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The Ghost Awakening </span><br>
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A universe of peace, turmoil, war, death, destruction, life, and rebirth. A universe of chaos and order, a delicate balance maintained through means unknown. A delicate balance soon to be jeopardized, ancient entities stirring, mobilizing for war and conquest unbeknownst to all but one in the universe. And it is but one can send the message and only hope that others will heed the call.<br>
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And so it was, a message broadcast from a dark sector. Space uncharted by any empire, unknown variables, unknown secrets, all of it unknown save for one. It was dangerous, that was a known fact through various empires. But uncharted space always was, numerous dangers lay hidden in it's vast unknown boundaries.<br>
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The message contained not a plea for help, nor a warning. Rather it was a simple number of lines detailing nothing other than a threat of total and utter destruction. Whether any of those contacted would heed this threat and retaliate would be seen. For those who did would find the source of the message originating from a vast derelict structure. Some sort of space station larger than anything previously encountered, a tight asteroid field orbiting it.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">Dravak Darkfur, "President" of the Second Klavikan Republic sits at his desk in his presidential office.  His capital building sits on the edge of a Klavikan wildlife reserve, and his office is positioned to face it.  Behind him is an amazing glass window, with a glass door that seems to seamlessly fit into the window itself leading out to a small balcony that gazes out over the vast wilderness.  Often times Dravak will stand on his balcony, staring out peacefully in the beauty of the Klavikan home world, Klavika.  But not today, today is a rare cloudy, rainy and all-around miserable day in Klavika and so drapes cover the great window.<br>
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His desk is a mess of papers.  Bills to sign or veto, economic reports, military documents, numerous spreadsheets and some scattered petitions.  Dravak sighs... "fucking politics...".  In truth, Dravak was rather tired of his job.  He had imagined it would be exciting, which is why he "took" the job.  He couldn't of been more wrong. All he did was sit in his Office going through a never ending supply of "important" papers, putting on a phony smile and personality for public speeches, and quelling the occasional scandal. He missed his days as a soldier.  Now <i>that </i>was exciting he thought.  Sadly he wouldn't be getting any action soon, or ever.  Unless someone broke in or a war broke out, which wasn't likely.  He sighed once more, he had done enough paperwork for today.  He futilely attempted to clear his desk and then opened up a bottom drawer and pulled out a small wine bottle.  The bottle was green and seemed quite old, as the label had faded and wasn't readable. Fortunately Dravak didn't need to read the label to know it was a fine Klavikan red wine, aged to 100 years.  As Dravak uncorked the bottle he could almost taste it.  He put the bottle to his furry mouth and drank the delicious liquid.<br>
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"Ah... that's more like it!' he said to himself as he reclined in his comfy armchair.  Just as he was about to fall asleep he was awoken by a knock on his door.  Dravak sat up quickly trashed his wine and tried to make it look like he had been doing work.  "Come in" Dravak replied<br>
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In entered Dravak's secretary, a Rovlian named Dragank, accompanied by two Klavikan Elites.  Dravak could tell by the way the Elites held their weapons that they were nervous, and maybe a little excited.  His secretary showed her nervousness a little less.. "discreetly".<br>
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"Uh sir... a report just came in from the military... it urgent" she said as she handed the report to Dravak, hands shaking.  Dravak read the report nervously, it had to be bad to cause this kind of reaction.  As he skimmed through ll he saw was a jumble of numbers.  "What is this suppose to mean" he asked, eyeing his secretary.<br>
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"A-at the bottom, s-sir"<br>
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"Oh... thanks<br>
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  Dravak sipped to the bottom, where the report gave a summary of what the jumble of numbers meant.  What the heck?  Some sort of super large threta in an unknown sector of space?  Just as Dravak looked up to speak, one of the Elites spoke;<br>
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"I say we send a battle fleet over there and fuck 'em up!".  The other Elite hastily shut his partner up with an elbow the the jaw.  Dravak glared at the Elite who had spoken, but said nothing.  He looked at his secretary and said;<br>
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"Tell the general to have a probe warp out to the source of this "message" so we can find out exactly what is going on.<br>
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Within the hour a Klavikan probe had been warped to the location of the "message".  The probe was equipped with multiple sensors and cameras, and sent an array of information back to Klavika.  As Dravak and his officer peered at the screens, what they saw was almost incomprehensible.  A massive derelict station, bigger than anything they had ever seen, surrounded by a tight ring of asteroids.<br>
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Within the ship one would find it hard to tell when synthetic structures would start or when the biological parts would end, in one such area we meet our protagonist of the swarm. Ira. The woman was 'naked' along with the majority of the other Aliuu, covered up by a bit from the own carapace and exoskeletons that her body could provide her. The humanoid Aliuu had been sitting in a transparent red bubble, looking on the ground and rocking slowly back and forth from her posture. She's troubled, wary and doesn't know what to expect when they approach this strange structure that kept repeating something about Armageddon. The youth is in charge of a small force of beastly Aliuu and had been brought here by the selection of the milirarists from her sector of space. She has more or less combat experience but she's never done something too major outside being a good supporter.<br>
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Deep inside a silent ship, one which hid in the shadows of the black of that in which it lurked. A single terran ran through those angular, organic, dark halls with a purpose. Breathing heavily as he maneuvered his way through the unnatural architecture which made up this ghastly machine, breath visible in the air, feet pounding, echoing throughout the halls. The ships structure took this echo, warped it, twisted it, mangled it till it sounded like the devils own damning laugh, coming at him from every possible angle, mocking him.<br>
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A man stood up on the Captains level, overseeing all the lower officers and their duties, an imposing man of broad stature, 5’11 frame and chiseled jaw that had a brutal scar which spoke of a fight that happened long ago. The man raised an eyebrow at him, as if incredulous that he had entered. Darkness, the likes of which light seemingly refused to penetrate blanketed the highest level behind the man on the platform. The Terran threw himself forward, down on one knee as he spat out in a rush.<br>
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There, down on his knees he heard it, the barest swish from directly behind the Captain, exhausted though he was from his breakneck sprint across this forsaken ship, a fear struck through his body that locked him in place no matter how hard he fought against it. Shadows filled the edge of his vision, a literal cloak of writhing darkness as something moved behind the man he knelt down before. He could sense it, taste it, feel it in every bone in his body. <i>She </i>was here on the bridge. A delicate clawed finger touched his lowered chin and lifted his head, muscles obeying seemingly without his consent to stare up into that abyss of shadow. There, a single violet, pulsating starry eye slowly opened and blazed into existence. Such was the effect that he found he could not look away, same as his bodies seemingly inability to move, so such he found his eyes following suit, transfixed with that star. A row of gleaming white, pearlescent fangs glinted in the darkness as a feminine voice broke the silence that had fallen over the bridge, the tension so thick one could have cut it with a butter knife and unleashed hell on earth.<br>
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Rumors around the galaxies had exploded about a signal from the depths of space detailing the coming of the end times. Such things had been said before and little stock was put into said rumors. However different rumors began to arise about the <i>source </i>of said messages. Rumors that were carefully cultivated by unseen hands, groomed with practiced tongues that shouted them out to the street walkers, whispered into the ears of those with influence. Some said t’was an ancient relay come online, some say that it is but a ploy by some pirates or the like to keep others away from a glorious hidden derelict wreck, and many other tales and the like flew about the streets and lines of space.<br>
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The scientist looks back at his screen, preses a few keys, and the screens in the front of the room flicker before changing to show new information.  There on the screen, barely visible in the vastness of space is an odd looking show, infrared imaging shows the ship to be shapped somewhat like a serpent, chasing confusion among the officers gathered there.<br>
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"Tell me what were looking at" Dravak demanded.<br>
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"Well sir, scans suggest suggest the ship is made of biologic matter as well as machinery, it is for all intents and purposes a living being"<br>
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The Officer look at each other in more confusion.  A living ship? How could this be.  Dravak however, doesn't seemed concerned with this puzzling fact.<br>
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"It doesn't appear so sir.  Should I have the probe warp out of the system?". The scientist asks<br>
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Drabak thinks for a moment.  If they leave the unknown ship can't trace the probe, but if they stay they can study this potential enemy.<br>
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"Keep the probe here, but focus on that ship instead of the station.  I want to learn as much about it as possible, even if that means giving up the drones position to the ship"<br>
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Not long after the appearance of the Organic ship, yet another ship made its appearance. This one was of a much more obviously synthetic construction, seeming to lack much in terms of aerodynamics and appearing quite cylindrical in appearance. It had two rounded ends on either side, the sharper of the two pointing towards the derelict space station. After appearing, the ship just sat there in space silently as soft lights glowed from its interior and what seemed to be its form of propulsion.<br>
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On board, thousands of bipedal figures in strange suits moved about the various sectors of the vessel either operating the vessel, the various machines on board, or just mulling about and stand by. A small portion of them had rectangular-shaped helmets on, but the rest went helmetless. They were several inches larger than a common terran, muscular in appearance with greyish skin.  Vaguely reptilian if their teeth and eyes were anything to by, these beings made up the vast majority of the operators of the ship. These were Kadrel, called Kads by some, the clones that made up the bottom tier of Sargonian society, cheap and replaceable with a hint of instinctual devotion.<br>
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Besides them, average sized bipedal beings in simplistic suits walked stiffly between them. Their eyes were dull in comparison to the reptilian yellow the larger beings had, and their skin seemed entirely synthetic. These were Ambassador units, androids created to serve as basic instructors in the absence of the a higher reigning species. They were often used for common maintenance, guiding Kadrel in the absence of their superiors, and even more well known for their usage as a go between Sargonians and other species in the universe.<br>
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The bridge of the ship was relatively small compared to the rest of the sectors, with only two dozen of the Kadrel operating severa floating holo-screens. There was only one Ambassador here, standing beside the Captain's hover shair and staring at a large holo-screen that covered the wall before them.<br>
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Captain Skaz was a Theno, superior to a Kadrel in many ways. From fighting prowess to thought processing, the Theno were genetically designed to hold positions of power over the lesser species while still being subservient to the creators. Skaz wasn't the most important Theno, and he knew that the creator's could easily replace him if they so chose to. He was perfectly fine with this, the position of ship Captain let him go many places in down time, which Theno Captains often had. And due to the lack of any threats or technological conquests, he had immediately jumped at the chance to find whatever this strange signal was in order to alleviate his boredom.<br>
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And that signal had led him and his ship here, to this massive space station. He'd seen bigger of course, but that wasn't the issue. The issue was that what they could make out of the exterior this ship didn't link up to their current Glossary of Species. It was too uniform to be assembled by pirates or scavengers, but didn't link up to the current or previous models of known species ships.  It actually seemed to be quite ancient, which begged the question of where it had been and how it had kept from being stripped bare by scavengers up until now.<br>
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"Captain," the Ambassador at his side said without facing him "it appears we've located the signal's source."<br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"Well how about that,"</span> Skaz said with a passive tilt of his helmeted head <span style="color: #ff8000">"it's almost like it was screaming out across several galaxies trying to reach as many ears as it could. How fortunate that we found this incredibly hard to spot station just lying in the middle of space surrounded by asteroids."</span><br>
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The Ambassador stood silently for a bit "Was the sarcasm truly necessary Captain?"<br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"Never ask that question again E37."</span> Skaz said as he stretched his cybernetic limbs  <span style="color: #ff8000">"Just get ready to send some transports in."</span><br>
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"If I may sir, should we not-"<br>
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The Ambassador was interrupted by a Kadrel at one of the holo-screens, the Kadrel let out a string of confusing grunts and garbles.<br>
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Skaz waited for the Kad to realize it was speaking in Kadrellian, then watched as it activated its wrist-mounted translator.<br>
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"Sir!" the synthetic voice of the translator said as the Kadrel gestured towards the screen "We detect several non-S.A.C presences in the area around this station!"<br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"Are they shooting at us?"</span> Skaz said as he leaned back in his hover chair<br>
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"No! But we've detected a probe-" the Kadrel gestured nervously<br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"If it's not shooting at us then it sounds like its not our problem,"</span> Skaz interrupted with a shrug<span style="color: #ff8000"> "send in the Kadrel."</span><br>
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"But its scanning a large organic ship that could-"<br>
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The Kadrel was silenced as his raised arms suddenly dangled at his sides, behind him the Captain's Cosmo blade was lodged firmly into the wall causing a ripple effect wherever the weapon touched the holo-screen the Kadrel had been working at.<br>
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Skaz got up from his chair and stomped over to the Kadrel before tapping a metal claw to the Kad's forehead. The Kadrel immediately fell in half, allowing the Captain to reclaim his Cosmo blade and stomp back to his chair.<br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"Get me a new one,"</span> he said to the Ambassador as steam vented out from him before turning to the rest of the bridge <span style="color: #ff8000">"and send out the Kadrel."</span><br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify">The massive head of the creature had tilted a bit to the side when it had felt two distant disturbances amidst the powerful frequency that the station was emitting. Another vessel had appeared on another edge by the station ways away from the dark serpent judging from the energies that have been created and from the nature of their course. The next thing it noticed was being bathed in an array of different types of waves coming from another object that too seemed to be at a certain distance from the beast. Whatever it was the object seemed to be observing the creature and making its presence known to the other ominous vessel.<br>
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Ira had slowly walked into a room where more of the humanoid Aliuu have gathered. The room is mostly synthetic, by that I mean the floors and walls aren't made up of tissues or any type of biomass, there are large horizontal display screens on the walls complimented each with specified consoles and computers, equipment, tables and artificial objects all around. The only thing organic in this room seemed to be the groups of veins located on the ceiling of the room and the bioluminescent organ that has the room lit in a warm amber light. The young woman stopped in the center of the room and looked over towards the consoles that were being managed by other humanoid Aliuu.<br>
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"Commander Ira," An older man had called out. His stature seemed to be that of a very tall thin man, skin complexion was as pale as that of a sick man, his purple hair combed from the front and ending at the back, eyes are as clear as a quartz crystal and his dark purple carapace covering everything save his head. He gestured a hand towards her and lowered his thin tendrils behind him.<br>
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"Everyone's here. Let's get started."  The purple man said while raising his tentacles again.<br>
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"I would advice to gt rid of that thing out their that's showering us with scans." said an orange humanoid Aliuu pointing towards one of the displays.<br>
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"The object is closest to us and it's annoying the leviathan like a persistent insect."<br>
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"Mmm... probably Terran... It poses no immediate threat." A blue feminine shaped Aliuu pointed out whilst shifting herself into her chair. She crossed her legs and began fiddling with the controls of a tablet looking object and had activated the biggest of the display screens. She looked up from her tablet and watched as a number of the the other display screens had changed their data and focused onto the new ship. A large ship vaguely the shape of a flattened cylinder with a nose and two ring looking segments was displayed roughly on the screen.<br>
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"I wouldn't be so sure about that." The blue Aliuu batted her eyes towards one of the display screens. a number of life signs have been detected approaching the unknown station. The four Aliuu had frowned. Ira's heart had raced from partial excitement and fear as she watched blips onto the screen. The tall purple man scrunched his eyebrows together and headed towards the big screen.<br>
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"Looks like our time is short and we have react fast."<br>
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"Ira and Gof, you two will both take a battalion and go into this super structure. Learn from it what you can and come back to us once you're done down there.<br>
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"Cell and I will stay here and manage the things from here. You have your orders."<br>
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The dark serpent's eyes lit up for a second and flew into a loop. As it did it's loop several small organic pods erupted from the being's rough carapace and have been shot into the direction of the dark and eerie structure. The pods were of several different sizes and shapes, some being mostly potatoes while others were smooth and  tear shaped. Being piloted by the pods' wings, fins, thrusters and or tendrils, the pods had their work cut out for them when it came to avoiding the asteroid field that enveloped the enigmatic station. Ira, being in one of the pods, closed her eyes and sighed as the swarm made there descend.</span><br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">Dravak and his officer were once again staring at the screens in the front of the room, trying to comprehend the ship thing, whatever it was they were looking at.  As they discussed what the thing was amongst themselves the scientist in the back of the room spoke up once again<br>
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"Uh, another ship just warped into the sector"<br>
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Dravak and his officers turned once more to all stare expectantly at the scientist, non verbally demanding more  information.  Once again, the scientist shrank under their gaze, although he remained composed enough to continue speaking<br>
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"This ship appears to be from different origins then the first, as the new ship is composed of metal alloys rather than organic material.  I'll bring it up on the screen."<br>
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The monitors flicked once more as information on the new ship began to appear on the screens.  The ship was a long cylindrical vessel that glowed softly at its core.  As Dravak and his officers watched the screens, smaller ships began to pour out of the ship and head towards the station.<br>
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"Sir, the new ship has launched several smaller ships, boarding parties I assume.  I think they are going to enter the station... The organic vessel has launched boarding vessels of its own as well"<br>
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At this one of Dravak's Officers spoke up.  The officer was a shorter fellow, a Rovlian to be exact.  Most of those gathered we 1-2 feet taller than him and oftened joked about how they "didn't seem him down there".<br>
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"I suggest we send a battle fleet and a boarding party to board this station as well.  There may be some sort of valuable information hidden inside it."<br>
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Dravak thought for a moment.  Sending a fleet and boarding the station would be exciting for a change.. Definitely better than reading more economic reports.  Dravak shuddered at the thought of reading more 100 page reports on average income and the such.  He didn't even understand half of it. He nodded<br>
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"Agreed.  Contact the Admiral of battle fleet B-2, have him warp to the station with weapons armed, but tell him not to fire.  Have him link his command ships com with our control room here, I want to speak with those ships."<br>
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-----AT THE STATION-----<br>
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The emptiness of space is disturbed when out of no where 25 warships drop out of Warp.  These ships range in size from small frigates to a large carrier.  This small fleet comprises of 8 Rovlian fast-attack frigates and 14 assorted Klavikan ships plus one Medium-Carrier.  The Rovilan frigates are small(ish) ships that are lightly armored but well shielded.  The primarily use speed and agility combined with skirmisher tactics to take their enemy out with a variety of missiles and lasers.  The ships themselves are long and sleek with large thrusters in the back and a frontal command bridge denoted by a blocky outcrop of the otherwise smooth design.<br>
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The Klavikan warships on the other hand are large, sluggish and blocky.  They focus on armor and firepower in the form of plasma to out tank and overwhelm their enemy.  The ships range from long rectangular vessels to large battleships resembling a elongated step pyramid.<br>
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The Carrier is similar to design of the second unknown ship except the carrier is much fatter and bigger all around.  Out of this carrier launch 10 landing ships, carrying 20 troops each.<br>
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As everyone was busy having fun intimidating the others, flexing their proverbial muscles and showing off the hardest asses their fleet had to offer. Two ships warped into the system, farther out from the relay station than the rest, cloaked in the black which filled the nothingness of space. Their warping in was a blip on the scanners of foreign fleets but said officers would be hard pressed to find just what had tripped their scanners sensors for all intents and purposes the section of space in question was void of seemingly any ships, both from visual and otherwise.<br>
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But those on board knew what they did, observe for the moment was their goal given to them, intervene if necessary. If push came to shove, make such intervening decisive and swift. Eyes which stared out at the events now unfolding were neither hostile nor benevolent, and that was perhaps the worst part.<br>
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Upon the Bridge of one ship, six blaring red orbs of light simmered there in the shadows, the mishmash of Terrans, Xandarians, Aliuu that made up the standard crew rushing about like ants as they accomplished their required tasks, all being done silently and efficiently.<br>
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“The Situation has escalated slightly, should we inform the Lady?”<br>
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The other set of eyes, switched back from the holo-screen to something off on its end then back to meet the <i>others </i>once more.<br>
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“Aye, you know she wants regular updates, I recognize the Swarm Leviathons, odds there are so little and that the Swarms Mother is interested in a little platform floating in space such as this. I always imagined her ideals focused on more… baser traits.”<br>
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“True, however these other ships are of a design foreign to me. Odds are The Lady knows but as I do not I shall report it in any who.”<br>
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The other being on the secure call made a rather deep <b>Hruu Hruu </b>sound, a chilling laugh. “I wonder if they know what they have gotten into.”<br>
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“Doubtfull, star walkers are always so… arrogant, they fail to see the wolf hiding amongst the sheep almost every time.” The other quoted a favorite Terran saying, that of which said Terrans shivered slightly.<br>
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“Ill inform the Lady that both the Swarm and other parties are here. She will want to know, should we contact the Swarm on her behalf?”<br>
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“with extreme prejudice.”<br>
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Both creatures grinned and shut the link off… and so the two specter like ships waited in the black, watching, observing, analyzing… waiting.<br>
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"Sir, a fleet of crafts similar in construction of the scanning device have just appeared!" one of the Kadrel Shouted<br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"Well I'm sorry grub, but until I see trails of energy fire bathing space in bright light then they're not my damn problem!" </span><span style="color: #ff8000">Skaz said before yet another Kadrel piped up</span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"And that sounds like this guy's problem."</span><br>
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Before the Kad could offer a query, Ambassador E73 crashed into the wall next to him before sliding off and landing onto the floor with a muffled sound of Impact. The Kadrel backed away as the Ambassador wordlessly pulled itself onto its feet using the nearby console, silently patting some dirt from its suit as it did.<br>
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The synthetic bipedal android ran a hand over its bald head before folding its arms behind its back and gesturing to the Kadrel on the bridge "Helmets on people."<br>
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Once all personnel were helmeted, save for the Ambassador synthetic of course, E73 nodded towards the technician.<br>
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The technician responded to the hailing, the Synthetic watched as the small holo-screen before them connected and an image appeared before him. Though the synthetic to his side tilted his head a bit, the Ambassador just stared for a moment at the image before responding.<br>
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"Ambassador Unit E73 of the <i>Epsilon</i> replying to unknown hailing." the Android stated "How may I be of service?"<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">As Dravak stood in the control room, earnestly await as response form the two vessels he had just hailed, he took note of his surroundings.  In all his years of being "president", he had never really used the control room, as it was only used for wars or deep space missions, which there had been a sad lack of.  The room was  a large rectangle, with an array of monitors of sizes varying y form small computers to large 80inch hollo-screens at the front and longer end.  In the center of the room was a raised wooden platform, on which Dravak and his Officers stood.  Surrounding him were rows and rows of computer stations, at which scientists, technicians and englneers would sit to help guide the missions.  Today only an few scattered seats were filled with Klavikan and Rovlian scientists, who quietly talked amongst themselves, excitedly discussing what these unknown creatures might be like.  Suddenly a Rovlian technician spoke out;<br>
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"The non-organic ship has responded to our hail!" he said excitedly.  The technician pressed a few buttons on his hollo screen and the main hailing screen blinked on.  The sight they saw was truly marvelous, a blue human like creature was a multitude of unknown creatures wearing blocky helmets in the background.<br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify">More small bursts of energy could be felt in the area and the leviathan had taken notice of a number of ships that are in relative close position of the probe. Large ones and a number of small ones. Plus smaller bursts of energy that give of a familial aura of sorts - allies? Who knows.There seems to be an interference broadcasting towards the leviathan. The creature shakes the signals off and can't do anything with them. Just like the probe it's just a mild nuisance that's going exasperate the dark gargantuan serpent. The creature led out a deep moan and continued to float aimlessly in the void.<br>
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The Synthetic turned to look back at Captain Skaz, the Large Theno turned and casually waved his hand before looking forward again. Ambassador E73 silently turned back to face the contacts before stating:<br>
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"Our Epsilon-Class Front Developer ship was tasked by S.A.C officials to investigate said signal in order to sate the curiosity of higher officials. Though it would seem that not only has our current intervention resulted in a semi-disappointing result, we have also encountered other parties with similar goals."<br>
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"Though I can say with certainty we have not encountered this Bio-Based race that currently shares this area with the both of us. Beings similar to them yes, but not these specifically."<br>
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After he finished his hearty laugh, the Captain began speaking in an off language and lazily jerked a finger to several technicians before hefting his Cosmic blade, attaching it to the back of his metallic body and sitting back down. The hover chair then began floating backwards towards an energy field that seemed to act as a door, the field went down just before Skaz exited on his chair.<br>
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"It would appear my Superior has taken a leave for some time." Ambassador E73 stated before turning his attention back to the contacts "Now, what exactly are you? Just in case my search comes up fruitless."<br>
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"I am a Klavikan, as are half in the room.  We are a wolf like species defended from jungle wolves many millions of years ago.  The others are Rovilans, a cat like species lightly younger than my own that my species conquered millions of years ago.  Since then they have been integrated seamlessly into our society to the point that we consider the to be Klavikan as well."  The says the last part about "seamlessly integrating" rather proudly.<br>
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The Klavikan battle fleet continued to scan the station and the unknown ships, trying to get a fell for what they were encountering.<br>
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The station appeared to.simply be a large and old station, nothing too extraordinary besides the signal coming from deep inside.<br>
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The other ships on the other hand was a different the story.  The Organic ship ws unlike anything they had ever seen before, yet it seemed like it would provide little in wats of a challenge if a fight were to break out as the Captains of the shops believed the Organic material would provide little protection against their plasma.<br>
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The Cylindrical ship on the other hand was ominous, giving no signs of its method of propulsion besides a faint blue glow from its core.  The ship had no weapons as far as they could detect, but they doubted that was the case.  The two ships remained a mystery to them despite all their scans, but the intensive scanning still continued.<br>
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The boarding ships had just reached the station, landing in a large open and empty hangar.  Upon landing, the commander of the party, Jolf Hagfard, a Rovlian, contacted the commander of B-2 battle fleet<br>
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"Sir we have landed in the station, its clear as far as we can tell."<br>
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The commander replied almost immediately<br>
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"Good, pick up the signal and trace it to its source. Be careful and make sure to stay away from the other boarding parties, we don't want any trouble"<br>
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At that the technicians turned to watch as the Ambassador clapped his hands for a moment before stopping and speaking to the Kads "Though you may not survive the next few days, the S.A.C. congratulates you on such a momentous occasion you can take comfort in being semi-associated with. And as for you..."<br>
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As the Kadrel off loaded several large crates, an Ambassador Unit from the Epsilon continuously updated them through their helmets' interfaces. They hadn't been cleared to risk removing their helmets yet, and so spoke through their helmet speakers in Kadrellian. They'd landed several of their ships in what looked like a hole in the vessel which turned out to just lead to a landing zone inside. The rest set off to find other entryways so their forces could search from multiple points at once. The ships that landed had to do so carefully as the landing zone was quite narrow.<br>
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B06 glared at the Station's interior from within his helmet, beside him he could see them already dragging bulbous chords from out of the ship and hooking them up to some of the heavier crates.  He reached to an industrial zipper on the side of his suit before producing a glowing flask-type container which he sipped from quietly before sighing in relief and hefting his weapon.<br>
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He heard an accusing grunt from behind him, and glanced back as one of the newborns pointed at him before garbling out some more words.<br>
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B06 waved it off, he didn't need to explain himself to a being who hadn't even reached his first hour. After the crates were set up, and the chords began pulsing, the Kadrel formed two 20 Kad groups before heading off, leaving the rest to watch the ships.<br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify">The pods all directed themselves towards several entrances, that each seemed to lead to the swarm into a landing platform of some kind. Upon impact the pods popped or exploded like bubbles, unleashing various gases, liquids, debris and of course their passengers.<br>
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The wave of pods contained the smaller and more agile Aliuu, which skittered around the platform with their small dog sized bodies.The small creatures moved quickly on their tentacles, moving away from potential impact points from several more pods or idling around swaying their round 'heads' side to side as they fixed themselves on the platform's 'gravity'. The crows on the other hand floated around like derelict balloons, with open tentacles making them look like floating octopuses.<br>
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The foot soldiers had appeared. With heads the shape of ancient early arthropods, two pairs of legs, a pair of powerful chelicera mouth parts fitted with horns on the sides and an array of flexible tentacles from it's lower body. These beings stood about as tall as the average man, walked above the hounds and went out of their way for the next wave of their kind. They weren't interested in the flawed critters that were going around scurrying like insects and behaved naturally.<br>
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"Uuuuuuu-Ai-Ahhhhhhhhhhh!" An eerie roar came from the first tank that had erupted excitingly from it's pod. It's body was blob shaped, had a head with two powerful toothy jaws and thick tendrils. The creature 'stood' 4 meters, weighed around 7000 kg and moved its body through vibrations of its lower body portions. The next batch of tanks arrived, idling about as they towered over the scattering hounds and content foot soldiers.<br>
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The next thing that came was even stranger than the tank. The body was vaguely humanoid and took many features from that of an arthropod, it's limbs were that of a crab's, some legs ended with 2 toed feet while the front legs had a venomous dark pincers and a pair of wings made out of a strange simple looking yet complex membrane to help it in flight. The head is assumed to be round, one cannot tell for sure thanks to the outline of the tentacles. They stand around the same size as the foot soldiers but have a more vicious air around them like the tanks.<br>
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Another set of creature came upon landing of a number of pods. These beings walk on four limbs, own a tail and are seemingly completely made out of tendrils. What it's purpose is is unknown from first appearance but it will eventually have to show its cards. With them came several man-sized tentacle creatures floating ominously and seemingly enjoying the gaseous substances that the pods had released. The entrances and plat forms were over run with the organic creatures and the remains of the pods. Lastly Ira arrive covered in her carapace fully and walked amidst the combine of critters who all made way for her coming.<br>
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"Landing successful." She said through her 'armor'.<br>
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&lt;Excellent. Proceed with caution, young one.&gt; A warm voice echoed and vibrated in her head.<br>
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Not survive for the next few days? These are strange creatures indeed Dravak to himself, they were certainly different from his own people. And there were even more species?  This would surely excite his scientists... And his officers who say everyone and everything as a potential threat.<br>
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"The pleasure is all mine.  We have noticed you have landed men on the station.  I would like to inform you that we and the organic based ship have as well.  I've order my men not to take any hostile actions, although I can't say the same for the organic based ship." looking at the line of Officers and scientists anxiously await to speak with him he looks at E37 and says;<br>
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Turning around with a sigh, as Dravak knows what to expect next, he is still almost blown away as the noise returns to the room as his Officers talk amongst themselves and to him and the scientists excitedly shout to one another, despite being so close to each other. He tries to look interest as leading scientists spurt scientific information at him ay such a fast rate he cant even comprehend what they were saying.  At the same time he tries to take part in the strategic discussion his Officers were attempting to involve him in.  Dravak sighed, it was going to be on of those days...<br>
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-----Ravard Roshk, head Rovilan scientist-----Control Room-----<br>
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Ravard sat in the middle of a large group of fellow scientists, excitedly discussing the new species and the possibility of others they had not yet met.  Ravard led the discussion, proposing many theories that were quickly accepted by his colleagues and commenting on his fellow's theories, never discrediting them but rather countering them with his own.  Anyone could see that Ravard was the unspoken leader of the group.  Ravard himself was an accomplished scientist with whom the advanced micro-jump drives Rovilan and even some Klavikan ships used was credited.  Despite this fame one might notice that he was not the exact head of these unofficial discussions.  Sure he lead his little group but not just 5 feet away was another much larger group of scientists, predominantly Klavikan scientists to be exact.  While yes, there were Klavikans in his little circle, most were the few Rovilan scientists who were allowed to take part in the confidential gathering in the control room.<br>
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The other and larger group sat there shouting and arguing with one another, shouting their own theories while crushing another's.  The few Rovilans in the larger circle sat off to the side, offering the own theories that were often ignored or returned with a rolling of eyes from many Klavikans in the group.  Despite all the Klavikans claimed, this was a common sight.<br>
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A message, sent via a hidden superluminal relay, arrived at the Bridges of the two hidden ships. A few thousand Kilometers away from the derelict station, the two stealthed cruisers unleashed a veritable volley of encrypted chatter.</b><br>
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“The Lady has noted the happenings here, command is being turned over to us, to proceed as we see fit.”<br>
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“ahh… I see… shall we then?”<br>
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“solidity?”<br>
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“This presents a unique opportunity brother mine.”<br>
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“Oh?... does it now?”<br>
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“Indeed, hes been dying to prove himself for a while now, why not… let him run free and have a new take on his current… condition?”<br>
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Outer Space<br>
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In the outer lying section of space orbiting the station and in its own orbital pathway, two blips appeared on the ship scanners with all the appearance of meteors. They flew with unerring accuracy and slammed into the aft section of the station. From these burning wrecks the air shimmered both with the heat of the ‘asteroids’ entrance and… something else. grey and black mottled armor clad terran figures emerged, their a dark black cloak seemed to mimic the background of which they passed in front of, blending in almost perfectly, as it appeared to be made entirely out of organic feathers though it was anything but. Ten in total emerged, close range silenced PDW’s with all manner of gadgets slapped on, each weapon individual to the soldier holding it and each with his own personalized gear for… various situations.<br>
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They were Odins ears, his eyes, they were the Ravens. And they whispered into the ears of their great lady all of what they had seen roaming in places hostile and supposedly locked down. Silent and unnoticed  they tread where all but the Dredge dared go and other more adventurous souls. Their black helms just but on section of shadow amongst many.<br>
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One more figure stepped forth from the crashed infiltration pods and the doors sealed behind him making twelve total. Their escape plan A, plan B if things went wrong. The Ravens moved away slowly to let this one pass in front of them, with its fluid grace. “Run quite, stay unseen. Observe, then if opportunities present themselves, take them.” Rasped a voice, rough from disuse. “Rodger” came the response over the encrypted com channel. "For the Glory of the Lady of Ravens. ”For glory." they echoed.The fire team moved forward with silence born of training and technology, their feathered cloaks whirling about them, distorting their image. Left behind they trailed dark feathers in their wake which quickly dissolved.<br>
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The lone figure remained behind for a moment to watch them then shook his head, as if trying to get rid of some other thought. He quickly took off in pursuit of his brethren catching up with them quickly.<br>
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Back in the two stealthed cruisers, eyes watched their vitals, helmet cams and the like with malicious glee though those orbs paid much attention to one labeled Magnus Raad, his helmet cam showed two eyes burning in the bright, one a dark brown, illuminated by the HUD in front of him… the other a vibrant blue, with pulsating tendrils trailing away from the side of his face, a mass of warped and twisted flesh.<br>
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A voice in the void. “Prove thyself… <i>half-breed</i>.”<br>
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The Ambassador stared at the screen as the image of the Klavikan and Rovilans cut off, then continued staring for some time until one of the Kadrel spoke up in Kadrellian.<br>
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"What?" The Ambassador asked as he pulled his eyes from the console and walked over to the Kad's holo-screen. The Kad pointed out the two blips, and together they watched as they impacted with the space station.<br>
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The Ambassador unit then walked to the center of the bridge before speaking "Helmets off."<br>
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The Kadrel began taking their helmets off and once they halfway done with that he went on speaking.<br>
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"With forces on the Space Station to get a feel for things, and a successful interaction with a pair of new species, I have decided we shall attempt to contact the Organic Ship."<br>
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At that, the Kadrel crew turned to him, "Unknown variables account as risks, as such we must deal with as many as we can before something... unpleasant turns up."<br>
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"As such, we shall attempt hailing-"<br>
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The Unit was interrupted by one of the Kadrel who raised his hand and pointed towards his console, Ambassador E73 stared at him in silence until the Kad lowered his hand.<br>
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"Judging by the reactions of the Anthromorphs, I suspect that we were contacted first. And seeing as no other connections were made during our conversation, I can only assume contact with the Organics have gone rather unheeded. So we will send an envoy."<br>
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At that the Crew members all jerked to stare at him openly.<br>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'georgia'"><span style="font-size: 18px">Elsewhere on the ship...</span></span></i></b><br>
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The Kadrel barked several queries to the two others which ushered him along, though they didn't answer, the Ambassador walking ahead of them was more than open.<br>
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"Once you make contact with the Organics, or get turned into powder by their weapons whichever comes first really, be sure to deliver the Mobile display. If the interior of their ship proves itself resilient to it then just sync your Helmet's interface with your speaker and we shall do this through simple auditory."<br>
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The Kadrel grumbled a bit before  grunting some more<br>
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"And if they do end up taking you hostage remember to make the Creators proud."<br>
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At the mention of the Creators, the Kad immediately simmered down as they reached the launch bay. Once there he was moved towards what looked to be an oversized locker, one of the Kadrel escorts tapped several buttons on its side and the door slid open to reveal a single chair surrounded by holo-screens.<br>
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The Ambassador held out a disk-like contraption which the Kadrel Envoy immediately placed in a small pouch on his suit, the Unit nodded at the Kadrel who sat down in the locker-thing before securing his rectangular helmet on his head. The other Kadrel was about close the machine when the Ambassador halted him and grabbed the Envoy's suit-covered hand.<br>
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He popped open slit on the palm of the Kad's glove before sliding a tablet in and repeating "Make the Creators proud."<br>
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Some time later the tiny ship was launched from the Epsilon, floating in space for several minutes before its propulsion system kicked up and it began its steady trek towards the Organic Ship.<br>
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Back on board, the two Kadrel who had walked him to the ship watched his progress on a holo-pad.<br>
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"How long till they blast him?"<br>
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<div style="text-align: center">"Oh please, we both know they're gonna torture him."<br>
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<div style="text-align: center">"Oh yeah, what do I get if I win?"<br>
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"I still have some Luquida slugs."<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><b>-----Klavika B-2 Command Vessel-----</b><br>
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Captain Tarzak, Klavikan commander of the B-2 battle fleet sat in his "bridge", which was actually a relatively small room deep inside the rather large battleship.  the Klavikan reliance on heavy armor and focus on strength and power causes their bridges to typically be located deep within the ship to keep the ship running even when the outside has taken a heavy beating.  The bridge consisted of a raised platform in the center at which Captain Tarzak stood, monitoring the hollo-screens making up the front of the room.  On each side of the room sat rows of computers with hollo-screen, where technicians helped run the ship and make sure all systems were running correctly.<br>
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As Tarzak stood on his raised platform, he mainly focused on the screens showing results of the many scans the fleet was performing.  Suddenly two blips appeared on a screen to the left.  Pointing two the blips he asked<br>
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"Someone one tell me what those things are where the hell they came from"<br>
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The technician responsible for the particular set of scanners looked at his hollo-screen in confusion, taping several areas on his screen before responding<br>
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"It appears two asteroid-like objects just appeared and are headed straight at the station sir"<br>
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Tarzak raised a furry eyebrow "Asteroid-like?"<br>
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"Yes sir, our scans show it has features of an asteroid but our scans are unable to penetrate to its core and give us much data, its surprising we didn't pick it up earlier.... it appears to have crashed into the station sir"<br>
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Tarzak rubbed his wolf-like chin, thinking over the appearance of the "asteroids".  <i>How strange two asteroids would crash into the station, and at this exact moment...</i> "Very well, keep me informed"<br>
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The technician nodded and continued to fiddle with his screen.  Tarzak looked back up at the screens, studying them with renewed interest.<br>
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"Contact Commander Jolf, tell him to be on high alert"<br>
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<b>-----Commander Jolf-----</b><br>
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Jolf led his party through the ever darkening derelict station, with its broken panels and its wires hanging form the ceiling.  Ahead of his party, his "Scout drones" made sure the path was clear.  These scout drones were simply small spider bots the scurried along the floor sending back information its short-distance scanners picked up.<br>
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If one were too look at Jolf's party one would notice that all the Klavikans were in the front, with the Rovlians bringing up the rear.<br>
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"Commander Jolf, this is B-2 Command-Vessel, be advised Commander Tarzak orders you and your men to be on high alert, B-2 communications technician 04 out"<br>
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"This is Commander Jolf, I copy that, Commander Jolf out"  Jolf looked down at his gun and mech-armor.  His gun was an Mp8-L3, an advanced laser variant of the primitive Mp8, which was an upgraded version of an Mp7.  It was almost identical to an Mp7 except that had a longer barrel and was all-around bigger, but still small by gun standards.  Instead of an actual clip that fed bullets into the gun, it served as a "power-pack", feeding energy into the gun which was depleted as the gun fired its laser beams.  Jolf's own gun was actually more powerful than the standard issue, one of the many perks of being a Rovilan commander.  Instead of the typically relatively "low-energy" red lasers the standard issue "Mp8-L2" fired his were high energy blue lasers and his clips were upgraded to provide the energy needed to power the gun.  His mech-armor was upgraded as well.  Typically Rovilan tech-armor was a sleek light armored suit that provided the wear with some light-arms protection but a large increase in speed, agility and reaction time.  As a commander, Jolf was given a advanced and pretty expensive upgraded mech-armor suit that used an extremely rare metal that was both strong and light, giving him protection form most small-arms fire with the same increases in speed, agility and reaction time.<br>
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Jolf looked ahead into the darkness that was the hallway he and his men were marching through.  Fortunately all Klavikan soldiers were equipped with helmets that gave them dark-vision among other useful features such as hud-displays, built in coms and the likes.  The helmet, being mentally linked with its wearer, allowed Jolf to give orders on different channels without having to touch any buttons at all.<br>
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"Alright men, I want everyone to turn their suits to stealth mode, we don't know what we are up against and we don't want to attract any attention if possible" Jolf said over his coms to his entire party.  In stealth mode, the suits would divert some power from their primary functions of increasing the wearers abilities to its sound dampeners, effectively making the wearer completely silent.  Lastly Jolf added to his order,  "And I want radio silence, I want to be able to hear a pin drop"<br>
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At this many of his me, mainly Klavikan, moaned in annoyance.  His second in command, a Klavikan name Salvak spoke out in protest; "Whats the point, <i>sir</i>, of radio silence, there's no one here besides those other species and they haven't attack us yet".<br>
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Jolf glared at his second in command, he always seemed to object to his commands, and he had noticed they way he used "sir".<br>
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"Key word,<i> yet</i>, now fall back in line, <i>soldier</i>".  With this Salvak fell a few steps behind Jolf and as if he had forgotten that Jolf could hear on all com channels, he said "Fucking Rovilans" in the Klavikan division coms.  Jolf just shook his head, this too was common.<br>
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Despite their protests his men obeyed, and the part marched ever deeper into the strange and derelict station.</div>
				
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<span class="bbcode-justify">The tall purple hired Aliuu had been informed from a small object that slowly approached the leviathan from one of the humanoid Aliuu working on one of the consoles in the room. Blinking he walked behind the woman's seat and kept his eye peeled on her display screen while she got rid of additional information until both of them got a visual on the object. This object appeared to be a humanoid in a suit, wearing an odd headgear and operating a strange vessel that seemed to be made out of a series of display screens. It didn't have any weapons on it and looked relatively harmless.<br>
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The patted the woman's seat and walked back towards the center of the room. He was already making thoughts about  whether to destroy the thing or interrogate it. His inner Aliuu is seeing the humanoid as an enemy, something to kill for the cause of the Queen Mother but his rational portion fortunately took over this implanted command. He rose a number of his blue tentacles towards another operator and stretched his arm out to point at the man specifically.<br>
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The dark gargantuan serpent replied to the humanoid's approach by lowering itself enough to have the small object within sight of the creature's three huge 'eyes'. Giving out a small wail the monstrous being paid heed to the small curious object and it's operator.<br>
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On the rough spiky tentacle infested back of the leviathan, a number of pods violently erupted from the carapace of the creature and had launched themselves towards the probe that had been bathing it in useless signals. The projectiles each looked like a metallic asteroid with a number of tentacles spinning and heading towards the probe that seemed to belong to the ridiculous fleet. Dodging these projectiles was out of the question - a cloud of them was heading towards the thing in indescribable speed and these rocks are fitted with seeking capabilities to hit whatever target that the leviathan wanted.</span><br>
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"Sir! The Organic ship has just launched a multitude of projectiles, missiles I think, at our probe!"<br>
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Dravak turned his attention away from the hollo-screens at the front of the room to face the technician that had spoken.  The technician was a younger Klavikan sitting towards the middle left of the room.  So the Organic ships has fire had it?  This should be interesting....<br>
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"Is it targeting our ships or just our probe?"<br>
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"It appears they are just targeting our probe, 10 seconds till impact sir.  Orders?"<br>
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"Have the probe remain where it is, perhaps they want to scare us.  Either way its a probe and we can send another one in.". He thought for a moment then added<br>
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"Have the fleet target the Organic ship but do not open fire just yet.  Tell Commander Tarzak to attempt hailing the vessel again, if they do not respond, order him to open fire"<br>
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Finding an empty station, Dravak sat back in the rather comfy padded seat which sadly didn't have any arm rests.  Today was gunna be interesting.  Finally, some action!<br>
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"Sir, the Organic ship has launched projectiles at the probe, orders?"<br>
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The Envoy nodded as the tiny ship came to a stop before  the massive creature, the display screens shifted to the sides allowing the Envoy to raise a hand outward and wave towards the being, taking note of the way the eyes followed its every movement.<br>
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Producing the disk given to him by the Ambassador, the Envoy simply tapped a button on its side before a blue projection was produced. Soon a miniature hologram of an Ambassador hovered above the disk, the Envoy trying to keep it as steady as possible as the Ambassador began speaking in several various tongues, the language changing every so often as it tested out several.<br>
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<b>The remains of the probe...</b><br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify">The cloud had stopped after the destruction of the probe. The sharp balls of metallic objects stopped moving and remained still and floated harmlessly in the void. The objects weren't needed for the time being and the cloud of razor tentacle balls waited upon order of the leviathan to attack something. The annoying probe has been dealt with but to no surprise another array of signals originating from the fleet struck the creature and the cloud would soon have another target if this goes one for too long.<br>
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<b>The Leviathan...</b><br>
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One of the three eyes flared brighter than the others upon the activation of the hologram projection. A bulge emerged from two fissures of the the leviathan's rough scaly surface and from it emerge another type of Aliuu. This Aliuu had a round body fitted with a 'shell' of technological appliances, a long neck soft looking sluggish body and illuminated itself in the darkness in a blue bioluminescent color. It sped towards the Humanoid, its ship and the device that's creating the projection. It stopped a number of meters away from the projection and began create energies to match the waves of the communication device. Once it found and recreated a frequency it 'blinked' with it's masked face.<br>
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<span style="color: #0059b3">"Greetings, I am Ambassador E73 representing the Epsilon-Class Front Development Ship currently sharing this sector with you and several others at this moment. Seeing as hailing has proven ineffective at establishing some form of communication, we have decided to contact you in a much more personal attempt to sate our curiosity of what exactly your intentions are within this system." </span><span style="color: #404040">The hologram could be understood after the being had attempted with several other types of garbled dialects and tongues that the creature had never heard of.</span><br>
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Inside the Ship the purple haired humanoid Aliuu heard what the projection had said. His quartz eyes flew upwards and his head vibrated slightly when he connected himself with the slug. A small spark was seen on it's mask and the 'eye' changed from a blue color to an orange shade. Assuming direct control.</span><br>
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The Hologram paused for a moment before continuing </span><span style="color: #0059b3">"As our communications with the race behind the probe you've just destroyed have shown, they have come for the signal which drew the attention of our superiors. Would it be safe to assume that this signal drew your the eye of your species as well?"</span><br>
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A mellowed voice came from the Aliuu, a voice that seemed to echo from the ends of a distant horizon or mountain range and yet sounded as though it came from inside a person's wet inner body. Every word that was spoken by the slug came with a pause and there seemed to be a soft hissing sound that amplified itself on occasion.</span><br>
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"</span><span style="color: #404040"><b>WHAT</b></span><span style="color: #404040">. Is. It. That. We. Should.</span><span style="color: #404040"><b> FEAR</b></span><span style="color: #404040">?" It spoke the last word with an amplified voice.</span><br>
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The holographic Ambassador placed a hand to its chin for a moment as it hypothesized, but then continued speaking "The signal's origins are a mystery to us and the other species as well, a mystery that should be alleviated as soon as the boarding parties discover its source. Either way, we can't very well speak on behalf of the Species controlling the probe. Their signals have washed over our ship as well, and though they leave us unnafected we see that it causes much more irritation for you. We could attempt contacting them for you in order for you to hopefully alleviate some of the tension currently building between you two. A lack of communication, I have hypothesized, will no doubt lead to bloodshed if not remedied. And as much as we would like to stay out of the affairs of others, fighting so close to the station risks the safety of all boarding parties and the potential loss of the signal."<br>
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The Ambassador folded both arms behind his back before speaking once more "If you'd like, we could attempt patching them through this very device using our own communication system as a relay."<br>
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Several Kadrel turned a corner only to find some more hallways, the group actually groaning at the sight. The Station so far had literally been nothing but massive hallways that seemed to criss cross and intersect all over the place. After winding up back at the landing zone twice they finally decided to mark their path. using the secretive juice of a Luquida slug, the Kadrel group let the neon green juice trail behind them. After that they found that even though they'd only come across long halls, they'd come across<i> new</i> long halls.<br>
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The places were different from before, and every so often they'd come across Large sealed doors. Maybe after the place is labeled secure enough the Ambassador guiding them would allow more equipment to shuttled over in order for them to start attempting to get them open. But as for now the Kadrel just marked their locations in Luquida secretions and took note of where they were before moving on<br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify">"<b>MAKE. IT.SO.</b>" The techno-snail replied.<br>
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&lt;Commander Ira, status?&gt;<br>
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"No contacts from either parties. Nothing found as of yet." Ira said while she knelt before a vore colony. The vore colony consists of nothing but wet black organic balls producing a sick membrane of dark substances that looks familliar to melted cheese - only black.<br>
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"I'm just spreading the membranes farther into the station, letting swarms of hounds and crows patrol the area."<br>
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&lt;Alright, keep your head open for any further developments, We've been contacted by one of the factions, The one seemed to come from that flat-nosed cylinder ship and we've been offered the opportunity to communicate with both factions.&gt; The warm voice paused as to end the sentence.<br>
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"Sir." She nodded.<br>
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Across the hull of the ship were small grooves and indents where directional thrusters lay hidden to allow the ship to be surprisingly maneuverable and though it was clearly not built for combat, the head of the ship had an Ajax R2 Railgun, the larger of the two models used by Henson Corporation vessels this Cannon was often found on Destroyer or Battleship classes making it an off-putting sight for such a vessel as the <i>Eternity Damned. </i>The Ajax has a rate of fire of 15 shots every 5 minutes, or 3 every 1 minute and can pack a heavy enough punch to thrash larger vessels easily. On the body of the ship, seven small Phalanx M3 cannons dot the rectangle, the Phalanx being the smaller model of the two, it is primarily used for defensive measures, firing a smaller, more rapid cannon to take out oncoming missiles and fighters.<br>
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Finally, hidden in the six smaller rectangles on the head (all aside from the forward facing rectangle) are six Warheads known as EpaC missiles, Electronic Plasma Cutter missiles. The EPaC missile is a 15 foot missile and the fore end is actually a moldable electronic surface. When this surface hits a kinetic barrier or shield it releases a massive surge of E1 electromagnetic radiation, temporarily carving a hole in the enemy shields and allowing the rest of the warhead to pass through unharmed. When the warhead itself to slam into the enemy armor and magnetically fling clusters of superconducting toroids. These donut-shaped projectiles are designed to shatter upon impact, arcing electricity between the fragments and flash-converting them into blasts of plasma that impact with the heat of a cutting torch.<br>
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All these weapons, this surprising arsenal that would normally be found on a Destroyer or Battleship class ship were hidden (aside from the Ajax) on the maneuverable <i>Eternity Damned</i>'s clever disguise as a shipping freighter. The inside of the ship further exposed the ruse, as the head of the ship was only a cockpit(the forward facing rectangle on the head) and six missile silos. The neck served as a walkway and contained various machinery but was kept rather bland as it was a weak point on the ship. The large body of the ship was what truly defied the 'Shipping Freighter' disguise. The large open space that would normally be used to hold cargo was not at all used for such, instead it held a four deck area.<br>
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The main deck (2nd deck) was what you would walk into from the neck and were immediately greeted by a recreation room with several chairs, coaches, pool tables, virtual reality games, TV screens, smoke pits, the works! Behind the rec room was a small dinning area with four large metal picnic tables to seat the crew as they ate. Past the Dining area was the kitchen itself, smaller than the other two rooms though as much is to be expected being pressed up against the bulkhead in such a manner. Above the main deck was 1st Deck, which housed a Navigation room, the Captain's Stateroom(a king sized bed, personal desk and computer, armor display case, weapon display case, quite a luxurious room compared to the rest), and a Weapon's control room. Just below the main deck, on the 3rd deck was most of the electrical workings of the ship as well as it's relatively weak shield generator. The third deck also housed the Crew's barracks, each member getting his or her's own bed and lock box to store their gear/loot from any mission the ship may perform. On the bottom of the ship, the 4th deck was the Engine rooms, the Machinery rooms, the grease works.<br>
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Right now the ship was ablaze with activity, the rec room was populated by several crew members who idly chattered, played games, watched the TV screens, anything to relax. The Kitchen wasn't active, lunch having just passed and the mess cleaned up the staff of the kitchen were now likely in the rec room. Meanwhile, down below the Engineers of the ship, the Electricians, the Mechanics were performing preventative maintenance on their equipment. Everyone had a job to do and once it was done, their time was their time. All the while, in the Captain's stateroom; Shane sat at his desk, staring into the screen of his computer with a disconnected look in his eyes, his chin resting on his hand as he slowly scrolled through the report that Henson Corporation had sent him on his current orders. Just as Shane's thoughts began to wander towards putting the Solaris to his head and blowing his brains out to avoid paperwork- a knock was heard on his door.<br>
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He didn't flinch, he didn't even move, only his eyes shifted towards the door as he waited a moment and called out;<br>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">"Come in."</span> pursing his lips as the door opened, he slowly set the screen of the computer flat against his desk to hide it's contents from whoever would enter his room. A thin feminine figure activated the door, the metal bulwark rising into the ceiling with a slight <i>whoosh</i>. Danielle 'Dani' Newman, the ship's Weapon Engineer and Co-Captain, a sight for sore eyes. The woman was thin, standing at only 5'5 she appeared even smaller than she actually was. Her skin was almost white and had shaved half her head, growing the otherside out longer to be combed back over her ear. She wore a tight black leather jumpsuit with a heavier yellow and black jacket over the top of the jumpsuit, naturally she had a pistol on her hip.<br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"Y'know Uty'er is </span><span style="color: #ff8000"><i>just </i></span><span style="color: #ff8000">as strong as he looks."</span> she said rolling her shoulder as she came in and promptly sat on the corner of Shane's desk.<br>
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Shane sat back in his chair and tried to look alive, stretching out his arms as he spoke.<span style="color: #ff0000"> "He's a Cho'Gnaanth, they're not exactly known for their meekness." </span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"I know that, but shit you'd think he'd be dumb enough to trick into a grapple or </span><span style="color: #ff8000"><i>something!</i></span><span style="color: #ff8000">" </span><span style="color: #404040">she exclaimed with an open mouth smile. She scooted a bit closer to Shane, who remained leaned back in his chair in a casual manner.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">"Is there something I can help you with, Ms. Newman?" </span><span style="color: #404040">he asked grinning despite his attempt to hide it, earning a dirty scowl from Dani who immediately produced a disgusted groan.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"Yeah, there is, asshole." </span><span style="color: #404040">she hoped up from his desk and motioned for him to stand up. Shane merely raised his eyebrows and gave her a tired stare, forcing the woman to grab him by the arm and haul him to his feet with a surprising bit of strength from the small girl. </span><span style="color: #ff8000">"You know you still owe me a date, right?" </span><span style="color: #404040">she said, looking up at Shane with a smug look on her face. Shane scoffed and opened his eyes wide. </span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">"Is that so?" </span><span style="color: #404040">He retorted, he didn't fight the pull of the young Weapon's Engineer, but for the fun of it he certainly didn't walk with her, causing her to tug on his arm every once in a while to get him to move. </span><span style="color: #ff0000">"I run a professional crew, Ms. Newman! The Captain couldn't possibly fraternize with-" </span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"Call me 'Ms. Newman' one more time and I swear to god I will mutiny." </span><span style="color: #404040">It was hard to tell if she was joking or not but regardless she stepped close to Shane and put his hands on her hip and on her shoulder and began leading in a bit of a dance in the office.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">"Dani..." </span><span style="color: #404040">his was stern as he pulled away from her. He motioned to his computer and gave a shrug </span><span style="color: #ff0000">"I'm busy. The Corporation is trying to hem us up with Illegal looting of derelict vessels and I'm trying to refute it." </span><span style="color: #404040">it was a logical enough cover for his report to Henson Corporation. Illegal looting was the smallest charge on a very large list of crimes they had broken since Shane had boarded all those years ago. Dani didn't seem amused in the slightest however, flashing an angry scowl at Shane who gave her no response she pushed past him and threw a hand in the air.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"Fine, nevermind the-" </span><span style="color: #404040">she began before Shane's computer began beeping. They were picking up a signal from somewhere, though she was angry, she opened the door and took a step out. She was also curious, so she turned and waited to get word on the beeping. Shane lifted his computer screen off the desk, set the report aside and opened up the Signal. Shane smiled and looked up at her.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">"Want to piss off some Corporation geeks?"</span><span style="color: #404040"> he asked looking up at the girl who despite her frustration couldn't hide back the eager smile. She looked at the floor and said; </span><span style="color: #ff8000">"Yes.."</span><span style="color: #404040"> under her breath. </span><br>
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The preparation took almost an hour, the crew all running to their battlestations, manning up Rail Guns, ensuring all the Engines and the Shield Generator were running at full capacity before they made the FTL jump towards the signal. When all was ready, they made the jump following the signal sent by the derelict ship. When they came out of their jump they were greeted by quite an unwelcoming sight; dozens of other ships already surrounded the husk and the red alert blared over the loudspeaker inside the </span><span style="color: #404040"><i>Eternity Damned</i></span><span style="color: #404040">. </span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">"Uty'er, scan the Communications Array, I want to pick up ANY signal ANY of these ships try to send to us. If they start telling us to back off, we'll back off, a derelict isn't worth this sort of fight." </span><span style="color: #404040">Shane said to the large reptilian. Shane and several others had manned up the Navigation Room which also served as a Command Bridge and Communications Hub for the smaller ship. Uty'er said nothing but nodding in acknowledgement, Shane had his attention on the scanner however, eyeing the other ships with his heart rate picking up a bit. It appeared there was a Battle Royale going on for this derelict, it begged the question; what exactly was on that ship?</span><br>
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The Eternity Damned is a multi-species ship, several Cho'Gnaanth are onboard as well, most notable Uty'er. The Cho'Gnaanth stand at roughly 9ft tall, are humanoid in shape, have six fingers (two thumbs), short stubby tails, and closely resemble iguanas as far as the face goes. They are incredibly strong and smart but have short lifespans of about 35-40 years.</span><br>
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An eerie silence seemed to descend over the inside of the station, punctured only by the low static crackle of an active speaker system of sorts. The sound seemed to come from everywhere and no where at once, "Who...are you?" A voice asked, crackling to life from the static echo and silence. "How... did you find this place?" It continued.<br>
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"Sir, Commander Tarzak has not fired at the Organic vessel"<br>
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Dravak growled, Tarzak was ignoring his direct order? He better have a good reason....<br>
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Dravak picked up a mic and orderd the same technician to contact commander Tarzak.  A few moments latter a nervous voice crackled over the speakers.<br>
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"...Sir?" Tarzak said, rather tentatively.<br>
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"Greetings, "Commander", what is the meaning of this?" Dravak asked angrily, his wolfish voice coming as more of a growl.<br>
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"I believe that the Organic vessel is incapable of responding to our hails and our scans may of been harming their ship and therefore attacked the probe as a result.  They have not attacked our ships or troops and I believe they do not intend to"<br>
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As Jolf and his company carefully crept through the eerie and dark halls the station seemed somehow quitter than it had before.  This science, which seemed to emanate from deep within the structure caused his men to look side to side, up and down, as if there was something there.<br>
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Suddenly the PA system of the station crackled to life startling Jolf and his crew., who looked about even more franticly.  Our came a eerie and disturbing voice.<br>
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A short length of time passed again before the silence cracked again, "Ah... that blasted... signal she sent..." the voice growled lightly, "Well...my master won't be pleased...but it's off no matter...he shall be here soon... and until then...I guess I have to entertain my guests..." the voice faded into a mad cackle before a blue glow lit along the floor, "Come now younglings...come to your doom...I await you in my maze of death..." the voice cackled once more before the eerie silence returned.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><b>Envoy...</b><br>
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"Wonderful, we shall begin linking up, hopefully this will work well enough to use in case of any other-"<br>
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The Ambassador was interrupted as he spotted something, yet another ship appearing from what he assumed to be a warp. He immediately noticed the differences in design it had with the other ships.<br>
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"-visitors." he finished before glancing back to the slug "For... convenience sake we shall connect with them as well. Hopefully all will be defused in time."<br>
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<b>The Epsilon....</b><br>
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 After speaking, E73 motioned towards the nearby Kadrel, who immediately began attempting to reconnect with what the President had called The Second Klavikan Republic's vessels.<br>
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"The Species that has recently destroyed your probe would like to make contact with you through us." he spoke in the hailing "Seeing as how the preservation of whatever the signal source is still remains a high priority task, we have agreed to help the two of you with this small bout of misinformation. We may also have other contacts soon so we will take this time to allow everyone to introduce one another."<br>
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Glancing at it, E73 took note of the words the Kadrel on the Station had heard, he narrowed his eyes as he processed it. So something was very much still active on the vessel, potentially quite problematic... and intriguing.<br>
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A Holo-Screen appeared before him, one portraying the slug's appearance as viewed by the communicator the Envoy was holding. A second one appeared in preparations for the S.K.R's appearance and one appeared in at the side just in case they were able to make contact with the newer vessel. E73 was use to making deals with species, and had more than once had to play peacekeeper despite the actions of the Theno or even the Kadrel at times. He did hope, however, that he would be enough to reign in this obviously volatile situation that he had found himself in.<br>
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While he had no doubt that they should be able to escape if things went south, the risk of losing the signal was<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">The hail to the Klavikan vessels was immediately linked to the control room where President Dravak listened with interest;<br>
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"The Species that has recently destroyed your probe would like to make contact with you through us." he spoke in the hailing "Seeing as how the preservation of whatever the signal source is still remains a high priority task, we have agreed to help the two of you with this small bout of misinformation. We may also have other contacts soon so we will take this time to allow everyone to introduce one another."<br>
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<i>So, these species can talk... I was beginning to doubt they could.</i> Dravak said to himself, somewhat jokingly.<br>
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<legend>A hint of Danger upon the Horizons</legend>
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In the Derelict Space Station</b><br>
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<i>"Come now younglings...come to your doom...I await you in my maze of death..."</i><br>
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The words echoed throughout the station with a sense of damning finality of which no doubt shook the bone marrow of all those who heard them and the Hidden members of Odins eye were of no exception. The unnatural aura which then perpetrated the area reminded them of the presence of their lady when she was… irked. A memory of which made them shiver and beg to forget it.<br>
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“Orders?” came the silent message across the HUD of the Odins eye’s Kill team.<br>
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“Pierce the veil of which our goal hides in this maze. Deploy EME.” Rasped that dead voice, EME being an abbreviation for Echolocation Mapping Equipment, originally used for exploring caves and the like but with slight modifications made a great enemy warning and tracking system or suicide bombers<br>
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The rest of the cloaked soldiers spread out in the tight, metallic hallways and set up a perimeter whilst one knelt down and pulled out a canister looking piece of equipment of which he then slammed down into the ground. Small slits opened up in the sides and out poured a grey like mist which quickly faded away.<br>
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A few more moments pass before the one who had deployed this intriguing piece of equipment messaged. “EME Deployed, link up now.”<br>
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A map of sorts appeared on their HUD’s that grew larger and larger as time passed, slowly mapping the station whilst coordinating with the stealth cruisers hidden in the dark.<br>
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A few blips on the screen which quickly were deciphered. “Got Swarm like contacts according to the echolocation, 100m or so to our 5’oclock above.”<br>
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“Noted, avoid that sector though if possible leave them a message via imagery, anything else?”<br>
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“Negative, scan still in progress.”<br>
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“Pack it up, lets move it and keep an eye out. Anything else that’s here with us, if its moving we will know soon.”<br>
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And with that the Raven kneeling down picked up the canister and stowed it away In its shifting cloak and brought out its weapon once more. Like a well-oiled machine they flowed through the hallways, making detours as necessary to avoid the Klavakians, and Kadrel who had popped up though the map. Though the Ravens had no way of Determining who was who, they avoided both altogether effectively and pushed on through the station like the ghosts they had been trained to be and having a perverse sense of glee as they did so.<br>
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Spymaster Moroc had trained them well and it showed, they moved much like a Dredge would and used more or less the same techniques though… they were not Dredge themselves and couldn’t grasp nor perform the more complicated maneuvers and ideas of which that males mind were able to create, they could not replicate that ethereal grace. Though they were weary of the 13th one in their midst, they all knew just what it was. The 13th in question moved ahead at the spear point, never flagging, never slowing always going, driven with purpose same as the rest, though just what said purpose was no one other than 13 knew.<br>
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And so they moved  unseen and unnoticed. The other factions on board the station could not but help and wonder at why were there Raven Feathers dusting the metal ground.<br>
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In Space</b><br>
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The Swarm, through channels of which were not entirely mechanical and or Biological but of the mind. The Leviathan itself, in its many bundles of nerves and stimuli responses and a few higher minds upon the ship suddenly got an image floating at the edge of their mind. A small one mind you, a dead tree sitting upon a bleak and hostile landscape with a single bird sitting on the top of the tree. A single Raven, watching all that happened down below which divided into two as the maggots down below squirmed helplessly in the rotten soil. A Message, a Signal… and an invitation. The delivery had that touch of something other. Something dark on the other side. <a href="https://www.rpnation.com/profile/12856-neoleaf/" class="link link--internal" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rpnation.com%2Fprofile%2F12856-neoleaf%2F&amp;hash=4d41b6eb1094511500d262d1a8b0b423">@NeoLeaf</a><br>
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That something other grinned at the screen in front of it and said to no one in particular. “Well Brother Mine… think they will understand that?”<br>
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“Hopefully, our Lady knows patience was never our strong suit when there was fun to be had.”<br>
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“Mayhaps this is a test?”<br>
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“True… but if this is a test set by our Lady then there is always more than just one way to win.”<br>
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"And if we Fail?"<br>
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There was no reply<br>
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<b>In an undisclosed Location</b><br>
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The Man known to some as Captain Valerian, a ‘simple’ merchantman, took a long drink from the bottle he had ordered and said in a bored, even tone. “Ahh bah… Ive got a ship to catch but my package has not yet arrived.”<br>
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Another patron of the bar, grimaced good naturedly, a grizzled mariner who had seen his share of space. “Aye brother, I can amend to that, damn couriers, think they’d bother to show up on time.”<br>
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“Isnt that the truth, though I must say, however, pleasant company makes it worthwhile wouldn’t you say?”<br>
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The Spacer grins and leers at the one next to the Captain. "ill say."<br>
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“Aye men to that, if there is a god up there somewhere.”<br>
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The Captain leaned over to the newcomer and said in the cheerful manner of a man flirting, confident of his next big score. “So what is it sweetheart? Can I get you a bottle of brandy? Champagne? I think ole’ Brutis has a bottle in the back that I can squeeze out of him for the right price eh?”<br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify"> The three orange circles on the mask seem to 'blink' by rapidly flaring a number of times and stretched it's neck as though it were looking down on the grey furred bipedal mammal creature spoke.<br>
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<span style="color: #5900b3">"Greeting Captain of the Organic ship. I am Dravak, President of the Second Klavikan Republic. My people, like your's I assume, are here in search of the signals source. When my fleets first arrived we tried to establish communications with you but our olive branch of peace and friendship was instead blown apart, im referring to that </span><span style="color: #5900b3"><i>harmless</i></span><span style="color: #5900b3"> probe you destroyed for no apparent reason. Now, I am a reasonable and understanding man. I'm </span><span style="color: #5900b3"><i>sure </i></span><span style="color: #5900b3">you have some sort of explanation?" </span>The furry creature ended it's sentence and went on to talk introduce itself to the newcomer.<br>
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A mellowed voice came from the Aliuu, a voice that seemed to echo from the ends of a distant horizon or mountain range and yet sounded as though it came from inside a person's wet inner body. Every word that was spoken by the slug came with a pause and there seemed to be a soft hissing sound that amplified itself on occasion.<br>
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"Are. The. <b>ONE</b>. Who. Is. <b>ANNOYING</b>. <b>US</b>. With. Your. Utterly. Useless. Contraptions!" An animalistic roar could be heard from the secondary voice before it had been drowned out by the hissing sound.<br>
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"<b>WE</b>. Do. Not. Need. To. Heed. You... We. Do. <b>NOT</b>. Need. To. Answer. Something. So. Trivial. And. Obvious..." The Flare stopped and the three orange circles acting as the mollusk's eye return to their normal intensity.<br>
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"If. <b>YOU</b>. Truly. Claim. To. Be. A. Reasonable. Individual. <b>THEN</b>. An. Explanation. Would. Only. Waste. Breath. And. Words... For. <b>THESE</b>. Ones. Thought. And. Attempted. To. Contact. <b>US</b>. Through. The. Use. Of. Other Means..."<br>
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The masked mollusk then jolted and it's tentacles froze in place. The captain was experiencing a vision of some sort, a small vivid projection in his mind as though someone were reading a poetry out loud to him.  A small one mind you, a dead tree sitting upon a bleak and hostile landscape with a single bird sitting on the top of the tree. A single Raven, watching all that happened down below which divided into two as the maggots down below squirmed helplessly in the rotten soil. The Leviathan wailed a low intense sound and shook it's head for a moment.The vision went away and left the captain and the slug dazzled temporarily before resuming with the conversation.<br>
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The mollusk turned it's attention towards the Leviathan and pointed it's head towards the station. There must be a reason why this vision came, whatever the vision was it didn't exactly indicate anything for the swarm. judging form the vision's setting the captain can narrow it down to one suspect. not minding it the captain returned to the conversation with the two species from the holo-screens that it observed. It had nothing more to say to the furred creature.<br>
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<i><b>"" You..." The orange 'eye' on the mask brightened up.</b></i><br>
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"Are. The. ONE. Who. Is. ANNOYING. US. With. Your. Utterly. Useless. Contraptions!" An animalistic roar could be heard from the secondary voice before it had been drowned out by the hissing sound.</b></i><br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">-----On board B-2 Command Vessel, Commander Tzarzak-----<br>
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Commander Tarzak winced as the harsh and angry words left Dravak's barred teeth.<br>
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<i>Oh come on Dravak... Diplomacy!</i><br>
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Commander Tarzak had come to realize after many decades of service under "President" (Who was actually more of a dictator) Dravak that diplomacy wasn't really his strong suit, or military strategy for that matter.  Dravak tended to be short tempered and Brutish, intimidating his opponents with physical force, threats and the occasional "accidents".  Dravak's basic military strategy was more or less the same, send in an unnecessary amount of ships, intimidate the enemy and fire at the first signs of trouble.  While admittedly this strategy would work if the enemy was in fact <b>an enemy</b>, but this situation required diplomacy and pure diplomacy, something Dravak just wasn't good at.<br>
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Tarzak had tried and tried again to allow himself to act as the chief diplomat in place of Dravak, but to no avail.  In fact it actually pissed Dravak so made he had almost gotten demoted for it.<br>
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As Dravak continued to speak Tarzak winced and winced again.  <i>Was he insane?  Does he WANT to start a war?  Over a stupid cheap probe...</i><br>
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<i>This cant go on, if Dravak continues he gunna start a fucking war!</i><br>
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Tarzak turned to his communications technician and said;<br>
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"Contact Dravak, I want to speak with him <b><i>now</i></b>"<br>
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The Technician nodded and soon a communication link was established with Dravak.<br>
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"What is it Tarzak? I'm trying to talk with our <i>friends </i>here!" Dravak said angrily<br>
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Tarzak cleared his throat and swallowed hard.  THis was gunna be hard... and painful<br>
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"Well, sir"  he started, choosing his words carefully "I think you should let me speak on your behalf sir"<br>
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Dravak was silent for a moment, before angrily but eerily quietly he growled<br>
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"And just <i>why</i> do you suggest that, <i>friend?</i>"<br>
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Tarzak gulped, <i>here I go...</i><br>
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"Well sir, I just think they would feel, less threatened by me, since you are such an intimating and fearsome figure sir.<br>
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Dravak was silent once more, considering what Tarzka had just said.<br>
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"Hm, very well Tarzak, I see your point.  You may speak in my place"<br>
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Tarzak sighed in relief.  "Thank you sir, I shall represent my people well!"<br>
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With this Tarzak hastily spoke to the commander of the Organic ship;<br>
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"I think what my President means to say is we apologize deeply for annoying you and your vessel.  We were merely trying to leanr more about that interesting ship of yours, it is rather magnificent if I do say so. If we had thought of another way to communicate with you we would of, but we assumed you were simply ingoring our hails.  I apologize on my people's behalf"<br>
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-----Inside the Station, Commander Jolf-----<br>
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As Jolf lead his battalion ever closer into the dark and eerie station his men followed, not giving any signs of fear,  whether they simply hid it or there Klavikan arrogance caused them to assume they were safe were to blame, Jolf could not tell.<br>
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As they walked farther and farther the party came to a fork in the "road".  They could either go right or lef,t each way seemingly not getting them any closer to the station.  At Jolf's halt his second in command came back to his side to see what was going on.<br>
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"A fork in the road?  Let's turn around, we proably took a wrong turn" he said.<br>
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Jolf studied the dark passages for a moment before responding.  He could just make out the end of the tunnels, as his Rovilan eyes were quite adapt for seeing in the dark.  The tunnel leading to the left seem to turned back to go the way they needed.<br>
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"We go left, I can just make out the end of the tunnel and it seems to turn towards the direction we need to go"  Jolf replied firmly, knowing what was about to happen.<br>
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"Go LEFT?? Are you STUPID?  Its gunna lead to another fork in the road, or a dead end or something and then we will have to turn around and ever so slowly CRAWL back here so "no one hears us"."<br>
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Jolf sighed.  Whenever he said soemthing, his second in command was sure to disagree.<br>
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"We go left and that's <i>final</i>." Jolf said calmly as he started down the left tunnel.  His Rovilan troops followed him without hesitation or question while the Klavikan troops looked to the second in command, looking to him for order (Despite the fact Jolf was the Commander).  After a few moments hesitation he muttered to himself and followed Jolf down the left passage, with the Klavikan troops following close behind.</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper">Within moments of dropping out of FTL, the <i>Eternity Damned</i> was hailed by multiple communications. Shane eyed the hails nervously, these could very well be the last messages they received, no escape from a fleet. Whatever this derelict was, it was worth of bringing in an entire fleet of ships so it must be good, now was the time to utilize those years as an Agent to connive his way inside.<br>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">"Uty'er, I want you to take the second call. I'll take the first, watch what I do, follow my lead." </span><span style="color: #404040">Shane said resting his hands on the Navigator's holographic map, showing the virtual renditions of the ships in the area that could be picked up on long range scanners. The large reptilian again didn't respond but instead tapped away at his command console- a few bleeps as the connections were made and jutting from the side of the Navigator came the first Communication from the Klavakian ship. He stood patiently as the President introduced himself and waited for his chance to speak.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">"President?" </span><span style="color: #404040">he immediately questioned the title as he crossed his arms and tilted his head slightly, he didn't exactly buy that. </span><span style="color: #ff0000">"Would you mind explaining to me what a derelict ship signal could possibly require the deployment of an entire fleet along with their </span><span style="color: #ff0000"><i>President? </i></span><span style="color: #ff0000">Seems a bit overkill to me doesn't it? Leaves A LOT of territory vulnerable." </span><span style="color: #404040">the man uncrossed his arms and wagged a finger at the alien. He was sure he'd seen aliens like these before but it was hard to keep track of every mutant E.T. out there. Placing a hand on his chin, Shane thought for a moment. </span><span style="color: #ff0000">"Mr. President, my name is Shane Warner, I'm with the Expeditionary ship </span><span style="color: #ff0000"><i>Eternity Damned</i></span><span style="color: #ff0000">. We picked up the signal in hopes of salvage. My crew is much better at dismantling working parts than a military fleet and frankly... We're at your mercy until our FTL cools down. Would you be willing to compromise? We'll help you dismantle working pieces, you give us our fair share?" </span><span style="color: #404040">He asked taking a much more professional tone than before. Shane rested his thumbs in his pockets and rolled his shoulders a bit. </span><span style="color: #ff0000">"As far as the signal or survivors go, they're all you. We're only interested in bringing back some scrap to sell. Hell, I'd be willing to trade you one of the missiles I've got on board as cargo as a sign of good faith." </span><span style="color: #404040">all the crew members in the navigation room were silent, their heads turned, they awaited a response. </span><br>
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the Navigation room, Uty'er manned his own Communications tab, opening the hail from the second ship. When it opened and the Embassador Unit had finished his message, the massive reptilian stared down the robot with a similarly fearless, blank expression. The hulking alien wore a simple garb, exposing much of it's scared and muscled scales. On his head, a simple metal ring worn like a crown produced a third eye on his forehead and on his body he had a simple shoulder pad that held up a kilt-like garb that covered only the lower half of the creature's body. The eye on the forehead lit up, it was safe to assume it was a translator of sorts as the alien's mouth didn't sync up with the words AT ALL.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #00b300">"This is Navigator Uty'er, of the </span><span style="color: #00b300"><i>Eternity Damned. </i></span><span style="color: #00b300">We are simple salvage crew, followed message but now... A fleet is here? Seems unnecessary, dishonorable even, to outnumber your foes in such a way." </span><span style="color: #404040">The creature waited for the translator to catch up to him before he continued. </span><span style="color: #00b300">"The Captain is predisposed, I will relay message that we only want to salvage ship. We are experienced, much better at taking apart working mechanical parts. You allow us to board, we will help salvage the ship for fair share. We can offer you some of our cargo as a sign of good faith."</span><br>
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As Dravak ended his hail with E37 and the Organic ship, Tarzaks hail to the suspicious freighter was answered, and was automatically transferred to Dravak.<br>
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"President?" The creature said immediately, as if it creature didn't believe him. Dravak wasn't quite sure why this hairless creature would question his authority but it didn't really matter, the creature was obviously only a petty pirate.<br>
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"Would you mind explaining to me what a derelict ship signal could possibly require the deployment of an entire fleet along with their President? Seems a bit overkill to me doesn't it? Leaves A LOT of territory vulnerable." said the creature.<br>
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Dravak chuckled to himself. There was no such thing as "too many ships", but again Dravak said nothing as he waited for the rather ignorant creature to finish talking.<br>
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"Mr. President, my name is Shane Warner, I'm with the Expeditionary ship Eternity Damned. We picked up the signal in hopes of salvage. My crew is much better at dismantling working parts than a military fleet and frankly... We're at your mercy until our FTL cools down. Would you be willing to compromise? We'll help you dismantle working pieces, you give us our fair share?"<br>
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A salvage ship going after a signal warning of the end of days to salvage it?  Does this creature think I'm stupid?... Or maybe he's just a cocky buffoon, the ship does have quite a bit of firepower... It would take more than your average ship to take it out... Dravak said to himself, but again, he let the creature continue to talk.<br>
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"As far as the signal or survivors go, they're all you. We're only interested in bringing back some scrap to sell. Hell, I'd be willing to trade you one of the missiles I've got on board as cargo as a sign of good faith."<br>
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At this the creature stopped talking and looked at Dravak, awaiting a response.<br>
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The creature would give him a missile?  Dravak doubted their missiles would be even half as good as his own but still, it would be interesting to see one of their missiles... But then again they might activate it inside of Tarzak's ship (They were likely pirates after all, and Dravak didn't trust a salvage ship that was armed to the teeth)... Besides, if he allowed the creature to keep his likely primitive missile he could earn himself an ally inside the station...<br>
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Dravak looked at the creature and began in a friendly tone;<br>
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"We sent a probe here first, discovered these other ships and sent in a small fleet to... "establish a presence" you could say.  But this fleet is a offensive fleet, I assure you any army stupid enough to attack our territory would be squashed like a bug."<br>
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"As for me, I am not actually "here" per say.  I had the commander of the flag ship sync his come with my personal control room on our home world, therefore allowing me to communicate with you "creatures" from the comfort of home"<br>
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"As for a compromise... As I said, we are a peaceful people and will not harm your "salvage ship" (not that Dravak believed they were salvagers, they were likely pirates or mercenaries).  You may board the station and salavge it, in return you give us half of course... And anyone or anything you find in there.  As for the missile, we don't want it, you may keep it, friend"</div>
				
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<span class="bbcode-justify">A third screen had emerged from the aberrant communication device and The techno snail pointed it's head towards the new visual whist the grey furred creature was being replaced by a calmer and polite mind. The creature ignored what the ruler had said to it and paid better attention to the replacement.<br>
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"Flattery. Will. Get. You. Nowhere... But. Your. Apology. We. Will. Accept..." It clicked at the end each sentence.<br>
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<span style="color: #0059b3">"This is Navigator Uty'er, of the </span><span style="color: #0059b3"><i>Eternity Damned. </i></span><span style="color: #0059b3">We are simple salvage crew, followed message but now... A fleet is here? Seems unnecessary, dishonorable even, to outnumber your foes in such a way."</span> The creature waited for the translator to catch up to him before he continued.<br>
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<span style="color: #0059b3">"The Captain is predisposed, I will relay message that we only want to salvage ship. We are experienced, much better at taking apart working mechanical parts. You allow us to board, we will help salvage the ship for fair share. We can offer you some of our cargo as a sign of good faith."</span><br>
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"You. Are. Blinded." The masked mollusk quickly spoke out when the reptillian had finished speaking.<br>
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"This. Station. Reeks. Of. An. <b>ANCIENT</b>. And. Enigmatic. <b>AURA</b>... Emits. A. Warning. Of. An. Unknown. Enemy. So. powerful. That. <b>MANY</b>. Have. Come. Here. To. Witness. It's. Action...Yet. You. Believe. That. <b>YOU</b>. Can. Gain. Something. From. It. Other. <b>THAN. YOUR. DESTRUCTION.</b>..?" The orange 'eye' blinked.<br>
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Gof, the commander who has gone rogue out by the thought of working together with non-Aliuu species, has taken a platoon of thirty soldiers and a small pack of hounds to aid him in killing whoever non-Aliuu he encounters.  The group ventured to look for an entrance or passageway that would lead them to the lower levels of the station, but it came to no avail for whatever reason. The group are avoiding areas that have come under Commander Ira's control because he knows by no doubt that she's hunting him down.<br>
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"What a pain in the ass." He said while flexing a number of tentacles behind him.<br>
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"keep searching - otherwise we're all dead." He pointed towards the hallway with his plasma sword.<br>
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The small contingency ran, crawled and scittered down the hallway.</span><br>
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With their offer accepted, Shane gave the Klavikan President a shy smile, perking up his shoulders a bit. He seemed down right proud of accomplishing next to nothing. He cupped his hands behind his back and nodded, approving of the conditions very by motion, then verbally.<br>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">"You have a deal. We'll take this derelict apart, give you half of what we find." </span><span style="color: #404040">he reiterated his statement and turned over his shoulder shouting back at the crew of the Navigation room. </span><span style="color: #ff0000">"Start bringing her in, slow and steady. Don't want our new friends to get jumpy"</span><span style="color: #404040"> turning back to the Klavikian Shane gave a respectful nod </span><span style="color: #ff0000">"We'll bring in the </span><span style="color: #ff0000"><i>Eternity Damned</i></span><span style="color: #ff0000">, we're going to dock directly onto the Derelict so if you could clear a path for us I'd appreciate it. I assume you'll have a welcome wagon for us there, just know we'll come out armed. Gotta protect our own." </span><span style="color: #404040">Shane cut the communication before the President could retaliate and the </span><span style="color: #404040"><i>Eternity Damned</i></span><span style="color: #404040"> shifted in space, turning towards the derelict and the thrusters gave the ship some forward momentum. The railguns on the hull of the ship seemed to track any smaller vessels that flew by the disguised Freighter but didn't fire. The ship made a slow approach to the derelict and an even slower docking process.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #00b300">"Look at the halls of the Ancients. The ancient kings who were all the most powerful that had ever been, all spoke of disaster and mayhem, all fell to the sands of time." </span><span style="color: #404040">Uty'er said, the translator gave his voice quite a bland and monotone sound to it. Whether it was intentional or if it was just how the large Reptilian spoke couldn't be said. </span><span style="color: #00b300">"We do not fear fallen kings of old. Their richest are ripe for the taking, cower if you must..." </span><span style="color: #404040">Uty'er saw the conversation with the Klavikan end and had caught the gist of it. </span><span style="color: #00b300">"We will be landing soon, more for the taking the less that stand in our way." </span><span style="color: #404040">The lizard promptly cut the communication channel and joined Shane's side as the human rushed out of the Navigation room.</span><br>
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Outside, as Shane stormed out of the Navigation room, he was immediately greeted by Dani who was waiting patiently for the conversation to end. When she spotted Shane she popped up and chased after him.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"Shane! What's the plan?" </span><span style="color: #404040">she asked, catching up to Shane just as Uty'er had exited the Navigation room. Shane looked over at her and said nothing. His pace quickened and he stopped outside of his captain's cabin. </span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">"Uty'er, I want you to gear up, grab some boys and get 'em ready for a fire fight. I don't want to be caught with our pants down if Fido is meaner than they say." </span><span style="color: #404040">he said, the Reptilian gave a nod and strode quickly down to the main decks where most of the crew had gathered in curiosity of the alien ships. </span><span style="color: #ff0000">"Dani, you're gonna stay here. Keep me updated on whats going on out here and keep the E.T.'s out of our ship if they start getting frisky." </span><span style="color: #404040">He gave Dani a rather stern look, Dani only returned his stern face with one of her own, one of disbelief. She didn't like the idea of being stuck on a ship while they tore the derelict up. She opened her mouth to protest, but Shane had already stormed into his cabin and opened his armor case.</span><br>
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</span><span class="post-sub-heading post-sub-heading-OPTION"> <span style="color: #404040"><span style="font-family: 'Orbitron';"><i>The Derelict </i></span></span></span><br>
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By the time the ship had docked onto the Derelict and opened it's airlock, almost 30 minutes had gone by. In that thirty minutes, a boarding party had been organized and Shane led the team in his hefty suit of Power Armor. The armor made him almost as tall as Uty'er and just as big. Speaking of the big reptile, Uty'er wore a rather minimalistic suit, a face mask covered all of his head and had two glowing blue orbs where his eyes were. The armor wasn't HALF as bulky as Shane's and seemed to be made of overlapping metal plates. In his hands, Uty'er held a large sprayer that connected to a tank on his back. The Sprayer was the Nidhog, a weapon that sprayed a jellied substance that burned away at flesh and metal just the same.</span><br>
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Other than those two, the group numbered 30 in total, while they all held some sort of Directed Energy weapons (either SMG's or small shotgun models), only 10 of the group including Shane and Uty'er were wearing power armor and held big guns. They were the guards for the other 20 who wore simple spacewalk gear, thicker suits with large orb helmets to allow for a larger view range. They had smaller defensive guns and carried large bags on their backs and tools in their hands for dismantling the ship.</span><br>
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The Terrans filed out of their ship, unaware that they were being watched from the shadows. Eyes hidden behind helms and misdirecting glittered with a calculating look about them. One passed by a cloaked Raven so closely that the Raven could have leaned forward and whispered into the humans ear. To be honest, the Ravens were not surprised to find the race here, it was rather abundant in the stars. Hell, half the Ravens on the derelict station were Terrans themselves, the other half a mismatch of various alien species.<br>
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&lt;Do we board as with the Wolf-men 13?&gt; A silent message relayed the inquiry, the encrypted channels were operating on a low frequency almost undetectable but a close eye might reveal its existence.<br>
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&lt;Negative, that’s a airlock to their ship, its an unknown to risky. Besides, we have no reason to, 1-6! Are you finished setting thepackages?&gt; Somewhere else, in a hangar bay of whist the Klavakians had set down. 6 cloaked figures flitted and moved amongst the shadows like wraiths.<br>
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&lt;Affirmative 13, objective almost done.&gt;<br>
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&lt;Aye, we will move as soon as there is an opening and meet up at the rendezvous, wonder if these canine like bastards hear as good as a regular dog?&gt; Their technology and training would shield them from all but the most basic of blunders, thermo, infared and the like might be able to pick them up but t’would be only a distorted image. Easily passed off as a glitch or temperature change in the air, but even so, the alertness of the guards didn’t make it easy. To be honest, none of those amongst Odin’s Eye could blame them, they to were on edge. Something about that announcement did not bode well.<br>
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13, the half breed, looked up as the last of the Terrans filed past, noting the weapons they carried and the like as well as tools for tearing apart the ship and carting it back. Scavengers, opportunists… Oh the Terran race, always so eager to die in the face of the unknown, the fools. 13 paused, frowned at that train of thought and its meaning. ‘What in the hell? Im Terran! Why in the name of the gods would I-‘ his train of thought derailed as an armored glove touched his chest, underneath a blistered rose shaped lump of flesh above his heart… marking his shame, his curse. No… no don’t tell me it affects my thoughts as well no, no no no NO! You may get my body, but not my mind you son of a bitc- &lt;13 were ready to move, the coast is clear.&gt;<br>
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The message interrupted his spiral into denial and firmly grounded him back into the mission. &lt;Aye… remember to record everything you see and be ready to move on my mark… Mark!&gt;<br>
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<br>
So they fled, gone as if carried on the wings of a raven.<br>
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<b>Meanwhile </b><br>
<br>
<br>
One of the two Stealth cruisers dropped its optical distortion generators for a moment and appeared amongst the black drop of space as a long, slim beauty of a ship. Its lines were harsh yet organic, unnatural architecture swirled and warped its way around the main body, a sleek creation which seemed to be made, fashioned in such a manner, that it gave the willies to those who gazed upon it. Hidden in the shadows of the ships unnatural contours, methodically placed lay meticulously crafted heavy turrets, anti-missile batteries, torpedo tubes and the like, t’was a ship not without its own devious brand of firepower.<br>
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<br>
The captain of said ship was hailed by its twin. “Just what is it your doing brother?” Said voice asked wearily.<br>
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“Just having a bit of fun, oh do calm down, the rest of the scanners and sensors are still jammed. I just want to imagine their faces should one of them look out and see us visually for a moment, tell someone and then us not be there at all.”<br>
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A long sigh which broke off into a chuckle. “Very well, I suppose one cannot be denied a bit of fun now and then.”<br>
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One of the Kadrel manning a control console on the bridge immediately tilted his head at the appearance of another ship out of nowhere. He had given up on expectations when the freighter had shown up, but he still shook his head at the sudden appearance.<br>
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Turning back to E73, the Ambassador still surrounded in holo-screens and swiping through them mechanically, the Kad told him about the sudden appearance of the ship.<br>
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"I am currently running several programs at once, I will check up on this later. But for now, just try to keep an eye on it."<br>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'georgia'"><span style="font-size: 18px">B06...</span></span></b><br>
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A defect... of all the newborns he'd turned out grouped with, one of them just had to be defective. The Kadrel would've pressed his fingers to his eyes in irritation if it weren't for the fact that his square helmet was secured tightly, so he just settled for placing a hand upon his helmet in disbelief as the Defect continuously held them up.<br>
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Ever since that damn message had played, the Defect had been holding them up far more than tolerable. Sure, they'd started going slower in response to the slowly activating systems on board the station, but this was ridiculous.<br>
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Every corner, he'd yelp as if there were something right there, only to find another hallway. He claimed to hear taps coming from the other side of one of those massive sealed doors, but B06 wasn't really aching to go proving or disproving that theory.<br>
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Either way, the only reason B06 hadn't mowed him down and taken his stuff was the fact that his utter uselessness made him a perfect meat shield should things go south. And B06 was fully expecting things to go south. If the Comms were anything to go by, two or three more drop ships had arrived in the time they'd been moving. Several more Kads would help, but B06 still wanted to be sure of a decent escape route come the likely event that they all started getting mowed down by eighteen meter tall Plasma Turrets.<br>
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Honestly, he couldn't really expect any less being a Kad.<br>
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As he thought over how many of his current Team mates he'd have to trip in order to hold up potential pursuers, he heard a shout from up ahead.<br>
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Sure enough, the Defect had fallen backwards with a horrified gurgling sound echoing from his helmet as he stared down one of two halls that seemed to diverge rom the one they were currently in. B06 would've given this some more consideration if he hadn't done the exact same thin when they came across one of those massive sealed doors earlier. B0came up behind him for a moment and stared ahead only to give a gravely whistle at the sight before him, he then congratulated the Defect for having something to genuinely be concerned about for once.<br>
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The hall the Defect was staring at was completely coated in some black, gooey substance. The rest of B06's little assembly stared at the gooey hallway as well, taking note of the high pitched shrills and the like which seemed to echo from the depths of the hallway.<br>
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B06 considered the hall for a moment with a small hum, before lifting his foot and kicking the Defect directly into the stuff. Resisting the urge not to laugh as the Defect nearly had a heart attack, scrambling out of the goop frantically while panting, B06 just looked him over as the Defect flopped out of the ooze and frantically tried scrubbing the remnants of said off of himself.<br>
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While several of the other Kadrel couldn't help but snicker at the Defects whiny grunts of misfortune, B06 had already concluded that it must have something to do with the organics.<br>
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Seeing as not antagonizing them had worked so well if the reports from the Epsilon were taken into account, B06 decided to steer clear and take the non-ooze covered hall. H e was already walking down it when the other Kadrel realized he was off and immediately ran to catch up with him. The Defect ran behind the group, pausing every once and a while to wipe more goop from his suit, complaining woefully as they continued their search.<br>
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Uty'er was among the boarding party, his race was peculiar, they resembled a race that would value strength and endurance over all other aspects of life. Discovered by Humanity some fifty years ago, these Reptiles were still in a tribal state of existence. The humans found them useful as soldiers at first, their biology was perfect for the role. Their sight is naturally thermal, they recovered from near ANY injury so long as they lived through the experience, and to ice the cake; they fought viciously and never turned on their masters. But as they slowly began to spread throughout Human settlements they were found to be so much more, the Cho'Gnaanth were artists at heart. Their own culture stated that to replace a leader, you must prove yourself better physically, mentally, and artistically. Their art came in many forms, poetry, paintings, ceramics, or alchemy. They concocted many drinks that would serve as hallucinogens, guiding them into the spirit realm.<br>
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Uty'er was what humans would call a; "Shaman". His art was alchemy, his talent was introducing young Cho into the spirit realm to show them their own mortality and he himself was said to commune with the spirits of the universe themselves. When he boarded the ship, he took a look around, seeing the shifting images of the spirits he was reluctant  to board the ship.<br>
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<br>
<span style="color: #00b300">"Spirits of the dead are still here, Chieftain."</span><span style="color: #404040"> he said, stopping dead in his tracks. These invisible hunters would find themselves in an awkward situation as the largest of the Boarding party seemed to track their movements as if they were standing in broad daylight. Shane merely chuckled and looked over at the Reptile.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">"Yeah? Are they warning us to leave or we'll get the Mummies curse?"</span><span style="color: #404040"> he said, rather harshly to strike down the Reptile's purpose, his so called calling in this life. The Cho'Gnaanth shaman wasn't hurt, wasn't affected, he knew the truth and would leave it to the Chieftain to make judgement.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #00b300">"They are watching... counting... They are bad omens." </span><span style="color: #404040">despite his doomful prophecy, Uty'er boarded the ship, practically locking eyes with the spirits that surrounded him, though he made no attempt to touch them or point them out. Eventually, the Chieftain Shane Warner would use his Power Armor to swap to thermal imaging and observe the spirits for himself. Following a chuckle, the Chieftain mocked them;</span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">"Uty'er these are... air pockets. Some sort of residual heat. This isn't the first derelict we've boarded." </span><span style="color: #404040">Shane looked back at the Reptile and gave a shrug. </span><span style="color: #ff0000">"Sometimes... shit gets trapped on these old things. And this is a very big old thing."</span><span style="color: #404040"> They were silent for a moment, the boarding party already prying at the metal on the walls and observing what lay beneath them.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #00b300">"Spirits of the dead can be trapped here." </span><span style="color: #404040">Uty'er's voice translator did something it hadn't done before, it fluctuated, signifying a bit of fear. A cold chill waved over the Chieftain but he disregarded the Shaman, disregarded the Omen, and pressed his crew farther. </span><span style="color: #00b300">"Spirits... Forgive our transgressions."</span><span style="color: #404040"> Uty'er reached out for the first time towards one of these shifting forms and bent in his three center fingers, leaving three still standing on the outside of his hand, clearly some sort of respectful gesture to what he thought was the spirits of the dead. With his final thought, Uty'er followed.</span><br>
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</span><span class="post-heading post-heading-OPTION"><span style="color: #404040"><span style="font-family: 'Cinzel';"> Henson Corporation </span></span></span><br>
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Earth, some would say nothing has changed since the Corporation took over. The Governments still had free reign, they still fought wars with one another on the planet's surface, they even had a few skirmishes between Earth and Martian colonies. Some would say that everything has changed. The MegaCorporation held all the nations of the Earth and Mars at their beck and call, the formation of the United Planets Federation was more of a novelty towards the United Nations on Earth and instead served as a way for Henson Corporation to wretch control of the nations and have themselves and international, interplanetary army at their disposal.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #404040"><br>
On Earth, the buildings got higher, the glass got shinier, the world became more building than Earth and entire continents were converted into Megacities that spanned thousands of miles. In these Megacities the Corporation held control of all the trade, all the money, all the people. The Corporation often held meetings to discuss the goings on around the worlds, the successfulness of their outside colonies and their attempts to claim more of the vast universe for their perverse wants. Such a meeting had been called and a moot was held of all the elitists of the world. The 15 people met in an office that was impossibly high on an impossibly high skyscraper, overlooking the miles of city that lay below, drones and helicopters made constant patrols over the narrow streets and crowded roads, armed guards paced the streets and deterred any thoughts of crime, any thoughts of resistance.</span><br>
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"We've received a report from 12, seems they've stumbled upon a rather interesting derelict in open space." a man, dressed in an identical black suit and tie said, he stood at one end of the table, displaying the report that slowly scrolled on a holographic projection. </span><br>
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"The area isn't claimed by the Extra Terrestrials already there? Doesn't seem likely-" began a woman in an identical black suit and tie, of course she wore a long skirt in stead of pants.</span><br>
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"Aliens aren't a concern for us. They never have! Why are we discussing this? Let's call the UPF council and stake a claim on the area before the damned Aserians do!" a man, dressed in an identical black suit and tie said, he seemed frustrated.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #000000">"And what if they are larger than us? Larger than we can handle alone?" </span><span style="color: #404040">The man at the head of the table said, he wore an identical black suit and tie and adjusted the pens lining his pockets as his question was met with blank, awkward silence. The members at the table swapped glances as they awaited further word from the head. </span><span style="color: #000000">"We are dealing with something much larger than anything we've dealt with before. Let's call the UPF, stake a claim, but wait. We can have 12 gather information on the derelict, on the... creatures that have occupied our space." </span><span style="color: #404040">the words came out like poison, everyone had their eyes on this man at the head of the table, in his identical black suit and tie. </span><span style="color: #000000">"When we know what we're dealing with, we take what is ours."</span> <br>
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So the meeting came to an end, the 15 identical folks, in identical black suits and ties left the high office in the high building and calls were made. Ships were mobilized, armies were formed and the Humans began to prepare for their first Interspecies war- at least one that may not be so one sided as it was with the Cho'Gnaanth and the Aserians. A dark haze was looming over the Earth as the combined forces of multiple worlds had began to mobilize. </span><br>
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<span style="color: #404040"><br>
The UPF council didn't need much convincing, their pockets lined with Henson Corporation cash, their minds corrupted by Henson Corporation wants, they came to the conclusion that the space was no recognized by the UPF as claimed by anyone nation- or indigenous life. Legally granting a massive sector of space to the Corporation, these invading aliens had performed an act of war. With the Corporation as a player, John Henson began to set up his chess game.</span></div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper">-----"Drop Zone", hangar inside the Station-----<br>
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Sergeant Yovolk grumbled as he and his men stood around patrolling the large hangar.  Of all the squads to be chosen for guard duty, <i>his </i>was chosen.  Standing here was boring and demeaning.  Besides the station war empty!  Or at least he thought, until the eerie voice came over the PA.  Ever since them him and his squad had been alert and fully focused on guarding the drop ships.  In fact they had been so focused a beep on his COM hud almost made him shit himself, not that he would admit it had scared him though.  In the bottom left of his vision, a little blue figure appeared- Commander Tarzak.<br>
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"Yes Commander?"  Yovolk asked, hoping he would send them out to explore the station.  What he got instead was somewhat disappointing.<br>
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"Greeting Sergeant Yovolk.  Seen anything?"<br>
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"No sir, but an eerie ass voice came on the PA."  Yovolk said.<br>
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"Yes I heard" replied Tarzak, his voice calm and not showing a hint of worry.  "We have some "friends" that will be docking in the station.  They are a salvage crew wanting to salvage the station"<br>
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Surprised, Yovolk said "A salvage crew come to salvage a place speaking of the end of times?  Seems unlikely sir"  Yovolok said suspiciously.<br>
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"Yes I know, but until we discover their real motives there no point in being hostile, the other creatures may take it as a sign and begin to fire at us"  Tarzak replied.<br>
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Yovolk nodded.  "We'll keep an eye on them"<br>
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----- A short time later -----<br>
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After the "salvagers" ship landed, the Klavikan guards watched the crew suspiciously as they exited their freighter and began walking deep into the station to "salvage".  The "salvagers" appeared to be a hairless bi-pedal species for the most part while there was a scaly one that spoke of "spirits".  A few of the Klavikan guards snickered at this on their coms.  Stupid creatures.<br>
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Yovolk activated his coms using his mental connection with his armor and contacted Commander Jolf.  "Be advised Commander Jolf, a new "party" has entered the station.  They are friendly "Salvagers" so do not attack".<br>
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The response came a short time latter.  It began with a burst of static, and then Jolf's voice could be heard, although the static made it heard to understand<br>
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"*pssh* Sal*psh*ers?, her*psh*?  Roger *pshhh*"<br>
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<i>Damn station must be messing with the station </i>Yovolk thought,  But Jolf had gotten the message so that's all that was important really.<br>
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As the rather noisy "Salvage" crew marched past, the Guards attentive hearing was muffled, as the "Salvagers" didn't''t even to keep their tools from banging around, whether it be with their guns, the floor, or even on the ground.  If the crew had been even a little less noisy, the Klavikan guard's fine hearing would of picked up the soft *clink* of metal boxes being set on their drop ships, but alas the crew WAS noisy and they did not hear the soft metal *clink*s.  Instead they were left to grimace as the boisterous and annoying crew filed past.</div>
				
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Dear Creators, why is it that everything in this damn station looked exactly the same?!?<br>
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Honestly, besides those slimy dark halls everything in this building looked like it  was repeating itself! If it weren't for the Luquida slug juice markings the  Kadrel would've assumed he and his team had been wandering in circles at this point. Oh yeah, the dark halls, they'd been coming across them more and more frequently as they traveled and if the Helm-Net communications were anything to go by several other groups of Kadrel had started coming across them too. So far, Captain Skaz's eternal wisdom of not worrying about something until Kads start dying had held true so far. The groups had simply passed the mush while taking note of their locations, but at this point B06 was preparing to just throw caution to the wind and just walk right in.<br>
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Every single hallway was so simplistic, even with the blue glowing that had continued as they had ventured deeper in, and sometimes they stretched for so long that you'd think they'd have something worthwhile in them, but instead you just got more hallways!<br>
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And the Defect... just... kept... Bitching!<br>
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Yapping on and on about how they'd all die and that they should just turn tail and book it back to their ship while they had the chance. Freezing up whenever he heard the creaking of the metal structure settling, and downright balling at pretty much every single turn.<br>
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B06 had had enough, and was in the middle of considering the dispersal of the Defect's belongings when they turned another corner, immediately wincing at the pathetic Kadrellian whines of the Defect. What a surprise, yet another damn hallway.<br>
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This one had several other halls branching from it, one directly on their left and two more up ahead past that on their right. Walking over and taking a peek down the closer one on the right, it seemed to lead to another long hallway with two more branching off from it. B06 sighed before ushering his companions over. As they began entering this hall, B06 noticed a growing sound coming the farther of the two branching halls on the right.<br>
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Peeking back out of the hall, he recognized the sound of scurrying limbs, having been torn into by several Lugnor experiments in the past. The sound of writhing fleshy limbs approaching, He alerted the rest of the team to this via the Helm-Net, to which they replied by simply hefting their weapons and turning around. B06 held up a hand and made several gestures which his fellow Kadrel looked at each other in response to before beginning to back up down the hall. B06 turned his attention back to the hall the sound was originating from.<br>
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After the sound grew louder, he was treated to a view of... fleshy things... which he immediately assumed to either be part of the station's defenses or the organic ship. He'd been to several Theta-Stations where Drip Addicts had been turned into sentinels by Overseers, so he wouldn't put it past whoever built this place to have similar guardians as well. On one hand the Organic ship seemed to be tolerable of them if reports on Helm-Net were anything to go by, on the other the threat made by that mysterious voice didn't bode well if those things were security. Or maybe they could be whatever wiped out this station's personnel and were just now being released to clean up again.<br>
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Either way, the moment the creatures turned on the Kad he immediately ducked back into the hall before turning and shouting some Kadrellian to the Kads who were still waiting down the hall.  They spread out in the hall as best as they could before the ones in front began crouching as the group continued walking backwards towards the next branching hallway.<br>
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B06 often found himself mistrusting the advice of the Thenos, but if there was anything he'd learned over the course of his life of torment was that meeting face to face with new species brought a seventy-five percent chance of him having to go through reconstruction surgery. Grumbling to himself, he grabbed the only Kadrel who hadn't joined up with the others... the Defect.<br>
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He'd bumbled all over himself and tripped as he'd gone in, the rest had passed him by.<br>
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The Defect fumbled once B06 pulled him to his feet, but quickly gave a confused grunt as he felt his weapon from being taken from him.<br>
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He looked up at B06, who patted him on the shoulder reassuringly before he brought up his leg and delivered a crushing blow to the Defect's knee, impact amplified several times by the synthetic make up of the Elder Kadrel's leg.<br>
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<span style="color: #006600"><i>"If they don't eat ya, congratulations on your new Envoy status. Otherwise, I dunno, make the Creators Proud or something nd try to hold one dowen so we can shoot. At least then ya contributed something to this military."</i></span> Grunted B06 in Kadrellian before continuing over to the rest of the ready and waiting Kadrel, ignoring the panicked grunts of the Defect as he tried standing on his injured knee.<br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify">The leading hound stopped abruptly by a hallway causing the platoon to stop and turn around to the hound had stopped moving. The hound waved it's tentacles seemingly upwards in the air as though it were sniffing or feeling the nothingness of the long empty hallways. The rest of the pack crawled and scattered back to the abnormal hound and rapidly climbed over it like ants would on a rotten fruit. They stopped climbing on it and too acted abnormally as the one who had first stopped. Gof walked over to the eight dog-sized land squids and narrowed his eyes and had glanced down the hallway.<br>
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Gof, lowered his head and waved a number of his orange tentacles behind him. Something is there and he's going to find out what. A four legged arthropod stood beside the humanoid Aliuu and chomped it's chelicera a number of times in front of the hallway. Staring at the smooth head of the arthropod Gof smirks feeling reassured by the soildier reaction and the hound's behavior. Whipping a number of thin tentacles and throwing out some arm gestures the platoon ran down  towards the hallway. The pack of critters came up front while The soldier followed closely behind with Gof in the middle of the platoon.<br>
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Racing through the halls and going through a number of branching corridors they could see something in the distance that seemed to be a living creature. It wore a rectangular helmet, bulky thick armor of sorts, looked vaguely humanoid and it seemed to have trouble moving with it's leg. Gof's gem-like eyes seem to flash when he saw the being and through releasing a pheromone in which the creatures felt a surge of adrenaline within them and charge headlong towards the being from the hallway with blood thirsty eyes. It's killing time.<br>
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<i>"Well, you wanted confirmation,"</i> one of the nearby Kadrel grunted out in Kadrellian<i> "and there it is."</i><br>
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B06 barely noticed this remark as those creatures swarmed the Defect, jabbing at him with their protrusions. Sure the suit seemed to handle the first wave of blows, but enough damage to a single spot finally tore a hole in it, a hole which was torn wide upon before the gray, rugged skin below was assaulted.<br>
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<span style="color: #006600"><i>"Yep."</i></span> B06 said with a slight smirk within his helmet, and as the line of Kadrel began readying to fire he stopped them with a wave of his hand<span style="color: #006600"><i> "Hold up, let me savor this for a bit."</i></span><br>
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<span style="color: #006600"><i>"Small to large Newborns,"</i></span> B06 grunted to the front row <span style="color: #006600"><i>"first injured gets meat shield privileges."</i></span><br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify">The pack consisted of eight individual hounds, who ravished the body in quick fashion. Their tentacles shot through the screaming Kadrel's suit as though they were bullets, going tor 'sweet spots' and areas where the armor could be easily penetrated. It proved difficult until the first soldier arrived and swooped the vague humanoid upward only to have the second soldier impale the blocky creature with its horns. The soldier rammed itself with the creature against the smashing it from inside it's suit and flung it over to it's to have the soldier from before attack it along with the pack of hounds. Thrashing the body around like a stuffed ragdoll they dropped it at some point and began tearing it apart.<br>
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The various species and factions further entered the once thought derelict station. All to the amusement of The Reclaimer… so they still sought to journey deeper into his vessel? Let them entertain his pets then…In the veiled darkness deep within the station a solid figure stretched outwards, it's finger alighting on a single button.<br>
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Silence seemed to cloak everything once more, that same staticy silence that you couldn't hear, yet somehow could. At first nothing else could be heard from it until a rattling breath was drawn, “You still seek… to journey forth… knowing death awaits you…? Gooood...yes… very good… persistence… it has been quite some time… since my pets have had their fun… go my lovelies… awaken them to the fear of the dark…”<br>
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You still seek… to journey forth… knowing death awaits you…? Gooood...yes… very good… persistence… it has been quite some time… since my pets have had their fun… go my lovelies… awaken them to the fear of the dark…”<br>
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Jolf looked at his second in command, who in turn looked at Jolf.<br>
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"Pets?" Jolf questioned, secretly guessing and knowing what the voice meant.<br>
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His command shrugged in his heavy and powerful mech armor "My guess is where about to have some "friends" to play with" he smiled as he raised his gun to do a quick inspection.<br>
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Suddenly a sound pierced the seemingly impenetrable mist that had extended its black hand over them.  The sound of a million tiny little legs skittering down the metallic halls towards them.<br>
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"What the hell?" Jolfs second in command asked as the noise steadily grew louder and louder.<br>
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Jolf grimaced.  Things were about to get interesting.<br>
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"Firing line, now!" Jolf called out.<br>
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The Klavikan grunts I'm the front of the company obeyed immediately, stepping in front of their commander and kneeled down should to should, 5 in a row, guns pointing into the dark mist.  Another front row stepped behind them, standing up as to shoot over their heads, 3 to a row as Jolf and his commander filled the middle spots.<br>
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The sound grew gradually louder until finally, the first of the metal wave that was about to engulf the company appeared.  Dozens, hundreds, thousands of small metallic spiders came drawing from the depths of the station.<br>
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"Contact" yelled one of the front line troops as be opened fire with his plasma blaster.  The rest of the front line troops followed suit.  The Klavikan plasma blasters, meant for heavy targets, easily destroyed the weak spider bots, but there were simply too many if them.  More and more Klavikans rushed to support the line with a new row, but the monsters kept on coming.<br>
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Jolfs laser SMG seemed more fit for the job, as a simple mental command set the weapon into "spray" mode in which he could kill multiple spiders in a short pull of the trigger.  But even all this fire power did little to even sloe the swarm, which jumped onto the suits of the front most row and exploded in a kamikaze charge.  The explosions sent the front lines falling backwards, only to be engulfed by the bugs and destroyed in a series of blasts.  Jolf would of had the same fate if he had not been agile enough to avoid being pinned under a Klavikan and therefore escape, at least for the moment, from the horde.<br>
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Jolf looked grim faced as 11 of his soldiers were engulfed and killed, the rest, including his second un command, falling back to the rest of the company.<br>
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His second in command, now wearing dented armor (that was actually would of been pretty funny looking if not for the swarm of exploding spider bots) turned to Jolf as the spiders ran over the bloody remains of his comrades and continued towards the company<br>
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"There's too many of them!  We need reinforcements!".<br>
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Jolf nodded.  His second in command had said something reasonable, a rare occurrence.  He mentally orders the suit to contact Commander Tarzak.  Unfortunately for Jolf, the oppressive darkness seemed to be affecting his coms, as the suit seemed unable to reach the flag ship.<br>
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"Shit... Coms are jammed where on our own"<br>
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"FUCK!" his second in command called out, as he backed away from the spiders, who were rapidly closing the difference between them.<br>
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"Well, I'll see how those bugs like this!" his second in command said as he threw a plasma grenade at the horde.  The grenade exploded in a flash of white-hot plasma that engulfed the front of the horde, leaving small pools of metal melted into the floor of the station.<br>
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Seeing how effective the grenade had been, Jolf ordered the front line troops to throw a plasma grenade at the horde.  The resulting blast ordered the front line troops to throw a plasma grenade at the horde. The resulting blast lessened horde, at least for a moment as even more spiders filled the places of their comrades. As his men readied to throw more grenades Jolf had an idea. He ordere his Rovilan troops to come to the front lines and line up. Unfortunately due to the cramped conditions of the tunnels it was a bit before the Rovilans could squeeze there wat through the Klavikans who were slowly being overwhelmed as one by one they fell. By time the Rovilans reached the front lines another 10 had fallen.<br>
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 Upon reaching the front lines the Rovilans switched their SMGs to spray mode and the result was spectacular. A hail of lasers from 3 lines of 7 Rovilans decimated the oncoming spiders. Things were looking up, the spiders were being pushed back!<br>
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 Then the soldiers had to reload. This 5 seconds of delay allowed the spider horde to overwhelm the Rovilans, who could not retreat as lines of Klavikans blocked the way. Their light armor provided little protection against the multiple explosions. The remaining troops (roughly 150) were orders into a blind charge back to the drop ships, while Jolf tried futilely to contact the squad they had left to guard them.</div>
				
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The Elder Kadrel tilted his head as the row of Kadrel before him fired on the creatures, falling several, but the concentration of them made it harder for the row to pick targets and aim for physically weaker sections. The row had foregone aiming after this had been made apparent and simply began firing en masse.<br>
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And as they did so, using the pause the creature's used to destroy the Defect, B06 noticed it. The thing that slid backwards through the small swarm, a humanoid creature which stood out among the rest of the creatures like B06 did among the other Kadrel with with his green style. The Elder narrowed his eyes as lost sight of the humanoid in the mess of limbs, even his thermal scans proving ineffective with the amount of living creatures obstructing his view.<br>
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What he did see, however, was the thing that came sailing out of the fleshy mosh pit. He didn't know what it was, oddly shaped alien weapon or oddly shaped alien garbage. But he'd seen enough to know that when some small object comes sailing at you, you back up.<br>
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Which is what he grunted out to the row of Kadrel, which began backing up with him thinking It was some type of explosive. Instead what they got was darkness as the station's eerie blue lighting seemed to dissipate. Night Vision was activated on the Helmets of the Kadrel, which was almost immediately overwhelmed by the flash of light. B06 rolled his eyes as the front row of Kads stumbled from the brightness, the remaining Kads standing a ways behind him having been far away enough for the flash to have just startled them a bit.<br>
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As the group in back began recovering and the front row attempted to  steady themselves, that voice popped up once more and began speaking in that eerie tone. Though concerning, B06 originally decided the enemy currently in front of them was a more pressing matter...<br>
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...and oh boy would he regret that in the next fifteen seconds.<br>
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He was about to grunt several orders to the unshaken Kads when suddenly a loud clattering sound began rapidly resonating through the area. Glancing around, B06 eyed a branching hall that sat in the middle of the brewing firefight.<br>
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Before he could even mention it, a horde of small robots began skittering out of the hall and pouring into theirs violently before immediately branching towards both them and the Organic swarm. In front of his eyes, they latched to the Kads in the front row who had not been able to recover from the flash before exploding. Even as they detonated against their  targets, more seemed to spill out in their place.<br>
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Now those right there... that's pretty much what he'd expect security for this place to look like.<br>
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Shouting some more, B06 and the rest of the Kadrel began firing into the oncoming robotic horde, back walking to keep distance. Even when full salvos of plasma fire  tore through them, the robots continued spewing out of the other hall into theirs, seeking targets to detonate on.<br>
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<b>The Station...</b><br>
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Ira...</b><br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify">Ira and her squad were slowly making progress in the station, treading somewhat casually in the open hallways and their unending corridors.<i> Really</i>? Ira thought to herself  while walking down. The hallways seem very unnecessary to her. Why is the area in abundance of them if they are nothing but walls? There are no doors and any other type of entrance save for an additional route for the hallways to branch out. It's hard to believe that a station as huge as this doesn't have anything but hallways. It almost seemed like the station was meant to be a maze of sorts. The thought bugged Ira to why so much area is being wasted away on the humongous station. Then again what they've explored is only a small portion of the Station's over all mass so their has to be a difference if they were to continue their journey to the deeper parts of the station.<br>
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Ira stopped when she noticed a change in the environment. As if she were sinking in an ocean, the bluish-white light of the hallways slowly faded around them. The shadows of the corners of the hallway began to stretch and envelope everything until The platoon found themselves in utter darkness. Ira stood still as a posed statue and felt her heart trembling when she felt the darkness stare upon her like the abyss and heard the sound of several mechanical legs echoing throughout the station. The heavy soldiers went in front of the humanoid Aliuu readied their acidic claws, flapped their wings a number of times and shook their heads as if they were to swag like a bull.<br>
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"Wait...!" Ira called out to her heavy soldiers.<br>
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"That's too many of them!" She reached out to the arrow formation of the forty or so heavy fighters.<br>
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One them in the back turned around to grab Ira's arm and pushed her back towards the special units who noticed the foreboding of the darkness in front of the formation. Ira stumbled back and looked ahead of herself when the noise grew louder. The Heavy soldier than pushed her back smashed it's claw down against the ground as though it were yelling at her like an angry parent and 'stared' at her intently. The special units behind her growled in agreement, grabbed her with their tentacles and began charging down the direction from whence they came.<br>
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"Wait No!" She yelled at she watched through her carapace mask as robotic spider looking creatures arrived to swarm the heavy fighters. It was inevitable, The heavy fighters were meant to deal with armored targets and not small critters. A number of explosive  noises had echoed from the location that they left. Sucking in her lips she opened up a part of her mind and connected herself to the overseer.<br>
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&lt;Ira?&gt; The warm wet male voice asked questionably.<br>
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"Enemies all around us! The hallways suddenly went dark and swarms of explosive arachnid-like machines are swarm from around us!" She reported. A number of signals streamed into her head, alerts and distress signals from the other platoons that have gone out. Small brief memories filled her head as she was brought into a trance in before continuing.<br>
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The huge swarms hounds had a 'better' time dealing with the infestation. Like their mechanical counter parts, they too blow up albeit into a corrosive substance. From the eyes that she saw it through, she could see the  small ave of hounds duking it out with the mechanical spiders. All of them are blowing up. The mechanical spiders are blowing up in yellow clouds of heat and radiance awhile the hounds blew up in bright green bioluminescence countering the yellow explosion with the weight and force of their acidic make up. The spiders kept pushing their dead forward or were going over them in the same way the hounds were. It was a battle of numbers and explosive efficiency.<br>
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Soldiers tried ramming at one point but gave up when the mechanical arachnids blew themselves up for one that was dumb enough to attack head on. They attacked with their flexable bullet speed tentacles or shot bile balls of corrosive matter into their ranks. Some what efficient but not enough sadly.  It's nice for slowing them down but it's not good at stopping the synthetic critters as with the suicide bombing hounds and crows. The Tanks that managed to orientate themselves to join in on the patrols were sometimes present with the soldiers. As Ira could see, Two tanks that towered over their soldiers both opened their crocodile mouths and from in released a 'wave of fire' against the little robots. A powerful acidic combination that only they can tolerate. The liquid flame spewed on the mechanical creatures like an overloaded flame thrower and bathed the hallway in a red light.<br>
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"We need an immediate extraction!" Ira broke out of her trance.<br>
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"Bring the leviathan!"<br>
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Ira was cut off when she heard the countless spider legs in front of her. blinking she saw the swarm that killed off her heavy fighters tailing her and her special units. Grabbing an egg shaped device, She threw it so that it would land in front of the swarm of mechanical critters. The object instantly blew itself up into a giant blob of corossive semi transparent sticky slime. Stopping them at that point until another number of them would simply blow themselves up. Eventually  They arrived to the gooey hallways of the swarm controlled areas where the speed and vitally had suddenly picked up for all of them.<br>
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"Bring it, Now!"<br>
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The frenzied Swarm stopped their onslaught with the rectangle helmets when they felt a present behind them. They noticed the dimness of them room much later once everything had gotten dark to a point where they could see the flashes of the blocky humanoids' weapons.<br>
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A voice screamed in Gof's head when he looked behind himself and through the use of the Swarm's bioluminiant bodies they were able to see what was making all of that racket. Small mechanical spiders were swarming towards them and the Humanoids that they were about to attack. Grinding his teeth and cursing inside his mind, He tapped into the minds of his platoon and had them stop to  turn around and face their next enemy. The other half of the platoon of soldiers began to retreat awhile attacking the horde with their bullet-speed tentacles.<br>
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Gof jumped on top of the smooth and grabbed onto a soldier's head. He looked at his sword and flipped a switch of some sort. The handle of the sword began to pulsate and vibrate in his one hand and static blew out from the 'blade' of the sword. He positioned himself on the arthropod, firmly by using his tentacles to latch onto the soldier's smooth 'head' and aimed the blade in front of him. Supported by his knee, both of his hands and his chest the blade began to shake and growl. The platoon made way for Gof and the soldier he was riding and  waited for the spectacle.<br>
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"Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!" A bright pink beam of plasma erupted from the sword handle bathing the area in a bright white light. The light simply obliterated the little creatures and whatever it had touched. The plasmatic light lasted for four whole seconds before vanishing in a blink of an eye.<br>
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Once it was over, The handle, snapped and crumbled in his hand. Gof opened his black charred melted hands and unleashed the grey dust that was once his weapon. He and his platoon backed off some more when the wave continued. Gof and his platoon had their backs facing the humanoids that they tried to attack before but the situation has tunred for the worst and brought Gof to forge an uneasy ceasefire if you will with them.<br>
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"Damn..." He mouthed as he and his platoon faced the oncoming swarm of spider bots and looked at his smoking lower arm limbs.<br>
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"We're not getting out of this one alive are we?" He called back at the blocky humanoids.<br>
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"It. Seems. Trouble. Has. <b>FOUND.</b> Itself. On. The. Station..." The orange circlets of the mask blinked.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">Within the darkened halls of the unending abyss, Shane Warner and his Salvage crew had ventured into a damnable, antediluvian portal to a sort of black, metal, hell. The air went still, their vision went black, the powerful flashlights, sole portals to remind them they were not in an abyss could hardly penetrate the blackened veil that had enveloped them. The Salvage crew had stopped dead in their tracks, hearing the voice eerily whisper in their ears.<br>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">"Did uh..." </span><span style="color: #404040">Shane's voice wavered, he looked over his shoulder at the crew, their orb shaped helmets showed their confused, fearful faces as they looked to Shane, Uty'er and the ten Power Armored soldiers for guidance. </span><span style="color: #ff0000">"You all heard that?"</span><span style="color: #404040"> No one answered, they all seemed too fearful to speak, their heads turned as they tried to listen deeper into the blackened abyss.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #00b300">"There are Spirits here."</span><span style="color: #404040"> Uty'er said, his translator was monotone once again, he showed no fear in his voice or his body language. Where others were shifting nervously, the Reptile seemed to be standing tall, ready to assault the ship by himself. </span><span style="color: #00b300">"There is a Ghost in the Machine."</span><span style="color: #404040"> Not a second after he said that, before Shane could turn to look at his companion, a gunshot was heard.</span><br>
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Their journey inside the gargantuan had hardly begun before they heard the screams, the gunfire, the familiar death throes of fallen soldiers that accompany a battle. The Salvage crew had already began to backtrack towards their ship, visibly docked, a light at the end of the horrid darkness. The 20 Salvage members were in a slow jog as they made their way back to the Eternity Damned. Shane Warner, Uty'er and the 8 other Power armored soldiers stood fast, slowly walking backwards as they began to hear the mysterious <i>tacka-tacka-tacka </i>of the millions of legs of the spider drones.<br>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">"Something's not right... Go! Get back to the ship!" </span><span style="color: #404040">Shane called out quickly switching his frequency channel from the squad comms back to the Eternity Damned. </span><span style="color: #ff0000">"Dani! Get the ship up! Open the airlock, get everyone inside!"</span><br>
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<span style="color: #00b300">"Chieftain, they are here!" </span><span style="color: #404040">Uty'er's voice is heard on the Eternity Damned's comm channel, drawing Shane's attention back to the front, witnessing the swarm of spider drones approaching them. </span><span style="color: #00b300">"Born in blood and torment! Die in blood and torment!" </span><span style="color: #404040">Cried the reptile's voice as he took a solid stance in the hallway and braced the Nidhog sprayer against his hips. With the pull of a single lever, a torrent of magma-like jellied plasma sprayed out of the dragon mouth shaped nozzle. The burning glow splashed over the swarm of spider drones and immediately ate away at their metal flesh. Uty'er swung his hips side to side to cover more of the drones as they approached.</span><br>
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Pressing ever forward into the dark, the 13 members of Odins Eye met back up at a pre-arranged junction. The Map of the station was becoming larger and larger as EME progressed forward into its winding corridors. Even unfinished the station was larger than they could have anticipated and so the 13 moved on the edges of the station, refusing to press deeper inside the monstrous derelict, at least not until they knew what lay within and the easiest route there that wouldn’t get them lost in its seemingly endless hallways. Even when the intercom crackled to life and delivered its foreboding warning they moved in silence. At least… until the screaming and gun fire started.<br>
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The group paused as the sounds of battle echoed through the ancient structures long metal corridors, echoed through its worn piping creating a chaotic discordant symphony of noises that seemed to come in from every direction. A lesser man might have broken as the wails of the dying were cut off to join the moans of the dead.<br>
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&lt;Got movement on EME… lots of it.&gt; One of the Raven’s said matter of fact. Feeding the data into the rest of the fireteams HUD, all they saw was a massive wave of shifting white fluctuations on the holo panel.<br>
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&lt;Huh… so… Running away anyone?&gt; Another member said with a gesture towards whence they came.<br>
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&lt;Tactical Retreating&gt; someone else said with a voice like a shallow grave. &lt;It seems like the best option given the unknowns.&gt;<br>
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&lt;Agreed&gt;  13 replied staring at the onrushing waves of… something. The sounds of what seemed to be skittering in the dark halls coming down for them. One of the group broke shadow run and popped a flare and launched it down the hallway. It hit the ground a long ways down the hallway thanks to the launching mechanism on the Grenadiers armor only to start flowing back towards them.<br>
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&lt;What in the name of our Lady?&gt; The Grenadier exclaimed. &lt;The floor is moving?&gt;<br>
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13’s enchanced eyes, due to the nature of a liquid and change of his body that of the likes he did not wish to think of, picked out the individual little legs and scrambling bodies. &lt;That’s not the floor!&gt; He said a little breathlessly as the realization of danger hit his brain and adrenaline began pumping through him unbidden. &lt;Move now back to the Pods!&gt;<br>
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Whirling around in a flurry of shadowsilk feathered cloaks and shimmering darkness the Infiltration team booked it for their LZ, able to gain ground at a decent pace over the little onrushing hoard.<br>
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T’was not to be however, without strife, an easy escape. The Salvage team lay between the pods, or at least, the ‘firefight’ that they were putting out was.<br>
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&lt;Options&gt; 13 demanded as they ghosted through the derelict.<br>
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&lt;Recommend we seal the floodgates a bit, narrow down these things attack options but don’t seal it off completely. &gt;<br>
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&lt;Meaning&gt;<br>
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&lt;we lock all but one or two access points to the sector of this station. EME says there are 3 as we are on the outer sector, we just passed one&gt;<br>
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&lt;good, lock it up 6, provide covering fire everyone else, how much time do you need?&gt;<br>
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6 replied with &lt;few minutes at best, this station is old and whilst the system itself is difficult, whatever is controlling this place is going to have a hard time, with the decrepit state of this station, from interfering.&gt;<br>
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&lt;Then quit talking, more work.&gt;<br>
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&lt;Aye 13&gt;<br>
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6 got to work on the bulk head behind them whilst 4 set up a firing line to prevent any of the swarm, the robotic one, from interrupting the process whilst 6 began work on the door. Thankfully, the lead they had gained on the little bastards was just enough that 6 was almost done when the swarm of little robot bodies showed themselves.<br>
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&lt;Go loud&gt; came a soft command from behind as the four in front opened fire with silenced weapons, picking off any of the little bastards that got to close and the main horde was kept back long enough with the anti-personnel mines they placed down moments before… well really it was activate then throw em at the onrushing death waves but hey it worked.<br>
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The Bulkhead closed shut just as a group of the fuckers jumped through the gap right onto 13’s body. The Raven operative ripped the little bastards off of him and tossed them off left and right, the rest of his team diving to avoid them or smashing them with the butt ends of their weapons when one of the little drones got right up in 13’s face, sitting on his visor and exploded.<br>
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The explosion, whilst not enough to kill 13, was enough to shatter his visor and send him staggering back to the ground on his ass. Hands reaching up to wrench the now defunct helmet from his head and toss it off to reveal the warped and twisted mass of flesh that was 13’s face. The blue veins pulsated underneath his skin and writhed, wiggled and squirmed as if they had a mind of their own, spidering from his lower body up to his left eye which was that electric iridescent iris and blue star slit shaped pupil of which the Dredge were oh so well known for whilst the other was a normal pinewood brown.<br>
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&lt;Sir, are you all right?&gt; The message came from inward now instead of appearing on screen, his ‘blackbox’ so to speak was reverting back to other settings in the case a physical interface was not available to transfer data, now it was all in his head… like 13 needed something else lurking about in there.<br>
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13 shook his head and stood up whilst the rest of the team dealt with the remaining stragglers, watching as two members herded the drones into a sealed container and then closed the lid. Specimens of which to sate their Ladies unrelenting intellectual appetite, for they had not learned of much else on this venture other than what they had already known about this clusterfucks participants. Some data for profiling important figureheads and or identifying new variables was it, hardly what one would call successful. With these at least they could be satisfied.<br>
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Coming back to the question asked of him 13 shook his head slowly, knowing that the other 12 of his team stared in either horror, disgust, or fascination at his face. He knew the feeling, he felt it every day he looked at the mirror and saw what new part of him was no longer his own. Already his wounds healing, the itching growing more intense as his brain reeled against the growing tendrils which creeped and sat roots within his mind.<br>
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A few other members of his team had gotten shrapnel from the small explosion but were relatively fine as the suits they wore protected from most of it, 5 got one exploding right in his chest but would live to fight another day if he didn't rip the little robots remains a new anus.<br>
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&lt;Fine&gt; he replied bluntly and took up his weapon from where it had fallen on the ground. &lt;will that door hold?&gt;<br>
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&lt;of course it will and I sealed the vents as best I could.&gt; 6 said a little miffed at the slight of 13 doubting his skills but got over it quickly with the reply of. &lt;But I don’t want to stay any longer than possible, we’ve acquired some of what we wished but not all, no one can fault us for that in our current situation.&gt;<br>
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&lt;Nay&gt; 13 acknowledged. &lt;They can’t.&gt;<br>
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The group continued on forward, quickly coming up on the salvage team’s increasingly futile struggle to GTFO. &lt;They wont be able to hold that line much longer&gt; 8 commented needlessly.<br>
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&lt;No… they wont, but the question is, how best to render our aid… and should we? We could wait for a break in the fighting and then push through.&gt;<br>
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&lt;Whatever it is we are doing, best make it quick&gt; 1 and 3 said in unison from where they watched the rear.<br>
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<b>In space.</b><br>
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Another ship warped in at the edge of the short range scanners, just inside the asteroid belts reach, a dangerous chance which paid off, it too was hidden and cloaked but not to the two other ships of which had donned back their optical camouflage and lurked amongst the floating rocks and were linked in with that specific signature in mind.<br>
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“The Lady believes you will find this new ‘asset’ most helpful in the coming hours. Wield Deaths Scythe well.”<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">As Jolf and his company ran like hell through the dark halls Jolf was glad he had chosen to plot the course they took inside the station on his suits self-creating GPS that created a map as the wearer traveled through the unknown.  Without the GPS, its likely Jolf and his company would of gotten lost in the maze they call a station, never to be seen again.... Alive at least.  The horde of metal spiders followed them in a relentless pursuit, more and more pouring out of every crack and side tunnel until a literal wave of squirming metal trailed just a few meters behind them.<br>
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They were about half way back to the drop zone.  Jolf tried to contact the Sergeant.<br>
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"Sergeant come in!  Can you hear me?"<br>
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After a few seconds of running the staticy and barely understandable response came.<br>
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"I r--d yo- lo-d an- cle--r.  Wh-- do y-- ne-d s--"<br>
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"We have encountered a large number of hostiles, deploy defenses and prep the drop ship!"<br>
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A few seconds later the reply came again, slightly less staticy this time;<br>
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"Aff--mit--e.  Dro- sh--s wil- be re-dy"<br>
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Jolf smiled, almost.  "Alright boys were almost there, as long as we don't run into trouble we'll be home free in a matter of minutes!"<br>
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His company cheered and they pushed on at an increased rate, determined to make it to the safety of the drop ships.  All seemed to be going according to plan, until they saw the mass of metal spiders just ahead of them.  Were dead... Jolf thought to himself, and surely they would be, if the spiders has not already been engaged with the salvagers, their gun fire barely audible over the sound of thousands of little metal feet.<br>
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"Throw grenades and push through boys, were almost home!" Jolf ordered.<br>
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His men obeyed, throwing plasma grenades into the mass of bodies and the Rovilans spraying the mass as the men charged through, kicking and smashing the bots along the way.<br>
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This aggressive and somewhat reckless tactic would not be without consequence though, as several men were smarmed and killed, along with several others being launched into the ceiling by an explosion underneath their feet.  Upon hitting the ground they too were swarmed and killed, the resulting explosion sending other flying.  They were almost upon the front lines of the spiders, hopefully the salvagers wouldn't accidently shoot them... <a href="https://www.rpnation.com/profile/22509-anaxial/" class="link link--internal" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rpnation.com%2Fprofile%2F22509-anaxial%2F&amp;hash=23e6ffd09bca3cc28cdeaa90ba3f87ee">@Anaxial</a><br>
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-----Drop zone-----<br>
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The Sargent, upon hearing Jolf was ok, for now at least was greatly reassured.  The presence of hostiles actually excited him somewhat, things were kinda boring here.  His men word quickly to prep the drop shops and set up sole defenses.  He deployed the 3 heavy MGs to guard the two entrance into the hangar and had his men activate bots of their own, 3 foot tall bots reminiscent of spiders, except these has only 4 legs.  These relatively small bots where armed with fast firing green energy lasers and the Sargent reckons that the bots, combined with the MGs could hold off whatever was coming.  Hopefully he was right.<br>
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The Kadrel adjusted their aim, more than willing to let the Organics shield them with their bodies while gunning down robots from their position. B06 grumbled a bit as he watched the sheer numbers of the machines press against the onslaught of attacks from both the Organic and Kadrel soldiers.<br>
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And then there was the humanoid  and its sword. Sure the blast looked powerful, rivaled some of the best Handheld Kadrel Weaponry he'd seen for quite some time, but even with a large chunk carved directly through their forces, the robots just seemed to refill that gap with more of them.<br>
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And even after that the Humanoid had the gall to start talking about how they most likely wouldn't make it. B06 scoffed at this, he'd survived surprisingly worst situations than a horde of mobile Explosives. They weren't necessarily backed into a corner just yet, for several yards deep into the horde of robots the Elder Kad saw another branching hall. While the other ones seemed teeming with the Spider Mines, this one only had several coming out. That was his target, for if the current map of the station the Kadrel had been making on Helm-Net was true, heading in that direction could lead him right back into known territory.<br>
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B06 grumbled at the amount of risks the idea would take, but began grunting into his translator anyway<span style="color: rgb(0,102,0)"> "Says you, I ain't letting no wall of explosives gallivant around thinking it'll be enough to put me in the ground. All I need is a sufficient push."</span> The Elder said in Kadrellian before turning on his fellow Kadrel <span style="color: rgb(0,102,0)">"Wounded?"</span><br>
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Several Kads replied in a confirmation, B06's synthetic eyes labeling them apart from the others before calling out again <span style="color: rgb(0,102,0)">"Newborn?"</span><br>
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A larger quantity of the Kadrel responded in a confirmation, to which B06 was grateful <span style="color: rgb(0,102,0)">"You weaker beings will push them back, then hold them while the rest of us abscond. Do not fear the oncoming end, fight to the last claw and make the Creators proud."</span><br>
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And to nobodies surprise, the injured or Newborn Kadrel gave no complaints to these orders, the small number of Kads who had lived long enough to know what a week felt like or been smart enough to avoid damage filed out from the ranks of the rest of them.<br>
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The remaining Kadrel began moving forward, covering as much of the robots in plasma fire, knowing that the constant usage would soon overcook their weapons.<br>
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B06 cracked his knuckles before picking up several blasters from more fallen Kads and sticking them on his back where they locked on, then stood in a ready position as the rest of the stronger Kadrel waited for the moment when they'd have just enough of a window of opportunity.<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0,102,0)">"I suggest picking which of yours stay to die for you as well."</span> B06 said to the Humanoid Organic as the time grew closer<br>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 18px">E73...</span></i></b><br>
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"Worrisome developments." Ambassador E73 said as it looked over the reports coming from the station. The Kadrel squads that had gone in deeper than the rest had finicky connection to the <i>Epsilon</i> at best, and it only got worst the deeper they got into the station. But from the Kadrel who hadn't gotten as far, the reports came flooding about the tide of Station Security, a tide of exploding Spiders.<br>
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The Ambassador had hoped that the being controlling the station had been bluffing, using its control over the Station's systems to potentially scare off any looters. Sadly, it would seem to not be the case.<br>
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Several squads had been wiped out, with others holding up with what munitions they had and the others simply absconding from any battle with the metallic menace. Of course, being Kadrel it wasn't like they were really losing anything important. And if they bring the transports back they could just ram more Kads into the Station until they started gaining ground. But if what he'd read was anything to go by, they had almost finished charging up the equipment brought on several of those transports. The rest he could bring back for reinforcements sure, but those ones took up docking space, and those areas would be harder to enforce without constant Kadrel deployment.<br>
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If those robots gained too much ground on the outer levels of the station they'd just end up cutting the Kads off by using their obvious knowledge of the maze-like station's infrastructure.<br>
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But maybe if-<br>
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The Ambassador was interrupted from his musings when he heard the sound of the entrance field to the bridge going down, and turned around to see that his superior had returned.<br>
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"Captain!" one of the Tech Kads said in Kadrellian "You've missed so much! Where have you been?!?"<br>
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Captain Skaz yawned, stretching his cybernetic limbs and releasing a puff of steam from his metallic body as his hovering chair calmly floated in <span style="color: rgb(255,128,0)">"Well runt, let me tell you I have had quite a day."</span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(255,128,0)">"I took a power nap for some time, woke up and got bored so I went to the Recreational Deck where I forced several Kads into the Drip. After they turned I had the Chefs hunt them down for a while before one of them ended up escaping. I took a small team of Chefs all over the ship following a trail of injured and dead Kads until we cornered the beast in the fighting chamber. It was obviously outmatched, but during the fight it damaged the airlock control panel and sent my Chefs flying into space. Could've saved them, didn't feel like it so I blew them up before they could float too far away. Anyway, after that I took care of the Drip Addict, resealed the Airlock, killed several Kadrel just for the hell of it on my way here, did some Karaoke, then arrived in pristine condition as always."</span><br>
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Ambassador E73 nodded throughout the entirety of Captain Skaz's monologue "So that's why I've been getting so many injury reports lately."<br>
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"Sir... do you even know what we've had to deal with in your absence!?!" the Tech Kadrel grunted in abject disbelief "We've had to keep these other aliens from turning this entire sector into a warzone! Scour miles upon miles of endless hallways, and now we've got a sea of hostile robots wiping out our squads one by-"<br>
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The Kadrel flinched as his entire helmet split in half and fell to his sides, then wobbled a bit as the rest of his body followed suit.<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(255,128,0)">"And that, was the second Techie I've had to put down today."</span> Skaz grumbled to himself before leaning towards Ambassador E73 as his seat finished its journey to the center of the Bridge once more<span style="color: rgb(255,128,0)"> "You think the Vats are acting up or something? Haven't had to put down this many annoyances since I built my very own GeneVat oh so long ago."</span><br>
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The Captain sighed in nostalgia before leaning back in his chair, Ambassador E73 looked down at the Kad's remains a moment before replying "We shall run diagnostics on them once we reach the nearest Theta-Station, but there have been several pressing developments since you left sir."<br>
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The Ambassador provided a series of Holo-screens which portrayed reports on several of both their conversations with the aliens, the incursion into the station and even the latest reports of the security swarm.<br>
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He seemed to skim through them with barely even a glance, but E73 knew better than to question the high speed thought processes of a Theno.<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(255,128,0)">"So they blow up,"</span> Skaz said before sending the Holo-Screens away <span style="color: rgb(255,128,0)">"Whoopdie freaking doo. Just shoot them for  Creator's sakes."</span><br>
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"There is a largely concerning number of them, sir."<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(255,128,0)">"Then shoot them some more, what's the big problem here?!?"</span> Skaz barked at the Ambassador before leaning back once more and releasing a puff of steam<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(255,128,0)">"They're sending a horde of disposable toys to fight,"</span> Captain Skaz patted the Ambassador on the head<span style="color: rgb(255,128,0)"> "What? Did you forget what our </span><span style="color: rgb(255,128,0)"><i>entire</i></span><span style="color: rgb(255,128,0)"> ship is designed for?"</span><br>
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"I am well aware of the Epsilon's capabilities sir, but simply firing more Kadrel at it sounds-"<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(255,128,0)">"You know what I don't hear?" </span>Captain Skaz interrupted as he placed a hand to his helmet where his ear would be <span style="color: rgb(255,128,0)">"The sound of me caring, fire the Kadrel."</span><br>
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"But sir, we have soldiers on that station that could be injured if we simply fire pods at it!"<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(255,128,0)">"Don't care, fire the Kadrel."</span><br>
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"We risk damaging the Station and potentially losing the signal."<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(255,128,0)">"Don't Care, fire the Kadrel."</span><br>
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"What about the-"<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(255,128,0)">"Do you really think...  for even a moment... that the next few words that come out of your mouth... will do a single thing to sway my decision?"</span><br>
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Ambassador E73 closed his mouth, before shaking his head in the negative.<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(255,128,0)">"Thought so, now fire the Kadrel."</span><br>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'georgia'"><span style="font-size: 18px">The Epsilon...</span></span></i></b><br>
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After floating there silently for quite some time, the Epsilon finally began showing movement.<br>
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A large protrusion began extending from the nose of the ship, aiming towards the station in question, specifically the areas the Kadrel had been searching.<br>
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Within the Launch bay, several dozen Kadrel were stuffed into a small vessel with what appeared to be a massive drill built into the bottom.<br>
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As the Kads Operating the Launch bay finished loading them up, they sent the pod off on a conveyor belt before another empty one took its place as the operators immediately began stuffing more Kadrel soldiers into it.</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><div class="bbcode-background" style="background-color: #12635F;"><div class="bbcode-background-text"><b><span style="color: rgb(191,191,191)">The Swarm of Petrarica</span></b></div></div><br>
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<b>The Station...</b><br>
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Ira...</b><br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify">The black goo that had spread itself throughout the Swarm controlled areas seems to be nothing right? Wrong. Like all Aliuu the black substance has a function within the ecosystem that makes up the swarm. The black goo is a true Aliuu in a certain sense, unlike other forms of the Aliuu species this one retained the siphonophore form of their ancestors, not being a single multi-celled organism but rather a colony of several individual animals. The goo is the ideal territory for any Aliuu, the substance acts as a stimulant for the species, boosting their fighting capabilities, adrenaline, vitality, regenerative capabilities and their over all condition. For non Aliuu species, the goo is a hindrance. The black substance acts as though it were tar, or crude oil, slowing down enemies down and ruining chances for mobilization. other structures of the colony are also worth noting. The vore colonies are bubbly structures that explore and expand the black substance further. The offense structures are the lurker mounds, impaler colonies and the bile launchers.<br>
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The mechanical spiders are slowed for a moment but could simply crawl over one another to cover up the surface of the black goo and continue onward towards their targets.  With this advantage the platoons that had ventured deep had the opportunity to retreat and and return fire. Ira watched as they passed several  of the colony structures and sensed them doing their roles. The Impaler colonies shoot a slow membrane into the black goo which then shoots upward and transform itself into a spike. The lurker mounts are somewhat the same as the Impaler colonies, the difference are their attacks. The membrane of the lurker mound shoots a wave of blade-like rather than a single powerful strike. The bile launchers shot acidic compounds at enemies from afar.<br>
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&lt;Commander Ira status?&gt; A warm wet voiced echoed in her head.<br>
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"We've <b>*Hugh*</b> managed to make some <b>*Hing* </b>distance between the swarm of mechanical <b>*Oof* </b>arachnids and are heading back to the platform as we *<b>Argh* </b>speak." Ira said as she was being shook by the primordial running of the Special units.<br>
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&lt;Ira, we're going to keep the Leviathan close to your proximity." He paused.<br>
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"That's gre-"<br>
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&lt;However,&gt; He interrupted Ira.<br>
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&lt;We're not going to extract you or your units just yet. I'll tell you my reasoning behind this."<br>
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"Huh?"<br>
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&lt;You can hold up the platform area where majority of your troops are and where the area is more developed than the halls that you're running in. From what I can possibly analyze you have quite a sum of troops still ready for the engagement.<br>
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Now, I don't want you to loose your ground on that station, because finding another landing platform could prove annoying and problematic. We're going to endure this wave of enemies and find out why the station has activated such a defense mechanism. Understood?&gt;<br>
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"Y-yes sir." Ira stammered.<br>
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Ira gave out a command using her telepathy, The platoons that were backing and returning fire are to rally in the area of the platform.The wide spacious landing platform is completely covered in organic matter and black goo. The air is nothing more than a humid misty vapor that can be describes as being cold and being warm. The hundreds of soldiers and medics stood in a column of semi-circles around the main entrance with the tanks a number of meters behind them. The numerous hounds and crows scattered around in front of the semi-circles readying themselves for their suicide charge as the heavy fighters ans special units backed off into their own little corner. The special units that brought Ira back emerged from the endless darkness of the main entrance, pushing the hounds away from them and bringing Ira towards the central column of the semi-circle.<br>
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Ira was released by the special units tentacles and turned her back towards her army to watch the dark shaow of the leviathan slowly loomed over them as it snaked it's way into the station.<br>
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Gof...</b><br>
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Gof and his platoon were being pressed back by the wave of mechanical insect. Gof took a step back and grimaced at the sight in front of him as the soldiers kept taking steps back and was distracted for a moment until he noticed the green rectangular head grunting in whatever language that they spoke about something. It seems that the box head had an idea of some sort, he was one that didn't seem to flinch at the grave situation that they're currently witnessing. Gof looked at his charred arms and looked at one of the pounds. The hound seemed to nod and crawled it's way to the orange humanoid Aliuu.<br>
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Gof's tentacles impaled the creature and the terrestrial squid transformed itself into a gelatin-like substance. The substance violently separated itself, covered his black arms and began to reconstitute itself with Gof. The substance shrank as it stayed on the burnt arms. The arms seemed to have regenerated. On the arms' burnt black cracked surface the cellular structure seemed to break down the dead cells and replace them with the new ones provided by the assimilated hound. The arms are of a light brownish color, slightly transparent and the hands could function again albeit not as well as before. An extra feature for his new arms would be the explosive acidic compounds that the hounds use when they suicide. Eh, last resort in case it were to happen.<br>
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Gof turned around when the blocky humanoid in the green suit seemed to call or suggest something to him. Gof glanced at the other humanoids with his orange gem eyes and caught an free hallway in their close proximity. In a snappish realization he could guess what the humanoid wanted to tell him.<br>
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"With or without you." Gof frowned.<br>
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"Have it your way!" Gof yelled back at 'Green' whilst glaring at it's rectangular helmet.<br>
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Feeling an expansion in his head, he communicated with the platoon telling them what to do. The Platoon will split in half to buy time for their escape route. No objection since The orange humanoid Aliuu was ranked superior to the soldiers. The arthropods followed the command and separated themselves into two groups before preparing for the break up. The hounds too will help in this endeavor, four will stay behind to by another second when they break through their line of defense leaving the other three to escape with the thirteen soldiers that have been picked.<br>
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Gof distance himself slightly from the green humanoid by a couple of meters and nodded.<br>
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<b>The Leviathan...</b><br>
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The dark serpent looked upon the thousands of Aliuu and motioned it's head towards the entrance that would soon be overrun by the mechanical creatures. The organs under it's tear shape dropped head lit up in an red orange flare and began to make popping and cracking sounds of electricity. It's tentacles stayed at bay because the room is already full of Aliuu that are going to defend the position and wailed a deep cry.<br>
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"Let them come." The tall purple Aliuu said, looking at his display whilst keeping his hands behind his back.<br>
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The Robots pressed hard, and he knew that the second that constant stream of blaster fire ended they would rush back to regain lost ground. He would've been more concerned about it if it wasn't for the fact that it would be the Meatshields' problem when it happened.<br>
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Behind him the stronger Kadrel waited as well, some keeping their blasters on hand while others locked them to their backs, as several also adopted crouched positions to prepare for the oncoming sprint.<br>
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Just several more feet and.... there!<br>
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B06 launched towards the now cleared branching hall, the other Kadrel making haste to follow behind him as he galloped forward. They'd have a bit of trouble, as his synthetic limbs already gave him quite the advantage. He slid towards the hall before lunging into it, the rest of the Kadrel keeping up to the best of their abilities.<br>
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There were several robots that had spilled out form the main swarm a bit earlier, but shots from their blasters were enough to put them down without slowing down. B06 just dodged out of the way of the metallic hunks as they fell to the ground, not willing to risk being in the Spiders' range when it finished off the distractions they'd left behind.<br>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'georgia'"><span style="font-size: 18px">Landing Zone #4....</span></span></i></b><br>
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Hearing the reports coming from Kads who had made it out of the deeper parts of the Station, the transport ships which had been carrying cargo made haste to finish setting up. Those that had none had already set off back to the Epsilon for resupply, leaving the defense of their landing zone up to the current forces for the time being.<br>
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Finally complete with their set up, the Kadrel hurried to start up the generators. They seemed like metallic trees with tesla coils at the tops, and as they began activating purple flares of energy began pulsing within them. Wheeling out large mounted weaponry from the remaining crates and hooking them up, the Kadrel prepared for an utter Zerg Rush by setting up large weapon placements along their landing zones.<br>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'georgia'"><span style="font-size: 18px">Captain Skaz...</span></span></i></b><br>
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Tapping his metallic claw on his chair, Captain Skaz mumbled to himself as the pods were prepared. To his side, E73 was once again surrounded in holo-screens scrolling and typing.<br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"So... these other species..."</span> Skaz began, searching for a way to alleviate the boredom of waiting.<br>
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"Organic based race, two cooperating anthromorphic species, there have been claims of smaller ships uncloaking and re-cloaking but unconfirmed as of now."<br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"Yeah yeah, all that junk  and what not... but what do they</span><span style="color: #ff8000"><i> look</i></span><span style="color: #ff8000"> like?"</span> Skaz stretched before going into detail <span style="color: #ff8000">"What, do the Anthros look like shoddily put together humanoid animals? Do their limbs look better suited for quadruped motion instead of biped motion?"</span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"And the organics, whew, I can see what they enjoy in terms of architecture. So what, am I gonna throw up immediately upon seeing what they look like. Am I gonna have Kads begging me to remove their eyes so the sight doesn't get burned into their skulls with a branding iron? Are they so ugly the only effective weapon against them are mirrors?"</span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"Was it the sight of their hideousness alone that nearly led the Anthros to opening fire?"</span><br>
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"We don't actually know what they look like sir, I'm sure once we get back in touch with-"<br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"Bored now, hey you two!"</span> Captain Skaz suddenly yelled to two of the Kadrel Technicians, who turned to look at him expectantly, Captain Skaz leaned back and waved his hand<span style="color: #ff8000"> "Fight to the death."</span><br>
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The first rolled away and kicked another techie out of his chair before ripping the entire seat out of the ground and aiming the furniture at his opponent with grunts of agitation. The second replied by whipping out an Electro-Baton and soon the two were demolishing one another while the rest of the Kadrel simply continued working.<br>
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&lt;Suicide&gt; 10 said watching the Klavakians charge recklessly into the fray and get blown the fuck up.<br>
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&lt;Im sure they… or at least a few of them have realized it and either don’t care, or have no alternative. Target Dossier on their commander states that he’s a bit of a prat.&gt; 6 said in his matter of fact way.<br>
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The 13 watched the ongoing struggle with a distant, removed manner. The robot bodies, the blood splattering, the limbs torn off both of metal and of flesh, flying through the air in a slow motion arc as the crystal droplets of life giving liquid poured out from the now useless mandibles. They saw it all and were unmoved by it, they each had been tempered by forces beyond mere bloodshed. Number 13 in particular, observed coldly, his blue eye burning brightly, twitching and whirling about in its socket as if it had a mind of its own.<br>
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&lt;Our window is coming up.&gt; the Half Breed said suddenly as the Klavakians continued their relentless suicide charge. &lt;In the power vacuum created by their passing, that’s when we move.&gt;<br>
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The other 12 craned their heads to look at the carnage the oncoming anthro’s left behind them and saw what 13 spoke of. &lt;Be a little risky&gt; 3 remarked watching as a wolf-man covered in squirming little metal bodies exploded in a fiery inferno. &lt;We are just about likely to be killed by those tinkertoys as we are all the plasma and explosives being chucked about like blind bats by those others here.&gt;<br>
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&lt;Mark&gt; 13 said without warning, interrupting the Banter between 12 and 8, the Fireteam rushed forward into the ‘void’ of soldiers and robots.<br>
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If there was a word to describe the bulwark created by the ten Power Armored soldiers, unshakable came to mind. Despite the fact the horde of metal arachnids gained ground against their volley, they stood unmoving, firmly rooted into the ground and coating the floor before them in the eerie magma glow of the Jellied Plasmas. Uty'er himself had been skillfully been depressing and releasing the lever of the Nidhog flamer to form a protective wall of plasma that the spiders clambered over only to melt into the plasma with their brothers.<br>
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<span style="color: #0000ff">"They're not letting up! We need to move out!" </span><span style="color: #404040">one of the soldiers shouted as he began to take a few steps back, in his hands, the chaingun had turned bright red as it continued to fire. The others scanned their Power Armor, revealing most were almost entirely dry on ammunition. </span><br>
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They had few options, continue the assault and die when ammunition runs dry, or retreat now and have a chance. Several of the chainguns started to stutter and die as the lifeblood of the weapon ran dry, the soldier immediately abandoning the weapon, standing for a moment before the adrenaline of the weapon ran its course and panic consumed them. More and more Salvagers began to retreat back to their ship as their weapons failed them.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">"Uty'er, we need to move! Come on!" </span><span style="color: #404040">Shane shouted in his receiver, grabbed the reptile by the shoulder. The Cho' Gnaanth shook him off and continued his assault in silence, paying little attention to anything but the fight. It was then that the Klavakian soldiers began to hit the flank of the spiders river. Their images highlighted in the power helmet's HUD, their gunfire and the explosions of their dead revealed their location pretty conspicuously. Shane was about to call a retreat, but his conscience got the better of him. </span><span style="color: #ff0000">"Shit... Let's tear a hole for 'em! Concentrate fire!" </span><span style="color: #404040">Shane turned his Arbalest on the arachnids and with the flip of a switch altered the weapon to it's own spray mode. </span><span style="color: #ff0000">"Hit 'em with whatever you have left!" </span><span style="color: #404040">With that, he opened fire and a torrent of the deadly liquid sprayed out at the spiders with the force of a firehose. Shane reeled back, taking a moment to stabilize himself and continue the spray. The others opened fire in the same vicinity and cut a hole, if only for a moment in the spider's force. </span><br>
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It would have been pointless to call out to the Klavakian's, the bedlam of war would consume his voice and been heard on deaf ears. When the Arbalest' tank was empty, Shane lifted the weapon with his right arm and locked it in place. </span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">"Retreat! Move out to the ship!" </span><span style="color: #404040">his voice cried out over their comms and the remaining soldiers either locked their weapons on their arms or ditched them entirely to begin a sprint back to their ship, to reach their salvation. </span><br>
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</span><span class="post-sub-heading post-sub-heading-OPTION"><span style="color: #404040"><span style="font-family: 'Orbitron';"> This World... Or the Next.</span></span></span><br>
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In his younger years, when Humanity was still carting his people off their world to serve in their armies, Uty'er had a vision, a bad omen. In his vision, he saw them enslaving his people, using them as objects, neglecting their souls. The human's taint would swallow them, but this was not the threat Uty'er was warned about, he saw humanity drawing Cho'Gnaanth into damnable places of evil, trespassing against beings that they could not comprehend. They were destroyed, the Cho'Gnaanth with them, better to live as a thrall than to die and be forgotten. </span><br>
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Uty'er feared this was that time. He had seen the spirits, he had seen the evil, he had warned them of it's taint, the human Chieftain continued onward against it though. For a time, Uty'er thought he had misunderstood this vision, perhaps it was Humanity leading the charge that granted both species a Salvation, perhaps it was this final stand against these metal monsters that would serve as a martyr to the others and they would press on.</span><br>
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When the Chieftain tried to halt his assault, Uty'er shook him off, he would not be faltered by the human's cowardice. When the human's retreated, Uty'er stood firm, alone against the horde. He carefully coated the ground with the plasma to give the humans a better chance at retreat, Uty'er would be their martyr, however during this battle, during this retreat, Uty'er saw the spirits once again. </span><br>
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Their forms shifted and swirled in his eyes, they had come once again but not as his savior as Uty'er had thought. They were retreating, running from the horde that besieged them, the one leading their charge was already pulsating and seeped corruption from his very being. Seeing the spirits run had unnerved the previously unshaken Shaman, immediately his gut was filled with dread and in a moments notice, Uty'er dropped the Nidhog Sprayer and turned to flee.</span></div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper">The company continued its desperate charge with Jolf leading it. Jolf ran, jumped and doged the metal spiders, stray bullets and bloodied limbs alike as more and more of his men were smarmed and killed. But still they charged on with typical Klavikan determination. It was either charge and probably die or stay behind and die for sure, and any chance at all was good enough for them. Jolf looked behind him at his company for just a moment, and saw something he would never forget.  Severed limbs, dieing men falling to the ground, only to be swarmed and finished.  The resulting explosion sent others flying in the air, to slam into the ceiling and then into the ground, doomed to suffer the same fate.  As there numbers dwindled from 130, to 110, to less than 100 they kept going, for the fear of being swarmed and killed motivated even the most cowardly and weak of the men to a never ending run.  As they sound of gunfire grew nearer Jolf's hopes soured.  Perhaps they could make it after all.<br>
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But his hopes were short lived.  For just 20 feet in front of him was a literal wave of metal spiders, 3 feet of small suicidal robots climbing over each other in an attempt to kill the salvagers that were holding them off with weapons ranging form pistols to large plasma spitting Gatling guns.  Despite all this firepower, they were barely holding, and it seemed unlikely Jolf and his men would be able to even get over the massive swarm with being killed by bots of by stray bullets.  Jolf almost gave up and let the swarm take him, but to do so would be to give up on his men, who, despite their reservation against him, had followed him in this suicidal charge.<br>
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Jolf wanted to call out to salvagers, to get their attention, but they wouldn't be able to hear him over the sounds of explosions and dieing men.  Jolf could only hope the Salvagers would see his desperate charge and do something to help.<br>
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As Jolf neared the wave all hope seemed lost.  But god smiled upon Jolf and his men that day, as Jolf watched the salvagers turn their guns aim to cut a path through the horde for Jolf and his men. Jolf's hopes soured "Keep going, were almost there!".<br>
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The group charged with renewed speed and energy, charging past the salvagers as they raced to the drop ships. As they passed, Jolf shouted to the leader of them;<br>
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"Thanks for the help. Your ships still at the drop zone, well help you board it before you leave"<br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify">Gof and what's left from from his platoon followed close behind the green humanoid and his units. Out of the association the soldiers struck the mechanical arachnids with their tentacles at bullet speed to keep the spiders at bay. Goff rode on one of the soldiers, crawling at a frightening speed the platoon began to tail the rectangle helmets. Gof is fighting to hold on to the head of the arthropod with his new arms. A number of his tentacles wrapped themselves around the carapace of the soldier and kept the orange humanoid from falling off. One hound saw the 'nose' of the swarm of arachnids coming and left the platoon to suicide bomb. In a green explosion it bought the aliens some time to escape from the station's countless minions.<br>
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Gof looked away from the area of the acidic explosion and looked forward towards the blocky humanoids close in front of the platoon. The last thing he needs is to be a diversion of some sort and this whole escape plan for him could be risky. But it was either death or capture - capture sounds better than death. Dying by the hands of mechanical explosives sounds like a bad way to go if you were to ask him. Gof looked down on the surface of the soldier's exoskeleton and grimaced at the though of his fate. The soldier grunted something to him, telling him to focus on the escape than to mall on what their fate would be.<br>
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The dark serpent wailed when it sensed the foreboding presence of the mechanical creatures as they by passed the black sticky hallways and rushed out from the entrance. Within the creature the Blue female and the tall male Aliuu issued a number of commands for the creature, activating multiple systems and functions inside the interior and outside it. The serpent's eyes flared and it open one of it's jaws. From within the creature a horde of crows and hounds had been forced from its inner body and landed into the swarm of mobile explosives. From there the entrance had turned into a full on fire show. The semi circle of Aliuu helped in this endeavor to keep the robotic arachnids at by while the Leviathan barfed out a lot of weak units at the swarm and shot read electrical beams at the entrance from it's two thruster-like organs. The tanks shot the entrance with their fire-like acidic fluid, soldiers and bile launchers shot balls of projectiles and The hound units were suicide bombing.<br>
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The misty dark gloomy room had turned into a bright room dancing with green, yellow and red light. monsters duking it out against the horde of spider mines.<br>
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A ship hulking in the black, looming over the broken remnants of shattered ships and cracked hulls, mirroring the shattered dreams of their crew, waited amongst the lost. This dark expanse of space had witnessed a terrible battle not long ago. Clouds of gunsmoke and exhaust drifted aimlessly in never ending region of the void, bodies floated with them followed by bright rivulets of a dark red liquid which sparkled in the light of a far off dying sun like an exquisite wine, a deadly wine, as the faces of those faces who provided such a rare drink would attest to, frozen in fear, horror and disbelief. Dead eyes frosted over from the cold just… floating…. For all of time… until the end of time.<br>
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Another ship warped into the system, smaller than the one which this carnage centered upon but by no means a vessel of insignificant proportions. This space going vessel remained silent and unmoving for a moment before firing its engines and closing in onto the larger. The hulking monsters heavy cannons swivel towards the smaller ship and watch It the entire time as it approached. The smaller ship extended a docking tube, latched, opened, and its occupants were received.<br>
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Marching feet, metal on metal, creating a raucous symphony of boots beating a perfect rhythm echoed through those angular halls of which a certain coms officer had ran through not too long ago. These visitors had a message as well, and a present of sorts.<br>
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Iron Bulkheads moved aside to allow a procession of harshly dressed and ragged soldiers and mercenaries into a rather large hall which was in the middle of the ship, a throne room one might have called it, a place where the Pirate Queen held her court. Pillars of a vibrant violet colored stone lay in perfect columns all the way down to where a bone throne sat upon a raised dais. Long flowing banners with ragged edges billowing in a nonexistent wind sat upon the wall behind the throne, emblazoned with an Ebony Raven in flight, wings outstretched to the sides with a beady violet eye staring down upon those down below.<br>
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 A single creature, as black as the night and space of which rested outside those hollow halls, laid across the throne almost lazily, shifting coils strewn about on the floor in a constant moving mass of shadows. What could be recognized as its head was propped up on its clawed hand with its elbow resting upon the arms of its throne. In another one of its clawed hands, lay a crystal goblet of dark red liquid of which it swirled in its grasp occasionally bringing the container to its equally maroon lips and took a sip with a satisfied lick of its lips with a long slender tongue. The rest of its body was swath in writhing darkness.<br>
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The group of space farers knelt down to the throne, as that brief glance was all they risked of the one who sat upon the chair of bones.<br>
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 The elected leader of the bunch took a few more steps before he too knelt down, gaze firmly locked onto the floor of which the man noted, was made up of a light grained wood stained with a dark liquid, just what that liquid was, he did not want to guess.<br>
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“My most gracious lady we found the ruins that ya’ spoke of ma’am. We were right pleased with ourselves when they had the markin’s that you also asked us ta find. We ventured down inta’ the depths of that place, unnatural it t’was miss you don’t know how so, and found da inscription chamber jus’ like ya said.”<br>
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The one on the Throne said nothing, the guards stationed on each of the columns stared coldly at the procession, willing them to make a move though both parties knew it was more for a show of force than anything. Not a slight against their capabilities oh no… but they both knew the thing on the throne would stop anything it found displeasing. Whether that be by word of something more substantial.<br>
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So the man continued on, speaking of how they ventured down into the deep underground of a foreign, desolate desert world of which the sun scorched all life, a miracle the sandstorms hadn’t worn the ruins down over the last few hundred Millennia but they stood tall and proud still if battered as if they had seen a battle. The wonders they saw of the lost and ancient technology, but also of the Dangers.<br>
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“The whole time I kept getting’ feeling of being watched, I don’t know by what Miss but I did, we all did. Maybe’s t’was the Statues, all them creepy bastards just lining the halls and walls, broken fragments of armor littering the floor.  They seemed ta be watchin evert’ing we did, the lack of bodies to go with the various weapons, armor and the like we found from various times didn’t help us a bit at all either Ma’am but we kept on we did. Eventually we got to the inscription chamber, did the sealing writ as ya told and then went to the vault dat opened up shortly afta’. Oh the gold there hidden Miss, it took me breath away it did, piled high to the walls it was.”<br>
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“<b><i>For all your talk of riches… I see none here in my court Mr. Scavenger… nor do I see the rest of your crew. I had thought there were more of you when I… hired your little motley band.” </i></b>A honeyed voice oozed off from the dais in front of them, seeping into their flesh and bones, letting them quiver from its poisonous sweetness.<br>
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“Ah err-yes Miss there was more of us but at the sight of the shinies some of the lads well…they uh… they mutinied.”<br>
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<b><i>“Hmm, a coup d’état now was it?</i></b>”<br>
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The speakers brow furrows, not understanding the word but continues anyway. “Yes Miss.” He repeats. “The bastards turned on us, and stole the riches… turns out they had planned this all along and had a separate ship waiting on yonder horizon. They tool the loot and bolted Ma’am. But we did bring sometin’ back Miss! Something that was locked up in the back that those traitorous dogs didn’ see in their haste to make off with the riches.” The speaker motioned for those behind him to bring it forward.<br>
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The Men pushed forward what seemed to be a ginormous metal casket, sealed with chains and bindings.<br>
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“It was in a small little hall way in the very back, the rest of the tunnel had collapsed but me and my lads managed to dig this out. There were others down there in separate small little rooms but we had not the time to get them, begging your forgiveness miss, but the sun was coming up and the UV rays would fry the ships circuitry at that close range so we took it and came straight here.”<br>
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The room darkened when the being on the throne opened its eyes, they could just feel it, all of them. Scavenger, guard, coward or brave fool it mattered not. They felt its presence like  a hammer blow to the gut, its boredom gone, now fully in the now it stood and placed a delicate clawed foot, shaped like a high heel down on the lower section of its dais. The sound of clinking metal, the swish of cloth and absence of footstep noises caught a needle of fear into their hearts at the unnatural stillness in the air, the perverse quiet.<br>
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<b><i>“And I… am supposed to believe these traitors… left your ship intact and did not blast it to atomized dust the moment they left? No one will hire mutineers in any business amongst the stars, the best they could have hoped for was food processors at the matter factories had they let you live. But yet your ship arrives intact without so much as a scratch and a rather new paint job might I add.”</i></b><br>
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Another silent footstep, they could see them, that grace filled, silent walk, the unnerving serpentine gait of which it came towards them.<br>
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Sweat poured down from the speakers face, is slicked his forehead and pooled at the tip of his noise to of which when it gained to much mass to sustain its bond to the speakers skin it fell to those red stained floors. “W-we-well Ma’am they were in such a hurry that I think we slipped their minds in their hasty getaway.”<br>
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<b><i>“Oh dear… All that Planning, to prepare a mutiny most likely weeks in advance or even months and yet to forget such a VITAL detail… it is truly sad is it not?” </i></b><br>
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That voice… that goddamn <i>voice! </i>The speaker desperately kept his face and eyes to the ground, he couldn’t risk looking up, couldn’t even move his head to do so if he wanted to. Paralyzed, paralyzed! His fingers had clenched together so tightly his nails were drawing blood from his skin. Their crimson droplets falling to join the darkness of the floor below him.<br>
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 “Y-y-yess…” Was all he could manage to reply to, his mind couldn’t process anything else, it was gridlocked. It was RIGHT in front of him, barely a foot away as the creature leaned Down over the metal casket. Clicking sounds told him it had laid its clawed hands upon its frigid metal surface.<br>
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<b><i>“And what of the coordinates to the next destination I entrusted to you?” </i></b><br>
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 An attempted swallow which did not make it past his bobbing adams apple. “I… I-I…. I am afraid the bastards have those as well ma’am. Th-they took the next set right from the cave walls.” That clicking clatter of claws on metal froze, silence filling the lapse of sound once more. “But we managed to get them as well miss don’t your worry! We have the original right here safe and sound! No one will be able to get it from the source now at’all. Storm blew the whole complex under the sands till t’was covered in it like a small shifty mountain, its impossible to find!” The man rushed out in a flurry of words.<br>
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<b><i>“Even so… your… inability.” </i></b>The word cut across the silence like a knife being dragged against the scavengers throats. <b><i>“-to guard what was entrusted to you will most likely bring to like unwanted… complications as others hear of said riches and powerful artifacts. Take them away from my sight and feed them. They have had a long and undoubtedly harsh… journey here.”</i></b><br>
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The guards led the procession out those massive bulkhead doors, shutting them out with a resounding clang but not before the speaker managed to shout. “We did our best! How was we supposed to know of the damned mutiny? We brought ya the damnable lump of metal did we not?”<br>
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But his final cries were ignored, as that last bout was brought about not by courage but of fear and rightly so. The creature in the middle crooned over the Iron coffin, gazing into the view port to stare at the visor barely visible within. Fools think that riches are always yellow and lustrous in color, flashy and eye catching. Oh they know not what true treasure is, and that is <i>power, </i>and this… will lead to a power so feared its name has been forgotten in time. Stricken from the records, banished from history or so they thought. Now… to crack the key.<br>
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<legend>The Jovians aint got shit on us</legend>
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<b>Again, in an unknown sector of space, at an unknown time</b><br>
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<br>
A ship warps into a long forgotten system and kills the engines. It drifts forward, its previous momentum carrying it alongst the navigational vector set. The starship slides through the black shifting shadows of space, a distant suns light catching its grey hull and alighting upon the letters spelling out the ships name.<br>
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<i>Kukri.</i><br>
<br>
<br>
Its destination dead ahead, a truly monstrous gas giant, of which its hydrogen and helium upper layers swirled with frightening intensity, clashing visibly even from outer space.<br>
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<br>
 “Captain Valerian! Warp successful, slowing down now to adjust to target planets gravitational field.” Yelled one man while Mr. Bai’core shouted out “Adjusting the drives now, were cool in 2 minutes, all systems checked out. The automated systems are already configuring the on board G levels to keep the crew alive when the brutal G-forces of such a planet came into effect.”<br>
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Captain Valerian stood at the ‘helm’ observing all that went on below him in the lower tiers as crewman on the bridge rushed here and there in a seemingly disorderly chaotic mess as they went about their duties.<br>
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“Activate low burn Helmsman, get us in nice and slow. Weapons Primed Mr.Tibbins! The gas can hide all manner of foes since we last had word from this place.”<br>
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A balding old man nodded and turned to his headset and holo-grids, shouting out orders to bring the guns online and prep for combat.<br>
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<br>
The Captain had little thought that there were actually any foes lurking about, none of their sensor mines which they laid upon previous visits had been tripped. However, their passenger had brought along serious protection and insisted on absolute secrecy. One didn’t bring in that type of firepower unless one was afraid of pursuit and or worse, topping it all off contacting a personal member of the Ravens Syndicate, one of the core Members of the House of Ravens itself no less and offered a payment far more than a simple ferrying job required.<br>
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Valerian frowns as his mind turns to their passenger. Something about her and her lot just screamed of trouble but the Lady he would place his trust in, she had never failed them before… well almost never. But that, in his book, was good enough.<br>
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The Captain sighs. “Mr.Williams, please inform our guests that we have arrived at our destination.”<br>
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The young Officer nods and brings up the panel for the guest suite rooms but pauses. “and err… the body guards sir?”<br>
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Valerian dismisses that. “If you see fit to do so Mr. Williams, preferably I would leave them out of it. They have been nothing but trouble since day one. They are body guards not baby sitters.” The Terran finishes while thinking back to what uproar those damned lizards had caused the first week. No wonder Aligora had left her kind, they strait up sucked.<br>
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<br>
The first day the damned reptiles had dismissed their quarters for they were two hallways away from their charge, normally Valerian would agree to their demands for they gathered around the Terran and towered over him like the reaper with scales but the fact of the matter was they had no rooms in that section big enough for the damned things. Despite the fact they told the bunch of Ardino’s that the Lady of Ravens room was right next door and the crews vow of honor they still didn’t care at all, just stared at him. If he was a normal man he would have crumpled before the subtle promise of pain and suffering in those eyes… but he dealt with Dredge on a daily basis, it didn’t have much effect on him as it did the poor bastard next to him who looked to be shaking in his boots.<br>
<br>
<br>
 Then the next day when he had invited the guest and her guards to a dinner with his officers, they insisted on checking the food as if it was poisoned, again normally he wouldn’t blame them, he sometimes did it himself as The Lady decided she would have Moroc play a trick on the crew or to test their perceptiveness, but really, that glass of 56’ vintage was perfectly fine and rather expensive! The whole tangy taste was what made it so great, it didn’t need to be thrown across the room. The fuss they made about how The Lady was not there to dine with them also didn’t help his newly developing headache that only surfaced when he dealt with these bunch. The Lady hardly ever dines with the rest of the crew, he had tried to explain but to no avail, again the bastards just stared at him as if he was retarded or mentally ill.<br>
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<br>
Then they found Aligora and Nagashira… ohhh boooy. The group asked if there was a place they could train and keep up their skills. Valerian, thinking that this asking was a great deal better than demanding as if they owned the ship, granted their request and directed them towards the Cargo bay where the ships weapon masters often held drills for the combat personnel of the ship.<br>
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Walking in as Aligora and Nagashira were engaged in some serious hand to hand combat (he could feel the vibrations from his own quarters from the force of their blows) well… Valerian had at first thought the yelling and screaming was because Nagashira was the first Dredge the Guards had seen and she was a rather intimidating specimen, as was Aligora who dwarfed her counterparts. The rest of the Dredge crew kept to themselves, in their own respective areas of the ship, Nagashira being the only one who cared to greet outsiders so none of the guests had seen a Dredge till then. But no, they pulled a gun on a member of the House of Ravens, the Pirate queens own personnel house. Valerian thought he would have to order them to be contained until Aligora and Nagashira handled the situation. The two females had tongues fit for vipers when it suited them.<br>
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The crew still hadn’t forgiven the reptiles for that, they loved Aligora and the slights made against her character that day riled them up in defense of her honor. The Captain knew for a fact that for the past few days the Bodyguards had not received their food warm at all, a small slight from both the cook and the one delivering it. That was about as far as Valerian would let the crew express their displeasure and as far as they were willing to go for they were still guests, and they feared their Ladies retribution should she learn of any slight against guests under her roof than they disliked the Ardino’s. The sponsor herself was served with every courtesy available as commanded by the Lady herself.<br>
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Reflecting on all these things Captain Valerian nodded. “Yes best keep them out of the loop for the moment, this ulcer doesn’t need to grow any bigger.”<br>
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The coms officer nods once more and contacts the guest suite and notifies its occupants about said development as the gas giant grew closer and closer, its perfectly spherical shape rising up to dominate the front visual sensors vision. Mr. Bai’Core exclaimed “My god, this planet! I still cant believe how symmetrical it is, it’s almost as if it was shaped and crafted by the hands of a master sculptor!”<br>
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 Mr.Williams to the right of him rolled his own eyes. “Yea you can marry it later, get the helmsmen an entrance vector would ya?”<br>
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“I will get Moroc to poison you in your sleep.”<br>
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“In your dreams Bai’Core”<br>
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The two officers good natured banter continued as the ship navigated its way ever closer,  to its prize inside the stormy, raging beast.<br>
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As Captain Valerian began the final preparations for entering the inner depths of the gas giant, a small feather soft tingle touched the back of his subconscious. The Terran stiffened a the thick, rich, smooth as honey voice poured into his thoughts and oozed over everything, dominating his mind with its will. All the Terran man could do was wait for the presence to fade and nod. “Y-yes Ma’am, it shall be done.” \<br>
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Not even a minute Later, two men knocked on the door to the suite of which the benefactor of this voyage had been given. “Ma’am, I am sure you are aware that we are nearing our destination, to celebrate a safe voyage here the Lady of the Ship would like to invite you to her quarters for a private meeting Miss.” One of the two men said, ignoring the looks they got from the two Ardino of whom flanked either side of the door.<br>
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The big lizard men glared down at the two terrans as if they had witnessed a particularly bad infestation of cockroaches of which needed to be exterminated. One of the two terrans thought inwardly. ‘Damn these guys are assholes, I mean I know the Dredge have more reasons for me to be terrified of them but other than Nagashira they really don’t seem to care about us at all. The disdain in those eyes are making me sick to the stomach.’<br>
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As the thin figure of Voracius I entered the room, wheeled by an almost-sad-looking android, the various viceroys, ministers, and generals planted about the table sprouted up like sunflowers.<br>
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"Sit, ladies and gentlemen." The King croaked good-naturedly, taking his place at the head of the table. The room was cozy. A small fire was lighted behind the Monarch as the only source of light that reflected off the beautifully-stained hardwood panneled walls and polished floors of the same material, a small crystal chandelier glimmering and further illuminating the room. Two honor guards flanked the doors, standing resolute in their starched, white uniforms. Outside the windows, the bustling traffic of Ferraria City ran a hundred stories below, with the elevated train humming along its magnetic tracks far off in the distance, wrapping around imposing skyscrapers of gaudy ornamentalism and iridescent stone and steel.<br>
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All at once, Carpathius rose, his almost nine-foot frame towering over the seated officials. He had a facial expression of steel. His prosthetic eye focused and unfocused, his breathing machine whirred.<br>
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"We recieved a communique from dark space, Your Grace. It took some time to arrive, as it was sent along the routine teletype from the Periphery where it was recieved. A station along the way realized its importance and beamed it by secure teletype to my office." He handed over a perforated sheet of paper with numeric scrawl across the top and a small message at the bottom.<br>
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"We had linguistics run it through the Computer. They were mostly baffled until we had the Mathematics Department join them on it."<br>
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"What is the meaning?" Asked the old monarch.<br>
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"It means nothing but the coming of Armageddon. The signal was traced to a derelict in dark space. Various interlopers have, no doubt, also recieved the communique and have commenced boarding operations and perhaps some hostilities. Our Lensmen were not very sure and we thought it would be unwise to send a probe."<br>
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Voracius nodded. "Very well, ready the 12th Fleet for dispatch at a moment's notice, and call the Associated Press. I should relay this information to the public."<br>
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None dared oppose him on this, although some may have wished to. They nodded and dispersed.<br>
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<b><i>Svoliani Central Transport Station, Svoliani, Kefalonia</i></b><br>
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Hours after his summons, Forozov was standing on the platform waiting for the red eye train to the space elevator where he might join his men as they made ready for deploy. Their mission was, as he understood, investigate signals arriving from dark space. Never an assignment an ensign nor captain wishes upon themselves. As he stood in full regalia, an impressive physical specimen, women blushed and men tipped their hats in respect. The train silently hummed into the station on magnetic rails, the conductor leaning out the doors with a whistle. The early-work crowd poured out from the train in seven or eight orderly queues and the conductor boomed, "All aboard the Endron Express to Kalvic City! All aboard!"<br>
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Forozov, stiffening his facial expression, picked up his two suitcases and slipped into the queue, finding a seat on the train with a small boy to his right, a young couple across from him, and he at the window. The boy, playing with a small pewter soldier painted up like a marine looked from the toy to Forozov, then back to the toy, then smiled sheepishly and went back to his pretend game. Forozov smiled a barely discernable smirk and turned his head to look out the window as the station, Svoliani, and the vast snow-covered countryside unfolded before him at a dizzying pace.</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><b><i>Bridge of the HMS Dentrov, Kefalonian Homeguard Spaceport </i></b><br>
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As Forozov entered the bridge, the command crew of twenty well-groomed and pristinely-uniformed men and women rose and saluted with Second Officer Laratov declaring, "Captain on the Bridge!"<br>
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Forozov stood framed in the doorway, smoke wreathing his face as it smoldered from his pipe. His lips barely moved apart as he gave a clear, crisp, "At ease."<br>
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The bridge, like most of the ship, was more akin to the interior of a cathedral than a starship. Faux buttresses of iridescent stone rose up from the black-and-white simulated marble checkered floor to frame the great cold plasma windows which covered the circumference of the bridge and under which great banks of crystalline computers rested. In the center of the great room, under the apex of the vaulted ceiling, was an altar-like structure from which a holographic star map rose in an intense and fiery golden specter. Forozov stood behind this and said to Laratov, "Have we given the affirmative to ship out?"<br>
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"Indeed we have, Captain." The wiry bridge officer replied. "Coordinates have already been inputed."<br>
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"What are we picking up on the Intergalactic Lens?"<br>
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The star map flickered away and was replaced by a confusing, elaborate display of blurred shapes and symbols.<br>
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"We've got this so far," the Chief Lensman replied. "Much of the same. The Lens doesn't work as well in dark space, for obvious reasons."<br>
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He was correct. The Lens was a device every ship was equipped with that could accurately scan any section of the cosmos or the corresponding hyperspace at speeds ten billion times the speed of light; however, the dark energy concentration of dark space and the object spatial distance disrupted these readings. What would be rendered as a starship in inhabited, or "light space" with full specs, was instead a metallic blur. Based on these blurs; however, Forozov could determine the rough positions of the vessels and determine the best formation for approach.<br>
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"Get me ship commands on-screen."<br>
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"Aye, Captain!"<br>
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The Lens faded away again to seven individual circles which filled with the images of the seven other ship commanders of the twelfth fleet as they responded to the hail. They tipped their hats to Forozov and then removed them and all signed on with their names and ship names.<br>
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"As you are all aware," Forozov began, "we are to make way to the source of the disruption by the end of the hour. As acting commodore, I will be taking command of the expedition. Any objections?"<br>
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One of the captains raised his hand but said nothing.<br>
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"Duly noted, Captain Tortius. Anyone else?"<br>
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Silence.<br>
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"Excellent. After reading over the Lens reports I am inclined to approach this situation in a tight and defensive formation. The likelihood of serious combat is high. Various biological signals, along with positronic have been gleaned so we know we're dealing with both biologicals and synthetics. This being said, your marine contingent need to load up EMP weaponry as well as lasgun charges and plasma charges. Be prepared for zero gravity, zero atmosphere deployment as well. Anything to add?"<br>
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"Excellent. We will arrange in wedge formation, the <i>Dentrov</i> will form the center of the wedge. Have fighter wings prepped, we may need a bugger escort. Standby for hyperspace transposition."<br>
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The screen faded away to nothing.<br>
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"Laratov, prepare to transpose."<br>
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"Aye, Captain!"<br>
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It was then that Antonius trudged in, his metallic legs making a rhythmic pneumatic noise as he walked. He was dressed in dress whites and carried two swords at either hip and a brace of plasma pistols. He carried a note in his hand.<br>
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"Teletype from the Offices of the Palace, Captain Forozov." He bowed slightly and handed over the note.<br>
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Forozov nodded appreciatively and looked over the note. It read, simply, "Give them Hell." He folded the note and stuck it in his pocket, then thanked the android who had assumed his usual place by the helm.<br>
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"Transposition on standby." Laratov said.<br>
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"Prepare to transpose in 3...2...1...."<br>
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From the observation deck of the spaceport, workers and military personnel were treated to the surreal and never boring spectacle of a hyperspace transposition. The whole of space about the eight ships warped and distorted like ripples against water, then the massive iridescent superstructure of the Kefalonian dreadnoughts began to fade and suddenly, in a flash of black light, they had vanished into the Immaterium, flying along at a million times the speed of light to their distant target.</div>
				
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			The company continued its desperate charge with Jolf leading it. Jolf ran, jumped and doged the metal spiders, stray bullets and bloodied limbs alike as more and more of his men were smarmed and killed. But still they charged on with typical Klavikan determination. It was either charge and probably die or stay behind and die for sure, and any chance at all was good enough for them. Jolf looked behind him at his company for just a moment, and saw something he would never forget.  Severed limbs, dieing men falling to the ground, only to be swarmed and finished.  The resulting explosion sent others flying in the air, to slam into the ceiling and then into the ground, doomed to suffer the same fate.  As there numbers dwindled from 130, to 110, to less than 100 they kept going, for the fear of being swarmed and killed motivated even the most cowardly and weak of the men to a never ending run.  As they sound of gunfire grew nearer Jolf's hopes soured.  Perhaps they could make it after all.<br>
But his hopes were short lived.  For just 20 feet in front of him was a literal wave of metal spiders, 3 feet of small suicidal robots climbing over each other in an attempt to kill the salvagers that were holding them off with weapons ranging form pistols to large plasma spitting Gatling guns.  Despite all this firepower, they were barely holding, and it seemed unlikely Jolf and his men would be able to even get over the massive swarm with being killed by bots of by stray bullets.  Jolf almost gave up and let the swarm take him, but to do so would be to give up on his men, who, despite their reservation against him, had followed him in this suicidal charge.<br>
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Jolf wanted to call out to salvagers, to get their attention, but they wouldn't be able to hear him over the sounds of explosions and dieing men.  Jolf could only hope the Salvagers would see his desperate charge and do something to help.<br>
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As Jolf neared the wave all hope seemed lost.  But god smiled upon Jolf and his men that day, as Jolf watched the salvagers turn their guns aim to cut a path through the horde for Jolf and his men. Jolf's hopes soured "Keep going, were almost there!".<br>
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The group charged with renewed speed and energy, charging past the salvagers as they raced to the drop ships. As they passed, Jolf shouted to the leader of them;<br>
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"Thanks for the help. Your ships still at the drop zone, well help you board it before you leave"<br>
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As the group charged in none noticed, or at least cared, for the figures who slipped through the power gap caused by their charge.
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</blockquote>With the Klavikans on the run, the Humans joined in the hasted retreat. Their Power Armor was cumbersome as where their large weapons, most ditching the guns to be swallowed by the Spider horde while others tried backpedaling while firing into the horde. Two of the suits were quickly swarmed and exploded quite gloriously, spraying metal and gibblets all over the room adding to the carnage.  Though Uty'er was initialing making a final last stand, he found himself retreating when the Spirits themselves fled from these mechanical arachnids. He wore a lighter armor and so soon found himself surpassing his allies and reaching the ship significantly ahead of the others.<br>
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The power armored guards outside of the <i>Eternity Damned'</i>s airlocked gangway were already prepped and ready, aiming chainguns down the hall with the airlock opened and ready to receive the retreating salvagers. Unfortunately for the Klavikans, the <i>Eternity Damned</i> seemed to have no interest on letting them aboard and as the human Salvagers all stormed inside, the armored guards outside turn their chainguns on the aliens, refusing them entry.<br>
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<span style="color: #0000b3">"You can't enter, XO's orders. I'm sorry." </span><span style="color: #404040">one of the Salvagers said with a bitter tone, he clearly wasn't happy about it either. </span> Meanwhile the Ship's smaller Ajax railguns began firing into the hall rapidly to cover the airlock while the last of the humans (along with Uty'er) rushed inside. The moment the doors closed, the human ship jerked away from the Goliath derelict and wrapped around the corner, drifting away from the derelict to avoid the spiders should they jumped from the derelict and attack the <i>Eternity Damned.</i><br>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">"That was fucked up." </span><span style="color: #404040">Shane said as the airlock began to pressurize them. He shook his head and threw his Arbalest on the ground in frustration. </span><span style="color: #ff0000">"Why didn't you let them onboard? What the hell!? Do you want them to blow us out of the sky!?"</span><span style="color: #404040"> Shane said angrily pushing one of the guards who merely protested that he was following orders. </span><span style="color: #ff0000">"Who's orders!?"</span><span style="color: #404040"> Shane barked, if they weren't in power armor, the guard would be visibly pale and sweating.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #0000b3">"Dani, she said to not let the Xenos onboard, she wanted to.. Wanted to talk to you right when you came aboard." </span><span style="color: #404040">He said, the Salvagers were all professionals, but Shane was their boss, he naturally inspired a little fear in his crew when he was mad.</span><br>
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Danielle Newman, a young woman thin, standing at only 5'5 she appeared even smaller than she actually was. She paraded a story about being a Pirates daughter, a runaway who took refuge in a the strapping Salvager's ship. Everyone bought it, she didn't even need to name her 'pirate father' or explain her past whatsoever, everyone kept their business to themselves and that made infiltrating the rogue ship even simpler. A Henson Corporation Agent, Danielle had been tasked with a rather common duty; hunting down and eliminating illegal smugglers, anyone who could deal significant damage to Henson Corporation's stranglehold on the Terran Economy. She never once suspected that this rickety piece of shit would be the spearhead of such an operation, but she believed that it would lead her to them. </span><br>
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However, everything seemed to change when she met Shane Warner, though she had lived many lives she had never really fell for anyone quite like him. She could never put her finger on it but there was something about him that just seemed... Welcoming, familiar. Today was the day that she put two and two together. When Shane took his crew on board the Derelict, Danielle invited herself into his office and quite simply got access to his terminal. Finding an unfinished report to Henson Corporation was quite the discovery, seeing an alert to recall Shane and have him reassigned was further surprising news. It appeared as though Henson Corporation was mobilizing an Overlord unit, they took a particular interest in this little derelict, the area would be swarming with lawyers in no time.</span><br>
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So she ordered to not let the Xeno's on board, getting chummy with the aliens would complicate the mission, already her feelings for Shane were clouding her judgement as an Agent but at least now she understood why her and Shane had such a connection. They both had lived and died many time, and they were both on their last life. Danielle waited in Shane's office for him to come angrily storming up here, keeping up his charade. When she heard the slamming of heavy power armored feet storming down the hall, she propped herself up on his desk and waited.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">"Dani, what the hell is your issue!?" </span><span style="color: #404040">his voice was heard before the power armored figure appeared in the doorway. Danielle was unusually calm she picked at her fingers and flashed a look over at the would-be captain.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"I didn't know you worked for the Corporation." </span><span style="color: #404040">she said raising a curious eyebrow at the man. If Shane were a more green Agent, he may have become unnerved, he however didn't shift his footing. Shane walked inside his office and closed the sliding door behind him. </span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">"You've been prying Dani, I'm sorry but I can't let that get out." </span><span style="color: #404040">He was reaching for the laser pistol on his side when Danielle stopped him, putting her hands on his steel gauntlet. </span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"They're mobilizing one of the Overlords, they seem to really want whatever is inside that wreck." </span><span style="color: #404040">she said raising an accusing eyebrow. Shane put two and two together, he couldn't help but chuckle. He'd been serving with another Agent all these years and neither of them knew it, they both were subsequently convincing.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">"Well... Where do we go from here? I figure they sent me a message?" </span><span style="color: #404040">Shane said stepped into the Power Armor's holding rack inside the Office, the armor hissing as it opened up and shane stepped out. Danielle gestured to his terminal and Shane sat down at the console to read the message in its entirety. Something seemed to peek his interest as he raised an eyebrow and threw an eye at the clock. </span><span style="color: #ff0000">"Seems we have but a few minutes before they're scheduled arrival."</span><br>
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<span style="color: #ff8000">"Seems that way." </span><span style="color: #404040">Danielle said crossing her arms and smiling contently down at Shane. One agent was deadly, two working together would be nearly unstoppable- especially with an Overlord backing them up.</span></div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper">With the Klavikans leading the way, the Salvagers joined in the hasted retreat. Their Power Armor was cumbersome as were their large weapons.  Most ditched the guns in an effort to outrun the ever hungry horde, dropping them with a resounding thud to the ground to be swallowed by the horde. While others tried backpedaling while firing into the horde. Two of the Salvagers were quickly swarmed and exploded quite gloriously, spraying metal and gobblets all over the room, some of which landed on Jolf's helmet (which he subsequently tried to wipe off, resulting in a thin layer of red gore being spread across his vision). The Reptilian alien who had been resolute in a last stand apparently had changed his mind, for he soon surpassed even Jolf (of course this would not be the case if he had remembered to disengage stealth mode, which was now sucking up the suits power output to maintain a level of stealth during the retreat).  The other Salvagers, those left anyways soon passed the slower Klavikans and maintained a steady pace behind Jolf and the Rovilans.<br>
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 The power armored guards outside of the Eternity Damned's airlocked gangway were already prepped and ready, aiming chainguns down the hall with the airlock opened and ready to receive the retreating salvagers. Unfortunately for the Jolf and his company, the Eternity Damned seemed to have no interest on letting them aboard and as the human Salvagers all stormed inside, the armored guards outside turn their chainguns on the them, refusing them entry.<br>
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"You can't enter, XO's orders. I'm sorry." one of the Salvagers said with a bitter tone, he clearly wasn't happy about it either.  Meanwhile the Ship's smaller railguns began firing into the hall rapidly to cover the airlock while the last of the Salvagers (along with Reptilian) rushed inside. The moment the doors closed, the human ship jerked away from the Goliath derelict and wrapped around the corner, drifting away from the derelict to avoid the spiders should they jumped from the derelict and attack the Eternity Damned.<br>
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Jolf's second in command stood just in front of where the alien ship use to be, shouting a number of curse words at them.  Meanwhile Jolf was busy helping to hold off the swarm so his men could board the drop ships (which were actually right next to the alien ship).<br>
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"Klarzak (his second in command), stop shouting at the damn aliens like an idiot and get put men into the drop ships!"<br>
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Klarzak stopped swearing, turned towards Jolf and began to respond "BUT THEY LEFT US-" before realizing that they had their own ships.  He then growled to himself and proceeded to help load the drop ships.<br>
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Meanwhile Jolf and the 20 guards they had left behind fired fuoriously into the crowd, fighting to hold back the seemingly endless swarm.  If not for the machine guns and the spider bots Jolf had orders to be deployed, they surely would of been over run by now.  Fortunatly for them, the added power of several MGs ad several more spider bots held back the torrent... For now.<br>
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As the last of the men loaded into the drop ships and began to lift off, Klarzak shouted "Were ready to go, get the fuck over here!"<br>
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Now it was time for the hard part.  Jolf knew the moment he and his guards stopped firing the swarm would rush forward.  They would have to be quick and precise.<br>
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"On the count of 3, throw all the plasma grenades you can and run for the ships, I've orders the spiders bots to jump into the swarm  to buy as time.  Disengage stealth mode and prepare to go!" The Klavikans guards nodded and continued their onslaught, awaiting the countdown.<br>
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"3... 2... 1... NOW!". All at once, Jolf and the 20 guards stopped firing and started running  Without a sufficent hail of bullets holding the swarm back, it rushed forward with renewed speed- right on top of the plasma grenades that had been left behind.  These grenades exploded in a rather large blue explosions, sending blue plasma high into the air and spreading it across the room and down the hall, killing hundreds of metal spiders and almost hitting the fleeing Klavikans. Within seconds though the horde pushed forward, forming a bridge if melting comrades in their struggle to cross the plasma pool.<br>
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Only to be stopped once again as the Rovilan Spider Bots dropped from the curling, exploding upon hitting the floor.  This gave Jolf and his men just enough time to leap into the open doors of the drop ships and undock from the station with moments to spare.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><i><b>Marine Barracks of the HMS Golovkov, Kefalonian Twelfth Fleet</b></i><br>
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"Alright ladies and gents, listen up!" Barked the marine sergeant as he entered the barracks and wrapped hard on the metal bunks with a wooden baton. "We got orders to suit up and be ready to disembark or repel boarders. I'll be flat honest with you, the Captain and Brass don't know what the Hell we're supposed to be doing out here. Wouldn't be the first time. Your squad," he looked over the twelve, well-muscled and attentive men and women in the forth barracks, "is tasked with defending a VIP, Dr. Lobelius. Lobelius dies and we made the trip for nothing. He's the only one on the boat who has the foggiest idea what's going on. That being said, the doc says 'Jump,' you say, 'how high?' are we clear?"<br>
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The marines toed, single file, out of the barracks and in an orderly queue went first to the Apparatus Room where they were outfitted with re-breathers, goggles, a high-strength smart polymer was sprayed over their entirety of their body to function as a light-weight, durable space suit, and their uniforms were applied over the polymer. They then trooped to the Armory where they picked up each a M VI Laser Rifle, Plasma Pistol, a plethora of EMP grenades, and ammunition and recharge packs. They were decked out fully when Dr. Lobelius arrived in the same gear, save that he wore a white lab coat and black trousers instead of uniform blues. He carried a satchel brimming with papers and a lasgun hanging limply from a strap over his right arm. The doctor was tall and thin with severe features, slicked hair, and round spectacles which added to the look of studiousness that he exuded.<br>
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"Dr. Lobelius, PhD. Subatomic Physics, Xenocommunications, Speculative Xenohistory at your service," the doctor introduced himself to the marines. They sat and chatted by the window of the shuttle bay as the ships' bows suddenly tore through the hyperspace rift into real-space and emerged into the chaotic grouping of ships they had observed previously.<br>
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"Here we are," Forozov observed, hoping this hamhanded approach hadn't awarded them a fire-fight. Prior to re-entry, the Kefalonian ships had powered on weapons and devoted full rotary power to shields. Their weapons remained unlocked to appear defensive and not menacing and they proceeded to sweep the derelict in the center of the field for schematics while they assessed the immediate politics of the situation.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><b>-----Commander Jolf, Docking Bay #2 of Klavikan Carrier Vessel-----</b><br>
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Commander Jolf sat on a crate next to the drop ship he had just gotten off.  His suit was on but his helmet was off and sat on the ground between his feet.  His head was in his hands, yet he was not crying, merely thinking over the events that had just occurred.  He had went in with 200 men.  87 had come out alive.  <i>It's all my fault...</i>  he thought despairingly, but he quickly shoved the notion aside.  He had tried to get them alive, who knew those things were insie...?  <i>If only I had taken the other path... </i>He shook his head and stood up.  He couldn't let his guilt get a hold of him.  He was a Commander of men, men that would die.  He would have to get over it.  <i>Perhaps some Dravak-Bars will cheer me up... </i>(Dravak-Bars are candy bars, named after the glorious leader himself!).  As Jolf stood up to walk to the break room, the lights of the Carrier suddenly turned off and the red high-alert lights turned on.<br>
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Everyone in the room froze and scilence filled the void.  Commander Tarzak's voice came out iof the loud speakers.<br>
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"Everyone man their battle stations, a fleet of ships have just dropped out of FTL.  Attempting to identify... please hold"<br>
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<i>Not again...</i><br>
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<b>-----Commander Tarzak, Klavikan B-2 Command Vessel, Command Bridge-----</b><br>
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Tarzak scowled.  The exploration of the station had been a horrendous failure.  Over a hundred men gone and little gained.  Dravak was not going to be happy...<br>
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Suddenly a technician on the right side of the command center broke the silence as he almost fell out of the chair.<br>
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"Sir!  A fleet of ships has just dropped out of FTL!"<br>
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Tarzak sighed.  Not this shit again.  He picked up the fleet comms and said;<br>
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"Everyone man their battle stations, a fleet of ships have just dropped out of FTL.  Attempting to identify... please hold"<br>
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Returning his attention to the technician he said "Who is it?"<br>
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"Im not sure... appears to be another species sir"<br>
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Suddenly the who room shakes and red lights begin flashing.<br>
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"What the fuck just happened??"  Tarza demanded.<br>
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The technicians all staired at their screens in shock.  Tarzak grumbled and looked up at his screens.  What greeted him was something completely unexpected.  His carrier, in pieces, bit floating everywhere.  The Battleships around it, drifting out into space, massive holes in their hulls.<br>
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"S-s- Sir!  20 ships have just dropped out of Warp... oh mygod"<br>
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"What is it??" Tarzak demanded, his heart floaing up into his mouth.<br>
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:It... it cant be.." The technician feel silent. He didn't need to say another word.  For on Tarzaks screen the ships appeared in plain view.  20 odd looking cruisers, similar in style to pre-war Rovilan ships.  On their sides a large circle with a red dot in the center was painted- the Rovilan flag.<br>
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<i>No... it cant be...we conquered them millions of years ago...</i><br>
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Suddenly his screen blinked off.  As quickly as they truend off they tned back on.  The ships were replaced with a single image.  A Rovilan General dressed in apre-war uniform, his long tail resting casually in his folded hands.<br>
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"Greeting Tarzak, I am Rolf, Genereal of the New Rovilan Republic.  I'm sorry our meeting has to be on such terms.  I just wanted to send my condolences, for you and your crew.  The screen turned black once again.<br>
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<i>what the fuck...</i><br>
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"SIR, THE SHIPS HAVE LAUNCHED MISSILES!"<br>
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<b>SHIT</b><br>
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-Transmission end, 5:35pm, Eastern Rovilan Time, 4/57/5278-<br>
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