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OOC: Please note, the signup and OOC thread is here: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=13850823

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An ordinary street in an ordinary small town near the coast, somewhere on the European continent, sunset.

Michael enjoyed the view of the sun disappearing below the horizon. The world seemed so peaceful - and for most people it was. Sure, there always were some small armed conflicts about borders, but the last decade nothing significant had happened. Almost too peaceful. Nations of which the leaders subscribed to different belief systems had made threats to each other, but no wars were going on. The bigger nations were producing lots of weapons, but not using them. How long would it take before this would go completely wrong?

For Michael, anyway, the world wasn't peaceful at all. For a high priest of the Free Priesthood, an organization that was forbidden on the whole planet, every day meant a day of fear of being discovered.

He closed the curtains and switched on his workstation. To anyone eavesdropping on the net, it would look like he was browsing long boring articles about butterflies, but he actually was using text chat to communicate with other high priests. He also switched on his 3DTV, on the news channel.


Michael: Hi An!
Andrea: Good day, Michael. May Ishtar guide you to love.
Michael: And may Sol enlighten you. How are things on your side of the big pond?
Andrea: It has been a bad week. The police tried to arrest three members of my flock, a young family, for being "spies" of course. They didn't survive.
Michael: May they rest in peace.
Michael: Was anyone compromised?
Andrea: It doesn't seem so. And what's happening on your side?
Michael: Not much. Wait a minute, something on the news...

"We of the Ziolisian people have been oppressed for years by the tyrants and dictators of the past, but now my comrades we have a new age! The memories of the past will be erased, new rulers like I shall be put in place. Together we will explore the reaches of space! Together we shall build a new nation!"

--Ziolisan Newscast 200 years ago--

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Present day...

"Alpha Tango 2 reporting, we are now traveling into Alpha Centauri, will arrive in next sector 1 month from now."

a dim light on a consle was the only source of light in what appeared to be a small room, large layers of dust coated everything pointing to the fact the room hadnt seen use in over a thousand years probably more.

This one room was connected to a whole space ship the Old and aging KSE Ventura one of seven protoype jump ships used to get past the nebula sadly it was reported as a failure but certain people new otherwise like the crew of the ventura, in order to wait out the probably many thousands of years before the rest of the kewen bypassed the nebula and found their lost breathern.

So the ship and its crew buried he vessel beneath the ground which had before been completly vacant, now it was covered by large spwarling buildings from some new alien species that had flourished.

that was many many hundreds of thousands of years ago before the inhabitants of this world had came to this plot of land.

Present day....


the cargo hold of the ship had been converted to a large stasis chamber with 15 long poles jutting from the floor and next to each one a single small barrel of bubbling liquid on everypole but one the lights were red and the liquid still but near one pole the lights were green and the liquid still bubbling.

Kchsss hissed a seal as the tube opened and a single small red snake flooped out into the barrel.

what happened next could not be described,a huminiod shaped thing emerged from the cargo hold and headed to the airlock, eyes red and burnig with rage the form resembled that of a deamon with horns red skin and large claws on each hand, the air lock opened and the hallway was flooded with dirt as the thing began to burrow.

few hours later.

With a roar the thing clawed its way through the last few patches of dirt and its horned head burst through the ground into a room full of people...

ooc: this room is what ever you want it too be churchpeople,scientists or what ever. note the ship is very old and probably has little technology of use except decent designs for space engines.

BREAKING NEWS

The Pope died of a heart attack when a demon appeared in Vatican City.

(security camera video of the Kewen breaking through the floor)

The government released the following statement:

(switch to spokesperson)

"For too long have we tolerated the devil worshiping terrorists of the so-called 'free priesthood' in our country. We are a kind and forgiving people, always praying that these sinners will repent and see the Truth. But not any longer. In the interest of the safety of the public, we will exterminate this pest, the evil conjured by them, and everything else that doesn't confirm the greatness of God."

(switch to tanks rolling across a border)

Has the endtime come? Stay tuned for a report on the numbers and activities of satanic terrorists in our glorious country.

(commercial break)

After many years of hibernation it wasnt at full strength, after expending so much energy to get to the top of the place, its form shrunk untill it turned to its neutral state a prone silve body with no defining features what ever, so vulerable in this state it could be capture by a child with some silly string the tunnel collasped behind it as its large frame didnt keep it open anymore.

Michael: Oh ******.
Andrea: What?
Michael: The pope died, probably because of old age. They made up some nonsense about a demon in Vatican City.
Michael: Now they're going to kill all Free Priests, and they declared war on the atheists, too.
Andrea: We need to get your people out of there. You keep a low profile, I'll get in touch with the others and figure out what to do.
Michael: Alright. See you the same time tomorrow.
(connection closed)


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The room was empty, except for the Kewen and an old man who had died of a heart attack everyone who had been present minutes ago had ran away. A group of ten men with assault rifles stormed in through the only door. They seemed confused, because at first no odd creature was to be seen, and they had been ordered to capture a large demon.

It knew someone was coming, but it couldnt do anything but make pathetic attempts at growling at them from its silver spawling form.

"What is this?"
"I don't know, maybe this is what it looks like when a demon takes a dump?"
"This is no time for jokes. (*beep*) Control room, where did it go? ... What do you mean it shrank?"

The leader poked the Kewen with his rifle. "Nice try. You come with us, or else we'll make you even more amorphous."

The kewen brough up his arm and grabed hold of the rifle, pulling the rifle into him as his body disloved in into storage there was no way this man was getting it back.

"In time, they will come and when they do. you will not stop them."

down below, in a more secure compartment there were three tubes with blinking lights being stranded on a planet and having to wait about two years before they ship was fully buried they had alot of free time, so.. the rest is up to your imagination.

The small ship, a mere cynlinder with engines attached, revolved slowly in space.
"A planet, huh? Reckon it's worth a shot?" The ship was strange. From it's shape outside, you would think it a chunk of debris. What it was, however, was a Marine ODSAW (orbital drop shock and awe) pod, jettisonned from a passing malfuntioning Templar cruiser.
"Well, the Ordinator's would skin us if we didn't at least try to gather some information." The few dozen commandos on board murmered their agreement.
"Very well. Try to set it down somewhere inconspicuous." The pod shimmered for a second, it's surface distorting. It then fired up it's engines, moving into orbit. When it reached a steady orbit, it fired a number of smaller orbs from it's port side, which thundered down just outside of the Vatican City. The groggy captain groaned.
"For the love of god, I said inconspicuous! Come on dumbasses." The group ran, moving towards the city outskirts, except for one who planted a small beacon into the ground. It had an orb on top which pulsed green and revolved slowly, marking out the planet to the Templar Library.

ooc: Um, Vatican City is in the middle of Rome, I don't think it has outskirts. Oh well.

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BREAKING NEWS: Huge ball of fire lands on St Peter's Square!

In response, a nuclear missile was launched at the capital of Belschaft. Government officials declined further comments.

ooc: Um, Vatican City is in the middle of Rome, I don't think it has outskirts. Oh well.

BREAKING NEWS: Huge ball of fire lands on St Peter's Square!

OOC: Lol, I meant Rome then. Should I edit?

ooc: it doesn't matter. also, let's use the ooc thread, link in first post

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The other nine members of the security team fired at the Kewen as it was trying to get away with the weapon...

the kewen finished abosorbing the gun and as if to say it was dead stopped moving its eyes were close no sign of life at all, not even a pulse.

it wasnt really dead just sleeping but the aliens didnt know that.

The group hurtled through the startled onlookers, eventually heading into the sewers and settling down there.
"Right, boss, so in how many ways are we screwed right now?"
"Well..." The captain counted on his fingers. "We just came down in a heap of smoking ruin in the middle of a population zone. We have no idea where the hell we are, we don't look anything like the locals, can't blend in, are wearing carapace armor instead of clothes and carrying rifles and grenades."
"So, a lot."
"Yeah."
"Yeah. Any ideas?" The captain thought for a moment, then pointed to a man. "Cub, go surface-side and see what you can find to give us a hint as to where we are." The man nodded, took off his armor and weapons so as too look slightly less conspicuous, then went back onto the surface. He made his way back clumsily to the crash site and growled.
"Damn. Ordinator's ain't gonna be happy."

OOC- Nukes so early are a bad idea. If it had hit I'd have launched all mine. Instead I'll have it intercepted by a missile shield.

IC-

2.5 Kilometres underground, somewhere outside Katara City, Belschaft

"They did what?" screamed the Belschaft High Marshall. "Are you syaing someone tried to launch a nuclear attack against us? Who would be so foolish?"

"We do not know for certain who ordered it sir, but we are working on finding out who is responsible." replied an aid.

"Find the men responsible, and when you do, call me. There will be a reconing with them, and one they shall never forget."

(ooc: the nation Michael is in, of which Rome is the capital, is called New Roman Empire from now on...)

"Damnit, we were supposed to capture that thing alive. Oh well, let's get the Pope out of here."

The security team left the room.

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... the Carrabinieri (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carabinieri) surrounded the ODSAW pod ...

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--- NRE Midnight News ---

Earlier tonight, the pope died of a heart attack upon sight of a demon. The free priesthood satan worshiping terrorists have claimed responsibility for this incident. Nothing is known about the current whereabouts of the demon.

Moments later, a new type of missile landed on St Peter's square. A nuclear missile has been fired at Belschaft in retaliation. Vatican City is being evacuated.

The government asks all citizens to remain calm, and to report any suspected free priesthood members or activities to the local police.

2.5 Kilometres underground, somewhere outside Katara City, Belschaft

"The New Roman Empire? I thought they had more sense than to try something like that."

"Aparantly not sir. What are your orders?"

"We have a fleet nearbye, do we not?"

"Yes sir, the fith fleet is in range of their capital."

"Then order them to make our displesure known."


30 miles of the coast of Italy

On the BCS Glory's twin runways dozens of planes lined up, as final feuling and pre-flight chjecks were completed. Surounding the giant ship was the fleet, and elsewhere three other carriers were preparing the cargo for launch. In total the best part of seven hundred planes would be launched, equiped with a mixture of incendary bombs, tanks of napalm and fuel air bombs. The sheer mass of firepower they had was emense, and soon it would be unleased on the New Roman Empire. The Jet's would go in wave after wave, flying continously, landing to refuel and rearm before taking of again.

Rome would burn that night.

The Rome was in complete chaos. The minister of defense was stuck in traffic between military HQ and the building of parliament, surrounded by a small group of protesters shouting "Jesus was a pacifist!". The head of state was dead. The police forces were unsuccessfully trying to divide their attention between evacuating Vatican city, keeping curious people away from what appeared to be the wreck of some sort of spaceship on St Peter's square, sending protesters home, and preventing complete panic.

The rest of the nation was calm, as everyone was glued to their 3DTVs.

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Meanwhile, in the megacity that was named "New York" after one of the once separate cities that were part of it, Andrea was working like a maniac, talking with the few other high priests that had managed to be available on the net, trying to figure out where to relocate the Free Priests from the New Roman Empire to. The Christian nations weren't suitable, since their governments all believed the apocalypse had come, which would no doubt lead to chaos similar to that in Rome. Those probably would need to be evacuated too soon enough. Most of the east and global south weren't suitable either, because the European refugees would stick out like sore thumbs. It seemed the most safe place was... Belschaft. It was hard to believe that exactly the nation that seemed to hate them most, and on top of that now was at war with the NRE, was the best choice. But it was.

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Although the rest of Rome was out of control, the military was still functioning. Ground-to-air missiles were fired at the Belschaft planes, and so was everything else that wasn't meant for the purpose, but there were simply way too many. Larger missiles were fired at the Glory, but these proved ineffective. A nuke might have been a good idea, but that required a code only known by the minister of defense - who was still lost in the chaos.

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NRE NEWS FLASH (4:00 AM)

Belschaft continues to attack our glorious nation, indiscriminately killing all men, women and children of Rome. It is estimated their unprovoked attack that began just after the death of the Pope has already killed... (newsreader collapses)

When the men left the room the kewen seemingly came back to life standing up shakily its outer shell assume the appearance of a soilder,the came out and pretty soon a replica was standing in room.


leaving the room the kewen went to find the basement.

"Alpha Tango 2 reporting from new Sol System, we have reached our destination, our group will now proceed to scout out the 3rd planet which seems to bear life."

"Copy that Alpha Tango 2, Delta Bravo 4 proceeding to scout rest of solar system."

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One day later...

"Alpha Tango 2 here, proceeding to land on 3rd planet."

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Ten minutes from surface of Earth...

"Elites prepare your weapons, we will go down and eliminate any hostile sentient species."

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20 seconds...

The dropship came to a stop above an alien city and dropped the Elite Rangers (http://media.teamxbox.com/dailyposts/halo2bios/04odsts.jpg) off.

Morning came. The ancient ruins of Rome were even more ruined than before, and most of the newer buildings were in a similar state. The civilians that had survived were all trying to leave the city.

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11 AM

An unmarked grey aircar landed near Michael's house. One man got out, the pilot switched off the engines but stayed in his seat. A knock on the door...

"Mr..." the unknown man tried to look at the front of the now open door, to read the name. "Mr 'Michael' I presume?"
"That's my first name, yes."
"Please take all of your people to the coast one hour after sunset."
"???"
"I'm sorry I don't have time to stay for coffee. May Thor's hammer crush your enemies. Goodbye."
"Oh..."

When the vehicle had disappeared from view, Michael put on his coat and pretended to go for a walk, to forward the odd message to his priests.

Reaching the basement, he put his hands to the floor searching for something
"ahhhhh..." h said softly as he found what he what he was looking for, digging only a few feet into the ground he hands came to a stop as he hit something metalic.

Wrenching it from the ground it was a little black box with dozens of wires leading out of it into the ground, his hands dancing across the keyboard as he prime the explosives, several thousand small M/AM bombs were buried underneath the Vatican city, priming them and running to hide someplace he ran outside to find someplace else to hide only to find the city ablze as many bombs were dropped shouting WTF to himself he ran insde a building down the street narrowly aviod a collapsing building as it burned merrily



KABOOM!!!!!!!

as most of the boms exploded turning just about every inch of Vatican City into rubble, a large crater was in the square middle of Vatican city, the Ship lay within it. scrurrying out of his hiding place he moved back to the Ship as he contemplated his next move...


ooc: whoooo mayhem FYI teh bombs are to clear out the area so teh shippy can fly away wheeeeeee. how thats enough trouble for you?i can tone it down if you want, the bombs will probably just destoy most of vatican city so Ziolis if your men touched down on the outskirts of it they wouldnt be harmed much.

OOC: Actually they touched down in NYC forgot to say... I was assuming this is where Andrea is?
CEDR= Concentrated Energy Discharge Rifle AKA Laser Rifle

IC:

"Go go go! All Rangers lock and load!"

There was a huge crowd gathered around what seemed to be an airplane but had strange words on it that flashed from language to language until the dropship system adapted to the new world. Now the words formed into English,

"Ziolisia Combined Military, 21st Ranger Division."

"Yo boss what's up with the crowd."
"How the hell should I know, I'll go try and adapt their language."

To the crowd the Captain seemed to be saying this:

"Xer taj wesek ta menkle de stat lantuike."

But slowly the Captain and crew absorbed their language from what was being said around them.

"Uhhh hello we're not from around here, could someone give us a map or something? Please or I'll kill you with this gun here."

Captain Zenion patted his CEDR (http://www.cncden.com/images2_ren/big_laserrifle.jpg).

The people closest to the dropship turned around and tried to run away. The crowd responded more like a stampeding herd than a group of humans.

Andrea watched the scene from her 12th floor room.
"Oh great, aliens, just what the world needs when it's already going crazy."
She didn't know what the Ziolisian had said to cause a panic. A declaration of war? Or just some random thing? She decided to take a gamble and try to get something positive out of the situation. In the worst case scenario her students could take over her work, so why not?
She plugged a microphone into her workstation, turned the volume all the way up, carried a speaker to the window, opened the window, and shouted "HEY! UP HERE!" into the mic.

(ooc: I'm waiting to see how the aliens in Rome respond to the bombing before writing more about that city)

ooc: i edited in a reaction to the napalm bombing fyi.

"Goddamn it." Cub knelt and pressed a few buttons on what appeared to be his watch. After about a minute, the other commandos were sat around him.
"These the police of this country?"
"Seems like it." The captains wristpad bleeped. He looked and groaned. "We picked a bloody great time. This place is at war, the cities in chaos." He shook his head, then unslung his rifle. "Oh well, may as well make the most of it." The group nodded, then as one stood up from where they hid. Two fired fully automatic at the carrabinieri, while the rest tossed grenades at the ODSAW.
OOC: Not using anything special here, just good old plasma rifles.
(http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/exodus3000/images/thumb/8/83/Plasma-rifle.png/210px-Plasma-rifle.png)
--Wee timeskip--

The group had successfully damaged, possibly even destroyed, the ODSAW and were fleeing from the scene when a bomb destroyed the building next to them. A series of explosions tore the street apart and made the team run for cover. "Shit! What was that, a cluster?"
"No, the spreads to wide. It's happening all over the city. Not only that but theres some kinda firebomb being dropped."
"Alright, turn your suits to HAZENV and we'll move out of this damn city." The team turned dials on their wrist pads, then moved to exit the city. "Keep your eyes open and your weapons free. Kill anything in your way."

NRE 3DTV: "Please be patient while we're switching to our other studio."

"What the hell do you want you bloody alien?"

The captain shot his CEDR just above the alien's head.

"Captain, I've set up the beacon, the rest of the fleets should be here soon."

As the techie said that a 10 foot tower rose out of the ground and beeped loudly.

"Delta Bravo 4 to main fleet, Alpha Tango 2's beacon is activated, time to move in."

A 400m long battle ship emerged from behind Mars and released Orbital Strike Satellites (OSS).

"Prepare to fire Ion cannons."
"Ion charge at 5%"

The captain's wristpad begun bleeping frantically.
"Damn it! Theres space ships heading in. The beacon's picking up another source, see if you can find out what its broadcasting to." One of the others nodded and begun frantically pressing buttons. "Also, lock onto the source and try and establish contact." The commando nodded and spoke into the wrist pad.

On the Ziolisian communicators, a weak message played. It begun in templarian then swapped into english as the wristpad's communicator kicked in.
"Odeyf balpyz, swez ez Pohsoef Gojeyl ab swy Faek Sythdol efsylzsyddol yghykeseafolu lypaffoezzofpy balpy. Hdyozy ekyfsebu uailzydjyz ofk please hold fire until the situation is ascertained. Where are your forces located?"


OOC: You can translate that using this:
Templarian Language Translator (http://arryhenrae.tripod.com/)

"Send em a message back Lieutenant."

We will not stop our bombardment.
We were sent here to subjugate any sentient life,
and turn it into a new colony.
Stand down or our OSS's will bombard your exact location into rubble

clambering out of the wreckage of the former vatican city, the kewen now enteredd the fully uncovered Vessel, its full sized revealed in all its splending glory at almost 340m with several dozen small it turrets stick out of it for nothing more than dispatching stray asteriods.


Sliding into the Command chair he checked and priimed the systems the ship slowly rose of the ground and into the air breaking free of its earthy bed.
"Time to get off this godforsaken place" he commented as he primed the X324.2 Wormhole generator.

"Stage one complete estimated time till launch 15m" chimed the automated comptuer systems blandly as a wormhole began forming above the planet convienently near the ships threatening to bombard this planet.


ooc: do not get sucked in.

NY:

"So they are hostile", Andrea thought. "Excellent."
Through the mic: "I RECOMMEND YOU DON'T FIRE AT ME. IS THERE ANY INFORMATION YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE? I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU FOR FREE."

(ooc: if you read up on the goddess worshiped by Andrea (Ishtar), you'll see the above is a sensible response)

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That town near the coast of the NRE:

About 20-30 people had gathered at the coast, exactly one hour after sunset, as had been requested.

Michael: "We're being evacuated in a sailboat??? I think you Norse reconstructionists are taking things a bit too far."
That man that had delivered the message to him earlier: "If we were, it would look different and we would be using it to raid and burn villages."
Michael: "So it's really Belschaft that is taking reconstructionism too far, eh? Why a sailboat, though?"
That man: "It's difficult to detect because it doesn't generate heat. It's a stealth design, too."

(ooc: apologies for the viking joke, and for coming up with the ridiculous idea of a stealth sailboat)

"Captain, we have a warphole near us, automated systems are now moving us away."

"Good, what's the ion charge?"

"20%."

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Down on Earth...

"From you, cowardly scum? I don't think so, we could hack your computer systems anyway, AES 128 bit encryption is no match for our slicers.

(ooc: what's this, you don't want a map anymore?)

"AES 128? Who are you, the historic reenactment society?"

It was more difficult to get these aliens to work for her than it ought to be. Now what? Should she ignore them or blow her cover? She figured that if she ignored them, more than her cover might be blown...

"I still recommend you don't fire at me. This room has been equipped with a luxurious self-destruct system, and you wouldn't like to set it off by accident. Do I have your attention now?"

OOC: Slice = Hack

"Damnit, lieutenant I thought they had AES 128 bit!?"

"Uh sorry, its AES 1208 bit encryption."

"Who gives a damn we can still slice that. Self-Destruct eh? Our suits are made of Pallarium, I s'pose you've never heard of it, but that's why we're here, for more Pallarium, If your government can supply us with 600 tons of Pallarium then we won't obliterate this area."

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In Space...

"OSS Ion Charge at 30%."

"This is Delta Bravo 4, we are now landing to support Alpha Tango 2."

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Earthside...

2 more dropships landed in the NYC, but this time they weren't Rangers, it was a group of 10 MBS's. Each MBS had a Pulse Chaingun in one arm , and a maser sword, except for the Captain who had a Quad Reciprocating Light Railgun in one arm, and a maser shield in the other.



OOC: MBS = Mech Battle Suit
Star Adder = Captain's Mech http://features.teamxbox.com/xbox/996/MechAssault-2-Vehicle-Overviews/p2/
Nova Cat = Troop Mechs http://features.teamxbox.com/xbox/996/MechAssault-2-Vehicle-Overviews/p1/

"Well, it's not MY government, but you shouldn't expect them to do anything for you. They're at war and believe the end of the universe is near. Well, they probably will obliterate this area for you if you just wait a bit..."

Her thoughts: "They don't seem to want to be my allies. Heh, as if they have a choice..."

She made her workstation connect to the police emergency contact, using the net connection of her neighbor. "There's a free priesthood terrorist at [her own address]. She's negotiating with some scary aliens. I have to run now."
She removed the storage from her workstation, and set a countdown to 5 minutes.

4:29... come on, elevator!
3:56... DOWN!
2:27... out of here!

Police aircars rushed in from all directions, and immediately started firing at the Ziolisians. Then...

BOOM!

Within seconds, the building collapsed. Half of it fell on top of the Ziolisian spaceship.

Andrea got away through the old metro tunnels.

The ship now hovering a steady 1 mile off the ground began to lower itself again, inside the cockpit

"Curse it by the sons" exclaimed the kewen pressing a few buttons the room with the three young kewen in it, now fully active and armoured. was depressurised and launched randomly around the world conveintly landing in a place called Belschaft(sp?) a likely source for high tempreature resistant materials to fix the small disconnection in a power conduit meanwhile in space the owrmhole procceded into phase two and quadruple insize now almost 4KM all around slightly parting into the earths outer layer of atmoshpere creating a large storm.

People claiming to be "atheist refugees" arrived in Belschaft using a variety of means of transportation, mostly aircars and boats, but also planes from the far south. Their total number was 328.

"Damn the dropship Captain."

Then the MBS troops realized that they were being shot at.

"Huh, I guess we gotta do this the hard way."

The captain turned around and fired his Quad railgun.

Within seconds 4 police aircars were down.

"Shit, everybody in the 2 dropships left, and somebody attach a det charge to the crippled one."

The Dropships lifted off and in 2 minutes the remaining ship blew a 100 foot wide crater in the ground.

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Space...

"OSS are now ready to fire sir."

"Lock onto beacon, and fire."

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Earthside...

The megacity of NY was under attack as five OSS fired upon the city, within seconds most of the population was dead. The buildings were leveled, and all that was left were the few lucky people and buildings.



OOC: I s'pose it's evac time?

(ooc: killing the people you want to do work (mining?) for you: not a clever strategy.)

Andrea heard an incredible noise above her. Bits of concrete or whatever it was the metro tunnel was made of fell from the ceiling. She walked further into the tunnel, and after a while found an old station. Using the light of her phone (which now was useless except as a light), she found a door with a "no entry" sign. She kicked it open, and found some old junk and some switches. As she set all switches to "on", the station came to life: lights, vending machines, and a net terminal with a now ridiculously cheap price per minute.

Andrea put a credit in the terminal (now good for three hours) and requested satellite imagery of NY.
"Holy shit!"
About one fourth of her followers would be dead. She felt she might have made a mistake, but told herself that aliens wielding this kind of firepower would have done the same no matter what. Oh well, at least the police and army would be too busy fighting aliens to hunt free priests.

She sent a quick message to her flock:

Everyone please go to Belschaft ASAP, I don't care how.


She printed a map of the metro system, and went on her way out of NY.

OOC: As I said the rulers of this time were corrupt bastards. If you didn't agree the first time then you would either be killed if he was in a bad mood or turned into a slave if he was in a good mood.

IC:

The 2 Dropships made it back and docked to the Battleship.

"Retract all OSS, and begin bombardment with ship weaponry."

"FC1 reporting, Railguns and Mass Drivers ready for bombardment."

"Fire."

Suddenly all the weapons on the ship fired upon the various continents and countrys in that world.

With the position of the ever growing wormhole weapons fire to almost the whole eastern part of the planet was sucked in.
Stage four. chimed the computer as the wormhole grew too twice its size at its final stage.


The compartment slammed into the eart somewhere in a city in someplace identified as belschaft. only to have been hit by orbital fire.
"Crap---" was all they said before the awoke on the other side of the country a few minutes later

OOC: Kewen not to be rude or anything but could you explain what just happened, or have better writing, sorry.

IC:

ZCM Descendant to ZCM Reckoning,
We request immediate reinforcement to help us subjugate a country called Belschaft.
Scans show that there is a large amount of Palarium there.
We need the help of your Ion Torpedoes to disable the power grid of the country.

ZCM Reckoning to ZCM Descendant,
Acknowledged, will arrive in 1 day, hold your positions.

Again 2 Dropships descended upon Earth but this time was in a holding pattern over the source of the Palarium...


OOC: I smell.... cupcakes of DOOM!!!!

ooc: whats going on is that. my ship is preparing a warphole so it can go home, right above the planet with just a little bit poking inside the atmoshpere, now, the location of it is sheild the country containing vatican city which i blew up is sheltered from your OSS or OOSing of the planet and your bombardment, now as for the crap--- bit, simply put, my guys landed right in the middle of your bombardment and got flung halfway around the country and landed someplace randomly(hopefully someone will take this as i like landed amosnt someones group or what ever)

ooc: cupcakes of doom (http://theblackoven.blogspot.com/2008/03/le-petit-gateau-du-les-legions-noire.html)?

Viking guy: "What the hell? Belschaft was supposed to be reasonably safe. Oh well, at least the quiet spot where we're going to smuggle you guys into the country is still quiet."

...

They saw the Kewen crashland.

Michael: "Yes, very quiet."

A small group went to investigate, leaving the rest behind in the boat.

Climbing out of the hole in the ground, the three kewen shook their heads in bewilderment before assuming the form of large tanksized beasties with various dangerous looking appendages and began to climb out of the 12 foot deep holes they were in

M: "Are these the aliens we got a message about from NY?"
VG: "Doesn't look like them."
M: "Good. Here goes nothing... *ahem* A good day to you, and hail to your god if you have one. My name is Michael, I represent the Free Priesthood, probably the most peaceful group you will encounter on this planet. Um... in summary... hello..."

One of the things, which ws the eldest and the largest after climbing out of the hole stepped towards the small puny thing that had addressed it.

"Mortal" it said in a small puny kid like voice beore it coughed
"Mortal, I am considered a god in someplaces,And we are the Kewen what is it you seek, I am know as Slassk these are my brothers Vensi and Morsi" It said in a much deeper rumbling deamony tone befitting something of its size and looks

More defining features were being etched or coming into veiw clearly, large broadswords hang from their backs and other visual descriptive things began to assume a form.

The kewen in this form easily almost 4m stood talled then its brothers and of course the small thing in front of it.

Michael bowed. "It is a pleasure to meet you, Slassk. I seek a safe place for my people, but it seems this planet does not have any of those anymore. We are gathering in this country to consider what we should do. And you, what do you seek on a planet at war with itself?"

Meanwhile, an aircar appeared at the horizon. Seconds after it had appeared, it landed a hundred meters or so away from them. Because of its high speed, it plowed the rest of the distance to them through the snow/soil.
"Hello Andrea, nice entrance."
"Thanks. What do we have here?"
"Kewen, this is Andrea, another leader of the Free Priesthood. Andrea, these are Slassk, Vensi and Morsi of the Kewen."
Andrea gave a small nod. "Pleasure."
"Where were we? Oh yes. What brings you to this planet?"

ZCM Reckoning to ZCM Descendant,
We have arrived in the system and are approaching now.
Send us the coords for bombardment.

Encrypted Package to ZCM Reckoning
Coordinates:
Delta Alpha Niner
Tango Charlie Eta
Zeta Bravo Fox

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Above Belschaft...

"Get ready to drop as soon as those torpedoes land we go in and kill em all."


OOC: Seriously, get the hell off Earth...

ooc: damn I was looking forward to the difficulties of finding and then stealing a large spaceship, but it looks like Ziolis is going to carpet bomb the place so I'll have to take a shortcut...

ic:

VG: "Wait a minute, no safe places left on earth, that gives me an idea. Do you know why this place is quiet while the rest of the country is overpopulated? That lake over there is not a lake..."
A: "Eh?"
M: "I see. Good idea, but I still wish we had other options."
A: "What?"

Michael grabbed his phone (or whatever portable communication devices will be called in the future), and sent a message to all other high priests:


We have arrived and this looks like a good place for a party. Bring your own beer.


(Translation: Take everyone to the place where you know I am, bring weapons)

ooc: waiting for Kewen to talk/act, and then... "o hai i am in ur secrit hanger, steelin ur spaesship"

After dusting off their armour a bit one of the large kewen Unsheated his swoard walked up to a very large and thick tree and with one large sweep and a loud Kathunk the tree fell to the groun behind them.

Sitting down on one side and letting his brother sit on the otehrside they waited for the talking to stop.

"We were here before all of this, our ship was buried under what we have found out was vatican city, and our fathers arrival in this world seemed to have killed someone quite high up."


"And we wont be here much longer, right now we have a rather large wormhole opening up to a random planet far far away in which we can sleep for anotehr few thousand yesr till someone comes and finds us again. hopefully not in the middle of a war."

"So the pope died because of a shock after all... and you guys caused the beginning of this world war by accident." Andrea tried hard not to giggle. "That's really funny in an odd dark way."
"A wormhole... the gods are smiling upon us." said the Viking guy.
"Would you care to enlighten me about what you and Michael are going on about?"
"The spaceship launch site of Belschaft is hidden below that fake lake. That's why this area is uninhabited."
"Ooooh. Do you seriously want to leave the earth, to go to a planet that probably doesn't even have breathable air?"
"Well, would you rather stay here?"
"You have a point."

In the next few minutes, all 300-something other members of the Free Priesthood arrived.

Michael again bowed to the Kewen. "It was nice to meet you. I expect we will meet again, but right now we have some urgent work to do."

"Listen up everyone! There's a hidden launch site over there. Everyone who is strong, figure out how to get in and capture it. Everyone else, stand back."

OOC: Wooooo I smell......Orbital Bombardment of DOOM!!!1

IC:

ZCM Reckoning to ZCM Descendant,
We are now commencing bombardment.

5 Ion Torpedoes each the size of 2 doubledecker buses crashed down towards Earth.

The first one landed relatively near the area where the FP was gathered, radios went dead and the electronics inside the launch area were destroyed making it easy for the FPs to sneak in.

The rest slammed into military emplacements, destroying SAMs and Radar.

OOC: MUAHAHAHAA I made it easier for you to escape :eek:

ooc: you know TFP you could ask for my hel then i escape with you then i disappear into another wormhole when we reach your planet!.
IC

Considering what the little man said he replied
"If your thinking of taking our ticket out of here, think again not only ill you need a ship strong enough to withstand the force of our wormhole you will need the proper navigation other wise with what i can say a near enough 100% chance you will end up either in a star or in the middle of nowhere. Now Me and my brothers are stuck on this godforsaken planet untill we headback to ourship, i propose this. We help you you take us back to our ship and then we go our seperate ways"

as if to demonstrate how much of a threat they could be, the other the two kewen on the logsunlugh the large glowing weapons on their back and began to check there operational status.

M: "Holy smokes, apparently they have a ship big enough for all of us."
VG: "But where? Rome?"

A FP member came running back from the fake lake. "We managed to sneak in, but the place and ships are useless. All electronics are dead."

Michael checked all of his gadgets. Yup, all dead. "Looks like someone used an EMP or something."

VG: "I know what still works."
M: "What?"
VG: "The stealth sailboat. It doesn't depend on any electronics."
M: "Right." (to the messenger) "Retreat and get everyone on the boat." (to the Kewen) "Agreed. We'll take you to your ship (I hope it's not too far from the sea), and you take us out of here. I'm afraid you won't fit inside our boat, and it will be a bit uncomfortable on top of it (with the sails), but we can manage."

The three kewen did something unexpected their bodies turned silver and they began to conpressing till they were about the size of a dog, in fact they resembled a dog more than what they did before.

"Still thinkwe wont fit" said the dog that now stood in one of the kewens places black streaks of hair down red coats.

"No problem, welcome aboard. Which way is that ship of yours?"

"Vatican city" as the three fos sat someplace in the ship and just looked out towards the front.

OOC: Demonic Dogs, Vikings, No Electronics? Why I think we're in the Middle Ages!

IC:

"Bombardment Successful, now landing in each bombarded area."

5 individual Dropships flew out and headed for their LZs.

Near the area where the FP was making their escape one dropship landed.

"Alright troops let's move out, take out any sentients you see."

A squad of 5 troops arrived just as the FP was setting sail.

"Delta 5 to Alpha Leader, sentients spotted, commencing destruction."

2 troops shouldered their CEDR's and opened fire.


OOC: Mmm hmmm an order of CEDR shots, would you like some grenades with that?

ooc no way its possible for a dropship to land, drop troops and for the troops to magically see us going away, and then start teh shooting.

ooc to Ziolis: Yes you did send earth back to the Middle Ages. And I agree with Kewen. You might see us at some distance though, it's a big sailboat after all...

The sailboat was filled with many more people than it was meant for, but still easily staying afloat.
"Vatican City? Gods... this isn't going to be pretty."

Moments later...
"Damn, now there are holes in the sails... Crap, they're on fire too!"
"Lower the sails and throw them overboard!"
Because of its inertia, the ebbing and a helpful ocean current, the ship continued floating away from the coast. Without the (burning) sails, the stealth sailboat wasn't an easy target anymore.

Later...
"Can you still see the coast?"
"Nope."
"Attach the extra sails, if possible in the places where the main sails were."

ONe of he kewen though to be helpful jumping up into the air and landing splash out over the side of the baot and in that time mamanged to return to its large shape, placing its hands on the boat it used its large legs to kick and paddle pushing to boat along and extra few knots.

With the sails replaced as good as possible, the ship was picking up speed, still quite a bit faster than a 21st century sailboat. With some difficulty (and ropes) the kewen was helped back on board.

ooc: shall we skip to reaching the coast near Rome?

ooc: sure.
IC:
the kewen returned to its dogshap as it was brought on bored and couldnt help but wag its tail.

OOC: Hurrmmmm meh I say I'll call off troops for a while, let's say I'm getting the rest of the fleet in (probably after FP and Kewen escape).

IC:

"Pull back troops, it's no use, their too far away."

The dropship rose up from the ground and returned to the battleship.

ZCM General Broadcast,
To all ZCM Ships in the area,
please report to Sol System, Quadrant 2, Sector 3.
We are commencing attack on sentient world

The whole area around Rome was devoid of human life. They took food and water from an (abandoned, of course) supermarket and began the long walk to Vatican City.

By that time, the kewen had again assumed thier towering shape, the Ship faintly visible in the distance to the Kewen.

---

In the ship.

A loud low humming could be heard followed by a whoosh and a flicker of green lights on a nearby panel.
"Control Systems activated, Surface to orbital transition read" chime a computer in a broken dull voice.

Stepping up from the tangle of wires and sitting back down into the control chair The pilot eased the kewen Ship higher into the air and moved it a few kloms to the left swinging over the advancing party of Kewen and Human.

"Gee, that is a big ship."

ooc: what else am I supposed to say? lol

"So, er, is it going to land or what?"

"Captain, we have detected a massive energy signal from the surface of the world."

"Charge weapons, raise shields, scramble the bombers, that will be all lieutenant."

In 10 minutes the battleship was ready for any hostile engagement this world could offer.

OOC:

Reporting from Taiwan, for like 1 or 2 more years, I am gonna come back to America later, please don't speed ahead cause of my time difference.
Ughhhh, am 2 jetlagged to think, will go play battlefield 2142

ooc: ARRG!~ it ate my post, will resend asap.

The kewen ship simply sat above the party for a little bit before a small bay door opened and a rope ladder dropped out.

The kewen on the ground simply said "Climb" before the deftly climbed up the 20meters of ladders in under 3 seconds.

They sent the children up first, then the lighter adults, and finally the heavier ones. Those who couldn't climb were left behind, with all the weapons except the lightest. A few people dropped from the ladder and died.

On board the ship the humans looked around curiously, not daring to touch anything.

(ooc: with multiple people climbing rope ladder at the same time, you want the heaviest to go last - more stable, and the chance that a falling person takes others with him is smaller)

(ooc2: Hmm, a bunch of very well armed old farts on a stealth sailboat. It's time for piracy!)

OOC: So Americans go last?

IC:

"Bombers are now in holding pattern sir."

"Good, deploy our prototype interdictor."

The interdictor slowly unattached it's self from the underside of the battleship.

"Interdictor AI to Mothership, Ready to deploy hyperwave net, 60% chance of failure of deployment."

ooc: post when i get back from school

OOC: Gasp! He goes to school, what grade? Or if your in college, just curious.

ooc: we have an ooc thread.

The two kewen led the small humans into a very large chamber which could easily hold up to 500 puny humans or 200 fullsized Kewen, directing them to the large area several hundred blankets began to appear in a large pile along with a steadily growing supply of Bacon and Egg toasted sandwhiches which were theo nly things the replicators felt up to replicating.

The kewen captain thought it would be funny to say something so after setting the ship on autopilot he appeared in the hanger his size dwarfing that of his "sons" he said in a deep and devilish tone
"Welcome, to the KSIS Inquisitioner we hope you have a nice ride to hell" he ended with deep trailing laughter before switching to a normal ish voice and laughing loudly
"Nah, justkidding welcome to the inquisiton feel free to have some sandwhiches and keep yourself warm, space can be cold especially since this ship has little heating. Construction costs you know our destination is a faraway planet upon which we hope to sleep for another fewthousand years undisturbed thank you and we will be depositing you someplace along or at the way"

he said before disappearing back into the control room.
The ship steadliy rose into the skye, heading for the large forming portal.

Andrea: "Awww, we're not going to hell? I always thought that must be an interesting place to visit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar#Descent_into_the_underworld)... and take control of..."
Michael: "Thank you for your generosity."
A creepy looking guy: "So do you look like giant squid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu) while you sleep?"

The humans wrapped the blankets around themselves, and feasted on the sandwiches.

---

Back on earth, the old and disabled humans were busy mounting grenade launchers and various other types of weapons on the stealth sailboat. After spinning a globe, they decided to set sail for London.

"That is good joke puny man" Said one the kewen brothers addressing the creepy looking one
"Many long years we have been sleeping beneath the ground nothing like a good joke to wake one up, why you all look so solem and sad? Be happy! is it not what you wished to leave this planet?"

The ship exited the amtophere and moved deeper into the wormhole
"Stage 5 Complete wormhole ready force"
chime a dull Computerised voicei n the cockpit.

The ship simplydisapeared into the wormhole. If the aliens above the planet expected the wormhole to disapate they were surely wrong. Slowly but surely the wormholebagn to decend upon the planet soon making contanct and friece stroms of wind water and fire wracked a porting of the globe noticably Belcashart of Vatican city area.

"Shit! Deploy interdictor nets!"
"AI to Mothership, Negative, nets have failed, now docking onto mothership."
"Damn, Bomber Squadron Delta Bravo 4, I want you to get into that wormhole and follow that goddamn ship."
"Roger that Delta Bravo 4 proceeding."
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A few minutes later...

"DB leader to DB squad, be careful, lookout for debris."
"DB2 to DB leader, spotted a ship, looks like its ahead of us by a few AUs"



OOC: Futuristic Car Chase!

"We have given up all hope for our home planet, of course we are sad."

---

On Earth:

The storm ripped the remaining sails off the boat. It was now doomed to float wherever the sea currents would take it. After some days, the humans on it got too hungry, so they shot some big holes in the hull and then shot themselves.

---

On Fir!n:

{Look mommy! I spliced my own skin-genes with those of qif-lizards, then gave the baby lizards some of my armor.}
The small Fir!nan held a few tiny lizards in her hands, which randomly switched between visible and invisible (the lizards, not the hands).
{Very well done. But what are they useful for? And remember you should make sure your experiments don't escape. Don't walk around with them in your hands like this.}
{I'd sure hate to clean up invisible qifs...} the mother thought to herself.

(ooc: That little experimenting girl-Fir!nan will grow up to be the almost mythical "Mother" mentioned in the Aniska stories.)

ooc: whoo for modularsectional starships! also
*in werid voice from youtube* Leave teh humiees awone!
IC:

The Ship Exited the wormhole in orbit of a random planet in a far away place, its ecological statisics were not optimal but quite able to handle the Humans on board and after leaving the Hold and waving goodbye one of the kewen pressed a botton and the hold detached and went streaming down to the planet inside a small speaker played a recording.

"Small Creatures, we are dropping you off on a planet which we hope you can survive on, this cargo hold contains replicators for enough food and clothing to fit your size for the next 5 years, we bid you goodluck and do not stick any bodily parts outside the decending compartment.

The ship stood still in orbit right outside the exit of the wormhole presenting a rather large object for anything flying out to hit.

ooc: Ziolis, feel free to land, but don't expect to get away alive. I have worse things than humans now... MUCH worse.

{Yes mom} said the little Fir!nan in its language of clicks, creaks and whistles that was almost indistinguishable from the jungle sounds. She put the qifs in a jar, which she then dropped when she heard the humans landing. She hoped her mother had not seen what had happened, and started moving the tiny lizard-like creatures to another jar one by one to make sure none was missing. {What was that?}
{I don't know, let's go look.}

They saw the humans emerge from the lander, then stand around not sure what to do.

{Watch carefully my little egg, I'll show you how to clean up intelligent beings.}
{Why do they have to be cleaned up?}
{Because they will disrupt the ecosystem. They will kill things, and then try to kill us. You know that.}
{They look a bit like us.}
{So?}
{And I think they are like qifs.}
{Dumb? That will only make this easier...}
{No! I mean... umm... with one brain.} (ooc: Fir!nans don't understand group behavior. The only thing on Fir!n that acts in groups are the qif-lizards, which are much like an ants in behavior)
{Which one is the brain then? I'll take that one out first.}

The little one ran into the group of humans, and switched off her cloaking. The humans looked surprised at the humanoid creature that had suddenly appeared between them, and did nothing to harm it. It was about as small as a 4 year old human, had white skin, light blue hair, a too small nose, just somewhat too large eyes, and sharp teeth that became visible when it spoke. {Stop it! They are harmless!}
The mother couldn't attack the group while her daughter was in the middle of it. The little one looked in the direction where she knew her mother would be, and made puppy eyes. {Mommyyyyy. Can I keeeeeep them?}
{...}
{Mommyyyy. Pleeeeeaaaase?}
{Alright. But if they kill for another reason than feeding themselves, I will clean them up.}
{Yay!}

The little one began inspecting her new pets. A child smiled at her, to which she responded by showing her teeth too, and hissing. The little kid shrieked, and hid behind an adult, crying. The other humans acted a bit nervous when she got close to them. Except Andrea, who just looked her straight in the eye. The little Fir!nan gave her legs a bone-crushing hug.
"Hey! Ow! Stop that!"

The mother kept her cloaking on, and did nothing that could make the humans notice she was there. She wanted to make sure she could still do a surprise attack.

ooc: btw an adult Fir!nan is about the same size as a human

The ship, after deciding on a course of action flew to the otherside of the planet, dectecing a suitble soft soil like enviroment the three kewen prepared to dig a big hole.

No Fir!nans were near the Kewen landing site, but a few had noticed the landing. Each of those calmly walked towards the site to see what had happened, the first would arrive after about two hours.

(ooc: They're not running because that would make plants around them move, which makes it pointless to have cloaking armor. If the ship is buried before the first arrives, they'll just look around, drop some seeds in the fresh soil and walk away.)

OOC: I'm sorry, I was gone for so long, I had to take a 7 day unexpected trip.

IC:

"DB2 to DB Leader, we are now preparing to land."
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Few minutes later....

"DB1 to DB2, be careful, lookout for sentients."

OOC: Welcome to Fir!n, home of the most awful biotech defense systems and violent xenophobic creatures in cloaking armor!

If the Ziolisians had looked in just the right direction, they would have seen a small container appear in mid-air, turn around and release a few drops of a yellow liquid. Seconds later, large clouds of tiny biting insects appeared, which got through joints in armor, dug right through flexible parts and into flesh, and filled up the insides of helmets. Vines with poisonous spikes started swinging around, grabbing at arms and legs.

An invisible figure grabbed the gun of one of the soldiers, shot randomly at the group for a few seconds, dropped the gun and disappeared in who knows what direction.

If there was any uncovered skin, the touch of any leaf would cause blisters, stinging red burns, or other such discomfort.

OOC: you might see a faint image on infrared, but remember you're covered in tiny biting flies...

OOC: Oh no you didn't! Must have lot's of profanity and face biting!

IC:

"AhhHH damn it! DB Leader to Baseship, we go some ahhHH fuck, bio defenses here, damnit! Send us an APC, FUCK! My face argghhh!!!"

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2 minutes later...

The APC landed and 2 mechanized troops (http://images.wikia.com/fear/images/0/01/180px-Rev6_mech.JPG) came out. They had armor so thick that they had to have miniature nuclear reactor to power it.

They spoke with a electronic voice, "Everybody get in."
When all the troops were in the APC was flooded with a chemical agent designed to kill small insects and animals.

OOC: The 2 mech troops don't have many weaknesses accept maybe a few of it's own weapons, or the squad weapons. The mechs have Dual Reciprocating Laser Cannons 2 on each arm.

OOC: aw crap, I was hoping to have the Fir!nans rip off some arms and legs, but those mechs look too solid even for Fir!nans. Time to wake the bigger beasties.

IC:

Two more Fir!nans appeared at the scene (cloaked, of course), attracted by the smell of biodefense trigger liquid. They wisely chose not to attack. Meanwhile, the first Fir!nan was saying things to himself that are better left untranslated. He threw a small ball into the air, which exploded and released an awful smell. A few kilometers away, the humans had trouble keeping their meals inside. The earth shook, and what had appeared to be large trees turned out to be the tentacled heads of enormous creatures (about 100x20x20m). There were dozens of them, all walking in the direction of the source of the stink, oddly enough only flattening the spots where they put their feet and not damaging anything else, only one thing on their simple minds: "kill, kill, kill".

OOC: The brain is tiny and somewhere deep inside. Weak spots: eyes (unfortunately there's one on each tentacle), legs (there are four, to stop it you need to remove a rear leg and one of the other three).

OOC: Curse those! More profanity!

"*Sounds of puking* Uhhh Fuck! Driver let's go goddamnit!"
The APC started up it's engine just as the monster was almost upon them.
It sped into the trees about 2 kilometers off.
It arrived into a forward camp for the BattleShip.

2 techies came over and told DB sqaud to get over to those huge mechanized suits.
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10 minutes later 5 Battlesuits emerged.

10 seconds later the huge monster appeared.

"Fuck! Fire!"

The 7 mechs opened fire with their laser cannons.

The monster screamed as a few shots hit it in the eyes.

2 troops dressed in Biohazard suits (http://www.lostcolonygame.com/images/LC_player2.jpg) walked out of another APC, they were the 32nd Elite Biohazard Removal Squad (EBRS)


OOC: Guess what those 2 guys have?

A Can 'o Whoopass!

O BTW I didn't mention the others on purpose, you can say we outran all but 1 of them.

Epic Battle

OOC: I guess we're heading for a big kaboom, eh? I shall put my "hoomns" in a safer place then.

IC:

The humans were shocked to see a tree suddenly grow taller, dig itself out, and change into an enormous creature that stormed off, leaving a huge gaping hole in the ground.

The mother-Fir!nan was in doubt for a moment: she had smelled trigger fluid and then moments later also the stench of a tir-attractor. Something was wrong, but it couldn't be caused by these weak aliens, using tirs against those would be overkill. She reached a decision: {Take your new pets underground and lock them up. If they misbehave, kill them.}

{OK, mom.} The little one grabbed the hand of a "hoomn" and walked home. The rest of the group followed. The mother ran off to check out the trouble.

As the wind carried the smell of the stinkbomb further away, more and more tirs woke up and ran off to join the battle.

(ooc: you've got about 100 of those big creatures on your hands now. And that's only the beginning... As long as no Fir!nan releases the chemical that makes them stop, more and more will wake up as the attractor smell reaches them.)

Each of the monsters tried to smash the Ziolisians with its front legs. Tentacles and therefore eyes were lost by the dozen, but they happened to have many spares. Even when they lost their front legs, the beasts just continued attacking, ignoring all injuries. Only those that lost two legs of which at least one was a rear leg (difficult to hit, of course) stopped, simply because they couldn't walk anymore.

One of the two Fir!nans that had arrived a bit later decided to try something. She threw a few small balls into an APC at the moment Ziolisians emerged from it. The balls shattered, and thousands of tiny spider-like creatures appeared, which immediately started eating anything not made of metal, and reproducing at a remarkable speed too. Soon there were short-circuits, and the electronics went down.

The other of the two was randomly hit by laser fire. For a minute, a large wound was seen floating around in the air. The wound closed and became invisible again.

OOC: By the way, I started the last "present time" (a long time after what we're playing now) introduction bit that will make it possible for me to use my characters in any FT thread: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=13937237

OOC: Orion is a weapon that deploys ultrasonic sound to deafen anything without sound muffling, it could even shatter a brain.

"32nd EBRS now releasing codenamed Orion."

"FUCK! DB Leader, all electronics down, NO!!!! NOT ME!!!!"
A mech trooper was yanked out of his suit when the electronics went down.

However the EBRS was protected from the insect attacks because they had metal casing everywhere.

OOC: You determine the ultrasound damage.

The Fir!nans covered their ears and fell to the ground screaming in pain. The tirs, on the other hand, were deaf anyway and had brains deep inside, so those weren't bothered and continued their stampede.

OOC: I know we killed this thread, this is just a FYI about what would have happened.