Jean-Louise Reece (notafailure) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2012-11-17 21:17:00

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alex quill, azura/abel, jean-louise reece, kree deviants, lady devil, npcs - kree deviants, rocket red panda, team - guardians of the galaxy

The Costs of Doing Business
After her previous run was ruined, Jean-Louise was relieved to finally be on the Kree border sorting out oatmeal orders. Just one little outpost now, but give her time. She was giving the senior officers a sample of the new milkshake-like beer recipe she'd learned when she found herself looking out the window.

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	spacepalm 2012-12-14 08:55 pm UTC (link)
	Alex nods a polite acceptance, taking whatever the Highlord offers. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ng_kree_deviant 2012-12-14 09:12 pm UTC (link)
	"Excellent. Have some of our finest cuisine brought up for our guests." "Father, I don't think..." Gar-Oth's eyes flashed with a sudden burst of some kind of energy. Val-Oth silenced himself quickly. "Have a table brought in as well so out guests may sit." A servant brings Gar-Oh a glass. "So, I'm assuming you've deduced our origins?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ladydevil 2012-12-14 09:16 pm UTC (link)
	Personally being able to sit will be nice. Eliza doesn't like showing weakness if there is the possibility of hostilities resuming but she is feeling a bit sore. She'll let Alex handle this. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notafailure 2012-12-14 09:18 pm UTC (link)
	Jean-Louise had been listening a lot as she clutched her head. "Kree-ish language. Don't like Eternals. So that's... Deviants, but from Kree, right? What the implications of that are, I've got no clue. Yours and their great-to-the-twelfth-power-grandparents had issues?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

ng_kree_deviant
2012-12-14 10:10 pm UTC (link)

"Yes," he admits, taking a sip. "We are aware that there are other strains of our kind out there, though I admit we did not know how many." Gar-Oth seems to look as if he acquired a bad taste. "I assure you, young lady, we have as little love for the Kree as we do the Eternals. Both have wronged us in the past."

He takes a fuller drink. "After the Celestial departed from their experiment, the godlike Eternals felt it was their right to rule over the rest of us. The Kree outnumbered them, we had superior minds, but they had the power. In our infancy neither the Kree or ourselves could stop them. We were enslaved, the Kree as their fodder and my people lived as think-tanks to the Eternals' whims."

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	needsmoredakka 2012-12-14 10:33 pm UTC (link)
	"And now you are being back and kicking butt for revenge?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cosmic_son 2012-12-15 12:29 am UTC (link)
	Iason remains mostly out of the way, listening to the conversation without contributing anything. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ng_kree_deviant 2012-12-15 05:47 pm UTC (link)
	Gar-Oth raises an eyebrow at the strange creature. "An oversimplification, but not that far from the truth." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	only_half_here 2012-12-15 10:12 pm UTC (link)
	"The Kree Eternals are all but extinct," Azura said. "So you're main beef is with the Kree." She didn't sit or take any refreshments. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

ng_kree_deviant
2012-12-16 02:20 am UTC (link)

"Are they?" It wasn't a question, though it didn't sound like mockery or doubt either. "Generations after the Eternals enslaved us, both our people and the Kree adapted eventually joined forces to overthrow them. When we succeeded however, the Kree turned on us and drove us from our own homes. So yes, young lady," Gar-Oth clarified, eyes glowing dangerously. "our BEEF..is with the Kree."

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	notafailure 2012-12-16 03:16 am UTC (link)
	"But all the people who did all the actual betraying are very, very dead. So... shouldn't the focus be less on the Total Slaughter and more on the securing places to live and resources again? So there is stuff to actually negotiate. I mean, living on conquered land is really annoying, but it doesn't ahve to be a killing offense." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ng_kree_deviant 2012-12-16 03:20 am UTC (link)
	Gar-Oth had several possible retorts to that, but decided to see where this could go. "Then what would it take to begin..negotiations?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notafailure 2012-12-16 03:31 am UTC (link)
	"I don't know; I'm in concessions, but if you contact Hala and get the accuser on the line... and he'll kinda have to get on the line, won't he, what with --" Jean-Louise gestured. " -- all this, then both sides can go into the historical records and see about finding some space in the right places. Intragalactic boundaries move all the time." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	needsmoredakka 2012-12-16 03:47 am UTC (link)
	Well, this was getting interesting. Who knew the food stand girl was so clever? ...Red was bored now. No one to shoot for more than an hour. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

spacepalm
2012-12-16 03:52 am UTC (link)

"Open war with the Kree will only hurt your people, Highlord. Even if you possess the means to overwhelm even the Kree military, they have alliances, and stand as one of the major movers and shakers in galactic commerce." He makes the best Kree wildlife reference he can that stacks up to what Earthlings would think of as kicking a hornets' nest.

"How many do your people number? Roughly." The gears are turning in Alex's head, slowly but surely, as he's taking account what he knows of Kree territories and population densities.

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ng_kree_deviant
2012-12-16 04:06 am UTC (link)

"I see." Gar-Oth finishes his cup, handing it back to the attendant. "We are well aware of the Kree's might, Starlord. Don't look surprised, we may have been in exile, but we've been watching events for some time. Contact with the Skrulls, the near-decimation of the Cotati, the war with the Skrulls, the creation of the Supreme Intelligence, the ascendance of the Shiar, the War of Three Galaxies, the Kree's conquest and freedom from the Shiar, etcera, etcera." He says with the cool hardness of one who knows indisputable facts. "Considerably more than I doubt the Kree would be willing to accomadate."

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spacepalm
2012-12-16 04:11 am UTC (link)

"I believe you, Highlord." Alex maintains his composure, even if anyone psychic will get a faint impression like he just smelled something bad. The title's good to toss around now and then, and it's definitely better than 'Heir to the Spartoi Throne' or 'the 50% likelihood Celestial Messiah', but 'Star-Lord' was Dad's title. He doesn't deserve it.

"However, is it perhaps too absolute an opinion to believe all your people would wish to dwell in the same locales that you do? You obviously must have found a place to thrive, to build up such a legion and wealth of resources. If you can gain an estimate of those among your people who truly desire their ancestral grounds, I will execute, with all the authority vested in me, the means to give them a place to live in the Kree territories of the here and now."

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ng_kree_deviant
2012-12-16 04:27 am UTC (link)

Gar-Oth steeples his hands as he thinks.

"You're correct. Our space consists of three states bound within a triple-alliance. The Bastion, to which I belong, the Republic, and the Free Territories. Each has its own leadership structures and government styles. I do not have the authority to speak for all of them, and most would never leave our adopted space. However, I can establish a dialogue to see how many of them are willing to contribute information to the issue."

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	spacepalm 2012-12-17 01:23 am UTC (link)
	"Thank you, your lordship." Alex nods his head, accepting a glass of the offered refreshments. "I will make preparations with the Galactic Council and the higher authorities of the Kree." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	only_half_here 2012-12-17 08:30 pm UTC (link)
	No fighting. This had moved into officially sucking. Azura shealthed Godslayer, but didn't move to sit or take a drink. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	needsmoredakka 2012-12-17 11:17 pm UTC (link)
	Was being soooo boring. But free food was being free food. So Red was munching on some kind of cookie. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ng_kree_deviant 2012-12-18 06:15 pm UTC (link)
	"Then we are in agreement. I will convene a summit of our heads-of-state to see which of them would be willing to participate. In the meantime, please my hospitality. When you are finished, my people can escort you safely off the ship." Val-Oth didn't seem a all happy by this turn of events, but he kept his anger of the cold variety. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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