9 January 3057
St. Ives
Archon Prince Victor Steiner Davion was being led in to meet Chancellor Candace Liao after arriving via command circuit from New Avalon. Neither of them felt Sian was ready for the leader of the Federated Commonwealth to actually set foot on that particular world yet. As he entered the large office he saw Chancellor Candance Liao getting up from he desk to greet him.
"Prince Victor, I hope you did not feel insulted by my suggesting meeting here instead of on Sian. Currently the people are slowly getting used to the idea that major changes have occurred. But having you there would have caused some unrest and set things back some." Candace said
"Not at all Chancellor, St. Ives is fine for me. I suggested we meet in person to discuss things instead of by HPG. Now, per your request, we have made the announcement of the change in Chancellor to our prisoners. The mercenary troops took the change in stride with no major issues. Of prisoners of the CCAF units, they say they will serve the Confederation. I would still advise some caution with the Warrior House troops.
As to the planets the AFFC captured or surrendered to the AFFC. I have given the issue much thought and will probably catch some grief about it from home, but I am going to return all the worlds back to your rule. I will return the borders to exactly where they stood on 31 August 3056 before hostilities began. IF you renounce all claims to our Sarna March, end support for the guerrilla forces there, renounce all claim to Tikonov and Chesterton worlds.
I will also return all captured CCAF and CC flagged jumpships and dropships to you. Along with captured CCAF military equipment to you. Should help you rebuild a little faster. We captured 3 unfinished cruisers at Necromo. I will also return those to you, and will provide assistance in completing them for you. In addition, I will assist Rashpur-Owens by putting them in contact with Mitchell Aerospace and see about helping your Jumpship construction efforts in the Confederation. I would like to work out an official alliance with you. Mutual Defense, Favored Trading Partner, something along those lines. It will help both our nations become closer, we have centuries of distrust to overcome on both sides of the border.
As to reparations, just having to not worry about a sudden strike from the Confederation is more than enough. I am here to assist you in any way I can." Victor said
Chancellor Candace Liao was slightly taken aback by Prince Victor's offer. Not only was he giving all the captured worlds back, but he was returning captured equipment, ships. "Prince Victor, please call me Candace now and forever. I graciously accept your offer. When I return to Sian with this news, don't take it the wrong way, but the media will portray that I strong armed you into a full return of everything. I will work to make it official, Mutual Defense, full allies, even possibly basing rights. The last one might take some time to accomplish. From me and Kai, we will stand with the FC whenever and wherever they need us."
"Thank you Candace, you may always call me Victor in return. Your son is one of my best friends and always will be after all. I really wish I could have seen him, but I understand he has his hands full." Victor said
"Yes he does, it will take some years to reform the CCAF to something close to the St. Ives Military. He is already planning hard at it. Some units from the past will be reformed. I am sorry to report, but when the current production runs are completed for the AFFC, I will need to redirect those factories to rebuilding the CCAF." Candace said
"I understand Candace. Tell you what, any production runs not already shipped to the FC are hereby turned over to the SIC as military aid. I will catch some grief for that from my bean counters, but I will make them understand that the Commonwealth needs a strong Confederation as a ally. What do you plan to do about the WoB?" Victor said
"You continue to surprise me Victor, your are getting very good at the winning friends over game. When I return I will be severing the HPG contract with them and inviting Comstar back in to run them." Candace said
"I look forward to working closely with you in the future Candace. I am sorry to cut this short but I must return to New Avalon. I will keep my troops in place and put Marshal Bishop Sortek in touch with Kai, when Kai feels his troops are ready to maintain order, he and the Marshal can coordinate the withdraw of AFFC troops from your worlds in a orderly fashion." Victor said
12 January 3057
New Avalon
"You know Highness, returning those worlds to the Confederation and having Candace and Kai running the show will free up a sizeable amount of troops from the border there. We cannot strip it entirely, but we should free up 5-6 full RCT's to be deployed elsewhere. Maybe a few more, depends on the way Kai deploys his forces. If he keeps the former SIC troops along our border, we might even free up several more." Marshall of the Armies Morgan Hasek Davion said
"I was thinking the same thing Morgan. I been thinking that over, I want to form at least 2 rapid deployment forces. 2 full RCT's in each. Outfit them with LF Monolith's, new dropships to lessen the transport burden. Maybe even assign each a warship escort, I vision placing 1 of the RDF's say around the Sarna March, the other near the periphery region. I would like to have them fully outfitted and used to working with each other closely by 3059, no later than 3060. Work something up and we will compare notes. We might even use 4 individual RCT's instead of together. Let's brainstorm this in a few days. I did not like having troops holding for a month solo like we did." Victor said
"I will begin work on some ideas right away Highness." Morgan replied