(Nuevo Edo System)
The Gateway opened for the first time since the Prime
Minister went through to try and negotiate a trade deal. The Black Star Fleet
and the beginnings of the Nuevo Edo Navy were on the lookout, however, and four
Gunboats (two BSN and two NEN) readied their weapons, just in case.
When the first ship came through, proving to be the Shinokage, there was a collective sigh
of relief as no one was really all that eager to fight while the new NEN was
still in its infancy. Sure, with skill manuals people could get the skills
needed to be a military space force, but there was a difference between having
a skill and being proficient with it. That required time and training. Even
more than that, it required the experience in live battle that separated a green
rookie from a blooded veteran.
No one really wanted to start getting the NEN blooded until
they’d had some more time to train. Otherwise, most of the blood spilt might be
theirs. And that would put a damper on the growing military force very quickly.
The NEN ships went about checking the incoming forces while
the Black Stars watched, until finally the incoming fleet was assembled.
Quickly, a message was dispatched to Nuevo Edo, so people there could hear the
news. The Premier had returned from her trade mission, and had evidently had
some success, as four large freighters had followed the group in.
On Nuevo Edo, the news spread like wildfire. The Premier had
returned safely, which was good, but she had brought trade from ‘Known Space’,
which was better. Four freighters, plus the Raven-class
freighters that had gone with the fleet, did not a thriving interstellar trade
make, but that was more than they’d had since the Founders had landed on Nuevo
Edo.
The best news of all was that two freighters wer full of
colonists: men who had heard of a colony almost bereft of males and full of
females who were so desperate for companionship that the men had to be locked
away for their own protection. They were mostly young craftsmen or laborers
looking to make it big in a place where they had more options than they did at
home. But regardless of their age or skills, they were all unattached, and more
than one had said that they’d come hoping to find someone to start a family
with.
In the eight hours it took for the ships to make their way
to Nuevo Edo orbit, a crowd had begun to gather at the spaceport. Oh sure,
there had been crowds before, when the Black Star people went down on shore
leave. Most of them found it odd, and certainly exciting, since the bars they
walked into were mostly female, and the women spent quite a bit of time plying
them with drinks in hopes of getting some ‘companionship’, literally the
reverse of most everywhere else the Black Stars had ever gone. More than a few
Black Stars had lived out their fantasies of having multiple ladies at once,
thanks to the proportions. But everyone knew that they were bound to the
company first and foremost.
But now? These people were coming to Nuevo Edo to start a
new life, and a new family. These people wanted to put down roots and join the
community. They were an instant commodity, and the crowds trying to get into
the spaceport were larger than they had been since the first time the Black
Stars had come down on leave, with their Marines leading the way to the bars.
Just a day before, the government had finalized the law to
end the protective custody of males on Nuevo Edo, and the Premier signed the
virtual document as soon as she was back in communication range. Everyone knew
that the changes brought by this act would be difficult, but with new men
coming, and perhaps being only the first of many additions, it was hoped that
the difficulties that had led to the protection orders would be avoided.
Events that would have been unthinkable back during the time
of the constant fear of the Demons coming through the Demon Gate to destroy
their works and capture their men were now becoming reality. Many felt as
though they were living in a dream while in the waking world. Some wondered
when they would wake up, while others feared the dream becoming a nightmare.
But one thing was certain: for good or ill, their entire world had been
completely changed, and there was no going back to the way things were.
(Owner’s Suite, Black Star Tower, Yokosaki, Nuevo Edo)
Located in the heart of Yokosaki, Nuevo Edo’s capitol city,
the new Black Star Tower shone in the night sky. At twenty-five stories tall,
it was hardly a skyscraper, but it was one of the taller buildings in Yokosaki
all the same. The first five floors belonged to the Black Star Company, and
were the site of their Nuevo Edo headquarters. Floors six through fifteen were
office spaces for other companies, some of which had already been leased out to
various shipping and other companies. Sixteen through twenty-four were for
luxury apartments.
The twenty-fifth floor, however, was the Owner’s Suite, and
if there was any living quarters that were more luxurious on the planet, then
they would have to be those afforded the Premier, or some of the oldest of the
Founding clans. Seeing as how the Owner (namely me) used these quarters as my
base of operations here on Nuevo Edo, and I was able to design it to my taste
as it was being built, that made the process relatively easy, and not that expensive.
Of course, I also used it for ‘business meetings’, like the
one currently going on. According to the schedule, Assemblywoman Maria Sanchez
was here to talk with the owner of the largest new business to set up shop on
Nuevo Edo about him possibly supporting her in the next election. I would say
we were having a very thorough discussion, exploring several positions she
might take.
Currently, I was supporting her against the wall, having
just found that the position of placing her knees in the vicinity of her ears
while standing was a very stimulating one for her, which encouraged us both to
make the conversation as vigorous as possible.
“Oh, Master!” Maria moaned into my ear as I plunged into her
depths. Oh, the taking of slaves was illegal here in Nuevo Edo, but I hadn’t
made her a slave. No, I had simply used a bit of mindreading. Reading her
fantasies from out of her own mind was simple enough. Maria was a strong woman
on a planet that had strong women by necessity, as the men had mostly been taken
or killed. She was always strong, for her people, and her constituents. She was
always in control.
Her fantasies, however, told me how she desired to be taken
with a firm hand, a male hand, in ways she couldn’t get from the docile males
at the pleasure houses. She wanted someone she could be the weak one with, and
be controlled. She wanted to submit, at least in private. Fortunately, I knew
just what she wanted, and I was more than happy to deliver as the
twenty-two-year-old Latina woman shook her hips in ecstasy, her climax causing
her to scream loud enough that it was good that I had ensured that there was
plenty of soundproofing.
I grunted as I thrust deep inside her, and began to enjoy my
own climax, slowly riding it out inside her as I filled her willing womb with
my seed. Maria shuddered again, whimpering as she held her head against my
chest, breathing deeply. Slowly I pulled out of her, and let her drop down to
her knees in front of me. Her dazed eyes looked up at me like she had just
gotten the best gift ever.
Ten minutes later, the very embarrassed Sanchez was on the
stripper pole I’d had installed in the lounge area, doing her best to dance on
the pole while a plug in her pussy kept her from dripping cum all over the
place (the plug in her ass was simply for my amusement). The reason for her
embarrassment was because she was dancing while a naked Sheila slowly rode me
on the couch where I was sitting, sliding her warm wetness up and down my shaft
while I watched Maria. Out of my view, Shearah knelt between my legs, and
carefully used her lips and tongue to add to the sensations both Sheila and I
felt.
The only thing Maria had on, other than the two pieces of
plastic sealing her lower holes, was a leather collar. It was more symbolic
than anything, as she couldn’t be made a slave on Nuevo Edo. I motioned for
Maria to continue speaking while she danced. The woman moaned slightly as her
dancing made the vibrators shift inside her, and began to speak.
(INS Aurum Throni,
Earth Orbit, Sol System)
The old Aurum Throni
had been destroyed in the Battle For Earth, but it had long been tradition for
the leader of the Terran Empire to travel on a vessel of that name whenever
they were in space. Of course, they also expected that said leader would spend much
of their time on Earth, in the Imperial Palace. Now, however, it was judged an
unacceptable risk for the Empress to stay on Earth, since the consequences for
a ‘fence’ failing would cause her to be trapped on Earth, unable to communicate
or rule. That was, as one might say, an untenable situation for an Empire where
the Empress had no heirs as of yet.
So, instead of a new superdreadnought to serve as a floating
palace, the new Aurum Throni was in
fact a space station capable of moving at FTL speeds, if one gave them
sufficient lead time warm the massive engines up. Instead of a superdreadnought,
the new Throni was a space station
the size of the former Imperial Capitol on the planet below, holding over a
million people. It was no mere show piece, however, since it was armed and
armored to match a squadron of superdreadnoughts, with a revolutionary
multi-layer shield system. The Primary Shields were like a normal ship’s
shields, though an order of magnitude stronger than those of a superdreadnought
(meaning they could not be run constantly for obvious reasons). The secondary
shield, which was always on, was far lower-powered, but had angled deflector
screens, to greatly reduce the damage a massive kinetic strike might impart,
proving that the Empress and her people had learned a great deal from the civil
war.
Empress Merida Vaughn sat back in her throne, wishing that
she was back on the bridge of her ship, the Triumphant.
She had never wanted to be Empress. There was the heir and the spare, and she
had happily joined the military. But she refused to allow Travis to get away
with killing her father and siblings, and so she had taken up the mantle of
Empress.
Her spies in the Confederacy had been keeping tabs on the
enigmatic Nomad that had been crucial in securing her throne, and his ‘Black
Star Company’. For the past year or more, she’d had the reports that he was
planning an expedition to Unknown Space. Now he had found not one, but two new
Gateways, the first to be found since they had found the partial ‘address book’
with the sixteen nearest Gateways.
Moreover, he had found a lost colony! Somehow, the Juan Ponce De Leon had been thrown so
far off course that the Drake-class colony ship, which had no FTL drive, had
wound up in a completely different arm of the galaxy! That he had introduced
them to the Confederacy first before the Empire rankled a bit, but his company
WAS based on Dimiya. It is always more prudent to keep your closest neighbors
happy.
She was only half paying attention to the useless noble who
was begging for clemency after his actions in the civil war. They had actually
only arrested a very few of the instigators of the coup, as most had been
‘converted’ into slaves of the AI Deus. This sniveling noble was one of only
twenty who could be found that had supported Travis and not been converted.
Lucio bent down from his position by her throne to whisper
in her ear. “Your Majesty, I have just received a very interesting invitation
from our friend the Commodore. The lost colony of Nuevo Edo is now open for
trade, as a free port. They have sent a trade legation to the Confederacy, but
he said they would no doubt welcome a legation from the Empire as well.”
Merida frowned slightly, before whispering, “A free port,
you say? Why would that man do something like that?”
Lucio chuckled, and said, “He said that if you should ask
that, to remember Switzerland of old. A neutral ground for commerce and
banking, and a place where high level diplomatic talks or international
criminal cases could be held without being influenced by the powerful host
countries. It would provide a place where we could ease tensions with the Confederacy
and the Ihm Imperium, while perhaps opening up new relationships.”
Merida smiled at Lucio, and said, “Do you feel up to a trip,
Lucio? We may need a negotiator at my side when We see to this trade legation.”
Lucio chuckled. “For you, Majesty? Always.”
Merida nodded, smiling as she turned her head to the still
prattling noble who was trying to justify his continued existence. “I have
heard enough. You are guilty of high treason against the Empire, and shall be
executed immediately. Take him away. And call for Trade Minister Bucaro. We
desire to see the long lost children of Terra who have been found on Nuevo Edo,
and open relations with them.”
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