Fiction:The Great Deceiver

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=Overview=

The Name
The Great Deciever is actually the nickname of Tyranny Plan MW2-XV66 proposed by Grand Admiral Dialztreanvitz Raeditzkraft to the rest of the Grand Admirality during a military summit held on his flagship.

Sides
(put in the overview, strengths and weaknesses of your sides)

Drakodominatus Tyranny
A very powerful, advanced, and commensurately evil empire hailing from the Mirus Galaxy. They are the actual instigators of this war, but nobody knows it. They will sit on the sidelines of the war for the most part, as the sides kill each other. Their strengths lie in their technology, military prowess, and the Dominatus. Their weakness lies in the way that most of the expeditionary force is engaged with the DCP and thus not able to directly contribute to the war.

Imperium of war
Another powerfull, evil empire hailing for Mirus, and allies of the Drakodominatus Tyranny. Their only goal is to make this war last enternal, and because of this, all the other think they created this war. They are real warriors, trained from very young age. Anyone who is born weak in the Imperium will be killed. They have specialized squads of combatants, such as Berserkers, who get lost in a battle trance. Their strengths lies in their military powers and stubbornness. Their weakness lies in the fact that they are almost incapable of diplomacy, and that they do not know when to retreat. And once in battle, the berserkers can't be controlled, with means they are a treat to both enemies and allies. However, when they are up close, they are a forced not to be reckoned with.

Drodo Empire
The Drodo are a somewhat new, powerful empire from the Milky Way. They are expanding there borders both in there native galaxy and in others. Determined and with advanced (and highly numerous) ships, they are a force to be reckoned with. With few true weaknesses, they are a jack-of-all-trades. However, they rarely specialize in anything, as a result of being balanced.

USF
After restore democratic government in the Federation, the Senate was restored as head of state while Vankalian was sent on a search and rescue mission into hyperspace. The Federation has lost her best warrior without his second best general: Afnai, so the Senate has risen to the Commandant Edelmut a new leader of the ISS. Without their best overall and best ship the Federation is in a compromising position in a new war, but not to be questioned Edelmut, the third best soldier of the Federation has certain abilities to consider and decisions can be cooler and calculated that it would take Vankalian. Furthermore Edelmut has been trained in how to control the essence of the greatest guru of history of the Federation, the brother of Vankalian: Zein Zatock.

The Hegemony
The Hegemony brings with it large fleets. Since they have kept their territory hidden for so long, they have been able to build their military uninterrupted. They are good at ground combat, but excell way more in space. They will never surrender to the Drodo. Due to tyranny deception, they beleive that the Drodo have been spying on them. Now they will repay Drodo deception with blood.

Waptoria Alliance of Species
The Waptoria Alliance is a alliance of different species in Mirus. However, they originally came from the Milky Way, near Sol. When a battle rages near their Milky Way territory, they will investigate both sides, wishing to end the war, while staying neutral. However, as the war becomes continues, they will eventually become a ally of the Drodo. While quite fierce warriors, they are centered around happiness and love, and as such, haven't been involved in a war for a long time. Their main advantage is their organic technology and sapient ships, rare among the gigaquadrant. Their weaknesses are that their ships, due to being organic, are slightly more fragile than others.

Unitech Citadel
The Unitech Citadel is an empire who spilt off from the Waptoria Alliance. As the Waptoria become allies of the Drodo, the Untech will ally the Hegemony in order to fight them. While the Waptoria Alliance isn't militaristic, the Unitech Citadel is. However, they are still willing to die for those who have gained their trust. Their ships are better then the Waptoria due to the fact that they are half-organic, half synthetic, and are less fragile. Like the Waptoria, their ground forces are sneaky, but not as fast, and empire is quite small.

Troodontid Empire
Although they live in the Cyrannus Glaxay, the Troodontids get somehow involved in the war. When they did research on a black hole near their home systems, they accidently went through a wormhole leading to the Milky Way Galaxy. By doing that, they get between the fronts of this war. When the ship that got through the wormhole was accidently attacked, the Troodontid Empire`s Army begins to travel through the wormhole step by step. They would like to end the conflict in peace, but nevertheless they will attack if they think that the situation will escalate. Their strength lie in massive battle cruisers, superior shield technology and highly effective energy supply through artifical stars. Their weaknesses are their lack of super-weapons, the youth of their empire , the losses from their war with the Drakodominatus Tyranny and the lack of colonies in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Khilai Empire
The Khilai are a relatively young empire of 6800 star systems and a fleet of just over 80,500 space craft. They were tricked by the Dominatus into aiding them. The Khilai wear plate battle armour made from an icredibly robust alloy called Netorium which is created by placing several of the ores found on the planet under high pressure and then imediately exposing them to focused void energy (the Khilai's main power source), Many of the battleships and verhicles are also plated with Netorium alloy. The khilai's main strenth is in their emence forces of highly trained wariors and defence system.

Sindar Dominion
The Sindar Dominion is a empire of medium-strength located in the Eagula Region of the Milky Way. Formerly very isolated and defensive, a recent political shift in the Dominion has reinvigorated their old expansionist ways and they are expanded and conquering local space at a rapid rate. Led by the enigmatic dictator Pius Corranis, they are a force to be reckoned with.

Thérenian Dominion
The Thérenian Dominion is a somewhat old empire coming from the Unknown Regions of the Cyrannus Galaxy. Powerful and technologically advanced, the Dominion has the potential of being a major threat to most of the empires who comes to their way. Now led by a new empress, they have started to expand their empire after a century of observation. With Dominion fleets moving towards Milky Way, its only a matter of time before this two centuries old war-machine goes once again to battle.

Vikul Federation
The Vikul Federation is a nation also located in the Eagula Region who is in conflict with the Sindar Dominion. The Federation is primarily corporate-ruled and were unprepared for all out battle.

Sago Kingdom
The Sago Kingdom's army is different, compared to most advanced empires. They use technologically advanced forms of old weapons, like bows, arrows, swords, and things of such nature. They do use vehicles, but they are also used for melee combat. The leader of an army is the High-Templar. Their weaknesses are that they don't fare too well in far away combat, despite heavy armor.

Monarchopod Coagulative Government
An Ecologist based empire, with somewhat unadvanced war technology, however, they are willing to fight any empire trying to corrupt or exploit the galaxy to the death. They got involved because while not directly allies, they are associated with the Drodo empire. MCG has great economic power however. They are fighting to preserve the galaxy and prevent permanant damage to it. They are located in the Milky-Way galaxy. However, in they are in a weak state.

Antein Empire
The Antein are relatively young, capturing only 50-60 systems in their time. They hail from the Milky Way Galaxy, and may appear like your regular old n00b empire, but don't be fooled. Their main strength lies in their numbers, and they can down an unprepared empire in seconds. Their main weakness is their vitality, a ship being able to fry a whole fleet of antein without even trying.

Aeoneonatrix Empire
An extremely young empire who ascended to an extremely high level for their age by reverse-engineering the technology of a now extinct race. They're notable for their tendency to protect weaker empires, and the Defenders, their super-soldiers.

Aestrom Republic
Aestrom are a young republic, originally form the milky Way of another dimension. They aren't too powerful, and most of their empire was lost when their dimension collapsed. Yet, survivors set up a new race in the Milky Way.

Khazard Imperial Order
The Kazards are from the same dimension as the Aestroms. Originally following a ideal similear to the Imperium of War, they now have calmed down, but still remain xenophobic.

UNXC
The United Nation of Xerxes IV's Constitution, better known as the UNXC, is a massive confederate alliance of 250 species total. The UNXC has a President which rules over a select district, and a Prime Magistrate that controls the entire collective. The founders and most notable race of the United Nation are the Shres, a somewhat enigmatic people who have a desire for order and enforcement of law. Two other extremely notable members of the UNXC are the Humans and the Martians. The current Prime Magistrate is Belim Codnar, a well respected Shres Republican that is fighting against united racial leadership (the ability for any non-Shres to become a candidate for Prime Magistrate). During battle the UNXC rely on their powerful and quick ships and well trained men to fight with the best they can muster. The UNXC's largest fleet is that of 133 flagships, and it has a total system control of 100,000 star systems (within the specific area). They are most notorious for fighting in a war against the feared Fredorian Dominion. While during ground combat they mainly focus on getting as many troops as possibly on the surface in order to subdue the enemy with sheer numbers, they don't need the precaution while in space. The main weakness the UNXC government and military share is that they will not attack any members of an allied species (during warfare; criminal activity does not count for this).

=Prelude to War=

A Dilemma
It had been a rather tumultuous few weeks for the Drakodominatus Tyranny. They were involved in a full scale war with the DCP within the hyperspatial regions analogues Milky Way, sucking up all of their military forces in an almost impossible battle with the almighty DCP. This had come at the same time of the Beezlebub incident, where one of the Nightmares of Occult Ops nearly met his end on a planet in the Sindar Dominion. This was also coming at a time when first contacts with different species happened each day, and were the species were not crushed but spared. The Troodontid in Cyrannus, the Hegemony in Andromeda, the UNXC in the Milky Way, among countless others were new empires the Tyranny did not know existed, and instead of crushing them, offered trade instead, giving the Tyranny such wonders as dark matter, netorium, and better shielding. The mindless expansions fleets, separate from the expeditionary force continued each day, subjugating countless worlds and increasing the domain of the Tyranny. However, the Tyranny wanted to subjugate these new empires at some point in time, but the War of Hyperspace did not leave enough men, and therefore, Plan MW2-XV66 was created.

Dinner Conversations
Grand Admiral Dialztreanvitz Raeditzkraft was sitting in his massive 90km Greater Demogorgon Class Leviathan and was surprised when he was visited by his wife who came all the way from installation 3, the Tyranny's most advanced and secretive mathematical institute. They both had dinner over the roasted bodies of other species, both sentient and non sentient, and talked about their work. The Grand Admiral was quick to talk about his plan for the subjugation of new Empires that had been seen by the Tyranny in the Xonexi Cluster, but complained about the futile war with the DCP which his compatriot had started, which had ridden him of the ability to do anything requiring multiple offensive fleets. His wife's work, having to do with mind bogglingly complex theoretical math on the proof of a topological conjecture also indicated some frustration. However, his wife razor sharp intellect and the cunning of a Dominatus female made her give an amendment to the plan. Now, the plan was to use the enemy empires as the offensive fleets, to slowly grind each other and themselves to death while giving the Tyranny money. They both stared openly into the stars for quite a while as they contemplated the new plan, version 66 of Plan Milky Way Urgency 2 XV.

Plan MW2-XV66
The Grand Admiral entered the conference room and ignited the summit between the Grand Admiralty, spread across all of the First Gigaquadrant. He told them of the plan which would secure even more dominance amongst the Tyranny. He told them of the main phases of the plan, which started with a framed war between the Drodo and the Hegemony which would later spiral out of control due to alliance systems involved. This was to be instigated by Veil Class Stealth Ships Mk2s who were in Hegemony Space and by the Terpeschoire Spy Network as well. This went in tandem with the creation of new fleets of robotic ships for an offensive campaign. Resources would be obtained by forcing reliance on Tyranny supplied weaponry such as combat harvesters on all the sides in the conflict as well as weaponry to combat the harvesters. The monopoly would mean that the Tyranny could charge exorbitant rates for all of this. The plan was then, when all the sides were weak for newly produced offensive fleets to launch an all out attack on the smaller powers as they would appear as the heroes and to subjugate countless empires. There were also smaller subcases for each empire. For example, the Tyranny would support the Vikul Federation against the Sindar and eventually use it's own might to crush the Voice's troops. The Khilai(if Kesh109 wants to join) would in their expansion be blacklisted among the other powers, and their later annihilation at the hands of the Tyranny would seem to be a heavenly occurrence. Moreover, all Tyranny supplied weaponry would still be master controlled by the Dominatus meaning incredible effectiveness. His plan met with unanimous applause even among the holographic representations of the Grand Admirals and he set his mind to it's implementation.

Imperium of War
A Drakodominatus ship loomed above Warnimz, the capital of the Imperium. It was big, but still out dwarfed by the Imperial ships. Yakis Orochis of the Drakodominatus Tyranny descended and walked tough the city. The streets, full of corpses, skeletons, and gang tags written in blood stood in stark contrast with the buildings in the stile of the old roman empire. Yakis then entered the golden fortress of Imperator Augustus.


 * Yakis Orochis - Hail, allies. We know something that will interest you.


 * Augustus - What is it? Keep it short.


 * Yakis Orochis - A war in the Milky Way.


 * Augustus - War? We are always in for war! FOR WAR ENTERNAL!


 * Yakis Orochis - Indeed. We will show you the place, and aid you behind the scenes.


 * Augustus - Everyone in the Imperium! Prepare the army! We are going to war!

The crowd cheered. Augustus and his sons, the deadly warmasters, watched as the military united above his fortress. It was a beautiful, but horrifying sight at the same time. they entered Augustus flagship, the Imperial, and at the head of the mighty fleet, went towards Milky Way. The Imperium was ready for war, their only form of joy. One thing was sure, their enemies were going to suffer.

The Hegemony
Marius was fuming. In the long history of the Hegemony, no one had ever dared to penetrate their restricted territory. "The Drodo have a lot to answer for" he muttered to himself. "Ulrac, prep the fleet, we have a meeting with the Drodo goverment.

"Sir?"

"You heard me, we head to the Milky Way!"

All through out the Hegemony's territory, fleets moblized, factories worked to produce weapons of war, soldier preped for combat. A storm was about to burst.

Waptoria Alliance of Species
On the planet Raptoranea, the capitol of the Waptoria Alliance, Commandant Oji'b entered the royal palace. The palace was decorated with flowers, moss, and plants were everywhere. Even some creatures had their nests there. He went straight to the meeting, with had a different feel from the rest of the palace. It was quite dark, with green gases and pink pillars of light illuminating the room. He bowed to an extremely beautiful, young Raptoranean. She was the Leader of the whole Alliance, Shelliand'r. While she was an empress, she didn't care about it, and was friendly as usual.


 * Shelliand'r - Hello, Oji'b.
 * Oji'b - You called me?
 * Shelliand'r - Yes. War is raging near our colonies in the Milky Way. As you know, our goal is to spread happiness to other empires. War disturbs this, and as such, must end.
 * Oji'b - So you want me to investigate it?
 * Shelliand'r - Indeed. I am a warrior, and could go by myself, but currently, with the hyperspace conflict against our ash-enemis, the Grox, and their followers, I have to stay here.
 * Oji'b - It seems the fun has ended. But all right, I will go.
 * Shelliand'r - Thanks. I knew I could count on you. Have a good day.
 * Oji'b - Same for you.

Oji'b left, prepared his plasma pistols, and ordered his fleet to go to the Milky Way.

Unitech Citadel
Solid, the twin brother of W'tze stood at the bridge of "the Citadel", the flagship of Unitech. He was already fighting the Waptoria Alliance in the Nebulorian war, but now i was time to get involved in something bigger.


 * Solid - Unitech. Today we strike. We strike at the heart of corruption in our very neighborhood. The Waptoria Alliance.

Solid - ''They seek to control us, to remove us from existence. But we will take that no longer.''

Solid - ''We will rule the stars that the Waptoria now control. We will claim them! it is our birthright. We are Unitech. We combine organic with synthetic. We will fight the Waptoria, and win!''

The crowd cheered, and a massive Unitech fleet headed to Wapotoria territory.

The Black Hole
The Troodontid Empire did research on a super-massive black hole near their home system. Only with massive energy expenditure managed the spaceships to get away from it and to come back again. Suddenly one of the spaceships got too close to the Black Hole and was pulled inside. It was drwan through time and space and in the end arrived on the other side of the wormhole. It was an even bigger black hole. This black hole spit the Helios-Class Ship out and it was just out of reach of the insuperable pull of the black hole. It managed to leave the orbit of the black hole and found itself in another world. It wasn`t their home galaxy, not even near their home galaxy. The spaceship turned back and entered the orbit of the black hole again. The black hole pulled i inside and it safely travelled back to the rest of the exploration troop.

Exploration
Overview= President Draicon gives the Troodontid Empire the order to explore the alien world. They should make - if they existed - contact with as many intelligent lifeforms as possible and should try to find some allies. Nearly one third of the fleet and over seventhy percent of the scientist should be moved there. Apart from that would they constantly be supervised by the Senators Sirculus and Swargol. The exploration fleet left the planet the next day and arrived in the Milky Way Galaxy few hours later.

Dialogue=

President Draicon, as well as the Senators Sirculus and Swargol , meet Captain Velox from the Helios I , the ship that was pulled inside the wormhole.


 * President Draicon - You are completly sure, that it was another galaxy ?
 * Captain Velox - Yes, Sir , I am. The whole universe looked totally different from this position.
 * President Draicon - OK, then we need to explore this new galaxy. And we have to find out if it is possible to colonize it.
 * Senator Sirculus - Maybe there are even other sapient species. We definitly have to make contact with them. Who knows, maybe we even find some allies.
 * President Draicon - Great idea, Senator. So, you have new orders: You will take some of our spaceships and get to hat galaxy. There you explore as much as possible. But make sure that you are always radio contact to prevent begin lost. Apart from that you will make contact with every sapient species you meet and try to convince them to ally with us. But if they attack you don`t shy away from shooting back. I think some of the government should come with you , too. I think I will come with you to keep a watch on the progress of the mission
 * Senator Swargol - I agree with nearly everthing you said, but in my opinion it is far too dangerous for you to come withe the exploration fleet because they could be atacked or - in the worst case- destroyed. Then we would have no leader anymore. Instead I would recommend to send Sirculus and me instead.
 * President Draicon -  So be it. But make sure that you notify me about every cognition.

Khilai Empire
Mortrig, a Dominatus diplomat, walked over to the Khilia Emperor. His mission: try to manipulate them into aidng the Tyranny.

Mortrig: "Hail Khilai, we are the Drakodominatus Tyranny, and we believe we both want the same thing."

Khilai Emperor : "Ideed. Power. What would you have us do?"

Mortrig: "Merely take our aid. For land combat we will give you hundreds of these combat harvesters" he says, gesturing to a shipment he had just sent down

Khilai Emperor: "We appreciate all your aid."

Mortrig: "These will all be under your jurisdiction and we will give you battlestations to assist in the defense of your worlds."

Khilia Emperor: "I thank you."

Mortrig: "Our only demand is that you make our enemies suffer"

Khilia Emperor: "We will, I swear it on my life and the lives of my people."

USF
For the third time in a year, the Senate was a stir, a new record was thought Aranelia Brinal, the Great Senator, as he looked crestfallen air to senators from each of the star systems of the Federation. All, with the exception of Aranelia, were angry or mad.

Perhaps everything has begun the previous day, the week was met for the disappearance of the hypersapce Vankalian and courage of the soldiers and senators were on the floor. But what put the Senate in that state was possibly the unexpected news that their probes were reported, apparently understudied powerful empire of the Hegemony had been invaded by a probe Drodo. Which fireza reacted with this empire.

Now it was time to decide how to act, support Drodo mean entering into a direct war without the greatest warrior of the Federation available, but remain neutral break the alliance with the Drodo.

Aranelia- Order! Order! I think the answer is clear, we do not fear war, but to fight without our best weapons and men, we get a Great General interim, that replaces a Vankalian until you return.

Senator- Her ladyship is right, but who? Afnai is next in command and finds Vankalian

Aranelia- So that is next to Afnai, Commander Edelmut ...

The Senate was silent, Aranelia could not be serious, Edelmut not the kind of man you'd call if you are in danger of war, the commander Edelmut was undisciplined, dangerous, unreliable when fighting. Since they had escaped their home universe, Edelmut he spent in his small private fortress, a terraformed asteroid, studying the properties of the Essence. As they say, the brother of Vankalian, Zatock Zein, was trained in these arts especially.

Aranelia- If there is no opposition, act now, call Edelmut, we need him.

And while the Senate was emptied, Aranelia hissed

Aranelia- Why whenever a calamity occurs Vankalian not appear.

Sindar Dominion
It was on Logus, a clear and sunny morning, The Voice stood atop his palace balcony, looking over the grand city of Basut and the enormous crowd that had amassed 70 stories below him, waiting for him to speak.

The Voice, who had now taken the guise of 'Pius Corranis' stood on the balcony, clothed in a light gold breastplate, covered in carvings and intricate designs with a flowing red robe wrapped loosely around his waist, ending just before his knees. His graying black hair blowing comfortably in the light breeze.

"Citizens of the Dominion" he spoke, his lips parting softly and slowly as he did, giving him the appearance of a benevolent father, yearning to love and protect. the crowds died down to a mere hum as all 6 Million Sindar crowded outside the palace looked to him as he spoke.

"Today is a red letter day for the Dominion."

"Today, we strike at the heart of corruption in our very neighborhoods."

"Today, we take what is ours."

pausing briefly, he looks at the crowd, his eyes grazing over his eager people peacefully. he swallows hard, and looks back up to the microphone again.

"The Vikul have tainted the Eagle Nebula for as long as the stars have shone."

"They seek to damper our rightful reign over this universe."

"They threaten our very existence as a people." people in the crowd begin nodding in agreement, or turning to their friends and saying their agreements.

"We can not allow ourselves to be shut out by them,"

"We are the rulers of the cosmos, it is our birthright!"

The crowd cheers back in excitement. Pius smiles, they are playing right into his hands. He knows how to please a crowd.

"On this day, a red letter day, we take the fight to them!"

"We are superior!" The crowd roars in absolute agreement and excitement, and clap and stamp their feet, shaking the massive courtyard. As they do, loud engine noises are heard above, as hundreds of enormous Sindar Cruisers fly over the palace and city, causing even more of an uproar. Pius throws his hands up to the skies, motioning towards the ships.

"Today, we fight back!" he shouts into the microphone.

Thérenian Dominion
Dominion fleets were massing near a wormhole that would take them to Milky Way. Hundreds of ships all equipped with the most destructive weaponry that Dominion has to offer were preparing for the journey, as more and more Dominion ships joined the group. Aboard the bridge of Degraded Mind, Grand Admiral La'isran spoke with other admirals.

La'isran - You have your orders. Now go and bring glory to Dominion.

Admiral - Yes, my lord. Would you want to address the fleets?

La'isran - I will.

At that La'isran hailed the fleets and gave one last speech before they departed for Milky Way.

La'isran - '''This is the Grand Admiral speaking. I want you to know that we are doing this for the Dominion, for our people. To bring our people to greatness. To make others know our name, and to make them fear it. Don't do this for personal glory. No, do this for the glory of the Dominion! When future generations speak of this moment, they will remember your valiant deeds. They will always remember how you gave your lives to the Dominion. And they will always know how you brought glory to our people! Men, you are backbone of the Dominion. You are those who built it and those who have carried it here. And now you will carry it further! You will take it to new heights and bring it where it has never been! Now go and bring glory to our people! For the Dominion!'''

As the speech ended, the Dominion fleets entered the wormhole and began their journey to Milky Way. La'isran was sitting on his bridge watching as his ship entered the wormhole. Thérenian Dominion had began their expansion.

Vikul Federation
In the home system of the Vikul, the Vikul watched closely for Sindar attack ships, ready to defend at any moment. All of a sudden a hyperspace window was opened in the system, but instead of a fleet of Sindar warships, they were greeted with a 30km long battleship escorted by several 15km ships. They quickly got into orbit around the Vikul homeworld and opened a communication channel to the capitol.

"Hail. Why is it you have come to our home?"

"We are the Drakodominatus Tyranny, and we have come to help you defeat the Sindar"

"Why would you help us?"

"What do you want to gain from it?"

At that, Beezlebub teleported to the surface, in front of the Vikul President His massive descended 10 meter form towered over the Vikul

"Because I take issue with their existence"

The Vikul man sized him up slowly, taking note of his dangerous appearance.

"I will inform my subordinates" he said.

"We will send Gluonic weaponry to your ships, in order to fight them better."

"We appreciate that, but you have to prove yourselves"

Suddenly, a fake Sindar ship entered the atmosphere, and attacked the Vikul citizens. Mortig looked at the ship, took his weapon, and shot at it until his ammunation ran out. The ship, however, was damaged beyond repair, and crashed down.

"I believe I have proven myself"

"Indeed. The Sindar will suffer'

Aeoneonatrix
The Vengence, captained by Lingur, arrived at the homeworld of the Fligurians. His Empire, the Aeoneonatrix, had received distress calls from this empire, and two others, all clients of theirs, claiming all of their planets had been attacked. Ships had been sent to each planet to assist. The Vengeance attempted to contact the planet's surface. There was no response. They went in closer to the planet, expecting a fight. Instead they saw ruined cities. The buildings had been flattened, and the turrets destroyed.

“Spodists maybe?” suggested Awesh, the ship’s pilot, once he got over the shock enough to speak at all.

“No,” said Callanni, the science officer, “Spodists would’ve done something with the planet after eliminating whoever’s there.”

“Have the other ships reported back on the Fligurian colonies?” Lingur asked.

“Yes,” Awesh said, “they’re just like this one, no evidence of survivors, same with the other species. No signs of life. All three species … seem to have gone extinct.”

Lingur began quietly seething with rage, “Mardor maybe?” he suggested.

“The technology here is too advanced,” Callanni said, “Whoever did this is past tier 4, Mardor are only at 4.2.”

“Who then?” Lingur asked.

“Scanning,” Awesh said, “no, couldn’t be…”

“Who?” Lingur asked, his anger visibly increasing.

“I found a crashed ship, its taken damage from the city’s turrets…” continued Awesh “WHO!?” Lingur demanded.

“Troodontid,” Awesh said, “It’s a Troodontid ship.”

“Are you sure?” Lingur asked.

“Yes,” said Awesh “I’ll pull it onscreen”.

Onscreen was the unmistakable image of a Troodontid ship.

Lingur activated the loudspeakers to communicate with the rest of the ship. “All personnel to your stations,” he said, “we’re going to battle.”

“Sir,” Callanni said, “With all due respect, this makes no sense, attacking random, defenseless colonies is completely uncharacteristic of the Troodontids.”

“You saw what I saw,” Lingur said, “It was clearly a Troodontid ship. They have destroyed three of our clients, who we swore to protect. We must send the message that this sort of thing isn’t tolerated.”

“By doing the very same thing to them?” Callanni asked.

“No,” Lingur said, “We’ll keep a space station with about 10,000 of them floating around; in case we find out we need them for something.”

“You don’t have the authority too--” Callanni began.

“Don’t try it,” Lingur said, “we both know I do. Awesh, contact Aeoneonatrix, and get them to send us a war-fleet, we’re going Troodontid-killing”

Lingur was able to get 10,000 ships to accompany him.

“The Troodontids are in another Galaxy,” Callanni said, “how do we intend to get there?”

“There’s a natural wormhole that will open in a few seconds,” Lingur said, “right … about … now.”

The Vengeance and its fleet flew into the wormhole, and toward the nearest Troodontid planet.

Aestrom Republic
On Aestrom, things were going as usual. This changed when the High Council became aware of the "Troodontid" attack on the Aeoneonatrix.

"Members of the council. An nearby empire, called the Aeoneonatrix, has been brutally attacked." the head senator said.

"Normaly, we would help, but now, we have to recover first." another senator said.

"No. This is not only a attack."

"Explain?"

"Other empires are getting attacked as well. It is war."

"A war we have to stop. And we can stop the Khazards with them."

"Indeed."

Khazard Imperial Order
Comunication and ministry of defence Building: 0900 hours Planet Khazardon.

"Sir, I've got several unknowns on the feild sensors. Their coming in fast. They look like ships but not ours!"

The young Khazard monitor turned away from the array of screens and flashing lights toward his superior, a worried look on his face.

"Tell me? How many is several?" said Kaz, an experienced military commander and leader of the Khazard military force.

"Thats the problem sir. Because the ships or what ever they are are so thinly spread and use different signals the machine loses accuracy!" said the monitor.

"Thats not a number! I need facts to run this opperation!"

Kaz gased out across the room at the rows of faces. In them he saw concern, but also fury.

"Please." He said in a less harsh tone. "I need the digits."

"The scanners glitch out when the count gets to over a million, sir." said the head monitor.

Now the commander was worried. "Just what is going on here." he muttered under his breath. "Whatever it is it's involving us and its not going to be anyones picnic." He turned and walked away from the comunications room his brow furrowing.

The Antein Empire
A Drakodominatus ship loomed over the smoldering magma pits of Detrome, the Antein homeworld. Commander Mortrig approached the "Ant Hill", and barely fit into the vague opening on the hill. Inside, there were seemingly tons of antein scurrying about the floor, taking this and putting it there, etc. Mortrig is escorted over to the Queen by one of her Servants.

UNXC
Martian colonists and Bisonbeck soldiers amass in the halls along with a dozen other forms of military. The Magistrate looks out his window, scratching his chin with perplexion.

Gaza: ''Lordship, what are you perplexed about? We are on our way to meet with the Drodo council. Little can go wrong at this time.''

Codlar: I beg to differ.

Gaza stood up. He walked over to the Magistrate, looked him up and down, then sighed.

Gaza: ''M'lord, the UNXC Army is all but ready for the oncoming battle. Five million soldiers are being loaded onto our ships. There is little that can possibly go wrong during our expedition.''

Codlar frowned. He didn't agree.

Codlar: ''Yes, there is. What if the Dominion strikes us again? Our fleet wouldn't stand a chance. After they took Delta, we've been blocked off from all of our options. Its very unlikely the troops would survive.''

Gaza: *laughs softly* Your Lordship, the starships we have are incredibly powerful, and the Motherships have lost most of their efficiency.

Codlar: ''They cannot be underestimated, again! That happened twice, and I regret every moment I stood there, doing nothing as millions of our people died every time that damn flagship fired one of it's pulses onto Cazzna Faarelai.''

Gaza thought for a moment, then his face brightened.

Gaza: ''M'lord, what if we pulled out most of the population? All of them except for military outposts. Besides, that would be the only amount we'd need. The civilians would be safe in another galaxy, and we would still have the military we'd need. Two for one, as Gemae would say.

The Magistrate hesitated.

Codlar: Alright, Gaza, we'll do it.

The two of them walked out, preparing to make a difficult yet completely understandable decision that could change the UNXC's history.

=The First Moves=

The Octopus of the Milky Way
The Terpeschoire spy network was a network that was unknown to all except their Dominatus masters. Made of the Terpeschoire, a race of hermaphroditic and physically feeble shapeshifters, the Tyranny had infiltrated most civilizations in the Milky Way with their spies while the host civilizations thought that they were safe. Theses spies had infiltrated the higher echelons of command, commerce, and many things and lay there, silent and dormant, waiting to be activated. Here, there, and everywhere the were, in every element of society, blending in perfectly with the other members of the civilizations, and ready to strike at any given time.

Security Breach
Marius was back at the capital of the Hegemony. Just a few hours ago, he had been battling the Drakdominatus. Though the battle was over, Marius sensed the Tyranny was not as benevolent as they seemed.

"Welcome home commander, glad to see your in one piece" a worker at a nearby space station said.

The ship docked at a nearby orbital platform, not noticing the small ship trailing it.

This was the most prototype of all the dominatus stealth ships, sent on this as a special exercise by the grand admiral.As a combat ship, it was worse than useless . However as a stealthship it was incredible.

It had been a tough battle. Who knew that whoever they were fighting had a 90km ship. "Well, better clear the rubble out of that colony"

The ship that he could not see edged closer to the planet. The completely automated stealthship, continued transmitting data. It had already attached prootype stealth probes onto the ground and on differing hegemony ships

The grand admiral looked from his flagship. "This would be very good for future diplomatic issues"

Marius had a nagging feeling that the tyranny had not left him alone. He gazed out a window on the station and noticed something. A small blurring in the stars "What the hell is that?" The ship noticed one of it's probes was noticed and it instantly put it in coverup mode. To all but the most elite observers it would have appeared like nothing. But Marius, Marius was suspicious.

"Trace wherever that disturbance came from"

The tracing signals were sent. The ship itself was not detected, nor the other probes.

However it did detect a weird signature on one of the Hegemony ships which had entered hyperspace. He knew the mysterious object was there

"Whatever it is, it isn't friendly, trace it to its source and blow it to shreds"

At that, the stealthship entered it's most devilish protocol, the customized one time pad non euclidean encryption It effectively changed every single femtoscale particle on the path from the probe to the ship and gave it the signatures that matched the Drodo. "Sir, it says that's a Drodo ship!" a nearby soldier said

"I don't care if its registered to the DCP, no one has found our homeworld yet, no one is leaving to report it"

"Blow it up!"

The probe entered a protocol and transmitted this to drodo space in the form of an anomaly with an unlogged and lost drodo exploration ship.

"Charge weapons!"

"Fire!" The probe blew up and was deemed wreckage in space

"Hope that was expensive!" The quantum replicators had at last reconfigured the probe to a Drodo design

"The Drodo have a lot of explaning to do" Marius said.

Contacting the Commander
Aranelia descended from his private ship, Transport Vectorn in the hangar Crux system, a star system located within the confines of the Milky Way. The hangar was located on a terraformed asteroid named Xi 4-02, where studies were conducted on the Essence. Xi 4-02 was Edelmut's home since the Federation had come to the Milky Way, where he had been held for several months.

Once in the structure, Aranelia was accompanied by her guards at the deepest level of the residential building, which is supposed to live Edelmut. Once there Aranelia looked the place, a long hallway lit by a silvery little floating spheres of light at the end of it, a door dark cold plasma could not see what the room would Edelmut. Aranelia placed his hand on the fingerprint scanner at the door and announced:

Aranelia- Aranelia Brinal, Great Senator, permission to pass.

A metallic voice clearly said Permission granted, welcome her ladyship, and Aranelia entered into the room. In the center of the room was Edelmut sitting with legs crossed and eyes closed, apparently meditating. When he opened his eyes the room temperature seemed to have dropped several degrees and Aranelia was able to see those eyes silvery white iris with golden lines crossed by the Great Senator then remembered the boy she had known for several years, the same boy that now saw before her.

Edelmut- Aranelia, is an honor that the Great Senator of the United Federation of Species is visiting me in my humble abode ... If I had known I would have settled a bit.

The commander's voice sounded full of indifference and apathy.

Aranelia- Edelmut, time no see you, how you've spent the last few months?

Edelmut- You know as well as I do that you do not mind Aranelia, if I am right, you want my help as commander or fighter, which don't want to do.

Aranelia- Edelmut, you have a role, a duty to do for the Federation

Edelmut- Duty imposed on me for no reason

Aranelia- You were given one of the highest honors possible

Edelmut- Honor that I never wanted

Aranelia- Vankalian is not Edelmut, we need you in front of an imminent war, the Federation needs you, the Senate needs you, I need you...

Edelmut looked Aranelia eyes, looked sad, his eyes showed a total desolation, he sighed.

Edelmut- Okay, I will help, but on one condition, I want to relieve from office at the end of the conflict.

Aranelia- If you want, you will be granted

Edelmut- And another thing, when you find Vankalian, give him a slap for me, he never is here when we need him.

Suspicions
Viran was happy, a emotion she did not often experience.

She has been promoted to Fleet Captain, and got a mission the day after promotion, the mission was to the Frontier, at the edge of Drodo Space. The patrols there reported a alien fleet amassing, something that the Drodo did not take lightly. She made sure to take a good-sized fleet, just in case of hostilities. She entered the spacious bridge of her new Impaler-class cruiser, and sat down in the captain's chair near the front, and smiled.

"Captain, we are at the location." A crewmember reported.

"Alright, come out of Warpspace." Viran ordered

Marius was going to confront the Drodo.

No one had ever violated hegemony territory before. He was not about to let it start on his watch.

"Sire, we have arrived. Admiral Ulrac has brought reinforcments" said a crewman.

"Good, and don't call me sire" he replied.

Ships began to show up nearby, dropping out of Warpspace.

"So, they have shown up" Marius stated.

Viran suddenly snapped to attention, and became as stoic and serious as ever.

"They better have a good answer" Marius declared.

Viran stood up, silently thanking herself for bringing a battlefleet. And ordered;

"Open the comms."

The comms crackled to life as she stated,

"This is Fleet Captain Viran of the Drodo Empire,Why do you have a fleet of starships at our borders?"

Marius paused, and said almost rhetorically,

"Funny thing you should ask that Drodo, we were doing recon in our sector off limits to other Empires, and we found your empire."

Viran raised an eyebrow,

"You did, did you?"

Marius grimaced, and threatened.

"Now you better have a good resaon for violating quarantine, and don't play sarcastic with me"

Viran retained her poker-face, and replied blandly;

"We didn't do anything like that, we barely know about your empire."

"Really, is that why you followed us?" Marius asked.

Viran widened her eyes a little, and answered;

"Even if we did send a exploration ship into this 'quarantine', what did you do to it?"

"We did what we would in any other case, we blew it to shreds" Marius proudly said. Unbeknownst to any of them, a Tyranny Terpeschoire called Silvertounge had planted a reciever on one of the Drodo ships. It was easy to do it as it did not actually breach any security protocols and was disguised as a souveneir.

"You little..." Viran hissed at Marius.

The terpeschoire silently waited for the next part of the plan

"Yes? Do you have something to say?" Marius mocked.

At that, another terpeschoire, disguised as a hegemony marine told Marius;

"Sir, if they were not intending to attack why would they have such a large fleet at our borders?"

Viran sighed;

"Listen, I'm not at the center of Drodo buraucracy, so I don't know everything,But whether we sent a ship into your borders or not, I am certain we can sort this out like civilized people" Viran said.

Marius turned to the terpeschoire;

"Shush soldier, I would do the same thing if a fifty mile battleship jumped at our borders." Marius said.

He turned back to Viran;

"Alright, talk fast." He said.

Viran was starting to lose her patience;

"I mean... with diplomats, in a official meeting..."

She shook her head, she found it obvious that she was talking to a brick wall.

"Alright, how about you turn those ships BACK?" She said with a raised voice.

Silvertounge received permission to execute the next part of the plan, and soon data was transmitted from the probes to the Drodo. Computer screens on board showed the locations of the Hegemony's core worlds.

"Huh?" a Drodo crewman said, and at that a forged war plan made called Operation Subjugator appeared on the boards.

"Something's been downloaded into our database." He said

"SECURITY BREACH" Marius bellowed as he realized it appeared that the Drodo wanted to commit genocide on and colonize the Hegemony.

"Bloody fucking hell..." Viran muttered.

"THEY HAVE MAP INFO" Marius shouted.

Viran started to lose her cool;

"Shut up you moron!" She hollered at Marius

The map grew more and more comprehensive as data was transmitted. Viran cried;

"This was downloaded into our databases right now!"

Plans that were arranged like chess games for the Meta and Zozer capitals among other worlds emerged and to make matters even worse, the forged voice of Drodo high commanders boomed into the comms system;

"All Drodo Forces, commence phase 1".

"Really, the evidence is pretty covincing!" Marius accused.

"What the?" Viran asked rhetorically as she rolled her eyes, as she declared

"This is forged!"

Marius, being unconvinced, growled;

"No more bullshit!" Viran tried to defend herself, saying "It must have been downloaded by someone, or something" however Marius merely said "Oh really?" . The terpeschoires were given authorization for the next phase. "Tell me how long have you been doing this?" . Viran fumed and shouted "Doing what?" . At that, a rather trivial and undefended hegemony trading convoy was attacked by custom made Impaler class ships controlled by the Tyranny. "A month maybe? You seem new to the navy" Marius ranted. "I've been in the navy for about ten years." She stated. Then she continued "Why the hell do you ask?

She ignored the hegemony captain for a moment; and ordered "Find out what's downloading this crap onto our database!" [19:52]  "now!" . Against the will of the Drodo crew members, the speakers of the ship blared on once again, saying "Succesful attack of a Hegemony trading convoy, all other forces, proceed with attack". At which a rather downtrodden Viran said "Ugh..." . "Time has taught me patience, BUT IT HAS REACHED ITS LIMITS". At that it broadcast the destruction of an undefended civillian convoy onto the screens of the ships. "What a way to spend first day as fleet captain..." She said quietly which she soon followed up with "Reinforcments, now!" she said to the comms officer.

"TELL YOUR NAVY, GOVERMENT, AND THAT FLEET CAPTIAN CESTERITY TO SHOVE IT ... YOUR CAREER ENDS TODAY FLEET CAPTIAN" Marius boomed. Meta depressurized in a vacuum and wreckage from the attack blotted the screen. Viran replied "Yeah, I probably will." Marius scramed "BURN!!!!" and with that, the fleet opened fire. "Fire." she said calmly.

The Last Straw
"MAC rounds away sir" a Hegemony crewmember shouted .The terpeschoires reported in, saying "Stage 1 Part A Completed". Fifty Drodo ships, as reinforcements flanked the Hegemony ships,taking them by surprise, Blasting away several Hegemony ships within the first few seconds of entry ."Lets see how they like a little phase missilies!" Marius challenged. Viran ordered "Fire antimatter missiles at there lead ship!" and at that, Several Antimatter missiles flew across space ,each one ready to go off in a 100 megaton explosion. The phase missiles did a short warp jump near the ships, bypassing their shields and hitting the hull.

Viran was thrown to the floor,as Marius ordered"Fire up the apha Ion cannon". One of the missiles hit marius's ship, blowing off its shields, causing Marius to curse and swear. The resulting explosion was utterly and completely brilliant. Marius frantically said, "Recharge shields! We dont have any other 50 mile battleship". Railgun rounds ripped through the hull, as Marius cursed "Bitch! Lets see how she likes autocannon rounds hitting her bridge". Several rounds streaked forward and impacted near the bridge which Viran replied with the statement "All available energy to shields!". Marius moaned "We definitely need to get better shields, all ships, concentrate whatever fire you can on the lead ship". The autocannon rounds where less-then gracefully shurgged off however, Viran widened her eyes. Marius thanked the heavens saying "Thank god the old ships hull plating is thick, now, fire!".

"Out of the line of fire! NOW!" Viran hollered. The ship blasted the side thrusters for a brief moment, and Marius moaned "Dang, a miss, fire on the other nearby ships" and after the projectiles had landed, several other drodo ships exploded however, soon the Drodo ships ripped apart several of the hegemony ships. Marius ordered "Get the doppleganger classes here, they will tear them apart!" at which Viran countered "Get the propulsion jammers online".

The Ethereals charged up there interdiction fields, blocking anything getting in, or out by interstellar drives Marius said "Right prep the boarding crew, Ground commander Ammox, get your marines and super soldiers ready, Board the lead ship and kill the captain". The soldiers jetpacked away from the airlock they had exited out of the ship as they landed on the damaged hll of the lead ship and broke in. However, the Drodo where ready, following standard procedure, they blocked off essential hallways,and placed machine guns. A Hegemony marine said "Grenade, out!" to which Drodo marines unanimously shouted "DOWN!" , at which The Marines ducked for cover. A mini fusion explosion followed the detonation of the grenade.

Several Drodo came up over, and mowed down a few Hegemony troopers, while the Hegemony officers ordered "Get the shot guns, break through!" . A Hegemony officer said "Sir, were having difficulties" to which another replied "Get the sucuide troops out there now!". More Drodo marines along with MGs, came through for reinforcements and started to throw nerve-gas grenades ."That'll learn'em!" one Marine taunted while putting on his gas mask. "Oh, they want to play that game huh, Break out the gas!" . The entire hallway was filled with deadly gas, eating slowly through armor without a reactive coating. Suicide troops ran thorough the fray with their wrist blades out while Drodo marines fell back while still firing, gunning down the troops with ease while the rest closed blast doors and rigged them with explosives and set up more MG positions in other rooms.

One particularly pshchotic looking soldier had a grenade between his teeth while another precided to bite a drodo marine to death. The other marine shot him with his handgun, and cut the other in half with a normally ceremonial sabre before succumbing to the acid and falling lifeless to the ground. Supersoldiers still cut throughout the fray. Amnox ordered "Commander, fire mission danger close!" and a missile detonated agansit the hull sucking hegemony and a drodo into the vacuum. The supersoldier hung on with grim determination and many Drodo Marines held on.

"Get the blenders!" Amnox ordered and to that several combat harvesters attached themselves to the impaler. The massive constructs then started ripping out armor plating to the troops below as Drodo marines tried to shoot up and started to retreat into other rooms.The harvesters grabbed screaming drodo in both vaccum and pressurized rooms and ripped them apart while the mass agony was broadcast through the impalers systems. Hegemony marines using plasma throwers yelled "Burn fucker burn!". When viran looked out her window, a goopy mass of viscera, discarded from the harvester was there to greet her and could only moan "Oh, god..., this is Dominatus technology..." as she he looked away,as even the soldeirs of the hegemony questioned the use of such a weapon, a few hegemony marines even puking inside their helmets at the site of the atrocities.

"Delcious" a suciude tropper said while Viran muttered " Thats it ... Where's my magnum?" . She soon got prepared for battle, waiting patiently in the bridge while Amnox said "Go, Go, Go" and soldiers were almost at the bridge. The tentacles of the harvesters jutted through every doorway ,covered in the blood of drodo marines, making way for the hegemony troopers. Every single one of the bridge crew where heavily armed, The first soldier there was a suicide trooper and Viran shot his torso off, with a single shot. Another suicide troop rushed in saying "I'M GONNA EAT YOUR BABIES" and they where gunned down easily. "You want something done, do it yourself" Ammox said while Viran keeping a neutral expression.

He ran in with a few supersoldiers while she shot one supersoldier's head off. He tossed an incdeiary grenade straight into the middle of the bridge crew soldiers swarming, while Viran dived, and loaded in another six bullets/ [20:25]  into her massive revolver. He looked around for the fleet captian and promptly watched her murder a few more marines She slowly poked over her cover, gun in sabre in hand. She looks over; "Go ahead little Drodo, take the shots. Lets see if your fast enough" as she raised an eyebrow saying "You're planning something..." and she took a few steps back. She pulled back the hammer of her gun, but before she could shoot, he cloaked and she looked all around,as She backed up into a corner.

Ammox started walking forwards. She fired in the general direction of him. He noticed that she missed and kept walking. She looked for distortions in the air and found one. She instinctively shot. It was like getting hit by an asteroid. He fell over and cloaking deactivated. Viran cautiously walked out to the corpse, and looked down.

The End of the Start
Before she could react her magnum was gone. as she said "What?" as Ammox proceeded to crush it. She pulled out a second pistol, and shot his halfed body several times. "'Nice shot' indeed..." Amnox said. As Viran threatened "Heh, gurgle, I will live through this. I will follow you, no matter what. Also, have you noticed how quiet it is?" . As Amnox said "Sure you will.. How the sounds of battle have died down." Viran simply said "Yes, I know." while Amnox quaked "Turn around.".

She widened her eyes and turned around slowly. There stood commander Marius. "Perfect timing to board" he said. She raised her pistol and said "I've got reinforcements coming," ."Dont even try it" he snarled "You better leave." . The ship shook. Viran had a small smile come over her face while Viran triumphantly said "That's a tractor beam. A DRODO, tractor beam.". "Pick up Ammox's halves quickly" She aimed at the marines, that where going to pick up his halves. Marius said "No! Supersoldiers aren't cheap. I am not scared of a captain with a service pistol." And Viran almost sadistically said "That comment cost you a super-soldier." as She shot Ammox in the head.

Marius responded with "Bitch, you just lost your right to live" as the soldier's body went limp. She shot the other marines nearby. Marius charged her, even with the reinforcements of the Drodo closing in. She sidestepped and said"I can be a cruel lady." while Marius sarcastically said "Really? I hadn't figured that.". Viran parried with "You're the ones allied with the Dominatus." and Marius riposted "Hey it was that, or get blown to shred, and we aren't allies". She accused"Oh, really? Then why did they give you battlemechs?" and Marius shrugged saying "They said take em, so we took em.".

She rolled her eyes. Viran said "Right..." as Marius replied "Because if we didn't, we were screwed." .The ship shook violently. It was going through warpspace. and Viran said "I am taking whats left of Ammox for burial once I get out of here." Viran held onto a console for support, continuing "We're headed for a Drodo world. You're a prisoner, now." . Marius countered "That's what you think. I have been in this position before." and as soon as the ship had entered warpspace, it exited.

"You know what happened last time." Marius said ,while Viran said "Don't worry, you will be treated fairly.". Marius accused "Like Ammox, If that's what you're worried about." She looked down, a flow of guilt washed over her and muttered "That was... a, mistake." as Marius answered "Darn right." . She looked back up. Marius stated "Gonna have to pull a lot of strings to get his brain matter saved." as Viran responded "I'm sure you will.". Drodo Marines soon entered through the bridge door and aimed their guns at Marius. Marius taunted "So, did that famous captain of your get out of hyperspace? The one who has a temper." ."Don't worry, he's safe." she told the marines. She turned back.

"Oh, Cesterity? How do you know about him?" as Marius said "He is fairly famous. You know, getting his skin pulled off. And living." She rolled her eyes and commented "I'm sure he is... But no, he's not out of hyperspace yet." . While Marius said "Good." .She bit her lower lip, then looked up and she asked "What do you mean, 'good'?". Marius responded "I don't need to fight someone who managed to survive having their skin pulled off. It gets complicated then." She looked away. This was the first time she even thought of Cesterity in months, maybe years.

"Also, there is not a thing that you can do to me that will make me talk" Marius said. "Yeah, yeah." she said without knowing what he said. And she was discussing it with an alien she had been fighting a few minutes ago. Marius taunted "Well, are you done having your little internal struggle." She glared. Viran heard that loud and clear. She sighed and shook her head and she said "Alright." .

"Now then fleet captain, let me meet your government." Marius said. Viran replied "You'll meet them, don't worry." . Marius taunted "Unless of course they were seized by the mafia in the few hours we have been fighting." and Viran calmly said "You'll be taken in a cruiser to the core worlds, where you will be con-. Will you shut up? How do you know this stuff?" ."It was on the bloody universal message board. Everyone knew."

She looked around and commented "Oh, yeah..." and Marius moaned "Right, convicting time, right?". Viran said "As I was saying, you will be considered a political prisoner, and yes, you will meet our government. Now, marines, take him away." As Marius was led away, he smiled. Viran glared intently.

Marius said "I got Ammox's DNA and memory pattern and got under that captain's skin. Next time, we're bringing in a bigger fleet."

Contact in a time of War
A Hegemony Spaceship under Captain Vassilus just came back from raiding a Drodo Colony when they notice something new. It is the Helios I, the command ship of the Milky Way Expedition of the Troodontid Empire. Both spaceships made ready their shields and weapons before trying to make contact. The Troodontids and the Hegomy first talked about the current situation in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Hegemony warned the Troodontids not to get involved in the war if they don`t want to get destroyed or to fight alongside them. The Troodontids in return tried to convince them to make peace with the Drodo Empire and wanted them to disclose all facts because they had a bad feelling about the Hegemony`s statements. Vassilus threatnd the Helios I and in the end started firig at the spaceships. The powerful plasma shieds of the Troodontid Spaceship held and the Helios I fired back with ion cannons that made the Hegemony spaceship`s shields crumble. The Hegemony made their tried to fire their own ion cannon against the Hlios I tto damage their shields, but before they could fire the Helios I had destroyed the cannon with several torpedos. The unprotected Hegemony Spaceships turned around and - under the fire of the Helios I which managed to damage several of their drives - jumped into hyperspace where the Helios I couldn`t follow it.

The Beginning of Enternal War
The Hegemony fleet was avenging itself for its early military disastersafter taking multiple Drodo worlds. "Finally", Vassilus said, "Some real victories" "Your telling me" ,Ulrac said. Through probes and moles in the spy network the Grand Admiral laughed at the events "So Ulrac, are all the ships refitted with the new weapons and armor" "Almost" "Good, its really turning the tide agansit the Drodo" "Efective counters to there op weapons. The Grand Admiral laughed even more when he saw the almost total reliance on the ground on combat harvesters, while Vassilus said: "Those harvesters are sure darn efective. They were responsible for each success and marines were not used very much as opposed to before" "I know!" "Once we refit our troops, will be unstopable" Meanwhile a secret Dominatus terpeshcoire however had begun selling special emp weapons to the Drodo which could possibly help stem the tide against harvesters, because the Tyranny didn't want the Hegemony to gain too much of an advantage. Instead she wanted it to be a killing ground for all and so the Drodo soon would have antiharvester robots with EMP weapons.

"I still think we shouldt really on walkers that much, we could become reliant on them", said Ulrac meanwhile. However his compaint was squashed by other officers who were too lazy and loved the walkers too much. "I too, I am suspicous" ,Marius stated, "The tyranny got its name for a reason. I wont let us become a client state" Meanwhile the drodo were paying the terpeshoire disguised businessmen very much for the walkers and money was flooding into the coffers of the Tyranny. "So, we start limiting the use of walkers" Marius said, but again the other officers protested against this "We wouldn`t have this Viran bitch to deal with if we used walkers instead of supersoldiers?" "Well, I do agree Virian is a bitch,but I dont trust these walkers, or the people selling them, or the tyranny in general" "Marius, you are crazy , we can worry about the Tyranny after this war. After this let's just use their tech to rip the Drodo apart" "Fine, but were using them in limited numbers, no walker rushesand they'll be supported by our vehicles, our troops, our aircraft" "Only in the operations under your control, our operations will be all of these miracle mechs !" "Miracle mechs? Are you freaking kidding me? But fine, I could care less. Surronded by idoits" Marius muttered.

Then they exited hyperspace into a drodo agriculture world that was responsible for much food production in the sector. "Oh well, torching drodo alwasy helps my mood" This time the Drodo where more prepared there with around four-hundred ships "Oh jeez, Vassilus, Ulrac, your done killing those other Drodo right?" "Yes sir" they replied "Get over here, we have an issue" The Drodo immediatly opened fire, destroying several ships in the first barrage "Well, those are the garbage frigates that went up. Gotta get around to decomissioning them. Open fire!" The Drodo still relentlessly shot down the Hegemony ships, buying time for the colony to be evacuated, along with any others within a large radius. "Let try ou the new hyperlasers" The lasers fired and melted through several drodo ships, opening up the civilian convoy to attack, but still more Hegemony ships where getting battered and more Drodo ships closed the gap, desperatly trying to protect the convoy and slowly fell back with the convoy. "Uggh, just fire a fucking antiship misile, I dont freaking care" "WHY CANT WE JUST HAVE A DECESIVE VICTORY. THE DRODO KEEP PULLING MIRACLLES OUT OF THEIR ASSES" Marius shouted The Drodo ships annilated several crusiers with railgun fire "You know what, ram them" "Sir?" "You heard me, fucking ram em, our ships or way bigger" The Drodo ships viciously fought back, destroying many ships before the Hegemony ships could ram while about 70% of the Civilians where out, as well. "Right, experimental weapon time" The patriot class proceded to rip a whole straight through drodo lines and the Drodo fell back, going into a full-tilt retreat along with any civilian ship. The tyranny spies on board looked at the massive ship simply awed

Meanwhile, not far away a patrol of Troodontid Ships flew through space. Suddenly one of the officers said to his commander: " Commander, there are many Hegemony ships in front of us . What should we do ?" " All cruisers attack what else " The Grand Admiral looked angry as he spectated and said "The Mark 2 Leviathans will destroy this !" The Troodontid Ships joined the battle granting support for the Drodo. "Not these guys again" Vassilus said, "Fuck it, planet bust this place and call it a day" "Full energy on the shields, then they won`t get through them ", the Troodontid Commander ordered.Because of that the Drodo ships started to advance again. Just as the Hegemony thought it couldn't get any worser, the Waptoria alliance appeared and helped the Troodontids."Make a defennsive row around the other ships, so that they can fire withput getting harmed " , orderedb the commandant. And then the Drodos fired everything had: Railguns, antimatter missiles, heavy turbolaser batteries. "WHAT TH FLYING FUCK", moaned the Hegemony officers. The Waptoria intercepted some of these, but that wasn't enough. But immediately, dozens of ships with the emblem of the USF entered the battlefield "WHERE ARE ALL HESE SHIPS COMING FROM", asked Marius. Meanwhile harvasters implanted themselves in some of the ships, brutally but slowly penetrating the hull armor. In order to counter their attacks, the Troodontids send out Android Starfighters. The harvesters clawed their way through the hulls of the non hegemony ships and soon the viscera of corpses could be seen floating in space. But then hundrets of android starfighters started to tear through the harvasters, destroying one after the other. The harvesters were prepared for this however and started using their tentacles to tear the attacking starfighters apart. Altough many starfighters were lost and the harvesters had claimed a fearsome toll among the troodontid ships, many more flew out of the Troodontid Ships aswell as bombers which destroyed the remaining harvasters. Now the organic ships of the Waptoria started to spawn smalls "baby " versions of their ships, hoping to swarm the enemy, but the spawn ships where weak, so they where easily destroyed. While the Hegomy was fighting with the Waptoria Ships, the Troodontids send out Android Destroyers to destroy the Hegemony`s drives and more Drodo ships came as reinforcments. "I though the harvesters would work better", muttered Marius. While the Drodo Ships started battering the Hegemony fleet from the side, the Troodontids fired their the ion cannons in order to weaken their shields and the Waptoria send Shipeaters to destroy the remaining Harvasters.

"ALL UNITS MAKE A RUN FOR IT, SEND OUT THE SUCUIDE SHIPS AND CALL IT A DAY", ordered Marius. Meanwhile Edelmut saw the battlefield and said "Well, you know what to do, fire containment against any ship that attack the Drodo. Other contact Drodo the ships, I want to know what the hell happens" Then a terpeshoire acrivated an unseen weapon on a hegemony ship. It sent out special harvesters into warpspace to intercept the civillians . "WHY DONT OURE ALLYS EVER SHOW UP" groaned Marius, "HEAD FOR THE NEARBY NEBULAE, while regruop there" Now the structure of the Waptoria ships changed, they were now slow, but hard to destroy. The civillian ship who were thought safe started getting wrecked by combat harvesters and i the end the civillian convoy was completely and utterly wrecked.

Drodo ships responded to the attacks on the civilians, trying to take out the harvesters and eventually resorting to boarding as many as possible to take them out "I swear to go, I will literally wreck the fuck out of those guys one day" Marius growled. The Drodo watched in horror as in order to destroy the harvesters they had to destroy their ships. Edelmut watched civilian ships and shouted with all his fury "Savages! Attacking civilians! Fire!, demolish these ships and some contact Drodo!" The combat harvesters completely and utterly ruined the the food supplies and humanitarian aid on ships. The Drodo captain sighed and ordered,"Destroy any effected ships. There's nothing we can do." And although the harvesters were soon all destroyed they had wrecked incredible damage on the convoy everyone had worked so hard to protect. Viran could hear the screams of children in warpspace, " Mommy, whats happening!" USF's ships fired their railguns and tons of projectiles struck the Hegemony ships.

The Grand Admiral thought this was getting too one sided and ordered the Imperium of War to enter on the side of the Hegemony. Imperator Augustus, the leader of the Imperium, roared. "Who are these guys" Marius said, right before Augustus' flagship, "The Imperial", fired anti-matter missiles against the allies of the Drodos. Augustus answered "We are the Imperium of War. Our goal is to create endless war, and for that, we will help you." "Thank christ, an ally, finally, i been four on one this whole fight", said Marius. "Nice motives, dumbass." A Drodo Captain said over the newcommers"Take these clowns out." "SHUT UP DRODO" Marius shouted. "Nah" "AH, are reinforcments arrive" "Your the ones attacking innocent civilians outside of battle zone" Augustus ended the connversation by screaming, "DIE! YOU STUPID PIECE OF FLESH!" More ships warped next to to the patriot class dreadnought and Marius ordered: "Regroup and attack" Augustus showed his insane side, but the Troodontids said before he could say anything, "Stop cursing, it is annoying us". The forces of the Federation looked at this new enemy, and through the sixth sense Edelmut knew something was wrong. More Drodo ships arrived, they where determined to hold back the enemy "All Starfighters: Return to your ships. Full energy on shields, make ready for impacts ", ordered the Troodontid commander.

Augustus said, "Hmpf. Less talking, more fighting." "Right, all ships fire at will"" We will use our shields to protect you, you take out the enemys OK ?" , said the Troodontid Commander and more and more Drodo battleships poured in while the massive ships of the Imperium rammed the enemy's ships. "Right.", said the Drodos and the Drodo starships came up from behind and deactivated there engines when they rammed. Meanwhile ordered Edelmut, "All the ships: attack the Imperium crafts, address one of the ships and the object of obtaining all possible information" Meanwhile roared Augustus, "You will never be able to defeat us. For war enternal!" Then his ships get between the Drodos battle lines and Marius said: "All units, prepare for boarding actions, Ground Commander Ammox, you are in command" The Ships took a lot of damage, but continued to fire none the less. "Send the Borading troops out ", said the Troodontid Commander " Welcome, Imperium , between our ships , and now : die !" The spaceship shook and Marius asked: "Ammox, what happened ?" "Thrusters are fried!" he shouted."Ammox, we can`t reach you right know" "Thats fine, Ill just pillage some houses" "You need backup. Send in supersoldiers and sucuide troops"

Meranwhile the Boarding androids landed on the Imperium`s cruisers. The Epics in them were though, but they couldn`t takre out the endless stream of battle android. One after the other fell in the Andriod`s fire. The Androids solwly fought their way to the Imperium`s Ships bridge although they were attacked by berserkers. They were tough and managed to destroy many of the androids, but more were following. "That's it, there getting there asses kicked, send in space marines!" The Drodo commander ordered. While the Federal forces were sufficient data from enemy ships many dozens of pods flew across space and landed on the surface of the imperial ships. Space Matines marched out in armoured spacesuits and armed with powerful gauss rifles. Augustus asked for backup from the Hegemony and ordered,"Send in Chaos space Marines! My son, lead them!" Backup arrived and began to help the Imperium: "Forward supersoldiers, death or victory!" One after the other was shot and died, and the Androids reached the bridge of one spaceship. They placed explosives on the bridge and were teleported out of the spaceship right before the bridge exploded. Then getting faster with every second the spaceships was pulled towards the planet and in the end crushed into the planet`s surface. Meanwhile the boarding continued on the other ships. "Imperium soldiers, we are here to help you" the soldiers said, while the Drodo troops ran over the hull of the starships. Fernior, Augustus son, arrived and tried to burn the Drodo "We have got your back" But they took advanced tactics and took cover"At the same time Edelmut read the data his expression turned into a sneer. On the flagship one marksman shot at Fernior's head blowing a hole into his helmet. Fernoir roared "It's not over yet! "Hey drodo" one sucuide trooper screamed " lets see how smug you are with a pound of explosive shoved down your throat" The insane soldiers ran forward, blades out, explosives readyand were gunned down. The Drodo soldier managed to jump away just in time.

The Troodontid Ships concentrated their fire on always one Hegemony ship, and slowly destroyed one after the other. "Break there shields", Marius ordered "I dont care how you do it, make them feel the very oxygen get torn out of their lungs" "Shields? We don't need those. Our armor is strong enough." , said Augustus scornfully. Meanwhile Edelmut ordered "Send a message to Drodo, to evacuate the area and prepare the cannon hypermatter" Meanwhile, Augustus' flaship was repaired "No, we'll stay back!" The space marine captain said "All other ships, get the hell outta here!" Supersoldier procedde to rip soldier apart with their bare hands in close quarters. Two other space marines gunned down the supersoldier and proceeded to shoot down several other troopers. The Waptoria reapeared driving back the Imperium and Augustus screamed "Not you guys again!" Meanwhile the Troodontid commandant ordered, "Help the Waptoria, destroy those Imperial Ships " While the most powerful weapon of Edelmut prepared to destroy the enemy's troops were located around the USF,the general contacted the Federation, so he send a message to his senate: "Edelmut to the Senate, we return to the base" Now the firepower of the Troodontids concentrated on the Imperial Ships , like the Hegemy`s one fell after the other. The Drodo focused their attention on the Hegemony`s ships. Waptoria captain said:"Aye, bro! It's joy against rage" "Can't leave yet! USF captain! Fire that cannon first!" The Waptoria lauched their shipeaters who slowly teared trough the armour of the Imerium's ships. With that most of the Imperium's`s ships were now destroyed. "No! It can't be! We have never lost any battle!" , roared Augustus. Most ships had been destroyed by now, all fleet had lost many ships except the Troodontid one, which had been able to retire before they were destroyed. "There is always a first time, fool ", the Troodntid commander shouted. "Get used to it! Dumbarse!" The Drodo Commander said spitfully.

Augustus was now very enraged and ordered more Berserkers and Spartans ,but the Imperium of War wasn`t able to send out more troops in this battle, so Augustus got insane and killed the messanger who brought that news. Nebertheless Edelmut warned the Drodo: "This is worse than you think, Drodo, retire and regroup, worse things come ..." "Can't do that, we have to hold'em off! I'm not losign an inch to these bastards!" But the Troodontid Commander reassured the Drodo Commander "Leave that to me and my ships, you regroup and then help me " So the Commander sighed and thought it over "Right. All ships, fall back and regroup. Our allies can hold them."" At the same time Edelmut push the button and the hypermatter cannon shot. Berserkers roared, and attacked the Drodo. A Dragowar saw the mistake in time and wanted them to attack the Troodontids instead , but they didn`t listen to him. Then everything was white and the Federation fleet retreated to neutral ground. Augustus roared in total insanity:" AARGHHH! NOOO! One last charge! For war enternal!" "Now concentrate our fire on their flag ship. Without it, they will be headless ", ordered the Troodontid Commander. All the remaining ships fired and rammed the Imperium's enemies, while exploding.

The Imperium's attack was powerful, but neverhelss no Troodontid Ship was lost. The Waptoria werent that lucky:"Damn. Only the flagship remains, but most of our fleet is dead too!" Nevertheless both Waptoria and Troodontids gonna fired, but because of the powerful hull the flagship took damage, but continued to attack. Then The Troodontid Commander had an idea: "Fire at their drives " Now everyone fires all they got and one drive after the other exploded. The ship wasn`t destroyed by that, but it could neither flee nor move. Because of that all Troodontid Ships with damaged shields retired, but most remained with full shields. Then they started to take out the enemy`s weapons one after the other. But then, the flagship suddenly exploded, because Augustus self-destruycted his own flagship. Meanwhile Augustus escaped back to Dominatus territory. One of the retreating Troodontid Cruisers was destroyed, but all Troodontids were transported onto the remaining ships.

Augustus roared,"I will get you back, Trodoonid. I will get you back! MY REVENGE WILL BE TERRIBLE!""

A Second Time
Augustus looked it the Imperial feet. They now had armor, and were more than a match for anyone of their tier. Augustus said:"Now I WILL have my revenge!" The fleet moved to a lone Troodontid colony, and attacked without warning. The Empires fleet moved towards a lesser important mining colony, but nevertheless they send out several ships to defend the planet. The ships were huge, but after the first shock the defendors had formated a blockade with maximal power on their shields.

Anger Class fighters moved in. They were smaller than the rest, but still deadly. Among them were the backs, but huge Rage Class warship. The Imperial ships fired, but their weapons meant hardly any harmto the Troodontid Shields. The even larger Fury-Class Missle Cruisers moved in, and engaged the fleet. The Troodontid's ships where already engaged in battle, so they couldn`t do anything when some of the Anger- and Rage-Class Ships suddenly descended towards the planet. The Drone Defences managed to destroy them, but they had already released legionnaires on the planet. Augustus roared in amusment:"Our fleet is known as the Fleet of Destruction, but our army is the Legion of Conquest!"

The Androids were teleported to the surface near the approaching Imperial Army. The Legionaires charged towards the androids, and trieed to fight them with melee, but the androids started firing instantly driving some legionaires back, but most continued to charge. When the first rows of the androids, the front rows took their melee weapons and started to fight against them. Meanwhile the Hailfire Androids send missiles into their enemy`s army. Nevertheless the Legionaires still managed to hold them off, due to theirThe mine was lost, so the android were transported up to the spaceships. Augustus and Laspor retreated, but ordered their ships to self-destruct when they got away. The Troodontid Ships fired at the retreating ships until they suddenly exploded. This time, the explosion was really heavy and all Troodontid Ships would have been destroyed if they wouldn`t have their shields. The Imperium didn`t know about that and thought they had managed to destroy the spaceships, so they thought they had their revenge. Meanwhile the Troodontids started to transport the remains of the destroyed spaceships into their cargo holds in order to analyze the ships technologies to create more effective weapons against them.

A Deadly Game
Imperium of War against DTOM, and their try to make them Hegemony allies.

Lost Relatives
Somewhere in Milky Way a Helios Class Ship and a Prometheus Class Ship approach a slave transport of the Imperium of War. "We are approaching several Imperial Ships, Sir , shall we attack ?""Yes , instantly when we can reach them" Meanwhile one the flagship of the Imperial transport:" Troodontid fools sighted, centurion!""ATTACK!" But when the Troodontids noticed that they weren`t able to sneak upon the Impewrial Ships, they activated ther shields and the Imperial missiles weren`rt able to get to their ships.

"Fire the ion cannons to deactivate their weapons", ordered the roodontid commander, but the Imperial centurion answered: "Fools! Our weapons can never be disabled." So instead the Troodontid Ships concentrated their fire on the enemys ion cannons and blew them up in the end. But when they fired their own ones they noticed that the weapons really resistated them. Because of that now started firing with missiles and laser cannons. The Imperium responded with missles and bombs but could not get past the shields. "Send out the bombers and starfighters", the Troodontid commander ordered. The Imperial centurion said "Danm, we don't have Hate class bombers here! But we are not cowards. The Troodontids will never free out slaves." When hearing about the slaves, the Troodontid Commander ordered: "Send out the boarding androids and capture the Imperial ships""Never! Protect we will them at all costs!"

The Imperium shot several Android Boarding Ships, but many others reached the cargo ships and burried themselves into the ships. But once upon the cargo ship, the walls deformed, blocking the androids' path. The Troodontid now send missiles against the Imperial ship`s drives so they can't move but they still continued to fire. Nevertheless the Troodontid Shields took it. The androids had noww reached the biggest battle ship as well and started to take it over. This time they weren`t hindered by walls. The other two battle ships wee soon destroyed by the fire of the Troodontid Cruisers.

The Androids now had almost completly taken over the ship but Dragowar had placed hidden explosives.The androids finally killed off all the Dragowar and suddenly noticed the explosives. The dying Imperial centurion roared:"You will never take our ships" and died. The andrids just had time to bring them to the missile room where they put it into a torpedo and send it out to space before the explosives exploded and damaged the Imperial Ship. Right after that, on the slave ship, the walls moved back to it's original positions and the Troodontid`s androids took over the ship as well, freeing the slaves. They cut off contact so that the Imperium didn't knew of this loss and brought the slaves onto the Poseidon class in order to return them to their homeworld. But one of the slaves recognised the Troodontid. The slave looked at the Troodontid captain and said:"You...take us to Raptura.""Why ?""We are Archeodon. Your relatives. We evolved on the same home world as you. But we were taken away before you became powerful. And sold as slaves... Anyways, we wish to join you.""That can`t be, or could it ? But we will bring you to Raptura nevertheless , there we can discuss. We would definitly be very pleased by that" Now the two Troodontid Spaceships and the two captured Imperial Ships were brought to Raptura.

Bureaucratic Problems
Back at the space station Destiny, Senate seat after Conflict Mineral events, Edelmut was ordered at the general meeting of the Senate, meeting in which each and every one of the ministers, senators and members notables important the army had to be present. Edelmut atravezó the door that led into position in the assembly and beheld a somewhat gloomy picture, hundreds if not thousands of senators looked dark expressions, some fangs were sticking out of their mouths, others noticed much suffering from nervousness.

Giomus Senator: Commandant Edelmut, please sit down, we have things ... relevant to tell you.

Uzcar Senator: Yes commandant, but would prefer to place the artifact that is in front of you on the head.

Edelmut sat on one of the seats of the amphitheater giant ball in front of him appeared a small instrument, like a crown, with a piece of glass in front.

Uzcar Senator: Do you recognize the object, right? Extrasensory Blocker ... I think you designed it.

Edelmut: Yes .. and if I'm not mistaken, you plan to interrogate me ... if not, why block me my extrasensory powers?

Kalixtus Senator: We just want to ask some questions ...

Edelmut sought the Aranelia's face to give him an explanation, but not found her, she should be there, but did not grasp his prescence, the commander decided resign to use the device and submit to the Senate, and placed on his head the Extrasensory Blocker.

Edelmut: Okay, what am I charged with?

Chibar Senator: Are you Edelmut Ren, Commander of the ISS?

Edelmut: * sighs * Yes, I am

Chibar Senator: Were you in charge of the defense system during the battle Drodo last week?

Edelmut: Yes, I was, under the orders of the Senate

Chibar Senator: Did you order a run during the battle?

Edelmut: Yes, I did

Chibar Senator: When you perform this action, you had the permission of the Senate?

Edelmut: No, but according to the law number 1564584, a commander has the right to make a withdrawal of those proportions if they see fit

Senator Chibar: Very true, but what was, at its election, lost the battle?

Edelmut: No indeed, but the situation that bothered me was not the battle

Chibar Senator: Is that situation, do you think, would allow the use of a hypermatter cannon?

Edelmut: Yes, the use of the cannon was absolutely necessary

Chibar Senator: You can tell that's what bothered both currently

Edelmut: I am quite sure that the attack of the empire known as Imperium of War, was released under Drakodominatus orders.

Loose Ends
An awful silence covered the Senate, Edelmut knew immediately that he was walking on thin ice, the slightest mistake would cause the Senate lost confidence in him. Still, the Federation should know the truth, if Drakodominatus were mixed up in this, the galaxy hanging in the balance.

Giomus Senator: Are you sure, Edelmut? He is making a very serious statement.

Edelmut: Completely, computers were plagued Imperuim of War data and messages of the Drakodominatus.

Uzcar Senator: I doubt that's possible, is an empire Drakodominatus dangerous, even evil, but not be able to try to undermine the Milky Way, so no.

Kalixtus Senator: I agree, the Drakodominatus know perfectly that the Milky Way is home to powerful nations would be unwilling to fall so easily to them.

Senator Chibar: Still do not doubt that they should possess the territory Drakodominatus in the Milky Way, a base in the Norma arm would be a good foothold to attack other powerful empires.

Edelmut: I know what I say, this is a subtle but obvious declaration of war

Giomus Senator: We should not act until more evidence, if we attempt against Drakodominatus we must be sure we do

Edelmut: Then it will be late!

Chibar Senator: I still do not understand is how they plan to attack Drakodominatus the Milky Way, are disadvantaged

Edelmut: I think I have a theory ...

Kalixtus Senator: We hear

Edelmut: I think they plan to make us fight among ourselves, now that the DCP is busy defending the Hyperspace, so you can attack with all they have

Chibar Senator: It is a frightening but effective strategy, still need some kind of intelligence network that will help them keep distracted enemy nations and far from the truth.

Edelmut: I do not know ... seems unlikely

Chibar Senator: That you will be here talking about this is a good demonstration that there is nothing like that at USF

Edelmut: Good point, but what I ask the Senate is holding a conference with allies and enenmigos federation to alert them of the situation

Giomus Senator: We understand your concern, but that is not possible

Senator Chibar: Remember that you are a commander and this is war.

Edelmut: But ...

Giomus Senator: Stop! The Senate must vote, we will call you when we have finished

Several hours later, Edelmut was embarking on a new flagship Victory, and in his cabin door opened and a short stature Uzcar entered.

Uzcar: Commander, here captain Durch for serve you.

Edelmut: Does the Senate sends it to you?

Uzcar: Yes Sir

Edelmut: Great ...

Uzcar: Is something wrong sir?

Edelmut: Nothing, no matter

Uzcar: I recognize that look of sadness, something worries you

Edelmut: I think the Federation is infiltrated by Drakodominatus

Uzcar: Lord, we must be able to trust us or everything is finished

Edelmut: Yes, you're right, you can retire

Outside, the Uzcar sent a message to their masters Drakodominatus.

Uzcar: We must hurry plans are already tying up loose ends...

War Conference
[Edelmut brings together key Drodo allies generals to explain his feeling of a Drakodominatus infiltration]

Dominion Rises
Two Helios Class Ships approached the black hole. It had to be a wormhole. Hopefully it would lead directly in Hegemony or Imperial Territory. Two unknown ships were approaching the Troodontid ships from the black hole.

Troodontid Captain - Unknown ships, activate shields.

When close enough one of the unknown ships hailed the Troodontids, so they answered.

Troodontid Captain - We are the Troodontids. We are pleased to meet you, but who are you?

It was quiet for some time, but then the Troodontids heard a painful shrieking. Visual channels were also opened.

Troodontid Captain - What was that?

Dominion Commander - You have heard the song of the Gods.

Troodontid Captain - The what?!

Dominion Commander - Open your minds, our captain wants to speak to you.

Troodontid Captain - We won't allow anybody to speak in our minds. Let him talk to us through you.

A tall humanoid stood up in the unknown ship's bridge. Troodontids could hear someone speaking in their minds.

Troodontid Captain - Leave.

Dominion Captain - It was our song, the Song of Thérenians. We are not able to communicate any other way.

Troodontid Captain - What now, gods or Thérenian?

Dominion Captain - We are their gods.

Troodontid Captain - You claim yourself to be a god?

Dominion Captain - We uplifted them, gave them weapons to destroy their enemies.

Troodontid Captain - You are no gods even if you do so!

Dominion Captain - Title of a god is something that they gave to us, we did not make them believe so.

Troodontid Captain - Why don't you make them clear that you are no gods?

Dominion Captain - Everyone is allowed to worship whoever they want. You if anyone should know this. We have watched your species evolve, Troodontid and we have seen how you executed this.

Troodontid Captain - But why don't you allow them to know the truth? Why don't you allow them not to be your slaves?

Dominion Captain - Slaves? Cri'loar are not slaves. They are a proud member of the Thérenian Dominion! Tell me would a slave become an Empress?

Troodontid Captain - Anyone who believes in a false god is a slave.

Dominion Captain - We did try to tell them that we are not gods a century ago. They did not listen. And what is false to you is holy to some.

Troodontid Captain - Maybe you should try again?

Dominion Captain - We have. Yet again we have failed. We don't have a god complex like some.

Troodontid Captain - Are you sure about that? We - Troodontids - believe in no gods, maybe we don't understand it. But how can a species believe in something as a god that is not even immortal.

Dominion Captain - We saved them from technological stagnation. And we don't see ourselves as gods, they do. Nor do we believe in gods.

Troodontid Captain - Maybe you are right.

Dominion Captain - You said before that you wanted me to leave your mind. Ironic, as we are here to ask you to leave our territory.

Troodontid Captain - Really ironic. Before we leave, we want to ask you where this wormhole leads.

Dominion Captain - Milky Way. Our Grand Admiral is on his way to bring Dominion there.

Troodontid Captain - Where exactly?

Dominion Captain - Eagula Nebula.

Troodontid Captain - No, to whose territory does it lead?

Dominion Captain - We are unsure. But our scouts report battles near between two empires. One of which I think was called Hegemony.

Troodontid Captain - Then we wanted to ask if you please would give us free passage through that wormhole. Since you said you watched us - what every empire we meet seems to say - you should know that we are in war with the Hegemony.

Dominion Captain - Invalid reason. The wormhole is under Dominion rule. Only those with clearance from the Empress herself are allowed to enter.

Troodontid Captain - And how do we get this.

Dominion Captain - You can't. Only Dominion captains can get the clearance. You are not Dominion, yet.

Troodontid Captain - And will never be. But there is always another way. Is there anything you need. Ships, metals, food?

Dominion Captain - Only one thing. Your death!

On that the Dominion ships attacked the Troodontid, but their weapons were taken by the Troodontid shields easily. On the bridge of a Azrael-class ship the Dominion captain watched the situation.

Troodontid Captain - Return the fire.

Dominion Captain - Shields are no match for us. Fire the weapon!

Azrael-class fired a shield disabler at one Troodontid ship, but this was taken as well because it only worked on normal shields, not the special technology of the Troodontids.

Dominion Captain - Hmm... If breaking them doesn't work, then we will outlive them.

The Troodontids fired ion cannons in order to disable their opponents' shields.

Dominion Captain - Using our own weaponry against us. Smart, but not useful.

Azrael-class got its shields quickly back online but the smaller Praetor-class was not able regain shields. The Troodontid ships now concentrated their fire on the Praetor-class. Lasers, plasma balls and missiles continuously hit the ship. The Praetor-class exploded in a blast of energy, while Azrael-class continued to develop new tactics to take down the Helios-classes. Meanwhile one Troodontid Ship shot with ion cannons to temporarily deactivate the shields, while the other fired all its weapons while the shields were down. Azrael-class began to go towards one of the ships at ramming speed. Right before hitting the ship Azrael-class regained its shields and began to fire plasma torpedoes at both of the ships, trying to cause plasma fires but were taken by the shields. Seeing as the plasma torpedoes didn't work against the ships Azrael-class began to fire quantum torpedoes.

The plasma torpedoes had let the shield get stronger and made it glow. And had set it back to its beginning heating level of zero. The quantum torpedo in return had heated the shields more than any weapon before. Azrael-class continued to fire at the ships with quantum torpedoes, but this time the ships were prepared and managed to escape the torpedoes. Azrael-class used tractor beam to pull one of the ships closer and then fired quantum torpedoes at it. The shields were now heated even more. meanwhile the other Helios Ship came from behind and fired ion cannons directly at the drives, deactivating them. Although the Azrael-class was now trapped, it still managed to cause hull damage to the ship that it had on tractor beam. The shields were now down, the nearly impossible had happened. The other Helios-class instead managed to get that close to the Azrael-class that it was inside the shields. Azrael-class fired one last torpedo at the nearly destroyed ship, causing it to explode. Before the ship exploded the Troodontids were transported on to the other ship. The other Helios class sent out the android bombers to take care of the weapons while it targeted the command bridge. Azrael-class's captain realizing that the other Helios-class was going to destroy it began to retreat from the battle. Azrael-class was still slow as it hadn't still regained full power to its drives and the Troodontid Ship was still blocking the shields and managed to get itself in a good position for firing torpedoes and then it fired and caused the command bridge to explode. Rest of the ship soon exploded with it. With the Dominion ships defeated the Troodontids now returned to Raptura to tell the others about the possibility of repairing the shields with plasma during battle.

The Beastmaster Training
The Waptoria fleet appeared above Raptura. Some were damaged from the latest attack of the Imperium.

Troodontid: Welcome. Your ships seam damaged. Shall we repair them for you ?

Raptoranean: Yes please. We just helped another civilisation from becoming Imperium slaves. You will be glad to hear they are on our side now.

Troodontid: Very nice thing, send your damaged ships down here, we `ll see what we can do.

Raptoranean: I hope you have experience with organic spaceships?

Troodontid: They can`t be much different from other ships, and we are quite good with spaceships you know. But the region you come from is quizte far from here ? Why do you come to us, if you aren`t sure that we can repair your ships ?

Raptoranean: We have some colonies near Nedraida territory. But if we went to there, we might be assimilated. Also, we have come to train a special class off Archaeodon.

Troodontid: Nice, in which way special?

Raptoranean: Essence. Have you heard about that?

Troodontid Scientist: Something like ions and protones, right?

Raptoranean: No. Wait, we will send our special forces, the Life Guardians, down. They will show you.

Troodontid: Sure, go ahead.

The Life Guardians, a unit of nine warriors, each from a different species, beamed down. They focussed, and controlled an element of their own. Skozzir controlled fire, Ocanu water, Jitarkeze ice, Acido posion, Arazha air, Gakeon lightning, Oredur steel, Kotuga ground/earth, and Pl'ree plants.

Troodontid Scientist: Nice and impressive.

Pl'ree walked forward.

Pl'ree: We are here to train some of you.

Troodontid: Sounds great, but how do you now who to train?

Pl'ree: Archaeodon. We feel their inner energy. They have a lot of it.

Troodontid: Ok, sounds good. We will ive you some voluntaries soon.

Some minutes later ten Archeodons, five Treeclimbers and five Predatron get to the Waptoria

Pl'ree: Archaeodon. Choose one predatron and one treeclimer. Befriend it. Feel it's state of mind. Become one in mind. Now you are 3 beings with one united mind. You can become 3 different beings in mind again when you wish. But of course, you want to know the advantages of this?

Troodontid: Yes.

Pl'ree: Well, you see what the animals see. You smell what they smell. Your senses are enhanced. But of course Snipers and Ninja's have those abilities, too. However, these Beastmasters can also control nature, like me. They have the Summon flock ability and can send insects to bite their targets, like Archaeodon shamans of the old.

Troodontid: Very nice.

Pl'ree: We can only stay here for a short amount of time. We have to help our Volver allies in defeating the Nebulorains. Oredur, Acido and Gakeon will stay here until we need them. So they can train the Beastmasters until their training is complete.

Archaeodon beastmaster: Thank you very much.

In that moment a Troodontid comes and tells that the ships are repaired. The Waptoria members board it.

Pl'ree: Until soon, brothers.

Acido: Spode protects you during you battles, brothers. Good luck in defending the Volver.

The ships then left to Volver territory.

Malicious Ones
A Kraken-class was approaching Théras, the homeworld of Thérenian Dominion. When close enough to the planet it hailed the flagship of the planet's blockade.

Kraken AI - We are the Drakodominatus Tyranny. We wish to speak to your leader.

Dominion Admiral - We can arrange a meeting between our Empress and whoever is in command of your ship.

Kraken AI - Where will the meeting take place?

Dominion Admiral - On the surface. We will give you the exact coordinates.

Kraken AI - Waiting for coordinates.

Dominion Admiral - Coordinates sent, you are allowed to beam down to the planet.

Not finished

Assault on Raptura
Lingur: Hello, Raptura, This is Lingur, captain of the Vengeance, the chief ship of the Aeoneonatrix fleet, you have destroyed our clients, prepare to die!

Troodontid: We didn`t, and please be as nice as to leave our orbit. Thank you.

Lingur: We saw one of your ships, it had taken fire from their city's defense turrets, it was clearly you, prepare to die.

Troodontid: Do you really think one of our ships could be destroyed by a turret? We will not attack if you instantly leave.

Meanwhile a message was sent to all Troodontid Spaceships in Cyrannus to return to the Solaris system

Lingur: We saw it with our own eyes, you attacked our Clients. We don't tolerate that. Goodbye.

Troodontid: So be it. Activate Shields; Make the mushrooms and drones ready.

Lingur: Hounds, FIRE!

Lingur: Predators, begin destroying cities.

Troodontid: We don`t want to fight you, so leave before we have to.

Lingur: We will not leave.

Troodontid: Then we have no choice. Main Fleet: attack.

Lingur: YOU WILL PAY FOR THE BLOOD YOU SPILLED!!!

The Troodontids didn’t answer, instead they started firing at the enemy`s fleet.

The Aeoneonatrix returned fire, and predators began bombing Raptura’s shields, but the shields held with ease.

The Troodontids started to fire their missiles which simply flew through the enemy`s shields.

Plasma missiles were loaded into The Aeoneonatrix Hounds, and they fired. Meanwhile the predators continued dropping bombs on Raptura’s planet's shield. The Troodontids started to laugh when the missiles hit their shields. The shields were instantly repaired and started glowing from the extra plasma. The attackers really tried to break through, without success. And now all mushrooms were ready. The first Aeononatrix ships were already trapped

Lingur: Hounds, continue firing.

Again the shields got stronger through the plasma missiles

Troodontid: I think it’s time for counterattack. Send out the starfighters

The Shepherds and Hounds drove off the Starfighters and the predators continued working away at that planet's shields. Meanwhile the Troodontid ship slowly shot themselves through the enemy`s rows.

Troodontid: Send out the boarding teams, capture some of their ships, they might be weak, but could become useful in future.

Lingur: Come now, just when you have the advantage, you go and face our Defenders?

Lingur: Also, Hounds, start experimenting, try anything against them.

Troodontid: We are no warriors, we see no advantage in playing war-games, we weren`t the ones to declare war on you!

After some experimentation, the Hounds found that quantum torpedoes were effective against troodontid ships

Lingur: Fire Quantum torpedoes.

Lingur: Predators, move to a nearby colony, find one without a shield.

Although quantum torpedoes were effective, they weren`t as effective as they were in the battle against the Dominion, because the Troodontids now had started to fire at their own ships with plasma weapons

Troodontid: Do you really think one of our ships could have been destroyed by a turret? You were deceived!

Lingur: If it was fake, it was a perfect replication, which, by your argument, a turret shouldn't have destroyed either.

Troodontid: That would have been only possible if another empire who knows our technology did this. And there is none. ... Wait, the Drakodomintus Tyranny. The Harvesters. Now everything makes sense

Lingur: What are you blathering about?

Troodontid: "Do not distrub me. You were deceived, we all were deceived by the Drakodominatus. There`s no other way. They created this war. But for what purpose?"

Troodontid: “Please stop firing, we have to think, and to calculate some things "

Lingur: Why should I trust you enough to back off?

Lingur: How about YOU cease fire first, if you do, we will

Troodontid: "We won`t do. But what purpose could the Dominatus have? *muttering*?

Seeing that the Troodontids had ceased fire, Lingur ordered his fleet to do the same right as the predators returned, having discovered no shieldless planet

Troodontid: Drodo against Hegemony ? Both are equal, with allies they could destroy each Other ... Or cause an endless war, with everything lost ... Everything lost, means a power vacuum! That is the solution. The Dominatus want to get in charge of the Milky Way ! But why lure the Aeoneonatrix into opposing us? Out numbering; our only weak spot! We are the ones they seem to fear most of us all. We have the key to the power to destroy them. We know their weaknesses, because they are ours. We instantly have to warn all others before it is too late.

Troodontid: Aeoneonatrix, we now know. We instantly have to lay down this fight. There are much bigger ones coming towards us, we will all need our united strength to survive that

Callanni, who had reached the same conclusion as the Troodontids, advised Lingur to agree, and he reluctantly did. The Aeoneonatrix army retired while the Troodontids made their ships ready to get to Milky Way.

The Aeoneonatrix Betrayed
A massive imperium fleet descended towards the Aeoneonatrix homeworld. They were armed. This was usual however, so the Aeoneonatrix didn't care.

Pausac: Imperium fleet, state your business

Laspor: I greet you in the name of my father, Augustus, and the whole Imperium. We are going on a state resort, to improve our relations. Are we allowed to land?

Pausac: Permission to land, granted.

Laspor and Imperial Royal guards beamed down and marched towards the Capitol city. They were greeted by the Aeoneonatrix president.

President Meog: Hello Laspor, welcome to our beautiful planet, please do come into the city hall and let you say what you need to say

Laspor hands over a document

As they marched together toward city hall, Meog read the document

Meog: What's this? Slaves?

Laspor: We demand total obligation to our requests. Bow to your masters. You are our slaves now.

Meog: We have no intention of yielding to such requests, you will have to take us by force.

Laspor: Then die!

Meog: Imperium attack imminent, Pausac, begin...

Laspor impales the Aeoneonatrix president

Buzzers go off, and Pausac's voice came on a loudspeaker giving evacuation orders. The Population of the Aeoneonatrix Capitol begin running for the city gates, but it is already too late. Imperial Legionaires beam down and start to chase the helpless civilians. Anyone who fights back is mercilessy killed by Berserkers. It’s total chaos.

As Pausac escapes through an underground passage, Aeoneonatrix soldiers began to attempt to aid in the evacuation proceedings, but it’s useless, as they are no match for the imperium's troops.

The dragowar, because they are epics, cannot enter the passage. Instead, they send missiles trough the passage, but Pausac has enough of a head start to escape the tunnel just in time, finding himself outside the city. He saw the beautiful jungles of the Aeoneonatrix home-world being destroyed.

Back in the city, Several Defenders are called in to assist, though they use their combat prowess to deal losses to the Imperium, they were not enough to prevent the city's enslavement.

The Imperial fleet bombarded the planet from the sky. They were seemingly helped by (fake) Hegemony ships (send by the Dominatus.)

The First continent had been conquered.

As this occurred, The Vengeance returned from its attack on Raptura.

Laspor killed anyone who tried to oppose Imperial rule.

Laspor: Do not focus on that flagship! They are too late! Focus on the enslavement!

On the second continent, Legionaires were also beamed down. They immediately started to enslave Aeoneonatrix.

Lingur, seeing the destruction, ordered the Vengeance and the fleet it led to begin firing on imperium ships. The Imperium ships fires back, but the Vegenance dodged the attacks.

Laspor: I want no suicide ships coming in! The more Aeoneonatrix are enslaved, the better!

Aeoneonatrix Shepherds began landing near cities to evacuate citizens, but each was quickly destroyed by the forces on the ground.

By now, the second continent was conquered. Only one was left.

Lingur: Awesh, Try to beam as many persons as you can into the Shepherds.

Things were now going really bad for the Aeoneonatrix. They now tried to evacuate as many as possible.

By the time a few hundred persons, Pausac among them, had been evacuated, the rest of the planet's population, save for the residents of one city, were already captured. Berserkers had destroyed yet another city. Now there was only one left.

Laspor: I will take the last resistance by myself!

He and his guards moved to the city.

Everyone thought it was over. The Aeoneonatrix now slaves of the Imperium...

But suddenly, organic ships entered the battle, siding with the Aeoneonatrix resistance. They contacted the Vegenance.

Lingur: Hello, hello, this is Lingur, captain of the Vengeance, identify yourselves and state your purpose.

Oji'b: We are the Waptoria Alliance of Species. Stand by, we will help you.

The combined force of the Waptoria and the Aeoneonatrix managed to drive back the Imperium.

Laspor contacted his father, Augustus

Laspor: Father, we are...losing? How is that possible?!

Augustus: Retreat.

Laspor: Father, you can't mean this. We are so close!

Augustus: RETREAT! We will need your forces to kill the Sauronithona of the Troodontid Collective, for once and for all!

Laspor: As you wish. We enslaved a lot of Aeoneonatrix anyway.

The Imperium left the Aeoneonatrix home world, leaving it ruined and its natural wonders in ashes.

Lingur: Waptoria? You helped us right after our attack on one of your allies?

Oji'b: That troodontid ship was fake. It had been sent by the Imperium of War. They planned to enslave you from the start.

Oji'b: Besides, our ideals are completely the same, so we would have helped you even if we were enemies.

Oji’b: I hope you now realize allying the Hegemony was a bad choice. Welcome on our side!

Lingur: Of course I do, thanks for your help.

The Aeoneonatrix Encounter the Tyranny
A small squadron of 10 tyranny Tyrant Class Mark 1 Cruisers entered space over a new world, Xinus. The AI ships engaged their protocols and scanned the system for life and technology, soon finding life on one of the planets in the inner rim. They saw that the race was planet bound and that they had no navy to contend with except for a few space stations. The 10 Tyrant Cruisers then began to start a bombardment of the world, to soften it up. The Tyranny cruisers foundries, like ever before, started rumbling to life, and they soon started landing myrmidons onto the surface of the world. The myrmidons started their implacable advance, impervious to the weaponry of the primitive tier 6 civilization. It continued like this until they were at the outskirts of the capital. The myrmidons continued their advance towards the center of the city. The robots wiped out all opposition with their advanced high tier weaponry.

Lingur, still leading his fleet, came across the conquest and attempted to contact the Tyranny ships, however he did not have any response from the computerized ships.

The president of tier 6 civilization, seeing frantically sent a signal into space.

President: Help us, we'll do anything!

Lingur attempted to contact the President.

Lingur: Hello, this is Lingur, Captain of the Vengeance. I'm ordering troops to assist. I'd also like permission to beam up your populations in case your planet does fall.

President: Sure, now mind explaining what's going on!?!?

The myrmidons continue pressing forward, until they encounter the Aeoneonatrix troops. They blast superheated plasma into the Aeoneonatrix troops, recognizing them as hostiles.

Lingur: You're being invaded, we just happened to come across you and couldn't just standby and allow your enslavement

KrakenAI: If you continue beaming them up, we will formally attack your space forces as well.

The Aeoneonatrix soldiers managed to kill some Myrmidons, but, due to the Myrmidon’s numbers, not enough to stifle their advance toward the city center at first.

Lingur: We can take you

KrakenAI: You have 5 seconds to reconsider those words and cease beaming.

Lingur: No. Callanni, scan their shields.

Callanni: Same as the Troodontids.

Lingur: Well we all know what that means, Fire quantum torpedoes.

They fired the quantum torpedoes, but they were dissipated by the shields of the ships as the ships were much bigger than troodontid ones and had more power.

After a few minutes, The Aeon soldiers managed to stop the Myrmidons advance toward the center. At that, the Dominatus started landing several combat harvesters, who started ripping apart the Aeoneonatrix soldiers.

Lingur: Do we have any defenders to take out those harvesters?

The massive 100 meter tall behenmoths walked across the city, taking many Aeoneonatrix lives.

Awesh: Not enough to waste on this battle.

At that, the Tyranny ships returned fire on the Aeoneonatrix ships, lancing through them with their trademark firepower.

The massive armaments of the 7.5km large ships decimated the Aeoneonatrix fleet.

Lingur: Just keep beaming.

At that, the Tyranny ships finally started firing at the Shepherd Ships.

The shepherd ships were devastated by this massive assault of Tyranny ships.

Eventually, the number beamed hit 15,000 and included the president.

Lingur: Shepherds, retreat with what you have, it’s enough for a free population elsewhere

The tyranny ships blew up the shepherds before they could escape.

KrakenAI: Cease Fire and Retreat Aeoneonatrix. This is our fight, not yours. You have no reason to remain here.

Lingur: I will if you identify yourselves, so we can come back and free these persons later.

The harvesters had pushed the Aeoneonatrix on the ground to the capitol.

Grazvek: Meet me at the Capitol.

Lingur: That's really not needed. You can just tell me through radio.

Grazvek: It is the capitol or I will destroy you utterly, that or you can leave now.

Lingur: You'd just kill me there. Do you think I'm that stupid?

Grazvek: I could kill you now as well, and you have 5 seconds to decide whether to meet me there, retreat now, or be destroyed.

Lingur: Fine, Awesh, land the ship

Grazvek made sure that Lingur was on the ground. He was. And when he knew that, the Dominatus beamed himself down in front of Lingur, in his battle suit.

The 10 meter behemoth, clad in his massive armor looked at Lingur.

Grazvek: Let us talk.

Lingur: So who are you?

Gravek: I am Grazek, you?

Lingur: I am Lingur, Captain of the Vengeance, the main flagship of the Aeoneonatrix. I was just on my way from an attack on my home planet by the Imperium of war when I noticed you seemingly enslaving a planet.

Grazvek: It is my destiny to conquer this planet. It was never any of your business.

Lingur: The suffering of sapient life is everyone's business.

Grazvek: If you wish it, you may join in their suffering

Lingur: No thanks.

Grazvek: Then you will leave now, for the Tyranny shall conquer.

Lingur: The Tyranny? Could you have picked a name that at least pretended that you might not be insanely evil?

Grazvek: Good and evil are subjective, now leave Aeoneonatrix.

Grazvek: The strong do as they please and the weak obey, such is the will of the Dominatus.

Lingur: Dominatus? That seems like a familiar name to me.

Grazvek: Funny considering we have not had contact with you before.

Grazvek: I strongly suggest you leave now.

Lingur: Okay, if you don’t want to know where I heard it, I'll go.

Grazvek: You can go now.

Lingur: As you wish.

Lingur left.

With the Aeoneonatrix gone, Grazvek made a report.

Grazvek: *to Grand Admiral* - They know.

Grand Admiral: Intelligence suggests that the Troodontid know as well.

Grand Admiral: We must deal with this now, we are not yet ready.

Deal with the devil
A Dominatus fleet appeared in orbit over Raptura, over 100 large ships, lead by a giant Mark 1 25km long Kraken.

TyrantAI - Troodontids, we need to speak.

TroodontidAI - We know what you did, but go ahead.

TyrantAI - We know that, and that is why I request for one of us to be beamed down for ... negotiations.

TroodontidAI - One Dominatus .. unweaponend .. and no direct contact with our leaders and always surrounded by our androids

A single Dominatus, Richtov , was beamed down onto the surface of the planet.

Richtov - I see you have made some progress with our robotics technology. You must also see that the entirety of that first argument was false, I am a weapon!

TroodontidAI: They were useful at the beginning, but our androids are independent from you technology now and you won`t be near anything you can hurt.

Richtov - Merely 20 - 30 androids, you insult me. You must want to know why I am here.

TroodontidAI - Sure.

At that Richtovs biomass tendrils shot out, destroying all the androids in the rather enclosed room.

Richtov - You will confront me directly to make these negotiations.

TroodontidAI - Entire lockdown, shields and defence activation.

Richtov - If you want to treat this as a formal declaration of war do so at your own peril. If you wish to reconsider your disposition, you will converse in a civilized manner.

TroodsontidAI - No, we just consider it as idiotic behavvoior of a diplomat. We know about your ability to kill anything in range, so it is much too risky. Instead we will use a hologramm to commuicate with you.

Richtov - Very well, present your hologram in front of me.

Hologramms of several senators appear around the Dominatus.

Richtov - I am here because I know that after a battle with the Aeoneonatrix, you discovered why this war is happening.

President Draicon - Yes, we did.

Richtov - A somewhat impressive deduction given your lack of empirical evidence. I come to you to offer a deal, and a bargain. Would you like to hear it?

President Draicon - Lack of evidence ? There is enough evidenvce fo us. The Dominatus are the only ones to ever win a fight against our ships and are smart enough to colect datas about our ships. They are the only ones to build a perfect imitation. But yes, if the deal is acceptable I would like to hear it.

Richtov - Too good for our own good then. You will not tell anybody of this or face the consequences.

President Draicon - Sounds nice, but why shouldn`t we ? You are a great danger, but if you fight us , it will delay your plans in Milky Way for a very long time.

Richtov - You would do better to remain on our good side Troodontid.

President Draicon - Maybe, but is it the real good side?

Richtov - Good and evil are merely subjective depending on your goals.

President Draicon - Right, that is true , it is always a matter of vision. OK, but why shouldn`t we tell our allies.

Richtov - If you remember our power, you will remember what we can let loose upon your empire. If you know our generosity, you can know that you will be spared.

President Draicon - Yes, but this time we are not alone and we have a more powerful army than before.

Richtov - Your intelligence is something that sets your species apart from many others, it is admirable. However you must know that even such an army cannot stand against the entire might of the force we will unleash.

Richtov - It is in your interest to spare yourself from the battles that are to come. We will not attack you if you do not tell, we may even consider better relations with you.

President Draicon - It is, right, but if you get the Milky Way ? What's then. You'd be much stronger then.

Richtov - We would not then have to turn our attention on you.

President Draicon - You`d have a galaxy, what would stop you from coming over here?

Richtov - We would not have the galalxy, we have to share it with the DCP, Kicath, just to name a few. You force my hand, if you tell anybody of this, you will be the first target.

President Draicon - Yes, but if you can`t expand anymore in Milky Way, what would stop you from coming over here.

Richtov - You and I know that it is only our good will that can stop us.

President Draicon - And that is a thing I am not entirely sure about.

Richtov: Explain.

President Draicon - We aren`t sure if you are good. You work for your own good, not for ours.

Richtov - It is our will to expand, however trying to slow it down will only speed it up. I suggest you accept the deal lest you try my patience further.

President Draicon - We aren`t ready too decide yet.

Richtov - Too much, or not enough is always the issue. The invasion starts now and Heccimy is destroyed now unless you agree not to tell the others !

President Draicon - Hm, since when do you have enough power to destroy a planet?

Richtov - Would you like me to demonstrate now?

President Draicon - No, but we are surprised.

Richtov - So do we have a deal?

President Draicon - No, we want to change the rules a bit.

Richtov - Explain.

President Draicon - We will keep our hands away from Milky Way, in return you will not get involved in the war either. You will don`t do anything to influence the war in any way, neither direct nor indirect. You`ll let the war fiish itself.

Richtov - We have an agreement.

President Draicon - Then we have an agreement, yes.

At that Richtov teleported back up and the fleet soon left.

Richtov *encrypted channel* - We do not have time to ship out the new Mark 2 Ships, we must begin this very soon. They probably know now that we will attack as soon as possible, however that is all we need.

Richtov *to Grand Admiral on comms* - Time is ticking, we cannot rush out the Mark 2 ships yet. It must begin soon !

Meawhile on Raptura:

Troodontid - Why did you agree ?

President Draicon - Quite simple, the Dominatus now think we are no threat. They will break the treaty as soon as they have enough power to fight both us and our allies. If they had it at the moment, they would have attack instead of asking us not to tell our allies and wouldn't have agreed that quickly. Now, new orders: All ships get back to our galaxy and start repairing our ships. Sarch for possibilties to fix the last few problems with our shields and build weapons that can break our own shields. We will need them. And start building more ships"