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<span style="font-size: 14px">Light pain shot through Max's back as he slammed to the ground. Max payed no attention to it, placing his hands on the ground and shooting back to his feet.</span><br>
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"Remember, swing with your right arm in a clockwise pivot, lean forward, sweep your leg forward, and follow through!" The man in front of Max proclaimed with slight frustration. Max grunted in affirmation, before nodding to continue the exercise. Before you could say "Don't screw up" he was on the ground again.</span><br>
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Max had a tendency to push himself. He felt he had to learn combat to help his subjects should something go wrong. He had already become a master of the art of the pistol, but still was weak in hand to hand combat. Oh against a normal person it'd be done in seconds with Max standing triumphant. Against a trained soldier, however, it was a different matter. Max wouldn't rest until he could defeat his own men in CQC, then he'd train them to the point where he couldn't beat them, than train until he could, so on and so forth.</span><br>
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"Again," followed a third attempt. Max hopped back to his feet as the exercise was repeated once more. The opposing fighter grabbed his left arm, reached to shove him in the chest whilst sweeping his leg to topple him. Max swiveled his arm, knocking the blow away, leaned forward and struck the fighter whilst hitting his standing leg with a kick. The fighter toppled to the ground and Max picked him up. "Good job sir!"</span><br>
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"Hey, I need to be prepared. Thank you for the training."</span><br>
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"Would you?" The man smiled and nodded lightly.</span><br>
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"Sorry sir, but I've been here for a long time. It's my kid's birthday, and I'm almost late fo-"</span><br>
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"Say no more," Max said with a brush of his hand, handing the man a towel he had gotten while the soldier was talking and patted his arm. "I completely understand. Jaclyn's a sweetie, you should be there for her."</span><br>
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"Thank you." The man nodded and accepted the towel, before smiling and heading out the door. Max nodded, and headed back to his office. As he did, a man approached him.</span><br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify"> Three large sized ships seemed to slowly approach the planet from where the source of the 'echo' has come. The ships were a grutesque mixture of flesh and machinery. The tear-shaped cockpit and the nose of the vessel remain mechanical awhile the rest of the ship's body would be biological. A body made of a mass of huge tentacles and a number of fins that you'd find on aquatic mammals. The flesh of this being seems to be dense, thick and covered with pretty rough scales. The creatures could even moan and reacted like living things. Inside these creatures things seem to be different. The inside is mostly mechanical for the humanoid Aliuu's while the more animalistic Aliuus resided in biological areas of the ship. But let's not bore you with the insides of these things let's focus on the situation that is at hand.<br>
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The echoing signal was swiftly picked up by one of the Tal'ed Empire's many Vanguard Scout fleets, silently drifting throughout space. The fleet quickly relays the location of the signal, its frequencies, and its patterns back to command. After a brief period of consideration, the decision was made; the fleet's command outpost sent out a single order; INVESTIGATE.<br>
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The men and women serving as the crew of the T.N.S. Valiant observed the scene. The Valiant was a Heavy Stealth Battleship, a massive, heavily armed ship which made up a decent sized chunk of the Tal'ed Imperial Navy. The commanding officer of said ship, a young-ish man referred to as Drek'ker, had been through many battles, and seen many things, but he'd never seen something such as the scene before him.<br>
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The ships appeared to be...alive? Some parts were obviously made of inorganic matter, but others seemed to be living matter as well. Sensors even seemed to think that parts of the ship were making noises as well. Queer indeed...<br>
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Planet A7-5BG was a truly ancient technological marvel from a time lost since forgotten, a time of great technological prowess. What it’s main purpose was remained unknown to this very day, but one of it’s many purposes would soon become known once more.<br>
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The creators of the planet, ancient and long lost beings known then as Observers, had attained the ultimate form of wormhole travel. Rather than simply opening a hole from one location to another they had achieved the ability to jump between dimensions. Initially the feat was a hard one, and a one way trip at that. But with time and patience ways to jump between dimensions were created, and the planet was one such apparatus.<br>
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Though the deserted space around it gave no clues towards it’s activation. The only logical cause was that something from the other side had triggered the planet, most likely awakening it. As the many fleets gathered there seemed to be a lull in the area around the planet. A moment of silence one could say, and most noticeably being one that was not metaphorical but a reality as all forms of communication were cut. Slowly power was drained from every ship in a sense, not so much as draining them but forcing them into a shut down entirely, all forms of energy simply flickering to a stop.<br>
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The space around the planet darkened considerably as the planet began to glow, and it almost seemed like the light around it was being pulled in as well. Slowly it seemed, although truly lasting only moments, a purple ball of energy formed at the front of the planet, beams of light stretching between it and receptacles on the planet. The energy stretched and grew, dominating the space between the planet and the fleets with every passing second until it was nearly as big as the planet itself.<br>
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And suddenly it seemed space itself was torn asunder, a bright golden light spilling from the sudden hole, followed by the appearance of multiple ships. One after another came through, seeming to drop from a state of warp as they exited. The most noticeable aspect of these ships were their foreign appearance that was unknown to any life form in this universe, as well as the fact that each and every ship that funneled through had most definitely been in some sort of battle with a majority of the ships showing evident if not critical signs of damage.<br>
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The ships continued to flow through until finally the final one exited, giving a logical basis to the size of the wormhole as it seemed to barely squeeze out. The ship that followed was massive in size, nearly matching the planet’s own size. Only this ship seemed unharmed, and immediately the newly arrived fleet formed around it to the best of their ability.<br>
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The vessels looked towards what had happened in front of them as they witnessed the spectacle. The elder man leaned forward and open several displays screens and listened to the voices of his scientists and engineers. Ramblings were going on about the ship's conditions, like its reactor or carapace and temporary system shut downs and freezes from the shock. He looked up to the ceiling after he felt the trembling force from the energies that had aligned and watched his room's displays flicker. He rose up from his seat in the darkness of his room and looked back at the display screen's that forced themselves back on a number of seconds later. The elder man tapped the screen with his finger a number of times and had his eyes glued on it just as the lights and functions came back online.<br>
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"Master?" a younger Aliuu slowly approached the elder with a worried face. The elder didn't respond. Even his tentacles seemed to stop winging around and stood still as if they were inanimate.<br>
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"Something the matter?" The young man sucked his lips for a moment before looking at the man's light purple hair.<br>
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"A slip-space rupture is occurring here and through it a number of ships air coming from its wormhole..." The man backed away from his display screen and pressed his pale hand against his chin. The young man didn't know what to make of the statement that the elder had said and just looked at the display screen.<br>
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"Whoever or Whatever is residing in those vessels they certainly have some courage to travel trans dimensionally." The elder cracked a smile as he watched the blips on his display. A slight shiver could be felt and the three bio-mechanical ships watched as a huge ship emerged from wormhole, barely passing through the edges of the wormhole's event horizon.<br>
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&lt;The final ship seems to be unarmed.&gt; replied the master of a different leviathan. The elder grabbed pressed a button on a console across his chair and spoke through it.<br>
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"Best not harm it then."<br>
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&lt;This will be interesting none the less, gentlemen.&gt; The smooth voice from the other master could be heard.<br>
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&lt;Speaking of interesting... Look at these odd ships.&gt; One of the Masters hinted.<br>
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A collective wave of horror flooded through the Asren fleet as system after system shut down. By the time they rebooted, sensor readings reported two new fleets, one that had seemingly emerged from the wormhole, the other likely having been cloaked or possibly just entering the system at the time of the blackout. The Asren chose to wait, prepping shields and weapons, as they observed these three fleets to see if any had relations to each other.<br>
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Meanwhile on the Retribution, Taeral leaned forwards with an intrigued half smile as he gazed at the monitors. An inter-dimensional gateway certainly was interesting. But not worth his masters time. Hopefully this 'planet' would put up a finer show to justify the risk of disguising himself amidst a gathering of his enemies. Even now he was keenly aware of the Asren, having to mimic a battle cruisers entire crew was no small task and any slip up could bring the entire fleet down on him. Not that he couldn't handle the entire fleet but it certainly would be bothersome.</div>
				
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A small ship, a cruiser of some type, had warped in before the planet had undergone a severe gut opening and began spewing other smaller ships from its depths. Even after power had been restored and the ships once again could maneuver the cruiser remained oddly dead with a barely detectible power signature being emitted. It floated through the blackness of space, like a rouge asteroid about 3,000 kilometers from the three Leviathans.<br>
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"Powers back up! rebooting life support!"<br>
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"Getting back that scan data now... seems like were not the only ones out here Ma'am aside from the Star ships that just warped... err came out of that planet. I have biological scans as well about a few thousand kilometers off the port hand side... their ships!"<br>
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"Weapon systems back online, slightly frizzy but functional."<br>
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A large, 5'11 well dressed, uniformed male stepped forward from the shadows of the command deck into the dim emergency lights and said in a booming voice. "Continue with your duties gentlemen. Keep an eye out for any signs of aggression from any side, were outgunned here and in the dark both metaphorically." The man chuckles pointing up at the non existent lighting on the bridge since it had gone dark. "and literally" This was met with a multitude of laughs and groans at the bad joke.<br>
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The man turned to look behind him, into the darkest part of the Bridge where the Commanders chair rested. There amongst the Darkness was a slowly shifting, moving mass of coils and limbs which made tracking any part of the creature they belonged to migraine inducing.<br>
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"Lady Galumora... your orders?" The man said as all heads turned to look at the Command deck.<br>
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Six violet eyes snapped open, burning lamps amongst the dark and a sonorous, rich voice echoed from seemingly every corner of the Bridge.<br>
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"Activate low burn... move forward sllloooowly." A clawed hand raised from the dark and pointed at the holo screen with a path blinking into life upon it. "Follow this approach vectorrrr..... keep the Firefly prepped for emergency maneuvers and the Com link dead until something contacts us... " the hand slowly retreated back into the mass of writhing plating and coils. "Be cautious gentlemen... but vigilant and do not... disappoint me."</div>
				
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The bridge of the T.N.S. Valiant was, understandably, in quite a panic. Uniformed officers scurried here and there as they struggled to quickly bring their ship's systems back online, whilst the communications lines between the various ships seemed to explode with chatter.<br>
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"Power levels re-stabilizing, sir!"<br>
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"Sir, Deep Stealth Drives have been disengaged!"<br>
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"Communications line's severed, sir!"<br>
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"Sir, the other ships are requesting orders, sir!"<br>
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On the main screen of the ship, five nearly identical faces of five different officers appeared. All of them began talking over one another in asking "WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED" and "WHAT ARE OUR ORDERS". Captain Drek'ker, far from being the type of man to try and talk over them, simply removed his hat and began brushing back his hair with his hand, waiting for them to stop talking. After a few moments, they seemed to realize that perhaps Drek'ker was waiting on them to stop talking, and one by one stopped.<br>
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"Your orders are to arm your shields and weaponry as well as engage the energy dampeners. There's no point in engaging the Deep Stealth Drives at this point, we've already been revealed. All we can do now at this point is assume defensive posturing. I'm about to send in a request to command for the rest of the fleet, so let's not do anything rash until the-"<br>
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GUARDIAN-CLASS CRUISER</b><br>
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Captain Drek'ker was cut off by the sudden arrival of more Tal'ed Space Naval vessels. Apparently, Command had seen enough to deploy a modest sized battle fleet to the area. These ships, unlike the ships that came before them, these ships do not employ Deep Stealth Drives to warp in. The sight of these ships entering is quite plain for all to see.<br>
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The ships warping in begins with an anomaly.<br>
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A single point of darkness appeared, rapidly expanding until it was seemingly large enough to swallow an entire fleet. Arcing flashes of what appears to be lightning jump from the anomaly, giving off soft blue glow. The flashes become more and more continuous until it the light they give off becomes constant. A fleet of ships then lurch out of the wormhole, the lightning hitting the newcomer ships' shields continually, giving off light blue pulses upon hitting, but doing nothing else.<br>
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The fleet comprises of forty-five ships; a single, massive Archon-class capital ship, the words T.N.S. Triumphant emblazoned upon it's flanks, two slightly smaller Infinity-class supercarriers, seven Vigilance-class battlecruisers, five Trojan-class Heavy Stealth Battleships, ten Sentinel-class Heavy Stealth Escort Cruisers, and twenty Guardian-class cruisers.<br>
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They exit the wormhole, which closes behind them, and turn their engines down to minimum power, diverting the remaining power to the shields and weaponry. At this time, they do nothing further, appearing to wait for some form of reaction by the ships already in the area.</div>
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<b>Celestrial-Bodies:</b> Unknown planet<br>
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<b>Vessels:</b> 3 Leviathans<br>
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<b>Facilities:</b> None<br>
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<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Unknown Fleet<br>
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The three leviathans had took notice of the small fleet of ships that were hiding themselves but what bothered them the next thing was the sudden emersion of their own ships coming from whatever plane in the universe. A sizable force of massive ships had appeared from the the wormhole and by the looks of it the fleet seemed into a state of high alert and vulnerability by the reactions that they've displayed thus far. The elder had exited his room and entered the captain's bridge. The elder master sat in his chair, pointed his eyes towards the the main display screens hanging overhead and listened carefully to his officers.<br>
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"Their shields and weapons are powered up." answered one of the officers on the deck as he continued to analyze the ships on his console.<br>
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"Are they wary of our ships or this massive fleet in front of us?" asked the elder as he dropped his hand on the chair's control pad. The Display focused on the unknown fleet of ships, breaking into several smaller tabs that identified each ship by it's outward appearance and energy readings. The elder licked his lips a bit before speaking his command.<br>
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"If they attack us, infest their vessels or destroy them entirely. Queen Mother should be able to 'see' what's happening to us. If this escalates to something bigger she knows that she'll unleash the Gravemind and our other leviathans." The elder had said awhile pressing firmly on a communications button.<br>
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&lt;Prickly little buggers.&gt; One of the masters teased.<br>
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&lt;Enough. I'll keep my eye on them.&gt; The master had said in a serious tone.<br>
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Fortunately the leviathans can't be read like other ships when it comes to attacking or defending. Leviathans are biological for most part, one cannot tell through looking at so called 'energy readings' at what it's about to do. What one can do is watch it. The three creatures didn't respond to the cowering group of capitol ships and heavy militaristic ships. They paid mind to the massive fleet in front of them.<br>
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"Ah sir... A smaller signal has appeared." A navigator yelled back from his desk.<br>
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"Smaller Signal?" The elder raised an eyebrow.<br>
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"It appears we have a  visitor."<br>
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The elder noticed a cruiser and recognized it with ease. He pressed a number of buttons on his control pad and resumed using his comms.<br>
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"What brings you here, Lady of the Ravens Galumora?"<br>
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The Lady of Ravens. </span><br>​</div><br>
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<span style="font-size: 18px">A light appeared on the Com officers holo panels. A quick check upon whom was requesting contact had the young mans eyes widen and he quickly turned around in his chair, stood up and saluted at the Command Deck.</span><br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 18px">"Lady Galumora, contact from... the Swarm ma'am." The young officer said with a slight shiver going through him and around the Bridge. They all knew the risks in communication with the Swarm, had heard the stories but even so  they knew that their commander would protect them. She was </span><span style="font-size: 18px"><i>rabid </i></span><span style="font-size: 18px">in her possessiveness of the crew as a whole. That still didn't prevent a shudder of uncertainty in their hearts. A fickle thing a souls confidence  was. </span><br>
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The Shifting mass of coils did not pause in its writhing, squirming paths through the shadows though those violet eyes blared once more into existence.</span><br>
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"Initiate.... contact... Mr. Williams please open up a secure channel... we wouldn't want eavesdroppers now would we hmm?" That voice from the dark said, claws tip.. tip tapping on the chair arm somewhere in those shadows. </span><br>
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The Com's officer nodded and turned back to his station. "Secure Channel is a go Ma'am" </span><br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 18px">"Good, keep watch on those with whom we share the stars with. Man does not think rationally when confronted by things that it does not understand... Initiate."</span><br>
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"What brings you here, Lady of the Ravens Galumora?" </span><br>
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White as snow fangs crack open, hundreds of them glinting in the shadows and a hand slowly reaches out and points to the armada that has appeared before them.</span><br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify">"The Queen Mother heard what we call The Echo while she was trying to initiate a mission to another planet." The pale elder had drummed with this fingers against the sides of the chair's control panel.<br>
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The elder had continued to look onward towards the types of ships that have arrived from the wormhole. The design of these individual vessels is rather blasphemous, alien and intriguing. Something he thought as a possibility when talking about th multiverse theory. The man blinked to Gulamora's last reply and continued pressing the comms button.<br>
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The Lady of Ravens</span><br>​</div><br>
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Ever so slowly, the creature upon the command deck leaned forward into the light, revealing the face of the Legendary Dredge race in all its alien glory.<br>
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"Why Speaker, I would have almost thought you cared, speaking like that." The female said putting a delicate clawed hand over where chest, not heart, the Dredge had three hearts so that would have been futile.<br>
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"I simply wanted to join the party, I was most... disshearrrrrtened to learned I was not sent an invitation to this little soiree." With that the Lady of Ravens stood up from where she reclined and stepped fully into the light, a single step which brought a shudder to the Com officer. At first he had been terrified when he had been recruited two years ago and found out that his Captain was Galumora, The Lady of Ravens. He had heard of the never dying Pirate Queen but he had no idea that the Lady of Ravens was a Dredge. He almost ran from the room that day, but he hadn't and holding his ground made the Female pick him out of all the other applicants. But he was sorry to say it, but the way they moved gave him the willies.<br>
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"We shall never learn more without asking now will we hmm?" The Commander said with a low <b><i>hruu hruu </i></b>sound which was the Dredge version of a chuckle. "After all, my mother contacted the swarm through means some might call... suicidal."<br>
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"For the glory of the Mother, Speaker, and all those who walk amongst the stars." She terminated the com link and slowly reclined back into her chair.<br>
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"Plot us a course on the edge of our more trigger happy neighbors sensor systems." The Matriarch commanded with that resonating tone which broke no disobedience.<br>
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"Lady Galumora! New ship has appeared on long range scanners." One of the officers suddenly spoke up.<br>
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"Just... a single ship?"<br>
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The man swallowed but nodded, he was sure.<br>
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"hmmmm... lets make ourselves known but.... with subtly gentlemen. Grapple that Asteroid and kill the engines, we will use it to mask ourselves. Open secure link." A horrific grin from the shadows. "Time to learn just who we share this space with."<br>
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The men follow orders quickly, one of them muttering about 'big ass asteroids'  and  'crazy damn alien' but none disobeyed. It was an inside joke which made those around him chuckle.<br>
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"Link Open, using translation tech to get message across by cross referencing their own available data... not that well encrypted Ma'am."<br>
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<span style="font-size: 14px">Max runs over and opens a panel on the ship. After checking that nothing was damaged, he closes it. He and his men are checking to see if the EMP ruined anything, and Max wasn't one to order around servants and do nothing himself. After a few minutes they had determined nothing of any significance had been damaged. Soon their electronics returned, carrying with it a sigh of relief from the crew.</span><br>
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The Lady of Ravens</span><br>​</div><br>
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"How rude, I offer salutations and greetings and am met such... hostility. One might almost be offended"  Galumora replies in a low bored tone which was reminiscent of a siren... lulling but there was death hidden in the throat that made those soothing, melodious sounds.<br>
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Reclining there upon her chair, she looked like some ancient primordial snake goddess hidden in the writhing shadows, with her chin propped up on one arm which laid on the rest of the commanders seat. Tail lay haphazardly about, it was hard to tell where the appendage ended and or began as it was so damn long and kept constantly shifting. Subtly, she opens a makes a hand gesture at the coms officer who nods and discretely opens up a second channel, a hidden one connecting to this com link, a one-way with the Swarm, they could hear and see everything that was happening but the Human and Dredge could not tell they were there, the Officer did his job well.  The Matriarch thought that the Swarm would appreciate the information, anything at all when facing the unknown, no matter how inconsequential it seemed could be incredibly valuable.<br>
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"As for I, I... am Galumora.... Lady of Ravens, twas a title given to me by... your people and I must say the bird sounds a fitting match though I have been unable... to my dismay... to find one alive, only pictures so imagine my distress." A birdlike tilt of the head as she stared directly at the other face on the screen, lips pursed as if thinking.<br>
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"This Ship... in your tongue Man... would be called  <i>Kukri. </i>After the knife which guts its foes alive or dead and I represent a multitude of factions. Who they are as of now... are inconsequential hmm?" The Dredge stopped and looked up at the Bio scan that the ship just got back from surveying the Humans ship.<br>
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"How quaint..." she muttered to herself. Those armored chitin plates flared up and momentarily distorted her image with their small, many movements in the Dredge form of a shake to clear the head.<br>
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"I believe I have answered your questions Man... would you do the honors of returning them?" A quick glance of those six eyes to something offscreen then back.<br>
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"I do not believe our neighbors will wait long. They seem most anxious yes?" <b><i>hruu hruu hruu.</i></b><br>
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Max gulps a little, hopefully unnoticeably, before regaining his royal composure. "I apologize, I meant no rudeness. Surrounded by all these foreign ships, and contacted by a complete stranger, well... I'm sure you can understand my weariness. I did promise I'd return them. My name is Maxwell Teller. I am king of a new nation called Remnant, on the planet formerly classified as Zeta-273, now renamed Drift. As you have been able to tell so it seems, I am Terran."<br>
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The door to the Triumphant's bridge slid open, giving off a near-silent 'whoosh' sound as they did so, and Dae'nal stepped through them. His presence was quickly noticed by one of the many officers on the bridge, who quickly stood ramrod straight at his post and let out a call to attention.<br>
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"We have detected at least three fleets of ships, sir. Classifications; unknown, weapons detail; unknown, and allegiances; unknown." the Commander said. "These ships," the Commander expanded the hologram's view of the newcomer ships. "Are the newest arrivals to this sector. They appear damaged, sir."<br>
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"Establish communications with the newcomer vessels. Voice our peaceful intent and request dialogue between our ships leaders." he paused for a moment, thinking of a further thing to say. "Divert all power to shields, just in case. Should anyone of the ships here decide to take hostile action, I'd rather not be caught unawares."<br>
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The technology that the Tal'ed uses as sonar works quite simply; the ship in question, typically a capital sized ship, emits a series of high-frequency radio waves and then sensors wait for the wave to come back, if it comes back at all, and uses the time between the returning waves to determine the position of any ships in the area.<br>
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The Lady of Ravens simply raised a single delicate eyebrow at the mans outburst and narrowed her eyes, a single one followed the mans angry departure and in a soft voice replied.<br>
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"So... it seems our reputation proceeds us... as does it always." From the shadows behind her came two pairs of six burning red eyes on either side of the Command Deck, two more Dredge. A man could go his entire life, and his descendants lives as well, without ever seeing a single one and most would never want to. Seeing three... in such a small space, unheard of.<br>
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"Yes... yes I was quite insulted but that's not its fault now is it?" <i>It </i>referring to the man who had just moments ago so rudely spoken. "After all, ignorance is simply the lack of guidance, and from what ive heard there is quite a surplus out there hmm? But do take care in the future, not all of us are as..." The creatures head tilts to the side, then continues until it has rotated completely around, as if she wanted to view Max from all angles. "<i>Forgiving </i>as I"<br>
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The Dredge Matriarch simply waved her claw dismissively while reaching out and petting one of the silent hulking, red pulsating masses behind her with another pair of fore limbs. The double pairs of six eyes go out in unison and slowly recede from view.<br>
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"Let it come, they will detect us not for the Asteroid hides us from prying eyes." The Lady of Ravens smirks slightly, an upraised lip and a lowering of the eyes translated itself thus. The men aboard the <i>Kukri </i>had long ago learned how to read such an Alien creatures moods as it was slightly tantamount to their survival. "Of all kinds, however... stabilize the link and find out what the source of this disruption was. I was having an intelligent conversation, and you all know how <i>much </i>I love intelligent... conversations. I don't find them amongst this lot."<br>
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A snort here or grin there, said the jab found its mark, but all laughter was put aside when the Science Officer stood up once more, saluted and reported that one of the Capital ships of the nearby fleet had sent out that Scan and the scan itself had disrupted the Link. "Primitive but effective" was the Science officers conclusion.<br>
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"Primitive but effective means that it works still to the standards and achives their objectives." The Lady of Ravens admonished, leaning forward and placing a set of fore arms on the front rests of her chair. "Do not discount something that works just because it is crude and simple, such things are often those that hold in trying times."<br>
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The image returns and Max's crew get her lovely face once more that has a slightly amused look on it.<br>
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As Max waits for Lady Galumora to respond, a message suddenly pops up on his dashboard. He gives the message to a high ranking officer to read, so as not to appear rude to the Lady of Ravens. Soon, the man returns to him.<br>
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"Well this complicates things." The elder rose up from his chair as indicated the inter-dimensional super carrier. Data analysis had concluded that this ship has it's weapons primed and its defenses can be concluded that the thing is impenetrable. The man walked over to a navigator and looked at the ships that were around them The fleet of 50 ships that have done the right choice of protecting itself, the Dredge ally with the unknown cruiser hiding close to it and the other unspecified fleet that had entered this area of space. The man's face grimaced.<br>
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"This doesn't look too go-" His sentence was stopped snappishly and he became quiet.<br>
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~Who dares defy my action?~ Telepathy of the Queen mother could be heard from the Aliuu in their heads.<br>
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It seems that the Queen Mother is enraged. Like a child who had lost it's newest toy, the creature had been enraged to a point where she already grew a dislike for these Interdimensional travelers. An animalistic roar shook the minds of the Aliuu as they tried to comprehend the Elder One's emotional state. Silence hung in the air inside the leviathans once more with the exception of the the three masters who were indoctrinated with the Queen Mother's will.<br>
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"Prepare to attack these beings..." The Elder had hissed under his enraged voice.<br>
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He turned around and sat back onto this chair  and entered his comms.<br>
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"Lady of Ravens. I think it's in our best interest to have you leave for what's about to happen now..."<br>
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In a location not too far from the leviathans, space twisted and twirled. Eventually the funnels of energy blew out into several wormholes where several leviathans emerged in the darkness of space. The creatures came enmasse from some corner of the universe and these creatures weren't going to stop their onslaught. The gargantuan creatures proceeded to attack the inter-dimensional military force. A leviathan charged bio energy within itself, flared up in a biolumisent orange color and shot a beam of concentrated ionized energy from it's metallic head  towards the enemy ships. The number of leviathans that have entered now are around a couple hundred and more coming.</span></div>
				
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<b>THEME BECAUSE WHY NOT</b><br>
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"Sir, foreign ships have opened fire upon the hostile ships. How shall we proceed, sir?"<br>
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At that moment, ten torpedo launchers dropped down from the underside of the ship, swiveling to face the Syndicate ships. Each launcher fired two torpedoes, bright red blips that rapidly began closing the distance between the Tal'ed ships and the Syndicate's. It was then that the rest of the ships began to open fire, a wall of plasma and ion beams heading straight for the Syndicate ships.<br>
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<span style="font-size: 14px">"No." Replied the Dredge Matrairch, eyes glittering in the dark. "I have acquired what I wanted. Good day to you Captain... and good luck" Galumora terminated the coms.</span><br>
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<li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 14px">"Bring up the ship on screen." The Lady of Ravens replied and the Science Officer complied. The Female studied the ship before her and the readings that were coming back and almost laughed. "Oh oh I love this!" she said clapping her duo pair of hands together. "So arrogant yet so dumb.- Lady Galumora! the Swarm is contacting us!" </span><br>
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The Coms Officer put the message up and the whole bridge watched as hundreds more of the Leviathan class Swarm bio ships began warping in. </span><br>
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The Matriarch grins and stands to her full 9 foot height, towering over almost everything else. "The opportunity we have been waiting for, gentlemen Disengage from the asteroid, prep engines... its time to make ourselves known."</span><br>
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A whoop issued around the Bridge as men started rushing about in seemingly chaotic movements but eh, they knew what they were doing and had their own way of doing so. Galumora didn't care what it looked like as long as it was effective. </span><br>
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The small cruiser released its gravity locks and floated a kilometer away before its engines came to life in a  torrent of blue particles and bellowed out a silent challenge amongst the stars. Swiftly turning on its axis the Dredge ship aligned with the planet. </span><br>
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"Warp coordinates set just beyond the fighting on the inner combat zone, directly in between the line of fire. Risky but if we don't die it will pay off by putting us right in front of the rest of hey... what the hell?" The Science officer peered down at a small blip on the screen. "Holy shit! that terran little vessel from earlier is booking it down towards the planet."</span><br>
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The Lady of Ravens grins. "A challenge eh then Captain Max? oh I love a challenge- INITATE JUMP! Activate Firefly" </span><br>
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To any one watching the new energy readings that flared up as the Dredge ship initiated its engines was most likely confused when they saw the readings were akin to that of a ship starting to Warp, why warp into a planet- the ship disappeared and popped out of space just beyond where the fighting between the three factions rocketing towards the planet with frightening velocity. </span><br>
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"Jump succesfull Ma'am Firefly is stable, ready for another jump in 30 seconds as soon as the coolant kicks in"</span><br>
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"Good" replied the Dredge Matriarch. "Just in case, ready the tractor beam, any floating debris you find in front of us grab hold and sling shot us forward, think of any trick you can to get us ahead of Captain Max."</span><br>
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"But Lady Galumora wouldn't the Firefly get us there bef- and we might not always have the Firefly now will we hmm?" The Dredge queen interrupted. "Do not rely on fancy technology Man, rely on skill and ingenuity and you will survive... you will survive."</span><br>
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That jump had put the </span><span style="font-size: 14px"><i>Kukri </i></span><span style="font-size: 14px">frighteningly close behind the terran ship and though it wasn't catching up, it wasn't falling behind as fast as one might think. And it was getting ready to jump it again.</span><br>
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The </span><span style="font-size: 14px"><i>Kukri </i></span><span style="font-size: 14px">was a disturbing thing to look at, the Dredge had indeed made the thing in their image to travel among the stars in. All sorts of disturbing angles and seemingly pointless arcs that simply made the </span><span style="font-size: 14px"><i>Kurki blend </i></span><span style="font-size: 14px">into the darkness of space. </span><br>
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"Sir! The Lady of Ravens is trailing us. She seems to wish for the core as well!" Max grinned at this and continues piloting. <i>Oh Lady Galumora, is this a race? The fate of my people rests on this. I must win. </i>"And sir, she's... using a warp engine!"<br>
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The bridge snapped into action as orders were relayed one after another. The renegade itself altered it’s position ever so slightly, directing it’s left side fully towards the leviathans arriving. All along it’s left flank the armor slid to the side in multiple spots as the ships main batteries extended outwards from the hull. Massive hulking things, quad barrels in a circular pattern. The Atlas’ broadsides were the pride and joy of the ship alongside it’s carrier abilities. The multitude of barrels began to rotate, spinning in a circular motion until a the correct speed was reached.<br>
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The carriers hiding behind the cruisers began releasing large pods that shot out towards the various ships at high speed. Hundreds of pods sped off towards the three earlier leviathans, the Arsen, and the Tal’ed.<br>
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<b>Vessels:</b> 144 Leviathans + thousands of aero/space units<br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify">The creature who were badly damaged would stop and float in space to regenerate their tissues with the biomass and energy that they had available. Those who had managed to survive the exploding groups of rapidly rotating barrel shaped projectiles that had shot a series of explosive rounds from their own interiors prepared to send their own armies of ships. clouds of space-faring insects and mollusk based creature escaped from the leviathan's insides and had joined the battle with their motherships. These ships don't have energy capabilities however they still shoot projectiles of highly evolved chemicals, acids, 'crystals' and other dense matter. The should be formidable enough for these ships. other Leviathans proceeded with firing their energy beams towards the smaller and bigger ships accompanying  the supercarrier.<br>
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In one of the wormholes a series of asteroids have emerged from the vortex and were heading towards the ships in frightening speed on a collision course. A large potato-shaped asteroid made out of rock and biomass, being around a mile in length and burning a trail of greenish brown material in their wake.<br>
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Leviathan's who have wormholed else where did short jumps to get close to the colossal super carrier and threw their countless tentacles against the ship's shields awhile also unleashing their Aliuu to attack, infect and counter their own smaller vessels. The masters who piloted those leviathans already knew that they're dead meat and expects their deaths relatively swift.<br>
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The Lady of Ravens</span><br>​</div><br>
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"Lady Galumora, the Terran ship is firing!" The Weapons officer cried out alarmed. When the Ship Mistress didn't respond he continued a little unnerved. "Not at us though, they seem to be firing at the rubble from the crippled armada, orders?"<br>
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The Matriarch reclined back in her chair and one of her eyes glanced over to the Science Officer who was prepping their next jump point. "Are we ready?"<br>
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"Yes Ma'am, ready to engage short range translocation Firefly online and coordinates are a go."<br>
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The Lady of Ravens eyes the broken armada and its antics with narrowed eyes, four eyes remained locked on it at all times as she rose her clawed hand and formed a fist "Initiate"<br>
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The <i>Kukri vanished </i>and reappeared through a wormhole that suddenly popped up just inside the planets atmosphere, on the horizon line of the Syndicate ships that already landed so that visibly they were undetectable. The entire ship spun around backwards in a amazing feat of driving and maneuvering and braked hard in the air to counter act the Cruisers massive forward momentum so it wouldn't slam directly into the planets surface. But now, the front of the Dredge cruiser was pointed directly at  Max's tiny wittle thing.<br>
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Galumora grinned and made a cutting motion that was almost to fast for any eye, augmented or not to follow and said in her melodious, lulling tone. "Start scanning, grid by grid directly beneath us and close to where that armada came from, it stands to reason that if there is a machine..... hidden deep inside this planet.... then there would have to be access points either there or on the other side. We find one, we will find the other entrances."<br>
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"Aye Ma'am, beginning scans, grid by grid square of about 50 kilometers a piece... also feeding into the enemy data stream as well." The man grins "If they find a way in we shall know about it as well."<br>
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Max falls back as a long sigh escapes him. "That crazy bitch did it... she warped." Everyone falls back in disappointment as one man looks at a screen, constantly cycling through windows. "We need that energy, but if she's not afraid to do that... we're done, aren't we?"<br>
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"Sir! Do you think it's possibly she could be using a Firefly warp engine?" Max turns back to find the person  who spoke was the same one who was cycling through screens. He pointed at his screen and continued "They're large and unwieldily, only to be used by large ships such as cruisers, and they are far more precise, particularly around areas of high magnetic energy. Sensors indicate this planet has a strong magnetic field." Max thought that over and nodded.<br>
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Max groans as he opens his eyes. He was only unconscious for a moment or so. First thing he felt was pain shooting across his body as he pulled himself out of the crashed ship. As he exits, he finds soldiers pulling others out of the wreckage. In a moment or so, everyone's up.<br>
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"Is that everyone? I only count seventeen!" As he speaks, three more men are pulled out, but unlike the others they don't get up. He walks over to them and feels their pulses. Two are simply unconscious for who knows how long... and one is dead.<br>
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"I need three to stay with the unconscious ones. As for the rest of us, we go to find the core. Where is the highest concentration of energy?"<br>
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The Lady of Ravens</span><br>​</div><br>
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<span style="font-size: 14px">Aprox. 5000 meters above the planets surface, the </span><span style="font-size: 14px"><i>Kukri </i></span><span style="font-size: 14px">hovered there scanning the planets interior, the science officer was having a small heart attack and completely and utterly nerding out about the complexities of the planet, the technology there and generally saying words that no one in the area understood. Eventually even Lady Galumora rose up from her chair, hands clutching her muzzle and head and bellowed. </span><br>
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"100 says they all died."</span><br>
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"I got 200 on half survived"</span><br>
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"30 on a few"</span><br>
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"ill take that bet."</span><br>
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The Ship Mistress looked at the Science Officer Bai'Core and raised an eyebrow. "Well Mr. Bai'Core, the verdict if you would please?"</span><br>
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The science officer checked his instruments. "Im reading 17 alive, 3 dead and or severely wounded."</span><br>
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A chorus of groans as money then swiftly changed hands and bets were won and or lost. Galumora stared at the readings before smirking. </span><br>
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"Lieutenant Valerian!" She barked suddenly and caused the man in question to come to attention. "Send our terran friends some... company and tell said company to suit up and oh to be discreet if you would please." The man swallowed but nodded an affirmative.</span><br>
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The </span><span style="font-size: 14px"><i>Kukri </i></span><span style="font-size: 14px"> fired two projectiles about a kilometer away from the terran ground party. They shrieked overhead and landed northwards of the humans. </span><br>
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with the smoke and dust still heavy in the air from the two impact sights, two pairs of six red glowing eyes burned through the debris like the devil himself had come from the sky.</span><br>
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"</span><span style="font-size: 14px"><b><i>Bahhhahhhaaha</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 14px">" echoed a mocking, horrific throaty laugh or wheez of some sort</span><br>
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Max ordered his men to stop with a start as he looked up at Galumora's ship as two things streaked down from it and landed near them. Well... near relative to a planet.<br>
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"Sir!" Another man yelled from the back of the party before Max could respond. The others turn towards him as he holds up a scanner. "Scans reveal that the atmosphere of this planet is safe to breathe." Max nods and presses a button on the back of his suit as it retracts, leaving them exposed to the elements. Many of the men sigh with relief as they give a little stretch. Max thinks about the drop pods before yelling back to his men as he turns to them.<br>
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"We can only hope that Lady Galumora will be more diplomatic. However, on the chance that she sent something to eradicate us, we must be prepared. Keep your weapons primed... who has their grant weapons on them?" All but two men yelled in assent. He turns to the two men. "What do you have?"<br>
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"Mark VII sir!" Max grins. <i>Good, that'll heal almost anything we can come across. </i>"Stay sharp men! We don't know what we're up against!" They all yell in affirmation as they continue their trek, with many keeping a tentative eye on the horizon in the direction where the pods fell.</div>
				
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The crew continued walking towards the energy source, ever so slowly nearing it. Max's men kept insisting they saw something, and with the foreign pods launched Max was on his toes. Once or twice even he would see a flicker of movement. After awhile, suddenly he heard something behind him.<br>
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"Sir! The two injured have almost completely healed. While we wait for them to finish up we've been checking the ship. It still seems flyable. It'd be very dangerous to fly, but if need be we could fly out. Once we left the atmosphere we'd be good, it's just leaving."<br>
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Mere milliseconds after the six ships engaged warp, the ship's AI brought them back out again. The ships were now past the fighting, rapidly descending towards the planet's surface. The bridge was, once again, a flurry of activity as the crew began to quickly slow the ship's descent.<br>
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Killian sits atop the wasp class fighter, soaking in the sun with a grin. Looking at his arm, where only ten minutes or so ago there'd been a huge gash, he smiles at the smooth skin. He'd heard about the wonders of Remnant medical technology, but he'd never seen it himself until today. His smile still on, he turns around and gazes over the huge grasslands of this strange planet when he notices something strange: There's a trail of grass that's shifting and moving making it's way towards the ship. He looks down at the men below him.<br>
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"What the hell?!" Killian yells as he jumps off the ship and gets hit by one of the beasts. "What do we do?!" He yells to his commanding officer, Lero.<br>
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Killian glances around as a light humming begins echoing around the ship. All of the soldiers, almost at once, activate their suits and turn on their lights. One man pulls out a sort of pistol, while the others pull out automatic plasma rifles and begins making their way to the power generator, where they could from there trace the lines to the disturbance and fix it.<br>
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<span style="font-size: 14px">"I am sorry to say Captain Max, but there are no drop pods aboard this ship." Came the slightly aristocratic voice in what some might have called a bored tone. "Our cruiser is no troop transport, we are people of...higher taste and design than such." A rattling sound came from the com, much akin to when someone rattles their fingers atop a desk or hard surface when bored or thinking, perhaps she was both. </span><br>
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Max thinks over what she said. Though slightly angry, he does admit that it was rather foolish to think that one could do that. However, as he's looking around, thinking about what to say next, he sees one of the men looking frustrated. He recognizes it as the man who recognized the Dredge race. He muted the call with Galumora for a moment and looked at him.<br>
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<span class="post-heading post-heading-"> ORBIT AROUND THE PLANET </span><br>
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The various ships currently fighting around the planet would have picked up a large incoming fleet of vessels. The readings were quite brief, yet they were large. However, that fact mattered little as the incoming fleet in question quickly appeared. First came the largest ship, a single massive battlecruiser, that was only slightly smaller than the Atlas super carrier. A good pit of it's size came from multiple compartment areas on the bottom of the ship. Then came the not as large, but almost equally as imposing group of fifteen Trasakian battleships. Destroyers came next, numbering twenty. Finally, came the frigates, numbering thirty-five.<br>
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The fleet of seventy-one ships warped in behind and above the ships of the Tal'ed.<br>
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<span class="post-heading post-heading-"> Commandant Sturm </span><br>
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Commandant Sturm sat in his command chair, watching the scene below through a hologram before him. Four groups of ships were currently engaged in combat below him, virtual trails of plasma and ion weapons arcing from one ship to another. Three of the groups he had no idea about, but one he did. Oh, how he did...<br>
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"Tal'ed..." he muttered to himself. The very name bringing back memories of vicious combat. He sat for a brief moment, remembering, before quickly blinking twice.<br>
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"Foreigner filth." he spat with a sneer. "Pay them no mind. Continue with the mission."<br>
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"Sir, there are Tal-"<br>
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"I am aware of their presence. It is, however, of little relevance to the mission. Be mindful that we <i><b>did</b></i> sign a <i><b>treaty</b></i> with them. Continue."<br>
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The fleet of ships continued past the fighting, seeming to ignore it altogether. Shortly after passing the ships and reaching the planet's atmosphere, the battlecruiser's compartments opened to reveal the massive folded frames of four Trasakian mobile land-battleships. The land-battleships were then fired down towards the surface, where they quickly lit up in the planet's atmosphere. The mobile landships rapidly began to slow their descent, various dampers and ailerons slowing the fall, until the impacted with the ground. The impact left massive craters and the sound could be heard miles around. Shortly after landing, the ships unfolded their four massive legs.  They planted on the ground and, with a loud sound of shrieking mechanics that, once again, could be heard for miles, rose into the air. The landships were at least twenty stories tall, with a massive gun on the side that appeared that it could blast a ship out of orbit with one or two shots.<br>
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"Sir, we have picked up foreign life-forms on the planet's surface. A small vessel with about twenty or so organisms on it. Most are Terran, however one is anomalous. How should we proceed?"<br>
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Commandant Sturm gazed at the screen before him, showing an image of the foreigners, a mass of orange and red shapes on the blue-black background of their ship. 'Terrans,' he thought. 'Not of much use. Perhaps relegated to some industrial colony. However, as for the unknown, that could prove useful...'<br>
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Hiding, it seemed, would do them no good as a nearby drone immediately made a beeline for them.<br>
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Upon their disappearance into the vessel, the drone switches to thermal optics, viewing the likely unsuspecting Terrans inside. The drone hovered about their ship for a brief moment, relaying it's find back to one of the many landships currently wandering the area. To ensure it's find's location be known, it fired a single small dart into one of the panels of the ship. The dart entered the panel, locking itself in and sticking there. The dart began pulsing intermittently, a orange-red light showing for an instant before fading.<br>
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The drone flew on, continuing to scan the area.<br>
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Elsewhere, one of the landships deployed a small airborne troop carrier of around thirty men. The troop carrier quickly began making its way towards Max's crashed vessel. It would be upon them soon.<br>
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<span class="post-heading post-heading-"> ABOARD THE TRIUMPHANT </span><br>
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"Sir, more ships have entered the area." one of the officers said, tapping away rapidly at his console. "Size appears to be roughly seventy ships." The officer enlarged a view of one of the ships, one of the many large Trasakian cruisers. His mouth dropped a bit upon noting the telltale signs of Trasakian design.<br>
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"Trasakian, sir."<br>
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The bridge goes entirely silent. The word "Trasakian", to a Tal'ed, essentially means "genocidal warmongers" [which is a tough thing to be, even by Tal'ed standards]. Reason being is that the Tal'ed have fought numerous wars against the Trasakians; none of which exactly went all that well.<br>
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Dae'nal inhaled deeply, fully remembering the Trasakian-Tal'ed Wars of days past. Seeing in his minds eye the event's of when he was just a lowly cadet in the Space Navy, watching the Trasakian weapons rip through the Tal'ed ships, carriers briefly snapping in half before their warp cores detonated. The wars, he recalled, were never that good for the Tal'ed.<br>
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"Negative sir, however their fleet does appear to be in violation of the-"<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">A coms message came to Captain Max, the message was simple...<br>
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"While I would love to continue our chat as im sure it would be most enlightening, I do believe however, that thou has more... engaging problems to deal with. You seem to have made some people rather unhappy and they are converging on your position. Ta-ta!"  end of message.<br>
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On another channel, this message was sent to the two creatures currently out of the ship. "Hostiles moving in be prepared... <i>Drak'Moroc </i>... gather the intel I require then eliminate... the enemy if you would please.<br>
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A terran man, one of Max's crew paused where he was 'guarding' the ships mainframe. His face was covered by a clawed tattoo so he could yell and his hands moved on their own seemingly, his face was terrified because in truth he had reason to be. A few minutes ago he was following his captains orders to guard the important systems and then the next, something moving from above, a horrible face with so many teeth oh gods so many teeth inches away from him, then slidinging on his skin, a slithering on the back of his neck, then suddenly he couldn't control his limbs any more and a soft male voice in his ear whispered seductively.<br>
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He had tried to get away, he honestly did, activating the rocket boots they more or less all had equipped, he jumped up in the air to get away from the thing calling on the radio. "Contact in engi-" He was cut off as it jumped up and grabbed his foot with one claw, his throat with another and ripped his mask off like it was the wrapping on a small eager childs birthday present... he was then silenced.<br>
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"shhhh, this will only be a minute... I appreciate... your ...' cooperation', I shall relay it to my mistress upon my return." Then the damned thing, using his body against its will by forcing his arms into the positions it wanted by brute force, all on the surface of his own skin. After he stopped resisting, whatever it was that covered him was surprisingly gentle in its manipulations of its limbs. Though whatever it was quickly downloaded every thing it could get its... his hands on into a small data cube and then turned off the Mainframe after muttering to itself. "wish I had the time to upgrade that search engine, horrific, obviously not designed in mind for ease of access."<br>
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After it had acquired what its Dark Mistress wanted, it swiftly withdrew from his skin, but before the poor terran could do anything the creature said a quick. "I apologize, tis must be done im sure you understand." And knocked him out.<br>
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After gently setting the Terran down into a comfortable position the creature opened its maw, chest splitting open right down the middle into a mass of rib like teeth and fangs. It reached into its own chest cavity and pulled out several objects and began, while moving placing them Together in their various positions. "Lady Galumora, I am moving out, I have the Data Cube requested and will now comply with... elimination task."<br>
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"Confirmed, use of lethal Force has been approved but please... do so with dignity and grace that befits one of our race. Go and pick a fight not, unless they press one upon you."<br>
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It finished grinning and walking up, hefted a weapon that it assembled to its top shoulder, one that most would have called an Anti-Tank rifle. . . or Anti-ship. Stooping low in the small confines of the Terran ship it exited and slithered into the grasslands and those long strands of grass moved not as whatever it was... vanished into the sahara of this strange and wonderous world.<br>
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Any scanners trying to lock onto its sudden biological signature would find it hard pressed to do so as it seemed to change and warp with the environment it was placed in. The general area could be told but not much else. even heat sig's was impossible to accurately determine as it changed its own heat signature  to match the surrounding area.<br>
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"Look out, in the bright of the night,<br>
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For the shadow which blocks the light,<br>
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just might be death knocking on your door,<br>
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Check the windows, check the floor,<br>
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the hidden have come,<br>
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Let godswill be done,<br>
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And the Dredge his willing... scythe."<br>
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Red eyes blinked on the still tattooed man, and its 2D face cracked into a huge flat grin.<br>
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&nbsp;<br>Back on the <i>Kukri, </i>Lieutenant Valerian approached the dark, shadowed throne upon the ships bridge, and did a small bow before asking.<br>
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"My Lady I must ask, why are we helping out the Terrans? We have not been paid to do so nor do we owe them anything so why?"<br>
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Those coils stop their writhing and shifting in the black. "So my dear Valerian, you feel no compassion for your fellow man?"<br>
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The second in command snorted. "Ma'am with all do respect I gave up on my fellow man after I was stabbed in the back and left to die by said 'fellow man.'<br>
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Those six, star pupiled eyes blared into existence. "So true Little One.... so true, I remember finding you dying and bleeding out not to long ago now. I brought you aboard my ship and you never quite left it now did you?"<br>
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Valerian was a little unnerved when she did that, he knew the Dredge females had the whole thing about lineages and taking on the name of their mothers, but Galumora's mother was the one that had found him like such and he knew she would have never told a soul about that... so how did her daughter know? There was so much they didn't know about the female's those on this ship had chosen to follow... or their counterparts. Also... a 'little while ago?' That shit had happened nearly 10 years ago!<br>
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"To answer your question, Little One... all the Council of Ascensions previous attempts to negotiate or initiate talks with Terrans have ended.... poorly as those here well know." That 'poorly' was rolled with anger upon the Ship Mistress's tongue. The crew present instinctively moved away from the command deck, their Ladies 'anger' was a elemental weapon all in itself.<br>
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"However, here we finally have a chance to learn more about those amongst the stars and speak with someone more... reasonable. I'd call that well worth the effort now would you not?"<br>
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Yes... Valerian Couldn't fault the Dredge's logic. The female continued. "Besides last time we spoke to Terrans officially, they sent back a rather nasty reply, I do believe it was, 'we do not associate with mindless and uncivilized beasts' and then primed their weapons at us." The Creature snorts in the dark, a harsh sound, one of dismissal.<br>
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"Says the ones aiming guns at those who have held in the open hand the proverbial olive branch, and we spent forever searching for a live one to... no luck im afraid."<br>
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The Science Officer speaks up at that moment. "Ma'am? Those men are moving in and those Land Batleships are not stopping."<br>
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The Dredge Matriarch waved her hand's in the air."yes yes yes, prep the Firefly, im sending you the coordinates, do make sure their right darling. I would most hate to have to do substantial repairs on this ship again after <i>last time." </i>The science officer shivered, he remembered last time, he also remembered what happened after last time.<br>
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"Then what?"<br>
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"for now gentlemen we await our moment." Those eyes glitter. "all good things, come to those who wait."</div>
				
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The Dredge planned to flee the ship, but by the time it had found what it needed all exits to the room were cut off by Terran soldiers who had received the distress call from the now unconscious soldier. The message may not have been complete, but they were able to gather what it said. They noticed said unconscious soldier and raised they guns to the alien.<br>
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When they got up however the thing had already turned around the corner heading out when it caught a strange smell... the contacts he was warned about.  the sizzle of slightly burning flesh drew its attention to the charred and blackened shoulder where it had been shot earlier. Moroc grunted indifferently and continued on down the hall before pausing again and grinning.<br>
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As the Terrans recovered and prepared to pursue Moroc, the Dredges voice, one deep, bass like and resonating echoed through the metal halls. "While its been fun.... I do believe I am interrupting your preparations for guests... good luck. They look a hard crowd to please." <b>Hruuu hruuu hruuu </b>. And with that, it was gone.</div>
				
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The two men who remain conscious looked at each other with grim determination on their face. Luckily, one of them had a medical kit, and began swiftly getting everyone to their feet. Within minutes, everyone was back to normal, with the exception of the one who was pounced on. He sat in the corner holding his ribs and resting while the other four discussed what just happened.<br>
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"We need to call in the captain." One man said, looking to the others. They nodded in agreement and called Max. As soon as Max got it, he swiftly answered in a panicked tone.<br>
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"Is everyone alright? Your call was interrupted," He said, stoping along with the group as the tattoo'd soldier continues observing the tattoo.<br>
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"A dredge got onboard. It knocked out one of our men, seriously wounded another and threw him like a rag doll." Said soldier groaned at the mention of that. "It took a data cube."<br>
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"Sorry to interrupt," one soldier added in the call, "But I think this is pertinent information. It possessed me. It... controlled me, forced me to get him the cube."<br>
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"What, like mind control?"<br>
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"No," corrected the soldier, "I was conscious the whole time. Like I couldn't control my limbs. Like something was pulling my body with strings. I could pull back, but all it did was annoy it."<br>
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"Noted. You have baddies coming your way. I don't know how many, but prepare. I don't know what they're after, but be ready. Greet them kindly, but prioritize your safety first, the mission second, and what they want third."<br>
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"Sir!" The man yelled before the call ended. Max gritted his teeth in anger and once more called another soldier and set up a comm link with Galumora. When the call was answered, he didn't even wait for a response before beginning.<br>
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"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!" He yelled. He had previously kept calm with her, but she had tipped him past his breaking point. She had caused his men harm, and she would answer for it. "ONE OF YOUR SOLDIERS CAME ON BOARD, CONTROLLED ONE OF MY SOLDIERS LIKE A PUPPET, AND BEAT THE REST OF THEM TO UNCONSCIOUSNESS! <b>WHY!?!?!"</b></div>
				
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The Lady of Ravens</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 14px">"Ma'am, coms coming in from that Terran, he sounds slightly Rabid." The Officer said with distaste. Lieutenant Valerian did the sign of the cross, an ancient pagan symbol to be sure but one that had a comforting feeling to it. Ohhhh boy, god help this man, shes chosen him. That thought must have occurred to most of the other Command staff as well for their expressions ranged from everywhere to pity to outright disgust, though Bai'Core looked like his face might split in half from glee. </span><br>
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"I have a single soldier rendered unconscious on my report..... slight injuries to another but I think that's acceptable when the alternative was death. Death, or so im told, has many sayings in Terran history, one that I.... personally find invigorating is "When faced with extinction, every alternative is preferable". I see not what the problem is Captain Max... though do give my thanks to that soldier who proved most instrumental in acquiring what I wanted." The Female said, holding up the glowing blue crystalect cube in one claw. and turned it this way and that, letting it sparkle and glimmer on the Dredge's pulsating claw. It was a carbon copy, not the actual thing but all the data had already been transferred so it might as well have been. </span><br>
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"Weapon Masters, you are hereby requested by the Commander to come to the Bridge... and you both know that's not a request so get your fat asses up and if you break this speaker like the last 12 I will have those asses of your-" It cut off as a fist the size of a watermelon slammed into the speaker and blasted out the back of the wall into the hallway. That clawed hand withdrew back into the darkness... away from the showering sparks and then a horrific sound echoed out from the room</span><br>
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Max's soldiers in the ship look around the ship, trying to fix more and more in preparation for the oncoming forces. One of them looks out to see ships nearby. As soon as they notice this, a comms alert comes in from one of the ships. A soldier answers it and very quickly his eyes widen.<br>
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Rather than a civilian ship in distress, the Nafarian captain was confronted by a Hellion class Super Destroyer, it's weapons and shields already fully charged. Declining any hails, the Hellion immediately opened fire, a barrage of lighter 'roguetonium' arcing out from it in a brilliant crimson light to obliterate the lowly interceptor. Strangely enough the Hellion seemed to be refraining from utilizing its full firepower. Leaving the Interceptor at least enough time to scramble a distress call though not enough to escape its impending doom. Meanwhile Arimius paced the empty bridge of his 'Hellion' disappointed at such a small turnout to his welcoming party. Nonetheless, Arimius relished the chance for combat.</div>
				
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"We're close to the LZ! everyone prepare for combat!" A Nafarian sergeant roared, stepping into the dropship's troop bay. Decked in heavy, grey armor, the sergeant's name was Zander, and while none could see it, he bore a maniacal upon his face. He carried with him a rather muddied history, known for his insane battle tactics and little regard for troop safety in favor for mission success.<br>
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Despite his infamous history, his troops listened, checking their HUDs and slamming fresh clips into their rifles, causing lines of red light to pulsate across the gun's body. They soon passed straight over Max's position, he could easily see the three black drop ships as they cruised above the trees. Fortunately for them, the Nafarians did not appear to see them, however it looked as if they were landing close by.<br>
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The captain's eyes widened. Could this be another skirmish? There had been so many reported recently, with those getting into disputes over which of the three still unofficial sub factions. Despite this however, the navy rarely lost a ship to the skirmishes, and instead the skirmishes were usually broken up by detatchments from Rofiria, sent by general Velsus who would swiftly settle the dispute by gutting the aggressive ship's engines.<br>
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The ships lasers switly cut through the Razor's shields after a few salvos, hitting the coms array soon after. The trembling captain took a seat, remaining silent for a moment while his crew awaited patiently for orders. Without his coms array he was without reinforcements, and it would be some time before a fleet would be sent to check on his last known coordinates.<br>
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"Oh, so I supposed you are an important figure among your people?" The captain asked, refusing to give the human his own name. "Then I suppose your people would put an important price on your head? Very well then! You have earned your worth human, you live, your soldiers however will perish beneath our boots. If you have any care for your men I ask you once again <i>Maxwell, </i>will you submit to our rule?" The captain questioned.<br>
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"Alright boys and girls! Let us hunt some humans!" He yelled with delight, jumping out of the ship as the rest of the soldiers followed suit, imedeatly sweeping the area, ensuring that it was clear of all possible hostiles.<br>
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Each soldier knelt, roughly forty grey armored Nafarian legionaires, their rifles stuck outwards as Zander approached one of the edges. He quickly barked a quick order, ordering nine soldiers in lighter armor to the Valtrikes. They were swift to respond to their leader's commands, jumping on the sleek speeders as they rushed through a newfound opening in the Nafarian perimeter. They slipped through the trees in three squads of three, one of them unknowingly heading in Max's direction.<br>
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<span style="font-size: 14px">The Captains orders for warp were quickly rendered pointless as the next salvo tore apart the engines. The Razor's desperate counter salvos rebuffed by the Hellion as if they were firing blanks. Growing bored, Arimius decided on a more merciful course of action. His Nafarian form vanishing before reappearing on the bridge of the Interceptor. Before anyone could react, Arimius lashed out, psionically dominating the insects surrounding him and forcing them to kneel before him. Drinking in the terror he felt lurking below the surface of their professional exteriors.</span><br>
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Survivors of the Stingy Banker had been gathering for quite some time now, and a secure if somewhat rudimentary camp had been set up planetside as they awaited extraction. Small recon teams of marines are dispatched towards various discrepancies on the crude sensors they had at their disposal, namely such things as the Remnants crashed ship, the Nafarian legions, and of course the giant planet destroying walkers.</span></div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><span class="post-heading post-heading-"> AWAKEN THE BORG</span><br>
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The battle is space was, largely, a stalemate. For every bit of damage done to the Atlas class it would return it in full to both fleets. It would appear that one of the fleets would have to retreat in order for the atlas class to begin taking a lead, otherwise the odds were great that the three fleets would grind themselves down to nothing.<br>
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It was a shame that would not happen...<br>
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A sudden rip in space tore open from behind the Atlas Class carrier, a large silver blur approximately the size of a small dropship erupting from the rip to punch directly through the Atlas Class carrier in a flurry of metal and fire. Immediately all fire from the Atlas ceased and, in essence, it was dead in space.<br>
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The silver blur erupted from the other side of the Atlas carrier and continued towards the planet with no loss of speed.<br>
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-Planet Side-<br>
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A boom spread throughout the sky as the silver blur smashed through the sound barrier and into the planets atmosphere, coming down in a ball of fire before it rapidly slowed, somehow coming to a perfect stop from such a drop to rest on the surface. It was in fact a dropship, the material a dark silver and obviously very strong given it’s lack of apparent damage. But the dropship was not remotely as dangerous as what it released. The ramp slid out and down as the side opened, and from within walked out something ancient and powerful.<br>
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The being looked to be entirely of metal in structure, most likely the same metal as the ship. It’s eyes, small red orbs set within it’s face, confirmed that it was likely that this being was of machine origins. The being’s eyes scanned the surrounding landscape with pure malice.<br>
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“So...this is where they hid her...to think it took me this long...but no matter. I will destroy her, and then I will use this planet...yes...” It mused to itself, strutting from the dropship to a rather inconspicuous plot of grass.<br>
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“Administrative code Beta Omega Ranger Gamma....” the being ordered. There was a short pause before a panel arose from the ground and the being began typing away at it. The being seemed to pause a moment before it spoke again, “So....you are awake...and fighting me? Hah, no matter, you can do nothing to stop me.” it mused, tapping away furiously.<br>
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“Heheh, see? Minds well sit back and await your death...” it mused as the panel flashed. The being stepped away and turned to face the destruction in the distance. “Authorization code Delta Echo Alpha Tango Helios, activate planetary defense grid.” It ordered with a grin.<br>
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Within the next few moments multiple ports rose from the ground, releasing a variety of robotic soldiers that, without hesitation, began firing upon anything and everything that wasn’t one of their own.</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper">Troop ships flying in, soldiers advancing upon the downed human ship, things were looking rather bleak for Max's men and his crew. However, as a certain little tattoo relayed, they never gave up hope and didn't seem to give one single mighty frick for a surrender of anything or too anyone.<br>
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The thud, crush, thud, of the massive walking machine continued closer, ever closer, ship penetrating weapon locked onto the downed little fighter. The 5, now back up and about humans watched it with grim faces, watched the drop ships fly in and deposit their loads of armed and armored men.<br>
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As the dickish Nefarian captain continued being a dick to the humans on board the ship, the call suddenly seemed to falter and then fade out completely to a black screen as audio video was down but audio was still operational. A by now, all to familiar to Max, sing song melodious voice opened up on the channel.<br>
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"Helloooo! oh what is this? having a confrontation without me are we Gentlemen, oh why im wounded! Now now then, we cant have that now can we?" you could vision that horrific, multi jawed, so many teeth white as light, grinning. "Here we all are gathered here and all you can do to the Good Captain Max is insult him? how truly.... barbaric and short sighted... I do so <b><i>despise </i></b>hypocrites." That word hypocrite was sound with an underlying rumble which seemed to vibrate the air around the com system for each respective member of said chat.<br>
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The call was then split for a private chat to the Terrans Captain Max, the message was a simple line of text. "<b>Darlings I suggest getting your mens heads down hmm?</b>"<br>
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The humans and other members of other factions assault force couldn't help but notice that a slight ripple behind the menacing, ever advancing land walker of <i>doooooooooooom.... dooooom</i>  The Humans ducked into the ship that were there but heard this final message from the Lady of Ravens.<br>
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"And what displeases me... <i>I eliminate from the equation.</i>"<br>
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The land walker suddenly had space and time rip open behind it and the tell tale signs of heavy thrusters bellowing their fury filled the air as the once proud and mighty mech of <i>Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooom...</i> found itself split right down the middle like a butter knife through some rather soft margarine. Time went in slow motion, the silver metal colored nose of the Dredge cruiser <i>The Kukri </i>finally emerged from the from of the Land Ship, fire billowed from its cannon and the entire thing blasted off, flying in a spiral smoke trailing behind it where it crashed upon the grass covered plains. The sonic shockwave of the ship roaring through the now split in two walker was joined by something else entering the atmosphere at high speeds so it went unnoticed as of the moment. The ships speed in the atmosphere had kicked up a ridiculous amount of dust which only increased when the Land Walker slowly... oh so slowly fell to the ground in its separate pieces, groaning metal and twisting joints created a melancholy chorus of sounds as it hit the surface with an earth shaking thud. The formerly metal killing machine now lay in a smoking wreck, it was almost sad to see such a mighty creation fall. Almost.<br>
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For during the commotion, the ship had released something else to the planets surface before warping off again and unleashing a furry of missiles down at the ground to cover its retreat.<br>
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Something, that upon seeing its foes, both those of flesh, and those not felt not fear... but adrenaline, and a sense of... anticipation.<br>
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A coms message to the Dredge that had infiltrated Max's ship earlier. "<b>You are to assist your sister in her...endevour however she sees fit. Do not disappoint me.</b>" Moroc swore to itself. well this just got about 10X as tricky, now he had to worry about murderous Females as well as trigger happy soldiers and crazy robots.<br>
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<div style="text-align: center">The Lady of Ravens<br>
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Back on the <i>Kukri </i>however, the Science Officer finally made a finding on an opening into the planets surface and one that didn't lead into giant abyss's or lava pits or Borg robots. He relayed this to the Lady of Ravens who stared at the Coordinates of the passage leading to the massive power source that led them all here as well as the many... many new contacts that seemed to be popping up on all avenues of the planet.<br>
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"Captain Max is the closest, relay this message to him and the data on where it is located at. He gets his precious home word coordinates back, but we have partial dibs on the Core." She commanded in a softy voice.<br>
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Valerian stared at his Ship Mistress in a mix of awe and horror. "You knew... you knew something like this was going to happen didn't you?"<br>
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"No little one, I did not, I had suspicions to be sure but absolute knowledge no... The Cube was simply an... insurance policy in case the good captain found the Core first."<br>
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The lieutenant shook his head, there was a reason that Galumoras mother was one of the most feared Pirate Queens ever to roam the stars, he was just reminded of how closely the daughter resembled her... gods that was a scary thought.<br>
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Another Message to Captain Max. "<b>My good Captain Max, it sems we are now pressed for time, I will offer you a deal which entitles you getting your Data cube back and a way off this quickly devolving rock but in return... partial ownership of whatever it is you.... find down there. 50/50 hmm? After all I am risking my ship and crews lives for something that might not even be worth it when I simply can... fly away and give this cube to people who are so much more interested in a certain planet and get paid oh so handsomely for it too. What do you say?"</b></div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper">Taeral leaned forwards in surprise. He had not expected a new party to arrive on the scene and make a mockery of the Atlas so quickly and apparently without meaning to. And as subsequent scans of the dropship would reveal as it disgorged a single metal humanoid onto the surface, this party knew far more of the planet than anyone else. With these facts in mind, Taeral decided it would be prudent to make contact with this newcomer face to face. And so at a mere impulse he descended from the Retribution down to the surface a handful of meters away from this metal figure.<br>
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“And to whom do I owe the pleasure of speaking to?” He inquired.<br>
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The being turned it's head slowly, regarding the newcomer without much other than contempt. "It matters not, the only thing that matters is who you think you are to speak to me?" It asked with a tone of perplexment. With a sudden thought it remembered that the days of its terror had long since passed…<br>
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“I’m sorry to say that in my millennia of existence I have yet to hear of a being such as you. Please, enlighten me to my ignorance.” Taeral said apologetically, though he would’ve liked to say it sarcastically. While there was no denying the beings power, he was confident that a half dozen Syhelians could make short work of it.<br>
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The being chucked softly, "You act like a welp like you is worthy to know of one like myself. What is your purpose here? To bow to me? If so you should start soon... your presence is annoying..." the being said with a smirk.<br>
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“My purpose here is to discover the use of this...planet. To that end you are useful.” Taeral said, his patience with the being wearing thin.<br>
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"Me useful to you? Oh please... You entertain me, I believe that's about the furthest extent of your usefulness to me though... perhaps you should go before you get in my way and I decide to rend the flesh from your body?" The being replied with unhidden malice.<br>
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Taeral at this point was done pandering to this...thing. Without bothering to say anything else he raised his pistol, emitting a void-powered beam at his adversary more to see what the effect would be than anything else.<br>
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The being took a step back as the pistol fired, avoiding the shot with a look of boredom. "Well. Now you die." It muttered, sounding bored and unintimidated. With a sigh it began approaching Taeral.<br>
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yeah<br>
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Taeral would immediately back off, continuing to fire. He didn’t want to imagine what this thing could do in close range if he was unprepared.<br>
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The being growled, more out of annoyance than anything else as it shifted it's position with each shot. "I'm not interested in wasting my time with you.." he growled before two bright lights from behind him properties<br>
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propelled him forward rapidly. His arm raised up quite quickly, his hand curling around Taeral's throat and halting his retreat.<br>
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Without hesitation Taeral grasped for his knife, empowering it with the void until it was a thing of pure blackness and plunging it into his adversaries chest.<br>
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The being paused, looking down, "Hmmm certainly something new...I hope you won't need that... oh you won't. You'll be dead." It said with mild amusement. The being reared its head back before delivering a vicious headbutt to Taeral, lifting him up afterwards before slamming him to the ground on his back and regarding him with callous amusement, "last words?"<br>
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There was a fading glimmer of amusement in Taerals eyes. “You speak as if I am already dead.” Even now his psionic presence was rapidly vacating the broken body, leaving it an empty husk.<br>
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The being regarded the husk with the slightest if curiosity before his arm released a bright beam of light, disintegrating and then absorbing it. "Interesting...."<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">Amongst the smoke, ash and falling debris, the falling metal shards of the once great Land Walker crashing down around the inky twilight of light caused by the black smoke and sun rays filtering in through it cast by the far distant stars. Two stripes of glowing green blared into existence, placed upon either side of a blackened, dented and scarred full helm which had seen more than its fair share of combat, the only break in the seemingly solid sheet of metal was three jagged metal overbites that made a sort of horrific artificial grin upon the Helmet, one on either side of the jaw and s single one below. The helm slowly turned in a 360 degree arc and then back again, surveying the surrounding area closely and when done with said surveying a throaty. “Braaaaahahahahaa” Echoed from inside the helm, as if whatever was inside was laughing at the sight of all the destruction. The exact dimensions of this thing was almost impossible to determine as the smoke impaired vision but slouching down it stood at around nearly 15 feet from the ground. A voice, feminine in nature rang out amongst the war torn fallout zone of the Land Walker, silken in its tone but rough undercurrent. “Ahhh the smells…. so good to be out of that accursed ship… I had… almost begun to fear the Lady of Ravens had forgotten about us… eh Sister?” The creature said, in referring the second hulking shape behind it, slightly hidden in the ever falling ash and dust.<br>
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Aligora rolled her neck with a slight groan, "Aye, was starting to get cramped as well..." she muttered, stretching her joints. "So... what are we doing again? Blowing things up?" She asked with a grunt, scratching her jaw line. She surveyed the area as she waited an answer, the smoke slightly inhibiting her vision due to the lack of a helmet. Of course it didn't matter, most Ardino wore no helmets, it impeded their excellent sense of smell as well as the ability to bite pesky life forms.<br>
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Nagashira, for that was her name, stepped forward slowly with that careful, dainty graceful step that the Dredge were known for even in a full mechanized battle suit. “I believe that the Lady of Ravens wishes us to… whats the word she used… ah yes i beleive it was deter some of the approaching neighbors.” A grin, those three breaks in the helm split to reveal the maw of what some might have called a meat grinder. “Aparently they have gotten most… tiresome to the good Ladies interests in this area, and she knows we Love pest control.” A shrieking metal object cracked from the sky and slammed down not ten meters away from the pair, the weapons pod. Such heavy equipment was dropped separately after the two after a incident where the weapons sort of misfired in said container. Nagashira glides over to it almost in that creepy Dredge gait and calls out. “Dibs on the Bessie Mauler.” referring to the 10 barreled monstrous minigun like weapon which fired the akin of a 20mm railgun only at 2,000 rpm. The thing had been tested and proven in the field to rip the turrets off medium tanks.<br>
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"Dammit.. ahh whatever you take em, I made sure my new babies were dropped this time. Haven't got to test em in the field yet." Aligora grunted as she thumped her way over to the pod. Aligora walked around to it's other side, opening it up with a grin before turning around and unfolding her wings slightly. With a bit of careful maneuvering she stepped backwards until the object in the pod was lined up with her suit clamps.<br>
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With a loud clang the object attached itself and Aligora stepped away. On her back rested a large object divided into three pieces. Two rested at the top, laying side by side on either shoulder. The third took up the bottom and looked like it would fold out to the side if activated. "Ready to blow shit up then?" She asked with a rather wide and bloodthirsty grin.<br>
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Nagashira was less subtle in her way of getting at her gear, she just grabbed the pods metal sheeting and ripped it from its hinges, throwing the two metal slabs like frisbees at over the smoke at  where she thought the enemy was. Then she grabbed the massive minigun with two claws and all its respective ammunition, grabbed a arc throwing/ grenade launcher type with the other, and a deployable shield in the last. “riiiight, i think i'm good now… wait… no ones gonna take the Napalm cannon?” The female said. “ahh its all right you wonderful piece of technology that allows me to burn my enemies alive… slowly… and oh so painfully. Thou will be used next time, i promise.” And with those final words the Dredgnaught ‘locks and loads’ the weapon that if it still existed, would violate the Geneva convention, probably every other law against honorable warfare in the history books… but in Nagashira’s mind, who the fuck cared?<br>
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Aligora turned to look at her partner a moment with a grin, "Highest kill count gets the good bed next time." She challenged before engaging her creation. Two pods unfolded from her back, curling over her shoulders and opening in the front to reveal countless small warheads ready to launch. These, although small, had proven to punch holes in most anything. Aligora doubted they'd let her down.<br>
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From below the pods the third object unfolded and curved around beneath her hand to reveal a large mini gun. Although it wasn't as big as Nagashira's it still packed a mighty punch against anything, armored or not. Jutting from it's top rested a joystick that most likely controlled the rig. Without waiting Aligora unfolded her wings and flapped once, launching herself into the sky with a mad cackle.<br>
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 “OI! YOU BITCH!” Roared the Dredge after her host. Nagashira crouched low to the ground and kicked off, blazing away and eating up the distance between her and the enemy soldiers who, all of them, from the Nafarians, the Alien Nazi’s, the Borg, were still watching in awe (save for the borg course) at the smoking wreck that was the Land walker.<br>
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And those still paying attention were treated to the sight of something right out of a horror movie, as this thing elegantly came out of the smoking wreck of the Land Walker, lengthwise it was around 40 feet long from tail to head, in full mech/armor that flowed flawlessly with the creature as it moved along the ground as if it was in the Nutcracker and she the main character. Black, oozing smoke poured off and billowed around the battle scarred material, pooled around its feet as it rushed forward at seemingly incomprehensible speeds only because the way it moved fooled the eye into thinking it was slower yet faster than it actually was going.<br>
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Pulsating green, serpentine movements which were hypnotic and enthralling to watch. Though one of the Xeno asshat Nazi’s got his shit together long enough to notice the giant ass minigun that was being brought to bear upon their position and got down just in time to hear the weapon fire. The gun sounded like the damned come back to haunt the living, that ripping, tearing sound as the shells shrieked through the air and impacted directly behind them. It was a short burst, to sight them but those bullets hit the dirt with such crushing force that it caused small tremors in the localized area where they hit. A line of utterly wrecked and destroyed earth, the top of that hill had been mowed down more or less into a small mini plateau.<br>
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Maniacal and mad, he payed little head to either the arrival of the land walker nor it's destruction and viewed the oncoming robotic beings as a worthy challenge should he encounter them. And while he briefly considered the concept of retreat, he quickly disregarded the notion, instead favoring stalling the behemoths long enough to attempt an orbital bombardment should the captain allow it. Afterall, he had forty soldiers, and he was willing to bet, that, while the soldiers being only mere legionaires with only a few of them hefting heavy weapons, they would be unable to beat the two beasts before him. Instead, he quickened his calm saunter to a fast-paced sprint, surrounded by three of his finest soldiers.<br>
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"I want units one and three to focus fire on those behemoths and watch for those damned robots! The rest of you with me!" He roared, ducking behind brush and trees as the bulletstorm hailed across the field. He heard the screams of the first Nafarian casualties, pushing their woes to the back of his mind while he focused at the task at hand, for he had humans to kill, and one to capture specifically for his captain.<br>
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Meanwhile, roughly twenty five of the Nafarian soldiers turned their weapons on the Dredges, roguetonium coated rounds being spit towards their targets while a few of the men quickly hid behind any cover available to them as they loaded their heavy weapons.<br>
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The captain struggled angrily against his psionic bonds, glaring angrily into his captor's eyes. He was bewildered. How could a foreigner possibly have gotten their hands on a rather high class Nafarian war machine? Hellions were often armed to the teeth, and the concept of destroying one was a feat that usually ended in multiple casualties for the opposite faction, not to mention the idea of capturing one.<br>
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The battle began to rage as the Nefarians opened fire upon the onroaching Dredge, after the first few bullets hit the creature it braked hard grass dirt and smoke throwing up in the air and kicked off to the side and crashed back on the earth, serrated metallic claws scratching great furrows In the earths surface. Of the many shots fired at it, most missed though of the ones that hit a few penetrated the Mech/Armor that the creature wore, however... it didn't get through the creatures own biological chitin as the stopping power of the rounds had been greatly reduced. All in all it was more an annoyance to the Dredge as it opened fire with that minigun like weapon of its again. The first five seconds four men died almost immediately of the attacking Nefarians, another had his arm blown off as the sheer force of one of the rounds flying to close to him tore it off, and then another three were obliterated. Blasted in half by the creatures weapon, their bodies looked like some perverse childs doll who had a serious mental obsession with pain.<br>
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It was just difficult to get a bead on it, it kept moving in that fascinating gait, the smoke that billowed out from the cracks  of the armor hid the exact dimensions of where it was and what it was doing and of course there wasn't much cover on the open plains from that giant minigun. It kept firing but crouched low, muscles bunching together and gathering strength as if prepping for something... or someone.<br>
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But then it laughed, this raccous, laughter that spoke of a creature obsessed with hunting down and killing its prey, one of which found its prey's efforts to escape its inevitable, unchangeable, unescapable fate... hilarious and oh so amusing.<br>
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&nbsp;<br>Meanwhile, while the men alive from the first casualties of the Dredge, those loading their heavy weapons to take out the Dredgnaught were just about ready. One soldier, one toting a rather nasty looking piece of equipment hefted it to his shoulder and sighted it at the Creature currently wrecking his comrades. But then a slight pain in his chest made him look down at the massive tail that ripped through his armor and blasted out the front of it like some old 1970 terran Alien movie. The man fell to the ground lifeless and was soon joined by two more of his comrades whos throats had been ripped open as a single, four taloned, back spurred foot delicately stepped over their unmoving corpses.<br>
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The red burning eyes of this Dredge observed the chaos before him and sincerely hoped Nagashira wouldn't shoot him on purpose again. When she got in the zone she was definitely not a team player. The Dredge male slowly faded back into the grass.<br>
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Another poor sod who had taken cover behind one of the only boulders out there on the field saw the grass moving in a straight line coming for him. He raised his weapon and fired a single shot off before his last sight was <i>teeth</i>.<br>
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In the midst of the endless blackness of space, forces had been deployed to reach a designated location: The recently risen planet in an uncharted galaxy, a planet that had created a stir in the sudden unveiling of some form of technology. The signal that had beamed throughout the universe itself certainly didn't go unnoticed. As sudden chaos appeared to unfold, others would soon detect the disturbances, seeking to respond in an instant. Light shone through the infinite darkness as an entire combat fleet made their way towards the planet itself. The ships, brilliantly silver in their design, bore a single, ebony emblem that united them all. Staunch in their recently formulated mission, the commands that the Vertex fleet had received for simple. Or at least, the sounded so...<br>
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The Lady of Ravens</span><br>​</div><br>
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<span style="font-size: 14px">Those upon the Bridge of the </span><span style="font-size: 14px"><i>Kukri </i></span><span style="font-size: 14px">watched in a mix of fascination and horror as the Twins of Terror as they liked to be called, also the Duet of destruction, the double devastators and a host of other really dumb names though no one would ever tell them that to their faces for they liked having THEIR face attached and not used as breakfast pancakes, pretty much played whack'a'mole with the Nefarians. It was like watching someone kick puppies on a Intranet video. However when a warning sigil came up on the Science Officers holo panel, he took note and slid back tin his seat trying to identify the cause.</span><br>
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"Lady Galumora! another fleet has shown up, its about 50,000 kilometers away from the planets outer atmo but is sending smaller ships to the surface!"</span><br>
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The creature which reclined upon that blackened, shadowed throne sighed. "I so wonder, where do all these people come from hmm?.... how far did that signal go across the vast uncharted regions of the stars?" No one answered Her and the Ship Mistress sighed again and sat back more comfortably upon her chair and raised a hand to signal for a glass of wine, watching battles did get one thirsty. A man rushed out from somewhere behind her and held out a crystalized goblet of some type of dark rich red liquid which a delicate claw reached out and picked up daintily from the platter it was resting upon. </span><br>
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"Thank you Little One..." The Dredge Queen said absent mindedly, sloshing the liquid about in the cystal glass peering down into it before taking a small sip. </span><br>
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"Contact our new Arrivals, if you would be so kind as to arrange such Bai'Core?" </span><br>
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The science officer got chills whenever she called him by his actual name, he had been with her for years but still... damnit man he should be stronger than this.  "Setting up Link."</span><br>
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The ships which had just warped in on the Bridge suddenly got a coms request and before they could answer it the image of the shadow veiled pirate queen appeared on the monitors. The Darkness hid most of her body save for the writhing coils in the inky black, six glowing violet eyes which stared out from the void with something akin to amusement and a single clawed hand which sloshed that dark red liquid sensuously in a crystal goblet. </span><br>
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"Gentlemen Gentlemen!" Called a sonorous, deep feminine voice. "A little late to the Party aren't we hmm? I am so </span><span style="font-size: 14px"><i>terribly </i></span><span style="font-size: 14px">sorry... that we started without you but ah im afraid no invitations were sent out so no one knew the time to show up for this little... Soiree." The Creature grins, teeth blaring in the dark just before it faded off into the black again.</span><br>
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The Landwalker fell with a deafening crash, only made louder by the secondary explosions that went off only seconds thereafter. The explosion, contrary to what was likely expected, did not produce a shower of blood and body parts as expected. As a matter of fact, the explosion appeared to have produced no signs of Trasakian death at all.<br>
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Trasakians are, like many other races throughout the known universe, xenophobic. On top of this they also have throughout the years accrued advanced technological systems. One of the systems they have managed to create over the years is semi-self aware Artificial Intelligence. Said AI is a highly enjoyed feature of the Trasakians and is oftentimes incorporated into their military forces as automated systems, be them defensive or offensive. The Landwalkers were one such automated creation.<br>
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The "death", if AI's can in fact die, of one of the Landwalkers quickly drew the attention of the other three still left standing. They all turned in seeming unison towards the now burning hulk of the fallen Landwalker, emitting a sound that can only be describes as 'negative'. The large cannons protruding from them began to charge, various parts giving off a mechanical whine as they spun up, rapidly turning the visible end of the cannon from a light shade of orange to a deep red. However, they did not have time to fire before a new and, to the AI controlling them, more pressing matter had revealed itself.<br>
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The massive robotic army.<br>
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The Landwalkers all turned, once again in seeming unison, to face the army. They then unloaded their cannons into the ranks of oncoming robots. The cannons unleashed lines of red-white hot energy arcing towards their targets, burning massive swaths of the grassland before them. The landwalkers emitted this energy for fifteen seconds before charging their weapons once more, occasionally billowing out scalding white clouds of what can only be steam as they vented heat.<br>
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The captain eventually stopped his struggle, focusing on the view port just long enough for the roguetonium energy weapons to slam into his ship. The shields, that had regenerated over the course of their short conversation had regenerated once more, but under the combined might of the Hellion's aresenal it barely stood a minute against the barrage. The shields swiftly began to glow bright red before shattering entirely against Arimius' assault, the remaining bolts slamming into the ship, hot liquid roguetonium splashing against the thick, reinforced glass of the view port, causing it to shatter entirely, filling the Captain's final sight with a sea of red.<br>
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It didn't take long for a Nafarian reinforcement fleet to respond to the distress signal, a much larger detatchment comprising of roughly one hundred ships. Most of the fleet was comprised of Razor class Interceptors and Aktun class frigates. A dozen Inzidion class destroyers brought up the sides of the fleet while a Hellion class super destroyer of their own lay in the center of the fleet. It would appear to Arimius that what remained of the unified government took the chances of inter Nafarian conflict seriously.<br>
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Soon after the fleet's appearance, the image of a Nafarian in a jet black uniform appeared on Arimius' screen, overriding many of Arimius' communications systems, stealing the opportunity for him to deny or ignore the hail. His face looked rather gaunt and tired, stressed from the hardships of the empire's current situation. A plethora of immaculate, shiny medals of various colors adorned the left side of his chest.<br>
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"This is royal lieutenant Nuk Ez'Lon, relaying a message on the behalf of General Velsus Gren'Shevaad. You have violated Nafarian military doctrine by firing on your fellow Nafarian. I ask that you immediately surrender your ship to me and allow my soldiers to take you and your crew into custody for further questioning by the council. Do you comply?" He stated, his young, pure voice pouring through Arimius' speakers.<br>
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The troops fell quickly to the Dredge's attacks, only a few remaining alive as they began lobbing grenades as they pulled back, forming a weak perimeter around the beasts. One shaken soldier crouched low behind a tree, blurting a quick, rushed command into the coms.<br>
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"This is corporal Halazon Tel'Zala! Our forces have come under heavy fire, we request immediate reinforcements, I repeat we request immediate reinforcements." The man ducked low as one of the dredges felled his cover, nearly decapitating him. "I highly suggest heavy support! These things will not be going down lightly!"<br>
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He then threw the radio to the side, knowing that he too would soon fall with his comrades. He cursed Zander's name under his breath. The man was too reckless, but even still, he would buy his sergeant a few more moments. Anything if it increased the odds of the human's deaths. He appeared abruptly from behind his cover, shouldering his rifle as he squeezed the trigger, aiming for the beast's head.</div>
				
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At the female creature's sudden appearance upon the monitors, Apex had immediately taking action, rerouting the screen of a monitor into a hologram visible to him. A moderately large, holographic screen had emitted from his gauntlets with radiance equivalent to his HUD, visible only through the helm's specialized eye components. Before the Captain could speak up, Apex hissed, <b>"Continue your descent, I'll speak with this.... thing."</b> Beneath the helm, his lips had curled into something of a smirk, stretching from ear to ear. The haughtiness lined throughout his rough visage betrayed growing his suspicions. Alas, it wasn't thoroughly surprising that SOMEONE would open transmission, considering the circumstances...<br>
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<b>"What brings me here?"</b> He chuckled. <b>"The same thing that brings everyone else here. Kinda hard to not notice a massive signal emission through various galaxies, isn't it?"</b> His eyes flickered over to the pilot, who's expression was that of moderate surprise. <i>"Gonna have to get this conversation done with quickly, I need my channel open to receive updates from the scouts,"</i> Apex thought, his gaze shifting back to the holographic monitor. <b>"Now whom might you be?" </b>He inquired, his tone flecked with briskness..</div>
				
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As soon as Max catches sight of the Nafarians, Max runs through the options in his head. <i>If I keep running at this rate, I should be able to escape them no problem, but they might send more forces after me. Maybe... </i>He quickly ducks under the ditch, and as they are running to them he pulls a cylinder off of his back and throws it. In midair above the Nafarians, it explodes sending huge amounts of electricity into them. It then arced off of them and into everyone, so everyone got huge amounts of electricity, killing most of them immediately. They continue rocket running, lest a few of them have survived. The men in Max's squad cheer as he grins. <i>Arc grenades, never fails.</i></div>
				
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As the Nafarians suits were were both insulated against the vacuum of space should the need arise and comprised of metal, the electricity merely conducted across the  metal plates, having little effect on the Nafarians within aside from causing a limb to jolt here and there. One Nafarian tripped due to this mishap, but Zander and the rest continued running.<br>
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Enraged, Zander slung his shotgun  over his back, and pulling out instead his personal side arm, aiming directly at the human at the front of the formation,  the human he guessed was Max despite the perpendicular motion. Of course, if he wasn't, the human would die a horribly tragic death, but none of that mattered, it's life meant little to him. He swiftly aimed at the man's rockets, squeezing the trigger three times as the gun's recoil sent jolts up his arm. The rest of the squadron followed suit, raising their own rifles as they fired at the humans to the best of their ability while under the stresses of sprinting, red bolts whizzing towards Max's squad. Surely, with such a thick hail of rounds one of them was sure to fall.<br>
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The Nafarian’s received no response from the colony ships themselves, but one of the larger fleet ships surrounding it hailed them in return, their captain soon appeared on the Nafarian’s monitors, a young Trelian woman it appeared.<br>
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“Do not fire! Please do not fire!” She shouted quickly, her face carrying a look of utter panic. “We are non-hostile! I repeat, NON-HOSTILE!” She said. Behind her the Nafarian’s could hear and see the panic that was the main bridge of the Trelian ship.<br>
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The being turned it’s eyes towards the battlefield as multiple energy signatures registered on it’s sensors. It’s eyes alighted on three rather large walkers tearing through the planets robotic defenses. Those things would be troublesome if they found the right target...<br>
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The being coiled it’s legs before launching into the air. In a bright flash of light it disappeared, reappearing suddenly over one of them and coming down on it hard, with enough mass to shake and alert it to his presence. But it was of no matter, the thing would be destroyed soon. The being lifted both arms above before it stopped, something catching it’s attention. It stood for a moment in contemplation before stepping swiftly to the side as a passing drone fired at him.<br>
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The being quickly dispatched the thing with a homing missile from it’s wrist. With that gone it turned back to the top of the walker and slammed it’s fist into it. It took a moment to uplink with it’s systems and confirm the being’s suspicions. AI controlled...it took not even a second for the being to dominate the AI and force it’s programming to respond to him, and then from their he followed the data streams out towards the others, as well as the drones and fighters in the area. Anything controlled by a biological element, like a pilot, was soon forced into a suicide dive. Everything else began to attack the various ground forces.<br>
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The three walkers all moved in unison, cannons raised to the sky. Using the walkers own uplink to their host fleet the being found both coordinates of them, as well as a stockpile of data that he soon relieved them of, mostly regarding technology and locations as well as the other fleet coordinates in the planets orbit. Using those coordinates the three walkers began firing into space at their host fleet first.<br>
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This, Commandant Sturm quickly decided, was not good. He watched as the walkers began firing upon their ships, stream after stream of damaging energy impact against the ship's shields. Most were holding, for now, but quite a few were not. He watched on the hologram as numerous frigates and destroyers fell out of formation and back into orbit, followed shortly after by one or two dreadnoughts. Even the battleships were beginning to report damage. Many of the officers on the bridge rambled on about casualty figures and shield percentages. The information, really, was irrelevant. The fact of the matter was simple:<br>
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Sturm thought quickly, weighing all available options. Eventually making his decision, he sighed quietly in resignation. He then stood up, quickly pacing the bridge as he barked orders.<br>
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"Disconnect those damned walkers from the rest of the fleet. As long as they're connected, they've got our position fixed." he said, pointing at the crew member in charge of such matters. He continued walking, this time to the Communications Officer. "Tell the fleet to ready for warp, short-range, out of the range of those railguns."<br>
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The Lady of Ravens</span><br>​</div><br>
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<span style="font-size: 14px">The entire crew upon the command bridge was holding their breath after that last transmission ended. The tension in the air was almost unbearable, like the old terran talks between the USSR and USA when nuclear war was nearly declared. A single word might break open an veritable shit storm such as the like the poor sods in this system had never seen before. They waited, terrified, for their Ship mistress's rage to break loose.</span><br>
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But the look on the Lady of Ravens face wasn't the utter bone shaking, marrow nawing rage that they had witnessed once before. It was </span><span style="font-size: 14px"><i>disgust. </i></span><br>
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"What... a child... so immature and ignorant. </span><span style="font-size: 14px"><i>That </i></span><span style="font-size: 14px">was put in charge of a fleet?" The Dredge queen demanded incredulously, shaking her head and smacking her lips as if she had just tasted something foul. "Ugly? ugly was the best that simple minded fool could come up with? Ugly?" The crew sighed in relief, she wasn't pissed thank whatever gods still existed, she was simply dumbfounded and ranted on about how a simple minded idiot as that got even on a ship. Did they not give written literacy tests to those in their military? That one obviously had never read a book, the vocabulary it used was just plain appalling. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 14px">Lieutenant Valerian, a Terran which had seen hundreds of battles and was wide enough to simply nod his head in agreement. Getting into an argument with her at this stage was just a death sentence. Oh she wouldn't kill him, she never killed any of her crew, but she would make him wish he were dead. </span><br>
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The Matriarch continued. "I have never been insulted in such a pathetic manner, I feel almost insulted at the insult attempt it was so childish."<br>
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"Yes Ma'am, that guy was a dick-head." Valerian agreed.<br>
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The Ship Mistress simply waved her claw dismissively. "Those ships they sent out are scanning the surface correct?" She received an affirmative. "Good, contact Moroc, give him the new objective, anything bearing that Ebony sigil, destroy. Wipe out, prevent it from achieving its goal. We shall teach that child manners."<br>
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The Dredge queen paused to look at the sudden chaos down on the surface. The planetary defense grid had indeed come online but thanks to the cloaking tech imbedded in the ship and maneuvers the <i>Kukri </i>had aboard nothing had shot at them yet... yeeet being the keyword. The warp drive was still primed and ready to go the first instance something fishy was going on though.<br>
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The <i>Kukri </i>did have computers but here the Dredges more basic technology came actually into an a.dvantage. Most of the systems, weapons control, life support, and even things like doors were still analog and the like. The systems were all sealed off from another and other than the Coms, had no contact with the outside world so the virus or whatever it was didn't effect them in the slightest other than the Com system bugging out for a minute.<br>
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"relay this message to Nagashira and Aligora. Find Captain Max and see that he gets to that entrance to the core safely, he is being pursued however, eliminate hostiles on your way to him. Oh also, this ebony symbol, if they see it be sure to blow it up hmm? thank you darling."<br>
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<span style="font-size: 14px">Nagashira paused as she got the message across her hud and placed the smoking, red hot mingun to her side and placed a backfoot atop the smoking pile of robot bodies she had accumulated near the wreckage of the first Land walker. She and Aligora had saved the 5 terrans from the ship and had fallen back to the pile of twisted and burning metal for it was the only cover in the area. The Terrans hadn't wanted to come at first but upon seeing their Options they made the smart decision and climbed aboard the Female Dredge and fired from whatever cover they could find, even on Nagashira at some points. </span><br>
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The whole time the Dredge female was screaming "</span><span style="font-size: 14px"><b>THATS 578! that bunk is mine bitch!</b></span><span style="font-size: 14px">" Or something similar as that minigun completely decimated the enemy advancing. All wasn't shits and giggles though, nagashira had taken a few hits, a rocket to the chest and wings slightly damaged. The chest shot hurt the most as she says. "The metals bent and its pinching me tits!" A message none of the Terrans really needed to hear as robots of doom headed their way intent on their destruction.</span><br>
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The new mission objective updated and she nods before turning to the by now slightly crazy and shell... robot shocked Terrans. "So lads, just got a message saying that were off to help your captain in his quest for the Core, we are now taking volunteers for the trip across war torn hell to get to him with no chances of survival... I understand if no one wants to go but from what I hear, ya'll are not unfamiliar with said missions eh?" a rocket flew over head and exploded in a burning explosion of napalm.</span><br>
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Meanwhile, somewhere else. </span><br>
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One of the Ebony sigiled scout ships was hovering along, scanning the area or doing whatever it is it was doing when a loud clap like thunder seemed to ring from all sides and a massive hole blasted through the side of the scout ship. about the size of a 50 gallon drum barrel for oil. Moroc grinned as he watched it fly pathetically into the earth and ingite in flames. His mission was all to easy. With the planetary defense grid online, all he had to do was watch his six for the Borg and pick off the enemy ships that made it through the flurry of rail guns and anti-ship flak and fire going up into the sky as if shooting stars were gone in reverse. After that shot, the Dredge hefted the massive four handed rifle over its shoulder and onto its back then faded back into the smoke and now steadily falling ash from the dying ships in atmo, his next target was already spotted. </span></div>
				
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Their mission was easier said than done it would seem as eight Nafarian dropships, delayed reinforcements for the late corporal careened overhead. These ones  appeared to be more prepared, carrying heavier equipment. Three, menacing looking tanks clunked laboriously on the soft dirt, the groans of straining metal grinding together as it hefted up the tank's weight, and several more detachments of Nafarian legionaries.  More interestingly however, is that one of the dropships drifted off for a while, away from the battlefield before lowering itself down to the ground and only dropping five soldiers, a scant amount compared to what the dropships had been known to previously known to drop.<br>
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These new Nafarian adversaries wasted no time in engaging the two  dredges, the tank's heads immediately springing to life as they lobbed explosive shells at the Dredges, the hard metal exploding into both fire and hot, liquid roguetonium that splashed across the Dredge's armor. The dropships meanwhile remained at a distance as they oversaw the battle, however keeping from assisting in the fray themselves. The infantry opened up next, unloading their automatic weaponry into the Dredge's armored forms.<br>
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Above the Borg world, the idle Nafarian fleet sprang to life, three Razor Class Interceptors converged on the Trelian fleet as the captain spoke with the Trelian leaders, their weapons cooling as to not alert them. Meanwhile, three more ships began to plunge towards the strange world, two Razors and one Inzidion. The rest of the ships meanwhile remained in their idle state, their weapons still red hot, yet the ships refrained from firing, almost as if they were daring any ships to engage them, their sleek, derelict forms staying idly in place as the two leading fleet captains surveyed the coming battle at hand between the Dredges and their newly deployed and better equipped squadrons.<br>
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"Captain Veely. Nightguards are successfully deployed and are heading towards the humans,  sergeant Zander's on their heels as well, shall I inform him of the Nightguard's presence?" A young corporal asked, craning his back to look at the captain, who was hungrily surveying the planet via cams on board the dropships.<br>
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"Yes. Let him know that they will work to flank the humans when they finally halt. It is essential they remain undetected for now, so let that fool know that he is <i>not </i>to compromise their position." He said as he scratched his chin.<br>
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He continued to swipe through the information about the planet's local geography as he settled into a more comfortable position upon his command throne, primarily viewing the pursuit between Zander and the human regiment. He viewed the field like a hawk would it's own hunting grounds, hungrily viewing the humans from his comfortable position far above the action.<br>
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"Interesting." He mused as he looked ahead of where the humans lay.<br>
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"What's that Captain?" The corporal asked.<br>
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"It seems that the humans are headed straight for some sort of  cavern. like Scanners are still plotting out how deep it goes, and our human friends are headed straight for it." He explained, leaning forward in his command throne. "Now why exactly would our little human friends be so interested in such a lame cavern for?" He questioned to himself. "Corporal! Get me Sergeant Hally! I have new orders for her Nightguards."<br>
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"Of course sir," the corporal replied, tapping furiously on his holo pad while the command screen dropped low from the ceiling, swiftly blinking to life and treating Veely to an up close view of Hally's pale face surrounded by the black metal casing of her helmet. Her red eyes immediately snapped towards those of the captain, the pupil's widening as they adjusted to the sudden brightness of the ship's bridge<br>
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"Gah! They really need to fix these damned communication screens, I send my complain directly to Commander Velsa and get nothing in return. Nothing dammit!" She rambled initially before she sighed, calming herself before addressing the Captain. "Yes Captain?" She asked.<br>
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"Sergeant, I need you to split your squad, keep half of you on course with the human upsurpers, have them intercept and delay the bastards. The rest of your squad is going to do a little cave exploration." Veely explained, bringing up a holo pad from the arm of his throne.<br>
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"What's so important about this cave captain?" Hally asked, slightly intrigued. "Must be really damned important for you to take half of my squad."<br>
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"I can't be sure sergeant but all I know is that the humans appear to be heading straight for it and it runs deep." He said.<br>
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"Oh so essentially, they want something that we don't know anything about, but we just don't want to let them get their filthy human hands all over it. Is that it?" She asked, processing the concept in her mind. "Sounds fair enough!"<br>
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"Good! I'm uploading the coordinates to your HUD now. Divide the troops as you see fit." Veely ordered.<br>
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The Trelian captain looked relieved, her body relaxing quickly as she wiped her forehead. “That’s...such a relief...” She muttered before turning and giving orders to a nearby officer. The captain turned back to the monitor and began speaking once again, “Yes, assistance would be greatly needed, most of our ships are in critical condition and our colony vessel is entirely powered down after our jump. We’ve been unsuccessful in-”<br>
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<span style="font-size: 14px">Of the eight drop ships that tried to drop off men, only six made it to the ground for as they were coming into view the Terrans cried out in alarm which of course alerted the Dredgnaught who abruptly swung that massive minigun around and opened fire. The 20mm shells arced through the air like a swarm of locusts from the terran biblical even the Ten plagues of Egypt and ripped right through the cockpit of the vehicle killing the pilot and sprayed upwards to knock out one of the wings, the damaged drop ship careened out of control towards two others. One of the drop ships was lucky to have gotten out of the way due to the lightness of the load it was carrying and a quick thinking pilot however the other was not so lucky as its cargo, one of the Tanks made it harder to maneuver and was slammed into by the other now out of control dropship. The two fell to the ground locked in a seemingly endless dance before being consumed in a fiery inferno. </span><br>
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As Nagashira watched this event with satisfaction the other tanks had landed and opened fire, a heavy shell slammed against her breast plate but due to the angling ricocheted off where it exploded against her shoulder guard. the explosion knocked the Female back a few steps as she stumbled to regain her balance from the hit and looked to the spot for damage assessment. It had gone right through the shoulder guard and detonated on her own biological armor where it sizzled utop it and burned sluggishly, blue crystalized blood seeped from the wound and hissed evilly when it touched the ground, bubbling and warping the earth itself. Now that... was just irritating, ill have to clean and fix that, thought Nagashira. </span><br>
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However more pressing matters drew her attention like the second tank firing at her. Now those things were just pissing her off, she let go of the minigun with on claw but held it with another and when the shell arced in to bringeth the pain as im sure the commander of that tank was smugly thinking, he was oh so shocked when she </span><span style="font-size: 14px"><b><i>Bitch slapped </i></b></span><span style="font-size: 14px">it right out of the air with a harsh full body torque movement which brought all the females strength to bare on that single point. The shell defected a 60 degree angle and slammed into the leg of the Landwalker behind her. Reaching behind to her back, she brought out that rocket launcher looking weapon and sighted it alongside the tank taking a wide stance and screaming this in a piercing, bloodthirsty voice that echoed across the battlefield, resonating with its intensity and vibrating in the helms of the Nafarians who made themselves her foe.</span><br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><b><span style="font-size: 24px">BRING ME </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 24px"><i>MORE!</i></span></b><br>
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<span style="font-size: 14px">The weapon fired and a almost comically small shard of yellow glowing crystal, this tiny little shard flew across the battlefield, a miniature star almost as it seemed every eye was drawn to the wee thing. It impacted the tank and shattered into 7 small pieces and a small little blue ball which flew forward still and touched the metal. Just when Nagashira was about to call broken dud piece of shit and that tank commander probably thanking his equivalent of a diety, those seven shards suddenly  flew into the air and crackled with power. What happened next the survivors would debate about for years, some say they saw a glowing matrix of energy and power form around the tank and surrounding area, others say they saw a massive hole open up through time and space, others say they witnessed something more.... malevolent. Whatever happened it was to fast for even the Dredge to keep track of. </span><br>
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All any one knew was that the earth the tank had been in was now a 60 meter wide and just about as deep perfectly spherical hole where the tank and the around 30 men near it were simply gone. The vacuum created by this anomoly then was filled as air rushed back in to fill the area where the vacuum was and threw a few of the Nafarians around like unwanted bags of potatoes but none were seriously hurt. Thankfully they all had their sealed suits on or else if their lungs had air in them at that time they would have been ripped right out of their mouths as the air inside them tried to rush and fill in said vacuum. </span><br>
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Nagashira just blinked and her helm's jaw split open to gape slightly at the damage the weapon she just fire caused. </span><br>
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"Oh..." The Dredgnaught said in slight awe and shock, the lack of bloodthirst and carnage making her sound infinitely more feminine. "So </span><span style="font-size: 14px"><i>that's</i></span><span style="font-size: 14px"> why she never let me fire it in the ship.... riiiight... wish I had another one."</span><br>
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After everyone on both sides had recovered from </span><span style="font-size: 14px"><i>that </i></span><span style="font-size: 14px">incident... well lets just say things were not going well for the Nefarians at all. They had to advance across the open plains where the only cover was a few boulders, defelades in the ground and their own dead men and machines. The Dredgnaught and her host as well as the five Terrans were using the wrecked Landwalker for cover and its hard battle plated exterior made for great cover, they just had to watch and make sure they were not near any AI prepped rockets when they cooked off and detonated inside the wreckage. </span><br>
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Nagashira's minigun made advancing difficult for any brave bastard who grew balls especially for the infantry. The single remaining tank was doing a good enough job of keeping Nagashira from advancing from the cover of the landwalker and really fucking up the Infanty, he had hit the Dredge again but it was on the leg and the extreme angle of it as the creature moved out of the way only made it bounce through Nagashira knew she was going to have one hell of a bruise there. </span><br>
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The Terrans, ingenious little things, had taken the Dredge Females launcher, not the one that ported people and earth and everything into the void, but the grenade launcher sort of thing and since it was to large for any of them to use it personally, they had rigged it up as a small artillery unit to lob the shaped charged at the advancing Nefarians. . . by small I mean around 100mm HE shells though some were plasma, those just exploded weird and didn't do much to the Enemy but the HE sure as hell did. Nagashira only laughed uproaringly when she saw what they had done and bellowed over the sound of her mingun. "KEEP 'EM COMING BOYS!"</span><br>
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To make matters worse for the Nefarians the Robot army of doom was advancing upon their position and firing at pretty much everything. Nagashira saw the long term threat and began to focus her fire more upon the horizon line filled waves of never ending robots taking a little pressure off the Nefarians but the 5 humans were still a wee bit pissed at being treated like Cattle. they didn't stop bombarding the onroaching foe, robots or Nefarians. </span><br>
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<b>-Dredges-</b><br>
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The Nafarian army continued advancing, some taking cover behind the third and final tank as they continued to push forward. A few of the Nafarians held heavier weapons; rockets and LMGs that they quickly began to unload upon the two Dredges. The tank itself launched yet another heavy shell at the Dredges as they continued their advance. Many Nafarians perished however as they approached the Dredges, their heavy armor doing little against their rather impressive arsenal. They continued their advance nonetheless however, a few of the Nafarians now easily distracted by the Borg who came at their rears. They didn't have to worry about them too much however, as the combined efforts of the Dredges and new found air support from the dropships kept them at bay for now.<br>
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Heads were soon turned however, bringing attention away from the battlefield as three large booms echoed across the sky, swiftly being followed up by the appearance of three Nafarian ships. Two of the ships were Razors, the large T shaped ships looming ominously in the sky, the last, larger ship however bore a more complicated design, large, spine like wings angle down towards the ground. It's hangars took up much less of the ship as compared to the Razor's, who's massive hangars took up almost the entirety of the middle portion of the ship.<br>
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Their arrival initially brought waves of cheers among the losing Nafarian ground forces, however, after a moment of idleness two of the ships sprung to life, each spinning and turning away from the battle below. One of the Razors remained however, not directly assisting in the battle below but remaining above as a watchful guardian, ready to deploy more Nafarians, or in this case, cannon fodder to the Dredges below.<br>
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The Captain watch as the ship plumetted into the the planet's atmosphere. He cursed as he could do little to stop it, however he couldn't risk there being any civilian lives on what could easily be considered a warzone. Given the commotion, more Nafarian Razors piloted themselves towards the Trelian fleet, opening a long term warp portal for the Trelians. The remaining Trelians in orbit were soon treated to a mass transmission fro the Nafarian captain.<br>
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"Go! Get your remaining ships out of here, that will take you somewhere safe, far enough away from one of our worlds where you won't raise the alarms of the defense fleet. Once you're there just know that it is pivitol that you stay put for the time being. I can't promise you that my colleagues back on Rofiria won't take your acts as an act of aggression. We will save the rest of your people." He said quickly.<br>
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<b>Zander</b><br>
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As the Nafarians suits were were both insulated against the vacuum of space should the need arise and comprised of metal, the electricity merely conducted across the  metal plates, having little effect on the Nafarians within aside from causing a limb to jolt here and there. One Nafarian tripped due to this mishap, but Zander and the rest continued running.<br>
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Enraged, Zander slung his shotgun  over his back, and pulling out instead his personal side arm, aiming directly at the human at the front of the formation,  the human he guessed was Max despite the perpendicular motion. Of course, if he wasn't, the human would die a horribly tragic death, but none of that mattered, it's life meant little to him. He swiftly aimed at the man's rockets, squeezing the trigger three times as the gun's recoil sent jolts up his arm. The rest of the squadron followed suit, raising their own rifles as they fired at the humans to the best of their ability while under the stresses of sprinting, red bolts whizzing towards Max's squad. Surely, with such a thick hail of rounds one of them was sure to fall.<br>
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Soon after the barrage, Zander held up his fist, motioning his squadron to cease their running. "Halt! We're too slow for their boosters!" He cried. A squad of Valtrikes slowly approached Zander as he reluctantly slipped a fresh mag into his sidearm.<br>
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"Should we pursue him sir?" The Man on the lead Valtrike asked, to which he was responded to by Zander shoving him off of the Valtrike and into the dirt.<br>
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"Police business! I shall be commandeering this vehicle!" He exclaimed with glee as he revved the speeder's engine. pointing an open palm forward to the other two valtrikes behind him. "Forward! After the human scum!" He commanded before setting off after the humans, quickly tapping silent commands, giving coordinates for the other Valtrike squads and the foot soldiers to follow as he went.
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</blockquote><span class="post-heading post-heading-"> Remnant </span><br>
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<span class="post-heading post-heading-"> Field Team </span><br>
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Maxwell Teller: Healthy<br>
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Jason Jones: Healthy<br>
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Harold Dawdson: Healthy (Hosting)<br>
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Veronica Sheral: Healthy<br>
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Yusef Jordel: Healthy<br>
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Gregor Shawn: Deceased<br>
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Ferador Jikal: Injured (Left Shoulder)<br>
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Suredor Mogun: Healthy<br>
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Jekerov Perelon: Healthy<br>
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Patriaca Perelon: Healthy<br>
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Howard Ural: Severely Wounded<br>
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Ishimal Leral: Healthy<br>
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David Nasalef: Healthy<br>
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Mogar Vav: Healthy<br>
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Killian Osiris: Healthy<br>
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Jackson Jones: Healthy<br>
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Fredrick Jiral: Deceased<br>
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Gavin Ramsey: Healthy<br>
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Isop Kira: Healthy<br>
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Greg Aesop: Minorly Wounded<br>
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Bullets whiz around the running soldiers. Max screams for them to continue running. Most bullets fall far behind, as Nafarian soldiers forgot to account for the movement. Some soldiers, however, were smarter than that. On bullet ends up shooting into Gregor's side. Losing control of his rockets due to the pain, he falls down, cracking his neck — among other things — upon impact and killing him instantly. Another bullet hit Ferador in the shoulder, however he was luckier. He begins to fall to the side, but a well placed burst of a rocket gets him back on track with the others. One last soldier is hit, and it remains to be seen whether he was luckier than Gregor or not. He is shot in the foot and falls over, unable to keep balance. He slams into the ground and survives, but breaks many bones in the process. He lies crippled in the dirt, yelling for the group to move on, but silently wishing someone would save him.<br>
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The being directed it’s attention to the planet’s surface as the defenses continued to raise. It was receiving multiple alerts regarding high casualties of the planets surface defense units. The being turned it’s gaze in the direction where it appeared they were showing up the most. Two points of contact alerted him. A number of them being destroyed in a combat situation. The other point was a proximity alert to one of the planets entrances.<br>
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The Trelian ship had landed on it’s side, a large swath of land having been destroyed as it slid across the ground. But the most noticeable thing was that the side was covered in small robotic figures, and the large hanger entrance was filled with them as well. Odds are that shortly after impact these things had attacked. But given that they were still coming at it odds are there were survivors.<br>
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It would seem that the same trick wouldn't work twice. Zander's keen eye caught sight of the second arc grenade immediately, and knowing what they did prior, he made a swift order for his squadron to evade the oncoming grenade. In response, he and one other soldier swiftly survived the arc grenade, however the third Valtrike wasn't so lucky. It zoomed right over the arc grenade, causing it to explode right beneath the vehicle. The electricity, while doing little damage to the man himself, caused the ship to jolt upwards and the non roguetonium circuitry. This led to the Valtrike to instantly spin out of control, crashing into an explosive inferno that engulfed a tree.<br>
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The two remaining Valtrikes, Zander and his last squadmate continued their ongoing pursuit, however, that would soon be the least of Max's worries as two more Valtrike squads could be seen zipping through the trees, a distance off from the left and the right of the Max's troops. Worse still, the humans could hear a boom echo off in the distance, followed up by two looming shadows encroaching right over the heads of both humans and Nafarians, burying them in dim darkness.<br>
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Looking up, Zander swiftly identified both the ships as Nafarian, a Razor and an Inzidion class. He smiled to himself, before shouting at the humans, knowing his prey to soon be trapped.<br>
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"You better slow down now before you really piss me off! Zander don't do well when he be cranky!" He roared after them, oddly referring to himself in third person.<br>
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<b>Trelians</b><br>
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"God damn... Coporal, what the hell are those things?" The captain asked as he surveyed the robots. Had he not spoke with the Trelians, he may have believed them to be the inhabitants of the ship he was attempting to save.<br>
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"I... I don't know sir." The lieutenant replied. "They don't match anything we have in our records."<br>
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"Well if they're not with us or these Trelians than surely they're against us. Release combat squads, Armored support is approved." The captain paused for a moment, thoughtfully stroking his chin. "And send in our dreadnought unit. Their squad leader has been itching to be deployed from the moment we've arrived. They'll be tasked with immediate infiltration of the Trelian ship." The captain ordered.<br>
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"Of course sir!" The lieutenant shouted back, his thin fingers dancing across his holo pad. "Eh... Sir?" The Lieutenant asked.<br>
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"What is it lieutenant?"<br>
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"There doesn't appear to be any form of clear LZ down there. What should I tell the pilots?" The lieutenant questioned.<br>
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"Oh, that's a simple solution lieutenant. Tell them to blow those damned robots to hell, they will make their own LZ lieutenant."<br>
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Meanwhile, in the ship's hangars, troops bustled about between dropships, loading them up with troops, supplies, and vehicles. Within minutes they were deployed, the dropships swooped above the borg robots, their chin guns coming to live as they released heavy rounds down upon them. The each cleared a good number of the robots before releasing their payloads, dropping groups of legionaries and tanks that instantly engaged the borg forces. The last dropship down, a rather heavily armored dropship, revealed it's own payload. It was rather small compared to the rest, releasing only seven soldiers. These soldiers looked different from the rest however, their armor was almost entirely red, and looked more form fitting and sleek than the bulky suits of the legionnaires. Each of the soldiers flicked their wrists, and from them, long, sizzling red blades appeared from under their wrists, curving slightly at the front towards their eventual points. The troops were methodical in their killing, quickly clearing a way towards the downed Trelian ship. The red soldiers took point, primarily using their blades to slice through the Borg soldiers, however occaisonally one would sacrifice one of their blades in favor of a modified sidearm to kill their adversaries in the distance with precision. Although the borg had never encountered this class of soldiers from the Nafarians before, one thing was for certain; they were deadly, and would not be easily felled.</div>
				
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<b>Celestrial-Bodies:</b> Unknown planet<br>
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<b>Vessels:</b> 306 Leviathans + thousands of aero/space units<br>
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<b>Facilities:</b> None<br>
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<span class="post-sub-heading post-sub-heading-">Above the Planet</span><br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify"> The first shots of energy had brought a devastating effect on the fleets that have arrived onto the unknown world. Silent beams of light have shot through the lumbering beings and brought the giants down one by one along with the other asteroid bodies that they've summoned from the wormholes. It was chaos. The wormholes have stopped summoning Leviathans and left the remainder to fend for themselves. The Leviathans dove down en mass towards the planet to escape and evade the deadly presition of the planet's railguns.<br>
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As they had descended it came to no surprise that they were being taken out one by  the railguns whilst fighting the planet's gravitational pull and the fiery hot air surrounding their rough bodies. A number of air based Aliuu escaped the inferno and sprawled out in the air to maybe distract the railguns' fire from the Leviathans or just ensure that the fleet hasn't been completely wiped out.<br>
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The huge creatures that have managed to make it to the surface landed heavilly onto the planet thus unleashing shock waves and whipping huge clouds of dirt and dust from their craters. A little more than a handful have survived the onslaught of the projectiles, however they're heavily damaged. The lumbering creatures groaned as they lay in the impact craters trying to regenerate.<br>
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Ira stretched her twelve tentacles and cracked her neck from the sudden crash. She walked onward along with the other Aliuu creatures and tapped her pad. The flat plastic looking board seemed to be working and the woman smiled lightly to herself. She looked up towards the sky and saw that the air was still experiencing some fiery debri and smoking smoldering biomass. The asteroids that they've spawn seemed to have made i more or less onto the surface and begun to leaks out small spores and greenish gasses. It would appear that the asteroids were the doing of the Gravemind. For the now they seemingly serve no purpose except to spread his essence  and to keep watch on the downed leviathans.<br>
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Ira blinked as she noticed that things were going out of hand here. How is their envoy handling things here on the surface? Ira pressed a number of holographic symbols onto her tablet and had a display oval shaped holographic 'ghost interface' hovering over the tablet. She dialed the Lady of the Ravens.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><span class="post-heading post-heading-"> Remnant </span><br>
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<span class="post-heading post-heading-"> Field Team </span><br>
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Maxwell Teller: Healthy<br>
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Jason Jones: Deceased<br>
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Harold Dawdson: Healthy (Hosting)<br>
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Veronica Sheral: Deceased<br>
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Yusef Jordel: Healthy<br>
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Gregor Shawn: Deceased<br>
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Ferador Jikal: Healthy<br>
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Suredor Mogun: Deceased<br>
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Jekerov Perelon: Deceased<br>
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Patriaca Perelon: Healthy<br>
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Howard Ural: Severely Wounded<br>
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Ishimal Leral: Deceased<br>
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David Nasalef: Healthy<br>
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Mogar Vav: Deceased<br>
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Killian Osiris: Healthy<br>
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Jackson Jones: Healthy<br>
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Fredrick Jiral: Deceased<br>
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Gavin Ramsey: Healthy<br>
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Isop Kira: Healthy<br>
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Greg Aesop: Minorly Wounded<br>
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Max looks behind him as half of his group is wiped out, leaving only six survivors. Max screams for his team mates but keeps running, ordering his men to take cover. Using their rockets, they decelerate slowly until they come to a stop behind a mound of dirt that had formed through the conflict. Max assesses his teammates as a medic heals Ferador. He gathers up who's still alive as Patricia looks around.<br>
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"Wait," She says, worry coming into her voice. "W-where's Jekerov?" She looks around at the survivors. Many of those survivors, in turn, looked around for him, but Max hangs his head slightly, already having discovered the grisly truth. "Where is he?!" A science officer pulls up the team vitals and, seeing for himself the truth, hangs his head. Patricia rips the vitals out of his hands and gasps when she sees that Jekerov, her brother, is dead. She drops the vitals and hangs her head as well. Max looks to her and speaks with great sorrow in his voice.<br>
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"I'm sorry. I-" Patricia stops him and speaks, sounding as though she is holding back tears as hard as she can.<br>
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"No... he... he knew what he was getting into when he signed up for the military." She gives a sad chuckle. "The bastard. He had a kid waiting for him at home. A wife. Rather insensitive to just leave them like that, huh?" Then everyone watches in solemn silence as she falls over, bursting into tears. After a little while, she pulls herself together and becomes silent, leaning against the dirt. Max chooses his next words carefully and begins to speak.<br>
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"We've lost people today. Good people who never did anything wrong. Husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, sons and daughters. All of them died here for one thing, and that is the freedom of Remnant. They died for their family, and I'll be fucking damned if I let that go to waste!" He stands as righteous fury courses through him. "The pit, and the core, are right around the corner. We are so close. If we stop now, their deaths will be in vain. Let's get the core and fuck up those Xeran bastards. Then, we come back with more people and more weapons, and we BLOW THE SHIT OUT OF THOSE THINGS!" The soldiers cheer as Max raises his gun in the air. "LET'S MOVE!"<br>
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They once again begin running towards the pit, as anger and determination fuels them, as destiny looms only a short distance away.<br>
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They soon make it, and it was... less than expected.<br>
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"Is that an elevator?"<br>
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A rough, assisted sprint through thick foilage found Hally's nightguards at the cavern's(Or whatever the heck it is) entrance. Cloaked against the brush, one of her nightguards moved to enter the cavern. Due to the GPS systems installed on the suits using dishes on orbiting Nafarian ships to track them, she was swift to issue an order for him to halt.<br>
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They ran behind the human's backs, mere feet behind them as they ran, however they were not quick enough and only five of them managed to make it inside the elevator with the humans. Each were cloaked, taking shallow breaths as they waited in the elevator bay. Undetectable by any means sans hacking into the GPS systems on the suits, the nightguards went unnoticed for the moment, choosing to wait to reveal themselves as opposed to fighting in the elevator. Besides, if she waited perhaps Zander could catch up to the group. If he was good for anything, it was a good distraction.<br>
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He came a moment too late, his Valtrikes skidding to a halt just outside of the pit as the elevator went down. He instantly jumped off of the Valtrike as he ran after the humans, arriving just as the doors shut. He slammed both of his armored fists against the elevator, causing them to dent slightly from his wrath.<br>
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"Damnit! He roared. "By Ven'Ziel I will gut those humans when I get down there! I will wear their damned spines as necklases when I'm done pissing all over their corpses!" His shoulders heaved as he remained leaning against the elevator doors. The remaining Nightguards uncloaked behind him, watching him with a great deal of concern as they stood with their arms crossed. One of them stifled some laughter at the sight of Zander's antics.<br>
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The Lady of Ravens</span><br>​</div><br>
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"Ma'am, things are getting hot down there, should we pull them?" The science officer said to the Dredge Matriarch Galumora who was watching the raging battles with interest. "Send them down another... ammo drop. Tell Nagashira to be on the lookout for those... Landwalkers. It will be some time before we are able to destroy one as-" A blinking sigil appeared and cut the Female off.<br>
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The Communications officer stood up, saluted and barked. "Lady Galumora, the Swarm has contacted us, shall we initiate the link?"<br>
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The Pirate Queen paused for a brief second before nodding a yes and waving a hand airily and discreetly nodded at the science officer, telling him that the re-supply pod was a go. A button press and or two and away went a small ball of fire down onto the war torn surface.<br>
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The Bridge was then treated to the lovely Image of the Aliuu Commander. No one said anything though, they were, after all this time in the Service of Lady Galumora, pretty well weathered to freaky alien bullshit so their expressions didn't change in the least. Galumora however got up from her throne, a action that was quite rare in itself and made the crew look alive, and sauntered over into more visible light where she put one hand on her hip, another underneath her chest and raised two arms as if expecting a hug or declaring something and said in her well rolled and exotic voice.<br>
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"Commander Ira! I did not know that you were nearby else... else I would have called sooner and said Hello yes? I spoke earlier with one of your... subordinates but he seems to have... passed on. For the glory of the All Mother, may he rejoin the masses." The Dredge female finished slowly.<br>
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"To answer your question... Commander, the <i>Kukri </i>is holding position approximately 500 kilometers above the planets surface in the grey zone. I must say we have been rather... comfortable, no difficulties as of yet but you and <i>I </i>know the dangers of war, so unpredictable yes?" The Lady of Ravens grinned as she said so.<br>
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"However out situation on the ground is..." The Pirate Queen arced her body slowly and gestured to the holo monitor where she had been observing the entire fight. The Science officer was smart enough to re-route the feed so that the Swarm Commander saw it directly on her holographic device.<br>
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<span style="font-size: 14px">Nagashira had run out of ammunition for her minigun a little while ago and the Nefarians were smart enough to advance during this period of vulnerability. However the supply pod came crashing down upon a group of them and blasted them in every direction like rag dolls. The Dredgnaught quickly dashed forward and ripped open the supply drop. There was ammo for the </span><span style="font-size: 14px"><i>Bessie Mauler </i></span><span style="font-size: 14px">but there was simply no time to reload the massive weapon. Instead, she grabbed the four heavy sub machine guns (Sub machine guns for her, any one else try firing one and they would get knocked on their asses) and jumped out into the fray calling her Host Aligora on the coms with the message. "Big girls all yours! she needs a reload though!" </span><br>
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The Nefarians and their tanks made it to the edges of the Downed Landwalker finally, after they had trudged forward through the boggy plains, the amount of blood spilled and body parts made a sort of 'squelching sound' everytime a boot lifted off the ground. The air was rank with the Iron scent of blood and the horrified, gruesomely obliterated faces of their fallen comrades didn't help their moral. Every now and then they would pass a tank, a burning wreck with the front tore open, flipped over like some angry child had gotten tired of its toy and simply threw it. But aside from the far off scream, metallic or not of some Nefarian falling to the Borg or the reverse being true it was oddly quiet without the never ending barrage of death from the Creatures position.<br>
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All those thoughts vanished as they heard a slight shrieking from the sky, as if something had wind whipping about it as it fell to the grou- Then they thought nothing at all.<br>
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Nagashira rose up from the crater, having used her wings to give her an advanced drop point and get further out without those damn tanks peppering her the whole time and crushing five poor Nefarians in the process. Those remaining in the battalion quickly died as the Dredgnaught whipped out those four sub machine guns and laid down a perfect 360 degree killing zone. It was amazing, beautiful, glorious and graceful. Almost like watching a dance as the female Dredge arced and curved sensuously as those four arms mowed down all around her. No matter how the Nefarians tried to maneuver around her, no matter what they tried to do to flank it mattered not for the Dredgnaught <i>had </i>no blindspots. Those six eyes combined with that all around visor could focus and see in a perfect 360 degree angle around her, nothing escaped her notice, but that didn't mean she could avoid everything.<br>
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While Nagashira layed horrendous fire down all around her, simply popping your head up could mean death from whatever cover you were hiding behind, bullets tearing through men and armor, flesh and metal like a image of swiss cheese, two tanks came around the corner and opened fire before she could maneuver out of the way. Nagashira was fast in that mech suit, she couldn't do the mind/stomach twisting contortions that other Dredge could do however, and as a result took not one, but two shells to the chest and lower shoulder. They exploded into their noxious bubbling, oozing liquid doing what appeared to be tremendous damage to the Dredgnaught but it seemed not to care for the large burning holes in its outer armor as it rushed them, all six limbs propelling it at speeds of almost 85kmh when combined with the mech suits bonus's. The first tank managed to get another shell in and fire it at the rapidly approaching monster while the second tanks crew lost its nerve and fumbled with the shell loosing their opportunity.<br>
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The Dredge bitch slapped that round right out of the air as it had done once before, jumped over the first tank and twisted in mid air, grabbing the turret with three clawed hands and the Turret with another and its tail and the cumulative force of Nagashira's jump and her own strength the Literally <i>rips the turret off of that tank </i>and doesn't even stop for a second, she bull rushes the last remaining machine, shrieking like a demon, leaping up into the air and Slamming that Turret down like Thors hammer onto the enemy tank where it impacts, crushes and the explodes in a fiery storm of death... silence... surely that must have killed it, theres no way anything could have survi- a single foot, blackened and charred, followed by Nagashira herself, blood covered, charred and armor boiling around her. Behind her she dragged the turret of that tank with its occupants upper halves just dangling out with all their entrails hanging and dragging behind.<br>
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Killian Osiris: Healthy<br>
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Jackson Jones: Healthy<br>
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Fredrick Jiral: Deceased<br>
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Isop Kira: Healthy<br>
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Greg Aesop: Minorly Wounded<br>
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One of the soldier's goes to rest on a wall and bumps into something invisible. Cloaking technology wasn't foreign to him, so he quickly takes out an arc grenade and holds it primed, yelling out "Reveal yourself, or I hurt!"</div>
				
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The man holding the arc grenade heard a quick laugh before he felt himself being lifted off his feet. The nightguard quickly uncloaked as it held the man where his face would be, presenting the whole elevator with the visage of a tall, seven foot Nafarian decked in pitch black armor. A red, V shaped visor glowed bright in front of the man's face as the Nightguard closed the man's fist over the arc grenade, closing it tight as he crunched the man's fist against the cold metal of the grenade.<br>
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The Nafarians continued fighting down to the very last man against the Dredge. But it would seem that even as she slew the last man on the field, the Nafarians were far from done, as from the large hangar of the Razor floating eerily above her, more dropships spewed like insects, angling themselves downward as they swarmed about the dredge. This time they opened fire on her as they dropped their payloads, more tanks, and legionaires making their way to her lumbering form.<br>
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The man holding the arc grenade heard a quick laugh before he felt himself being lifted off his feet. The nightguard quickly uncloaked as it held the man where his face would be, presenting the whole elevator with the visage of a tall, seven foot Nafarian decked in pitch black armor. A red, V shaped visor glowed bright in front of the man's face as the Nightguard closed the man's fist over the arc grenade, closing it tight as he crunched the man's fist against the cold metal of the grenade.<br>
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"Here I am." The nightguard scoffed slyly in a deep, foreboding voice as he continued increasing the pressure on the man's fist. "Go ahead. Detonate that grenade. It would please me to see your hand explode."<br>
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Faint hisses could be heard around the humans now as the other nightguards drew their blades, still invisible to the human soldiers as they positioned themselves around the cargo elevator, ready to strike at a moments notice.<br>
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"Now I suggest you all lower your weapons and do as we say. Unless you wish to see me gore this man here and now." He stated plainly.
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Maxwell Teller: Healthy<br>
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Jason Jones: Deceased<br>
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Harold Dawdson: Healthy (Hosting)<br>
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Veronica Sheral: Deceased<br>
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Gregor Shawn: Deceased<br>
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Ferador Jikal: Healthy<br>
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Jekerov Perelon: Deceased<br>
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Patriaca Perelon: Healthy<br>
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Howard Ural: Severely Wounded<br>
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Ishimal Leral: Deceased<br>
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David Nasalef: Healthy<br>
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Mogar Vav: Deceased<br>
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Killian Osiris: Healthy<br>
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Jackson Jones: Healthy<br>
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Fredrick Jiral: Deceased<br>
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Gavin Ramsey: Healthy<br>
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Isop Kira: Healthy<br>
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Greg Aesop: Minorly Wounded<br>
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The man who's hand was being held loosened on the grenade. His head lowered as he appeared to surrender, until he flared his jets. In the span of a second, his body flipped as he kicked the man in the face at an intense velocity. This gave him enough to yank his hand out and detonate the grenade. The electricity may not destroy the armor, but it should at least show them where they are. As he does so, his foot lands on the mans face as he shoots flames onto his face constantly.</div>
				
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<b>Celestrial-Bodies:</b> Unknown planet<br>
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<b>Vessels:</b> 7 Leviathans +  approx.15,000 units<br>
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"All other medical or repairing focus has been put onto our remaining leviathans meaning that our broodmothers are unavailable at the moment. However I can send units who are willing to mend or fuse with Nagashira if not help you on your onslaught with whatever those things are that she's fighting."<br>
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Ira looked behind herself at the large colossal leviathan, groaning and the aerial creatures that have been unleashed for its defense and looked at her own ground forces that she had controlled. A number of Tanks, several thousand of the Hounds of War and a few hundred Heavy fighters. Her eyes narrowed and she walked over to a foot soldier and a heavy fighter. She raised her plasma pistol and killed both of them after several shots.<br>
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"I'll improvise something for you in the meantime while my forces come to aid Nagashira." Ira cocked her head while ripping out the flesh from the footer in great hand sized amounts.<br>
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Despite the rockets, the nightguard still held on, crunching the fist in entierty around the grenade. The force of the rockets however did drag the Nightguard across the room, disorientating and forcing him to bend to his knees in order to slow the movement long enough for him to draw his blade with his free arm. It erupted with an ear splitting cackle as he held it at length before plunging it into the elevator floor, keeping the nightguard in place. With mobility now his again, he was able to regain his senses just as the man began to flip, sending his boot into the Nightguard's face.<br>
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Unfortunately for the man, however, the nightguard <i>still </i>did not free his arm, causing his entire shoulder to go out with a sickening pop. Regaining his senses both from the kick and being dragged across the room the Nightguard swiftly swung his blade at the man's foot, the hot, searing energy blade cutting through flesh and bone alike.<br>
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"Poor choice pathetic human." He spat as he unclasped his sidearm from it's holster, pointing it directly at Max. "Now kneel."<br>
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"No!" Cried feminine voice suddenly, as the second nightguard revealed herself, sptinting alongside the Nafarian holding the sidearm. "The captain wants <i>that </i>one alive." She commanded.<br>
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The bomb instantly killed the nightguard it was attatched to, blasting a hole straight through his chest and sending Hally skidding across the floor. The arc struck her as well, but as with the legionaires the armor took the blow with little effect to Hally herself. This would appear to be a poor move for the humans to make however, as, during the commotion, the other three nightguards had placed themselves behind the humans. Three of them soon found disembodied blades stuck straight through their guts, the energy blades sizzling angrily against the flesh as it began to burn.<br>
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Hally soon recollected herself, coughing blood against her visor as the impact rattled her body despite the nightguard armor. Still, she stood with a raspy cough as she angrily drew her sidearm, pointing it straight at Max.<br>
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"Mission be damned!" She shouted. "Tell your men to stand down or I'll unload this whole fucking clip into your head!" She ordered as her nightguards dropped the impaled humans as they repositioned themselves. "Do it or this entire fucking platoon is as good as dead!"</div>
				
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The Lady of Ravens</span><br>​</div><br>
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<span style="font-size: 14px">"Why of course commander." The Pirate Queen replied smoothly, she subtly snapped her taloned fingers behind her back. The Science Officer got the message and pulled up the readings and data he had been able to gather so far and he cleared his voice before speaking to the Swarm Commander.</span><br>
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"From what we have been able to determine, there was a massive signal sent out across from what obviously, considering the large diversity of those responding to said signal, a rather large swath of the known universe. Upon arriving to said source we found this planet and several other factions already vying for control. Upon a deeper analysis of the data we have found out that a power source beyond anything that we have ever seen lies at the heart of this technological marvel of a celestial body. This power source defies all attempts at classification and readings well... im trying to right up a new algorithm to figure that out so it doesn't crash my software again..."  The Science officer sat down after a small bow.</span><br>
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"Thank you Little One, a most admirable job." That compliment made Bai'core grin from ear to ear, she didn't give out compliments as such lightly or regularly, his Ship Mistress. </span><br>
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"I myself would love to acquire this said powersource as do many others who would pay most handsomely for it I would bet, I might even accept an offer or two after I got a goooood... long... look at it myself." Galumora chuckles, </span><span style="font-size: 14px"><b>hruu hruu hruu. </b></span><span style="font-size: 14px">"But the All Mother has demanded it be taken in the swarms hand and as she knows I am </span><span style="font-size: 14px"><i>ever </i></span><span style="font-size: 14px">her willing servant. " The Lady of Ravens finished with a charismatic flourish. A flurry of activity caught the Dredge Matriarchs eye... or well one of them and the amazing eagle like vision of the Dredge's odd star slit pupils allowed her to see everything that was going down from where she stood.  Looks like Nagashira was in trouble... again.</span><br>
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"While I would love to stay and chat Commander, theres a battle going on and I do believe im missing the best parts. I just hate missing out on the carnage yes I do </span><span style="font-size: 14px"><b>hruu hruu. </b></span><span style="font-size: 14px">" And with that the Dredge cut the link and immediately ordered another one be initiated with the Nefarians. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 14px">The screens suddenly went dark and fuzzy for a moment upon the Bridge before they were all greeted with the image of the Infamous Pirate Queen herself,  Galumora, the Lady of Ravens.</span><br>
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"Bonjour Gentlemen... now I don't mean to intrude upon whatever it is that you are doing and hope that your ... not offended by me so ungraciously baring in on you at such a time but I couldn't help but notice that the giant weapon of... as a friend of mine would say, PWNAGE is pointing in the wrong direction."</span><br>
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"I don't suppose that's your fault though now, I do believe we got off on the wrong foot so as of the moment I am throwing the proverbial olive branch across the... border line so to speak. Care to stand down as of the moment to avoid any more... unnecessary bloodshed?"</span><br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px">Back underground and at the Center of the Earth... 'cept its not the Earth.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 14px">As the Nefarian black ops practically gut their prisoners, the one on the far left was about to get one nasty surprise. As he  slams his blade home the black ops soldier couldn't help but wonder why the skin on this Terran seemed to move, ripple and - His thoughts were cut off as the entire upper torso of the now dead human seemed to erupt in a massive surge of flesh and bone which came out of nowhere, he was soon met with at eye level a broad, black armor chitin covered chest. In what seemed like slow motion, that blob of flesh and bone grew four wickedly powerful arms each complete with a set serrated talons which clamped down upon the Black ops unit and watched as this creatures mouth opened wide, and then wider, then wider, then cracked right down the throat to the chest cavity where these rib like teeth vibrated hungrily, to consume him, devour him.</span><br>
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"Ohhh fuck" someone said, maybe it was Max, maybe it was the nefarian, or some other black ops or terran no one knew, but no one present couldn't disagree with that sentiment. </span><br>
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Time continues its slow, molasses like movement for all as the Dredge, for Max and his remaining men recognized it, slammed down onto the Nefarian with its horrific maw and </span><span style="font-size: 14px"><b><i>Crunched </i></b></span><span style="font-size: 14px">. Blood splattered everywhere as the mans armor visibly dented inwards and the Dredge gave a viscious jerk upwards, placing a back foot on the Nefarians lower torso and kept pulling upwards and ripped the man/alien in two. Bones and sinew cracking and sliding past eachother sickeningly as intestinal organs piled on the floor. The Dredge looks up from its kill, dropping the other half of the man to the ground.</span><br>
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And Max knew something was wrong, Galumora looked nothing like this creature before him, physically yes they were similar but the way this one held itself, so tense and poised, that look in its eye, those star slit eyes was not one of the charismatic, intelligence that the Lady of Ravens had. No... there was nothing in this ones eyes but death, the promise of it, the salvation of it, the ecstasy of it. this all happened in less than a second.</span><br>
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Time resumes to normal speed as the black ops man to the side of the now ripped in half man pulled out his own blade and with that seemingly incorporeal weapon brings it down in a powerful over hand hack only to find that... his target wasn't there, it was to the side, no the left, above right shit! It got right under its guard and though the Black ops  soldier tried to kill it with a well practiced jab the fact of the matter was that the Dredge had four hands... four arms. Two grabbed the Nefarians own in a vice lock grip and the other two in unison came forward and with crushing force </span><span style="font-size: 14px"><i>slammed into the </i></span><span style="font-size: 14px">soldier sending him careening back against the elevator wall. The Creature kicked off with its hind legs and slammed into the ceiling and then skittered along like some cockroach where it then lept again avoiding fire like some graceful ballerina right atop The Sergeant's position. That head turned 180 degrees on its axis to stare down at Holly, blood still dripping, flesh dangling from its maw as a emotion cross with bloodthirst and longing warred amongst those eyes.</span><br>
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<b>Celestrial-Bodies:</b> Unknown planet<br>
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<b>Vessels:</b> 7 Leviathans +  approx.15,000 units<br>
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<b>Facilities:</b> Gravemind's Meteorites<br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify"> Ira put the tablet away and started to play around with the flesh and biological mass of the two creatures. She snapped bones, twisted muscles together,places layers upon layers of tissue and spun everything together to a new odd shape. The mass soon grew and came to life after the young Aliuu had injected something from her own system into the peculiar and had changed. The tentacles ripped themselves open and expanded with odd buds and balls sprouting from within and outside the tendrils. The creature's mouth had sunk inside its body and sprouted like a flower to resemble a 'face'. It's four legs have gone and the creature could hover and fly.<br>
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"This'll do." Ira cracked a smile. The tentacles massed creature turned away from Ira hovered along side the humanoid Aliuu. Ira rubbed it's tentacles with her free arm and grabbed her tablet again to communicate with the Dredge matriarch.<br>
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"Where is this Nagashira? I've improvised a medic of sorts to help her with her healing." Ira asked through her comms. This time she didn't bother withe the hologram projection since she didn't want to distract the envoy from whatever she was doing.<br>
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Elsewhere the meteorite impact points have begun the fill their area with a greenish brownish mist, the impact points were starting to grow a type of 'mold' or 'moss' around the crater and the stray spores that have been lost with the main group and have landed began fuse or melt with the substance that's growing out from the craters. The spore turned red and then blows up like a balloon. After awhile it turn into a tentacle with a mouth and an eyeball.<br>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'">THIS WORLD GIVES OFF THE STENCH OF AN UNSPEAKABLE POWER... THOUGH IT BE THAT THIS WORLD IS ALSO THE PLANE OF AN ABOMINATION OF WHAT I CAN NOT UNDERSTAND... LIKE </span><span style="font-family: 'courier new'"><i>US</i></span><span style="font-family: 'courier new'">, THEY TOO HAVE PASSED THE THRESHOLD OF THE UNBECOMING...</span><br>
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The captain leaned back, giving Galumora nothing more than a mere smirk as he drummed his fingers carelessly against the arms of his command throne. He found it rather funny and pleasing that this alien filth contacted him when it's proud warrior was near death. But all things aside, he knew that giving into her demands soon after it had spilled so much Nafarian blood was not an option. The troops on the ground would want the beast's head. And so, he would give it to them.<br>
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"I'm afraid I cannot accept this 'olive branch' you are so kindly extending to me, however I do find it interesting that you offer it when your beast is on the brink of death. Fitting, isn't it? That you only choose to offer this so called branch as we ourselves are on the brink of victory. I'm no ditz you alien filth. I can see those cybernetic beings approaching, and I intend to deal with them once your little warrior is nothing more than a rotting corpse." He stated.<br>
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The captain spent a moment flicking through a few files on his holo pad before turning it to face the view screen. On it, Galumora could see what she had already been watching, the battle at hand between the Nafarian legions and the single Dredge. The captains smug smirk did not dissapear as he showed her the battleground, leaning back in his comfortable chair, he addressed Galumora again.<br>
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"I'm afraid your alien filth has spilt too much proud Nafarian blood to be spared, and in mere seconds it will be reduced to nothing more than ash to be mixed in with this world's soil. So tell me... alien, why should I even bother listening to you?" He said coldly.<br>
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She had not expected the thing to come out of the human's body, and watched in horror as it tore through two of her comrades. The blood splashed the walls as black plates of armor fell lifelessly to the ground with what was left of each of the nightguards. In a panic, she instantly fired the three promised shots at Max's form, however two of the shots missed, slugging harmlessly into the wall behind him. The third shot however impacted his shoulder, missing any bones or major arteries and cutting straight through his muscle, leaving contact with the shell's liquid roguetonium coating to a minimum. The wound still burned however, as whatever was left of the coating slowly ate away at his suit and his skin. She was not too taken with the humans however, as she was able to sight the abomination before it reached her. She quickly rolled to the side, causing whatever the hell it was to slam into the bulkhead behind her.<br>
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She then tossed her sidearm to the side as she drew  her second blade, bending low as she reactivated her cloaking device. With her spare time she checked her squad vitals, finding that one final nightguard remained alive, making her numbers now equal with the humans. But they were the least of her worry now. She kept her footsteps silent as she arced around the beast, remaining on the defensive and not letting her cloaked state get to her head while she desperately waited for the elevator to hit it's destination. The mere seconds seemed like hours to her as her very life remained on the line. She only hoped that her comrade wouldn't do anything stupid to get himself killed. Besides, from the looks of her coms chatter, there would be an entire Nafarian army storming in after the humans and this new species, and surely <i>then </i>they would be able to best these humans, and this god forsaken beast.</div>
				
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Maxwell Teller: Healthy<br>
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Ishimal Leral: Deceased<br>
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David Nasalef: Deceased<br>
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Holly quickly sped out of the elevator room, eager to rid herself of the violent, murderous beast that was likely moments away from flaying her. Her nightguards exited as well. However they could not follow her as the GPS systems that allowed the nightguards to track one another did not work so far underground, and with the threat of the borg armies at hand, none of them dared turning off the cooling systems that ran through the armor that prevented it from thermal detection. Each of the nightguards continued their sprint, ignoring the borg armies as they evaded them to the best of their ability. Killing the borg was only a secondary goal for Holly, a goal that she would leave to the legions that would be coming down shortly after her. Instead she pumped her legs hard, despite the searing pain and fatigue that coursed through her body, setting her sights on whatever it was that had drawn the now deceased humans so far underground.<br>
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<b>-Trelians-</b><br>
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The legions, led by their valiant dreadnoughts continued their massacre, cutting through the numerous borg with ease. Within mere minutes they were inside of the gutted cruiser, and fighting through the narrow corridors, slaying all in their path on their way to the Bridge. Finding the doors sealed, the dreadnoughts quickly strapped satchel bombs to the thick metal doors. The doors blew open in a fiery inferno, leaving a gaping hole that led into the spacious bridge. Three dreadnoughts quickly hopped inside, their visors glowing a dark red, and their weapons drawn as they sweeped the area, seeing mostly dead Trelians. They did, however, discover one of them to still live, holding a sidearm at the newly opened doorway.<br>
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The Trelian captain was quickly greeted with the sight of the three, seven foot red armor clad warriors, her saviors from what would've been a sure death. Each of their suits shined immaculately against the sunlight that seeped through the ship's broken viewports. Deep gouges lay in one of the being's shoulderpads along with pockmarks where borg rounds had impacted their chestplates. Despite the slightly crumpled armor pieces, none of them seemed to be bothered by the metal that was most likely irritating their skin. The armor also carried red lights that coursed about the Nafarian's chestplates, legs, and arms, likely the armor's power source.<br>
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"Clear!" One of them shouted in a deep, coarse voice, as he lowered his weapons. "You can lower the gun now. We're here to take you out of here and back to your people." He said, offering a red armored hand towards her.<br>
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<span style="font-size: 14px">Galumora watched on both the Nefarians screen and on her own as Nagashira took that tank turret and was basically using the thing as a war hammer to completely wreck the onroaching enemy, she had sustained a few more wounds but nothing that seemed to slow her down as she flipped a tank and slammed into it afterwords pushing the thing along the ground towards a group of Nefarians using it as a shield before she stopped, swung her arms back and golf clubbed the shit out of the side ways tank sending it rolling and crushing the poor infantry that happened to be in its way and slamming into another tank disabling it. Nagashira did the captain morgan thing with a foot on top of a small pile of dead and warped Nefarians and Screamed her defiance out to the rest, it echoing even amongst the two starships and the amount of force behind it caused some of lesser will to shudder. Absent mindedly she sent the coordinates of Nagashiras location to the Swarm Commander</span><br>
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"Yess I can quite see that's shes near death, oh so very much so your absolutely right." The creature said smoothly and made an odd sort of gesture in the air and stared rather oddly at the Nefarian.<br>
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"Captain Veely... that is your name I presume." When the man stiffened ever so slightly as his Military training no doubt had beaten almost all displays of emotion out of him, Galumora's predatory eyes were keen enough to pick up on it and the Dredge Matriarch grins ever so slightly.<br>
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"Ahh it is you!  Oh dear me I almost didn't recognize you due to the flag you currently are flying and that symbol you wear. My most <i>humblest </i>of apologies, my intelligence must be faulty for I could have sworn." The audio feed suddenly cut out and Bai'core, the <i>Kukri's </i>Science officer re-routed the feed, using his superior technological skill and prowess, directly to Captain Veely's HUD (or the equivalent of it) and The Lady of Ravens sickly sweet voice whispered ever so softly in his ear.<br>
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"<i>That your allegiance lied elsewhere... Captain Veely.</i>"<br>
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A single piece of Data was transferred to Veely personally, a test of skill for Bai'core, the young science officer would be celebrating later tonight if they all lived for his achievement.<br>
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All it contained, was a single date, and the first few opening threads of an Audio log. One that was all to familiar to the Captain.<br>
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Audio was soon restored and the Creature sat back and gave a small pout almost. "Oh my, seems there was a problem with the link, on your end most likely, but you cannot imagine my heartfelt sorrow when I heard you would not be able to Join a little get together you were invited to not so long ago as I myself was invited as well but couldn't make it. I believe your delay was a <i>Previous engagement </i>yes?" The Dredge Matriarch examined its talons and held them up in the light, their serrated, vicious edges gleaming.<br>
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"I must say... me and a few others were oh so curious as to what this was and I couldn't help but snoop around, I do hope you will forgive the intrusion as you only had the best of Interests for... Nafaria."<br>
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The Pirate queens silver tongue had done its work well, without explicitly stating it, she had gotten the message directly across to the Nefarian Captain as well as sowing doubt, or at least planting the seeds of it in the minds of his crew. She had something black and rotten, festering and putrid about Captain Veely and she let him know oh so discreetly the entire time smiling, but it was a fake smile, one that a being might have on only for the reason of trapping its quarry in a death grip.<br>
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"On another matter I have to wonder, Captain" The Lady of Ravens ubruptly stood up and sauntered forward from her throne oh so slowly into the light, casting a haunting look about her, like the leopard that closed in on its prey stealthily step by lithe, graceful step.<br>
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" what is it that they teach you in those schools of yours? Obviously... not... <i><b>manners</b></i>." Galumora suddenly snapped that last word and the weight of it carried like a hammer blow to the nards, it rolled off her slender frayed tongue like burning acid.<br>
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The command crew of the <i>Kukri</i> suddenly went cold with fear and anxiety and one man snapped his holopen by sheer reflex hearing that single word spken in that tone,  the air in the <i>Kukris </i>Bridge suddenly was heavy and claustrophobic, the open room to small and the walls pressing in seemingly from every side. Lieutenant Valerian was still standing near his Lady but had obviously broken out in a cold sweat though his face showed no other emotion he looked as if he kept wanting to turn around and bolt for exit if it wasn't for the fact he was slightly concerned that any sudden movements would draw her attention to him.<br>
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"I have been needlessly insulted more times  here in the brief span that we all arrived than I ever have been in the past year from you Star-walkers which I have extended every code of courtesy and honor that civilized societies demand and respect only to have them thrown back in my face  every... single... time." She snarled, armor chitin flared out to reveal the pulsating lights below it, lips drawn back in a snarl to reveal the hundreds go bright white fangs which gleamed dully in the lighting.<br>
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As Galumora spoke , hidden frills alongside her spine and neck filled out, pulsating rhythmically while joined by the Dredge's skin, those soft purple lights were now blaring red, as were the females previously violet star slit eyes. They now burned an uholy red, the color of hellfire, the color of POWER, of BLOOD, of damnation! All eyes were drawn to the Pirate queen as that aura of fear, worthlessness and claustrophobia extended even to the Nafarians ship as they seemingly could not look away from her, it spoke to something instinctual in those who watched, it screamed to their long imbedded survival instincts PREDATOR PREDATOR! She looked like something out of their worst nightmares, speaking to the fears of their ancient ancestors who spent the nights in terror of the dark and the monsters which lurked in it, ready to devour and slaughter all those who ventured too far out of the protective light. Combine the fear with the aura that made those affected want to bend their knee and prey she didn't kill them, it was a potent effect on the minds of those on both ships. One poor soul on the <i>Kukri </i>was shaking so bad he almost fell out of his seat.<br>
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"We did not fire first." The Lady of Ravens continued. "You did, not I but even so my offer of neutrality and ceasefire still stands." A pause before the video went dark and only the audio remained after which The voice of the infamous Pirate queen echoed around the Bridge of the Nefarian ship. "Choose wisely and quickly.. Captain Veely... "<br>
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Next thing that had happened was an immense pressure of some sort pulsating from her tablet. This pressure was unlike anything she had witnessed bionically or psyioncly. The air around her bred weight and crushed her, forcing the Aliuu commander to support herself onto her knees. The medic too fell onto the molded green Earth wangling it's tentacles violently from the pressure the tablet had been emitting. It felt like they were being crushed by an ocean.<br>
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Captain Veely shivered slightly as the foreign alien, who had never graced his presence, or that of any known Nafarian military or government official previously. It worried him, and rightfully so. His fears were only increased however as she mentioned the fracture than ran through the once unified Nafarian race. A fracture that had not fully split, a fracture, that up until this moment had been thought to be all but unknown to any foreign species, especially since Nafarians had, at the very least managed to maintain this visage of unity in front of foreign species. However the captain's anxiety did not end there, as the crippling audio files, along with filled his ears.<br>
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Those damned audio files would be the end of him, and worse yet, reveal the true intentions of his general, who had not yet revealed his intentions to lead the outer empire in the event of full blown civil war. Currently, political officials convening on Rofiria believed Velsus to be fighting vigilantly to keep the splitting nation together, most of his supporters viewing the Nafarian male as the last thread keeping them from an intergalactic Nafarian war. More directly however, and more important to him was the fact that he outwardly supported the Neo Republic, a faction that wished to do away with any form of dictatorship or monarchy to rule the Nafarian race. His speeches, praising the ideals of the Neo Republic led to his eventual placement in a fleet filled with Neo Republic sympathizers, making Galumora's possession of these files a literal trump card.<br>
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Captain Veely gritted his teeth as he glared at Galumora, a cold sweat soaking his skin and uniform as he chose his words carefully. He could have blown the dredge to kingdom come and it would make no difference, the damned alien had him in the palm of her slimy hands. His pale face turned beat red, he slammed his fist on the command chair, resisting the urge to curse the alien's name into oblivion before cutting contact and destroying her precious soldier.<br>
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"Sir! Air to surface devastator cannons fully charged, the captain of the ship is awaiting your command before fire!" Rang the voice of Veely's arms corporal.<br>
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Veely's eyes shot to the man, who shook slightly as well due to Galumora's aura effect. "Delay that order" The captain reluctantly hissed, his narrowed eyes darting to Galumora. "By Ven'Ziel... have it your way alien scum." He snapped back. "I will spare your precious soldier, and will accept your ceasefire. But know this... this isn't over. Your little trump card has an expiration date." Veely hissed vehemently, practically spitting with every word, as his face, now glistening with sweat nearly grew as red as a ripe tomato, his body seething with pure rage. A few members in the crew threw him quizzical glances, not knowing what he spoke of but were too fearful of Galumora to advocate their confusion. "Consider yourself lucky."<br>
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Veely then briskly keyed a button upon his command throne, cutting communications with Galumora as he overrode the external intercoms upon the nearbye Razor class Interceptor that hovered over the gruesome battlefield, where heavily armored legionaries trudged through mud, gore, and metallic wreckage as they continued their assault against the Dredge. Above them, the Razor's weapons remained red hot, still prepped to fire. The battle did not last for much longer however, as Veely's voice carried over the terrible scene below.<br>
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"Attention, valiant soldiers of Nafaria!" He stated, pausing for a moment as he cleared his throat and thought his words carefully. He knew the words he would speak wouldn't ride well with all of the legionaries down below. "Due to some... unforeseen circumstances, a ceasefire has been issued with the alien assailant. By my executive order, all hostilities shall cease towards the behemoth. Instead, turn your arms to the cybernetics at your backs! Take them down! Show them your true might!" He roared, hoping to instill moral among the soldiers.<br>
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As he finished, Veely keyed the intercom off, sighing as he rested his head upon an open, sweaty palm. Velsus would not be pleased with the knowledge that these audio filed were in the hands of an alien. Such information being released to the Nafarian public would mean guaranteed civil war, a fate that none of the populace truly wanted, despite the recent skirmishes.<br>
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<b>-Planetside-</b><br>
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The Nafarian legions halted their advance, most of them staring at each other, and then the massive Dredge with awe. Many of them couldn't believe their ears, what could possibly have driven their captain to order a halt of hostilities against a being that had spilt several regiments worth of Nafarian blood on foreign soil. Regardless of the doubt and confusion however, they obeyed their captain's orders, but refused to acknowledge the Dredge, despite obvious earned respect for it's prowess as a warrior, choosing instead to simply turn their backs on the foreigner.<br>
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"You heard the man!" A strong willed voice cried through the crowds as he lifted himself up upon the wreckage of a demolished tank. He wore more elaborate armor than his comrades. "Turn your weapons on those damned cybernetics! That thing wasn't worth our efforts anyways! Now move, double time!" He yelled, waving towards the hordes of borg.<br>
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The soldier's listened to the platoon leader's command, bringing their weapons to bare against the cybernetic beings, unleashing torrents of roguetonium rounds upon the borg armies. Legions reorganized and advanced while tanks spun on their powerful treads, lobbing the roguetonium shells away from the Dredge and instead at the advancing borg. The Razor began to turn as well, facing it's hot weapons towards the borg armies, taking a moment to position itself before unleashing it's payloads of volatile roguetonium upon the enemy. It quickly erupted into a bright explosion, an explosion that likely temporarily blinded both the Dredge and the Nafarians alike. The volatile substance exploded as it slammed into the borg, splashing in all directions as it impacted the ground, leaving nothing more than a massive crater filled with a shallow pool of the red substance where borg soldiers once marched. A few of the legionaries took this moment to throw ugly glances back at the Dredge, obviously wishing this fate on her as opposed to the borg.<br>
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The beast was successfully able to infect the nightguard, his battered and tired body offering little resistance against the thin beast's will. The man groaned as he was forced to stand, however the beast, was soon to find that as he searched for the tracker on the Nightguard's HUD, it remained blank, offering him no clue as to the whereabouts of Holly or the other nightguard. Being so far underground, the GPS system, which was the primary source of the squads tracking one another had failed, unable to reach the orbiting host ship's tracking dishes to pinpoint their location. The being however was able to see several strange symbols flickering across the HUD's left side. They were strange, and entirely foreign to him, silent commands written in code that was quickly flashed by the squad's leader, but without an understanding of how the nightguard's communicated, the system was entirely worthless.<br>
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All was not lost, however, as the nightguard's cloaking devices remained intact besides the being's previous assault on the nightguard's body, meaning that he too could slip past the borg without detection, meaning that the nightguard was not entirely useless to the dredge, meaning that it could, in essence, follow the nightguards to the best of it's ability without the need of entering combat with the hordes of borg ahead.</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper">The Pirate Queen slowly retreated back to her shadowed throne atop the Bridge and sat down ever so slowly, the <i>Kukri’s </i>crew aware of every movement she made as if their very lives depended on it which in reality… it did.<br>
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The Lady of Ravens then went silent and the aura of terror and fear slowly faded away and the crew began operating at full capacity reminded once again that their Captain was a creature beyond most of their comprehension and why the Terrans and many other species amongst the core worlds feared what this species might accomplish if their boundaries ever broke.<br>
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Down on the planet’s surface, fire and death rained down from almost every corner of the battlefield, due to the ceasefire and Nagashira not utterly murdalizing (yes I know that’s not a real word but I Likes it) everything that came near her, the Nafarians were able to utilize the downed Walker and the cover its still smoking wreck provided. Casualties greatly were reduced due to the ground units no longer being flanked and in a now superior defensive position, however they were still surrounded and outnumbered. Even with the orbiting ships fire support there seemed to be no end to the damn things, they simply came on in a never ending wave of robotic limbs and plasma fire.<br>
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Nagashira, even in such a state as she was didn’t give up even when the ceasefire was announced… no she was too old and bloody minded to even think of submitting to the multiple grievous wounds she had received.  She even walked amongst the Nefarians reloading that monstrous Bessie Mauler minigun, roaring out in a boisterous voice. “C’mon lads I aint dying to an overgrown computer with a peashooter, HOLD!” she finished with a throaty laugh and opened fire, mowing down the first of the unthinking wave of robots. Nagashira as a class C Dredge had a psionic ability and though it was limited due to her host, it was simply to project an aura much like the Lady Galumora’s save much less in span its effect was no less potent and that ability was to inspire confidence in those who fought by her side or even witnessed her killing shit that <i>wasn’t </i>them.<br>
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Nagashira had received orders from the Kukri not to long ago which summed up to, hold this position, it’s the safest LZ which we can pick you up with limited damage, everywhere else is a suicide run with those rail guns. Heavier ships can take the punishment they dish out but we cannot.  The Nefarian commander has also been notified of this information as it was sent along with this message. HOLD this LZ and await further orders.<br>
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<b>Celestrial-Bodies:</b> Unknown planet<br>
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<b>Vessels:</b> 7 Leviathans +  approx.15,000 units<br>
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<b>Facilities:</b> Gravemind's Meteorites<br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify">The ground had shivered lightly open the present location of the overpowered Dredge. The rocks and pebbles began to clinker violently and an area of the ground had begun to crack. Alike from a dolphin or a fish, Ira emerged  from the ground and had landed along side with Nagahira and with her her whole legion of tentacle critters coming in just behind her. five move areas of the ground began to crack and from them burst ugly greenish brown tentacles that towered 120 meters over it's foes and allies - The Gravemind had come top assist the armies.<br>
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"Commander Ira," Ira had lowered her torso and head towards that huge creature known as Nagashira.<br>
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With that The levitating medic had floated towards Nagashira and had begun the procedure. Ira smiled lightly and rose to her normal posture, She looked to see and examine her ally. A Dredge that stood around three time her height, is inside a heavy mecha suit or sorts and by the looks of it relatively beaten up. Ira smiled a girlish smile and looked away to face her troops. The medic in the mean time hugged itself around the mechanized  creature and spewed out a pink vapor from it's tentacles. The vapor should start healing the female Dredge immediately and would have helped recover the fearsome warrior's stamina.<br>
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"Hounds of War begin the Assault, Tanks, Heavies and Commanders go assist them!" She boomed with her voice.<br>
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Fun fact. The Hounds of war blow up thanks to triggering a number of chemical glads from within their bodies. They can fight sure but their main role in the military is being excellent suicide bombers. The Tanks are giant masses of tentacles that crush things with their brute strength and shoot psionic balls at their foes. The Heavy fighters are flying serpents, unlike the  Tank they spew great amounts of acid, Attack with bladed limbs, bleed acid and like the Hounds of war blow up upon death. The commanders are the more warrior like of the troops, They attack with hand held weapons, operate tools or sophisticated equipment and see what they can do to change the outcome of the battlefield.<br>
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The Hounds of war have begun their attack from underground launching themselves upon the mechanic humanoids and holding them at by with whatever they had under their disposal, The Tanks made a parameter along with the commanders and have begun firing from long range. The Tanks threw psionic balls of energy from afar and the commanders used artillery motars of and were setting up manual turrets. The heavy fighters joined the Hounds of war and have begun to strip away what Borg they could with their given abilities. The Five long tendrils that stand erect from the ground too have begun to take action: Four of those tentacles slipped back into the Earth and emerged from under the Borg infestation, slamming and whipping them away with the natural strength of the Gravemind, ruining the ground and footing underneath them and then retreating only to attack a different area. Only to do the same thing over.<br>
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"It's Too bad that we don't have a Matriarch Thresher Maw with us... They could have helped us out a bunch here." Ira shook her head and smirked whilst looking up at the Dredge as the white tentacle mass had parted from her.<br>
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Holly continued her assisted sprint down the hall crowded with borg warriors. Dodging the masses of cybernetic beings was no easy task as she was forced to weave through their masses, slowing her progress down through the hall. Her comrade suffered a similar fate, being doomed to be separated from his commanding officer, completely isolated from any support should he get caught himself. Nonetheless, the two charged, pushing ever so silently through the army, heading straight for the planet's core. Holly only hoped that whatever lay down here would end up being worth the lives of two of her squad mates, for she would personally have Veely's head should it be nothing more than a fool's gambit.<br>
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Behind Holly she could hear the distant screech as the other elevators landed,  four of them opening to reveal lines of grey armored legionaires, rifles raised as they poured from the massive cargo elevators. Many of the first row were felled instantly, smoldering holes stemming from where the borg soldiers shot them down. The others however proved to be luckier, unloading their weapons into the Borg lines. It would soon be evident however that the legionaries, for all of their childhood training and prowess, would not be enough to stop the never ending borg, and while some of the legionaries began to desperately search for cover, the <i>fifth </i>elevator slammed down with an unusually loud thud. Soon after, before the doors even had time to begin to screech open, a massive tank rolled through them, blowing the cargo elevator doors clean off their hinges, sending them flying towards the horde of borg soldiers. The tank looked different than the ones being deployed on the surface, it stood up higher from the ground, it's massive treads thicker than it's lighter counterparts. It's head, meanwhile looked sleaker than the lighter tanks above and bore a much larger barrel.<br>
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The tank quickly rolled forward, lobbing a high explosive shell towards the nearest turret as a grey armored figure emerged from the top of the tank, a slender man slacked casually against the lifted porthole of the tank's head. Zander. He quickly lurched himself forward, curling his fingers tightly around the heavy looking machine gun mounted near the barrel, instantly squeezing each of the triggers as he mowed down lines of borg trooper, his eyes bright with glee.<br>
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"Oi! Commander!" He shouted from his perch. "Just wanted to let you know that I really didn't give a fuck when you told me not to bring armor!" He shouted.<br>
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The dreadnought commander halted mid kill, his wrist blade stuck through the mid section of the borg as he turned to face the massive tank as it fired another shell at a second turret. "The hell Sergeant!" He barked. "What do you think you're doing?"<br>
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"Thank you? I'd sooner have you court marshaled you buffoon!" The commander shouted, which was just met with maniacal laughter from Zander's end, for he knew that the Commander would have very little to say when his tank would be the tool to bring them to the core.<br>
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"Court marshaled Commander? Nay! I think the captain would be rather pleased if he finds that my decision made the difference between a certain victory or a crushing defeat!" Zander finally shot back.<br>
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With that the commander sighed, not wasting anymore breath on the fool of Nafaria as he returned his fool attention to the fight at hand, hoping dearly that Zander would be sniped in the process.<br>
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The Nafarians were uneasy fighting with the Dredge, and it would soon become apparent to her that despite the aura, which surely did induce them with newfound courage and moral, the Nafarian legions were uneasy with her. Most of them kept their distance, even opting to take more exposed positions if it meant that they were out of her arms reach. For seeing her slay their comrades by the dozens was not a sight many of them would soon forget.<br>
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Nagashira finally opened up that tower shield from her back that she had been carrying around for nearly three hours on the ground now and was now pretty much invulnerable from income frontal fire but her sides were still weak, until her wounds fully healed she was a support unit in this fight. She absent mindedly patted the medical Aliuu like one would a dog that had done a good trick and then grabbed her mini gun again and simply pointed it at the oncoming Borg, and ‘let her rip’.<br>
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Even as death roared from her weapons muzzle and the satisfying sight of robotic limbs being blown apart, being crushed and decimated filled her vision she couldn’t help but wonder at what caused her young Matriarch to lose her temper so. Apprehension prickled down her neck and she kept firing, for though the Dredgnaught’s trade was death, The Lady of Ravens was a <b><i>broker </i></b>in the stuff, she fairly reeked of it, blackmail, subterfuge, strike teams and the like are what the Infamous Pirate Queen was a legend for. Her daughter was just as good if not better than she was and quickly outclassing her mother’s memory. Where this lineage would end… well Nagashira didn’t know, even she had not lived long enough to begin contemplating where the females of that line would end nor did she think she wanted to.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">As the planet's battle for the core raged on, another ship warped out of light speed. It came to a stop way out, farther than even the Nafarians. The ship seemed more like a massive shuttle than an actual ship. It was notably large, not as big as some of the other ships that've been sailing around the anomaly but big enough to be concerning if it wasn't for the obvious design.<br>
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Yes, crafted under the design of the science-based race known as the Sargonians, the ship was impressive compared to several others, but was obviously not the best design they'd produced. Even still, it was hard to ignore something so obviously out of place. Especially with the Sargonian traits of Nuetrality and such making ships like these something of a rarity outside of Sargonian space. On board, a plethora of activity was occurring.<br>
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Thousands of Kadrel ran to and from various work stations and consoles, many wearing their Tiro Suits but a noticeable number of them not. The majority of them were heading to clusters of pods that were being produced from on board factories as they floated. Every so often there'd be a single unarmed Android stationed at certain clothing facilities and such, these were known as Ambassador droids. They were pretty human in appearance, but resembled walking corpses more than anything. Ambassador androids were used mainly as maintenance personnel when they weren't in use, generally having small roles until other races wished to interact.<br>
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A single Kadrel bumped one of them to the side as he stomped off angrily towards one of the pods, the Ambassador stumbling for a moment before righting itself and standing stock still once more. This Kadrel was known as B06, and he was pissed.<br>
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As he neared the loading bay he opened up a holo-link to the bridge, he would amn well get an answer before risking his life one more time. He expected to find the towering figure of Captain Skaz staring him down, instead he found the pale-faced neutral expression of another Ambassador.<br>
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"Good evening, B06" came the even tone most would expect from the androids "what we can we do for you here on the bridge?"<br>
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<span style="color: #003366">"Where's the Captain?"</span> B06 asked immediately as he continued walking<br>
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"After setting this procedure and motion, Captain Skaz retired to his chambers for, and I quote: A power nap."<br>
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B06 actually paused at that before trembling in anger<span style="color: #003366"> "We're about to get launched out of a hyper-Cannon, spiral through anti-air defenses and face off against an army of Robotic menaces! And he's taking a damn nap?!?"</span><br>
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"Correct."<br>
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B06 groaned <span style="color: #003366">"Why is it that the bridge's response to almost every situation is to fire a bunch of Kadrel at it?"</span><br>
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"Because its worked so far."<br>
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B06 just grumbled  as he entered the loading bay. It was a wide area about the length of a football field, dozens of pods were lined up on a tract and Kadrel were piling into them one after another.<br>
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"Attention all Pod occupants," came the voice of an Ambassador over the sound system "please be sure not to activate your pod's drill function unless prompted by our communications managers. We wouldn't want you to miss and get lodged in the planet until you starve to death or claw your way out."<br>
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None of the Kadrel even batted an eye as the Ambassador's droning tone continued.<br>
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"Now, half of you will be sent directly to help repress the robotic menace. The rest of you will be spread to southern areas to feel for entranceways to the planet's interior. If proper entrances cannot be appropriated, then we will activate drill functions on  pods which are positioned over or near any underground caverns."<br>
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The last Kadrel filed into the last two shuttles, along with B06, and the pods were soon being loaded up as new, empty ones were brought in to take their place.<br>
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"Now please, strap in and enjoy some soothing music as we get into firing position."<br>
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The Kadrel around B06 began sliding down metallic harnesses that quickly fastened them to the walls, B06 sighed at the imminent thrust into peril that was about to occur.<br>
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Back on the bridge...<br>
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"First round of pods are ready," the Ambassador said to the Bridge Crew as he placed both hands behind his back " take us  closer in and aim us towards these separate coordinates, prepare to fire."<br>
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“Lieutenant Valerian Sir! We have more contacts warping in from slipspace.” One of the crewmen shouted out at the short but broad shouldered man.<br>
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“Detailed report.” Barked the lieutenant and he quickly glanced up at the no longer occupied throne which sat behind him like a constant reminder. The Ship Mistress had left not to long ago, retiring to her chambers and leaving her second in command, Valerian, in charge. None of the crew asked what she was going to do in her chambers, no one really wanted to know in all honesty. Sometimes even Pirate Queens needed a little break from stupidity.<br>
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“Im counting a single ship that’s warped in, I apologize when I thought it was multiple, class is unknown like most of the shit we have seen so far and its of substantial size Sir.” The crewman replied.<br>
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Valerian snorted. “You all know size means nothing to this ship, we have overcome challenges and hurdles far greater than any single ship, nevertheless we must greet the new arrivals as our Lady would do, you all know what she would say in this situation.”<br>
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As one the crew replied in chorus. “Yes this is the Lady Galumora speaking, I am afraid I cant come to the com right now but, for murder press one, blackmail press two, subterfuge press three, the beginings of genocide and civil war which will rip civilizations apart press four, for pizza delivery press five.”<br>
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…Valerian just stared at them dumbly for a good five minutes and one of the crewman, the guy from before says defensively. “Well she has it for her answering tone! And you damn well know she would say it to just to fuck with someone.” Well… he had to agree on that one.<br>
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“Just… look alive people and get ready to contact that ship, Mr.Williams please start our link, secure this time if you would please. Bai’core please remove your feet from the holodesk and stop eating virtual food, it doesn’t fill you up man and we have a damn good cook! What the hell is up with your obsession for nonexistent food?”<br>
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“Man I gotta feed my virtual self as well as my physical self.” Snickers all around<br>
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The lieutenant sighs and rubs his forehead between his finger and thumb. “why is is the moment our Lady leaves you all become idiots?” The entire bridge turns to stare at him. “point taken, carry on.”<br>
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A few minutes later the link was ready and in standard fashion for the crew, the commanders of said ship were greeted by the scarred Terrans visage.<br>
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“Greetings this is Lieutenant Valerian of the <i>Kukri </i>and I represent Lady Galumora<i>. </i>As you can see you’ve either warped into the wrong place which I suggest very kindly you get the hell out of here before the planet blows you to pieces and or a certain signal drew your attention here and if that’s the case im sorry to inform you that your not the only one as you can most likely see. Theres a serious battle going down on the surface, one of which isn’t going well. On another note, we await your reply with grace.”<br>
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Mr.Williams chuckles and mutters to Valerian. “Yea what a way with words man, I think you should let the scary alien do the talking, shes much better at it than you.” Only to get slapped upside the head by every man in the area. The com officer didn’t do anything other than mutter its true and get slapped again. While they were not the same species, or even remotely similar in any way. The men were loyal to The Lady of Ravens, each in their own special way. She had made a home for them amongst these desolate stars, the unwanted, the forgotten and cheated and with their lives they would repair her.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">The bridge went silent for a single moment as it intercepted the transmission, the Ambassador android stationed there turned to the sudden holo-visual of a terran male. The Ambassador walked over to the visual and stood still as it gave its best attempt at a smile, which was just as dead as the rest of its appearance. As it took the message, the various Kadrel went about there business assuming the Ambassador could handle it.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">Lieutenant Valerian  stood there looking at the droid for a good five minutes before reply a single word.<br>
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“Dibs.”<br>
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Upon seeing the droids confusion or the long pause that was generally droid confusion Valerian shrugged. “we called Dibs, its ours… what never heard of the universal Dibs protocol? Its quite easy to understand, Dibs. Its mine. End of story… that and the fact theres around 5 different factions all duking it out down there to get the blasted thing and two of said factions are holding the only LZ close to the entrance that allows troop landing without major losses. My opinion that’s a pointless venture and all in all one that someone would be kinda stupid to go af-“ Lieutenant Valerian was interrupted by a sonorous voice.<br>
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“Mr.Valerian, I assume your treating the newest members of this party honorably and with language that befits a commanding officer yes?” The second in command stiffened and thought to himself. ‘shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit”<br>
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Behind the Terran, just behind the Shadowed throne, leaning across its back lazily was the barely visible form of Lady Galumora.<br>
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“I apologize for any thoughtless remarks on Mr.Valerian, you have my… deepest regrets. However he makes a good point E75. How do you plan on gunning for what so many have already tried and as can be witnessed…. Are suffering most harshly for the rashness of their actions.” The creature purred deeply at that last bit, sauntering forward and reclining down on her throne. Valerian was almost certain now that she never actually retired to her quarters but just decided to mess with him today, matter of fact she probably was just resting atop the damn ceiling. Damnit god above why me?!<br>
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“However you do not have to take my word for it, after all what is it that I know from watching a simple screen? By all means go for it, send thy soldiers in-mass towards the planets surface but.” The Female leaned forward, allowing the light to catch her facial features drawn up in a rather sadistic looking smile, her alien looks, six soft glowing violet eyes, and her delicate horns coming to a tapered point near the back of her head.. “I suggest against any AI or robotically controlled armaments. They seem to have some trouble on the surface for some reason”<br>
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The Ambassador tilted his head to the side for a moment "Apologies, but my orders were quite clear. I'm afraid that we simply <i><b>must</b></i> get several studies run on the subject. My condolences to you and your people."<br>
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The Ambassador placed both hands behind his back and straightened up again "However, if our supervisors deem any findings we may acquire unbeneficial to any current research, then we will allow you and those other factions to continue your fight for it as if we were never here."<br>
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After saying that, the Ambassador nodded to one of the Kadrel. Immediately, a large assortment of cannons extended from one side of the ship and began firing their pods. The pods screamed through space like shooting stars as they barreled wildly through anti air fire.<br>
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B06 gripped his harness while they plummeted, nearby one of the other pods burst into flames as a round caused it to spiral out of control. The closer they got, more pods took rounds and exploded until finally the surviving pods embedded themselves into the ground.<br>
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The Ambassador and the Bridge crew looked over the results before the Ambassador tapped a finger to his chin "20 out of 36 hmmm? That's more than acceptable."<br>
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After two seconds, the doors began sliding open as the pods began commencing scans of the ground they were embedded in even as the debris from their fallen comrades rained down nearby.<br>
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b06 hefted his weapon as the door slid open, then took in the signs of battle even though they were distanced quite far from the actual battlefield.  Ruined ships, dead soldiers and robots everywhere, a massive machine's wreckage which still burned.<br>
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As the other Kadrel in his pod peaked out, B06 assessed the situation....<br>
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....then immediately turned away from the battle and began walking in the complete opposite direction.<br>
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B06 paused and turned back to one of his podmates "What do you think? I'm going to search for a decent hidey hole."<br>
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B06 shook his head with a sigh "Okay, look." he said before meeting his look again "How old are you?"<br>
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"Climbed outta my tank twenty minutes ago." the Kadrel said with a shrug<br>
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"Okay, I'ma call you twenty-twenty for now." B06 said despite the podmate's quick protests "But listen to me, if you go over there... I promise you that you'll never be able to experience an hour."<br>
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"Doesn't matter," Twenty-Twenty said "we have a mission-"<br>
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"No, you have a mission." B06 said as he pointed a thumb to himself "My mission is to stay alive, so that's what I'm gonna do."<br>
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B06 and Twenty-Twenty turned to see another podmate with his legs dangling out of the pod "We ain't gonna survive being the first wave."<br>
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"And what do you know?" Twenty-Twenty asked with a hint of annoyance.<br>
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"I know that war... war never changes..." the Kadrel said with a dramatic sigh "you step on the battlefield first, you gotta be ready to be the first to fall."<br>
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"Well damn, Old Timer, thanks for backing me up." B06 thanked him before turning to the rest of his podmates "Listen up, any of you want a better chance at surviving to meet your first hour of life? Follow me!"<br>
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Unsurprisingly the majority of the group ran off to join up with the rest of the Pod Squads. Afterwards, B06 was left with the Old Timer, and three other Kadrel that hadn't spoken up yet.<br>
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"Well, could've been worse." B06 shrugged before turning "Come on, let's go find someplace to wait this out."<br>
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As the Robots made a push towards the Nafarians, Aliuu and their Dredge companion, the Kadrel soldiers gazed across the carnage from a ridge in the distance.<br>
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"Come on!" Twenty-Twenty shouted at them "Ion settings only soldiers, find good places for shields and set 'em up!"<br>
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As such the Kadrel formed a slight curve to the current attack formation as several of them threw mechanical packs on the ground before them. Large sections of glowing shield popped up in front of the generators, while several Kadrel took cover between each. After the shields popped up, the Kadrel began firing around the sides of them. As they did so large numbers of the robots took notice of them and began firing at them as well. Soon the Kadrel were fully engrossed in the battle as well, ion bolts carving through the mechanical enemies with ease even as more quickly took their place. Several Kadrel began taking damage as well, wounds there, a death or two over there, but the Kadrel just continued their attack on the enemy even though they'd have to wait quite some time for the next round of pods.</div>
				
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<b>Celestrial-Bodies:</b> Unknown planet<br>
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<b>Vessels:</b> 7 Leviathans +  approx.15,000 units<br>
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<b>Facilities:</b> Gravemind's Meteorites<br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify"> Ira was fighting along with her humanoid commanders, using mounted machine guns and occationally giving units the order of using the motars. She felt a sudden presence above them and saw that another faction has appeared and come to help the bunch. Fortunately the majority of her forces were too occupied with the Borg armada that they haven't had the time to consider killing whoever these helpers were.<br>
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"Hahahahaha!" Ira laughed heartilly under the high repeating gun shots as she aimed her machine gun towards more swarms of these inhumane grey cybernetic humanoids.<br>
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"Marching to battle with a stranger, holding the line, shoulder to shoulder - THAT is the great equalizer of War." She quoted old words from a certain Dredge.<br>
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Twenty-Twenty kneeled behind a shield as he waited for his weapon to cool down a bit. As he did so a voice called out from afar. He looked through the shield to see a humanoid Aliuu speaking loudly as it continued fighting, and seeing how they were sorta fighting the same enemy he quickly activated a wrist-mounted translator. He was only able to catch some of her quote.<br>
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Holly was next, behind the Dredge, panting as she reached the triangular opening. She paused for a moment to both catch her breath and stand in awe at the strange structure. Seems like she wouldn't be angrily lopping off Captain Veely's head from his shoulders afterall, for the spoils of this planet had now shown itself  to her. She was hesitant to step inside the structure. She was alone, unaware of when any backup may follow her through the ark. Of course, she would have the legions of regulars who would likely push through the cybernetic abominations crowding the halls behind her, but it could take far too long should any major threat lie behind the strange doorway. Nonetheless, she made her decission, and decided to step through the ominous gateway.<br>
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 Few questions now remained for Holly, ones she would be swift to answer as she once more took off in a mad sprint towards the followed by her one remaining squad mate, a smile creeping upon her face as she dreamed of laying her hands upon the artifact that the filthy human beings had wasted their lives for. She began to take the first, blissful steps into the ark shaped doorway, unaware of both the corrupted Nightguard or any borg warriors that may lay beyond it's threshold. Either way, she was ready to face what lay beyond.<br>
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Fire continued to rain from the skies as well, as the Razor, that still floated diligently in the orange sky, polluted with smoke and fire, continued to aim it's weapons down on the Borg armies. It, along with the efforts of the deadly Dredge warrior and the Nafarian armor seemed to offer the biggest support to the valiant efforts of the Nafarian infantry that trudged through the blood slick mud below. Besides the horrible and likely psychological damaging experience of fighting among their comrade's blood, the Dredge's aura appeared to still work very well on the easily malleable minds of the Nafarian grunts. They showed little remorse or putrid disgust that many mortal men and Nafarians would face in such circumstances, and instead kept their eyes down their sights, and the sights pointed at their enemies. However, despite all of this, and their raging success in part of the Dredge's participation, the Nafarian regulars did not seem eager to fight with the Dredge as a true comrade, and still kept their distance from her.</div>
				
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<b>Celestrial-Bodies:</b> Unknown planet<br>
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<b>Vessels:</b> 7 Leviathans +  approx.15,000 units<br>
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<b>Facilities:</b> Gravemind's Meteorites<br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify">Ira didn't respond to the voice and continued firing her weapon. It actually would be really nice if someone or something were to take out those annoying railguns. They've already killed hundreds of thousands of individuals in the air. Ira's weapon had stopped firing and made a loud sound from its sides. A white vapor blew out from the mounted machine gun, a beeping sound could be heard and it stopped to restock on it's supply of ammunition. Ira let go of the handles and moved next over to a motar artillery device. The woman grabbed a small spherical shaped explosive and dropped it into the barrel of the device.<br>
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The ground shook from the energy from firing the explosive upward into the air. Ira  rose up from her crouching position peaked over her mound to see if her explosive has landed. A neon green colored cloud came from amidst the synthetic grey humanoids, confirming that it was a hit.<br>
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"Come to die today as well?" Ira shouted when she dropped another explosive into the motar.<br>
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"We aren't in any position to escape this planet with those cannons clearing the air and these blasted things swarming around our area of defense." She held her tongue when she fired a second explosive onto the enemy. She returned to the machine gun that had finished it's cooling process and replenished itself with a new set of ammunition.</span><br>
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A Nafarian soldier threw his armored back onto the rough, grey exterior of a rock, panting hard near Ira's position, the armor screeching a bit as the thick metal plates slid against the stone. He lay for a minute, panting as his head lay directed towards the planet's sky, resting for a moment in the heat of battle. Quickly, he came back to his senses, and turned his gaze to the rifle that lay upon his lap, quickly releasing the empty mag that stuck out of the bottom of the weapon. He was just within earshot of Ira as he reloaded his gun, able to clearly hear the alien's rambling. He let out a loud scoff as he heard her complaints, halting his reloading process.<br>
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In one of the outermost worlds of the Xandarian empire, a small Nafarian corvette warped in less than one hundred kilometers away from the planet's defense fleet. The ship was small, especially by Nafarian standards which usually boasted massive airships of destruction that knew nothing of their own demise. This ship however looked as if it would barely be able to handle a few salvos, not to mention an entire battle. It cruised forward initially, inching boldly towards the much larger Xandarian navy without stopping, it's blocky, triangle body devoid of the angry red lights that were a tell tale sign of heating Nafarian weaponry. It would soon become evident to the Xandarian ship captains that this ship was not a precursor to any form of Nafarian invasion, and likely meant no harm to the Xandarian colony world.<br>
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The ship slowed to a halt at around fifty kilometers away from the defensive ships, pointing it's prow to the colorful world below. Within seconds of the ship's halt, a transmission was quickly linked to the lead Xandarian ship, a pale skinned Nafarian male with pitch black hair and piercing red eyes appeared on their view screen. His uniform was jet black indicating a high place among Nafarian royalty, either in his bloodline or through his military achievements. Unlike the godly like command thrones and spacious bridges that most Nafarian bridges contained, this man sat directly in front of the corvette's viewscreen, and the dimly lit, grey cockpit looked cramped as it closed around him and two other men that could be seen facing their own  holo screens directly behind him.<br>
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"This is Royal Lieutenant Nuk Ez'Lon" The man explained, his smooth, ,cajoling voice slipping through the Xandarian's speakers. "I am here strictly for diplomatic purposes and am here on my own accord, so I'd appreciate it if this was kept silent from any nearby Nafarian patrols. I request to speak to the highest commanding officer presently available to speak with me. It's urgent." He said confidently, his pointed chin risen high above his covered collarbone.</div>
				
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Nuk shuddered at the name 'Velsus', his eyes widening briefly before receding as his thoughts reassured him that the man before him certainly could not have been the Velsus he was currently here to warn the Xandarians about. The Velsus that had caused so much turmoil within the empire and the Velsus that he currently plotted against. Shaking his invasive thoughts, he returned to the task at hand.<br>
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Nuk leaned back against his chair, letting his back rest against the chairs uncomfortable steel surface. Being a corvette, the ship was meant more for quick deployments of troops in smaller riot situations and occasionally covert ops and was built with less thought towards how comfortable the operators were. He stroked his chin thoughtgully a few times as he weighed the risk of stating his goals to a mere commander, but he quickly decided that should this Commander stay true and keep Nuk's business a private matter, then it would all be worth it in the payoff.<br>
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"Alright." He stated after a brief moment of silence, leaning forward and facing the Commander. "But this mustn't get out, am I clear 'Commander'?" Nuk asked condescendingly. Despite seeming to be a more calmer and rational fellow to the Xandarian commander, Nuk's ingrained Nafarian traits seemed to still clearly shine through.<br>
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"As I stated previously I'm here on my own accord, and I wish to speak with someone in power about forming a military pact, not with the Empire as you know it however, for you see, all is not well to put it bluntly. I won't spare too many details with you, as a lot of that's quite classified, I feel a civil war is on the verge of breaking Commander. And I, along with many others find no love for the groups threatening to break over our emperor's absence. We are a small group with no declaration against these groups and lack a leader. Should all hell break loose, we're going to need military support." He explained.<br>
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Once he finished speaking, he rested his slender, pale face on one of his open palms, red eyes peering into those of the commander. He seemed relaxed, as if all stress had seeped from his body with his words. Now he only patiently awaited the commander's answer, hoping that he would indeed patch him through this promised Xandarian prince.</div>
				
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"I am offended," Commander Sha'a said. "that you do not believe that I am a man of my word. But I suppose, should it give your mind ease, that you are clear. I shall patch you through to the Prince, and you and he shall discuss the matters of this at your leisure."<br>
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With that said, the Xandarian briefly closed communications between himself and Lieutenant Ez'lon. He gestured briefly to his communications officer, who immediately began relaying a message to the sector's capital.<br>
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Many light-years away, on the sector's capital of Carnassus, Prince Yor sat in his throne. He gazed at the hologram in front of him, a mid-level scientist who twittered on about things Yor couldn't possibly care about. He slowly rapped his fingers upon the gilded armrest of the ornate throne, a clearly bored expression on his face. The room he was in, the throne room of the large capitol complex, was massive. Its vaulted ceilings were high, giving the room a cathedral-esque appearance. A massive red-and-black banner hung from the wall behind him, proudly emblazoning the royal crest and surrounded by orange light, one of the few sources of light in the room. The room was dimly lit, forcing Yor's eyes to give off a color similar to that of a coquelicot. He began absentmindedly picking at his nails, occasionally giving a glance back to the hologram of the still talking scientist. He sighed deeply, thinking quite seriously about a reason to end the conversation, although it can hardly be considered one as he had yet to speak more than a sentence, when one of his many advisers gave one for him.<br>
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D'shevius T'sinet, head adviser to Prince Yor, burst through the large double doors at the opposite end of the chamber, rapidly making his way towards the Prince.<br>
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"Your grace!" he said, stopping meters away from the Prince, breathing heavily. This causes Prince Yor to look up from the hologram.<br>
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"T'sinet, have you no manners?" Prince Yor said, sitting upright in his throne, raising his head high as he gazed at the head adviser, feigning irritation. "You just interrupted the conversation I've been having with this scientist."<br>
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"I know, Your Grace, and for that I apologize." D'shevius said, finally managing to get his breathing under control. "But this is of great importance, a correspondence was just received from the outer rim of the sector-"<br>
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"When are correspondences not being received from any part of the sector, T'sinet? It happens so frequently that it is not worth my time to act upon every single one."<br>
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"If I may, Your Grace, it is imperative that you act upon this one."<br>
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Prince Yor quickly stated an apology to the scientist, waving his hand over the hologram and causing it to turn off.<br>
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"Explain."<br>
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"One of the defense fleets bordering the Nafarians reported that one 'Royal Lieutenant Nuk Ez'lon' interacted with it and had some valuable things to say."<br>
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"Explain further."<br>
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"Your Grace, the military's foreign intelligence on the Nafarians appears to be correct. The Empire's state of being has been called into question, and may fracture at any time."<br>
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Prince Yor's eyes widened slightly at this. A Nafarian Civil War? 'Now,' he decided. 'things are getting interesting.'<br>
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"A Royal Lieutenant, you say?"<br>
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"Yes, Your Grace."<br>
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"Someone high up in the ranks of the Empire, I presume, and not a mere footsoldier?"<br>
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"I can only suppose so, Your Grace."<br>
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"So someone in the higher echelons of Nafarian society has come and claimed that the Empire is to fracture at any time..." Prince Yor said, briefly closing his eyes as he thought about what his adviser had said.<br>
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"Is the defense fleet still in contact with him?"<br>
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"Yes, Your Grace."<br>
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"I grant him an audience. I want him brought here to plead his case. Have a royal fleet escort him here."<br>
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"Yes, Your Grace."<br>
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With that, D'shevius bowed, quickly turning around and walking back out of the chamber.<br>
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"Yes." Prince Yor said to himself. "Things are getting interesting."<br>
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After a brief few moments of silence, communications were reestablished between Lieutenant Nuk and the Xandarian ships.<br>
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Relief flooded Nuk's body as he heard the Commander's words. He was thankful, Xandarian assistance could possibly turn the tide against the three warring factions. Suddenly things began to come more clearly to Nuk, adrenaline coursed through his veins and his muscles tensed as he grew excited before quickly subduing himself. Perhaps his collective actually had a chance, maybe they could yet steal the throne from the ravenous hands of General Velsus. He wasn't entirely settled yet, nor was his dreams for his people secure, for his small collective lacked a leader, a position he knew he was not powerful enough to take without uprest. No, he needed someone who could rally his small crowds, someone who was equally as upset with the state of the empire and Ven'Ziel's rule, but that was a matter of it's own. He let his eyes rest on the Xandarian commander, ignoring the Commander's uneasiness over Nuk's lack of trust.<br>
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"Of course Commander, and once again I thank you." He stated, closing communications with the Commander as his muscles relaxed against the cool metal arms of his chair.<br>
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He then turned to his navigator, who sat beside him, staring blankly out into space as he grew bored with the dull conversation between Nuk and the alien. He drummed his hands against the ship's control stick as he appeared to be pondering the glistening white stars that infinitely surrounded them in all directions.<br>
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"Pilot!" Nuk barked, snapping the man out of his lifeless trance as he jumped in his seat.<br>
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"Yes sir!" The man nervously stammered in response.<br>
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"A patrol fleet will be arriving in due time to take us to this planet's surface. When they arrive follow them closely." Nuk explained to the still distant man.<br>
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"Aye lieutenant!" The pilot replied, flipping various switches about the control desk in front of him.<br>
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The switches began to glow a bright red color as his hands pranced about the slanted desk as the ship began to rumble to life, awakening from it's idle state. The large thrusters in the back of the ship began to burn a brilliant orange hue as the they burned against the Vacuum of space. Nuk in the meantime settled down and closed his eyes, preparing himself for his conversation with this Xandarian prince.<br>
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As the unwitting trio entered the core they were initially met with immense heat that was angrily being emitted from the planet's heart. However, instead of the a  craggy rocky cave complete with stalactites hanging dangerously from a smooth rocky surface, they were met with brilliant silver metal that curved about the walls. Upon closer inspection they all could see flashing lights of various colors racing across various tubes that ran up and down the walls and ceiling. But this was hardly the most awe inspiring feature of this room, as if one were to follow the metal tubing, they would see a massive holo computer system bellow a clear window. This window did not grace their eyes with fields of green grass or a beautiful beach however. instead they were greeted with the vision of an insurmountable wall of lava that extended all across the left wall. The lava lit the room in a bright orange glow, and although they could only speculate, likely powered the entire computing system.<br>
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The entire room looked as if it contained technology far beyond the grasp of the mortal's minds. As they walked across the sleek silver floors, their boots, despite being crafted to hide the sounds of their footsteps, gave off loud, resounding clunks that echoed throughout the room. Holly listened carefully as she walked, counting three separate pairs of footsteps about the room. She smiled, safe in the knowledge that the other two must be her remaining comrades, unknowing of the third's possession by the Dredge warrior. Despite this, her inner conscious kept her from disabling her suit's cloaking abilities, convincing herself that danger could still be afoot in this unfamiliar artificial cave.<br>
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"By Ven'Ziel's wrath..." Holly breathed silently as she looked around, making her way slowly towards the computer system. "This is nothing like we have back at home aye?"<br>
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"No kidding sarge." The other nightguard said, he too relieved that everyone in the room was what he believed to be friendlies. "What do you think this place is? Some sort of mining factory or something?"<br>
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"Don't be daft private." She shot back. "This looks like it's some sort of damned bunker or something, or a factory of some kind that keeps producing those cybernetic warriors our regulars are fighting off behind us. Only one way to be sure." Holly stated.<br>
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"A damn shame we couldn't be fighting with them, getting all the glory those legionnaire bastards.  I'd love to sink my blades into those things. They creep me out." The private stated back.<br>
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"Aye private. But our work here is what makes their lives back there matter. They all die in vain if we can't harvest anything from this place. But to business now. Let's see what these cyborgs have stashed here, perhaps we can shut all these things down, hell, I'm sure the eggheads back in orbit would just love to study this place." She replied, picking up the pace, slightly behind the Dredge infected and odly silent Nightguard.<br>
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<span style="font-size: 18px">Galumora</span><br>
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The Lady of Ravens</span><br>​</div><br>
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The Dredge Matriarch was about to reply to the Robot Ambassador when a tickling sensation in the back of her mind caught her attention. Normally a Dredge Matriarch can hear and see, feel and breathe what those under her rule and power experienced and through short distances, however thanks to Technology that the Starwalkers had to willingly provided, she could receive and transmit her orders on a much larger scale. Albiet not as effective but good enough, and The Lady of Ravens was not one to complain when something worked. Sadly it worked not on non  <i>Serai'Drakhoul </i>races but oh well, one couldn't have everything her way now could she?<br>
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"I am so sorry Monsieur E75 but im afraid ill have to end this call... prematurely." and with a airy wave and quick flip of the hand the connection was Severed and the Pirate Queen investigated what her Feral had deemed so important to draw her Attention. Delving partly into its mind whilst keeping the majority of her mental functions on the Battle which raged down upon almost all sides of the planet and in the atmosphere. More than once they had to Maneuver out of the way of one of those Railguns as it fired towards something just behind it not detecting the Stealth Cruiser. To be honest they were Irking her and she contemplated Sending Nagashira to deal with the nearest one before discarding that idea as impossible even for the Mighty Dredgnaught. Moroc was still on the ground and available for retasking as he seemed to be having trouble at detecting the Ebony sailed ships.<br>
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However what the good Lady received was oh so much more than she could have imagined, but she had to work fast. The Feral was synthesizing onto its host and beginning to awaken, a dangerous process in a sealed environment, on a battlefield it was impossible to predict and Galumora wanted to lose not a potential weapon in the upcoming conquests. That and there was no telling when the still out cold man might reawaken. But the Dredge was prepared for that.<br>
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She nudged the Ferals Attention towards the main computer which it willingly Oblidged at her suggestion that it was interesting for it was, the Dredge had never seen things like this before and neither had its host.<br>
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However as the three ran and the other two decloaked, Galumora had to do some mental crushing in order to let the Feral hand the reigns over slightly in a manner of speaking.<br>
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Before the Ferals host decloaked, the Dredge semi Phased and removed from its inner maw a Data Cube, one very similar to the one Moroc used to steal the Terrans Ship logs and home planet coordinates. Seeing as she did not know which group might double back to the ship or what they might find down there, Galumora had equipped both Dredge accordingly and her foresight paid off.<br>
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The Dredge/Nightguard made it to the console only slightly ahead of the other two due to its hosts injuries and even its strengths could only go so far. Holly literally ran into the still cloaked night guard which almost made the Dredge loose it but Galumora managed to hold its panic and calm it down. The Nightguard de-cloaked and nodded to Holly but then turned his attention to the main console. A Nefarian version of the thumbs up or good luck sign, which Galumora had to wrack her brain for and send it to the Dredge/Nightguard to imitate. A point at the neck and slicing motion to try and communicate he couldn't talk and then instructed in simple images what She wanted her sleeper to do. Basically press this button, slide this, move that, smash that one like your playing fuckin wack'a'mole<br>
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Subtly plug in data cube, and figure out what was down there... well in there. Let the two others see of course so as to not arouse suspicions, every now and then hold stomach in pain and the continue...<br>
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Now now now, what secrets do you hold I wonder?</div>
				
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The Holly stumbled slightly as she bumped into the cloaked man, the other five nightguards uncloaking before running off after their newly uncloaked comrades. She cocked her head slightly, both confused and slightly angered that the lower ranked guard had taken lead in such a task. She watched him with suspicious eyes as he motioned that he could not speak at all. Holly immediately thought that odd, as nightguards usually did not forgo vocal contact unless stealth was pivitol to their current mission. And given the current circumstances, that was hardly the case. She watched the nightguard with suspicious, narrowed eyes as he took out the foreign looking data cube, and was nearly on the verge of questioning the odd actions of the soldier, but soon found she had no chance.<br>
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The instant the Dredge infest nightguard placed his first hand on the flashing console, it erupted into a glorious explosion of blue light that sent all three of the nightguards back, pushing them against the slick metal floors of the planet's core. The remaining five nightguards, who still remained semi close to the door faced only minor effects due to the shockwave and were quick to shoulder menacing looking black rifles at the console, only to reposition their weapons in towards the room's vaulted ceiling.<br>
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"Back! All of you!" An outraged female voice echoed throughout the room.<br>
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Confused and in a daze, Holly quickly picked her head up to see her remaining able bodied nightguards with their weapons pointed towards the ceiling. Even more flustered, the black armored soldier quickly rolled to her back, sitting up slightly as she picked her head up to see what they could possibly be aiming at. Her jaw dropped as she watched one of those cybernetic beings -the same ones that she watched Nafarian legions fight valiantly against glide down towards the floor, stopping mere inches above the ground before floating, her feet dangling below her body. She cocked her head as she surveyed the attackers, primarily the five holding rifles to her face. Her eyes glowed a bright yellow, pupil-less holes that stared into those of the Nafarians.<br>
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"Stand down!" One of the nightguards, a brave female demanded as she stepped forward, her finger pressing tightly against the trigger. "Stand down or I swear to whatever gods lay above us I will blast your fucking metallic skull against the back of the damned wall!"<br>
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The being gave the female a quizzical glance before chuckling slightly, raising a single, slender hand and waiving it across the room, the weapons that the nightguard's held quickly being swished from their hands and sent clattering across the floor. The female stood speechless and unarmed, nothing left to say as she sat with wide eyes as she plundered her mind for words to say.<br>
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"Curious, I thought you were with <i>him." </i>She said, gesturing towards the doorway. Her voic was slightly grainy, yet silky smooth, being constantly emitted from what could be called her mouth. "But I see that you are all... <i>living </i>organisms." Her yellow eyes falling upon the infected Nightguard, scanning each and every one of them as her gaze looked over them all. "Multiple living organisms in some cases it would appear. A colony organism? Ah, never mind, I suppose that will be a topic for later." She explained.<br>
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"What is it?" asked one of the Kadrel as B06 looked over an odd protrusion from the planet's surface, they'd been on the move from the battle area for quite a while, so finding something like this was quite noteworthy<br>
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"Don't know, don't care." he said with a laugh as he banged it with a fist several times "Whatever it is seems like a perfect hiding spot."<br>
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"Isn't it out in the open?" the Old-Timer said as he scrutinized it with a weary glare "This looks pretty noticeable."<br>
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"But only if your close by! Plus, its metallic in nature." B06 pointed out before gesturing into it "So quit your bitching and get in the strange metal room!"<br>
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The Old-Timer sighed and stepped inside first, the other Kadrel watched on as B06 crawled inside as well.<br>
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"But like, don't ya'll fin this a bit weird?" said the apparent 'Noob' of the group as he entered as well<br>
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"Don't start asking questions Noob," B06 pointed out as the rest of them finished climbing in "those questions just lead to unnecessary answers."<br>
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"But don't you guys wanna wonder why something like this exists on the mysterious planet from another dimension?" The Noob asked as well as he let his gun dangle a bit<br>
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"Even though it pretty much is?" the Noob pressed<br>
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"T03, I promise you that if you keep trying to make us main characters I will blow your brains out the back of your skull." B06 threatened,  then laying the rectangular form of his helmet back against the wall Wouldn't be the first time I had to put down an annoyance."<br>
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"What are you even talking about?" T03 asked as he pressed several control-like protrusions on a panel near the wall I just wanna figure out what these contraptions on the walls do"<br>
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"Wait T," B06 realized too late what the panel was and what the 'room' they were in actually functioned as, he lunged towards the Noob "stop don't screw with-"<br>
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A press of a certain button led to the entrance of the room sealing up, the bouts f anger that began spreading from the Kadrel turned into girlish-screams as the Elevator began a hasty, horrifying descent.<br>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14px">Planet's Surface...</span></b><br>
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Another round of surviving drop pods lodged themselves into the planet, the surviving Kadrel  immediately began making their way to the distant battlefield when suddenly the holo-projectors on their wrist pieces lit up. Suddenly, Ambassador E75 appeared before them.<br>
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"Several landed pods have finished their recordings, we will be diverting several squads below ground. The following units are to enter the pods at these coordinates and breach the underground, the core must be searched."<br>
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The Ambassador's appearance winked out as about half of the new group split off to find the specific pods. The other half continued on their way to the battlefield.<br>
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Once those pods were full of Kadrel, the drill portions of them lodged in the ground began heating up with energy as they prepared to dive. One by one, the Kadrel plummeted into underground caves via the sheer strength of the drills.<br>
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"Okay team! We gotta move to the core, if we search these tunnels we should be able to reach in all due time." said one of the Kadrel as their pod slowed to a stop "Now who's ready!"<br>
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A chorus of agreement came up in the weird language of the Kadrel, as the door slid open.<br>
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The Speaker's brains immediately covered the rest as the robots on the outside of the pod began firing upon them.<br>
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Woe and behold the teams that made it underground just came into contact with the underground horde of robots, and as they entered a massive firefight underground their progress to the core was still fairly subdued.<br>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14px">The Epsilon...</span></b><br>
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"More robots underground?"<br>
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One of the Kadrel technicians nodded his head in agreement.<br>
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Ambassador E75 thought long and hard about this before shrugging "Seems like something we can fix just by shooting more Kadrel at it, run the labs and assembly lines faster."<br>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14px">The Batlefield...</span></b><br>
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"Dear Sarg," Twenty Twenty said as he noticed the considerably smaller amount of reinforcements "did we really lose that many?"<br>
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"The Ambassador is having other teams diverted underground," one of the new arrivals responded as he set up another shield "main objective is still the study of the core. Once complete, our forces will retreat. As such, we need to destroy those railguns if escape is offered."<br>
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"Damn it fine," Twenty-Twenty said before standing and pointing "You, You You you and you. Follow me, we're taking those damn railguns offline."</div>
				
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Hmm... and here I was expecting a power source but find something so much more valuable. The Dredge Matriarchs thirst for knowledge and secrets was well known, and the way her eyes narrowed and she licked her lips... the crew of the <i>Kukri </i>knew even though they couldn't see what she could, that expression of hers was pretty much all the warning they needed.<br>
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"Mr. Williams contact our good Captain of the Nafarians if you would please." Her sonorous voice rolled from the throne. The young Com officer's eyes widen but he nods and splices a channel open with the help of Bai'core  given that the nefarians had increased their security, told the Pirate Queen they could send a message to the Nafarians but they would have to accept the channel from their end but they'd receive the message no matter what. A few moments of silence before the Dredge nodded and this message ended up being sent.<br>
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The Lady of Ravens sigil and her voice booming out in soft lilting tones. "Gentlemen! My good Captain, I know we may have gotten off on the wrong foot but I happen to have some knowledge and a solution that would make it most beneficial to both of our parties." A pause to let them consider this. "Of course I <i>know</i>  you cant resist such a tempting idea hmm captain?"</div>
				
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"Alright boys, you heard our Xandarian friends, head straight for the directed coordinates." Nuk commanded after listening to the Xandarian transmission.</b><br>
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The pilot, still a little sleepy from his daydreaming, silently nodded in response, throwing his hand across a U shaped lever that plunged into the ship's matte grey slanted console. The lever acted as a gas pedal, fueling the fiery engines as they roared to life. While the engine emitted no noise in the infinite vacuum of space, it did cause quite an uproar in the small ship's cramped cabin. Nuk squinted his eyes as he stomached the loud noise, the ship quickly zooming towards the ship. Being a rather small ship, especially by Nafarian standards, the corvette just barely managed to squeeze into the Dreadnought's hangar. As soon as the landing gear touched the bottom of the ship, Nuk patted the pilot on the shoulder.</b><br>
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"Keep her steady and remain put until I return. No exploring now alright? I'll radio in if something happens." Nuk stated, jumping from his seat as he slipped through the cabin and into the main body of the corvette.</b><br>
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He was quickly flanked by two guards in grey armor, each standing at seven feet tall, a mere few inches shorter than Nuk himself. The trio made their way through the Corvette's cramped corridors, past three more Nafarian soldiers who remained silent and still and to the Corvette's loading bay. Nuk stepped forward, his black boots clicking against the ship's metal as he pulled down a panel by the loading bay's doors. He quickly tapped in a code, and waited for the door's to slowly descend, bumping lightly with the ground of the massive Xandarian ship. Nuk took a deep breath as he stepped out into the hangar, followed by his escort, quickly looking for whomever may take him to the prince.</b><br>
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Holly quickly stood and recollected herself, trying to process the last few precious seconds of her life and what had been just revealed to her as she faced the floating borg. The other nightguards quickly formed up behind her, recollecting their weapons as they awkwardly awaited their next order, either from Holly or this strange being that had pledged itself towards their well being.</b><br>
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"And how do you suppose we escape?" Holly asked. "The way we came in is rather crowded, and it'll take a while before our legions can push through these robots." She stated.</b><br>
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"There's a back door I can open. It will lead us back to the surface but I'm afraid there's no comfy elevators to bring you down. It'll be a long walk, and hopefully he won't know that we plan on using it." the female borg replied.</b><br>
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Holly stepped back in response, gesturing towards  one of the empty walls where she assumed this supposed back door was. "You lead the way." She offered.</b><br>
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The AI merely laughed in response, a grainy, slightly robotic laugh that bounced off the shiny walls. Holly cocked her head as she attempted to wrap her head around what could possibly be so funny to this AI being, perhaps it was rampant?</b><br>
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"Oh you silly biological creatures, you always do lack any sense of </b><b><i>innovation." </i></b><b>She chided, letting the word 'innovation' sink into the minds of the nightguards.</b><br>
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With that she turned, facing the raging lava that pushed against the thick, protected glass above the computer console. She waved her hands across the glass, garnering questioning glances from the nightguards who patiently waited for her to reveal this doorway. Their answers would soon be confirmed as the glass that held back the roaring lava began to part, as if by some gravitational or possibly even magnetic effect. Holly and the rest of the nightguards jumped in fear, many of them reatreating quickly against the back wall, as far away from the impending lava doom as possible, however they soon found their efforts to be futile, for the lava did not simply spill about the computer systems and into the room, instead it parted, slowly bubbling to the sides as a wide, slick metal path revealed itself, leading straight for a doorway at the other side. The AI laughed at the nightguards reactions, finding some form of joy in their fear.</b><br>
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"Oh now now, you didn't think I was going to kill you now, did you?" She chided with a hearty chuckle, a smile forming about her lips as the nightguards remained back, not one moving for the path. The AI's artificial smile fading as she realized none of them seemed eager to head down the path. "Oh come on, it's perfectly safe. Your suits are equipped with a collant system isn't it?" She asked.</b><br>
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"Oh, I'm sure you'll be fine..The distortion field will repel a good deal of the heat as well. Come then, we must be on our way. He'll be arriving at any minute with more borg." She stated briskly, floating into the parting of the lava sea.</b><br>
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Holly and her nightguards nervously followed, watching themselves as the hissing lava raged at their sides. The Nafarians and the dredge would soon find that the AI was correct, the heat was rather manageable with the suit's coolant systems combined with this supposed distortion field the AI spoke of. Newfound confidence found Holly as she strode close to the AI, remaining by her side as she walked down the path.</b><br>
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"Borg? Is that what you call yourselves?" Holly asked.</b><br>
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"And what exactly is a borg? Clearly you're far more then war droids."</b><br>
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"Also correct, but I'm afraid your question will have to wait for later, I'm sensing inbound borg units at the end of the hall, they should be coming through those doors at any moment. Quickly, you'll need to defend me as we move down this path. My gravitational abilities are quite strained holding off the lava about us. I can't risk fighting for myself or else this entire pathway may collapse." She stated, a sense of panic and urgency filtering through her voice.</b><br>
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In response, the nightguards rose their rifles, Holly drew the long, red wrist blades as she attempted to activate her cloaking device, only to find that it had fried due to the AI's shockwave from earlier. A noncoherent curse flew from her tongue in native Nafarian language, a tongue rarely spoken except for in the deepest depths of Nafaria, the human language of 'english' taking over as a national vernacular as more and more human worlds fell under Ven'Ziel's boot. The AI's words soon turned out to be prophetic, as the doors, once a promise of escape to the group soon opened, and a group of fifteen borg soldiers stormed in, instantly firing on their position.</b></div>
				
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The elevator was filled with the aches and groans as the Kadrel regained their bearings. They had finished their descent, coming to a halt at the bottom o the elevator shaft.<br>
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"Is everyone alright?" Noob asked as he looked around the room, standing in front of the Elevator's closed doors<br>
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"You bastard!" B06 barked as he tried to steady himself "Do youhave any idea how risky that shit was?!? What if there'd been a boiling pit of magma at the bottom of the shaft?"<br>
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Noob opened raised a finger as he began speaking, but was interrupted as a Kadrel soldier tackled a robot down in front of the Elevator. The Elevator group just stood and watch as the Kadrel soldier began tearing the robot limb from with his bear hands. After the robot stopped moving, he kept at it for a while before another robot fired through the back of his helmet. The robot turned to them, and raised its weapon right before B06 stepped forward as he let the Electro Baton extend in his hand. In a swift move he jammed the entire length into the machine and watched as the baton quickly shorted it out, it then began fidgeting violently. B06 raised a leg and kicked the spasming robot back where until it tripped and fell below.<br>
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As the explosion from below kicked up some dirt, B06 began grumbling as he searched the dead Kadrel and checked to make sure his Electro-Baton worked before standing.<br>
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"Shut up," B06 just stated "shut up and follow me."<br>
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As the Kadrel pushed against the Borg, they would soon find that the cybernetic armies would put up heavy resistance. Many of them cared not as to what injuries they sustained, many of the borg continuing their endless march while missing arms and many simply crawling forward and letting useless, crippled legs drag on behind him, hoping to snatch one of the Kadrel off guard and brutally beat them to death with their metallic hands. Leadership among the borg armies appeared to be nonexistent as well, removing the possibility of knocking off a lieutenant in favor of causing a loss of moral among the borg, in fact, they seemed to have little regard for that as well.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">“<b>Manners </b>Captain Veely.” The Dredge Matriatch said oh soooo slowly, in a soft lilting tone that made one think of the Kryock, the well known giant predatory snake of a rather infamous jungle planet, such a beautiful creature but oh so deadly. The comparison was oh to right, there sitting upon her throne, coils laying about haphazardly, indeed looking like a goddess observing her subjects. “<b>Manners</b>” Those violet suns glittered brightly in the shadows.<br>
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There was no hint of irritation or anger in her voice unlike the two beings last encounter, but that word <i>manners </i>still sent a chill up the spines of those on the Nefarian Command Deck.<br>
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“Lady Galumora if you would do me the honor and I do believe we have gotten off on the wrong foot good sir, my most humble apologies. However circumstances were not the best as I’m sure you were aware… and I am afraid they have not improved much even with our ‘forces’ working in alignment together.”  The Pirate Queen leaned forward into the light. “All other things aside Captain our forces on the ground are about to get over run.”<br>
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That was the Cue Bai’core had been given and he pulled up onto both screens multiple viewpoints of the onraging battle ahead along with some dangerous statistics he had figured out upon observing the battle.<br>
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“I assume you are aware that approximately two hours ago an unknown entity warped into this planets designated space and completely and utterly destroyed that monstrous super carrier without seemingly any difficulty.” The Lady of Ravens raised a single eyebrow and almost appeared as if she was looking directly at the crew of the Nafarian ship. “Seemingly without meaning too, that behemoth simply happened to be in the way… a frightening thought.”<br>
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The image of the Borg armies first appearance suddenly popped up, the millions upon millions of them rising up out of the ground like some old terran zombie film.<br>
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“Its no coincidence that this objects impact with the planet’s surface, almost immediately afterwords the robotic foes that our ground units our in a desperate losing battle against appeared. . . And they are loosing Captain. There are some things that not even the best training, weapons and mind sets can handle, our estimates show that in little less than 30 minutes the position that The Nefarian Legionarries and Nagashira have managed to hold will fall to the Borg onslaught.” The Silver-tongued female let that sink into the minds of all who heard it.<br>
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“Ive been watching your drop ships attempt to resupply your stranded legionaries for almost an hour now, on in every four you send down make it to the planets surface due to the firing Arc of those planetary Railguns and the two remaining Landwalkers prevent any ship from coming into atmosphere safely for extended periods of time to… give aid shall I say? That’s a 75% Morality Rate Captain… quite high indeed and that position is the best held on the planet. Others are as high as 90%, as most other factions are not faring quite as well on these desolate plains.”<br>
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“However, due to… lets just say I have ways of finding <i>things </i>out shall we? Your forces underground have made it to the signal… or the core of whatever drew us all here as well as the object responsible for all our troubles and what it is most likely after.” A horrific Grin, hundreds upon hundreds of bright white shining pearls of teeth blare in the shadows. “Would you like to see the prize?”<br>
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The Image of the Core/Borg (for a lack of name for it) slightly hazy but clear enough came on screen at the heart of the planet in all its glory.<br>
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“This is the prize so many and more have died to claim.” The Lady of Ravens said softly. “This creature has an enemy, the one controlling the Robotic legions no doubt. I do not know about you Captain Veely, but I for one don’t feel like letting said enemy get hold of her. However all other LZ’s on the planet are impossible and the only one closest enough for them to run to is The one with my Dredgnaught so I propose this to you.”<br>
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 The Dredge re-arranges herself into a more comfortable position, crossing her long, lithesome legs and propping her head up on her knuckles, this time all six of those eyes coming onto focus on the Nefarian captian, those star slit orbs seemed to be burning into his very soul, digging out any other little dark secrets he might have acquired in his rise to captain.<br>
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“My ship will arrive at the now no doubt blood filled LZ in low atmosphere, its directly below the railguns firing arc and I can arrive and get out just before the remaining Land walkers fire though if you could mayhaps take them out I would sooooo Appreciate it and you would have my thanks. “ The Female said putting a hand on her heart and finishing off that with a croon.<br>
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“I can pick up the prize, her escort, and some of the soldiers already there and be gone before the unamned foe can adequately make a response… however I cannot evacuate all of them and some will be left to fend for either you rescue them… or they join their fallen comrades in whatever heaven or hell you believe in… but such a choice rests upon your shoulders Captain Veely.  Look at the benefits however, i risk my life and my ship to rescue your men and a valuable asset mayhaps, if I die in the process oh well then that solves problems for you now doesn't it? But do be quick about it good sir, our time is running short.”</div>
				
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There it was again, that uneasy feeling that rattled him down to his marrow. He remebered instantly why he hated speaking with the pirate queen, and now regretted his choice for a live feed. Her words still remained useful to him; he now knew that Holly and her squad had made it to the core, and possibly even the human rats that went down there after it. He smiled despite the cold sweat now breaking through the pours of his skin, as he leaned forward, addressing her directly, each word slightly shaky, but stern.<br>
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"Ah, but you see Galumora, I've already planned for this contingency. You see, our ships contain a few dropships specially designed for our little nightguard friends down there. They contain cloaking devices very similar to the suit's configuration. And given the circumstances, I would much rather go with my own resources and escort all of the soldiers down below <i>and </i> this prize of yours and abscond with the goods." He stated<br>
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The Lady of Ravens.</span><br>​</div><br>
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"No Little One." The Dredge's Smile was criminal, like a cat that got the mouse. "I have acquired exactly what I wanted. I must be off now dears, do keep up a good job Tataa!" And with that the Com was ended leaving a foreboding feeling amongst those on the command bridge...<br>
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Back on the <i>Kukri </i>however the Crew stared at the Lady of Ravens confused, why was she so happy that they were not going to get the prize that they have risked so much for.<br>
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"Mr.Valerian." The Pirate Queen's voice broke out amongst the silence and the Lieutenant snapped to attention. "Just... how big is our  Cargo Bay?"<br>
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That look on her face gave him a sinking feeling as he answered.<br>
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The Next batch of Kadrel were fired towards the planet below, and the cycle was once again restarted as the next batch were readied. Ambassador E75 hadn't moved from his position since the talk with the Dredge, simply standing their giving the occasional order as it viewed the situation on various screens.<br>
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Just as he began to issue another order, the Kadrel began quieting down as the sound of something approaching rang out from an adjacent corridor. The repeated sounds of metal clanking against metal was one that was all to familiar to the crew, and E75 promptly turned around and bowed. An energy field at the rear of the bridge went down as a towering figure approached, the Kadrel watched in slight fascination as their commanding Theno entered the room.<br>
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Captain Skaz let his helmet-encased eyes roam over the bridge for a while before he began walking towards the Ambassador, who kept its head down as the shadow of the Captain engulfed it.<br>
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And promptly patted its shoulder.<br>
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"Yo E-Man," came the thick, gravely voice of the Captain as he gave the Ambassador a quick shoulder rub "how's it goin up here on my favoritest part of the <i>entire </i>ship?"<br>
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As the Ambassador rose to full height, Captain Skaz walked around him and clicked his metallic fingers together several times. A hovering seat floated into the room along with a floating circle. Captain Skaz reached for the massive Cosmo Blade attached to his back, then pulled it off and tossed it over the floating circle before falling back into the seat. The moment it passed over the circle a short Range Tractor Beam flared up and caught the weapon, which began hovering there above it as Skaz stretched out.<br>
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"We have been firing Kadrel at the planet and have even worked our way to the underground." E75 said as he stood at Skaz's side "Though we have had a fair bit of hold up what with the hordes of robotic enemies and the anti-planetary defenses-"<br>
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"Have ya tried shooting Kadrel at 'em?" Skaz asked with a small chuckle<br>
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"We've been firing Kadrel at the planet-"<br>
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E75 thought for a moment "Though we'd probably lose twice as many pods it should be more than possible to have the pods drill directly through the armaments."<br>
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Skaz looked at E75 expectantly for a moment before the Ambassador bowed its head "My apologies Captain, my lack of thought has led us to wasting portions of our forces to those railguns, when wasting a whole group and destroying them would obviously be the more optimal solution."<br>
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"Ah don't sweat it kid." Skaz said as he patted the Ambassador's head and gave another laugh "Stick with ol' Skazzie and you'll be firing Kadrel at literally <i>all</i> o' your problems within a year."<br>
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<b>B06...</b><br>
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"Okay, break time!" B06 called out as the Elevator group detached themselves from the brawl to rest against a large cave wall. They'd been fighting their way through the dozens of smaller fight going on throughout the cavernous expanse, and could honestly start to feel a bit winded for a bit.<br>
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Old- Timer sat down with his gun an just started firing randomly into the crowd, half the times he was probably hitting their own guys. Noob laid against the wall with another Kadrel while B06 stood on a rock and looked over the battlezone.<br>
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"Okay, so if we cut through the melee two firefights north, we may be able to find a way to the surface." B06 said out loud "If judging by the faint amount of wind coming from that direction there's an opening somewhere down there."<br>
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He turned back to the group before getting off and sitting on the rock "Either that or more cave, and the wind I'm feeling is just air escaping cor-"<br>
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He was interrupted by another rumble, which passed soon after.<br>
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"-Air Escaping Corpses." he finished before looking around "Christ, where are those blasts coming from?!? They don't even sound like exploding robots!"<br>
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"I dunno," Noob said as he tapped the wall he was laying against "It almost sounded like it came from behind this wall."<br>
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"Damnitt T03," B06 yelled "stop trying to make us relevant to anything import-"<br>
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As he said that a Kadrel soldier bull tackled a robot against the wall with enough ferocity to make the Noob and the rest of the Elevator gang back away. The Kadrel soldier quickly jammed his Electro Baton into it before throwing the spasming robot against the wall. Knowing what would happen, the elevator group backed away as the resulting explosion threw the Kadrel soldier away. Before their eyes the wall fell apart, kicking up a small cloud of dirt and dust. Once it was gone, the elevator crew just stared at an entirely different firefight that just so happened to be on the other side of the wall. There was an entirely new race of beings fighting off another wave of robots, and every so often a round from a tank would kick up a cloud of destroyed robots.<br>
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B06's eye twitched in anger as the Kadrel that had used his Electro baton to subsequently destroy the wall slowly arose while rubbing a cracked portion of his helmet. He took one look inside the cave, glanced at one side of the conflict and then the other, before hefting his weapon and calling back to the rest of the Kadrel.<br>
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"Hey boys! We got more metal targets right over 'ere!"<br>
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At that, several groups of Kadrel that had finished their own battles turned and began running past B06 into the new chamber before immediately turning on the already identified enemy and firing their blasters into the swarm of robots on this side as well.<br>
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Noob just stood stock still for a moment twiddling his fingers around before B06 let loose a mighty below.<br>
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He sighed, both out of relief and annoyance. The aura's effects quickly faded for him as he pulled up a seperate holo screen on his command throne, searching desperately for the nightguard's signals. Naturally, nothing still emerged on their screens. He pushed the screen away in a fit of rage, turning to one of his navigations officers.<br>
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"Y-yes captain?" The man stammered in response.<br>
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"Make a call to the fly boys in the S class dropships, I want them prepped for flight and ready to extract Nightguard signals as soon as they are readily able to." The Captain blurted, turning his red eyes to the view screens of the battle raging on in the distance, curtousey of the Razor class interceptor.<br>
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Galumora was right, his legions wouldn't last much longer under the robotic assault. The Nafarian legions stood valiantly against their robotic assailants, killing dozen of them per legionnaire, and many more per tank before a chance railgun would gut it. And to a fool's eye they would see this as a winning battle. But Veely, while being far from a tactical genius, was still no fool. The cybernetic soldiers stretched in all available directions against the legions and the Dredge, marching in an endless, and ruthless assault. Like the Kadrel down below Veely was easy to spot the relentless tactics the robots would express, fighting beyond all injury, some of which would be crippling to any living being and still pressing forward, beating a soldier with their own limbs if need be.<br>
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Veely winced at the endless assault below, but still made no move to call a retreat or submit to Galumora's demands, for there was one thing she had gravely forgotten; the armies needn't survive the entire might of the enemy armies nor did they even need to emerge victorious against them. They only needed to hold out long enough for Holly and her squad to be extracted and brought back on board the Nafarian Razor above. And then they would be able to pull out their soldiers, leaving only the soldiers still in the cave to hold out long enough for an extraction of their own. A simple plan really, or so Veely thought until Galumora's last message seeped into his ears.<br>
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"Damn!" He shouted, slamming his fist into the arm of his throne, causing his entire crew to turn, and star anxiously at the distressed captain.<br>
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"Anything wrong captain?" One of the soldiers foolishly asked, not understanding the context of the message. "Should we abort the extraction?"<br>
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The captain leaned back, calming himself as he outweighed his options. He either risked his entire fleet learn of his true allegiance, and worse yet, Velsus' role in it, or yet a possibly all powerful object escape his grasp. An object that had proven valuable enough for an entire ship of humans to throw themselves to their eventual doom at the hands of his own soldiers and those of the robots, and something he now desperately wanted. He bit his lower lip as he decided to play his hand against the devil. He may yet have a card of his own to play against Galumora should the need arise. And knowing the rather slimy practices of the pirate queen he was absolutely certain that he would need to tread carefully once Holly and her nightguards were on board.<br>
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"No. Continue according to plan corporal. And block all further communication from the cretin. I think her usefulness to us has now expired." Veely said with a smile, his red eyes slowly falling upon the battling Dredge fighting with his legions below. He could tell by it's more sluggish movements, that it too tired of the constant combat, and would soon prove to be an easy target should he play his hand correctly.<br>
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The Borg soldier erupted into a fiery explosion that once again rocked the ground. The explosion seemed to achieve the desruction of the entire cave wall, giving way to a dusty expanse and a sea of Borg soldiers. They seemed never ending and would likely soon turn on the Kadrel forces only to make their situation more dire, that was until the bone crushing treads of a tank zoomed past B06's gaze through the cramped cavern, reducing a good twenty or so Borg to nothing more than flattened scrap. The tank was massive, and looked as if it could barely fit into the cavern, one of it's long, tapering antennae scraped the rock ceiling above. It hardly looked practical in this situation, and it would seem that only a madman would bring such a thing down here as it quite possibly risked the collapse of the entire cavern itself, but nevertheless it appeared to be successful for these aliens thus far.<br>
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<br>
The tank stopped briefly, it's gargantuan and quite intimidating grey mass clearly visible to B06 and company as it's mechanics whirred and the massive, triangular head moved into position before unleashing a torrent of destruction down the tunnel, a second explosion that rocked both of the caverns, and subsequently bringing another handful of borg to their ultimate doom down the other end of the tunnel. The entire tank was jerked backwards slightly, it's treads grinding into the half crushed body of a borg soldier that desperately reached for B06 in a futile attempt to end him. It was soon halted however as three red streaks of roguetonium shotgun rounds tore through the borg's circuitry, causing it to burst open on the ground, ending any further attempt at the Kadrel's life.<br>
<br>
<br>
B06's savior stood on top of the tank's head, arrogantly placing one foot on top of the tank's head while the other leg dissipated down into the depths of the tank below. He bore heavy looking grey armor, glowing red lines darting across it's surface as a thick, grey helmet stared down onto him. He was faceless, a glowing red visor greeting B06's gaze as the being's chest heaved in maniacal laughter. The tank was soon joined rows of more grey armored aliens, each pushing against the borg armies, a few stopping and taking curious looks at B06 and the Kadrels who by now were quickly bolstering their ranks; unsure of whether to shoot them or leave them be. The answer was soon given to them however as they appeared to be joining the Nafarian lines against the borg, a much needed addition in the grueling fight ahead.<br>
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<br>
"Damned thing almost got ya foreigner!" The being on the tank yelled at B06. "One more kill for good ol' Zander! Now come on then! Join the fight" He roared as he setteled back into the tank, only his shoulders and head poking out of the tank's head as he thrusted his arm forward, two fingers pointed towards the borg. The tank then lurched forward as the now combined armies of Kadrel and Nafarian soldiers pushed on towards the arc shaped gates that lay just ahead now, only a few handfuls of borg laying between them.<br>
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The rest of the Nafarians seemed to readily accept the help of the foreign Kadrel. Uneasily fighting by their side as they kept their weapons trained on the robotic hordes, but many, despite the actions of the seemingly insane Zander, appeared eager to actively save the Kadrel from destruction, opting instead to spare their own lives or save the lives of their own brethren instead.<br>
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<b>-Core-</b><br>
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Holly moved first, charging towards the borg soldiers, forming an X with her thick energy blades across her chest and face. Being translucent, the blades only slightly obstructed her vision, blurry outlines standing where clearly visible borg soldiers once stood. But in such close quarters, a blurry outline was all she needed. She allowed her body to stand in the way of their searing bolts that soon whizzed down the small chamber. Many of them struck her armor, leaving large dents and scorch marks in the shiny black surface and two of the shots scorching a gap in the plates near her upper thigh, causing her to wince against the searing pain. Many of the other shots however sizzled and popped harmlessly against the hot cracking blades that flickered hungrily for a kill.<br>
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She neared them within a few moments, prompting her to open her X shaped formation and extend her arms, the long blades barely grazing the lava surface at each of her sides. As she strode within ten feet of the first borg soldier she lept, a good distance into the air as she propelled her body forward, landing square on the borg's chest, crushing it's carapace and shattering it's power core, which sparked harmlessly against the soles of her boots. She wasted no time reveling in her first kill however as she deftly lept to he next target, this time allowing her blades to cleanly slice through the midsection of another robotic warrior, it's searing hot body falling into three pieces. She was then quickly distracted by more bolts that struck the oval shaped plate that protected her back, the borg's weaponry burning through the first few layers of armored plating. She quickly turned, dealing with that threat as well, impaling the mindless soldier with one of her blades before kicking it off into the wall of lava behind it.<br>
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The rest of the targets met their deaths at the rest of the nightguards, who began firing their sleek black rifles, bringing down each of the borg with precision, targeting their vulnerable heads as opposed to their well protected armor cores, causing them to stumble about sightlessly before being eventually terminated by a second wave of blade wielding nightguards, who dispatched them with relative ease.<br>
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Holly stood, ignoring her burning leg as she nodded to the floating AI and the rest of her nightguards. "Path's clear!" She shouted, as no more mindless drones milled through the doorway.<br>
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The AI came forward hesitantly, watching the sealed metal doors with doubt as she approached Holly, who by now had deactivated her blades, continuing her path towards the door. The AI stopped however, still not pealing her eyes from the doors themselves.<br>
<br>
<br>
"Wait." She warned, causing each of the nightguards to stop. "Something's not right. That can't be all of them. Surely your forces can't be doing <i>that </i>well up above to be diverting his attention away from myself."<br>
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Holly stopped herself mere feet away from the doors as she spun on her heels to face the AI. It's final words had angered her, fractured yet still strong Nafarian pride kicking in as the AI questioned Nafarian military might.<br>
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"Perhaps <i>he </i>isn't as powerful as you suspected. We dispatched these grunts easily. Who's to say that our own warriors aren't proving their own up above?" Holly spat back.<br>
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"You underestimate him." The AI replied calmly.<br>
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"Oh? And who exactly is this <i>him" </i>Holly bruskly stated, irritation growing evident in her voice.<br>
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"Again, there is no time to explain down here. Once we get out of here, and get to safety I will explain everything. But right now we need to focus at the task at hand and tread lightly. He's likely set a challenge for us to face beyond those doors. And I fear it will be something more than a mere collective of grunts." The AI explained, her eyes once again surveying the nightguards who listened to her rather impatiently.<br>
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"So what do you suggest? That we remain here in fear of what he has in store for us? To just die out here among the lava that surrounds us? To eventually become a part of this damned planet?" Holly blurted angrily.<br>
<br>
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"No. But again I stress that we proceed with caution. Your battle suits have stealth capabilities, do they not?" The AI asked.<br>
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"Yes. They <i>did. </i>But whatever you did to us back there fried them. I'm afraid none of us can use this stealth to our advantage." Holly replied, only to be interrupted as a second, broad shouldered nightguard stepped forward.<br>
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"Not true ma'am." He stated with a deep, commanding voice, that instantly garnered the attention of all within the hall. holstering his rifle across his back. "I remained out of range of the attack and still have a working suit. I can scout ahead and come back with information... With your permission of course." He explained.<br>
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Holly looked towards him for a moment, turning her gaze away from the AI as she pondered the suggestion, the prior irritation that she had directed at the AI cooling unlike the lava around them, which seemed to grow hotter than it was when they first entered the makeshift tunnel. She returned her gaze to the AI, searching it's body for any sign of struggle before noticing that it now hovered slightly closer to the floor, it's toes nearly grazing the metallic surface. The being had said that holding back the torrents of lava would be no easy task, and it soon became evident to Holly that their time in this back door was slowly ticking away. They couldn't keep arguing about their situation for long, and she figured that it would be better to know what lay beyond before advancing into the next chamber. She turned her head back to the nightguard who awaited her command.<br>
<br>
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"You have my permission corporal. But be quick and silent. I don't wish to bring more of those things in here." She said.<br>
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"Of course ma'am. Give me thirty seconds and I shall return." He replied, quickly bringing a closed fist across his chest in salute before dissapearing before them all and running for the door. It swiftly opened, thin metal plates gliding into the walls as he ran through.<br>
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The man would seem to never read his destination however as a large, blue explosion erupted in the doorway shortly after he stepped into the next room, only a portion of it visible to the ones in the lava hall. It was unknown if the man had survived, being invisible to both temperature and sight it would be impossible for whatever lay in the next room to see him. it likely had merely reacted to the opening of the doors, which now lay gaping open, long tendrils of molten orange metal splitting inwards.<br>
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"Well that answers that question." A somehow even more pale faced Holly voiced out as she reactivated her blades, a few of the other nightguards doing the same as well.<br>
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<br>
"I seem to be correct." The AI stated rather bluntly.<br>
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"Right... now stroking your own ego aside, how do you suppose we actually defeat what lays beyond?" Holly asked, cautiously taking  a step forward as she hoped to gain sight of what reduced the door and possibly one of her own soldiers to nothing.</div>
				
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The Lady of Ravens</span></b><br>​</div><br>
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Frantic preparations were underway under the watchful eye of the Lady of Ravens, the Cargo bay was cleared out of everything that was important like spice's and the like and was moved the crews quarters for the time being, whilst everything else was cleared out when they opened the Cargo bays massive doors and let the vacuum of space take it all. For a Pirate ship it of course had a decent sized Cargo bay, plenty spacious for loot hauling and the like so they could gather as much as they could and leave as coming back would mean most likely contending with others less friendly looters.<br>
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"Mr. Bai'core please lock onto our friends signature and prepare the algorithims for our next maneuver. I want this to go off without a hitch... swoop in fast and clean Gentlemen we need not make an unnecessary mess. Also... bring me my Dredge back aboard as a first priority... but not our 'friend.' " The Pirate Queen drawled Lazily and the science officer saluted with a quick "Yes Mi'Lady" and began on them right away.<br>
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"Mr.Williams, please inform Moroc and Nagashira that we have overstayed our welcome, prepare to come home."<br>
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The young coms officer nods and brings the two online with the super-illuminal communications grid.<br>
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Nagashira paused from where she was lifting up a Nefarian Soldier over the wreckage of the land-walkers massive gun to see how the enemy was advancing whilst directing the Aliuu nearest her to help the 5 remaining Terrans load the 100mm grenade launcher turned artillery gun.<br>
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"awww c'mon Williams, tell her to let me stay a little longer, im about to win a bet with these Nafarians on 5,000 robot kills! Ill win a cask of ale, and you know she never lets me have those. Ill make it worth your whiiile little boy." The intimidating female said seductively. The coms officer looked back at The Lady of Ravens and took a single moment to decide.<br>
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"Sorry Miss, Captains orders and you know how she is."<br>
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"Ahh by the dark gods of piss and death, she's always ruining my fun." The Dredgnaught Pouted.<br>
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"yea yea, save the bitching for her not me Lady Nagashira, stand by for translocation."<br>
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The Female sauntered up to the five terrans and scooped all of them up in her arms and waved goodbye at the Nefarians while grinning at them. "You lot ever have a cluster fuck like this or are in need of a good time call me!" The Dredgnaught shimmered, flickered and then seemed to be wrenched apart and then was gone.<br>
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Moroc, about 300 kilometers away was busy figuring out how to take out one of the railguns by using the still operational land walkers cannon and was sitting on top of the giant mecha-droid observing the battle when he got the call. All the male Dredge did was snort.<br>
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"Standing by <i>Sera.</i>" the creature said using the respectful title for the Dredge Matriarch in their own language, and he to vanished, a particle trail to the heavens.<br>
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However, deep in the heart of the Clusterfuck was the Dredge Infected Nefarian Nightguard. During the battle with the 15 enemy borg the creature had done its job well, instead of going in close range combat which would reveal its faster than average reflexes and speed it hanged back until the first of the robots had fallen and grabbed up two of their destroyed limbs and literally smashed the first two Borg's head in. Another borg kill and an assist it was accredited for when it held the damn thing down for another Nightguard to shoot/chop into tiny bits.<br>
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Maybe that borg thing could sense the discord inside that blackened visor, maybe not but the incoming data stream from Galumora, chaotic as it was, badly broken did speak of a plan though what it was sadly could not be told, however... it did involve a ship which it needed, and a fast escape.</div>
				
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Holly remained braced as she hopefully awaited the return of her comrade. Her knees remained braced, ready for any further combatants, or worse yet, the beast that waited for them through those doors. Her blades remained drawn as she waited roughly thirty seconds to no avail as the man never re emerged from the room. It was best to assume that he was dead, gone along with the many others that had perished for this damned AI.<br>
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"I'm sorry." The AI stated without emotion, breaking the deafening silence that had befallen the group. "your comrade has fallen, but I do suggest we get a move on, the magma is becoming rather tough for me to hold back, but there is a way to escape here and avoid getting crushed into nothingness, quickly, everyone gather around me." the AI commanded.<br>
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Holly, fearful of being enveloped by the lava obediently clustered around the AI without a single word. Her nightguards and the dredge did the same, nearly forming a misshapen circle about the floating AI. The nightguard's nearly bumped shoulders with one another as they impatiently waited for the AI's next command, however they were only met with silence as she began re position her hands. The lava near the path's entrance began to collapse on itself in response, a few of the nightguards towards the rear jumping erratically in fear, only to settle themselves moments later as the collapsing lava was held off mere feet from their bodies. Looking towards the air, the group would soon discover that the air surrounding them now shimmered in a near perfect circle about their bodies.<br>
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"There. This shield will protect move with us and protect us from the enemy's fire. It will move with us, but I am unsure how many of those shots it can take before faultering, so I suggest you scatter quickly once we enter the room." The AI said, her voice beginning to strain slightly with new effort being placed into the strange, barely visible shield around their bodies.<br>
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"And why didn't you place one of these around my nightguard?" Holly questioned rather angrily.<br>
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"I wasn't aware that <i>that </i>would be the outcome of his little endeavor. Again, you have my sincerest apologies, now shall we move before the heated magma collapses around us?" The AI suggested.<br>
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Remaining in silence, Holly nodded, slowly inching forward, the AI and the rest of the nightguards following suit as they closed the short, remaining gap between them and the torn scrap metal that represented a doorway. Within a minute the first nightguards stepped through, only to find a massive hulking robotic beast standing in the center of the room. The room itself was completely level, and dark, the only illumination coming from the nightguard's visors and tiny, flickering lights about the walls, stopping at a catwalk that wrapped about the room, standing a good distance above the giant borg soldier. Holly's eyes widened as she took in his hulking mass, a squat, headless body propped up on two powerful and tall legs that bent backwards  at the knee. Two massive arms hung proudly from what could only be assumed as the borg's soldiers, one comprising entirely of a large cannon that shimmered a bright blue while the other was comprised of a huge, clawed fist that groped angrily at the shielded nightguards. The Borg's optics appeared to be comprised of a single V shaped blue line that shone across it's elongated front. It stepped two, heavy steps forward, it's cannon glowing brighter as it pointed it straight at the group.<br>
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"Run!" Holly cried, bolting from the protective embrace of the shield, skirting against the circular wall just under the catwalk.<br>
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She was followed by four other nightguards who ran in various directions, aiming to confuse the borg abomination. Despite their efforts however, the Borg kept it's cannon fixed on the shield, it's primary target being the AI, who stood defiantly with the remaining Nightguards in the room's threshold. Their bodies were only visible for mere seconds however, as the whole room was blinded by a bright flash of blue light, and a second explosion that slammed into the AI's shield, licking along the sides and bracing against what remained of the doorway. Smoke cleared to find the AI kneeling on the floor, the lava flooding the hall behind her as she released her grip on the torrents of hungry magma, it splashing against her shield. The final two nightguards soon fled the shield soon after, leaiving her alone in the bubble shaped shield.<br>
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The borg beast showed no emotion, no dismay or even anger at the fact that the AI had survived his onslaught. Instead it simply took a few more steps forward, it's cannon once more beginning to shimmer with the all too familiar blue light as he charged for a second blast, paying no mind to the nightguards who had now successfully flanked it.<br>
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Holly struck first, sprinting silently towards the borg beast, leaping onto it's inverted knees as she drove both of her blades into the being's back. The robot stumbled, distracted from the task at hand as it turned, attempting to view it's assailant only to find three more Nafarian nightguards who unleashed a torrent of small arms fire onto the being's face, blows it easily shook off as it swatted it's hand across the room, sending two of the three nightguards sailing into one of the curved walls. The remaining nightguard, the superior dredge was then quickly scooped up by the beast, each of it's five clawed fingers snatching the infected nightguard as it brought it to the V shaped eye that could be called it's face. It tightened it's grip as loud, mechanical whirring could be heard inside of it's torso, a large shoulder cannon erupting from the left side of the borg's body, quickly it began to charge, the light seeping into the Dredge nightguard's sealed helmet.</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><b>The Epsilon...</b><br>
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"Sir, the next batch is ready for launch." E75 said as he turned away from a screen to answer the Theno.<br>
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"Awesome, fire when-"<br>
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He was interrupted as one of the Kadrel voiced a concern over why the pods they'd be firing at the Railguns had to be occupied. The Ambassador and Captain Skaz both stared at the Kadrel...<br>
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"Kid," Skaz said as he leaned forward "are you suggesting we not fire Kadrel at this problem?"<br>
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The Ambassador slowly turned back to Captain Skaz, right before the Theno placed a hand on the Android's shoulder and burst into deep bellowing laughter. He wiped an imaginary tear from his metallic helmet's eyepiece, before bringing up a holo-screen.<br>
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In the Loading Bay, the next Batch of Kadrel were busy getting into their pods when the Rumbling voice of the Captain came on over the area "Good day you fresh, youthful, individuals!" Captain Skaz greeted "We here on the Bridge would just like to inform you that you will not be fired at the pre-designated targets, but instead will be launched directly towards the anti air appliances n the planet. We just want you all to be fully aware of the mortality ratings because... well, damn it I believe in a company that be honest with its work force."<br>
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The Kadrel in the Loading Bay all paused and mumbled to each other for a moment before one piped up "Wouldn't it be less deadly if you didn't have us cram into these things before the Launch?"<br>
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Captain Skaz was silent for a moment before breaking into another round of Laughter, which filled the room before he suddenly went silent and said "No."<br>
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The Loading Bay Kadrel erupted into a chorus of  sighs and groans as the lot of them finished packing themselves into their pods with less enthusiasm, but no less speed. As the Pods were finished loading, a single Kadrel in one of them began sending messages to the Holo-Screens of the rest of the passengers.<br>
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"Dude," one of his fellow passengers said after receiving his mail "they already said that we're most likely to die during this launch. The hell you sending messages for?"<br>
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"This is the number pod I was born from," the sender replied with a grunt "if even one of you guys survives this then I want you to put two holes through the bastard who made me."<br>
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"Fair enough," the asker replied as they settled in before they launched.<br>
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<b>Twenty-Twenty...</b><br>
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Twenty Twenty and several other Kadrel watched as a Railgun passed far in the distance, around them were the combined forces of several armies including their own who were still locked in battle against the encroaching horde.<br>
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"Okay, here's the plan," Twenty-Twenty said as he turned around to address the Kadrel behind him "If we bull rush towards the Railgun while it works then we can see if we can find any less armored joints or connections we can exploit."<br>
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As he said that, the rest of the Kadrel watched as the Railgun slowly rotated its gun skywards before beginning to fire.<br>
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"If concentrated fire doesn't work then we may have to board it and take it down from the inside."<br>
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The remains of several pods crashed against the Railgun as it kept firing, but shuddered and lurched as one of the drill pods lodged itself into its body.<br>
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"We may have to go down with it, but it would mean greater reinforcements against the robots."<br>
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The Railgun stumbled a bit as the pod tried to dig the rest of the way through, but it wouldn't matter since another pod crashed into the Railgun. Twenty-Twenty paused in his explanation as he heard the sound of an explosion behind him and he turned around to watch the Railgun go up in smoke taking the pods with it as several more landed in the ground a distance away from its smoldering heap even as more explosions erupted from it.<br>
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Twenty-Twenty just stared as the much smaller group of Kadrel reinforcements got out and immediately began linking up with the current fighting force. As two of them passed, Twent Twenty just had to ask.<br>
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"What the hell was that!?!"<br>
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"That," replied one of the two with a grunt of annoyance "was a suicide drop apparently. Good to know I didn't end up lodged in one of those things, next round may not have it as easy."<br>
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The Kadrel just grunted again before the two ran off to link up with another group of fighting Kadrel.<br>
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Twenty-Twenty stared for a moment before being struck with genius "That's it!" he yelled, regaining the attention of his team of Kadrel "If we take down the next Railgun before the next batch of reinforcements, then we could make a name for ourselves and save the lives of many of the next batch!"<br>
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The Kadrel before him gave each other a few looks before Twenty-Twenty just sighed "Just, shut up and follow me."<br>
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As the Kadrel and Nefarians worked through the last stretch of Borg defenders, BO6 just continued standing their with both hands clenched in fists as Kadrel from their section of the cave continued finishing off their own battles and pouring in. The Elevator crew just stood around watching him before T03 stepped forward and placed a hand on his shoulder-<br>
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-which was met with B06 spinning around and bashing T03 upside the helmet with his gun. T03 fell back and rubbed his head while giving some complaints, while B06 yelled at him while pointing as the battle continued on. After some more barks of rage, B06 hefted his gun again before waving to the rest of the Elevator Crew. Then, after one of the others pulled T03 back to his feet, they hurried to catch up and join with the forward ranks of Kadrel and Nefarians.<br>
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Apparently the work of a tyrant is never over. Arimius, the embodiment of what the Syhelians had been reduced to, was always seeking conflict, always seeking to thwart the Asren. And what an opportunity he had before him, a plethora of new factions squabbling over some dusty planet. The Asren tasked with safeguarding the sector against him were already badly weakened and could no longer contest the planet. Better yet, Taeral's ship, the Retribution, lay among them, ready to lay waste to their traitorous hides. Speaking of which, where was Taeral? No matter Arimius took the opportunity to invite himself onto the Retribution to 'borrow' some data on events that had transpired. If Taeral had a problem with it...well that was his problem. In the meantime there was chaos to be caused, an uneasy truce based on blackmail and a bastardly band of pirates. And so, with only the laziest of encryptions, Arimius set out to contact the acting Nafarian captain...</div>
				
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"Sir, inbound communications from unknown vessel." Veely's communications officer alerted him, causing him to prick his head up from an open palm.<br>
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"Can you determine that it isn't those damned pirates? I've had more than my fill of their treachery for one day." He sighed, sounding exacerbated and needing of a long sleep.<br>
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The captain let out a long sigh, situating himself on his throne so he sat upright and straightened his uniform, ensuring that not a single wrinkle lay upon his torso. "Go for it." He finally ordered after he had turned his gaze to where the viewing screen would soon be.<br>
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The corporal took a moment to type a few commands into his console before the screen flickered to life, bringing the tired face of Captain Veely into Arimius' view. The pale faced Nafarian looked tired, yet his face lit up at the sight of Arimius, simply glad that it was no longer Galumora ruining his day, and better yet, someone who at the very least bore the face of a Nafarian. Delighted that he now talked to a new, more friendly face, Veely greeted Arimius with open arms.<br>
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"Well then! Some surprise this is!" Veely exclaimed as if he was speaking to an old, long lost friend. "Now to what do I owe the pleasure of speaking to you... err." He stumbled, eyes searching for some sort of rank on the man's chest before realizing that he couldn't possibly be a Nafarian soldier, the background and his uniform just seemed off to Veely, yet he continued contact.<br>
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"Who are you?" He asked, clearly puzzled.<br>
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"The hell are these things?" A soldier could commonly be heard yelling as the Kadrel continued to filter in among their ranks.<br>
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"Who cares soldier! They're helping us and that's all that matters! Now keep your damned sights on the enemy ahead and reduce them to scrap! And that's an order!" A bellowing voice replied.<br>
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Should B06 or any other Kadrel look, they would soon see that this voice belonged to s different looking soldier than the thronging waves of grey armored soldiers that fought the robotic soldiers. He knelt close to the ground, behind 'Sergeant Zander's' tank, and he clearly stuck out among them. His armor was bright, glossy red. Almost his entire body was clad in the red metal, the few gaps being near his shoulders, his elbows, knees and neck, which bore the pitch black body suit that prevented the plates from scraping against his bare skin. He held one large rifle, and occaisionally poked out from behind the tank to unleash a storm of red rounds into the enemy lines. It would soon become apparent to  B06 that cover was only a customary for this soldier, as the return fire that found it's mark against the soldier's armor nearly sparked against the red plates, showing little damage as he returned to cover.<br>
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Meanwhile, the combined efforts of the Kadrel and Nafarians proved highly effective against the robotic soldiers, and within another minute, only a handful of borg stood in their way. They were cut down rather quickly, the Nafarian soldiers, eager to finish the bloody cave fighting sprinted ahead to engage the borg with their weapons, bludgeoning them to death with the butts of their rifles, finally reducing the remaining robotic fighters into a pile of twisted metal and computer parts. Cheers echoed out among the soldiers as the final warrior fell beneath their boot, cheers that were silenced by the red armored commander jumping from behind the tank pushing himself to the front lines, beckoning an imedeate silence among the Nafarian legions, who stood at attention, awaiting his further commands.<br>
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He remained silent for a moment, kicking one of the deceased robotic soldiers with his red boot. He then turned his gaze to the foreigners who had lent their hand in the Nafarian's victory.<br>
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"Yes my lord!" Zander's voice eagerly replied, a sarcastic tone all but evident, prompting a dissapointed sigh from the commander, who shook his head and looked down at his feet for a moment.<br>
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"Get down from that damned tank son, shit's a hazard in these chasms. I want you to gather a small squad and push on through the doorway. I'll deal with the foreigners." He explained.<br>
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"Enough Zander!" The commander shouted, prompting snickers throughout the troops as Zander leaped from the tank in glee, boots pounding on the dusty ground as he happily picked the soldiers he would take through the doors. "As for the rest of you, check our fallen comrades for wounded and lead them back to the elevators double time!" He roared sternly, prompting immediate action from a good deal of the soldiers who instantly discarded their weapons as they knelt low above fallen legionaries, checking for any sign of life in the cluster of bodies.<br>
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The Kadrel Soldier muttered some things in his language before shaking his head and raising an arm in front of him, a holo-screen appeared over the contraption on his arm which he immediately began interacting with as the rest of the Kadrel began stomping and skimming through the destroyed pieces of the robots, looting the weaponry and equipment of their fallen forces as they did. Eventually the Holo-Screen shifted to an image of The Epsilon's bridge, where the Ambassador and the Captain continued chatting for a moment before one of the Kadrel manning the computers pointed out the new contact.<br>
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The Noob jumped in victory as the battle wound down, while B06 slumped against a small pile of dead Kadrel. Old Timer just stood there scratching his helmet for a while as the rest of the Elevator Crew came to a halt near the former front lines of the push. The Noob quickly said several things before pointing down the hall towards where he assumed the Core was located, while B06 groaned loudly at the Noob's continued speech. B06 stood and pointed at Noob before yelling some more things, right when a figure burst forward from the pile of Kadrel corpses. B06 spun around in an instant before firing into the body, before looking up to find the smoldering form of another Kadrel laying halfway out of the pile.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">The cannon fired and completely obliterated the still out cold and injured Nightguard. The upper half of him was just gone, dust in the wind. A slightly seared lower half still rested inside the Borg Abominations hand and as it turned to look to the survivors, losing interest in the Dead soldier a shimmer atop its corpse, a black oily looking substance which oozed from the burned and blackened lower half and coalesced quickly into the Feral Dredge.<br>
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Its six eyes locked onto the V shape that served as the Borgs eye and then extended its body forward towards it and slightly up, four arms kept in tight and close to its chest. Some in the universe who had seen this maneuver and lived called it Dredge Drop or the Piston on account of how it played out.<br>
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The Feral brought all four of its fists up in perfect unison and their punching power combined with the added force of its extremely powerful hind legs all slam into the bend in its glowing V shaped eye with absolute brutal force.<br>
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The shockwave of the impact was clearly visible on the Dredge, the sheer kinetic force rippled up its four arms and back lashed as the armored plates bunched together and screeched on the Feral’s forearms as they scraped past eachother and almost buckled.<br>
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With a sound akin to thunder the Dredge slammed its fist into that V visor and used the kickback to launch itself shortly into the air and twist about flinging its tail with chitin plates razored out to snag on the things gun, paying no attention to whatever pain or suffering it just caused. It was still moving, that in itself called to the things instincts that it still needed to be killed.<br>
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The Ferals tail barely caught on but just enough to let it swing towards the gun. The Borgs hand came at it again but this time the Dredge’s mobility wasn’t hampered by a suit of armor or a host and it contorted its body mid air like a full backwards crescent moon and the borgs hand missed in its flailing grazing the Dredges spine and ripping off one or two armored chitin plates in the process.<br>
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The creature finished its swing and landed on the Borgs shoulder right next to the cannon, all six limbs gripping the Borgs metal exoskeleton with a death grip, talons on metal like nails on chalkboard.<br>
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The Dredge's punch caused the optics to crack and loose their vibrant glow and the giant protruding plate to buckle. The attack seemed to be rather successful in blinding the abomination, at least for the moment, however the dredge, now hanging on the being's cannon, soon found that this abomination was not like the foot soldiers, and relied on more than just simple conventional weaponry.<br>
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The giant borg suddenly began to make a grating whirring noise, sounding much like an electronic growl as it fell to one knee and it's body began to vibrate rapidly, slowly shaking the feral Dredge's grip from the cannon. The Nightguards carefully watched from below, a mixture of confusion, anger and glee coursing through them as they watched their beloved comrade die, a strange being erupting from his body and the insurmountable force of the giant borg soldier appear to be defeated in one fell swoop. All of these feelings were dashed however as the electronic growling grew to a crescendo of ear splitting grinding shortly before the beast let loose a gravitational shockwave, pushing the Dredge and the nightguards away from it's body, pressing them against the circular walls.<br>
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As everyone gathered their bearings, they turned their eyes to face the borg once more, Holly standing, directly facing the beast's face as she prepared to charge, only to notice a shimmering circular field around the giant monstrosity, much akin to the one that protected her own soldiers earlier. Knowing she could not pierce such a field, she was forced to watch helplessly as the beast preformed a second miraculous feat, as the optic visor, once shattered and unusable began to shift in place, the metal twisting and grinding around the now separated optic sensors, erasing the giant crack that used to run through it. The two sensors began to reactivated, beginning to regain their blue glimmer. However this did come at a slight cost however, as the once thick frontal plate now bore a thick grove running straight between it's eyes, meaning that the beast boasted much lighter armor in that sector.<br>
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"Impossible..." Holly murmured, her brain struggling to process the information at hand.<br>
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Now completed the beast began to stand, stomping it's giant, split toed feet on the ground, slightly denting the shiny metal beneath it. A grinding roar was emitted from the beast's center as it prepared to face the nightguards again, staring directly at Holly as it raised it's cannon, preparing it for a second charge.<br>
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Holly reacted quickly, sprinting forward towards the beast as opposed to away from it, running straight for the gap between the abomination's trunk like legs as it reached for her with it's open hand. She quickly slid to the side, dodging the maneuver as she continued for the gap,  her blades extending at each side as she sliced into the being's legs, the hissing blades biting halfway into the thick metal that supported it's weight. Now weaker, the beast buckled slightly, a groaning sound echoing from it's center as it took roguetonium weapons fire from the other nightguards as well, proving to me more as a minor hindrance and only scraping the outer layers of armor rather than a dire threat. Instead the best kept it's focus on Holly, who, skidding to a halt behind the beast began to sprint and leap for it's back -only to find that it's upper half had completely twisted on it's axis. Now facing her directly, Holly soon found herself swatted from the air by the beast's bulky cannon, crumpling the large shoulder plate and the plates leading up her arm and sending her spinning towards the circular wall. She hit it hard, jarring her entire body as she fell to the floor, causing her to be dazed and bruised but luckily sparing her bones. Only facing gashes up her left arm she quickly reached up, ripping the now useless plates from her body and discarding them to the floor, exposing the bodysuit and complex wiring that supplied her blades with the roguetonium imperative to it's operation.<br>
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Watching the mortals face off with little success, the AI, still struggling to fight off the torrents of lava from flooding the room found it important to tell her newfound allies a bit more about the higher tier soldiers of their enemy.<br>
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"You can't chip slowly away at it's defenses and expect victory! It can bend and mold things through complex gravitational technology, much like myself. It will only mend itself together through intense pressure, you need to strike straight for it's heart! Use it's modification to your advantage!" She called out desperately.<br>
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This would soon be easier said than done however, as four doors opened above them, leading straight for the circular catwalk. A stream of borg soldiers quickly lined the catwalk's edge as they pointed their weapons at the nightguards, each pointing their weapons down at the nightguards below. One of them, a soldier that looked no different than the others began to open it's mouth.<br>
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"A valiant attempt thus far!" The soldier began, a deep, condescending voice emitted from it's mouth. "But I'm afraid that you will not escape, not even with the help of these puny whelps you've managed to pick up with you my dear. Why don't you sacrifice yourself to me, and spare their lives. Only one needs to die tonight."<br>
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The borg soldier seemed taken back for a moment, cocking it's head as it surveyed the AI and the nightguards, however it didn't seem entirely displeased with her response.<br>
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"Okay. Save her, and kill the rest." It stated calmly, pausing a bit as it thoughtfully stroked it's artificial chin. "Oh, and bring me their heads. It would be nice to study their brains."<br>
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The Commander seemed taken back at first, not expecting the Kadrel to immediately connect him to one of their higher ups, especially given the circumstances at hand, with them being underground, miles of rock and steel laying above them. It soon became apparent to the commander that these beings were well versed when it came to communications technology, possibly a useful ally to the Nafarians, or even Inner Empire should the predictions regarding the nation's civil war prove to be true. Laying slightly distracted by the commotion caused by B06 mixed with his shock both worked in tandem with one another to create a brief awkward silence from the commander.<br>
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"Why... hello ambassador. I am Commander Valda Hel'Vallic of the Nafarian empire, and yes, I have been placed in command of these units underground by my commanding officer, Captain Veely." He finally managed, a bit flabbergasted and at a loss for words as to what to say to someone that high along the totem poll of Kadrel hierarchy, having expected someone within the caves. Gathering his senses, he continued his speech. "It's become apparent to me that your soldiers have come into contact with my own down here and it's apparent that we both hold similar goals. While an official alliance is something far above my pay-grade, I would think it wise for a temporary pact be in order, both that protects our soldiers from friendly fire and ensures a temporary joint campaign against the borg for as long as we both see fit."<br>
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After Mr.Williams finished contacting Galumora and Moroc, he went back to monitoring enemy communication streams, it was more or less helpful to know what the enemy was up to even if you could only break the basic encryption of the local battle net. Simple troop movements meant finding holes in your enemies lines and or where they have been ordered to halt, a great mind such as the Lieutenants or his Lady could then piece together what the enemy commander was doing. However it was his underlings on the bridge that picked up an off kilter encryption going to the Nefarian command bridge, it wasn't from one of the Nefarian fleet that came here but another ship that as of the moment they had no readings on.<br>
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The science officer got them and both he and the lieutenant were shocked though Valerian telegraphed this only by a raise in his eyebrows. "But Ma'am both of these are akin to suicide!"<br>
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"The Kadrel and soldiers of this Nefarian Empire will work together to recover this item which has drawn our combined attention. Once it is safely distanced from the Robotic Denizens, who also seem to be either Guarding and/or hunting for it as well, we will discuss terms of ownership provided my current theories on the matter have been debunked."<br>
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"In the meantime, do not hesitate to breath calmly near these newborns. Unless one of you were to fire upon them with noticeable intent then they are fully, genetically and mentally, incapable of bringing harm upon you. That being said, Commune here will act as our go-between at the moment. If you wish to contact me again once this conversation is over, Commune here will be more than happy to patch us through again. I will input these orders into their readouts, and they shall be a most suitable wall of flesh to take cover behind should it be necessary.<br>
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The other Kadrel began looking up from their various looting activities as the basic premise of the Truce scrolled across their visors.<br>
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After having the dead Kadrel's weapons snap to his back, B06 stood and breathed in some air before quickly slapping T03. T03 questioned B06 as he rubbed the back of his head, to which the elder Kadrel just shruggd and walked away. He stopped when he saw the readouts of this new truce thing, then shrugged. He gestured back to the rest of the Elevator Crew, and they immediately gathered around as B06 began telling them his game plan for surviving the core.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><b>-Nuk Ez'Lon-</b><br>
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@Dys</b><br>
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Nuk's guardians looked wary at the Xandarian commands, their fingers tensing on the triggers as their other hand gripped their weapons tightly, as if their steel tight grips would keep the Xandarians from taking their guns away. Nevertheless, Nuk gave a curt nod to the men, giving no argument to the Xandarians and beckoning for them to hand over their weapons. The two bulky soldiers shared a glance, before tossing their weapons to the Xandarian soldiers silently, giving no complaint as their commanding officer had ordered.<br>
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"Very well then Captain, my men have complied to your request, now, this prince you have promised?" Nuk asked, giving the Captain a very polite, knowing smile, his hands remaining behind his back, refusing any gesture of greeting, eager to swiftly achieve his goals.<br>
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<b>-Veely-</b><br>
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Veely smiled at this new information, settling into his chair as wild thoughts of vengeance raced through his brain. Should he obliterate the ship with the Nafarian warships at his command and forever rid himself of this swine? Should he simply bide his time and track them? Or should he do what he originally intended, and capture something this 'pirate queen' desperately would seek to have returned to her? The possibilities were endless, and each appealed highly to Veely, who desperately sought revenge against Galumora.<br>
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He leaned forward in his chair as his navigation officer ran his busy hands across his holopad, automatically bringing up the ship's coordinates for the impatient captain, almost as if telepathically reading his superior's desires. Or, rather every single soul upon the bridge had too, grown weary of the pirate queen.<br>
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"Coordinates are up sir. It's your call." The navigations officer stated, spinning on his chair to face the captain.<br>
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Delighted, the captain returned the smile before returning his gaze to the coordinates. They weren't all too far from his fellow, Inner empire captain's position. Perhaps he could lead an assault once Veely's remaining ships spacebound crippled the pirate vessel.<br>
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"Are we able to target any of the ship's systems? The cloaking perhaps? Or the engines to cripple the vessel?" Captain Veely asked.<br>
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"It would be a shot in the dark sir. We only have the ship's locations, and while we could guarentee a hit we can't be sure what exactly we're shooting <i>at. </i>We could hit a vital system by dumb luck, but such a task would include high risk sir, and alert the foreigners to our intentions. With all assets withdrawn from the planet it's likely that they'll flee as soon as they're hit." The navigations officer explained.<br>
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"Very well then. And how about dreadnought and nightguard teams? How many more of those do we have on reserve?" The captain implored as he ate away at his options.<br>
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"We hold one more squadron of five dreadnaughts and two squadrons of nightguards sir, and likely Captain Kalius will have some under his command as well. It's only a matter of convincing him to deploy them." The officer responded.<br>
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"And S class dropships?"<br>
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"Once we deploy Sergeant Holly's evac ship we'll have four more on standbye... are you suggesting boarding action sir?" The navigation officer asked.<br>
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"Indeed I am corporal, get me Kalius, and make sure the god damned line is secure, I don't want that bitch popping in on our conversation and finding out what we plan." Veely commanded as he settled into his chair, readying himself for his conversation with the Captain.<br>
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"Aye sir!" The communications officer chimed in, bringing down the viewscreen once more as they hailed the second captain.<br>
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<b>-B06-</b><br>
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The Commander smiled. Perhaps these <i>Kadrel </i>wouldn't pose as much of a threat as he had possibly feared. He briefly toyed with the idea of simply gunning them all down in front of this ambassador before shamefully shunning the idea aside. Commander Valda considered himself to be many things; a trained soldier, a killer, to some even a galactic thug subservient to Ven'Ziel's command but he did not fancy himself a liar, and intended to stay to his word. He had watched too many Nafarian commanders do the opposite for their own personal gain and shied away from the idea. Perhaps this soon to be civil war was a long time coming.<br>
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"Very well Ambassador." Valda sighed, returning his gaze to the view screen. "With that settled I do believe I have nothing more to speak of for now. If you do seek further relations between our peoples then I do highly suggest moving up the command chain. I'm sure you've long detected our ships in the atmosphere and I would highly recommend you speaking to a 'Captain Kalius'. He should be able to point you to those who can secure a... more long term pact between our peoples." Valda explained before giving the Ambassador a curt nod, bidding him farewell, any form of facial expression lost to the ambassador beneath his full helmet.<br>
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As soon as the screen had vanished he turned his head slightly to address this Commune. Boy did these things have weird names. But he supposed every foreign species would think the other's name to be weird in retrospect so he abandoned the thought and returned his mind to the task at hand, and show a hand of good will to the Kadrel, or one as good as he was willing to offer.<br>
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"Commune." He spurted awkwardly, not sure if there was a certain rank he should address the soldier by. "Those soldiers over there, what are there names? They seem to be a rather... innovative bunch. Perhaps they should join Zander and his troops through the gateway." He stated, pointing to B06 and his companions.<br>
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They would make an interesting choice to oversee the tech that lay for them in the planet's core. Malleable idiots, just like Zander, who Commander Zalda still toyed with the idea of court martialing. The fool always did make a mockery of the Nafarian military, and he always questioned as to how he had remained in the service for so long.</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><b>E75...</b><br>
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The Ambassador tilted his head at the recommendation as the holo-screen cut out, before turning and walking back to face the Captain, where he discovered the Theno lazing back in his chair with several trails of steam trailing from his metallic form.<br>
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"Sir?" E75 asked as he stood at attention, waiting for an acknowledgement. When he received none, he leaned downward just as a deep rumbling snore emanated from the Captain's metal head "Sir?"<br>
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He got in close before placing against the Theno and shaking him awake "Aw come on bro," Captain Skaz said as he yawned, issuing forth a small cloud of steam from within his metal helmet "Can't you see I'm trying to get heated over here?"<br>
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"Of course sir," E75 said as he backed up again "I just wanted to inform you that the contacts, apparently Nefarians, have entered a truce with us."<br>
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"Nice, nice little guy." Skaz said before patting the Ambassador on the head again, then stretching "Then we'll be moving on to taking down the rest of those anti-air-"<br>
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"Actually," interrupted the Ambassador "the Nefarians recommended we speak to their Captain for long term relation-"<br>
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"Not our jurisdiction," Skaz interrupted before leaning back in his chair "Theta-Station only authorized checking out the signal. No past Authorization, no deals. Let's just study the damn thing and get back to the Theta-Station."<br>
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E75 nodded "Very well, commencing the next drop."<br>
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<b>Twenty-Twenty... </b><br>
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The group of Kadrel watched as several more drop pods full of their relatives rained down upon another Railgun, and Twenty-Twenty grumbled as the construct toppled and fell. The rest of the pods brought more reinforcements, but many immediately ran for specific coordinates to join the others down below.<br>
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"Okay, this is bull crap!" Twenty-Twenty shouted, "Its like they know where they're going to waste soldiers and just go for it!"<br>
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"Got to admit," one of his group mates spoke up "making short work of the Railguns."<br>
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"Really didn't know what you expected," another one said "Theno Captains solve everything by firing Kadrel at them. And there is a reason why they still do it."<br>
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"I know its working and everything," Twenty-Twenty admitted before waving a hand back at the rising smoke "but just look at the soldiers they're wasting!"<br>
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"There'll always be more," said the first one before he patted the second one on the shoulder and began walking back to the front lines "Come on, maybe we can loot some good stuff from the bodies.<br>
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The second one nodded "Righteous man." before following him.<br>
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Twenty-Twenty just clenched his fist before walking off with the remains of his group to the next Railgun.<br>
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<b>Commune...</b><br>
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Commune sighed and grabbed a passing Kadrel, he asked it some things and the two conversed in their language before Commune patted him and let him move on. Then he raised one of his arm devices, known as the M.A.D.s, and spoke through it as he rubbed a hand on the back of his blocky helmet.<br>
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"Apparently, that's B06 and a couple of his pod mates from his drop." Commune said through the synthetically altered vocal cords of the device "Of course, they only went through half the crap we did. Don't know about the others, their probably Newborn like me, but B06 is practically a legend."<br>
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He checked behind him before continuing "The guy's a walking good luck charm, survived enough stuff that pretty much his entire body is made up of surgical replacements and cybernetics. Wouldn't know it from his record, but every time he nearly dies they put him back together even better then send him on even more dangerous missions where he practically gets torn apart again. I hear he's gotten pretty pissy with life, but I think that's what old age does to Kadrel if they live long enough. Honestly he's technically he's one of the oldest members of our species, hear he's turning fifteen in a couple Galactic Standard months. One lucky bastard."<br>
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"He'll do anything to survive, sometimes that means his luck rubs off on teammates, sometimes it just gets them killed quicker." Commune finished before calling out to the aforementioned Kadrel "Hey B06, the Commander here wants a word with you!"<br>
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B06...</b><br>
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The group of Kadrel were interrupted by Commune's call, B06 looking up with a look of agitation before stomping over and barking complaints to Commune. As he neared, Commune patted his own M.A.D then gestured to the commander. B06 grumbled under his helmet before holding his own Multiple Application Device up and joining in.<br>
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"What?!?" he asked Commune before gesturing to the rest of the Elevator Crew "I'm kinda in the middle of something."<br>
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"The Nefarian Commander here," Commune gestured to Valda "wants you guys to help push through the gateway."<br>
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B06 went silent, right before one of the members of his group, who apparently overheard this, raised his arms to the sky and cheered.<br>
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"First Robot we see, Noob!" B06 called back to his teammate "First one we see I am feeding you to it!"<br>
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Noob said something in their language.<br>
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"I don't care how, I will find a way!" he turned back to Commune and the Commander "Why aren't we just storming the hell out of it, we got more than enough soldiers here to completely decimate anything in our way!"<br>
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"We don't know what kind of traps are up there." Commune pointed out "We'll just be running blindly through a possible minefield."<br>
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"Oh, so we're pretty much just the metal ball you throw into the minefield to figure out which path to take."<br>
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"Exactly," Commune admitted "now quit being a bitch and do your job."<br>
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B06 sighed "I hate you, I hate you with a burning passion."<br>
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"Good, use that passion to get through that gateway."<br>
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"Screw it!" B06 threw his hands into the air before calling to his team "Get ready near the Gateway boys, its suicide mission time! For you of course but that's just little details."<br>
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The Elevator crew mumbled together for a while before shrugging and walking over to wait closer to the gateway. As they did, more rumbling sounds came from the other side of the broken wall. Several Kadrel looked through the hole in the wall to see more pods fall into the cavern on the other side. More Kadrel soldiers stumbling out and orienting themselves, some wandering in through nearby caves to join up with each other.<br>
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The Feral crouched low and slammed its left two hands into the ground kicking off with the same side backleg and <i>launched </i>itself in a spinning whirlwind to the left as the Big Joe (cause reasons, im calling them that now) tried to smash everything in the area to the lower plane of existence.<br>
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Galumora, on her throne, mind whirling and clicking away with almost a ridiculous amount of possibilities and outcomes was only vaguely tapped into her Ferals mind as it battled the Big Joe, however that last sentence that their apparently semi friendly AI said acted more a attention grabber than anything other than Rhiannon, her grandmother bitching.<br>
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‘fall beneath your boot’ most likely meant annihilating and crushing into extinction but for Galumora it was something else entirely. It meant enslavement.<br>
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“Enslave… Enslave…. Enslave…” the word meant more to the <i>Serai’Drakhoul </i>than any one could ever know. They were free spirits, they roamed, plundered, conquered and simply lived. No hunter of the earth or sky should ever live in a cage. Their fears of it were instinctual, being bond to someone not their host or out of duty railed against their morals and very being. Being treated with no honor, or respect for simply existing or being different?<br>
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… there is a reason while the Dredge are very valued as slaves but you hardly ever see on in chains… there are not many of them out there in captivity for this reason. Rubbing the wrong way? More like grinding it with a cheese grater.<br>
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A <b><i>CRACK </i></b>split the air on the Kukri’s bridge and the command crew turned to watch their Mistress shoot forward, flaps flared, burning such a vivid dark red color and screeched out both a vocal and psychic cry of.<br>
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“<b>FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!</b>”<br>
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A cry that within it contained all the Dredges inborn hate and rage against the shackle, all the fear of being chained, railing against the cold hand which held the choker, their merciless eyes boring down into your own. This was all linked to the image of the Borg, that voice, the big mother fucker trying to kill it<br>
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The Feral received… and so it did. It fought…  Just like what it was, a wild animal backed into a corner, one with a will to live and the intelligence to back it up.<br>
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There was no way that it could attack at the V intersection again so soon without a diversion so it went for the next best thing, its mobility. Twas a flaw in every armor design no matter what it was or could be, the joints would always be the weakest sections on anything.<br>
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It was more or less everywhere on the Giant Borg, it was simply to fast for it alone to catch and or harm. However it was not alone, the constant fire from the encroaching other robotic soldiers had caught it more than once in the past minute, its armored chitin bubbling and hissing as its blood from the shallow wounds seeped onto the Big Joe, where it landed and then began to eat away at the metal which housed its vital systems. The blue crystalized liquid dripping… dripping drip drip drop…<br>
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The Dredges harassment had given the Nightguards the time they needed to regroup and hopefully create an opening in this behemoths metal skin before their luck ran out, a hole that it could utilize because as of the moment all the Feral could do was bent and crush The Big Joes armor… but should it be able to get inside…</div>
				
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Commander Valda turned to approach B06 as he watched him and this commune interact. He couldn't help but smile at the creature's extreme displeasure towards getting thrown into the thick of battle as he contemplated as to how this species had managed to keep an intergalactic military so steady when it seemed to be composed out of such an <i>interesting </i>species. He stepped forward, standing above the Kadrel soldier as he cleared his throat, commanding the rambunctious group's attention.<br>
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"Very well then." He grunted, urging for silence. "It appears your people speak very highly of you, er, Beeh Oh Six? Yes, I do believe that's what they call you. Now, beyond that gateway you should be able to find the first expeditionary unit of Nafarian soldiers, led by a 'Sergeant Zander', I want you and your Kadrel to push through and assist him with whatever may stand in there way." He explained as he then knelt down and pulled out a circular red device from his belt.<br>
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Holly and the nightguards recovered quickly from their wounds. While many of them wished to question how the hell some alien freak popped out of their comrade's suit, they had to push any major questions to the back of their minds as they soon found themselves under fire by the rows of Borg soldiers that lined the catwalk. Three of the nightguards were quick to return fire, suffering many hits themselves as they sizzled and popped against their black armor as layers of protective metal peeled away. Holly in the meantime checked her wounds, ensuring that she wasn't bleeding out before checking to ensure her blades still worked. After ensuring that she was still able to fight, she turned her eyes towards the giant borg warrior, who had taken a sudden interest to the Dredge, evaluating it as the highest threat to the giant borg's safety.<br>
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It took two, ground shaking stomps as it moved towards the Dredge, the cannon charge that was meant for Holly glowing a brilliant blue as it's charge reached it's height, the light blinding the Dredge as it prepared final firing sequences. Holly watched the beast corner the Dredge as two other nightguards flanked her, each nodding to her, blades extended as they shuddered from the occasional globule of plasma that splashed against their armor. Holly directed one arm straight towards the Dredge, a silent command issued to urge the nightguards to strike the beast as she began to sprint towards the Borg behemoth, followed quickly by her two comrades. The three closed the gap between them and the borg within mere seconds, leaping onto it's back as three pairs of roguetonium energy blades cut straight into it's back.<br>
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The combined weight of the three nightguards, easily equating to roughly six hundred pounds caused the hulking robot to rear backwards slightly, raising the massive cannon by mere inches just as it fire -just enough to completely miss the Dredge, barely grazing it's foot as it likely dodged the attack, exploding against the silvered wall behind the Dredge.<br>
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The Borg meanwhile, appeared to have trouble reaching the nightguards clinging to it's back as it desperately groped behind itself with it's giant arm with little success. The beast began to spin on it's axis as well, expecting to see the nightguards behind it as it stumbled about the room, slamming into a nearby catwalk, causing a portion of it to crash to the floor along with the borg soldiers that had been firing from it.<br>
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"Cut it up Nafarians!" Holly cried out as she began to slice her blades into the beast's back to the best of her ability.<br>
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The Nightguards were quick to follow her command as well, making short work of the thick metal plates that served as armor as they begun to dig into the Borg's circuitry. This unhindered success was not to last however, as the nightguard to Holly's left was finally whisked away by the Borg robot before being flung across the room, the man crumpling on the floor before slowly picking himself back up.</div>
				
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"Right, I got it," B06 sighed as he held the disk to the side of his rectangular helmet, where a sudden small whine emitted before the device magnetically sealed itself to the side of his helmet "get this to Z with the loss of minimal meat shields. Let's just get this over with."<br>
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As he finished speaking, the rest of the group assembling watched as he turned and stomped off towards the Gateway. They watched for a moment before turning and following behind him, as they passed he made an effort to hiss at Commune as he walked by. Commune just shrugged it off and nodded towards the gateway, along with the other Kadrel who were left behind. As the Elevator Crew disappeared into the Gateway, the Kadrel began muttering for a moment before dispersing. The large groups began  spreading out in whichever direction they could, they waved their M.A.Ds across the ground and walls, leaned against walls waiting, standing idly by as several communicated with their ship from their devices occasionally. Commune stood near the gateway, staring at where the Elevator Crew had disappeared, and just gave a grumble as he too began waiting.<br>
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B06 stepped through the Gateway first, with the rest easing in behind him. Upon seeing the other side he immediately lowered his gun and spoke in the usual Kadrel grunts and groans "Oh, you've gotta be shitting me."<br>
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What was once a dark cave became more like an ancient tech bunker, metallic walls and glowing stuff. Not even mentioning the console, the Nefarians, and the telltale sign of lava, though the Lava was what was really getting to him at that point. One of the few things that hadn't injured him yet, B06 prepared himself by deciding on which piece of himself would suck getting burned/melted up the most at the time.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">The Dredge had indeed leaped out of the worst of the energy cannons attack with agility a cat would be envious of, however the explosion sent the creature flying up into the air where it twisted around and slammed all six of its multi-clawed appendages into the ceiling. The Dredge looked down at the Nefarians Piggy back style hacking and slashing at its back with abandon as slowly but surely they cut away its back armor. It shadowed them from above, like a Xenomorph from those old Terran movies, or a spider skittering up a wall, only with the silent grace of a leopard. It had to avoid the borg soldiers plasma fire every now and then when they looked up and caught sight of it but a few plasma bursts were all they got before its armored chitin did the whole shimmer/ripple effect and by the time optics re-focused it was gone or somewhere that said robot could not fire at it anymore.<br>
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Maybe a minute of shadowing in before one the Nefarians were thrown across the room like a rag doll, but his removal from the Big Joe’s back had revealed the hole in its outer armor that the burning red blades had cut, which was the opportunity it had been waiting for.<br>
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Gathering its large, powerful muscles, high on adrenaline or the Dredge equivalent if they even had such, under its main body, flesh rippling and bulging as it kicked off, adding a stomach lurching spin to its fall, straight down for that hole in its back.<br>
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Have you ever seen something in slow motion, a bullet fly towards you, the grenade or tree that just nearly missed or landed near you? That’s what it was like for the Nefarians on that things back.<br>
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This black, pulsating, torpedo came from above like a mac round from orbit. It passed literally a foot away from Holly’s visor, A pale pink set of three eyes met hers even through the protective screen and mesh of materials that made up her visor. They held her gaze for what seemed like an eternity, those star pupil depths, before they closed solemnly.<br>
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The Dredge hit the Borg’s weak spot before it could use its gravitational mumbo mind fuckery and repair it with the force of a SABOT round. Metal and electronic parts exploded in the air as the Dredge entered the inner regions of the Borg. Inside the Dredges armored carapace worked much like a combination between that of a snake and a caterpillar almost save that any one who has ever hugged a Dredge knows that those edges are sharp as sin. Its effect could be compared to those shredder balls from the movie BattleShip.<br>
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The Borg however had caught wind of this maneuver and tried to move out of the way and was only partly successful as it put the entrance angle of the Creatures attack off kilter. So instead of going right down the middle and gutting it like a fish, the Dredge richocheted off some component inside and ended up exploding out the left hip conjunction zone.<br>
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A shower of glowing metal and the crackling of power signaled the <i>Serai’Drakhouls </i>exit from the borg as it hit the ground and slid nearly 15 feet away, covered in metal wiring, components and the like, smoking, burning… and not moving. It read as no life signature detected on all scanners. If it hit anything critical no one knew, it certainly hadn’t destroyed the main Processor or any type of power source as the Borg hadn't gone down yet.<br>
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However the Dredge’s attempt did clear away a metric fuckton of shit that was in the way, the gaping hole its entry had created gave holly a clear view of lots of sparking, slowly mending but damaged sections save for a single rather important looking machine that glowed brightly smack dab in the center and well… Lets just say it was a day to destroy important looking stuff.<br>
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After his exchange with T03, B06 simply grumbled as he eyed the soldier waving his gun at him. He felt the distinct urge to immediately grab T03 and put him on bullet sponge duty, but another Nefarian beat the soldier to the punch. Being Kadrel, B06 was able to identify those who assumed roles of leadership quite quickly, and assumed that if not a higher up, then the soldier was at least giving orders.<br>
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Stepping forwards a bit he pulled up the translator in his M.A.D unit before grunting and growling into it again "Sergeant Zander," he called out, stretching the name just in case he mispronounced it somehow "Your Commander sent us in to assist you."<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">However the creature was not there when the borg turned around. Just its cut off arm and its open hand, wires and metal melting slightly from some type of blue crystalized liquid which wasn’t reacting nicely to anything it touched.<br>
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Where the Dredge was however, became readily apparent when the Aliens horrific visage filled its visor and optical systems. No holes bled visibly in its chest, save when it opened its maw, the jaw dislocated and its neck split open along with it all the way down to the chest cavity where, at the back of that huge pulsating mouth, like something out of The THING was three holes.<br>
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The tentacle controlled by the borg couldn’t have taken a worse place to attack as the chest was mainly nothing more than a giant mouth. If someone gets a whole sliced open in their cheek its not that hard to survive if the blood loss problem was dealt with. It wont impair your life to much though that scar and hole will be there forever for a mere human. It was simply inconvenient. The crushing hadn’t seemed to do much good either but that dive attack had taken a lot out of it, not enough though.<br>
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The entirety of the Dredges maw latched onto the weakened spot in the Borgs facial armor plate from its earlier attacks and gripped with its six other limbs then PULLED. The pinching force of the Creatures mouth bent the weakened plate into a warped mess and ripped it off. One of the only reasons it was attempting this is because the borg had lost an arm, the other soldiers wouldn’t shoot at it up here, which limited the threats it had to react to.<br>
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Angeling some of its body sideways, it spit that shard of plating out and then slammed into its facial plate squeezing its body insde, wiggling in and tearing things out as it went in so. All the Borg and or Other nightguard saw of the Dredge vanishing was its tail whipping in the air after  it and within seconds it too had vanished.<br>
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Metal screeching, groaning, giving way and electronic cackles from the grave as the Dredge slithered underneath the Borgs armor like some parasite, tearing apart and ripping the inside to shreds as it indeed killed as some parasites do, from the inside. The image of that thing doing the same to a living thing was not lost on the Nefarians, as a resounding BANG shook the room and from the whole which the Nefarians had so bravely risked their lives to cut earlier, blasted out that rather important, pulsating armored box which landed about 30 feet away from anyone.  Cut tubes, intake ports and the like spoke that the Dredge quite simply ripped it out of its socket place.<br>
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The organism itself reared its head out of the back plate and looked up at the rest of the borg and screamed, just screamed. No words, no meaning behind it other than bloodlust and a challenge to survive. Blueish blood leaked from its maw in drips and drooling lines, some of its talons were broken off and in more than one place it was missing armored chitin. It jumped out and stumbled on the ground of which it landed upon before recovering with the Dredge species by now well known grace and poise though it seemed a little forced at this stage.<br>
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Its five eyes, one swollen shut… or simply gone, remained focused on the Borg and its subordinates. Above, below, to the left and to the right and One to check the rest including the Nefarians. It had remembered how many of them came to fight, and how many were dead for it knew that they could go invisible.</div>
				
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All was as it had been left still within the control room, silence and emptiness. The hall outside was full of intense combat as reinforcements trailed from the walls to the weakened robotic soldiers left. These ones in particular were far from a push over and it was quickly apparent that a change of strategy was necessary as they began gaining back ground on the Nafarians.<br>
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Meanwhile the true enemy entered the control room from a discreetly hidden entrance. There were many into the room itself if you had the proper clearance or ability to hack the system. Neither of which the female AI had within her abilities. Sardanos on the other hand had the latter quite well, and found his way into the room with ease. It was a pity those worthless Nafarians had intervened, halting his vengeance. But... the time would come, and on his terms no less. For now that was simply a secondary goal. His first lay before him at the panel in the form of data. Particularly coordinates that, to the ignorant, meant nothing. To Sardanos they would play a pivotal part in his plans and it was needless to say that their presence in the databases still was a victory to him.<br>
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Sardanos' victory was all he needed for now, but, given the situation, one could not avoid the opportunity or let such potential go to waste.<br>
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WIthout hesitation he began fiddling with the control panel once more, whistling a rather cheery tune that one would whistle as if casually working. By the time he was finished only one thing gave off his intentions. A ding through the facilities sound system, and the following words,  "<b>CORE STRUCTURE DISTURBED. CORE COLLAPSE IMMINENT. EVACUATE. EVACUATE. EVACUATE.</b>"<br>
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<span class="post-sub-heading post-sub-heading-"> Queen mother speaks now</span><br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify"> The space that you would find yourself is a world that seemed to have been abandoned by god itself. The air around you makes you feel enclosed as the light grey mist embraces you in a thick haze of soft smoke and makes it hard to see where the ground begins and where the sky ends. The sound of the wind whipping the clouds can be heard and put one into a trance when the silence comes to settle until the next breeze. In this grey world, a large long centipede-like shadow swims aimlessly through this void of emptiness.<br>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'">Hear me, My broodmothers. My Swarm.</span><br>
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Our expedition towards the hum has led us to a devastation that we haven't witnessed since the chaotic era with The empires that have threatened our existence. We have new foes to face - One such foe that mocks others and takes its pride with them towards the starts. Another foe whose essence is nothing more than metal, energy and machine, an abomination that pretends to be life yet isn't one.</span><br>
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The battle on the planet from where the hum had originated had opened my eyes and had given me a new reason to act on our future. We've lost over five hundred leviathans, we've lost the two million that set out for the hum and we've lost our prize due to the distractions of the two foes that I've mentioned just before this sentence. This is the opportunity to embrace a change. To become stronger. To become better. To become something greater.</span><br>
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Hear me now, children! NOW WE WILL SEEK CHANGE! WE WILL ADAPT AND WE WILL EVOLVE! AN WE WILL PREVAIL!</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: 'arial'">An amplified Roar echoed across the grey world shaking the ground and splitting the mist clouds from thier baseless form. Taking us out from the planet's light grey misty surface, we fly quickly upward past the thick blue clouds towering miles and kilometers on end and gaze upon an Prussian blue planet.</span><br>
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<span class="post-sub-heading post-sub-heading-"> The Orphulla Directive</span><br>
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<span class="bbcode-justify"> A humanoid Aliuu sat in front of his desk, hands folded together resting on top of his overlapping legs and his small tentacles fiddling with one another. The color of his skin is purple, his hair is violet pink and his eyes gleam in a bright pink radiance. He wore a black militaristic suit of some sort, with the shoulders padded with golden patches of light metal, necklaces of various types of dog tags and  on his chest a  wide display of medals and emblems. The man had leaned forward from his seat and gazed upon the the other ten participants of this committee.<br>
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"Everyone that's here has been given the objective to find ways to improve the swarm, yes?" The man asked and several people replied by nodding their heads.<br>
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"We've all been entrusted with the information that our Queen Mother has accumulated from the expedition to the hum. It's now our responsibility to make use of that event and come up with ways to improve the Swarm of Petrarica. Our Discussion will begin with what the swarm had encountered on that planet, the factions that have presented themselves along with our own, the object that might have been retrieved from the planet and hear the ideas so that we can start on various projects."<br>
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The room darkened and various horizontal holographic displays began to light up.<br>
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"It would seem that the swarm is preparing to change itself." Ira had suddenly thought out loud while staring down towards the metallic floor of the vessel with her saddened glowing red eyes. She hugged tightly onto the brown greenish lump against her chest and sucked in hr lips. She can't contribute to the swarm anymore and guilt encroached her 'heart' when she remembered the conflict that she experienced down on the robotic world.<br>
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