The Martial Unity

The declaration and the charter of the Gaian Alliance had been signed by thousands of polities around the entire world, from the most powerful nations and civilizations of the world spanning the seven continents in the world, along with many other nations situated in the many islands in and about the seven continents. The signing was conducted virtually, broadcast to the entire world as the Gaian Alliance came to exist in name. The public in Gaia reacted with surprise at the sudden gesture of unification from all Gaian polities.

After all, it was just several years ago that the entire world had fought a bloody world war that had lasted more than a year. Since then, the world had indeed healed, and relations between nations had calmed down significantly, even if people were wary of the Evolutionary Army.

Now, however, all of them, including the Army, had decided to pool their power together to maximize their effectiveness when dealing with the alien civilizations of the cosmos. Whatever internal friction they might have had with each other didn’t matter in the face of two alien civilizations that had come this close to destroying Gaia. Indeed, they realized that, as powerful as they were, they were entirely outclassed.

For now, there were no institutions, no systems, no fleshed-out rules on how the alliance worked. It was not possible to create something like that for so many different powers across the entire world in such a short amount of time.

But it did give the Chancellor of Gaia a mandate to represent the entirety of Gaia. And that was all Rui needed for now. “I’ll get going.”

His voice was calm, yet gentle. His ethereal eyes filled with confidence and certainty as he gazed at Amare holding Ria in her arms. He had worn his royal attire, but this time with the newly created crest of the Gaian Alliance embroidered on his ostentatious attire. The crest depicted the seven continents of Gaia with two olive branches curling around it in a circular manner.

Since he was representing the Gaian Alliance, he couldn’t wear his Kandrian royal attire, of course.

“Papa, are you going away again?” Ria’s voice was one of disappointment. “Ria doesn’t want you to go.”

Rui smiled at his sweet daughter, drawing closer to kiss her on the head. “Don’t worry, it’s not dangerous this time.”

“Then where is Papa going?”

“Hm… I’m going to see if I can make a new friend.”

Ria’s little amber eyes lit up at those words. “That’s so fun! I want to come too.”

Rui smiled, ruffling her hair. “Maybe next time. We still haven’t become friends yet.”

He turned towards Amare with a serious nod, which she reciprocated. She understood, more than her daughter certainly, just how important it was for Gaian Civilization to befriend the Laminar Civilization. Although they had supported Gaian Civilization against the nebulars, she hadn’t forgotten that the Laminar Civilization had tried to destroy Gaia in the first place. It was not a foregone conclusion that these two civilizations would become friends. Rui bade his family goodbye as he headed out, teleporting to the Panamic Space Station in the blink of an eye.

WHOOSH

STEP

He arrived at a specific compartment in the space station, where several people stood ready for his arrival, immediately bowing in his presence. “Welcome, Your Majesty. We have prepared the convoy of ships and are ready to depart at any moment.”

The woman before him gestured to a hologram displaying a dozen spaceships or so of different classes. There were seven heavy cruise spaceships at the very forefront, each from one of the seven civilizations of Gaia, along with numerous other smaller spaceships representing smaller ships in Gaia.

Each of them had radically different technologies making them up, and even greater material composition and designs. The elven and therianthrope spaceships were basically just large chunks of organic matter, botanical and zoological, respectively, that were shaped like a leaf and a whale.

The dwarven ship was undoubtedly the most impressive of them all, composed of invintium nano-fibers along the exterior of the spaceship. Their entire structure was shaped like a frozen drop of water, relying on internal pressures to achieve an extraordinary durability like a Prince Rupert’s drop. In the war with the Laminar Civilization, the dwarven ships and dwarven tech were the only ships and tech that could take on the laminar ships head-on, one-on-one. It was because their Paths increased their quality and power, though, so it was ultimately Paths that saved the day with the conflict with the Laminar Civilization.

The evolutionary and tekvore ships were both cyborgs, integrating non-organic and organic technology together in different ways. The evolutionaries merely integrated their cells into the ships to endow them with the same advantages they had, while the tekvores used biotechnology to interface with their ships, since melding technology and biology was their specialty.

Surprisingly, this time, even the giants presented a ship, something that Rui found himself stunned by. Apparently, the rational proportion of their population maintained some industrial capacity at the very heart of Samarkha, even if the ship was primitive and limited. The Panamic Alliance’s ship was clad in exotic matter and was composed of esoteric and conventional technology, no doubt thanks to Julian’s efforts of merging the two into one form of technology. Together, all the ships represented the support of Gaian Civilization for Rui as he represented them. They couldn’t very well simply allow him to teleport to the alien worldship by himself in an unceremonious manner, after all.

His eyes sharpened.

“Let’s go.”

The boarding and readying process took more time than he would have liked, but soon enough, he found himself seated in the Panamic spaceship at the very forefront of the diplomatic convoy.

“All preparations have been made, we are ready for take-off.”

VMMM

Vibrations passed the ship as a wormhole slowly emerged before them, charting a path forward for the ships to pass through, leading them to the distant, but visible, laminar world ship.