Galactic Empires Reborn I: Residual Chaos

[Assailant]

Max sighed. This would prove to be very difficult. Due to the precision of what the Insurrectionists were saying, he was more tempted to trust them. Regardless, he still had to play it safe.


"Our system of passcodes for containing Festers should do the trick to prevent any moles. Any time I'm giving info or initiating a plan, I'll have a code. I'll keep those other things in mind, thank you. In the meantime, do you have anywhere to go? I mean no harm by this, but hiding amongst my citizens only puts them in far greater danger than before. I...-" He paused, frowning for a moment before turning to his soldiers behind him. He commanded them each to give a different security code, to make sure they weren't spies. They each did so successfully and Max nodded, turning back to Tharom.

 

[Otakuyaki]

Max sighed. This would prove to be very difficult. Due to the precision of what the Insurrectionists were saying, he was more tempted to trust them. Regardless, he still had to play it safe.
"Our system of passcodes for containing Festers should do the trick to prevent any moles. Any time I'm giving info or initiating a plan, I'll have a code. I'll keep those other things in mind, thank you. In the meantime, do you have anywhere to go? I mean no harm by this, but hiding amongst my citizens only puts them in far greater danger than before. I...-" He paused, frowning for a moment before turning to his soldiers behind him. He commanded them each to give a different security code, to make sure they weren't spies. They each did so successfully and Max nodded, turning back to Tharom.

"Hiding amongst your citizens?" Tharom cocked an eyebrow at the question, and he pondered for a moment, "What makes you think we're hiding among your citizens? We were only searching for you while we were on the surface."


"We only arrived here shortly after the Arclight Coalition did." Kyrom started as he watched the soldiers state some sort of code.

 

[Assailant]

"Apologies if I made that sound accusatory," Max said humbly, "But the smokescreen in our capital town certainly drew their attention. I understand your intentions, and while I thank you certainly for having this meeting with me, the fact remains that now the Arclight have their gazes turned towards my people. As long as they believe you are down there, they are in peril. Of course, I am not asking you to surrender yourselves or anything of the sort, but do you perhaps have some way to show that you've left the city without giving up your position?"

 

[Otakuyaki]

"Apologies if I made that sound accusatory," Max said humbly, "But the smokescreen in our capital town certainly drew their attention. I understand your intentions, and while I thank you certainly for having this meeting with me, the fact remains that now the Arclight have their gazes turned towards my people. As long as they believe you are down there, they are in peril. Of course, I am not asking you to surrender yourselves or anything of the sort, but do you perhaps have some way to show that you've left the city without giving up your position?"

"Well... I'll doubt there's much we can do to try and convince them except warp the ship out of range of Holon. But that would be perilous... leaving this space means that they can either freely target us without the fear that you will be watching, or they can freely pursue tactics that you may not be prepared for." Tharom explained, "Even if there was a safe way to make a signal, I don't think any sort of signal will distract them from the long term goal of devouring your empire. From the very moment they approached you, they already had their eyes set on your people."

 

[Assailant]

Max frowned as he thought this over. In the end, he determined those were all legitimate points. "Very well. I will simply have to increase defenses. Thank you for this discussion, I shall be on my toes. How shall I contact you again, should the time arise when that is necessary?"

 

[Otakuyaki]

Max frowned as he thought this over. In the end, he determined those were all legitimate points. "Very well. I will simply have to increase defenses. Thank you for this discussion, I shall be on my toes. How shall I contact you again, should the time arise when that is necessary?"

"Urmon." Tharom called out, and a metallic coil slithered from his hood.


"Yes?"


"I'm giving this piece to Max, I'll be taking the spare."


"Understood." the metallic length coiled back up, and Tharom passed it to Max.


"This is a part of Urmon. A Mechina. Through it, she can communicate with you. Plug it into a screen and we can send visual transmissions. Release her onto a computer, and she can download its data. If you ever need to warp aboard the vessel, let her know. And one piece of advice... don't let anyone but the phantasmagoria remotely near you when you speak to them." if only he never needed to talk to them at all. Turning away briefly, he instructed Urmon to prepare the warp protocols, "You should probably head back. It would be suspicious for you to stay here for long. And Kyrom, pull out a piece." Kyrom nodded and handed him a broken puppet arm.


"Just so you have something to prove that your confrontation with us wasn't so friendly. But whatever you do, do not lie in front of a Psia." Tharom warned as he bid them farewell.

 

[MuchPsykers]

[NSS Junius]


"Why yes we are." The lead Terran said shaking the ambassador's hands. "Pleasure to meet you. We thought that maybe perhaps we could see what human culture was like since we are on temporary break. But also because of the similarities between our two species, we were curious." The Lead crewman said. "We aren't armed in terms of combat armour but, it's still required by the NSF that all crew-members still carry their arms just for safety precautions."


@Assailant


[Cyngus Armed forces]


"Launch all landing forces" The Lord Admiral ordered. In the hangars, the blast gates opened up as hundreds of light fighters were catapulted out from their launch pads.

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With them, hundreds of armour transports along with gunships were catapulted out afterwards.

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The fighters and gunships all activated their repulser systems in order to withstand the high energy within the shield bubble. They all had their cloaks on as they sped out of the shield bubbles and made their way towards the terrestrial planets down below. A few initial detachments made of only several dozen gunships had begun to descend on the planet surface, far from the rest of the attack force headed towards the planets. Inside each gunship was a group of 15 soldiers in white clad armour and a commander in yellow painted armour to show their rank.

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The gunships of the reconnaissance detachment started to land on one of the planets as the few dozen gunships landed, opening their blast doors as soldiers came rushing out. Meanwhile, transport guships were releasing their energy clamps on their vehicles before speeding away.


There were multiple armoured tank walkers that began to escort the troops on the ground of the planet. With them, were also multiple armoured personnel walkers, carrying dozens more troops as they began to scout out the planet.

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Meanwhile, on the other planet, the reconnaissance force was just beginning to land with the rest of the invasion force tailing behind. Holon was not known to the Cyngus as they had sent their forces towards the two terrestrial planets closest to them, presuming that this system was either in either one of the two enemy fleet's control, or was a neutral system.


@Assailant


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[Cyngus Navy]


The ships of the fleet still had their weapons primed and ready, with all of them pointed at the two opposing fleets. The ships still awaited their orders from their Admiral to fire.


"Steady. Just a little longer. We don't want our invasion forces to get obliterated by our fire." The Lord Admiral ordered. "All forces hold fire until our lord calls for the initial volley." The Commander barked.


@Otakuyaki


@ResonantStorm

 

[Assailant]

Max reappeared in the building they had left from. He looked at the Mechina coil and stashed it away. He'd see about finding a way to implement it into his suit later. He looked at the arm with a sigh.


"What should we do, sir?" A soldier asked. "What will YOU do?" Max was silent in contemplation for a bit before sighing once more.


"I'm not sure. Both sides seem equally trustworthy and suspicious. Neither have taken violent action against us, and both have motives to hurt or help us, according to their alibis. It seems I must meet with the Arclight once more soon, though what I shall say remains to be decided."




The diplomat nodded. "Very well. A transport vessel to the surface of Holon has been prepared, if you are ready to depart."


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"They've landed on Xernea," one woman said as she watched a strange fleet they'd been eyeing for some time land. "Should I contact them?"


"King Teller is indisposed as of the moment," a commanding officer said. "Relay them to Irena." After a few moments of clicking, a signal was broadcasted to the Cygnus forces.


"Stand down," A female voice said to them. "You are trespassing on the territory of the Interplanetary Federation of Holon."

 

[MuchPsykers]

[NSS Junius Crew members]


"Yes, I believe that we are all ready." The Lead crew member said taking a final look at his comrades. "Please lead the way your honour." The Lead crew member said.


[Cyngus armed forces]


The bulk of th Cyngus armed forces had landed with hunreds of gunships in the air above the planet, with light fighters landing to re-fuel and re-equip as well as the unloading of large supplies. There were also the eployment of medium tank walkers

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As well as multiple hover combat vehicles.

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Thousands of troops were now beginning to occupy the surrounding ground which they landed upon. A command base was built from different modules that were dropped by transpot gunships. "Lets go men. Continue to search the planet for signs of enemy forces." The Colonel ordered.

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There were multiple companies of soldiers, with armoured walkers supporting the infantry, as well as gunships and fighters. The Cyngus soldiers, with their long heavy energy blasters began to scout out the planet. The Cyngus soldiers would shoot at anything that was moving and was the same size with a Mormen. Fighters were bombings areas to attempt and draw out what they assumed would be enemies from the enemy fleets out into the open.


"Continue to search men." One of the Mormen officers shouted. Some of the soldiers fired their blasters at things that were moving.


Meanwhile, the Colonel had received the transmission. To say the least, the Colonel held back his laughter. He tapped his communications module in the command centre on the surface of the planet. "This is the Cyngus Armed Forces. This planet is not registered on our database, therefore, we have come to the conclusion that it is uninhabited. For you to claim this planet would be completely inconceivable for we have landed on this planet. Therefore, it is now under our occupation. If you have any citizens residing on this planet, then you should have evacuated them long before." The Colonel said replying to the transmission before completely severing the lines of communication with the female voice.


Above, several Corvettes and light frigates de-activated their cloaks and were in the process of surveying the planet surface below.


@Assailant

 

[Assailant]

The communicator's mouth flopped open and closed a few times, trying to figure out what to say. "B-but it isn't uninhabited!" She said with anger. "This planet has been under the control of the Interplanetary Federation of Holon for almost ten galactic standard years now!" Meanwhile, commanders began transmitting emergency shelter signals to cities near the landing point.




The diplomat nodded and walked towards the dock. After about a minute or so, they reached a transport vessel. This was a diplomatic transport ship, however, rather than a military transport vesel. It was much nicer than the uncomfortable transport ships that soldiers would use. It had a table with a holo desk on it, some chairs set up around the room, and multiple side rooms for things such as bathrooms, food storage, etc.

 

[MuchPsykers]

[Cyngus armed forces]


The Colonel turned off the transmitters as the Human communicator's inquiries fell onto deaf ears.


"Sir. We've discovered what looks to be one of the communities on this planet." One of the Cyngus soldiers said, looking away from his binoculars. "Good. We'll blast those aliens on the surface so that they can't provide any anti-air cover for their fleets above when we engage them soon.' The Commander said. "All units. Begin assault on the target."


Several armoured personnel walkers along with several armoured tank walkers began to move.

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The tanks started to fire their main heavy turbo cannons and secondary armaments, providing cover for the Armoured personnel walkers. There were several gunships that sped ahead of the main attack force as they landed within the city, unloading their cargo of soldiers before quickly taking off once more to provide air cover or to bring in the next round of troops. While this was happening several transport gunshis also detached their tank walkers to support the forward infantry.


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[NSS Junius Crewmen]


The crew members all followed the human diplomat to the diplomatic shuttle. All the crew members made themselves comfortable inside the transport shuttle. "Very nice." One of the soldiers complimented as he stared out of one of the viewing ports.


@Assailant

 

[Assailant]

The particular moon they'd landed on was a mining colony. Fortunately, they were near multiple space military bases and many of the workers were trained with firearms. Furthermore, if the moon was lost, relatively few lives would be lost and little ground too. Unfortunately, this also meant there weren't very many defenses stationed. There was also very little weaponized Holonite, as most of it was for machines. They would need to hold the line until reinforcements arrived. Thankfully, thanks to the forewarning, they were able to activate their biosphere shields. Originally these shields were used to create a small ecosystem around a colony until a biosphere could be maintained on the planet/moon/asteroid, but they were often repurposed, once the latter goal was achieved, into defensive shields for repelling invasions.


The shells fell on the shields uselessly, as those incapable of fighting in the colony fled to bunkers. A small army, a militia if you will, began forming of those able to fight as they began preparing defensive forces. They still had some time before the troops reached them, so they prepared to hold their ground.


The speaker cursed to herself as she spoke over the emergency broadcast frequency. "We have a code Delta-Nine-One on Xernea, coordinates in bound. Io and Lima branches prepare to respond."


@tims run




"We felt we should make a good first impression," the man who had spoken before spoke once more. The sound of locks clicking as the airlock sealed rang as the ship slowly began to move. Soon, however, the feeling of motion stopped completely.

 

[MuchPsykers]

[Cyngus armed forces]


The Cyngus soldiers all scattered as the medium tank walkers turned their Turbo Energy Canons to full power as they fired volleys of highly charged energy to devastate the barrier in front of them.


From above, the fighters dropped high charged bombs designed to overload shields.


Heavy troopers also arrived to the scene with large RPGs. They each turned a knob on the weapons as they pointed it at the barrier before firing the anti-shield particle beams towards the barriers.

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"I want an orbital bombardment frm the low flying frigates." The Colonel ordered from his command centre. Not long after, several frigates flying overhead had begun to bombard the bio-shpere with their single heavy turbo turret, as well as their other laser and energy weapons, along with missiles.


[Other Cyngus force]


Meanwhile, on another planet, the Cyngus forces had begun to land in different parts of the planet with thousands of soldiers scouting out the new terrain. Soldiers were firing at anything that they deemed were not Mormen and did not give a second thought as to what they were shooting at.


"Move." The Mormen officer said as a platoon of Cyngus troops began to move towards the designated target area with their long assault blasters ready.


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[NSS Junius Crewmen]


"How long until we arrive?" One of the Terrans Soldiers asked.


One of the crew members was on one of his portable hologram monitors before turning to the group. "It seems that the NSS Junius has picked up signs of battle erupting on one of the nearby moons. We really can't do anything since both our species have not officially signed any agreements, which would enable us to aid you. If it is needed, I would be able to put you in contact with our first officer. Under these circumstances, according to NSF regulations, we can't give aid to nations not part of our alliance since it would put Terran lives at risk but, it does not impose any restrictions in providing arms to the nation."


@Assailant

 

[Assailant]

Thankfully, the stabilization properties in Holonite allowed the shield to remain up, despite the brutal bombardment. Even still, it was highly straining to the system, and people ran here and there attempting to stabilize it further. As the army landed on another terrain, the commander sighed and sent a message to Max informing him of the situation.


Max looked over the message, double and triple checking to make sure he was reading it correctly before sighing. "It appears," he said, "That we are now at war."


The commander directed troops around. Some were directed for resource management, others were preparing for battle. She would have to send the full Io and Lima battalions, which would unfortunately take some time to mobilize.


"Skelov!" She said as she called upon a nearby man. "Give me intel on that second landing spot." The man nodded and began tapping on his computer for a bit as he pulled up the info.


"It's Retras, moon of Libertas," Skelov replied. "Relatively small for a moon, and..." he paused, causing her to prompt him on. "Completely uninhabited. It was the site of a huge Fester crashed ship that would go on to wipe out the colony. We occasionally drop by to pick things out from the automated machines that remained and were placed to mine, but the planet's far too dangerous to try to reclaim." The commander paused, giving thought about what to do.


"Let them try to take it," she said, "and let them know the might of our greatest foe."




"That is for King Teller to decide," one of the men said as he turned on his communicator. He talked for a few moments before nodding and shutting it off. "He thanks you for your consideration, be he does not want your aid as of right now. He already feels too indebted to you as is for the Fester incident, and he feels he shouldn't fall further into debt. However, he will keep this offer in mind should worst come to worst.


@tims run

 

[MuchPsykers]

[Cyngus Battleship]


"This is not good." The Colonel said. "We'll obliterate their pesky shield with a single blow." The Captain of the Battleship said. The large stealth battleship had detached from the rest of the fleet and was flying in low orbit above the planet. The Lower underbelly of the battleship opened up revealing an artillery system of some sorts. The large missile battery pointed in the direction of the holonite shield. "Load Energy missile." The Captain of the battleship said. After a moment of waiting, the Captain turned to his CIC.


"Energy weapon signs are reading normal." The CIC officer said. "Ready to fire."

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"Fire the energy missile." The Captain said. The missile battery fired an arc of energy at incredible speeds towards the shield. The Energy missile was designed to take out any shield type with one single hit with a highly powerful contained mass of energized energy which was only known to the Mormen species. Luckily, the energy missiles are so powerful that it requires tons of energy to store one, meaning that a battleship must be modified in order to carry an energy missile, and even then, a battleship can only carry one missile due to this.


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[Cyngus armed forces-Retras]


The Cyngus troops continued to advance forward, as hundreds of troops and walkers continued to occupy the moon.


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[Final Cyngus force]


Another Cyngus landing force had made their way towards one final planet as thousands of troops decended upon the surface, along with hundreds of walkers, gunships and fighters.


The Cyngus troops killed anyone that was unlucky to not flee as they pressed onwards.


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[Crewmen of NSS Junius]


"We have weapons that would be of use for you." The Crewman said. "Be respectful of their decision. If the king requests aid, then we will give aid. For now, just respect the Human King's decision." One of the Marines said.


"So how long until we arrive to the Planet?" The Lead Crewman said.


@Assailant

 

[Assailant]

As the energy came down, the Cygnus surely thought this marked the end of the shield. However, those who saw it coming in the settlement only grinned. How foolish could they be? The energy hit the shield and arked down to the generators and struck them. The energy spread out across the shield. The people maintaining the shield frantically flipped switches and clicked buttons to maintain the shied as it began to flicker. For a moment, it almost seemed like it would go down before shining even more brightly and more powerfully.


The commander grinned as she heard the news via transmitter. Clearly the Cygnus didn't think anything through. The stabilizers for the shields draw energy to maintain it. The shield deflect projectiles by sapping what energy it can from the impact and uses it to maintain the stabilizers, whilst also transferring some back to slow the projectiles. What had been damaging the shields had been the force of the impacts. It can take energy, but the force of the impact remains (from what the kinetic energy it returns didn't cancel out.) However, by shooting a blast of such intense, pure energy, the shields sapped an IMENSE amount of pure energy. It almost overwhelmed the system, but the self-stabilizing spread of energy mechanic it utilized kept it up. With no actual force behind the blow, due to a lack of force because energy had no mass, the shields could maintain it. Now it had MUCH more energy, so it had become even stronger.


The fools! I wonder if they'll ever figure out how to actually take down the shield.





Meanwhile, the defenses had been partially complete. Rockets began shooting out from behind the shield at the troops.




The Cygnus on Retras found nothing moving. Nothing but dust from the wind. Eventually they came upon a shipwreck. As they'd gotten nearer, they'd noticed more decayed, twisted corpses.




"We've found the last of their forces," a man said to the commander. "They've landed on Auraxis." The commander nodded.


"Has red alert been activated?" The man nodded as the commander frowned.


"It's a shame. I wish those recruits the best of luck." Auraxis was one of the primary barracks where recruits in the military would train. Unfortunately, it was the furthest of the attacks away. She called battalions Ursa and Keres while battalions Io and Lima finally had mobilized and began to move out.




"About ten standard minutes," one of the men said while another seemed to ponder.


"I wonder," he said aloud. "Are you positive our races have never met? What is the language you speak?"


@tims run

 

[Hercynia]

Exploratory Fleet

"Tilasi, bring us around to our new temporary..." Artemis hesitated momentarily, trying to decide on a fitting term before giving up for sake of simplicity, "...allies, I suppose. Not close enough to act hostile, but relatively nearby. Kindly pass on the message to the rest of our fleets. Do not respond to any messages sent to us, and let these new adversaries see who we're siding with."


"Yes General. Frigates and fighters have been deployed, and The Speakers have been briefed. Eternos and Blizzard are aware of what's occurring. Furthermore, there appears to be signs of another civilisation as well as the NSF, whom we are allies with. I believe it would be beneficial for me to directly dump the necessary data to your memory systems."


"Go ahead, Tilasi." As Artemis gave permission for the Battleplate's AI to directly dump the information on the Novin Systems Federation directly into her memory systems - which was only possible due to her being Tekkyd - several other events were occurring, most notably the movement of the fleet to a position closer to the Arclight coalition, facing the Cygnus. Bay doors on the Warships and on Tisari opened too, swarms of small, remotely controlled fighters pouring out and taking up positions in front of the main fleet, mixed in with a few frigates, which acted as fire support, taking up various positions within the fleet, as well as travelling towards the hostile army in intercept-based formations in case of enemy advances.


@tims run


@Otakuyaki


@Assailant (mentioned)


Diplomatic Ships

@ResonantStorm[/URL]

"Read Admiral Hicks, it's a pleasure to meet you. I am a Speaker of the Synthesis Coalition, UFA Department, Locke Retilan. Our craft will be warping in shortly. Kindly lift any Warp Denial you have active."


Shortly after the speaker finished talking, fifteen ships warped in, 7 of them dignitary/diplomatic craft, the rest an escort of a few Battleships.

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[MuchPsykers]

[Cyngus Armed Forces]


"Colonel. The Energy missile has failed. Orders?"


"Damn." THe Colonel said. He was not expecting it to come to this. The colonel was hoping to destroy the shield with the energy missile but, it seems that this new species seemed to have created something that managed to prevent their energy missiles from impacting. "We have no choice. Tell the Multirole battle fortress to re-route some power to activate the transporter. "But sir, that would require reducing our shield's energy to 50%"


"Just do it. We must get our forces inside that shield. They are being massacred by those rockets." The Colonel ordered. The CIC commander hesitated for a moment before contacting the Admiral aboard the battle fortress. Minutes went by before the CIC commander turned around. "Sir, Transporter is active. But, he an;t hold it for long. We need to rush al forces in the moment those transporters are activated."


"Do it." The Colonel said.


Around the shield, there were dead cyngus sldiers and several destroyed walkers from the rockets that were fired. Suddenly, a large energy veil opened up in front of them.


On the other side of the shield, another large bright blue veil opened up. "Quickly men! Hurry!" Almost immediately, hundreds of Cyngus soldiers and walkers began to run through the veil, appearing out of the other veil that was inside the shield dome. There was still mass amonuts of vehicles and soldiers, gunships entering when the commanders each recieved a message. "All men stay clear! Get the last battalions inside!" The last of the infantry and vehicle battalions had passed through when the transport veils disappeared. The sudden closing left several hundred infantry and several vehicles trapped within the veil but, majority of the Cyngus force managed to enter as they began to wreck havoc, now within the shield. The rest of the Cyngus forces that did not manage to enter were continuously being slaughtered by the rockets being fired. The only negative was also that limited gunships had also gotten through te transport veil as the Cyngus forces within the shield were now isolated temporarily until a new strategy was developed in destroying the shield.


"My Lord. We are vulnerable. Re-charge of energy will take hours, our shied powers are at 45%." The Rear Admiral said. "Lets hope this enemy does not tamper with us. We would not only be facing a space battle, but also orbital anti-air flak which would give us immense trouble."


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[Retras]


The Cyngus forces, curious had sent hundreds of soldiers and equipment to go inspect the wreckage, along with several low flying corvettes.


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[Auraxis]


The Cyngus forces landed all across the moon. Cyngus troops parachuted down above what looked to be installations on the surface, along with heavy walkers beginning to fire at the structures, and gunships doing attack runs. Some Cyngus battalions were taking casualties as they were meeting un-expected resistance.


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[NSS Junius Crew]


"We speak English. As far as we are concerned you humans are the only race that we have encountered that have similar features as terrans." The Crewman said. "Never have we heard of a species called humans until now."


[NSS Junius]


"Sir, we apologize for not being able to assist you in battle but, we are ready to provid eyou with weapons if you request it." The Captain said.


@Assailant


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[Primary Cyngus Fleet]


The Lord Admiral took note of the Synthesis Coalition's movements as they started to to mobilize their own fighters, as well as moving closer towards the Synthesis Coalition fleet in their battle formations. "Weapons ready." The Lord Admiral commanded.


Hundreds of fighters were flying around the invisible Highly energized shield bubble protecting the entire fleet, awaiting orders to dispurse and engage in combat.


The Secondary and Thrid fleets also took further aggressive formations as they inched closer towards both the Archlight and the Synthesis Coalition.


[NSS Junius]


"Captain, I'm reading signals frm the Synthesis Coalition." One of te communications officers said. "Hail them." The Captan said. "Transmission link established." The Communications commander replied.


"Greetings Commander of te Synthesis Coalition, because of our new alliance, I have weapons aboard my battleship that will assist you in your fight. At your request, I shall send my vessels to transport these weapons to you." The Captan said.


@ResonantStorm


[NSF Escort Fleet]


"Greetings Speaker Retilan. All warp cancelers have been shut down, you may warp in anytime." The Rear Admiral said. "Admiral, Synthesis ships are warping in." One of the bridge crew reported.


"Good." The Admiral said before turning back to his transmitter. "Mr Speaker, give us your approval anytime and we shall hand over the coordinates so that we may begin our mission as your escorts."


@ResonantStorm

 

[Assailant]

The moment the veil appeared, many of the defenses turned immediately towards it. While many defenses were along the edge of the shield, they hadn't been naive enough to only place them there. Automated turrets opened fire on the Mormens that made it in, and mines, jerry rigged from mining dynamite (more advanced than modern day dynamite, mind you) exploded as Mormens walked near it. The humans had the element of surprise, as no doubt this wasn't expected, and they also possessed knowledge of the terrain and they had the enemy surrounded. If they were ever going to win the fight, it would be now.




Retras





Metal buckled and made noises as creatures scurried about in the dark, unseen. This continued for a time as they explored the ship. Suddenly, as they walked into what was once a briefing room, multiple Fecters burst out from nearby vents, grabbing onto the soldiers and digging into their neck to grab their spine, or crawling into every orifice they could find. Some nearby corpses that seemed much less decayed than the rest got up, revealing them as Hivers, as they rushed, pummeling and biting, at the troops. Even a few Twisters charged, slamming into soldiers with their tentacle-like arm and blocking any bullets with their fleshy shields.




Auraxis





Multiple AA energy guns blasted off high-powered blasts which would do some pretty decent damage to most ships. The raid shields went up as a similar shield to the one on the mining colony went up. Snipers rushed out and began sniping parachuters out of the air.




Diplomacy Ship





"You even call it the same language," the man asked curiously. "Is it possible that Terrans descended from humans? Or perhaps the other way around? The similarities are far too strikingly similar."

 

[MuchPsykers]

[Cyngus Armed Forces]


The Initial Cyngus forces were getting bogged down as they were being plummeted with multiple cross-fire from the enemy. Eventually, more and more streamed in until hundreds of battalions of both men and walkers had come through before the veils closed up. The Cyngus forces had sustained severe losses but, the large reinforcements that continuously exited through until the veil closed replaced those fallen Mormens. The Cyngus Soldiers began to charge as they fired their Long Assault blasters at any human fighters that they might have come across, as the powerful energy weapons woud vaporize body parts when made contact with.


Cyngus troops continued to press forward, even despite the mines which took down multiple Cyngus troops, as well as Turrets gunning down multipele Cyngus troops left and right. Several Gunships that managed to enter swooped down with their laser turrets as they fired off a continuous beam of energy which cut down any turrets that it was able to cut, but also swooping down as they used their pinpoint laser turrets at the formation of humans below, causing the ground to explode in a firey explosion wherever the laser made contact with the ground.


Walkers continued on. Those that fell victim to the Jerry rigged mines, the troops inside would evacuate and continu on foot as they fired large and tight walls of the energy from their long assault blasters. The Mass Cannons on the tank walkers would shoot at the ground just in front of the Cyngus troops to blow up any hidden mines, but also firing their guns at the turret in placements, providing cover for the Cyngus troops.


Cyngus troops continued to fall as they charged onwards, using their vast numbers as multiple mormens would be cut down before the first line of Cyngus troops began fighting the Humans and their defenses in close quarters.


Multiple formations of the gunships that managed to get through were providing whatever air support they could, while some were shot down.


Another Formation of gunships headed towards the generators with a cargo of Black Troopers.

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One of the gunships fired off their mass drive missiles in erratic patterns at incredible speeds before most hit whatever defenses that were above the landing zone, meanwhile the remaining headed towards the first generator.


The Black Troopers had their camoflauge on as they blended with the surroundings, but also their armour provided a cooling system which prevented heat signatures from emitting. They ran at incredible speeds, and in erratic formations which constantly shifted. Their armour was incredibly durable as well, capable of soaking up shots. The towering 7 feet tall Mormens, invisible began to sneak their way towards the generators, while another battalion of Cyngus troops and several armoured walkers attempted to destroy the generators themselves.


[Retras]


"Wha-"


"What are they?!" One of the stunned Mormens shouted. "Kill them!" Another Mormen shouted as he shot one of the twitchers with his Long Assault blasters, vaporizing one of the arms and half the head, before firing another shot, completely vaporizing the head and neck. Multiple Cyngus soldiers were getting overwhelmed as the commanders ordered a full retreat. Above, the Corvettes pointed their turbo turrets towards the surface as they began an orbital bombardment.


"Help! One's getting inside the cockpit of the Tank! ARGH!.." The Radios went silent. "T-2. Report." The Commander said as nothing but static came out of the transmitter. "Commander! They're everywhere! Order!"


"Onwards! Kill these vile creatures!" The Commander shouted int his transmission. The Cyngus troops, like mindless drones, obeyed their commanders as they continued to charge, and gun down whatever twitchers, festers they could as other Cyngus troops fell victim as Orbital bombardments provided support for the troops on the ground.


[Auraxis]


Just before the shields went up, a formation of gunships managed to enter through, with a couple unlucky that were shot down in the process. Cyngus troops were now making their way around the complexes as they engaged in close quarters combat, along with their tank walkers and armoured walkers blasting away and either destroying or vaporizing parts of structures with enemy resistance without thinking twice which also caused multiple friendly-fire casualties on the Cyngus side as well. Any Cyngus Soldiers that were still parachuting down were making their way towards the snipers with some successfully landing, and some even taking out a couple enemy snipers.


"Onwards. For Conquest!" The Commander shouted as his brave Mormens charged.


Meanwhile, above, several Corvettes had sustained damaged from AA fire and were forced to pull back. The ships that were providing ariel support were forced to scatter and take evasive actions against the AA on the surface.


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[Diplomacy ship]


"Well, unless your species has existed longer than 14 million years. I believe not." The Lead Crewman said. "We became an interstellar race 13 million years ago. In that time frame, we have advanced at lightning pace in both our military, science and technology."


"NSF Battle Net is reporting that combat is underway." One of the Marines said, staring at his hologram monitors which were levitating in mid-air.


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[NSS Junius]


The General pressed a button on his hologram monitor. "I want a platoon of Marines, along with a transport Armoury ready."


"General, what is this?" The captain said appalled by the Generals actions. "Allies or not, we shall provide arms to any race that is being bulled by another race." The General said.


"Sir, Prowler 03 is ready for take off." The pilots voice said through the monitors. "You have permission to launch." The Prowler-Class Patrol/transport vessel left the rear hangar, as it sped towards Holon. "This is a Prowler-Class Patrol/transport vessel of the NSF, permission to land." The Pilot said.


@Assailant

 

[Assailant]

"Sir," a messenger spoke to the commander. "The enemy has warped into the city beyond the shields, leaving some troops on the outside."


The commander frowned. "How is the retaliation faring?" The messenger looked down at the tablet the report had come in from.


"Large numbers are dropping, but they continue relentlessly. They rely on overwhelming numbers rushing. Their men are clearly expendable. Currently, multiple forces of thier's are moving on the stabilizers." The commander opened her mouth to speak, but the messenger continued. "Their forces consist largely of infantry, though they also possess gunships and mobile artillery, walker class." The commander thought for a moment.


"You said they are attacking the surface stabilizers?" The messenger nodded. "Does the colony possess any Arc weapons?"


"No sir, though our reinforcements en route do."


"That will be useful," the commander said. "Tell them to begin utilizing collateral damage. AOE attacks are more valuable than simple power. Utilize smokescreens, flashbangs, the like. We do not have numerical advantage, so make sure they are warned not to get caught up in the moment and rush the enemy without a way to kill a large number at once. As for the stabilizers, reroute the gained power from the energy burst to defend the stabilizer under fire. Focus fire on the artillery, as the infantry will not be able to do much. Should the stabilizer fall, utilize defense plan Theta-12. That is all." The messenger saluted and walked off, carrying the message on.




As the Mormens proceed through the city, they would walk through streets. For simplicity, the majority of intersections were 4-way intersection. As they walked through, explosives went off. Buildings collapsed around them, crushing some soldiers and blocking up the streets. More firebombs were thrown into the intersection, where the survivors would be, while humans fired into the intersection from behind the rubble. Meanwhile, the surviving rockets turned their sights on the ships and walkers, now flying exclusively on them.


From other intersections, humans tossed jerry-rigged smoke screens while they fired from windows and cars, making sure they all had cover. Many similar ambushes took place across the colony.




[Retras]


A man walked out of the ship wreckage. Surprisingly, he pulled out a rocket launcher and began opening fire on the ships. A few occurrences of this happened across the ship. Multiple Cygnus troops would return to rendez-vous with their troops, aiming their guns at the Festers, only to turn them on their "allies" and open fire. There was now a return fire from a multitude of Cygnus troops who had become Placers. The Fecters, Hivers, and Twisters continued their relentless assault.




[Auraxis]


The soldiers fought back in hand-to-hand rather well, pulling out knives and attacking efficiently with them. While many people there were recruits, almost as many were near the end of their training, and even a few were seasoned soldiers, having served their duty and know teaching the younger soldiers.


"Deploy Arcs!" Someone yelled over the radio. Blue grenades were thrown into hordes of Cygnus troops. When they exploded, a great energy surged out in a dome like structure, enveloping multiple people. These people would be filled with energy as they were essentially shocked to death (though the attack isn't electricity, it behaves much like it) as the energy arced off of them and onto their nearby comrades, killing every nearby soldier.


Forces went to reinforce the surviving snipers, covering them as they fired upon the remaining paratroopers, as well as enemies below. The AA fire continued relentlessly.




[Diplomacy Ship]


"Strange," the man said as he considered the implications. "Than I suppose it is possible humanity is descended from your kind? Though there's no real evidence for that. The fact that we speak the same language, and even call it the same name, is peculiar. Many people involved with the government are connected to a central database. What this is capable of is automatically translating to and from any language, provided of course that at least someone knows it. It's also capable of learning, so if someone who was connected to the database were to begin speaking your language, than it would begin automatically learning from the conversation. So until now, I just presumed that your language was in the database.




There was a moment of silence before someone responded to Prowler 03. "Prowler 03, you are clear for landing."


@tims run

 

[MuchPsykers]

[Cyngus Armed Forces]


Gunships continued to stalk the skies low as they used their pinpoint laser turrets to rip through the human forces hiding behind the rubble. Along with using their Mass Drive missiles to completely destroy buildings where enemy signatures were being picked up. Mormens, were just recovering from the sudden ambush when they continued to march forwards, as they entered buildings, and over the rubble as they pulled their plasma knives, striking the humans behind. Medium tank walkers and armoured walkers continued to fire at the human forces.


Another detachment of Cyngus forces began operations to mop up the last remaining turrets that were not destroyed as a wall of energy fire from their blasters, as well as powerful explosive energy from their walker's canons were sent towards the remaining turrets. It seemed as though that the Cyngus forces did not care less for their fallen comrades as they continued to march on. Those that were injured were quickly pulled aside for medical treatments.


An armoured tank walker was taken out as it's rear compartments opened up revealing another platoon of 20 soldiers as they rushed out, and jumping into the human lines where they engaged in hand combat. The used their plasma knives, as well as plasma bayonets which were activated via a button on their long blaster rifles.


Meanwhile, several battalions continued to press forward towards the stabilizers. The Black troopers de-activated their cloaks as they reached the stabilizers. One f them was carrying a pack as he set it down on the dirt. The Pack started to drill quickly and deep into the ground as the Black Trooper covered the deep hole with dirt. "This is only one of two packs we have. Make it count. After this, there is no more left to use." One of the Black troopers said.


One of the Black trooper's fired his anti-drive RPG as multiple high speed projectiles destroyed several turrets, along with an enemy defense that was set up. The projectiles fired by humans were being soaked up by the Black Trooper's tough armour. "Our work here is done." The leader said as they started to flee with their cloaks activated once more. Once at a safe distance, they observed the countless Mormens that were being gunned down all around.


One of the black troopers stayed behind as he continued to provide support for the regular Cyngus force that was advancing.


"Charge men!" The officer said pointing at the stabilizers as the Cyngus forces began to rush them.


Above, a Frigate and Corvette crashed onto the ground from taking severe damage from the AA. Another frigate was burning up as it was nearing it's damage capacity.


[Retras]


"Fire the Heretics!" The Officer said as Cyngus troops that were not infected started to shoot at their own comrades that were shooting at them, as well as continuing to kill as many of the infestations that they could. More gunships swooped over head, dropping bombs, as well as firing missiles, and their laser turrets at the ground bellow, destroying multitude of enemy infestations, as ell as some of their own troops.


More Troopers and walkers came from the rear and from above as they jumped out of the gunships, firing at the humans with rockets, and any other enemy soldiers that they could spot.


[Auraxis]


Many Cyngus troops fell as they continued to charge forth. Once closer, they started to attack the recruits. Many continued to fall as walkers fired at structures to collapse them, while other Cyngus troops had Machines guns, gunning down whatever humans they could before being taken out themselves if they were.


Paratroopers started to shoot at the snipers and their back up from the air, as did their comrades on the ground as multiple Heavy Repeater Blaster squads(Machine gun squads) started to fire rapid volleys of energy at the forces.


Above, 3 more gunships were shot down, while two corvettes were taking heavy damage. The Destroyers and the lone cruiser above continued evasive actions. One of the destroyers took a direct hit as it crashed onto the surface. "Damn." The Captain said counting his ship losses above this planet.


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[Diplomacy ship]


"If you were, then you would not be independent. As all terrans were in-integrated into a larger, more grand Federation after a long Unification war." The Lead Crewman said. "Unless there were Terrans who managed to evade the wars millions of years ago. Which by the looks of it seem un-likely, but there is always the possibility."


"Are we near the planet?"


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[Prowler 03]


The small patrol/transport vessel descended onto the surface as it landed on one of the runways on the surface. The underbelly opened up, revealing a platoon of 24 Galactic marines.

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The Marines came out with their guns attached to their back holsters. An automated Cart with large white crates above the cargo transport carts. There was also two large missiles that stood 9 feet in length. "Careful with those weapons." One of the Marines said to the AI Transport vehicle. One of the 7 foot tall Marines was not wearing a helmet, and instead was wearing a black beret over his head, indicating that he was the officer. The Marines were taking the weapons out from the crates and were activating each weapon before laying them on the ground an orderly fashion.


"Here." One of the Marines said tossing a high powered heavy chaingun as another Marine inspected it before laying on the floor.

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"Make sure all of the clips are clean." The Officer said pointing at a small group of marines, as he walked around.


@Assailant

 

[MuchPsykers]

[Cyngus fleets]


The two other Cyngus fleets began to close the gap to protect the primary Cyngus fleet as both fleets' ships began to extend, along with the invisible protective shield bubble. This was also in response to the hostile actions being taken by the Synthesis Coalition. This sudden act of deploying fighters as well as movement of ships from the Synthesis Coalition was enough evidence for the Lord Admiral that the two enemy fleets were indeed taking defensive and perhaps hostile actions. "So it seems then. A fight it is." The Lord Admiral said. "Second and Third Fleets, raise your shield bubbles to maximum, make sure any enemy fighter will be vaporized if they ever try and enter into our shield bubble. Primary fleet, ensure that in the case that the weak shield bubble is taken out, scatter. Same goes for all vessels." The Lord Admiral said.


The three multi-role combat vessels, the size of a small moon had begun to increase the energy output of their shield generators. The vessels protecting the Primary fleet did it's best to continue the power recovery of it's generators from the veil attack against the Humans.

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Fighters were now being scrambled from every vessel as they circled the fleets. The Lord Admiral raised his arm up in the air. "Those fleets are moving their forces around in what I assume are defensive and perhaps battle formations."


"All vessels." The Lord Admiral said. "Fire." With the Lord Admiral's orders, ever vessel sent out a volley of powerful laser, energy, and plasma fire from their turbo turrets, as well as assault guns that were pointed at the Archlight and the Synthesis. Missiles were fireed frm missile batteries as they made their way towards the two fleets. Multiple fighter detachments began to speed towards both fleets as well.


@Otakuyaki


@ResonantStorm

 

[Otakuyaki]

@Otakuyaki[/URL]


@ResonantStorm

"Beginning Mirror Protocols." Circara commanded through the Mechina network as the energy matrices hummed with energy. Upon entering the energy field that surrounded the coalition, the artillery fired at wrapped in a bright light immediately. Any that had failed to been targeted by the Mechina merely entered the space behind the energy field, saturated with magic, where diffusion sigils dispersed the highly concentrated energies, reducing their impact upon the shields of the Arclight Coalition. Adjusting vectors. Change the frequency and pressure. Relaying now. Within the instant, the light disappeared, as fast as it had came, and the projectiles that had been captured in the light were instantaneously reflected at the Cyngus, converging upon them in an arc.


"They have chosen to attack." a minor figure in the Halls of Revelation announced. Pravelite immediately picked up a transmitter, sending a message towards the Synthesis Coalition.


"They have chosen to attack, we will retaliate. You're not involved in this, you may pull out whenever you wish." Pravelite reminded them as Mutalia reared up on her hind legs in the background.


"Begin the infestation!" Mutalia screeched as the Brood Ships behind the energy fields turned to their sides, unleashing spiked drop pods that hurtled towards the Cyngus fleet, where they exploded into splatters of acid and toxin right before the shields, unleashing Overlords with magical sigils that glowed and grew within their reproductive sacs. The Overlords were quick to drop whatever Infestors they had already produced onto the forcefields that protected the Cyngus ships, but their hemolymph was glowing an odd blue. As their carapaces touched the forcefields, they immediately began to commit suicide, unleashing the alchemical brew of hemolymph and magic that replaced their blood. It was the exact same diffusion sigils that dispersed the highly concentrated energies of the projectiles the Cyngus fired at them, and they were quickly dispersing the energy that made up the forcefield, weakening it as more and more Infestors were pelted at it.


"Fire the drills! We're going to puncture their shields wth the next blow." Aeetes' voice boomed through the psionic networks as the cerebral drillheads charged up their psionic energies, aiming at the forcefield where the modified Infestors were piling up.

 

[MuchPsykers]

[Cyngus navy]


"My Lord! Our weapons have been nullified!" One of the CIC Crewmen shouted. "Incoming projectiles! They're our own fire." Another CIC member shouted. "All fleets, brace yourselves!" The Lord Admiral shouted. The fire came as it made impact with the shields. "Be blessed men, at least our warships are not damaged." The Lord Admiral said. But, on the other hand, he could not say the same for the shield bubbles of the two forward fleets. "My Lord! Shield capacity of the two fleets are decreasing!"


"Send the fighters to destroy any drop pods that those heathens are sending. Tell the two fleets to raise their shields to over drive to vaporize every last one of those things." The Lord Admiral commanded. "Yes my lord!" The CIC officer replied, returning to his monitors. "If the enemy is intending on destroying our shield bubble, then this overdrive will act as a buffer."


Multiple formations of stealth fighters broke off as they started to pick off the spiked drop pods, as well as the overlords. Multiple stealth fighters were destroyed from the Overlords attaching onto their fighters as they cntinued to destroy on-coming drop pods as well as overlords.

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The multi-role battle fortresses began to put their power levels on overdrive as any overlords attached to the shields were being vaporized. "Just keep it on over drive long enough to clear all of them out. We can't over do the over drive system." The CIC officer aboard one of the Multi-Role battle fortresses said. "It's draining energy fast." The operator said staring at the hologram monitor that displaced the energy gauge.


"My Lord. Shield power at 70%. With overdrive systems on, we feel that it will take several hours before the shield starts to re-generate it's energy source. Many of those things are being intercepted, as well as being cleared from our shield bubble as we speak. It might take several more minutes before they are all cleared." The CIC officer said to the Lord Admiral. "Make sure that those over drive systems are to be immediately shut down once all the last of those things are vaporized."


Another squadron of medium-classed fighters headed their way towards some of the smaller ships of the Archlight Coalition, firing their individual energy and plasma cannons, as well as firing off smart energy bombs at the ships.

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@Otakuyaki


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[Cyngus fighters]


A large swarm of Cyngus Stealth fighters started to converge on the fleet of the Synthesis Coalition. The first wave of fighters fired their beam cannons, as well as dropping energy smart bombs at the closest ships, along with ships that were within their bomb's range.


@ResonantStorm


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[NSS Terrex]


On the other side of the System, the NSS Terrex, one of the Novin-Class vessels, the size of 3 and 1/2 jupiters put side by side had activated their dark Ghost technology, which enabled them to be unseen by any type of radar or scanning technology deployed by other factions, rendering them invisible to all factions. The large ships also deployed it's cloak as it blended and became invisible, with it, the coating allowed for all heat signatures, radio waves and IR to be masked and blended in with the surrounding space around the vessel, further adding to it's invisibility. The vessel used a special type of communication system that was only decipherable and built into vessels of the NSF Navy, with the NSS Junius who in turn acknowledged it's presence.


"Our job is to monitor the situation. That is all. Further actions will be taken if I see fit." The Rear Admiral said.


[NSS Junius]


"Attention. This is the NSS Junius of the NSF Navy. To all allies or any species in contact with the NSF, another NSF vessel has warped into this system. It's current location is classified but, this is a message to ensure that all allies know that the NSF is ready to assist in combat if necessary." The Communications officer said, as he sent the message to both the Humans of Holon, as well as the fleet of the Synthesis Coalition.


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