Depths of Space (IC, OPEN, FT)

[The Not so Hidden Valley]

Ophius sank down into her chair, turning and cocking an eyebrow at Scorpius. He simply shook his head at her and busied himself in his planning, bending his head over in the hopes that whoever was taking this message wouldn't put the name to the face and get...upset. He gulped slightly as he realised that Shellist would be here somewhere and probably would get upset. He didn't want to have another face-off with the Terran-not now, anyway, when they were supposed to be on the same side.

" Well until they respond where were we?"

[Spindle]

"New ships in-system." Scorpius messaged to Ophius' holo, "Ostian made. Arrived a couple of minutes ago, we're just getting the light now."

"Wonderful." Ophius replied, "When's Fifth Fleet due?"

"Resupply is scheduled to begin in two minutes time."

Ophius glanced up again as Yodalf started speaking and her mind backtraced through their conversation. She suppressed another smile.

"Well, you were data-dumping info on the Florans to us so, if I may ask, why did the Florans attack? And why here, of all places?"

[The V O I D]

Eris stared into Khronos' eyes for several seconds, her tears stopping from pure shock, as the request sank in. Marry him? He she heard tat right? He wanted her...to marry him? She sat in his lap for a few seconds, her arms around his body and her mouth forming an 'o'. She saw the tears of joy beginning to roll down his face and felt her own tears well up in sympathetic response. Her arms wrapped around his torso and she smiled like a loon as she whooped for joy.

"Yes!" She cried out, "Yes!"

She leaned over his face, kissing the tears a one by one as she closed he eyes and let everything else in the universe simply fade from her mind. All that mattered-all that had ever mattered and al that could ever matter-was the two of them, together like this. She could feel his warmth through the envirosuit, feel his body pressed up against hers and went in for another kiss with Khronos, letting herself lose her mind in him again.

The Imperator's Might
Capital Dreadnought of All Remnant Fleets
The Taari Armada / Remnant

Khronos held her close as she began kissing him and made her proclamation. For a moment, he wondered if he had died and went to the supreme above; for she was so like an angel, so beautiful and kind, and lovely... oh, he damned every single demon in the universe who cursed his species to need envirosuits. His want for her and love for her increased exponentially. Khronos smiled at her, kissing her lips briefly.

"T-That is glorious news. I... Oh my gods, we have to announce it to the entire Remnant... I need to invite family to the wedding. But, you need to, as well, don't you? My, my... I can stay for a little while longer, but then there must be preparations made for us, my love!", he said in ecstatic joy. Khronos held her close as he kissed her lips again, savoring every minute and second. Every taste. He wanted her so badly, and now she was going to be his. Khronos forgot about missions, being a soldier, being a leader. All that mattered, right now, was her. Her alone. She was going to be his everything...Khronos continued staring into her eyes happily.

[The Not so Hidden Valley]

"New ships in-system." Scorpius messaged to Ophius' holo, "Ostian made. Arrived a couple of minutes ago, we're just getting the light now."

"Wonderful." Ophius replied, "When's Fifth Fleet due?"

"Resupply is scheduled to begin in two minutes time."

Ophius glanced up again as Yodalf started speaking and her mind backtraced through their conversation. She suppressed another smile.

"Well, you were data-dumping info on the Florans to us so, if I may ask, why did the Florans attack? And why here, of all places?"

" I not sure apparently they have a hate of soft skin"

[Theyra]

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Displeoa System - Orbit around Lepota - 51 Hours After Awakening

Even though the planet was lost at this point, the Ostian squadron above began its task. While it was tasked with reconnaissance, it was also given the most controversial task yet. The ships began bombarding the major population centers from oribt, without any warning to the people below. A hailstorm of transmissions were sent to the fleet, but were responded to by energy bolts.

In order to achieve orbital bombardment, the Ostian squadron had to be in the planet's atmosphere which was rapidly heating up.

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Displeoa System - Orbit around Vryi - Displeoa Fleet Starbase - Command Center - 51 Hours After Awakening

In the large spherical commander center, the Ostian ship Captains, squadron commanders, and other naval officers gathered for the briefing. The command center was located in the center of the space station, with a large screen all round showing the deployment of the ships. At the center of the command center was Prince Xaiver Marx and Admiral Feolf Specht of the Displeoa Fleet.

"Brothers and Sisters of Ostia!" Prince Xaiver yelled to the crowd of officers, "lend me your hearts as we go to battle today!"

"Hurah! Hurah! Hurah!" Yelled the Naval officers in unison, raising their fist into the air each time they repeated the word.

Prince Xavier continued on, "I shall give you the details of the battle today..." Admiral Spehct was upset at the current situation. Even though they were lucky that a Royal fleet had arrived, he wasn't particular fond of the Prince himself. Even though the Prince was battle-tested, he wasn't a very good tactician. A few officers shared this opinion, but many of the Ostian sailors believed that Prince Xavier was a model soldier. Also because the Prince had taken command, Admiral Spehct had limited control over his own forces. He had a feeling in his gut that something bad was about to happen. That a tragedy was in process for the Ostian forces.

"Now, let me repeat the fleet formation..."

"Your highness, there is an unknown transmission coming from somewhere."

Prince Xavier looked visibly annoyed. "Who has the nerve? Play it immediatly."

"This is Captain Dyr Von of the Vryr'yks Coalition and we intercepted a distress signal from this system and went to investigate". Dyr takes a breath, "We have be monitoring your communications and I have received word that my government has given the me the right to offer a military alliance to you to help fight this parasite and eliminate it". "I apologized for not letting my presence know before but, my people are cautious of aliens and we couldn't determine the nature the of the distress signal and took precautions". "Please responded as possible for it would be take time for our forces to arrive and please if you are angry about our secretly up to this point". "Again we are cautious of aliens", and Dyr voice becomes serious. "The fact that the Council has allowed me to offered a military alliance to the first alien civilization that we have found and know nothing about... I hope that tells how serious we are about dealing with this threat and I will wait for your response".

There were a few gasps from the officers. First, they never heard of an entity called the Vry'yks Coalition. Second, they were surprised and frightened that an unknown entity was monitoring their communications. Third, they didn't know if this people could be trusted. Prince Xavier looked directly at the communications officer, "You, send this transmission to this 'Captain Dry Fawn'." The Admiral had began walking out of the briefing room at this point, telling his aide that he is going to be out for a few minutes.

"I don't know who you are, and what you are. But, how did you monitor our military communications? No matter, I am Prince Xavier Marx of the Ostian Imperium, third line to the Imperial throne. I do not need your help, but you can stand and watch our glorious victory over this 'Highbreed'." After Prince Xavier sent the message, he continued on with the briefing emphasizing the placement of the frigates.

As soon as the first transmission was sent, a second one arrived to the xenos.

"I apologize if he offended you. I am Admiral Feolf Specht of the Displeoa Fleet, I was in-command until Prince Xavier arrived. However I beseech you to stay and provide support for our forces. I do not know who you are but I have a feeling you can be trusted. Stay in contact with me, and reinforce our fleet when the battle turns sour which I know it will."
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What! Are they insane! Dyr in shocked over the first message. "They would rather fight this parasite alone knowing how dangerous it and be still be confident that they can kill the parasite after losing one world and possible another.

Sir, another message is coming from the Ostians said Oia

"I apologize if he offended you. I am Admiral Feolf Specht of the Displeoa Fleet, I was in-command until Prince Xavier arrived. However I beseech you to stay and provide support for our forces. I do not know who you are but I have a feeling you can be trusted. Stay in contact with me, and reinforce our fleet when the battle turns sour which I know it will."

Dyr relaxes somewhat after hearing the message. So, some of seem to understand the threat pose by the 'Highbreed", send a message back to command for a green light for aid. But, tell them to be cautious since it appears that the commanders of the Ostian fleet have different ideas on dealing with the Highbreed.

"Sir, message is away, after a few minutes, Sir, command sent a message back. Reinforcements are on their way and should be here in three days. Plus, half of the fleet's ground forces have been modified to deal with the Hivebreed and the rest should ready when they arrive".

Good, Fari sent this message to Admiral Feolf Specht. "Admiral, Reinforcements are on their way and should arrive in three days. The fleet will arrive on the edge of the system near my present location". And the ground troops are been specifically modified to deal with Hivebreed if you allow them to fight. Admiral you can trust in us to help you eliminate this threat before it can get worse and possibly escape the system. Also, we will prepare our weapons and will only fire on infected ships that manages to get past your ships and tries to escape the system. And Admiral when the fleet arrives I hope that your Prince will not cause problems for us as I did not want a war between our governments, especially since this Highbreed is obliviously the greater threat.

Message is sent Sir, said Fari

"Good,I want the Erion cannon ready to fire and establish a direct link with our fleet to tell them of any change before they arrive". Dyr gets on his wristguard and connects to the ships' comm network. "I want all Sentinels ready for action when the fleet arrives and all Observer drones and Mark 5 Mechs to be modified to combat the Hivebreed as soon as possible".
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(OOC)
(Coalition fleet comp)
(six-heavy cruisers )
(four-destroyers)
(three-frigates)
(two-troop transports)

[The United Tributational Territories]

The HSC Welrin
The Welrin entered Sol once more, now knowing what they should expect going into it.
"Head Senator," Quin said as he faced him before exiting hyperspace,"Are you sure it is wise for to tell about the virus? How would you think they would react?"
"Quin, I would not do this if it wasn't for the safety of the Harndar and her allies." The Head Senator spoke." To be honest, I am not sure on how they would react to the matter at hand."
Quin took a deep breath."Then I must trust in this." He fixes his hate a bit before Endros spoke out.
"We're exiting hyperspace to Sol in 30 seconds."Endros then turned back to his screen.
The Welrin then appeared out of a what seemed a blue hole.
Quin then turned to his comms

This is the HSC Welrin of The United Inner Planetary Republic of Harndar, we wish to speak with the UTT

Go ahead HSC Welrin, our channel is private.

[The United Tributational Territories]

Ostian Military Communication -Secure Transmission To UTT and Allied Fleets-

Greetings, I am Crown Prince Joseph Marx of the Ostian Imperium. I shall be in command of the Ostian Battlegroup sent to assist your operations. It is an honor to fight alongside the people who my father trusts sincerely. My forces shall arrive within three sol days, I am still organizing and coordinating a few actions with the two other fleets I have under my command. But I should have the following space forces by the time I arrive.'

Royal Fleet of Crown Prince Joseph Marx:
- 1x Emperor Class Battleship (Complement: 4x Relentless Class Boarding pods, 3x Coeus Long Range Support Battlesuit, 3x Tehys Heavy Support Battlesuit, 5x Styx High Speed General Purpose Battlesuit)
- 3x Honor Class Battlecrusiers (Complement per ship: 6x Relentless Class Boarding pods, 10x Stalwart Class Fighter-Bombers, 10x Prometheus High-Speed Close Quarters Combat Battlesuit, 1x Tehys Heavy Support Battlesuit, 1x Coeus Long Range Support Battlesuit)
- 6x Pious Class Destroyers (Complement per ship: 5x Stalwart Class Fighter-Bombers)
- 4x Dauntless Class Cruisers (Complement per ship: 4x Relentless Class Boarding pods, 5x Stalwart Class Fighter-Bomber, 3x Prometheus High-Speed Close Quarters Combat Battlesuit)

Ostian 3rd Fleet:
- 2x Honor Class Battlecruiser (Complement per ship: 6x Relentless Class Boarding pods, 10x Hyperion All Purpose Battlesuit, 10x Stalwart Class Fighter Bombers, 1x Tehys Heavy Support Battlesuit, 1x Coeus Long Range Support Battlesuit))
- 3x Dauntless Class Cruisers (Complement per ship: 4x Relentless Class Boarding pods, 3x Hyperion All Purpose Battlesuit, 5x Stalwart Class Fighter-Bomber)
- 1x Pious Class Destroyers (Complement per ship: 3x Hyperion All Purpose Battlesuit)
- 3x Virtue Class Frigate (Complement per ship: 2x Relentless Class Boarding pods, 3x Hyperion All Purpose Battlesuit)

Ostian 7th Fleet:
- 1x Honor Class Battlecrusiers (Complement per ship: 6x Relentless Class Boarding pods, 10x Hyperion All Purpose Battlesuit, 10x Stalwart Class Fighter Bombers, 1x Tehys Heavy Support Battlesuit, 1x Coeus Long Range Support Battlesuit)
- 1x Dauntless Class Cruisers (Complement per ship: 4x Relentless Class Boarding pods, 3x Hyperion All Purpose Battlesuit, 5x Stalwart Class Fighter-Bomber)
- 1x Pious Class Destroyers (Complement per ship: 3x Hyperion All Purpose Battlesuit)
- 4x Virtue Class Frigates (Complement per ship: 2x Relentless Class Boarding pods, 3x Hyperion All Purpose Battlesuit)

Overall Strength of Battlegroup:
- 1x Emperor Class Battleship
- 5x Honor Class Battlecruisers
- 8x Dauntless Class Cruisers
- 8x Pious Class Destroyers
- 7x Virtue Class Frigates
- 5x Styx High Speed General Purpose Battlesuit
- 9x Tehys Heavy Support Battlesuit
- 9x Coeus Long Range Support Battlesuit
- 13x Promethus High Speed Close Quarters Combat Battlesuit
- 69x Hyperion All Purpose Battlesuit
-130x Stalwart Class Fighter Bomber

(OOC: I think we should post numbers of fleet just to be sure of things)

OOC: Agreed, for the Florans i stated the number of ships.

The Golden Scythe received the message. The officers were chatting about the UTT's current situation.
"We have a large group of allies willing to help us, maybe we should scout for the Florans and the Colma."
"Seems risky, the way they attacked would wipe out a scout ship in seconds."
"We do have active camo. You know that right?"
"Yes, but they can sense signatures jumping from system to system. I say we use a smuggler ship."

Shellist was listening to all of this and waved them off.
"We'll talk about it with our allies. This is a group effort."

[The United Tributational Territories]

"New ships in-system." Scorpius messaged to Ophius' holo, "Ostian made. Arrived a couple of minutes ago, we're just getting the light now."

"Wonderful." Ophius replied, "When's Fifth Fleet due?"

"Resupply is scheduled to begin in two minutes time."

Ophius glanced up again as Yodalf started speaking and her mind backtraced through their conversation. She suppressed another smile.

"Well, you were data-dumping info on the Florans to us so, if I may ask, why did the Florans attack? And why here, of all places?"

" I not sure apparently they have a hate of soft skin"

The Golden Scythe finds this channel, and patches themselves in. Shellist's face shows up on the screens of the ships.
"To answer your question Ophius, The Floran Collective is a powerful race of carnivorous plant people. They are not the most advanced, but what they lack in tech they make up for in sheer numbers. I'm sure you saw the clips. They attacked because they despise all mammals. They've made an alliance with a race called the Colma, and they took the Silver Scythe. Normally, this wouldn't be problematic, but the Florans reverse-engineer all tech they find. They are probably upgrading their ships this moment."

[Harndar]

The HSC Welrin
The Welrin entered Sol once more, now knowing what they should expect going into it.
"Head Senator," Quin said as he faced him before exiting hyperspace,"Are you sure it is wise for to tell about the virus? How would you think they would react?"
"Quin, I would not do this if it wasn't for the safety of the Harndar and her allies." The Head Senator spoke." To be honest, I am not sure on how they would react to the matter at hand."
Quin took a deep breath."Then I must trust in this." He fixes his hate a bit before Endros spoke out.
"We're exiting hyperspace to Sol in 30 seconds."Endros then turned back to his screen.
The Welrin then appeared out of a what seemed a blue hole.
Quin then turned to his comms

This is the HSC Welrin of The United Inner Planetary Republic of Harndar, we wish to speak with the UTT

Go ahead HSC Welrin, our channel is private.

We wish to speak with your leaders for an important matter, if it is okay.

[The United Tributational Territories]

Go ahead HSC Welrin, our channel is private.

We wish to speak with your leaders for an important matter, if it is okay.

Shellist appears on the Harndarian screen.
"I'll patch you to John. I'm taking care of our little group chat."
The Welrin is patched to John, who is resting in his quarters. His face appears on the screen.

[Osnil]

Lumier Space
Several blasts rocked the ship, knocking almost everyone to the floor. "Man the guns!" barked Commander Wease, "And start up the cloaking device. We're going to sneak around to the Mother Ship and return fire. Tell the other ships to draw the fire from their cruisers and get word to Lumier. I think we're in a war."
Several crew members ran for the guns, while others activated the cloaking device. The Commonwealth ship vanished. The fighters, on the other hand, quickly pursued the opponents while the remaining Commonwealths cruisers and battleships attempted to hold their ground.

[The Not so Hidden Valley]

We wish to speak with your leaders for an important matter, if it is okay.

Shellist appears on the Harndarian screen.
"I'll patch you to John. I'm taking care of our little group chat."
The Welrin is patched to John, who is resting in his quarters. His face appears on the screen.

" Hello, newcomer My name Is Yodalf, may I have your's.

[The Dark Brotherhood of Deros]

Lumier Space
Several blasts rocked the ship, knocking almost everyone to the floor. "Man the guns!" barked Commander Wease, "And start up the cloaking device. We're going to sneak around to the Mother Ship and return fire. Tell the other ships to draw the fire from their cruisers and get word to Lumier. I think we're in a war."
Several crew members ran for the guns, while others activated the cloaking device. The Commonwealth ship vanished. The fighters, on the other hand, quickly pursued the opponents while the remaining Commonwealths cruisers and battleships attempted to hold their ground.

The Colma came like a tidal wave, continuing their punishing assault on the Commonwealth cruisers. the Colma didn't notice the other ships cloaking, and continued to attack. cruisers exploded as the Commonwealth opened fire, and the Colma ships were ordered to back off and regroup.

[Osnil]

Lumier Space
The Commonwealth lost multiple battleships, but the Flagship, and four other cruisers had snuck around to the Mother Ship of the Colma fleet. Commander Wease cloaked the signal and sent a message, "I would advise you to cease attacking-we have five hundred billion soldiers on the planet below." Meanwhile, the cruisers continued to pour out fighters to pursue the enemy.

[The Dark Brotherhood of Deros]

Lumier Space
The Commonwealth lost multiple battleships, but the Flagship, and four other cruisers had snuck around to the Mother Ship of the Colma fleet. Commander Wease cloaked the signal and sent a message, "I would advise you to cease attacking-we have five hundred billion soldiers on the planet below." Meanwhile, the cruisers continued to pour out fighters to pursue the enemy.

Zeth laughed. "Troops wont help you Soft-skin! we have superior fire power! we control space. and once we kill you, we'll turn that planet to molten slag!" He said. half of the fighter squadron broke off the attack on the commonwealth cruisers, and focused their attacks on the fighters chasing after them.

[Spindle]

Eris felt her breath catch in her throat as Khronos came in and kissed her again. She wanted him so badly, knew that she could take him into ecstasy, knew that he could satiate her desires yet also knew that it would be his death warrant, and her mind screamed its protests to fate's cruel weaving as she embraced him. She couldn't have him. She couldn't have him, or else he would die. The thought was a small, bitter drop in the tide of her overwhelming joy. Even as she underwent her turmoil, her mind was spinning out the arrangements that would have to be made.

"If we have the ceremony at the opening of the embassy," She gasped between kisses, "We can kill two birds with ones stone and turns it into a far bigger social and political event. Then we coummph!"

Her voice disappeared under Khronos' mouth as he kissed her again and her carefully orchestrated plans disintegrated in her mind. Her hands roved over the envirosuit, almost satisfying the desire at her core but never quite managing to. It simply built and rose, always there and never ebbing in the slightest. Another kiss broke the last barriers in her mind and Eris lost herself in her love for Khronos.



Ophius listened to the replies and closed her eyes for a moment, fists clenching as she sighed lightly, almost daintily. Scorpius glanced it out of the corner of his eyes and felt his blood freeze. Scorpius had never seen any indication of Ophius being angry-not even with him after the Sol fiasco. For some reason, this news had upset her enormously.

"I...see." She spoke softly, "I was hoping it wouldn't be one of...those reasons. Very well. In that case, forcing a surrender is out of the question, so we're going to have to destroy them and rebuild them again. And that means we'll need to bring their fleet to battle which in turn means we need to scout their home system out to figure out their total strength and composition. I'm not a trained admiral, but I'm not wrong here, am I?"

Only because I brought my suspicions up with you when I looked through the comm chatter that we got dumped. Scorpius thought.

"But if you just throw a scout ship at them, we all know what would happen. Well, we have nine Ophians and our Fifth Fleet rendezvous is going to provide us with three hundred cryo chambers. That means we can jump them through and go completely cold before the jump is over, have no photon slippage at the endpoint, run the spectrum of passive scans and go without them knowing we were ever there there."

Ophius stared solemnly at the two people on her screen.

"And then we can talk about the rest of it."

[The V O I D]

Eris felt her breath catch in her throat as Khronos came in and kissed her again. She wanted him so badly, knew that she could take him into ecstasy, knew that he could satiate her desires yet also knew that it would be his death warrant, and her mind screamed its protests to fate's cruel weaving as she embraced him. She couldn't have him. She couldn't have him, or else he would die. The thought was a small, bitter drop in the tide of her overwhelming joy. Even as she underwent her turmoil, her mind was spinning out the arrangements that would have to be made.

"If we have the ceremony at the opening of the embassy," She gasped between kisses, "We can kill two birds with ones stone and turns it into a far bigger social and political event. Then we coummph!"

Her voice disappeared under Khronos' mouth as he kissed her again and her carefully orchestrated plans disintegrated in her mind. Her hands roved over the envirosuit, almost satisfying the desire at her core but never quite managing to. It simply built and rose, always there and never ebbing in the slightest. Another kiss broke the last barriers in her mind and Eris lost herself in her love for Khronos.

The Imperator's Might
Capital Dreadnought of All Remnant Fleets
The Taari Armada / Remnant

Khronos smiled at her after finishing his final kiss. He hugged her as he stood up, placing her down gently. He sighed, not wanting to go. He wished he could stay longer. Nonetheless, as he stared her in the eyes, he knew how much she loved him; and that made him love her even more. The fact she could accept him so, the fact she could love him as she did... it felt amazing.

"I'm afraid I must go, my love. There are preparations to make. You can use the Holotransmitter in here to contact your loved ones to inform them of the good news!", he said in joy. He kissed her forehead and left the room, his helmet shifting on as he did. He felt kind of sad at having to leave her, but he had to prepare some things, on top of running an entire species and such, after all... Still, didn't make leaving her any easier...

[Krosana]

A lone Dante-Class ship sends the Commonwealth ships a message.
'This is Captain Zuto Saito of the KSCDF Eye. Would you like us to intervene in the battle on your side?

[The Moscow Metro Red Line]

Epsilion Space

There was a large cloud of metallic objects detected by the sensors of the Inquisitional Battleship. At first the sensor operator ignored it, but as the cloud approached one of the batlesuit teams, the reports came in.

"Inquisitor Acheson! Team Steel's battlesuits are not responding."

"Pardon?" Inquisitor Acheson yelled, as he walked over to the console.

"I'm getting KIAs from Team Steel, sometime overloaded the systems. I think, its this cloud-"

"Alert all Battlesuit teams to... actually tell them to return to the fleet. The Sovik Vessel can be destroyed in one more barrage."

"We're not going to engage the xenos, Inquisitor?"

"No, infact I think I have underestimated them." Inquisitor Acheson walked back to his command console. "Main Battlesuit force, you are to eliminate Team Steel's battlesuits. They are dead in the water along with their pilots." Because Battlesuit pilots are integrated with the systems, it is very likely that any overload to the system could have fatal affects on the pilot. The black Ostian Battlesuits began retreating back to their vessels, ignoring the metallic cloud of whatever it was. As these battlesuits were pulling back, the two battlecruisers and battleship fired two large volleys of plasma at the Minsk.

Inside the ship there was an intercom, "This is Inquisitor Acheson, Code Alpha Sigma Nine, We are preparing to warp out of the system. All personal in affected areas, prepare to seal off the area, it will be torn apart during transit."

The Black Guard began gradually falling back after the intercom was made, of course they knew it was a feint. But they had to play the part. As the turret began firing, another of the Black Guard fell, but this person was ignored as the gradual retreat happened.

There was also a few explosions as Team Steel's battlesuits were destroyed by their own comrades.

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Displeoa System - Orbit of Xarintine - I.O.S. Freia - Bridge - 55 Hours After Awakening

"All personal is accounted for," Captain Cresta spoke to Captain Drea using the transmitter in his dropship.

"Affirmative, scuttling in three, two, one." Just then there were two large explosions from the I.O.S. Feur. Will it took longer than expected, after 3 hours the remote overload was successful. The first explosion came from the main gun of the Feur, the second one came from the reactor itself. These two catastrophic explosions quickly turned the destroyer into molten slag. Debris was floating, but the Ostian Squadron was well enough away from the impact zone to be affected.

"All ships, we are returning to the fleet," ordered Captain Drea. The Ostian squadron began leaving the planet and heading towards Vryi.

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Displeoa System - Orbit around Vryi - 55 Hours After Awakening

There was a communication that the squadron over Leopta was destroyed, three frigates and one cruiser. Around Vyri, the Ostian Fleet began to move into their formation. The frigates made up the center while the larger ships were at the flanks. Prince Xaiver was performing the final inspection when everyone heard it.

"You... can not win... Many have tried. All have failed. You know not what you have awakened, but We shall show you. We... are the Allmind. We grow. We consume. We hunger. We will not stop until our hunger is sated. You will be the first We consume."

Prince Xavier felt a strange feeling, something that he has never felt before. It was a feeling of dread. A loss of hope. The Prince looked around at his crew, even the Royal Guard was visibly shaken. There was a minute of silence before someone spoke.

"Durch die Stadt marschierte uns're Kompanie." One of the Captains began joyfully singing in open coms. "und zwei dunkle Augen lachten - schön, ja schön war sie." A few more voices began singing with him. For these soldiers, this feeling was nothing new. In fact it was the adrenaline they were waiting for. The few soldiers who were singing were the older ones, the ones who fought in the Sovik-Ostian War. They knew this feeling, and savored it.

"Sie ist unser Talisman," The song they were singing was in High Ostian, but it was a song everyone knows.
Augen links so gut man kann," This song was a traditional Ostian war song.
doch der Kommandeur voraus ruft:" It was a song sung before every battle.
" 'Augen gradeaus!' " It was sung triumphantly with zealous defiance.

"Unsere Gedanken war´n beim Marsch bei ihr."
"Jeder dachte ihre Blicke, die gehören mir." More and more voices joined with the others. Prince Xaiver looked around to see some of his own crew singing along.

Sie ist unser Talisman,
Augen links so gut man kann, Prince Xavier had sang this song many times before, but this time it felt different.
doch der Kommandeur voraus ruft:
"Augen gradeaus!" It felt like a cry of defiance.

Als wir Ausgang hatten, sah´n wir sie zu zweit.
Unser Kommandeur ging Hand in Hand an ihrer Seit´ Prince Xavier began to sing along with his men as the fear began receding from him. He began to think how foolish he was for not leading the song.

Sie ist unser Talisman,
Augen links so gut man kann,
doch der Kommandeur voraus ruft:
"Augen gradeaus!" At the end of the song, all the Ostians cheered. It was a taunt to the Highbreed: 'Come! We await your challenge with open arms"

Royal Fleet of Prince Xaiver Marx
1x Emperor Class Battleship (Complement: 8x Relentless Class Boarding Pods, 1x Coeus Long Range Support Battlesuit, 1x Tehys Heavy Support Battlesuit, 9x Styx High Speed General Purpose Battlesuits)
2x Honor Class Battlecruisers (Complement per ship: 6x Relentless Class Boarding pods, 10x Stalwart Class Fighter-Bombers, 10x Prometheus High-Speed Close Quarters Combat Battlesuit, 1x Tehys Heavy Support Battlesuit, 1x Coeus Long Range Support Battlesuit)
2x Pious Class Destroyers (Complement: 3x Prometheus High-Speed Close Quarters Combat Battlesuit)
2x Dauntless Class Cruisers (Complement: 4x Relentless Class Boarding pods, 5x Prometheus High-Speed Close Quarters Combat Battlesuits, 3x Stalwart Class Fighter-Bombers)
5x Virtue Class Frigates (Complement: 2x Relentless Class Boarding pods, 3x Prometheus High-Speed Close Quarters Combat Battlesuits)

Displeoa Fleet at Vryi
1x Honor Class Battlecruiser (Complement per ship: 6x Relentless Class Boarding pods, 10x Hyperion All Purpose Battlesuit, 10x Stalwart Class Fighter Bombers, 1x Tehys Heavy Support Battlesuit, 1x Coeus Long Range Support Battlesuit)
1x Pious Class Destroyer (Complement per ship: 3x Hyperion All Purpose Battlesuit)
1x Dauntless Class Cruiser (Complement per ship: 4x Relentless Class Boarding pods, 3x Hyperion All Purpose Battlesuit, 5x Stalwart Class Fighter-Bomber)
3x Virtue Class Frigate (Complement per ship: 2x Relentless Class Boarding pods, 3x Hyperion All Purpose Battlesuit)

Other Vessels:
2x Dauntless Class Cruiser (Complement per ship: 4x Relentless Class Boarding pods, 3x Hyperion All Purpose Battlesuit, 5x Stalwart Class Fighter-Bomber)
1x Pious Class Destroyer (Complement per ship: 3x Hyperion All Purpose Battlesuit)
4x Virtue Class Frigate (Complement per ship: 2x Relentless Class Boarding pods, 3x Hyperion All Purpose Battlesuit)

Overall Strength of Battlegroup:
1x Emperor Class Battleship
3x Honor Class Battlecruisers
4x Pious Class Destroyers
5x Dauntless Class Cruisers
12x Virtue Class Frigates
70x Relentless Class Boarding Pods
9x Styx High Speed General Purpose Battlesuit
4x Tehys Heavy Support Battlesuit
4x Coeus Long Range Support Battlesuit
51x Prometheus High Speed Close Quarters Combat Battlesuit
50x Hyperion All Purpose Battlesuit
51x Stalwart Class Fighter Bomber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEJsVwDiN68

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(OOC: I do have marines, but I haven't listed them yet. Also where is the allied fleet meeting? Is there an exact location?)

[The V O I D]

Displeoa System - Orbit of Xarintine - I.O.S. Freia - Bridge - 55 Hours After Awakening

"All personal is accounted for," Captain Cresta spoke to Captain Drea using the transmitter in his dropship.

"Affirmative, scuttling in three, two, one." Just then there were two large explosions from the I.O.S. Feur. Will it took longer than expected, after 3 hours the remote overload was successful. The first explosion came from the main gun of the Feur, the second one came from the reactor itself. These two catastrophic explosions quickly turned the destroyer into molten slag. Debris was floating, but the Ostian Squadron was well enough away from the impact zone to be affected.

"All ships, we are returning to the fleet," ordered Captain Drea. The Ostian squadron began leaving the planet and heading towards Vryi.

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Displeoa System - Orbit around Vryi - 55 Hours After Awakening

There was a communication that the squadron over Leopta was destroyed, three frigates and one cruiser. Around Vyri, the Ostian Fleet began to move into their formation. The frigates made up the center while the larger ships were at the flanks. Prince Xaiver was performing the final inspection when everyone heard it.

"You... can not win... Many have tried. All have failed. You know not what you have awakened, but We shall show you. We... are the Allmind. We grow. We consume. We hunger. We will not stop until our hunger is sated. You will be the first We consume."

Prince Xavier felt a strange feeling, something that he has never felt before. It was a feeling of dread. A loss of hope. The Prince looked around at his crew, even the Royal Guard was visibly shaken. There was a minute of silence before someone spoke.

"Durch die Stadt marschierte uns're Kompanie." One of the Captains began joyfully singing in open coms. "und zwei dunkle Augen lachten - schön, ja schön war sie." A few more voices began singing with him. For these soldiers, this feeling was nothing new. In fact it was the adrenaline they were waiting for. The few soldiers who were singing were the older ones, the ones who fought in the Sovik-Ostian War. They knew this feeling, and savored it.

"Sie ist unser Talisman," The song they were singing was in High Ostian, but it was a song everyone knows.
Augen links so gut man kann," This song was a traditional Ostian war song.
doch der Kommandeur voraus ruft:" It was a song sung before every battle.
" 'Augen gradeaus!' " It was sung triumphantly with zealous defiance.

"Unsere Gedanken war´n beim Marsch bei ihr."
"Jeder dachte ihre Blicke, die gehören mir." More and more voices joined with the others. Prince Xaiver looked around to see some of his own crew singing along.

Sie ist unser Talisman,
Augen links so gut man kann, Prince Xavier had sang this song many times before, but this time it felt different.
doch der Kommandeur voraus ruft:
"Augen gradeaus!" It felt like a cry of defiance.

Als wir Ausgang hatten, sah´n wir sie zu zweit.
Unser Kommandeur ging Hand in Hand an ihrer Seit´ Prince Xavier began to sing along with his men as the fear began receding from him. He began to think how foolish he was for not leading the song.

Sie ist unser Talisman,
Augen links so gut man kann,
doch der Kommandeur voraus ruft:
"Augen gradeaus!" At the end of the song, all the Ostians cheered. It was a taunt to the Highbreed: 'Come! We await your challenge with open arms."

Disploea System
Xarintine / Lepota / Orbit
57 Hours After Awakening

The Allmind sensed the fear, slightly. It decided that now was the time to move on the offensive. The Highbreed on Lepota began occupying the Ostian ships which were captured, infecting their crew members and such as well as infesting the ships. It also saw to it that the Bioships on both worlds were complete - and they were. Satisfied, It decided to release hell itself on these Ostians. They would learn to keep their fear... to never let it go, as if it were their only friend. It would teach them how. It would show them the meaning of fear itself.

Suddenly, with a large rumble on Xarintine and Lepota, Bioships and captured Ostian ships rose from the worlds; an infected fleet. A true Highbreed fleet. The fleet was formed up of 7 Bioships per each world, along with the captured Ostian ships and such. The Bioships began opening fire upon the Ostian ships; they fired acid and such instead of plasma, meaning shields which protected against kinetic or plasma weaponry would not fair well, since the acid was semi-organic... and it was moving at incredible speed. The acid bore holes into ships nearest the two worlds, and Infestors were fired into said holes. It felt the feeling of fear arise once more, coming from the ships It was infesting in this manner. It soon felt those minds join with It, and It only grew hungrier. The Bioships were terrifying in sight, and seemed to "heal" due to being made of biomass as the Ostian ships damaged them. It spoke again to those who were within the system.

"Do you see now, young ones? Do you see what you have unleashed? Do you comprehend it? Understand it? We are your worst nightmares come alive. We will consume you all. You will run. You will hide. Eventually. But We will be there... We will find you. And We will consume you. There is nothing you can do, fools...", It's voice boomed. It felt the satisfactory feeling of fear radiating through the System, and let out a low rumbling chuckle as well into their minds. It decided that this awakening was going to, perhaps, be one of It's favorites...

[Harndar]

We wish to speak with your leaders for an important matter, if it is okay.

Shellist appears on the Harndarian screen.
"I'll patch you to John. I'm taking care of our little group chat."
The Welrin is patched to John, who is resting in his quarters. His face appears on the screen.

John, I am very sorry to disturb you, this is Quin of The HSC Welrin, I am with The Head Senator of the Council, we wish to speak about our Harndarian secret.

[The United Tributational Territories]

Shellist appears on the Harndarian screen.
"I'll patch you to John. I'm taking care of our little group chat."
The Welrin is patched to John, who is resting in his quarters. His face appears on the screen.

John, I am very sorry to disturb you, this is Quin of The HSC Welrin, I am with The Head Senator of the Council, we wish to speak about our Harndarian secret.

John's eyes light up, and he says with caution, "What secret?"

[The United Tributational Territories]

Ophius listened to the replies and closed her eyes for a moment, fists clenching as she sighed lightly, almost daintily. Scorpius glanced it out of the corner of his eyes and felt his blood freeze. Scorpius had never seen any indication of Ophius being angry-not even with him after the Sol fiasco. For some reason, this news had upset her enormously.

"I...see." She spoke softly, "I was hoping it wouldn't be one of...those reasons. Very well. In that case, forcing a surrender is out of the question, so we're going to have to destroy them and rebuild them again. And that means we'll need to bring their fleet to battle which in turn means we need to scout their home system out to figure out their total strength and composition. I'm not a trained admiral, but I'm not wrong here, am I?"

Only because I brought my suspicions up with you when I looked through the comm chatter that we got dumped. Scorpius thought.

"But if you just throw a scout ship at them, we all know what would happen. Well, we have nine Ophians and our Fifth Fleet rendezvous is going to provide us with three hundred cryo chambers. That means we can jump them through and go completely cold before the jump is over, have no photon slippage at the endpoint, run the spectrum of passive scans and go without them knowing we were ever there there."

Ophius stared solemnly at the two people on her screen.

"And then we can talk about the rest of it."

Shellist hears these solutions and answers,
"Sounds better than any plans we have. I'm very grateful you have all come here to help us in this time of need. We couldn't do this by ourselves."

[Harndar]

John, I am very sorry to disturb you, this is Quin of The HSC Welrin, I am with The Head Senator of the Council, we wish to speak about our Harndarian secret.

John's eyes light up, and he says with caution, "What secret?"

It is about the health of The Harndarians. I will let the Senator take over.
...
This is Head Senator of Harndar. Might as well start at the beginning.You see, before Harndar ever got classified as a United Planetary Republic, A mushroom was found out that it gave real life luck. Affects seemed to be correct, so Harndarians were planting the mushrooms everywhere, in their houses, their streets, heck, anywhere you can go, they could be there. Around this time, cases of people going on an all out rampage, killing many innocent people, were rising. The only way if someone turned is by their red pupils. Scientists call it The Mad Man Syndrome and many believed that it had to come from a virus since The Mad Man Syndrome cases just seemed to come out of the blue. Many years of research were put into studying it. Scientists were able to find out the The mushrooms that believed to carry good luck, were the ones that transported the virus by their spores. Extermination crews were called in to kill all the mushroom until they entirely went extinct, but the damage was done.

[Osnil]

Lumier Space
"You asked for it," Wease said, as the cloaking systems turned off, revealing four of the Commonwealth cruisers surrounding the Mother Ship. All four gave the Mother Ship a broadside before vanishing again. The fighters, quickly brought the Colma fighters into the Commonwealth gun range.
Epsilion Space
The enemy fled. That was one hundred percent certain. Team Galactic quickly fled the ship before it jumped, and then returned to the Freedom, which by now had pods attempting to rescue the survivors of the Sovik ship.