A sad day for the ESN 351 Hermes. Thier  second leading..active kill leader  was killed today in operations  aggainst the Demons and thier allies. Also wounded was a Hydro-tech , and the Thrid  active Leader  Kray Shadow. Both the last two men are expected to be  alright, and Shadow now holds thesecond spot , On the  Hermes carreer  Kill list.

  following this  is a slide show  for  Baron flying and fighting  against demon craft, and a few of his smiling face  as he returned froma mission....

  On Earth things  are heating up, as two outspoken members of  the  Demon sympathizers were assassinated. President Fidel Lortia was killed when his  Motorcade was  blown up, as he headed to a meeting in Cuba. In Georgia, Stanislav Koriav and his famly wer executed while they slept,

  Though  this seems to  weaken the Demon hold on  Earth's Leaders, One wonders why such things have picked up?

  The Battle  for Delta  Omega seems to have ended. The Demon's allies   suffered a huge loss as the CAptial City was destroyed, along  with thousands of troops. Rumors  abound, that the Creshian..or 'bugs'..had been working with the Mulls , who were against the AP alliance. A very large Structure...assumed to be a Cheshian/Mull version of a  Carrier was destroyed, and  allied  forces  are now   mining its  contents....more in a momnet.

  A commerical comes  on showing snips  from battle  Vids, with HAmmers  and the Hermes  fighting, It shows  some  Ground troops coming off a shuttle craft with weapons  ready,"..NOW! you can have your Own adventures in  the AP, ESN  forces!..whther its  the  12' action figures, or the smaller posable figure, you can now, make up your  own Missions, your own stories as You play your favoirte heroes, or..make one up for yourself!.."

 The  commerical  shows  Action figures  Of  HAck, Spencer, Shadow, Hannah,, Angela, Frans, Stevens..all standing with  equiptment on, and  another Dozen or so figures  such a Rivets, Miller , Beth, Stoly...ect ect

 The smaller fgigure  come with more  weapons, or equiptment,  and Shadow comes  with  LAdy. Anglea  with  Rose Frans  and Eckles  m with thier  Craft.  Stoly comes with a Shuttle  Craft.

  News  Feed  from Fuji News


  ...The Olympus startion is gearing up for the ESN Championship  game Between the Hermes  Team and the Hades team...Senator Frans, of  Olympus makes no  secrect that he feels  Teh HAdes team will win.

  On that note, Gary. Many peoiple are looking at this game as  a political barometer..The HAdes team..LArgerly a Russian crewed  ship...is  said to be pro Demon, at least..to the point of talking nto them..they have yet to face Demons in battle , save  for  first contact a few years ago...The Hermes..is the f;lagship, of  Angel co-operation.  Unli Si, the Angel Ambassador that has  just beenposted to Fuji station, will be traveling with the Hermes, for the game as well , to earth for the christening  of the two Hero Class cruisers.

 the male annaocner  nodded and said with Earth, a solid Angel ourpost, the only weak spots are the few ships  and stations   out  in space that are sympathetic to the Demons... along those  lines, China has just finished thier own space craft...as they have never formaly joined the Earth Alliance..thier destroyer, Ming's Might..is set to  leave  Earth's orbit sometime today...it will tour the Home areas of our AP alliance..and have stated they will try to make contact with a demon vessal and start a dialogue with them. The Angels have warned them against such actions...one  can only wonder what will come of this....

  Attention , all Personnel....we have signed on board  , a Chaplin who has opened the chapel in the Business section of the town, and will aslo hear any problems that personall, Civie  or Military, wish to discuss...  Please  welcome, Chaplin Ethan  Graham...Comabt crew are strongly advised to seek him out with concerns....

  The  squaks click on  all over the ship, for  the latest 'breaking news' ( in the view of the  com operators).

 The HAdes  team was working out, The Captain of the Hades ship stood  with Senator Franz as the reorter interviewed them.

  Lias grey here with Capt Gregor Morski of the ESH HAdes, and Senator Franz, of the Olympus...tell me..people seemed pretty excited about the game, Why do you think that is?

 Well, Lias. Its a Championship game. Out here in space, it  is as big as the superbowl, because these are the teams we see play every week, and  these players also serve, i one way , or the other, the Earth and ESN the senator smiled at the Camara.

 ..i think..it is because..we have the rivals of the Hermes...the Commander and my self... Lt  Shadow  and Lt Progovitch..and ..of course ..the pride of both ships...for thier bragging rights...

 some say...this is a show of  the Proangel factions  and pro demon factions?

 no...no...they  are most wrong! This is about..who is the better team..the better ship...

 The Senator  gently nudges the Captain back,..the Angels are our allies...they have brought us into a new frontier..a frontier, we as Earthlings are  starting to get a grasp of....The Demons have done unspeakable things...so...to say 'pro-denon' is...a falsehood...what some people would like? is a working peace with teh demons...so our planet, and its peoples can be free to roam  space and colonize, without fear of war...

 ...but..senator Franz?...all of  our allies have been in space, eons before  we were ever found...what makes you think, the earth  could make  peace with a race that all others of the AP have found for centuries...

 A woman with a clipboard  stps in between Lias  and the others,..interview is over Miss..time to move  along......the screen goes black........

  The  Vid  screens all over the ship came on, Showing Commander Hack in his chair on the Bridge...

   Attention all Hermes Crew and Civies...As  of 5 minutes  ago, I have sent Messages to  Olympus, The Fuji, The Everest, Moon Base, MArs Colony, and Earth. We have a distress call coming from an Unkown  Passenger Liner... No logs  from any of the mentioned sites, have  a Liner coming this way, that we have not acconted for. Since the Olympus has found it.....wise....to allow a Demonic embassy on thier station..I have sent this message... If we meet an enemey Vessel near the  disrtessed Liner... we will act as though  that enemy vessel is in an act oif war...and we shall deal with it....Any....enemy vessel..that is in the area, must have thier  surrender lights on...and weapons  powered down..we will not warn them ...this  message is  thier  warning....

 He paused  for a Moment as he loked  at socme  screens the Vids  screens did not show,..there is activity out there...and we cannot tell what...But  any enemy vessel. this far into  the Sol system, will either be capturred, or destroyed....Lt Morrow  has been sending this  on all Com Channels  and wavelenghts...there is no excuse...there is no second  guessing....

 He looks  off camara  a moment then finishes, Lt. Miller as recieved  confirmation from all the sites i have sent messages to...there can be no misundertsanding, should we go to battle...The Harvestor will be sailing in from the side closest to earth, we will becoming in from the otherside...our fighters  will lead us in..Good Hunting....Hack...Out..

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   The News started with the normnal stories, until one, then  another ,Vid Network began showing  shots  from the Moon.. Passing  The Moon where Two EMS ships  flanking  the Hospital Ship   as they dragged the  wreckage of the Mica  and the Bloodoath...behind them was the  Blade..and behind  it the Hermes.

  All the news  shows  quickly cued  up scenes from thier feeds  that showed some of the BAttle...Fighters  being destroyed, as  well as shooting  down Demons...The Gun Camara vid of the  escaped Shuttle being blown to bits..through it all..no matter what country..the story repeated of the battle, and some graffic  vids that were released ..showing what the Demons  do to thier   prisoners.

   The Liner  and the  Bloodoath would be dropped off at the Orbit  scrap works, the  The Blade would follow the Hermes  into   the space docks... also in those  docs, were two , slightly smaller, streamlined cruisers..the  Achilles and the Hector..In Utah..on the  saltflats  ,the Bridge sectionss  were waiting for the  christening, and then would fly up to  join the  rest of the ships...

 Tomorrow  would be  a big day.
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   There  seemed to  be alot  for  folks tuning into the Vid screens, seeing Shadow  with  Un-li  and showing off what a pair  of Hermes folks  could do on  leave time...

  these vids, caused more then a few folks to ehad  down  to the Lowers.

 Though..not  all the  Hermes  crew, where happy with what they saw........

 Flwoign through the traffic of the news  feeds, the story of the day seemed to be   The Angel Ambassador, who was also the sister  of the Hermes' LC, and the sister-in-law of the Commander.

  replays of the fight  and how this may have ousted the Angel "syggested"  from his perch...and LAnded  Shadow in the catbird  seat to be another marriage of  convinence...specials  popped up  as networks  fought each other  for the stories, even digging out  old  pics of Hanah and Shadow, and   how  HAnnah stayed behind on earth...many offered suggestions  and questions about all this...but the focus  was on  the importance ot a Sector  Ambassador , fo royal Blood  and the Human Fighter pilot/football star...

 Buried in  quick blurbs and on the second  or third pages of   the newspapers was a  LArge explosion in the Demon ambassador's apratments...teo burnt bodies ..beyoound recognition..and the  Demon Ambassador   and his shuttle gone missing.

  an message, from an unkown sorce, said the Ambassador  from the demons had issues  with  one of  his house guests...killed the  two lovers  and left the Olympus in his shuttle...none of this  can be pinpointed though..then...Back to the Ambasador  and her flyboy.....

  Three Troop transports  left earth and MArs  Colony with troops and supplies  for the Delta Sector.  The ESN  and AP feel  they need to  make Delta  sector a hardpoint in the Defense of  Earth-spce.....As we all Know..the Delta Fleet, is  just the group of folks to do it!

  The Delta Fleet is gearing  up for possible confrontations in thier sector. Three Transports   are heading out to meet The Hermes, and  will follow them to Fuji Space.

  thus far, No Earth Navy Vessels have sailed deeper then  the Delta  Sector...the ESN is pushing to spread our  bountires, in an effort to meet any enemey vessels, before they can get too deep, into  earth-space.

 The chillign Vids of the Avain Nest ship, are an, all-too-grisley reminder. of what the Human race is considered, by invading  some of the more  evil, invading races....

  Picking Up the Coms, Commander  Hack announced to the ship..ALL HEAR THIS....ALL HEAR THIS...THE FOLLOWING WILL REPORT TO THE OFFICER'S  CLUB ASAP...SGT SPENCER...CHIEF  MULLIN...MAJOR CUMMINGS...CAPT MONROE...LT BOLS..LT SHADOW...

  THAT IS ALL.......

  Somewhere in the   Offices of the ESN. Is a young Admiral, that never  sailed on a ship..never  fired  a blaster in anger, or  ever flown a HAmmer.

  He studied to be a diplomat...he  studied  propaganda, and the misuse use of it...he studied   the ways to sway the crowd, to get people to vote your way.

  This same fellow. Had the idea, for playing  Live Vid  feed through out the AP and EArth networks.  The war became a spectator sport.  when asked, "why would  we show our  troops dying..what if  we lose a battle on  the vids?"

 The young fellow  merely replied...when we are winnning Pride  grows, and thus, our recruitment grows....when we lose...people want vengence..and ...again..our recruits grow....


  There weree  commericals..there were talk shows..there were panles  of  old retired  fighters  who would  analize this  and that....Credits  flowed into the AP and ESN coffers, and that helped build more ships, and  armor...Ads..for recruitment  were coupled  with Action figures  of Names seen , often...MAster SGT Spencer shooting   a sniper  rifle, while some kid back home was shooting a .22...then looking up to the sky.

  Shadow's  #19 Fighter flying into , and out of   the First LArgran Cruiser  the fleet ever  encountered, with   flames and explosions following  him...then Cutting to a scene of a Highschool senior signing up to fly Hammers.

  It was all there...Other faces who have been around, all with some marketing built around them...Hannah and Frans Looking at Dresses in a shop on Fuji, while two little girls looked at Combat uniforms  for  women...

 Now the  Camaras were on Earth's very first..ever..invasion of  another  world....

  The Camaras were switching to differant views from differant areas of the Invasion.

  Kase, Calhoun and Shadow ripping up  Shuttles, LArgans being scattered to the winds  as the  ships  broke up.

  An Explosion of a door in a Mountain side, as  troops  rushed towards the door...a Mech flaming  anything in side.

  A  scene ( not seen by the Bridge , until it was released!)..The Davinci's Troops  fighting  ...and taking a fortified complex of demons, Capturing  equiptment  and Killing dozens of demons...However  the  three armed  Trtansport ships headed to teh west, were blowing   the smalled ESN assault ships out of the water.

 The Second of the 2 LArgran Cruisers had  expolsions  and fire  coming from its Port side...it was keelign over and   headed into Alba..small shuttles were being launched as LArgrans  tried to escape...the Camara followed it  down , into the atmosphere...where it  hit somewhere in the Northern hemisphere in a large explosion.

 A woman Dressed in a Tight blue dress with ESN on her shoulders. She smiled at the   people from the screen,now? before  we get back to the battle? A word  from our sponcers....


 there was  a view of  Kids playing in a big sandbox  with action figures, and  large  toy ships... It was hard to pick out  Sahdow's Hammer...and Ravens  HAmmer... and  the camra closed in on Sgt Spencer figures  and ESN amrines and sailors...Chief Mullins  figures  and Commander Hack...all kinds of  aline  figures littered the ground as the  kids  "battled"

 The Kids  themselves had   Jumpsuits on that looked like  ESN   or ESN MArine Uniforms...some had  Flight jackets on with  patches  on the shoulder, and ensignas on thier  backs.

don't forget Kids..you too! can fight the demons....

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  There was   another spot, Of Shadow  drinking from  a can, when a woman came up to him  and asked him ,what does  someone like you drink? she purred...

  Kray held up  the Can to show the Picture of  a ghostly woman on the can,..why...Nightengale's Rootbeer..or birch beer...  he winked...

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  the camras  came back tot he womanwelocme back!..now....remember..this is the first full scale battle, our  ground forces ahve every had , with the demons, outside out solar system...the last ground actioons we had, of any size? Was in the  Mars battles  , from a few years ago....lets see how  our troops are doing?...

  the camras cut back , going to the  charging   Demons, another Sherman Tank going up in a gout of flame....

   the  screens  around the ship where switched  from normal view to the  Earth News Network ( ENN). The  two men and one woman  were talking about the invasion of Elba...

  So, in a little more then 4 days, the  Detla Fleet took a Spacestation and a planet...we have to wonder, if they will be as successful on Bura?  the  blackman with Glasses  said  as he looked at the Monitor..a small inset in the scrren showed " highlights" of  attacks...always ending  with the Mass destruction of the Demons as they charged  from the Huge  transports.

   Its  HArd to tell , Myron. we had  surprise on both these attacks, Bura  will be waiting, and  all sources say, there are at least 2 Demon Cruisers at LArge out there..one  would only assume, they were at, or near Bura? the  thin, older white woman said.

 Ah, now ya all be a bit on the worry side. Until they out and stop us...we have ta figure they'll be a getting whomped as we push throiugh the system...with thaat station we took, and  Fuji? as well as the Delta Planets and  the two planets we will have  annexed....AND... he held up a metal finger on his replaced right hand,...there are already three ships ready to  pull out from Earth, Mars Colony and The Washington Colony, with Civie Miners  ready to  go down on that Burned out Planet that is being Renamed...Phoenix...there  are Metals, minarals there  that  the ESN uses in ship building and weapons  making...with the Trees  from the Delta Palent and Angel-tech...it won't belong  before the surface is reclaimed..until then? they will  live below the surface as they rebuild  and mine... he shakes his head with a grin,ifin i had  all my parts?...I would be signin' up right now...good time to be ESN!

 The Woman  and the  other man laughed as the  camara swung to the Black man,..And there you have it , From ESN  MArine Vet, Sean McGivens....A good time to be ESN!....we rejoin your  normal programs, if you want to relive the  invasions and  the fleet atcion at Tortuga? Please turn to the ESN channel, where the   clips and Commentary will be running i8n loops, until we have further  Up dates.

  As people settled down, Vid screens were  tuned to catch happenings  on Earth and her  holdings.

  The  Top story was. Ambassador Frans, has deceide to  'clean up' Olympus' Grotto Section...reports of   OP and even some  ESN Shore Patrol , getting into  gunfights with gang Members.

  The action grew to be unpopular , with the  people of Olympus, And the OP  has begun scaling back its efforts to clean out the area..

 ............................

 when sports  came on, there was the rundown of the normal stuff, until they began talking football. Earth was going to field a Team this  year in the ESN league...there were working out how the team would travel to play  "ship teams", but they foresaw no real trouble.

  the Face of the Earth Team was..Jonny Blue..A fighter Pilot , out of San Diego. he flew Hammer IIis against smugglers and slavers on earth, alot of his action, being in South America.

  WQhen asked  , how he thinks Earth Team will do?well...I'm Jopnny Blue? The best QB to come out of College in the last 200 years..and  I'm the Best damn pilot you'll ever see...got me 42 kills.....

All hear this...all hear this...all military report to the Hanger Dec, with over  flow as directed to the Rec Dec....all Civie personell begin shut  down for  combat...

  the message repeated itself  4  more times.

  The Pilots had  very small vbid screens, but from time to time  a new flash would be sent to them ( until they entered combat)...the shuttles, Cap ship, transport Bases..and everything that use  a COM line  received the pics  coming from Astra.

  Random shots  Of High powered Pulse rounds, or Old fashion Shells, slamminginto  cities  or   farmlands, or towns...The..the  great City Of Ragen, Glowing Green as its  containment  filed held the Gas in...and fires  bruned from the explosions from the ship, and the  Pods....that coupled   with  Hover car crashesand  wide spread  panic...The demons, looked like any other race that was being attacked  By superior force.

  shots of melting demons screaming...one shot of a Demon Med tech, trying to help a fallen Male, only to get the stuff on her, and  watch her hands  melt away

 BAck on Earth. Two LTs  sat in the Offcie of  one of them. The Russian  drank  from a bottle of Vodka, while the American woman drank some iced tea. They had some  food there to Nibble on, and the Vid screens Lt Stoly had installed, gave them access to the battle footage.

  not that no one else had the view...the "news" ship was running camareas of its own..from the ship itself and  small camera Drones, they spliced in feeds  that HAck allowed them so , from time to time , they could see what the fighters were doing as well.

 ..I still feel..Guilty, like we should be there.... Hannah said  as her eyes would dart to whatever  Vid screen showed a fighter.

 Stoy leaned back in his chair, he watched the  enemy Caps ships, now knowing there were no 'real' shuttles on Astra..he had  an Idea where they would be,Nyet, Hannah. You don't  think like that...we would be there,,if we could...we are there...in spirit...at least...we can watch, like  crewmen...

    Stoly laughed as he pointed to the Stoly#1,..HA HA!...That will be them!...going right at the Head of the Beast! There...would be you n Hannah..Da?

 she nodded, now feeling better, that they at least know, where most of their  friends ..I never liked going on those ships...you enever knew what you were going to find...


 Stoly  agreed, Best thing to see, the  the demons beiong Dead.....Look!...

 he  froze the picture, the transferred that feed to another Vid screen , before letting the main screen continue,..The Tailfin on that new HAmmer...19..that is Shadow...

 She smiled, that turned to concern, but  opened into a smile once more,..Yes...I could not beleive they make him switch from LAdy...I hear she is  Helping  the Bura folks....but...Shadow is all alone up there now...  the Fighter  followed By  one who's  wings were painted Green, and one that had a Eastern Bloc  flag under the Hermes insignia.

  She had Seen  Frans' fighter, that was all she could pick nout  from the fast moving footage...

 ...I would not want to be on that planet now.... Payback is coming  by the Shuttle load....things   will be a bit differant, after this action....

 All acroos   space..not just EArth Space..or ESN space...but  anywhere COMs and VIDs  could reach...The Attack on Astra by ESN forces....Offically Unaided by the AP, or the Angels themselves...Occui, Sanri, Humans , Angels..and the whole of the Demon Empire where watching this...just as they saw snippets of the battles...all was  uncut..no edits...every misteps..every victory was seen...and Now..the 'wrap up show"

  A very good Looking  half-angel women smiled at the Camera. Films began to roll, her  face dropped down to the right hand corner  as the films   mirrors her commentary.

 Hello, and welcome to the ESN Space Network...we try to show everything..to everyone...

 with a flick of her hand behind her  she began. Astra...a supposed  peaceful planet..founded by the Largrans and Given over to the Demons as a show  of friendship... Demon, LArgran, and Creshian peoples have lives  together in peace, for some 1000 years...Until today.

  At 0100 Black Time, The Delta Fleet  Attacked  Astra, deeming it a threat to the newly acquired space that b Admiral HAck has added to ESN's holdings, in Tortuga's Space at the Edges of the Delta  Sector...This Atack was frowned on by our Angel leaders, and some of the Admiralty In San Diego. Admiral HAck..continued with his course...and this is the results of Today's actions....

  There were some  small Vid clips , and a lot of  slideshows of  pics taken on the Planet..screaming   Civies...exploding  Military Vehicles  and  huge buidings on fire.

  Hack had  Promised to give the Demons and thier allies  a Taste of what it is like to have your homes invaded ..people killed..he made good on that ..and in spades....


 behind her  as the explosion of Ragen...and  films of the  Huge  fires Burning across the planet...shots of the  dark side of the planet were more  graphic, as the  flames stood out  against the backround

 ..the attack exposed some of the Lies, from the Demonic Empire...the  total destruction of Ragen, and some 900.000 Civies is due to  a new weapon  developed and stored on Ragen for the Migon Fleet to use against the  new kids on the block...seems the New Kids stood up to the bully....


  While the loss of ...Millions of people , and a planet, would be a crippling blow..the  biggest blow to the Demonic Empire was the Loss of  the Migon Fleet..and its NAme sake..Admiral Migon..in daring raids... One Demonic Cruiser , The Nilo was captured, 2 others were destroyed..Including Admiral Migon's Fladship, The Verg...the destroyer escorts were destroyed as well...from reports, there were very little...if  any survivors of the fleet..This Puts   the Delta Fleet and the ESN in control of a very important sector of space, as it is a crossroads of sorts, for Demon ships headed to Angel space...from all reports, The delta Fleet is nehaded Home to rearm,  and come back....Astra is  now..an ESN world....

  The News  flowed out of the Delta Sector like water  down a sluice. People , all over the   Human settled  worlds.

 There was  Mixed  emotions, Humans chattered and  formed up behind their  outspoken leaders....some  said "..not a good thing, Don't make the  Demons  mad...don't pick on the Angels "

 Others said "..how can we hope to  prevail against the Demons, when longer lived, more powerful races have backed down?"

 Still others just " wanted to be friends, and live together in a peaceful universe."

 Professors, Doctors, Lawyers, heads of State all weighed in on this subject. The thing that would make the Morning Vids, was a Vet from the First Mars wars..his Metal arm and hand reached up, and saluted the Vid of HAck Ranting  into the FAce of  the Empoor. "..That's what we should have done, from the start.." was his quote.

  Most of the religious folks did not like Hack's words...people battled on talk shows. But in the End..The ESN officals  gave their support, the statement was made.

  "These beings  we face, are no Humans..they do not live on our planet. Over the years, we have had  our monsters..we fought them, we beat them...but the  worst of them did not eat Humans...practice Breeding and Testing...We Give Leave for the Delta Fleet to conduct weapons testing onany Demonic Prisoners they wish...This is a fight for our very lives...our very existence...to use the  words of a very old Classic Movies....' we're  coming...and hell's  coming with us.."