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It's been above zero here off and on for the better part of two weeks... and there's still snow on the ground. Worst part is it's not even really snow any more. It's all melted and re-frozen so many times that the snowbanks are nearly solid ice.

+++ Alek and the rest of the boarding team caught up to the large Security Chief while he held the lone entrance to the station cargo bay. Steam was starting to come off of Arrik's armour as his suit's temperamental shielding outpaced it's cooling system. The Chief fell back a moment allowing other members of the boarding team to take his place, firing down the hallway. "How many? asked Alek. "Not so many yet, and they all seem to be equipped with different forms of scout trooper armour. They have a security station at the end of the hall with an E-web." "Can we risk heavy weapons?" wondered Alek. "We won't have a choice in a minute or two. We have to get inside before they seal this section and deactivate the magcon field or it's going to get a whole lot harder." The noise of blaster fire increased substantially then, making it harder to hear. "Do it!" Alek yelled, but he swore inwardly at how expensive it would be to buy replacement weapons once this was over. Arrik waved in his heavy weapons specialists then hand signalled their firing order. One of the Twi'lek's fired a pair of concussion grenades down the hallway first to clear out any troopers. After the debris had cleared from the second blast, two other members of the security team leaned out from cover and launched a pair of shoulder fired concussion missiles down the corridor. The combined explosion was nearly powerful to knock some members of the boarding team off their feet. A cloud of fast moving debris flew out from the doorway pushing along a broken Stormtrooper helmet. "Not quite all scout troopers." Alek mused. "Move!" shouted Arrik as he lead the way, charging into the station's interior. +++ Ten minutes later the main boarding team burst into the station's operations center. Three officers spun away from control consoles and fired at the intruders with pistols. Stun bolts struck two of the officers and the third took a headshot from a Heavy Repeater. Other members of the boarding team paused and looked over at the Sullustan carrying the Repeater weapon. "Sorry." he mumbled sheepishly after realising the mess the dead officer had made. As some of the team began checking over the controls Arrik started unlatching parts of his armour. After a few seconds he unslung the backpack sections containing the power systems of the suit. "My suit's down for the next hour." he declared, unhooking the Medium Blaster from the suit and attaching a power cell to it. Alek looked up from one of the consoles. "Alright then... Arrik can you take care of operations and get more of our people aboard? I'm going to take some people down and check out these medical suites that are set up on the lower levels." "Sound good." Arrik agreed. "Chev, this station isn't going to explode is it?" One of the boarding crew members wiped blood left from the dead Imperial off of a console then replied. "No... they didn’t finish entering the self destruct." "That's good news. Alek stay in contact, we'll get you some map info incase your team gets lost down there." +++ Arrik's distorted voice came over the com. "You're coming up to the main Junction now." A set of double cargo doors slid into their housings as Alek and the team advanced. Inside was an outer medical ward apparently used for support duties. "Right on the money control." Alek replied into the com. "What do the rest of the scans show?" "It gets a little unclear." the com crackled. "What are you seeing?" Alek glanced either way as they moved farther in. "The halls branch off in either direction. More sealed rooms both ways from what I can see." "Ok... to your right should be the main stasis storage and on the far left are some high security lab rooms." "Sounds about right" Alek whispered to himself. "Ok let's split up." he said looking to the rest of the team. "Two with me, we'll check out the high security rooms. The rest of you check the stasis bays. Whose to say what they've got locked away in there." A female Sullustan and a male Twi'lek shouldered their weapons as they fell into step with the Commander. Knowing the human's penchant for finding trouble they spread out to either side of the hallway as the three advanced. "Are you showing any life signs down here?" Alek asked into the com again. "Negative. Just a lot of static." "Jamming?" "That's affirmative... Bright Hope is showing these decks as a big blank spot on active sensors." The team passed more enclosed and sealed operating theatres with transparisteel walls. Large tables were set up in the center of each room and equally large ceiling mounted armatures were suspended above carrying equipment. Life support equipment covered the back walls. Every last operating room was empty of life. All of the equipment inside them so clean they might never have been used. "Commander, look." said the Twi'lek, pointing through the armoured viewport at what had to be a mug of Caf. Steam was still rising from it. "This is Alek, we are not alone down here. Somebody here likes their Caf nice and hot." Before any one in the station's control room could reply, someone else broke in on the same channel. "Team Two here, we've got bodies in the stasis storage bay." "Roger that. But I'm more worried about who's still alive down here Team Two." They rounded a bend in the corridor trying to stay as quiet as possible. On the left side of the new stretch of the hallway was an open loading door. Alek rushed to the edge of the entrance and glanced around the corner. Nothing shot at him so he looked again. Facing him was an identical, though closed door about five metres in. This door also had a large biohazard symbol painted on it. "Looks like we just scored a pure Sabacc." Alek commented. "Masks on and don't touch anything." he ordered before stepping through the open entrance. The moment his foot touched the floor inside the entrance it set off disguised pressure plates. With barely any warning the heavy loading door fell from it's mount in the ceiling. The other two team members were fast enough to jump back, but the human leading them was not. Alek was trapped inside. Before he could even respond to this new situation however he heard something. The sound of a descending sentry gun. 004

Wow, haven't posted some random in awhile. How's it been? Iron Dude Democratic Destruction? Software security update

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I've been attempting to post these for the past 3 days. "I could feel my teeth rattle when I saw that last pic Mad." http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/Godzilla.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/1202976497615.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/ZombieTypesposter68168447.jpg

Anyways... As I was trying to post about before realising I couldn't post on the forum at all, I was just wondering when the PM's are going to be hooked up to the side bar again? http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Sidebar.jpg

Test post # 16 EDIT: Seems to be working. Bad couldn't post before either.

Test post.

I too found it rather humourous despite the situation. If you see enough of a certain kind of violence, even on TV reports, it starts to lose it's impact. http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/poster25384850.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/1202646050573.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/247260325_b3b078d97d_o.jpg

Thanks dude.

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The one on the left side menu.

Am I the only one here that collects these? http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/alita.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/DryadsVegesexuality.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Motivational/265983762_cc9b231474_o.jpg

Loved the Scrary Movie clip. Snowmen are melting Hillary = Palpatine? 300 for NES

Hey, was just wondering when abouts the [Forum] button on the front page will be linked to the new forums?

DOH! Didnt even occur to me at first to look waaaay down at the bottom of the page for site feedback stuff.

Sure thing E. IGNORE RED TEXT PLEASE For the General Forums we only have 3 things showing up at the moment. -General Discussion -Gaming Stories and -Outside Intrests Lemme refresh the page just to make sure... yep. Rebellion Multi-player, Site Feedback, Rebellion2 Ideas, And Questions from Newbies. Hang on. I just noticed that some have been put in the lower sections. Boy I feel rather Dim.

+++ Shedao Shai watched the blazebug swarms with great intensity. Grutchins were even now tearing at nearly every ship in the infidel fleet but even the great numbers of the voracious pests would not be enough to destroy a fleet the size of the one present. Despite their protests at leaving enemy’s behind that they could now easily kill, Shai's commanders followed their orders: escape. Supreme Overlord Shimrra himself had Commanded Warmaster Tsavong Lah and his Supreme Commanders to preserve as many warriors as possible through the early stages of the war. This conflict would be long and the infidels numbered many. Shai knew that his forces could defeat the great Superlaser wielding Destroyer if properly prepared for the battle. That would take time not available at the moment. The powerful Yuuzhan Vong Cruisers and the many other smaller ships dove from the midst of the Imperial fleet and down towards the planet. The pull of the planetary gravity well meant that the ship's Dovin Basals had to expend little effort on movement and could concentrate more on defence as they dropped away from the now disorganised Imperial fleet. Despot, which was still accelerating but had built up speed by now changed course, bringing her nose relative up and swinging around the Imperial Fleet. Her heavy Turbolasers fired at maximum range but the Vong and Despot's diverging courses soon meant that the Turbolasers were out of range. The Yuuzhan Vong fleet had entered Ord Biniir's upper atmosphere at high speeds and were now using most of their Dovin Basals to propel them at many times faster than the sound barrier. +++ Grand Admiral Burgan didn't even bother hiding his astonishment at the new tactics when he finally reached the auxiliary bridge. "Sir Despot is requesting permission to fire their Superlaser." "Fire it where, into the atmosphere?" "Yes sir." "We've still got troops down there... but it's not a bad idea. Com put me though to Richardson." After a long moment the com officer finally got through to the General. The sound of heavy blaster fire could be clearly heard in the background. "Richardson here sir!" he shouted to be heard over the weapons fire. "Jerej, we're going to fire a Superlaser shot through the upper atmosphere. You're going to get hit hard by the air burst, can you either evac or dig-in in the next five minutes?" "We can dig in here, but anything closer to the horizon is done either way!" "We read you. You have four minutes or less." "Sithsp-" The General's curse was half cut off as he rushed to get his men under cover. Burgan turned back to the com officer. "Com get me a channel to Despot." "Open sir, Captain Reese is waiting on the line." Picking up his comlink Burgan asked. "Reese?" "Here sir, waiting for your command." "Just what I wanted to hear Tycho. I want you to fire the Superlaser through the upper atmosphere as close to the enemy force as you can get without touching the surface. If you hit the surface our groundside prefab bunkers won't survive even if they're on the other side of the planet." +++ The bulk of the Yuuzhan Vong fleet began crossing over the planet's horizon, out of line of sight from the Imperial fleet they would soon be able to pull away from the planet on the side farthest from the Imperials ruining any chances of pursuit. Then the Green beam lashed out again from the largest Infidel ship, passing through the atmosphere and turning whole swaths of air into burning plasma. The air above the planetary horizon literally exploded, the first blast waves crushing a Yuuzhan Vong cruiser roughly the size of a Star Destroyer. Frigate and Corvette analogs far enough away to not be instantly destroyed were thrown thousands of meters off course. Whole squadrons of Coralskippers were washed away. The expanding shockwave slammed into the ground and spread out, rippling through the planet's atmosphere. +++ Jerej Richardson, along with more than a few of his men threw himself under a disabled grav sled in the lower levels of the Ord Building. "Anybody without full Stormtrooper gear, hands over your ears and open your mouth! DO IT NOW!" The Supersonic shockwave hit the area shortly after taking the top half of the Ord building with it. The back blast the followed was powerful enough to throw AT-AT walkers that had survived the initial blast. Yuuzhan Vong troops left out in the open in their advance were unprepared, killing many of them with debris despite their living armour. +++ As the huge blast wave subsided the surviving Yuuzhan Vong ships recovered and continued on course. Of their cruisers only two had been lost to the Superlaser and the exact numbers of Frigates and corvettes were difficult to determine as many of them remained hidden on the surface among debris while they healed. While Shedao Shai was unhappy with the number of casualties the infidels had twice fold inflicted with their Superlaser, he knew enough of his fleet yet survived to continue the campaign. +++ The ancient and crumpled blast doors of the Ord building's lowest levels blew outward from combined laser cannon and concussion grenade fire. A modified AT-ST lead the way through the destroyed door followed by the survivors that had taken cover in the lowest levels. The rubble of the upper levels was strewn across the ground to the south west stretching out several hundred meters. Broken AT-AT's and floating fortresses littered the ground around the site and troopers rushed to see what could be salvage. It took General Richardson a few minutes that he was both hard of hearing despite being equipped with infantry grade earplugs but also seemed to be covered in blood. He'd bit almost clear through his lower lip without realising it during the blast. After another few minutes of disorganised confusion he finally found an officer in charge of the remaining AT-ST forces. "Captain how are your walkers?" He asked and the two men traded loose salutes. "We've got a Dozen or so AT-ST's that the shipboard techs modified. Most of them were under cover and survived the blast. AT-AT's are a write off but that floating fortress might be fixable." "We need to get patrols out into the forest, find any Vong walkers that are out there wounded before they do." "I agree with that sir, we don’t have any AT-AT's to draw fire like on Garqi." "See about setting up a command station would you? I'm going to go scare up some medical supplies, I think I broke something in that blast." "Aye sir. Should I call you if we get communications back up with the fleet?" Jerej reached into the small comlink holder on the side of his combat armour and pulled put a broken mess. The pocket was right in line with approximately where it seemed he'd cracked some ribs. "Send a runner for me if you can spare one." 099 (Comments? Was the ending to the battle too abrupt? Let me know, this stuff can be edited.)

Watched 3:10 to Yuma the other night. Decent movie. I just noticed that Samuel L Jackson is supposed to be playing Nick Fury in the Iron man movie. ... WTF?! I know Jackson is an awesome actor but come ON! Next they'll have Spiderman vs the Punisher with Denzel Washington playing the Punisher.

Indeed! Tis fixed now! Huzzah!

I seem to be faving a forum error and, ironically, cant get to that section of the Forum to report it. http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Debug.jpg http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Debug2.jpg Um, wut? There's only two boards.

+++ Superior's bridge shook from yet another impact and a rain of fiery debris was clearly visible through the forward viewport. "Frigate Pride of Contruum has been destroyed." Called out the sensors officer. "We've lost our Command Tower defense group." "Increase rate of fire for all guns surrounding the bridge!" ordered the Grand Admiral. A flurry a green beams flashed outside the viewports and more burning debris struck the ventral shields. Over the shaking the admiral barely heard his personal comlink chirp. "Richardson to Burgan, come in!" Whipping out the small communicator the Admiral thumbed it on. "Burgan here, go." "Groundside Ops are all turning sour. They're targeting the heavy guns we put in." "Can you hold?" "Yeah but we'll need a Vic to crack those Frigates they've got floating around. All we can do is sit on defense, the Ion cannon posts are on their own." Burgan covered the com pickup. "Com, see if you can find any Carrack Cruisers that are unengaged. Send two of them groundside." "Aye sir!" "Jerej I'm sending a couple of Carrack Cruisers down. Things are getting borderline up here so be ready to pull out." "Understood." And with that the two officers went back to their respective jobs. Looking more closely at the fleet readouts Burgan began to realise there were serious problems brewing. If he didn’t play things right the whole fleet might yet crumble. "Pull Contrition back to rally point Delta, they're losing shields and we need her Turbolasers." Even as that Star Destroyer started to pull back and attempt to disengage from the fighting other things went wrong. "Sir! Destroyer Blunted Razor is losing power. They've suffered a Primary Drive failure." "What?" Burgan resisted the urge to stand up out of his command chair to look out the viewports. "She's all that's holding up the rest of group four." In that same group one of the Victory class Destroyers exploded, a series of internal fireballs ripping her apart from stem to stern. The diagnostics display that had represented that ship blinked with a red X before going dark. "Blunted Razor, how long do they have?" "Five minutes of power remaining." "Tell them to abandon ship and pull all of the other ships from Group Four back to Group Three. Solidify the line there." The Imperial line which had started as more of a concave shape was now fast deforming as more ships pulled back to Superior at her center. The formation as a whole was now considerably close to the planet. When the Imperial line stabilized however the Yuuzhan Vong forces that had been in pursuit failed to halt their advance. Instead they began to close even more rapidly. Then the sensor readouts on the Vong capital ships began to blur. "Sensors what is happening with the Vong fleet." "Sir, the Vong ships are shedding debris, possibly some form of countermeasure." "Sensors I want a picture of some of it, magnified. If it is something to help deflect lasers i want to see it in action." A magnified image appeared on his viewer showing a shape that seemed familiar but at the same time out of place. "Where is it that I’ve seen this before..." he wondered out loud. It wasn't long before Burgan become annoyed that he couldn't remember where he'd seen it, if only Jerej was here to bounce an idea off of. Suddenly the context of that thought brought forth images of a report from a month earlier at Garqi. Images of bugs that had flown up from the surface and torn into many of the starfighters that had been flying in the atmosphere. "They're launching swarms of attack bugs! Weapons retarget to the swarms of smaller contacts! Don't let them reach the hulls of our ships!." "We're increasing rate of Turbolaser fire, but there's thousands of them sir, we won't get them all in time." "All capital ships now reporting similar contacts with more of the bug swarms." called out the com officer. All across the battle Imperial ships turned their weapons on the swarming bugs, burning through hundreds of them but thousands still remained. As the Grutchins came into contact with energy shields their bodies began to resonate at the same frequencies as the defensive barriers allowing them to pass through unscathed. "The attack bugs are penetrating our shields some how!" "Find some way to stop them. Captain, prepare to repel boarders. Stormtroopers to check out any hull breach we suffer." The operations officer in charge of maintaining the shields of the mighty command ship began adjusting the shield frequencies. For a moment he believed he'd found a frequency that repelled the bugs when some of them were thrown back, but soon more began to seep through the defenses. "Sir, remodulating shield frequencies seems to be having only minimal effect but it is slowing them." "That's something anyways." Burgan muttered, louder he said; "You get to keep your job." While the bug attack continued Yuuzhan Vong ships were now passing through the Imperial fleet and accelerating. A Cruiser Analog fired broadside into Superior's Starboard shields knowing few of the Destroyers Turbolasers could be spared to return fire. "Sir Despot reports that their Superlaser has finished recharge. They have a targeting solution fo the nearest Cruiser Analog." "Tell them to hold their fire!" Burgan all but screamed. More quietly to himself he whispered "Emperor help me Reese, if you fire that superlaser at my command ship I'll have your head." Damage report diagnostics for Superior started to light up showing the minor hull breaches caused by the Vong attack bugs. Some of the damage reports however showed Turbolasers and cannon that were taking damage from the attacks. Before he could begin to direct additional Stormtroopers to help protect the guns however there was a strange thump from forward. One of the attack bugs had landed on the external plane of Transparisteel making up the forward viewport. It's acid secreting mandibles started burning through the thick armoured viewport at an alarming rate. "Stormtroopers to the bridge! Transfer command to the secondary bridge!" Yelled Burgan as he leapt up, unholstering his service blaster. The ship's captain at the same time called out. "Close emergency blast doors Zero zero." Druasteel plate dropped down in front of the inner transparisteel planes. A Stormtrooper security team entered the space between the two layers of viewports from a side access door and deployed a tripod mounted E-web. When the Grutchin's head at last came through the viewport, venting the compartment's atmosphere, some twenty Stormtroopers opened fire before the rest of it's body could come through. Once the bugs remains had been burned away the Troopers waited, unbothered by the lack of atmosphere in their vacuum sealed armour. Three more Grutchins landed on different parts of the viewports and started burning new, larger holes. +++ Dexen Thegas, Superior's Captain waited at the back of the bridge as the last of crew abandoned the command center. Admiral Burgan stopped on his way out. "Captain let's get to the secondary bridge." "Admiral, with your permission I'd like to suit up for vacuum and remain here with the Stormtroopers just in case." "I suppose that's your prerogative, but we need all of these controls locked out in case of suicide attack." "Understood sir. The two men saluted and went their seperate ways. Burgan was just stepping into the turbolift when a huge explosion that rocked the ship lifting him a foot into the air. The turbolift door shuddered closed before the car started it's descent. "Burgan to secondary bridge, report. What was that last hit?" "Attack bugs sir, they chewed their way into the Bridge deflector arrays. The Topside domes have both exploded taking out the bridge shields." "Tell Despot to close as fast as they can, try and target the Vong ships with their Turbolasers." "Sir the Vong fleet is dropping into the atmosphere." "What do you mean into the atmosphere?" 098

That ship looks decent Eagle. Kinda like an old-old Republic ship. Not complaining just the colours make it look aged.

+++ The massive Worldship known as Domain Shai reverted to realspace at the edges of the Ord Biniir system. Undisturbed by the reversion Shedao Shai glanced back and forth, intently watching the patterns the blazebugs formed showing the continuing battle. A battle with little time remaining in it he knew. "Inform Domain Esh and Domain Cha that we are fully engulfed by the enemy. They will be unable to break away in this region for some time." One of the Villip handlers bowed and went to one of the nearby Villip choirs to relay the information. Another of the subordinate officers, next in line after the incompetent Deign Lian approached with a respectful poise. "Supreme one, should we not evacuate the Worldship farther from the system? The enemy infidel sensing technologies may yet be able to detect us at this distance." "No. We can move no farther from the system without severing the fleets connection to our Yammosk." Shedao Shai reached up into the blazebug swarm and pointed to one area. "There. This section of the enemy fleet is on the verge of crumbling. When that happens they must either throw themselves upon us or the survivors will have to pull back to their main force. There should be a momentary lapse in their coordination in either event. When that happens all forces will drive for the planet." "Supreme one, at that range even the Mataloks will not last long against the remaining triangle ships." "Better for them to die in that way than to simply wait for death to arrive from behind them." Shai responded then looked around before pointing to the huge swarm of blazebugs representing the largest infidel ship. "That one ship will devastate our fleet in but a few heartbeats should it get close enough and have enough time for their main weapon to rest. Now, tell all ships to prepare what Grutchins they yet have. They will launch them when they renew their assault." +++ "ISD Disruptor is rolling hard, Frigate analogs are maneuvering to continue fire on her unshielded sections." "Weapons, fire when you have a clear shot." ordered Burgan. Seconds later sixty of Superior's starboard Turbolasers launched a flurry of shots that burned through the hull of one of the Vong ships. A second Frigate turned and put Disruptor's bulk between herself and the Super Star Destroyer. "Why haven't they concentrated fire one of the larger ships like Despot or Superior yet?" wondered the Admiral aloud. True the Imperial fleet was taking extreme levels of damage but without either of the largest ships badly damaged there would soon be little the Vong could do in space. Planet side however things were about to get bad. On the sensor screens Yuuzhan Vong troop transports and escorts were just reaching the surface. +++ Imperial troops were dug in across Ord Biniir's surface expecting a heavy assault. In the locations where the Yuuzhan Vong landed they received it. Shards and Blastboat analogs used the planet's gravity to speed their descent, raining plasma fire down on the shielded Imperial positions. Ground based Turbolasers, mostly made up of mobile emplacements opened fire from under the protection of the localised deflector shields. With shields falling fast it wasn't long before requests for support from Imperial troops began to pour in. "This is fortified Position AC-532 we've got Vong Transports dropping right on top of us." General Richardson hit a button on his Assault shuttle's Command console opening a responding channel. "Defend your position, reinforcements are on route." The flight engineer looked over to the General. "Their main landing force is coming down right on top of the old Ordinance facility. They've got Frigate Analogs following into the atmosphere but most of them look like they won't actually land there." "What do you mean?" "They're angling more to the North East, the Ord building will still be hit hard but it looks like..." The Lieutenant pressed a few more buttons to triangulate sensors. "Like they're headed for more of our heavy groundside guns." "The Upgunned Ion Cannons?" "Aye sir." "Why haven't those guns opened up on the Frigates?" After a few more key stabs the officer replied; "They were in line with our main fleet, any shot that missed would have struck our own ships so they held fire. The Frigates are too low in the atmosphere now, the horizon is shielding them." "Damn. Nothing we can do about that now, we don't have anything that can crack Frigates effectively. Pilot! Bring us in toward the Ordinance Building. We'll blast a hole through the rest of their landing forces and secure that location. Tie forces will follow us in." Two dozen Imperial Assault Shuttles and Assault Transports dropped from medium altitude in delta formations, speeding in towards groups of Yuuzhan Vong landing craft. The Light Turbolasers on each shuttle opened fire, rapidly pouring out their surprisingly powerful beams. A small Vong transport caught by surprise exploded like a flimsiplast crate with a grenade inside. The formation drive into the ranks of Yuuzhan Vong ships sowing momentary confusion and scattering the Shard fighters. The Shuttles swung around the old Ord building in a wide arc, being careful to stay clear of the heavier guns still in place on top of the old structure. The refurbished Tie fighters went in closer clearing away a few Shards that were still attacking the depot. http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/Battle_of_Ord_Biniir.jpg "Frigate Analogs are dropping ground forces North East, South East and Due West of the Ord building. Eighty kilometres out in each direction. Additional Corvette Analogs are forming a screening line to the North East along the general direction their main force is moving." Jerej acknowledged the report and keyed the com. "Shuttle group, we're going to defend this position. We won't be able to get to the Ion Cannon bases without taking extreme casualties and wouldn't do them any good even if we got there." The General looked to the shuttle's pilot. "Captain, deploy your shuttles to best protect the Ord building. We're not going anywhere for awhile." 097

Competition for the worlds tallest tower. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c2/Burjdubai20feb.jpg/450px-Burjdubai20feb.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Dubai Almost finished. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madinat_al-Hareer#Construction_of_Mubarak_al-Kabir_Tower Just breaking ground.