A NEW Beginning - Book 3

Chapter 3 - Day 1 - Matt - The Io

I sat in the pilot seat onboard the Io, headed towards Daibazaal. 

"We will be arriving in approximately an hour and a half," Nyma said from her seat at the back of the cockpit.
"Great," I respond, "Rolo, radio The Ganymede, and see where they're at."
"Sure thing Matt," he replies.

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The Ganymede was one of the 4 main ships of The Jupiter fleet, it currently held 30 members of the alliance, and was piloted by Zethrid and Ezor.

They, along with the 18 members on our ship, were meeting with the current leaders of Daibazaal to discuss how they were moving forward since the reset. The Galra Empire had needed a lot of assistance in rebuilding and ensuring the security and rights of their people and the rest of the universe. Nobody trusted them, and although the leaders of The Blade were working side by side with Lotor, the whole planet was under strict watch.

This is where The Jupiter Project came in. We are a multi-species intergovernmental organisation, with representation from all over our sector of the universe. The Io, Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto could hold up to 50 representatives each, while the 50 smaller ships could hold roughly two dozen each. Our main objectives are to maintain intergalactic peace and security, and protect the rights of the citizens, while delivering humanitarian aid, and upholding intergalactic law.

We were the peoples' people. We travelled all throughout our section of the universe, talking with political leaders, and overseeing new laws, to make sure they were fair and just.

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"Ezor says they've already landed, and are disembarking," Rolo informs us, "They are unloading and restocking, awaiting our arrival."

"Okay, good." I replied, "Please remind them, especially Ezor, to refrain from talking to Lotor too much. We know he has a way of getting information out of her, and we need to wait until we are all there to discuss any political matters."

Rolo nodded to me and got back on the radio.

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Ezor and Zethrid had become very useful members to The Jupiter Project, and Lotor had really changed, so much, from his time on the Astral Plane, but we still didn't trust him, and he had a way of sweet talking his old generals to get the information he wanted, and one of the main reasons for the meeting today was him.

We were doing all that we could to encourage the people of Daibazaal to put Kolivan and Krolia in the leadership position, but they were very resistant to change, and, even after all they had been through, many saw Prince Lotor as their rightful Lord. We also had concerns about Princess Allura. She had a very blinkered view and, especially since New Altea returned, she had become very driven to ensure the future of her peoples, over that of anyone else. She could also be very easily swayed and manipulated, and The Jupiter Project had heard that the two were courting, and there was no way we were allowing them both to rule over the two planets. That was too much power for them to hold.

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We have a visual on Daibazaal now, and it is slowly growing larger and larger in the distance.

With the ship on autopilot and an hour to spare, I decide to message Pidge with the news. Olia and Sev had had word of an Olkari working with members of The Jupiter Project in the Megara system.

Not that I'd admit it, but I really missed the little shrimp, and I hadn't spoken to her in a while.

I sent her a quick hello, and she replied almost immediately. I should have guessed she would be at her computer.

Because there was no real sense of time in space, The Atlas and The Jupiter fleet ran on Garrison time, with artificial lights simulating day and night on board when we were in the deep dark of space. Of course, this didn't work when we were on planets, because no day on any planet was the same duration, but when we were flying, if it was the afternoon in Poway, California, it was the afternoon on The Atlas and the 54 ships in the Jupiter fleet.