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Above the barren arid Templar world of Shakuras a Dark Eternal slave fleet orbited the world. Billions of slave warriors dawned their armor and gathered their weapons preparing for the assault on the planet that was right below them. The slave warriors began to issue unto the transports that would bring them down to the planet’s surface,

The first wave of slave warriors entered the atmosphere if the planet. In the first wave were the shock troops the largest and most powerful of the warriors in the fleet. As the transports descended an initial bombardment of the enemy cities while the first wave would be landed a few miles out of the city,

The first wave had landed on the planet and they had began to charge out of their transports running as fast as they could at the nearest enemy soldier or position that they could find. Their only objective was to secure a beachhead and to take out as many enemy soldiers at possible before they died in battle.

Talematros was under attack, but that was not an issue for now, for now all that mattered was punching the combat fleet to deal with the attackers, while the shuttles and gunships prepared to evacuate the civilians of Shakuras to a safer world.

Few buildings were destroyed by the initial bombardment, though across the city's far-flung landscape shields flared and dimmed in iridescent waves of light and sound as deadly weapons battered the first line of defense for this mighty city.

As the first wave charged they were met by a surprise attack, SCARAB mines were placed around the city and attuned to the signatures of protoss minds, any foriegn mind not accompanied by a protoss was an automatic target, and the electron-pulse weapons quickly tracked in on the attacking shock-troopers, while Dark Templar, and their Light bretheren, along with Zealots, Dragoons, Reavers, and even a few of both types of Archons prepared to recieve the onslaught, they may have been caught unawares, but that would not last long, already Photon Cannon were coming online and automated Reavers were moving from their laagers to engage any forces that made it past the SCARAB defenses that protected the city.

Deep withing the city's defenses a single massive Zealot gathered about him a few hundred peculiarly armed and armored bretheren, they were armed with massive Phase Disruption Cannon, the only long-ranged weapon in the modern Protoss arsenal that wasn't vehicle mounted, they were the last reaction force, to be deployed at any breakthrough points behind the lines.

The slave warriors of the first wave where falling in great numbers, but a greater part just kept charging until out the minefield. A few hundred other slave warriors set up a perimeter around a area few hundred meters wide and few hundred meter long. The main army of slave warriors stormed agianst the oncoming Zerg, Protoss, and enemy vechiles. They enaged these units in open fire as well as melee.

The second wave of slave warriors these being the more skilled, but smaller and less powerful then their allies already figthing on the ground. This force was quite a bit larger then the first wave. Yet they would be for the use of driving backing the enemy to the city and from there they would enter it and await for the third wave to capture the city. After the arrival of the third wave the remaining soldiers from the first and second waves would join up with them.

The Zealots were holding the line admirably, while Arhons and Dark Archons plyed their powerful attacks from the second rank, Dark Archons flung about powerful Maelstroms, temporarily freezing enemies in place, while the massive Archons used psy-waves to strike out at anything that came within their rage, hammering enemies with waves of lightning and concussive power.

Behind even the Archons lines stood Templar and Dragoon, while the Dragoons poured fire into the enemy ranks, the Templar prepared a deadly strike for the follow on waves, a Psionic Storm of epic proportions was brewing, directed by over 300 Templar, it would be enough to shatter almost any land force sent against it.

Deep within the city, the evaccuation had begun, civilians streamed towards the city center as Scouts and Carriers made their way towards trhe battle at the gates of Talematros, they would add their not insignificant firepower to the defense that was being mounted there, there would be no retreat while the civilians were still within the city, and there would be as little as possible during the long retreat to the Warp Gate and the Temple.

The second wave had landed and a force many times the number of the first wave streamed unto the battle field. The slave warriors of the second wave charged upon the ranks of the defenders of the city. The front lines of the second wave and the surviors of first wave attacker made battle with the zealots. The lines of the Dark Eternal slave army just kept growing as more and more transports brought more hordes of slave warriors to the planet's surface.

The Dark Eternal fleet sent an large air group of fighters to intercept the fleeing transports from the city. Each of the fighters was ordered to spare no transport or enemy ship.

As the fighters came near the city they began to intercept the transports full or Protoss civlians. As they came upon the transports they opened fire upon them.

The lines still held, but barely, twice the Vindicators had been called on to provide fire support, and twice they had beaten back the enemy assualt for a short time, but now things were looking bleak, there were no reinforcements left, the Vindicators had expended themselves shattering a flanking attack, and, while they had saved the salient, they were destroyed in the process, with no survivors, now the Archons were actually on the front lines in places, and Dragoons filled gaps that should have been held by 2 or even 3 Zealots, while the Templar unleashed their storms again, setting coruscating azure lightning down into the enemy ranks.

The fleeing civilians were not without defenders, Photon Cannon on the ground, and Gunship cannon reached out to tage the enemy forces that were chasing them down, Hellbores, missiles, grav-guns and lasers all spewed death and fury at the encroaching fighters, and, while a few shuttles fell to the attacks, most survived, protected by their impressive escorts and their powerful armor ands shields.

The fighters and Carriers of the Protoss rained death on the enemies below them, photon chainguns, interceptor plasma bolts, and Carrier PDCs all targeted the enemy mass that was assaulting the line, trying to give the defenders room to fall back.

Far away from Talematros, other defenders stirred, James Raynor and his Terrans prepared to move out and aid their embattled allies.

Many of the slave warriors fell as they pushed agaisnt the enemy lines though they were gaining ground quite quickly they were not be as succeful as planned. To counter this the third wave was fianlly brought as the first two waves had sustained great losses and they needed reinforcements. Though they still outnumbered the Protoss they were lossing soldiers at a much higher rate.

A number of transports that was inumberable departed from the main ships of the Dark Eternals' fleet. They transported filled the sky and covered all suitable landing ground as the greatest army as of yet landed on the planet. The slave warriors in this wave were less powerful and less skilled then those in the previous wave, but were dar more numerous then both of the earlier waves combined.

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Thousands of civilians were still stranded on the ground, waiting for the second wave of transports to arrive and bear them away to safety, but the second wave never came, destroyed en route, with all of their fighter escorts by the swarms of Dark Eternal slaves, there would be no escae for over three thousand Khalai workers and artisans today.

The ranks of the Templar warriors were thinning, the line was well and truly broken, but the remnants held on, Reavers now made their displeasure felt, sending out seeking versions of the SCARAB mines towards clusters of enemy troops, and certinly devestating a few due to sheer volume of fire.

The Zealots were scattered, the Dragoons were almost all destroyed, only a single Archon remained, and only 2 Dark Archons, but they kept fighting, their deaths would buy time for at least a few more civilians to escape, and that was all that mattered...

Five minutes later, the last Archon on the line died, and the Dark Archons were spent, only 3-400 Zealots remained, the Templar were all dead or routed by now, running to strike again later, all hope seemed lost, right up until the thunder of drums and the wail of electric guitars announced the arrival of backup, 600 Vulture assault bikes led the vanguard, followed by Stinger Jeeps, Arclite Siege Tanks, Goliath and Hellmaker walkers, all streamed towards the fighting, propelled by the thunder of Led Zepplins Immigrant Song, and, lmost simultaneously, they opened fire as they drove into the flank of the stalled slaves.

The Zealots redoubled their attacks, and a few mor minutes were bought for the escaping civilians, but it wouldn't be enough, minutes after the Terrans rescue began, the last Zealot fell, transfixed by a slaves blade, while the mass of the Terran Vanguard strove to break the encirclement.

While the Vanguard was striking from one direction, the rest of the force had gone around to the enemies rear, and were about to make their move, hundreds of Assault Marines wielding twin autocannons were the front line of this attack, and they were backed up by regular marines wielding gauss rifles, a few Ghosts set up laser designators and prepared for the nuclear strike of all time, while more spec-ops unts covered the cloaked strikers.

Wraiths and Valkyries streaked in towards the battle field, escorting the ionly remaining capitol ship in the system, the Hyperion, James Raynors command Battlecruiser, and its concurrent firepower, it was there to evacuate as many civilians as possible, about 600, and then get to the gate to escape, while Raynor himself led a small force towards the Dark Templar Enclave in Shaggadun, there were only few thousand true Dark Templar on the planet, but they needed to be evacuated at all costs, it was obvious what the Dark Eternals wanted here, and they would not be allowed to take it.

Many of the slave warriors had fallen due to the Templar and Zelaots great and coragous stand agaisnt the Dark Eternals. Though since the beggining their doom had been assured. As the ranks of the slave warriors thinned due to the Terrna charge the commander of the Dark Eternal fleet refused to send more men save one. Out of the depths of the ship an lone Dark Eternal dawned his armor and gathered his weapons. He walked to the hanger and their was a small jet vessal awaiting him. As he apporached the ship contigments of slaves noticed him and they presneted their arms to the dark and terrible being that was their master and their god.

The Dark Eternal entered the jet vessal, pulled a switch, and the vessal began it's descent into the atmosphere. The vessal entered the atmoshpere literally tearing through and revealing the void of spavce behind it. The vessal then landed a few hundred yards away from the Terran army and from there it created a large carter.

From their it awaited for the Terrans to move closer and....

The Terrans didn't bother moving forward, the Ghosts could tell them what was in their, and they decided that the best bet was to try and destroy the indestructible, opening fire with Siege Tanks and Vulture grenade launchers, Stinger chain guns and Marine autocannon, while the true firepower moved in, charging its massive Yamato Cannon, and firing burst lasers all the while.

A single Ghost was deployed to send a tac-nuke strike against the pod, but that was mostly pro forma, they didn't expect even a full powered AM battery to destroy that target.

The few remaining Protoss in Talematros were running for their lives on foot, not a single trained warrior remained to defend them from the Dark Eternals attack.

Far away from Talematros, in the Dark Templar enclave of Shaggadun, the most powerful of the true-blood Protoss stirred, the Darchon, a Templar so old and so powerful that his true name was forgotten to the mists of time. He was going to face down the Dark Eternal that intended to enslave his people, he would likely lose, but he would buy precious minutes for the fleeing civilians.

Shaggadun released a single ship, the Darchons strike cruiser, fast and heavily armewd it would bear him towards the battle at Talematros in mere minutes...

The Pod though dresroyed from the fire the Dark Eternal stood their unscathed by any of their fire and even the Yamato Cannon only slowed it down slightly. The Dark Eternal slwoly marched till he was up the crater and looking down upon the ranks of Terran soldiers. He then upon looking upon their faces and ranks for a few mere seconds raised his great mace and brought it down to the ground casuing all those with a ten meter area to instantly vaporise while those just outside the area were unaffected. The Dark Eternal then raised his hand bringing down meteors upon the Ghosts and Siege Tanks.

The Dark Eternal then just began to bring his great mace down against all the ranks of Terran smashing them all soldier by soldier, group by group, and machine by machine. He contined to do this all the while knowing that a far more worthy and powerful foe was approaching at high speeds.

Meanwhile on the Darchon's ship,
A siganl cloaked being appeared and if seemed s if time literally slowed down and the being said," I was sent here by the Eldest One of the Eternal race to bring you this blade. It was forged by the Eldest One during golden age of the Eternals and beats enough power to by itself to hold off a Dark Eternal for a period of time. It combined with your own powers you will be save far more of your people the without it. Though this battle you will still lose. That blade also shall spare you death and bring you to a pure Eternal world that is one of the few true paradises of the universe where you shall either chose to live out your days upon pure Eternal worlds or to return to the Protoss and continue the fight against the Dark Eternals."

After this he vanised without a trace, but the blade was right on the side of the pilot's seat in a golden sheath.

At the Battlefield outside Talematros:

Hundreds of marines died in minutes, dozens of tanks were taken out, more than fifty spec ops Ghosts were killed, and nearly as many vultures were pounded into scrap by the mace.

Hellmaker pilots launched Inferno rockets, bathing the area around the Dark Eternal in plasma based flames, and enough liquid flammables to drown almost anything.

Assault Marines, Ghosts, Goliath Walkers, Siege Tanks and Stinger combat jeeps all let loose on the enemy, all of that firepower against a single enemy, and the odds were there wouldn't be even a single scratch on him once they were done...

On the way to Talematros, passing Mach Nine:

The Darchon checked the blade, and then accelerated faster, knowing that the Terrans were doomed even more surely than he was, but he would give them time to escape when he arrived in just under a minute.

The Dark Eternal stood there untraced as the Terran had prediectaed the he would in response he did not answer with an physical, but with a verbal. He began to speech in the dark tongue created by the Dark Eternals to instill fear in their slaves and enemies as well. In this tongue he spoke in a voice unbearable to any mortal,” Treni mersa unickasa meriwna yweacks denakcaja losiaa trowe moboniaackas susmsankaisma rulasna jkialssala beradnla qwe neua poper.”

After saying this he looked down upon the Terran and then struck as them with his mace and crushing them with his mace and with his hand. He then sensed something far the Darchon coming and he turned his attention away from the Terran forces and began to march towards the incoming ship of the Darchon.

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The psionic Ghosts were worst affected, due to their sensitivity to things that were less than visible, or audible for that matter, most of the Ghosts were killed instantly, while the weaker ones were simply rendered catatonic, Marines and the various other combatants were struck dumb, and temporarily paralyzed, but the very frailty they would normally exhibit against a psionic foe gave them an unforseen advantage this time, their minds were less receptiove of the damaging portions of the speech, meaning they were still mostly sane, at least as sane as a Terran Marine could ever be.

The Darchon:

Many people would have jumped out of their craft to engage the enemy immediately, but that was for fools and damn fools, the Darchon opened up on the approaching Dark Eternal with every weapon his ship bore, Hellbores, railguns, missiles and lasers all sped towards a single point on the Dark Eternals hide, a patch no larger than a human hand, and when thwey impacted, they would create a fireball powerful enough to shred any un-shielded human or Protoss in the blast radius.

Once the rather explosive, and most likely futile, formalities were out of the way, the Darchon whipped out the blade he had been provided, and brought it to a guard position, while the smoke cleared...

The Dark Eternal was pushed under the great blast that was fired upon him by the Darchon’s ship, but though he was temporarily weakened he would recover in a matter of minutes. Though this created a small period of opportunity to attack while he was still weakened.

Knowing that the Darchon was now certainly upon him the Dark Eternal did not care. He just lounged himself forward and struck the ship with his mace causing the ship to begin crash toward the surface below them. The Dark Eternal after striking the ship returned to the surface of the planet waiting for his new foe to issue forth to meet him in open battle.

When the Dark Eternal landed, he had a surprise waiting for him, theDarchon was already there, prepared to spit him like a pig as he came back down, and, in the moment between landing and recovery, he struck, bringing the blade across the Dark Eternals torso with all of the strength in his massive body...

The Dark Eternal who was harmed but a bit turned around and said while laughing," You think that you may slay me with blade forged by the Eternals. No being mortal or not of the eldest races of the universe may slay me an Dark Eternal in combat."

"I may not be able to slay you, Degenerate, but I can make you bleed..." The Darchon swung again, another massive blow that would have shattered any lesser enemy...

The Dark Eternal's cuts let out a few drops of blood. In great anger the Dark Eternal then grabbed the Darchon by the neck and threw him to ground and raised his mace and.....

The Darchon may have been down, but he was far from out, for one thing his shield would be able to take at least one hit from the Dark Eternal before failing, most likely it would take two, but one at the very minimum...

But, before any blow could fall, there was one move the Darchon had to try, two actually, but one more than the other. First he used the Maelstrom, a paralyzing attack that solidified the air around an enemy, trapping them in a wire thin, but impossbly strong cage for at least a short time. Second was a true attack, Psionic Storm, the mainstay of the Templar armament, and from the Darchon it was powerful enough to occupy three times the area of a regular storm, and still be at nearly five times the power, making even a brush against one of those coruscating azure bolts either fatal, or at the least highly damaging... For a mortal...

The Dark Eternal then brought his huge mace down upon the shield of the Darchon not fearing any of the attacks that the Darchon woud thorugh at him.

The shield danced and shimmered, going from bright white, through a darker off white, to gray, and then going dim as the attack let up. The Darchon used the time it took for the Dark Eternal to bring his mace back to readiness to regain his feet, and even make a quick cut at the already weakened torso armor of the monstrosity that was invading his home.

There must have been hundreds of bolts flying through the air, each one nearly as big around as the Darchon himself, a giant among a large pecies, at nearly nine feet tall he was proportionately broad, meaning that each bolt was nearly 4 feet around, but none of them seemed to even phase the beast in humanoid guise that was his foe.

The Dark Eternal then shouted in a deep and mighty tone," Enough."

With this he dropped his heavy mace and unseathed his blade and charged directly at the Protoss with it raised. Then being near him he brought his sword down on the Darchon.

"It will never be enough abomination, you may kill me here today, but I will return, and then I will track you down, and you may kill me again, but for every death I will grow more powerful, and eventually you will fall by my hand, beware forces that you know not, for they will be your doom degenerate." Then he parried, a charge like that wasn't hard to dodge, although the Dark Eternal was moving rather quickly, he wasn't moving fast enough to hit the Darchon if he didn't really want to be hit...

The Dark Eternal then said," The Eternals didn't tell that blade only will protect your life once. Even so that doesn't work in other dimensions. Of which I shall send you to oen."

"I do not refer only to the Eternals Blade, I refer to the innate power of the High Templar, and the Dark Templar, I am the only living student of both schools, and I do not need assistance to defy death, I have been doing so for the last three thousand years, and I shall continue to do so as long as I am needed..." He cut at the Dark Eternal again. "I am Adun, first of the Templar warriors, highest of the First Born, and mightiest of the Fallen. You are nothing compared to the Xel'Naga, and eventually, you will see why..."

The Dark Eternal at last would no longer show any restriant on this being. He cast down his pyhiscal from and took up that of his true form that was dark beyond that of the depths of space though he was pure energy. With this he could exert his true powers and thus was faster then any ship or weapon. Upon finishing this transformtation the Dark Eternal flew at Adun and cut as him with a beam of energy.

Again Adun's shield flared, and dimmed, and finally, dropped as the bolt of power struck his armor, the brunt of the blast was blunted by the refactory plating of his Chromsten cuirass, but enough bled through to break his hold on the physical realm, and his Hallucination that maintained the guise of his physical body fell away, revealing the form he had hidden for so long...

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The Dark Eternal laughed and said," So you yourself have been hiding your true form as well. I also have been hiding my true powers as well."

Upon saying this the earth began to shake causing massive earthquakes to began world wide. As well as the sky darkened and lighting flew oto the ground causing fires to rage and deaths of many persons. The Dark Eternal then brought a mist of posionious gas to finish only the Terrans. Finishing this the Dark Eternal after being able to cause these activitieves to spread came charged at Adun again this time attacking using energy bolts and his energy to attack him with sword like attacks.

Adun returned to the ground once the earthquake was over, he had been hovering off of the ground by a couple of inches, now he was able to show his true colors, his enemy was pure energy, and he was the psionic equivalent of a vampire, old, powerful, and able to siphon energy from his surroundings, and now, with his cover broken, he could do so with impunity, and the biggest source around just happened to be the Dark Eternal, so, he was about to feel a major drain on his life... Unfortunately Adun couldn't move while this was happening, but maybe the drain would be enough to save him...

The Dark Eternal said," So that is where you are getting your energy from. Your are drawing a great deal of it from me. None the less you still are doomed."

Preparing a proper attack the Dark Eternal came roaring at Adun and then gripped Adun by his neck and thus began draining all the energy that Adun had been taking from him.

Adun was done, he was draining energy from the Dark Eternal, but not nearly as fast as it was being drained from him, and, as he began to weaken, the physichal realm began to fade away, drawing him into the Spectral Realm, the time-frozen shadow that abutted the Material world... He didn't know if the Dark Eternal could follow him, but he would definitely be at the advantage if he was followed, for here he had HIS blade, a Wraithblade of the Xel'Naga, it fed him more than the Dark Eternal could ever hope to match, and he was in his element here...

The Dark Eternal realizing at last how much time had elasped during their battle no longer would show mercy. Thus his hand began to slowly crush Adun's neck while realising a posion into his foe's body so that Adun's engeries were divided by this and weakened him. The warithbalde though had gotten into th Dark Eternal's energies what it had hit was the Dark Eternal's abiltiy to control the envirment though all the processes already started were contiuned they had began to get out of the control. Yet none of these would affect the Dark Eternal.

No poison could work in the Spectral realms timeless void, and having his neck crushed would be merely inconvenient and damaging, not fatal, since here, in the void that had become his home, he was as powerful as any Eternal, light or Dark, and nothing could kill him here, he could be discorporated for a time, but he would return eventually, and he would return with more power than when he left, because the portions of him that remained would be draining power from his Material world surroundings, he was effectively immortal here...

Now he lashed out with his blade again, striking at the Dark Eternal that held him in its grip.

The Dark Etenral at last had devided that the battle must end since this being was more powerful then he had predicated and his energy was being harnessed agaisnt hin by the blade. Thus he opened a portal to a dimension in which Adun could never escape and with it opened he threw Adun right at the portal and....

Adun would escape eventually, but for now he was trapped, with no ready access to the material world it would be awhile, but he would escape eventually, even if he needed some outside help to do it, it had to happen eventually...

The Dark Eternal knowing that the day belonged to him flew directly at the gate the Protoss were using to escape and blocked it. The reamining slave warriors surronded the refugess of both the Terran and Protoss peoples. The Dark Eternal then said in a bone chilling voice," You are all slaves of the Dark Eternals now and forever more."

None of the Terrans allowed themselves to be taken alive, but over 3,000 Khalia workers and High Templar were captured, along with nearly 1,000 Dark Templar Acolytes and Masters.

The Dark Eternal then sealed the gate with a energy field that prevented it's opening save through his will as to prevent people from escaping. As for the Terran the Dark Eternal after rounding up the Protoss ordered the slave warriors to kill every signal one of the Terran. Thus all the Terran were slain before the eyes of the Protoss as to show they what happened to people who rebelled or would not submit to the Dark Eternals. To regain his lost energy the Dark Eternal had fed upon the deaths of the Terran as well so he wouldn't have to wait for a period of time to let it return on it's own.

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The Dark Eternal then sealed the gate with a energy field that prevented it's opening save through his will as to prevent people from escaping. As for the Terran the Dark Eternal after rounding up the Protoss ordered the slave warriors to kill every signal one of the Terran. Thus all the Terran were slain before the eyes of the Protoss as to show they what happened to people who rebelled or would not submit to the Dark Eternals. To regain his lost energy the Dark Eternal had fed upon the deaths of the Terran as well so he wouldn't have to wait for a period of time to let it return on it's own.

None of the remaining Protoss knew hw to fight, and were forced to submit to the will of the Dark Eternal, butthey knew that eventually theywould be rescued, they kew beyond any Doubt that the Darchon would save them eventually.

The Dark Eternal kenw that in might as a whole the Darhon could not surpass him, but in phyiscal he could yet this would take the intervention of a greater being. The Dark Eternal took his mind off this and ordered a message to be sent to the king of the Protoss bearing this message,"Shakuras has fallen and all of it's warriors with the Terran with them as well. The reamining Protoss have been enslavved mosrtly, fled, or have already been killed by the Dark Eternals' forces."

The Dark Eternal kenw that in might as a whole the Darhon could not surpass him, but in phyiscal he could yet this would take the intervention of a greater being. The Dark Eternal took his mind off this and ordered a message to be sent to the king of the Protoss bearing this message,"Shakuras has fallen and all of it's warriors with the Terran with them as well. The reamining Protoss have been enslavved mosrtly, fled, or have already been killed by the Dark Eternals' forces."


The King had only one response: Prepare to die.

Turning to hisclosest advisors and the heads of the clans, he gave out instructions, "Call the Banners, bring in every Templar Warrior that yet lives, bring all of the Dark Templar and every one of the Archons and Dark Archons that can be found, Shakuras has fallen, and we must take it back."

The Dark Eternal laughed upon sensing of the momvement of the Protoss. He immeditely ordered the building of fortifications on the planet's surface and the gathering of more troops and soldiers for the defense of it while he also prepared a few little suprises for the Protoss fleet and army.

Transmission from the Temple of the Xel'Naga, surface of Shakuras:

Your highness, Zeratul and I still hold the Temple, along with 400 Templar warriors, there is little chance that even a Dark Eternal can break the Defenses of the Temple of the Xel'Naga on Shakuras, so we will hold here and await your arrival.

Signed Fenix, First Praetorian and Commander of the 10th Legion

Aiur, Zerg Blight World

We have fallen far from the Light my brothers, from Aiur, to Shakuras, to the Home of the Eternals, and now back to fallen Aiur, what has become of our once proud clans?

The Templar still fight for you my lord, and the Khalia still work in the factories, we are not fallen, merely displaced.

Very well, call it what you will, Shakuras is fallen and there are only 400 free survivors, contact the Eternals, we need their aid to break the seal on the gate, or, better yet, a Xel'Naga worldship.

Transmission to the Eternal Empire

From the High King of the Protoss:

We were your allies once, and we need your aid again, Shakuras has fallen, only 4,000 Templar, and 7,000 Khalai made it out, now the gate to Shakuras is sealed by the Dark Eternal that led the force, and we must break it to save our people. Will you help us? Aiur calls for aid.

The Eternals' on the Eternal Homeworld Replied:
"World of the Eternals you came unto seeking a refuge and peace. Upon that world Eternal and Protoss were reunited. There our blood merged with your people's blood and by this we will aide thee."

When this message was finished a great wave periced the Hyper Gate on Shakuras and allowed any Hyper Gate held by the Protoss to pass through it unharmed, but yet this was of the Protoss and thus the Eternals would not directly interfere further.
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The Dark Eternal as one of the weaker and younger of the Dark Eternal being born after the end of the Eternal Empire's golden age was weaker and this though the greater Dark Eternals could perice the Xel'Naga Temple the Dark Eternal did not because the greater and older of the Dark Eternals were waging a war on a very far away galaxies. Yet great numbers of slave warriors were at the Dark Eternal's disposal.

Xel'Naga Gate, Aiur

The Moment the Gate reopened, hundreds of Zealots and Vindicators poured through to the other side, and beheld a world Changed, the earth around the gate was shattered and broken by the fight between the Darchon and his foe, but itdidn't matter, this was still Shakuras, Home of the Dark Templar, and the Templar do not abandon their own...


Xel'Naga Temple, Shakuras

Zeratul and Fenix were both on watch at the moment, and they both had little trouble noticing the waves of slave troopers coming towards the temple, so their first action was to activate the defenses, heavy plasma guns and Gauss cannon, all let loose into the mass of slaves that was approaching their last bastion.

All around the gate on Shakuras slave warriors seeing that the gate had been opened took postions and prepered to fire at anything that came through that gate. Also they summoned reinforcements from their camps that were nearby.

The slave warriors advanced on the temple in the tens of thousands this time around they had brought in heavier equipment to bombard the building to try and drive out the Dark Templar warriors.

Xel'Naga Gate: Shakuras and Aiur

The Slave-Warriors may have taken defensive positions, but the guns of the Vindicators were surely enough to deal with that, Particle Disruption Cannon, very little could survive the touch of one of those and live, they shattered anything they touched, and that was why they were counted as Heavy Weapons units by their Terran allies... Zealots and Dragoons quickly followed the first charge through the gate, while slow moving Reavers began to make their presence known, not even bothering to transit, but instead firing through the gate at known enemy positions, letting loose a deadly barrage of seeking weapons into their foes formation.

Xel'Naga Temple: Shakuras

They may be able to bombard the building, but there was little that even te heaviest weapons could do to the constructions made by the Wanderers From Afar, and this was one of the last surviving reelics, it survived the impact of the meteor that gave Shakuras its barren and lifeless conditions, it would survive anything up to and including a direct Kinetic Energy Weapon Strike, now there was only a few heavy weapons batteries attacking it, just the Shield could handle that much...

The slave warriors with hoards of warriors came charging at the Protoss not faining from death if it faced them for a far more horrible fate awaited them if they retreated or gave up. As well they had been given superior weaponary for this battle. They were given heavier staff weapons that were desinged many billions of years ago and thus they were far less advanced then state of the art Dark Eternal weaponary it still was more then Terran and Templar weaponary.

At the Temple the Dark Eternals' sent in a modern Dark Eternal cannon powerful enough to destroy the very foundations of the temple. This being given the heaviest guard avaible and after arriving the guard took up a postion around the gun. Then the gun was set up and commenced fire at the temple.

The slave warriors with hoards of warriors came charging at the Protoss not faining from death if it faced them for a far more horrible fate awaited them if they retreated or gave up. As well they had been given superior weaponary for this battle. They were given heavier staff weapons that were desinged many billions of years ago and thus they were far less advanced then state of the art Dark Eternal weaponary it still was more then Terran and Templar weaponary.

At the Temple the Dark Eternals' sent in a modern Dark Eternal cannon powerful enough to destroy the very foundations of the temple. This being given the heaviest guard avaible and after arriving the guard took up a postion around the gun. Then the gun was set up and commenced fire at the temple.

The Gate:

The first true Heavy Weapons units were making their way through the gate now, Legion class Gunships, heavily armed, armored and shielded, and the first 4 through the gate came out with all guns blazing, Hellbores, micronuclear weapons with minimal fallout and extremely heavy firepower, Warp Missiles, capable of dragging portions of their targets into hyperspace, Grav-guns, firing DU slugs at nearly .3c and releasing all of their kinetic energyu on impact, and Grav-Cannon, the same DU slugs, with an Anit-Matter core to them, capable of blowing entire plattoons to hell with a single burst, and that was just the first 4...

On the ground Zealots and Vindicators advanced over the bodies of their fallen friends and enemies, soaking up casualties and giving them out to berak the encirclement...

Scouts and Corsairs broke past the Gunships, accelerating towards the Temple in suppoort of the beleaguered forces that were hiding there.

The Temple:

"This could be bad..."

"Indeed, time to sally the troops."

"Move out, do not let yourselves be seen."

The Heavy Weapons of the Temple continued to blaze into the advancing slaves, while every remaining Terran and Protoss on Shakuras that was still under arms moved out to stop that weapon from firing.

The only warning was what sounded suspicously like the sqealing of ancient tires, and the acceleration of an ancient V-8, and then the Vultures burst out of the Temples lower gate, launching grenades and sending their flying wedge as swiftly as possible towards the enemy weapon.

The Protoss moved more quietly and circumspectly, waitring for their only true trump card to make is appearance, and when Hyperion finally exited the temples massive flight bays, there would be hell to pay...

At the Temple:
The slave warriors of the Dark Eternals engaged the Protoss. Though they suffered three fold more then their enemies did they were able to hold them off due to their sheer numbers. After five minutes the weapon had gained enough charge and had open fire upon the Temple. With the fire open on the temple half of the guard if the gun left and enaged the upon the surving Terran and Protoss.

The Gate:
Thousands of slave warriors fell, but a never ending flow of reinforcements was coming from other places on the planet and the remaining ships in orbit. The battle was consuming many, but yet the horder of slave warriors just kept growing. The front lines of the slave warriors drew their swords and entered into melee with the Templar and Zealots. As well as the ranks behind them went formed into a solid mass of soldiers that rose their staff weapons and took fire at the ranks behind the area of the melee battle.

OOC: Sorry about the long wiat for the most post it was bwcause I was involed in other threads and wanted to think up further development of this thread after Shakuras.

At the Temple:
The slave warriors of the Dark Eternals engaged the Protoss. Though they suffered three fold more then their enemies did they were able to hold them off due to their sheer numbers. After five minutes the weapon had gained enough charge and had open fire upon the Temple. With the fire open on the temple half of the guard if the gun left and enaged the upon the surving Terran and Protoss.

The Gate:
Thousands of slave warriors fell, but a never ending flow of reinforcements was coming from other places on the planet and the remaining ships in orbit. The battle was consuming many, but yet the horder of slave warriors just kept growing. The front lines of the slave warriors drew their swords and entered into melee with the Templar and Zealots. As well as the ranks behind them went formed into a solid mass of soldiers that rose their staff weapons and took fire at the ranks behind the area of the melee battle.

The Temple

Zeratul and the entirety of the surviving Dark Templar Nation were in a battle for their lives, Hyperion opened fire with its Yamato Cannon on the enemy weapon, and cut loose on the ground pounding slaves with Burst Laser battreries, few ground units could take fire capable of chewing CapShips into nothingness, and the 12 batteries would reap a grisly harvest...

Terran Assault Marines blazed away with their dual autocannon, taking hit after hit, and coming on through the fire, losing limbs and bodies, but still advancing to cover the Dark Templars strike.


The Gate

Carriers finally began flowing through the gap, disgorging theiur interceptior wings to rain destruction on the enemy, 800 interceptors came from each Carrier, and there were 4 in the first wave, and in the second, and the third, until a full dozen Carriers and their Interceptors fillerd the skies, 9600 small, shielded, and nimbe fighters plowed up the earth with plasma, while their motherships brought Particle Cannon to bear on anything that could have possibl qualified as a heavy unit... The Dark Eternas would be denied their victory...

Aiur

Call the Terrans, we can not win this alone, ask for General Duke, NORAD III, and one of the Four Horsemen, do so immediately, they will take time to arrive, time that we may not have.

"Understood milord, the message has been transmitted, and we already have a reply, Duke and Pestilence are at our service, and en route to Shakuras, wit an estimated time of arrival at just under a single day.

Deep Space

NORAD III, the only Behemoth that remained on active duty, Pestilence, one of the Four Horsemen Metal Militia II's, and their escorts were all en route to Shakuras, and when they arrived, there would be little hope for the Dark Eternal Fleet.

OOC: Forces En Route:

Metal Militia II, Pestilence

Metal Militia, Orion, Monster, Cure

NORAD III

50 Leviathan Battlecruisers

Legion Gunship, 100

Wraith Fighter, 500

Valkyrie Light Missile Frigate, 500

The Temple

The Dark Eternal's cannon began to smash the outer walls of the temple to the ground. In the battle outside the slave warriors charged managing to break through the Protosss and Terran lines in qyute a few places. As well the Dark Eternal began to beam some of his warriors into the area near the break in the Temple.

The Gate

The slave warriors were of little concern in the long run to the planes of their Dark Eternal commander. Yet he knew that he could not let them gain control of the area around the gate as they would have to send their forces unto Shakuras unopposed. In response he sent out twenty (5,000 in each) legions of elite Mr'ekia. The Mr'ekia were gaint standing at seven meters tall and two meters wide on average. They were skilled in melee and ranged combats, but in melee no lesser being could opposed them due to their skill and strength of arms.

In orbit of Shakuras

The great fleet of the Dark Eternal far surpassed their foes in firepower and sheer numbers. As well they had begun to open fire directly at the brigdehead the Protoss were trying to from around the gate. Yet they were on a vigil awaiting the Protoss Fleet.

The Temple

The walls may have fallen, but most of the Weapons were still active, Gauss and Plasma Cannon roared their titanic fury at the weapon that had damaged their structure.

Finally ther Scouts and Corsairs made their appearance, Corasairs lay disruption webs, blocking fire that may have come their way from the ground, while scouts poured fire into the forces below, unleashig their wrath on those who had profaned their world...

The Dark Templar finally struck, they were exploiting the hole that was being ripped into the enemy ranks by the Vultures and Assault Marines, destroying the monsters who had invaded their home.

17 Hours Later

They had failed, the Temple was gone, the Dark Templar were once again scattered to the 4 winds, and the only weapon that might have ended this was destroyed, the Terrans were dead to the last man, and hundreds of Protoss were dead beside them, Shakuras was lost if something did not change...

The Gate

The new legions were an interesting development, but the arriving Arbiters were a simple solution for that, Warp Recall would leave them in space, unable to harm anyone, and while it may not have the scope to destroy all of the legions, it could at least send most of one into vaccuum, and Temporal Stasis would freeze another legion or so in place for a while, maybe 30 minutes...

17 Hours later

The Bridgehead was barely holding on under the constant bombardment, the Carriers were wrecks on the ground, and there was little hope for the ct off Vindicators to survive much longer, the Zealots were effectively holding the Gate, and the area around the gate for about 50 meters, past that it wsa a charnel house of dead and leaking corpses, and i would soon get much worse, this was the end of the first day of combat, and that meant that backup would be arriving any time now...

Space, Shakuras System

The BattleGroup Pestilence was finally in-system, followed by Task Group NORAD III, their job was to break the hold the Dark Eternals had on the orbitals, and they were going to do that in the most violent way possible, by standing back and launching KEWs, and letting them hit .99c, a speed so great that targeting systems would have only 3 seconds to notice them, assess the threat they represented, and engage them, before they impacted on their targets, releasing all of their kinetic energy in an explosion o monumental proportions, and there were well over 100 KEW launchers aiming on the Dark Eternals, and those 100 launchers were concentrated on exactly 2 ships, the one that the Dark Eternal had come from, and the one closest to it, all the rest were left for later vollies from their massive batteries.

The Temple:

The slave warriors of the Dark Eternal tore down the temple and utterly destoryed every part of the weapon so it would be of no threat their comrades.

The Gate:

The Dark Eternal slaves kept coming due to reinforcements being sent in a never ending flow from orbit and other parts of the world. Each their slave forces were refilled they would launch an other huge charge against the area around the gate in the hopes of destroying all the Templar and Protoss and to resure the gate as to seal it forever.

In Orbit:

The fleet of the Dark Eternal quickly responded to the fire that the Protoss were giving by sending their smaller ships to hold back the enenmy fire so that the much large Guardian and Amend class ships could prpeare their weapons and bring their shields to full power. The cannons of the Amend and Guardian class ship if activared would devaste the Protoss fleet as they outnumbered the much smaller Protoss force.

The Gate (Eternals):

Eldest One realizing the plight and need of the few remaining Protoss on the planet no longer would accept the masscre of the people that he himself had taken watch over and with great might sent out twenty knights of the Order dedicated solely to himself. These twenty knights were quickly dispatched to Shakuras where as soon as they arrived sounded the horn of the Eldest One and their leader said in a mighty booming voice," Temple and Protss the Eldest One of the Eternal race has dedcided that the assualt upon Shakuras must be halted due to the sheer amount of loss of life. Yet in retreating now the Eldest One promises that you will have this world restored to the Dark Templar before the end and as well the honour that you feel lost here will be restored by two fold. As well the time has come to tell that no war can be truly won agianst the Dark Eternals through anger and lust for vengance, but only through righteous and just causes can you truly defeat the Dark Eternals in war."

The day is lost, fall back, back to the gate, retreat, save all you can, and let none be taken alive..."

The Fleet recieved the same communication as they reached Shakuras orbit, and, seeing that they had no hope against the fleet massed against them, immediately fled back towards home and safety...

All across the planet Scouts and Corsairs ran for the gate, but they would never make it, the gate was going down, and when it closed, the gate on Aiur that connected to it was going to be destroyed, not a single protoss, other than those who had been previouisly captured, survived the end of that battle, except for Zeratul, Fenix, and Jim Raynor, fleeing onboard Hyperion, breaking orbit, and riding the tattered hulk of Raynors Flagship to safety...

The Eternals though not directly there took piety upon the fallen Protoss, but yet remebered there marching to war willing. So the Eternals decided to spare them an afterlife without meaning and offered to every Protoss soul the option of going to the paradise the Eternals had created or to be reborn into their race.

The Dark Eternal realizing further destruction of the Protoss and Terran this close to the areas protected by the Eternals might draw them out decided to begin to rebuild his forces and strengthen them for a much greater and larger war agaisnt the Protoss in his quest to either destory or enslave every signal Protoss.

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The Eternals though not directly there took piety upon the fallen Protoss, but yet remebered there marching to war willing. So the Eternals decided to spare them an afterlife without meaning and offered to every Protoss soul the option of going to the paradise the Eternals had created or to be reborn into their race.

The Dark Eternal realizing further destruction of the Protoss and Terran this close to the areas protected by the Eternals might draw them out decided to begin to rebuild his forces and strengthen them for a much greater and larger war agaisnt the Protoss in his quest to either destory or enslave every signal Protoss.

OOC: Sorry, been busy, haven't had a chance to check this for a while...

IC:

Most of the Khalai passed on, though a few, desirous of vengeance, decided to return, while the entirety of the fallen Templar Warriors elected to return, if they were able to defend Aiur from beyond the grave, they would, but since that was impossible, they would do the next best thing.

OOC: It is cool.

The Khalai who chose to pass on where brought to the paradise offered to them by the Eternals where at last they could be at peace. While for all who chose to stay behind were born again, but not as children yet as adults of full age in the same form that they had been before they died, excoet all their equipment was fully prepared.

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