Naggeroth
06-09-2008, 13:13
Jason looked at the device before him. It was a cube approximately one and a half metres on each side, with a single control panel cut into one of the edges. Beyond that it was a blank boring grey. He looked at it sceptically. Surely this wasn’t the device they had brought.
“I assure you it is more impressive then it looks.” A man said. Jason didn’t like him. He said he was human but his features were so perfect. It was as if someone had read about how humans were designed and recreated it perfectly, and in the process had made him stand out more then if he had been twelve foot tall with four eyes.
“How exactly does it work?” he said as he ran his hand over one of the edges towards the control panel. His finger slid across a little too well, as if the surface was coated with something slick.
“Simply input the code in four hours, then press the screen.” The man replied before turning to leave. “I assume you have a timer capable of accurately coordinating with your other groups across the planet?”
“I’ve got my watch.” Jason replied. “It keeps time just fine.”
There was a sigh from the man, a tiny breath out that was almost inaudible, but at the same time it rang through the room like a gong. There was a slight crackle, a little glimmer of light and sitting on the device before him was a small object the size of a chocolate bar.
“When that hits the last thirty seconds,” the man said clearly. “Begin to input the code I gave you. When the timer runs out, just press the screen and the rest will be done automatically. I might see you Jason Fillion. But in a new world.”
“A better world!” a man next to Jason shouted, followed by a cheer from the room. Softly the man smiled, though none of them saw it, and he uttered a single word as he walked from the room.
“Quite.”
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Afezel Gosker stood looking at the device, watching the seconds tick away slowly. It showed roughly three minutes remaining before the final pieces of the plan fell into place. It was all over now. Even if some of the fools managed to get caught, even if they lost fifty percent of all machines in every city everything would still go according to plan. And after everything was secure, the Brethren would be eliminated to allow a technicality that meant they couldn’t be charged with invading a fellow member of the ESUS. Then all that was required was to support a secret organization into power and then they had conquered an entire nation without even being engaged in a single fleet battle.
All to easy really. Standing up Afezel walked to the counter and grabbed a single glass and taped it so it began to vibrate ever so softly. He then pulled a single container from the small fridge and poured the contents in. Watching with simplistic glee as the liquid was agitated ever so slightly. He looked at the timer again while he waited for the drink to finish agitating. Forty-Nine seconds before it began. He smiled softly, moving to the sink he washed his face before returning and picking up the glass as he walked to the window. Ten seconds. He smiled, watching as the city unprepared below went about its business went about as if nothing was wrong, unknowing that in but a scant few seconds their world, their nation, their very existence was going to change.
It had been to easy getting them into the cities, just release dominating xenoforms into the environment, and all it had taken was one group of religious fanatics promised their own twisted theocracy to get enough people to activate the devices. He looked at the timer as it clicked over to zero and took a sip of the liquid. The vibrating glass tickled his lips as outside reality was torn asunder.
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Across the city unwitting pawns activated their devices. Each device let out a bluish-green beam which seemed to penetrate anything that got in their way and bisected at an area above the city. It took less then a second for this to occur, and moments later wild whip of energy struck from the sky into the city below. People where incinerated in moments, not even aware of their deaths as they were atomised. For an unfortunate few it was obvious death was coming as energy lashed out to the surrounding structures. In less then three minutes, most of the central city was gone, burnt away by the wild energy storms.
Then the portals opened. The Cessatora had tried for quite some time to make efficient long range/high mass teleportation and while at the present this option remained impossible to them they were still quite capable of ripping apart reality with raw energy. All the devices had done was give the generator a target.
Five seconds after the portal had begun opening, pods began to fall out of it towards the city. Their routes had been planned out months before. The trajectories would lead them to major military bases, government structures and other points across the city that had been considered strategically important. After five minutes the portal was wide enough for warships to begin entering the atmosphere. These immediately fired on the stations above with full power, using the atmosphere and the city below as a shield from effective return fire. And one the disarrayed forces got reports from across the nation the scope of the attack would become apparent.
Every major city on every major world and moon had been hit in exactly the same way. Anything capable of possessing its own spaceport had suffered horrifying levels of damage and had unknown hostiles taking ground with contemptuous ease. Resistance would last for hours, but any general looking at the situation would know within moments.
Kostemestia had been conquered.
“I assure you it is more impressive then it looks.” A man said. Jason didn’t like him. He said he was human but his features were so perfect. It was as if someone had read about how humans were designed and recreated it perfectly, and in the process had made him stand out more then if he had been twelve foot tall with four eyes.
“How exactly does it work?” he said as he ran his hand over one of the edges towards the control panel. His finger slid across a little too well, as if the surface was coated with something slick.
“Simply input the code in four hours, then press the screen.” The man replied before turning to leave. “I assume you have a timer capable of accurately coordinating with your other groups across the planet?”
“I’ve got my watch.” Jason replied. “It keeps time just fine.”
There was a sigh from the man, a tiny breath out that was almost inaudible, but at the same time it rang through the room like a gong. There was a slight crackle, a little glimmer of light and sitting on the device before him was a small object the size of a chocolate bar.
“When that hits the last thirty seconds,” the man said clearly. “Begin to input the code I gave you. When the timer runs out, just press the screen and the rest will be done automatically. I might see you Jason Fillion. But in a new world.”
“A better world!” a man next to Jason shouted, followed by a cheer from the room. Softly the man smiled, though none of them saw it, and he uttered a single word as he walked from the room.
“Quite.”
=-=-=
Afezel Gosker stood looking at the device, watching the seconds tick away slowly. It showed roughly three minutes remaining before the final pieces of the plan fell into place. It was all over now. Even if some of the fools managed to get caught, even if they lost fifty percent of all machines in every city everything would still go according to plan. And after everything was secure, the Brethren would be eliminated to allow a technicality that meant they couldn’t be charged with invading a fellow member of the ESUS. Then all that was required was to support a secret organization into power and then they had conquered an entire nation without even being engaged in a single fleet battle.
All to easy really. Standing up Afezel walked to the counter and grabbed a single glass and taped it so it began to vibrate ever so softly. He then pulled a single container from the small fridge and poured the contents in. Watching with simplistic glee as the liquid was agitated ever so slightly. He looked at the timer again while he waited for the drink to finish agitating. Forty-Nine seconds before it began. He smiled softly, moving to the sink he washed his face before returning and picking up the glass as he walked to the window. Ten seconds. He smiled, watching as the city unprepared below went about its business went about as if nothing was wrong, unknowing that in but a scant few seconds their world, their nation, their very existence was going to change.
It had been to easy getting them into the cities, just release dominating xenoforms into the environment, and all it had taken was one group of religious fanatics promised their own twisted theocracy to get enough people to activate the devices. He looked at the timer as it clicked over to zero and took a sip of the liquid. The vibrating glass tickled his lips as outside reality was torn asunder.
=-=-=
Across the city unwitting pawns activated their devices. Each device let out a bluish-green beam which seemed to penetrate anything that got in their way and bisected at an area above the city. It took less then a second for this to occur, and moments later wild whip of energy struck from the sky into the city below. People where incinerated in moments, not even aware of their deaths as they were atomised. For an unfortunate few it was obvious death was coming as energy lashed out to the surrounding structures. In less then three minutes, most of the central city was gone, burnt away by the wild energy storms.
Then the portals opened. The Cessatora had tried for quite some time to make efficient long range/high mass teleportation and while at the present this option remained impossible to them they were still quite capable of ripping apart reality with raw energy. All the devices had done was give the generator a target.
Five seconds after the portal had begun opening, pods began to fall out of it towards the city. Their routes had been planned out months before. The trajectories would lead them to major military bases, government structures and other points across the city that had been considered strategically important. After five minutes the portal was wide enough for warships to begin entering the atmosphere. These immediately fired on the stations above with full power, using the atmosphere and the city below as a shield from effective return fire. And one the disarrayed forces got reports from across the nation the scope of the attack would become apparent.
Every major city on every major world and moon had been hit in exactly the same way. Anything capable of possessing its own spaceport had suffered horrifying levels of damage and had unknown hostiles taking ground with contemptuous ease. Resistance would last for hours, but any general looking at the situation would know within moments.
Kostemestia had been conquered.