This is my second AAR, and my first with DA. Since my first one went fairly well, I decieded to give it another go. Since this is the first installment, it is mainly background story, hopefully this one will turn our great. So for your reading enjoyment I present "For Gondacor!"
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For Gondacor!
"A New Beginning"

The world was tearing itself apart, explosion after explosion rocked the cities of Gondacor, as powerful nuclear blasts set most the major cites of the planet ablaze. For many they believed it was the end, that the great apocalypse was upon them. All around them it seemed that the enemies were closing in, that the Gondacor Federation, was being pushed back by the Chelsyrian Alliance. For as long as anyone could remember the planet Gondacor had been split into two, the evil vile Chelsyrian Alliance on one side, and the noble Gondacor Federation on the other. Back and forth the two would quarrel, vying for dominance of the planet, until the great discovery. No one knew for sure what was actually found, but there were rumors that it was some kind of alien vessel, the problem was it was found on Federation soil.

The Chelsyrian Alliance, growing evermore suspicious of what was found, mounted an operation to steal the find, and were successful. The Gondacor Federation was outraged by the operation, but since they were concealing the find, they had no way to pressure the Alliance to return it. So the matter was brushed under the rug and forgotten for almost fifty years, but then the war began.

It was a sudden attack form the Chelsyrian Alliance, using nuclear warheads they struck major cities around the Gondacor Federation. They believed if they struck fast the Federation would fall, but that was not to be, and to the surprise of the Chelsyrians, the Federation struck back with equal furry. With the nuclear exchange, the world began to rip and tear itself apart, and when all seemed lost for the Federation, the Chelsyrians vanished, leaving no one behind.

Why and how the Chelsyrians vanished was the greatest mystery of the Gondacor people, but for now they were just happy they were gone. With their exit, the Gondacor Federation worked to rebuild their now destroyed world, and slowly Gondacor was rebuilt to its original splendor, only this time united under the Gondacor Federation. With the Gondacor united, the horrors of the war slowly faded into the past, and time slipped by, and the Gondacor people progressed. When nearly a thousand years had passed, few could recall the horrors of the Great War, for they were only stories now told to children, that had faded into myth.

It was the dawn of the year 2225, and the newly elected President Zocar, prepared to give his address to the Gondacor Federation people. President Zocar was a young Gondacorian, with strong idealist views, he was very intelligent, but very stubborn. Now after a hard fought election, he prepared to lead the Gondacor Federation to new heights.
"My fellow Gondacorians, today we are stronger than ever, and with me as your newly elected president I promise to make us even stronger! My hope is to bring stronger unity to our people, and help those that are still poverty stricken make it in our great Federation. I will be working with the Federation Council to push through some of my new initiatives to reform our education system, and overhaul our space agency. I thank you for your support, and I hope to represent you well! Thank You."

Little did President Zocar know, but his presidency was quickly going to turn into something he could not have anticipated. The day after his speech to the Federation, the fateful day came. It was a picture perfect day, the sky was a shallow cool blue, with just a few fluffy clouds passing by, a day no one would give a second thought about. Suddenly like lighting cutting the sky, a tremendous flame streaked across, darting towards the ground. With a deafening roar the objected collided with the ground, shaking the land for miles. The object had crashed into the middle of a farmers’ field, creating a huge crater were there had once been large fields of crops.

The object was tracked by the Gondacorian satellites, and the military was quick to respond. With the utmost speed the recovery team traveled out to the impact site, not knowing what they would find. To their surprise it was an intact vessel of some type, it appeared to have some damage but was remarkably in good shape. From what they could tell it, it was a space vehicle of some type, but they had no idea where it would have come from, so they sent it to the Gondacor Space Consortium. At the Consortium, the Gondacorian scientist studied the find with curious eyes, and quickly determined it was an alien vessel. The strange thing about it though, it didn’t appear to be finished, it seemed to be a prototype of some kind. After careful study, it was found that the ship was a prototype for a new engine, one that was capable of propelling a ship faster than light speed.

When word finally reached President Zocar of the discovery, he immediately saw this as a means to revamp the Gondacor Space Consortium. Zocar immediately ordered for the reverse engineering of the ship to study how the engines functioned, in order to make them useful for possible future Gondacorian ships. The scientist at the Consortium worked tirelessly around the clock, to figure that engine out, and after about a month of work they finally understood how it functioned. With the schematics the scientist and engineers drew out, it was now possible to reconstruct the engine, and put it to use for Gondacorian ships.

With plans ready to go, President Zocar quietly ordered for three ships to be constructed using the "Hyperdrive" engine, one a colony ship, another a survey ship, the GSS Gallant, and one a mining vessel. The construction proved difficult, but by the first of January, 2226, the vessels were completed. With the completing of the vessels, Zocar decided it was time to announce to the people of Gondacor of the great achievement, and of the new goals of exploration and colonization.
"People of Gondacor, this is a great day, for we have completed our first ships capable of traveling faster than the speed of light. With these new ships we will set out to explore and colonize the galaxy! For the first time in the history of Gondacor, people will set forth and spread throughout the galaxy."

With the conclusion of President Zocar’s speech, the first colony ship disembarked for the nearest planet in the Gondacor System, Alora. With the colonization of the first planet outside of Gondacor, the people now looked to the stars like they never before had.