Ichoriya - Black Rise - Aokinen - Kaalakiota Corporation Factory

The Suit stood motionless in front of the viewport of his suite with his hands clasped behind his back. He sighed silently as he mulled options in his head. The end was coming, he knew. Eyes had spotted several Commonwealth entering the system moments ago, and yesterday, he had recieved a declaration of war. "Today was suppose to be the deadline, why did they change their mind?" He wondered to himself. He wondered how they kept clean enough as to not be bothered by CONCORD or Faction Police. Pirates, and yet, here they are in High Sec, not being challenged by the higher authority. His fleets stood by just outside the station, all organized in a prompt formation that suggested they were expecting trouble. Squadrons of fighters flew between the rows of cruisers, battlecruisers, and battleships. Not much. A mere 25 in number, and the Commonwealth had twice that. As he spotted the FCW leave warp, he bit his lip.

"Shit, this is it...and here I am with our only hope, so long as our capsuleers remembered to move their clones..." He turned from the viewport and keyed in a several codes before a data transfer window came open. As data spillled into a data disc he viewed his other screen as it came to life, displaying what he didn't want to see. "The Sword...what brings you out this far?" He asked smartly to the figure on the screen. "Don't play smart with me, Tiberius. Deadline is up, where is our money?" The Sword demanded. Tib swallowed as he eyeballed the Transfer Complete status and he gave out a nervous laugh. "Looks like you won't get that money after all. You see, you broke your end of the contract when you declared war on us yesterday, now with that said, eat lead!"

"Brave words! Coming from a shit stain-" Tiberius cut him off, ending the call abrubtly and yanked the disc out of its drive. Just as quickly, he was out the story heading for the docking ports. By this time he knew his fleet was in the thick of things...hopefully they could hold off just a bit longer...