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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 8/20/01 3:31pm Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	Up ! -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 8/25/01 1:11pm Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	The Colliding of Empires - Part V They met in one of the wardrooms. Wardroom was perhaps the wrong word, since the philosophy of the Solar Fleet demanded as little barriers between officers and crewers of its ships. A logical consequence in an age of space-travel, where even the most ordinary crew-members had to be specialists in at least three different fields. There was no longer a gap between brains, the officers, and brawns, the crew. Besides that it was good for the moral aboard. But since this room was one of the smaller messhalls and occupied by nearly the entire leadership of the expedition, the term wardroom was fitting. Rhodan sat at the top of the desk. Along the left side were Atlan, Tolot, Gucky and Arno Kalup. On the right side Ther Khein, John Marshall, Dr. Alfons Keller from sick-bay and Dr. Vandrash Margatbuttragh from the astrometric section of the "Dantes Inferno" were seated. On the opposite end of the desk sat Takor Kasom. Before the titanic ertruser a huge bowl of salad was positioned, next to a literglas with fruitjuice. In his hands the enviroment-adapted man was holding a huge piece of meat of what he took a huge bite every few seconds. "I think we can start now", stated Rhodan, looking at Kasom. "Mr. Kasom, am i wrong or is this the half of an ox you are holding in your hands." "You are right, this is the backhalf of an ox, Sir. Excellent beef.", answered Kasom. Gucky looked desperatly at the ceiling. "Heavens help us. This guy is worse than his father. The old Melbar Kasom was satisfied with the barbequed quater of such an animal." "My apologize. But i got hurt on my last mission and lost some weight in sickbay and i have still to get back in shape. Back home an ertruser of my size with less than eighthundred kilograms bodyweight is a case for the medics." "I understand", finished Rhodan the discussion. The ertrusers abilities to eat and their need for food had become legendary in the Milkyway-Galaxy. It was the downside of the medal to belong to the strongest and biggest people of human origin. Only oxtorner were stronger than the giants from a world with a gravity of 3,4 g, but those people needed more special nutrients. And exactly this was the reason, that, despite their great fighting abilities, their incredible strenght and incredible fast reflexes outside the ertrusian system defence forces not a single crew of a ship, not in the Solar Fleet and not in Atlans USO, consisted only of humans from ertrus. Such a ship would have needed a fleet of support-freighters. "As you all know we are here to discuss the recent events. We have made contact with a represant of the main power in this galaxy. A power that calls itself the "Galactic Empire". According to Lord Darth Vaders words it contains several million worlds under its rule. Thats a damned big political unit we have to deal with. First of all, does anybody think that they might become a danger to us ?", started Rhodan the discussion. "I don´t think so", started Atlan. "If its true what Vader told us, this Empire exists for perhaps thirty years and is the successor of some kind of Republic that has ruled this galaxy for millenias. From that we can make some conclusions. First of all there might have been local conflicts, but no major wars for centuries thanks to a lack of opponents, since this republic increased until it collapsed under its own weight." "Why do you believe, that there were no major opponents ?", asked Keller. "Simple. A war is a problem at best, but normally ends as a total disaster for both sides. But it causes beings to work together, who wouldn´t acknowledge the existence of each other in peacetimes. War forces governments to mobilize all reserves and it creates an atmosphere of", Atlan hesitated for a moment, "well, of live, of aggression, of awakeness. All efforts are put against the outside enemy. Believe me it was this way in the war of the Arkon Empire against the Maahks." Everybody shuddered at the mention of this conflict tenthousand years ago. The humans on earth had still lived in caves when Atlans generation of Arkonides had fought against the hydrogenbreathers. It had been the longest and bloodiest war in the twentythousand year long history of the Arkonides and it had nearly been the doom of this people. But the Maahks had lost, after the Arkonides started to employ huge fleets of robot- or droidships and even then it had been a long struggle. But finally the Maahks had been defeated. Some lucky ones escaped to the Andromeda-Galaxy, where they formed the core of a new population and became vasalls to the "Master of the Island", the tyrannical rulers of the entire Andromeda-Galaxy. Those who were unfortunate to stay behind were whipped out by the winning Arkonides. Tenthousand years later, the terrans had met with them. After a number of massive struggles Terrans and Maahks, who rebelled to win their freedom back, joinded their forces to defeat the Masters of Andromeda and they succeded. That had been now more than threehundred years ago and since then humans and hydrogenbreathers were not necessarily close allies, but friendly neighbours in two different galaxies. "But according to Lord Vader there was no crisis, the Republic was simply no longer able to govern all of its worlds, that were that tired of each other and turned against each other, until this emperor took over.", finished Atlan. "Compare it with the Roman Empire after they defeated Kathargo. With no outside enemy, the started to fight each other in a series of civil wars, until Cesar took over as dictator, followed by Augustus, who managed to restore peace and order." "Yes, but although Augustus reign was described as start of a golden age, even his hands were soaked with blood. Now imagine that on a galactic scale. No wonder they have to fight a rebellion", added Keller. "Possible", agreed Atlan. "Actually this was my second point why they are no danger, at least not now. What i wanted to express was the following. Since their galaxy was and is ruled by a single government for millenia, since they are a very old galactic civilisation, their entire technological base is the same and has been the same for centuries. And with no big conflict there was no driving factor for major technological progresses, especially in weapons technology. We have seen their shields, simple four-dimensiol shields against energy and kinetic objects, as well as their weapons, laser- and plasmabased. If there has been a change, it started only thirty years ago. Compare this with the history of our peoples, especially the terran history of the last fourhundred years of one major conflict after the other: Transformcannons, Convertercannons, Intervaller, FPF-Cannons, Contrafield-Cannons, HighEnergyOverload-Shields, the Hyperimestron, Paratron, ... " "All right, all right", we understood", interrupted Rhodan his friend. His thougths had been the same, but he hated it to make long speeches. Now he continued. "As Atlan and Dr. Keller have already said, the second point is that they have to fight a rebellion. No sane mind weakens its position at home to conquer another galaxy, while its position isn´t solodified. And as Vader explained himself, the empire has great difficulties to project its power that far away from its centres." "Maybe", explained Ther Khein. "But even with those difficulties, an entire galaxy is a very huge territory. And with the industrial base we think they have, their fleet might number in the millions of ships, even if they only started thirty years ago. And the SolarEmpire is no rebellion on the run and a war would be no guerilla-war. Not with the worlds we have to protect." "The commander is right", stated Takor Kasom. "But you all have missed one point. They would have to travel 244 million lightyears to reach our galaxy. Unless they have a intergalactic drive-system or get their hands on ours, we have nothing to fear." "What will be the reason for constant guard around them", finished Rhodan. "In the best case our concerns are for nothing and we make an new ally. In the worst, well, we have fought against superior forces before and won. We just have to make sure things develop in our interest." This point cleared Rhodan changed the topic. "Next point. What was your impression of our visitor ? After all somebody like Lord Vader isn´t your average host." "He scarred me a lot", stated Gucky. "While his thoughts mirrored his words his feelings and emotions are a mess. There is a cold layer of determination and will-power to achieve every set goal, but this layer is frighteningly thin. Under it is an entire volcano of hate, anger and wrath, but for now those emotions lack focus." "In every case he has psionic powers", added John Marshall. "I can´t explain it, but he is no mutant and i don´t believe Lord Vader belongs to a race of humans, where those abilities are genetically commanplace. It has to be something else." "Wait a moment. You said powers. You think Vader can do more than read minds ?", asked Kalup. "Yes, i do. Don´t ask me why, its just an impression, but i think yes, Lord Vader can do more.", confirmed the leader of the Mutant-Corps. "In that case lets hope he is no second Iwan-Iwanowitsch-Goratschin", whispered Gucky loud enough for everybody to hear. "Why not", asked Atlan. "After all Goratschin is one of the best friends of most people at this table." The entire group errupted in laughter. He became serious again. "Dr. Keller, what can you say about the mans physical condition ?" Dr. Keller shifted nervous in his seat. "Well, its a miracle that the man is still alive. Actually i can´t think of an accident that could have caused such injuries and let the victim survive." The medic took a carefull look at his notes. "One massive fracture at the skull, the third vertebra of the neck clashed, ... " "Excuse me", interrupted Ther Khein, "what do you mean with "third vertebra clashed" ?" "The vertebra are the bones that form the neck and the spine of the human skeleton. Damage to one of them means paralysation to every muscle and organ under the damaged vertebra." "You mean ..." "Yes, without his suit, what seems to be a full live-support-system, Darth Vader would be a total cripple." Rhodan closed his eyes at this idea. Nobody derserved such a fate. "Poor devil", he muttered. His former impression had been correct. If somebody despite such handicaps had managed to reach the top in a society like an galactic empire he had to have extraordinary abilities. "Please continue, Dr. Keller." "Heartbeat and lungs are supported by artificial means, the molten flesh in his left arm and his legs indicates exposition to a source of great heat, there are some objects that seem to be muscalar enhancers, the right arm is totally artificial. If you ask me, this man dropped from a great hight, broke his skull and neck and fell after that into a pit of already cooling lava or metal. The kind of poisenous gases he would have inhaled in such an enviroment would have turned into acids as soon as they would have made contact with the water in his lungs, destroying the aureoles of the lung. No normal human would have survived this. Lord Vader is a dead man walking." "Well, that confirmes our suspiciouns about special abilities", stated Atlan. "I wonder what consequences this has for his psychological profile." "Its to soon for the psychological section to come up with a complete profile", stated Keller. "In any case its interesting to view how Lord Vaders outside appearance disguises his physical limitations", said Icho Tolot, who had remained silent until now. "I met a young ensign on the way to this room, who told me that the sight of Vader scared him a bit, when he returned to his shuttle." "Better be feared than pittied", muttered Atlan. "Anyway lets discuss how to help with this evacuation." -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 9/2/01 4:24am Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	Unfortunatly i managed only to write updates for my two other stories "Union of the Empires greatest Warriors" and "The Tale of Darth Vaders son", so you still have to be a little patient. Enjoy the other posts. -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 9/9/01 12:11pm Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	The Colliding of Empires - Part V Five dagger-like ships and a huge sphere dropped out of Hyperspace at the edge of the system of ... . The one mile long Imperator-Class Stardestroyers "Tyrannic", "Devastator", "Avenger" and "Chimera", the eleven mile long "Executor" and the "Dantes Inferno" with a diameter of two and a half kilometer. "Inform the captains of our escorts and the "Dantes Inferno" to come aboard the "Executor" for a meeting", ordered Darth Vader. "We´ll have to discuss the best solution for an evacuation." The Sith-Lord didn´t said that he wanted to met this time with the strangers on "his" ground, not to mention that he had now the opportunity to watch one of their smaller crafts in action. He wondered how his own officers would react to Rhodan and his alien companions. Darth Vader wasn´t to be disappointed. While he ignored the arriving shuttles from the other Stardestroyers he focussed his gaze on the upper ring above the huge roll where the thrusters of the "Dantes Inferno" were located. A rectangular gate had opened and out shot a disklike small ship. It had a diameter of thirty meters and was twelve meters high, what made it bigger than the "Millenium Falcon". Considering the size of the ring were its hangar was located, the "Dantes Inferno" carried several hundreds of those ships. Despite its size it moved with the manouverability of a small starfighter and with speeds and velocities far superior than any fighter in the empires and the rebels arsenal. Vader couldn´t wait to get his hands on it, if he ever get the chance. ------------------------ "Well, here we are", stated Atlan, looking out of the dome of armoured troplon that covered the small bridge of the Space-Jet, allowing a 360-degree view of the space around the small ship. "What do you think, how big is this hangarbay", mused Rhodan, who piloted the Space-Jet. Contrary to prior flights and travels both leading men of the expedition were this time on the way. Normaly the usual chain of events was like the following: Perry Rhodan, most important and valuable man of the entire SolarEmpire was going to lead an away-team into the most dangerous situations. Of course he let normal missions and outside insertions lead by one of his officers, but the unusual, and because of this most dangerous walks he prefered to direct himself. His curiousity demanded it from him and he simply felt oblieged to proof that nobody was unreplacable not even he. Countless battles and traps he had walked in hadn´t changed that attitude one bit. The knowledge that their most surperior leader wasn´t himself to good to risk his life and to do the dirty work, had earned Rhodan the admiration and respect of countless generations of groundtroops and naval-crews from the very beginning of the SolarEmpire. It was simply part of who he was and part of his legend. So everytime before he started he had a heated argument with Atlan, who insisted for Rhodan to stay aboard, but usually Atlan lost the argument and Rhodan went on with his mission, while Atlan stayed behind, ready for the rescue should that become necessary. Usually it didn´t take long for the dung to hit the exhaust and then it was Atlans part to save the day with blazing guns. But this time they had both left the safty of their ship and the protection of its powerful weapons and shields. Accompanied were the two "great old ones" of the Milkyway by Takor Kasom, Dr. Vandrash Margatbuttragh, Ras Tschubai and Gucky. Tschubai belonged like Gucky to the Mutant-Corps, he was even the fourth member of this group when the Mutant-Corps had been founded in the early seventies of the 20th century. Like most mutants Ras Tschubai had only one psionic ability, he was a teleporter what meant that he was able to change his position over a distance of 100,000 kilometers alone with the power of his mind and he was able to carry objects and other persons with him. Contrary to the that the mousebeaver Gucky was a teleporter, a telecinet and a telepath, which meant he was able to read minds and to move objects by will-power. Because of this the physical weak and fragile looking being was the best man of the Mutant-Corps. "Its at least five kilometers long", explained Atlan following his friends look to the huge hangar-bay in the ventral side of the "Executor". "I think it can be used for field-repairs or even the construction of smaller ships like those destroyers." "Those destroyers are one mile long. And you call them small ships ?", mocked Rhodan. "Compared to this ship, they are. And the huge hangarbay is further proof that they have ships intermediate in size of their destroyers and this behemoth." "A behemoth that has only three times the volume of the "Dantes Inferno", stated Kasom. "Hell, one of our battlecruisers with a diameter of 650 meters has more volume than their destroyers." "Yes, but its a battle-cruiser, which in traditional naval terms is two classes above a mere destroyer. Its monitor, gunboat, corvette, frigate, destroyer, cruiser, battle-cruiser, battleship and finally carrier. The "Executor" combines both roles, as do her escorts.", explained Atlan. "Reminds me of the ocean-bound "Kriwak"-class cruisers developed by the Sovjet-Union during the cold war", added Rhodan. "They were ... " "Would you please shut up with the history-lesson", screamed Gucky. "I will never understand why you humans are so obsessed with weapons and warfare and those expansive toys connected to it." The fur of the small creature was standing stright into the air. "Would you please calm down", ordered Rhodan. "Your just angry that you´ll have to stay behind in the jet, while we are talking with Lord Vader and his officers. You´ll be our ace in the sleeve so to say, if they try something stupid. You are the best mutant of the corps, so behave edequatly." Gucky grumbled but remained silent. Finally the Space-Jet landed in one of the many hangars that formed the head- and sidewalls of the huge hangar-bay of the "Executor". "Well, here we are." muttered Atlan for the second time. -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 9/16/01 6:31am Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	A Colliding of Empires - Part V Commander Pellaeon, first officer of the Stardestroyer Chimera looked curious towards the diskshaped ship, those terrans had used to come aboard the "Executor". Besides the older officer stood several other Commanders and Captains of the "Executors" escorts. They were waiting for Admiral Piett to lead them and their guests to one of the conference-rooms. Pellaeon represented the Chimera in the coming meeting, because Captain Vrodl was lying down in sick-bay with the Corellian-Flu. Under normal circumstances Pellaeon had no problems with replacing his captain, but this was a meeting with Darth Vader himself. For a short moment he wondered if the nervousness of the other officers was due to their fear of raising the Dark Lords wrath or because of the strange ship that had accompanied the Executor. It had been an awesome sight to see this huge sphere move with the speed and elegance of a much smaller, less massive ship. Pellaeon wondered how those terrans looked. He wasn´t to be disappointed, although the entrance was very different from what he was used to see from imperial technology. The diskshaped ship was resting on six telescope-like legs that had been extracted from its hull, its ventral side perhaps three meters above the ground. Instead of a hatch opening and being lowered to the ground a broad tube was sinking towards the floor, like the barrel of a turbolift. A few seconds passed until a tall figure emerged from the retangular opening of the tube and Pellaeon had to surpress the impulse to gawk at the tall figure. The man was bigger than a wookiee and much more massive. With exeption of a broad comb-like stripe of hair his skull was bald. Aristocratic features softened the brutal image only slightly. If not for the black uniform and the broad utility belt with modern looking tools and devices, the man could have belonged to a past long forgotten. Without the uniform Pellaeon would have thought the man to be a bounty-hunter. Next was a tall man, with grey eyes and short-cutted blond hair, who was wearing a simple dark-blue uniform over his muscular form, that seemed to be made out of a single piece of some artificial fabric. A light space-suit suspected Pellaeon, but useless without a helmet and a tornistor for oxygen. For a short moment he wondered about the thick collar, but hadn´t time to think about it when the third man appeared. "By the rotten bones of Grand Moff Tarkin", muttered one of the other captains. "Exactly what we needed. Darth Vaders long lost twin brother." The clothing of this man was indeed very similiar to Lord Vaders suit with exeption of the mask of course. But the golden-red eyes of the hard, handsome face that was framed by long, white-blond hair were intimidating and aweinspiring in their own way. The fourth man again looked ordinary, despite being nearly two meters tall. This man was a non-white, whose hair and skin were very dark, if not completly black. He wore the same uniform as the man with the dark-blond hair. Same went for the fifth man, who wore the same uniform. His skin had a light-brown complexion and he had a beard. The terrans looked casually around inside the hangar, over the lines of assembled stormtroopers, towards the ceiling were Tie-fighters were hanging and towards the shuttles that had brought the officers of the "Executors" escorts aboard. After a short moment the five humanoids started to move towards the imperial officers. ---------------- "Wow, what a mess of thoughts", stated Gucky, who had already probed the minds of the waiting imperials. The terrans were ready to leave their ship. "Its very impolite to spy into the minds of others", stated Atlan. "But the informations i gain are quite useful", chuckled the mousebeaver. "If i´m allowed to ... ." "No", interrupted Rhodan. "We already discussed this. You won´t accompany us to the meeting. I´ll expect from you to stay aboard the Space-Jet and to help us out if necessary. Concentrate on my thoughts only and make sure you are not sensed. Lord Vader is perhaps not the only being with special powers aboard this ship." "Oh, but he is", explained the little alien from Tramp. "I already checked the several thousand crewmembers. It seems as if Lord Vaders abilities are a constant source of fear and worry among his crew." "You mean he is unable to control his powers ?", asked Takor Kasom. The USO-Specialist with the rank of Major had taken over the role of the responsible bodyguard. "On the contrary, he is very able to control his powers. Thats because the crew is worried. Considering what we suspect about his temper ...", Gucky left the rest of the sentence open. "So you mean he tyrannizes his crew ?", asked Rhodan. "Not necessarily. They fear him, yes. But they also respect him and are confident to be victorious as long as he is in command." "I don´t care if they love or if they hate me" cited Atlan. "As long as they fear me and obey my commands." "Uh, uh. We better hurry. Atlan starts reciting history again", mocked Ras Tschubai. "Major Kasom, you will go first. Ras, i want you to follow as last one and try to be unsuspicious", ordered Rhodan. He directed towards the antigrav-lift. "After you, Arkonide." Atlan mirrored his movement. "You are the boss, little barbarian. After you." -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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jedi_master_yoda7 Registered: Dec '00	Date Posted: 9/20/01 2:37pm Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 9/23/01 4:22am Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	The Colliding of Empires Admiral Piett glanced nervously around. At the head of the large conference-table Darth Vader had taken place. The dark Lord was sitting in the chair with the highest back as to underline his superiority. Piett was sitting to his right, the other imperial captains and Commander Pellaeon were positioned like wings at their left and right side, forming a halfcircle. Opposite to Vader and Piett Perry Rhodan and Atlan had taken place, flanked by their companions. The Admiral had been surprised that the more ordinary looking Rhodan was in charge and not the impressive figure of the Arkonide, but when Piett had for the first time seen the eyes of Perry Rhodan that had changed. Eyes that showed a depth, a wisdom, a power of the will Piett had never encountered before. He glanced uncomfortably to the tall figure of the man who had been introduced as Major Kasom. The presence of the man had caused a small embarressment for the imperials, since no chair available could carry the weight of the Ertruser, eighthundred kilograms, was it to believe. Now Kasom was standing behind his companions, the massive arms crossed over his broad chest. Piett wondered how Vader reacted to a man whose physical apperence dwarfed his own that much. If not for the knowledge of Vaders mental powers, the dark Lord would have already lost much of his dreadful presence. Most beings unconsciously equal size with power and the imperials were no exeption. They even used this fact to their advantage in the design of their military, might it be in a Stardestroyer, a Walker or their stormtroopers. However, at this particular opportunity, the advantage was on the side of their guests. Rhodan and Atlan were of equal height with 1,90 meters, Ras Tschubai measured two meters and even the astronom introduced as Dr. Vandrash Margatbuttragh was taller than six feet. Fortunatly they were all sitting in their chairs now. "Now that we are all here, we can finally start to discuss how to deal with the situation at hand", opened Darth Vader the briefing. "To make it short we have less than thirty-five hours to evacuate five million beings." "Do we even have the facilities to house them all", asked the Captain of the Avenger. "I think that would depend on the frame of time they have to stay aboard", answered Piett. "After all we don´t have to give every person his or her own quaters, we can shelter them in the messhalls, corridors and even the shipdepots." "If we do that, we´ll have a hell of a security-problem", stated the Captain of the Devastator. "Use your stormtroopers to guard sensitive areas", ordered Darth Vader. "But until then, we have other things to worry about." "About what frame of time are we actually speaking ?", asked Pellaeon. "How long have these people to stay aboard, till we can drop them on another world ?" "The closest habitale planet would be Carvas VI, thirty lightyears away. The calculations for the jump will take longer than the jump itself. However Carvas VI isn´t inhabited and we need a world with medical facilities and other things to host five million people. This excludes the majority of outer rim worlds. Madrag V would be a good choice. The planet has a population of eight trillion beings and is twentythousand lightyears away. A jump would take three days considering the navigational conditions we would have to face in this region of space." "Three days under the most extreme conditions would be bearable", explained Rhodan. "If necessary we lower the internal gravity and pile them above each other. This way the "Dantes Inferno" alone could carry", he paused for a moment, making some calculations in his head,"seventy million beings, although they would be as close to each other than the proverbial oilsardine." "Hmmm, sardines", whispered Kasom with a dreamy gaze. "That won´t be necessary Rhodan", stated Darth Vader. "We can easily distribute the people over our ships without putting them together like, what was it, oilsardines ? The problem won´t be the place for them or the ressources to accomodate them for a short trip, but the way we transport them from the planetary surface to our ships." "Unfortunatly we can´t use the Dropships for the evacuation", added Piett. "This leaves us with a total number of sixty-four Lambda-shuttles with a maximal number of thirty persons per flight and hundredandtwenty Stormtroopertransports, fivty persons per flight. Considering time for refueling, in- and ofloading of passengers we can evecuate around eightthousand beings per hour. Given the time we still have available we will only be able to save a quater million people." The Admiral looked questioningly at their guests. "The "Dantes Inferno" carries fifty cruisers with a diameter of hundred meters and hundred corvettes with a diameter of sixty meters", explained Rhodan. "With them we should be able to transport another two million people away from the planet." Vader considered this. Although now his curiosity about the carrier-function of the "Dantes Inferno" was partly satisfied, this was hardly the time nor the place for things like this. "That means we will still have to leave the half of the population behind", he rumbled. For a few moments there was silence. Although the imperials were used to such death-tolls more or less, normaly those were losses in battle. But this time it was their duty to protect those people and they seemed to be unable to fulfill it. It was one thing to kill on purpose, but another thing to let the own people behind to die. "Pity, we don´t have some working hypergates of the Bree available", cursed Pellaeon. "I beg your pardon, Commander ?", asked Piett. "Hypergates ?", this was Dr. Vandrash Margatbuttragh. "Devices used by the Bree decades ago", explained Darth Vader. The knowledge how to construct hypergates had accompanied the Brees into their deaths. The empire was secretly researching the technology of hypergates for quite some time now, but not as a top priority. "Actually portals or doors that allow travel through hyperspace from one location to the other without the necessarity of a spaceship. Because of shields or other energetic phenomens they are of limited use in extreme situations. Even during the time of the old republic the advantages were not viewed as outweighing the connected problems, so they were never used on a greater scale. Personnaly i think that to be a mistake and perhaps the situation might change as soon as we have pacified the rest of the galaxy." The terrans had exchanged knowing looks. Vader was able to feel, that they were up to something. "So what you want to say is, that with a working hypergate on the planetary surface and one aboard your starship it would be no problem to evacuate all of the people on the planet", asked Margatbuttragh. "We would perhaps need more than once, but it would work", stated Pellaeon. "But we have no hypergates", shouted the Captain of the Avenger. "So this entire discussion is pointless." "Maybe not", stated Rhodan. "What do you mean, terran", asked Darth Vader. "Well, we have no Bree-hypergates", answered Atlan instead of his friend. "But something similiar." -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 9/28/01 2:28am Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	Expect an update at the weekend !!! -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 9/30/01 9:22am Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	The Colliding of Empires - Part VI THolaris IV was a gasgiant. Normally Tibannagas was harvested from the chronospheres of stars, but it was found in the atmospheres of gasgiants, too. And since there the harvest of the valuable ammunition for blasters and turbolasers was less dangerous it was less expansive. Thanks to its purpose it should be no surprise that the empire tried to get and keep all facilities under its control that were able to produce Tibannagas. And with a few exceptions the empire had been very sucessful with that. Until a few months ago Bespin had been one of those exceptions. But while Bespins Cloud City hadn´t only been a mining facility, but a tourists attraction and a gamblers paradise, too, the facility at Tholaris IV served only one purpose. It lacked the elegant forms and light colours of Cloud City, that had imitated the style of the lost world of Alderaan, the facility here was only designed for mining operations. Its lines were straight and sharp, its colours imperial grey and it showed to be build with nothing but utilitism in mind. In other words the city flying in orbit around the gasgiant that was Tholaris IV was plain ugly. Five million beings were living and working in the entire complex. Pilots, harvesters, administrative personel, security-guards, their wifes and children, medics, teachers, technicians, shop-owners and bartenders, whores and dancers in the brothels, ... And all their lives were now threatened by the star of Tholaris going nova in less than thirty-five hours. But not if Darth Vader and his new allies had to say something in that matter. ---------------- Commander Pellaeon watched with interest the long rows that had formed in front of the devices the terrans had called transmitters. According to the explenations of the terrans they were the portable two-men version, circular platforms with a diameter of one and a half meter and a hight of fifty centimeters. Three meter high gates of pure energy had formed above the platforms opening gate-ways to the receiving transmitter-stations aboard the imperial Stardestroyers and the "Dantes Inferno". Alone here in this hall twenty of those devices had been positioned and another fourty of those transmitters were divided over the entire complex, on places that were easy accessable and where enough space was for the people to assemble. They had been carried down from the "Dantes Inferno" with more of those Space-Jets and were now guarded and operated by the terrans, while stormtroopers, officer from the "Executor" and from the local authorities ordered the population around. Every three seconds two people vanished through one of the transmitter-gates just to appear on the other side of those doorlike walls of energy aboard one of the big spaceships. This made hundredandtwenty people every three seconds, twothousandfourhundred every minute, onehundredfourtyfourthousand every hour, four million threehundredtwentythousand people in the thirty hours they had still available. Still not enough to save all of the five million people. Because of this all of their smaller ships and shuttles were flying between the orbitatal facility and their capital ships, transporting people the old-fashioned way. Alone the fivty hundred-meter cruisers of the terrans should be able to do the job, transporting thousand people on every flight and two hours time to take the people to evacuate aboard, fly to their big ships, to load them off and to return for the next load. Pellaeon still had difficulties to believe what he had observed only moments ago. The sphere-shaped ships of the terrans, with a diameter of hundred meters as big as a small hill, had landed on their twelve telescope-legs and taken of with no problem. Few shipdesigns of comparable size in the empire were capable of that and somehow Pellaeon knew that even the big "Dantes Inferno" was able to land and to take of from a planet without any help. For a short moment he wondered what affect this would have on planetary invasions, but then his thought returned to the here and now. Seeing the faces of the people of Tholaris IV, who now were sure, that they would survive, that they hadn´t been abandoned by their government, reminded the old commander why he had joinded the fleet so long ago. To make a difference, to have an impact. Oh, yes, there had been the exitement of battle, the joy of victory, the search for glory and personal honour. But those things paled now by comparison. After all wasn´t it that, that the empire was about ??? To ensure the safety and the prosperity of its citicens, to prevent the twenty million sentinent people of the galaxy from turning against each other ??? And if this meant establishing the empires order by force, wasn´t this better than countless different struggles all over the galaxy with much more death and devastation ??? Pity that the rebels didn´t understood this point of view, although Pellaeon had to admit, that the empire could have handled some situations with more care or subtelity. But perhaps today they could balance this a little bit. -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 10/8/01 10:09am Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	Managed only to write an update for "The tale of Darth Vaders Son". Sorry. -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 10/14/01 6:33am Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	The Colliding of Empires - Part VI On the other side of the same hangarbay were Lord Darth Vader, General Veers, Perry Rhodan, Takor Kasom and Lordadmiral Atlan. Darth Vader hadn´t hesiteted to use the opportunity to watch the transmitters of the terrans in action. Soldiers from the "Dantes Inferno" were operating the transportation-devices, while General Maximalian Veers stormtroopers organized the up-marching of the population. "I have to say those transmitters of yours are impressive devices." stated the dark Lord of the Sith. "I agree. They would be quite useful in some of our operations." added Veers. "About that i have no doubt. But like everything they have their limits. They can be interrupted by strong hyperfields of five- or sixdimensional forces, like some shields or some kinds of weapons we had to face. With enough sophisticated technology you can direct the transport to another receiver. I wouldn´t only rely on them in the military. But for civilian and cargo transport they have shown to be very useful." explained Rhodan. "That would cause an uprising in the merchant guilde." chuckled Veers. "Not that we have need for another uprising." "Or lead to a new economical growth by reducing the costs for the transport of goods." Darth Vader turned towards Rhodan and his companions. "We´ll have to discuss this with more care sometimes." Rhodan nodded his shoulders. "Yes, sometimes. If both sides will profite from a bargain ... ." the ultimate leader of the SolarEmpire left the end of the sentence open. Darth Vader was already considering what the empire could offer their guests for some of their technologies, while another part of his mind was starting to formulate plans how to get them by force if necessary, when a question of Atlan interrupted his concentration. "Excuse me, what did you say." "I was just curious about Commander Pellaeon. He seems to be a bit old for a simple commander." repeated the Arkonide his question. Vader hesitated with his answer. Of course as a competent superior he knew all the important things about his subordinates. But this wasn´t a matter he liked to discuss. "Pellaeon joinded the Navy Acedemy before the empire even existed." explained General Veers instead. "And the high command of the imperial fleet tends to have less faith in officers from that era." Vader was tempted to chuckle. It seemed as if the legendary rivalry between Navy and Army hadn´t made an exception for Veers. "Not that there are many of them left. Commander Pellaeon is a very competent officer and in a regular sector-fleet he would already be an Admiral. But he chooses to serve in the Navy. There he has not only to compete with the best officers the empire has to offer, but with those who have the right connections, might they be political or based on family or economic influence. And Pellaeon lacks all three of them." "You mean your officers are not only selected because of their competence?" asked Takor Kasom with wonder in his voice. "Unfortunatly yes. But let me assure you, i deal with the incompetent ones." Unwillingly General Veers touched the collar of his uniform. "Are you alright, General?" asked Rhodan concerned. "Yes, i´m alright. Thank you."/Those guys have no idea what "dealing with the incompetent ones" means/ the General thought. "Anyway! What i wanted to say ... ." Atlan interrupted his speach. "Whats going on there?" "I don´t know. Lets have a look." -------- Because there are some real live responsibilites i have to take care of, i don´t know when the next update will be. I hope soon. -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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jedi_master_yoda7 Registered: Dec '00	Date Posted: 10/14/01 12:35pm Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 10/21/01 12:58pm Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	up, but no update. -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 10/27/01 5:49pm Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	up -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 10/30/01 1:24pm Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	I´ve updated "Union of the Empires greatest Warriors" and "The tale of Darth Vaders Son". Next update on this story will be next week. Thank you for your patience. -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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