Message from Earth

[Sheridan]

The first part of this is background that I thought would be fun for players and is not considered to be part of the actual message.

Location Earth Alliance Command Central:

Sheridan,.. "Prepare a tight beem transmission to the SWAR, fully encrytped and priority Omega"

Bridge SWAR,.. Comms Officer, "Incoming message from the President, instructions are to open a VPN tunnel to the Zeus and relay following message"

Bridge Zeus,.. Comms Officer,.. "Captian incoming message from the President Sheridan,.. instructions are to broadcast message to follow on all comm channels, unencrypted, full spectrum."

Captain of the Zeus,.. "Has he gone mad? We have been enroute to this priority location for months totally under a communication blackout and now he just wants us to reveal where we are?"

Comms Officer,.. "Sir I think that is exactly what he wants"







Emenating from hex 1505 a transmission is detected on all frequencies and unencrypted, comms indicate this transmission is from the Earth Alliance Vessel "Zeus"


"This is John Sheridan, President of the Earth, Commander of Earth Alliance Forces and now also Diplomat to the Cylon race.

Gold Centurian 666, I speak for all the peoples of Earth - Welcome. We are a peacefull race and will be glad to meet in person with you. Until we determine your true disposition we do not wish you to enter Earth space and instead request a meeting just outside our planet. A Earth Force fleet will meet your vessel at 1206 and if your intentions are peaceful we will provide you with the requested communications gear, grease and rust preventer.

My Vice President and myself look forward to meeting with you and sharing more about our races.

President Sheridan

[6 of 9]

NUTS!

[Gold Centurion]

After a rather long delay (poor signal quality from the Cylon end) the deep Cylon mechanical halting voice is received by Earth Alliance Vessel "Zeus":

"To John Sheridan, President of the Earth, Commander of Earth Alliance Forces, Diplomat... The Cylon Empire requires information on the disposition of the Battlestar Olympia. The vessels of the Cylon XIIIth Battle Fleet will meet you at the designated location. Time of this meeting is still to be determined."

Gold Centurion DCLXVI,
Commander XIII Fleet
Cylon Empire

[Sheridan]

Response to Cylons,..

"Gold Centurian, your signal strenth is weak, your comms are barely getting through and breaking up,... we are losing your signal.

Repeat message,..

President Sheridan"

(Overheard in the background an order to "Move this vessel out of this asteroid field for better comms")

[Vector Victor]

Oh Olympus, where art thou,..

video.google.com/videosearch?q=Cylons+vs+babylon5&hl=en&emb=0#

[Sheridan]

From Cylons,... earlier,..

[glow=red,2,300]""Emperor Kumar,
What is this Narn Aggression you speak of? Who is this Clown you speak of? Is President Sheridan of the Earth Alliance a Clown? This does not compute... We were under the assumption we were negotiating with the President of the Earth Forces, not a Clown. Who are the Narn? Are they Clowns as well? Are they enemies of the Earth? Are you an Enemy of the Earth? Who are Earth's Allies? Who are yours? Where is the Battlestar Olympia? This is Gold Centurion DCLXVI of the Cylon XIIIth Battle Fleet." "[/glow]



The Earth Alliance Ship Zeus exits the asteroid core density area,.. Comms are reestablished to the Cylons and the eavesdrop of the Centauri/Cylon comms,..



President Sheridan hails the Cylons again from the bridge of the Zeus,..

"Gold Centurian, Leader of the Cylons,.. Contact with the Olympus was established 1 week ago,.. they will be arriving at Earth (1205) in 2 and 2/3rds turns for requested resupply and greetings to our race. We invite you to also attend as we believe it will be festive occasion. Many races are being contacted for our yearly Gathering Of Peoples (GOP) Convention. It will be quite a surprise when we inform the attendees of your special presence. A new race born among us. We intend on keeping it a secret, so as to add to the specialness of the evening.

The Centauri Leader refers to the Clown peoples,.. a subspecies of the Earth Alliance, directly descended from the Dilgar who are loyal to the Pilfin race of the outer quadrant. The Centauri lack a true understanding of the Earth dialect and often are confused by the subtle nuances of our language.

The Narn are a race located at 2815 a place known as the Hemroid Asteroid Field. The Narnia are also known to be a pain in the,.. (Static,... Ho Chi releases the Bleep Button),.. warlike and strong race. On occasion we have territorial disagreements with Narnia,.. but nothing serious.

The Earth has no allies,.. we stand alone among the stars as a beacon of hope. 250,000,000 million tons of spinning steal located all alone in the darkness of space.

Centurian,.. As President of Earth Alliance forces,.. I give you my word that no EA ship will harm your approach to 1205. Many years ago the peoples of Earth suffered in a mighty war that nearly destroyed our home world. It is now barren and our peoples have had to retreat deep underground as the surface of our planet was laid waste too. We seek no quarrel with your race or any others,.. and await your arrival so that we may trade goods, knowledge and friendship.

We look forward to meeting Face to Fa,.. umm ,.. Face to,.. umm We look forward to meeting you.

It will be the beginning of New Time for our peoples,...

Tell us of your race and we will see if more info about the Olympus can be gathered from our far ranged comm sources.

President Sheridan.

[Gold Centurion]

"To John Sheridan, President of the Earth, Commander of Earth Alliance Forces, Diplomat- Clown. The Cylon Empire will send its XIII Battle Fleet to the Designated Location as soon as our mission objectives allow. Time of this meeting is still to be determined. What is a Shadow?"

Gold Centurion DCLXVI,
Commander XIII Fleet
Cylon Empire

[DeathFrog]

A shadow is what humans males get around 7 pm, when their day started 12+hours ago, and their razor no longer functions.

[ISN War Reporter (Embedded)]

LOL

[Gold Centurion]

Does-Not-Compute...