The Ukrainian battle fleet dropped just outside of Mars' orbit. The 15 or so ships were not all that the exiled people had to offer but it was what they had to spare. New Kiev could not be abandoned while the fleet was elsewhere.
Dmitri Tartarkov stood on the bridge of [i]The shield of the people[/i] the bridge officers went about their duties as the fleet began to slowly advance on Mars. The fleet entered into orbit around it and dispatched probes to the surface. The three dreadnoughts and two carriers that comprised the core of the fleet were protected by the various other ships. A mining ship was sent to the asteroid belt to recover useful material. Now they would wait for contact.
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[b]Boss was standing right behind the General, unbeknownst to him.[/b] "Kept you waiting, huh?"
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He sighed. "You sound different snake."
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"Well, stick around for as long as I have, and such things begin to take effect..." [spoiler]I HATE KEIFER SUTHERLAND WHY DID THEY CHANGE IT?!?!?!?![/spoiler]
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[spoiler]But-but.....Jack Bauer makes everything better[/spoiler]
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[spoiler]NO. DAVID HAYTER IS MASTER[/spoiler]
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[spoiler]NO! WE ARE BOTH WRONG! SAMUEL L JACKSON IS GOD[/spoiler]
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[spoiler]... FAIR ENOUGH[/spoiler]
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[spoiler]NOT FAIR ENOUGH! -blam!- ALL THOSE OTHER HOLLYWOOD BITCHES! SAMUEL L JACKSON IS THE BEST ACTOR IN GODDAMN HISTORY![/spoiler]
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[spoiler]BUT DAVID HAYTER ISN'T AN ACTOR! HE'S THE ORIGINAL VOICE ACTOR FOR SNAKE![/spoiler]
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[spoiler]DAVID HAYTER AND WHOEVER THE -blam!- VOICED DARTH VADER ARE THE BEST VOICE ACTORS![/spoiler]
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[spoiler]I THINK IT WAS... HOLD ON LEMME LOOK IT UP[/spoiler]
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[spoiler]OK![/spoiler]
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[spoiler]IT'S MUDDAFUKKIN JAMES EARL JOOOOONES!!!![/spoiler]
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[spoiler]THAT'S WHO IT WAS! GODDAMMIT I CAN'T -blam!-ING THINK IN THE MORNING! AHHHHHHHHHHH![/spoiler]
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"If you say so. What can I do for you? Other than give you a cardboard box?" [spoiler]IDK, but it was the biggest mistake.[/spoiler]
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"Hey, you're the one that sent me on this mission. I scouted Ukrainian soil, like you asked. Found the main ignus strongholds."
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"Well it appears that the situation in Mars is a powder keg. I need eyes on the ground however, you and your men fit that bill exactly."
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"Perfect. Just tell us when and where, and we'll be off."
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[b]you see a large Galactic Russian Federation Frigate with several large rail guns and glave cannons onboard capable of decimating your fleet in orbit [/b]
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The Ukrainian fleet hailed their Slavic brothers, it had been hundreds of years since either group had fought, ever since the Euro-Chinese war that Eastern Europe the new centre of power the two peoples had been allies.
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[b]they respond[/b] "This is General Natalia Yozhkiov please identify yourselves"
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"This is general Dmitri Tartarkov, of the Ukrainian Space Force, we had no knowledge that you and your fleet were in the area general."
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"The fleet is not here just my ship"
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"In my experience General, frigates never stray to far from the fleets they protect, except on patrol. You must forgive my conventional assumption. At any rate we did not expect anyone to be here."
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"Well then welcome to mars"