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This is to be the RP thread for the Dweledelfia Prime Campaign resulting from http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=464474

OOC: I already made a thread for this. But I Guess we can use this.

On the Boarder of the Dweladelfia Prime System

The 2nd Defence Fleet came into veiw of the Talaaxian Fleet.

"Ready Weapons. SIgnal the Talaaxian Fleet." Channel Open."

"Talaaxian Fleet this is Admiral James of the Imperial Navy. Return to your home space or prepare to be distroyed." "Sir the Jade Fleet is almost here." "Hopefully we can hold out till then." He laughed as he sat back in his chair. This has been the first invasion in Dweladelfian History.

Jade Fleet

"Sir we are 5 hours out of the boarder." The helmsman reported. "Signal Highcommand we are amost there and prepare to man battle stations go to yellow alert." Kyle Avondale the IV sat back down in his chai next to his wife Ally Avondale. This couple had just been marryed 1 year ago. They were 15 and 15. But the love for eachother was no diffrent then an older couple. They waited patiencently for the battle ahead. There Flagship the Jade III was the head of the greatest fleet in the imperial navy. And no enamy can stop its fury.

OOC: Map: http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a147/darth_avondale/DPSScopy.jpg

Dweladelfia Prime

All at once, still in attack formations, the Yuuzhan Vong fleet dropped from hyperspace at the edge of the Dweladelfia Prime's gravity well. Immediately coralskippers and other fighters began swarming from docking arms and hangar bays. Hundreds. Thousands. All taking up positions ahead of and above the capital ships, covering them from attack.

Moving slowly at first, then faster, the capital vessels cruised toward the planet. Ignoring the protests of the defense fleet, the ships moved forward continuously. Massive Kor Chokk grand cruisers took the lead, using their impressive size to intimidate the smaller defense fleet while the other vessels brought up the rear and the flanks. Once within range, the Kor Chokk's began firing devastating salvoes of plasma fire not at the defense fleet but a Dweladelfia Prime. If there were planetary shields they wouldn't hold for long as the plasma fire was joined by the gravitational pull of hundreds of dovin basals, tugging endlessly at the shields, dragging them away from the planet.

At the same time, the rest of the fleet began to engage the smaller Dweladefian defense fleet. Taking their time, knowing they had several hours before the enemy's tactical fleet would arrive, the ships picked off individual vessels with concentrated salvoes of turbolaser and plasma fire. Grutchins and coralskippers harried every ship not under fire, grutchins flying through depleted shields and making a meal of the ship's exterior while coralskippers swarmed and picked off hard points on the hull. The entire battlefleet moved with the grace and synchronization of a perfectly choreographed ballet. No ship slipped out of formation. None fired out of turn. None took independent action. They acted as one, destroying as one, firing as one, shielding as one.

Dweladelfia Prime

All at once, still in attack formations, the Yuuzhan Vong fleet dropped from hyperspace at the edge of the Dweladelfia Prime's gravity well. Immediately coralskippers and other fighters began swarming from docking arms and hangar bays. Hundreds. Thousands. All taking up positions ahead of and above the capital ships, covering them from attack.

Moving slowly at first, then faster, the capital vessels cruised toward the planet. Ignoring the protests of the defense fleet, the ships moved forward continuously. Massive Kor Chokk grand cruisers took the lead, using their impressive size to intimidate the smaller defense fleet while the other vessels brought up the rear and the flanks. Once within range, the Kor Chokk's began firing devastating salvoes of plasma fire not at the defense fleet but a Dweladelfia Prime. If there were planetary shields they wouldn't hold for long as the plasma fire was joined by the gravitational pull of hundreds of dovin basals, tugging endlessly at the shields, dragging them away from the planet.

At the same time, the rest of the fleet began to engage the smaller Dweladefian defense fleet. Taking their time, knowing they had several hours before the enemy's tactical fleet would arrive, the ships picked off individual vessels with concentrated salvoes of turbolaser and plasma fire. Grutchins and coralskippers harried every ship not under fire, grutchins flying through depleted shields and making a meal of the ship's exterior while coralskippers swarmed and picked off hard points on the hull. The entire battlefleet moved with the grace and synchronization of a perfectly choreographed ballet. No ship slipped out of formation. None fired out of turn. None took independent action. They acted as one, destroying as one, firing as one, shielding as one.


OOC: Your at my home planet? And whats the size of your fleet.

"Sir Enamy fighters coming in. And enamy ships are heading for the planet." "Move in to intersept the enamy ships heading for the planet. Leave some other ships to fend off the other ships."

The sheilds on the planet began to fade. But in retaleation ION Cannons were shot from te surface as well as Anti Capital ship Warheads. But there was one thing the Talaaxian fleet missed. The Dweladelfian Battle Plat forms gaurding the planet. They fired Cannons with 50 Megaton burst at the enamy fleet as well as Thermo Nucular Warheads. But Losses in the fleet began to mount. In retaliation Marine Fighter piolets were sent out to take on the capital ships. Anaconda Distroyers regrouped and formed a wedge to attack the enamy fleet. They pushed through firing Cannons, and missiles. Bird of Preys Came form above and lived up to there name swooping down on the enamy ships.

"When will the Jade fleet arrive?" "There 2 hours out sir."

OOC: Specs on my fleet after losses.

2nd Defence Fleet

117 Anaconda-Class Distroyers
2 Dweladelfia Class Super Dreadnoughts
112 Yellowstone Class Cruisers
21 Prime Class Frigates
24 Exodes Class Battleships
55 Whale Class Transport Ships

Whats the specs on your fleet?
26 Dreadnought Class Super Carrier
98 Bird of Prey Swift Attack Cruisers

OOC: My fleet:

New Fleet
40 Prophet-class Star Dreadnoughts
400 Sekot-class Cruisers
700 Pirya-class Frigate/Gunships

Old Fleet (Classic Yuuzhan Vong)

100 Kor Chokk Grand Cruisers
50 Uro-lk Va'hl Battleships
150 Mi'id Ro'ik Cruisers
250 Matalok Cruisers
50 Ro'ik Chuun M'arh Frigates
20 A-vek Iiluunu Carriers
100,000 Coralskippers

52,320 Dasan-Class Fighters

IC: Dweladelfia Prime

The Yuuzhan Vong fleet continued to fight on. Dovin basals swallowed whole missiles fired from defense platforms and surface. Single missiles stood little chance of ever hitting the Yuuzhan Vong ships. Even ion cannons did little to the yorik coral armour plating of the new ships and even less to the living vessels of the old fleet. Plasma continued to rain down on the rapidly depleting planetary shields.

Utilising their dovin basals again, the Kor Chokks began to lock onto defense platforms and drag them out of orbit, tossing them mercilessly into the planetary shields. Soon the shields were weak enough to unless the actual purpose of this attack. From each of the Kor Chokks several dozen yorik coral capsules, roughly the size of escape pods released toward the planet, passing through shields into the upper atmosphere. Granted, some - perhaps half - were shot down before reaching the atmosphere, but the rest entered the upper atmosphere where they cracked open and released a fine mist. Contained with in the mist were four species of genetically engineered bacteria.

The first was created to feed on duracrete. The bacteria, after having spread around the world on it's air currents, would attach itself to buildings and begin immediately breaking down the duracrete. Within hours whole blocks would be reduced to dust and metal shells.

The second was created to feed on durasteel and transparisteel. As the bacteria found it's home on the surface it would begin breaking down metals, reducing them to their base elements. Buildings, vehicles, tools would all be reduced to scrap within hours.

The third was a specially modified digestive bacteria. When it found anything organic it would immediately begin breaking it down. Plants, animals, people would be "digested" or rather broken down into nutrients and waste. It would take the bacteria nearly a day to fully break down a human, but other life would be destroyed much more quickly.

The last bacteria fed on the waste products of the third bacteria. It's own waste product was carbon monoxide. Released in great quantities, the carbon monoxide would quickly replace oxygen in the atmosphere. Together, the four bacteriums would render Dweladelfia Prime uninhabitable.

As soon as the pods were released, the Yuuzhan Vong fleet turned from the enemy, firing as they went, and made for the edge of the planet's gravity well. Along the way fighters were recovered and some loss taken. Behind them Dweladelfia Prime was a dying world...

High Command

Sir Tallaxians have fired BIO weapons at us." "Raise Surface Sheilds."

Sheilds were rasied all over Dweladelfia Prime. These sheids only protected from 0-50,000 Feet above sea level. But this did not stop the bacteria. It rained down terror on the planet.

Meanwhile in space....

The Jade Fleet Droped out of orbit right infront of the Talaaxian fleet. Gravity wells were enaged. Preventing them from escape. Hundreds of ships sallyed forth to distroy the enamy fleet the Jade III Fired its Super Laser at the lead ship as Dreadnoughts and Distroyers pushed throught the enamy fleet.

Jade Fleet

1 Death to the Infadels class Command Ship (Jade III)
300 Anaconda-Class Distroyers
100 Prime Class Frigates
200 Bird of Prey Swift Attack Cruiser
50 Dweladelfia Class Super Dreadnoughts
250 Yellowstone Class Cruisers
200 Dreadnought Class Super Carrier
100 Exodes Class Battleships
200 Whale Class Transport Ships

Warriors cryed s they yelled sweet revenge for what they have done to the planet.....

A brief flash of light, brighter than the star at the center of the system, existed for but a moment and was gone. In its place were ships innumerable--and one massive vessel at the fleet's heart.

The whole of the 6th Federal was there, plus a Flotte-Unterseiten. Indeed, as soon as the fleet had de-Folded, massive lateral, dorsal, and ventral bays had opened, disgorging swarms of attack craft, bombers, and corvettes. After the massive waves of fighters had taken up vanguard positions, frigates, destroyers, cruisers, and even a pair of Dreadnoughts fled the cavernous hold of the FleetShip Verpflichtung.

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A few hundred officers bustled about the eight-teir bridge of the Verpflichtung. Admiral Kranz paced slowly between his command chair and the edge of the deck. He stopped right at the end and stared into the enormous holodisplay which was centered in the spherical bridge.

"Communications, open a channel to the Dweladelfians," He turned his body sideways, his head looking at the Comm officer, while he extended his right arm and pointed at the Talaaxian markers in the holofield. "Inform them that we will attempt to flank the Talaaxians once both fleets have engaged."

An affirmative was uttered by a communications officer. "Message away, sir."

Kranz turned back to studying the display. "Tactical, I want the first fighter/bomber wave to begin its attack run. They are to attempt to draw this squadron here," the Admiral pointed to the left flank, "away from the main fleet. Have the second wave target the right flank. All remaining waves are to remain in reserve. Oh, and, have all Capital ships launch full torpedo salvoes. PPC and QSD only."

The officers at Tactical grunted affirmatives.

"Well, gentlemen," Kranz muttered to himself, "Our bell has tolled..."

OOC: Uh, Dweladelfia, energy shields would not stop a bacteriological attack. They're meant to shield from energy weapons. They have no effect on kinetic weaponry. Bacteria would pass through an energy shield as if it were just air. Besides which, that shielding would also have come under bombardment by falling defense platforms and plasma shots and would have become sufficiently weak as to allow attacks through.

And if you're going to start pulling stuff like "I've got two layers of very powerful shielding" and "my fleet arrives early and totally pwns you" I'll edit my above post to compensate for both with an attack you CAN'T stop even if I wanted you to.

(ooc: he never said it was an energy shield, and he didn't bring it online until after the other shield fell and your pods entered the atmosphere.)

OOC: If it's ray shielding then it's useless against plasma or turbolaser attacks and his people die anyway. I just assumed it was an energy shield because that's the only logical choice for planetary defense.

OOC: Well, let's think about this for a second.

All biological organisms need energy to survive. Indeed, if they are above zero-kelvin, they have energy. In fact, if they have mass at all, or matter, they have energy. Therefore, an energy shield would block them from entering, assuming that an energy shield is meant to stop/repel energy.

OOC: Its semi permeable. That means it lets somthings in and somthings out. Its likw what some cells have. Its ment to fillter out Bio weapons and energy weapons. And you cant pawn me your srounded and out numbered now.

OOC: Dweladelfia, this is the road to Godmodding. Accept the bio attack, and I'll come drop some anti-bacterial agents into the atmosphere. If that doesn't work, I'll isolate a sample of the bacteria and engineer a counter-virus, preferably a rhinovirus, to destabalize the DNA of the bio weapons.

OOC: If it's ray shielding then it's useless against plasma or turbolaser attacks and his people die anyway. I just assumed it was an energy shield because that's the only logical choice for planetary defense.

OOC: That's assuming he uses Star Wars style shields.

OOC: Dweladelfia, this is the road to Godmodding. Accept the bio attack, and I'll come drop some anti-bacterial agents into the atmosphere. If that doesn't work, I'll isolate a sample of the bacteria and engineer a counter-virus, preferably a rhinovirus, to destabalize the DNA of the bio weapons.

Sounds good.. I guess....

IC:

Hundreds of men woman and children watched as there lifes turned to terror. Terror that rained down in the very thing we breath. Babys cryed and men and women watched in aw as there lifes would be riped to shreads....

OOC: All other posts edited.

OOC: Can't post a full post now, but Dweladelfia, I can reverse the damage done to the ecosystem and atmosphere at the end of the war. The planet won't be the same, but at least it will be habitable.

OOC: Can't post a full post now, but Dweladelfia, I can reverse the damage done to the ecosystem and atmosphere at the end of the war. The planet won't be the same, but at least it will be habitable.

Ok

As the bacterial infection swept across the now-lush world, a Medical cruiser, flanked by two BattleCruisers, pulled itself into low orbit. The ship's sensors had detected a few pods which had never opened, primarily due to their awry trajectories which had placed them in a decaying orbit.

One by one they were tractored into the holding bays, the captain fearing that transport would damage the samples in some way. Several evironmental-suited scientists prowled around the pods, carefully viewing them from the safe side of a forcefield. As they scribbled down notes, quantum scanners were set in place around the pods.

There were five pods in all, giving hope that there would be a sample of each of the bacterial strains. As the scanners came online, the structure of every microbe, down to the last string, came into view.

"Dammit," exclaimed the CMO. "We've only got three strains. No duracrete-eaters."

Another officer nearby looked up from his datapad. "That's not the only problem, sir. Bio's projections indicate we've got about two hours before heavy damage is inflicted."

The CMO uttered a few expletives, and, seemingly calmed down, began to rationalize the problem. "We've got two hours and three strains. We can't neutralize them all. We'll have to pick one. Now, we need to save lives, so that necessitates negating the organic-thing-consuming bacteria first, which will then negate the carbon monoxide bacteria." He thought about it for a second, and then shouted, "Yes, that's the way to go! Everyone, start work on a virus to destabilize the DNA of the digestive bacteria!"

The virus would first eliminate the growth of Mitochondria and Golgi Bodies within the bacteria, would destabilize the protien chains of the DNA, and include a base chemical to neutralize the amino acids.

Speeding up the process was easy. The combined computing power of the Flotte-Unterseiten was enough to produce the DNA of the bacteria in a quarter-hour. Analyzing a receptor to match which a possible rhino-virus took a little longer; roughly a half hour. Another hour and a half was spent genetically engineering the virus to reproduce and carry out its job within the bacteria.

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"Well, we've neutralized every bacterium in the two pods. Seems effective enough," the CMO proudly proclaimed. "Replicate the virus, immediately. Have the Captain take us into the Atmosphere where we can begin to release the virus."

"Aye, sir. And just in time, too. We're only going to be 30 minutes over two hours."

"Y'know, I believe we should work on a virus that ruptures the liposomes, just in case we need another. Indeed, start work on three. One per bacterium. And be sure to include an algorithm of mutation in the DNA. And try to find a pod with the fourth bacteria in it."

"Aye sir."

The CMO walked to the very edge of the bay, right to the forcefield which separated him from the void, watched the planet below him, and smiled at the thought of all the dying bacteria, and the lives that had been saved.

OOC: I'll edit the two and a half hour time tomorrow. As of now, just consider this post saying that pods were recovered and a virus is being engineered currently.

Bump for Talaax..... Theres no escape you are doomed........

OOC: Dweladelfia, just remember. No matter how quickly we create the viruses, you will still take casualties, and lots and lots of damage. There's no avoiding that. But it'll be better than having those things crawling around for the whole war...

As for your fleet, Talaax, even if you made to escape before Dweladelfia's second fleet arrived, you would have run into my fleet. And the instant you got out of the gravity well, we'd have had our Spatial Lock fields up, preventing any escape using engines which tweak the space-time continuum in any way (just about all FTL).

Oh, and, as you assumed that Dweladelfia had energy shields, I'll assume you have the same, as those are standard Star Wars shields. Because of this, when the PPCs phase, they'll pass right through the shields, rematerialize, phase again, and so on. So essentially, they cause massive internal damage. Imagine skipping a stone across a lake. Each time the stone hits is like re-materialization. It'll do damage at set intervals until its energy has been expended.

IC:

The first two waves of fighters and bombers swept toward the Talaaxian fleet. Numbering 900 fighters and 100 bombers per wave, the glinting, amorphous clouds moved ever closer to the enemy ships. Bright flashes of light shot past the fighters, blossoming into brilliant explosions within the heart of the enemy fleet.

The first wave of Phased Particle Cannon bombardment shots were timed to pass directly through the enemy shielding. Operating on a phase-frequency which bears an uncanny resemblance to a sine-wave, the energy bolts were completely phased when they came to the shield, thereby rendering the shield completely helpless to stop the onslaught of energy.

The next wave was even more deadly. The QSDs detonated, turning time-space into soup. Indeed, they are powerful enough to overcome the spatial-lock fields of the warships. As the torpedoes exploded, the strings which composed the ships' shields and the ships themselves uncurled, instantly turning ships caught in their blast to nothing but a cloud of energy.

Admiral Kranz observed the bombardment with satisfaction. No smile crossed his face, though. There were still plenty of ships left.

"This is good. Very good. Our first wave will hit them from the flank. They have not maneuvered to face us," the Admiral whispered to himself. He turned his face upwards towards Strat Ops, the bridge-level directly above the Command level. The officer he wanted to speak to just happened to sit on the edge. "Grady, signal the Adjudicator. They have a go. And tell Commodore Rescht 'good luck' for me."

Grady made eye contact and nodded his head. The Admiral turned back to the tactics display. He watched as the SLF withdrew, opening up two holes. One where the Adjudicator was, and another in the middle of the enemy fleet, where it would be.

In an instant the Dreadnought had Folded, and the SL fields were once again complete. Just as the first attack wave hit the right flank of the Talaaxian lines, Adjudicator propagated a Temporal Erasure wave. As the wave spread out, the Federal warship let loose its full armory, knowing full well that whatever survived the wave would come for it.

OOC: I'm not avoiding this thread but I've got a little thing called A LIFE. You know, school, friends, girlfriend, etc etc. I won't have time to post a full response until tomorrow afternoon around 2-3ish EST. As for my shields, New Fleet ships use both deflector shields (energy+ray shielding) as well as dovin basals. Old Fleet ships use dovin basals exclusively. They create artificial blackholes and suck in anything directed against them. They have their weaknesses and can be bypassed of course. I can explain them better on msn: eireann_go_bragh16@hotmail.com

OOC: Dweladelfia, just remember. No matter how quickly we create the viruses, you will still take casualties, and lots and lots of damage. There's no avoiding that. But it'll be better than having those things crawling around for the whole war...

As for your fleet, Talaax, even if you made to escape before Dweladelfia's second fleet arrived, you would have run into my fleet. And the instant you got out of the gravity well, we'd have had our Spatial Lock fields up, preventing any escape using engines which tweak the space-time continuum in any way (just about all FTL).

Oh, and, as you assumed that Dweladelfia had energy shields, I'll assume you have the same, as those are standard Star Wars shields. Because of this, when the PPCs phase, they'll pass right through the shields, rematerialize, phase again, and so on. So essentially, they cause massive internal damage. Imagine skipping a stone across a lake. Each time the stone hits is like re-materialization. It'll do damage at set intervals until its energy has been expended.

IC:

The first two waves of fighters and bombers swept toward the Talaaxian fleet. Numbering 900 fighters and 100 bombers per wave, the glinting, amorphous clouds moved ever closer to the enemy ships. Bright flashes of light shot past the fighters, blossoming into brilliant explosions within the heart of the enemy fleet.

The first wave of Phased Particle Cannon bombardment shots were timed to pass directly through the enemy shielding. Operating on a phase-frequency which bears an uncanny resemblance to a sine-wave, the energy bolts were completely phased when they came to the shield, thereby rendering the shield completely helpless to stop the onslaught of energy.

The next wave was even more deadly. The QSDs detonated, turning time-space into soup. Indeed, they are powerful enough to overcome the spatial-lock fields of the warships. As the torpedoes exploded, the strings which composed the ships' shields and the ships themselves uncurled, instantly turning ships caught in their blast to nothing but a cloud of energy.

Admiral Kranz observed the bombardment with satisfaction. No smile crossed his face, though. There were still plenty of ships left.

"This is good. Very good. Our first wave will hit them from the flank. They have not maneuvered to face us," the Admiral whispered to himself. He turned his face upwards towards Strat Ops, the bridge-level directly above the Command level. The officer he wanted to speak to just happened to sit on the edge. "Grady, signal the Adjudicator. They have a go. And tell Commodore Rescht 'good luck' for me."

Grady made eye contact and nodded his head. The Admiral turned back to the tactics display. He watched as the SLF withdrew, opening up two holes. One where the Adjudicator was, and another in the middle of the enemy fleet, where it would be.

In an instant the Dreadnought had Folded, and the SL fields were once again complete. Just as the first attack wave hit the right flank of the Talaaxian lines, Adjudicator propagated a Temporal Erasure wave. As the wave spread out, the Federal warship let loose its full armory, knowing full well that whatever survived the wave would come for it.

Second Fleets already here. See last post....

OOC: I have a reply in mind but before I post, does Dweladelfia Prime have any moons? .>.>

OOC: You are so evil.

OOC: I have a reply in mind but before I post, does Dweladelfia Prime have any moons? .>.>

One moon but its not a moon its a space station........ No pun intended.

OOC: That's what they tell me :P

OOC: Moon-sized though?

OOC: Moon-sized though?

Yes..... Your scaring me......

OOC: I've got a bad feeling about this.

Luckily, the Verpflichtung has a store of Genesis Torpedoes...

Dweladelfia: You should be scared. Ever hear of Sernpidal?

Dweladelfia: You should be scared. Ever hear of Sernpidal?


No but if hes planing on flinging my space station into the planet thats one heck of a godmod....

Not really. He has stuff that can do it.

Not really. He has stuff that can do it.

You cant fling sheilded space station into a planet........

OOC: Unless it has some pretty effective propulsion methods, it wouldn't take much to bring it down.

And hes surounded and were shooting tons of lasers and missiles and guns at him. And hes outnumbered.

OOC: Yes, you can. It's quite entertaining. And explosive. But mostly entertaining.

OOC: THE DOVIN BASALS!!! OH SHOOT! HE CAN FLING THE MOON INTO THE PLANET!!!

Not if I have anything to do with it!

Remember my Lock Fields? They prevent the gravimetric distortions you'd need to create from being propagated. You'd have to destroy a large number of my ships, and then overpower the remaining field. But as long as my Flotte-Unterseiten is still here, you can't do that...

OOC: Yes, you can. It's quite entertaining. And explosive. But mostly entertaining.

OOC Hehehe... I like Vong...

And i have gravaty wells...... So Good bye... :)

OOC: THE DOVIN BASALS!!! OH SHOOT! HE CAN FLING THE MOON INTO THE PLANET!!!

Not if I have anything to do with it!

Remember my Lock Fields? They prevent the gravimetric distortions you'd need to create from being propagated. You'd have to destroy a large number of my ships, and then overpower the remaining field. But as long as my Flotte-Unterseiten is still here, you can't do that...

OOC: GZ play nice...

Dweladelfia Prime

To many species, death is a terrible thing. An inevitability, yes, but one that should be put off for as long as possible. Death is frightening. An unknown quantity. Many species would go to any length to forgo death, to delay it. Not the Yuuzhan Vong. Death was cherished. Death was celebrated. Death was appreciated. Death was encouraged. A gift from the Gods, release from the suffering that is life.

And so, in seeing their predicament the Yuuzhan Vong fleet did not despair, did not panic. They accepted that death may come to them today. Celebrated that their deaths would be honourable and come in combat. To think that the Yuuzhan Vong would surrender is both evidence of ignorance and wishful thinking.

Instead, determined to die honourable, they fought harder. Where they had simply been withdrawing before, they began to fight in earnest. The Prophet-class Star Dreadnoughts, with their 5,000 turbolaser batteries and many dozen ion cannon batteries opened fire first. Targeting interdictor vessels only, the massive dreadnoughts concentrated all of their fire, which amounted to 200,000 turbolasers, on single interdictor vessels. The Sekot-class Cruisers, smaller than an Imperial-III SD but more heavily armed simply fired on the closest of enemy vessels. Pirya-class Frigates engaged enemy frigates and fighters. Dovin basals swallowed laser fire and missiles, shields took hits and failed. Ships exploded but still they fought on.

The Old Fleet, from massive 26km behemoths knwon as Kor Chokk Grand Cruisers to the much smaller Ro'ik Chuun M'arh frigates closed to within point blank range of the nearer of enemy forces ( the Dweladelfians ) and began pounding them with plasma fire and tearing away shields with dovin basals. Through it all streaked the fighters, the heavily armed Dasans and the sleaker and more agile Coralskippers. Swarming enemy capital vessels, several hundred to a ship the fighters took their toll as well.

Around them swarmed nearly a million grutchins, the half-meter insectoids that literally ate starships. Swarming anything from fighters to capital ships, the grutchins chewed through view ports, armour plating, engine compartments in a desperate attempt to get at the organics inside. Their acid-spewing mandibles working furiously to destroy the ships to which they attatched themselves.

All this, to an outsider chaos, was infact a perfectly coordinated ballet. Ships fired in unision, maneuvered together. Shielded each other. Yammosks directed their "children" in their defense. Although outnumbered by the enemy, the Yuuzhan Vong were more determined, more coordinated and it would surely take it's toll. The battle was lost unless help arrived soon or the interdictors could be destroyed and Supreme Commander Denua Ku knew it. Turning to an aide, he barked an order. "Commence plan Wrath of Yun-Yammka." Immediately it was done.

From the Kor Chokk's and Prophets spewed forth thousands more pods. But contained within these were not bio-weapons. No, something much more deadly was housed in these pods - dovin basals. Shielding themselves with singularities, the pods dropped rapidly onto Dweladelfia Prime as well onto it's moon. Some were destroyed, but thousands survived to land. Immediately the ones on Dweladelfia Prime turned their gravity manipulations towards the moon. Locking on like thousands of powerful tractor beams, the dovin basals began to pull the moon down. Normally it would take only one dovin basal 10-15 days to pull a moon from orbit. But with thousands all working together, it would take only a day, perhaps less. True, one could hunt for them and probably destroy many, but not all. Destroying some would only delay the inevitable result - the collision between Dweladelfia Prime and it's moon. The Yuuzhan Vong fleet may die at Dweladelfia Prime, but so would everyone on the planet and moon. Maximum efficiency as a war droid would put it. It wasn't enough to receive an honourable death. The Gods demanded sacrifice and nothing pleased the Gods more than the immolation of an entire world....

OOC: GZ play nice...

OOC: Hey, man, you think I'm gonna let him do that without a fight? He can do it, but he will need to reduce the strength of my Spatial Lock field. I'm not being a godmodder, I'm just making him pay for that which he would wreak upon Dweladelfia.

EDIT: I'll post tomorrow, as well as correct the post where I am trying to destroy your bacteria.

OOC: Thats was a godmod you cant land pods on somthing thats was sheided and you havnt taken any loses look at our posts were poundign you but your saying that your taking no loses and then come and try and do this? Hello? Sheilds ont he spaces station......

OOC: Hello? Read the post? He took plenty of losses.

OOC: The pods sent toward the station would be destroyed against the shields then. But I also send them against the planet who's shields I knocked down. As for losses, reread my post. I did state that I was taking losses, however I never stated SPECIFIC losses.

Ya so the pods were distroyed on the sheilds so you cant pull it into my planet..... I could also have distroyed the pods before they got on. Its a space station it has weapons....

OOC: Talaax, do you have any form of Temporal shielding?

OOC: Hey, man, you think I'm gonna let him do that without a fight? He can do it, but he will need to reduce the strength of my Spatial Lock field. I'm not being a godmodder, I'm just making him pay for that which he would wreak upon Dweladelfia.

EDIT: I'll post tomorrow, as well as correct the post where I am trying to destroy your bacteria.

OOC: Yes, you'll fight him, but now you have to deal with ME.

IC:

It was several thousand powerful ships of the Terran Dominion that appeared at the edge of the system, broadcasting Metallicas "Four Horsemen" loud enough to shatter eardrums on every frequency. It wsn't fancy so fr as jamming went, but with a few broken Comm officers, enemy communications would be crippled, and the Vong should remain unaffected, assumi8ng they still used Villips...

It would be several hours before they ,managed to join the fight, but they could provide a little support the Talaaxians were VERY familiar... The arrival of the Terran Battleglobe usually signalled the swift end to any FTLi field with a gravitic component, or the detonation of the ship that harbored it... It also tended to signal the end to a battle with great regularity.

Ya so the pods were distroyed on the sheilds so you cant pull it into my planet..... I could also have distroyed the pods before they got on. Its a space station it has weapons....

OOC: Oh, yes, you're saying that your moon is a space station. Well, he knocked down the planetary shields. So he's landed the pods on the planet and is pulling the planet towards the station.

OOC: Yes, you'll fight him, but now you have to deal with ME.

OOC: Bah. This'll be over in a few hours. As for jamming, I laugh at you!


BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!


I use quantum-entanglement-based communications between my own ships. They can't be jammed. So HA!

^^That's not a godmod. Seriously. Look up quantum entanglement.^^

OOC: Dovin basals are on your planet, pulling the moon out of it's orbit. The ones sent after the station were only overkill meant to pull the moon down even faster. Even if they never landed on the moon you've still got about a day to evacuate both. You've got a choice now. Leave me be, go evacuate and attempt to hunt down every last dovin basal or continue fighting me and everyone on world dies. You never should have trapped me. Never trap someone who has proven perfectly willing to and capable of destroying worlds in your home system...

I use quantum-entanglement-based communications between my own ships. They can't be jammed. So HA!

^^That's not a godmod. Seriously. Look up quantum entanglement.^^
OOC: Yes, but do you have a giant quantum entanglement AI networked in the brains of all of your citizens? Bow before QUETZAL!

This has been an official propaganda message from Otagia. Booya.

OOC: Yes, but do you have a giant quantum entanglement AI networked in the brains of all of your citizens? Bow before QUETZAL!

This has been an official propaganda message from Otagia. Booya.

OOC: Ah, yes... I believe we've met before? Under somewhat humorous circumstances?

lol.

OOC: Dovin basals are on your planet, pulling the moon out of it's orbit. The ones sent after the station were only overkill meant to pull the moon down even faster. Even if they never landed on the moon you've still got about a day to evacuate both. You've got a choice now. Leave me be, go evacuate and attempt to hunt down every last dovin basal or continue fighting me and everyone on world dies. You never should have trapped me. Never trap someone who has proven perfectly willing to and capable of destroying worlds in your home system...

OOC: How overconfident...

God im confused heck i could distroy the pods on the planet.

IC:

"Sir were being pulled towards space dock." "How?" "Looks like some sorta pod sir." "Sugjestions?" He said as he turned to his advicers. "Send in the marines sir." "Good Idea. Genral prepare your men." "Yes Sir."

Dweladelfia Imperial Marines jumped into the planatary transpoter and beamed to the site were the pods were. "Sir there they are over there." "Alright get over there and disable it." "Yes Sir." The MArines who are trained in disaling almost anything walked up to the pods and messed with a few of its wires. "Its the blue one." "No its the red one you idiot." *snap* the wire split. The same thing happend at the other sites the pods had landed....

OOC: I AM an arrogant son of a bitch...

EDIT: Dweladelfia the pods are scattered all over the place. There are thousands of them. It would take days to find them all, days you don't have.

OOC: Dweladelfia the pods are scattered all over the place. There are thousands of them. It would take days to find them all, days you don't have. Also, the pods are just hunks of rock that guard the dovin basal as it drops into the atmosphere. They break open on impact with the ground. Dovin basals ARE NOT machines. They are LIVING creatures that manipulate gravity. You can't disable them by cutting wires. As I said, you can kill some but not all of them.

OOC: I AM an arrogant son of a bitch...

EDIT: Dweladelfia the pods are scattered all over the place. There are thousands of them. It would take days to find them all, days you don't have.

Ya its really hard to find somthing that has so much power it can it can pull a planet..... And i have thousands of marines....

OOC: I AM an arrogant son of a bitch...

EDIT: Dweladelfia the pods are scattered all over the place. There are thousands of them. It would take days to find them all, days you don't have.

OOC: They're also biological, and require shooting, ALOT.

OOC: Dweladelfia the pods are scattered all over the place. There are thousands of them. It would take days to find them all, days you don't have. Also, the pods are just hunks of rock that guard the dovin basal as it drops into the atmosphere. They break open on impact with the ground. Dovin basals ARE NOT machines. They are LIVING creatures that manipulate gravity. You can't disable them by cutting wires. As I said, you can kill some but not all of them.


DUDE WHAT PART OF I HAVE FREAKIN GARAVATY WeLLS DONT YOU GET. You cant use gravaty me and Germanische have anti gravaty devices so your godmoding....

OOC: Again, you're assuming they're machines that give off the same sort of readings. Without knowing what to look for it would only seem like another bio attack. ICly you don't know about dovin basals, how they work, what their effects look like, how to detect them, how to track them etc. They have the power to pull a moon down, yes but not like a tractor beam. They manipulate gravity in natural ways. Nothing they do is artificial and so much harder to detect if you don't know what you're looking for.

OOC: Gravity wells are just pockets of strong gravity that prevent vessels from going FTL, they don't negate the effect of gravity manipulations otherwise they'd disable themselves.

OOC: Time for your revision.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yammosk#Dovin_Basal

Here endeth the lesson

OOC: Fine i give up but mark my words they will be avenged......

OOC: Mind if I post the death of the world? If you don't I'll edit this post with it. Also, still need to respond to my attacks on your fleet.

OOC: Talaax. Wait till tomorrow. I have a post. It'll be here tomorrow. This battle is not over.

OOC: But the planet is ^^ The Battle can still rage

OOC: But the planet is ^^ The Battle can still rage

OOC: No, the planet's not done for yet, either.

GZ -> I only want to post the destruction of the planet, nothing to do with the actual fighting. If I'm going to do it, I'd best do it now while I'm still in a writing mood.

Edit: Contact me on MSN to discuss this: eireann_go_bragh16@hotmail.com or AIM: EireannGoBragh16

High Command

"Evacuate the planet....." "Sir?...."
"Do it."s were far side from ps left the planet on the

As he gave the word thousands of ships lanched form the far side of the planet. They were escorted by the 2nd Tactical fleet. They left all the survivers....

But the Jade fleet kept fighting on to distroy the enamy fleet. Again the Jade fired its super laser at the command ship of the enamy fleet. Revenge is sweet.

OOC: Ill post tomorrow...

GZ -> I only want to post the destruction of the planet, nothing to do with the actual fighting. If I'm going to do it, I'd best do it now while I'm still in a writing mood.

OOC: I don't have time to write another long post tonight, which is why I'll have to do it tomorrow, but I have an idea to stop your Dovin Basals.

I'd like to try it, at least, seeing as they can somehow get through my Spatial Lock fields...

GZ -> I only want to post the destruction of the planet, nothing to do with the actual fighting. If I'm going to do it, I'd best do it now while I'm still in a writing mood.

Edit: Contact me on MSN to discuss this: eireann_go_bragh16@hotmail.com or AIM: EireannGoBragh16

OOC: Get online with AIM. I'll contact you now.

OOC: No, the planet's not done for yet, either.

OOC: The planet is doomed. There is NO way to stop it, it's already in a deteriorating orbit due to the action of the Basals. Just like Serpindal. Also, the battle will rage for quite some time. For one thing, you have to deal with the FTLi breaking properties of the Battleglobe.(detailed in Galactic Civil War 2)

I'd like to try it, at least, seeing as they can somehow get through my Spatial Lock fields...
If your spatial lock fields would stop the Dovin Basals, wouldn't they also cause everything on the planet to float up into the air?

EDIT: Meihm, might as well let him try. Can't really hurt, can it?

OOC: And wouldn't they stop the Gravity Wells?

If your spatial lock fields would stop the Dovin Basals, wouldn't they also cause everything on the planet to float up into the air?

OOC: It locks space as it was when the field was engaged. That's why it's called a Spatial Lock field. It prevents changes other than the small disturbances caused by ships, which is why the ships can still move around. But the planet and moon would definately be held in place...

OOC: Get online with AIM. I'll contact you now.

Done.

OOC: And wouldn't they stop the Gravity Wells?

OOC: That Dweladelfia has? Yes. But the Lock fields prevent FTL anyways also, so it's not like it matters.

It locks space as it was when the field was engaged. That's why it's called a Spatial Lock field. It prevents changes other than the small disturbances caused by ships, which is why the ships can still move around. But the planet and moon would definately be held in place...
So the planets would no longer be moving in their orbits then, which would cause them to start burning up as heat is absorbed by the side stuck facing the sun.

So the planets would no longer be moving in their orbits then, which would cause them to start burning up as heat is absorbed by the side stuck facing the sun.

OOC: Yup. Small price to pay, though. And a few extra hours of sunlight won't matter. Given enough time the Q will distribute itself throughout the mass.

OOC: Yup. Small price to pay, though.
So to save one planet, you'd kill the entire solar system? Seems rather odd...

So to save one planet, you'd kill the entire solar system? Seems rather odd...

Keeping everything in place for a few hours won't make much difference in the cosmic scale.

OOC: So, it's strong enough to stop entire PLANETS from moving; but ships can move willy nilly; seems a tad convenient and not at all logical

OOC: So, it's strong enough to stop entire PLANETS from moving; but ships can move willy nilly; seems a tad convenient and not at all logical

OOC: No, if you think about it, the greater disturbances are one big target. It's easier to lock them, and the space that isn't already curved, than to target thousands upon thousands of tiny disturbances.

The SLF is assymetrical. It is redirected and more powerful in certain areas than others. It stops the great energies that shred space and fold it in on itself. That's how we could open up holes for our own ships. But, as I say, it would be a waste of energy to hold everything still in a non-discriminating field.

OOC: Bah. G'night all. Technological discussions make me dizzy.

OOC: Still seems risky playing with the Universe; butterflies and typhoons and all that; the longer you hold entire systems in stasis; the grander the forces of Entropy grow...I should probably thank you :P

OOC: Wait... wouldn't holding the system in place make it horridly vulnerable to behing hit by everything else moving through the field, like, say, the rest of the Galactic Arm? And the rest of the galaxy for that matter. The system would go flying off of the Galactic plane quite quickly.

OOC: Theres another problom with stoping it. If you look on the map on the first page Dweladlefia Prime is sharing its orbit with a sister planet......

Does anybody have a link to the NS Draft room my bookmarks were delet.ed

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Dweladelfia Ships fought hard in revenge of there fallen capitol. But as in all wars some lives were lost. Some ships in the charge were caught by the Talaazian fire. But the Dweladelfians fought on singing this song:

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing;
Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing:
For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe;
His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate,
On earth is not his equal.

Did we in our own strength confide, our striving would be losing;
Were not the right Man on our side, the Man of God’s own choosing:
Dost ask who that may be? Christ Jesus, it is He;
Lord Sabaoth, His Name, from age to age the same,
And He must win the battle.

And though this world, with devils filled, should threaten to undo us,
We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us:
The Prince of Darkness grim, we tremble not for him;
His rage we can endure, for lo, his doom is sure,
One little word shall fell him.

That word above all earthly powers, no thanks to them, abideth;
The Spirit and the gifts are ours through Him Who with us sideth:
Let goods and kindred go, this mortal life also;
The body they may kill: God’s truth abideth still,
His kingdom is forever.

This got the blood flowing. Dweladelfia Dreadnoughts fired Dark Nova Missiles, Exploding on enamy ships would create blackholes.

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OOC:

Okay. I haven't read anything in this thread since I logged off yesterday, because I know that the explanation I gave for the Spatial Lock Fields was absolutely idiotic.

The Spatial Lock Fields are generated by our Fold Drives. Essentially, rather than bending space and imposing physical laws contradictory to those which govern regular space, they prevent such things from occuring.

All vectors and gravitational disturbances present at the time the field is engaged remain as they are. So essentially, the planets still move in their orbits because the gravitational attractions between the sun and the planets is left intact. The Moon would still move in its customary patter about Dweladelfia Prime.

However, before I get to how this would stop the Dovin Basals, I should address this:

Going by what I said in the third paragraph, all vessels within the field (excluding my own) would be prevented from changing course, as their vectors present when the field was engaged could not be changed. This also leads to another problem: All motion within the field's radius would be unchangeable. In other words, the electric currents running through a brain would be kept as they are. So, nobody in any of the ships could think anything other than what they were when the field was engaged. It would also prevent any weapons from being fired from ships other than my own.

Now, the field would also prevent the Dovin Basals from ever even being launched.

As you can see, this would be very bad for an RP, and would essentially be a superweapon. I'm sure you see how that would be very beneficial for my gunners.

So, for the sake of RPing, I figured that particular effects of the SLF should be omitted. So I made up that half-@$$ed explanation in about two minutes and hoped it would withstand scrutiny. Which it didn't.

So, for the purposes of the RP, the SLF doesn't prevent ships from moving, people from thinking, guns from firing. So the Dovin Basals would land on the planet. However, once they landed, they would be trying to produce a new vector force, and to produce a new gravitational distortion on the STC. Before they could start moving the planet into the moon, they'd have to overcome the Spatial Lock Field, which would require that a significant portion of my fleet be destroyed, or sufficient energy be put into their fields.

I can tell you right now they don't have the energy to do that, because the energy of my field is enough to <theoretically> keep a star from going Nova or collapsing.

Then there's another problem. Remember that Temporal Erasure Wave that my Dreadnought, the Adjudicator, released in the middle of your fleet, Talaax?

That was before you released the Dovin Basals.

And you have no Temporal Shielding.

That means every single one of your ships in a circular radius extending just up to the planet's atmosphere was erased from the present and the future of the NS Universe.

Now, my ships (the fighters) within that radius would be unaffected because they have Temporal Shielding equal to the wave. Dweladelfia's ships, however, would also have been erased if they were within the radius.

Here's the thing. If I claim that just about your entire fleet (I'm sure you had ships outside the radius) was erased from time, you'll probably get mad at me, or at the least refuse to accept it.

I would like to mention that this technology is accepted, and was widely used once upon a time. It would appear to have fallen out of favour since Indra Prime's leave of NS.

Anyway. Here's an idea. You alter your post about the Dovin Basals to say that those few ships you have left were so shocked by the disappearance of their fleet right in front of their eyes that they decided to return to their space to warn their people of this terrible weaponry.

That solves the problem of what happens to the planet, it exposes you to a new technology, gives you a reason to hate us and fight with a vengeance at our next battle, it gives us an early victory (which won't really matter because I'm sure we'll have plenty more battles), saves Dweladelfia's rear end, etc.

Besides, MM is still here to cause Mayhem and destruction.

So, it's for your consideration. You have my AIM. Contact me and we can discuss this.

EDIT: Dweladelfia, don't resign yourself to the destruction of your world just yet.

OOC:

Okay. I haven't read anything in this thread since I logged off yesterday, because I know that the explanation I gave for the Spatial Lock Fields was absolutely idiotic.

The Spatial Lock Fields are generated by our Fold Drives. Essentially, rather than bending space and imposing physical laws contradictory to those which govern regular space, they prevent such things from occuring.

All vectors and gravitational disturbances present at the time the field is engaged remain as they are. So essentially, the planets still move in their orbits because the gravitational attractions between the sun and the planets is left intact. The Moon would still move in its customary patter about Dweladelfia Prime.

However, before I get to how this would stop the Dovin Basals, I should address this:

Going by what I said in the third paragraph, all vessels within the field (excluding my own) would be prevented from changing course, as their vectors present when the field was engaged could not be changed. This also leads to another problem: All motion within the field's radius would be unchangeable. In other words, the electric currents running through a brain would be kept as they are. So, nobody in any of the ships could think anything other than what they were when the field was engaged. It would also prevent any weapons from being fired from ships other than my own.

Now, the field would also prevent the Dovin Basals from ever even being launched.

As you can see, this would be very bad for an RP, and would essentially be a superweapon. I'm sure you see how that would be very beneficial for my gunners.

So, for the sake of RPing, I figured that particular effects of the SLF should be omitted. So I made up that half-@$$ed explanation in about two minutes and hoped it would withstand scrutiny. Which it didn't.

So, for the purposes of the RP, the SLF doesn't prevent ships from moving, people from thinking, guns from firing. So the Dovin Basals would land on the planet. However, once they landed, they would be trying to produce a new vector force, and to produce a new gravitational distortion on the STC. Before they could start moving the planet into the moon, they'd have to overcome the Spatial Lock Field, which would require that a significant portion of my fleet be destroyed, or sufficient energy be put into their fields.

I can tell you right now they don't have the energy to do that, because the energy of my field is enough to <theoretically> keep a star from going Nova or collapsing.

Then there's another problem. Remember that Temporal Erasure Wave that my Dreadnought, the Adjudicator, released in the middle of your fleet, Talaax?

That was before you released the Dovin Basals.

And you have no Temporal Shielding.

That means every single one of your ships in a circular radius extending just up to the planet's atmosphere was erased from the present and the future of the NS Universe.

Now, my ships (the fighters) within that radius would be unaffected because they have Temporal Shielding equal to the wave. Dweladelfia's ships, however, would also have been erased if they were within the radius.

Here's the thing. If I claim that just about your entire fleet (I'm sure you had ships outside the radius) was erased from time, you'll probably get mad at me, or at the least refuse to accept it.

I would like to mention that this technology is accepted, and was widely used once upon a time. It would appear to have fallen out of favour since Indra Prime's leave of NS.

Anyway. Here's an idea. You alter your post about the Dovin Basals to say that those few ships you have left were so shocked by the disappearance of their fleet right in front of their eyes that they decided to return to their space to warn their people of this terrible weaponry.

That solves the problem of what happens to the planet, it exposes you to a new technology, gives you a reason to hate us and fight with a vengeance at our next battle, it gives us an early victory (which won't really matter because I'm sure we'll have plenty more battles), saves Dweladelfia's rear end, etc.

Besides, MM is still here to cause Mayhem and destruction.

So, it's for your consideration. You have my AIM. Contact me and we can discuss this.

EDIT: Dweladelfia, don't resign yourself to the destruction of your world just yet.

I think he has a point and the fact I FIRED MY SUPER LASER 50 TIMES AT YOUR LEAD ship and youve still havnt responded to it.

I think he has a point and the fact I FIRED MY SUPER LASER 50 TIMES AT YOUR LEAD ship and youve still havnt responded to it.

Er... Simmer down. This will be a very fragile negotiation. Besides, remember, if he accepts the losses from the Temporal Erasure Wave, you'll have to take a large number of losses also, because as I recall you pulled your fleet into close-combat with his.

And he's already done alot of damage. Before my Science Division peronnel can create a virus to destroy the bacteria on your planet, You'll lose millions of people and a large percentage of infrastructure.

OOC: I've already written off this fleet. Tell you what I'll do, I'll drop the dovin basal attack and allow this Temporal Erasure thingy to "erase" 3/4 of my fleet. However, seeing as my ships are in very close proximity to Dweladelfia's then he'd have to suffer comparable casualties in the attack. All this in return for dropping FTLi fields and allowing the remaining ships to pull out.

OOC: I've already written off this fleet. Tell you what I'll do, I'll drop the dovin basal attack and allow this Temporal Erasure thingy to "erase" 3/4 of my fleet. However, seeing as my ships are in very close proximity to Dweladelfia's then he'd have to suffer comparable casualties in the attack. All this in return for dropping FTLi fields and allowing the remaining ships to pull out.

This is acceptable to me.

Dweladelfia. Yes, you'll lose your fleet. But it's better than losing the planet and station. I would recommend taking this compromise.

OOC: I've already written off this fleet. Tell you what I'll do, I'll drop the dovin basal attack and allow this Temporal Erasure thingy to "erase" 3/4 of my fleet. However, seeing as my ships are in very close proximity to Dweladelfia's then he'd have to suffer comparable casualties in the attack. All this in return for dropping FTLi fields and allowing the remaining ships to pull out.

This sounds ok.

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OOC: I'll make a post tonight, things have come up recently IRL, so...

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OOC: Ok, I just reread the OOC stuff, and I'm waiting for someone to post either, the dropping of the FTLi, or whatever. Anything, because I'm having some issues with responding top anythiung, since I'm not sure how things have changed.

OOC: Ok, I just reread the OOC stuff, and I'm waiting for someone to post either, the dropping of the FTLi, or whatever. Anything, because I'm having some issues with responding top anythiung, since I'm not sure how things have changed.

OOC: I'll make a post in an hour or three that will clear everything up.

OOC:

Huh. I just signed on to post for this thread, and what do I find?

It never happened!

Well, nevermind then.

Is anybody gonna post?