Incursion (3/3)

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FROM: CS MINALIROS, BORDERLINE PICKET FORCE TO: CINCSPIN (CS LIBERTY'S PRICE)

***** EXPEDIENT ***** FLEET CONFIDENTIAL E256 ***** SITREP

  1. HAVE MADE ZERO-ZERO INTERCEPT WITH LEAD SHIP OF INTRUSION FLEET, VNS NOBLE VENTURE.
  2. AN INSPECTION OF THE INTRUSION FLEET REVEALED NOTHING UNUSUAL. SHIPS OF THE PLANE CARRIED ONLY CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS WITH AMMUNITION SUPPLIES PARTIALLY DEPLETED. ACCOMPANYING SUPPORT SHIPS WERE PACKED WITH CIVILIAN REFUGEES, DISASSEMBLED INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY, AND PERSONAL BAGGAGE.
  3. IN PERSONAL MEETING WITH ADM. JANTAR RONIS CONDUCTED ABOARD, IT WAS CLAIMED THAT INTRUSION FLEET WAS TASKED TO ENFORCE REMITTANCE PAYMENTS DUE FROM SHELL COLONIES IN VONIS 33 CONSTELLATION. ADM. RONIS REFUSED THESE ORDERS. TASK FORCE, DEPENDENTS, AND CERTAIN COLONIAL ELEMENTS SEEK SANCTUARY WITHIN WORLDS SPACE.
  4. STATEMENTS AND EVIDENCE APPEAR TO CROSS-CORRELATE.
  5. IN VIEW OF CURRENT TROUBLES AT ÓDELN (VANGUARD REACHES), WE HAVE PROVIDED ADM. RONIS WITH COURSE TO THE FREESOIL WORLD TOGRAPAS (EILISH EXPANSE) FOR RESUPPLY AND PORT LIBERTY.
  6. INTRUSION FLEET HAS BEEN PROVIDED WITH TRACKING TRANSPONDER CODES AND ADVISED THAT FAILURE TO TRANSPOND OR DEVIATION FROM PROVIDED COURSE WILL BE CONSIDERED A PROVISIONALLY HOSTILE ACT.
  7. SUGGEST APPROPRIATE TASK FORCE INTERCEPT INTRUSION FLEET AT TOGRAPAS (EILISH EXPANSE) FOR DEBRIEFING AND PROCESSING.
  8. CS MINALIROS IS REMAINING IN THE VASARL (VANGUARD REACHES) SYSTEM PENDING FURTHER ORDERS/UPDATES IN ORDER TO INTERCEPT ANY FOLLOWING FORCE.
  9. REQUEST FOR AUTOMATIC THREAT RESPONSE IS HEREBY RESCINDED.
  10. AUTHENTICATION GEL ROTOR ECLIPSE SHACK JACKET CHEESE / 0x9983BCBEF127CC18

CAPT. SCEALIN MOR-TIRAK

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://eldraeverse.com/2025/02/08/incursion-3-3
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Thank you.

I have a hundred follow-up questions, but suspect the efficient way to learn, for example, “are there any other stargate routings from the Republic to the Worlds other than the Borderline?” is to wait for further posts and see.

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Well, no, there aren’t - hence the name. Actually, that’s not strictly true; the Borderline connects the systems on the Worlds’ side of the Demilitarized Border Zone, and the actual border-links are in the center of the DBZ, so it looks like:

[Borderline system]<->[Worlds-side DBZ]<->[Republic-side DBZ]<->[Republic system]

(The Republic doubtless has its own Borderline-equivalent line of “neutral zone monitoring stations” and the odd naval depot symmetrically on its side of the DBZ, but no-one’s named those yet.)

The Worlds-Republic Demarcation Convention both established the DBZ and established a firm rule that no-one would try to set up other links bypassing the Zone.

If you don’t mind mostly-date-only spoilers, the Convention remained in force until 7269, when central government in the Republic finally collapsed. In actual practice, the Worlds continued enforcing the Borderline up through at least 7350, because the Long Night was not fun for anyone and no-one wanted it to come visit if some warlord put together enough force to bull through the relatively-quiet region on the other side of the Line. Once the Vonnie successor states eventually stabilized, it was pretty much a dead letter.

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Mostly I was thinking, are there other regions that aren’t the Republic or the Worlds, and do any of those connect to both sides? Or are there any Powers that maintain gates from their home system to both sides, and is anybody silly enough to try using them as a bypass…

But that’s a good enough answer, thanks.

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Before the Spice Way comes along, in the known chunk of galaxy, if you had stargates, you were either part of the Worlds’ plexus or the Republic’s. (The latter even including the not!Klingons and not!Cardassians out on their other flank.)

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…they have people on their other flank? And they are dependent on the Propulsion Group’s stargates to stay connected to the galaxy?

Oy…