NationStates Jolt Archive


Ten Thousand Fists(FT, introish)

Mini Miehm
31-01-2008, 16:14
Centuries ago, humankind had come to the world of the Setians. They brought with them murder and genocide. Millions were killed. The Setian Chosen invoked the Clouding on humanity, destroying their minds, and leaving them broken. But, it was not as they had planned. Human reinforcements came. The Ten Thousand disappeared, lost in time, well removed from their civilization, and their abandoned society was left to fight alone. Thousands of advancements, powerful weapons and warships, armors and hundreds of other technologies, built outside an accident of time. Now they have returned, unaware that their society lives on, having used weapons taken from the humans, and their own incredible techniques of forging metal to fight the humans, and to bring the full power of the Coming Curse against the human fleet.

-Empty Space-

The star system had been missing for millenia. It was now back. With it came a fleet. Mediocre by the standards of the galaxy, until one examined it more closely. Each of its 1,000 ships glowed with the fury of a sun, destroyers that dwarfed some battleships, and Superdreadnoughts that rivaled planetoids in power, a navy forged to eradicate the enemies of an entire race. On the ground rank upon rank of Infantry stands ready for the call to board their assault carriers and begin the war. Where the surviving Andermani Empire, who are the survivors of humanity's long ago campaign against their race, boast a military of some hundred ships and a bare few divisions of Wyvern Infantry, the surviving Ten Thousand boast a following of a thousand ships, and 5 full corps of troops.

-The Surface-

It was time. They had returned.

<Centuries pass, step by step, revelation's coming threat, sand of time, dark intent, divisive creeds breed discontent, Prophecy, stars collide, born is he who turns the tide! Ancient rage, vehemence, indignation and torment. Look unto the days of warning, a night when the skies are burning, when stars collide.> Anyone with even a hint of the ability to hear the voice of the mind would hear this message, and know its dark intent.

At the source, ten thousand aging Setians, the chosen, harbingers of the apocalypse, and the indicators of the end of mans reign. If anyone could see what was born that night in the darkness of a nameless world they would never forget. Huge next to the Setians stands Set Abominae, the Wicked One, ten thousand years of pain and hate have forged a perfect beast to bring the end of man.

It will take nearly a day for the fleet to move out, their destination a system that has never been visited by any but living Setians. The infantry is ready, the fleet is almost ready. Now comes the end of human occupation, and the human race, so far as the chosen are aware.

OOC: What's happening here is this:

Ten thousand years ago humanity(I used the IoM for convenience) invaded the Setian homeworld. The Setians fought back, and were pretty well turned into meat 90% of the time. The Setian High Council met, and in the course of the meeting, a prophecy was made that ten thousand chosen would escape the end of their race, and return in ten millenia. At the same time, a second prophecy was made, that some would survive the attacks of the humans, but not enough to continue their race, and in time they would die out. Both prophecies came to pass, the Anderman Empire rallying around Gustav Anderman, his brother, and his Wyverns to destroy the human threat at terrible loss. Their population is growing for now, but the birth rate has been dropping for years, as an unknown parasite renders the males infertile. The Chosen are not aware that humanity was beaten, and have forged a massive war machine to liberate their kin, summoning up the true form of the Coming Curse used by the Emperor in the last battle of the Armageddon War. They are largely intolerant of everyone, being rather scarred by the empathic memory of the humans destruction of their first home, and assuming(in some cases rightly) that no one else can be trusted. Just about anyone can join, and I promise that I will talk before I kill. Unless BFG fleets show up, in which case shoot first ask later is just good sense on their part.
Architects of Fate
31-01-2008, 22:01
The Star Fortress floated through space, having a seemingly random pattern. Rocks floated around the Fortress, and banners of skin hung from the sides, and long poles with large Eight-pointed stars on top were strewn across tthe huge Fortress. Inside the floating castle, Alexii the Keeper gazed in interest at this Amazing fleet. Of course, he was not threatened by this threat, The Architects homeworld, Crozin, floated through the dimensions and could never be found when it didn't want to be.
"Some new pawns in your intricate plans master?" He said, seemingly to nobody in particular.
"Not yet." said a smooth voice. It was Ryewlor,one of the Architects sent by the Council of Change, and leader of the 7095th Expedition into Sector 11117524. The sector had been mostly deserted, apart from now.

Centuries pass, step by step, revelation's coming threat, sand of time, dark intent, divisive creeds breed discontent, Prophecy, stars collide, born is he who turns the tide! Ancient rage, vehemence, indignation and torment. Look unto the days of warning, a night when the skies are burning, when stars collide
Alexii looked around for the source of the message. "A message sent to us..." Came the voice of Ryewlor.
"Well their intention cannot be too good."
"It isn't, get the Star Fortress closer. Lets see what happens."
Alexii, rather than to argue with his Holy leader, ordered the Fortress closer.
Mini Miehm
01-02-2008, 19:22
<Incoming vessel, unknown type. Does not match human design pattern or power signatures.>

<Then leave it alone. If the humans were stupid enough not to be waiting for us then it is by their own fault they will be destroyed.>

The fleet was ready. One thousand ships strong, few things in this world could match it. They turned as one, and under the very eyes of the approaching Star Fortress, disappeared in a silent flash of radiation. If the Fortress closed, it would be simple to trace their route. If it followed, it would see what no being outside the Setian race, living being at least, had yet seen. The homeworld of the Anderman Empire, resplendent with crystal cities and impossible architecture they would see a place that should not exist, and did. And they would see the unification of a sundered race, something no one had seen in a very long time. It would be worth the while of the Star Fortress to follow, and see things that had not been seen before, and never will be again.
Nova Boozia
01-02-2008, 20:56
The J-Ship Siegenburg lay far enough out from the Setians that no-one could mistake it for a picket. But then, most people couldn't mistake it for anything at this range, given that it was pretty much dead in space and almost invisible to many kinds of scans. But the Setians knew they were there. That was the plan.

Even so, the message came as more than a bit of a shock to navigator Friedrich Oberhof. Nobody ever gave him details.

"Sweet Jesus".

Even if a major religious figure has only been on the rise in a country for a year or two, he'll turn into a blasphemy pretty quick. This is the nature of humanity.

"What?" Kapitan Gustav Lausitz looked up, anxiously. He wouldn't have done that a couple of weeks ago. But everyone was on edge now.

"Centuries pass, step by step, revelation's coming threat, sand of time, dark intent, divisive creeds breed discontent, Prophecy, stars collide, born is he who turns the tide! Ancient rage, vehemence, indignation and torment. Look unto the days of warning, a night when the skies are burning, when stars collide. Setian origin, I think... yes. Setian in origin."

"Big ship on sensors, came right out of nowhere!"

"Well, shit, ominous portents aren't usually that quick..."

Nobody responded. It was as though the communications officer hadn't said anything, and to be fair he hadn't said anything truly important. But, Friedrich noted, this crew had always gone in for their jokes. It was worrying.

"Well, let's edge in. Drop stealth to priority... three. Two. Firstly, we want to see what this is. But don't put us in danger. And wire our intentions off to the Setians."

"Done."
Mini Miehm
02-02-2008, 02:18
<We have a transmission. They use our codes, but something is strange.>

<Yes?>

<It is a human making the transmission. They are transmitting their intentions for...a war.>

<A war? They threaten us? That is very bold.>

<No shipmaster, their strategies show our ships driving together against a united foe, some Empire. They are a recent development, within the last millenium of our absence. They threaten all space. The motivation of Human empires has changed little in ten thousand years it seems. Ultimate power and knowledge are still their only goals.>

<There must be a remnant of our people that survived the onslaught, allied with these humans. They are not the humans who assaulted us once. We may render assistance to them. Break off a tenth of our force to aid them in their need. If our kin see fit to honor them with alliance, we can do no less.>

100 ships of the Setian fleet break off and cruise towards the source of the transmission. At their head is a single Superdreadnought, backed by its supporting ships and escorts.

Will continue...