When humans first created wormholes in 2134 they had no knowledge of the aled republic. Instead their ships found their first interstellar travel to land at the shores of alsifa where the terreans (or more specifically humans as there are humans living on mars venus titan and europa) set up trade with the icthiavoreus inhabitants known as the drel. A quadrupedal race with hands dubbleing as feet on the front legs and two serpentine heads on long necks with eyes at the base. While humans and drel were quite different in appearance and culture they had little in the way of war especially with the larger more powerful nations.



The aled republic had too a peaceful first contact in 2098 when they had created interaction with two other planets hark and kreld. Saspert the main power on hark at this time had been distrustful of alien interaction and wished to close off it’s interaction before more interaction. This act of distrust was nothing short of declaring itself an enemy to the republic and saspert was luckily able to be quickly neutralized by the aled and the counsel of the three stars was formed.



In the year 2200 aled vessels have made their way to both a sixth world and the farthest moon of alsifa. Both the human and drel nations were eager to interact with new planets. The aled headed counsel of three stars wished to be the ambassadors of peace to these unknown cultures as well as justice. After reading through the histories it was considered a necessity to right any historical wrongs if any peaceful interaction may occur with humans as the aled had done for years with the three stars.



My name is Aaron Fisher I’m a British ambassador, at the time I got the phone call (in November of 2203) I was happily working at the capital of tress a drel nation in the south of the westmost continent of alsifa. I was in bed when the phone rang, the republic wished to make countries that had committed evils in the past pay a price to make up for what they had done, the phone call stated that I was selected out of every British ambassador to defend the U.K. for what it had done during the colonial era I would be paired up with a team of lawyers and the only way I could refuse to go would be now. I of course accepted the offer.



Not much was known of the republic at the time, the people of earth had gotten the first photos of what the republic was like. While most of this wasn’t meant to be known, a few weeks after I was selected a german photographer snuck into a republic ship and took four black and white photos. The first photo was merely of the inside of the ship, while the outside of the ships were made to look more advanced than ours the insides seemed to have a similar level of technology to their human and drel equivalents. The second and third photos seemed to be taken within a few seconds of each other of what seemed to be the citizens of the republic, their bodies were shaped and held like that of ravens or eagles yet unlike their terrean counterparts they had membranous wings like yi qiu and armored scales like a pengalin or a alligator. Their heads were predatory, looking most like that of an tusked species of extinct land crocodile combined with that of a deep sea fish. Upon their backs were long fleshy tenticels that ended in a grasping organ that seemed to be their version of a hand. The fourth photo was the most cryptic as well as the one with the most disturbing implications it was a diagram of what looked like the skull and brain of a unknown blood sucking creature next to a wall of unknown text. The unknown creature had a brain large enough so it was most likely sapient. The diagram seemed to show how to remove parts of of the brain as well as how to sedate the creature. Seeing the fourth image was slightly unnerving, it had the same feelings as those old 20th and 21st century medical textbooks that would prescribe antidepressants and antipsychotics willy nilly or even farther back with blood letting and shock therapy. Even odder the german kid who snuck in to take all of the photos was gone, not gone as in incarcerated but just completely disappeared he had put the photos up online and that was never heard from again. He had left a video online witch was filmed about a mile away from the ship he had snuck on in order to take this now infamous photos. In the video he said that “The nations of earth will be destroyed if they choose to side with the republic.” While most of the anglosphere’s media deemed him just short of a conspiracy nut it seems that his claims may have had more truth than I had initially thought.



I was summoned to office in London to discuss the “case” along with me there would be one other working with me, the man chosen was an american lawyer named Edward Bismark who would be in the room with me while discussing the case. He was a young guy somewhere in 30s he always wore a black suit and sunglasses and he was leaning back in the chair when I walked in the room. I had asked him why they summoned him, he replied “I can try to understand the actions of the aled but it seems to be useless due to their… Aledness/alness/aledyness? Well their nature.” When told him he was being silly he replied by saying “I’ve been to Toronto I’ve been to Atlanta I used to drink Pepsi and now I drink Fanta.”



After a few minutes of small talking with Edward, three creatures from the species that the german kid photographed walked in the room. The one’s on the left and right were in metal armor painted a bright red that covers everything but their wings and tentacles, their scales were a dark bluish gray and they had a long taser like weapon in their “hands” ,that seemed to be lethal when on a certain setting due to the size of the weapon along with the many buttons near the handle and trigger. The creature in the middle seemed to be older than the ones flanking him. His scales were lighter and less blue than the other two, his face had large scars on the right side and many of the teeth as well as one on his eight fangs/tusks were gold prosthetics. He wore a leather coat with buttons on both side as the two sides were joined by a separate piece of leather with the button holes in it, under a black fur cape he wore a metal piece that his shoulders look larger, it was clearly not meant to seem as in it was his real shoulders due to its visibility and upward curve and tapering at the shoulders. The creature in the center walked up to me while the two others guarded the door. He informed me that his name was acadd and that he was the one who would be judging me, I (curious on what this strange society might be like )asked why it was so important for them to have these “trials”.



Acadd replied slightly offended at this “When a nation commits such a crime it needs to be dealt with in the same way a crime committed by an individual is.”



I asked what these crimes and punishments are and acadd answered “The crimes would be of such as empire and genocide, and as of the punishments there will as of be some loss of autonomy as well as many restrictions on privileges and luxuries and most importantly it is of the population we must control in both size and the type of person we allow to live in this nation.” “Aswell we must also have the nation repay the cultures that it has been so evil to, I expect (if I judge against) your nation may be in debt to ireland and america for 50 earth years, india twice that most likely.”



Edward stood up with abit of anger as well as excitement and said “You claim yourself to be fighting against imperialism yet you take the autonomy from nations you deem lesser than your own”.



Acadd swooped over to Edward and said ablaze with righteous indignation “When the crime of kidnaping is of often replied by imprisonment and yet you find no hypocrisy in that, but you chose yourself to be such a…” Accad pretended to mumble to himself in a way the room could hear him clearly “It’s a word that starts with “d” it means a jerk “demygog” no, no it’s of four letters.”



Edward, annoyed with all of this said “I still can’t see why you must punish these people when it was not them who committed these crimes but long their dead ancestors, you don’t punish these people for the crimes of jack the ripper but I’m sure you would if he was king, I know enough about your legal system to know you don’t punish someone for his father’s crimes, yet you feel the need to do this on a larger scale!”



Accad answered offended by this statement “You are unenlightened on the wisdom of the council of three stars and the republic, a state must act like a parent to its citizens while it seems the U.K. and U.S. have been like uncaring parents letting their children play with guns and speak without any consequences. The council will solve you nations pseudo-anarchy trust me that it’s better for everyone if you “choose” to join as opposed to being our enemy.”



I broke up this argument by saying “Sorry for my american colleague’s… strong emotions. You must understand we are blind to what your species and culture is like outside of a few meetings and four photographs, we do not even know what the name of your species is.”



Accad taken back by the mention of the photos said “It’s seems as if you are of curious after seeing the german’s photos and video...” “I can assure you he is fine in fact he may be in or near this very building. I will see if of I can call him up too this room.” He then quickly pulled an odd phone that would seem archaic as far back as the early 21st century. Whoever he called he talked to briefly in his native tuong. Soon enough two more of the aled soldiers walked up with a pale plump man in a tieless black suit with it’s jacket open and a 50 yard stare to boot. Accad’s introduction man was what horrified he introduced the man as “Hans” the photographer who snuck into the ships. In the video hans wasn’t nearly as pale as well as much thinner, in the video hans was dressed in a black trenchcoat and those round black glasses. His hair was neck length in the video while it was buzzed off when I saw him. Accad said in a voice trying to seem friendly “Ah my dear boy” turning to him as if to prompt him to say something “so how did you enjoy your time of on our ship.”



Hans gently nodded and replied “It was the goodest thing, I got to have many nice things, and I was able to have many things bettered. The doctors and servants made it so I would never worry again…”



Accad shocked as well as a bit frightened but the last sentence abruptly cut Hans off saying “Please excuse my friend’s english... especially his use of the word “doctor” to what I’m of assuming he was talking about would be your equivalent of a… of a… a pilot!”



Accad swiftly left the room along with all others except for me and Edward. Before leaving Accad said “Oh yes my species name is aled by the way.” I shaken by the implication replied “That would imply you’ve taken all of your native star system.” Accad said “The republic deemed it best for all of us so we thought it dangerous to give any other aled nations a choice.” I asked that, it didn’t seem very democratic for something called the republic to do that. Accad answered before exiting “The republic is called the republic and our head of state is known as the prime minister so saying it was anything else would be illogical, to even entertain the idea may be light treason.”



Me and Edward were left in the room to discuss the case. Edward started by telling “The parable of the typographer”, where a fictional typographer is so principled that he won’t use a store if it has a font he deems bad until one day he comes to a hotel using the infamous font jokerman while on a road trip through the middle of nowhere and he’s too tired to care and uses it. Edward used this parable to state that our principles were naturally fragile and that they must be given up when a greater purpose is at stake. He proposed that the only way to save the country would be to not only to give opinions that we personal disagreed with but more importantly we needed to supply facts we know to be untrue and withhold information we know to be true. I agreed knowing it was my country we were saving. Edward said “It’s the story I tell to all my clients it tends to um… set the tone.”



The next four months of my life were spent discussing the case up until the 1st of april 2204 (our last day discussing the case), 13 days before the trial. When I was going down the elevator for the last time it initially stopped at a floor titled “V” that was closed to the public. When the doors swung open I was faced with a dimmed room with a strange cloaked figure, the elevator wouldn’t move nor would its doors close. After an uncanny time spent without the elevator closing I slowly walked in.



The cloaked creature walked up to me he had a body like that of a mantis (or a centaur) as in it’s upper body had arms and an erect back while its lower body was parallel to the ground and contained several legs. Yet it was the snout that was sticking out of the cloak that intrigued me, it was nearly identical to the skull of the blood sucking creature in the fourth photo.



The creature looked down and began speaking to me in broken english “I am Urled of the Saspert, my family was of a much wealth... Great merchants but when contact was of made all was taken as punishment… Punishment for war, a war made because we would not become subservient to the three stars of Saspert wealth taken along with all of glory… Saspert became unprosperous as was the council's intent… Our cities turned to slums, our strong crippled, our smart and skeptical lobotomized, our population controlled through death and sterilization… If you lose the.. The case, it shall happen to the isles of britannia as well… I know my simulation of your tongue is not ideal but do you understand…”



I walked closer to him seeing sympathetic eyes under his hood and said “Yes… I understand.” Urled began coughing, blue blood splattering on his fangs and snout. He extended a long arm that was thin enough to see the shape of his bone, he looked longingly at me and then out to the London skyline shining like dust in the wind, and said



“There is still hope, the powers of earth, Japan, Russia, America, Brazil, even China, have considered a refuse of joining the three stars as well as most alsifa powers may refuse to… I fear britannia will accept the three stars as the trial is happening… You must win the trial dear omnivore… or you will meet my fate… I have not of consume fresh blood in many… months feeding on the corpses of your worlds crusation… after getting here.” His body slowly made it to the window saying “I want fresh food one last time… give your arm I assure you neither of pain nor death will if you accept.” I after thinking about it for a second agreed. He removed his hood revealing a weak and tired head with feathery external gills, he leaned down and took a small sip of blood, his venom prevented me from feeling anything. He then turned to the window and said “In your tongue it would be thank you...” He then threw his fangs onto the window breaking it, the window fell to the miles down onto streets below and he solemnly followed it.



The day of the trail soon came the U.N. headquarters in New York was where they decided it would be held. Outside there was a storm of protests and counter protests at least 1,000 of each. When we got there it was chaos, a protester screamed out “My son snuck onto a republic ship, when he returned he was lobotomized! Before we thought he would be a famous photographer, now he will spend the rest of his life in our care!”



A counter protester then cried out “You're a goddamn fascist” at him (even though nothing about what he said was fasistic at all), as a another counter protester came up to me and Edward and said



“You’re really the scum of the earth, defending colonialism, can’t you see the pure scum that capitalism has made you into!”



Edward replied “It seems you do not know the job of a defence lawyer, nor do you know that the capitalist system you oppose is the one that has given you food and a job as well being the one that allows you to openly hate it! You call yourself anti fascist yet you wish death upon those you disagree with, you say you hate religion yet you worship the prophet Marx!” I becond Edward to come with me to the makeshift “courthouse” and he begrudgingly followed.



The trial had begun and it was far to late as Accad walked into the room along with an audience a aled jury and a group of people from the wronged nations. The first “crime” we were to defend was the british treatment of the irish, then the indians, then the americans, than the egyptians, and then the final nation was united africa (a nation egypt wasn’t part of for cultural reasons). All of these we lost, Accad didn’t really listen to Edwards arguments instead someone from each nation would go up explain their history (Edward would sometimes argue against parts but then fail) and then Accad would agree with this history and then bring up the next person.



After hours of that we came to sentencing Accad the sentence he worked out and anything else Edward said seemed to make it worse until finally Accad gave the sentence, the population of the U.K. was to be kept at 40.00 million. There was also to be diminishments on the luxuries and technology we may have basically making us a developing nation. There were many punishments most were of the purpose to make the U.K. a worse place as well as making the U.K. part of the republic.



Though there was a light at the end of the tunnel, after seeing what happened to the U.K. every powerful human or drel nation chose to be an enemy of the republic, and war has now been declared I sit here now in the fields of tress watching the military ships fly overhead. I have received one letter from Edward, a nonsensical poem.



“Of scythe and scimitar and of the fountain of youth in the Miami streets. How puff the dragon and smokey the bear have been sent to the domain of Santa and Satan, and the four horsemen have given their stallions for electric powered screens made from the melted down metal of the iron curtain that was given for the iron man, and in the wastes of the Gobi desert the seven head dragon of the apocalypse rises and a sun beam is to bounce off his crown and shine a light on the body count of the lifted lorax.



For I have been to Toronto I have been to Atlanta I used to drink whiskey and now I drink Fanta.”