NationStates Jolt Archive

The large cruise vessel sailed through space. Fey Lines was highly family-oriented, and the ship was packed with young, exuberant children and their relaxing parents. Captain Charles Vyox himself was taking it easy. He was lounging around on the bridge, watching the stars go by. The world may be indifferent, but humans could sweeten life to no end.
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Inside the ship, Vladmir Nesky was part of a whole different story. At least, that was the name on his papers- he used a couple. Vladmir was sitting by his computer screen, pretending to work on business to support his hypothetical pregnant wife and 2 kids. he pressed a button.
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Captain Vyox looked up with a start as two small pirate ships races into view. he could handle them with the ship defense, but it would be better just to leave. he urged the ship into hyperdrive as they escaped and sped along.
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this was what Vladmir wanted. he had dropped his computer in the generator room, which he had accessed through the convenient deaths of the 2 guards. he was with the pirates right now, having left before the captain noticed the pirates.
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In the computer, a timing device went off. It melted in a wave of energy and various signals, creating serious problems for the highly-powered generator. The explosion ripped the ship into pieces, and the force of it coming out of of hyperdrive suddenly killed everyone on board.

OOC: So its FT. Okay, what now?

ooc: people step in. eventually, we find the guy. meanwhile, he causes more trouble

OOC: Okay...
IC:

The council was discussing what to do about the recent incident. A ship had been blown apart, killing everyone on board. The only reason they knew was because some diplomats at the Greywatch embassy heard the news and relayed it. After about three hours of discussion, the council decided to put a hand out to Deata, offering assistance. A few Drones would be enough, no need to risk live men and women for what apprently a terrorist attack.

special forces swarmed the nearby moons. Civilians were searched systematically, and all weapons were confiscated. Nothing, however had been found.

The Calaverian Observer Marathon was passing through the system cloaked when it saw the terrorist act. The Marathon was on a long distance patrol to help locate the Korr Mercenaries that had bombarded Celestis and escaping. This looked like what they would do, no doubt they didn't car for civilian losses, especially after killing over a hundred Calaverian and leveling over a block. The Observer decloaked, revealing a huge blip on anyones sensors.

Deatan Admiral Drancesco Ditax noticed the calaverian marathon and swooped in with his Special Forces fleet.

<Who are you?> he asked.

The Marathon began to power shields. She hailed the Speacial Forces fleet.

" Foreign fleet, this is Commander Wellington of the Calaverian Observer "Marathon", we notcied a terrorist attack as we were passing through and believe that they are in fact Korr mercenaries that had attacked our homeworld without warning." The Observer dwarfed the entire speacial forces fleet, her white paint job made her a pearl in space.

A Pressure Space Rift opened nearby sending a gravity disturbance through the area and a Greywatch cruisar shuffled out,
<Hail, this is Greywatch cruisar Excel. We heard about the attack and decided to lend a hand. Copy?>

<Korr mercenaries?> he asked. <We never heard of them.>

To greywatch: <We copy. Feel free to land on the nearby moon.>

<Thankyou, we will begin landing now.>

The 2 Km cruisar said nothing more as it proceeded to land on one of the nearby moons. The other ship didn't phase it whatsoever. Drones were on board and they were ready to handle the situation. Everything was under way.

The Marathon payed little heed to the Greywatch vessle. Another hail was sent to the Deatan fleet.

" Long story, they attacked us, and were on patrol. We have reason to believe they destroyed that ship, what do you have so far on the situation?"

<Not much. We're searching the moon right now, but nothing is coming up. we have reports of bodies turning up very far away from here as they were ripped out of hyperdrive. We've reviewed one security camera, and we saw a dead hand. That's about it.>

The captain sighed " Alright, well continue scans alert us if you find anything" The huge Observer started to move forward slowly, on one of the arms of the ship the letters GOA were painted in black(Galactic Observation Armada).

<Are there any leads? Our Drones nee somewhere to start. Just give us a command. I very much doubt we need anything else resource wise.>

<There are reports that Vladmir Nesky, a passenger, was seen on Zida a few hours ago. We'll send you the picture. In fact, I'm taking the fleet there right now.>

<Send along that pic and some coords, we'll tag along. If you need we'll bring in a few Farseers into this area to keep looking around here.>

The cruisar stopped and changed heading. It was pointing at the Deatan task force. The captain waited for a command.

The Observer followed suit as it tailed the Deatan fleet towards Zida. Her shields were up, but weapons were down, they didn't think they were in any danger.

The picture and coordinates were sent. then the fleet went into hyperdrive and headed for Zinda.

Another PSR was opened up and the very same second they were at Zinda waiting for further commands.

the fleet arrived.

<follow us and land>, Ditax said.

<Proceeding to land now.>

The cruisar entered the atmosphere, carefully following the Deatans and prepared to engage anti-grav systems so as to 'float' to whatever landing pad the Deatans had ready. If need be, the ship could always continue levatating and provide eyes in the sky. For the time being, the Greywatch cruisar would follow Deatan orders.

the deatans landed. Security forces ran out to greet them.

"Sir, we found something," said a soldier.

Ditax sent a message to the Greywatch forces to follow and set off with many men.

As the cruisar slowly landed, a transport approached the landed Deatan ship. When the transport landed men and Drones began shuffling out. ALl in all there were about twenty men, all of them in Greywatch armor, its white color glistening in the light. There were also fifty Drones, all of them look about the same minus the tattoos covering their faces. Each one had the same black clothing, a sword at their side and a rifle on their back. The Greywatch soldiers had pistol, rifles, shotguns, and grenades, as well as the ammo to fuel these weapons. Then another soldier exited, his armor had a red stripe accross the left shoulder, he had a SMG, a rifle, and a few grenades. "I'm the commander of this unit," his voice came through the radio, "Shall I request snipers and armor support? Or do you have that covered?"

"This is our capial planet,' said Ditax. "We have that covered."

"Follow me, sir," called the soldier who had greeted them.

The commander nodded and the other soldiers followed him as he followed the Deatans. The cruisar had landed and the transport returned to it. "Should we wait on the others?" Said the commander, "And also, should I have my cruisar take flight? It could provide extra support by being our eyes in the sky."

The Observer adruptly changed course and rippe through Hyperspace back towards Celestis.

"If you wish," replied Ditax. this was followed by a whole bunch of curses.

They had come upon a man who was surrounded by security personnel. He was quite obviously dead. Reports from panicky civilians said that around the time the explosion was supposed to take place, the body had come flying out of nowhere. It must have dragged across the ground- there was a nasty trail of blood. The body itself was heavily burned. it was right against a wall which had somehow exploded.

"Wait, there's another one!" cried a medic. Security forces dragged out a Deatan soldier from behind the wall. he was pale all over, and had a surprised expression.

"Look at his cheek," murmured a commando. "He looks like he's been slapped- there's coloring there."

<This is Blasfisian Embassagy Delegate Hamilton calling Deatan security. Our guards have discovered a corpse within the grounds of our embassy building. We can't asertain how he came to be there! Our bio-tech sensors are still growing! There's no apparent cause of death... but the fellow looks very strange. Please advise.>

<If he looks thrown and heavily burned, he was a victim of a recent terrorist attack. If not, we aren't sure. Either way, security forces will enter to secure the body.>

<Greywatch cruisar is preping to take flight as of now.>

The commander nodded as he heard this, "Men, move out. We need to find the culprit." The drones nodded and were gone in a flash of dust. They would be everywhere and nowhere, breaking into groups of two or three. The men broke stood still behind the commander. "What do you need my men and I to do? The Drones will be all over this city in no time at all."

He shrugged.

"Search the city too," he said firmly. "We've quarantined it, and are inspecting the borders." Suddenly a Deatan soldier tumbled. He lay dead on the ground with the same symptoms of the last one.

"Take cover!" Ditax shouted.

The Greywatch units scattered for cover. Their armor began activating shields. The commander continued to stand, however. His shields were more powerful as was his armor, "Snipers? Or a virus of some sort?" He walked over to a squad of soldiers, "Men, look carefully, we need to know what we're up against."

all Deatan troops deployed their visors.

"Cover your faces," barked Ditax. "And move out."

They raced along a street with their guns drawn.

"Okay men, move out." The Greywatch forces took off behind the Deatan forces, splitting off when they had to, the commander stayed behind. He looked at Ditax and decided it best to follow him, "My units will cover yours and break away when needed. For them moment, I'll stick with you. The Drones will alert us if they see something."

"right," he said. They raced into a mall.

"Sir," said a security guard, gulping. "A man just ran up those stairs, sir."

"then we go up too," said Ditax.

<If he looks thrown and heavily burned, he was a victim of a recent terrorist attack. If not, we aren't sure. Either way, security forces will enter to secure the body.>

<Duly noted, we'll turn the body over to you. If there's anything we can do... software to trawl your main-frame for traces of these terrorists... bio-scanners that might have more luck than your conventional scans in locating them... please don't hesitate to ask.>

<we thank you, but you would be better advised to keep them for your own security.> The officer didn't add, no way are you accessing our mainframes with software.

The soldiers and Drones were all over the place looking for clues. The commander had followed Ditax, "Well we're close."

OOC: Last post until. later tonight

He nodded and they stormed the stairs. A firefight broke out ahead, as a group of 5 or so men in black fired ordinary (but still deadly) lasers at the Deatan troops, who fought back mercilessly. the roof became a battleground.

OOC: Assuming these are the guys my commander is with.
IC:

The commander pulled his rifle off his back and fired it multiple times using only using one hand. That was just the initial shot, he soon held it tightly in both and began firing at all hostiles. "All units, there is a firefight at my location, keep on focus with what you are doing. Report if you begin experiencing the same kind of resistance."

The men in black were soon all down. One Deatan was wounded, but their enemies hadn't been any sort of professionals.

The commander proceded to the bodies, he kicked one of them. "Alright, these guys are nuetralized, useless. They had to be a diversion, so few of them against trained soldiers..." He looked back over to the Deatans, "Your man gonna be okay?"

"Oh, he's fine," said a medic. "out of combat for a while, but fine."

"I don't think they were a distraction," said Ditax, eying some cheap rechargeable jetpacks and rocket launchers. "I think they were supposed to ambush someone- maybe us, maybe civilians, probably both."

"Well doesn't that just make things interesting..." Muttered the commander, he began radioing the Drones, "Drones nearest to my location, come to my area immediately." With that one of the Drones teams turned around and began making its way back to the commander. "My Drones will help us with this then. I hope you don't mind working along side them."

"Oh, not at all," Ditax replied. "Just so long as they don't spew radiation or chemicals everywhere when they die. this is a rather bad area for it."

"Not at all, the only reason I asked was because... some people find them unnerving." Just then, the group of five Drones landed beside the commander. Their solid black eyes stared forward, their black lips and black dagger-like teeth glistened. "Commander," said one of the Drones, "What do you require?" The commander nodded, "Just work with us, I don't want to be caught off guard."

Ditax took a look at them and shrugged. You saw worse in the Navy.

"Ok," he said. "Let's move out- i don't like being on this roof. where to?'

The commander nodded, "Anywhere you wnat I suppose. I'm under your command until further notice." The Drones nodded. "We didn't find anything out of the ordinary yet, our brothers will tell us if anything comes up." One of the Drones said in an emotionless voice.

ooc: feel free to find things if you want

"Very well," he said. To his men: "Split into two and search the mall!"

OOC: Oh okay, I figured something would find us, since there are soldiers running through the streets and guys in all black jumping from rooftop to rooftop.

IC:

The commander and his Drones broke off to search the mall. His weapons were at ease, the Drones smiled and didn't bother to have any weapons out. The other teams kept searching for something, one group of Drones saw something odd on a cieling and decided to check it out.

OOC: I'll let you determine the strange something.

"Oh, fuck," murmured a commando. He reached up and carefully removed a bomb. "This is not good." He deactivated it. Suddenly, poisonous and corrosive gases flowed it.

The drones approached the figure and landed, "Please identify yourself and your purpose. What is that weapon?" They then sent a mental message to some other Drones, Tell the commander we've found someone with what apears to be a bomb. Another Drone group heard the message and radioed in, "Commander, we have a situation..." The commander listened. "Dammit." He looked for the Deatan commander, he spotted him and sent one of his Drones to relay the message, the Drones landed beside Ditax. "Situation report, there is a bomb accompanied by a strange man to the south-east of our current location. We are trying to determine his purpose and the nature of the weapon. Please advise."

"Well, apprehend him!" shouted Ditax, rushing with his men towards the bomb. All of a sudden, a burst of gunfire came from the irection they had been traveling in, and they turned back, leaving the bomb to the drones and trying to clear out the large clothing store. 20 men in black were now firing upon them.

Four of the Drones charged at the man at full speed, attempting to tackle him. The other one tried to figure out what the device was. The commander nodded to the other Drone who'd spoken to Ditax. The Drone nodded back and walked calmly into the store despite the gunfire. "Assume Banishers." It muttered and an SMG appeared in each of its hands, it then began opening fire on the hostiles with so much as a change in expreesion.

the firefight continued in the clothing shop. two rocket launchers were fired at the Deatans and the drone.
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The soldier with the bomb went flying, sending the bomb straight into a crowd of Greywatch soldiers. it was still spewing gases.

"Hmm?" Said a soldier, "Okay... a bio-weapon by the looks of it... good thing we have this armor on." The Drone came down and grabbed the weapon, it then radioed the cruisar, "Open blink network please. Target the object in my hand, put it in space please." In a few seconds the item was gone. The drone looked at the soldiers, "I assume you are undamaged?" The soldiers nodded, "Yeah, but the suit are prolly gonna have to go through a de-contamination spray when we get back."
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The other Drone kept firing. It avoided the rockets by rolling out of the way before standing back up and opening fire once more. This is what Drones were made for, to be the best they could possibly be.

The Deatan soldier who had been holding the bomb got to his feet. the armor and visor had protected him, but after the tackle by the drones he was limping along to his commander.
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The firefight continued in the clothing shop. A fire was starting to rage in their. Ditax threw a grenade which bought a hanging mannequin down and shattered a display which the terrorists had been hiding behind. they were easy targets now.

The Drones got up quickly, one of them grabbed limping man with a death grip. "You thikn you're going where?" The Drone said.
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In the store the other Drone walked through the flames to the remaining men. He lifted his weapons so they were at the men's heads. "Stand down or be terminated."

"Get off me!" he cried. "what are you doing?!"
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The terrorists responded by unloading all their weaponry on the drone. things went boom.

"You had a device that appeared to be a bio-weapon. Why?" Said one of the Drones. The others simply waited.
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The Drone jumped back as soon as the men turned their weapons at it. It managed to escape a lot of the damage but still hit the wall behind it in pieces.

"I took it off the ceiling and deactivated it,' he replied angrily. "It dubled as a bomb."
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The Deatans finished off the terrorists.

"That doesn't look good,' said Ditax, looking at the drone.

The Drone smiled at him as black tendrals formed and its body quickly regenerated. "I'm fine, Drones are among the hardest soldiers to destroy." The Drone stood up, "Is there anything else you require in the form of aid?"
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The other Drone looked at the soldier, "There was gas coming from the device. You failed to deactivate it."

"Well, that's the beauty of it, see?" he said. "You do anything to tamper w/ it and it releases those gases, so it's either deadly one way or the other. I judged the gases would be less dangerous than a bomb going off, s I didn't try to put it back."
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"Not really," Ditax said.

"You should have said that. The bomb is now in space." Said the lead Drone, the other Drone with the other Greywatch soldiers made a powerful leap and landed next to his companions. "Either way, if that is done with, we will be leaving." The Drones didn't wait and were gone in a flash.
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The Drone nodded and walked away. It rejoined its commander and the other Drones and they moved on.

The Deatan troops moved out as their erstwhile companion joined them.