Chronosia
14-07-2008, 18:04
The great ship idled at the border marches which lay between hallowed Chronosia and the Federal Union. It was an old vessel, forged in the purifying flames of Chronosia Secundus before the great Sith Wars, forged in an era where Hydran did not bend to the yoke of the Gods. It's hull had been marked in conflicts which had sundered the very fabric of existence. They had been different back then, not yet enlightened, still babes playing with the toys of their ancestors.
Marcus De Drakan had guided them to those moments, when the Union had known the Chronosian sting. Worlds had burned and been conquered, absorbed into an Imperium not even a shadow of its true potential. Much had changed since those fateful days. Alliances had come and gone, betrayals wrought and avenged. Now, the Union lay quiescent, abandoned and betrayed itself. The ship idled at this border, once armed and readied for the final apocalyptic war that would never come.
Reality split and sundered in carnal fury, the ships prow edging into the coruscating warp rift which its engines had conjured forth. Whispers echoed and danced across its surface, undulating upon the Gellar Field. Madness and insanity cavorted like lovers upon the brilliant skin of the ship, repelled and attracted in equal measure by the sanity-shattering runes etched into its gilded plates.
High above the Federal capital world, the vessel re-entered the womb of the Material realm, trailing a thousand shifting fragments of the nightmare realm from whence it had come. Daemonic after-echoes flitted and danced in their death-throes, the murder-fading which pulled them back to their own realm, whispers and ideas to sear into the unwitting minds of those far below.
A communication issued forth from the gleaming vessel, more akin to a rakish pleasure yaucht than a vessel of consummate war, a single message from the great ship identified as the Provider of Plentitudes.
This is the Chronosian vessel, Provider of Plentitudes. We carry the seal of the Emperor Remiel himself, Warmaster of the most august Galactic Empire. Long have we been idle in our acquaintances. The Lord of Lords requests only that his message be heard among the leaders of your people.
He asks only that you respect the sanctity of his messenger and the terms of this parley. Will you hear us, Unionists? Will you speak with us as men?
Marcus De Drakan had guided them to those moments, when the Union had known the Chronosian sting. Worlds had burned and been conquered, absorbed into an Imperium not even a shadow of its true potential. Much had changed since those fateful days. Alliances had come and gone, betrayals wrought and avenged. Now, the Union lay quiescent, abandoned and betrayed itself. The ship idled at this border, once armed and readied for the final apocalyptic war that would never come.
Reality split and sundered in carnal fury, the ships prow edging into the coruscating warp rift which its engines had conjured forth. Whispers echoed and danced across its surface, undulating upon the Gellar Field. Madness and insanity cavorted like lovers upon the brilliant skin of the ship, repelled and attracted in equal measure by the sanity-shattering runes etched into its gilded plates.
High above the Federal capital world, the vessel re-entered the womb of the Material realm, trailing a thousand shifting fragments of the nightmare realm from whence it had come. Daemonic after-echoes flitted and danced in their death-throes, the murder-fading which pulled them back to their own realm, whispers and ideas to sear into the unwitting minds of those far below.
A communication issued forth from the gleaming vessel, more akin to a rakish pleasure yaucht than a vessel of consummate war, a single message from the great ship identified as the Provider of Plentitudes.
This is the Chronosian vessel, Provider of Plentitudes. We carry the seal of the Emperor Remiel himself, Warmaster of the most august Galactic Empire. Long have we been idle in our acquaintances. The Lord of Lords requests only that his message be heard among the leaders of your people.
He asks only that you respect the sanctity of his messenger and the terms of this parley. Will you hear us, Unionists? Will you speak with us as men?