War or Love

Chapter One: The First Invasion

When the war declaration was received by Jagirsha, Luca started to enlist admirals to command Jagirsha's defense fleet who is composed by some destroyers and a lot of corvettes. The Destroyer class ships are composed with nuclear missiles and a lot of guns, guns from the old Earth. Those guns are capable only to disable ships and damage some armor, but isn't enough to took out a spaceship fast before get shot. The Corvette class ships are composed with a full laser guns to took out the entire hull of an enemy ship, but isn't effective against shields. The patrols are composed with some destroyers and corvettes usually, but since the war declaration, they started to join to the main defense fleet for the war. Few days after the declaration, Jagirsha's Consul enlisted Luca to Army's Command, and the people started to be worried about that decision because Luca isn't experienced with an army command, even himself don't agreed with the decision.

"I'm in the command of the entire Jagirsha's armies... That isn't my style" Luca said with a sigh.

"That isn't a suggestion, it's an Order. Our consul believes you need some experience in the command for situations like this in the future. That's an opportunity to you prove to our people their security." The Consul's Leader said after hit the table in his front.

"But..." Luca was interrupted by the Consul's leader.

"But What? You're the Ruler of Jagirsha, is your duty to command the army" The Consul's Leader Said with a high tone and said more with a reasonable tone, " Look Luca, there's some people who don't believe in your duty as a Ruler and has planned to took you out by force and at the right time of their plan's starts, this war declaration came. So, you have a chance to stay at the Jagirsha's Top Command. Now, show to them your efforts to stop the war, even without a single experience in battle. That's your time to be the true ruler of Jagirsha."

"Right... Richard, as a friend of yours, if I fails, took my place ok" Luca said to the Consul's Leader named Richard.

"You WON'T fail, but if that happens I'll" Richard said with relieve in his face.

After that event, Luca walked to the Jagirsha's Military Command Office and presented himself to his now subordinates. With a smile in his face he convinced everyone to help him in the Army Command Duty and do some preemptive defense measures to a possible trickster commander from Azrammor tries to attack the main base without engages the defense fleet.

Suddenly, Azrammor's ruler named Madeleine, sent a message with their demands to Luca. They wanted a third part of the Jagirsha's Territory. Luca's anger started to dominate him.

"This is unacceptable terms, they wants a Third part of our domains to them. This says: We want you to do a peaceful surrender, only a third part of all your domains should be enough to us avoid your little dominion in the galaxy. From Madeleine." Luca said.

"Sir, even the enemy claims for our territory, it's good to warn our allies about the invasion" An officer said to Luca.

"Well, we don't have time to our allied fleets come to our aid, I believe we need to handle this by ourselves. Besides we're the most strong nation in our alliance." Luca said to the Officer looking in his eyes.

After a long discussion in the Command Office, Luca sent the fleet to engage the Azrammor fleet in a full frontal attack on them. The battle was intense, with some losses in both sides, they ended with a small victory to Azrammor who started to move deep into Jagirsha's territory. After few days since the battle, Azrammor occupied a good part of their claimed territory from Jagirsha and sent another message to Luca, this time with a demand. With a notorious occupied zones, Azrammor demanded a surrender from Jagirsha, that means, leave all claimed territories to Azrammor.

"I can't accept that, Madeleine just got luck with the first battle. What about our reinforcements to our fleet?" Luca asked the Command Officer.

"I believe, all our shipyards are in full steam now, the production will be completed in the next month, that all we can do by ourselves. I would suggest, we need aid from our allies" The Officer said to Luca who was looking in his eyes.

Suddenly, one admiral returned to the Command Office and started to report what happened in the battle. According with him, Azrammor strategy isn't a straight attack, their admirals was used two squads to separate the fleet and weaken it to pass through and occupy the outposts. Luca wasn't aware about the enemy's intelligence until he sent a spy to look Azrammor's military strategies, who taken three weeks.

"This is too far advanced than our best Generals and Admirals, what you suggest aside sent an aid message to our allies?" Luca said to the Officer.

"I believe, we have more than enough to slow the enemy's occupation objectives. Sir, I'll say again, you need aid from our allies." The Officer said with a sigh.

"Don't be ridiculous, we're more than enough to handle this" Luca said without confidence and Suddenly, the Jagirsha's Prince called Presto II entered in the room.

"What's happening there? We can hear you from outside..." Presto II said to both.

"We need a strategy to take down Azrammor fleet." Luca answered Presto without confidence again.

"Look Father, this is a lost war, we can't win by ourselves. The enemy took from us mostly their supposed claims. They're too close to win, your officers tried to send a message to our allies, but you denied at all and now is too late for a distress call." Presto said to his father with anger in his eyes.

After a long chat between Father and Son, Presto leaves the Command Office and returned to the capital, not too far from the Azrammor last objective. Few days since the decision to make a trap to Azrammor fleet, they started to move and be in position to the invasion, but there's two problems. One, most of Jagirsha's corvettes still damaged, two, the destroyers isn't that small to be completely hided behind an asteroid. When Azrammor Strike Fleet came to the supposed trap, everything started to fail to Jagirsha. All damaged ships was destroyed in the first wave of attacks, Jagirsha's attacks only did small damages to Azrammor ships, everything was ended in a massacre to Jagirsha.

"This... Can't be, our fleet" Luca said with sadness in his voice tone.

"That was a suicide mission, but at least we saved a lot of destroyers from our fleet." 1st Officer said to Luca. "We will get them next time, but you need to learn the real world's wars. You're very insane for first war command".

Luca keeps in silence for a couple of hours in that day. The news about the failed tactics from Luca has been spread like a plague in the nation and with that, Luca's public opinion was erased to the next war. Presto started to plan a strategy to put Luca back in the Capital without any harm. That suicide mission marked a new point in Jagirsha's history, but that doesn't mean they're gone for good, but they can learn from this error, but still, a giant part from Jagirsha's territory was occupied by the Might of Enlightened Kingdom of Azrammor.

Some time has passed... and the Royal Family visited a recently occupied planet .

"Look Mom, those flowers are really beautiful." The Azrammor's Princess said to Madeleine. "That war... was horrible, but the reward for our victory was exceptional. We're almost equals to the threat named Uruk."

"Don't forget Lisa, Jagirsha is our enemy still. We need get rid of them before they can strike back and we took notorious damages on our ships because the first battle, not only that, their strategies are clever and insane, maybe their Army Commander isn't a experienced one." Madeleine said to his daughter named Lisa. "Listen, you need to learn the basics of war before get into the command. You're young, quit joking around and be strong. The real world is wild, it will eat the weaken and will support the stronger ones. Be the strongest commander and lead Azrammor to the brightest future. I'll be at your side until the end."

"That's completely unnecessary mom, but I'll be stronger and stronger." Lisa said to Madeleine looking in her eyes.