User blog:I am that guy/Announcement

-Baltic League Caelmare Center of Operations, Codename: Hancock-

Commodore Kaznizki sat in the same place he had for the previous two weeks, in Hancocks command centers reviewing repair updates to the Caelmare Expeditionary Fleet. Repairs went slow, but progress is being made: already the battleship Silesia and the battlecruiser Samogitia were out making patrol runs.

If only reinforcements could arrive. Any redeployments to the outer system were cancelled in the face of the german invasion. Much of the interstellar fleet were being redeployed to earth for the same reason. If half the Expeditionary Fleet hadn't been lost, some of its ships would've surely gone home.

So here they were, out on the fringe of the explored planet. It would've been pleasant, had-

"Commodore, incoming transmission," the second watch communication officer announced.

"What's its ID?"

"Unknown," he replied, "it doesn't match anything in the database"

"Activate the firewalls, and put it on the main view screws."

The black screen lit with the image of a woman dressed in almost elegant clothing, behind her was a flag he'd never seen before. Scratch that, he had seen it: waving from the ships that blew his fleet to pieces.

'''"Hello, I am Elizabeth Hohenstettin, Queen of Manticore. Manticore is the planet that you off worlders have come to call Caelmare. You may be confused, so allow me to fill you in: our ancestors left earth many years ago to escape a corrupt and polluting civilization. We settled here to start a new life for us and our descendants. For a while, we looked forward to re-contacting humanity, and seeing that they learned from their mistakes. Our hopes rose when we found out it discovered Neo-Earth.

'''Our died when the nuclear bombardment of Neo-Earth occurred. We realized humanity hadn't changed a bit in those years. We realized our very way of life would be in jeopardy when our home was discovered. We spent the subsequent years preparing for the invasion that was inevitable.

'''Now, here you are. If you're any military worth it's funding, you would've tracked this transmission to an archipelago in Manticore/Caelmares south west hemisphere. My military has established a 500 kilometer radius no-go zone around the islands. Any unauthorized intrusion into that area will be known, and will be dealt with, severely and swiftly. If any force wishes to meet personally will be able to contact us on this frequency. I'll be looking forward to those calls."'''

The transmission ended and the screen cut back to black. "Was that sent just to us?"

"No, sir," the comm officer replied, "it's omnidirectional. Anyone with anything better than a ham radio could pick that up."