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Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-11-07 05:35pm

Aquarian Oort Cloud

As the suited man-thing entered the chamber, the queen flinched in fear. Fear that he had a rip-tear, and that she was trapped. Her drones moved to protect her, standing defensively in front of her. Realizing that if she must fight, she would not do so in fear. She rose to her full twelve-foot height, arms, all four, spread menacingly, the dul *thud, Thud* of the powered armor's boots echoing throughout the chamber.

The queen felt the mind of the aquarian doctor, There was no fear of her, there was caution, and, under that....memory..terrible memories...they were near the surface, of her kind....other hives...his men slaughtered, ripped apart by another queen's drones. Devoured by her preatorians..panicked men running in fear, in leaking suits, she felt the fear of each dying man, the agony of the final breath of asphyxiation. she felt the doctors determination harden. She journeyed with him on his missions, saw everything he saw...then she saw...

Herself.

She remembered now. The invaders. They came to her hive. They killed her offspring. Rage boiled up inside of her, a vicious killer instinct. With a sweep of one mighty arm, she flug her drones to the side, and coveredc the twenty-foot distance in two strides. She brought her face to bear with his, behind his helmet, behind his...armor. He can hear her, she thought. He feels what we feel. She reached up with one hand and lay it upon the hooded armor tapping with one clawed finger and summoned up implanted images, chained together one after another so that the aquarian could understand.

First a child. A baby. an Aquarian baby, Crying.the doctor standing over it. Inside a room. Inside....his home.

Then armored soldiers, kicking in the door, placing the barrels of their rip-tears to the baby's head. and firing.

The doctor screaming....
pounding on the chest of the first armored man, who ignored the blows as a horse ignores a fruitfly. He then madly ripped off the armored man's helmet, instantly the man began to drown. The doctor grabbing the Rip-Tear, and pulling the trigger, lancing fire into the soldiers, cutting them in two then more soldiers, and more...and more until finally he was overpowered. and pinned to the floor. He put up a valiant but fruitless struggle as they injected him, again and again, until finally the doctor fell unconcious.

Then an image of an aquarian with a puzzled expression.

Her communication complete, the Queen removed her hand, and rose back to her full height, roaring. Her drones rushing to her side, teeth parting to revel the extra mouthparts, slime dripping from their mouths. They sent images to the queen of a feeding, a gorging, they required flesh. When the cacauphony ceased, the queen lowered her stance so that she was in a crouch. and and stared intently at the doctor.

Station XT 10-23

The drones prepared for a full-on assault. they knew there would be no escape from this place. the queen sent her messages to the preatorians. Protect the hive at all costs. One Must Live.

The scout sent messages to the rest of the preatorians and drones as to the location of the squads of man-things and their rip-tears. there would be death here today. None will have the hive. The drones knew the man-things could see them move, even if they could not see them with eyes. Their Rip-tears saw to that. all the drones and preatorians began to converge upon the invaders.

In the main power generation facility, a lone drone crept along the floor, behind a worker who had foolishly kept his post to maintain power to the station. The Drone Leapt forward, and tore the human's head off, flinging him to the side, where two more drones finished the corpse. The Leader Drone looked at the console, it's flashing lights, it's many switches. It hated man-things, and their devices. No doubt this was a new Rip-Tear. With blind hatred, he began ripping the consoles to shreds, aided by his two fellows. soon the room was in tatters, sparks flew, and finally, the Leader Droned grabbed one of his lackeys, and ran him through with his barbed tail, tossing him through the observation window onto the reactor below.

The Drone's acid blood began to burn through the main power trunk. Soon fire lanced from the severed conduit, igniting the twitching body. The Base went dark. Red emergency lights flashed all over the base, as backup power systems took over. Main lights were off, only secondary emergency lights were allowed to remain lit. Life support functioned at bare minimum capabilities.

The two drones left, satisfied at what they had accomplished for the hive, skittering down the corridor in a crouch, to join their hive-mates.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2003-11-07 05:52pm

Station XT 10-23

"Shit," the Colonel hissed as the lights went out. Things really were getting worse. But they were near the DD. It may be possible.
They turned around a corner and raced along the long corridor. Yes, he's here.
"Director?" he called over direct link.
A tall man with his face covered in a SSI suit emerged from the shadows. "Please follow us."
Together they turned back, always on the outlook for those damned beasts. As the first of his squad turned around the corner he just heard a plasma rifle discharge. And a scream. When he turned around the corner he saw Seargant Smithe before what seems to have been a former alien and his armor was sprinkled with acid.
"You're ok?"
"Yes, minor system malfunctions, nothing serious."
Carefully they walked on.

***

"Captain," the XO called from his station, "the station's main power grid is down. And the marines are reporting resistance."
"Depths be damned. All right, we just have to wait it through. But as soon as the shuttle's aboard, we're out of here."

He nervously looked on his repeater plot. Most ships have cleared the large zone of gravitic distortions his drive produced. Which made him a bit less nervous. Not by much, but still. But if someone did something stupid right now...

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2003-11-07 06:01pm

"This no longer concerns us, captain. Ready the ship to jump back to Osiris."

"As you say, sir."

The CNV Terpsichore turned to leave the system.

Darksider · Post by **Darksider** » 2003-11-07 06:02pm

The KIMC team moved back twards the ambassador. They had managed to frag three more Xenos on the way back.

"Ambassador, we should leave."

"Agreed, let's move to the ship."

The ambassador checked his plasma pistol and started movind

"See if there are any other nation's security teams left. Strength in numbers and all that"

"Rodger that"

The captain sent out a message on a general broadcast, trying to find any remaining diplomats and security teams.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2003-11-07 06:04pm

Darksider wrote:The captain sent out a message on a general broadcast, trying to find any remaining diplomats and security teams.

The Colonel received the signal. He already had coordinated the two other teams to converge on his position, but they either needed help, or could be helpful.
He sent a message on the same channel,, telling them that if they manage to get to a junction makred on the map, they would help them getting out."

Darksider · Post by **Darksider** » 2003-11-07 06:07pm

Dahak wrote:
Darksider wrote:The captain sent out a message on a general broadcast, trying to find any remaining diplomats and security teams.
The Colonel received the signal. He already had coordinated the two other teams to converge on his position, but they either needed help, or could be helpful.
He sent a message on the same channel,, telling them that if they manage to get to a junction makred on the map, they would help them getting out."

The captain brought a map of the complex up on his helmet HUD

"It's not that far, let's move out"

The team moved tward the indicated position, checking all the way for Xenos.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-11-07 06:12pm

Station XT 10-23

The Facehugger skittered quickly along the floor of the docking bay. One of the foolish man-things left their ships disembarkement ramps down. As the Facehugger watched several take off, it noted a few shuttles with potential. quickly it skedaddled up a disembarkment ramp.

they see with eye that do not see.
Was the message from the queen.
Go where I am.

Quickly the facehugger sampled the air. there. it skittered towards the toilet facilities. and darted into the hole. They would not pick up his lifesigns while covered in signatures of their own biohazardous wastes! the facehugger gripped a section of piping with a deathgrip. They will not carry their excrement into the dark.

Then his lifesigns slowed....his breathing nearly ceased. he slept.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2003-11-07 06:18pm

Darksider wrote:
Dahak wrote:
Darksider wrote:The captain sent out a message on a general broadcast, trying to find any remaining diplomats and security teams.
The Colonel received the signal. He already had coordinated the two other teams to converge on his position, but they either needed help, or could be helpful.
He sent a message on the same channel,, telling them that if they manage to get to a junction makred on the map, they would help them getting out."

The captain brought a map of the complex up on his helmet HUD

"It's not that far, let's move out"

The team moved tward the indicated position, checking all the way for Xenos.

He saw the other group appear on his sensors.
"Quick! This way!" He pointed in the rough direction of the main shuttle docks. They rushed on, the Director and ambassador sheltered in their midst.

Darksider · Post by **Darksider** » 2003-11-07 06:22pm

Dahak wrote:
Darksider wrote:
Dahak wrote: The Colonel received the signal. He already had coordinated the two other teams to converge on his position, but they either needed help, or could be helpful.
He sent a message on the same channel,, telling them that if they manage to get to a junction makred on the map, they would help them getting out."

The captain brought a map of the complex up on his helmet HUD

"It's not that far, let's move out"

The team moved tward the indicated position, checking all the way for Xenos.
He saw the other group appear on his sensors.
"Quick! This way!" He pointed in the rough direction of the main shuttle docks. They rushed on, the Director and ambassador sheltered in their midst.

The captain and his team formed up with the other squad

"So, you guys do this often?" He said with a grin

The ambassador spoke.

"Our ships have probably been contaminated by now, we should sweep them before we leave, or transfer to other ships and destroy them"

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-11-07 06:22pm

From thirty meters out, the first group of 30 xenomorphs pounced, tearing down the hallways, dropping from the ceilings, howling with rage. towards the group of man-things rushing to thier Dark-Flyers. The preatorian clung to the ceiling of the hangar bay.

The first group was met with furious volleys of fire, tearing through the xenomorphs quickly, acid blood spattering everywhere in the hallway. Some impacted on the invisible shields of the soldiers, but still they came. Teeth Gnashing and filling the hallway with death cries.

Darksider · Post by **Darksider** » 2003-11-07 06:27pm

Chardok wrote:From thirty meters out, the first group of 30 xenomorphs pounced, tearing down the hallways, dropping from the ceilings, howling with rage. towards the group of man-things rushing to thier Dark-Flyers. The preatorian clung to the ceiling of the hangar bay.

The first group was met with furious volleys of fire, tearing through the xenomorphs quickly, acid blood spattering everywhere in the hallway. Some impacted on the invisible shields of the soldiers, but still they came. Teeth Gnashing and filling the hallway with death cries.

The captain turned

"Xenomorphs"

The entire squad opend fire, tearing apart the aliens. Several managed to close, and lieutennant Gozny was unfortunate enough to get his throat ripped out.

The captain blasted the Xeno that got him, and resumed pouring fire into the group, killing two more.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2003-11-07 06:30pm

Darksider wrote:The captain and his team formed up with the other squad

"So, you guys do this often?" He said with a grin

The ambassador spoke.

"Our ships have probably been contaminated by now, we should sweep them before we leave, or transfer to other ships and destroy them"

The Colonel let out a harsh laugh. "No, we do pirates a lot. But not acid spraying ones!"
"We can take our shuttles. They're still sealed. I hope."

***

All was screaming, and shots firing. Xenomorphs dropping from ceilings, coming from everywhere. Even thier armors were taking damage by the acid.
His team was down to 4 men, but they managed to get to the shuttle. With a neural command, he opened the hatch, and thrust the Director and ambassador into it. Firing with all weapons, he pushed the remaining forces into the shuttle.

Darksider · Post by **Darksider** » 2003-11-07 06:37pm

The captain blasted another Xenomorph

"Marines, We are leaving!"

The squad piled into the shuttle, a few staying behind to cover the rest

mass amounts of fire cut down another five Xenomorphs.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-11-07 06:43pm

The Preatorian Dropped onto the two rear security Marines, Crushing their heads in his powerful hands, then turned his attention to the departing shuttles. two more preatorians rounded the corner and leapt upon the shuttle, tearing at the hull. They were instantly sliced into pieces when the skin-shields came up. The Leader preatorian left simply howled after the departing ships. This station was their hive now.

Fish man-things remain

The preatorian sent a signal to the remaining hivelings in the hangar. They would consume the fish man-things.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2003-11-07 06:51pm

The remaining assault shuttle darted out of the hangar as soon as the last marine was inside. At full thrust they headed for the Throstle.
The com buzzed him. "Colonel, as secutiry measurement, you'll have to stay in the shuttle, which itself be placed in a containment shield in the hangar, for the remainder of this travel. As I see you have foreigners aboard, we'll contact their home. The Throstle is to jump to the XFB-53 fleet base in the Orianna system. Trellis out."
Shit, the Orianna system. It couldn't get more isolated than that...

***

As soon as the shuttle was inside the carrier and safely engulfed in a bubble shield, the carrier finally brought it's Torch up to full power, and began accelerating away from the station, preparing to jump to XFB-53.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-11-07 07:10pm

The remaining Royal Marines quickly began the retreat to their depressurized combat shuttles; the Ambassador had already been extracted and the situation was getting worse by the moment. Someone had been foolish enough to send unsuited security troops out and now the xenos had the upper hand. Their shuttles would have to be swept, of course, but that wasn't incredibly difficult.

The four combat shuttles were immediately placed into CBW lockdown in the hanger, now accessable only by magical teleport. The bays were completely depressurized - any attempt by vacuum-resistant xenos who might have survived to burn through would be obliterated by etheric claymore charges. when their sensors detected a pressure change. One by one the troops were 'ported out, checked over and placed into solitary confinement for a few days. It never hurt to be sure.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-11-07 07:22pm

PROMETHEUS wrote:The Captain motioned for the crewman to shut up as the person in the holo began speaking. "I was referred to you by a couple of scavengers. I'm in the market for kit, so maybe we could find something?"

"If you want to buy from us, fine. We've got an assload of etheric-shock grenades, some etheric rifles. 10K per crate of grenades, 1K per rifle. Cash. If you want to trade, raise those prices by 5%. If you want to join us, that ship coming out of lightspeed is gonna sell us some nice kit.

"He's got a bunch of twin turret mounts, compete with sensors off some old starfighter. No guns on them, but anything from a blaster pistol to a quadlaser will work. Ion arrays, too--"

"Ion arrays?"

"New around here, huh? Think of it as the unholy child between phasers and ion cannon. Nasty things, they'll strip off normal shields in a heartbeat and hypershields don't do that much better against them. At least not the ones we've seen, maybe milspec ones are hardened. He's also got ion dissipators to reduce the effects of the arrays, engine overdrives, torpedos, shield generators, you name it, he's got it.

"Hrm. You up for a job? We'll pay good - we need to stop a pirate and free an associate of ours. We'll give 33% up front, 66% after we free her, her ship and sell the rest of our loot. If you join, we'll also give you contacts to an old thief: he likes rippin' you off but he has kit nobody else has.

"Oh yeah, word of warning: there's a group called the Black Alliance. Thugs, pirates, criminals, that sort of people. They sell high-quality kit, but they put tracking gear on it. We found that out the hard way and only escaped because he had bigger fish to fry. If you buy stuff from them, strip it the fuck down first."

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-11-07 07:52pm

Captain Von Bek stood silently listenign to the desperate babbling and pleas of the stations commanders. They had been over run and were now pleading for some one to save them.

"Please, for the love of everything holy please save us. We're going to die! PLEASE!!"

Von Bek made a gesture and the young ensign manning the comm cut the channel. Everyone on the bridge was rattled by the desparing men. They could all imagine it as the men aboard were torn apart by the shifter-demons.

"Mr Ultani, please summon Inquisitor Harken, his presence is required."

He turned to his other officers.

"Gentlemen, we will close with the station and prepare to conduct exterminatus, this infestation must be allowed to spread."

* * *

The nervous commnader barged into the sick bay. He looked around and quickly spotted the Inquisitor.

"Lord Harken, the Captain presents his compliments, and he requires your presence on the bridge."

The Inquisitor immediately got out of bed despite the annoyed looks of the attending doctors. He rose and followed the officer to the bridge.

"They failed to contain them didn't they?"

"Yes, my lord, they did."

* * *

The Rampage swung around towards the space station. Aboard she warmed up her massive energy lance batteries. The only communication she issued was a simple one.

"All ships, stand clear of the station, all personell evacuate. The infestation will cleansed, you have fifteen standard minutes."

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2003-11-07 07:53pm

((OOCwhy does the action always happen whle I am at school?))

Oort Cloud

((OOC Cephepods are sentient octopus)

The Cephepodresearcher experienced what the queen had, through his own sight, everything the queen had ever felt. And he understood.

The pain of losing ones children,the terror of trying to survive. It had been centuries since his people were uplifted by the two originall races in the Aquarian union.... he had never felt such things, until he had faced death at the hands of this same queen, trying to capture her.

He moved toward her, and did his best to project his thoughts, those of fear, and those, of caring and understanding. His power armor was modified to communicate with telepathy, and thse images were sent into the queens brain.

He showed her why they uplifted her, and essentially explained that, the aquarians would like to interact with her in peace, and mean her no harm.

He sent language, words that he knew she would understand...

"The only reason we kill our kind is to survive, ad the only reason ou kill us is to survive yourselfs... there is a better way... Lets find it, together."

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2003-11-07 08:05pm

Captaan Neval, fighting his way through a horde of Xenomorphs with his men, tried their best to get to the hangar and await reinforcments. Then he head on the ships intercomm that they had 15 minutes to get the fuck out of dodge...

"Oh shit! The Azgert are about to vape the place... MOVE MOVE!! We will have to be tactored into the shuttle to avoid contamination, standard procedure GO!"

The Tritaran marines bolted to the hangar bay doors now 100 meters away.

Several xenomorphs broke through the deck plating in front of them only to be vaporized by RPG fire.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-11-07 08:11pm

As the suited marines Ran towards the doors, a 10 foot tall preatorian dropped from it's perch high above, swiping the first man down with it's massive clawed hand before being raked by chaingun fire.

50 more xenomorphs rushed into the hall infront of the marines, as the others closed from behind, followed by preatorians, and one so massive it could not fit through the door, and started bashing in the entier WALL

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-11-07 08:16pm

The final seconds slowly ticked by on the Rampage's bridge. Von Bek noted it as the countdown at last ran out.

"Mr Ultani, all batteries will fire as they bear."

* * *

The Rampage's massive energy lances fired into the heart of the station. Massive flares of light and molten metal were thrown off of the station as the beams stabbed deep into it. A holocaust ripped through it's insides.

Reactors, shuttle bays, living quarters, all of them were torn open and immolated. Nothing could escape as the battlecruiser systematically destroyed the station.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2003-11-07 08:26pm

[somewhere in the warp)
"You've set the self-destruct, right?"

"Thirteen days, as you requested."

"Good. If anything is aboard, it can't attack without killing itself. And what of the surprise you left on the 'Lord Inquisitor's' shuttle?"

"Surprise? What surprise?"

"The special package I told you to put on his shuttle."

"You told me no such thing."

"Oh, well. It may be for the best. We already got what we came for."

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2003-11-07 08:31pm

"FUCK!... Grenades fire!!!"

The remaining marines began firing from their dual blaster rifle/granade launcher 5 RPGs each into the wall of xenos, and then lobbed a volley of Thermal detonators. Shrapnel, fire and concussion killing r throwing aside the xenomorphs in their path as they attempted to escape.

rapd blaster fire ripped xenos apart as mor and more marines went down, until only 3 marines, Captain Neval Lt. Telar, and Private Nettle managed to literally leap through a gauntlet of xenos and get tractored into the shuttle just as the Imperial ship was powering up its weapons to fire, the shuttle speeding away at a significant fraction of c as the station exploded in a shower of molten metal and energy.

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2003-11-07 09:07pm

-: Commonwealth News Network :-

The Senate of the Three Suns Commonwealth is pleased to report that the pirate fiefdom known as the Principality of Maharashtra has been annexed by elements of the Commonwealth Navy. Privateers in the pay of the Principality are known to have commited numerous crimes against commerce and humanity in the ravaged sections of former UTR space, including piracy, slave-taking, and raiding. Three major TSC colonies have been razed with 95% casualties by privateers operating out of the Principality, and evidence indicates far more heinous acts being carried out against other border worlds in the devastated sectors.

Reports from the Brahmin system, in which the Principality's homeworld rests, indicate that the Principality's fleet, which consisted of refit freighters and old UTR designs, was annihilated in battle against the might of the Commonwealth Navy. Elements of the Commonwealth Army engaged enemy ground forces on Maharashtra, taking the capital and the two primary spaceports. Despite having a manpower advantage of six to one, reports indicate that the poorly trained and equipped Maharashtran conscript army was unable to stand up to the Commonwealth Legions and their orbital fire support.

The so-called "God Prince" of Maharashtra denied his own divinity on a public address earlier today, putting an end to two hundred years of theocratic rule. While some of the Maharashtran cabinet is still at large, resitance planetwide has ceased. As this is broadcast, the Sword and Suns of the Commonwealth fly over the capital of Maharashtra.

This marks the first step in the re-civilizing of the areas of space left riven and devastated following the Great War. It is only a matter of time until order is restored in the Terran sphere of influence, and the glory of the great republics of ages past is restored.

-:ENDTRANSMISSION:-