Fiction:The War for Wental

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'''The Iteok. Some say they are crazy. Some say they are Omnicidal. Some say they are just plain evil. The Iteok don't like anyone but their allies. They love to kill. Killing is a pasttime for these Insectoid freaks. They need to see you are valuable in order for you to ally them. But who would want to ally these bugs? They think the others are pawns compared to their "Mighty Khereg", even though their empire is only Tier 4. This is a story about how the Iteok found a strange but peaceful Galaxy and attacked it, foolishly believing they could conquer it.'''

Prologue
2 Female Iteok Scouts were exploring the wonders of the 2nd Gigaquadrant. While travelling, they found a stange Galaxy, known only as "the Wental Galaxy". The Scouts noticed the colors of this Giant Galaxy. They wished to possess it.

Tarhitrhya - "Nice Galaxy... looks great to be Iteok Territory." Zerhtavya - "It's too big that nobody could challenge us if we invaded it! It's probably full of Tier 5s." Tarhitrhya - "Indeed. Though, should we take it?"

At this point, a Transmission arrived from the Wental Galaxy.

''Hello, Traveller! This is an automatic message from the Wental Galaxy, translated in English for your understanding!''

Zerhtavya - "What's it saying?" Tarhitrhya - "Shh! I understand the transmission! It's in "Plazithian"." (Itekol: Plazrhatol, English: Language of the Milky Way (English))

Now, before you colonize here, you must follow these rules:


 * You will not attack or harm a less-then space civilization.

Tarhitrhya - "Wait, WHAT?"


 * You will not Colonize more then 500000 planets.
 * You will never harm a child or anyone caring for a child.
 * You will not break galactic code. 
 * Any Empire that wishes to use Nanotech in any form must first get a permit. They must also be ready at all times for an inspection, which could come at any time, anywhere. These are for the safety of the entire galaxy.

Now, enjoy your stay in-

The Transmitter was punched by the angry Iteok woman.

Tarhitrhya - "These guys, their rules are absurd! Galactic Code??? No attacks on Tier 6s? What kind of a Galaxy is this? The Plazith Rim doesn't have these rules!" Zerhtavya - "Let's warn the males that food has arrived..."

And so, they rush to Ikrhas. The journey took 12 hours, but they arrive, ready to tell Toragh 9 about this "absurd" Galaxy...

The Iteok Attack
Tarhitrhya - "...and they are against Nanotech! This is absurd!!! These guys must be punished!" Tarhtarhaa - "We will destroy them only for the territory, but breaking their rules will be amusing..." Tarhitrhya - "Yes, that will get their heads straight that we are the superpowers in this Universe!" Tarhtarhaa - "Very well. We will prepare for tommorow."

Instructions were given. Fleets were trained, and Iteok were prepared for this amusing invasion. On 26/04/402 KRE, the lines were drawn for a battle that would shock the Wental Galaxy. They decided to send only 1300 Ships, 650 for each planet in their targeting systems.

An Iteok group cloaked and targeted a Tier 6 Planet, and another group targeted a planet of a Tier 5 Empire. The first Group launched a Planet Buster at the Planet, destroying everything. It was the end for whoever was in that planet. Quite sad, but Iteok didn't care.

The Other Group approached the planet. They dropped their cloaking systems and began capturing Citizens everywhere. The Citizens were scared, and tried defending themselves using Turrets, but the Iteok ships were powered with Entropic Energy, thanks to a recent alliance with Shu'ulathoi, a nightmare demon, so they withstood the fire. Only 67 ships fell and they had captured 1200 Citizens. They stopped capturing citizens. Amongst the citizens, 360 children were captured.

The Wental People screamed in Terror. There were a few in each ship, encaged. They begged for mercy. In every ship, Wental people were screaming.

Wental Adult - "HELP! GET US OUT!" Wental Child - "Mommy!!!"

Suddenly, an Iteok appears upon them in one ship.

Wental Adult - "You frakking bastard! DIE, YOU SCUM OF THE UNIVERSE!!!" Iteok - "Oh, don't you realize we're stronger than you? I have a big surprise for everyone. Especially the Children..."

The Wental Children screamed in Terror. The Iteok in every ship activated the sleeping Gas, causing every Wental Person to go unconscious. Then, the 2 Iteok Groups re-united, and launched nano-machines at another planet in another empire, causing everyone in that planet to get confused and to flee from the Nano-machines.

The Iteok then took the planet they captured citizens from, after 2 days, forcing all Wental Adults to work for them, building Iteok buildings. Whoever didn't work was killed.

Iteok - "Work, Toil! Your normal life has ended, you belong to the Khereg now!"

The Iteok had the ego to even broadcast the Iteok cooking Wental Children and eating them, saying they are delicious. Tarhtarhaa was pleased at the fact they broke 4 out of the 5 rules the Wental Galaxy had. Now, all they needed to do was expand further, causing destruction wherever they go...

A Determined Start
As the news of the Iteok attack spread across Wental, along with the broadcast of the Iteok cooking and eating children, the billions of creatures living within the Galaxy started sending panicked messages to an fro throughout the Galaxy. Pandemonium broke out, people sold "Anti-Iteok Spray", defensive bunkers were constructed by the wealthy, and armies started to mobilize. But, since many of the Wental Alliance Species were peaceful, those armies were few and far between. There were many planets to defend, and few people to defend them.

Then the Senate of Stars held a meeting to decide if they would declare Alliance Wide War on the Iteok, or if it would be an member-by-member choice. That was mostly a formality, as even the Meta were preparing for war, and they were by far the most peaceful of the Wental Species. In the mighty Star Stellarium, which housed the Senate of Stars, even the Iron Giants had sent representatives to help decide the fate of their galaxy.

As everyone arrived, a somber mood could literally be felt, and even the Meta seemed subdued, their lights weren't as flashy. Everyone sat down, nervous and openly twitchy, the Yama kept extending their claws and the Iron Giants had weapons activated, thats how tense things were. Then the video started, and everyone turned a little green.

The video starts in 3-D. A group of Iteok were working around a kitchen, with Wental children in cages and other being neatly dropped into pots of boiling water or being killed and butchered for food.

At this point, several of the Senators threw up, and 3 passed out. ''The Iteok seemed to be enjoying the fear of the children, and their terrified wails made up the background sounds, along with fires crackling and knives slicing through flesh and bone. The Iteok were talking in the Language of the Milky Way, almost as if that was their native language. The camera pans out to a table, following one of the Iteok waiters. 'So, how would you like yours, sir?' one of the chefs asked. A rather fat looking Iteok grinned right at the camera and said 'I'll take mine live. Make sure its conscious, I want to hear it scream as I eat.' The Chef looked overjoyed to grant the fat Iteok his wish, and swiftly a live Wental Child was brought up to the table, strapped up and unable to move, but conscious and screaming it's head off. 'Ah, music to my ears!' The fat one said snidely.'' The Veli senator hissed, and several other senators growled or otherwise made threatening noises and gestures. The fat one went about taking his time with the poor Wental child, and the video ended with him saying 'That was the best thing I've tasted in a long while, may I have another?'

In the Senate of Stars, all hell broke lose. There was not one representative in the Senate that wasn't furious, and all of them were normally nice people to be around. But right now, all sorts of strange gestures and behaviors could be seen. The Groy senator spat a wad of poison right at the fat Iteok, and she wasn't alone, there were dozens of poison spits and needles and even a few lasers and projectile weapons shot at the image. A moment later, the image went back to the slowly rotating Wental Galaxy hologram. But the Senators were not yet content.

"Those monsters, how dare they? We will teach them to obey the laws!"

- Groy Senator "They will pay for this atrocity! I vote for war!"

- Gagla Senator "We haven't even started the vote yet..."

- Yama Senator "I second the vote for war!"

- Dranjio Senator "Well, since even I'm sickened by what I just witnessed, I will also vote for war."

- Yama Senator After about ten minutes of getting "To War!" votes from the senate, the Iron Giant Senator steps in. "How about this, anyone against war say "Nay"."

- Iron Giant Senator A few moments go by. Someone coughs in the background. "I think that answers the question if we go to war on not. We will start preparing our fleets immediately."

- Yama Senator The Yama senator flips open a personal transmitter and sends a coded message even before anyone can say otherwise. "Why is it that you always have fleets ready?"

- Warpola Senator "We're warmongers, it's what we do best."

- Yama Senator "So then, it is decided. We go to war. Now, lets just go over the details of the plan, then we can start fighting."

- Iron Giant Senator

The Plan
The Wental Alliance decides on a multi-front plan.
 * Send fleets out toward the Iteok attack front.
 * Protect and arm all currently unarmed planets, increase defenses on armed planets.
 * Raise money by raising taxes and (maybe) placing taxes on non-native empires of Wental.
 * Find and uplift as many tier 6 or less species as possible.
 * Increase the size of the military of the Alliance.
 * Start setting up evacuation routs for citizens on planet surfaces.
 * Build up planetside defenses.
 * Find the location of the Iteok home galaxy. Destroy everything within it.
 * Wipe the Iteok out of the fabric of the universe.

We are just having fun
The Iteok laughed at the video, and it became a meme in 33 Iteok Channels, including the Iteok Khartel itself. But now, it was time for phase 2 of the plan - Conquer. They already had 1 planet in posession in the Wental Galaxy, but they wanted more. And so, the ships began invading empires and destroying buildings.

As their ships were powered by entropic energy, the Iteok could keep attacking Tier 5 empires and lose few ships. The Iteok took down city by city in the planets they invaded, using nuclear missiles. By the end of 28/04/402 KRE, they took 5 planets from the Wental Galaxy, and appointed the first planet they captured as a meeting point, for discussion of future invasions.

Tarhtarhaa was pleased at this positive development, and broadcasted a message to the Wental Galaxy:

"Oh, you don't like what we're doing to you? Well, maybe you'll reincarnate into one of us! Oh wait, you can't! Reincarnation is impossible! Haha! Fear the mighty Khereg!"

- Commander Tarhtarhaa

And so, they prepared for the next day.

Finally, some Real Defense
"Oh, you don't like what we're doing to you? Well, maybe you'll reincarnate into one of us! Oh wait, you can't! Reincarnation is impossible! Haha! Fear the mighty Khereg!"

- Commander Tarhtarhaa "Talk about rubbing salt in the wound..."

- Yama Captain "Yea, I know. It'll be even more fun to crush these squirts"

- Yama Captain "Shut up you two, we've got a battle to win!"

- Yama Admiral

The Yama fleet, which was the quickest to react and mobilize, sped toward one of the planets that were predicted to be a target of the Iteok. Upon arriving, they found that the Iteok had yet to attack this one, and started evacuating the civilian populations and replacing them with "civilians" who were really Yama soldiers, prepared for an attack. As the fleet finished up switching out the population with warriors, they moved on, leaving only a small skeleton fleet to complete the image of a weakly defended planet. The fleet headed off to the next planet in the list, and did the same thing there. This filled out 3 parts of their plan: Evacuate civilian populations, send fleets out to fight the Iteok, and defend Wental planets. The soldiers expected this to be a swift war, considering that they had never actually lost a battle with the Iteok yet.

A Swift Battle
Date: 29/04/402 KRE, Location: An evacuated Wental Planet

Tarhtarhaa - "See that planet? It's good for conquering." Grhaata - "Hang on - There is a fleet in that planet - They think they can stop us?" Tarhtarhaa - "600 ships in our fleet, entropic powers, we can handle this."

The Iteok approached the planet, and the Yama empire noticed them. It was time for a battle. The 900 Yama ships closed in on the Iteok army, preparing to strike them. The Iteok fired the first missiles, but the Yama dodged them and started battling the Iteok. The Iteok used heat rays on the Yama, the Yama used Mega Lasers on the Iteok. The Yama, however, had the strength of the Kraw Empire, and managed to fire a near deadly shot at the Iteok Commander.

Tarhtarhaa - "****! Get out, everyone!"

The Iteok retreated, but they called for 30000 reinforcements, and a new Commander, Commander Rhtarhiatrhos, and they had a plan...

Karhos-Katrhorhta: The Plan
Commander Rhtarhiatrhos sat on his chair in the meeting room of his ship, the Karhos-Katrhorhta, designed to be nearly flawless. He organized everything for this meeting, and Commander Tarhtarhaa was there.

Rhtarhiatrhos - "Hello, mighty Rhonen and Rhonenos Commanders. Zavrhos could not be present because he was fighting stupid enemies of our allies, so it's just me, and all 15 of you. Now, let's begin. Tarhtarhaa, HOW COULD YOU LET YOURSELF BE FLANKED LIKE THAT???" Tarhtarhaa - "Sir, they are persistent. That's why I failed." Rhtarhiatrhos - "Then we will have to be persistent too. Here's the plan... We have 30000 Garhonik, Uhterhaat and Jarhaa ships here in this war, right? So we split them up in 15 teams, of... ... what was 30000 split between 15 again?" Tarhtarhaa - "2000, sir. How could you not know that?" Rhtarhiatrhos - "Bah, I hate math, so I forgot it. We split these ships into these 15 teams, which will mess up 1 planet each at a time. So they will have 15 forces to defend themselves against!" Barhta - "Genius! Well, your math isn't, but your plan is!"

And so, Rhtarhiatrhos put his plan into action. The 30000 reinforcements split into 15 groups, who are to cause havoc all over... The Iteok hoped to posess 15 more worlds, totalling 20 worlds by tommorow, 30/04/402 KRE.

Holy my gods!
The planet of Leik was one of the many planets that the Yama fleet had visited and switched out the population for soldiers. The 900 ship fleet was in orbit, and it looked like i would be a normal day on Leik, with the smallest Yama warriors pretending to be children and the older ones scolding them like parents. needless to say, a great deal of jokes were being made about that, but the plan seemed to be working. The planet had been attacked once, but the fleet had been able to defend it. The Yama was sure they could win this, and easily.

Then, of course, the Iteok's larger fleet arrived. "What's that blip on the radar?" The radar commander looked up and saw the blip. Then another. And another. "We have a code orange alert, I repeat, a CODE ORANGE ALERT! Get your rears up there and defend this planet!" The fleet admiral got the news a moment later, and mobilized her fleet. They were outnumbered and outgunned, but even so they did some damage to the enemy ships. From the ground it looked like a fireworks show, except with big chunks of burning ship raining from the sky whenever one of the fireworks went off. The soldiers were already preparing, getting weapons and putting on battle claws to fight with. When the Iteok soldiers arrived on the planets surface, they would find a well armed army there waiting for them.

The Iteok ships didn't land at first. First they bombed the crap out of the Yama structures, killing thousands of Yama warriors. The survivors reorganized and when the Iteok ships landed they found a well armed, if a little dazed, army waiting for them. The battles would be fast, furious, and bloody. As the Iteok attacked with their fangs and claws and lasers, the Yama attacked with their metal-covered claws, laser-turrets, and projectile weapons. The wars only lasted for a few hours, and when it ended the Yama had been all but wiped out, with a few thousand slaves taken. There was one place that was still holding out, a well defended and supplied fortress that refused to fall.

In the fortress, the Yama Commanders, Captains, and Admirals debated their next move. "I think we should hunker down and let them waste their energies on us until they give up. We can survive this!" A young hotshot commander said confidently. One of the older, more experienced commanders replied "And when we run out of food? They have no reason to leave us be, and you can't win a defensive war. I propose we send out best captains out to warn the rest of Wental about the Iteoks newest plan." Several of the other commanders seconded the option, until an Admiral noted that they only had 13 ships left. "13, that's an unlucky number isn't it?" "Yep..." "Well, we won't know if we can make it out until we try, and if we fail then we're just in the same situation as we are now."

The 13 ships launched into the air simultaneously, and in the dead of night, for all the good that would do them. They hurled out of the planets atmosphere at far faster speeds then they were built to withstand, and 3 burned up and died before they even escaped the planet, another 2 were shot down before they left as well. 8 left. In space, 4 more were destroyed by the orbiting Iteok fleet before they left orbit-level, and 4 more were destroyed as they fled the system. 1 survived, and that was all that was needed. Back on the planet's surface, an overwhelming Iteok military attack swarmed the fortress and killed off the rest of the resisting Yama Warriors. The single fleeing ship was all that remained of Liek's once massive military defense.

You're going to need some insecticide here...
The Iteok noticed the Fortress in the planet they were about to conquer. Every Iteok returned to their ships and one fired a nuclear warhead at the fortress.

In the meanwhile, the other 14 Iteok groups were attacking other planets. In some planets, the Iteok managed to destroy the enemy fleets and take the planets. In others, the fleets failed to capture planets, and in others, the Iteok had a long struggle to take the planets. Overall, 9 planets were taken by the ever expanding Khereg, and 30000 Wental People were captured, and they were put in stews and dishes for the Iteok to eat. The Fat TV chef, Krhaat, was pleased.

Rhtarhiatrhos - "WHAT DO YOU MEAN ONLY 9??? SEND ANOTHER 30000 SHIPS, YOU MORONS!" Tarhtarhaa - "Yes, 9 Planets, sir. The other 6 were well defended by some "Yaama" beings." Rhtarhiatrhos - "After we take more planets, we'll be paying them a visit..."

Rhtarhiatrhos - "Also, YOU FORGOT MY ORDER!!!" Tarhtarhaa - "Yes, sir!"

The Iteok now had 14 planets in Posession. Out of the initial 30000 ships they sent to Wental, 8938 Survived.

The Hidden Empire
Deep in a portion of the Wental Galaxy that had always been guarded by strange ships which fired on all who entered, a meeting was being held.

"Master, we have detected weapons fire from beyond the borderlands. It's open space combat and planetary battle."

- 15 ring stack.

"That is interesting... could they be another faction of Cylone, one we haven't crushed yet? Or maybe the rebels?"

- Master Stack

"No, we have not seen any tech that would point toward the rebels, or to another Cylone faction. In fact, we haven't seen anything that shows these creatures are even fully sentient. We did, however, intercept a video from them. We beleive it to be some form of entertainment."

- 15 ring stack

"Well. Lets see it!"

- Master Stack

"Yes, Master. Do you think you could give me a hand?"

- 15 ring stack

"Why?"

- Master Stack

"Well... I am rather short... and lack an arm ring..."

- 15 ring stack

"Oh, yes, of course."

- Master Stack

After a few minutes of fumbling around, the two manage to get the video up on a screen. It shows a large number of strange creatures eating a large number of equally strange creatures, some of whom appear to be children. They are all speaking in strange languages that neither the Master Stack nor the 15 ring stack have ever heard before. After about 20 minutes of video, the Master Stack grows bored.

"This is entertainment? Their just eating their young, whats so funny about that?"

- Master Stack

"Well, we think it to be some kind of drama or war-movie."

- 15 ring stack

"I see. Well, that's pretty pathetic, I think. Then again, those creatures looked like they would make good slaves."

- Master Stack

"Our thoughts exactly, Master."

- 15 ring stack

"Well then, let us get to it! Gather up a fleet or two, we'll see what these dumb creatures have to offer us."

- Master Stack

"Maybe we will gain an advantage over the rebels as well, if we expand quickly."

- 15 ring stack

"Yes... I do think that would be a nice addition to this already pleasant day."

- Master Stack

"I'll get right to telling Commander Klo to see you, Master, unless you would rather I tell them what to do?"

- 15 ring stack

"No, no, I shall do it. You just go get him."

- Master Stack

"Yes, Master..."

- 15 ring stack

A few minutes later, Commander Klo arrives. The Master Stack tells Klo of these strange creatures, and commands him to gather up a fleet at least 2 thousand strong. "I don't care how you do it, just make this profitable, and don't lose!" The Master Stack calls out to Klo as they leave. Klo starts to gather his fleet...

Battle of Kings
The Wental Alliance, having gotten a good judge of the military might of the Iteok, decided to send in another 60 thousand ships in to be safe. As their ships neared the Iteok-Wental War Zone, they encountered a group of Iteok ships. 300 Iteok ships, to be exact. The two fleets looked at each other for a few moments, then the Iteok popped a U-Turn and fled back toward their territories in Wental. The Wental Alliance ships followed eagerly, and the Iteok ships led them right to a larger fleet of 30 thousand or so ships. Now the two larger fleets confronted each other.

The Iteok began attacking the Wentals with Heat lasers, Ion cannons, and Trajectory missiles. Commander Tarhtarhaa was leading this army, and he was confident on victory. He had also ordered more reinforcements, which will arrive from a Fordan Void gate to the scene of the battle within 30 minutes. But Tarhtarhaa decided to lay his eyes on the Wental Commander...

The Iteok made the first move, as expected, so the Wental Fleet was ready for it. With their shields up, they started firing on the Iteok ships, doing about half the damage they were dealt. Damnit, we need better weapons if we're gonna win this thought Commander Welkson as he watched his ships being destroyed by the Iteok fleet. Even as he thought that, a group of Meta Treeships and Iron Giants dropped out of some hyperspace or another and started to aid them as best they could. The Meta, being peaceful, found it difficult to harm even creatures as evil as the Iteok, and shot to disable not kill. The Iron Giants had no such qualms, and with their advance ion weaponry were able to take out decent portions of the Iteok fleet with swift, well aimed blasts of energy. The Battle seemed to be turning in the favor of Wental now.

As the Iteok and Wental Alliance were fighting suddenly, something unexpected happened, several Missiles struck the Iteok Fleet from behind, wiping out a few of their ships. The Iteok spun, expecting an enemy they knew. But the ships attacking looked like nothing they had seen before, all curves and soft angles. They were firing openly at the Iteok ships, but not doing a ton of damage.

Tarhtarhaa - "What are those? Oh well, let's go atomic. That will blast them apart."

Just as he spoke, the Iteok reinforcements appeared behind the strange fleet, and then, the Iteok started to fire their atomic missiles at the unknown ships. Meanwhile this was happening, the original Iteok fleet also fired their atomic missiles at the Wental and the strange, wiping some ships out of both sides.

Tarhtarhaa - "Let's go!!!"

Tarhtarhaa was willing to fire his MGMs at the Xarik-Radux for betraying them, and so he did. 5 were fired at the newcomers, causing wormholes that surrounded part of the strange fleet.

Some ships were destroyed by the MGMs, but others managed to "fold space" and teleport to safety, and attack again, with Ion Cannons of their own, like "Mini-Planet Glassers", they hit the Iteok Ships, and take out a portion of them, while Plasma Autocannons where rapidly firing, weakening shields and softening armor, and then there were the "Ornithopters", firing Antimatter Missiles, they were weakening the Iteok Fleet, and then, more Pseudomatter Missiles were fired, this time, hitting the weapons of the Iteok Ships. Then, to their surprise, the new fleet started firing out long chains with harpoons on the end, and reeling in harpooned ships up to what were obviously airlocks of some sort or another.

Tarhtarhaa - "We're taking heavy fire! Everyone, FTL Jump out of here!"

And so they did. They jumped back near a portal to the Iteok Khereg, and it closed down upon the damaged fleet leaving the Wental Galaxy. They will be back, with greater numbers...

The Wental Alliance fleet was in shock. They hadn't known they had any allies, but someone had come to help them against the Iteok. Then, to everyone's surprise, the Meta ships moved in between the main fleet and this new, strange fleet. Mere moments later, the strange fleet opened fire on the Meta ships and Worldtrees, shocking everyone. "Get your arses outta here, those aren't friendlies! Move, move, move!" The Wental Alliance, Meta, and Iron Giant ships fled, but a decent number of them were captured and reeled in by long, harpoon-ended chains, which pulled them up to the edges of the ships. The Wental Alliance and allies fled the scene, leaving behind about a dozen ships to these strange new foes...

Mobilizing armies
Date: 01/05/402 KRE, Location: Rhoterhtarhaa, Iteok Khereg, Wental Galaxy

Tarhtarhaa - "Fleet #13 has arrived! Another 2500 ships have arrived!"

That was the 13th out of 20 fleets that were on the way to the wental Galaxy. Tarhtarhaa hoped to be able to take more planets by the next day. But as the 14th fleet was arriving, he received a transmission.

Toragh 9 - "Listen. I want 100 planets taken by next Kraw Week! Not next Iteok week, next Kraw Week! Not 9 days, 7 days!" Tarhtarhaa - "Yes sir!" Toragh 9 - "Be sure to use the Splitters..." Tarhtarhaa - "Yes sir!"

It was going to be a hard day tommorow...

The Yama, being warmongers, knew that warmongers don't give up, ever. They had prepared their fleets for an attack they knew would come. 14 fleets of 14 hundred ships were being gathered, a lucky number twice, according to them. They didn't want to leave anything to chance, at all. As the 14th fleet arrived at it's destination, the Senate of Stars was debating the subject.

"The Iteok have not yet been defeated! I can assure you of this!"

- Yama Senator

"Oh phowey, you Yama are just trying to get an excuse for building up your fleet bigger! We won, the Iteok haven't sent any messages since they were pushed out."

- Papulos Senator

"No we're not! We're warmongers, we understand hw their minds work, and we need to build up our fleets bigger. I would also like to note that we didn't win, that strange new fleet forced everyone out."

- Yama Senator

"Yes, but the Iteok don't know that, so they will be to scared to come back. You saw them flee, they won't be back for a while."

- Warpola Senator

"I agree with the Yama, the Iteok won't just leave. They'll come back with a bigger fleet, a better fleet, allies, and superweapons too. We need to put funding itno our military or else we will be wiped out, I garentee it."

- Tra Senator

"See, the Tra understand, if we don't make ourselves stronger we won't last. And then there's that strange new fleet, whoever they are..."

- Yama Senator

"Ba, if you want to build up a fleet, you can do so, but keep it out of my space, got it?"

- Warpola Senator

"Fine, when they come back I'll be able to shove it in your face!"

- Yama

"Well then, I will also add that you aren't allowed in our territories either. And that goes for the Tra as well."

- Papulos Senator

"What, but we haven't attacked you or anything."

- Tra Senator

"They just don't like warrior empires, thats all."

- Yama Senator

"Maybe we could try diplomacy...?"

- Veli Senator

"These are warmongering monsters, we cannot try diplomacy! That would be unthinkable!"

- Yama

"Yes, from their point of view our offering peace would be seen as A) weakness, B) insult, and C) stupidity. It would be all of those things to offer such peace to them, they started it and they have done great crimes. We will refuse to ratify such an offer."

- Tra

"I wouldn't ratify that either, they broke 4 of the 5 rules of Wental in a single day. They don't deserve peace. But neither do I think they will return, having been beaten so soundly."

- Warpola

"Every hear of the old saying "Don't bet on your enemies not attacking, but rather, make your position un-assaliable"? This is a good example of that. We will make sure our planets are safe, and if that means dipping into the royal treasury a little, so be it."

- Yama

"Well, since it's coming out of your pockets, you can do what you please. But remember the rules of Wental, and the agreement we have. No attacking us!"

- Groy Senator

"We won't don't you worry."

- Yama Senator

"Very well, those who wish to defend themselves can do so, those who are smarter will continue to be smarter. Now, on to the subject of trade..."

- Harliquin Senator

"Your going to regret being so nice, I garentee it..."

- Yama Senator

The Yama continue to build up their fleets, and the Tra help them, as do a number of other species and empires who believe as the Yama do. But all of them know, in their heart of hearts, that if the Iteok want to take the galaxy they will be unable to stop them. So they go about searching for allies among the enemies of the Iteok...

All 20 fleets have arrived to the Wental Galaxy, and the show was about to begin. The 20 fleets went to 20 diffrent Planets. Some Yama planets, some Harliquin Planets, and some Tra Planets. They attacked them, capturing their citizens and firing nanomachines on them as well...

Rhtarhiatrhos, in the meanwhile, was making another transmission to a friend, in hopes that they will help them in this conflict.

"Voret, you wouldn't happen to be busy, wouldn't you?"

- Rhtarhiatrhos

"No sir. You want us to fight the wentals? Sure. We have to make up for us not helping against the Dracogonarious..."

- Voret

"Good."

- Rhtarhiatrhos

Rings and Rage
"You only got 36 new slaves?! How'd you screw that up? Their had to be hundreds of them out there, and you only got 36! Your slipping up!" Klo was trying to explain to the Master Stack that the battle had been a success, despite the few slaves gathered from it. "They were warriors, they knew what they were doing. We haven't encountered such an enemy since the last of the old empires fell. You cannot expect us to take the thousands of slaves we did back then, for that we would need to take a planet or two." The Master Stack regarded Klo for a few minutes, obviously struggling to make his next move. "Very well." Klo jumped, surprised that the Master Stack would use that method of language. "You will attack them as we attacked the old empires, you will crush them utterly. Take their planets, take their fleets, and take their people. They are strong, and many of them are capable of working far better then the worthless slaves we have right now. The more we get, the more we can produce, and the stronger we become. But remember" at this point, the Master Stack sent a jolt of pain through Klo "you cannot lose. If you do, I'll have your rings scattered and you put into the brightest, driest, and emptiest place I can think of, GOT IT?" The 'got it' was accompanied by an exceptionally powerful jolt of pain. "Got it, Master. I will not fail you." "Of course you won't, you know what will happen if you do. Failure is not an option, and don't you EVER forget it." Klo left, aching and filled with rage. ''This isn't over, oh mighty master. I will get your spot, someday. But for now, it's time to make me famous...''

Yames, the Yama Capitol
Yames, the capitol of the Yama Empire, was an industrial planet. Raw materials went in one end and ships, products, and war machines came out the other. And right now, it was at full industrial processing, with 27 entire fleets being constructed. The Empress, Satomi, was looking out over her currently unfinished fleet of ships, being constructed on the planet to ensure they were plant-safe as well as space-safe. "Empress, the one you asked for is here." "Thank you. Send him in." A rather small and confused looking Yaman male walks in, tail twitching slightly. It's rare that the Empress herself asks people to meet her. "Welcome, Masuri. You are the one who survived from Leik, correct?" "Um, yes, Empress." "Very well. I have seen your qualifications, and they stand for you. I am now naming you the Grand Captain Commander of the Yama Military Forces. You have done well, I hope for you to continue to do so." Masuri looks at her, jaw hitting the floor and tail standing strait up from surprise. "Th-thank you, Empress. I shall not fail you!" The Empress looks at him. "See to it that you don't."

The Iteok's carnage
In the 20 planets they attacked, many citizens were being captured, and Cities were being bombarded. The Terridor Federation had just arrived to the Iteok's Wental Territories, but the Kraw and the Tahars decided to pay them a visit...

Kies - "Terridorians???" Votet - <> "No, this is the... Socialist Tyvo Union." Kies - "They are not intergalactic, Terridor Federation. Consider your alliance finished." Voret - "Who cares? I'd much rather be allies of the Khereg! Hail Shu'ulathoi!" Kies - "You don't know how deluded you two are..."

After this small conversation, The Terridorians followed the Kraw and the Tahars to a Yama planet, where the Iteok were invading.

Eko - "Cease this immediatly, Corruptus nerds!" Voret - "No, you cease!" Eko - "Oh, it's the Iteok's Zealots! Haha! Do you want to be destroyed, Voret?" Voret - "Just go away!"

Eko's fleet and Voret's fleet were setting in to fight each other. The Kraw were now engaging the Iteok, and who knows what the Yama will do...

What the Yama plan to do...
"Ok, so, they have fleets here, here, and here. As well as some here, here, here, and here. We have 13 fleets, they have 20. So, what we're gonna do is go at it in the old fashioned way: fight and run, show no honor, and have fun shooting people. But remember, this is not an "all of nothing" battle. I want you to survive, not to just get yourselves killed. Attack them from every direction possible, but by the time they can react, be gone. I want no ships lost, got it!?"

- Supreme Captain Commander Masuri

The Yaman fleets scattered, breaking apart into small hit-and-run groups of 14 ships each. Since they couldn't out-gun the Iteok, maybe they could out race them. The plan: force the Iteok to make sure every single ship and supply fleet was well defended, which would slow them down greatly. Also, if you find prisoners of the Iteok, regardless of species, tkae them off the Iteok vessels if possible, destroy them if not. Better dead then eaten.

The Kraw began attacking the Iteok fleet. The Kraw were at a medium disadvantage towards the Iteok, because of the Iteok's Entropic ships. The Kraw were getting destroyed, and Kies and his fleet started using their Major Weapons. The Kraw blasted some Iteok Ships, but the Iteok were still in an advantage.

Meanwhile, Eko and Voret's fleet were engaged. The Tahars had higher technology, but the Terridorian ships were very thin, thus hard to hit. The battle was at a stalemate for a good hour, until Eko resorted to the Gyronic Powers. With these powers, Eko could blast apart some Terridorian ships, which were all in slow motion, thus he was now going for Voret.

Even as Eko and Voret's fleets were destroying each other, a group of 14 Yama ships came out of hyperspace, and started attacking the Iteok ships from the side, then right when the Iteok ships started firing back, they jumped back into hyperspace, without a single loss. A few moments later, another group, or the same group come back, attacked the Iteok from behind, then, just like before, vanished before they could take any damage. It didn't do a lot of damage to the Iteok, but it confused the hell out of them.

Tarhtarhaa - "What is all this???"

That's what he thought at the sudden Wental attacks. But they were still managing to beat the Kraw Empire. Kies ordered a retreat, and the Kraw Left. The Terridorians were still attacking the Tahars, but now they had some help. The Iteok saved Voret from being destroyed by Eko by damaging Eko's ship. Eko retreated, but his fleet didn't, who were now in control of Hazeus. They kept attacking the United Fleet.

And still, the Yama fleets kept popping out of no where, attacking, and retreating. Guerrilla Warfare was was effectively minimizing losses for the Yama Empire, and everyone was happy about that. Well, everyone on the Yama and Wental Alliance side. The fact that the Kraw ships had lost was concerning, but the Yama didn't worry themselves about that. They were too busy convincing other empires from the Wental Alliance to join in with the little raid. They have an old saying, Ten Thousand Blurts(ant like/sized insect) can kill an Ort(elephant sized reptile), and it seemed to be working here.

Tarhtarhaa and Voret didn't know where the shots were coming from. Eko's fleet had a slightly higher advantage now, and they began using their MGMs to cause wormholes to suck Iteok and Terridorian ships in. Tarhtarhaa ordered 10% of his fleet to face to the opposite direction of the battle, in hopes of finding who was shooting them.

Hehehe, I guess its time to cause a little more mayhem...

Commandant - Greetings there, and its Us, the Xarik-Radux again by the way, anyways, we shall be supporting in this battle somehow, maybe We could cover Your attacks, hehehe...

And the Xarik-Radux continue on battling, and a few more fleets of House Xarikuz ships have also arrived, and proceed to continue their devastation of Iteok and Terridorian Fleets.

Voret - "Fire the nano-machines."

Voret fired a swarm of nano-machines at the Xarik-Radux, which then resorted to eat away the Xarik-Radux Ships. Eko was dumbfounded however at the fact that the Xarik-Radux were helping them and not destroying everyone.

Eko - ""Kuzarik-Radukuz", why are you helping us?"

The Xarik-Radux Ships affected by nano-machines fired its pseudomatter missiles, which went back and hit them, hitting the nano-machines, which were devastated by the Majoron Replicators, while this did damage to the hulls of the ships, they pulled back from the fight and proceeded to activate self-repairs, while the rest of the House Xarikuz Ships continued the fight, the Commandant, angrily spoke...

Commandant - ''We're just doing BUSINESS AND RETRIBUTION! The Iteok betrayed us for siding with the Marinoxidiz, We shall betray them in RETURN! AND NO! I'M NOT ANGRY AT YOU! I'M ANGRY AT SOMEONE ELSE!''

And He commanded the Ornithopters to launch hit and run attacks upon the Terridorian Ships, and used Pseudomatter and Antimatter Missiles to devastate them.

Commandant - ''DIE! DIE! DIE!''

And then the Reinforcements then also came finally to the fight and began to flank the Terridorian and Iteok Fleets.

Voret - "Let's FTL Jump out of here!"

And so everyone did. Many by many, they jumped back to Iteok Wental Territories. Voret and Tarhtarhaa had to find a way to defeat the Xarik-Radux before it was too late...

However, the Iteok succeeded in capturing 14 worlds. 6 fleets failed to capture planets. The Iteok now had 28 planets in Posession. Out of the 50000 ships they had, 28904 Survived. The Iteok were now discussing the next Invasion...

Valxarx is not happy.
Voret was dining in an Iteok Wental Colony, which was in construction, but he got a Transmission, a very serious one.

Senator Ganxard - "Commander Voret, to Valxarx's palace. He is not happy at all."

Voret arrived with a scared face, as he knew when Valxarx was not happy, he usually fired people from the Army. But Valxarx was about to speak.

Valxarx - "Voret... The Terridor Federation is a Diplomatic Empire. Meaning we like to ally people. Do you understand?" Voret - "Yes, Emperor." Valxarx - "What you just did with the Kraw and the Tahars is not acceptable. Now we will never reach the Major 4 of the Kraw Galaxy and it's all your fault." Voret - "Sir, the Iteok-" Valxarx - "Shut up! Now, as you have a large fanbase amongst Terridans, I will not fire you." Voret - "Thank you." Valxarx - "However, you will now be transferred to Cyrannus, and all Military action in Wental shall now cease!" Voret - "Say what? If we don't do something, the Iteok are going to be crushed by the "Kuzarik-Radukuz"!" Valxarx - "If Entropics gave other things to Iteok besides strength, then they would be fine, but still, if you really want to help the Iteok, go ask the Marinoxidiz." Voret - "They will yell at them!" Valxarx - "Either you do this or not help them at all." Voret - "Understood..."

Voret packed and went to Cyrannus, to the Great Cyrannus War. Valxarx now had to gain Kraw Trust again before the elections in 25/07/402 KRE...

Yama decide to take matters into their own hands
"We need to take matters into our own hands. TIAF has insulted our alliance, disregarded our suffering, and told us to obey THEIR rules! It's time we showed them who's boss in this galaxy."

Masuri looks over the elite troopers, knowing that each and every one of them will be more then happy to attack the TIAF. The troopers are nodding. They get into the small, fleet that the Yama have set up for this.

"There's a TIAF supply fleet headed for one of their colonies here, and we're gonna take it out. We need to supplies and we need them to realize that they can't make the rules in our space. The supply fleet is here"

Masuri highlights a section of the maps that everyone is looking at.

"And we're gonna come in from here, here, and here, box them in, and take them out. Anyone you find who isn't fighting is a prisoner of war and a hostage, keep them alive and well, we're gonna need them."

The troopers nod, accepting that without question. The battle fleet lifts off.

"Good Luck everyone, it's time to start a war!"

And then the rest goes to Murder on the Wental Express

Another Expansion of Territory
Another 20 fleets have arrived from the Khereg, 2500 ships each. They set forward to 20 more planets to expand the Territory. Voret said one last word to the Iteok before leaving to the Great Cyrannus War.

"Helping you was fun, but now, I've been relocated and Valxarx told me to stop helping you. But well, elections will come in 25/07/402 KRE, and Valxarx will leave his throne, and since everyone in elections is... well, like me, if the war still goes by then, we will help you then. But not sooner, nor later. By the way, I've tried calling the Marinoxidiz for you, they said they can't help you, and that your ships can't do nothing else with Entropy. Very sad indeed. However, I wish you good luck in this war, and I hope you get further help. Something tells me we are going to get it. Perhaps maybe you will, perhaps not, but remember, we are always on your side, *cries* Mighty Khereg..."


 * - Voret

Some Iteok cried at the message. But Tarhtarhaa believed that they could still win this war without the Terridorians...

War!
"We did not approve of this! What the Hell were you thinking?!"

The Yama representative were getting grilled for their species actions, as were the Tra, who had helped.

"You didn't say we couldn't either..." "You dumb fools! Do you know what you've done? You've just made us enemies of one of the strongest nations in Wental, besides the Meta and ourselves! We can't stop both of them! We're gonna get crushed!"

The Yama and Tra looked at each other.

"Well... there is one other option. We can ask someone for help in this, and we can declare 'martial law' to enforce order a-"

The Senate was even angrier now.

"No! You have screwed us over now! We won't take your advice anymore, your attack was against our policy and n-"

The Yama senator interrupts

"The policy was wrong. Every warrior and knight empire could see that. Many of the non-agressive empires could see that. We live in a big universe, we cannot remain neutral in all things. TIAF refused to help us, therefore they were a threat, and could have allied the Iteok. All we did was take the preemptive strike, to show they that the Alliance is powerful. We even got hostages to use against them."

The Senators look horrified.

"You WHAT! No wonder they want our guts to be scattered from here to hell! What were you thinking!"

The Yama senator sighs.

"We started this war. Now we're going to finish it. With, or without you. Your choice. You have 2 hours to decide if war is the option you take, or if the Yama will withdraw from the Alliance."

The entire Hall of Stars is dead silent. There's a quiet sound, someone fainting.

"But- but there hasn't been war in Wental since the Great War. We all know how that ended, you would bring such war back?"

The Yama leader looks at them

"The Yama didn't start this war, the Iteok did. TIAF refused to help us, and because of that we lost colonies, because of their selfishness Wental Born children were killed and eaten by those monsterous Iteok. Because of TIAF, the Alliance lost many a good soldier in defending itself. They could have stepped in and helped us, but they refused. Those who stand by and watch while others die are worse then scum, they are cowardly scum. We will have no peace with them until they admit they were wrong, and if they don't... well, Wental is our galaxy, we gave them the territories, we can take them back."

The Senate is still horrified, but several senators are nodding. The Yama senator leaves.

Later, in a private transmission to her Empress, the Yama senator says:

"The seeds have been planted. Now they will take root."

The Empress looks at the senator.

"But what kind of tree will grow from them, I wonder. You will do well to tell me, Isabelle."

The Yama senator nods.

"I will tell you what tree grows, sister. You just make sure that we are ready for whatever TIAF has to throw at us."

Vengeance
As the Senate of Stars bickered amongst itself, the TIAF fleets were gathering in the Wental Territory. 500,000 ships from the Cyrannus, Sana, and Forma Galaxies had joined the 250,000 already stationed in Wental. Based on known facts of the Wental Alliance, the 750,000 ship fleet would easily overpower the WA ships.

Captain Lorrelas, thirsty for revenge, laid out the battle plans.

"Okay, the Cyrannus fleet, you will strike at Point A," Lorrelas said, circling a region of Yama colonies and marking it A.

"Sana-Forma fleet, you will attack Point B," he said, circling a section of the Tra colonies and labeling it B.

"Wental fleet, you will attack at Point C," he said, dotting a single area on the map of the Galaxy and naming it C.

"What we know is that in the last reported Wental-Iteok battle, each side had approximately 6,000 ships or more," Lt. Samenor explained. "The Kraw and Tahar arrived with maybe 6,000 ships. We are unsure of the Kraw and Tahar numbers."

"What we can confirm is that the Kraw and Tahar will not fight us, for we are on friendly terms," said Admiral Tanyan. "If they manage to beat us back, do not retreat to the Wental Territory, our stronghold must remain secret."

"Alright! Group A, follow me!" Lorrelas said. "Group B, you'll follow Lt. Samenor, and Group C will be led by Admiral Khoffman and Tanyan."

The ships took off from the Wental Territory provincial capital Tordeep, heading in their assigned directions. Target A was a major Yama industrial center. Target B was a Tra military base. Target C was the Wental capital.

"Time for some revenge," Captain Lorrelas said as Group A came within sight of Target Zone A.

MMMMM Whatcha' say?
This is Group A's story.

Group A (codenamed "Alpha Squadron") was the first to strike, and they struck hard. The Yama had obviously expected the attack, but hadn't correctly apportioned the magnitude of it.

Nevertheless, the Yama were still fighting well. Albeit, the Yama's results had not been as favorable as the Tra's, but the Yama would not break easily.

As artillery fire was exchanged, more powerful Yama ships arrived to reinforce the ailing Yama defense. The battle reached a stalemate. Lorrelas watched from above, becoming frustrated with the outcome so far.

"Screw this," Lorrelas said, boosting into the planet's atmosphere. "I'll break these bastards if its the last thing I do!"

Fall of the Tra
This is Group B's story.

The Gala military base was in sight now. "Destroy the military bases and factories. Their military will not recover from this!" Lt. Samenor ordered. "Keep the civilians safe and we'll decide what to do with them later."

Fighters descended into Gala's atmosphere, where they were welcomed by Tra battleships. Anti-aircraft fire fell on the small strike fleet. To top it off, soldiers on the ground were shooting at the incoming squadron.

"Verdin to USS Oregon!" Lt. General Verdin said, the leader of the squadron. "They've come prepared! We'll need some cover fire down here!"

"Alright, fleet, move, move, move!" Samenor ordered. "Beam down our ground battalions to take out the anti-aircraft weapons!" Another large portion of the fleet headed into battle to try to intimidate the Tra into submission, while the rest waited in orbit for necessary intervention.

The Tra were more powerful than expected. Their battleships performed much better than previous reports had claimed. Of course, Samenor had never expected this battle to be an easy one (as it was taking place at a major Tra military center, after all), but the battle for the TIAF progressed slower than initial predictions.

The TIAF continued their push into the Tra lines, although the Tra had managed to greatly slow the TIAF advance. Weapons that the TIAF had never seen battered the fleet.

"This is the USS Columbia to the USS Oregon!" said Lt. General Deider. "They're using weapons that we were never told of in the briefing! We'll need some help!"

"Ah, so you've got some tricks up your sleeve, eh, Tra?" Lt. Samenor said to himself, smirking. "Well, let's show you some of ours." Lt. Samenor ordered 25 TIAF Bladewing-class fighters and 5 Rigel-class Destroyers to enter the battle. Though these ships are already very powerful, the TIAF reinforcements in the sky are even more powerful than those that were just sent in.

Capital Punishment
This is Group C's story.

"Sir, the Wental capital is in our sights," a TIAF pilot on the USS Argent announced. "Are we ready for battle?"

"Arm the ship weapons. Tell the fighter pilots to go on ahead," Admiral Khoffman instructed. "The Senate of Stars will be a pile of rocks by tomorrow, you hear?"

"Yes, sir!"

As the fighters flew into the atmosphere of the Wental capital, the battleships followed closely to bombard the planet from the skies. Meanwhile, the huge destroyers waited outside, ready to blast any reinforcements out of the sky.

"The Wental learned too late not to mess with us," Khoffman said, smiling. "Now they will be punished for their ignorance."

The Wental capital was surprisingly weak in defense, being owned by the peaceful Harliquin. Of course, Admiral Khoffman was not known for his mercy. He ruthlessly destroyed the Harliquin "defenses" and took care to introduce as much destruction as possible to the cities.

Once a major city was burned and many families were taken prisoner, Wental forces began to make a comeback. However, the TIAF already has the upper hand in this battle...

The Iteok keep invading
Date: 03/05/402 KRE

The Iteok attack the 20 planets they were assigned to. 12 Yama Planets, 8 Tra Planets. The Iteok could stand and fight against the defenders's forces, because of their entropy. Though they missed Voret and the Terridorians.

Meanwhile that, Rhtarhiatrhos got a transmission from planet Shurha, in the Milky way, Iteok Khereg.

??? - "How's Wental? You realize we could use you here?" Rhtarhiatrhos - "We want more territory, this is where we farm it. Also, I'm eating a wental Child right now." Zavrhos - "I am Zavrhos." Rhtarhiatrhos - "Woah!" Zavrhos - "Those dracogodummies could use some destruction on your hands." Rhtarhiatrhos - "Ask the Marinoxidiz." Zavrhos - "... Fine, stay there. If we lose... I am going to eat YOU!" Rhtarhiatrhos - "We never lose."

Another transmission popped out of nowhere, with the location garbled.

??? - "Mercena--- hire, just - a lot. We --- do your bidding..." Rhtarhiatrhos - "Who are these beings?"

Sometime later
10 hours later, the Iteok took 12 more planets, 7 from the Yama, 5 from the Tra. Rhtarhiatrhos was happy for this development, and heard the TIAF was fighting the Wentals. He called for yet another meeting. Only 13 Commanders could be present.

Rhtarhiatrhos - "Why are there only 13 of you?" Tarhtarhaa - "2 died in battle." Rhtarhiatrhos - "AGAINST THOSE WIMPS????"

After 1 hour of angry shouting, he continued.

Rhtarhiatrhos - "As you know, we are expanding at a fast rate. We will reach Toragh 9's goal soon enhough." Tarhtarhaa - "Indeed." Rhtarhiatrhos - "How many did we take again?" Tarhtarhaa - "40, Sir. It's not that hard to do math." Rhtarhiatrhos - "GAH! Stop! As for you Temporary commanders, the ones that join the now 13 we have, keep fighting!" Karhtarhos - *On a Screen* "Yes sir."

Getting Help
The Wental Alliance was in need of assistance. They were now at war with both the Iteok and the TIAF forces. So they went to the only people they knew of, the Meta. With their strange energies, surely they could aid the Wental Alliance, right? So the WA sent a small representative fleet off to get help.

Wentals - "Hail, Meta species, we come from the Wental Alliance."

The fleet had arrived at Teron safe and sound, no problems except for a hold up as a larger Yama fleet headed off to the war zone.

Metamind - "Ah, hello little alliance, what brings you to our forest homes? Don't you have a war to win?"

The Wental Representatives look at each other. They know this isn't going to go over with the Meta all that well.

Wentals - "That's why we're here. The Iteok are winning, and we managed to get ourselves in a war with the TIAF as well. Stupid Yama. We... we need your aid if we are to win this war and push the Iteok out of Wental."

The Metamind looked at them for a minute or two. Then he sighed.

Metamind - "We came to Wental fleeing war and the devastation it brings, why would we want to get involved in another war?"

This was about what the WA representatives had expected, so they played their trump card. The Meta cared for children even more then they did, so they knew showing them videos of the refugees, survivors, and the ones who didn't make it would pretty much force them into the war.

After about 20 minutes of videos, the Metamind seemed to be in a state of... panic, or shock. Then he said

Metamind - "See? This is what war brings. Nothing good will ever come of the meaningless slaughter of species and planets. We will aid you, but we will not like it, you understand? You already owe us more then you will repay in the next hundred years, this will add greatly to your debt."

The Wental Representatives were overjoyed to know that they would be getting help from the Meta, truly overjoyed.

Wentals - "Thank you, great Metamind, we will never be able to thank you enough!"

The Metamind looked at them sadly.

Metamind - "Save your thanks until after the war, when you will really know if this was worth a thank you."

Now, that scared the Wental Reps a little, but they were still happy about the new aid they would be getting, and went back to the alliance territories to plan their next move. Even as they left Teron, they could see the forest was agitated, trees were swaying from side to side, with no wind to blow them, and the great Treeships in orbit were gathering together, almost as if they were talking about the events...

A Forest of War
The Worldforest hadn't been to war in millennia, they had always kept to themselves. They had reason to fear war, the last time they waged war they lost. Badly. But the Meta were determined to save all those innocent Wental children, many of whom they had uplifted in past generations. They felt responsible for them. So the Meta and the Worldforest would be fighting for the first time in over 2 thousand years...

The Worldforest called out to it's many ships and vessels and forested worlds, calling to them, telling them of their new need. Entire planet forests started to focus their energies into a few hundred massive trees, the mightiest the galaxy would ever see. As the first of the great Wartrees pulled their roots free of the planets they had called home, the Worldforest mind consigned itself to war. The wartrees would be accompanied by thousands of Meta ships, Clouds, lesser Treeships, and Worldships. The Iteok had bitten the forest itself, and now, as the Worldforests rage simmered, only barely contained after having been suppressed for so very long, the Worldforest began to look forward to the true carnage they would unleash against the sapling-killers, the Iteok...

True Carnage
Date: 05/05/402 KRE - Location: Marinrhaaxida, Iteok Khereg, Wental Galaxy

Part 1: Trees and Ships
The Worldforest Mind moves to war for the first time in 2 thousand years, accompanied by millions of Meta ships and lesser Treeships. Their great, 1-3 thousand foot long Wartrees ripped free of their planetary moorings, and the rage of the forest was close to overwhelming it. The stage is set, the Iteok fleets prepare for the coming onslaught. This is war, total war, and no one will remain unscarred from the impact of these two great forces...

Tahrtarhaa - "What the, Trees? Prepare your fire lasers. We'll burn those useless cylinders out of sky!" Soldier Farhtaktaa - "Indeed. We managed to wipe out all these things from Ikrhas and 34 other planets, so let's do it here."

And so, they loaded their weapons, the army defending their territories is made of 12000 Ships. The Iteok were ready.

"The Meta have already attacked the Iteok! We need to get there ASAP!"

The Wental Alliance swiftly gathered its fleets, intending to take full advantage of the Meta's help while it lasted. When they arrived, they found the Meta and their forests already attacking and under attack. Trees were burning, but even as they burned several of them, bare of leaves, shot out bolts of lightning at the Iteok ships. Several Iteok ships suddenly burst into greenery, and as the greenery grew it tore and ripped the ships apart. In other locations, the massive trees were strangling Iteok ships with their roots and branches, breaking through their metal shells and releasing the atmosphere held within...

Tarhtarhaa - "What kind of wacky cylinders are these??? Hurry, regroup and strike those things!!!"

And so they did. The 7800 Remaining ships formed into 1 Group and started burning Wartrees. Tahrtarhaa was confused, as he was used to the fact that Trees could not move.

But these trees could move, could become angry and fast. And so they did. As the Iteok ships burned dozens of Wartrees, dozens more attacked them, accompanied by the Wental Alliance and Meta Fleets. As the mighty trees crushed dozens of ships in their iron grip, the Iteok started to fall back a little. But they were still fighting, more fiercely then before. The battle was far from over, and as one Iteok ship fell, the rest grew more aggressive and daring and just plain destructive. This was turning out to be a pretty even battle.

Tarhtarhaa - "Keep going men!!! KEEP BURNING THEM! LEAVE NONE ALIVE!!!"

That was the enraged voice of Tarhtarhaa, which commanded the Remaining 5805 Iteok Ships to keep burning these "Odd Cylinders" that kept attacking them. Tarhtarhaa though, sent a transmission to Rhtarhiatrhos, and gave him a map of the locations where the Wartrees came from...

"Ha! You ready for this, tree-huggers?"

As that line was said, a TIAF Hellfire-class Battleship lowered its Shadow Drive and unloaded a Hellfire Missile on to one of the Wartrees. The tree erupted in a brilliant ball of fire and antimatter. After that, 5 TIAF Bladewing-class fighters uncloaked as well and joined the Hellfire-class.

"Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, Wental!" a Bladewing pilot exclaimed as the fighters entered the battle.

Tarhtarhaa - "Someone's helping us! I'll contact them."

He then contacts the TIAF, with a friendly message.

Tarhtarhaa - "Hello. Thanks for helping us in conquering the Galaxy. You are awesome people. Keep it up!"

Meanwhile, 125 Ships arrive at one of the Meta's planets, and activated the Heat rays and the Fireball Generators. Soon, after 20 minutes, the whole land could be seen covered in fire.

Part 2: Rage Unleashed
The Worldforest Mind was in pain. They had only been helping their allies fight to defend themselves. Why were these, these TIAF and Iteok attacking them in their ancient strongholds? Why was fire... FIRE, the old enemy. Fire, which must be tamed and controlled, for the safety of all. The Worldforest was awakening, the threat of fire was bringing back it's old rage. It fought this, it hated the rage, the fiery rage that burned without burning. But this time there was something new... something that was reflecting the rage, magnifying it, resonating with it... the Meta! They were like a hollow branch, resonating and increasing the sound of a drumbeat. They were becoming enraged themselves, as creatures like them were want to do. But their rage was not their own, it was the Forests... the Forests rage was growing, uncontrolled and unstopped. The Forest fought... the Forest lost...

The Worldforest Mind was enraged. The Forest was in pain, fire and death was being rained upon it's branches. Fire... the old enemy of the forest... all fire must be tamed. The massive Wartrees turned to face these new enemies, while more of them were hit with this strange fire that burned without air. The Wartree that turned first was hit dead on with a blast of fire. This enraged it, enraged them all. And as the rage grew, the trees started to turn from red to black, the leaves turned sickly and tainted, as though dying of disease. The Wartree gathered up the fire in it's now blackened branches, and hurled it back at the enemy, firing off bolts of lightning and blasts of supercooled water that froze on contact. More and more Wartrees were turning black with rage and hate, becoming tainted by their old fires. And their rage was overflowing, overflowing into the Meta, being mirrored by the Meta, resonating within them, awakening their old evils. The two species started to become overwhelmed by the rage that neither could stop. As the Wartrees burned and were destroyed, the survivors became more enraged, more powerful. They were evolving, as their buried fury rebounded off the fury of the Meta. The Worldforest was losing it's hold on itself, a hold that had held in in check for 3 millennium. On the planets of the Forest, fires burned in the innermost souls of every tree, of every Meta. Fires that were reflecting and feeding each other as had never been seen before...

The Wental Alliance was terrified! First, the Meta attacked the Iteok, which was something unheard of, they never attacked, only defended. Then, TIAF came out and started helping the Iteok against them! And now this... strangeness from the Meta. Their trees were turning black, and their ships were going beserk, as though they had lost all sense of fear and were nothing more then warriors. As though their entire species had gone insane. The Wental Fleet withdrew to a safe distance, panicking and trying to hold their less... aggressive troops together. The strange new violence in the Meta and their ally was... frightening.

Tahrtarhaa - "Oh we angered them! This is happiness! We angered those stupid trees!"

He said this as they were still fighting the Meta. The Iteok in the Meta Planet were being attacked by the Worldtrees, but the FTL Jumped back into the fight with the Meta. Tarhtarhaa thanked the TIAF again for their help, and they kept battling the Meta.

"What the hell are those!?" -Commander Klo

"They look like... trees." -Captain Kio

"Those are like no trees I've ever seen... No matter, they look distracted to me. Lets hit that small fleet hiding up a little ways behind them, they look like easy targets."-Commander Klo

"Yes Commander, getting to it." -Captain Kio

The Salchum Fleet dropped their cloaking devices, and sped off towards the smaller, seemingly defenseless fleet hiding behind the massive tree-things. Flashes of light from fire and lighting (how did trees shoot lightning?) flickered behind their ships as they moved into position, and opened fire on the enemy fleet. The Salchum ships had some of the best weapons known to their species, and they did grace damage to the enemy ships, taking out engines and weapons ports, stranding them in empty space. The Salchum ships then proceeded to fire off their harpoons, snagging ships of all sizes and shapes, and pulling them up to the boarding air-locks, where armies of well-armed and well trained Cylone Soldier Stacks were waiting, with equipment and machinery to force open even the most resistant hulls. As the ships were invaded, it turned out that some of them were filled with water of all things. The Cylone Stacks didn't do to well in water, and disintegrated, fleeing into the shadows and all sentience left them. ''Ah well, acceptable losses. We'll just find the-''

Then the ships were suddenly hit from behind by some enemy or another. About 7 ships were destroyed in that single first blast. "Who the hell is that?!" Klo exclaimed as he spun in place to see this new attacker. It was one of the trees, having spotted them and turned to help the small fleet. "Dump those ships, open em up to the vacuum! We've got bigger fish to fry! Or should I say trees?" The Salchum fleet turned to face this new enemy, shooting harpoons into the tree and yanking on it from all different directions. This worked better then the other guys fire was working, until the tree decided to yank back. Harpoon guns were ripped out of their ports, and ships were pulled into the swarm of angry swaying branches, where they met their fate as they were crushed into oblivion.

"Withdraw, withdraw, this damn tree's gonna get it! Shoot of a few anti-matter bombs at it, that should make an impact." It worked, once the white light of the explosion faded about half the tree was missing entirely. "Shoot off a few more, then head back to those ships we took out earlier. We have unfinished business there!" The rest of the tree was annihilated in an explosion of white light, and the Salchum ships headed back to their original target, this time making sure to watch out for trees. ''Well, this is turning out to be an interesting day. I will have plenty to tell the Master when I get home, yes, plenty. But for now, I need as many slaves as possible. "Oi! Hurry up there, I'm not getting any younger!''"

Part 3: Hidden Weapon
The Bladewings continued to slice through tree branches like a knife through hot butter, and the Hellfire's barrage did not stop. The Hellfire's commander received the Iteok commander's thanks. The commander replied:

"It seems as though we share common enemies. However, we aren't here to help you." The Hellfire captain fired a friendly warning shot at a small Iteok ship. "Just watch yourselves."

Nobody else but the TIAF knew that a larger fleet was floating in space, cloaked, nearby, waiting for the time to strike. Meanwhile, as the Meta grew in rage, the hidden fleet took notice.

"Sir, the Meta seem to be acting much more aggressively than usual," a TIAF officer told the captain of the USS Kaldiega.

"I've read about this," the captain said. "They lose their tempers like this when they're losing. They'll try to combat their weaknesses."

"What are you saying, sir?"

"I'm saying it's time to test some new weapons. I suppose we can spare some of our new Elemental-class Battleships."

Three TIAF Elemental-class Battleships uncloaked and approached the battleground...

Burn them, break them, crush them, kill them... The Worldforest had lost much of it's self control, and the Meta could tell. They were now trying with every bit of their being to stop the Worldforest before things got to far out of hand. They were at a stalemate, but it looked as if they were going to win. That is, until the TIAF unveiled 3 massive ships, each of them as large as a Wartree, headed towards them. They were able to keep control, to dampen the Forests fires, but then those new ships unleashed powerful blasts of fire and supercooled water that froze on contact with the trees, burning them with cold as well as heat. Fire and Ice, old enemies, burn them, break then, crush them, kill them... The Meta were immediately consumed by the fresh rage that the Worldforest unleashed. They once again descended into rage...

These strange new ships that had come out of no where, managing to kill a Worldtree, were now taking over all the ships in the Wental Fleet! The ships that had yet to be taken were sending out panicked distress signals, which only served to make the battle even more confusing. There was a garbled message, something about towers of donuts, and then static from one of the ships. Beyond that, it seemed as though these new attackers were thoroughly and completely taking control of most of the Wental fleet. Masuri was baffled. First the Meta go insane, which was holding off the Iteok, then TIAF shows up with strange new ships that equal the Meta's trees, and now this unknown new enemy, who refused to communicate and was silencing ship after ship of his fleet! What was wrong with the universe, that such chaos could be unleashed?

These strange "Wentalians" as they seemed to call themselves, were truly pathetic. These were their soldiers, their fighters, and they couldn't fight worth a half-ring! What kind of losers had creatures like these as their military forces? Not that Klo was complaining, each new ship that was taken equaled favor with the Master, and that meant that Klo wanted as many as possible. As these strange creatures surrendered is greater numbers, he noticed a small fleet of them, the lucy ones, fleeing to a safe distance. These pathetic creatures weren't even going to attempt to save their own! That was even funnier then them not having warriors in their military. Klo then noticed that some other faction, with these 3 massive ships, were successfully destroying several of those large and dangerous trees. He gave them a salute, shuffling his rings from to top to the bottom, and then turned to his 15 ring stack. "We hit those big ones next. Remember, we just want to steal some tech, not take the entire ship. And if you see smaller ships from the same faction, well, the more the merrier, got it?"

The Iteok kept going. They launched missiles at the Wartrees, burning them. Tarhtarhaa was happy and joyful of all the carnage he was causing, though a bit angry at the TIAF for not being on the Khereg's side.

The TIAF fleet captain, Admiral Routhis, laughed heartily as he watched Wartree after Wartree burn or freeze. This battle would go easily for the TIAF.

"Meta fools," Routhis muttered, mockingly. "Everyone knows Fire and Ice are super effective on Grass."

Meanwhile, in the chaos...

The Hellfire's pilot, Lt. General Robert Jay, was spinning and barrel-rolling through the tangled branches of the Wartrees, dropping Hellfire Missiles in just about every place possible. He received a transmission from one of the Elemental-class crew members about another person named "Klo", who was keeping the Wental fleet at bay. Jay silently thanked the strange, new leader and continued his endless assault on the Wartrees.

The Meta and their Worldforest had lost all vestiges of control. The last time they had been in a situation like this, the Meta were driven out of their galaxy and very nearly wiped out. The Worldforest had been reduced to a single small colony on a single planet (Teron). Naturally, both species were at once terrified by how weak they were turning out to be, and furious that they were losing again. That pissed them off quite a bit, that did. As more and more of their massive Wartrees were destroyed, as more and more of the planets they inhabited were attacked and purged by the TIAF forces, their fury grew. The Meta were becoming unstable, and using insane amounts of Heartfire in their attacks. Then the news came up. A shatterling had just formed, created when it watched as her entire crew was wiped out by an enemy freeze ray that missed the tree it was aimed at. This Shatterling then proceeded to use even more Heartfire then a normal Meta can use, and wiped out not only her ship and herself, but a large number of surrounding ships, including the ships that had shot the freeze-ray thing at her. The Battle was completely one sided, yes, but the Meta were being pushed beyond their limits, of body, tech, mind, and spirit. It was only a matter of time before more Shatterlings would be born, and more devastation would be spread across the battling ships.

The surviving Wental ships were rocked by a blast of energy from the Meta area, and a brilliant and blinding explosion of light and energy ripped through the battleground. It appeared that something had wiped out a small portion of the fleets, including one of those new TIAF ships that had been doing so well against the Meta. The Battle was being lost though, badly, and they needed some new ally to help them, otherwise they would be completely lost, it was turning into a rout not a battle. But no new fleets were coming, the Meta fleets were still to far, and the Wental fleets were busy defending their own worlds more so then fighting an offensive war. So the Wental got desperate. They sent out a message to their allies, the Iron Giants in the hopes that some, at least, would come o help them, but not expecting anything. "Retreat, we can't win this!" The Wental Fleet started to withdraw, but found themselves boxed in by the strange enemies that kept capturing their ships.

''Ha, these losers, they didn't even know how to flee in panic right. Well, that wouldn't matter now.'' So thought Klo as he and his fleet boxed in the last of the Wental ships. As they went about capturing them, however, 3 ships blasted off towards a different part of the galaxy. Well, no one's perfect, though I'm pretty damn close thought Klo, watching the ships speed away in panic. This was turning out to be a very fun battle indeed. "Oi! You, 15stack, how are the ships headed for that big TIAF ship doing?" The 15stack looked over at a screen "They should be arriving any moment now, and then we'll see how we do against them. Let us hope we are the stronger!" Klo looked at the 15stack in disgust "We are stronger, they will not win. They cannot win." The 15stack realized it's mistake and swiftly said "Of course, Master Klo. Of Course." The cloaked ships decloaked right behind the larger TIAF vessel, and started shooting at it, aiming for weapons ports and escape pods. None would be escaping this, the Master Rings of the Salchum would come out victorious or not at all.

"Holy-" Lt. General Jay exclaimed as the Shatterling exploded, engulfing one of the TIAF Elemental-class Battleships. "Damnit, Colonel, what was that?"

"Heartfire, sir," answered Colonel David Toomes, who was on board the Hellfire-class Battleship. "Special Meta ability. That one just killed itself using it."

"Well, then damnit, Colonel, find a way to combat it!"

"Yes, sir!"

Suddenly, a panicked transmission was received from one of the two remaining Elemental-classes. It was a distress signal.

"General, we are under attack by this 'Klo', they have targeted our weapons systems and escape systems," said Colonel Bob Harley, the communicator aboard the Elemental-class. "We'll need help to fight them off!"

Lt. Gen. Jay relayed the message to the USS Idaho, the flagship of the TIAF fleet, where Admiral Routhis monitored the battle.

"Damnit, Klo, you just had to get in our way too, didn't you?" Routhis said as the message ended. "Send in 25 Rigel-classes, 25 Battalion-classes, and 25 Devastator-classes. Make sure this guy doesn't leave the battle alive..."

Klo watched as his attacking fleet finished taking out the weapons ports on the back right side of the TIAF ship. This was going well, to well. Ginga had always managed to pull something out of no where when he was losing, and this seemed to be the same thing. "Keep up your guard, I'm sending in another 25 ships to watch your back, but still. This is to easy, after how they took out those trees this should be harder." He didn't speak a moment to soon, because mere moments later about 100 TIAF ships dropped their cloaks and started firing on his fleet. "Belay that! Sending in half the fleet, that's about 75 ships or so! Just hold on until we arrive!" Klo knew his fleet couldn't lose in a fair fight, but he didn't intend to fight a fair fight. "Aim for the engines, fuel, and weapons! If we can get them to blow up it'll do more damage that way." Klo watched as his fleet pulled a complete 180 and started to go for the enemy. "My ship stays here, with the other half of the fleet." Klo knew that the best commanders always stayed behind friendly lines, and he didn't have any reason to martyr himself in this battle. As half his fleet went off to help the 30 or so ships that were still fighting beside the larger TIAF ship, the other half worked on the Wental Ships, taking everything that wasn't nailed down and loading it on transports with the new slaves...

"BOOM!" said Lt. Gen. Jay as he dropped another Hellfire Missile on a Salchum ship. The support was here, and now the battle could go better for the TIAF. Meanwhile, the Salchum brought in 75 more ships to combat the TIAF. As the gigantic destroyers bombarded the small Salchum fleets, Jay noticed something. The Salchum were not destroying the ships, merely crippling them for something else...

"Protect the Elemental-classes at all costs!" Jay ordered. "Make sure that the onboard defenses are as solid as rock!" Soldiers aboard the TIAF destroyers beamed into the heavily-damaged battleships, protecting the insides from a boarding party...

Part 4: New Faces and New Fleets
Ok, lets not forget this war again, okay? I have an issue with forgetting, but now we need to rev it up a bit. I'll be bringing in the Calonu Empire in this section, but I want some others to put some more parts to the battle in here before I do. Note: The Calonu take their time to decide, but once they do they go with the force to do the job. 18mil ship fleet, sent 40 thousand ships. They will not attack to kill, only to capture. They like to hear all sides of a battle before helping anyone. They will, however, crush the Salchum Ships utterly. They don't like the Salchum. (Machine)

BTW, Where did the Iteok go? This looks more like a battle between TIAF and the Salchum... entering WA, Meta, and WM now... (Machine)
 * Nobody seems to be noticing them, so it's assumed that they are still fighting. (Irskaad)
 * I'm sorry... they just sort of dropped out, didn't they? Ok, lets go to my blog and see if we can't decide a specific path for this fiction to take, otherwise it's going to end up leaving both the Iteok and the Wental Alliance behind lol... (Machine)

As several Salchum ships pulled themselves against the TIAF battle-ship, they disgorged dozens of large 25stacks(25 rings tall, about 4-5ft) into the ships through holes bored clean into the side of said ship. The stacks were heavily armed and well trained, more the capable of killing or crippling their enemies. Since each ring could aim and shoot and fight independently of each other, they became effective whirlwinds of weapons fire and energy swords and fists and feet. They on their central axis like a top, making it very hard to kill them off, but also making it harder to aim weapons. The long-rang guys came next, with long, thin rifles that shot projectiles at enemies, as well as ion blasts. These were well trained, battle hardened warriors, raised for the sole purpose of destroying their enemies utterly.

The TIAF ships were now distracted by the Salchum, but the Wartrees were far from beaten. They just needed some encouragement. Such encouragement was given when a Meta ship was destroyed by stray cannon fire while retreating. The Wartrees that were still intact started to move again, and the ones that had been destroyed started growing new branches and leaves out of the shards. Another Shatterling formed, but this one sent all of it's energies into the surrounding trees, killing itself and energizing the forest. As the newer trees started to rumble into attack once more, it turned out that dozens of small trees were more dangerous then a few giant ones. The Worldforest Mind started to cause it's trees to break apart into dozens of smaller trees, the massive, 800ft tall wartrees breaking apart into 20ft long saplings, each of which propelled itself toward the nearest TIAF ships.

The Wental Alliance was stunned. Where had all these new enemies come from? And since when did the Meta get angry?! No matter, they had allies to help and enemies to destroy. The Yama specifically had been hard hit by the war so far, they now wanted something to shoot. When the three ships arrived at a nearby planet, they sent word of the complete and utter failure in the battle, and asked for a much larger fleet to arrive. At least 400 ships in size, they asked. Collectively, only 143 ships could be found, not even half of what they wanted. But Masuri had to make do with the hand he had been dealt. He would just bluff his way through until a larger fleet could be gathered.

Tarhtarhaa - "What's going on???"

Tarhtarhaa could not understand where was this war going, if anything, they believed everyone would destroy themselves, so Tarhtarhaa ordered a retreat, but the fleet will still be orbiting the Iteok planets to defend them in case they come.

With the Iteok leaving the battle, and the Wental presence pretty much destroyed, it was now more of a death struggle between the Salchum, TIAF, and Meta/Worldforest. The trees were starting to run low on energy, however, so it looked like this would be a battle between the Salchum and TIAF fleets. Meta and Worldtrees started to withdraw from the battle, only to be surprised by an obnoxiously large fleet dropping out of hyperspace practically on top of them. They had no hope against such a fleet, and prepared for destruction. After a few seconds of not being destroyed, they saw the fleet was headed for the Salchum ships with a vengeance. A transmission goes off across all bandwidths.

"Oi! Salchum it's time to meet your makers! Ha ha, we're gonna win this one! To everyone else listening, I'm Commander Ginga of the Calonu Empire, and we're here to kick some major Salchum arse!"

- Commander Ginga

As the much larger 'Calonu' fleet aproached the considerably smaller Salchum fleet, which literally seemed to make a double-take when it saww the massive attacking fleet. They swiftly withdrew, leaving behind anyone and anything that couldn't defend itself or run away with them. The Meta, TIAF, and few Wental Alliance ships still in the area stared at the larger fleet as it moved in and rounded up the straggling Salchum ships. The larger fleet then made it clear that they expected the other fleets to disperse, as this was now part of "Calonu" territory, and should be respected as such. Considering the size of the new fleet, they didn't have much of a choice but to listen, and wonder who these strangers were, and what they held against the Salchum. But the battle was over, and everyone went home to lick their wounds and prepare for the next one...

Strike the Planet bound civilization
After the True Carnage war, the Iteok wanted to inflict more pain on the Wental Alliance and the Meta, so they began by capturing some citizens from a Wental Civ Stage Planet, and after that, blowing up the planet into tiny pieces. Then, they put the captured citizens into the Meta Planet, and burned the trees around them, making the planet a charred wasteland, as it did with the citizens.

This caught the attention of the Wental Alliance and the Meta, who need to remove the Iteok out of their Galaxy, before it was too late...

Gathering Storm
So, the Meta, who were by this point calmed down from their rather upsetting rage earlier, started to gather their forces once again. They also sent aid to the Wental Alliance, requesting a fleet in return. They even sent out a few ships to find those "Calonu" who had helped them earlier, but those ships had yet to return. The Iron Giants had sent 12 ships out to help the Alliance, and the Wental ALliance itself had sent out 600 ships, but were building and sending more. They wanted those damn Iteok out of their galaxy, and it didn't matter how they would do this. They sent out machine-controlled ships by the dozen, using the factory planets of the Yriga Empire to mass-produce starships for the war. They would ammass a fleet so vast that it would darken an entire starsystem, though that was a major exzageration. At the least, it would scare the Iteok away, or maybe TIAF. Grand Captain Commander Masuri watched from the Senate of Stars as the fleets gathered around Yames, capitol of the Yama Empire, and he grinned. Those Iteok would regret ever stepping foot into Wental now!

The TIAF's Plan
The attack fleet that had pulled away from the True Carnage battle was preparing to strike again. On the TIAF Wental planet Nividia-2, Admiral Routhis (who had been given command of the Wental offensive after the other three commanders departed for other conflicts) laid out his plan to the fleet.

"We will burn a hole so deep into their memories, they won't come within 10 parsecs of us," Routhis said. "We will strike their capital planets. We already know the Wental capital was weak on our first reconnaissance mission there. We scared them the first time, now we will devastate them!"

Routhis began moving miniaturized TIAF craft across a digital map of the Wental Galaxy.

"Our strike force on the Wental capital does not need to be very large. They may have reinforced the capital after we gave them that scare, but we were able to crush the Yama at Sentreyaa, what makes them think we can be stopped now?"

Routhis moved a larger amount of TIAF craft to an area deep in Meta space.

"That is Teron. If we can take that down, no way the Meta will fight back..."

Zheno Minor
The Shellious were a small empire when they started exploring the Wental Galaxy. A small fleet of research vessels protected by fighters was charting their new territory. They were on their daily run for new types of life when they recieved a transmision from a unknown empire.

"You have entered our territory. Now you shall be destroyed!"

- Unknown source

The Shellious vessels soon found themselves surrounded by a large military fleet. The first fighter fired his weapons followed by the destruction of 2 of their 6 reasearch ships and 4 of their 6 fighters. The 4 remaining vessels sent a distess signal to Shellis.

"Fighter sending call for renforcements, We are under att---"

- Shellious Fighterdroid

The fighter was destroyed. None of the ships survived. The mystery empire sent a warning to the Shelliious. Later that day, Edoshai heard of what happened and sent Stealth fleets to explore the enemy's territory and find out which empire it was.

more coming soon today

Masuri's Promise
"Supreme Captain Commander Masuri, we have detected a TIAF fleet headed for the Meta capitol of Teron. The Meta, lacking the tech to detect said fleet, do not yet know about the TIAF fleet. We, the Senate of Stars, have agreed to send a fleet of 20 thousand manned ships and 40 thousand computer controlled ships (CCS's) to Teron to warn them of the approaching fleet and to help them defend their capitol. We are now commanding you, Masuri, hero of the Wental Alliance, to go with the fleet and give whatever aid and commanding skill you have to offer to the Meta. We cannot afford to lose this battle, if we do the Meta will be crushed, almost half their energies come from Teron alone. Without it... well, imagine ripping the roots of a tree out, how long will the rest of the tree survive? It will fall in the next storm, leaving only saplings to grow in it's place. If Teron is destroyed, and the Metamind dies, the Meta will collapse into chaos as they try to reorganize. We cannot afford to lose their support. That is an absolute fact, if we lose them we lose this war. We cannot afford to lose this war, either. We cannot even afford to fight this war, but TIAF and the Iteok have given us no choice. We are sending your underling, Captain Commander Hiruka, to battle the Iteok at Generali, a planet they recently attacked and all but wiped out. We are stretched far to thin over this galaxy of ours, and we will need to win every battle we fight if we are to survive. Do not fail us, Masuri, or the results will destroy the entire Alliance."

- Senate of Stars

"I'm on my way, Senate. I shall not fail you. That's a promise."

- Supreme Captain Commander Masuri

Masuri suddenly had a flashback to his home, now nothing more then a dead planet taken by the Iteok. He had joined the military to fight the Iteok, promising to defend his sisters. He had failed there. He would not do so again. At least, he hoped so. Masuri turned and walked out of the Senate room, the beautiful Wental Galaxy spinning slowly at his back, while the Senators went on with their endless and pointless debating. ''They take to long to decide. The Alliance needs someone who can make choices on a moments notice, not a bickering bunch of morons like those. They are the reason my home was destroyed. I will fight for them, but only until we win. Then they will fall, and the Empress will rise in their place. That, I promise.''

Teron Awaits
Masuri was waiting. Always waiting. At least this time it was for a valid reason, not just the simple and foolish senators debating again. He was waiting for a final update before liftoff to aid Teron. And it was taking forever for the message to get here...

After about ten minutes of wait, the message popped up on the screen with a little "ping". Masuri jumped, and then opened the file. "Teron still oblivious... Iron Giants sending help, that'll be a plus... meet them on the way, sure, fine... head off when ready, finally, the waitings over!" Masuri turned on the fleet wide radio system. "Okay everyone, it's time to start! The Meta need our help, and the Iron Giants have offered their personal aid in this, so we won't be entirely outgunned here, just mostly." scattered chuckles and nervous laughter sprinkle the coms. "We have permission to leave when ready, so we take a quick role call, and then we go! Got it? So, Commandship 'Empress' is ready to go!" The fleet started to count off to their captains, who then told their commanders, who then told Masuri. "Squadron 1, ready to go!" "Squadron 2, ready to go!" "Squadron 3, ready to go!" "Squadron 4, ready to go!" "Squadron 5, ready to go!" "Squadron 6, ready to go!" There was an overly long pause. "Squadron 7, are you ready to go?" "Squadron 7 is ready to go! Sorry about the wait, there was a minor-" "I don't care unless it will lower your performance, lets move out!" Masuri and his fleet were finally leaving, after 3 days of preparation and boring meetings on strategy. Teron was waiting, and they were on their way!

They're enraged...
"Listen up, I want a FLAWLESS VICTORY in Teron. If we take teron, nothing will stop us from taking the Galaxy! 73 Planets have been taken in our god Toragh 9's name, and we shall take a 74th one in his name. The Meta will try to defend their precious "Brown cylinder mind" from us, but we shall blow it out of the sky and take what's righteously ours! When Rhtarhiatrhos is done and I wake up I want to see a colony ship on that planet and I want to see a barren wasteland on that planet. Now, for our people, for our Emperor, THE BATTLE BEGINS!!!"

- Commander Tarhtarhaa

These were Tarhtarhaa's words as they approached Teron. Tarhtarhaa went on his bed, like he said, and Rhtarhiatrhos was in charge of taking Teron. They will have difficulties and it may not be a "Flawless victory", but the Iteok were in high morale today, and they were ready.