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============================== Chapter Nine: Interlude Date: 6:30 Tsuaga 55, 7052 Location: Bridge, CfC Impact, In-Battle, High Orbit, Aief "Situation Untenable! All forces, retreat!" Rishyk shouted over to the comm to the captains of all surviving ships - there weren't too many. In the battle prior, almost constant chatter aboard the comm system revealed the truth - the Nema'ddi were pursued to the system, followed by the strange skeletal ships, who had knocked out their comm system. Arriving at a system with two fleets already fighting, they assumed hostility and opened fire. "Wissse Counsssel..." the Zuayer commander hissed in reply, and then hissed some orders to the remnants of the fleet. In the forty minutes prior, the large skeletal battleships had tore through the three allied fleets, decimating them. Rishyk gazed out at the enormous debris field as the Impact swung its prow around and engaged its powerful engines. The skeletal vessels had closed in to near point-blank range and spewed columns of fire at the retreating vessels, immolating them as they turned around to flee. "All fleetsss...dissssperssse! We don't want them following ussss to any of our homeworldsssss...." "Alright! Crew! Our jump vector is 10.22'45"X 89'12"Y 22'15"Z, distance 145801 Standard Deviations! Fleet, set random jump vectors! We don't want them following us!" The Impact Swerved again, barely avoiding a plume of enemy fire, and engaged its nullspace traverser and leapt into nullspace. *** Date: 6:00 Tsuaga 55, 7052 Location: Training Chamber, Haven A Station, Orbit, Haven A The training room was dark, but it was bright enough for Au'skas to see that it was devoid of any obstacles on the floor. The dim red-ish light cast long shadows and twisted the room's dimensions - the perfect lighting for training people's senses - Au'skas knew. It was the same lighting that the trainers used back on Gevra to weed out potential Marines that did not have good sense perception. Au'skas had passed the Marine corps trials with flying colors - he didn't mind the lighting. Au'skas watched as Renewal swriled her arms in the air in front of her, materializing a gleaming sliver blade engraved with cryptic hieroglyphs.` "This is a training activity to assess your swordsmanship skills. Your objective, disarm me. Conditions to prevent, becoming disarmed yourself." Renewal smiled and twirled the gleaming blade above her head as she spoke. "But I've never had any practice in duels!" Au'skas objected, "I've only been taught how to use the blade for stealth killing when I was a Marine!" "Don't speak nonses," Renewal's smile faded as she spoke, "you destroyed a full compliment of sentinel assassin droids single handedly without a scratch." "I didn't even know what I was doing!" "Well then, you seem to have good innate ability, let us begin, the purpose of this is to refine your innate ability into reliable, useable skill." As soon as Renewal finished the statement, she vanished and appeared in front of Au'skas, who barely had time to avoid her downward strike before she instantly switched direction and slashed at his feet along the ground. Au'skas brought his magneblade down to block the strike with speed that surprised himself, and quickly leapt back, out of Renewal's reach. "Fine then! Let's dance." Au'skas shouted and lifted his blade into a stance mimicking Renwal's. "That's the spirit!" Renewal said as she blinked from view and appeared again, this time to Au'skas's right. In a fluid motion, Au'skas brought his blade to precisely where Renewal's blade arced, and the two blades sparked in the power-struggle. Both pulled back and brought the blades together, again and again, slashing, blocking and parrying. Then suddenly, Remewal disappeared once more and appeared this time directly in front of Au'skas, blade raised. Au'skas watched as his blade arced in slow motion backwards until it hit the floor of the room and shattered. "Hm...not bad for a first try," Renewal smiled and waved her hand and a new magneblade appeared. She tossed the blade over to Au'skas. "Now, when..." *** Date: 7:00 Tsuaga 55, 7052 Location: Bridge, CfC Impact, Orbiting, High Orbit, Unknown Planet Rishyk was staring at the empty vastness of space as contemplating the situation when the comm bleeped online. '[Establishing Connection...Please Wait]' '[Link Engaged]' "Minister-General Rishyk, this is Chairman Issat. Lord Protector Xwelk of the Zuyaer and Fae'rski'tar'ix-yn of the Nema'ddi have requested the representation of out race at the Stuhko-VII Station to negotiate how we should work together. I have important business to do, and I have chosen you to represent us." "I am honored." "Date is 0:00 Tsuaga 56, 7052 at Stuhko-VII." "Affirmative." '[Link Disengaged]' Rishyk knew that the alliance that was to be negotiated was crucial to the survival of all three races, yet he could not shake the feeling that there was to be some kind of double cross. Regardless, he gave the order to be at Stuhko-VII at the given time, and relayed information to some of the ships with higher-ranking commanders. The Impact turned and faced its jump vector and pulled itself into nullspace towards the meeting ground. The Stuhko System was two thirds of the way across the galaxy from where the Impact launched itself into nullspace. Rishyk sat down in his captain's chair and dozed off to sleep - it would be a long ride and a long day ahead. *** Date: 11:50 Tsuaga 55, 7052 Location: Bridge, CfC Impact, Orbiting, High Orbit, Stuhko-VII, Stuhko System "Minister-General, we have arrived at the Stukho System. The rest of the fleet has been gathered, along with the Zuyaer and Nema'dii forces." "Good. Prepare the shuttle for launch." Rishyk noted the two large battleships floating a ways away from the station - the flagships of the Nema'ddi and Zuyaer fleets. Rishyk walked to the back of the bridge and into the lift which would take him down to the external docking ports where several shuttles were strapped on to the hull. Selecting the one that was the least damaged, he and two personal guards stepped in to the small, metal box and shut the hatch. The shuttle broke away from the larger craft and used its maneuvering jets to position itself on the space station docking platform where a tunnel extended to connect it to the main structure. Rishky stepped out of the shuttle and walked into the station. [CHAPTER NINE END]

Oh yay! More people return!

Modding UaW Demo (and waiting for the release).

O_O EVERYONE'S BACK!?

Fan Fiction section LIVES! lookin forward to pt 1

============================== Chapter Eight: Prelude to Destruction Date: 5:30 Tsuaga 55, 7052 Location: Escape Shuttle, In-Combat, Unknown Sector Au'skas pulled hard on the controls to avoid getting incinerated in the orange blast. Even so, the huge column of fire singed the left wing of the shuttle, clipping it off. Pulling a barrel roll to avoid a volley of smaller shots, the shuttle's two passengers strained under the motion of the shuttle's evasive maneuvers. "Where's the jump vector!?" Au'skas shouted as he yanked on the controls again to pull away from some flak, "they're starting to launch...fighters!" The belly of one of the large manta-shaped skeleton ships opened up, and out poured thousands of broken-disc shade craft. "The computer is preprogrammed with the vectors for five safe locations set up after the final war. the nearest vector is near the tail of that large battleship." Renewal replied. "Then here goes nothing!" Au'skas slammed the thruster to 200% power, "I fly, you shoot!" The small escape shuttle sped into the incoming cloud of fighters, shots from its single rapid-fire laser cannon lacing through the thin armor of the flimsy enemy craft. Pulling a downward spiral to avoid a torrent of small orange bursts, the shuttle spun to avoid large, inaccurate bursts from the back-mounted cannons of the manta-shaped battleship. "Go into the little valley between the two rows of spine that line its vertabrae!" Renewal shouted towards Au'skas while firing another burst of laser into the enemy fighters, "Most of the heavy cannons can't hit us there!" "Alright..." Au'skas stated as he lowered the speeding shutting into the narrow valley between the spines. A final large streak of orange fire flew overhead as the craft sped along the bottom of the valley, swerving to avoid the occasional spine that rose between the two larger spines. "That spine up ahead, fire a torpedo into it! The shards from the explosion should take out a few of the fighters!" Renewal said as she again pulled the trigger, "Actually, lets wreck this ship a bit. fire it into the large spine at the end." Au'skas nodded and continued to concentrate on avoid collisions in the narrow tunnel, while dodging as much of the pursuing fighter's fire as he could. Nearing the large spine, he released four missiles and pulled up and left to avoid running into the spire. The missiles struck the spine at its base, four huge fireballs consuming the bottom portion of the spine, engulfing a good number of the fighters as well. At the same time, fireballs erupted from the hull of the battleship at random locations, throwing up chunks of the hull into the path the pursuing fighters. As the shuttle flew off the rear of the gargantuan manta-shaped battleship, a tremendous shockwave threw the shuttle forward. Au'skas activated the nullspace traverser and spared himself a moment to look back and see the enormous battleship heave and split into two. "I never expected THAT to happen." Au'skas stated as the ship jumped into nullspace. "Neither did I. That must have been a coolant node or something - the explosion looks similar to a core overload." Renewal replied, smiling. "Right..." *** Date: 5:50 Tsuaga 55, 7052 Location: Escape Shuttle, In Orbit, Haven A "Now you've seen the forces of Those who were Banished, the Dark Praetorite," Renewal said in a serious tone, "we got lucky that time - we managed to escape relatively unscathed and destroyed one of their battleships as well." "That fleet was immense..." "They've spent eons rebuilding after their defeat. The disturbing of the black hole of Nostrius provided the perfect opportunity for them to overpower the Guardian ships we left to prevent them from escaping." Renewal sighed, "I can only hope that we will have some time before they discover the safe havens and the sentient species." "What will happen if they do?" Au'skas asked tentatively. "The Scion of Misery will have servants to enslave once again...all of what my people fought for so long ago would be lost. Individually, the three sentient races don't stand a chance...but if they pooled their knowledge and expertise, it may be possible to mount a significant defense..." "The three sentient races?" Au'skas asked, afraid of the answer. "Yes, the ones who have been fighting amongst themselves - the Zuyaer,the Nema'ddi, and the Gevrans. You have some training to do...and I need to recuperate my power. We can only hope that they can see past their differences and unite to face the coming Darkness." The shuttle drifted up to a space station and docked, and Au'skas and Renewal walked out and inside. "Come on! We have lots of work to do before we can do anything to change the outcome of this conflict, but we should be done in time so brighten up!" A suddenly-cheerful Renewal smiled and motioned for Au'skas to enter the training chamber. *** Date: 5:50 Tsuaga 55, 7052 Location: Bridge, CfC Impact, In-Battle, High Orbit, Aief Rishyk stared in disbelief as a fourth faction entered the system. The immense skeletal ships appeared in the distance and rapidly closed in, unleashing huge columns of orange energy at the three battling fleets. "What is this madness!?" Rishyk exclaimed as a large orange plume struck the Instigator, in the distance in front of the Impact, splitting the cruiser into two burning halves. The comm screens flickered on, and the leaders of the Zuyaer, and Nema'dii fleets proposed an alliance against the mysterious new arrival that was technologically and numerically superior to the three fleets combined. Rishyk's head hurt - the destruction signal of the Victorious working on his conscience not helping at all. He motioned for his fleet to open fire on the nearest huge skeletal manta-shaped battleship and cradled his head in his hands... [CHAPTER EIGHT END]

They're alive!

============================== Chapter Seven: Return Date: 5:00 Tsuaga 55, 7052 Location: Main Deck, Platform Eye of Revelation, Orbit, Unknown Sector Au'skas squinted into the darkness, trying to discern what had made the noise. Seeing nothing, he motioned for the rest of the team to move forwards. As soon as he stepped into the threshold, a single, glowing red light light up. As he stared into the immobile red glow, an aura of dread and uncertainty came flooding over Au'skas and an involuntary shiver went up his spine. A moment later, the unwavering red light moved. Reflexively, Au'skas flicked out his mangneblade and ran it through the neck vaguely-humanoid hunk of metal that the glowing red light was attached to where the head would have been. The head flew in an arc across the room, laning several feet away. The mechanical body shuddered and fell over. At the same time, singular red lights went on around the circular chamber. "There's more of them!" Au'skas shouted to the rest of the team, too late, as bolts of orange energy jumped from an extrusion on the machine's arm portion, lacing into the soldiers and killing them where they stood. Au'skas leapt, diving behind the wreckage of the destroyed machine and slicing through the torso of another two machines as he landed. Bolts of energy flew at him from all directions as Au'skas leapt towards a fourth machine, severing it at the waist, then spinning around to deflect the shots with his magneblade, demonstrating swordsmanship skills he didn't know he had. The bolts reflected off the electromagnet blade an deflected at random angles, occasionally lacing into a machine and causing it to explode. Dancing in a zigzag pattern around the circular chamber and lashing out to decapitate machines, Au'skas fell into a rhythym - block, dodge, slash...block, dodge, slash... One by one the machines fell, either to their own fire or to the magnetized blade. Seeing the final enemy, Au'skas lunged and thrust his blade through the torso of the final machine, rendering it a useless piece of scrap metal. Au'skas stood up an glanced around the room littered with smoking wreckage for the smallest sign of movement. Seeing none, he returned the blade to its sheath to recharge. It was then that he noticed the voice in his head had been silent for the entire time. You lied! Au'skas mentally projected, you said the station's defenses had been deactivated! This cost the lives of my fellow crewmen! The outburst was met by silence. Now you're quiet? Au'skas asked, irritated that the voice in his head had seemingly vanished, Fine. I'll find you...and I expect you to talk! Au'skas took a long look around the room for anything that might contain the physical form of the voice that once resided in his head. A green blinking light caught his attention and cautiously, Au'skas advanced. It was a control panel of sorts - with writing engraved in some cryptic language unlike what he had seen on other constructs. Taking an assumption, he hit the large button in the center with a flashing green light. As he hit it, a strange voice announced something over the announcement system on the station in an unknown language. The wall in front of him opened up to reveal a small white chamber, well lit, but with no features on the walls. At the center, one of the two figures that were referenced in relation to the nullspace traverser sat, in a meditating position. Her eyes opened and said in the voice that used to reside in his head, "Hello. I think we've already met, but I haven't introduced myself. I've had many names over the eons, but to you, I am the last Celestial, the Avatar of Renewal." "What was that about?!" Au'skas asked, slightly angered, while gesturing the heaps of smoldering wreckage behind him. "Those," the figure in the room said, "were not part of my defenses." "Then..." "We should leave now. I'm sorry about the loss of those soldiers, I did not foresee that this station would be boarded by their sentinels...no, I did not foresee that they would awaken before I did." "Alright lets-" Au'skas was cut off by an explosion that rocked the Eye of Revelation. '[Establishing Connection...Please Wait]' '[Link Engaged]' "Captain! We are under fi-" '[Link Disconnected]' "I'm going to activate the external turret grid, there's a two-person shuttle in the hangar three levels down, its going to take a few minutes to warm up after all that time in stasis!" Renewal shouted to Au'skas, "Go! The lift is over there!" Au'skas nodded and ran for the lift and hit the button for the hangar. The lift moved at an extreme rate - the door opened after an instant of free-falling, and Au'skas stood at the back of the hangar, looking out at space through the atmospheric containment field. The dust cloud around the station served as a one-way illusory mirror, allowing Au'skas a perfect view of the fleet of skeletal ships resembling Hammerhead sharks and Manta rays approaching above the horizon of the gas giant, silhouetted by the sun from behind, unleash columns of orange fire at the station. Au'skas ran into the only craft in the hangar and powered up the systems, suddenly being able to interpret the cryptic script the controls were labeled in. The craft whirred to life, lights lit and diagnosis systems ran checks on the craft's critical systems. "Lets go!" Renewal shouted as she ran up and sat down on the vacant seat, just as the systems checks finished. "The station's external turrets should buy us enough time to reach the jump vector." The craft lifted up and flew past the atmospheric containment field, out through the dust cloud and into open space. Immediately, the skeletal ships sighted the shuttle, and a huge column of orange fire erupted from the mouth a Manta-ray ship, headed straight for the small escape shuttle. [CHAPTER SEVEN END]

Nice!

oh wow...that's right... nothing happened? lol. I'll see if I can get some random pics for ya...

I have a feeling that the last arc could be epic...

lol...I know...

What? That just majorly confuddled my head.

Nah, we should be like undead, rising from the grave to bite otehrs and turn them into zombies too...that and we get immunity to a few bullets.

Don't what? Its not like its a trade secret...I mean...I learned that by looking the base models in ALO viewer lol.

Sry bout not replying to the console stuff -> I have no consoles (I have a Wii but don't use it lawl - can only run japanese games :S since I got it from Hong Kong = Jap versions only there...)

There was an influx of people from the EA forums that went there...

Last year was the peak. its declined since. Not my fault -I actively post, there's just noone else posting anything?

Yea it's been a freaking long time since I posted anything. I've decided to continue it - too good to let it go to waste. ============================== Chapter Six: Escape Date: 4:30 Tsuaga 55, 7052 Location: Corridor 12716, CfC Impact, In-Battle, High Orbit, Aief Au'skas braced himself against the wall as the Impact took a heavy hit from a Nema'ddi Cruiser. "Seal decks 17 through 22, fire control!" Rishyk's voice shouted faintly from behind the closed door. I've decided. Au'skas metally projected at the voice residing in his head. Then we must go as soon as possible. Alright, I'll find a reason to slip out. As Au'skas turned around and walked towards the bridge, the ship again shook as Nema'ddi missile detonated just a few levels below where he was standing. Opening the door, Au'skas surveyed the panic-stricken crew rushing to fulfill Rishyk's orders, madly pressing buttons on their panels. "Minister-General..." Au'skas asked tenatively. "What is it?" Rishyk replied. "There is a favor I wish to ask of you. We had already deducted that there is more to the wreckage around Irii-2 than we first suspected. The data on this disk is conclusive evidence about that theory - I had another look while I was out. I need a nullspace-traverser equipped ship - there are a set coordinates on the disk that could point toward further wreckage sites, which would immensely help the war effort. I wanted to ask before the battle but never had the chance." Au'skas stated as he waved the datadisk in his hand. "Hm...there's not much you can do now anyway. A reinforcement fleet should be arriving soon, you can transfer on board the Reciprocator-class Gunship Victorious. I'm trusting you on your hunch." "Thank you." That wasn't so hard, was it? Au'skas spoke to the voice in his head, then turned to look out through the panorama windows. The Nema'ddi fleet had closed in an the ships could be seen with much more detail. Their armor seemed to absorb a certain amount of fire before taking physical damage - a barrier that would stop all projectiles, but when struck repeatedly, would fail, allowing projectiles through. After a few moments, the a voice sparked in the comm. '[Establishing Connection...Please Wait]' '[Link Engaged]' "Minister-General Rishyk. This is Admiral Kra'salya on board CfC Instigator of the Gevran fourth fleet, we are entering the Aief system." "Recieved. we could use some backup here. Just to note, do not fire on Zuyaer ships, repeat, do NOT fire on Zuayer ships." "Affirmative." '[Link Disengaged]' The space behind the Impact opened up and the Gevran fourth fleet entered the system. The Instigator immediately unleashed a salvo upon a damaged Nema'dii cruiser drifting in its line of fire. "The Victorious is pulling up alongside now, there's your ride, the rest of the Finder's crew is transferring onboard as well." Rishyk nodded at Au'skas as he turned and ran down towards the docking hatch. *** Date: 4:40 Tsuaga 55, 7052 Location: Bridge, RcG Victorious, Docked with CfC Impact, High Orbit, Aief Au'skas took one final glance at the Impact before his Gunship disengaged docking procedure and parted from the larger cruiser. Alright, now where to? Au'skas aksed to the voice in his head. I doubt it is charted on your starmaps yet. The coordinates from this system is 44.66'88"X 23'21"Y 12'2334"Z, distance 130000 Standard Deviations Alright. "Engines at full power! We're disengaging and making a jump. Our vector is 44.66'88"X 23'21"Y 12'2334"Z. Set distance for 130000SD" Au'skas relayed the coordinates so the rest of the crew could hear. The Victorious turned and headed for its jump vector, unleashing a final volley of shells at a Nema'ddi frigate, which replied by sending a volley of missiles back at its attacker. "Four heat sources heading towards our position. They're Nema'ddi missiles." The sensor officer shouted. "Evasive maneuvers! Rear machine guns try to shoot down those missiles!" Au'skas barked the orders and gripped the side of his chair. The Victorious spun around, narrowly avoiding three of missiles as they exploded into a shower of shaprenal, peppering the ship with slivers of metal. "We're going to make it!" Au'skas the Victorious neared the jump vector at full speed. As the nullspace portal opened in front of the Gunship, the final missile struck the rear portion of the ship, blasting it into a mangled mess that promptly split off. The ship shook violently as in entered the portal and Au'skas closed his eyes, bracing for the worst. *** Date: 4:50 Tsuaga 55, 7052 Location: Bridge, RcG Victorious, Unknown Area Au'skas opened his eyes and looked around. The bridge was completely intact, the crew members opening their eyes one by one. They weren't dead. For now, and that was all they could be sure of at that moment. "Everyone alright?" Au'skas asked. A murmur from the crew confirmed the statement. "Damage report?" "All systems are offline, the only things we have are search lights - enough battery power for two hours, auxiliary maneuvering jets - six bursts, and backup life support, sir, enough to last us three days." "Ok, so lets sum this up. We make a blind jump to who knows where, and get hit and dumped out somewhere along the way so We have no idea where in the seventeen hells we are. We have no engines, no comm, and just enough air to last us three days. Wonderful." An eerie silence fell over the already-shaken crew as they realized the predicament they had fallen into. Wait, I doubt this is far from destination. The voice in Au'skas's head said. What do you mean? The nullspace traverser completed the jump - I can feel it. This is close by. The station should be somewhere here... "We're pretty much hosed no matter what we do, but do a sweep with the search lights - there might be something here we could use." Au'skas suggested. The lights engaged, tracing out the shadows of the ship's wrecked parts drifting past as well as painting bright lights of the clouds of larger debris surrounding the ship - wreckage from another ancient battle? The lights danced in a lazy arc, lighting up the wreckage until they fell upon a structure, larger than the rest, locked in position somewhere in the distance. Au'skas squinted to try and discern its shape, but it was fuzzy and obscured by a cloud of swirling dark matter and debris. That's it. the voice in Au'skas's head whispered, barely noticable the Eye of Revelation, the sphere of suspended animation. There it is... What? The construct that holds my physical body and a plethora of technologies intended for those who could find it. It is impenetrable, save by my word. "That...thing in the distance. Bring us closer. That looks like something we could use." Au'skas said. As the remains of the Victorious drifted up towards the station, the crew gazed at it, mesmerized by the surrounding dust cloud's reflections and refractions in the beams of light. All of a sudden, space lit up as the sun broke over the horizon of the immensely large, planet, silhouetting the field of wreckage that formed its rings, drowning out darkness with a wave of light. When the star's rays hit the dust cloud surrounding the station, it lit up in a cascade of iridescent lights, flickering, glowing, radiant. The crew continued to gaze at the brilliant display, captivated by the wondrous sight as the blasted hull of their ship drew closer to the station. The flickering individual lights merged, forming images of wondrous things. Hey, wake up. Going to crash! The voice in Au'skas's head snapped him back into reality. "Watch it!" Au'skas shouted, releasing the crew from the spell of the dust cloud, narrowly stopping the ship beside a docking prong before it impaled the ship and caused further damage. "Docking procedure completed, as best as we can with what we've got." An officer reported. "Good, prepare a boarding party." I've disabled the station's defenses the voice in Au'skas's head stated, free to go in now. Au'skas headed into the station cautiously despite the assurance - something whirred in the darkness inside the station and he had heard it... [CHAPTER SIX END]

is that the SPHA-T that moves all 10 of its legs on one side at a time?

Hiya and welcome back.

Ok, looks just drop it alright? Mandalore's identity at the moment is unknown, but I have a few ideas canonically, but they're probably not going to get implemented.

Nope. MeshAdditive makes BLACK transparent.

Yup. Its more like Daedron is Mandalore's right-hand man right now.

Nope, not changing the timeline, there's no need to. I'm just using the KotOR-looking stuff since there's basically no other pictures references for mandalorian units besiades the hutt-used ones. Besides, I never said they were the same class of unit used during the KotOR era, they're new designs based on the old ones. Darj's still there as a hero (though I've tweaked him a bit to make him more unique). Of course, since all the new stuff is, or eventually will be on OMG, others may do what they want.