Although the Leavatians who inhabited the planet and its three equally cold moons, who were considered technologically inferior in all ways, were finally taking the steps to defend themselves from the next greedy nation to try their hands at this stopping point. The planet, which recently had a regime change, was undergoing major reformations from a peaceful non-interventionism state, to a more aggressively independent state that may or may not prove fatal to planetary economies everywhere.
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A black screen appears all over Leavatian telecommunication devices everywhere, no face, just black. A booming voice comes on to announce something important to all listening "The planetary and colonial master of all the Leavatian people speaks..." Blared all over Leavatian telecommunication devucices everywhere, causing people to think. In the entire history of Leavatia, the leader never shows him or herself to the subjects.
Then the black screen turns colorful, and a beautiful pale skinned woman appears. She smiles an evil looking smile, and begins to talk to her subjects from a lavishly decorated room in the Palace of the Imperials. "My people...my beautiful people. We have been sitting in the shadows for too long, watching ever expanding planetary empires fight the tireless war to survive, become larger and more powerful. And many years ago, we had many of these long extinct empires knocking at our doorstep attempting to subjugate you and steel the potential wealth our planet hasn't explored yet. A wealth that may not only benefit the small Leavatian Empire as a whole, but you as an individual.
Although to explore this wealth...I need your undying loyalty and support. A single planet and a couple of moons cannot just simply survive long without a fleet of warships to support it, and a defense network that is not even working right doesn't count. I am proposing that we build a large fleet and take control of the sovereign territorial space around our planet that is rightfully ours. With all this major shipping is going unchecked, if we play our cards right, we may very well control one of the more major shipping lanes in the entire universe. The money generated from this wealth will be enough to put more then five meal a day on every family member's plate with a bit extra left over for the pets.
Now please...please band together for the sake of every Leavatian man, women, and child. Head to the nearest naval shipyard and sign on. I cannot stress enough how important it is for you to do your part in the rebuilding of the Leavatian planet. Each individual is needed to take part for this great planet to flourish." The screen went blank again, this time, nothing. Although people started flooding the ship yards and naval recruiting office to do their part as the Empress said.
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Flying through the sky at high speeds was the one of the newest ships to be considered a warship in Leavatia. This vessel, an Elenya class heavy destroyer, was armed with forty heavy pulsed partial accelerator cannons linked in batteries of five. Supporting these awe inspiring weapons were two forward facing heavy mass driver cannons that would decimate any ship in one hit, although were hard to use since the enemy ships were not going to be sitting around waiting to be shot. And for point defense and anti-fighter, over two hundred light pulsed partial accelerator cannons which were fully automatic and able to find and destroy a target in less then one second.
This ship, which was named Midnight, was flying straight towards a small flotilla of three merchant vessels trucking their way by the planet. "This is Vice Admiral Hessa and the crew of the LSS Midnight, you are in Leavatian Imperial space and are advised to turn around or be fired upon." he said from the bridge of the vessel. He waited a few seconds, then continued to talk "you have 4 seconds to comply...4...3...2...1...FIRE!"
Without even letting the merchant vessels reply, the main forward cannon instantly penetrated the ship in the lead, causing it to halt dead in it's tracks. The vessel was a sitting duck just beging to be hit again. So Hessa gave in to his inhibitions and pulverized it with the secondary weapons. The other two ships began evasive maneuvers and making preparations for a jump to light speed, but came under fire from the heavy secondary weapons of the behemoth named Midnight. One of the merchant vessels was struck in the reactor area and ignited like a supernova, causing considerable damage to the neighboring merchant vessel. Although it wasn't enough to knock out the ships engines and hyper drive generator, and it managed to escape destruction like its sister ships.
"Damn, they got away. Oh well, at least we left an impression." Hessa said to himself. Then he sent a message to the Empress, letting her know that his end of the plan had gone according to plan. And that is was time to send every empire a notice they shall not like hearing.
To the planetary Empires of the galaxy;
this is Empress Monique D'Aubainne. My people and my planet have long stood by and watched you take advantage of our sovereign territorial space, and we are proclaiming that you shall find yourself another punching bag to use for profit, or face destruction. I personally am claiming 200 light years in all directions of the home planet of Leavatia as our own planetary space.
Have a nice day; Empress Monique D'Aubainne
