Hour of Horror
Zen Dias watches the traffic going past his ship as he enters the tunnel to the space port of the colony S1-1004. His look of concentration at odds with the fact that he is entering a neutral colony owned by the Colony Management Corporation. As they enter the massive space port the Hammer fleet makes its way to the back of the ship hanger. It takes them a few minutes to get there. Once there Zen nods at the officer at the helm of his ship.
The Hammer stops and the rest of the ships take up positions to guard the ship. The Hammer then turns and faces outwards to the rest of the hanger. Zen’s eyes look around trying to spot any ships that might make a nice prize to add to his fleet but he just sees civilian ships and he nods to himself.
"Operations launch mobile suits." orders Zen. "Then have them form up and guard the Zaku II F."
"Aye sir." answers the operations officer.
It takes the mobile suits about two minutes to launch. Then another minute to get into position against the wall. At this point the colony’s harbor control starts to protest but Zen ignores them and nods at the communication’s officer to open a channel to the Zaku II F. "Begin to over load your suit’s reactor. Give it just a little over an hour till it explodes."
"Aye sir." replies a nervous sounding voice over the radio.
Zen then nods the communications officer again and she closes the channel to the Zaku and opens one to harbor control.
"Attention Zeon forces. Stand down your mobile suits. This is a neutral port." orders a panicked sounding voice.
"Harbor control, this is the Zeon Hammer Fleet. You are allied with the Earth Federation scum." states Zen in a calm voice. "You will surrender you colony to me in the name of colony independence from the tyranny of the Earth Federation."
"You don’t have enough forces to take the colony." answers the voice sounding confused.
"All I need is one mobile suit since all mobile suits come with a thermo nuclear reactor." Zen smiles as he listens to the huge amount of cursing on the other end. "I will give you one hour to surrender. And don’t believe for one second that I am bluffing. I am prepared to die here with my pilot."
Zen then signals for the transmission to be cut. And then he goes to watching the civilian ships around the spaceport as they begin to flee the colony. He nods to himself and waits.
At just under an hour later the communications officer sits up straighter in her seat. "Sir! I have the person in charge of the colony on the line."
"Very good. Open the channel." orders Zen as walks over to his command chair and sits in it.
"This is the Colony Magistrate. We are prepared to offer our surrender." states a worried sounding voice over the radio. "But we ask your terms of treatment of the millions of people found in this colony?"
"It will be business as usual. You will just pay your taxes to me instead of the Federation. And there will not be any tariffs charged on trade like with the Federation. You govern yourselves and police yourselves. I will provide for defense." states Zen in a calm voice. "Also we will not tolerate in assaults on Federation forces still inside the colony by people trying to show their favor of the Duchy of Zeon. Those forces will be escorted out the colony and sent on their way. I will not all pointless butchery of anyone. Do you understand and accept my terms Magistrate?"
"I understand and I was afraid that the propaganda put out by the Federation about the Duchy of Zeon was correct. I accept your terms and I look forward to working with you in the future."
"I am glad we could get along. Hammer fleet out."
Then the radio signal is closed and Zen nods at the operations officer to get the mobile suits to stand down. And then Zen orders his ships to dock with the colony and begin repairs.
Outcome: S1-1004 captured
Zen Dias: no damage, 180 exp, 5,000,000 credits awarded for capture
