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In the distance was a towering mountain, a huge chunk of rock piercing through the dark, puffy clouds on a grey, gloomy sky. The land was barren of any development, save for a few tribal villages neighboring the mountain range and foreign, alien ships hovering just above them. Wind blew like rain would be coming soon. The wooden, primitive structures were empty, the inhabitants being away...

Bowing down to a hooded, robed figure. Multitudes of people gathered as a crowd below a tall cliff chanted their "god's" name repeatedly as it began to raise its hands up the sky. Iron, concrete and many other materials from the ground collected together into a huge amount of geometrical pieces, and the mountain fell down into dust. The pieces gathered on the flattened ground, forming an entire city from those resources. And once again, the tribesmen and the advanced civilizations within their ships in the sky chanted.

"Retsukuu Yomo!"

The alternate, habitable dimension on which the Deity was exiled, now turning into a home by one of the last traces of a fallen civilization's great power with the blind faith of her civilizations.

Karboria, Sazkar Major

Fakeem turned and twisted in his sleep. He was dreaming that he was in an empty white void. He called out, asking if anyone was there. His voice echoed eternally. He knew what was happening.

Normally, he'd have the same dreams as any Sazkarjhit. However, he appears in this white, lifeless void whenever he had a vision, or a god was to talk to him.

Suddenly, an explosively loud voice thundered across the empty space.

"Fakeem..."

The Grand Vessel pivoted around, trying to pinpoint where the voice came from. "Hello?" he shouted.

"Fakeem, I do not have much time...you must listen to me, and heed my warning. There has been a stir in the cosmos, a new empire emerges, more powerful than Sazkarjhia."

It was then that Fakeem realized who was talking to him.

"But what do you want me, to do, my lord? They could be billions of light years away, and never threaten S-"

"I have seen where they are! They are closer than you think! Just stand prepared when the storm comes. Otherwise, we could see a terrible fate bestowed upon Sazkarjhia.

"But you're the god of the gods, grand overseer of the universe! How could one be any higher than thee?!" Fakeem was almost in tears, completely terrified of what Zarwaun was foretelling.

"There are those out there that play 'god', young vessel, those that can do far more than I or any other god or goddess can do. We must keep a possible intergalactic cataclysm from happening. Be careful, Fakeem. May your future endeavors be fruitful, and may my just hand guide you forth. Goodbye."

Grand Vessel Suar'kum awoke in cold sweat, he threw over his sheets and strode over the window, looking at the city of Karboria, mostly dark, and looking up at the expanse of space. A small star twinkled.

"Not...again..." he whispered through clenched teeth.

Kepler-186 F
The commandos continued firing, but it was clear that they couldn't take it out. As such, a message was sent out from the planet asking for assistance from the fleet. Seconds after it was sent, thousands of ships answered the call individually and began bombarding the armor suit with space-ground lasers. The few carriers launched fighters, which entered the atmosphere, using their wings to stay above the ground, and began strafing runs on the suit.

Commune
"Acknowledged, thank you."
The shuttle docked with the station, and its hatch opened to reveal Lahnha and two Abh commandos. They rushed to the Zonanese diplomats, and before they could respond to meeting the new species, Lahnha dropped a rubber ball to the floor and followed it with her hand. It didn't bounce. Then, it slowly began to lift upwards towards her eyes, which glowed in a way similar to the Triarii, but red instead of orange.
"Please forgive the unorthodox first contact, but I had to show you that. Not all magic is gone, either that or my people have some other kind of energy. Your nation is the only one the Federation trusts with this knowledge. Now, we can initiate an official first contact between our peoples. As I stated earlier, I am Admiral Lahnha, formerly Captain. I command the SISA Andal Provektkrei Av, the one and only starship constructed by my species. Our primary power source is steam, but we are undergoing the transition to fusion and antimatter power, and the first skyliners without massive boilers and gasbags are taking to the skies using negative mass levitation. It is an honor to meet your people, the humans say you are a noble species."

Former Equestrian Space, EP-9457
Untold numbers of ships jumped into the system, with at least 20 million colonists among them headed for the planet below. The rest of the ships inserted themselves into an orbit around the star itself, just outside of its corona. Mining ships jumped from the asteroid belt to the chosen standard orbit, dumping materials into space. Construction ships launched trillions of nanobots, collecting the materials and using them to construct antimatter collection stations along with huge solar arrays. Some began to construct huge stations, all of them would be later used as command stations for the colonization of Equestrian space. Half the AIF fleet was in the system, with the rest conducting light border patrol and colonizing other areas of Equestrian space. The derelict quantum gate in the system suddenly reactivated, and starships began pouring out of it. As none of them were transmitting Federation codes, an interception fleet broke off from the main ring of ships around the star. It was led by Admiral Spoor and Admiral Fergus McClain, each of them commanding ten thousand ships. As there was an uncountable number of ships in the system, they wouldn't be missed.

The menacing flagships McClain and Lashkau floated towards the unidentified starships, with their heavy battlecruisers in tow. The fleet showed the diversity of the Federation, as it had ships from every faction in it, even the newly constructed Boskop Explorers and Ethra'Hirel Protectors. The shields on the ships activated along with the shield produced by a group of a dozen Dolphin shield ships, covering the entire fleet in a blue bubble of argon plasma. An audio/visual message was sent from the IFV McClain.
"I am Admiral McClain of the Allied Interstellar Federation, commanding the flagship of its combined Starfleet. We are made up of five factions, the Human Cooperative, the Humankind Empire Abh, the 42 Aquatic Clans, the Kepler Alliance, and the Progenitor Refugees. This system has been claimed by the Federation as a whole, and you are trespassing. You will identify yourselves immediately and explain your intentions."

Loroi
The Loroi have finally agreed to join the Federation after years of contemplation, and the treaty has been signed on Mars! The integration of the Loroi Guard into the Federation Armed Forces has begun, and it has been noted that their ships use mainly laser weaponry and conventional explosives. Refit work has begun on all of their starships, bringing their lasers up to Federation standards and replacing their conventional explosive warheads with antimatter ones.

Message to the former Equiis Pact Nations (Not including Sazkarjhia)
The Federation forces in former Equestrian Space have sent a message to the former nations of the Equiis Pact, but any nation would be able to view it.
"Former members of the Equiis Pact, the cooperative you were once a part of have regrettably been destroyed with the death of all Equestrian species. I do not know your attitude towards the Equestrians, but I do know that you are small nations when compared to superpowers such as the Triarian Collective and our own nation, the Allied Interstellar Federation. This message has been sent to invite you to the Federation, your systems will be protected by Federation forces and your technologies enhanced with our own. Your war fleets shall be refitted with our most advanced weaponry, and your everyday lives will be enhanced by our advanced technology. You will never have to fear any diseased again, and crime will practically disappear. Your species will no longer be mere afterthoughts, you will be important parts of the great machine that is the allied Interstellar Federation!"

((Letting Duck control the former Equiis Pact nations that are now NPCs for this.))

Message to the AIF
"We are from the New Roman Empire, headed by the glorious Emperor Caesar the fourth. As for out intentions we full plan to take as much of the planets associated with what seems to be a now dead Empire, and meet up with the EA. While we are all for peaceful diplomatic contact you are being a bit hostile, please pullback your ships and disarm your weapons"
Before the message was sent ships could be seen going into position, as a giant cannon above the planet powered up with Dark Energy. The ships also seemed to use mainly Plasma weapons, and a lot were larger then the AIF ships.

Pact Nations to the AIF
"While it will be a while before the other Pact Nations are willing to join the AIF, we the Batarians gladly agree."

Message to the New Roman Empire
"The Earth Alliance was reformed into the Allied Interstellar Federation decades ago, you're the 'New Roman Republic', huh? Probably from one of the early colony missions I ordered. Well then, you're excused from not following the Doctrine. There's a lot that you missed, I hate to bear this news, but there have been two more wars between different human factions. The first one took three hundred billion lives, and the second... it took trillions of lives. However, we have made much progress. Humanity created the Abh, uplifted the Dolphins, and made amends with two species that left Earth before the wheel was invented. We apologize for our hostility, but the nation that once controlled this area was... friendly towards us. They called us their greatest ally, and thus we are claiming as much of their space as possible to preserve their legacy. All we know is that some sort of disease killed them, and we cannot rule out the possibility that it was an alien bioweapon. If you wish, we could create a joint colonization effort, as long as you promise to preserve at least one Equestrian city per planet."

Message to all Other Nations from the Humankind Empire of Abh
"The Allied Interstellar Federation wishes to make it clear that all Equestrian worlds are open for colonization without the interference of Federation forces. However, we ask that you preserve at least one city on every planet in memory of the Equestrians. We know many of you despised them, but humans despise the aggressive forces in the Common Sense War, yet they still mourn them, as do us Abh. No threat comes with this request, it would simply please our people. We understand if you refuse, as many of you likely despise us as well. Just remember this; we do not despise you."

Equiis Pact Nations
The Allied Interstellar Federation has accepted the Batarians into its union, and defense forces have been ordered to their borders. Construction ships are arriving to upgrade their existing stations and ships (with their permission of course). The integration of nanobots has begun as well, and inoculation has begun. Huge shipments of the antigravity cars used commony in the Federation have arrived, and free flying lessons are being given to anybody who wishes to receive one. The Federation obviously hopes to turn the Batarians into a shining example of their benefits.

Message to the AIF
"We will gather the greatest architectos to maintain the cities. We already have claims through much of there other galactic territories, we merely wish to gather a few systems within the MWG so we can maintain them as diplomatic outposts and trade centers."

A Asteroid
A asteroid managed to slip past defenses of a EA world and crash land on it. However found within it are hundreds of high capacity computer disks. They contain historical, cultural, and works of art of the Equestrians. It is unclear where it came from, but due to the assembly it seems to be a last ditch effort to preserve as much of the Equestrian's legacy as possible.

Message to the New Roman Empire
"Thank you, it pleases us to learn that you will try to preserve the legacy of a nation you never contacted.I have ordered all Federation outposts in this area to allow your ships to pass."

Asteroid
Federation troops have been sent to protect the data cache, and historians are copying the data into their own databases along with printing it out for physical storage. The utmost care is being taken to ensure that no data is lost, and of course biologists are looking everywhere for any evidence of a genetic code to bring back any Equestrian species. Millions of Church of Faust members have begun adopting the culture preserved, trying to carry on the Equestrian traditions.

Encoded Message to Adam Agata
Directed to: Adam Agata, Council Office #23
Sent From: Dmitri Saveli, IFV Unity
"Mr. Agata, a top secret civil intelligence agency has discovered a possible plot against the government of the Human Cooperative. The Terran Manufacturing Conglomerate, a starship producer for the Human Cooperative, has been seen fielding their own navy using advanced weaponry and defenses. The current CEO of the company is Robert McClain, who simply cannot be the man behind this unauthorized military. As a member of the McClain clan and brother of Fergus McClain, he undoubtedly supports the government and has shown his loyalty many times. Therefore, it must be a subordinate. I have chosen to alert only you of this because I know I can trust you. You were a spy for the Equiis Pact, so you can't have any connection with the TMC, anyone else could though. I want you to lead an investigation, mainly because it would look suspicious if the infamously anti-capitalist president allocated government resources to the infiltration of a corporation supposed to emulate a capitalist economy. You, however, are a man of the people. They chose to keep you in office even after we figured out you were a spy, nobody would question it if you infiltrated the TMC. They would likely support you, as even though you were a spy, you still wanted to help people. I urge you to help me in this matter, any rebellion against the Human Cooperative would have a selfish motive, as we are as equal as we can possibly be. If you find that their goals are to help people, then we will simply shut down their armed rebellion plans and put them on the ballot."

Former Equestrian Worlds
The Romans are taking what they see as the grandest city on each world and using some cultural information from the AIF are rebuilding and preserving the structures. Even then the cities there not preserving are only being adapted, creating a odd mix of Equestrian and Roman architecture.

Adam's Office
Adam quickly typed back a message, saying he send his best men in secret to investigate. However in the room reading the message was Robert McClain.
"We need to hurry Cerberus, at least there not aware its our attempt to take control and finally build the Empire that the superior terragen species deserve." said Robert.

Kepler-186 F
The shield of the mech broke, the laser got through the mech's defenses, and the giant metal humanoid was finally destroyed, leaving fourty strangely-shaped objects floating around in the air glowing bright hues of yellow, pink and green. Some debris strayed off to nearby cities, others stayed in the military base. Ten seconds pass by, all these detonate with a Hiroshima-sized plasma explosion. Normal-type Raxus's explosions range around the size of the Halifax.

Space forces may be needed for this viability test. Normal Raxus-types now raised to 100 instead of 50. Three Masse-class battlecruisers sent. Troop transports carrying a total of thirty-thousand forces sent.

More earthquakes occur near military bases, shipyards and factories as mechs step onto the shore and begin attacking their targets. Transports also come up from the skies and release their load of infantry to assist the robots. Battlecruisers will arrive soon.

Kepler-186 F
Having defeated the mech, new ships have been sent to the system. Mobile defense platforms are arriving as well, because there's no way a single mech could be the entire test. Evacuation of the planet has begun in the event of another ground invasion, leaving only the military behind.

((Please don't hurt me, there isn't anything else to say!))

Goa'uld

Lord Ra's forces

Four Ha'tak and a Flagship appeared above an Asari world and deployed their death gliders and Al'kesh into the void of space, circling the planet. The planets communication systems were blocked by the Ha'tak, and a single message was broadcast down to the planet
"Kree! Bow before your god!" It said, but the Asari staunchly refused to bow before this alien invader. Suddenly the space ships descended upon the planet, the Al'kesh bombers laying waste to cities and Tal'teks deploying hordes of Jaffa down to the planet, who fought in such numbers with their deadly staff weapons in order to overpower the defenders. This was only a small world, and the Asari defenders were vastly outnumbered. Their attempts to surrender were rejected. There was no mercy as the Jaffa overrun them and murdered them brutally. Jaffa and Human slaves were planted on the world in their place, and the Death Gliders destroyed the few Asari spaceships that were around the planet. Only a single short message managed to get past the Communications jamming, sent off in random directions all over the galaxy, and it simply read "Help"
And when the fighting was done, Lord Ra added another world to his Dominion

Collective

For reasons unknown, the vast majority of the Collective has withdrawn within it's borders once more, at least within the Milky Way Galaxy, and has minimalised it's interaction with external species. They have, however, confirmed they will acknowledge the alliances they hold and will honour them should their allies ever be threatened and in need of assistance

Asari World: Response to single-word distress message
Some distance from orbit, 3 Supreme Warships 'ported into the area. Taking in the sight of a planet under siege, the Supremes immediately had two objectives:
A) Protect Equestrian Core Space from Invasion
B) Preserve race 'Asari'
C) Protect race 'Asari'

And so the Corvettes were launched, and they folded away to various areas of orbit, making sure to try and keep the enemy from realizing that there were Warships some distance away without any fighter escorts. The Corvettes engaged, and each pilot fought for themselves, for preservation, and for the people whose lives are endangered.

They could be good too! As they flew, they would occasionally reach out with their minds, and paralyze the minds of fighters around them. Inside the Warships, which were slowly approaching as the skies were cleared, ground troops were being readied.

Asari
The Asari have been accepted into the New Roman Empire as a Imperial species, due to the fact that they were willing to join the Empire. Ships and soldiers are quickly moving out towards there space, changing there education systems so that they match the Roman's own to eventually enforce the idea of the Emperor is the most important and you should be loyal to him. Defenses are being built and two 200,000 ship fleets have been sent to the Asari world that sent out the distress signal to protect and put it to its new rightful owner, the New Roman Emprie.

Asari World under Siege
The two Roman Fleets arrived, and broadcasted a message to the invaders.
"You will surrender and return this world to us. The Asari Republic has been peacefully annexed by the New Roman Empire and this planet is now our rightful property. Leave now and return it to us or suffer the consequences."

Asari world

"Tok'ra!" Ra's first prime shouted as he pointed to the view screen, as the ships came into view
"Ha'tak! Kree!" Ra shouted as he took a few steps forwards "Tok'ra Tau'ri!" Two of the Ha'tak moved away towards the Roman fleet, engaging it with their powerful staff cannons. The Ha'tak were remarkably durable against the enemies attacks, and launched remarkably strong attacks. Ra himself sent a message back to his other forces by continued the attack from his flagship. On the ground, the Jaffa had exterminated the Asari and had already set their human slaves to work on the planet, the slaves coming through a Chappa'ai which had been dropped onto the planet to be set to work

Asari World
A blue wormhole appeared, larger than any ever seen by a non-Terragen before. It simply stood there for what seemed like an eternity, and then the ships came. Uncountable numbers, battleships, troop transports, destroyers, escorts, every type of starship operated by the Federation military. The fleet dwarfed all others in the system, and it too simply stood there. Then the shields activated, glowing blue as they seemed to flow in order to cover the ships projecting them. A huge fleet shield also went up, covering the entire fleet in the blue glow of argon plasma. The brilliant glow advanced towards the planet, tachyon drives at full power. It was a menacing sight, the power of a modern Federation fleet hadn't been shown yet, and it appeared that this fleet was ready to display its power.

It advanced through the void, and it came into effective weapons range. If any enemy personnel survived, they would call their failure to run their greatest mistake.
Blinding orange lights leapt out of the warships, lighting up the dark vacuum of space as they traveled towards their target. Missiles were launched as well, carrying their explosive antimatter payload to the invading ships. Yet even then, ships were still pouring through the wormhole, firing as soon as they got into range. It was never though that the Federation controlled such power, but here was the fleet, larger than any other seen before. Even while firing, the Federation still sent a message to the invading forces.
"You have made a grave error by attacking this world, I suggest that you retreat while you still can. That time will soon come to an end."

Message to the AIF

"Tok'ra Tau'ri, kree! Goa'uld Ra! Kree!"

Bridge of Ra's flagship

Ra's eyes flashed as he watched the fleet. He had not respected such resistance, such insolence such... Pathetic mortals!
He turned to his first prime and barked some orders, and the First Prime nodded in response, tapping a few commands. The weapons hitb the flagships and the Ha'taks, but the shields held firm on all but one, where they died but the Ha'tak remained operational and continued firing. Then the missiles came forwards and stopped... And reversed. Quite literally REVERSED towards their firers as though someone had swatted them away with an invisible hand. Something shimmered behind the flagship as this happened, behind vanishing back into black. On the edge of the system appeared four more Ha'taks, bringing to total up to eight, and they moved forwards, firing their deadly cannons at the human fleet. Without a care in the world the Forces of Ra continued.
Then the Chappa'ai activated again, and two Triarii came through... They did not engage the Jaffa, and the two began to converse semi-peacefully, though there was a clear hint of agitation between the two factions. After less than a minute, one of the Triarii turned back to the gate and watched as four Phase Tanks passed through, a Saeva Simius riding each one, and dispersed across the planet. The two began to converse with the Jaffa again as the Chappa'ai closed behind them. This was clearly not an invasion nor liberation force, and given the Collectives retreat into their space, their objectives in the Milky Way Galaxy might not be clear.
In reality, they were here to do something they doubted anyone in the milky way had seen before, all for the resources which lay within this planet which the Asari had not known the value of. Ra had struck a quick deal for this, and the Collective tried to keep their presence as low key as possible. They had lowered their contact for a reason, and didn't want to be seen doing this of all things...

Asari World
The Biggest of the Roman ships in the fleets moved forward and weapons came out of the bottom of the hull and fired great blasts of Dark Energy. Volleys of Plasma Weapons and Anti-Matter missiles followed and obliterated the attacking fleet. In attempt to secure the world from other forces that had prevalently landed on the planet a massive amount of the Imperial Guard was deployed on the planet, each individual force of them backed by two Legions and a squad of Space Marines in the lead. They have been given orders to destroy any non-asari on the planet, regardless of affiliation.

Ra's forces

Ra's ships paused and quickly abandoned the system, leaving the forces on the ground to fend for themselves...
Or so it seemed, because along the magnetic poles of the planet, the Phase tanks had arrived, and placed beacons. There was bloody fighting between the Jaffa and the Roman forces, but less than two minutes after the beacons had sent off the co-ordinates, the process began.
And then there was a blinding flash, of energy of unsurpassed levels in the sky. And the planet drifted up and out of its orbit, pulled by some disturbance in Gravity, and then a massive superportal appeared, and the planet was drawn inside the portal... And then vanished as the portal closed. Scans revealed no lie, there was no planet there.

A planet had just, quite literally, been stolen.

Space...

The Planet came out in a separate galaxy, away from the milky way. A small group of Triarian and Goa'uld ships waited in what was now orbit. There was a short exchange with the ground forces, before the Triarian forces were teleported off planet and the Collective ships moved in, using their energy projectors to destroy the atmosphere and kill all life on the planet. As usual, the Goa'uld cared not for their loses.

There was a short communication exchange between the two powers, determining that the Goa'uld would get 40% and the Collective 60% of the Naquadah. The Goa'uld forces reluctantly agreed to the demands, under the threat that the Collective would beam the planet back (This was, of course, a bluff. Massive amounts of energy had been required to do it this way, the Collective fleet had not brought anything with enough power to do so again)

((ignore this post))