Golden Skull Alliance

The Golden Skull Alliance was the Alliance formed with the union of the Larkinson Clan of the Komodo Star Sector and the Cross Clan of the Majestic Teal Star Sector for the purpose of pooling their powers to better qualify for travelling through the beyonder gate and making a new life in the Red Ocean Dwarf Galaxy. It has three factions, namely Larkison clan, Cross clan and Glory Seekers. Even though Glory Seekers primary mission is protection of Gloriana Wodin Larkinson, it is mentioned later that they also have another mission related to Hegemony's plans in Red Ocean.

## Galactic Pioneers

To enter the Red ocean dwarf galaxy Ves personally gave up 45,000,000 MTA merits, which was the biggest individual contribution in the Golden Skull Alliance. Gloriana gave up 2,750,000 MTA merits while Juliet and Ketis emptied their entire accounts. In total, that covered over half of the merits needed to enter the Red Ocean. The Cross Clan was the second major contributor. As promised, Patriarch Reginald Cross coughed up 25,000,000 MTA merits at once. Professor Benedict Cortez offered 17,500,000 MTA merits. The Glory Seekers managed to make up the difference. They managed to recruit a 45-year old Journeyman who managed to earn over two million MTA merits over her career.

In total, there were three galactic pioneers.

* Ves Larkinson
* Reginald Cross
* Benedict Cortez

### Contributors

Aside from that, there were four 'contributors'.

* Gloriana Wodin-Larkinson
* Juliet Stameros-Larkinson
* Ketis Larkinson
* Galina Rovon-Hartul

## Fleet

Starting in the red ocean the Larkinson fleet consisted of 10 capital ships as well as 36 combat carriers the cross clan has 4 capital ships but they somehow managed to amass 70 combat carriers the glory seekers have a fleet carrier pulse 20 combat carriers and 8 logistical ships.

* Capital Ships of the Larkinson Clan
* Capital Ships of the Cross Clan
* Capital Ships of the Glory Seekers

## Army

The Crossers can almost field 6000 mechs if they want to, but may not have filled all of their new ships yet. The Glory Seekers should be in a similar position, but they should only be able to field 2750 mechs at most. The Larkinsons can field up to 4000 mechs. As long as the alliance partners had more time, they could eventually raise their collective strength to a level just above a mech division. For now, Ves estimated that the expeditionary fleet was still short of several thousand mechs.

They are expected to have 50 expert pilots with 1 ace mech vs 30 Hexer expert 10 Larkinsons 4 Crossers and 4 Glory Seekers with 1 Ace mech from the Crossers.

## Exploits

They created Task force fisherman to explore purgatory they earned 422,280,000 mta merits for selling phase-water at price of 200 merits per g. This was split 50% for the Larkinsons 30% to the cross and 20% to the glory seekers.

Before moving on to the new expedition the Golden Skull Alliance attacked the Gauge Dynasty together with the Hexadric Hegemony.

With several years to go before the kickoff of the Trailblazer Expedition, all of the parties involved had plenty of time to prepare beforehand. The latest estimates was that the Larkinson Clan was aiming to field 10,000 mechs from the main fleet. The Glory Seekers promised to do their best to bring 5,000 mechs to the expedition while the Cross Clan was confident it could meet its target of 12,000 mechs. In total, the expeditionary fleet would therefore be able to field 27,000 mechs at once, which was much greater than before but still rather insufficient considering the potential opposition that they might face.

The expeditionary fleet had fought against a pakklaton refugee fleet, a heavily-wounded but titanic astral beast, a large fish-whale enclave, an alien pirate base that turned out to be a prison for an unclean whale and a modern hybrid alien battleship. For the last 2 the Golden Skull Alliance was awarded with a total of 1,343,400,312 MTA merits. It decided to split the MTA merits in a 4:2:4 division leaving the Glory Seekers as the distant third as usual.

After Operation Lighthouse two new groups wanted to join the Adelaide third fleet and the Boojay family. As far as both groups are concerned, the Golden Skull Alliance is a transit vehicle that they can enter for as long as they want until they have reached their respective destinations. But the Davaut war is also looming pulling some of the Larkenson and much of the Cross clan into it.