Fiction:The Nanohorde

This is based on the real-life concept of self-replicating spacecraft and nanotechnology 



The Nanohorde is a weapon, terraforming and industrial tool used by the Delpha Coalition of Planets. They are nanomachines, that have the ability to self-replicate and build other machines. They are microscopic.

Original Function
The purpose of these devices was intended to build other machines capable of peforming otherwise tedious tasks on a large scale quickly. In large scales, the nano-machines peformed like a hive mind, creating (or destroying) materials, cleaning up waste, building terraforming stations or even "eating" organic life, used as a weapon.

They have several programmed instincts
 * Self Replication
 * Communicate to create pathways, eventually a hive mind, much like ants
 * Consume and recycle what they have been ordered to and then build into something new
 * Never touch materials and objects they have not been programmed to use in a particular assignment



Malfunction
Eventually problems began. On the DCP colony Peelatrubis, some nanomachines were layed down to consume some the resources, to create new colonies and make the planet more habitable. Alas, just like organic cells, they can mutate and malfunction. Despite being programmed not attack everything on sight, throughout the millions that are created, just one malfuntioned. It went on to replicate itself, and soon hundreds, thousands and eventually millions of these bugged machines began to replicate. At first their impact was small, not allowing the colonists to know what was happening until too late...

Hell begins
A few days later, a starship was dispatched to the planet, only to the captain and crews horror - at least a third of the planet had been consumed. It had spread like a technological cancer, devoured all life on the surface, and then went on to eat at the planets crust, mantle and even atmosphere. The starship left, and warned their superiors. A quarantine was placed in that system. But that did not stop the Nanohorde, once they consumed the entire planet in weeks, they needed something new to replicate with. The more nanomachines there are, the more intelligent they became and as a complex hivemind, they created faster than light starships, but build entirely out of nanomachines or the now known - Nanohorde.

The plague continues
There is no known defense against the nanohorde! If you destroy them, some of them will always survive, feast and eventually replicate using the other destroyed devices. EM bursts don't work, they have adapted to these weapons. We have no way of knowing where they will hit next, and if they've arrived in your system, you may not no until it is too late. It is a shame such a brilliant tool has turned against us, I feel in some way, the DCP is responsible for its ignorance, which has now put the entire galaxy at risk. - A Dr.Kenders issued warning to all planets in the galaxy. Over next few weeks, an ecological catastrophe on the astronomical scale was taking place. These machines were invading every system like a horde of locusts, getting more intelligent and more numerous. Already, 5 planets had fallen to the horde, however, so far, these are colonies that are quite far from the DCP territories. They must not be allowed at all costs, to learn about the major DCP sectors, or other empires, otherwise they will feast. The '''Nanohorde is not evil, just like a virus or bacteria, it is doing what its orginal function was - to replicate. However, the Nanohorde are simply mutated, and are causing more harm than good.'''

 Specifications 

As said above, they are self-replicating nanomachines that consume and recycle materials, for use as terraforming, manufactoring and self-replication, and work as a hive mind, like a colony of ants. However, the new Nanohorde are malfuntioning, and instead of being useful, they are consuming planets to replicate themselves out of control. While powerful weapons do destroy them (hydrogen bombs, strong lasers, antimatter, spacetime weapons and so on), there will always be survivors, survivors who may be immune, which then replicate them selves. So far, an effective method of destroying these machines has not been found, the DCP have tried learing them into an unclaimed pocket dimension with false-signals, however they have now learn't this trick. There is also no way of knowing where they will appear next before its are too late. Each individual nanomachine has self-replicating tools, laser cutters and other devices, and can join together to create better structures.

The Galactic Plague
''Please write your empire's story in this section if you wish to join. There may also be adventures! Please request to join on the talk page first, thank you.'' Toraks's Story:Chapter One: Heck begins:Its Was A Nice Summer Day. Almost TOO Nice Thought Many Toraks's As They Contiued Thaier Daliy Lives. Nanohorde Secne One:Consume The Nanohorde Said.

To Be Continued

By Lorgassssssss

Nanohorde Story
The Nanohorde was beginning to replicate at a rate of 10 million per hour and have clustered around a planet, where they are beginning to evolve a machine ecology, with competition between different Nanohorde species, although currently there is only slight differences. The wherabouts of this planet is not yet known to the DCP. The planet they have created is almost as large as Mars, and is in fact, a giant mass of the Nanohorde.

The Nanohorde are also combining to build larger structures such as planet hunting probes, that have been dispatched across the galaxy.

Dyson Spheres - A shadow falls on Mirenton
A Dyson Sphere is a shell, created around a star. The shell absorbs the stars total energy output. The Nanohorde, are now creating Dyson spheres, which are blotting out the light from habitable planets. And now the unthinkable has occured, the Nanohorde are now constructing a Dyson Sphere around Mirenton's home star Chilius. If the Dyson Sphere is even a third the way through its completion, most life on Mirenton will perish... Unless Mirenton is moved or the sphere destroyed.

Fortunately, due to the DCP's technology, they have moved Mirenton to the Lucara system. The DCP will use a black hole to consume the Dyson Sphere, but until then, Mirenton has been moved to the nearby Yoburt system.
 * The Dyson Sphere was successfully destroyed by an artificial black hole, and Mirenton returned to Chilius. It was the first major victory for the DCP and its allies.

Nanohorde Vehicles
The Nanohorde were evolving vehicle-like forms of destruction!

Finding ways of defeating them
The DCP is now trying to warn every empire, friend or foe, in the Milky Way galaxy about the insidious devices. While weapons will destroy them individualy, some will always be left (lets say 99.9% destroyed), ready to consume and replicate into vast numbers again. Anti-matter weapons and spacetime weapons are the most effective, but unfortunately they require alot of energy, and cannot be used as an effective method.

The DCP has created short-term space-time barriers around important colonies and homeworlds. They also have created a false-signal to lear the nanomachines into an unclaimed pocket dimension, but now the Nanohorde have adapted to the signal.

Destroying the affected planets
The DCP are now destroying any planets affected by the Nanohorde, but the Nanohorde keep coming back. The DCP has noticed that the Nanohorde are acting more and more in an intelligent manner. The scientists fear, this intelligence will overtake the allies, and once that happends, the allies will have to retreat.

A shocking discovery
A DCP science vessel, protected from the Nanohorde by a shield bubble of spacetime (although the shield uses energy, and cannot be used for long), discovered the Nanohorde homeworld, which had grown to the size of Jupiter - a rapidly expanding mass of self-replicating machines, eveloving intelligence in a weird game of evolution. Complex forms were evolving, some which appeared like vehicles. Unfortunately for the crew, their shields dropped, and were able to warn the DCP in time before being consumed. The ship and its crew, of course, became consumed and recycled, making the planet a little bit bigger.

A plan very daring was set up, that could defeat the Nanohorde for good. The DCP looked to the Xhodocto for help...

Light of hope
Admiral Kilnok spoke with the Xhodocto, suggesting that the Xhodocto could lure the Nanohorde Homeworld with the Madum'Kadur a giant world ship as big a G Class star (like Earth's Sun). Like a Spoffit and an Oogie (Spoffits are mostly vegetarian, but like the taste of Oogies!) the machine planet would be lured to the Xhodocto ship in order to consume it. However, the Nanohorde would be trapped into an unihabited dimension.

However, the Xhodocto had a better solution - instead, they had just developed a device that could shut the devices down at a certain frequency. But first, at least 40 Nanobots had to be captured. Admiral Kilnok decided he would do it. A large ship (perhaps a Dreadnought) and a fighter would do the trick - the Nanohorde would be attracted to the bigger ship, while Kilnok captures a few and freezes them in Suspended Animation.


 * The mission was a success! Kilnok survived, but only just in time (an adventure has been made, its on the bottom of the page).  Now the Xhodocto will test their new generators on the Nanohorde!

Masaari Crusade story
Radeon were one of the first to answer DCP signal. Lumivus Telfar has sent some forces, led by captains Imperios and Geroniel. One of their Milky Way colonies, the Holam, was one of the first to fell to Nanohorde. As such, they quickly responded and numerous ambassadors have been sent to DCP. They seek to capture and don't allow to reproduce some bots to study them.

They have tried to attack Nanohorde, but they don't damaged them much.

Aid
The Capricorn Sector Alliance was recently contacted by the DCP. The transmission asked for aid and President Inviere was only too happy to respond by sending a huge Sector Alliance Fleet and its best scientists including Professor Solers, one of the best in the galaxy to aid them.

Distress Call
The DSB recieved the call from the DCP, and went to help. The Bloc, did not know, however, what the transmition was about. When they dicovered the Nanohorde, the Bloc thought at first that they were harmless, but they soon realized the Nanohorde's destructive power.

Inter-Galactic Travel
DSB scientists have been working on inter-galactic travel, something the Bloc was lacking. Their target was Andromeda, a galaxy close to the Milky Way, but no other factions seemed to notice it. A crew of DSB explorers have been sent to the Galaxy, and hopefully they might find something to help with the Nanohorde.

Intrusion
After a while of not hearing anything about the horde, the nanos attacked. A huge mining ship had been infected by the Nanohorde, which started growing in numbers inside the walls. They formed manifests and fought started destroying the ship. At the last minute, the ship self destructed, vapourising all of the nanobots. The DSB was now on high alert.

The Deathmarch Story
Though the Xhodocto are unaffected by the Nanohorde, their recent alliances with the DCP meant that they will help them. Their ancient technology should be a help to the galaxy, though they are slightly surprised of their power and their numbers.

The Deathmarch have developed generators that could shut down the Nanohorde.

Rambo Nation Story
Rambo Nation, allies of the DCP throughout the most terrible wars the Universe had known responded to the urgent message by the DCP and send a small Task Force there way. However, contact was lost with the Task Force and reinforcements and resque armada's could not be send as the Noble Alliance had fallen and Rambo Nation is cornered by Imperial Alliance and Ruin Sector Alliance forces. However, Empress Ramashe promised to send troops and ships whenever possible to aid the DCP.

Sylit Republic Story
As Rapidfire, an SE-Fiamma, was traveling from Neptunium to Ezrem, they received a distress call from the DCP. When Rapidfire heard the message, they immediately contacted Rambanda. Rambanda decided to send a group of Kyran (scientists of the Republic) and Admiral Dondrik (leader of the Republic) to consult with the DCP leaders and scientists about how to deal with this new foe, to hopefully boost the relations between SR and DCP.

Galot Republic story
The Galot Empire, fed up of having to deal with their friends in the DCP and billions of other empires suffering, decided they'd use their alliance to help stop them conflict. Everyone loves these guys, so they got the best s scientists in the galaxy to help solve the plague, and give a disinfectant to make planets immune to the threat. Of their own Galot Creature Projects, they used their scientific Gaal to come up with the solution, the Galto to fund the project, and the Galtoids which were immune to any organic disturbance as this, to get in and find out what the problem was. They're still solving it right now.

In the meantime, they're doing what they can to solve this problem. The whole universe is begging for their help!

The destruction of the Nanohorde
The Galot, DCP and Xhodocto are about to unleash their final solutions.

Xhodocto Generators
The generators shut down the Nanohorde in the experiments (note that the generators are spacetime based, using the frequencies of heavy, exotic sub-atomic particles to interfere with the Nanohorde bonding structures that hold them together). The DCP immediately used these devices on all effected worlds and ships, firing them through hyperspace instead of bringing ships there, which would be far more dangerous. All the Nanohorde forms disintergrated into helpless masses of nanomachines. However, it did not stop the Nanohorde from consuming (but stopped them replicating and bonding to form structures), however thats where the Galot come in...

Trapping the Nanohorde homeworld
The Delpha Coalition of Planets used no money to sort this mission out, as it was imperative. The DCP sent 5 Gargantuan Class ships (huge ships over 15 miles long, capable of wreaking massive destruction). The Nanohorde homeworld, now as big as Jupiter, lumed over the ships like a masive planet. The machine world detected the ships, and was lured in to their direction. However, it was a trap, the DCP created a dimensional portal, each generated by the Gargantuan ships. The Nanohorde machine planet was sucked into the portal, where it entered a uninhabited dimension. This was a huge victory for the Delpha Coalition of Planets and their allies, and this would never have happend if not for Admiral Kilnok collecting Nanohorde for the Xhodocto. He became even more famous.

With the Nanohorde no longer bonding or replicating, and with their mecha for evolution gone, the Nanohorde could still consume the planets they were on, however, it was now the Galot's turn to finally defeat them.

Galot's inventions
The Galot had gathered up all the greatest scientists from:
 * Themselves
 * Ottzel
 * New artefacts discovered
 * Gaal
 * Galt

And was funded by
 * Galot Republic's Funds
 * Galto
 * The Save the Helpless Charity

And sent a fleet of Galt and Galot to the locations with largest Nano Horde activities. Their new weapon, was about to be activated. They had 3 inventions to counter the Nano Horde.

Their new weapon, known as the "Tesla Jaw" or "Da big lightning fingy" (by guess who) Was a powerful weapon fusing Lighting, Electricity, EMP and Tesla powers. What it did was complex- it hit one of them then quickly spread to the rest, absorbing their electricity and overloading each of the nanoscropic things, also, the EMP shut the machines down. Unable to take this, they simply explode inside, and stop working. then they are fed to the Loron to eat. Suckers.

However, they had also created a device that can protect planets- The Anti Nano Horde. it uses other nano bots that are immune to Nano Horde that are installed in the planet to defend it. They can destroy the Nano Horde Attacking before it eats up the materials. All that is needed is a single Anti Nano Horde structure and a creature or AI operating it. The Anti Nano Horde don't have AI themselves, they are purely Radio controlled and weaponry.

Better still, they had something to undo the damage- the Planet Saver.

Using advanced Time Technology, it reverts the planet to the way it originally was prior to the Nano Horde attacking. TYhe only disadvantage of this is that the people need to be updated on events that have happened.

Uaing all of these, the Galot have pretty much rid everyone of the threat.

Return of the Nanohorde
After the DCP Civil war, the rebellious warlords were dead, and the Emperor reclaimed his former territories and began to rebuild what was lost. However, unknown to the Emperor, Tricarrion had survived. He was not dead, but ascended into a being of pure demonic energy. He will continue to cause harm to the DCP. The first thing he did, was to create a white hole (a reverse of a black hole) from the uninhabited universe the DCP trapped the Nanohorde in. The machines had evolved into an entirely new form in the other dimension, and came spilling out back into the Milky Way. Except this time, the Nanohorde were sentient!

Invasion of Xhodocto hell
The release of the Nanohorde back into the universe is in some crazy way, almost a good thing:they attacked the Xhodocto, and quickly assimulated their technology and materials. And in the March of the Apocalypse, the Xhodocto opened the gates to Xhodocto hell, their home dimension. The Nanohorde have invaded their realm. They are at least a nuisance to the Xhodocto.

Now the Xhodocto's problem! And assimilation of Xhodocto technology
When the portals to Inferno Realm opened, most of the Nanohorde that was released back into the universe by Tricarion went flooding through, they could consume everything, all but the most demonic of regions, but now that power has dimished. As the empires waged war against the Xhodocto, neither noticed the greyness that started to rot and consume everything, almost everything. The Nanohorde started assimilating Xhodocto technology, making them even greater in power. Even mighty Inferno Realm, was being converted into Nanohorde particles. When the allies finally noticed, there was a sense of vengeance, their universe had bitten back with its own terror! However, the Nanohorde started assimilating Xhodocto technology, making them even greater in power, making them even more of a dangerous threat to the universe as well.

Quantumhorde
However, they assimilated something that would make them more deadly than ever! The Nanohorde had adapted to exist in a quantum state after assimilating some Xhodocto technology. They could exist in a state of quantum superposition and entanglement, meaning they could never be fully destroyed without some uncertainty, and no one would ever predict where they could strike next!

Bottling the Nanohorde
Admiral Kilnok goes on a daring new mission to capture the Nanohorde.
 * Creator:Wormulon
 * Sporepedia:Here

Consumption
A huge mining ship is consumed by the nanohorde.
 * Creator:Liquid Ink
 * Sporepedia: |500499880893%3Asast-500570029330%3Apg-40 Here

Heck Begins

 * Creator:snithelgruban (Lorgassssssss Here)

The War;The Toraks And DCP VS Nanohorde

 * Creator:Same As Above.