Fiction:Battle of Revelation

The hull creaked, snapped, crunched. Tossed from side to side from the battery of gunfire, the fleeting ship, the Kalaki, "Holy" in the Ankoran tongue, was left drifting through space, orbiting the ruined world of Kaer. Men and women, Ankoran, Teyan, and Mithadorn, lined up by the primary airlock, raising rifles as they steadied themselves... The hull creaked again, the sound of heavy footsteps echoing overhead. The airlock buzzed... Tick, tick, tick...

It was chaos, as the door was blown open, a hail of laser fire blasting through the pale grey corridors, leaving dark burn marks in the walls. “For the Empress! For the Empire! In her name we serve! In her empire, we thrive!” Imperial Stormtroopers began to pour through the smoking hole, their power armour clanking and cluttering as they raised their rifles to shoot down the fleeing soldiers of the Kalaki.

"Inform Key'Tara!" one voice yelled. "They've boarded! They've boarded!" There was a scream, bodies fell... Teyan Imperium soldiers littered the floor with their Ankoran comrades, as they Mithadorn fell behind them. Falling back, they watched in horror as the Grand Teyan Empire's boarding forces marched down the corridor, executing each one they passed by...