NationStates Jolt Archive

"Welcome to the colony news service. In our top story, a combined effort between Dragonan and Templarian scientists on colony X45S has bore fruit. Under the Excesus city, a strange set of ruins was found. We now go live to the scene as the archeological team make their way through the ruins."
The camera cut to a dark corridor, shown in night vision. In frame were the two leaders of the expedition and four marine troopers. They moved through the corridor, finally coming to a door bearing a strange symbol.
"Open it." One of the engineseers came from behind the camera and pressed the pad numerous times. The door hissed open and a cold wind blew through the room. The group moved in and gasped as one.

Bathed in pale green light, the huge room had two huge walls, each having a large pyramid like structure inside it. The group moved over to the one on the left.
"Amazing... Whoever built this must have been highly advanced." An engineseer moved his hand up the structure when suddenly green lights appeared all over the pyramid and a huge rumble sounded.
"What did you do?" The group drew weapons as the rumbling grew louder. Their was the sound of marching feet was audible over the huge rumble and the camera panned to show their source.

Thousands upon thousands of metal skeletons wieldings huge guns advanced to the group.
"Fire!" The marines fired clips of plasma into the skeletons, doing little to no damage. The front line of skeletons raised their guns and fired. Huge green bolts of gauss shot from their cannons, piercing the marines and killing them instantly. The skeletons fired again and the camera feed died.

"Oh. Sweet lord." The two presentors sat shocked, eyes wide and mouths agape at the staticy screen.

OOC: One, how shall I joinn 'cause this seems interesting. Two, Warhammer 40K Necrons much?

OOC: One, how shall I joinn 'cause this seems interesting. Two, Warhammer 40K Necrons much?

OOC: yeah, its necrons. But since me and Ih8uwannakillu are RP'ing this as first contact with hostile necrons, we shall refer to them until such a time as we find out their proper name as 'space zombies'.

Essentially, hopefully by the end of today, we'll send out a request for help and thats where you can come in.

In orbit, the super destroyer asighned to carry the reserch and archiological teams to the colony transported 5 legions of silver arrows to the excavation site. The captain stood on a holo pad, conversing with the planets govener.

"Would you care to tell me what the hell those things were, govener?" he said, a slight trail of smoke rising from his nostrils.

The governor was preparing his planet defense force for battle as he turned, glaring at the Dragona.
"Those, lord Dragona, are things. They killed our things, so they are bad things. We kill bad things. Shut up and get your men mobilized. You Dragonan are all the same, always bloody acting superio-" The man was cut in half by a bolt of green energy. Then, with an eerie whine, the pyramid object materialized in the centre square. Hordes of the skeletons poured out, slashing into the militia forces. The pyramid let out a shriek and fired a huge bolt of green energy into the Dragonan forces.

OOC: This is gonna be entertaining. PM me when you start pls.

"Faku!!!" yelled the captain, deactivating the holopad and activating a comm channel to the bridge. "Transport all forces to the surface, launch evac transports to get thew civilians out of there." he yelled, running thrugh the coridors to a turbo lift "and open a channel to high comand, inform them of the situation.

On the planet, the Dragona troops were quick to respond, fireing a volly of plasma bursts into the advancing 'Space zombies', then the monolith broke thrugh the surface into the square, blasing a huge bolt of green gauss into them. 6 of them were blasted apart, the other 24 took cover in the resulting rubble, opening up with everything they had as the reinforcements began to beam down.

The skeletons continued to march slowly towards the Dragonan, regardless of the fire they took, until they suddenly parted ranks and one of them, this one carrying a staff and wearing a tattered cape, moved in front of the ranks. He held up small device. It suddenly glowed and the skeletons began moving again, much faster now. A group of milita men, led by a commisar, had fought their way over to the dragonan forces.
"That can't be good, and that pyramid thing, monolith the commander calls it, has far too much firepower. Fall back, ask your battleship to fire on it. Either way, this city needs to be evacuated."

"The ships already transporting civie's out. We have to hold them off untill the imediate area is clear then we can pull back while it opens up." yelled the dragona commander, roaring as she fired a burst of sonic rounds into a cluster of skeletons to the side of this new figure.

"All the civillians in this city are now either dead or evacuated. Only the prisioners are left. Pull your forces out and we'll be your rear guard." The commissar pushed the dragona out of the way, his chainsword ripped into the belly of the skeleton behind her. The remaining militia men grouped around him and slowly began to back away from the advancing hordes. At the same time, there was a screech and a huge explosion.
"Artillery cover!" The commissar grinned. "That'll get the bastards."

"We stand by you 'till the end my friend" the comander said, pulling out her vibro sword and nocking the arms off another skeleton and speaking into her comm said "Gris'ah. Bak da positeyer, incin du drajil vit sacre brisinger!"

In orbit the 4 heavy guns on the underside of the super destroyer Gris'ah lowered into polsition and fired solid titanium slugs coated in energy (as is the dragona style) at the masses of skeletons with out question.

The rounds smashed into the skeletons, taking out huge groups at once. One shot hit the monolith, piercing its main cannon and sending a burst of gauss around. The army of skeletons was in tatters. The fire from the cruiser stopped and the milita men cheered and charged back from their hiding spots. However, when they arrived at the now ruined city, the corpses were gone. Even the wrecked monolith, missing without a trace.
"What the hell are these things?"

Holding up the skeletal arm she was holding (and witch was trying to escape her grasp franticly) the comander said
"Hmm, seems mechanical. And extreamly resiliant judging from the amount of punishment they can take. looks like each limb can function independently, I wonder wether they can fight on after death. Now that would be disturbingly similar to the legions of Deces." she shuddered at the thaught of the undead legions breaking out of the eternal battle fields and wreaking havoc in this universe.

"Whatever they are, we're too inexperienced to deal with them. We have to evac the entire planet, quarantine it. Its the only way to-" He was cut short by a scream. From every man hole, basement and even from the floor, more of the skeletons emerged, now bearing vicious claws.
"Get to the ship!" The militia men retreated, firing volleys into the readily advancing skeletons.
"Get back to your ship, I'll contact the Lord Militant. He'll send back up." The commissar ran on again.
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From the desk of the Lord Militant Kabul of the Void
To any friendly or allied sapcefaring nations
Greetings. As you may have heard, if it has been reported outside Templarian space, the joint-effort colony designated X45S has came under assualt from a race of strange, metal, skeleton like hostiles. They are extremely heavily armed, and have taken the city of Excesus. Contact was lost three hours ago. Now, we urge all nations who hear this message to aid us in destroying the menace. If these aliens can take the entire planet, who knows how far they will be able to expand, to attack. For the sake of your own countries, help us defeat these creatures.

Greywatch Prime, Intelligence Prime:

A Greywatch officer walks quickly throught the white hallways, a clipboard in hand. He enters one of the offices, behind the desk another man sits and works on a computer. "Sir, we just got a message from one of our scouts. You might consider sending this to the Council." The man behind the desk looks up as he is handed the clipboard, he looks it over before shooing the other officer away.

Greywatch Response:

<One of our scouts has relayed your message. We are quite a distance away from you but will send some support nonetheless. Expect some heavy support.>

End Message

Greywatch Prime Orbit:

A Greywatch Worldslayer class was preparing to open PSR and offer support. Several frigates were also being prepared to act as backup for the main ship. A PSR was opened and the ships began shuffling through.

Templarian Space:

Above the planet a massive rift was torn open in space causing huge gravity fluxuations as the 30km Worldslayer slowly came through followed by ten 1km frigates. "The is Greywatch Worldslayer craft Tectonic. We are here to offer support, from this point on we expect most of our directions to come from you."

"Tectonic, rodger. We're awaiting the arrival of heavy support from the homeworld, but for now Commissar D'kao is in command. I'll pass you onto him." The voice changed to D'kao's.
"Tectonic, I appreaciate the help. The 72nd Militia regiment are holed up in a polar fortress, but the space zombie things are bearing down on them. Any support will be appreciated."

At Polis Fortuna, the main fortress mounting the northen pole of the planet, was visible from space. However, even from space, a steady chunk of grey could be seen moving towards it.

"Fire!" The artillery cannons inside the fort opened fire on the horde, shots screaming through the air before impacting on the mass of skeletal bodies. However, it hadly even made a dent in their numbers.

"Damn, looks messy," said another voice, this one was female. "We'll deploy Harbingers immediately."

As the voice finished five of the frigate broke off and headed towards the planet, each one was black with odd red marking and had tendrals dangling behind them. They quickly entered the atmosphere of the planet, as they began getting within ranger, their names were given real meaning. From each one of them came hundreds of fighters the immediately began opening up on the army below. The fired lasers and dropped their incendicary Dragonkeeper bombs on the mass of machines below. From the tendrals of the Harbingers came forth bolts of electricity that shocked multiple machines at once. The army continued shambling, apparently unphased by the attacks.

On the bridge:

Dammit, those things are persistant, did we even leave a dent?" Said a female captain staring at the holo-screen in front of her. A male captain sat next to her, "Apparently not, this could get very ugly in we have to use ground based units."

The super destroyer had sat silently watching and calling for reinforcements. As the cruisers from greywatch entered the system 4 Thoth (http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/en/images/thumb/a/a8/Scimitar.jpg/200px-Scimitar.jpg) class carriers droped out of transwarp and instantly deployed a massive amount of sarush bombers.

The bombers sped past the greywatch forces and began to fire thier pulse bombers at the advancing machines while dragona forces were transported int othe fortress with heavy weapons and turrets.

"New force just dropped out!" Said one of the officers aboard the Tectonic, "They're firing on the machines." One of the captains looked back, "Open a channel to them. This is Greywatch Worldslayer Tectonic, can I assume that you are a friendly force that is helping to quell this odd force? If so, please respond."

"Indeed we are. We are here to suport our allies in ISIS and avenge the death of our scientits at the hands of these metle monstrositys. We thank you for comeing to the aid of the colony." was the reply.

"We have transports that can beam your men off the surface if need be. Give us the word and we will deploy them." With theat message Tectonic began moving closer to the planet. "Let me tell you, as a Worldslayer ship, this thing has the capability to both enter the atmosphere safely and even land if need be, but we are 30Km long so we'll need a good LZ for the latter option. With your permission we'll enter the atmosphere and maintain an air base for our units so as to quicken the process of annihilation.

"Tectonic, you have atmospheric clearance. Go ahead. Mind for allies now."

Inside Polis Fortuna, the skeletons had reached firing range. Great lines of gauss shot past blue and red lasers, making the skies seem like a laser show. Explosions from artillery smashed into the skeletal ranks, but all the firepower combined barely made a dent. The skeletons kept going even after losing limbs.

Inside the fortress, D'kao kept a steady line of communication with the incoming Templarian fleet.
"Repeat, what is your ETA? The skeletals are moving in, we can't stop them!"
"Give or take 5 minutes, we'll be there in around 10 minutes. Hang on."

There was a loud boom ans a huge light show as the Greywatch Worldslayer entered the atmosphere, its shields at full. In a few moments its 30km bulk was clearly over the planet, moving ever so slowly to the army of machines. The ship's weapons were not meant to be used against ground forces and technicians had to rush around adjust the weapons.

<We're preping some transports to get you outta there, just give the word and we'll come on in.>

"Negative, Tectonic. Transports aren't required. This fortress has something better if they break in. Besides, if our flyboys are right, our support should be here right about no-" D'kao was cut off by a huge crash and a shower of icy shards flying into the skeletals, skewering many. When the ice/dust cleared, the huge outline of a Desecrator tank was visible. Standing well over 50 foot tall, the huge amphibious tank was prickiling with heay lasers. Its main gauss cannon charged before firing a great swathe of energy into the skeletons. It took out a small amount of them and disabled many more.
"Finally, something works against these bastards. Tectonic, get your guns working ASAP. Our sensors show a monolith inbound."

<We've got something better, several bombers with EMP bombs are on the way. We've also got our signature cluster bombs, hope you don't mind but that landscape around here is about to change.>

Several minutes later there was a mass of Greywatch bombers over the army, the first bombs to be dropped were the cluster bombs, each one splitting into about thirty more, upon hitting the ground everything was lit ablaze. "All units, this is red leader, prep EMP devices and boosters. We don't wanna be here when those things go off."

Soon after, Tectonic's belly-side guns began firing, these were no normal shells however, they were made to destroy frigates and each one created a visible dome on energy upon hitting the ground.

<Sorry about the artillary but its all we've got at the moment. Our other guns are still being re-calibrated, give us about ten minutes.>

"Faku rash fools. If this keeps up they'll destroy the decimater, they should just leave it to us rather than blast the ground with those things, atleast there'd still be a planet then." yelled the dragona comander, tapping a few buttons on the controle panle of a bio-cannon turret and fireing a smal burst of blue drones at the advancing monsters, blowing a hole in thier line for a brief moment. "Blin. It is as thoe the legions of Khasher are unleased upon this world." she yelled, seting the turret to automatic and running to help a dark knight hit by a gauss blast.

<Weapons have just been reformatted, w're preping them for firing now. Don't worry , these ones are far less powerful and won't cause so much damage to the planet itself. Give us a minute for final preparations.>

Meanwhile the EMP bombers dropped their payloads and boosted themselves away from the areas that would soon be affected. The bobs landed, crushing whatever they landed on, after a few seconds delay hey went off, the pulses ripped through the ranks of machines. The bombers then turned around and prepared cluster bombs, the a tranmission came from Tectonic,
<Hold clusters. We've reformatted and we don't want to use those just yet, return to home.>
Without Question the bombers head back, observing the damage they'd cause to the army below.