This GNN Nightly Report with Thunder as your host:
Thunder: Greetings and hello to all our veiwers. Tonight we have a special guest here live with us. He is a warship captain and Second Commander of the Zacha. I give you Captain Sisay of the Mira.
The camera came to focus on Sisay and the half-Miranu waved and smiled. Its great to be here, Thunder. I would like to thank you for this interveiw.
Thunder: No problem, Captain. Now my first question of the night is what is it like to be nomadic?
Sisay thought on the question for a moment, then answered. It has its ups and downs. Before Galactica took over Miranu territory, the Miranu gave us what was to be our best and last gift: the Ragnorak. Over ten years ago when we were expelled from Zacha Station, we chose to be nomadic and Ragnorak became our home. We see this as an oppurtuinty to explore and to go where needed the most. Weve been able to thrawt more renegades and because of that there are indeed few left. We can go into hiding if need be and our spirits are free. The dowm part of this is that we lack a ready place of supplies and as such have to do with what we got; little in the ways of ship building materials and weaponry are wasted and the Ragnorak has good power supplies which power the hydroponics garden and the replicator systems indeffenitly. Yet even the Ragnorak has her limits; there are dozens of Zacha ships gathered in small loose bands who do their jobs. Thats all I can say about it personally.
Thunder nodded and said, Thank you, Captain. My second question is: What is the Ragnorak exactly? Is it a massive warship or refuge?
Sisay answered that one immeadiatly. As Ive said, Ragnorak was the Miranus final gift to us before their transion. It was also their most proudest accomplishment, considering her size. Ragnorak is what had been designated a city-ship; she is four miles long and nearly a mile wide with nearly 300 decks. She is home to 500000 thousand people, 200000 of which are Zacha; the rest are civillian families or those who were unhappy with Galactica rule. She holds docking bays, gardens, a few bars, commerce areas, and much more; orginally she was built for battle and is thus outfitted like that. Yet we dont take the Ragnorak into battle because of her civillian population; but she is well armed and can defend herself. Her armaments include over 120 whitefire beam arrays and anti-ship missiles; her shields are beyond that of even three dreadnaughts and the regeneration is remarkable. Her hull was made of the strongest metals and alloys, making her nearly indestructable. Ragnorak is very slow though and was meant as a carrier and support ship, and as such she will never ever be taken into battle.
Thunder: It is good to hear that the Zacha are a people who look after their own. My last question is a double one. Where do the Zacha stand at in the coming conflict and what do they stand for?
This one put Sisay into a deep thought as he chose his words. First, that answer on where we stand will be answered by Hawk Kael. He is our leader and we follow him. To answer what we stand for, it is simply this. The Zacha have always standed for honor and protection. Since our founding nearly a thousand years ago, we have kept the Miranu core worlds from Renegade threat. In a sense we took after the Kisanis old Kiran Guard, which is long dead. We defended those who sought out aid and blew to bits any renegade a warrant was put out for. Over time we have captured many renegades and gotten rid of those who proved impossible of capturing. Under Jamlins leadership two centuries past, we drove off a formulated plan of every major renegade faction uniting, thus ending a major threat before it started. Under Tisshaim the Azdgari, we learned leadership and the use of chaos as our ally in battle; under Choja we destroyed the threat that was the Rock. Under Tashen we learned wisdom before action; and under Hawk Kael, we learn compassion and the need to strike only when necessary. That is what we stand for.
Thunder thought on the last answer and said, Thank you for your answers, Captain Sisay. We hope to see you sometime in the future. He turned and continued, Before we go to the nightly sports events, Hawk Kael has given us a prerecording of an announcement. Here we play it.
An image of Hawk Kael, leader of the Zacha appeared. In the background was his office aboard the four mile long city-ship Ragnorak, which lay at the moment in some hidden star system, undetectable by any scans except for very close range...within twelve meters.
He sat calmly and started speaking. Greetings citizens of the galaxy. As you may already know, I am Hawk Kael, leader and pilot of the Zacha. We have safely patroled the routes about the trade routes, weeding out what little remains of renegades and pirates. We do this for free for this why we were formed; to protect those who needed aid. Before I get to my point, a liitle about myself. I am Kisani, or most of me is anyways, a proud and ancient race with a culture about a two thousand years older then the forming of the Strands. We populate many worlds now, as our people suffered a massive civil war, but enough of that. I am what some would call a rouge; fifteen years before I joined the Zacha I was a renegade who raided all Strand, Miranu, human, and Voinian space. I disabled merchant vessels and took all they had, but left their ships intact but disabled; if their ships were in critical situations, I would externelly fix it then vanish. I destroyed few ships save for Voinian warships, and with that I was merciless; I do regret it but would do it again in a heart beat.
I was also a hunter of other renegades and hunted down all who seek to threaten innocent civillians. After a time I came back into the grace of Miranu and Strand space, and joined the Zacha after hunting down and destroyed three of the most vile renegade vessels who lived; that I dont regret for they killed over ten thousand innocents: women, elderly, infirmed, and childern. Because of all those I raided, I made a massive amount of money, which I invested some of it; today my total ammount is well over 300 million credits, which Ive devoted entirely to the Zacha.
He paused for a moment and took a drink from a coffee mug before starting again. Now for my main points. First, what I say very few would dare to speak of openly. What I speak of is Galactica, who controls more then three quarters of this galaxy. We all know of their rise to power, but this power is unjustly earned. They hold its citizens in check with their massive navy and countless soldiers, and they rule through the use of fear and even slaughter. They have destroyed entire populated worlds, some containing thousands, even millions of civillians; Kitrak is but one of them and that world held more then one and half million people. Dissention is met with torture and even slow and agonizing death; many more innocents have been killed just for being suspected.
Galactica furthermore condones people to death by forbidding any civillians to own armed ships; this may have cut crime down, yes, but those civillians still die because of those remaining renegades in south Crescent space. I also have proof that certain high ranking officers and officals within the Galactiaca Navy and government have dealings with these renegades; their names and deals are contained within this crystal which will be displayed at the end of this message. To all who listen to this, know that there are many among who who are not truly loyal to the Galactica Imperium. They will rise up unknown to the navy and government and rebel, no matter how wacthful they may be.
My bext point concerns the Zacha colonization of the Sirabor system. As of this message, it is fully set up and all surface defenses set. We have all legal things done and have a fully authorized charter to the moons and system and even planet of Sirabor. We have set these colonies up as a free haven which will not recognize Galactica law or rule; armed conflict of any kind while in system will be dealt with consierable force and any renegade who steps foot in Sirabor will be given the chance to surrender or leave or else be blown from space. The moons of Sirabor will become home to any Kisani, Miranu, and Strand refugees, and other alien races as well; we fully intend to do background checks on those suspected to be loyalists of Galactica and will be wacthed carefully.
Any Galactica warship or fighter presence will not be tolerated within the system and will be escorted out of the system or else be disabled and towed out of the system. Sirabors government is formally known as Haven and is closely governed by a very close friend of mine, a Miranu named Calas Jessi. She shall do what is necessary and ensure the peace within the system. Sirabor has a defense force of 150 Zachit aradas, 160 Zacha fighters, six echo destroyers, and many assorted civillian Crescent warships heavly armed.
Hawk paused once more, and his voice became very serious. As my last issue, many of you know of the return of the tattered Zidagar and UE fleets. This is largely due to the Galactic News Networks great skill and because of Thunders organized efforts in keeping it going. What I am about to say will not in anyway involve those civillians who will come to dwell in Sirabor, those who guard the system, or those civillians living on Ragnorak. As of today, the Zacha fleets have officaly declared war on Galactica. We will not stand by to see innocents killed anymore and we will aid Paladin and Rima, leaders of the United Earth and Zidagar forces in any way. Remember that it was Galactica who drove these two proud civilizations away beyond this galaxy. The Zacha were formed to combat any threat against civilization, and we see Galactica as a threat. So after ten long years, we act now! If Galactiaca dares to open fire on any Zacha civillian or unarmed ship or moves hostilely on Sirabor this action will be met with devesting results. We will however not result to their level in blowing up civillian ships.
This is Hawk Kael out.
The screen went black and many names and dealings and events appeared. These were the promised records of those involved in highly illegal dealings with renegades and other outlaws. The list was very, very, very long.
As Sisay listened and watched, his only words were, Alei perserve us all...
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(This message has been edited by Captain Whitehawk (edited 08-12-2001).)
