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Post by Darth Grievi on Jun 10, 2008 20:41:10 GMT -5
((I just want to secure this thing's place as the longest thread in Worldrealms history )) On the long voyage to Angal, the Angalesh patched Wanderer in on all that had happened since he was last in this universe. "So let me get this straight... Areli have been corrupted, Avis are pretty much gone, Qyen have been bombed back to the stone age, and you all are without a homeworld? 'Parently a lot can happen in a few mellenia..."When they finaly arrived, Wanderer woke Raminaa. Below them was a barren world, huge cracks and rifts gouged into it, mountains flattened to hills, and oceans frozen by the lack of atmosphere.
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Post by Snake on Jun 10, 2008 20:46:32 GMT -5
Raminaa woke grouchily, like most Koans do from interrupted hibernation, " What a crappy planet. Who would have this peice of junk as their homeworld? Bleh. " He attempted to go back into hibernation right where he stood, waiting for his body to be placed into a suitable environment to lay Koan eggs.
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Post by Darth Grievi on Jun 10, 2008 22:32:20 GMT -5
Dismissing the Koan's outburst as simply the result of his hybernation ending, Wanderer surveyed the planet below.
"Atmosphere... microbes... patchup job maybe... hmm...
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Days passed, and nitrogen/oxygen producing microbes were seeded onto the planet. Over the course of a week, Angal's atmosphere was rebuilt somewhat. It was breathable, but the planet was still prone to temperature fluxuations.
The Angalesh were getting anxious, having been on the ship for a while. Wanderer sent out messages to the remaining Angalesh scattered about the sector, then began letting them go down.
By a month, the first buildings were finished, and a population could stay permanently.
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Post by Snake on Jun 10, 2008 23:56:35 GMT -5
The Koa was almost completely unwakeable, and could even be carried around. Apparently he refused to wake up until the planet was ready.
However, the sensors occasionally registered a tiny organic craft on the outskirts of the system, watching intently. The Majaag would most certainly not let this ship out of their site, knowing that if it went to the center of the galaxy, to high tail it out into Deep Space.
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Post by Darth Grievi on Jun 11, 2008 18:36:26 GMT -5
Meanwhile, several hundred light years away, someone has taken notice of Angal's transformation.
"Sir! A scout probe reports that Angal has returned to a Class-H environment!" an Areli commander shouted.
"That's impossible. What do the last records say?" the admiral asked, leaning over the other's sholder to view the screen.
"T12-05-99.3, about two months ago, records Angal as barely a Class-A. Barren as any rock out there."
"Contact the UASC and tell them we're going to retrieve a malfunctioning probe."
"Aye sir."
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The ACS Epsilon arrived at the probe's location weeks later, as Angal's atmosphere was filled out and plants were beginning to grow. The probe was pulled in, but the ship's own sensors ended up confirming the "erronious" readings.
"Buggers finally came back... Contact the Devastator and tell them their job isn't quite finished."
"Aye, sir."
"Prep the cannons, we're going in..."
The ship would arrive in little more than a week.
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Post by Snake on Jun 12, 2008 0:28:34 GMT -5
The Majaag ship took notice of this, uncovering a second force that hadn't yet encountered the Majaag due to them being on the other side of the galaxy from the beginning star of the Koans. Strangely enough, it could only communicate back to the main group, //Second forces identified. I recommend that we stay in position, and monitor the situation closely.// This transmission could easily be intercepted by Wanderer, which was strange since most Collective communications were untrackable.
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Post by Darth Grievi on Jun 12, 2008 17:47:36 GMT -5
Wanderer picked up the Majaag transmission easily against the rather quiet backround noise of local telepathic signals. He dismissed this "second force" as someone passing by. If he remembered correctly, there was a rather popular spacelane not far from Angal. Keeping it at the back of his mind, he continued checking the terraforming progress.
With the atmosphere completed, the temperature had stablized. Due to the naturally fast rotation, the planet was almost uniformly heated, having little time to cool or heat up drasticly. Plants, cloned in the ship's genetics labs, were growing at a steady pace, but the world still looked like a landscaping project in it's infancy. Towns were rebuilding, and the majority of the surviving Angalesh had returned to their homeworld, bringing the population back up to nearly 3,000.
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The Epsilon entered the system, but hung around it's outer fringes, observing with long-range sensors. Their orders were to quickly strike the Angalesh, damaging as much as possible, then blockade the planet untill the Devastator could nuke them again.
When they spotted the massive ship, however, their plans changed. They would either have to wait for it to leave, or wait for the Devastator to back them up. They held postion at the edge of the system, focusing their sensors on the ship, blind to everything else.
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Post by Snake on Jun 13, 2008 16:18:45 GMT -5
Majaag growth in the outer edge of the Galaxy was incredibly fast, with them having consumed a solar system already. The new unknown governing force of the Majaag ordered an immediate strike on the second force, citintg reasons that they might be endangering the construction of Angal.
Within a day, a Majaag dreadnought warped in suddenly, turned it guns towards Epsilon, and began to fire without warning suddenly. The dreadnought would be unbeatable by the Epsilon, with the most they could was to pray that their souls didn't end up in some bad place, and maybe get off one distress signal.
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Post by Darth Grievi on Jun 13, 2008 17:13:15 GMT -5
The Epsilon was destroyed, and the sudden flare caused by the exploding power core alerted the Quroche ship to the battle. It left orbit with a skeleton crew on Angalesh and Wanderer, prepairing to face the Majaag while they were still on the edge of the system.
The Devastator also picked up the flare, and her captain pushed the engines to their limits, shaving a whole nine days off their travel time, and would be arriving the day after the Epsilon was destroyed.
((I hate slow-ass ships...))
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Post by Snake on Jun 13, 2008 17:17:14 GMT -5
With the supposedly threat removed, the dreadnought dropped back towards the edge of the galaxy with its wormhole drive. For unknown purposes, the Majaag seemed to have an agenda involving Angal's completion of reconstruction.
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Post by Darth Grievi on Jun 13, 2008 17:38:48 GMT -5
The Quroche ship continued to patrol among the outer planets. Meanwhile, the Devastator had arrived and was making it's way towards Angal. The Quroche ship caught it midway there.
//Unknown ship, you are interfering with the completion of UASC order 1123-A. Remove yourself from this system.//
//Areli ship, you are interfering with Quroche-Sauros ordinance Beta. No race under Quroche-Sauros rule will willfully cause the extinction another. You have all ready violated this once. Remove yourself from this system, or I will remove you by force.//
//The Areli are an independent state and are not under Quroche-Sauros control, thus exempt from your laws.//
//As I am then exempt from yours. I repeat, leave or I will make you leave.//
//This is the most advanced weapons platform yet constructed. It is ill-advised to resist us.//
//Realy? I'd like to see you penetrate our shields.//
The Devastator's main cannon fired. Normally used for burning off atmospheres and tearing planets to shreds, it nonetheless bounced off the Quroche ship's shields. A long and rather awkward moment, the captain concidered his options, and suddenly warped off towards Angal. The Quroche ship followed, then passed the Areli destroyer, arriving in orbit nearly a half-hour before the other.
The Devastator decided that retreat realy was an option, and warped out of the system.
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Post by Snake on Jun 13, 2008 17:43:44 GMT -5
A Majaag probe had snuck onto the Devastator's hull, tracking it back to its home. Once it arrived, plans were in order for a full-scale invasion of the Areli home system, and the systematic elimination of all living Areli. A series of dreadnoughts armed with Majaag Cluster Infection bombs would warp in over their world, drop the bombs, and disappear as they hit their targets, causing a massive Majaag infection.
A small Majaag ship once again appeared on the edge of the solar system, watching Angal's development closely.
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Post by Darth Grievi on Jun 13, 2008 17:59:36 GMT -5
The Deastator soon made it back to it's home port of Hoise, a colony on the fringes of Areli space. While there was little activity on the surface, the planet boasted a complex array of space stations and shipyards. It was an important military academy, along with producing many of the Areli's more dangerous craft.
The probe was discovered on a routine sweep of the hull not long after the ship had docked. However, it was too late, as the Majaag were allready on their way.
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Angal now was speckeld with green from orbit, and agriculture could begin again in earnest. The planet would soon be self sufficent, though not necciseraly complete.
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Post by Snake on Jun 13, 2008 18:06:00 GMT -5
A series of dreadnoughts suddenly emerged, all transmitting one message;
//By Order 274 of the Majaag Union, your race's right to survival has thus become void. Drop Dead.//
The dreadnoughts unleashed their fire, with beam weapons slicing space ship and space station alike in half, projectile weapons crushing the shipyards with their ships still in construction, and infectious cluster bombs being dropped into the atmosphere of Hoise. It was simple extermination of a pest in the Majaag's veiw, a complete massacre with genocide as the objective. However, they didn't realize that this was a just a colony.
Smaller ships arrived to clean up anything that might still be alive, as any new Majaag were to be transported back to the Hub. The dreadnoughts warped back home.
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Post by Darth Grievi on Jun 13, 2008 18:15:40 GMT -5
Once contact from Hoise had ceased, the UASC began gathering resources for an all out war. No one had dared attack an Areli colony, much less suceed.
All civilian trade and travel was ceased, communications shut down, and individual planets were stockpiled with weapons. Entire fleets of civilian ships were refitted with proper shielding and weaponry, then sent to guard their respective systems.
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