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

[Sukui]

Colony 741
The guard ships imprisoning the Zonanese patrols immediately released them. To the Zonanese Empire's (possible) surprise, however, they have receive the following message:

"The patrols have been freed from our energy barriers. However, you will be dealing with a much bigger problem here: we have thousands of guards surrounding this star system at least half a light year away. Judging by the formations of the guard fleets, this area is quarantined. You can't leave this place. We can't leave here, until that pesky problem finally goes away. Take watch."

The guard ships within the system assumed an outward ring formation, attempting to receive visuals of the intruder.

GF PWPP - 2914 (Ground Facility Physics Weaponry Production Plant)
Event Transcript

"Comms, all systems good to go for production run."

"Laboratory, initiate stage one acceleration."

"Got it..... Everythings working fine.... as is things here at home."

"Laboratory, let me guess, your wife's having another kid?"

"I guess so. Little Tvresty's been alone recently. His neighborhood friends, going busy on errands with their daddies and mommies and such. Ever since he's just stuck with his virtual reality console, playing some battle games and such."

"He's got some good interest to be a soldier, eh?"

*laughing*

"Comms, every kid's like that. They got shit they aspire to be, and it's good. Some day, a little boy could become a captain of a flagship. Or even a Council member. Who knows. Oh, first stage has been finished."

"Laboratory, initiate second stage DM extraction. Back to the discussion, how's your sister at the Forbidden's dormitories?"

"Pretty much was happy to try out the moon-mover telekinetic amplifier thing. She got a little tired, however, but most say they still can hold on much longer on that thing."

"You know what? I think technology's getting to the point where instead of firing death beams and such, we could use planets in snowball fights."

*chuckling*

"Anyway, Laboratory, some update. There has been a minor power fluctuation on the corridors, but the only effect's been a slight dimming in the lights."

"A little unnerving, but eh. This is going to be good."

*5 minute silence, some tongue popping and whistling in the background during this period*

"DM extraction complete."

"Initiate third stage, product containment."

"Right away, comm."

*30 second silence*

"Containment, do you copy?"

"Copy, Comms."

"Laboratory, do you copy?"

"What is it, Comms?"

"Operation abort, repeat, operation abort. Begin automated emergency containment of substances in mechanisms, all facility staff, initiate emergency evacuation towards space."

"Copy, Comms, this is Containment. Laboratory, begin emergency auto-contain, exit room and facility, load on to transport ship BDR Emezi."

"Copy, auto-contain initiated. Comms, give insight on situation." *communication link switch to mobile*

"Laboratory, continued power fluctuations are causing magnetic field containers to lose hold of their contents. Cause of the fluctuation could not be traced, disaster may occur before the origin may be discovered. Continuous fluctuation may cause a full-on antimatter and DM leak, properties of DM and antimatter interactions is still not understood. Level X planetary-scale situation is highly likely."

"Comms, this is Calcu, supercomputers are still initializing for the run. One second."

"Not one second, now. Shut it down!"

"Right away, Comms. Sorry, sorry."

"Comms, Emezi crew here, 40% of facility crew has been evacuated."

"Good, I'm already entering the ship, communicating via mobile. Monitor, status on mobile screens?"

"Not good, Comms. Container integrity is less that thirty percent, expect complete leaks of both DM and antimatter within a minute."

"We have to go, we have to go, we have to go, go, go!"

"Sir, 60 percent of lab staff has been evacuated."

"Working well. Oh, fuck, holy shit. Event hasn't been broadcasted to the planetary population. Attention, all planetary inhabitants, level X situation likely. Evacuate or perish, now."

"Comms, ten seconds, ninety percent of staff has been evacuated."

"Liftoff, now! Don't mind the people left behind!"

"Emezi has lifted off.... 70km above atmosphere..."

"Visual of explosion, at seven o'clock! Debris heading in from the same position!"

"Oh, fuc-"

The following is the footage of the event, one second after the explosion. The planet became an asteroid field by the time the explosion has reached it's height.

The incident has led to more interests in the creation of DM-antimatter integrated weapons, and is estimated to be far less complex than the temporary black hole generator.

[null123]

Hach Revolution
The Equiis Pact and its various member nations have begun openly supporting the Hach Revolution. Fleets and ground troops have been sent, overpowering the smaller Hach Military. Supplies have been sent to the colonists and the Equiis Pact has recognized the newly formed nation that governs the colonial planets as independent of the Zonasese Empire. The Equestrians have a 3-step plan to ending the war.

1. Push the Main Hach Military away from the Colonial Worlds.
2. Secure the colonial worlds against further attack
3. Capture the main state worlds of the Hach, and force the government into surrender.

[hacher5]

Colony 257

The dad turned to the soldier and said "We wont care as long as my family is safe". The boy noticed the draconian, saying "You've been through a lot...I pray you don't leave us too".

Meanwhile, the colonial militia has locked down the base, ensuring that the Triarians or military will not break inside. It is unknown how long it can hold, but expected to go for at least a couple days, suggesting that there is going to be a lot more reinforcements. As well, the rebels have continued to push and gain control of the Alto hills. Once the valley is secure, it ensures that the region has been claimed under control of the Colonies.

Commander Fro has begun to call in for new, untested weapons to help combat the resistance due to the large amount of rebels stationed in the colony. The planet has began to spring up under Colonial control, with many regions aiding their neighbors against the military.

Zonanese Empire: Report

A podium in an artificially lit room was headed by one single Hach; The Bunta President. A red light appeared, signalling to the president that is was recording.

*ahem* In recent news of the colonial uprising, we are disappointed to see our ally, the Equestrian Empire, take the side of the enemy. Now the Triarians have begun to show on one of our planets, indiscriminately taking both of our weaponry. We need everyone to understand that we cannot survive as a tri-species if we are divided as a nation. This insurrection cannot continue.

We are dealing with more than just an insurrection, we are dealing with a hostile and indiscriminate species that we believe no civilization has ever seen. Reports have stated that these ships, only one appearing at some of our planets, are dangerously close to our orbit. Another report, Colony 741, has stated the appearance of another species, who have destroyed the planet. The system is now quarantined, and we cannot guarantee the survival of the fleets stationed there. This species has fired strange objects onto the remnants of C741, but for now, that's all we know about them.

Once again, however, this rebellion cannot and will not continue. The book of Hachi detests separate Hach nations, and we will follow its teachings. We cannot undergo these new challenges as a segregate group. We must be a unified community, because if we don't, we ensure that we will not survive the winter.

A message was sent by the Colonial Powers as a response.

There will never be two separate nations, one of us is just gonna have to survive

The Science Exposition: Allimore

An exposition concerning new technological advances has finally began on Allimore. Conferences about these new technologies and advances will be held every few hours.

[WilsonTurner]

Inhabitant-labelled 'Colony 646', 'Colony 699', 'Colony 700', and 'Colony 537'

In orbit of all these colonies appear Seeder Ships. While these planets may not of been necessarily first-choice, they showed the least signs of activity from the Seeders' primitive scans, and decided upon the second real wave of colonization. The Seeder Ships do not engage or attempt to change course in any way; they move into orbit, and fire down into the atmosphere, intent on the colonization of worlds.

Inhabitant-labelled 'Colony 257'

As the plasma weapon streak towards the Seeder Ship, there was some communication between the Walkers inside, namely in the form of hivemind-like telepathic communication. After a long conversation between each other and their Shipmaster, they accelerated towards the planet, and the fleet firing energy at them.

As the first bolts of plasma splashed against the semi-organic hull of the ship, the reaction produced was absolutely nothing. The plasma slid off of the ship, like water off of shiny, smooth, waterproof rubber, having had inertia in the opposite direction as the ship, and producing not as much harm as a broadside or a full-frontal hit would do. Instead, burn and scorch marks were left, but no real damage was done.

[darkwolf687]

Triarian forces

As a result of conflicting goals, Collective forces may be forced to attack Equestrian forces on Hach planets. They have classified every Equestrian unit that continues to assist in the pointless continuation of a conflict that should be settled peacefully as 'Malignant virulent contagions'. In spite of this the Collective is avoiding confrontation with Equestrian forces, trying to continue disarming the Hach rebels and Hach military instead. Collective forces have spread across Hach colonial worlds, continuing their actions in an attempt to end the instability

Message to the Equestrians
"Cease dragging out the war and causing needless death. Assist us in subduing violence. Hach internal conflict is not compatible with the greater good"

Message to the Hach (Broadcasted to as many devices as possible"
"Cease your internal conflict and coagulate."

Colony 257 Orbital combat.

The overseer cocked an eyebrow, and turned his Evocatus towards the enemy, powering up its deadly energy projectors, the same weapon that could turn dozens of miles into glass with a single shot. The two princeps that were already engaged with the enemy sped up, and began to circle the enemy, firing more and more plasma at it, obviously working on the maxim that if they press the assault it shall be destroyed. The energy projector fired, avoiding its own allies as it was dragged through space, scything through the black void towards the enemy. All ships focussed on what they believed to be the engines, wishing to disable its movements

Colony 257
The Assembly walker stomped forwards, then its upper body rotated towards the colonial base. It stomped towards the base, powering up its dark energy caster. It seems that since they cannot seize the base they are going to turn the entire area into a crater. Rather than fire, however, it seems to be waiting, as if baiting a surrender from them. It isn't clear whether they are bluffing or not, due to the Collectives reputation. As if to prove that it means business, however, it fired one of its warp cannons. The thin blue beam flickered out, then there was a distortion around part of the assembly walker before the beam thickened. At the focal point, the deadly and devastating warp opened tearing one of the smaller base structures apart as it caused an implosion, before exploding and disintegrating anyone unfortunate another to have been within ten meters of the building. The habitat walker continued its movements away from the base after dropping a large number of Synth soldiers, and mechs were teleported out of the assembly walker, phase tanks gliding towards the colonial base, activating their phase generators as they did
Meanwhile, a dropship came down to the planet, landing along its Equator, a few miles a way from a half destroyed city. It dropped a Psionic Amplifier onto the ground, and Collective forces dashed around securing an area. They deployed spherical shielding to protect the area, and stalkers got into position to get a pine of sight on the approaches, Synth Soldiers dug in, etc. A Triarian approached the amplifier and climbed through the open hatch... The hatch closed, and the beacon activated, charging up.

[Sukui]

Colonization Candidate
Identified as Zonanese Colony 257
"Subfleets 1, 2, 3, do you copy?"

"Copy." The response repeated two times more, for the subfleets succeeding the first response.

"Abort colonization process, quarantine situation identified, pending friendly contact identified. More fleets have been contacted to conduct the quarantine border setup. This fleet will do the duty to exterminate identified hostile with same signatures as the hostile in Quarantine Zone One. Begin initializing weapons, prepare Q-G plasma amplifiers, dark matter cannons, antimatter cannons, telekinetic gravity point devices, and light-magic high-yield lasers. Prepare to terminate target at designated coordinates. Begin surround tactic." The flagship, a 70-km long battleship, thrusted forward towards the enemy.

"Copy." The subfleets began swarming towards the enemy ship, then circles around the enemy, like the movement of electrons around the atomic nucleus. Together, they fired their deadly lasers and antimatter explosives, which although not much guaranteed to destroy the ship, will cause at least some damage. The flagship, staying behind, fired much stronger weapons, including dark matter missiles and quark-gluon plasma explosives.

[null123]

Message to the Triarains(from General Steelclaws)
"Take your Greater Good Doctrine and shove up your ass! We will free the colonials from the tyranny of the Trinity!"
Colony 257
Forces from the Pact Military begun deployment, which included massive amounts of Soldier and Pegasi Synths.
"This is General Steelclaws of the Equestrian forces, one of my Psionics has detected a beacon of some sorts of massive Psionic Power, its located in a Triarian Position."
"Polemarch has already given orders, Pact Military forces are on there way."
The Equestrian and Pact Fleets were ignoring the Seeder ships, letting the Triarians deal with them. They fired Three Balefire Megaspells, one targeted at the Psionic Amplifier, one at the Habitat Walker, and finally the last one hitting the Assembly Walker. Scans show massive amounts of Pact Military forces converging on the Psionic Amplifier.

[WilsonTurner]

Colony 257
As heavy laser and energy weapons began splashing against the hull, the Seeder Ship began sending out shockwaves, powerful enough that anything close to it will be electronically scrambled, but not really powerful enough to do any damage. The Seeder Ship sends out another shockwave every five seconds, and continues forward. At this point, the semiorganic shell is starting to crack. In places where fire is concentrated, bits of the shell splinter, and at another hit, sends out bits and pieces of the shell. Moments after the shell receives true damage, a slit appears all along the side of the ship, and mines begin flooding out. The moment they're in the void, they turn on and move towards designated locations, in synchronization with the other mines and the mothership. Once a ship larger than a small car appears, the mine locks on and bursts forward in supersonic speed, firing a Penetrator Rod about three times as fast, and then self-destructs, an explosion that'll most definitely do damage.

Meanwhile, the shockwaves sent had been a distress call, and some distance behind the Seeder Ship, out of the loop the hostiles had thrown around the ship, a Seeder Ship and 2 Minelayers fold out of space. Already at speed and accelerating still, the ships are bound to reach the engagement zone very quickly.

[darkwolf687]

The overseer frowned as he heard the uncivilised message, then shook his head. Such idiocy, how could they not understand war was not the way forwards? And such a hypocrite. Of course, they had foreseen this. As for this new contact, why bother fighting it? If the holier-than-thou Equestrians were to ignore it, why shouldn't he? It wasn't worth the sacrifice to destroy them, then. He pressed a button and transmitted a message back

"Hypocritical exogen, Your actions are nonsensical applied to your goals. You care not for others suffering, else you would not encourage bloodshed and evil. You do not see what lies ahead when the stars have failed and the children are dead. There is only greed in you. We pity you."

He tapped another button and sent a message to the ground forces "Protect the beacon. It is the only way to end this battle without a river of blood. We shall remove it once peace is established, until then we will fight and we will die to protect it. Axios!"
A bridge officer turned to him and spoke "I always fought the Equestrians would be helping us."
"The Equestrians are a populist movement, they don't always understand that sometimes what the people want isn't always the best option"
"Indeed, but in this case why do they do it?"
"Obviously they think the 'oppressive trinity' can't be removed without destroying a few trillion lives along the way. Typical Exogen beliefs."

Colony 257...

The balefire megaspells impacted with the habitat walker, and one of it's legs were blown clean off, causing it to collapse down, immobolised. It's energy projector was no longer functioning, but it's other weaponry was online, and it was making that known, using the warp cannons on forces that were being brought down from space. The spell came down towards the Assembly walker, which turned and fired its dark energy caster. The Dark Energy met with the spell in the air, causing both to detonate overhead. The resulting explosive eclipsed the sky for a moment, and burnt with the brightness of a sun. The Assembly walker turned and stomped off towards the Psionic Amplifer...
The final spell smashed into the shield around the psionic amplifer, but it slid around the shield, devastating surrounding terrain but leaving everything under the shield intact...
Now it was the Collectives turn.
One of the evocatus entered the atmosphere, and powered up it's energy projector on low power, before dragging it across the enemy forces that approached the psionic amplifier, the area for miles around being scorched and uninhabitable, turned to glass. There was something else within the shield, something giving off immense energy signatures... then there was a flash and there were more Collective forces within, digging in and preparing the area for combat. The beacon it's self sat inside a cave atop a mountain, and the shield was set up so that forces could shoot out but not in, allowing Collective snipers to shoot enemy hostiles without fear of returning fire. Turrets were set up all around the area...
A division of Aerial Synth soldiers shot out of the shield, firing at their opponents forces. Behind them came gunships, which fired warp cannons into the enemy ranks. Attack, after attack, after attack. Energy projector shots from the evocatus, Hardlight, Dark Energy, warp cannons...
There was a chasm surrounding the shield now, as a result of the megaspell, and with a single land bridge crossing it A team Aerial Synth soldiers moved to the bridge...
As if in spite to the Equestrians actions, the Triarian ships broke off from attacking the seeder ships and moved down to the planet... the evocatus flagship hovered for a moment, before vanishing and coming out on the far side of the planet, seemingly leaving the battle.

At the entrance to the cave containing the Psionic Amplifier, two Triarii worked as fast as they could to arrange something

The phase tanks split into two groups. 60 of them hovered into the air, then turned, their 'wings' changing slightly before they launched across towards the beacon, thirty activating their phase generators and thirty not having done so. Upon arrival, the thirty attacked the enemy as those with phase generators moved up towards space, heading towards the Equestrian ships. The remaining 40 also activated their phase generators and passed straight through the defences of the colonial militia base, literally going straight through anything which tried to stop them, as if they were ghosts. Once inside, thirty of them disabled their phase generators, while another ten kept them enabled for now. All the phase tanks started to attack, broadcasting a message to the base to lay down their arms

There was a pulse from the Psionic amplifier as it activated, and began to attack the minds of the people on the planet. At first, it was barely noticeable... voices whispering in your head, urging you give up... they spoke quietly and softly... That would change soon enough...

[WilsonTurner]

Colony 257

As the fire from one of the hostile groups ceased, the first Seeder Ship was able to accelerate much faster, and damage began to stop again, with only some splintering in the weakened areas. As the Seeder Ship finally reached orbit, and began adjusting course to ensure a permanent orbital position, the ship turned broadside. Moments later, a barrage of Seeds were fired. On impact, a gas was released, filled with spores, that would soon suffocate any living creature, and began ripening the planet for Seeder invasion.

Half an hour later, the other Seeder Ship entered orbit, changing its course to go opposite of the other, and began firing Seeds as well. The Minelayers set about ignoring everything, and laying mines in the path of the Seeder Ships.

[darkwolf687]

"Praelatus meus, foreign substance detected... unknown substance, lethal... Fungi, estimated destruction of current biological life: 99.3812031849283381048129182937%"
"I see. Turn the shielding to Hardlight, keep those spores out of our defensive position. Begin exfiltration of all biological forces outside the shielding, get the assembly walker moving to destroy that unknown fungi. Move the Evocatus that is engaging the Equestrians to fire low power energy projector beams to cauterise the infection immediately. Code: Cauterise, Stabilise, Extract 9s"
"Yes, Praelatus Meus"

Colony 257

There is a flash of the shield around the psionic amplifier, the colour changing from blue to red. This 'hardlight shield' prevents anything from moving through it, and the Aerial Synths quickly zoom into the air, boarding the Aquilifer as it enters the planet. The Triarian inside the Psionic Amplifer changes it from being used as a mind control beacon, and begins to use it to focus his pyrokinetic abilities on as many of the incoming seeds and their produce as possible, as well as using it to induce kinetic energy to force the strange airborne substance away from Collective forces and civilian population centers... to do so, he directs as much of it as possible towards the hardlight shield, as all life surrounding it is already dead... with the exception of the Equiis pact forces, whom he transmits a Psionic message to. The message was simple. "Run". The Triarii who had been working on something at the entrance quickly begin to reverse all the work they had done
Dropships deploying organic forces, except true synth types who are assumed to be immune, quickly return, and organic forces from the planet are quickly extracted... The carrier passes over the downed habitation walker, and a massive reverse gravity funnel comes out of it and the Habitat walker and it's associated parts are sucked up into the cargo hold of the Aquilifer carrier. The Assembly walker fires it's Dark Energy caster at the 'Seeds' as they land, obliterating entire area's of the landscape, and one of the Evocatus ships flies low, it's energy projectors on low power, burning the 'seeds' as they land, irradiating the area approximately a mile around each shot. The mech forces and true synths change their focus to the 'seeds', but large numbers of the smaller ones are taken off planet as quickly as possible anyway. The smaller ships moved into the planet and begin to fire at the 'seeds' with their plasma weaponry.

The Phase tanks stop their attacks, and dropships instead came down, each with a mech soldier, offering CPZ, Military, Equiis pact and anyone else who is unfortunately enough to find themselves on the planet a lift into orbit. They inform all natives that they can return to their planet as soon as the threat is eliminated... though it's doubtful anyone will take the offer of the faction that just tried to murder everyone, it is worth a try. The returning to the planet is partly a lie. The Collective doesn't estimate high chances of success with their tactic of removing the seeds, it's a delaying tactic to evacuate as much as they can from the planet.

[Sukui]

Forbidden Harbinger
"God, i know it's snooze time, but why are the corridors so dark? I mean, the hallways should have at least dim neon lights lined around the corners, but it just... doesn't feel right here."

"Deroe, i'm sure Retsukuu's just trying out better sleep methods. Or has been really hard sleeping. Or maybe the same thing, but for people in the dormitories. Oh, i can see some light now in the distance, and i'm sure that's in the starbridge."

The two walk in together to find no people at first. They walk around the visual computer stations for a moment, continuously shouting out her name, before they stopped upon her, lying on the floor. She looked asleep.....maybe. Near her on the floor was a tablet, and on it was some sort of... paperwork?

"She's been up all day... might at least give her a rest. Lets see what work she did today on the documents. Oh, fuck. Oh my God."

"Deroe, holy crap. Look at her."

Her eyes were wide open. Empty. No glow. Nothing but her hollowed-out self could be seen. The document, it was nothing more than the same sentence repeated over and over, hundreds of times. "Being tough only for work and not fun is not really fun at all!"

"Was she this bored and desperate?"

"Ugh, this creeps me out. Gvasty, pilot the ship toward Colony 257, but ensure all the crew remain asleep."

"Got it."

[null123]

Colony 257
"Be advised all Equestrian and Equiis Pact Forces, unknown gas and spore particles have been detecting coming from what we are calling seeds. All forces switch to suit based air systems and prepare to be evacuated, appropriate coordinates have been transmitted to Squad Leaders and Generals."

The Equiis Pact is also evacing all colonials, and is focusing fire on the "seeds" due to the amount there are the Equestrians realize they will not be able to reclaim the world, only delay the invetiable.

[Keyguyperson]

Hach Evacuation
The Abh pilot guided the ships through the crossfire, expertly dodging the weapon pulses using techniques he learned fighting alongside the Triarians during the war. Well, he really taught himself to dodge their fire, because he had to to survive. They were more than a bit enraged at the Draconians.
"Channel open, Deca-Commander."
The Deca-Commander leaned down to the microphone and spoke into it, the message being transmitted to the Triarian flagship in the hopes that they wouldn't fire.
"This is Deca-Commander Duheil of the Abh Star Forces, subdivision of the Earth Alliance Starfleet. This craft is carrying refugees with no wish to be involved in the war, the only weapons we are carrying were used for escaping the planet. We require transport to A-15, the nearest Abh colony. Do not fire on this craft, as the other Abh are being alerted to our position now."
Defore anyone could ask how, one of the Abh ran out of sight of everyone else, and a low hum was heard for about half a second. The medic, knowing this sort of unauthorized activity well, went back to where the other Abh had gone and wasn't heard from after leaving. The Deca-Commander turned around to the passengers, hoping the medic was good.
"That hum was a laser pistol, a distress call to the rest of the Abh has been sent through a neural transmitter. He'll be fine if our medic is good, don't worry."

EAS McClain
All the Abh on the bridge suddenly shuddered, an identical expression of horror on every face. All of them began to say the same thing, in a harmonious mixture of voices
"Sector H-297, requesting evac and assault fleet prepared for planetary invasion! Social stability of Zonanese Empire lost, Triarian and Equestrian intervention. Infighting, hostile new contact."
Fergus stood up, and the Abh lost their connection and stared at him.
"Grant request! I want the 27th through 912th theaters to mobilize towards that planet, all in-system fleets move out! All ships, load mobile mines into launch tubes and prepare to fire antiproton cannons! Initiate wormjump!"
Fleets from all over the Earth Alliance wormjumped to the location, massing just outside the system to wait for the rest to arrive.

[darkwolf687]

The overseer turned his head as he listened to the message, and tapped a command on the holoterminal, opening communications "Status, Parem Habui?" He inquired, his eyes closing slightly, "If your current vessel is not interstellar capable, then the the 'Truth is Subjective' is willing to provide transportation." He stated, tapping a few commands as he watched the ship of the new contact. He knew exactly how to deal with this mess...

Colony 257

The Collective forces moved the Psionic amplifier out into the open, and in a flash it vanished, along with the organic forces. The mech soldiers powered down the shield and the remaining equipment, and in a flash they were gone too, leaving only the teleportation device, that was completely obliterated a few moments later by an explosion of anti matter. The Aquilifer passed over the assembly walker, and the same beam came down, lifting the assembly walker from the floor and into the ship. The Phase tanks and remaining air units flew up to the Aquilifer, while the ground units dashed into the beam
Broadcast to the Equiis forces
"Advise you abandon the planet to this contact pull all of your forces off. We have a plan, do not fear.

[Keyguyperson]

Hach Evacuation
"Thank you, our vessel will dock with your own as soon as possible. Erm, we do have a slight problem."
The channel was cut off, and the Deca-Commander made a motion to the pilot to do some discreet time-wasting maneuvers. She also ordered the human, now mostly recovered from the high G forces, to create a selective jamming field to make sure the Draconian is not detected from a distance. With any luck, the Triarians wouldn't be able to discover the jamming.
"Ted, you've gotta be a statue. As far as the Triarians can know, you're a literal dartboard for us. We have a shot that will knock you out for the duration of our trip, it will also create a false reading that will make you seem like a stuffed corpse to any scanners. It can be remedied by another, which we also carry with us. Hopefully an EA ship will get here first though, we're buying time until that."
The pilot turned back as the ship moved towards a different vector.
"Good news! We've got a combined fleet of Dolphin, Abh, and human ships responding to the distress call! Moving to dock!"

Colony 257
The huge Earth Alliance fleet enters orbit around the planet, with the new Dolphin warships taking point. They moved in a fluid motion, graceful yet threatening, towards the unidentified ships. Then they began firing on them, Draconian-enhanced laser systems and antiproton cannons raining fire on the "Seeder Ship". Mobile mines impacted at ten times the speed of light, propelled by the miraculous negative energy used in Earth Alliance FTL and antigravity equipment. Farming vessels began to drop food and water, while one billion troops and armored units deployed onto the planet to combat the spores. A message was sent to the strange alien ships, along with a translation matrix.
"This is Admiral Fergus McClain of the Earth Alliance. You are attacking an inhabited planet related to three allied species. We ask that you surrender peacefully, if you do not, we will be forced to destroy your fleet. If you surrender, diplomatic relations may begin. If you consistently refuse, then your people will be conquered. I doubt you control over a dozen galaxies."

[TehAlphaGamer]

Scuttling
After the Hach recovery crews left, small squads of OGVS units were sent onto the Marku-Class after it was brought into orbit. Any useful tech was stripped; Sazkarjhit technology would be returned to the SCNOSE, and anything else would be contained for study. This included the flash pods, something that had been of Sazkarjhit design but was never put into production.

Seeing how the ship was old, battered, and not worth the time to fix, the Barkola Shipyard (The shipyard responsible for constructing the Marku and Pulsar-Class ships) sent to the Assault Fleet that they agreed to have the ship scuttled. Barasia moved above the ship, angling itself with the planet and raising arms. A volley of 20 magnetic shells rained down upon the Marku. One of them managed to pierce its alloyed hide and reach the reactor, causing the ship to explode in a brilliant fireball and sending hull fragments in all directions. An A-Class shield ship quickly maneuvered in front of Barasia, deflecting any debris that came in its way with a large energy projection field.

After this, the ships returned to tracing radar trails from the Pirates, and warped out of the system.

Research
Oxygen Capsule: Completed ((See latest OOC post)) Capsule causes an extreme physiological change in Sazkarjhians. Changes internal chemistry and allows for them to breathe oxygen. To be used on diplomatic missions and to be given to outersystem vagabonds,
Charge-Down Coilgun: New research project. This optimizes the current coilgun on ships by allowing shots to be loaded and fired while the magnetic field generator is powering down after a shot. Each one will be less powerful than the last, but it still allows a heavy amount of fire. Development: 2%

[TehAlphaGamer]

Colonial Rebellion Response

Seeing the increased amount of military activity near one of the Hach colonies, orders have been given to send two fleets to investigate. Sazkarjhia Assault Fleet 009 and 051 broke off from Hub Fleet 3, the closest to Hach space, and entered warp. Orders are to be wary and to try and not mingle in affairs if some kind of attack is being staged.

[WilsonTurner]

((Ohmyseeders, you just made a horrible move :O ))

Colony 257

As the two Seeder Ships in orbit come under fire, the reaction is of the following:

Accelerate, increase seed drop, fire more mines, ignore anything else.

However, the Seeder's scanners were specifically geared towards finding warp points, and now that all these ships had popped in to fire peashooters at their armor, both Seeders sent shockwave-transmissions. Several minutes later, a dozen new Seeder Ships fold out of the Common Warp Point that the Seeders have been using, a double-MineLayer escort for each ship. The dozen task groups then break off, all immediately appearing to head towards the different strike and fleet groups that the various nations had brought in, but rather going just past that, where their warp-trails shined bright like beacons to them, beckoning them to come and find new worlds to colonize. Many Seeder Ships were idle, not having any new planets to colonize, so there were many ships on standby to go out and assist the efforts.

However, as each of the dozen 'task groups' began to reach the hostile fleets, they appeared to change their mind. Instead of simply moving towards the CWP, they began aiming for the largest ships in the fleet, similar to taking a heavy APC and going to run over all the machine gun posts as the APC tries to go through the tunnel through which the MGs just appeared from.

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"Sensor array can no longer pick up biotic signals from human ship" A bridge officer reported and the Overser frowned and pulled up the sensors, rubbing his chin
"Recalibrate and try again, must be a sensor error..." He watched the view screen and cursed, transmitting a message to the humans "I shall inform the Truth ie Subjective that he is no longer required to transport you then.... Advise you stop dropping forces on the planet, they are going to keep firing those pods and they are releasing a lethal foreign substance that blocks breathing apparatus, I doubt you have an oxygen supply to last forever" He reported, tapping a few commands on the terminal to close the transmission "Order the Soul of hatred to get close to the human vessel... I want to know what is on board that's so important. And prepare Endgame."
"Yes Praelatus meus" The officer said, and the Overseer tapped a button, sending a message yet again
"The Soul of Hatred is moving to escourt you to your fleet, Parem Habui"

The Soul of Hatred turned and zipped to the vessel, stopping less than 400 meters to the side of it, blocking it from the view of the seeders ships and moving at the same speed as it.On board, its shipmaster pulled up a view screen to examine the human vessel, and his eyes began to glow a dull orange as he did.

The Triarian ships watched the Seeders approached and then just vanished, before reappearing, having jumped to the other side of the planet. From the Aquilifer, two phase tanks were launched, activating their phase generators and flying towards one of the seeder ships that was heading towards the EA fleet.

Any time one of the seeder ships began to approach the Triarian ships, they would activate their trans dimensional drives and make another jump across system, sort of playing a 3D piggy in the middle with them. The flagship of the fleet approached the planet and began to power its energy projector to the highest level, but didn't fire. It was preparing for the worst, but the worst hadn't happened yet, the enemy had no invaded on land yet. Instead, it fired plasma at the seeds as they landed