the planet to your ship and our crawler is currently stopped to make your departure easier."

Daren was thrilled from joy and bowed deep at the elders, then he took a holocron from Ya`mena and smiled at them.

"I won`t let you down and I am most happy, that we have agreed...now goodbye until the next time we meet.." Daren bowed once again and told the guards to follow him, they walked quietly to the shuttle where the pilot had gotten impatient and it was sure, that he had gotten bored. They aboarded the shuttle while some Meradians watched the shuttle lift up in the air and shoot up in the sky towards the ship, that waited eagerly their return....