[IC] Void of the Stars: A sci-Fi Nation Roleplay

[null123]

Human Trespassing
Several ships, which the humans would recognize as being the Turians within the Equiis Pact approached.
"You will be escorted back to the Milky Way through a series of Quantum Gates, if you attempt to break off we will immediately destroy your ship. We also request all data you have on the nature of the anomaly you encountered."
The ships surrounded the human ship, leading them towards a Quantum Gate.

Citadel
The massive framework of metal was no longer just a massive framework, however a lot of it still was. A single "wing" of the massive structure could be seen completed. Ships moved to dock with this new wing.

[darkwolf687]

A Synchroniser implant

Crassus held up the toils of the design he had created, just needed to fabricate it now. It worked by changing the signals, allowing the nodules to be synchronised with more precision. If it worked the nodules would sync up and the field produced would be strong enough for practical use... if not... well, the implant could destroy their nervous system and result in their deaths, though it would likely require more fine tuning to the nervous system frequency

[hacher5]

Colony 257

"Th-Thank you!" said the innkeeper estatically "He's located on a farm nearby the hills. I'll give you a map of him." He left the room and came back around five minutes later with a map. A red circle was used to locate him. "It's gonna take time to get out of the valley, especially with the military. Steer clear of roads, use the hills, but be wary. If you can get this child out of Zonan, you give us all a cha-"

Gunfire interrupted the conversation with bullet holes piercing the inn. "We know you are here! Come out now and we will save you from a painful death!" shouted a Pol Captain. The innkeeper ran out of the door, signalling for the rest to follow him. He ran over to the room containing the tesla coil, the only thing powering the inn. Inside the room was a latch door leading down into a underground tunnel, dusty and cool with a never ending blackness. The innkeeper opened up the latch door, saying "It leads to a diner a mile away, when you get there, tell whoever is working there this: 'Johny sent us, Johny's calling for operations insurrection and evac. We're doing a job for the Saints, operation evac that is' they'll understand what you're saying, just tell them that.

An explosion could be heard by the front door, like someone just launched a mini-gult at it, leaving a hole in the entire front part of the building. "Hurry, get going!" he said. And the party of the foreigners left. The innkeeper and his wife were all that was left inside the inn. Everyone else had ran out screaming, most likely arrested and/or killed from soldiers; no survivors, too risky it seems. The wife and the innkeeper stayed inside the room way back in the inn, assuring they had one last conversation before they died.

"How do you know this kid's gonna make it?" she asked.

"This kid will, if those foreigners can't make sure, the kid can, he just has to know how" he said. A spark of light could be seen, before the entire inn was obliterated. The news aired the following: Tesla coil tampered with inside local inn, no survivors

Shipyard

At the sight of the new sarkazjhit fleet jump into the fray, a message from Reyes II was sent Hello, avoid attacking our ships nearby, please. They are evacuating now and are only boarding c-crafts, we have teams in another ship as well. If you request our aid we'll come, but as of now our orders are only to scavenge this shipyard

Inside the Pirate-Ship

The 30 teams separated, one team quickly running through the halls and taking a hold on the black hole synthesizer. And hull was taken as well.

"What are we doing with this thing?" asked one of the wolverines, talking about the black hole synthesizer.

"Get as much information as you can about it, take it apart and put it back together, anything, I don't care. I want to make sure we can at least come close to making this thing." replied his captain.

[Keyguyperson]

Colony 257
The group emerged from the tunnel inside the diner's freezer, and the light was strangely off. This did not make the human happy at all. The Abh and Draconian were fine though, which just combined with the fact that he had to be carried in the human's mind. It seemed like literally every other species was physically superior. They debated whether to go out and ask, but they decided against it. Soldiers might be eating at or inspecting the diner, and nobody wanted to fire off a weapon with such a high civilian density. After what seemed like hours of waiting, but was in fact only a few minutes, someone came in. They quickly jumped him and pinned him to the wall, not wanting to take any chances. He obviously had no idea who they were, but they could clearly see him due to their enhanced eyesight. The leader went up to him and activated her flashlight, so he could see her clearly.
"Earth Alliance Military, no harm intended."
Her automatic translator worked just fine in delivering the message, and he relaxed a slight bit. It became clear he wasn't the enemy.
"Johny sent us, Johny's calling for operations insurrection and evac. We're doing a job for the Saints, operation evac that is."

Transgression
"We are so very sorry, we are transmitting our entire onboard database to you now. I must say though, we don't know much about what happened other than the fact that whatever caused the anomaly reached to either the negative energy from our warp drive or the antimatter that, according to the logs, was vented due to hull damage."

[Sukui]

Forbidden Harbinger (Destroyed Hach Planet, see p.11)
Retsukuu waited a response from the owners of the planet, but after receiving no defense an assumption of the species being a single-world civilization only has been made. Due to this, the battleship returned back to within the central territories of the Makudan, assuming orbit of one of the central industrial centers of the nation while leaving behind a few battleships to guarantee safety of the miners. Retsukuu has figured that she had not yet tested her genetics right there, and was slightly disappointed at missing the chance of it, but nonetheless seems to show further interest within the telekinetic device.

[hacher5]

Colony 257

"Johny, eh? He still alive?" asked the cook. The looks on there faces was more than enough for him to tell otherwise. "oh...operations insurrection and evac, yeah?" the Earthlings nodded again. The cook turned to the draconian, interested in him. "Guess we got two things to evacuate" he chuckled "Those things should be extinct from what I was told, guess some things hidden by that 'Big 3' can tell me otherwise, oh well." he said.

Leaving the freezer and into the kitchen, the clerk went over to the manager "Insurrection, go time, sir. We also need the evac ready for the kid and some...guests" he said, turning his head over to the freezer.

"Who's in there?" asked the manager.

"If I told you, you wouldn't believe it" he replied.

"Spit it out"

"A human, their super soldiers I believe...and a draconian". The manager went wide-eyed, and turned to the telephone inside his office. He picked up the phone and dialed some numbers on the pad. After a few seconds, the phone was answered by a "Hello, and welcome to Bru's furnishings, how may I help you?"

"Insurrection and evac, ready your sector." he said. He did this for a handful other sectors, seeming to be inside the valley, until he finally made one last phone call. The phone call rang for a while, and while it did, he signalled for the cook to get the guests outside the freezer. No one was inside the diner at the time, and the blinds were closed, so it was safe enough. The foreigners finally came out, to which he signalled them to follow. He led them to a window, and opened the blinds slightly so they could see just a little: A clear view of the hills.

"3...2...1...let the show begin" he said. A loud explosion could be seen, encasing the entire valley inside a series of mushroom clouds spreading across hills. "We've been waiting to do that for a couple years to do that" he laughed "Follow me, the military's gonna be very confused on what just happened, their gonna want all the citizens taken to a safer place, wherever that is." He ran outside and opened up a large truck. A chamber was connected to it, allowing for a group as big as the twice the size of foreigners to be hauled to another location. "Get inside that box and I'll get you to where you need to go." he said. The group gave him the location on the map, and they entered the chamber. The manager grabbed a plasma rifle and a plasma repeater, handing the latter to the cook. He also grabbed a series of other things, including a grenade and a dog tag which had a diagnol Z running across its front side and a mysterious letter on the back. They ran back outside and into the car, the manager driving.

Some time later, approximately an hour later, they finally reached their destination, a farm, which grew a number of vegetables. He was greeted by a crew of around fourteen people, eleven of them adult males and the three other kids. "We got you an escape crew, they can do a lot more than we can" said the manager. he opened the chamber, revealing a group of human like creatures, an actual human, and a draconian.

"Holy sh-" said the father, talking specifically about the draconian. "They're the reason why the military's all over the damn place" said the manager "Johny met 'em first, he brought them to me, now their yours. You know where to go"

"Did Johny make it" asked the father.

"No, Kent, he didn't." sighed the manager "You need to get your family out of here, these guys will take you to a safer place" he was pointing to the foreigners as he said this. The father walked over to the foriegners when everyone had resided inside the house. "Name's Kent" he said "You guys have a name?"

Alto Hills

"Captain, do you see anything?" asked Commander Fro. A temporary military base had been stationed at the farm outside the valley, allowing for Fro to easily manage his Bunta soldiers.

"Nothing" returned the Captain.

"Alright, notify me" he said. The Captain was stumbling around in one of Zonan's mechs, a scout mech. He and his team of scout mechs had been wandering the hills for hours today. They've found nothing but dirt and cow-like creatures. That changed, however, when an explosion stopped the team and every other scout team in their tracks. Dust engulfed the hills for god knows how long, before finally subsiding. However, at that point, it was too late. All of the scout teams that were searching inside the hills were killed, the mechs destroyed completely.

Commander Fro called in more mechs, this time battle mechs of all sorts. They were met by heavy resistance, especially inside the hills, where Saint outposts- dug in deep and well protected from the bombs- were located. The military base located inside Tracy-The colonial military base; the base that sympathized with the colonials- also began to prepare their local Koyot and Pol teams. Cobras jeeps and Viper tanks were fueled up, patrolling the outskirts of the bases' territory. They weren't prepared to help fend off the new military- the military ready to destroy this entire valley- but they sure as hell were ready to make sure that this military wasn't coming to them for help. If anything, the colonial military was preparing their own strike, and also readying for the evacuees.

[null123]

Human Trespass
The Humans were escorted through many quantum gates, where then they were escorted back to EA Space. There was a lot of comm chatter on the Turians ship, but it was to encrypted for the humans to access.

Spies
A series of spies have been inserted via stealth through out EA worlds, including Mars. Through prior hacking they have nanobots that are already using EA transponder codes, so they can't be detected. They are currently digging further into EA systems and getting in high places amongst the government.

[hacher5]

colony 741

The colony had potential. Though it was new-with colonies 551-1790 being new- it still held several hundred thousands people. Most of them, however, we're just mechanics, farmers, and farmers. New automated mining/farming machines had jumped into the fray about a year back, allowing mass colonization of planets for the sole purpose of farming or mining. More food meant happier colonies; no rebellions. The minerals near the hillier regions weren't as abundant as most other planets, this one particularly useful for its farming, but who knows. For all they know, they could have found another holy item, maybe even a new ore.

This meaning that the planet was destroyed by its own moon. Several patrol fleets nearby were unable to notice the destruction at the time, and when it finally did happen, they had already left their line of duty. No one had even noticed the colony was destroyed until several weeks later, when more patrol fleets came to, well, patrol.

Knowing that this could not have been done by nature alone, external communications was still sent out in the radius of the planet's territorial space. The message read:

Unknown Lifeforms: You have destroyed a planet belonging to the Zonanese Empire and we would most surely enjoy and explanation; acknowledge

[darkwolf687]

Crassus took the newly fabricated device, a small implant designed to be placed into the base of the skull, interfacing with the brainstem. Crassus termed in the "Nodule Synchronisation device mark one" It worked by synchronising all the nodules through controlling the signals from the brain, thus meaning they reached the nodules at the correct time. This would allow the generation of the fields, which would raise or lower the mass of an object, allowing it to be manipulated in a fashion not dissimilar to the Psionic psychokinesis, only instead of manipulating energy to apply force this method manipulated mass, indirectly manipulating the movement rather than directly.
Now to imbed it into the volunteers and hope that they survive...

[Sukui]

Colony 741
The stealthed guard ships made a 30-second delay before revealing themselves, trapping the patrols in a cage of energy, hacking the foreigner's systems, then respond with the following message that read:
"Greetings, Zonanese Empire. Due to potential hostility to the mining ships that are currently collecting the debris, we have imprisoned your ships within barriers as we communicate. First, the event that occurred is part of routine expansion that we have been conducting; we destroyed it as a whole instead of the inhabitants due to the already high numbers of vegetated habitable worlds in our possession. Another objective is to test our latest giga-battlecruiser and it's telekinetic magical hyperamplification device; out of all the worlds possible, this was selected. We regret to inform you that because this asteroid field has been considered to be annexed in the name of the Domaenus Makudan, you are regarded as having committed the act of trespassing, thus all personnel inside your ships are regarded as Type-III Offenders."

[darkwolf687]

Crassus turned away from the monitors he had been examining and looked towards the volunteer that the Equiis doctors had implanted with the device he had created. He had implanted the new device into two of them, and one of them had died already... Tragic, but expected for a first attempt. The tuning on the device had been wrong, he had tweaked it for the second subject and it appeared to be working. He approached the, his eyes lighting bright orange as he examined the energy flow. The Anaesthetic had worn off now, all that was required was for the subject to awake. His eyes intensity increased, and the Asari awoke as the energy flow through her brain was changed at Crassus command
"Apologies for abruptly waking you, it is required that we check the energy flow now." Crassus said as his aide placed a single object, a small chunk of wood at the foot of the bed
"Project the field and change the mass of the object... make it float." The Umbrae Populus aide said, and the Asari sat up, nodding weakly. The Asari extended her arm, and there was a flow of bluish energy as the 'Eezo' nodules synchronised, projecting the field around the piece of wood, which hovered into the air as it's mass was changed. The Asari let it fall a moment later, and the Triarian Aides eyes lit up as the object floated into the air again as the Triarian examined it
"No permanent change" He reported "I would call this a success"
"The devices require improvements, the amplification is minor, I assume they could definitely affect heavier objects with the correct training and implementation" Crassus said, and the aide nodded in agreement. The suspended piece of wood burst into flames as the Triarian aide turned to Crassus
"Test two" The aide replied replied, as the ash from the burnt up wood fell to the floor, turning back to the Asari "Use the field to raise all the particles of ash at once" The Asari nodded again and once more the energy flowed around her from the Eezo nodules. The ash raised from the floor slowly, before hovering in the air. The Asari looked to the aide, who held a dish under the ash so that when the effect ended it would not dirty the floor
"The basics are completed then. I think with some improvements the device will be more useful than it is now." Crassus said, turning away from the Asari and moving back to the monitors, reviewing them

New Synths

Synth Sharpshooter
The Synth sharpshooter is a heavily augmented Aru'Shumi carnivores. It's natural features, when augmented, make it extremely accurate, their birdlike eyes perfect for sharpshooting. On top of this, they are fairly quick and strong, although not to the level of many other synths. They are armed with the Hardlight Rifle, making them extremely deadly and they fill the role of designated marksman.

Synth Skirmisher
The Synth Skirmisher is a heavily augmented Aru'Shumi Runner. It's natural features, when augmented, make it perfect for a fast attack unit, being quick and agile. They would be armed with a light plasma rifle as they dash around their enemies, leaping to heights and scouting out terrain. They fill the role of a scout and, along with the hunter, fast attack unit

Synth Guardian
The Synth Guardian is a heavily augmented Aru'Shumi Carnivore. It is the strongest of the three Aru'Shumi Synths, though they are not as strong as the Saeva Simius, and they are equipped with a handgun and a point defense gauntlet, which is a wrist mounted directional shield, large enough for them to hide behind. They are used for holding positions, creating phalanxes with their point defense gauntlets, and are often used to support Stalkers, guarding them from flanking enemies so that the Stalkers can snipe

Crab Synth: The Crab Synth has many spiked protrusions and various mechanical systems on its front and rear. It can charge at targets to do large amounts of impact damage due to it's size, crushing bones and damaging targets as it does. It is equipped with a heavy plasma machine gun which is stored under its belly when not in use, hidden behind a plate.

Mortar Synth: The Mortar Synth consists of a fleshy, triangular body with a mortar located on its back. Its front end features many spiked protrusions and various mechanical systems. Hovering low above the ground, it uses its mortar to hit far away targets, blowing up enemies before they can get close to the main forces. It acts as a sort of support unit, softening up enemy targets or supressing them while the main force moves into position

New Mech Unit
The Triarian let out a wide grin as he watched the newly designed tank. The Phasing Generator had taken a long time to create, but now it was working and the Phase Assault Platform was finally completed.

Phase Assault Platform: The Phase Assault Platform, sometimes refereed to as Phase Tanks are a half-saucer shaped craft with a single warp cannon mounted on the it's underside, and dual heavy plasma machine guns on each of it's 'wings'. On the top of the tank is what appears to be a lone optical sensor built into the vehicle's "head". Phase Assault Platforms are able to traverse almost any terrain and cross deep water with no difficulties as they are hovering. On top of this, Phase Assault Platforms are equipped with a phasing generator, which works in a similar way to the trans-dimensional drive, only instead of fully taking them to the other dimension it leaves them in a sort of limbo, half in this dimension and half in the other, allowing them to pass through solid objects (such as structures and even the ground) and rendering them immune to any sort of damage while the Phasing generator is active. They cannot, however, do any damage while phased as their weaponry is also between worlds and cannot be fired as a result. If they shut off their phasing generator while inside a solid object, the results are disasterous for both the object and the Phase Assault Platform. The Phasing Generator can remain active for periods of up to six hours at a time, after which it will shut it's self off, forcing the Phase Assault Platform back into this universe. The Phasing Generator takes a thirty seconds to activate, so it cannot be used to phase in and out to avoid enemy fire. The Phase Assault Platform is also able to hover up off the ground to reach high places, and it can rotate its 'wings' to enable it to act as an fighter air craft, soaring across the skies to assist in air combat.

[WilsonTurner]

In Orbit Around Inhabitant-labelled 'Colony 741'

Miles distant, near the local mass-range-movement point, for quantum gates or warping spots or whatever else is used for FTL, a giant, organic, smooth ship appears to of just slipped out of 'fold space,' although it looked more like it just appeared from the fabric of space itself, and began moving with increasing speed towards the orbit of a distant planet, whom only the inhabitants would know it as 'Colony 741.' As the giant ship continued on its course, it ignored any anomalies or contacts that surrounded the planet. In fact, it may of just impacted a space station, not knowing the specifics, and not caring. As the ship began to turn to level off and turn broadside to the planet, several more fusion engines powered up, and the ship began accelerating very fast, very very fast, around the orbit of Colony 741, firing 'seeds' the entire time. Within the day, the planet will be 'gassed,' and anyone who didn't make it off the surface should be dead. The Seeder ship fired seeds all over the Equatorial Zone, and kept its speedy orbit around, uncaring if it hits something or not.

[hacher5]

Colony 257

Then you seem to have neglected this part of your territory as we have been in this space for quite some time already. We are of no threat to you, obviously. We're only fifty ships; this is a patrol fleet only. May we please work this out in a peaceful manner, we are not going to harm your ships or people in any way, we do not intend it replied the fleet master. He peered out his window, in the field of energy. Easily breakable if they had the right weapons on them, but they didn't. They're only a patrol fleet. However, he could see..different ships orbiting around the remnants of the colony- radars showed the same thing. He sent another message We again mean no harm, however any miners located on the remnants of this planet might be killed very soon from whatever those ships-presumably not from your origin- are doing

[null123]

Offer to the Hach
"We understand your empire remains relatively weak, but we wish to help you. We have decided that we want to invite you to the Equiis Pact. We have a copy of treaty enclosed here, and you will also receive access to the quantum gates that lead to other galaxies, vastly increasing your ability to expand."

Treaty

This treaty bounds the member nations of the Equiis Pact to its agreements. The Equiis Pact is meant to help nations cooperate together in a economic, military, and scientific union.

Economy:

To help nations better cooperate on economic matters all member nations of the treaty shall maintain free trade policies towards each other. No tariffs on good or materials may be applied, and all citizens of member nations may invest there capital in other nations economies without the interference of the nation.

Military:

While all member nations may maintain there own militaries there shall be a Pact Military, that consists of the most prestigious soldiers, most advanced weapons, and the best ships that the nations of the Equiis Pact are capable of producing. The command of this military shall be delegated to its commanders, with directives being applied by member nations.

Scientific

All nations shall cooperate in a scientific union, where in all technologies available to member nations are shared. All nations will contribute resources and scientists to nations to help towards its goals, and all nations shall decide on what is to be researched.

Diplomacy

The Equiis Pact nations, when conducting matters of diplomacy towards other nations, all Equiis Pact nations shall be considering a single entity.

Immigration

All citizens of member nations are considering Equiis Pact citizens, and are allowed to go live and work in other nations as they please. Member nations shall retain open border policies towards other nations in the Pact.

[hacher5]

Equis Pact

Though we, the Trinity, would be more than willing to join, the general public would never allow it. Perhaps if you would help us keep everyone in line through some "business" could we make an agreement

Message to the ships "Seeding" Colony 741

Hello, we're trapped in an energy shield at the moment, we were the owners of that planet when this unkwown contact just destroyed it by sending its moon at it. You're killing their miners and troops. We are not associated with them.

[darkwolf687]

A new advancement in the area of Dark Energy Reactor technology has been made, making the Dark Energy Assault rifles easier to mass produce. As a result, they are now used widely by the Synth Soldiers and new dark energy weapon has been derived from this. With Hardlight rifles now being used as Designated Marksman weapons and Sniper rifles, this is widely considered the end of the plasma era. This is a somewhat deceptive label, as while Ground Combat has mostly replaced plasma, space combat still makes heavy use of plasma weapons. Regardless, it's dominance is considered to be over. On top of this, the Triarii have succeeded in creating a rapid fire hardlight weapon. As a result, this has replaced some weaponry that Plasma once had dominence in, such as heavy machine guns

[WilsonTurner]

Colony 741
No answer was sent to the signal originating from a sector unknown; scanning arrays and & receivers not advanced enough to pick up source. The only response that could be given was the Seed Ship beginning to unload Penetrator mines in orbit around the planet, and a Mine Layer folds in to finish the job.

[Keyguyperson]

Colony 257
"I am Deca-Commander Duheil of the Abh Star Forces." Says the Abh leader, she then points to another one of the Abh. "This is Military Doctor Ramrïural." She then points to the final of the three Abh "This is Aviator Dïuaséc, the human's name is Clark, and the Draconian... say, what is your name?"
The Draconian sighs, and looks Duheil in the eyes.
"I don't have one."
"Oh." It's clear she has no idea what to say, so she changes the subject. "Anyways, we had better get going. If we run into anyone, leave the fighting to us. We were bred for this."
To anyone without an understanding of Abh culture, that would seem like a literal statement. However, for an Abh it was much more. She had just said that protecting the family and the boy was the very reason they exist, and such a statement is just as important to an Abh as it would be to a human.

Shuroh, Unknown Galaxy
"I don't know how you figured that out, but the lab boys say that your crazy contraption could actually work! What do you say about a partnership, Miss...?"
The woman had spent weeks drawing up plans for the device that Fergus had told her to create, but she needed help. A lot of help. Negative energy wasn't even thought of, and particle accelerators were still billion-dollar projects taken on by governments. She had gone to the largest corporation on the planet, well, mostly on the planet. So far, they held a monopoly on space travel, with a total of three missions launched into low orbit.
"Call me Lahna, and I accept your proposal on one condition."
"What's that?"
"I get to command the ship and choose where it goes first. You will also provide me with complete control of your R&D section, along with the entire spaceflight division. In return for the extra control, I will also give you advanced medical technology and the ability to counteract gravity with the same negative energy used by the space-time folding device."
"Why, of course! You'll get all the resources you need for this experiment, I'll make sure our puppet companies and states give you control. Seventy aerial steamships will also be allocated to you for transport of goods."
"Perfect! We'll have people outside the system within the decade!"
'Lahna' left the building, stepping out into the smog of what might as well be considered the capital of the corporation. The smog was actually normal for any city, as technology on Shuroh caused extreme pollution, what with it being based mostly on steam power and all. She looked up to see a huge airliner, belching exhaust out of a dozen or so ports to its aft. Soot fell from it as it steamed on, hitting the umbrellas of the citizens during its slow fall downwards. She called a cab, which was constructed out of incredibly light and weak materials to allow it to be propelled by electricity instead of the alternative land steamers found in some of the less advanced nations. A few international credits were pressed into the driver's hand, as Lahna ordered him to drive her to the airport, where she planned to catch a liner to the capital what everyone considered the most advanced nation.
After all, a single corporation, no matter how large, wouldn't cut it for this huge of a project.

[CommandoKhan]

[EA Contact] Mars

The Orcs were quickly put into an orderly formation in the city square just as word was received that the ceremony was to take place in a few moments. The square appeared to be in pristine condition and even looked better after the battle than it did before due to the work of the elite Orcish engineers. The Orcs patiently waited in a deep silence that was only interrupted by the approach of the Earth Alliance personnel.

Brukkash, the Home Planet of the Zurosh Empire:

"Let me guess. Still nothing?" said one of the lead Grunts in the communications room. The Grunt sitting in the chair in front of the communications table simply nodded then returned to his nap. "Well damn. Another report that the Chieftain would just love to hear." the lead Grunt said before walking out and heading towards the throne room were the Chieftain was located. The Grunt entered the room and the Chieftain looked at him expecting the usual report of no activity. "No activity, Chieftain." said the lead Grunt. The Chieftain motioned for him to leave the written report on the table cluttered with paper work near the entrance of the hall that the Grunt had just entered from. "That'll be all, Grunt." said the Chieftain. The Grunt then left the throne room and returned to his post somewhere else in the capital.

[hacher5]

Colony 257

"He looks like a Ted" said the boy as he walked over to where the conversation was "You know, since they're human-people...things" He was referring to the nameless draconian.

"The human name...it's fitting almost. How did you know that was a human name?" asked the dad. They boy simply ignored the question, and said "Maybe Tod, you like Ted or Tod?" he asked.

"Kent, I don't know how much longer they can keep an opening to the colonial base alive" said Kal. He turned to the foriengers and said "Hi, name's Kal. I am directing this little show, however we're meeting much more resistance than we had expected- even then we expected a lot. The foreign military has us pinned down with drughan blasters, rifles and automatics. we're holding up currently with nothing but plasma weapons smuggled in from other colonies or pirate outposts. The military here, they call themselves the colonial military, we call them the militia. They're sympathetic to us, unlike the foreign Hach military-they came from one of the states or holy planets, probably. Here though, any military stationed in a colony is usually more sympathetic, they hand out more rations, they give us supplies-weapons. We have a pathway in the hills that can lead us to the militia's base. That's how we're gonna get you all off." he said. An explosion could be heard nearby, followed by gunfire and plasma. "We need to leave" said Kal. He motioned for them to enter a truck, with a large cart latched to the truck's back. It could hold a dozen people at most. enough for the foreigners and the family. Kal entered the truck, followed by two other Haches. The rest of the people-the other eight- entered a seperate truck, following close behind.

The manager and cook stayed behind, popping flares down onto the crops. Their job was to hold the farm, and use it as a marker for more insurrectionists to drop down and help keep the fighting alive. More enemy military C-crafts dropped down on the farm outside the valley-their temporary base. As if in a stroke of luck for the enemy, numerous boxs containing Gult missiles entered the fray. Lep soldiers and Comu mechanics were also dropped down. Koyot troops acompanied by numerous battle mechs were also carried down. Cobra jeeps and Conda tanks stacked to the brim with ammunitions and supplies were brought down as well. Any fighting that would happen in this large valley, the enemy could last for years.