An image of a tall humanoid woman with pale fleshy skin, red pupiled eyes, black hair with grey highlights, wearing a thick black coat, flickers onto the Diplomacy channel of Colonizer.net<Darlat_Pirate> "Nice to meet you.
<Ailuren Chancellor> "Greetings."
<Ailuren Chancellor> "Was the weapons fire necessary?"
<Darlat_Pirate> The woman seemed to expect the silence to go on longer. "Huh? Oh it's standard operating procedure. When the person your meeting has a war fleet."
<Darlat_Pirate> "Race, I mean. Instead of Person."
<Ailuren Chancellor> "Interesting. I'll keep this in mind when we encounter other sentients."
<Darlat_Pirate> "The only fleet that I know of that does it, is ours."
<Ailuren Chancellor> "Would it not be true, that a demonstration of force is only necessary if the race you encounter is belligerent?"
<Darlat_Pirate> "Not really. It's more to show the other fleet that you're willing to fight if it starts something."
<Ailuren Chancellor> "Our fleet has another purpose. Just as yours does."
<Darlat_Pirate> "What’s the purpose of it then?"
<Ailuren Chancellor> "Protection. And yours?"
<Darlat_Pirate> "Destruction."
<Ailuren Chancellor> "Interesting."
<Darlat_Pirate> "Yes."
<Ailuren Chancellor> "But that does not add up. If the purpose is destruction, then you wouldnt be here talking. Nor would you have fired a warning shot. Ergo you must have another purpose."
<Darlat_Pirate> "The purpose does not define the task."
<Ailuren Chancellor> "Ah. Then what is your task?"
<Darlat_Pirate> "Hunting down and destroying the last of a species."
<Ailuren Chancellor> "We are just beginning our journey into the stars, but perhaps we can help."
<Darlat_Pirate> "How many species have you seen?"
<Ailuren Chancellor> "Technically? Two. You, and another."
<Darlat_Pirate> "Did this other race stand on two feet, and look like us? Except with fire-colored hair, taller, more angular features, and with a body heat of around two hundred and fifty degrees?"
<Ailuren Chancellor> "No. No other visitors to this solar system but you. We will keep an eye out for this other species."
<Darlat_Pirate> "Oh...what did the other race look like then?"
<Ailuren Chancellor> "Sentient machines."
<Darlat_Pirate> The woman chuckles. "Those do cause problems on occasion..."
<Ailuren Chancellor> "Quite."
<Darlat_Pirate> The woman chuckles. "Did they at least speak with you, before flying off?"
<Ailuren Chancellor> "Oh they're still on the planet. They were created by us to perform labor, upon gaining sentience they wished to join us. Or so we assumed. Their demands grew wilder and more threatening to the safety of my people."
<Ailuren Chancellor> "Steps had to be taken."
<Darlat_Pirate> "That explains the war fleet...and also changes things a bit..."
<Ailuren Chancellor> "How so?"
<Darlat_Pirate> "I have to go and talk with them now. Becuase they are sentient....and that was a secondary task."
<Ailuren Chancellor> "You will find them on the planets surface. Urge them to reconsider their actions, we have no wish to destroy them."
<Darlat_Pirate> "Sure...whatever."
<Darlat_Pirate> "I'll send one of my captains to do it..."
If you had any watching the fleet, which you do, you would notice a small ship breaking off the main battle cluster and entering the planets atmosphere.
The United Droid Workforce opens up with a barrage of anti-spacecraft fire, and the small Darlat ship soon explodes in a ball of flames.<Darlat_Pirate> The humanoid woman looks shocked.
<Darlat_Pirate> Her mouth opens and shuts a few times.
<Ailuren Chancellor> "My apologies, we were prepared to handle this without your intervention."
<Darlat_Pirate> She stares into the vid-screen. Then presses a button.
<Darlat_Pirate> The Image freezes.
Then all five cannons on the capital ship start glowing dark, blood red.
Two beams of concentrated death emerge from the five cannons and shoot down to the planet below. One hits the iron mine where the United Droid Workforce has it's headquarters. The other hits a series of mountain to the north of the Droid controlled mine.
Then the mountains and the mines are completely destroyed in a fiery holocaust you can see from the station's windows. You don't even need a telescope.
All that remains to mark that anything was ever there is two ruptured craters.
The vid-screen turns back on, and the image shifts to the woman looking angry.<Ailuren Chancellor> "I lament that your people were lost."
<Darlat_Pirate> "Yeah, right. I see what this is. It's a standard tactic."
<Ailuren Chancellor> "Hmm? We intended to deal with them ourselves."
<Darlat_Pirate> "Send someone down and divert the attention and split the fleet."
<Darlat_Pirate> "The when the Anti-Craft guns force them to retreat, the other fleet hits when they are weak."
<Ailuren Chancellor> "And yet we are making no hostile moves. Engines remain unpowered, weapons remain uncharged."
<Darlat_Pirate> "Bad communications."
<Darlat_Pirate> "Or tying to save your loses when we only sent one ship down you thought to call it off for your side..."
<Ailuren Chancellor> "Is there anything we could do to convince you of our innocence in this matter?"
<Darlat_Pirate> "Do you have anything to prove your innocence?"
<Ailuren Chancellor> "Recorded logs of their initial and secondary demands."
<Ailuren Chancellor> "I imagine that would prove their separation from us."
<Darlat_Pirate> "Send them over." The woman is now perfectly calm.
The Ailuren Chancellor transmits the logs.<Darlat_Pirate> The woman looks through them on a pda-type thing.
<Darlat_Pirate> "How do we know these weren't staged? Indeed no weaponry was fired when we entered the system and there was no traces of attack on the mining complex..."
<Ailuren Chancellor> "We have limited industry, it took everything we had to prepare the fleet for now. And then you arrived. We did not want to alarm you by charging weapons while you were here."
<Darlat_Pirate> "Yes, sure..."
<Darlat_Pirate> "Unfortunately, I don't believe you. And my people don't believe you."
<Ailuren Chancellor> "That is unfortunate. Regrettably, it is obvious we have not the means to face you militarily."
<Darlat_Pirate> She mutes your side of the channel
<Darlat_Pirate> "Please evac all of your Personnel from the battle fleet in your spaceport."
<Darlat_Pirate> "You have twenty seconds to comply."
Everybody in the Ailuren fleet makes it out.
The Ailuren fleet begin to drift, just in time for the Harbinger cannons to light up.
The Crimson shots hit each ship- except for a carrier which is heading downward towards the planet-, a second passes, and then the ships explode, many segments and fragments hurling downward into the planet's atmosphere.
The Harbinger barrels light up again.
And the remnants of the fleet- including the carrier- are shot again, further fragmenting them, and cleanly destroying the carrier.
The woman turns the volume back on for your side..
Then the ship fires something that looks vaguely like a missile at your station.
When it hits your station, it breaks through the hull. Luckily, no one was injured. But two people died.<Ailuren Chancellor> "We trust this matter has been resolved to your satisfaction?"
The thing embedded in the Ailuren's station's hull starts beeping.
Then a large antenna pops out the end that is outside of the ship and a view screen emerges from the other.
A soft tone is heard.
As the system boots up.<Darlat_Pirate> "That’s a intergalactic diplomacy transmitter, won't work on the big empires and if you ever try to speak with the Darlat empire without good cause, we'll come back here with a full fleet and wipe this system clean. I hope you choke on Vacuum"
<Darlat_Pirate> "No one can trace you through it- like we would need to- we allready know where your homeworld is."
<Darlat_Pirate> "May your race die out and your people suffer." She switches off the view-screen.
Then the amassed fleet begins to head in the direction of your station.
Charging up the Plasma Mortars as they come.
The ships glide past, so close to the station that you can see the charging weaponary. The shoot the weapons into space, away from the station.
Then they enter slipspace far enough away not to kill all your people instantly. 
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