The SES Apollo was making its way to explore a never before seen planet. The Star Empire of Arivada wanted it to be colonized for it’s strategic position. The crew was confident. Yet they did not expect some new species of aliens to come and attack them. The ship only 300 Meters long with a crew of about 176 it wouldn’t be ready for this massive battle.
48 Hours ago:
The Apollo was just arriving at the planet noticing nothing was on it except vegetation. It sent 30 Men to go down on the surface. The Jumper they went on made the speedy delivery and the men got a glance at the beautiful planet. The followers were gorgeous. Yet they oddly picked up radiation. They didn’t understand how but they found a building. It proved to be a telescope. They activated it. That was their demise.
30 Hours ago:
The Aliens awakened. They had hundreds of ships in underground facilities. There cities they had been destroyed. The aliens had been in slumber for they were hiding to something that threatened them. Surprising for they could crush the Arivadian fleet. With only a hundred ships. They were highly advanced. Plasma rays, Ion Cannons. The only thing that seemed that could stop it was the Ancient Arivadian technology. The Ancient Alien Technology was an early race of Arivadians who went extinct. They are the reasons the Arivadians have warships now. The only good news was that 10 of the Arivadian warships were ancient Arivadian warships. Yet the Apollo was not one of them.
The aliens sprung out of their hangers. Fighters first… then the slower ships. The Apollo saw the fighters coming .The Rail guns on the ship began firing in an effort to thwart them off. Yet there were thousands. The ship didn’t stand a chance against the fighters they especially didn’t stand a chance against the Alien fleet. The ship noticed the alien fleet. It fired one shot. The ship was destroyed. Yet not before getting two things off. A Subspace warning to all major empires that there was an enemy and send forces to a planet close by. Another was a heavy Ion beam. It hit the alien ship. It did not get pass the energy shield.
24 hours ago:
Arivadian central command picked up the message. Every ship available was ordered to use it’s slip space engine to get to the target location in an effort of defense. The slip space engine could zoom a ship from one side of the galaxy to another. About 135 Ships were at the staging point. They did not know what the enemy was yet they had to take the word on the Apollo for every ship had a tracker on it that could be tracked for galaxies. The only problem with the fleet was no ancient ships. In fact there were primarily mixed Arivadian ships. Most Arivadians were human yet upon conquering local factions it made allies. These allies who were aliens considered themselves Arivadians. One race was the most advanced. The way the Arivadians defeated them was using their knowledge against them. About 20 of the ships were Arivadian. 35 were that advanced race. The rest were some freed soldiers who were liberated by the Arivadians who swore there allegiance to them and became Arivadian citizens.
Now:
Official Message to all star empires:
There is apparently an ancient alien race coming for us. They massacred one of our ships in one shot. We recommend you send ships to help us defend all of our territory. We have 135 ships but they might not be able to stop them.
The Arivadian fleet was prepared. They spotted only six ships coming in from Phase space. Another type of FTL. It seemed puny but the Arivadians were still prepared. They weren’t going to risk anything. Then 5 more ships arrived from another Arivadian coalition member. They had the largest ships. At over a kilometer long the ship made the Arivadians look puny.