Dev Shadows of Atrisia

[Junko Ike]

Her wave was met with nods of approval and grins from the others who were there that she could see... all of her handmaidens were out here now... plus all the guards and palace staff assembled as the lockdowns were finishing up. Well worth it as she rarely got to see all of them assembled but she had a date to plan and was going towards her room with the different outfits and clothing... beneficial to her when she arrived with a dozen different dresses l;aid out with all accessories that would be needed to go with them normally but she could also and would likely mix and match while her handmaidens filtered themselves back into the room and Xifang came in finding a place on the floor.

"Welcome back you." She said it and the tiger looked at her for a moment and it was massive still even laying down.... then just rolled its eyes since it was less a fierce creature that would protect her and a more large house cat.... complete with likely planning how to secretly dispose of her and take over the palace at least until it realized she was the one who fed it..... then it might miss her but there was no promise that would be the case. HEr handmaidens were also coming in as Barca was there with Kirano and Uzeki but they were at the different entryways to the room, Tripitaka, Phaidor and Min were with Jubei showing her various outfits.

 

[Junko Ike]

THe different outfits they had picked out were just as important... they were a reflection in many ways of the various handmaidens and how they saw the princess... Min and Jubei seeing her more refined and dour as the kimono was thicker and longer but lined with fur at the cuffs and edges. Giving it a look of higher class... Phaidor saw her in a shorter kimono that was sleeveless and much more like a dress while Tripitaka and Ai well they saw her as something to hide away with not just the kimono but also a large cloak that she would be wearing and have set up around herself... thick hairpieces that hung off her like extra bangs but were light enough weight.

Junko wanted to take them all as costume and dress changes were important on such a trip and Alderaan offered a great many places to see that she would be... better yet, well she was going to be hanging on the arm of some noble lady... which meant she needed to be able to present the best appearance... so various ones would have to do it. The smile was creeping up along her face though when she was going forward and they would be getting to see it all... "Load it all onto the ship." PLenty of space in her massive flying palace compared to many of the others and with Atrisian technologies they were developing advanced dimensional engineering for ships.

 

[Junko Ike]

She looked at them and nods came as her handmaidens were moving and getting to the ships... their main interests in developing and making sure their princess well had friends outside Atrisia or a lover so they could leave possibly... if not leave well then at least someone who was new and again off of Atrisia to let Junko leave and get back into the galaxy again. SHe was a jedi master who was used to traveling and had spent several years on the planet isolated and developing it... with people but her usual social nature had taken a hit in favor of Shoma roaming around in different governmental bodies of senates and councils that were for the Alliance or First Order or CIS.

THe hallway to the ship at the top of the hanger though... beautiful and lined with two things... 'Mirrors' and waterfalls. The simple design meant to invoke as they were using optical illusions and white current in the hallways itself so that she would be able to immerse and conceal. The currents of the illusion and force visible to her but in the mirrors you could see different things from alcoves and walls that revealed hidden rooms others might not and would likely not be able to find... or guardians that had been cloaked to protect them. Junko took much seriously even though she pretended not to and with their new technologies this could become much much more.

 

[Junko Ike]

The other sections of the palace that they were working on served them well here, as the corridor revealed other defenses. THe mirrors were secluded and used to conceal.. the guards to protect and were both visible and invisible... the doorways dead to the force and imprinted with her image so that the creatures themselves would only respond to her. It was all meant to be quite a... well quite a place to protect store rooms as far as many knew... these were just off the hanger and main royal chamber not for guests but were instead lined with more private artworkd and things she had worked on such as the statue of her, Supisy and Latyuo that was a replica of the master in the garden.

The doors to the hanger and her vessel were also nothing to scoff at as they were designed two fold.. to be just as hard to get through either way since it could be used to defend in a siege if the ship was attacked and the hanger invaded the triple layer doorway would hold... and in the case of an evacuation the doors would be there to hold and buy them time to have everything ready. A clever design and as she held a hand the force came out of her fingers and worked the physical locks within, the biometrics and her mind was read by sensors as she gave mental impressions in a certain order mostly something that could be done under stress... "Half real, half force based and half that don't really exist."

 

[Junko Ike]

She was smirking to herself thinking that hey it was a pretty clever notion on their part.. it wasn't like they had made it with bad intentions just well the interions of not being misused or turned into a hobble as protection was every bit important to their larger goals. So corridors like this could be made and if they managed to get both effecient and popular enough well Sasori and the Commonwealth wealth would take their dimensional engineering to as many new levels as they could when they pressed the limits and expanded. THey were already using the exotic energy which harvested from infinite dimensional planes, allowing them to have sustainable energy across the Commonwealth.

They had a number of other ideas as well, the gree were presenting well a model of how to do certain things and if they fashioned some of their inner workings like them well the technological aspect could be beneficial... the cultural might not be so but they would be able to work with that and they were provided for. The gree maintained their worlds and didn't fall to the wayside or go extinct, being one of the few that could be counted on a single hand civilizations. So they must have been doing something right. As she passed through the massive and thick triple set doors where defensive alcoves made for wicked cross fire and then used hypergate technology to redirect the shots that would be missed into a downward trajectory.

 

[Junko Ike]

Once through the doors though the hanger opened up... her ship was there all gleaming black metal and gold aurodium. Simple in its design and colors sure but serving a greater purpose as it pushed itself further and further. The open space between being a contained area as the walls shimmered with shielding and the containment shielding for the ship activate sealing it up except for the active turbolasers that were partially through the shield. Allowing them to fire at close range and the shield ot handle the resulting explosion and well engulfing the area around the ship in plasma and heat. A final line of defense as needed of course and one that most things couldn't survive.

Junko proceeded up the small ramp into her ship and was welcomed to the sights and sounds of it. Sterile hallways, polished floors and walls displaying tens of billions worth of gemstones, aurodium, kyber and silks. Murals, paintings, banners all of it there and giving a more regal look then a normal ship yes as there was artwork and private collections instead of additional sleeping quartrers in the private levels but her crew had some of the biggest areas to themselves and were away from the opulant display that was her palace. The team heading to the bridge of the ship as it was rising up and getting all of the needed clearances.

 

[Junko Ike]

THey were leaving the planet quickly enough, and Junko entered the bridge of the ship. Large and spacious with a central throne where she could sit and direct or observe. The captain of the ship was more than capable to command it and knew how she liked her ship to be flown after so many years serving her. The woman was also one of the survivors from the attacks on Atrisia and knew best how to survive, so a cushy retirement flying around a princess in the royal family and getting a fat stipend for your service... well that was likely also a good thing. Her daughter being a handmaiden was always a possibility when she got old enough, being the youngest.

Junko found her seat on the throne and it was hers... it was designed to her biometrics to be a command chair and pulled up everything as it connected to her interface tool and updated itself and her interfaace. Holographic overlays were there as they were flying past the Anshin shielding of the first ring... the mooons visible and shown to be thriving as they had been working on those with terraforming. The stations in this gap between the shields and rings filled with other stations like cherry blossom and rancor station. Each part of it so they housed tens of millions in space as well as on the anshin or as she turned and looked at the world itself.

 

[Junko Ike]

Atrisia was glowing practically, with the air scrubbers they had cleaned it and the trees, the oceans, the mountains were all sharper... more colorful it seemed. Streaks of crystal that had been grown in the mountains or cultivated to be palaces and in areas. She could see the different cities with their defenses walls as well spread out and radiating as each one served a purpose among the continents and on the planet directing and handling aspects for the emperor and empress. There was even her area of the islands she could see that was larger but also covered several of the bigger islands so their defensive barriers needed to be much different as pylons that fish could pass through.

The outer layer at least, they were still large spires built around the islands making three walls just not always physical just energy based and still had the coverage of planetary shielding in sections to be stronger, advanced fighter support as well as naval vessels that could be sent in quickly enough. Then from the planet she could look and see the closer stations which served different functions from resource manufacturing like livestock cloning... for meats and parts that could be flash cloned, harvested almost daily and sent down in abundance. To medical supplies which had much the same and textiles or materials which could be stockpiled and ready to go.

 

[Junko Ike]

Beyond the resource stations there was rancor, cherry blossom which were massive in their size in deep orbit and were just within the protection of the first layer of the AAnshin. The metal struts projecting the shield as it shimmered and they passed through the gate of it. Junko able to see the city itself as buildings came off of its smooth surface and made what amounted to streets for navigation to private hangers coming from Atrisia... leaving it you had dozens more and there was the placement of defensive cannons that were loaded with even more manufacturing equipment and medical production. Housing was also important as the anshin was there with many of the clans working together.

From the anshins first ring it went into the space and there were the moons themselves. The twin moons of Atrisia serving as they did, with one a massive cityscape and the other fairly rural as they were working to terraforming it. Making it into a mini Atrisia as they had other worlds like Sakura which had been lost to fighting and an empire rising up on the world itself. Their moons were being populated, the mini ideal world of Sakura for vacations among the people and paradise islands were important to mental health and they could do more with it. Then there were the defensive stations scattered around and basically coordinated to protect the space between the two planetary shields with the fleet.

 

[Junko Ike]

Then her eyes were going towards it, the second layer of the anshin... the largest of the dyson spheres that was created for defensive measures and its shild gate that was more heavily defended on either side. So you had a massive chokepoint and protected back up generators. Security measures within designed to be near impossible with tests and checks almost weekly to keep the crews on their toes. It was like that in all the anshins across the Atrisi system... each world showing itself as important and the people invaluable so... all of them merited the best paid security forces and defense contractors who were deeply loyal to them.

She could see the fleet as they passed and the numerous dragon's fangs were a beautiful sight to behold... a testament to Atrisian design but also to well their ability to come back as the ship itself had been a singular one they were able to build for the navy. To defend them or buy what little time they could. beifong had turned the navy around and the military on the ground had had the three generals... a needed balm in the time that still could be felt as they allowed the time and resources needed to recover and expand. Now they had grown like warriors from the dragon's teeth in the old legends... thousands of ships that they could produce to protect their dragons... the flagships of the royal family.

 

[Junko Ike]

THey passed through the second shield gate... the beauty that was Atrisia with its many stations, structures and ships giving way to the system itself and far in the distance and around them as far as could be seen now.. The dyson class stations shielding. Massive and serving in a way that few others could boast. Tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of little stations built and manned by drone biots, pilots looking to serve and monitor and protect. Which it did and it absorbed from the helipause and their system on both ends heat, radiation, energy being able to store it and harvest it into massive reactors they could use thanks to the refinement methods.

It was another marvel of Atrisian engineering in most ways and they were more than happy to see it as it surrounded the solar system and showed the layers of defense they were bringing to the people. Insteaad of just leaving it open which she knew it would likely be bypassed it was being actively engaged. Much like the rest of their defensive rings, from stations to ships to mines and now interdiction and stormseeds... oh the stormseed technologies were just brutal to the unaware as they not only ripped out of hyperspace they were meant to cause heavy damage to a ships system and were like a net wrapping around except the routes out of the system.

 

[Junko Ike]

She debated with herself the need for it... security like this would normally be seen as authoritarian and in a way it was... the people were isolated, unable to leave well not really all they had to do was ask to leave from one of the stations and unless it was a danger where they planned to go which thanks to the advanced monitoring stations that they had developed it could be and they would find out. She was able to see more of it in how it worked as well as they had left for the pirates and smugglers a corridor that they could use, but it was still monitored everyone knew it and they were smart about how they used it and what they transported into the system.

It was all about balance and while the Commonwealth was able to provide much and was pushing for their people to have well for nothing... there was always the need for something. Someone would always want more and this was the chance, they managed their criminals as almost another extension of government. When sith forces came to the world or outsiders trying to gain their loyalty they gleefully told them as it was a standing rule what they were offered, Atrisia would match and double it. Most believed in the same things as honor and respect, they just went about it in different ways.

 

[Junko Ike]

Which is what made Atrisians a loyal lot compared to many of the others and why she was more than happy to work with all of them. It wasn't ideal but vices were a thing and they knew good business when they had it. The station they used was also well out of the way and one of the few clearing houses out there in this entire sector which meant they controlled and regulated the class of criminals and their interactions many times over through its purpose of buy and selling loot taken from ships. That meant Jia Ren who oversaw all of it could also set certain rules for them to follow that most did in this sector because they wanted the better value fencing and business.

That was in the distance and nowhere near where they planned to go as Junko could see the other planets. Her quick stint off world had been just that quick but this well.. this let her see the works... the larger works that were being done and many of the worlds continued to develop with their terraforming efforts. Large in scale for it as they were being populated and built up with some of the most advanced technologies of the Commonwealth and would be able to be changed or altered as needed. That they had a network of ANshin's aided them since it would mean the experimental transportation network between the planets could be used for cargo until it was ready for people.

 

[Junko Ike]

That was the dream as was their massive defense network that would protect it and the roaming fleets and the birthing yards. Growing massive ships took time and they didn't have shipwombs like the vong. Growing their Choushin was easier but it required more space to do and some of the moons were only so useful. The other places were massive stations which would help as they could then control the environmental conditions to make sure it was perfect. With that and the saplings they were using to develop fighters it would benefit them in the long run as Atrisian ships and technology was made to last longer than its people as opposed to the other way around.

She could see more as they continued to head out further from the planet. THe other worlds were gleaming now that their anshins were build and running. Colonization of the other Atrisian planets served them well enough as well as the terrraforming as the worlds and the moons were used. The ships and stations were also there as scattered throughout the system on patrols and as checkpoints. Security was largely important and as they had adopted allies into the navy it became more so for the time. Atrisian defense forces paved the way more more advanced units of chiss, zeltrons and a number of different species... perhaps more now that Exogol was destroyed.

 

[Junko Ike]

That was flooding in as the news came to them, Exogal destroyed... the coalition that attacked it victorious in their endeavor to rid the galaxy of such a big threat that the sith used. Quite a feat but also what was done as Csilla had been wiped away as well. There was a difference as exogal was primarily aa sith and darkside world so survivors likely would be sith and while they could provide aid to some they would likely set them up on one of the far outer unknown region worlds away from Atrisia or somewhere they could survive but wouldn't endanger the Commonwealth. Aid but they were not going to bring a dangerous even wounded element into their home.

Junko was able to see more as they were passing Atrisia five... the strange world full of mist and the cloud deer... which were beautiful despite being a strange creature. It amused her at times how they were so she welcomed it as a place to go. The temple itself was far more ancient and wasn't Atrisian design at least not anything in their records... it actually seemed similar but it housed a massive kyber mirror that showed things if you were not careful which was why the Wukong primarily stayed there and tried to make sure it was safe. Beyond that was the massive asteroid field filled with defensive stations and their artificial asteroids that created another layer of defense.

 

[Junko Ike]

The asteroid field gave way to the larger Atrisian worlds... by sheer size not population. The gas giants were being populated and they had many many moons that would serve as terraformed population centers. Many of them looking beautiful to say the least as the terraforming technology was well superior in most cases. They also had the cities designed and able to function in almost any environment as it would go from vacuum to full poisoned atmosphere without losing much but they weree shooting for full atmosphere that was breathable on each world and if they needed to include a heat shield for the moons given the distance from the sun so be it.

Each world had an anshin of various size around them, each one had dozens of orbital stations and even more being developed for them as ships went between the planets for commerce and the intersystem transportation network served to reduce such travel times. Another benefit as if it worked just right they would be able to in the event of attack evacuate as needed to safety and shelters. There was also in the large gap between the planets here larger stations that served various means, from protection to monitoring to testing of equipment, several defensive fleets from militias formed of the various allies they had and the further you got out the larger the presence became.

 

[Junko Ike]

The miulitary presence shifted and altered until she could see the various Atrisian fleets... the colors on the ships changed.... the marks on a few but all of them were Choushin design. Allowing for the latest improvements that they could make. The defense forces from each world acted like their own fleet and some ships from each world were provided to the main Atrisian fleet. Which moved around and protected in system as opposed to planetary. Then they had a stealth fleet which would move around and scout or shadow depending on what was needed checking on pirates and the few hyperspace corridors that led safely into system and the ones that weren't so safe.

SSHe didn't know the need now but also knew that sometimes things were not as effective as they sounded. Stormseeds were made to be scattered around the system.. anything in hyperspace passing through their lattice would be attacked... at least in practice damaging them and forcing them out of hyperspace. Even with an HIMS they wouldn't be wanting to stay in asthe damage done should make it so the ships would strain and almost tear themselves apart. Then the interdiction and shielding should also play an important factor in what they were doing. Junko had calculated it against the cost of the Sasori defensive station and it was worth it in the long run.

 

[Junko Ike]

Junko could see more and as they were approaching the edge of the system the dyson stations were visible and active. The shields able to be narrowed near the entryways to the system allowing the shielding around it to be reinforced and have increased protection. It was making a small gap for her ship to pass through as it gave all of its clearances to the stations and its destination. THey would be able to navigate towards Alderaan from here. Junko had found her seat there on the bridge and got to look around as she received two escort ships one from the chiss militia and one from their outer colonies. THey would escort her to Alderaan and mostly be there for security much like her handmaidens.

"Alright, everyone ready for the fun?" She said it and got some looks but a smile was wide on her face. "Engage." There was an eyeroll from her navigator as the woman was there but they were heading out and prepared for it. The ship jumping into the starlines as it would take one or two more to get the best routes but they knew what they were going to want to do through the hyperlanes. Atrisia and the Commonwealth itself was on a trade route but now served better as a trade HUB as they offered some of the best rates to its people and spent plenty to entice merchants to come to the system itself.

 

[Junko Ike]

That was more of what she could see here.. the starlines became hyperspace and travel to Alderaan was easy enough.. they might even stop over by Coruscant as she watched one of the senate sessions on the public feed and the discussion of what to do now that they had won against the galaxy mostly raised an eyebrow before she rolled it. No real humility over their allies or enemies just that they had beaten them all and were now in the highest position. Typical, she hadn't seen much else from that changing but there had been a chance.. it was why she and Shoma were maybe divided on such things ideal wise but Ju Li had assured her he was mostly pragmatic in protecting Atrisia among them.

It wouldn't matter in the end, discussions in the senate rarely altered what they would do. The commonwealth progressing forward and with much more of their work they could organize it for their colony worlds and other worlds that relied upon them. The advances in technology of the Commonwealth for instance went a lot further as well they weren't having the resource and economic problems the rest of the Alliance were facing... they even provided support with soldiers as they had to but fact was... their engineering and science was rapidly outpacing the majority of the galaxy in terms of technical level.

 

[Junko Ike]

She looked at what was being said... well listened to what was being said in the senate meeting and it was all very... boring she didn't know how Shoma managed to survive in such a place but he did. In fact as she pointed out to herself... he thrived just went to show you could take the nerd out of Atrisia and but you couldn't take the nerd out of him. She nodded though listening about how the managing of the funds was going to put them in crisis and debated sending a message to Shoma.. if he was in the session then he would likely be able to put in the information himself... or not. There was not a lot that Atrisia wanted to do with the senate.

The Commonwealth at least the small portion of worlds that were allied with them and made for the collective cluster in the blob that was the Galactic Alliance... prospered. Fabrication technology was at its best and most produced, living modules provided sustainability and would feed plenty. More then that they had a better understanding of dimensional engineering and stellar engineering now thanks to Miyoung which led to more and more advances in terms of just advancing their planets resource management as they would for the population explosions. Each new planet and moon that they terraformed added to their stores to be traded and sold.