The captain wasn't the most diplomatic sort - that's why he moved ambassadors, instead of being one. He read both the incoming transmissions from the Wookies and the Trandoshans, and weighed it all up in his mind.

"Well... it looks like there aren't any open hostilities between the two yet. That's good. Maybe things are back on track?"

"I wouldn't bank on that, sir." said an aide "They both say they'll return the ambassadors, but neither seems to want to reestablish the meeting. I think they're spooked."

"Yeah... and it still doesn't explain the third party..."

It was then that he witnessed the rogue ship's attack.

"What the hell was that?!"

"Sir! It appears one of the unknown ships turned on its' commander and disabled it! We've got a comm from the command ship of the unknowns, but the shot cut out its' communications - the message is badly garbled."

"Give me what we got, then." He took the message in hand, which read for them somewhat like this:

This is Fleet Admiral Arch- ... -divus 2nd Emergency Collasps Squadron. Coalition For- ... -e, and we will stand down. This doesn't need to end in a full scale battle wh- ... -destroy both worlds, we both have the ships, we both have the weapons, and I'm sure the two go-... -ddle of their system.

"Well, that's as clear as mud. Sounds unaggressive, though, but I don't like the sound of that 'destroy both worlds' bit." He rubbed his chin "No, I don't like this situation at all. What's the status on their rogue ships?"

"They're open targets, sir. We've recieved confirmation data from the unknowns to bring them down. Should I give the order to engage?"

"What? No! We don't know anything about this situation - in fact, I don't want anyone doing any firing. Here, give me that comm. Give me an open frequency, mark it as high priority. We're the galactic superpower here, right? They can't have us just shooting people we hardly know."

"What, it's rude to shoot a stranger?" said the aide with a smirk, as he passed the comm.

"No need for familiarity, I just think names are a good place to start with your enemies." replied the captain, who took the comm in hand. "All right, all armed vessels in the area, this is the captain of the Coalition Advance expedition. We repeat, stand down and be identified - all vessels, including the identified 'rogue' vessels. Any further aggressive actions by any party towards any other party will not be tolerated until we figure out who's who." He put the comm down, and frowned.

"Not exactly diplomatic, but we've wasted enough time. Whoever fires next, we target."

"Er... sir, isn't that a little trigger happy?"

"Do you appreciate the situation fully, lieutenant? An unidentified fleet has broken up a peace conference of two heavily armed nations and is now fighting itself and trying to get us involved. I think we can afford to lay down a little law and order, don't you?" He cursed quietly "This is ambassador work, where the hell are those two anyways?"

"You didn't actually ask for them back, sir."

"Aw hell, they can stay there - fat lot of good they'd do."

At this moment, in fact, the ambassadors were accomplishing very little good - unless you counted differing styles of righteous indignation as good.

Jargur's first response to hearing the comm was irritation "What, and we're not worth a mention?" but as he realized what the captain was planning he quickly stumbled to Tiosk, trying to look diplomatic and said "Your honour - er, your majesty - er, sir, or... um - hey listen! That captain's a nutjob. He does not speak for us - the Coalition I mean! I need to get on the comm right now, or he really will shoot the first one he percieves as a threat!"

Oaxaca, however, was more confused "Why is that Serendivus ship attacking his commander? Shouldn't we help them? If that ship crippled his commander with one shot, we should do something!"

Tzhali snarled at Oaxaca's interruption, which caused most of his officers to not turn toward him, he wasn't the type of liked being told what to do. "Gunnery, target that rogue.. we have our orders from the Seren's, who've gladdly laid them in as an open target"

"I'd love to sir.. but it seems THEY will be the one's firing FIRST." Tactical responded

One of the rogue ships came about and opened fire on Tzhali's ship, the laser splashed harmlessly against there shields, although some did manage to get through but not enough to cause any real damage, although it did ruin there new paint job. "Sir... our paint..."

With that the flagship turned itself so it's broadship turbo laser turrets faced the rogue, he wanted to use there 'prototypes' but he had orders from the Seren's not to use those weapons unless it was absolutely nessecery. In the blink of an eye the space between the single rogue destroyer and his massive flagship was filled with turbo laser fire that cut the rogue ship to ribbons, floating debris and what remained move in opposite directions

The last rogue obviously wasn't going to stand for this, and turned his guns on the command ship, which was still trying to get it's shields back online. The rogue ship opened fire - and missed.

Something was out there in space, something moved in the blackness, something shimmering in the darkness, whatever it was it moved through space uninterrupted, before appearing only mear km's from the rogue ship, the unseen ships fired off several torpedo's, old weapons used back in the old days but modified for space usage, which bypassed the shields and smashed against the hull, ripping it to shreads and causing the destroyer's engine section to come to life and move off toward Trandosha, the other half floated aimlessly in space. The unseen ships then vanished once more into the darkness, heading back toward there carrier

"I guess our stealth bombers did a good job." The carriers captain said with folded arms. "We need to tweak there power supply a little more, they where still giving off a high power reading."

"I'm on to it.... sir... we have a narrow beam transmission from the command ship... they want use to release a broad communications band to all ships in the system." The officer said

The captain looked at the transmission. "They want us to send a holo transmission, file Diplomate Crisis 4"

The communications officer nodded and started sending the Transmission

On Tzhali's ship the small holo bank that was given to him by the Seren's. On it a young woman wearing the clothign of a Grand Admiral, and the bars to prove it, appeared. He reconized her instantly. "Lavality...." he said

~People the Kashyyyk System, You already know me as someone who has given a lot to help you, this recording was made in the event I'm not availible for diplomatic relations. This recording is aimed more toward the Coalition... however if your the TNO... get the hell out of here ... ~ The image flared once then cooled and the girl turned toward what she assumed would be where the commander or captains sat. ~My names Lavality Serendivus, the daughter of Fikan Serendivus who founded this Orangization, we are a peace keeping group that doesn't like getting involved in major conflicts, however the conflict involving the Trandoshan's and Wookies was unavoidable.~ the young girls image stayed still, although if you had looked close enough you would see her taking in a breath. ~We are in no way an aggreesive force that is mean't on galactic domination.. unlike a certain group I can tell you about~ the girls eye's glanced to the left harshly before returning to where the captain's seat should be.~The reason our group is active in the Kashyyyk system is by request from the Kashyyyk government and the Trandoshan people, if neither wanted our help we wouldn't be here. But we have an obligation to assist them in repairs and rebuilding of there fleets, once thats finished we will be leaving, unless of course both governments don't want us to leave, in that event we will stay~

The image flared again, this time a tad bit of statis appeared before resetting to a different comm. channal, apperently the carrier was also having issue's sending the transmission.~I want to assure the Coalition, if that IS who I'm speaking to, then you have nothing to worry about from our organization, for we mean you no harm. If you wish to hear more please speak to my aide, Angella Cresnoya , you will find her aboard the Command Ship that belongs to the 2nd Emergency Collasps Squardron. The 2nd ECS is only sent into systems in the event a major conflict breaks out, if they are indeed present in this system then that means someone pushed the panic button and called for them, no doubt some inexperienced offficer~

Deep inside the asteroid field, that 'inexperienced officer' growled. "WHO IS SHE CALLIGN EXPERIENCD!!!!" the captain yelled as one of his officer restrained him. "When I get my hand on that child I swear!!!!"

~If you need further proof that we mean you no harm, please talk to Admiral Tzhali, or Speak-above-all Naosha, both have earned my eternal respect and curtisy, and both can be trusted~ with that image faded

Tiosk was all rearing to relieve some stress when the go ahead came from the Sev flagship to destroy the two rogues, but when the Coalition threatened action against the first ships to take aggressive action he sank back into his seat, sulking. At least until Jargur stumbled into him, babbling a bit about talking to that commander.

"First off, you refer to me as Admiral Tiosk." Tiosk said, coming across a bit more harsh then he intended. "Second, calm down. That Captain obviously has no experience in diplomatic situations and was unnerved by the sudden appearance of a third Fleet."

"I heard rumors that the Coalition is at war with another large group." Naosha added. "So any tension on the Coalition's end is to be expected. War can make people react oddly to certain situations."

Tiosk nodded in agreement. "What should we do Speaker?" He asked.

Naosha sighed. "I think we should try to explain what happened. I know Tzhali will back us up with what he knows. It will be up to Sev's themselves though to confirm their position."

"I'll have a comm line opened for you." Before he could give the order however, one of the rogue ships started firing upon Tzhali’s ship, but failed to damage it. The rogue ship was promptly destroyed by Tzhali’s ship and shortly after the second rogue ship, which had started to fire upon the Serendivus Flag ship again, was destroyed as well by what had to have been Sev stealth fighters.

“Kazuk Tzhali…you could have left me one to play with.” Tiosk grumbled.

“Sir, there’s a general broadcast coming from Admiral Tzhali’s ship.”

“Well patch it in. I bet ya it’s the Sev’s ‘mission statement’.”

He was right. It was a recording of Lavality herself detailing the Serendivus’ mission and purpose in the system. Naosha nodded approvingly and requested a comm. line be opened for her to speak.

"This is Speaker-Above-All Naosha, representative of Trandosha and her people." Naosha said. "I confirm Admiral Lavality’s claims in regard to their purpose here in the system. If it wasn’t for her organization, Wookiees and T’Doshok would still be fighting each other. They came to us in our time of need to learn the reason for the sudden increase of fighting and to discover the reason behind the sudden attack on one of their relief convoys by our fleet, an attack my predecessor, Hyossk, ordered for fear there were rebels within it. It was that senseless loss of life that connected the Serendivus with the Separatist Movement, along with a number of Wookiee supporters. Despite assassination attempts, pirate attacks and betrayals we succeeded in bringing peace to this system, though all three sides have suffered great losses in the process. Unfortunately, as you just witnessed all three sides have factions that want nothing more then for the peace to end.

“I would like to take this opportunity to say that I would like the talks to continue, now that some things have been…cleared up. One last thing...I think your T'Doshok Ambassador wishes to say something." She smiled at Jargur and took a step back.

T'Dosk? He was a T'dosk? Jargur was almost sure that his race was called Trandoshans - at least, he'd always been told they were Trandoshans. Wait, now he remembered. That was good, right? 'One of us' sort of thing? With a little more confidence, Jargur took the comm politely, and said with a firm tone of voice...

"Captain? I know you can hear me, and let me say if you start shooting I will be very upset with you. And probably dead. More importantly, however, the Prime Minister will be very disappointed, and you remember what happened last time. These are good people, that's the whole reason we're here, captain, in case you forgot."

The captain was shifting embarrased from foot to foot. "Well... it looks like everything's in order then - although why the hell a girl is a grand admiral, I don't know. There's wookies in space, Trandoshans in suits, and some new guys who had something to do with pirates and convoys and a predecessor guy Hyossk. All in all, this is way beyond my job description." he sighed "And my rank. Stand down, everyone. This was just a misunderstanding."

The Coalition fleet did so, cooling their weapons and standing down from battle alert. The captain took a minute to recollect himself, before saying "I'm... sorry for the earlier confusion then. We'll redeploy the meeting ship, and let you all get on with it then, eh?"

Relieved that it was no longer his responsibility, the captain stood back, and let diplomacy continue on its' course. After all, Jargur wasn't much, but the captain still remembered the last time the Prime Minister had been 'disappointed' with him - he'd once been a vice admiral, after all.

Jargur was relieved, and said so "Well I'm glad he's seen reason! And I'm so very sorry for the confusion - my lady, and honourable sirs." He took the time to bow to Naosha, Tiosk, and those crew around.

"If we can get the meeting back underway soon, then perhaps we can resolve all this before there are any further interruptions, although I should think your friends are invited too." he gestured towards the Serendivus fleet "If they are such a presence in this region, they should surely have a seat at the table, no?"

Oaxaca was also relieved to see resolution to the conflict, but his natural curiosity still got the best of him, and he too asked "If the Serendivus are so strong, should they not be welcome to the meeting? If it pleases you, I am sure we would be welcome to their attendance." Attendance was a tricky word in the Wookie language, he managed with something that roughly meant 'going on the hunt with us'. "And, if I may ask, why is their fleet lead by a... girl? A human girl as Grand Admiral? It seems strange..."

Tzhali got up and gave a few orders to his officers, mostly to prep there shuttle. "Lavality is the daughter of Fikan Serendivus, she's the youngest officer in the fleet and has the knowledge of an experienced commander." He gestured for the ambassador to follow him. "She's only twelve years old, in human terms that is, but she's very smart for her age, but does suffer from immaturity from time to time, like all kids."

The shuttle was prepped and ready to go. "She's also a ruling voice in that organization, but right now she is away." He said as the two went up the ramp. "I'm sure you'll meet her soon enough provided the meetings go well, and I already piped the message over to the Seren's flagship. Oh! one more thing, don't tell the other ambassadors, I plan on letting Lavality's aide doing the talking and seeing there reactions." A grin formed on Tzhali's face, he was going to enjoy the look of shock on there face, and he was certain that Naosha would as well, after all, the two of them where shocked when they found out such a child was an admiral of such of a group, although he also knew that her influence had weakened slightly over the past few years, she was still a figure head in the Serendivus, and a role model for many of many children and cadets AND officers in-training... no doubt she would make an apperence to the Coalition provided everything went as planned. But.. he wondered.. would she give anyway any secrets related to there starship design, after all, he had heard some rumors that the Seren's had a cloaked shipyard in system that was currently creating a new type of frigate, and not the one he had heard about a day ago

Their shuttle lifted off the deck and soon made it's way to the meeting ship

On the Seren's Flagship

Angella Cresnoya walked down the hallway leading to the shuttle bay, every male crewmen turned head's at her. "Damn.. she's beautiful" one said before getting hit upside the head. "She's a coronel you dumb ass! You never say that to an officer!"

"Yea.. but look at her boo-" The same crewmen said before being drop-kicked by the same female crewmen, who then walked away. "Men.........."

Angella walked through the double doors and onto the hanger bay floor, where lambda shuttle was waiting for her. "Is she stripped?"

"She's the speed model, she had no weapons, minimal shields, she's faster than your typical shuttle, and highly more agile, so if it come's to it you should be able to out-run any attackers." The crew chief said

Angella nodded and got aboard, the ramps closed and the shuttle exited through the ships aft hanger bay. They where about ready to come about when the proximity alerm came to life. "Where?!" she yelled as a sudden turbulance slammed into there shuttle, a ship appeared just above Tiosk's ship, she glared at it in shock. "What the hell is that LRDHAS prototype doing out here!!!" She yelled as she recalled the spec's. "Long Range Direct Hyper Assault Ship." she said and stared at the ship, the ship scrapped against Tiosk's ship before moving upward, it was then that the Rogue ship opened fire on Tiosk's ship

Tiosk had just ordered his crew to prep the hanger bay for the Ambassadors when something hit his ship.

"What the skrag hit us!?" He demanded.

"Another ship with the Sev signeture sir." The sensor officer said. "It literally dropped out of hyperspace right on top of us."

"Well tell them to watch where they are going...I just had this girl painted..."

"Sir! She's powering up her weapons!" A couple seconds later he cried. "We have incoming missiles!"

Tiosk's eye twitched and Silliss knew immediately what that meant. "Grab onto something that's bolted down Jargur." He said as he, Varcanna and Naosha did just that. "He's going to pull one of his stunts..."

"Fire Turbolasers to pick off as many of those things off as possible and go to full throttle!" Tiosk commanded. "Tell the RedClaw and FangGore they are only to engage any fighters or missles from that thing."

The Bloodfang shot like a rocket out of it's formation with it's two wing ships, turbolasers firing away, blown up a few of the missles. The RedClaw and FangGore opened up with their own turbolasers and effectively destroyed the rest of the missles with their laser fire.

"Is it pursuing?" Tiosk asked.

"It is...I think. Seems slower then the Victory SD." The sensor officer said.

"Very well then...lets do the Kakito Manevuer."

"Sir...we never actually tried a fighter move with this ship before..." Konik warned.

"First time for every thing. Let's use the main gun."

Konik looked at the readings on the attacking ships size. "Wouldn't that be overkill sir?" He asked. "Its almost only half our size."

"Just do it. Bastards deserve it anyway."

The Bloodfang hadn't deviated from it's straightforward coarse until this point. Like a graceful otter it started going into an over ahead loop. It traveled upside down (from everyone elses perspective anyway) at full speed for a moment before angling itself 'down'. By now the RedClaw and FangGore had started moving away from the target ship, their respective Captains knowing Tiosk's habit of pulling risky stunts in battle.

The Rogue ship started to angle upward to meet the Bloodfang with more missles and only a brief flash from the tip of the Bloodfangs nose gave it any indecation that it was in trouble. The Rynok's super laser was stopped barely only a second by the Rogue ships shields before they failed and the laser happily cut the ship into two. While the Bloodfang pulled out of it's upside down 'dive' the two halves of the Rogue ship drifted apart for a moment before both sides were engulfed by the exploding reactor core. The Bloodfang settled right between it's two wing ships once again, albeit upside down.

"Ahh...I feel better now..." Tiosk said with a broad smile, putting his feet up on the console in front of him and folding his hands behind his head.

"Sir, you do know that..." Konik started but Tiosk cut him off.

"Yeah I know. No hyperdrive for an hour. Really Konik, you know I know that. Besides, it's not 'that' long of a drive back to Trandosha." He flashed his second-in-command a goofy smile. Konik just chuckled and shook his head. "Where were we before we were so rudely interrupted? Oh yes, get that hanger bay prepped for the Ambassador's departure."

"If you ever heard of my father before now..." Silliss said to Jargur as they walked back to the hanger. "You now know why some consider him a tad loopy."

"But that's what we all love about him." Naosha added with a smile.

Meanwhile, in some shuttle

"SHOW OFF!!!!" Tzhali roared as he slammed the console, which caused there shuttle to do an inverted loop, throwing both him and his fellow officer on the ground. "ow..." before the shuttle continued to the meeting ship

On the Sev's diplomatic shuttle

Angella sighed. "Lavality's not going to like this...."

"Not going to like what ma'am?" The pilot asked

"That ship was of her design and she personally wanted to test it..." The coronel shook her head. "At least that crazy trandoshan disabl-" she said before noticing both sections blossuming. "YOU CRAZY TRANDOSHAN!!!!"

The captain stood in the center of the meeting room, personally ensuring everything was back to the way it had been before. If this ever got on his record... well... it wouldn't look too good. Even now, he got continued reports of fighting going on in the space around them, although no one seemed much interested in them and their hosts seemed to have it all in hand. Some of the maneauvers had been quite spectacular.

Still... even if the situation had stabalized, it made him wonder. This place was a powderkeg that made running the gamut between Teth and Mon Calamari look like a stroll on the hills of Leritor. Just who were the Serendivus really, and what was their stake in all this? Who was this girl-admiral? Just what was keeping the Trandoshans and the Wookies from each others' throats? As a human, perhaps the captain just had a twisted perspective on racial enemies - humans could hold a grudge forever, based on nothing else besides the previous existance of a grudge. If two races, each known for their violent nature, opposing ideologies, and just plain hatred of each other, could come together at all...

Well, it just sounded a little too good to be true, even if he wasn't some fancy diplomat.

As for the fancy diplomats, Jargur was still mulling issues, and had to ask as they departed "Um... those 'rogue' ships just then... just what were they planning to accomplish? They flew into certain death - facing vastly outnumbering ships. Did they even harm a loyal Trandoshan, Wookie, Serendivus, or Coalition vessel? Or kill a single soldier? What is it that drives these people? Who are funding them? And just why are they attacking like this? If the Coalition is to lend aide, we'll need to know just what's going on in full, not just the version you give to visitors - and it'll have to include a lot more on the Serendivus, and their child-admiral."

As for Oaxaca, he was busy rethinking his racial identity. He'd always been proud of being a Wookie, even if he wasn't really sure what that involved, per se, and found most of the actual customs to be quite uncomfortable. Right now, however, seeing the larger, fiercer Wookies that were his 'kin', he started to feel he had lost touch a little with what was part of his heritage. So far, he'd been treated with some disrespect, but then perhaps in part he had earned it? Just what had he done to earn their respect?

Invigorated by this thought, he stood much prouder and spoke with much more resolve, when he said "Admiral Tzhali! As a guest to your custody, I have had many questions, but few answers! Once we arrive, it will be time to find out and hear aloud just what really is going on around here! Ships appear or turn rogue in an instant, fighting to their certain death! Space is filled with debrise and destruction! Some strange force commands both respect and almost" he added extra spittle for the next word "obedience from both the Wookies and the Trandoshans! Our desire to help is sincere, Admiral, but it is useless if you are not more forthright with us! Tell me, tell us, what is going on around here?"

Tzhali stood there looking out the shuttle's transparisteel window. "This 'strange force' is what stopped us from blowing each other up." Tzhali said in a rather stern voice, he was getting quite tired of people treating the Seren's like some Imperial Order. "If they hadn't of intervened and helped out the Seperatist Movement, odd's are Kashyyyk wouldn't even be on the galactic map anymore!" He turned and stared the ambassador straight in the eye. "They command no respect or obedience from ANY of us, we CHOSE to give it to them for all their help. They provided food, medical supplys, they even went as far as providing SHIPS to help make communications and travel eaiser for the two governments..." Tzahli snarled and turned back around.

The Lambda shuttle came around the side of the meeting ship and into the the hanger bay, around that time the Seren VIP ship also docked and the young lady disembarked. Almost immediantly several hanger crew men stared in her direction, noticing what she was wearing, her glare in their direction caused them to get back to work. A Coalition Staff officer escorted her to the meeting room, another escorted Tzhali to the same room

Naosha sighed as she mulled over how to answer Jargur’s inquiries. “Some fight because the see profit in continuous war. Others because that’s all they know. And yet others simply can’t let go of a grudge.” Naosha said as they sat down in the passenger section of the Hunter’s Way. “Unfortunately all three of those no doubt apply to all three ‘factions’ here when it comes to those rogue ships. To be honest, I know very little about the Serendivus beyond what they willingly told everyone and that they have quite a few enemies. Pirates…Bounty Hunters…many of the criminal elements would like to see them wiped off the face of the galaxy.”

“And since we are allies with them.” Silliss added. “We’ve gone on their foes ‘hate’ list as well.”

“They have focused most of their attacks on the Serendivus themselves so far and apparently the weakening of the Fleet due to the Battle of Trandosha has enabled more infiltration into their ranks. What the motives are of those individuals could be anything, including the likely hood that some aren’t keen on having a 12-year-old in charge. As for why they attack knowing they will likely fail to kill anyone, it’s likely their goal is to disrupt the talks however they can to prevent any of the three factions from joining your government.”

Naosha fell silent for a moment, watching through a window as the shuttle launched from the Bloodfang. She knew the Serens had problems with traitors in the past, but occurrences of traitors seems to have increased ten-fold since the Battle of Trandosha, after which was when Lavality took over for her father, Fikan. “I’m afraid I told you all I could about the situation with the rogue ships Jargur.” She said finally, turning her attention back to him. “If the Serendivus send a representative to the meeting they’ll be better able to provide information on their own situation. My purpose is to make clear our own people’s position and situation. I know for certain that there will be a number of T’Doshok that will refuse to even to even consider joining the Coalition and it will be very difficult to convince them other wise.”

“The worse case scenario would be if we can’t convince them they may just decide to secede from the T’Doshok government completely and start up elsewhere.” Silliss put in gravely.

Naosha looked at the young warrior with a frown of worry on her face. She hadn’t even considered that their opponents would hate the idea of joining the Coalition so much that they would remove themselves from Trandosha completely: and she had considered the same option when she started the Separatist Movement! It would indeed be a bad thing if a number of their people just left to form their own government to continue the old ways and no doubt do anything they could to be a constant thorn in her side. Could it be possible that a second revolution could start? One that would undo everything they accomplished?

Scorekeeper help us… She thought as the Hunter’s Way touched down in the hanger of the Coalition ship.

“Councilor Naosha…” She heard Silliss say as they disembarked from the shuttle. “Since we know they have a Protocol Droid could it be possible if…”

“You stay with the shuttle this time?” Naosha finished for him with narrowed eyes. At his eager nod she simply sighed, not feeling like arguing this time. “Alright…but no making a mess in there you hear?”

The young male’s cheeks flushed red. “Of course not madam…we’re…not ready for ‘that’ yet….”

“Uh huh….” Naosha just shook her head and followed the escort to the meeting room.