"After you meet a new race you have only two options, to kill them or join them, every option falls under one of the two categories so I ask you which will you choose?"
Recon Team 6
Thousands of men and woman from every planet or country in the Human Territory sat in a large tribunal with the current president in the center. The president himself was an old black man, the voice of Morgan Freeman, and the looks of Denzel Washington. This meeting was the very first of its kind, the council was gathered to deiced what they should do with the newly found planet named Equus due to the fact that there are a large population of sapient horses.
"WE MUST LEAVE THEM BE!!! We mustn't change their history at our own whim!" shouted the governor of the planet Vector.
The representative of the UK reached over to the representative of Poland and whispered "Some one has been watching to many Star Trek movies." That comment elected a small chuckle from the short blonde male.
"I say we invite them into our country! We could make a great ally from this. Image what we could learn form this race! All of its knowledge... Do you know what this could mean for the human race?" Stated a random representative.
"What will we learn from a race that is 1,000 year behind in technology!? How to improve our catapults? How to better use witch craft? What could we possible learn, I say leave them be." Shouted the representative of the USA.
The arguments continued for two long days, and every day the meetings lasted 10 hours with only two recesses. But on the third day the head general of the Army interjected. "Why don't we send in the Recon special forces?" Everyone stopped their arguments to look at him, he was a large white man with extremely broad shoulders and a large scar an his face. "We send in a Recon team to gather more knowledge before you make a final decision. How can you want to make a decision on something that you know almost nothing about, its like aiming at a 2 inch target in the darkness. What do you say to my proposal?"
The president smiled then stood and said, "Cast in your votes, yes or no. Yes in favor of his plain or no against his plain" The president sat down, and in a few minutes all the votes were accounted for, " Yes with 87% of the vote, General," he then turned to the towering man. "Dispatch the team a soon as possible. I want to hear this go off without a snitch."
The General saluted with a "Will do sir!" And then he left with a smirk on his face. Because he knew the perfect team for this operation, and the credit that the Army would receive for doing this would be amenze.
~~August 2344, one week after the meeting~~
A small group of men sat around a large conference table inside of a very nice building, the building looked as if a court house and a mansion had been crossed to make this. As for the small group there was the CO, Master Sergeant Blucher, the Head Strategist of the operation, and a few spectators. "Why us sir? Why are team?" Asked Master Sergeant Blucher. Blucher was a muscular white male, he had blue eyes and brown hair.
The CO of Fort Wayne IN turned to Blucher and replied "As I said before the Head General himself requested that your team was to be sent." Blucher had been told that his team was to be the first humans to step foot on this newly discovered planet Equus, now of course Blucher was trying to dump this pressure on some other team in the Recon Corps but the CO was not buying his argument.
"Sir I am well aware of what he said but why!? Three of the guys in our squad just came out of basic! How can we be qualified to do this task!? I've heard more sane things from Mel Gibson!" The joke obviously didn't reach the CO having Mel Gibson die over 200 years ago.
"I have no idea, but orders are orders! Now tell your team to make their way to the ship, you will be taking off soon to head to the USS Constantine in orbit of Equus!" Yelled the CO obviously irritated.
Blucher brought his hand up in salute "Sir yes sir." he than turned around to head ti his barrack to brief his team. God why my team? he asked himself over and over again while he was walking through the maze like system of building. As he was walking by the Recon Corps head quarters he stopped to admire the Corps he was in. But then he began to recall the he was on a bullshit task and continued his walk.
After Recon Team 6 was briefed they made their way to HMS Wales, it was a small high speed messenger ship. Once the ship took off which isn't a pleasant felling to have 2Gs of pressure coming down on you, they then began to head to the teleporter orbiting the moon. "Everyone in your seats please!" Said one of the pilots over the speakers. The teleporter are a recent invention, after the Rebellion of 2276 the UEG saw how separated the empire was and the UEG council ordered the construction of 439 teleporters, now they are the most used way of travel.
Once through the teleporter they arrived near Planet Terreria. "Sir why are we at Terreria? This isn't anywhere close to the frontier. " Stated Sergeant Michaels, he was just recently transferred to Team 6
"They have not establish a teleporter past this point, hence why we are in a high speed messenger ship." Replied Blucher. "Well gets some sleep it will take about a day before we get there!"
"Yes sir."
~~Three Days Later~~
The team was exactly 4 hours from departure to the planet Equus, they have spent the past two days going over the maps of the planet, and what to do if they encounter any conflict with the natives. "You will be landing in the kingdom of Terra Iungentur, we wa-"
"Terra Iungentur, sir?" Asked Blucher.
"Its Latin it means land of the Griffons," It fazed no one that he had said that there were Griffons, on the planet they have found Manticores, pegacorns, unicons, pegasi, and all other kinds of weird species in the world . "But we believe they are the strongest country for they have the largest and most technologically advanced army. So you will land in these mountains to the West for we believe that at the base of those mountains is their capital. After you've collected enough data on that you will head south into this forest, which is owned by the largest country on this planet. It also is the largest horse inhabited one. On the opposite side of this forest is a large valley with a small town and then the Equus capital, it is also at the base of these mountains," he pointed to them on the map. " After that we want you to investigate this country north- west of them it is nicknamed Polska."
"Polska? Like Poland" asked Private Kathy, She was the recently recruit from basic, she had the best scores of her class, and was an obvious chose for the Recon Corps. She was somewhat short for her generation, she had blonde hair and a violet hued color eye, she was from the planet Hellious, and it was not uncommon for people from that planet to have violet eyes.
"Exactly, their flag is the exact same as Polands' minus a few details. Okay after you've scouted that place you will he to these large plains, that will be you extraction point. This whole thing should take about two weeks, the maps have already been uploaded to your armor will be on the drop-off ship."
"Why do we need weapons, sir? I thought this was strictly a reconnaissance mission, non of our conflict training involved weapons," asked Kathy again.
"There are many dangerous creatures on this planet, most of which are from Greek mythology, you shouldn't run into any though... The weapons are just a precaution... You are all dismissed head to the armory to collect you rifles and side arms. Dismissed!" He saluted as did Team 6.
The team began to head to the armory to pick Rifles and side arms, MSG Blucher, Pvt Kathy, and SG Michaels had assault rifles. Pvt Badowski was the sniper. SSG ACKER , Pvt Basa were heavy machine gunner and assistant gunner.
The team then had their way to Hanger 2, there was the small drop ship that would carry them dow to the mountains. Within the ship was the 'Mark-12 ICPS' (Individually Carriable Power Armor) it was the newest version of Power Armor but it involved a lengthy process of putting it one. A process that included button pressing, screwing in place, hooking in place, and latching. It took roughly 40 minutes to put on and activate, but it all made up for it when you could look to your shoulder and see the Recon Corps symbol.
After they equipped their armor they got aboard the drop off ship and awaited their departure in an unsettling silence . And a short while later they were taking off to the planet Equus, or how blucher would put it "This piss of shit hell hole that just so happened to be called a planet." Once they were at the snow caped mountains the ship lowered in altitude until they landed, every member jumped out one by one and as soon as they did their armor changed colors to better camouflage them in this snow covered environment.
Blucher turned back to his squad and shouted "Grab a supply bag and move out, we have a schedule to keep! Okay I have two rule, one follow my command, two don't get lost! Lets make our way down this mountain, I want to get of this piece of permafrost Earth. MOVE OUT! " They then began their long trek down the mountains, but they were in for an unexpected surprise.
~~Mean while in the Griffon Capital~~
Princess Twilight along with the other elements of Harmony were getting ready to head to the Aplines Mountains to do some research on a rare dragon clan in there. The was there on special command of Princess Celestia, these dragons are the most intelligent and aggressive of all the dragon species.
"Hey Twi we'll be leavin for the mountains in about 20 minuets." Said AJ
"Ok I just need to make sure I have everything on my list....... Ok thats all of it, come on Spike lets go." The three began to leave the castle to meet up with everypony else by the gate.
(A/N I thought I'd make a quick chapter Describing the history of the Recon Corps. To help you better understand why they are in existence.)
May 4, 2032- European Union falls.
March 18, 2054- The United States launched SBLS or Satellite Based Laser System, this made the USA, Canada, and Europe immunized to MAD
January 2, 2055- Radical party takes over China.
April 2, 2055- Socialist East Russia succeeds from European West Russia.
April 17, 2055- China joined the side of East Russia, Europe and North america turn their back due to economic problems.
August 9, 2055- West Russia won the war, and soon China turns their attention to India.
August 12, 2055- The slavic countries fearing invasion from russia form an alliance know as the Polish-Bloc, all Slavic countries join the alliance also including Estonia, and Hungary.
August 19, 2055- China invades India.
June 4, 2057- After a long and bloody war India surrenders.
October 7, 2057- The countries Russia, China, North Korea, Ukraine (forced into it), Nepai, Thailand (Forced in), Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Kuwait (Forced in),Afghanistan, Iran, Azerbaijan, Syria, Turkey (forced in), Jordan (forced in), Saudi Arabia (forced in), Yemen, Libya, Lebanon, Algeria, Qatar, South Africa, Cuba, and Venezuela unit under The Red Star Confederation.
October 23,2057- The Red Star Confederation invades South Korea, USA declares war
November 3, 2057- James Hual says his famous quote "Yes sir; your country is recovering from an economical downfall, and many of you voted against the war. And like my father always said, majority rules in truth and lie... But my good sir, you wont have a debt when The Red Star Confederation owns you!" After that many counties joined the war.
November 15, 2057- The counties United States of America, Mexico, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Spain, Portugal, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Germany, the Polish-Bloc, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Israel, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Chile, and Ethiopia come under the banner of The Coalition.
December 1, 2057- The Red Star Confederation invades Eastern Europe and as a result WW III started.
December 4, 2057- Russian troops quickly dive into Eastern Europe, the Ukrainian Army (Which was completely unprepared) was driven back to the capital Kiev, the capital had US troops, and Polish troops as its only defenders.
December 5, 2057- In order to gather more detail a few men from Polish GROM and the Green Berets were sent behind enemy lines.
December 5, 22:00, 2057- The joint force of Polish GROM and the Green Berets intercepted and destroyed a Russian convoy carrying, food, fuel, and munitions. That act postponed the siege long enough for Polish-Bloc troops to arrive and lift the siege.
After the brave actions of the soldiers the UN decided to in place a special forces branch in Poland and the US called the Recon Corps, or R-Cor for short.
October 11, 2062- The battle for Beijing (Won by the Coalition) sealed the fate of the war.
May 3, 2063- The Red Star Confederation surrendered, the war left 1.2 billon dead and left Eastern Europe in ruins.
