Magellan
Mark woke up at his usual time, along with the sun, and extracted himself from between Rayven and Annabelle. Took care of his morning ablutions, then went up to his office to get his morning coffee and look through the daily reports.
Once he sat down, Cricket notified him that during the night, one of the new sensor beacons detected life. It was the one that she predicted had the greatest chance of success, since it was the closest one to the area that they were found and it lined up with their direction of drift.
Not wanting to get hopes up and end up travelling from one side of the universe to the other, he messaged the Destroyer from Earth, since they were the closest, plus there was still a Battlestar in orbit, and sent them off in the direction of the new find. They would reach it in roughly three days time.
With no other attention worthy items in the reports, he took his coffee and wandered out to the balcony to check up on the breakfast club.
As if on cue, Beth flipped the covers off, exposing her nude teen body to Mark's eyes. She came to the window and looked to the balcony outside his office. Once she saw him, she did some wake up stretches in front of her window, it was nice to watch a nubile young teenager doing nude exercises. It gets the blood pumping!
After her stretches, she sat down and used her fingers to masturbate for a bit. Then she got up and from her bedside table she pulled out a fairly large dildo with a suction cup on the base and stuck it to the window and proceeded to fuck herself.
Shanda snuck up behind Mark and saw what he was watching and then commented, "Wow, that's a pretty big cock for such a little girl!"
Mark explained who Beth was and that she did this for him almost every morning he was in the city.
When Beth finally came, she waved and blew Mark a kiss, as Mark returned the gesture. Then she wandered off for her morning shower.
Mark usually had a raging hard-on after watching her, so he went for his morning shower at the same time Beth did.
Shanda followed Mark to the bathhouse, and as they both got undressed, Shanda saw his erection as he was turning on the shower, "Let me take care of that for you!"
She joined him under the shower and proceeded to make sure his cock was nice and clean, as well as hard. When she was satisfied, she stood up, turned around, bent over and positioned Mark's cock at her slit.
Mark grabbed her hips and slid into her warm depths.
Shanda was no stranger to large cocks and he slid in easily, which is probably why Annabelle had no problem fisting her last night.
Once Mark was seated inside, she straightened up and brought Mark's hands around to play with her breasts as he fucked her.
After a couple of minutes of fucking under the shower, Rayven and Annabelle had shown up with their morning coffees. They disabled the outer force field, grabbed some balcony chairs and sat down to watch the show.
Now that they had an audience, Shanda got a bit more vocal and was soon cumming on Mark's cock. Mark felt the tingling sensation as his cock grew just a bit more, making Shanda cum even harder as the head of his cock pushed through her cervix and into her womb. After that, it only took a few strokes before Mark began squirting his cum deep into the ebony beauty.
As their orgasms subsided and Mark extracted his cock, a flood of cum flowed out of her pussy and down the drain.
They cleaned themselves up and exited the shower. Annabelle guided Shanda back into a lounge chair and proceeded to use her tongue and fingers to extract the remainder of Mark's cum from her pussy.
Rayven was rubbing her cock under her robe and watching Annabelle and Shanda when Solara came upstairs. As she started her shower, she asked Rayven if her pussy could help with her problem.
Rayven joined Solara under the shower, using the same position as Mark and Shanda used and it didn't take long before both were cumming.
Once everyone had dried off and gotten dressed they went downstairs where Cordero, Liyana, Gyges, Laruun and Marta were sitting around and drinking their morning beverages. Once their drinks were gone and the cups put in the recycler, they left the residence in search of breakfast at the meal pavilion.
It was during breakfast that Mark told everyone that the sensor beacons had detected a potentially habitable planet in the area that was closest to where Shanda and Cordero were found. He then said not to get their hopes up until it could be verified and that he had sent the closest ship, but it would take them a few days to reach that system.
Cordero said, "I can handle a few more days here, Atlantis is like being on vacation. True, my family is probably worried about me, but the prospect of returning home means we'll likely be questioned and quarantined for a few days. Partially because of the accident, but also because we've interacted with other species."
Shanda then smiled, "I have full faith that they will find our home and I hope when they bring us back, that our planet considers joining the Federation! If they don't want to join the Federation, can I join the Federation?"
Mark smiled, "I hope they consider joining the Federation also, but even if they don't, we will establish an embassy there, so that people can choose for themselves whether they want to stay on Magellan or emigrate to a federated planet."
The first evening they went and saw a movie followed by a sports bar and the second night was another soccer match featuring Acropolis against Autokthon. Unfortunately Autokthon was one of the weaker teams, so the game wasn't as exciting as the other one.
As the game finished, Mark reminded them that sometime tomorrow the ship should reach that system.
The next morning, as Mark had just finished going through his morning reports, he received a message from the recon ship. The message included a bunch of pictures of the planet and, since they detected no other space traffic, they had taken a cloaked shuttle down to get some closer views of some of the cities and the more unique buildings on the daytime side of the planet.
Mark thanked them, told them to keep monitoring and to stay cloaked until he could verify if this was Magellan or not.
Mark found Rayven fucking Shanda on the balcony. Mark figured they were probably watching Beth masturbate, but she was gone by the time Mark looked. As he returned to watching Rayven and Shanda, Rayven began cumming, Shanda spun around and tried to catch the last couple shots of cum in her mouth, but most ended up on her chest and face.
Mark just relaxed on a lounge chair drinking his coffee as they went to shower.
Cordero soon joined him on the balcony with his coffee. Mark showed him the images he had been sent and Cordero immediately confirmed it was Magellan. He pointed out one building, that looked like a castle, and said it was the government building in Aspona, the capital city where they lived.
As everyone else eventually made their way out to the balcony, the images were shown to all and Shanda reiterated pretty much exactly what Cordero had said moments before.
Mark notified the recon ship that the planet was, in fact, Magellan and he gave Captain Kôté the go-ahead to reveal themselves, make contact and inform them that they had rescued Cordero and Shanda, they were both in good health and that they would be delivered home in a few days.
Mark then informed Commander Topos, that they had found Magellan and that they would be coming up, after breakfast, to take them home.
Liyana notified Samira, who came for a quick interview with the visitors, as well as Mark, before they departed for Magellan.
Everyone ate breakfast and the only people coming with Mark on this trip was Rayven, Liyana and Athena. Liyana had felt guilty that she hadn't been there when Athos joined, because her primary duty was as a Federation ambassador and Gyges felt Athena didn't really get to go on a mission since it was pretty much just a retrieval.
As they boarded the Poseidon, which was now docked to a new Sentinel, Mark got a call from Captain Kôté of the recon ship, "Sir, we've revealed ourselves and made contact like you requested. They asked if we could provide video evidence that they are OK."
"That's an odd request, unless they either think we're bluffing or holding their people for ransom. Can you contact them and patch the call through to the Poseidon?"
"We'll try! They're pretty stirred up about something."
Mark assembled everyone in the boardroom and a couple of minutes later there was two people on the other end of the call, one was Captain Kôté and the other must be from Magellan.
Cordero and Shanda recognized the man immediately, and Cordero greeted him, "Director Rosen, nice to see you sir!"
"Cordero, Shanda it's good to see you both! We had been told you were killed!"
"Who told you that?"
"Right when you disappeared, another ship appeared in the same vicinity. They said your ship collided with one of theirs and both ships were destroyed. If we didn't find some way to compensate them for the loss of 10,000 men plus the ship, that they were just going to treat it as an act of war and attack!"
Mark then interjected, "Director Rosen, my name is Mark Phoenix, the King of the Atlantean Federation. Do you have an image of the people that made that threat?"
The director pulled up a tablet with a picture of the Empire leader they had let survive the attack at Athos.
"Sir, those guys call themselves 'The Empire' and they've caused issues on many occasions, they like to bully and use intimidation tactics and if they don't get what they want they won't hesitate to attack, especially if they think they have the upper hand. They are bluffing as you can see!" Mark said as he gestured toward Shanda and Cordero.
He then continued, "Captain Kôté is in orbit around your planet now. They will remain there and be on the lookout for the Empire. We are bringing your people and your ship back to you, we should arrive in three days."
"I look forward to meeting you and seeing the return of our people. What do we do if they show up before you get here?"
"Well, I can't see him forgetting what happened the last time he tried to attack a Federation ship, so if he sees one of our ships, I would hope he's smart enough to turn back!"
Mark then looked at the Captain, "Captain Kôté, you saw the report of what we did on Athos, correct?"
"Yes sir!"
"Well, if they show up, tell them that Magellan is under the protection of the Atlantean Federation. Then do something similar to what we did at Athos, using cloaked fighters. Try not to engage them in battle, unless they fire first, then it's open season!"
"Yes sir, anything else sir?"
"That's all for now, we'll see you in three days. Be safe!"
The call then ended and Mark gave the Commander the OK to get underway.
Three days later the Poseidon was approaching Magellan. It was a very Earth-like looking planet with 6 distinct land masses all surrounded by oceans.
Captain Kôté called immediately, some ships are hiding in the asteroid belt, we're just keeping an eye on them.
Commander Topos redirected the Poseidon to where Captain Kôté was. Sure enough hiding amongst an asteroid belt between Magellan and the next planet was a dozen Empire ships moving slowly around in the belt without exiting.
They contacted Magellan and said they were there to be compensated for the destruction of their ship and the loss of 10,000 men. It was an open broadcast the Atlantean ships could link into it, so suddenly the leader was looking at the Director and Mark.
