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*Sensing the presence of another part of the hive a scout patroll is sent out consisting of 13 royal guard 7 node ships and a hive norn queen. As they enter a new region of space synapse kicks in and they are able to communicate with this second scouting fleet.*

Avatar: We are the hive, we are Hive Fleet Imodius, request recognition in the name of the hive.
We are the hive we are perfection.

*The hive ships continue on their heading awaiting a responce*

Tarenteor watches the two ships moving towards each other, looking out of the bridge of the ship. The weapons locks flip off, and certain weapons begin to charge, but he doesn't shoot anything... yet.

Silently easing from a hidden Hive deep within the atmosphere of a gas giant far from the heart of the Solar system, the bioships respond to the stimulus of the newcomers. Recognition blooms along the psychic pathways linking the disparate hives, as well as something deeper, a primal hunger. This hive is clearly not as advanced as the newcomers; animalistic and violent, it seems only nominally sentient. Yet it courses with vast reserves of power and hums with the activities of millions of minds collective resources.

The mind struggles to respond to the newcomers. Something, somewhere, is self-aware, but clearly does not wish to be. A norn queen, and her hive tyrant consorts, speaking as one.

"The Hive recognizes Hive. The Prey is unprepared. The Hive has learned much. We hunger."

Taren squints his eyes a little, tapping into the psychic conversation.

*The royal guard immediatly sence the targeting systems locked onto the norn queen and turn onto the target chargind up their plasma maws they roar towards the threat orange streems of plasma flowing out of their maws as the weapons heat up. The royal guards black carapace shimmers reflecting the stars.
The nodes move around interposing themselfs between the norn queen and the aggressor ship creating a wall of living ships preparing to die for the norn queen.*

comms from norn queen @ aggresor ship:
WE ARE THE HIVE POWER DOWN YOUR WEAPONS OR PREPARE TO DIE!
WE ARE THE HIVE WE ARE PERFECTION!

avatar: Hive is under threat, take caution aggresor ship in region remain stationary untill we confirm safty, recognise us we are the hive we are all perfection.

ooc>yes my ships can detect targeting systems and i have done it before now infact once it got me into a fight i really didnt want to be in so its just one of those things i have to live with. can give u ref if u really want.

EDIT> erm tapping into the psykick conversation you sure you want to do that? if so then next post i make you will see why.

The primal's reaction is much more... aggressive.

stimulus-perception-response

The atmosphere of the gas giant boils and churns as great tendrils of tiny bioships pour up from their resting places deep in the high-pressure world. Tens, dozens, hundreds... counting them all is impossible. The psychic interference of so many active minds is as a shriek in the void.

The Hive is not pleased.

The Kor'el of the Dal'Yth Sept Starfleet watched from the bridge of his Lar'shi (or Hero) Class Starship as the two Hive Fleets, labbeled Imodius and Sinistrus by the scientists of the Farsight Enclave, neared eachother. If these two forces were to join, the results might be dire indeed. Suddenly the Kor'el noticed swift movement in the fleet. It appears that they were on the offensive... their attacks directed at an enemy that was out of visual range.

The Kor'el gave the command for his ship to move closer, but for now he would wait, and observe.

A roar fills the air as Tarenteor sends out a call for more ships, which appear out of blank space, creating thier own individual warp gates. A team of psykers move into the bridge, next to Taren. Taren sets out an open mental connection, "Do not become agressive. We powered up our weapons only in defense. There were multiple possibly aggressive ships. What was I expected to do? Just stand there?"

The Kor'el arched the muscle beneath the skin on his face, where a human eyebrow might be, in puzzlement as he saw the signature tare in the fabric of real space. Apparently the Hive Fleets were moving towards a fleet of Warp-Technology possessing ships. If it were to come to a fight between the Hive fleet and this other fleet, the Kor'el knew that it would be interesting indeed.

"Any attacks would be a bad choice for you indeed." Tarenteor looses concentration, his teeth sharpening, his eyes begginging to glow red, and black acid drips from his mouth. His demonic heritage is rearing it's head."

OOC: my fleet wasnt communicating... if thats where you were getting at. sorry if i didnt make myself clear. my fleet is holding back and merely observing. so... i'm not sure if your fleet would know of mine yet.

OOC: my fleet wasnt communicating... if thats where you were getting at. sorry if i didnt make myself clear. my fleet is holding back and merely observing. so... i'm not sure if your fleet would know of mine yet.

OOC: He was still talking to the hive things.

((You can't Warp-jump into a system with Tyranid presence. At least, not if you're using WH40K "Warp" tech. The Hive-Mind produces a kind of interference that keeps Warping ships from dropping out, or ships in Realspace from dropping in, and prevents interstellar psychic communication. It's what makes the Hives so hard to fight: by the time you know they're attacking, they've already come and gone.))

((You can't Warp-jump into a system with Tyranid presence. At least, not if you're using WH40K "Warp" tech. The Hive-Mind produces a kind of interference that keeps Warping ships from dropping out, or ships in Realspace from dropping in, and prevents interstellar psychic communication. It's what makes the Hives so hard to fight: by the time you know they're attacking, they've already come and gone.))

OOC: We have psykers which are able to counter-act this effect. And GOOD ones. Tarenteor is the national leader.

OOC: for RP purposes, might it be better if warping in and out be allowed? not everybody will know of the WH40k rules.

((The Emperor Himself can't counteract Warp Shadow, and he's the strongest psyker ever born.))

OOC: for RP purposes, might it be better if warping in and out be allowed? not everybody will know of the WH40k rules.

((Other manner of FTL works, just not WH40K Warping.))

OOC: A team of psykers is a VERY dangerous reckoning. Also, the Emperor is still a human. Taren is a demon, and is a natural-born psyker.

ooc>ok so you are continuing to try and listen in fine well this is what you hear.
ic> 410 million localised voices shouting screaming all at once in many diferent languidges all comunicating behind the scream is the faint pulse of several trillion + lifeforms connected to the hive all surge into hearing.

ooc>listening into a nid conversation is not what i would call bright might i suggest head popping?

comms from avatar @ aggresor vessels:
WE ARE THE HIVE, POWER DOWN YOUR WEAPONS OR DIE!
THE HIVE IS PERFECTION!

*The 13 royal guard streak towards their target weapons fully charged a deep almost crimson orange glow of plasma can be seen. The norn queen turns charging up its capital lance purple energy lancing acros the huge maw of the moon sized ship. Deep within the queen her primordial lust is spent on creating a mass of swarm ships now over 1,000 strong and still growing in numbers waiting to be released.*

OOC: A team of psykers is a VERY dangerous reckoning. Also, the Emperor is still a human. Taren is a demon, and is a natural-born psyker.

((The Emperor personally spanked all four Chaos Gods, at the same time, during the Horus Heresy. Horus was possessed by all four during the final battle, and the fiction made it clear the only reason Horus fared as well as he did was because the Emperor was unwilling to kill his favored son. Daemon don't mean nothing.))

OOC: for RP purposes, might it be better if warping in and out be allowed? not everybody will know of the WH40k rules.

((Other manner of FTL works, just not WH40K Warping.))

OOC: I simply tear through time and space, creating a kind of personal wormhole, and counteract the instability with various radioactive materials.

OOC: A team of psykers is a VERY dangerous reckoning. Also, the Emperor is still a human. Taren is a demon, and is a natural-born psyker.

((The Emperor personally spanked all four Chaos Gods, at the same time, during the Horus Heresy. Horus was possessed by all four during the final battle, and the fiction made it clear the only reason Horus fared as well as he did was because the Emperor was unwilling to kill his favored son. Daemon don't mean nothing.))

*sigh* only if he was willing... then... well... nevermind. there prolly wouldnt be a WH40k game....

ooc>ooh radioactive materials - lunch time kiddies! btw my hive eats that crap as well as humans :P any who stop yammering and get on with it the hive hungers!

OOC: Not 40k demons...

ooc>reply or die!

OOC: I simply tear through time and space, creating a kind of personal wormhole, and counteract the instability with various radioactive materials.

((That's different, then. But it would take more than a single post for them to arrive. Our ships are already there, yours have to get the message, mobilise, transit, and then prepare for a fight.))

The swarms do not seem to notice the imperative to stand down. The Prey has entered its territory, and the Hive will not tolerate interlopers.

The tiny ships close on the vessel of the Prey, a black swathe of darkness against the shimmering blue world behind them.

The forms of larger ships pierce the upper atmosphere of the Hive-world, emerging to support the ravenous piranha-like fighters.

The combined might of all of the psykers from all the psykers forms a shield of pure energy around the ships, as the weapons continue to power up to thier highest level. Battlemechs detech themselves from the ship, and begin to set themselves out in a defensive formation, also covered in shields.

Energy crackles along the entire fleet, great blue-white arcs of electricity that dance in the void. The Prey's psykers may be strong, but the Hive is many, and the wells of power deep.

Great blasts of raw Chaotic energy spin through the emptiness of space as the Hive tries to batter its foes into oblivion.

*The Royal guard open fire on the ship all 13 of them uleashing a constand beam of pure orange plasma onto a single point in the ships sheilds their intention is clear to just weaken them in that one spot.
The wall of hive ships parts allowing the norn queen to view its target. She fires at exactly the same point with a purple stream of plasma capable of obliterating a small city. Hive cordination kicks in and the belly of the norn queen opens releasing 5,000 swarm ships that hurtle towards the fight quickly overtaking the royal guard.*

open comms from hive vessels:
WE ARE THE HIVE WE ARE PERFECTION!
THE HIVE HUNGERS!
comms end.

comunication with hive:
FEED ON THE WEAK WE ARE PERFECTION WE ARE THE HIVE KILL THE PREY!

The sheilds are knocked to nothing, the energy gone. A huge black beam of energy strikes at the star, another towards the royal gaurd. These beams work like a black hole, shredding things to atoms. If it hit's the sun, it will suck all the energy from it and transfer it back to the ships. All the railguns, missiles, lasers, plasma weapons, everything launches, all smashing at the ships. Black beams of energy continue to shoot out at the star. Suddenly, Taren's ship begins to shoot out bolts of electricity at the royal gaurd. These bolts can easily destroy any metal objects, heating them to the point where they melt almost instantly. The same happens to anything organic...

((Ok, dude, the purpose of this thread has been served. When people start pulling black holes out of their ass, it's time for me to leave the thread.))

The the psykers concentrate the sheild into multiple small disks, moving them to block any attacks.

((Ok, dude, the purpose of this thread has been served. When people start pulling black holes out of their ass, it's time for me to leave the thread.))

OOC: It's not out of my ass. I have a january nation. I'm EXPECTED to have this technology. I also posted this not too long ago, in it's own thread.

*The 5,000 swarm ships hurtle straight at the ships now the sheilds are down and begin slamming into the hull and latching on. 3 of the royal guard are ripped to shreds by the black beams of energy another 2 falling prey to the bolts of electricity however after millions of years of evolution the smaller lasers that glance the remaining royal guard are refracted away by the titanium and diamond composite chitchen armour while their adaptaion to space allows them to move easily out of the way of any projectiles.

The norn queen stops firing and recharges the wall of bioships reforms protecting her.

The royal guard split up taking out the now exposed unsheilded Battlemechs with their orange plasma.*

hive coms:
KILL THEM CHARGE WHILE THE SHEILDS ARE DOWN WE ARE THE HIVE WE ARE PERFECTION!.

open comms:
Surrender and your lifes shall be spared.
We are the hive we are perfection.

*The 5,000 swarm ships hurtle straight at the ships now the sheilds are down and begin slamming into the hull and latching on. 3 of the royal guard are ripped to shreds by the black beams of energy another 2 falling prey to the bolts of electricity however after millions of years of evolution the smaller lasers that glance the remaining royal guard are refracted away by the titanium and diamond composite chitchen armour while their adaptaion to space allows them to move easily out of the way of any projectiles.

The norn queen stops firing and recharges the wall of bioships reforms protecting her.

The royal guard split up taking out the now exposed unsheilded Battlemechs with their orange plasma.*

hive coms:
KILL THEM CHARGE WHILE THE SHEILDS ARE DOWN WE ARE THE HIVE WE ARE PERFECTION!.

open comms:
Surrender and your lifes shall be spared.
We are the hive we are perfection.

*blasts his nid carapace with a pretty IGNORE cannon*

armour:
Thick carapace a compound of titanium and diamond power enables the refraction of weak laser fire off the armour.

ooc: er what
http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=110494&highlight=

OOC: It's what people do when you GODMOD. Even the thought of you having this much power at your age is ridiculous. I know you like winning things. But if you're against a January nation, then you don't have a chance against ONE of thier ships. Unless they were light, scout ships. You have two scout ships, or it seemed to me so, and fighters. Then you claim that the Hive Mind itself is right next to me. Not likely.

ooc> The hive mind is not right next to you you must bear in mind that in the gas giant are over 200 million hive creatures. and it was never said that there were only 2 scout ships i said there was a norn queen at the start its like the size of a small moon and you think its going to be weak!?
other thing how many ships do you have? and then look at howmany we have . . .

ooc> The hive mind is not right next to you you must bear in mind that in the gas giant are over 200 million hive creatures. and it was never said that there were only 2 scout ships i said there was a norn queen at the start its like the size of a small moon and you think its going to be weak!?
other thing how many ships do you have? and then look at howmany we have . . .

The point is, you don't HAVE that many ships. You don't even have that many citizens.

[quote="Hive Fleet Imodius"]*Sensing the presence of another part of the hive a scout patroll is sent out consisting of 13 royal guard 7 node ships and a hive norn queen. [quote]

ooc> another thing as far as the hive is concerned these ARE scouting fleets the fact that the hive is trillions strong and that we are well under half a billion IN TOTAL means we are not what might be considerd big!!!

OOC: It's what people do when you GODMOD. Even the thought of you having this much power at your age is ridiculous. I know you like winning things. But if you're against a January nation, then you don't have a chance against ONE of thier ships. Unless they were light, scout ships. You have two scout ships, or it seemed to me so, and fighters. Then you claim that the Hive Mind itself is right next to me. Not likely.

OOC: JJR, speaking as a December 02 nation (barely), even your Jan 03 nation shouldn't have what you have. Hell, even November 02 nations shouldn't have it.

Pick up any good Sci-Fi book. It doesn't matter if it is "hard" sci-fi or not. All the wonderful ubertechnology comes down to just one thing, a plot tool.

EXAMPLE: Ever notice that HOW the FTL works changes how the story goes?

What you have isn't really "My tech is better then yours because my nation is older." It is "My tech is magical and can do anything because I want to win."

And it isn't limited to your technology, your national leader, a half-demonic super-being of amazing power, just happens to be right there.

What your doing is often called "Mishakalism" or "Xanthalism." It is also called BS.

Now, I am not saying that what these "Hive Fleet" people (person?) are doing is reasonable either, I am just saying that you have absolutely no basis for calling them godmoders.

JJR -> Hive -> "Black"

er what, you are saying that in a population over 170 million i dont have 21 ships (EACH ARE A SINGLE ORGANISM) and then 5,000 swarm ships - these are basically attack pods big enough for one person (or in this case hormagaunt) tell me how the hell i dont have a big enough population to do that?

OOC: -- But if you're against a January nation, then you don't have a chance against ONE of thier ships. Unless they were light, scout ships. You have two scout ships, or it seemed to me so, and fighters.

(OOC: What a load of bull. Your blackhole weapon is a godmod in itself, and you claimed that you just took all the energy Sol has to offer, which is a GOD DAMNED LARGE GODMOD, which no one would ever accept.

January, February, July, November, makes no difference, you can't just go around godmodding even if you think you're older than God him-/her-/itself. Age makes no difference. You should have MORE ships, yes, but not KAZILLIONBAJILLIONMAJILLION times BETTER ones. Or even better, have a crapzillion of them and still claim that they're a fscking assload better than anything someone newer than you could bring to the warzone.

Even then your ships could be worse than some younger nation's, because the younger nation might've RPd differently than you did, they might even RP in a different age, so to speak. A young nation could have chosen to play a race from some Sci-Fi game/TV-series/whatever. If that's how it is, then their technology is basically at the level they say it is. But those races usually have some very nasty defects of sorts. Look at the Eldar, for instance. They're practically MAD to the core, but they are technologically very advanced. Same goes with the Ur-Quan.

You can't just assume that every single nation in NationStates, when it starts, is a crappy, almost modern day HUMAN nation. Tyranids, for one, are not HUMAN. Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah are not HUMAN. Sakkra ain't human either. Nor are many others, like the Eldar. Their tech might be - and is - a lot better than that of humans of today.)

OOC: -- But if you're against a January nation, then you don't have a chance against ONE of thier ships. Unless they were light, scout ships. You have two scout ships, or it seemed to me so, and fighters.

(OOC: What a load of bull. Your blackhole weapon is a godmod in itself, and you claimed that you just took all the energy Sol has to offer, which is a GOD DAMNED LARGE GODMOD, which no one would ever accept.

January, February, July, November, makes no difference, you can't just go around godmodding even if you think you're older than God him-/her-/itself. Age makes no difference. You should have MORE ships, yes, but not KAZILLIONBAJILLIONMAJILLION times BETTER ones. Or even better, have a crapzillion of them and still claim that they're a fscking assload better than anything someone newer than you could bring to the warzone.

Even then your ships could be worse than some younger nation's, because the younger nation might've RPd differently than you did, they might even RP in a different age, so to speak. A young nation could have chosen to play a race from some Sci-Fi game/TV-series/whatever. If that's how it is, then their technology is basically at the level they say it is. But those races usually have some very nasty defects of sorts. Look at the Eldar, for instance. They're practically MAD to the core, but they are technologically very advanced. Same goes with the Ur-Quan.

You can't just assume that every single nation in NationStates, when it starts, is a crappy, almost modern day HUMAN nation. Tyranids, for one, are not HUMAN. Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah are not HUMAN. Sakkra ain't human either. Nor are many others, like the Eldar. Their tech might be - and is - a lot better than that of humans of today.)

OOC: And you, my friend, are the only little puke that thinks my IDD technology is a Godmod. I said that the beam would transfer the energy from the star. That's what a black hole would do. Just because you have a superior nation, doesn't mean you have better tech. The 'nids in Warhammer 40k rely almost completely on numbers. You can't just say "I play a Tyranids, and you aren't a tyranid, so I'm like, better than you." Because my demonic citizens could shape-shift and smash your little tyranid self to a pulp without even breaking a sweat. That's what I'm gonna say if you pretend to be super-powerful. Space-nation on space-nation, better weapons and defenses win. It doesn't matter if you have nids, you still get beaten down. You're basically saying that you've floored your entire army for a small alliance, that you KNOW is going to join you. If you deployed all those units, then a launched a full assault on your nation and destroyed it in a snap since you have no defenses, since they were all off being touchy-feely with another clans. Don't try and make excuses, you don't have any good ones.

OOC: And you, my friend, are the only little puke that thinks my IDD technology is a Godmod.

(OOC: Yeah, only one of the four people already on this thread who have considered that a godmod, which apparently you missed. The two hive fleets are played by two separate people, and Wazzu and me don't even have anything to do with you all.)

I said that the beam would transfer the energy from the star. That's what a black hole would do.

(OOC: Yup, and everyone would ignore your OMG LOL I LEECHED SOL'S ENERGY crap. As simple as that. Even if you think you could do it, it doesn't mean anyone's going to accept it.)

Just because you have a superior nation, doesn't mean you have better tech.

(OOC: But you just said that you have better tech because YOUR nation is SUPERIOR, since it is older. So, you're now taking all that back now?)

The 'nids in Warhammer 40k rely almost completely on numbers.

(OOC: Which is basically what he said he has. Numbers. Nothing more, nothing less. You called this a godmod.)

You can't just say "I play a Tyranids, and you aren't a tyranid, so I'm like, better than you."

(OOC: No one ever said that. You can assume whatever you want, but it still doesn't make it true. He plays as them Tyranids, and he said he has massive numbers of... What, crap.)

Because my demonic citizens could shape-shift and smash your little tyranid self to a pulp without even breaking a sweat.

(OOC: The closest thing to an alien in the Cult is Nyarlanth, who is a Starchild, a hybrid between a Starspawn and a human. I am not playing a Tyranid nation, if you could read you would've realized this.)

That's what I'm gonna say if you pretend to be super-powerful.

(OOC: And this Cult happens to be modern day, and *I* never claimed I'm super powerful. YOU claimed that YOU are super powerful, that is the whole issue. The two Tyranid nations were having a nice little RP of their own, and you felt like you had to crash in. They can say that they don't want you into it, and you should leave at that point. Don't start whining if they do something you don't like. IT'S THEIR FRIKKIN THREAD.)

Space-nation on space-nation, better weapons and defenses win. It doesn't matter if you have nids, you still get beaten down.

(OOC: No, the best combination of quality AND quantity wins. A kazillion fighters could win in a fight against a group of battleships. A single small laser won't do much, but when you have a thousand of those small lasers, it's gonna hurt. But yes, the species doesn't matter, you could lose even if you were God against overwhelming odds.)

You're basically saying that you've floored your entire army for a small alliance, that you KNOW is going to join you.

(OOC: No, I'm not saying anything. I'm RLYEH CULT, NOT A HIVE FLEET. See the difference? I'm not playing EITHER of those fleets. Somehow I think the Tyranids WOULD do just that, considering what I've heard of them. They act as one, the Hive, unlike beings who have a concept of individualism.

If you deployed all those units, then a launched a full assault on your nation and destroyed it in a snap since you have no defenses, since they were all off being touchy-feely with another clans.

(OOC: Somehow I think their nations ARE the god damned fleets. I can't be 100% sure, but that's what I think. That's why they're called "Hive fleets", not "Hive colonies that are on planet X/Y/Z." When you attack against them, you should be prepared to fight the WHOLE HIVE. That's the point!)

Don't try and make excuses, you don't have any good ones.

(OOC: Actually, I don't think I NEED to make any excuses, since I'm not either of 'em. I just told you what I think, and that's that. I don't have to get all defensive over your fsckups. Now, all you need to do is learn to read the names of different nations.)