NationStates Jolt Archive

"My Lord, we are currently orbiting the planet!"

The former Kadunese cruiser hung above the green and blue planet, below there were thousands of innocent lives all unaware of the Warrior Priests, the Lord rose from his seat and smiled down at the planets surface which he could see out the side hatch.

"Fire when you are ready, start with the most populated areas and work your way around."

The minion slinked off to commence the attack, a short while passed before the incendiary torpedoes began their descent.

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The citizens of this unknown planet had just began what seemed to be their golden age, they had split the atom and had began to use chemical cures, war had passed for well over a century.

The first of the planetary scale Incendiary torpedoes hit the largest city causing the capitol to burn in the time it took for the people to comprehend the attack, the second torpedo smashed into a dense market city, it killed all the innocent lives.

Soon all that was left were the drifting survivors who had been forced onto the road, running from something that they did not understand, the crowds seemed to be purely made of the middle aged, all the old and young had died to vulnerability.

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"My Lord, the Attack was a success."

"Excellent, have my vessel prepared, get rid of this travesty of technology!"

On the darkest side of the nearby red moon the Warrior Priest cruiser Kogtan made its way towards the captured Kadunese cruiser, this was the time of the Warrior Priest.

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"My Duke, we have word from our spies, the Priesthood have targeted an innocent planet."

The Dukes aide rushed in, he was still gasping, Karden was about to speak when he was stopped by the messenger.

"My Duke, they have implemented us in this attack!"

The dining room was as massive as it was extragent, so much so that one would almost be able to enjoy their meal without even noticing the dozen or so armed guards in the room, blocking off the doors and standing silently behind a handsome man in a suit at the head of the table. Despite the size of the table, he was the only one seated, but his cold eyes seemed as if he could have cared less. It was much safer for Darius to eat his meal alone, to prevent intrusion from possible rebels or assassins.

"Ahh... My compliments to the chef..." He mumbled to the leader of the uniformed guards, diffrentiated by a small red three-faced sigil on his helmet, "Hes not upset that his brother, that reporter, was gunned down earlier today is he?"

"That has been resolved. He no longer had a brother." The masculine voice said matter-of-factly.

"Well thats good... Its hard to find such a qualified chef... By the way, commander..." Darius said smoothly as he licked a blood-red speck from his meal off the side of his mouth, "Is there any other news that needs my attention?"

"Well sir, there appears to have been an incident with Kaduna involving the genocide of a planet." The armed soldier continued as he pulled out a small electronic device and placed it in front of Darius' plate, "The planet was rather sub-primitive according to our reports. We doubt they even had space travel."

"Well then its no problem. Why does this even make it onto my report anyways? Just because some filthy aliens died due the some tyrant-"

"Well sir, the act seemed rather... uncharacteristic of Kadunese."

"Thats an entirely diffrent matter then I suppose. We should go about sending them a little diplomatic message to make sure they don't try anything that could get in the way of the Triumvirate."

"Aye sir, it shall be done immediately."

"Oh and get me another bottle of wine while you're at it."

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Message Sent to Kaduna

Dear Kadunese Ruling Body,

It has recently come to our attention via our operatives that you have commited an act of genocide against a defenseless race without being provoked. Despite the fact that we respect your sovereignity in this regard, we must inform you that these actions worry us, especially when we note that you have not been prone to such actions in the past. If they continue we may have to get involved.

Sincerely,
Emperor Darius

Hours later, a small black group of objects quickly shifted out of the Zeres Star System. The group of eight triangular objects would soon reappear, on the far outskirts of Kaguna space. Resembling on most forms of radar as a group of debris, if at all, the ships are sent to keep an eye on Kaduna, and report all findings to the Triumvirate.

Encrypted Message
To: Emperor Darius
From: Grand Duke Karden
Subject: Genocide

WE assure you that the resons for such an action were worthy and the genocide was inacted after all other actions had been taken to removing the populace from the planet, we would also like to ask that you do not interfere in Kadunese matters any further.


SIC:
Karden removed himself from the console, he stormed past the corpse of his former aide and knelt before a statue, it was a foot tall bronze figure of a warrior, below it was a large dish, Karden took a miniture axe and slit across his palm, the blood spilt into the dish and Karden looked to the ceiling, he grassped the gash and walked back over to the console.

"My Lord, the plan has been set in motion, soon you will have rule once more over these traitors."

The screen flashed and a dark presence filled the screen, Karden basked in the power of his lord.

"Congratulations Duke, I will have you come to my presence immediatly, we must talk of this transition!"

Karden nodded before closing the comms, he had a body to dispose of.

((Its not quite genocide without the people:( ))

The emperor sat back in his seat as he looked over the large screen on the wall away from the throne. Darius was an easily angered man, and never took being told what to do lightly. But he also knew better than to do anything which would get him involved in another war, at least not without the other two thirds of the triumvirate behind him...

"...Hah... haha... hahaha!!!" Darius shook his head as he leaned back on the throne, his eyes watering as he looked up at the message he received, "Who do they think they're dealing with? Evacuated the people? I'd like our sources double-checked immediately. I want any mistakes dealt with... Try to find out what happened to those people. Were they sold to slavery? Passed over to a colony? Find that out for me."

"But sir... The message..."

"So? Just make sure they don't find out. If anything happens try to get it to pin the blame on another faction, if it becomes necessary. But remain in the shadows, because if we're found out I hope you know what will happen commander."

"Y-yes sir... Of course..." The large armored figure said cautiously as he took a few steps away from the throne and made his way towards the exit, "...I will not fail you."

"Of course not. Now to send a little message to our friends in Kaduna."

Well if thats the case, we'll make sure that my sources are punished accordingly. We will make sure not to become involved any further with the issues of Kaduna. May your future endeavors be fruitful.

Sincerely,
Emperor Darius

In a flash of psuedomotion, a heavily customized ship known as the Much Ado About Nothing, a Valkyrie-class Heavy Frigate, reverted to realspace by accident near the besieged system.

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"Hey, who yanked us out of hyperspace?" A young Jedi known as Taylor Masaki yelled.

"Huh. Must be a new system. I'd better put this in the navicomputer." Another Jedi, his twin brother Jacob said.

The Masaki twins and their older brother Daniel were returning home to Jurai from a business trip with a faraway Jedi Academy when for some weird reason the hyperdrive of the modified frigate kicked out and tossed the 213 meter ship out into the supremely average system that seems to have been missed from galactic surveys.

"Hmm...something's not right." The pilot, who happens to be me, their older brother, reached out into the Force. "Guys. You feel that?"

Jacob frowned. "Yeah...death...terror...darkness."

"I'm also getting a hell of a lot of heat energy from one of the planets." Taylor rubbed his temples. "Feels like a major nuke."

"Let's check it out." I said, pushing the throttle forward and heading for the planet. Soon enough, we could see major signs of orbitial bombardment from the planet and we didn't even need the sensors to tell us that there's not a lot of lifeforms. "I have a bad feeling about this..."

(OOC: there was no evacuation, that was just a rouse)

"My lord, I am truly honoured to be in your presence."

Karden knelt before the Dark lord, he could feel the power running off the great mind, he rose slowly and took a seat.

"I have sent a message to the Nili who appear to have taken an interest in the burning."

The Lord also took a seat and sipped a little from his wine, he looked over to the mere Duke and sneered, it was his family over a century ago who had forced him to this barren rock, and now he had the Duchal family aiding in his retaking of Kaduna, it was too perfect.

"There also appears to be another race who are intrigued, they too will aid us, now, the chef has prepared for us a feast."

Encrypted Message
To: Emperor Darius
From: Anonymous
Subject: Kaduna

I hope this message reaches you as it reveals some truths about the Kadunese race, they are treacherous dogs who have stomped out our believes and exciled us to a barren rock, I understand that you have had contact with these Traitors and hope that you will not suffer as we have, I have a request, that if the Kaduna to turn on you, you will aid us in retaking our throne, please consider this offer.

The Warrior Priest vessel came out from it's hiding place, the Kadunese vessel had been beaten badly and was nearly in flames, the Priest Lord had just finished his hourly bloodshedding when his minion walked in.

"Lord, their is a vessel on it's way."

The Lord looked up, he walked to a nearby console and opened a comms link.

"Alien vessel, please explain your presence in this area."

To: Kaduna
From: The Dweladelfian High Comand

We will not tolarate these acts of genocide on these helpless people.

We are going to send some ships with a delegate to make sure do not continue to attack these helpless people.

Dweladelfian High Command

((OOC: Yeah, but Emperor Darius just likes to make sure of those things. I need to go after this post though.))


Darius couldn't help musing quietly to himself as he waited on the large black and red throne for that commander to return. He was afraid that when this body of his was not intimidating enough, but if anyone could break it in, it was Emperor Darius. As he continued to think to himself, he was finally interrupted by the doors swinging open down the long hall of the throne room.

"Sir... None of our scouts anywhere near the area have noticed any transport craft moving to or away from the planet."

"Ah... Well it seems our friends in Kaduna have lied to us..." Darius muttered, pausing as he rubbed his palm thoughtfully against his cheek, "Then I guess we should plan something, shouldn't we?"

"Oh and sir, we have received another message-"

"From Kaduna?"

"N-no sir. Its an Anonymous message. It appears to be a warning about Kaduna..."

"Heh heh heh... Well thats rather good timing isn't it?..." He trailed off as he raised from his seat, "I'll read into it after I get some rest. If we get any more messages send them directly to me."

"Aye sir."

The Warrior Priest vessel came out from it's hiding place, the Kadunese vessel had been beaten badly and was nearly in flames, the Priest Lord had just finished his hourly bloodshedding when his minion walked in.

"Lord, their is a vessel on it's way."

The Lord looked up, he walked to a nearby console and opened a comms link.

"Alien vessel, please explain your presence in this area."
"Daniel, we got an incoming message." Jacob noted.

"Hmm." I picked up the mike. The Dark Side is strong here...

"This is the vessal Much Ado About Nothing. We just got yanked out of hyperspace for some weird reason. By the way, we notice that an orbitial bombardment just occured on this planet. What happened here?"

"The Kaduna, came here and wiped out the populace, we attempted to stop them by taking out one vessel, after that there was nothing more that we could do, we took up a hiding place behind this moon."

The Priest lord put on his most innocent voice, it almost convinced his minion who still stood in the background.

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Encrypted Message
To: Dweladelfian High Command
From: Grand Duke Karden
Subject: Genocide

WE are done with the planet, you may do with it as you please.

On the far side of the planet

DPS-3421, The Marqies Revenge, A Allience-Class SSD droped out of Hyperspace. It was followed by 5 Imperator II Class Star Destroyers.

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"Captain we are in orbit of the planet."

"Were are the Kaduna, ships?"

"On the other side of the planet sir."

"Hail them."

"Yes Sir"

(OOC: which planet, there is only one Kadunese ship orbiting the burned planet and that one is heavily damaged, so the only other planet is Kaduna, the homeworld, which is it?)

"The Kaduna, came here and wiped out the populace, we attempted to stop them by taking out one vessel, after that there was nothing more that we could do, we took up a hiding place behind this moon."

The Priest lord put on his most innocent voice, it almost convinced his minion who still stood in the background.
"Hmm." I thought. "They sound innocent enough. But something still doesn't feel right."

"You think they're lying?" Jacob asked.

"I don't know." I shook my head. "Anyway, hail them again. Let's get their story."

"We hear your plight and wish to talk about this Kaduna who did this. Shall we dock with you?"

"Very well, i'll have the docking bay prepared."

The Priest snapped his fingers and the minion rushed off.

(OOC: which planet, there is only one Kadunese ship orbiting the burned planet and that one is heavily damaged, so the only other planet is Kaduna, the homeworld, which is it?)

The planet you just attacked.

"Very well, i'll have the docking bay prepared."

The Priest snapped his fingers and the minion rushed off.
A small shuttle depositied out of the cargo bay of the Much Ado About Nothing and entered the bay. Then three people came out of the shuttle, all looking like teenagers rather than their real ages (mid-twenties for the Twins, 31 for Daniel).

Taylor was first. He's a mid-twenties who's extremely short (and is extremely touchy about being only five foot four inches) and wears a red cloak over a black jacket, red T-shirt and black cargo pants. He also has a dirty-blond braid running down his neck and bangs running down his face and his eyes are steel-blue. One may note the fire symbol on the front of his red shirt and the back of his cloak and deduce his specialty. As a Jedi Knight, he wields a red lightsaber.

Next came Jacob, twin brother of Taylor. The same age and basic looks as his brother, his browner hair parts to the right as if combed that way and he doesn't have a hairtail, but his eyes match his brother's. A medium blue cloak strides his shoulders with a complex symbol (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/White_transmutation_circle.jpg) on his back and another symbol decepting a serpent stridling a cross on his green shirt. There's also a white collared shirt underneath the cloak with the sleeves rolled up and the buttons open. These two symbols, along with a silver watch he keeps on a rung of his navy blue cargo pants, denote him as a Jedi alchemist, and a powerful one to boot. His lightsaber color is silver.

Finally, Daniel Masaki, the Lightning Master walks down with the twins. As my title says, I have the power of electricity as my main specialty. I'm the eldest brother of the Masaki Clan. My clothing, well, it's a standard light brown cloak with the lightning symbol on my back, a grey-white short-sleeve collar shirt with the buttons open and a blue T-shirt underneath with the same symbol as my cloak. My hair is brown and has a very long (like a yard) braid running down my back and my eyes are brown. My lightsaber is electric-blue.

Darius slowly walked back into the throne room, to the attention of his armed palace guards. Like was ordered previously, he could tell be the screen across from the throne that his will had been done. The other Triumvirate members hadn't responded as of yet to news of Kaduna, probably due to being held up with their own duties...


"Where is the commander?" He said icily, slowly taking a seat at the throne in front of him.


"Oh... uhh... He went to sleep Emperor Darius after finishing his report..." The nearest guard fumbled with the words, but managed to squeeze them out, "We have received no further word. Should we attempt to contact whoever sent that Anonymous message?"


The room quickly silenced as Darius thought over the question. If he did attempt to contact them, and found out who they were, they might grow suspicious of his intentions. There was also the chance that this was just a hoax, but if it was not...


"Well I suppose it would be in my best interests to contact them again, wouldn't it? If worse comes to worst all it would require is a bit of political finesse, just as always right? I'll send out a message for them at once."

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Encrypted Message
To: Anonymous
From: Emperor Darius
Subject: Kaduna

Hmm... You've given me quite an offer for someone who insists on remaining anonymous, however if the Kadunese are as treacherous as you say, I suppose I should be thanking you. The moment the people of Kaduna attempt anything against me or my forces, I will gladly stand behind you in the retaking in your throne. After all, the fact that the Kadunese have already attempted to lie to me have put them in a rather poor light.

"My Lord, we have just intercepted a message bound for the Derilict Kadunese vessels."

The Minion had sheepishly hidden himself in the corner of the room.

"Very well, send them a message back, tell them what we told the Jedi."

The Lord made his way to the docking bay to greet the psychics, this would take all his cunning to bluff his way past these people, he turned the last corner into the large hanger.

"Greetings, welcome to the Priesthood vessel Krogtor I am the captain, if there is anything I can do for you please just ask."

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Encrypted Message
To: Emperor Darius
From: Master Priest Lord Krayten
Subject: Kaduna

I assure you that it will not be too long before the Kadun turn on you as they did us, all we can do is pray that they do not, I hope we can have further friendly encounters.

The Imperial probe droid which had observed and recorded the bombardment of the planet and watched slow arrival of different ships, and even intercepted small bits of transmissions finally beeped a few times and sent it's report off into space.

Less than 20 lightyears over, the Star Destroyer Dragon recieved the report.

"Captain the scout probe we sent out four days ago, with the others, it has just reported in sir," said a lieutenant. He stood stock still standing behind his captain.

The man turned. He had thick red hair which curled and a beard that was eaqually red, his small bright blue eyes looked at the lieutenant. "Very well Liekens, you may send the report on to HQ, inform Admiral Vierson of our patrolling."

"Yes sir," said Lieutenant Liekens. He turned smartly and marched away from the captain. The man turned back to space and stared out at the infinity before him. Then he walked over to his command chair and called up the probe's report.

"Interesting...but why there?" he asked himself, half-mumbling to himself. He didn't know and didn't plan to find out. Even if he was part of the 9th Fleet's 'Recon & Patrol' task force, he'd rather not get involved in such a back-water world.

Suddenly Lieutenant Liekens stepped back up to the man. "Umm sir. We've got a transmission line open and waiting for you."

"Why? I don't want to talk to anybody, close it."

"Sir, its Admiral Vierson on the line." The captain jumped to his feet and stepped nearer the transmission field space. "This is Captain Dreiken reporting sir," he said aloud. A small video-camera like object popped up from the floor, it projected a 1/3rd sized image of Admiral Vierson.

"Dreiken, good. You are to go to this planet your probe droid just reported on. My resources lead me to believe that the hunted Daniel Masaki may be there. According to the probes scans it picked up a ship with similair markings to his ship. You are to go and find out for sure. Report back every 5 hours. Vierson out."

The image disapeared. Dreikin frowned. He really didn't want to get invovled on some backwater planet somewhere. He sighed. "Lieutenant, set a course for the designated planet. Upon arrival launch scouts and then we'll poke around for a bit."

"Yes sir," said the lieutenant as Dreiken sat back down in his command chair. Minutes later, the Dragon blasted into hyperspace.

"Greetings, welcome to the Priesthood vessel Krogtor I am the captain, if there is anything I can do for you please just ask."

"You may dispense with the pleasantries, Captain." I said curtly. "I just want to get to the meat of this little issue. Genocide is very frowned upon in our Jedi Order."

"I understand, that is why we are so willing to fight the Kadunese, this is not the first time that the Kaduna have slaughtered thousands, after several years of theological bliss the terrorist group Kaduna came and killed our peaceful order, you must understand that."

"I understand, that is why we are so willing to fight the Kadunese, this is not the first time that the Kaduna have slaughtered thousands, after several years of theological bliss the terrorist group Kaduna came and killed our peaceful order, you must understand that."
"I see." I folded my arms. Reached out into the Force to pick out what is truth and what is a lie. A normal would believe, but I'm skeptical. "I understand. Would you happen to know their whereabouts? I would, of course, like to get both sides of the whole issue before recommending any action to the Jedi Council."

"why yes, my Navigator will give you a set of co-ordinates."

A skinny man with several protruding wires and tubes crept up and handed over a tablet, it held all relavent data on the planet Kadun and the Grand Duchy of Kaduna.

"I hope to be seeing you again soon."

If I find out the truth, I'll definitely be seeing you... I thought but smiled. "Thank you. We'll be going now."

The three of us headed back to our shuttle and took off for the Much Ado About Nothing.

Once back on the bridge, I entered the coordinates. "All right. Let's get going."

I began moving away to make the jump to hyperspace.

"Hail them again."

"Yes Sir."

The Captian walked up to the window facing the Kaduna ship.

"Kaduna ship we would like to know what the reason for your attack on this planet."

(OOC: I sent a response

"My Lord, we have just intercepted a message bound for the Derilict Kadunese vessels."

The Minion had sheepishly hidden himself in the corner of the room.

"Very well, send them a message back, tell them what we told the Jedi."

basically, the Warrior Priests are making out that they were defending the planet and hid behind a moon after the attack was over.)

Darius was now sitting in the war room of the palace, looking at a 3-dimensional map of the are around Kaduna, or at least what was recorded there. In the far right corner, at the very edge of the map, was a small cluster of red beeping dots, Darius' stealth ships, cautiously attempting to discern as much about thier possible future enemy as possible. The actual battle plans in case a war should break out had already been discussed with his small group of advisors.

"So hopefully after that maneuver it will leave them completely cut off and surrounded. The Darius II will personally be heading out to meet the Kadunese just in case the need for it arises." He said smugly as he pointed towards a fleet of Blue dots, "With the spy ships we should have quite an advantage in battle."

"Are you sure this type of attack isn't too... bold? I mean, we haven't attacked an enemy directly in such a long time..." One of the older advisors mumbled wearily.

"I've been instigating skirmishes along the borderlines to keep our soldiers trained for that very reason... Trust me, we know too little about Kaduna to attempt any of our usual tactics. Besides, this is the type of war that won me my throne, is it not?"

"Hmm..." One of the other advisors, younger than most of the others and still with a spark of ambition in his eyes, said quietly to himself before speaking out, "The fleet shall be fitted at once. We should bring our defenses up however, to make sure there are no spies among us."

"Even a fly can't escape these rooms alive. We have nothing to fear... Besides we still have him guarding the palace." He said as his voice slowly became a whisper, as he glowered at the advisors, "Which reminds me. I should get towards making a response, according to my reports there are other forces that detected the genocide. We don't want to be upstaged now do we gentlemen?"
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Encrypted Message
To: Master Priest Lord Krayten
From: Emperor Darius
Subject: Kaduna



Should such a time their betrayal begins, the triumvirate's retaliation will be as swift as it will be brutal. I too hope our future encounters stay as peaceful, though it would be unwise to grow content while an enemy continues it's movements.

(OOC: Bump)

An hour or so later...

We reentered realspace over Kaduna and then radioed the traffic control.

"We, the Jedi Knights, urgently requests an audience with your leader. We have met with those who call themselves Warrior Priests and wish to hear both sides of this conflict."

The transmission was patched through to Kardens console, he listened to it twice through, he now faced a problem, if he told them that he had burned the planet then, no doubt, Kadunese officials would realise that Karden was a traitor and if he told the truth then the whole plan would go up in smoke, he switched the transmission to secure and responded.

"I am Grand Duke Karden, we would appreciate you leaving our territory immediatly, failure to comply will result in military action."

The transmission was patched through to Kardens console, he listened to it twice through, he now faced a problem, if he told them that he had burned the planet then, no doubt, Kadunese officials would realise that Karden was a traitor and if he told the truth then the whole plan would go up in smoke, he switched the transmission to secure and responded.

"I am Grand Duke Karden, we would appreciate you leaving our territory immediatly, failure to comply will result in military action."
"The Priests say that you have burned a planet, killing millions in cold blood." I replied coldly. "Genocide is something that the Jedi Order does not tolerate, and neither will I. If what the Priests say is true, and it looks increasingly so, rest assured that when I leave, I will bring back a force to remove you and your government from power. Now if you wish to clear your name in the face of this crime against sentiency, I suggest you allow me an audience, my lord."

"If you do not remove yourself from this territory then you will not be able come back with a larger force, I have a Cruiser standing ready to engage."

"If you do not remove yourself from this territory then you will not be able come back with a larger force, I have a Cruiser standing ready to engage."
I gripped the controls, reaching out into the Force, ready to dodge. "One last chance, Grand Duke Karden, one last chance and I come back with my armed forces to remove you. You don't want war with us. Trust me."

Hmm. The Much Ado is more maneuverable than that cruiser, especially with the Force...I wonder if I can get close enough to 'port onto the planet and see what's really going on. I thought as I removed my cloak as it will give me away. "Jacob, I'm going to try and get as close to the planet as I can before I teleport to the surface. Once I do this, you leave fast and get to Jurai. Get Grandpa to ready the 2nd Fleet. Give me 36 hours and then begin the attack."

"Right. What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to find out what's going on. Something tells me there's more to this than simple genocide." I replied curtly. Then I swiped away my hairtail with my saber, as it would be too conspicious.

OOC:
The plot thickens!

"Captain, we have orders from the Grand Duke himself, we have a tresspasser."

Captain Koryltan had only witnessed combat once before, he looked at the viewscreen in front of him, it showed a vessel maneuvering a supernatural speeds towards the Moon.

"Weapons, get a lock on it, fire whenever you are ready!"

The Weapons team rushed about attempting to fix the position, it became harder to find the target as it neared Kaduna.

"Captain, 70% lock!"

"FIRE!!!"

The Quad Plasma cannons rattled out a shot which made it's way towards the ship, a 70% chance before the ship would vanish into whatever FTL system it used.

I was fully in the Force and the shot seemed extremely slow as 'bullet-time' kicked in. Heh. I'll just adjust my position like so...

A shot that would have caused damage to the shields instead totally missed by meters as the ship suddenly shifted it's vector from where it would be hit to where it's not hit to the possible astonishment of the cruiser's gunners. A normal pilot would have been hit, but certainly not one of the more powerful Jedi in the Order.

I punched the throttle for the planet and spun the ship to present an even harder lock. I waited for the right time to teleport.

OOC: Let me know when the ship gets to very high orbit (about 5000 klicks). It's the maximum range of Daniel's teleportation skill. Though this far out, he's more likely to be falling through the air, ha ha!

Just then hundreds of TIE fighters swarmed over the Kaduna ship. They were followed by TIE Bombers who hailed bombs down on the Kaduna ship.

Message to Core Worlds Ship

Core Worlds Ship, We are prepared to aid you if you need us we will hold them off.

"Captain, more ships have arrived!"

The Weapons team seemed panicked, and rightly so, with so many targets avaliable they had a whole battle with just one ship.

"How many ships?"

The Captain asked knowing full well that the answer was going to be a bad one, Fighters began to appear in front of the view-screen.

"Thousands then."

He rather sarcastically responded when the Weapons team failed to, he walked over to the Communications officer and lent over.

"Get Karden, we need more firepower, we need the Kendwina!"

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The Kendwina, Flagship, had been safely stored in dry-dock on Kaduna for many years now, with no military action taking place it had become almost derelict, save for the engineering crews who had taken it upon themselves to maintain the vessel.

The Ship suddenly came alive as Pilots began to board the vessel for immediate emergency take-off, at the helm was Grand Admiral Krowaden, the best Captain in the fleet, it would be another five hours before the vessel would be fully ready.

In the meantime several Fighters had been launched from orbitals and two Cruisers had been recalled from nearby systems.

(OOC: CW, have your character jump in anytime, the Jedi vessel is unlikely to be fired at as the DP vessels pose more of a threat.)

Just then hundreds of TIE fighters swarmed over the Kaduna ship. They were followed by TIE Bombers who hailed bombs down on the Kaduna ship.

Message to Core Worlds Ship

Core Worlds Ship, We are prepared to aid you if you need us we will hold them off.
"Thanks!" I smirked. Now, I concentrated on the Force as we neared the planet, and without a second warning...*CRACK!*...I disappeared in a puff of white electric smoke and the smell of ozone wafted through the bridge. Jacob immediately ran to the pilot's seat and turned the ship around to make the jump to hyperspace.

"Follow us!" Jacob radioed the friendlies and then pulled back the lever. The ship then disappeared in a flash of blue light as it entered hyperspace.

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*Crack*

I found myself falling through the air over the planet. "Jeez, I missed the ground by several thousand feet!"

Not wanting to go splat in an ignomious death, I 'ported once more, finding myself in a back alleyway of a random town. "Hmm. Now where to go next..."

A thin pale old man walked up and down the alleys of Alitore, the ancient Gorel Town had been his home since the Priesthood Wars over 100 years ago, he turned the streets looking for some scraps of food or a warm place to rest.

He turned another alley and suddenly heard a loud crack followed by the smell of smoke, sensing food the old man quickly began to jog towards the source, he turned the final corner and found only a man standing in place of his food.

"Excuse-me sir, do you have any food?"

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Another hit shook the Kadunese vessel as it attempted to target Fighters, the Jedi vessel had gone leaving one ship less to worry about.

A thin pale old man walked up and down the alleys of Alitore, the ancient Gorel Town had been his home since the Priesthood Wars over 100 years ago, he turned the streets looking for some scraps of food or a warm place to rest.

He turned another alley and suddenly heard a loud crack followed by the smell of smoke, sensing food the old man quickly began to jog towards the source, he turned the final corner and found only a man standing in place of his food.

"Excuse-me sir, do you have any food?"
"Hello there. Hmm." I patted my body, finding an MRE in my items pouch. "I'm kinda new around here. What's this place called?"

The old man scoffed down the food, he mummbled somthing back, stopped then waited for his food to go down.

"This is Ruins of the ancient town of Alitore, my home."

Technically it wasn't "his" home, he was simply squatting here as no-one else seemed to care about the wreck.

The old man scoffed down the food, he mummbled somthing back, stopped then waited for his food to go down.

"This is Ruins of the ancient town of Alitore, my home."

Technically it wasn't "his" home, he was simply squatting here as no-one else seemed to care about the wreck.
"Interesting...abode." I took a look around. "So what happened to you?"

"There's no place for an old war veteran in this new Kaduna, somedays I wish we hadn't defeated those bast!rds, given me somthing to do in my old age."

"There's no place for an old war veteran in this new Kaduna, somedays I wish we hadn't defeated those bast!rds, given me somthing to do in my old age."
"Ah, I see." I nodded. Well, I guess I'd better move on and see about what's happening around here...

Just three miles to the North was the Hive City of Kendwin, deep within it's walls men hurried about attempting to make the final preperations to the Kendwina Flagship, they were well ahead of schedule but still had three hours left till launch.

I began walking around the town casually, trying to find a marketplace or pub to talk to people of the current state of the planet. I've learned throughout the years that the best way to learn of the leadership was to make contact with the populace. The eyes often tell the story. When a person smiles and talks nice things about the leader, and yet the eyes show a lot of fear, there's a oppressive dictatorship leading the nation and I'll know something was wrong, even if I wasn't a Jedi.

(OOC: extensive searching of the town will find that it is nothing but ruins, the only inhabitant being one old man, your best and safest bet is to try the Hive City, it's a walk but it's worth it if you want to find answers.)

OOC: Just out of curiosity, is the old man important to the plot?

IC:
"Nothing. Hm. Guess I'd better move on." I said. These ruins would be interesting to an archeologist, or perhaps one of my son's friends, who wants to be Indiana Jones or something like that. Anyway, I decided to aim for what appears to be a city in the distance and started walking.

(OOC: not exactly important but you did just miss out on a huge fountain of info on the Warrior Priests)

"Thanks!" I smirked. Now, I concentrated on the Force as we neared the planet, and without a second warning...*CRACK!*...I disappeared in a puff of white electric smoke and the smell of ozone wafted through the bridge. Jacob immediately ran to the pilot's seat and turned the ship around to make the jump to hyperspace.

"Follow us!" Jacob radioed the friendlies and then pulled back the lever. The ship then disappeared in a flash of blue light as it entered hyperspace.


"Alright Standbye" "Recall the fighters"

"Yes Sir"

All the TIE fighters begin to retreat back to the ships.

OOC: Oh, in that case...

IC:
Before I left, I decided to ask the relatively homeless man one last thing. "I've heard of this sect known as the Warrior Priests. Know anything about 'em?"

"Captain all fighters have reported back."

"Good make the jump to Hyperspace."

"Yes Sir"

The 2 Allience Class, and the 5 Impireal Class, become a blur as they speed up to Hyperspeed.

At the edge of Kaduna's territory one of the triangular spy ships flickered a bit in the light, having just witnessed the rather massive ships around Kaduna. They were to report their findings to Darius, and promptly did so before two of them vanished back to the Zeres system. Something was definately happening around Kaduna...

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Darius had only barely made it out of the palace by shuttle when the message came to him and his most trusted commander, who was in the back seat with him. They were preparing to ready the massive Darius II for the upcoming war, which Darius seemed to be quite taken with. It had been a long time since the Triumvirate had battled anyone not from the Zeres System.

"Darius... Something happened around the planet. There seemed to be a rather large amount of ships around it. They seem to have left..."

"Huh? Do you suppose Kaduna is preparing for war as well? Though I doubt they have any spies here..."

"No sir, they were foreign ships. There seems to have been no damage done to the planet. Our spies think it may have either been a mistake... or they could be their allies." The commander said quietly before emitting a slight yawn, presumably from lack of sleep, "We should let Zephon and that Yurka know."

Darius sat back in the seat of his shuttle, giving a questionable glance at the man in front of him. The commander was rather worse for wear, having been overworked since his promotion a year ago. But his advice was still often good, or at least good enough to not have him replaced as of yet.

"Well... Zephon is still on that diplomatic mission... Along with Yurka being MIA for the last week..." Darius mumbled as he recollected the last time the three leaders were together, "But I will send them the message of course. But first it might be best to warn our friends, those priests, about what we encountered. Perhaps they could shine some light on it...

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To: Master Priest Lord Krayten
From: Emperor Darius
Subject: Kaduna's mysterious guests

It appears that something troubling has happened above the planet Kaduna. Our spies on the fringes of the system noticed a large group of ships flying above it momentarily. While I am not that concerned, it would be best if you told me anything you know of the ships, to further help us when the time comes to strike. I grow weary of waiting however, and will not sit idly by forever.

OOC: Oh, in that case...

(OOC: *mutters* Metagamer ¬_¬ )

"I already told you, I fought against them a hundred years ago, what do you want to know?"

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Encrypted Message
From: Master Priest Lord Krayten
To: Emperor Darius
Subject: Kaduna's mysterious guests

I believe that they may have been redirected to Kaduna from on of our light cruisers which attempted to to stop the bombardment of the innocent planet, we currently have a half of our fleet mobilised but with assistance I am sure the Kaduna could be broken soon.

(OOC: I won't be on till tomorrow cos my touchpad is f!cked to the point where I can't work)

(OOC: *mutters* Metagamer ¬_¬ )
OOC: What? So sue me if I miss a couple of details here and there.

"I already told you, I fought against them a hundred years ago, what do you want to know?"
That's old. I thought. Then I shrugged. "Oh, I met a couple of them a little while ago and wondered what they're all about. I'm interested in their...goals and stuff. How they work, from the perspective of an old soldier."

"Well I only ever met them on the battlefront and, for a short while, as rulers of Kaduna, they have a devout believe in the Warrior God Kadun, of course we don't worship Kadun as much as a god but we do believe that he was important, anyway, the Priesthood would dampen any and all talk agains Kadun, execution seemed the means beffiting the crime and after a while the people became angry with having lost so many lives and we rose up against the Priesthood."

An FTL gate of titanic power ported into the system, the signature was unfamiliar to other parties involved, considering how rare it was a Traileric vessel was seen in this latter millenium. The barge ported through the gate, the singularity concussion sending waves of seismic disturbance into the surrounding asteroid field. They had simply dropped out for a routine course correction and pitstop for provisions. Within seconds the superior Traileric sensors detected warships in the immediate area, classifying them as Coreworldian and some other less familiar race. This was a popular pitstop for Traileric barges, as the peoples of the inhabited planet had not the equipment to detect them. Trouble indeed. They decided not to herald the warships, as the barges defenses are limited. Instead they moved to shelter themselves within the asteroid belt. Trailarii protocol forbade them from running when a Traileric trade route was in trouble. Thusly they simply waited to assess the situation at hand.

"Well I only ever met them on the battlefront and, for a short while, as rulers of Kaduna, they have a devout believe in the Warrior God Kadun, of course we don't worship Kadun as much as a god but we do believe that he was important, anyway, the Priesthood would dampen any and all talk agains Kadun, execution seemed the means beffiting the crime and after a while the people became angry with having lost so many lives and we rose up against the Priesthood."
Ah. A theocracy. This could be trouble... I mused. "And I assume that the Priesthood is now trying to get its former power and glory and such back?"

"The Priesthood has been trying to worm it's way back into Kadunese society since they were exiled and banned, though i'm sure there are lots of Priests inside high Kadunese positions."

"I see. Is there anything else I would need to know about them?" I asked.

"Nothing you would need to know, but be wary, others are not so free in thier knowledge of the Priesthood, I assume you plan to travel to the city?"

"Yes." I simply nodded.

ooc: e.e *Coughs* Does the supergreat barge of happiness that's snooping around behind your collective lines illicit a response?

(OOC: as you said your vessel is hiding in an Asteroid belt, the Priesthood may be mean but they wouldn't open fire upon a vessel for no purpose)

OOC: *cough* bump *cough*

(OOC: the old man has no more to say, are you not going to go off to the city now?)

OOC: Oh.

IC:
With the old man having nothing more to say, now I headed out for the city, whistling casual tunes while I walk.

So what now?

(OOC: This now)

Warrior Priest Home-world

"Brothers!"

There was a clinking of goblets as thousands of Priests rose up to salute their leader, he motioned that they all be seated and then sat himself.

"The time of retribution is nearly at hand, with the joint parties of at least two other nations it has been decreed that now is the time that we sha'll strike."

There was a general murmer of acceptance which was hushed by the Leader, he sat in silence for a moment and then continued.

"I will be sending a message to all friendly nations, I will tell them that now we have the power to take back what is ours!"

Now there was a louder cheer, this time entisced by the Leader himself.

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Encrypted Message
From: Master Priest Lord Krayten
To: Emperor Darius
Subject: Now Is the Time

We have now have the ability to take down the Kadunese unfair rule, if you are willing to assist in this task then please response soon that we may draw up a joint plan with other nations who wish to aid.

Encrypted Message
From: Master Priest Lord Krayten
To: Ruler of Dweladelfia prime
Subject: Now Is the Time

We have now have the ability to take down the Kadunese unfair rule, if you are willing to assist in this task then please response soon that we may draw up a joint plan with other nations who wish to aid.

Several hours later, I reached the outskirts of the Hive City, and continued walking towards it.

OOC: What do I see now?

The City as alive with activity as people are putting every resource towards mobilising the Kendwina flagship, there are many armed guards at every entrance looking for possible Priesthood terrorists (OOC: they are weak minded if you feel like using the force) around there are other ruins similar to the one in which you found the old man, these ones seem bare.

OOC: Is this a rebelion?

(OOC: That was the plan)

The City as alive with activity as people are putting every resource towards mobilising the Kendwina flagship, there are many armed guards at every entrance looking for possible Priesthood terrorists (OOC: they are weak minded if you feel like using the force) around there are other ruins similar to the one in which you found the old man, these ones seem bare.
I entered an entrance into the City, using the Force to cloud the guard's mind so they don't suspect me. I noted that the city was quite active today and decided to inquire a passerby quietly to current events.

((OOC: I was gone for a day or two. But now I am back))

Emperor Darius grinned to himself as he looked over the message from the bridge of the Darius II. He wouldn't need the other two members of the triumvirate, since he had most of the military behind him anyways. It was finally time for him to act, and after receiving a map from the spy craft at the edge of Kaduna, he was sure that at least something was going on. It would be nice to see battle again, and teach those Kadunese dogs a lesson...

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Encrypted Message
From: Emperor Darius
To: Master Priest Lord Krayten
Subject: Now it is time.
I and my primary fleet are ready to assist you in any way possible. You have our total support in the coming conflict.

Krogedor had recently been thrown out of his local tavern when a strange man began to ask him what was going on, in his most sober voice he answered.

"Well the things are beeing sent ter fight ther Jeddi warriers in the skyyyyyy"

He staggered for a while before being knocked over by a passer-by.

Encrypted Message
From: Master Priest Lord Krayten
To: Emperor Darius
Subject: Now it is time.

We will Launch a preliminary strike at Kadunese weapons batteries and defensive positions, once these are taken care of the Kaduna will be hopeless to resist our attack, we will be launching said attack in 3 hours.

Encrypted Message
From: Master Priest Lord Krayten
To: Ruler of Dweladelfia prime
Subject: Now Is the Time

We will send a fleet to asist you. It will consist of:

The Jade (SSD)
20 Imperial Class Star Distroyers
And the fleet that was previously sent.

Krogedor had recently been thrown out of his local tavern when a strange man began to ask him what was going on, in his most sober voice he answered.

"Well the things are beeing sent ter fight ther Jeddi warriers in the skyyyyyy"

He staggered for a while before being knocked over by a passer-by.
I sweatdropped. "Anyone that's not drunk, please?"

"May I assist you?"

A man had stopped to pick up the drunk, he struggled with the fool before facing the Jedi.

"I believe what my Drunken friend here is saying is that everyone is busy attempting to get the Kendwina Battleship online to fight of some alien race that is supposedly attacking, it seems to be dying down so they've either finished or have no need for the Flagship anymore."

The man looked at the Jedi, he did not seem Kadunese.

"You are not from around here are you? A Gorel half-breed perhaps?"

"Ah. Thanks." I smiled at the guy. "Well, I'm just visiting this planet, seeing as there's those ruins a few miles back. Have a flair for the ancient times, that's all."

"You'd better be careful who you tell that to, a lot of people here have a deep hatred for the Half-Breeds."

"You'd better be careful who you tell that to, a lot of people here have a deep hatred for the Half-Breeds."
"Uh, I don't think I'm a half-breed anything." I frowned. "Could you clarify?"

It was late in the evning and the Allience-Class Star Distroyer The Marqies Revenge A massive shadow crepet over it. It was The Jade an SSD Flag ship of the princes fleet.

"Captain we have reached the fleet."

"Good, Full stop."

It was late in the evning the Allience-Class Star Distroyer The Marqies Revenge was in orbit of a near by planet. A massive shadow crepet over it. It was The Jade an SSD Flag ship of the princes fleet.

"Captain we have reached the fleet."

"Good, Full stop."

It was late in the evning the Allience-Class Star Distroyer The Marqies Revenge was in orbit of a near by planet. A massive shadow crepet over it. It was The Jade an SSD Flag ship of the princes fleet.

"Captain we have reached the fleet."

"Good, Full stop."

"Hmm, you really aren't from around here, hundreds of years ago the Kaduna were held captive by the Gorel, they used us as slaves and the like, we were also useful in warfare, then a man came to us who called himself Kadun, he fought the Gorel until they betrayed and murdered him, his work was closely followed by the Priesthood, still in it's infancy, of course everyone wanted freedom so the Priests had many members, when the time came they struck out and slaughtered most of the Gorel, others were captured or raped, so began the generation of Gorel Half-Breeds."

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"My Lord, the Dweladelfians are here."

A minion had crawled in, he bowed down as he spoke, the Lord turned to look at the man, he smiled.

"Ask them if they wish to assist in this premiliminary strike."

"Hmm, you really aren't from around here, hundreds of years ago the Kaduna were held captive by the Gorel, they used us as slaves and the like, we were also useful in warfare, then a man came to us who called himself Kadun, he fought the Gorel until they betrayed and murdered him, his work was closely followed by the Priesthood, still in it's infancy, of course everyone wanted freedom so the Priests had many members, when the time came they struck out and slaughtered most of the Gorel, others were captured or raped, so began the generation of Gorel Half-Breeds."
"Interesting history." I said. "What's your name, if I may ask?"

"I am Kordred."

Kordred then lowered his voice and lent inwards to the Jedi.

"I am a half-breed."

He rose himself back up and began to talk normal once more.

"I sell weaponary if you're looking to buy some, my store is just along the way, though if you need directions to somewhere i'm pretty sure I could point you in the right direction."

The Horde's mighty telemorphic scopes focused on the strange planet. To the Mongoloids it was a little bit confusing. Ships here, ships there, a planet in ruins. It didn't make much sense. But, like a scientist watches a cell eating another without really knowing why, they watched.

Though it was unclear who was doing what, the Mongoloid scientists agreed that some kind of planatery bombardment was going on. It was near a sin to waste all that biomass, but these creatures were undoubtly primitive. The Horde was currently preoccupied with the invasion of Juniper, and so an envoy could not be sent.

Of course, why would they send an envoy to such disgusting people.

So instead a robotic probe would be sent. The Mongoloids had not discovered light travel, and instead used dimensional gates to travel across the stars. After all, if you can pass through a dimension where time is manipulated like 3 dimensional beings manipulate the second dimension, why should time have any meaning.

So the probe was readied and shot through the 7th dimension. Not miliseconds later it appeared near the afflicted planet, traveling in an orbit around it. Of course it would be detected, but the Horde didn't care. They could never trace it back to them.

"I am Kordred."

Kordred then lowered his voice and lent inwards to the Jedi.

"I am a half-breed."

He rose himself back up and began to talk normal once more.

"I sell weaponary if you're looking to buy some, my store is just along the way, though if you need directions to somewhere i'm pretty sure I could point you in the right direction."
"My name is Daniel." I then lowered my voice as well, almost to a whisper. "I'm looking into allegations of atrocities by the Duke. I would be honored if you would tell me what people think of him."

"The Duke? He seems alright, doesn't seem to interfere with my industry or my race, infact he's quite kind to us half-breeds, he is a very secretive man, doesn't seem to want anyone in his room, no aides, no military advisors, no-one is allowed in, from what I here it is a small cubicle of an office, but that's probably not important, though I can tell you that there has been a lot more military activity occuring, and a lot more ships going missing, I hope that he's done nothing terribly wrong."

"The Duke? He seems alright, doesn't seem to interfere with my industry or my race, infact he's quite kind to us half-breeds, he is a very secretive man, doesn't seem to want anyone in his room, no aides, no military advisors, no-one is allowed in, from what I here it is a small cubicle of an office, but that's probably not important, though I can tell you that there has been a lot more military activity occuring, and a lot more ships going missing, I hope that he's done nothing terribly wrong."
Hmm. Doesn't seem to jive with my previous experience... I thought. "I hope so too. It's just an investigation. Might not come to anything."

"I hope that I meet with you again sometime, right now I have to get back to my store."

With little more said Kordred ran off into the crowd.

I nodded and then headed through the crowds again casually.

The Jade and the Dweladelfian Fleet move towards the planet.

Message to Rebels

We are in orbit around the planet. What would you like us to do?

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REPORT:

SUBJECT: WAR ON PLANET #586739
RACES: HMN, BIPED, RACIAL MIXING.
TECHNOLOGICAL RATING: SPACE FARING, N-DIEMENSIONAL
OUTSIDERS PRESENT? YES
TOP DIMENSIONAL KNOWLEDGE: 3, VAGUE NOTION OF 4
POSSIBILITY FOR INVASION: HIGH
POSSIBILITIES: LOW
BIOMASS: HIGH
MAJOR AREAS: NA'SHDO, KAMELTY, TE'HUPTILIX
NATIVE LANGUAGE: UNKNOWN

The fleet is blockading the planet, "Captian the ship carrying the jedi has arrived." "Good" Tell the ship to send the Jedi here. "Yes Sir"

The Imprieal Class Star Distroyer droped out of hyperspace and a Lambda Class T-4a Shuttle followed by two TIE fighters came out of the hanger and headed to the Jade. "Your Highness we have reached the Jade." "Good, land and let us out." "Yes M'lord"

OOC: Ftang just rp us heading to the bridge of the ship.

"What exactly are we up against Kyle, so we can prepare." asked Gaava as they walked to the bridge. "I never really knew your dad was the Emperor, no wonder you are a natural swordsman."

We are aiding some rebels on the planet overthrow a dictator we have a fleet headed up by the Flag Ship Jade. We are waiting for the rebels to tell us what to do. Yes Im the heir to the throne of Dweladelfia Prime, Ally is to be my wife, see for 200 hundred years the yellow stones have provided a girl to be Queen. And the oldest son is to provide a daughter for the next heir. Kyle and the rest of the jedi walk onto the bridge. "Captian have you heard from the rebels yet?" "No M'lord" Kyle bids the rest of the Jedi to sit down in the chairs around the command center.

"Very well." Gaava said bluntly as he told his followers to sit. He began to ponder on the best plan of action....

bump for Kaduna to rp rebels.....

A Mongoloid scientist studied the scene through his telemorphic scope. Yes, he thought, a rebellion. Humans were such strange creatures. Then again the report had indicated that other....beings inhabitated this planet also. But what were they called? So far the language barrier was impossible to break.

Perhaps another, more...involved probe was needed...

Encrypted Message
From: Emperor Darius
To: Master Priest Lord Krayten
Subject: Now it is time.
Sorry for the delay, but it was necessary to prevent any of our neighbors from detecting it. I shall bring the Darius II along with two Harmony Class battle ships, supplemented with more than enough podships to get the job done. We hope we don't miss anything...

It didn't take long for the entire fleet to appear at the very fringes of Kadunese space, hidden behind some asteroids and a spacial distortion web created by the spy ships from before. It would last upwards of a half hour with the seven ships fully primed. Thankfully he wasn't expecting to have to remain stationary that entire time...

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Emperor Darius sat aboard the Darius II, in his own personal throne on the bridge, located in the front and center of the ship. Surrounded by legions of soldiers, it was more than ready to attack Kaduna in the preliminary strike. With the assistance of the star destroyers detected beforehand, he almost felt a slight bit of pity for the seemingly unprepared Kadunese. This was perhaps due to the alarming rate at which the Master Priest attained allies.

"Finally..."

(OOC: sorry for the delay in posting my brother made me go to a party)

With the Ally ships in position the Priesthood fleet itself made it's way to Kaduna, the journey was a short one as the Kadunese planet was not far from the Priests.

Krayten was on-board the Priesthood flagship, Kadun, he leant forward into the microphone which had hacked it's way into the Kadunese City announcement becons.

"This is Master Priest Lord Krayten, We the Priesthood and our allies are prepared to strike against the dictator Karden, many of you are unaware of his actions just a few days ago, I can tell you only that it was pure terror for those involved, I will be sending a transmission to Karden proposing that he surrender."

Krayten leant backwards and looked over to the minions who began loading weapons and raising shields, the Priesthood may be outnumbered but they made up for it technology.

"Grand Duke, I trust you heard our message?"

Krayten had leaned forward again as the transmission was focused onto the Dukes office, Krayten smiled as he spoke to an old friend.

"I did, and you should be aware that we are not willing to surrender to fanatical terrorists such as yourselves."

A good response, it didn't give away the plot and showed the Duke to be cruel, Krayten leaned in closer to the microphone.

"Very wel-"

He was interupted as three Kadunese vessels, a battleship and two cruisers appeared, the smile dropped of Krayten's face, this was not going to be as easy as was expected.

"Message to allied vessels, it is a small fleet, we will have it dealt with, it is only a small manner of time before you'll have Kadunese fighters over you, deal with them."

Krayten was now under pressure and seemed a little like he was ordering these people, he now seemed paranoid that the allies would see through him and turn on him.

Now here was a pretty funny little story. It seems to me that contrary to what the Priests say, the people of Kaduna see the Duke as not all that bad of a person. I wondered if support of the people is strong enough for the Duke to survive...

"M'lord, Enamy ships coming the bare."

"Send Distroyers to intercept them."

"Yes M'lord"

6 Imprieal Class Star distroyers broke off from the main fleet and headed to the enamy ships. Hundreds of TIE and TIE Intercepters pored out of the ships. The Distroyers truned to there side and fired there Ion Cannons.

Kadunese vessels had been built off the scraps of knowledge taken from the former kingdom of Gorel, they had been shoddily interpreted as was apparent when the Imperial weapons hit the hulls of the vessels, the Battleship was able to hold out for a while and retaliated with a barrage of torpedoes and plasma fire, the Cruiser on the other hand managed to only get off a few short bursts before they were ingulfed in flame, still crippled the battleship fought on valiantly before being swiped by a Priesthood vessel, far superior to the Kaduna.

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Grand Duke Karden looked over his console, this was unexpected, several fleets had recalled themselves after hearing that Kaduna was under attack, where had they heard this from? His thought was interupted by the door of his cabin opening up, in the doorway stood five men, the first was Krowadan, Grand Admiral to the fleet, behind him was his brother Krowaden, Grand General to the Army and behind the brothers were 3 armed guards.

"Grand Duke, you sold us out, why?"

Krowadan asked in a cool but stressed voice, it was typical of a man who had lost faith in all humanity.

"The Priesthood is right, Kadun is our god not these fickel Warrior Gods, can you not see?"

The duke had began to spit and rasp, his voice was that of an angry man who was losing an argument, and he was losing this argument.

"I will not attempt to change your beliefs, just to let you know that millions of innocent lives have been lost for your pathetic religon, take him away!"

The armed men walked to the mad Duke who backed slowly to the corner of the small room, he clammered the wall looking for a weapon, finding nothing he slunk away with the men, angered and misirable.

"It's too late to ask these people for forgiveness, we'll have to fight them off, is the Kendwina ready?"

"Yes my brother, shall I have it launched?"

"no, keep it where it is until we have some back-up, send out a repeating message claiming our innocence and revealing the truth, and have our citizens informed on this change in power."

Krowaden looked at his brother, he smiled and responded

"Yes Duke!"

Kadunese vessels had been built off the scraps of knowledge taken from the former kingdom of Gorel, they had been shoddily interpreted as was apparent when the Imperial weapons hit the hulls of the vessels, the Battleship was able to hold out for a while and retaliated with a barrage of torpedoes and plasma fire, the Cruiser on the other hand managed to only get off a few short bursts before they were ingulfed in flame, still crippled the battleship fought on valiantly before being swiped by a Priesthood vessel, far superior to the Kaduna.

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Grand Duke Karden looked over his console, this was unexpected, several fleets had recalled themselves after hearing that Kaduna was under attack, where had they heard this from? His thought was interupted by the door of his cabin opening up, in the doorway stood five men, the first was Krowadan, Grand Admiral to the fleet, behind him was his brother Krowaden, Grand General to the Army and behind the brothers were 3 armed guards.

"Grand Duke, you sold us out, why?"

Krowadan asked in a cool but stressed voice, it was typical of a man who had lost faith in all humanity.

"The Priesthood is right, Kadun is our god not these fickel Warrior Gods, can you not see?"

The duke had began to spit and rasp, his voice was that of an angry man who was losing an argument, and he was losing this argument.

"I will not attempt to change your beliefs, just to let you know that millions of innocent lives have been lost for your pathetic religon, take him away!"

The armed men walked to the mad Duke who backed slowly to the corner of the small room, he clammered the wall looking for a weapon, finding nothing he slunk away with the men, angered and misirable.

"It's too late to ask these people for forgiveness, we'll have to fight them off, is the Kendwina ready?"

"Yes my brother, shall I have it launched?"

"no, keep it where it is until we have some back-up, send out a repeating message claiming our innocence and revealing the truth, and have our citizens informed on this change in power."

Krowaden looked at his brother, he smiled and responded

"Yes Duke!"


Was that a reply to my attack?

(OOC: yes, you destroyed two Cruisers and severely crippled a battleship before it was finished by the Priests)

清朝清我的亲爱的鳕鱼渴望和你将是钟声的国王缸

清朝清我的亲爱的鳕鱼渴望和你将是钟声的国王缸

(OOC: dude, you've already spammed twice on a thread close to me, are you like stalking me or somthing?)

"Kaduna what is our next move?"

I heard the announcements and smirked. They hardly needed me!

Then I sent off a Force-message to Jurai to attack now, but defend the planet of Kaduna this time. They will need our help, from what I can tell. The reply said they'll arrive at flank speed within the hour.

"Krowadan, we have the Dweladelfians on Comm 1, they are asking us what is the next move."

Krowadan sighed relief, they had heard his message and had believed him, he just had to hope that the Priesthood did not twist this back again.

"No doubt more Priesthood vessels will be arriving, we are also getting word of some of our reinforcements being held back by traitors, the best action now would be to aid in holding off the Priesthood fleet until more of our force arrives."

**** **** ****

The Priests had intercepted the message and were now confused, they did not know who could be trusted as allies and who had been influenced by the Kaduna.

"Order the fleet to go into full bombardment of the planet's surface."

The minions looked stunned at Kraytens reaction, he was a Priest but to harm potentially millions of Kadun worshippers would be heretical and Kadun would smile poorly upon it.

"Just do it fools!"

He spoke in a voice which beckoned order and scared minions began rusing to the tactical consoles, the fleet began it's move to bombard the planet, incendaries were prepared and locked onto the surface.

"Krowadan, we have the Dweladelfians on Comm 1, they are asking us what is the next move."

Krowadan sighed relief, they had heard his message and had believed him, he just had to hope that the Priesthood did not twist this back again.

"No doubt more Priesthood vessels will be arriving, we are also getting word of some of our reinforcements being held back by traitors, the best action now would be to aid in holding off the Priesthood fleet until more of our force arrives."

**** **** ****

The Priests had intercepted the message and were now confused, they did not know who could be trusted as allies and who had been influenced by the Kaduna.

"Order the fleet to go into full bombardment of the planet's surface."

The minions looked stunned at Kraytens reaction, he was a Priest but to harm potentially millions of Kadun worshippers would be heretical and Kadun would smile poorly upon it.

"Just do it fools!"

He spoke in a voice which beckoned order and scared minions began rusing to the tactical consoles, the fleet began it's move to bombard the planet, incendaries were prepared and locked onto the surface.


OOC: So were bombarding?

Kyle sits in his chair rubing his chin think of what to do. "Send fighters out and tell them to be ready for another attack."

"Yes M'lord"

Fights again pored out of the hanger bays and awaited for more enamy ships.

(OOC: I'm a little confused now,

"Kaduna what is our next move?"

in this post you seem to suggest that you've heard the plees from Krowadan that Kaduna is innocent,

OOC: So were bombarding?

yet in this post you suggest that you're still aligned to the Warrior Priests, whats up?)

(OOC: I'm a little confused now,



in this post you seem to suggest that you've heard the plees from Krowadan that Kaduna is innocent,



yet in this post you suggest that you're still aligned to the Warrior Priests, whats up?)

No when i say whats are next move is when we finished off the other ships and i didnt know whats next. And whos side are the priests on?

The Jedi rocked back and forth as the blasts were fired and chaos consumed the area around them.

"Shall we do something?" asked Gaava

"I shall see if we are needed..." spoke Xin, as he approached Kyle, "Can we be of assistance?"

The Jedi rocked back and forth as the blasts were fired and chaos consumed the area around them.

"Shall we do something?" asked Gaava

"I shall see if we are needed..." spoke Xin, as he approached Kyle, "Can we be of assistance?"

"Right now we are waiting for the rebels to tell us when we are going to land. We may man fighters but so far there are no enamy ships."

(OOC: right well ignore my post about bombarding the planet, the Priesthood are on their own side, as are the Kaduna)

"There'll be more ships, right now I think we should concentrate on bombarding military targets, the locations of which I am sending now."

Krayten said softly down the comm microphone, he was increasingly worried that now Karden was overthrown the other species might twig the whole plot.

I felt the tension of war in the air and saw distant flashes of light in the sky. A battle has begun and I'm caught in the middle...shrugging my shoulders, I began to walk towards the new Duke's palace. An audience with him would be nice right about now...

"Admiral Krowadan, there is a Jedi outside who wishes to speak with you."

An aide wandered into the war-room, Krowadan turned to the aide away from the map of the world with vessels flying high above it.

"Show him in."

"Admiral Krowadan, there is a Jedi outside who wishes to speak with you."

An aide wandered into the war-room, Krowadan turned to the aide away from the map of the world with vessels flying high above it.

"Show him in."
I was shown into the war-room to meet with the new leadership.

"Hello Jedi.... is it Knight, Master, Padawan?"

"Hello Jedi.... is it Knight, Master, Padawan?"
"Jedi Master Daniel Masaki." I told him. "How do you do?"

The fleet was prepped to attack when Dweladel Prime intercepted the fighters rather easily. Perhaps if the Emperor played his cards right he might not suffer as many casualties as he expected. The Kadunese were almost humorously under-powered, and with no allies in sight this would be an easy victory. Leaning his head back, he slowly eyed General Karius, who was manning the controls.

<Move forward towards Kaduna with our ships. We seem to be standing back a bit much, the Priesthood might grow suspicious of our intentions if we don't become a bit more involved>

"Yes sir! All ships move forward towards Kaduna! Death to all enemies of the Emperor!"

As the general quickly gestured for the numerous pilots in the room to begin preparations, Emperor Darius continued sitting, stirring a finger in the deep red liquid rather impatiently. He could feel a certain tension in the air, but couldn't quite place it as he brought the glass to mouth level and sipped it.

~~~~~~~~~

The three mammoth battleships finally made their appearances, the largest, the Darius II slowly lumbering in the front as hundreds of podships quickly flew off from the sides. They were rather round and not all that intimidating, but they were exceptionally fast and coordinated with eachother, moving in small groups of three or five. The other two large ships dispensed their own podships as well, considerably less than the Darius.

To: Master Priest Krayten and allies.
From: Emperor Darius
Subject: Kadunese Conquest
I appologise for the time it took for our arrival, but it looks as if Krayten's allies were able to hold their own rather well. I suspect we will be taking further action against the Kadunese filth? My forces are at your command High Priest Krayten.

OOC: Nilli your on our side?

"I have just recevied word from the rebels they say to abombard the planet."

"Very well, fire"

All the ships in the Dweladelfian Fleet opened fire on the planet, the Jade fired its photon torpedos and ion cannons at the surface. It was like fire works going off in the night.

OOC: Yep. I was the first person to jump on the Master Priest Krayton Bandwagon in the beginning. I'm not sure they're bombarding the entire planet anymore though. I'll wait to see. O_o

Torpedoes of both the Dweladelfians and the Priesthood smashed down onto STS batteries, the few that remained began to launch rockets to the vessels in space, Torpedoes were the one thing that the Kadunese were better at, the barrage of missiles flew out of the atmosphere and towards the blockade.

**** **** ****

The explosians in the background rocked the planet as Krowadan held tightly onto a table, he stood again straight up and looked at the Jedi.

"Apologies for my forthrightness, but do you have a purpose here as we are rather busy."

Torpedoes of both the Dweladelfians and the Priesthood smashed down onto STS batteries, the few that remained began to launch rockets to the vessels in space, Torpedoes were the one thing that the Kadunese were better at, the barrage of missiles flew out of the atmosphere and towards the blockade.

**** **** ****

The explosians in the background rocked the planet as Krowadan held tightly onto a table, he stood again straight up and looked at the Jedi.

"Apologies for my forthrightness, but do you have a purpose here as we are rather busy."
"I'm here to let you know that my fleet is coming to the area to assist in beating back the Priesthood and their wayward allies." I said. "Should be coming right about..."

In a flash of blueshifted light, the fleet of the Chimaera arrived at the edge of the battle. Grand Admiral Pellaeon, now nearing retirement, began barking orders to his twenty-five plus ships.

"...now." I smirked.

Fleet Stats:
1 Elite-class Star Destroyer (Chimaera), 2500 meters of flagship death and destruction
2 Imperial Star Destroyer mk III
10 Imperial Star Destroyer mk II
4 Missile Star Cruisers
4 Strike Cruisers
4 Victory Escort Star Destroyers

The barage of missiles exploded harmlessly on the sheilds of the Dweladelfian Ships.

"Sir, more enamy ships."

"All fighters attack, truns us to face them but let the fighters attack."

All the fighters in the fleet began rushing towards the enamys ships. TIE bombers began droping bombs on the CW ships.

Ishiak was sitting down when he noticed a friendly presence nearby. And sent a mind message to Daniel Masaki So we meet again my friend. We do not wish hostilities with you, and if that is enevitable if we are here then we shall leave.

"Open a channel to the enamy fleet."

"Channel Opened"

"Core world fleet this is Prince Kyle Avondale of Dweladelfia Prime, please back down. Or please join us, we are fighting to free these people from a dictator that is opressing them. Please help us fight for a great cause."

"No, no, no, this is all going wrong!!!!"

Krayten shouted out across the deck, the Minions were busy scattering around attempting to carry out each one of Kraytens commands.

"Contact the home-world, tell them we need more ships!"

The communications minion turned to the Priest lord, he frowned and looked into the Lord's eyes.

"Sir, there are no more ships, we are all there is!"

Krayten, now obviously angered drew his pistol and discharged a bolt of plasma into the head of the wayward minion.

"GET ME MORE VESSELS!!!!"

Ishiak was sitting down when he noticed a friendly presence nearby. And sent a mind message to Daniel Masaki So we meet again my friend. We do not wish hostilities with you, and if that is enevitable if we are here then we shall leave.
I have determined that the Priesthood was the ones who conducted the orbitial bombardment. They will be removed from this space if I can help it. I sent back. Think you can help us?

"Open a channel to the enamy fleet."

"Channel Opened"

"Core world fleet this is Prince Kyle Avondale of Dweladelfia Prime, please back down. Or please join us, we are fighting to free these people from a dictator that is opressing them. Please help us fight for a great cause."
"Admiral, they hailed us, demanding us to back down." An aide reported.

"Not on my life. The Jedi Master is on that planet and I don't want him killed." The Admiral replied. "Open channels to everyone in this system. Launch all fighters. Prepare to bombard the enemy flagship."

"This is Admiral Pellaeon of the Star Destroyer Chimaera. By
authority bestowed within me as Supreme Commander of the Coredian
Interstellar Defence Force, this planet is now under our protection. Cease
your hostilities with it immediately or you will be destroyed. That is
all."

----

I smirked as I heard the order. "The Admiral may be old, but he's still great at his stuff."

Five Kadunese vessels this time entered the system, they approached slowly staying out of weapons range.

"Message to all Vessels, we are Priesthood converts here to remove the dictator Duke from his throne, do not fire upon us!"

The small Fleet slowly moved into weapons range as they hoped that the message had been well met.

"Focus weapons on that Jedi fleet, they are our primary opposition."

Minions began to rush around as they did on the other Priesthood vessels.

**** **** ****

"Excellent, more vessels."

Krayten exclaimed, all was not yet lost and the day could yet be saved for all Priests, the body of the former minion had been removed and a replacement had been sat down as the battle got ever more heated.

"send three of our vessels to jam the Jedi communications, and to stop them from interfering."

Five Kadunese vessels this time entered the system, they approached slowly staying out of weapons range.

"Message to all Vessels, we are Priesthood converts here to remove the dictator Duke from his throne, do not fire upon us!"

The small Fleet slowly moved into weapons range as they hoped that the message had been well met.

"Focus weapons on that Jedi fleet, they are our primary opposition."

Minions began to rush around as they did on the other Priesthood vessels.
"Missile cruisers, fire at will." The Admiral ordered.

The missile cruisers began launching out swarms of missiles at the Priesthood craft. Hundreds of missiles rained out to dish death and destruction upon the craft.

**** **** ****

"Excellent, more vessels."

Krayten exclaimed, all was not yet lost and the day could yet be saved for all Priests, the body of the former minion had been removed and a replacement had been sat down as the battle got ever more heated.

"send three of our vessels to jam the Jedi communications, and to stop them from interfering."
"Sir, they're jamming us."

"Burn through the jamming. Have a B-wing Squadron with X-wing escorts take them out. A Strike Cruiser is to support them."

The jamming only interfered somewhat with the communications, especially as the forces were rather close together at the moment. In any case, power was boosted into the communications systems to overcome the jamming.

No thought Ishiak, his friends were fighting a bad situation. Anger at the priesthood flowed through him but he calmed and made a message to be sent to them.

Unjam their messages and leave, or you shall face the Order's combined might!

After he sent it he realised how like Sidious he was, but did not fear it. But the good was still inside him, as was the diplomat. Pain would be averted at all costs.

No thought Ishiak, his friends were fighting a bad situation. Anger at the priesthood flowed through him but he calmed and made a message to be sent to them.



After he sent it he realised how like Sidious he was, but did not fear it. But the good was still inside him, as was the diplomat. Pain would be averted at all costs.
Kyle looks over at his master and sees he's distressed. "Master what is wrong?"

"Well aren't those some rather impressive ships." Darius muttered as he looked over at the Coreworld ships on the screen, noticing the missiles being fired, "General Karius! I want half of our fighters defending the priesthood's ships! Have our reinforcements dispatched as well! I want the Darius I here immediately!"

"Yes Emperor!"

"Oh, and have the Thanatos aim it's secondary weaponry at wherever those missiles are coming from."

~~~~~~~~~

With that said, roughly five-hundred or so of the podships quickly launched themselves forward towards the the Priesthood's vessels to ward off the weaponry being fired from CoreWorlds. Firing at the incoming missiles with either small missile salvos of their own or barrages of high-intensity plasma, a few even crashing into them, despite the almost unnatural way they seemed to move.

As the fighters engaged the enemy missiles, one of the Harmony-Class ships slowly moved away from the other two capital ships, aiming it's front at Kaduna as it began to unleash dozens of small, though shimmering blasts at the planet below, as small salvos of Kaduna's missiles were intercepted by more podships, one way or another.

~~~~~~~~~

"Sir, we've lost roughly sixty of our fighters intercepting the missiles. I've sent the message for our reinforcements. The Darius I should be here soon. They'll also bring more fighters along."

"Good. If anything happens I want the Thanatos II to fire the purifying beam directly at the enemy ships." The Emperor muttered as he lounged back in his chair, staring at the General in front of him, "So how long should they take?"

"They should be here within the hour. We will fend them off untill then, and if things don't go our way... We can resort to our main weaponry."

"Thats good. Untill then, keep the Darius II's shields up."

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The Autocratic Triumvirate of Nili's Fleet

Darius II Collosus-Class Capital Ship
2 Harmony-Class Destroyers
910 Podship-Fighters

Reinforcements (When and if they manage to arrive)
Darius I Collosus-Class Capital Ship
780 Podship-Fighters

The TIEs continued there onslot on the CW fleet. TIE/in gegan targeting sheild genorators and fighters, while the TIE Bombers began attacking there weapons aray. 5 Impireal class Star distoryers MK III began to come to the side of the enamy ships and firing there ion cannons.

"Well aren't those some rather impressive ships." Darius muttered as he looked over at the Coreworld ships on the screen, noticing the missiles being fired, "General Karius! I want half of our fighters defending the priesthood's ships! Have our reinforcements dispatched as well! I want the Darius I here immediately!"

"Yes Emperor!"

"Oh, and have the Thanatos aim it's secondary weaponry at wherever those missiles are coming from."

~~~~~~~~~

With that said, roughly five-hundred or so of the podships quickly launched themselves forward towards the the Priesthood's vessels to ward off the weaponry being fired from CoreWorlds. Firing at the incoming missiles with either small missile salvos of their own or barrages of high-intensity plasma, a few even crashing into them, despite the almost unnatural way they seemed to move.

As the fighters engaged the enemy missiles, one of the Harmony-Class ships slowly moved away from the other two capital ships, aiming it's front at Kaduna as it began to unleash dozens of small, though shimmering blasts at the planet below, as small salvos of Kaduna's missiles were intercepted by more podships, one way or another.

~~~~~~~~~

"Sir, we've lost roughly sixty of our fighters intercepting the missiles. I've sent the message for our reinforcements. The Darius I should be here soon. They'll also bring more fighters along."

"Good. If anything happens I want the Thanatos II to fire the purifying beam directly at the enemy ships." The Emperor muttered as he lounged back in his chair, staring at the General in front of him, "So how long should they take?"

"They should be here within the hour. We will fend them off untill then, and if things don't go our way... We can resort to our main weaponry."

"Thats good. Untill then, keep the Darius II's shields up."

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The Autocratic Triumvirate of Nili's Fleet

Darius II Collosus-Class Capital Ship
2 Harmony-Class Destroyers
910 Podship-Fighters

Reinforcements (When and if they manage to arrive)
Darius I Collosus-Class Capital Ship
780 Podship-Fighters
"Concentrate all firepower on the ship designated Darius II!" Admiral Pellaeon ordered. "Have the Victory Star Destroyers take on those two destroyers, and someone deal with those podships, they're annoying!"

Several squadrons of X-wings and A-wings were ordered to take out the podships, while the Victory Star Destroyers broke into pairs to bombard the Harmony destroyers with broadsides of turbolasers and missiles.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Fleet of ten Star Destroyers and the Elite flagship concentrated all their firepower on the Darius II...

The TIEs continued there onslot on the CW fleet. TIE/in gegan targeting sheild genorators and fighters, while the TIE Bombers began attacking there weapons aray. 5 Impireal class Star distoryers MK III began to come to the side of the enamy ships and firing there ion cannons.
Shields flared slightly as the TIEs tried to breach the shields, but would need serious capital ship support to be effective, and the Missile Strike Cruisers and Coredian Mk III Star Destroyers switched targets to the enemy Star Destroyers. The ion cannons were more effective, disrupting systems and sapping shields, but crew ran about swiftly to keep systems running and the ships began rolling to present fresh shields to the enemy as the weaker ones recharged. Defensive X-wings and E-wings intercepted and took on the TIE units with fervor, while K-wing heavy bombers took the risky trip of bombarding the enemy Star Destroyers with anti-capital torpedoes.

The Emperor nearly fell out of his chair as the first group of blasts slammed into the Darius II, causing the entire ship to go on full alert. It wasn't hard for him to tell what was going on outside as he noticed someone shouting about six of the fussion reactors going offline. Quickly getting out of his seat, he stared over at his general.

"What the?! Damn it!" He said with a slight snarl as the significantly smaller ships pelted away at his mobile throne, as he heard reports in the background about the weapon systems, "It seems they've decided to attack the largest object out here? Well at least we kept the priesthood out of range. Move Forward!"

"Sir?! Are you sure about that?" The general nearly stuttered as he watched the emperor throw a glass across the room, "Y-yes my emperor! Move forward!"

"Turn on all weapon systems! I want the Thanatos to use only enough weaponry to defend itself. Continue firing at the Kaduna installations. Have the Thanatos II prepare the Purifying Beam for those Star Destroyers! I want everyone connected to the Gestalt systems while I send a little message to our aggressors. "

"Right away!"

"That reminds me, I almost forgot..." Darius said with a sadistic smile as he leaned back into his chair and grabbed for a helmet which lowered itself from the ceiling, "I want to fire the Vengeance immediately. If I can't talk them out of such ridiculous actions, I'd like to at least prove just how futile attacking us really is..."

"You're not going to use it on-"

"Silence! An Emperor never dies in vain... But just in case... I shall be taking our ground forces onto Kaduna immediately."

"Yes sir!"

~~~~~~~~~

The Darius II's shields visibly faded under the assault of the CoreWorld weaponry, however, instead of retreating back it suddenly began moving forward. As it did so, the top slowly began to rise, revealing a cannon-like weapon roughly two kilometers tall. While rising, a plethora of weaponry suddenly lit up on the front of the ship, firing three large graviton cannons, sending a large purple light of warped space directly in front of it at the groupings of star destroyers, taking out a few of it's own fighters as it did so. This was coupled with the losses of any fighters that came too close to the Capital Ship itself, which were utterly destroyed by the shielding, even the shields slowly went down to 50% power. In the back of the ship numerous hatches open to begin releasing shuttles to land on Kaduna.

The Harmony-class destroyers were not prepared for fights such as these, and the one firing at Kaduna was quickly overtaken as missiles ripped through the three-kilometer long monolith like parchment. As large pieces of it began ripping off, the Thanatos I continued firing at the planet Kaduna below, however not as selective as targets as it was previously. As it slowly began to rip apart, the back end of the ship, which was facing away from the planet, returned fire with dozens of laser weaponry of it's own.

As the first Harmony-Class did it's job, the Thanatos II quickly took aim, pointing the "front" of the ship in the cluster of destroyers in the path of the Darius II. It took less than a minute for the entire front to suddenly become engulfed in a large explosion of purple light, which quickly shrunk and intensified within the front of the ship's Purifying Beam. The hundred or so pod-fighters still around the ship quickly moved away from the front as well, sticking around only to make sure that it have enough time.

The Podships continued moving around in an synchronised fashion, moving in any direction effortlessly and at extreme speeds. The clusters of ships expanded and contracted together as they fired inward at the fighters, working as one under the Gestalt systems. They were able to do this by using the other ships to push them in another direction or pull them apart quickly using gravity, only stopping to take quick potshots at the enemy ships.

~~~~~~INCOMING MESSAGE~~~~~~
To: CoreWorld Ships
From: Emperor Darius
You've directly attacked our ships in our peace-keeping mission to remove a despot from power. Because of you numerous innocent lives have been lost, along with untold amounts of damage to our ships. Before this point we have not taken direct action against you, but it seems you leave us no choice. We are willing to accept your surrender or full retreat at this point, but any future attempts will be met with further hostility.

Enforcer of Catharsis,
Emperor Darius

((*edited*))

A Star Destroyer, then a second one were destroyed by the onslaughts of the graviton weapon.

"Damn them! If they want to play with superweapons, then we'll play. Prepare the singularity missiles." Admiral Pellaeon ordered coldly.

"Y-yes sir!" The weapons officer stammered.

"They're hailing us, looks like one last time." A comms officer yelled.

"Fine. Let's hear it." The Admiral sighed.

You've directly attacked our ships in our peace-keeping mission to remove a despot from power. Because of you numerous innocent lives have been lost, along with untold amounts of damage to our ships. Before this point we have not taken direct action against you, but it seems you leave us no choice. We are willing to accept your surrender or full retreat at this point, but any future attempts will be met with further hostility.

Enforcer of Catharsis,
Emperor Darius

And we said that this planet is now under our protection against the
Priesthood. If you do not remove yourself from this system, we will
destroy you as well. Choose wisely.

"Ready to fire on my mark..." Admiral Pellaeon ordered.

Meanwhile, one Victory broke contact with the first Thanatos to engage the one powering up it's superlaser-like weapon while the other two intensified their firepower to destroy the thing before it destroyed someone. The last Victory continued to finish off the first Thanatos.

"Damn it!" Darius seemed almost beastial as he read the response, since the seemed to continue attacking, despite the fact that his ship was larger and heading towards them, "Karius... Stay behind and-"

"Of course, my emperor." The general said with a smirk as he watched the Emperor board one of the large shuttles on the lower-back portion of the ship, "They will rue the day they went up against us."

"If you can, try to keep this ship in one piece... I don't want to have to wait for the Judgement's completion." He finished quickly before the hatches all closed and the shuttles began to power up for their quick spree for Kaduna's capital city, along with 50,000 of his soldiers, "...I haven't felt this excited in a long time."

~~~~~~~~~
I am disappointed that you seem to think that your fleet has a chance at stopping us from our goal. I suppose that this is an inevitable outcome, and I accept that. Let it be known that High General Karius of the Autocratic Triumvirate of Nili will be delivering your judgement for the high crime of attacking our Emperor. May your demise be quick and painless.

Sincerely,
High General Karius

A few seconds after the message was sent, the three graviton cannons suddenly stopped firing for a second, soon replaced by a moment of silence as the Darius II's main weapon finally fired, sending a two-kilometer wide orb of destruction directed at the center of the star destroyers. As the weapon fired, the shields suddenly came to abrupt cease as layers from the front of the ship rippled and cracked, forcing the shields to momentarily cease. It was at this moment that a large group of box-like shuttles ejected themselves from the bottom of the Darius II and quickly swarmed towards Kaduna.

The Harmony-Class ship firing at Kaduna stopped as it had finally taken enough damage, causing the numerous reactors that were still online to explode, sending large pieces of debris in every direction as the Thanatos I became an enormous fireball.

The Thanatos II had almost prepped and fired the Purifying Beam, but quickly changed targets as the Star Destroyers came into range with their weaponry. As the waves of firepower bared down on it, it quickly unleashed the Purifying Beam at group, releasing an large swathe of spiralling purple energy at them, adjusting it's aim slowly as large sections of it were blasted apart.

A few seconds after the message was sent, the three graviton cannons suddenly stopped firing for a second, soon replaced by a moment of silence as the Darius II's main weapon finally fired, sending a two-kilometer wide orb of destruction directed at the center of the star destroyers. As the weapon fired, the shields suddenly came to abrupt cease as layers from the front of the ship rippled and cracked, forcing the shields to momentarily cease. It was at this moment that a large group of box-like shuttles ejected themselves from the bottom of the Darius II and quickly swarmed towards Kaduna.
We'll worry about them later... The Admiral thought as he saw the shuttles leave, then a two kilometer-wide orb was sent right into the middle of the Star Destroyer fleet, smacking into the Tygon and detonating it explosively. Then the Admiral ordered... "Fire!"

A stream of five missiles and several decoys was sent out at the Darius II. The five missiles are singularity missiles, capable of destroying a large capital ship with hungry black holes. And another thing is that if they are hit, they detonate prematurely, but the singularity's momentum will still carry them forward towards the general direction of the enemy. The decoys are to try and keep the enemy occupied while they bore in. The singularities disappear an hour after the battle ends.

The Harmony-Class ship firing at Kaduna stopped as it had finally taken enough damage, causing the numerous reactors that were still online to explode, sending large pieces of debris in every direction as the Thanatos I became an enormous fireball.

The Thanatos II had almost prepped and fired the Purifying Beam, but quickly changed targets as the Star Destroyers came into range with their weaponry. As the waves of firepower bared down on it, it quickly unleashed the Purifying Beam at group, releasing an large swathe of spiralling purple energy at them, adjusting it's aim slowly as large sections of it were blasted apart.
The VSD Thunderwave was hit by the wave first, the shields collapsed, and the ship detonated. In revenge, the other ships continued to bombard it until it was destroyed.

The podships did all they could to shoot down the missiles, but by the time any of them recognised what they were it was too late. The remaining podships, still well over two hundred total, not including the ones guarding the Priesthood, quickly launched themselves at the remaining star destroyers the inter cept them, even as the enormous Darius II was slowly being destroyed behind them. As the ship was slowly being destroyed, it continued firing the two operational graviton cannons at the rest of the fleet, it's movement slowly coming to a stop as more and more of it was ripped apart by the black holes.

The shuttles quickly took their opportunity during the ensuing chaos to enter the atmosphere of the planet, aiming for the capital city. If what Krayten said was correct, they could possibly gain some resistance there and assassinate the despot themselves. At least they would be relatively safe from space fire from CoreWorlds for the time being.

~~~~~~~~~

The ship's control room was complete chaos as the numerous monitors flashed red lettering and the staff quickly fled for the escape pods. In a matter of seconds the only two left in the room was commander Karius and his right-hand man, ensign Corinth.

"Sir! The Darius II's Graviton Cannons are failing! Reactors one through seven along with both Anti-Matter Reactors have either failed or not responding! If we leave now-"

"Its too late ensign, the last of the shuttles were used to house vehicles. The power from the escape pod chamber is powering our Graviton Cannon." Karius said calmly as he sat back in the Emperor's throne, controlling the few remaining weapon systems manually, "Besides, the escape pod chambers were one of the first things hit by the missiles..."

"But sir... What about the crew?"

"Hah! If we don't do this they may strike for the shuttles! Do you want to see our Emperor killed like that?!" Karius shouted up at him, a snarl on his lips, seconds later replace with a smirk, "Fortunately for you, you're still worth something Corinth. Now heres what I want you to do..."

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Emperor Darius turned for a moment to look back at his aerial throne, a visible frown on his face. He could feel what was happening to it, and he resisted the urge to kill the nearest person as he looked down at planet Kaduna from the only other visible window in the front. He was completely decked out in his Arusia Speed Suit, surrounded by the rest of his men, all of whom decked out in Goliath Battle Suits. The other shuttles were carrying the vehicles, primarily out-of-date fuchikomas and Enforcement tanks.

"The rest of them had better be able to handle the remaining CoreWorlders..." Darius whispered under his breath as he adjusted his helmet, "Krayten and his lackies had better not disappoint me after the sacrifice that was just made."

"Sir, please strap yourself in. We're about to descend at full speed."

"Alright... It'll be thrilling to kill someone on my own once we land though..."

"Of course sir."

"Quickly, prepare all avaliable soldiers for immediate combat, grab anyone who is capable of fighting and try to shoot down as many shuttles as possible."

The Grand Admiral was layered thickly in dust as he shouted out orders, it was more difficult to maintain this planet as reinforcements were arriving for both sides.

A rather large group of Kadunese vessels had began to build up around the first planet, they were stuck there fighting traitor vessels, a pity as those vessels could have turned the battle.

"Have the Kendwina launched, I'm going with them."

Krowadan again shouted out, he began to walk off before turning to his brother, the general.

"You are in command now, this is your field."

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"Admiral on deck!"

The crew rose as Krowadan rushed into the bridge.

"At ease, we're engaging immediatly."

The Admiral sat at the Captains chair he looked out at the hanger bay as the door opened slowly, the sky was clouded by lasers and projectiles as the Flag-ship moved it's way out of the dock.

"Prepare for FTL jump as soon as we are clear of City."

The vessel moved slowly upwards as weapons fire struck the plating, there were explosions already appearing but nothing major yet as the titanic vessel began it's move into FTL.

The podships did all they could to shoot down the missiles, but by the time any of them recognised what they were it was too late. The remaining podships, still well over two hundred total, not including the ones guarding the Priesthood, quickly launched themselves at the remaining star destroyers the inter cept them, even as the enormous Darius II was slowly being destroyed behind them. As the ship was slowly being destroyed, it continued firing the two operational graviton cannons at the rest of the fleet, it's movement slowly coming to a stop as more and more of it was ripped apart by the black holes.
Another Star Destroyer and one of the Missile Cruisers was laid to waste by the Graviton Cannon, but the rest of the fleet continued to engage the Darius even as the black holes laid the ship to waste. Broadside after broadside lashed out at the command ship, and ion cannons lashed out at the graviton cannons to disable them.

Meanwhile, the Strike Cruisers, quicker and more maneuverable than Star Destroyers, formed up into a phalanx formation and began to engage the remaining podships. And a certain Frigate (ie Much Ado about Nothing) began to fire oddly accurate turbolaser shots at those podships that survived, shots augumented by the Force.

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Emperor Darius turned for a moment to look back at his aerial throne, a visible frown on his face. He could feel what was happening to it, and he resisted the urge to kill the nearest person as he looked down at planet Kaduna from the only other visible window in the front. He was completely decked out in his Arusia Speed Suit, surrounded by the rest of his men, all of whom decked out in Goliath Battle Suits. The other shuttles were carrying the vehicles, primarily out-of-date fuchikomas and Enforcement tanks.

"The rest of them had better be able to handle the remaining CoreWorlders..." Darius whispered under his breath as he adjusted his helmet, "Krayten and his lackies had better not disappoint me after the sacrifice that was just made."

"Sir, please strap yourself in. We're about to descend at full speed."

"Alright... It'll be thrilling to kill someone on my own once we land though..."

"Of course sir."
Some fighters managed to fight through the enemy forces and began picking off the shuttles, but with the majority of the fleet in conflict with enemy forces, it was a piddly amount of fire for such a large number of shuttles.

"Quickly, prepare all avaliable soldiers for immediate combat, grab anyone who is capable of fighting and try to shoot down as many shuttles as possible."

The Grand Admiral was layered thickly in dust as he shouted out orders, it was more difficult to maintain this planet as reinforcements were arriving for both sides.

A rather large group of Kadunese vessels had began to build up around the first planet, they were stuck there fighting traitor vessels, a pity as those vessels could have turned the battle.

"Have the Kendwina launched, I'm going with them."

Krowadan again shouted out, he began to walk off before turning to his brother, the general.

"You are in command now, this is your field."
I frowned, looking at the holobattlefield. "Sir, where's the highest point in the city?"

Clouds started to drift into the area.

"The Dukes spire, it protrudes into the lower atmosephere so if you are planning a short trip be sure to bring oxygen, lots of it."

Krowaden joked as he concentrated on the battlefield, several squads had mobolised and were on their way to possible enemy landing sites, many more volunteer squads were pouring in from the City.

"Heh. Don't worry, I got something." I smirked as I disappeared.

Reappearing at an observation deck at the top of the spire, I noticed the air was thinner, and used the Force to concentrate air as it passed around me so I can breathe better. It was windy and cold up here, but I don't intend on staying long. Besides, Coruscant's skyscrapers are taller. I began to circle my fingers above my head, summoning the powers of the Force to start moving clouds.

The clouds, summoned by my call, began to darken and swirl around the City. Particulates in the clouds started rubbing each other and shortly, a sense of electricity was in the air. The winds picked up speed, flowing through my hair and clothes, and the clouds grew in size and darkness. A few small flashes of lightning could be seen.

What I have done, was create a low-pressure system, forcing the wind to blow towards the center and have the clouds form a mesocyclonic cumulonimbus cloud. Also known as a supercell, it's the smallest storm known to develop an eye of sorts, centered right over the spire itself. Tendrils of clouds fanned outwards, reaching kilometers past the City, and the cloud grew still...

I've been dying to use this pic! :D (http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/Coredia/THE_PRINCE_OF_EGYPT_SKU1-3.jpg)

All this was in preparation for combat against the enemy...

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In space...

Daniel... Jacob Masaki thought as he sensed the great powers of the Force being summoned somewhere on the planet by his older brother. He smirked. The Lightning Master strikes again!

Shields flared slightly as the TIEs tried to breach the shields, but would need serious capital ship support to be effective, and the Missile Strike Cruisers and Coredian Mk III Star Destroyers switched targets to the enemy Star Destroyers. The ion cannons were more effective, disrupting systems and sapping shields, but crew ran about swiftly to keep systems running and the ships began rolling to present fresh shields to the enemy as the weaker ones recharged. Defensive X-wings and E-wings intercepted and took on the TIE units with fervor, while K-wing heavy bombers took the risky trip of bombarding the enemy Star Destroyers with anti-capital torpedoes.

The TIEs were being hunted down by the X-wings. But the sheer numbers of the TIEs were overwelming the X-wings. But some Ties were lost.

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"Captain enamy bombers coming in." "Sheilds are holding." "Return fire. Fire all ION cannons." The ION cannons on the Star Distroyers blared as they fired at the remaining CW ships.

The TIEs were being hunted down by the X-wings. But the sheer numbers of the TIEs were overwelming the X-wings. But some Ties were lost.
Slightly larger Blastboat heavy fighters moved in to support the X-wings with stronger shields and more weapons than the snubfighters had. Even so, nearly half-a-dozen starfighters were getting killed every minute or so.

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"Captain enamy bombers coming in." "Sheilds are holding." "Return fire. Fire all ION cannons." The ION cannons on the Star Distroyers blared as they fired at the remaining CW ships.
The ships, now three SDIIIs and one Missile Cruiser instead of two, simply concentrated all their firepower and missiles on one of the enemy ISDs to destroy or disable it. Unfortunately, one of the ISDIIIs were getting increasingly disabled by the ion cannons...

Slightly larger Blastboat heavy fighters moved in to support the X-wings with stronger shields and more weapons than the snubfighters had. Even so, nearly half-a-dozen starfighters were getting killed every minute or so.

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The ships, now three SDIIIs and one Missile Cruiser instead of two, simply concentrated all their firepower and missiles on one of the enemy ISDs to destroy or disable it. Unfortunately, one of the ISDIIIs were getting increasingly disabled by the ion cannons...

TIE after TIE was being shot down some as they were being shot down fell into the CW ships. The TIEs formed up and came in for another run but this time attqacking the fighters and blastboats.
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Missiles exploded on the sheilds.

"Captain sheilds down to 75%"

"Fire Quatrom torpedos."

Torpedoes flew out of the tubes of the ISDs they flew towards there target as the crew of the ships watched and hoped they hit. Then like a phantom a huge shadow crept over them. It was the Jade A SSDhttp://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a147/darth_avondale/john.jpg. Hundreds of Torpedos and missiles flew towards the CW ships.

TIE after TIE was being shot down some as they were being shot down fell into the CW ships. The TIEs formed up and came in for another run but this time attqacking the fighters and blastboats.
With the Blastboats' help, the X-wings (and A-wings) were able to keep up the fighting, but the numbers dead or defeated means that they couldn't keep up forever. Even so, the fighter squadrons did their damndest to lay waste to the TIEs.

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Missiles exploded on the sheilds.

"Captain sheilds down to 75%"

"Fire Quatrom torpedos."

Torpedoes flew out of the tubes of the ISDs they flew towards there target as the crew of the ships watched and hoped they hit. Then like a phantom a huge shadow crept over them. It was the Jade A SSDhttp://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a147/darth_avondale/john.jpg. Hundreds of Torpedos and missiles flew towards the CW ships.
"A Super Star Destroyer." One of the Mk III captains cursed. "Big bastard. Get the Admiral, request singularity bombardment, now!"

The weakest Mk III was sundered by the hundreds of torpedoes and it was near destruction. The captain ordered all hands to try and escape the ship while the bridge crew pointed the bow at one of the enemy Star Destroyers and went to flank speed. The other ships continued to rain blows upon the enemy fleet.

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"Admiral, Super Star Destroyer has entered the battlefield." A sensor operator reported.

"Very well. Weapons, load second singularity volley! Ready, fire!" Admiral Pellaeon ordered.

A second volley of five singularity torpedoes plus decoys rained out at the Super Star Destroyer, aiming for the bridge and other vital spots.

With the Blastboats' help, the X-wings (and A-wings) were able to keep up the fighting, but the numbers dead or defeated means that they couldn't keep up forever. Even so, the fighter squadrons did their damndest to lay waste to the TIEs.

The TIEs were being mutalated by the Xwings, until there were barly any left the rest fled back to the ISDs.


"A Super Star Destroyer." One of the Mk III captains cursed. "Big bastard. Get the Admiral, request singularity bombardment, now!"

The weakest Mk III was sundered by the hundreds of torpedoes and it was near destruction. The captain ordered all hands to try and escape the ship while the bridge crew pointed the bow at one of the enemy Star Destroyers and went to flank speed. The other ships continued to rain blows upon the enemy fleet.

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"Admiral, Super Star Destroyer has entered the battlefield." A sensor operator reported.

"Very well. Weapons, load second singularity volley! Ready, fire!" Admiral Pellaeon ordered.

A second volley of five singularity torpedoes plus decoys rained out at the Super Star Destroyer, aiming for the bridge and other vital spots.

The missiles harmlessly exploded on the SSD. The sheilds the Dweladelfians equiped to the Jade were the top of the line. It fired back ION cannons and more Torpedoes. Prince Kyle sat on the bridge staring down the bow of the ship at the CW ships.

The TIEs were being mutalated by the Xwings, until there were barly any left the rest fled back to the ISDs.
The survivors were pursued until the friendly ships were chased from the turbolasers of the enemy ISDs.


The missiles harmlessly exploded on the SSD. The sheilds the Dweladelfians equiped to the Jade were the top of the line. It fired back ION cannons and more Torpedoes. Prince Kyle sat on the bridge staring down the bow of the ship at the CW ships.
OOC: *cough* do you know what a singularity missile is? It's a missile capable of creating black holes, highly damaging to even major capital ships.

IC:
Unfortunately for the Super Star Destroyer, when the missiles 'harmlessly exploded' on the ship, they detonated into roaring black holes meters wide and began eating up the ship.

OOC: *cough* do you know what a singularity missile is? It's a missile capable of creating black holes, highly damaging to even major capital ships.

IC:
Unfortunately for the Super Star Destroyer, when the missiles 'harmlessly exploded' on the ship, they detonated into roaring black holes meters wide and began eating up the ship.

OOC: I hate you.....

"ABANNDONE SHIP!!!!!" Only a few escape pods were able to escape the distruction of the Jade. Luckly they were carrying the prince and the rest of the jedi. A ISD Picked the few escape pods up. Consentrate all fire on the ship who fired those missiles. Hunderds of Torpedoes, ION cannons and missiles flew towards that ship.

OOC: I hate you.....
OOC: I love you too. :p

"ABANNDONE SHIP!!!!!" Only a few escape pods were able to escape the distruction of the Jade. Luckly they were carrying the prince and the rest of the jedi. A ISD Picked the few escape pods up. Consentrate all fire on the ship who fired those missiles. Hunderds of Torpedoes, ION cannons and missiles flew towards that ship.
An ISDIII in flames bore down on one of the enemy ISDs and used its final amount of life to pour all energy into the engines...

Meanwhile, the Chimera unleashed a devastating Alpha Strike (all regular weapons fired on one target) upon a second enemy ISD while her remaining escorts tried to draw off fire from their larger command ship by also unleashing deadly broadsides into the enemy.

A message was sent to the enemy.

You have a choice now. Surrender, retreat, or die. If you choose to
surrender, we'll treat you well in accordance with all international and
interstellar laws. If you choose to retreat, we will oblige you. If you choose to
continue to fight...we're not responsible for your ultimate demise. Choose wisely.

"How are shields holding?" The Admiral asked.

"At about 80%." The shield officer reported. "Those missiles are causing the most damage..."

"Very well. Keep point-defense on top of the missiles." He replied, and the point-defense laser cannons worked overtime to stop incoming missiles.

As the SSD entered the battle, the podships had already suffered moderate losses, as the some of the enemy's weapons were guided by some supernatural force. The remaining clusters quickly made way from the SSD, quickly moving off to defend the rest of the priesthood, with roughly five-hundred ships left, there were still half of their original fighters. Though with the destruction of the Darius II, the ships became noticeably less accurate in their movements. This was the other reason they went to the Priesthood ships.

The Darius II's lasers finally ceased firing as the remaining reactors went offline. The few still operational literally exploded within the ship, causing red flashes rippling from beneath the hull as the remainder of the ship seemed to sink inward towards the numerous blackholes inside.

The shuttle's forcefields managed to defend themselves against the attacks coming in from both sides, though due to the numerous decoy shuttles, only a dozen or so with actual equipment or soldiers was shot down. The few that were shot down and not utterly destroyed continued speeding downwards, crashing in and around the city.

Though within minutes the first of the shuttles had landed, the decoys landing as well, though only serving as a diversion to allow the troops to spill out. Using inoperable vehicles for cover, the mechanized infantry slowly moved forward, suffering numerous losses before the Enforcement Tanks managed to pull in. The soldiers were attacking the city from three fronts: South East of the capital, South West of the capital, and the majority of the soldiers centered in the north.

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The cracked and seemed to let out an unearthly roar as the enemy fired into it, taking out a large portion of the rear before it came to a landing to the South East. As the Emperor quickly exited the ship with inhuman speed, he was surprised to notice that the capital had so many loyal soldiers that remained. Surely they knew what would happen if they remained behind?

"Fools..." He whispered into his helmet before turning on his communicator to get in touch with the soldiers around him as their heavy suits moved forward, literally mobile artillery.

<Soldiers! Suppress the enemy untill the Enforcement tanks and Fuchikomas get here! I'll need you all alive when we break for the capital building!>

The Emperor smiled for a moment before he looked up and noticed the clouds, which sent a spark of excitement up his spine. It was obvious to him there would be powerful guests inside from seeing it. But he refrained from calling in for aerial support, since he doubted the ships, if they still survived, would be able to deliver any without vaporising a block or two.

"If I speed things up... Maybe I can take the capital before the Darius I arrives?"

OOC: I love you too. :p

Arg......


An ISDIII in flames bore down on one of the enemy ISDs and used its final amount of life to pour all energy into the engines...

Meanwhile, the Chimera unleashed a devastating Alpha Strike (all regular weapons fired on one target) upon a second enemy ISD while her remaining escorts tried to draw off fire from their larger command ship by also unleashing deadly broadsides into the enemy.

A message was sent to the enemy.

You have a choice now. Surrender, retreat, or die. If you choose to
surrender, we'll treat you well in accordance with all international and
interstellar laws. If you choose to retreat, we will oblige you. If you choose to
continue to fight...we're not responsible for your ultimate demise. Choose wisely.

"Hold fire, Master what is your opinon?"

As enemy fire slacked off, so did fire from the Coredian ships upon Dweladelfian ships slow down and searched for other targets.

Admiral Pellaeon waited patiently for the response.

The Kendwina had broken through the outer atmosphere and had so far not gained any major attention, the weapons fire also seemed to have died down as the huge vessel burst into Warp.

The Flag-ship re-appeared just outside another rather large battle over the first planet, Kadunese reinforcements were being held back by Priesthood traitors, the Kendwin locked on and began to make space-dust out of the traitor vessels.

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Eager to find themselves in combat, as their fore-fathers had done, Kadunese warriors piled into a frenzied charge against the outsiders, the crowd occasionally burst out a Plasma discharge but as the mob was out of range it hit nothing but ground.

The sky darkened and the winds picked up as Krowaden donned his armour, this battle would need every man, he grabbed his Plasma Cutter, an axe with a thin blue glow, and rushed out into combat.

bump for ftang to reply.

Ishiak turned and realised he was talking to him. "I have a friend over in their fleet, as do you. One of the Masaki brothers who saved our Academy is controlling them. I suggest surrender, as I believe he does not wish to fire on his friend, but if he does, he will unleash a force more powerful than he can imagine."

"Hail them"

"Your on Sir."

"Attention CW fleet, Dweladelfia Prime is now a member of the G.F.F.A., And sees Core Worlds is also a member. We will back down and are sorry for your loss. Infact...."

Just then the Dweladelfian Ships opened fire on the preist hood ships. Fire missiles and torpedos. As well as ION cannons.

"Admiral..."

"I know." He smiled. "Prepare to dispatch the Marine Corps to the planet. They'll need our help."

The Marines began to board assault ships and readied for the word from their commander to invade and defeat the enemy forces on the planet.

"Sir the Venators have arrived"

"Send them down to the planet and depoly the troops."

The 50 Venator Class Star Destroyers desend to the planet. When they landed they depolyed hundreds of troops, AT-ST, AT-ATs.

"Sir! We're being double-crossed by one of the Priesthood's allies!" A soldier shouted over to Darius, pinned down behind a shuttle as the mechanized troops received and deployed masses of plasma from one end of the battlefield to the other, "The CoreWorlders are sending assault ships this way as well!"

"Damn them all to hell!" Darius shouted over the commlink as a few of the enforcement tanks rushed from behind him towards the enemy, one exploding only a few meters away as a large number of plasma shots hit it, "Have all the remaining podfighters keep them in the atmosphere! Where the hell is the Darius I?!"

"The orders will be sent immediately!"

"Move towards the city! The further in we go the less we have to worry about artillery!"

"Y-yes sir!"

Looking up at the city as they slowly pushed themselves closer into the fray, the Emperor felt significantly angrier than he'd been when he lost the Darius II such a short time ago. He would make sure that the traitors paid dearly for what they just attmempted to pull, even if it cost him everything. But the only way that could be done would be to take hold of the tower...

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The roughly five-hundred remaining podfighters around the priesthood suddenly began dispersing, attacking Dweladelfia Prime and Coreworld ships alike as they quickly made their way towards the CoreWorlders and other ships trying to enter the atmosphere. Despite the fact that they were suffering significant losses doing so, by staying close to the enemy fighters they also protected themselves from being fired at by the enemy cruisers.

Towards the back of all this another enormous ship made it's way onto the fringes of Kaduna territory. The Darius I, along with more podfighter reinforcements, had finally arrived...

"Lord Master, we are taking heavy fire from the Dweladelfians, I am diverting power to forward weapons and shields."

Good, thought Krayten, the crew had began to pre-empt his moves, he only hoped that it was not too visible to enemies, junk began to fall around him as missiles smashed across the hull plating, shields began to be pockmarked with holes, and the weapons fire had slimmed.

Realising that it was far to risky to remain in this place Krayten began to growl, he was bitter at yet another blow to his coup.

"Get us out of here, all warp!"

The warp boosters warmed up, a little too late as the Flag-Ship Kadun folded into itself, the thousands of shards of wreckage strewn across the system.

A few Priesthood vessels, realising the inevitable failure, fled to Priesthood planet cells, others stayed to valiantly fight on.

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The Kendwina and it's emptied fighter compliment were too busy to hear the news as they were fully engaged in combat with Priesthood vessels circling the first planet of the sun, already three friendly vessels had been freed up and were on thier way to the Home-World, around 20 remained and many of those had already taken damage.

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Volunteer Firing squads had taken up positions around possible landing sites and had began to get a little trigger happy firing at imaginary things which were out of range, the main warrior Corp was still arriving in dribs and drabs, the Plasma cutters shone out making them ideal targets.

The battle wasn't getting anywhere, with the heavily armored mechanized armor suffering no significant losses, but the fact that the shuttles wouldn't provide armor forever was worsening morale. There was only one option left for them, charge through the enemy, attacking from both sides as they went. They would send the heavy tanks out first...

"Sir... The Master Priest's ships are abandoning us..." One of Darius' officers quietly muttered to him, "Though I've received word the Darius I is entering the Zeres System..."

"Bah... What a waste..." He couldn't help but mutter as he watched the darkening clouds. It was as if some forth was trying to draw him there, but with the soldiers pouring in from all sides... "Don't tell the soldiers. We will only surrender on our own terms... I will not be branded a traitor or a coward today."

"Y-yes sir."

Darius would have spit if his helmet hadn't been on, but it was now that he had work to do. He'd lost his throne, one of his favored generals, and was in jeopardy of losing his pride. And to what?! A few worthless Kadunese that seemed to be lacking any degree of training?!

"...I want you to clean up thise shuttle mess then meet up with us if you can. Good luck officer." Darius said calmly.

Lightning fast, at nearly ten times the speed of a normal human, the armored figure quickly stuck a hand up and pointed it at a small break in the scattered troop in front of them, immediately taking notice of the plasma cutters. The North would be taking most of the hits he wagered, judging by the size of the troops he sent there, but those were the lightweights, just there to draw enemy fire away from his elite forces...

"Move forward!!! Kill anything in range! Aim for the plasma weaponry!!!" Darius quickly shouted, just as the first waves of giant enforcement tanks slammed past, one managing to knock a shuttle over before climbing over it.

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On all three sides of the capital, all of the units quickly moved forward as one, the majority of the troops centered in the north, they were also taking the most losses by drawing enemy fire from the other divisions. As they rushed forward, they were all lead by the armored walking enforcement tanks, followed by large lines of soldiers, with orders to kill anyone holding a weapon that came in firing range.

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In space, as the Master Priests suddenly left, roughly one third of the podships quickly attempted to flee the battleship as the enormous Darius I came within range, though not firing as of yet. The few podfighters trying to knock down shuttles and fighters, roughly one hundred remaining, continued to deliver pressure to the numerous enemy vessels still deploying troops.

It was difficult for the Warriors to get within range to be able to display thier true skill in close combat, tank divisions meant for this circumstance were rolling slowly across the Kadunese countryside, the artillery was close to minumum range but the close quarters made it difficult for a perfect lock to be made.

Krowaden surged forward with his squad, they were backed up by several other volunteer and Warrior units, a shot stuck by Krowaden knocking him to the floor, with determination he clawed his way to his feet and pounded on before being taken to the floor once again, dragging his injured body across the battlefield he was struck once again, loosing blood he finally submitted when a plasma bolt cut through his chest.

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With the majority of Warrior Priest vessels taken, and 13 friendly vessels left, Krowadan ordered a full retreat to the Home-World, the fleet bursted off to warp for the short journey to the Home-World.

I smirked. The clouds were dark to the point of an ugly green color. Enough electricity built up in the air to begin the attack. I raised my arm, and swiftly dropped it.

A series of devastating bolts of lightning began to crash down on the enemy forces, aiming mostly for the enemy vehicles, but infantry will do.

In the midst of the summoned lightning storm, the Marine Corps fought their way to the ground, loosing several assault shuttles in the process. Those that survived began deploying AT-TEs, attack Cougars (yes, large unmanned mecha-yet-fluidly-moving cats with black armor, back-mounted internal assault blasters (like .50 cals but for laser weapons) and missiles), Sabercats (manned Cougars with large fangs, twin turbolasers and four light laser cannons and shields, still quite fast and agile), and repulsartanks as escort vehicles. Not to mention LAAT attack gunships that deployed the infantry on flanking maneuvers to the Emperor's forces and then moved to slash beamlaser cannons into the enemy ranks while tossing air-to-air missiles into the podships, supported by friendly fighters. The Marines have arrived!

OOC: Our enforcement tanks walk on legs. Here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=9043316#post9043316) The mechanized infantry are wearing this (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21/Kutulmak/ps01.jpg) with the exception of officers, which wear a more maneueverable type of suit.

IC: As Darius and his troops moved forward, the firepower from the enemy intensified, though between the tanks most of his men were able to escape between the legs unscathed, others weren't so lucky, as a number of his officers found out, along with a few of his mechanized infantry, which took close range fighting rather poorly. The sound of all of the metal legs moving in unisen between all the machines was almost deafening as well, causing soldiers to push the dead aside in their mad dash towards the beginning of the city. At least as they closed in even more, they would be able to avoid the enemies larger weapons.

"Heh this is going pretty well... I wonder how many we've lost so far..." Darius sighed as he grappled with the side of one of his enforcement tanks, protecting him from any of the enemy's fire, "Now lets see..."

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N.M.C.D

Division 1: 21,234/33,000
Division 2: 6453/8000
Division 3: 7140/8000
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As he finished looking over the statistics, he realised that the enemy must have been bearing down on his larger forces more than he expected. Though once in the city that would change, it had to. At least the storm clouds took his mind off things, untill the first of them hit...

As the first blast smacked down at one of the Enforcement tanks, there wasn't much damage done, mainly due to the fact that almost all of his forces were well grounded to prevent enviormental hazards from affecting them. As they continued forward, sticking behind the tanks, now slightly slowed as they fired at the Kadunese soldiers, the first reports of the CoreWorld vehicles reached him, then more from all sides.

"It seems this lightning is no accident... Very well then... Remain where we are! Our Northern forces have already detected vehicles attacking them! They should be upon us shortly! If we stay as close as possible to the Kadunese as we push forward we should be able to avoid the brunt of their attacks!"

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The podfighters were failing fast without a steady supply of reinforcements, though as the mammoth ship closed in on Kaduna, from the opposite end of the CoreWorldian ships, relying on it's proximity to the planet to prevent it from receiving any amount of fire, it finally made it's move. It took less than a minute to make apparent what it was doing, as it quickly began releasing podfighters around it. Along with that it quickly released a message to all enemy ships.



Cease what you are doing at once. This is a direct order from the Autocratic Triumvirate of Nili. If you fire upon us we will retaliate from within close vacinity to the planet Kaduna.

"Alien vessel, what you think you know about us is untrue, the Priesthood have spread vicous lies about our nation, please reconsider your actions before somthing is done that we will all regret."

Krowadan pleeded, it was probably too late but anything was worth a try, the Kendwina began to target the Priesthood vessels which remained intact.

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The ground Squads fought on determined and fearless, tanks had began to appear on the horizon and immediatly began to target the enemy walkers, the body of Krowaden had been trampled on as the battle raged on.

Be that as it may, we are unable to withdraw without a direct order from a member of the Triumvirate, preferrably that of Emperor Darius. Seeing that his Capital Ship has been destroyed and he has been detected near your capital, it is my duty as one of his chosen high generals to carry out his last order. Though I may regret this decision, I must formally refuse at this time, as surrendering is not within my authority.

High General,
Acheron Zakuro

"Shit!" Darius shouted as one of the enforcement tanks nearby lost a leg, causing the craft to nearly fall over onto his men.

They were lucky, since so far the Emperor had seen it happen twice first hand in the last ten minutes. Though at least they made some leeway near the city, though with every minute outside they lost more and more soldiers, especially in the north. Though it was hard for him to feel any sympathy for them, being soldiers it was only natural.

<Whats taking you all?! At least one of our groups should have pushed past them! We're attacking from three fronts!>

Hearing the myriad excuses from the group, Darius quickly shut off his communicator and continued moving forward. He silently promised himself that he would strangle the first official in Kaduna that he spotted in that eyesore of a tower with his own two hands.

Realising the need to stem the ongoing battle on the ground the Kendwina launched it's fighters to the ground, they swiped low over the battlefield taking out the tanks which seemed to be the main focus of all the high powered weaponary.

Plasma turrets rung out over the battlefield as Heavy Weapons Squads settup in the thick of the fighting, the repeated pushes forward by the Kadunese infantry seemed to be doing it's job and holding back the enemy, the main concern was the enemy walkers which dominated the battlefield, men were dying and the reinforcements were thining, but now was no time for surrender.

"Sir! We're being double-crossed by one of the Priesthood's allies!" A soldier shouted over to Darius, pinned down behind a shuttle as the mechanized troops received and deployed masses of plasma from one end of the battlefield to the other, "The CoreWorlders are sending assault ships this way as well!"

"Damn them all to hell!" Darius shouted over the commlink as a few of the enforcement tanks rushed from behind him towards the enemy, one exploding only a few meters away as a large number of plasma shots hit it, "Have all the remaining podfighters keep them in the atmosphere! Where the hell is the Darius I?!"

"The orders will be sent immediately!"

"Move towards the city! The further in we go the less we have to worry about artillery!"

"Y-yes sir!"

Looking up at the city as they slowly pushed themselves closer into the fray, the Emperor felt significantly angrier than he'd been when he lost the Darius II such a short time ago. He would make sure that the traitors paid dearly for what they just attmempted to pull, even if it cost him everything. But the only way that could be done would be to take hold of the tower...

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The roughly five-hundred remaining podfighters around the priesthood suddenly began dispersing, attacking Dweladelfia Prime and Coreworld ships alike as they quickly made their way towards the CoreWorlders and other ships trying to enter the atmosphere. Despite the fact that they were suffering significant losses doing so, by staying close to the enemy fighters they also protected themselves from being fired at by the enemy cruisers.

Towards the back of all this another enormous ship made it's way onto the fringes of Kaduna territory. The Darius I, along with more podfighter reinforcements, had finally arrived...


The ISDs released there remaining fighters at the podships that were attacking the Venators. As the Venators desended they released TIE/ln on the Nilli tanks on the ground. They targeted the tanks with there laser cannons. The Venators landed on the ground. They opened there doors and they releasded AT-AT and AT-STs. As well as hunderds of troops and Marines.

"M'lord the Venators have landed."

"Good ready some fighters The Jedis and I are going down.

"Yes M'lord"

Kyle, Jacob and the other Jedis boarded Jedi Starfighter MKIIs. They flew down to the surface to join the battle.

((You do know most of my forces are relatively close to the Kadunese soldiers, so if you bombed us you'd probably kill more than a few of them))

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As he finished looking over the statistics, he realised that the enemy must have been bearing down on his larger forces more than he expected. Though once in the city that would change, it had to. At least the storm clouds took his mind off things, untill the first of them hit...

As the first blast smacked down at one of the Enforcement tanks, there wasn't much damage done, mainly due to the fact that almost all of his forces were well grounded to prevent enviormental hazards from affecting them. As they continued forward, sticking behind the tanks, now slightly slowed as they fired at the Kadunese soldiers, the first reports of the CoreWorld vehicles reached him, then more from all sides.

"It seems this lightning is no accident... Very well then... Remain where we are! Our Northern forces have already detected vehicles attacking them! They should be upon us shortly! If we stay as close as possible to the Kadunese as we push forward we should be able to avoid the brunt of their attacks!"
Hmm. Normal lightning isn't going to cut it. Too well grounded. I thought. Let's ramp up the power!

I conducted a string of hand-seals, summoning the reserves I have in the Force and from my hands, a lightning bolt reached into the sky. As I did this, I called out:

"Raiton: Rakurai no Jutsu!" (Lightning Type: Thunderbolt Technique!)

A second volley of lightning bolts rained down upon the enemy. But instead of simply trying to EMP enemy forces, they exploded upon contact...

"Shit!" Darius shouted as one of the enforcement tanks nearby lost a leg, causing the craft to nearly fall over onto his men.

They were lucky, since so far the Emperor had seen it happen twice first hand in the last ten minutes. Though at least they made some leeway near the city, though with every minute outside they lost more and more soldiers, especially in the north. Though it was hard for him to feel any sympathy for them, being soldiers it was only natural.

<Whats taking you all?! At least one of our groups should have pushed past them! We're attacking from three fronts!>

Hearing the myriad excuses from the group, Darius quickly shut off his communicator and continued moving forward. He silently promised himself that he would strangle the first official in Kaduna that he spotted in that eyesore of a tower with his own two hands.
Large black-coated cougars charged forth at the enemy troopers, launching missiles at them and then closing in with assault blasters. And when they got into melee range, they launched themselves at the soldiers, slashing or biting with chainrazor claws and teeth to get at the soft fleshy human inside their suits and slay them. The Marines followed up in their APCs and tanks and assaulted the enemy with high-powered blaster rifles and hypersonic slugs.

Even larger Sabercats attacked the vehicles, blasting away with turbolasers and squashing enemies with their paws. Their claws were sharp enough to cut enemies into bloody chunks of meat and their canine teeth were huge, able to stab into enemy units like their ancient namesakes the saber-tooth tigers once did on mammoths.

And that's not all, for LAAT gunships swooped low over the battlefield, beamlasers slicing into enemy forces like hot knives into butter, while their missiles took out enemy ground vehicles like their Apache chopper counterparts did on Earth, only far more effective.

As for me? I continued lashing out with explosive lightning bolts and prepared to deal with the Emperor Darius himself in a duel of epic proportions. After all, my main strategy is to take out the enemy commander, be it admiral, general, marshal or emperor. I found him a brave man for leading his troops personally...and an honorable duel is the best way out.

AT-ATs rained down fire on the enamy tanks. Speeder bikes swooped past them attacking there ground troops. Kyle and the other jedis arrived on the surface. They landed in the hangerbay of the lead Venator.

"Captiain what is or status."

"We are pushing them back M'lord"

"Good......" He smiled to himself.

"Shit! Get out of the way you stupid bastards!" Darius shouted over at a group of soldiers as he quickly leapt forward and swung a hand to the side, sending them rolling out of the way of a group of missiles and safely into a wall of metal that was once an enforcement tank, "You call yourselves Elite?! Show some spine and-"

"Aiieeeee!!!" Shook Darius from scolding his troops as he turned to see a large metallic feline ripping through one of his soldier's heavy armor relatively easily.

Taking no time to think, Darius quickly ignited his photon sword and rushed forward at blinding speed, all of which happening much slower thanks to the suit. A few quick slices from the red blade, which retracted back into the hand of his glove, and Cougar slowly slid into three sections. Though regretfully that wasn't the only one, and looking around he quickly noticed more and more soldiers moving within their ranks causing havoc, most notably the traitors from Dweladelfia prime.

Before he could move forward to take care of them, his sensors picked up another LAAT moving in over head. Not wasting time to think, he made his rush forward, leaping under one of the Enforcement tanks as the laser came slashing towards him, ripping through a few of his soldiers in the process. The last thing he heard for a few seconds was a loud crashing sound above him.

Opening his eyes once again, Darius realised what had happened, and slowly squeezed himself out from under the destroyed chunk of tank. Though it was hard, something seemed off as he quickly leaned up against the machine. Before he could think into it, one of his officers quickly rushed over with a plasma rifle.

"Emperor!!!"

"Shit... That piece of trash fell on me. Whats wrong?" He mumbled under his breath as he moved his arm forward to nudge him with his right hand, suddenly realising what had happened, "...Heh... heheh... It figures doesn't it?"

"S-sir?"

The Emperor looked down at his body, which was now missing the lower portion of his right leg and arm. Due to the neurological effects of the suit though, he barely felt a thing, though at this rate...

"We should declare a Truce sir! We've been doublecrossed! Dwedelfia prime turned on Krayten, and we've been forced down here because of them... Sir, its not your fault that this happened... We can still make it through this if we stop now."

"Heh heh heh... You know... You're right..." Darius mumbled as he quickly crawled into the hatch of the Enforcement tank, "Keep an eye out. The Darius I had been trying to contact me... I should probably respond."

"Yes s-" The recruit started to mutter as a blast flashed outside of the open hatch and the entire patch of ground was gone.

Shrugging this off quickly, Darius tapped the side of his helmet with his remaining hand and got in touch with his the Darius I. No matter what happened however, he would remember this day well, and what happened to him.

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To: Kaduna and Allies
From: The Darius I
Subject: Truce
We have finally received word from our Emperor Darius, who was having communication trouble due to the ensueing conflict on the planet's surface. He admits that he was tricked by Master Priest Krayen's words, and that he couldn't necessarily trust Kaduna and her allies when the Priesthood left, due to a previous message he receieved from what seemed like a Kaduna official. Due to this, his judgement was shifted from what it should have been, and that led to this extremely bloody conflict which had so far cast so much of a toll on all of us. We regret the casualties caused on all sides, and would appeciate it if you would except a truce while we retrieve our soldiers from Kaduna soil as soon as possible. Afterwards we would like to start peace talks.

Sincerely,
High General,
Acheron Zakuro

As soon as the message was sent, all of the podfighters not defending themselves quickly returned to the Darius I, turning off all weapon systems immediately to prove their sincerity. Back on the planet however the surviving forces of the Triumvirate's quickly went into defensive posisitions within each of the three battlefronts to await a response.

"Sir Look!"

Kyle spotted the Red photon sword.

"Master looks like we have a target."

He and the other jedi walk down the ramp and ignight there Blades. Ready for battle.

OOC:Ftang please respond.


*700th post*

Darius sat back in the smashed enforcement tank tending to his now cauterised right arm and lower right leg. He could still barely feel it, but at least he wasn't bleeding, and his suit was operational. Leaning back a bit, he reached into a side pocket and pulled out a flask of wine and brought it to his lips. His suit was now covered in large red splotches from the blood of his soldiers and enemies, but it seemed to match the already reddish hue of the armor, hard to detect except for the stench of death now covering him. It was a stench he was used to.

"Damn filth. I'll have to remember to hunt those bastards down when this is over..." He whispered to himself as he stared at the closed enforcement tank hatch in front of him. The tank was on it's side though, so it more than likely wouldn't make a good target, "Ah well... I guess I've been getting rusty."

A comlink managed to burn its way through the electrical interference caused by the storm.

"Commander, Nili forces are calling for a truce and standing down!"

I smiled, and waved my hand. The clouds grew lighter and the sun started to shine through again. Then I ordered: "Stand down immediately. We have won this battle."

As the guns fell silent and the cougars were called off, I teleported again, this time to meet the Emperor face to face. "Emperor Darius." I call as I reappeared on the bloody battlefield near him. "Daniel Masaki, Commander in Chief of the Coredian Interstellar Defense Force."

Encrypted Message
From: Standing Grand Duke Krowadan
To: The Darius I
Subject: Truce

We agree to this truce, we have both lost allies and friends on this day and we mourn for all losses on both sides and vow that we will hunt down the numbers of Priests, with the tretcherous Grand Duke Karden in custody operations can begin on said task, we thank you for your willingness to hear the truth out.

Darius stared at his flask of wine for a second, then looked up at Daniel Masaki, smirking as he took another drink and rose it up to him. He didn't need to ask about most of the things that had happened with the lightning so far, since anyone who could teleport to him was obviously the on responsible. Barring that, he had much more of a unique army than he gave them credit for, not that he was giving them credit.

"Teleportation... Impressive for a human." He smirked as he pushed his leg against the ground and moved himself upwards untill he was landing against the wall, allowing a brief use of telekinesis to assist him, "Especially someone so young. I was about to offer you a drink, but I'm not sure if you're old enough. Shouldn't you be out building treehouses instead of popping in to visit the enemy?"

Pausing for a moment, Darius moved his left hand to the side of his helmet and undid the fastenings, slowly lifting it up to make sure he wasn't seeing things. He was rather surprised to see that the ruler who took out the Darius II was so young, but kept his guard up in case this commander was planing to get the jump on him. After all, Drake had been known to switch bodied occasionally to keep up a younger visage.

"Or maybe you've come to finish me off? Don't think I've forgotten what you did to that ship of mine. So what are you? Some sort of magician?" He continued taking another drink from the f lask as he pulled it towards him, "Honestly, I'm surprised they even let kids like you in the military, let alone commanding the entire thing."

I smirked to the point of laughter. Works every time. Being 31, yet looking 16 or 18. It never ends.

"I'm actually older than I look. That happens sometimes in our nation." I replied. "And I believe it was my Admiral who delivered the blow to your ship. I was just the Jedi Knight tossing down the wrath of heaven."

"Haha the one time Heaven decides to do something it sides with some punk upstart instead of me, is that it?" He mumbled with a shrug, "Well if you're older than you look, than I guess I should say I know how that is. I've had that said about me. Ah one moment, I need to send a message to Kaduna."

Darius shut his eyes for a moment as the cybernetic wiring in the back of his neck flashed to life and began transmitting towards the Kudana, trying to sound as touched by it all as he could. With that teleporter, probably a jedi or something that Zephon was talking about, he still managed to keep his senses trained on him.


Encrypted Message
To:
From: Emperor Darius
Subject: Truce
It is rather inspiring to see such a forgiving ruler, but at least you understand the motivation behind our attack. We will remember this encounter for a long time, but hopefully it will not be a completely negative experience. If you have any requests from the Triumvirate, I will carefully consider it for you.

Emperor Darius spent another second staring at Commander Daniel Masaki before shaking his head, "Even though you leave alot to be desired from the posisition I am standing, I must say you are rather powerful. Are you by any chance a jedi?"

"Yes, I am." I nodded. I looked at the flask he's drinking. "What's in there?"

"A rather strong wine. I'll need it once this suit's pain neutralisers shut off, what with the sudden injured I came in contact with today. I was actually planning on killing you at the top of that toward, but it turns out Dweladelfia Prime couldn't be trusted... Or the priesthood, so my plans were a bit cut back."

Finishing the rest of the flask, Darius tossed it to the floor in front of him and let out a slight yawn. The kid was powerful, and perhaps if he took him in dead or alive he would have been able to find out what made him tick. Though thanks to a lack of preparation all he could do was stand there, maimed and practically defeated.

"Well at least I've learned something from this experience." He sighed, sliding across the wall and posisitioning himself in a corner, away from any snipers, "I've heard rumors of CoreWorlds, and your weapons were extremely formidable, perhaps someday in the future we can trade secrets for our mutual benefit, hm?... Well in anycase a shuttle from the Darius I should be taking me up with them momentarily."

"A rather strong wine. I'll need it once this suit's pain neutralisers shut off, what with the sudden injured I came in contact with today. I was actually planning on killing you at the top of that toward, but it turns out Dweladelfia Prime couldn't be trusted... Or the priesthood, so my plans were a bit cut back."

Finishing the rest of the flask, Darius tossed it to the floor in front of him and let out a slight yawn. The kid was powerful, and perhaps if he took him in dead or alive he would have been able to find out what made him tick. Though thanks to a lack of preparation all he could do was stand there, maimed and practically defeated.
"Heh. I'd think you'll find me quite the challenge if you ever fought me." I replied. "Not that I'm gloating or anything..."

"Well at least I've learned something from this experience." He sighed, sliding across the wall and posisitioning himself in a corner, away from any snipers, "I've heard rumors of CoreWorlds, and your weapons were extremely formidable, perhaps someday in the future we can trade secrets for our mutual benefit, hm?... Well in anycase a shuttle from the Darius I should be taking me up with them momentarily."
"Someday, perhaps." I nodded. "I'll open the airspace for you, then."

"I appreciate it." Darius responded smugly, "You should probably teleport out, so that none of my soldiers see you. By the way, whats the range on that teleportation?"

Darius was feeling rather curious, "I would offer a warning about gloating, but if you ever got to know me you would just consider those the words of a hypocrite... However you seen pretty powerful, especially with my body as it is, but any challenge can be defeated if you take it down piece by piece. The shuttles should be here in a few minutes now, whether the airspace is open or not. I hope to see you again on the battlefield, just to see how strong you really are."

Though I doubt you'll recognise me...

"I appreciate it." Darius responded smugly, "You should probably teleport out, so that none of my soldiers see you. By the way, whats the range on that teleportation?"
I smiled coyly. "If I told you, it'd be telling. But I will say that it's quite a bit of range, though not infinite."

Darius was feeling rather curious, "I would offer a warning about gloating, but if you ever got to know me you would just consider those the words of a hypocrite... However you seen pretty powerful, especially with my body as it is, but any challenge can be defeated if you take it down piece by piece. The shuttles should be here in a few minutes now, whether the airspace is open or not. I hope to see you again on the battlefield, just to see how strong you really are."

Though I doubt you'll recognise me...
"If we ever fought again, I'll be sure to take you up on that." I smirked. Sensing arriving troopers, I gave him one last message and bowed respectfully. "As we Jedi say, 'May the Force be with you'."

I winked out with a slight pop and an aura of white electrical smoke wafted through the area, though I doubt it could be detected with the stench of dead bodies. I reappeared at a quickly-set up HQ and began to take in reports from the field commanders.

"Ah... It will be..." Darius managed to whisper as he leaned up against the wall, cringing as he felt his lack of an arm, "Gah... I wonder who I'll choose..." he said through clenched teeth, "...Not that it matters..."

Getting on one knee Darius let out a calm sigh as the door opened, a small group of medical staff, along with four of his bodyguards from the Darius I came over and put him quickly upon a stretcher. As he looked up at the soldiers, he smiled to himself satisfied before shutting his eyes for a short rest before he returned to the ship.

"E-Emperor?!"

"Shut up. The pain neutralizers are going offline... I'd prefer to be unconscious when the after effects take place... Did you bring them with you?" He said cooly, his eyes still closed as he laid still, almost appearing dead.

"Yes sir, we've brought your three bodyguards from 1234 BU. There are also five of your offspring to choose from so that you can do all of this incognito." One of the medics whispered at him as they opened the tank door and climbed out with the stretched, one of the soldiers getting the helmet back, "This was rather a spur of the moment decision... Are you sure of the repercussions?"

"You are my most trusted servants. Because of that, you've lived lives longer and more extragent than normal people could only dream of. We've been rather close I suppose, though I've realised that ruling for so long is making me weak."

"But sir, you're the Enforcer of Catharsis, without you-" One of the bodyguards whispered hoarsly down to him as they moved over a pile of corpses.

"So be it. Your retirement begins at my funeral. If you ever try to return without myself present, you will all be killed on sight." He said pleasantly at the group of men hovering over him, "I put most of my chips on Dejikas of Kraite, even if he is a half-breed."

"Sir, its rather unsettling for you to talk to us this way." One of the guards attempted to protest, but as Darius opened one of his cold, dead eyes at him, he halted, "But it is rather gratifying. I'd say Kas or Zack, though who can tell with that machine..."

"Well... We're here. Its been a great few millennia, I even had a moon named after me." He suddenly grinned, "I'll probably go down in the history books. Not since the Masked Beast has a ruler kept control of Catharsis as long as I have. Though when I return, they'll all see what real power is..."

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As the Darius I slowly left Kaduna, taking as much usable equipment as possible and leaving most of the bodies, along with the equipment that was too manhandled to take back, behind. They only needed the digital recordings of each soldier's last moments for prosterity and to prove they were dead. The sparse few with faulty recording equipment had their corpse retrieved as well. Riffling through which was which side's was a mess, but the armor was at least easy to tell from. By the time they left, the fields were covered in gore and crushed machines, and large chunks of the destroyed capital ships still floated around the planet, promised to be taken care of later by Nili's Scavengers.

Emperor Darius died that day, and with him the dreams and ambitions of the multitudes of people under him, for good and ill. The battle of Kaduna would forever be etched in the Triumvirate's history for that death of one of the strongest leaders in the history of the Zeres System.

"M'lord we have gottin a message saying there is a truse."

Kyle sighs and switchs off his lightsaber.

"Send a message to Core Worlds."

"Yes Sir"

To: Core Worlds
From: Dweladelfia Prime

We are sorry for the lose we have caused you. We hope that some relationship can come between our two nations. If there is anything that we can do for you, just tell us.

Reply:
There's nothing to do right now but return home and heal. We accept the apology.

OOC: So is it over?

OOC: Kaduna needs to post as well.

OOC: Kaduna has already started a thread which takes place ten years from now. http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=459297

so the battles over?

OOC: Pretty much. Bout time to get into the market for new military goods and set up a funeral. Though since its Nili it will double as an outlet to sell military goods and biological weapons along with more conventional goods.

"Captain the battle is over please take us back to the academy tell the rest of the fleet to head home."

"Yes M'lord"

The Venators took off. The one carrying Kyle and the Jedi headed for Ftang. As they left the system they saw the rremains of the Jade.

"They Havnt seen the last of the Jade........"

The Venator Blasted into Hyperspace with a flash.

(OOC: this has been the best RP i've been involved with since I started NS in April, I need to get out more, I'd also like to thank Star Wars Episode III and the Eurythmics song There must be an Angel which were the inspiration behind this RP, there's nothing left to do now but tie up all the loose ends with an Epilogue)

Epilogue

The City of Kaduna began it's long task of bringing itself back to it's former glory, not only did it suceed in this task but it exceeded all estimations becoming a hive of activity as Kaduna was drawn into a golden age.

Krowadan found the body of his Brother amongst the dead and dying outside the City, a memorial tower was built in dedication to Krowaden and all those lost in the battle, Krowadan was weakened by his loss and seemed distant for next few years as he made reforms which made the lives of thousands of Kadunese far better.

Krowadan married 1 Year after and had two children, Krowagtan his son and Krowiftan his Daughter, both rose through the ranks of Kaduna to take important positions within the Duchal system.

The former Duke Karden was arrested and interregated deep in a secret torture facility, he gave the names of thousands of Priests and the locations of secret Planetary Cells, given this information there were several Purges of nearby systems, the Priesthood was on the run and the Kadunese could finally live free.