its been SDO LONG!

FINISH IT OR ILL GO ALL N-1 ON YOU!!!!

The Chaos truly begins.
Chapter 12
"The Pre-Sieges Era Ends"

If you had been watching Polis closely you would have noticed a nuclear explosion eradicating the whole military zone, and if you were lucky you would also see a large ship landing on the south side of the planet. The murderer of T-3B flew away from the nuclear blast as if nothing was happening, he proceeded to land at the southern edge of the planet, he had found his prize. "Sir, I have located the zycoduim and and will have it ready for testing any second now..." he spoke to his commander, unaware his mission was that of the suicidal nature. "Alright lowly worker you have almost fulfilled your duty, i order you to activate the zycoduim and observe it's effects from the ground." ordered the Supreme Commander. This suprised the worker, but the it had to be done. "Sir what distance should we observe it's effects from?" he asked. "300 miles north of your position." he ordered. 300 miles? That's insanely far away thought the worker. "Roger that." he confirmed. He flew 300 miles away and activated the zycoduim with remote activation. Nothing happened...

Meanwhile on Leo II the Drengin were landing their entire assualt and defense fleet in preperation for the attack. Field Commander Ryi reported in " Lord Kona my majesty, we have landed almost the entire fleet on Leo II just as you instructed, what are my orders?" he asked. "Commander, you are to retreat at no costs, if anyone comes to get you do not return home and hold your position, even if it means our great capitals destruction, understand?" Kona ordered. "Of course my master." he replied and shut off his holocron. He noted that he hadn't found any of the dead body's from when the Yor hyperspaced directly above them. Probably thrown into space by the shockwave or other factors he reminded himself. Even if it means the capitals destruction he thought, this was the end of the humans. The great fualt of the humans was that they relied on their home planet heavily, which they were about to exploit without hesitation. He wondered what was going on elsewhere in the galaxy.

Robert felt very woozy and disoriented for unknown reasons, the last thing he remembered was going to GalaxticTech Corporations main shipyard or something. The man who had spoken to him before came over to him. "Hello Robert, you appear to be awake, we need you to do us a big favor..." Robert felt a needle penetrate his skin and he fell into subconsciousnes, he heard lots of talking after that, and then fell asleep. He later woke up in what appeared to be a GalacticTech shipyard meeting room, "Robert..." spoke the very same man "Great, the CEO is coming we need you to wake up, i want you to deal him this he said and showed him a list of ships and numbers. "Ok i dont see how this will help..." he responded in a sleepy tone of voice. Faster than he could blink the unidentified men left and the CEO entered. "Hello my name is John Hotaling, owner of GalacticTech Corporation, what interests you mister..." "Robert, call me Robert, I represent the private military that ordered these items,..." Robert than proceeded to read of the list presented to him earlier. "Ok then Robert, i hope you realize this is a heavy order so the money you will transfer to my account will be ver-" Suddenly John slumped over and red liquid poured out of his neck. The unidentified men were standing right there. The one man that kept speaking to him said "The ships are now free for our use men, call in the rest of our comrades and tell them to activate Action 1 of our plan." They all stood and saluted the man and then followed the orders. Robert was starting to realize the scale of their plot, the coldness of these men seemed inhuman which usually ment they were willing to risk everything.

The lowly worker on Polis noticed a odd compass malfunction on his ship as he awaited the effects of the zycoduim. It spun at an incredible rate and started to overheat,suddenly the instruments glass blew out as it sucumbed to the increased friction. After that the ground shifted and the snowstorm was sucked into what seemed like an invisible tornado. The tents his crew had set up flew straight into the invisible tornado and the ground vehicles that weighed about 1,000 IB's were picked up like flies and thrown into the invisible vortexs grasp. Then he saw it, a large transluculent blue colored vortex that was higher and wider then the eye can see. Everything was being pulled into it, but the odd thing was that whenever the objects entered it they seemed to dissappear. Incredibly the capital ship he was in lifted into the sky and was barely being pulled in, everytime an object went in it grew a little bit bigger which ment all that snow only made it bigger faster. Suddenly the ship was totally pulled torwards the vortex and all the magnetic field readers and compasses onboard pointed towards the vortex as if most of the planets entire magnetic proportions were being pulled into the vortex too. The entire capital ship flew at about 100 miles per hour towards it followed by part of the first layer of ground on the planet. It was a terrifying yet amazing sight to behold. Right when they went into the vortex all each crewmember saw was blackness and other swirling objects inside the vortex. The Supreme Commanders communication stats with read [The Radio You are Contacting is Either Destroyed or Doesn't exist, Try Again].
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Authors Notes: The Vortex (zycoduim) is the ultimate weapon and is in the hands of the unidentified men and they now own a incredible attack force. Enough said, the stroy exlains itself here.  

Oh yes, i forgot to say i am planning diffrent story arcs at this moment becuase this one is close to concluded.   Maybe a prequel or epilogue story arc would fit.

No One Can Hide...
Chapter 13
"The Sieges"

General Tarqin was overworked and underfed at the moment, he hadn't had a real meal for about 2 whole days and it was starting to get to him. After the disappearence of Robert and the ground strike force he was under constant pressure to find them while assisting other Fleets across the galaxy, as a matter of fact he had answered an average of 2 distress calls a day. To put it bluntly Special Operations fleet was battered down to it's veteran men and women. At the moment he was heading to GalacticTech Corps. main shipyard to investigate an odd security breach, something about the infiltration of the main office of CEO John Hotaling. The very same shipyard the U.S.S Star Grazer had been built. They began to slow down as the approached the incredibly large space station.

"Excellent men, we have finally have the means to take this galaxy for our own. I'm calling in every agent we have to this location so we can begin our operation right now." said the leader of the men who captured Robert. Robert still didn't completly understand how they'd get the ships just by killing John "How will you get possesion of the ships?" he asked. "We shall use John's access card to order the release or transportation of his ships to us, that way we get away without much blood spilled. And yes security probably knows, but what could they do about it? Call in a capital ship?" the man scoffed at the idea and countinued his work. Suddenly a warning light flashed alerting the men to an incoming Terran capital sized Ship. "Shit!" yelled the man, "New orders men, activate the ships delivary mode and send them to dock with our main space stations! We shall countinue our original plan from there!." he yelled out. "And you! You my freind are going to stay here and say that you were captured by security and that you killed John Hotaling. We shall call security to this point now to pick you up." he ordered Robert. Robert didn't want to anger the men who were holding the guns in this situation so he reluctantly complied.

20 Minutes Later...
The crew of Special Operations fleet were suprised to find Robert captured by security, security had advised them that a few "Private Contractors" had captured the killer of John Hotaling, apparently they thought it was Robert. Tarqin told them "Well Robert is a mentally fine man, i have serious doubts about these accusations against him. Who were these Private Contractors anyway?" he asked. The security men answered "A few men who didn't identify themselves..." he was about to countinue when suddenly the hangar bay opened and all of the completed ships in the shipyard left their clamps and headed outside. "What in blue blazes?" asked Tarqin. "It appears the ships' delivery system has been activated, but only John could do that..." said the Head of Security. Tarqin interupted "I believe those private contractors killed John and took the activation card, Robert has been framed. Now on to the more serious matter of who these people are."

A Few Hours Later...
The Supreme Commander had just returned to the main space station after excucuting Part 1 of the master plan with the help of a man named Robert. He had been the only man to talk to Robert in his whole squad. He had done his best to hide his deep hatred towards mankind. "Alright men." he began to talk over the main radio line, "Commence Part 2 of the plan, do not show remorse, do not show fear, but most importantly do not show mercy. Attack them all, but be sure to devestate the superpowers first." he ordered. Every Officer responded with a "Yes Sir". And so the seiges began, the first ones to be hit had no warning at all of the incoming danger. "This is Thala main radar command, im picking up large amounts of unidentified attack ships heading towards orbit, be advis-" Thala Radar Command had tried to warn Thala just before being obliterated by millions of pounds worth of laser power. Hithesius recieved the news just as the space battle began "All of planetary defense soldiers man battle stations, this is not a drill, we are under attack by unidentified ships, fire at all unidentifieds." ordered Hithesius. The reason the ships bypassed all long range radars was becuase the ships had been outfitted with large amounts of anti-radar due to the increased space in the ships due to the lack of men. No sooner then minutes later, the artillery hit the main city's on Thala. Hithesius had been tooken to a underground bunker for protection.

At what is known as the Titanuim Wall of Yor (multiple defense space stations defending the core Yor worlds) unidentified spaceships had arrived also. "Unidentified ships, identify yourselfs or prepare for your death." said Yor Defense Commands automated radar system. Immediatly after 100's of more ships hyperspaced to the area. The Yor immediatly opened fire in a futile attempt gain the offensive,since most of their ships were away fighting the Terrans and other members of the "Good Alliance" their defense levels were signfacantly smaller. As the Titanuim Wall was being destroyed, other ships came around to the other side of the wall. Both sides of the wall were surrounded and being attacked with large amounts of artillery. If you were to look at the Yor Tactical Map it would be filled with damage marks and enemy ship dots, the irony of it all was that the Yor's quest for offensive domination of the galaxy ultimatly had begun to lead to their downfall. The Altarians had been prepared more prepared for this situation, after being attacked once they had built a heavy outer defense system of capital ships to protect themselves. "We are being attacked by unidentifieds! Alert command that Altaria's defense fleet needs to fly out and assist us! We are getting wasted out here!" yelled a Altarian captain yelled into the main radio line. "Altaria's defense fleet must stay in orbit at the moment as a precuation. Copy back if heard. Captain? Can you hear me? I think we lost Ship 8809..." Altaria Orbital Defense Command did not get a response.

Back on Polis the Zycoduim test had almost been complete, they only needed the last portion of the test to begin. The test crew stopped swirling around in the Vortex and came to a stop, nothing seemed to be sucked in anymore. Everything slowed to a stop as the Vortex stopped swirling and the crew sat silent in awe. Suddenly a tremendous amount of force pushed outwards and the vortex turned in to trillions of pounds of explosive force. All the cloud on the planet pushed away from the explosion site as the wave of fire and death countinued outwards. Every member of the test crew had been oblitarated at the exact moment of the explosion. All the snow on the northen part of the planet began to melt. Any man on the surface of Polis would become nothing on contact with the shockwave, if any capital ship got in the way it would be pushed by the explosion until it succumbed to the extreme levels of heat. Polis's snowy surface became a watery aquatic place as all the snow melted in a matter of seconds, immediatly after that the water began to boil and eventually got superheated. Polis had been turned into a desolate, uninhabitable surface in a matter of minutes, not any other weapon could compare. All this happened as the Supreme Commander watched on his holoscreen.

What happens next?

The United Planets Responds
Chapter 14
"Critical Reaction"

UNN News Broadcast (Hours After Attack)
"Citiziens of the Terran Race, we have recieved disturbing news from various sources that the galaxy has sustained a massive attack from a unspecified group of people. The mass assualt has hit almost every nation excluding the Iconians and Drengin, no planets have been tooken at this moment but it is excpected to happen. Citizeins of Earth and other Terran inner planets are advised to stay in their homes and await further instruction, I repeat..." the news anchor spoke on Terran Television. Natalie Tarqin had been watching the news and was shocked, her Father would probably fight these people. It wasn't that long ago he had suddenly left to defend Altaria and assigned to patrol the Galaxy on a 2 month patrol mission. He would be gone much longer than 2 months now, that was a garuntee. She began to wonder what he was doing right at the moment.

General Tarqin had picked up the ion exhuast trails left by the theives no longer than it would take a human to make a milk shake, he had recieved the news 3/4ths en route. "General Tarqin, be advised we are at Defcon 1 due to a massive joint attack on almost all races. Contact High Command immediatly." he did as he was told, never in galactic history had this happened before. "This is Special Operations fleet reporting in." he said over commlink. "Special Operations Fleet, new orders have been added to your fleet, find the source of these attackers at all costs. You may either countinue your course or assist in defense duty." High Command informed them,"Copy that, maintaining course and tracking source of unidentified targets." Tarqin said. 1 hour later he was at his destination and activated full stealth mode. He saw the station seconds later, he also spotted the missing warships, except half of them were gone and that was about 50,000 ships. Tarqin knew what had happened right at that moment. "Turn on our commlink tappers." he ordered. His men did as instructed and they picked up radio chatter immediatly, Tarqin guessed that the unidentifieds must have never expected to be found. Then they picked up something important over the chatter "Commence Part 3 of master plan, proceed to coordinates sector 50 and sector 49 and attack main planets, be advised of heavy defenses at those planets and carry ultra-class artillery, over." Sector 50's main planet was Earth. Tarqin immediatly concentrated on the radio chatter only.

Planet Thala, Hivemind Palace
"Great Lord Hithesius, we must evacute you to a safer area at once." before waiting for a reply the guards practically dragged him to a underground shelter system. Suprisingly Thala had defended itself with great success so far and no ground troops had landed on the surface yet. Since the Thalans had no other purpose than to prevent the prophecy or delay it they had absolutly no fear of dying. That also ment all citizien bugs could be converted to military personnel at once. Ground-to-Space artillery had been put in to use immediatly and greatly helped in taking out the unidentifieds. "Sir, the priest you requested has been transported here, first door on the right." he was tooken there at once. "Oh it's great to see great one." said the priest. "Enough of that now lowly priest, is this the prophecy's prediction? Is this mass attack part of the prophecy?" Hithesius asked. "Unfotunatly it probably is, and if we are correct on that the Terran Race falls this week. Shall we warn them?" the preist answered. "No, there isn't any logic in panicing the galaxy, that would only make matters worse." Hithesius said. The Priest remarked "It's to late for that, news has come in of mass panic across all worlds. But we have the advantage my commander, our people have no fear, they will only serve you, unless of course they feel you are preventing us from accomplishing the goal."

Tarqin had heard enough, it had only been 2 minutes but he knew they wern't screwing around. "I need to contact high command now!" he informed Fleet Command. "Of course Tarqin, you have permission." responded General Greer. "High Command, Earth is in danger, repeat Earth is in danger! The enemy is going to bypass our defenses and attack the core planets of sector 50 and 49. They have advanced technology from various races, they can bypass our frontline defenses! Send back all our ships to those worlds now!" Tarqin yelled. General Greer responded "That's a mighty statement Tarqin! Are you sure High Command will believe this? Im not sure I believe this either..." Tarqin cut in "Listen, this is no joke, we need to send all ships back to Earth Defense or we are screwed! Not just me and you, im talking about the whole god damn human race!" Greer responded with a sharp tone of voice "Tarqin we don't appreicate your tone of voice here, il'l transmit it through to High Command but i cant promise you anything besides that." "Greer, forget High Command get me on Comm with the president this is a matter of galactic importance." Tarqin requested "Tarqin, you are asking me to do something not in my power, and our fleets are out defending not only our planets but some of our allies planets as well. This was a ridiculous request to begin with, i'll get back to you with High Commands response." Greer stated and then promptly hung up the Commlink.
"Shit!" Tarqin whispered to himself. "Turn this ship around boys', wer'e heading home." he ordered.

The Galaxy Watches in Suspense
Chapter 15
"Home is Where the Fight Is"

Field Commander Ryi stood and just observed his surroundings. He was eagerly awating the Drengin suprise attack to take place, Leo II bored him, he wanted to fight. Almost immediatly after completing his thought he heard a few distant pops followed by brilliant flashes of light. He watched in awe, although a destructive brute Ryi had a sense of awe as well as others. His awe turned to dread as he realized somebody was hyperspacing back to Leo II. "Men, man our guns and turn on your protective visors and sound diminshers, we have company north side of our postion." Ryi ordered. He wondered what pathetic soul dared try to spoil the greatest attack in history! He pitied the fool who would attempt to stop him. Then a earpiercing [Bang!] stifled the air followed by a huge white flash and unusual seismic activity. Luckily he had been ready for this, he awaited the arrival of the ships eagerly, he couldn't wait to get his first kill of the day.

U.S.S Star Grazer en Route to Earth
General Tarqin looked over the ships databanks as he waited for Earth to come into view, although only hours away it felt like days while he waited to arrive. He was looking over the known "Terriosts" list to try to identify the attackers. He eventually deduced that this operation was to big to be run by a terriost group and stopped looking. "Sir, General Greer of Fleet Command on Commline 2." advised one of his orderlies. "Thank you, put me on that line." Tarqin ordered. He heard Greer's voice immediatly after the line was open "What the hell are you doing! You have been assigned a duty and you are not fulfilling it! Turn around now!" "Greer, I am heading to Earth to aid in it's defense." Tarqin said "I don't want to hear it! If anybody wanted to attack Earth they'd have to bypass all of our major defense lines not to mention clear our radars! It's simply impossible-" "General Greer, I believe that their ships are heavily outfitted with stealth equipment and engine power. If you are wondering how they'd stand a fighting chance without so much firepower i think have the answer. They make up for less firepower with high amounts of ships and artillery, the result would be a total catastrophe." Tarqin butted in. Greer responded with a lighter tone "Ok Tarqin i'll humor you, i'll recall 4 capital ships to defense duty on earth. But i'm telling you they wouldn't be able to go through our radar." "No, it's not enough. Regarding the radar comment they may be able to go through a blind spot." Tarqin remarked. "What you are suggesting would require a vast knowledge of our defense systems and radar status. Besides only sector 49 has disabled radar, and how would they know that?" sarcastically asked Greer.

Unidentified Men Strike Force Flagship U.S.S Intrepid
The Supreme Commander sat in his heavily modified capital ship, other wise known as the U.S.S Intrepid. The Supreme Commander was flying with his Phase 3 fleet, he didn't want to miss the fall of the human race. As a matter of fact, he wanted to help the infantry fight personally. "Supreme Commander, we are approaching sector 49's planet Leo II. It appears you were correct concerning the radar blind spot, how did you know?" asked one of the crew members. "That doesn't concern you, we need to strike with precision and stealth, I want every ship to use Hyperdrive to Leo II! We will strike when the Human scum are most vulnrable." ordered the Supreme Commander. "Of course Commander-" "Don't use my name. After we win maybe, but not until the fat lady sings." cut in the Supreme Commander. Almost hearing his name reminded him of the Labs and all the surgery he had had just to benefit the worthless Yor. Well their little project din't quite work out well did it? We will show them real pain. "Sir, im picking up faint signals on Leo II, it appears there are large amounts of Drengin on the planet. What shall we do?" asked the crew member. "We will crush them like the useless scum they are." stated Supreme Commander valiantly. The crew of the U.S.S Intrepid cheered to this exclamation and hyperspaced.

Earth, Natalie Tarqin's Apartment
Natalie was preparing to leave for work when she heard the news on the tv, "The Yor's almost inpenetrable Defense Wall has been bypassed and is currently offline, the Yor officals are currently overviewing the possibility of a surrender to the unknown attackers. N-1 apposes the proposed surrender and is currently rethinking their tactics and plans. They also have proposed a new United Planets Enactment in which all wars would be postponed until the sieges are over. So far almost all races have voted yes to this enactment except those who are currently maintaining a secure communication line and cannot contact us at this time." Natalie was astoinshed at the news, never before had a minor faction ever inflicted so much widespread damage. She then began to think of the Iconians and Drengin as she got in a taxi to New York College of Multiplanetary Studies. Lucky bastards, they had gotten away without a scrape while other races economy's were devestated. Why should the peaceful Altarians be crushed while the evil Drengin remained intact? She realized she was asking herself a ethic question that had no answer. Speaking of ethics she was heading to that class at the very moment, perhaps I should base my latest term paper on that. Natalie thought to herself while her taxi activated it's hover engines and jet boosters. And as soon as the engines warmed up she was at the campus. She reminded herself that she should buy some fireworks for the 4th of July historical celebration, after all it was only a day away. She then began to imagine how magnificent the fireworks would look like. She didn't know the half of it.

The Drengin are in danger
Chapter 16
"The Enemy of my Enemy is My Friend"

U.S.S Star Grazer Vectoring to Leo II
General Tarqin had been threatned by Fleet Command numerous times but not with threats of demotion. Fleet Command had informed him that he apparently had been threatning the security of all Terrans. "Sir, we have detected very large amounts of troopers on Leo II and extremely faint signals of orbiting ships. Any new orders?" Robert advised. "You don't have to call me sir, and the new orders are to observe at the closest possible stealth range and await further command. Inform the infantry we might have a situation." General Tarqin ordered. "Of course, how did the unidentified men get to Leo II so fast? Orbit and descent shouldn't have even began by now and i'm detecting a lot of troops on ground level." informed Robert. "Maybe those arn't unidentified men on the surface, perhaps one of our enemy's exploiting are radar problems. What i'm wondering is how both of these bastards found out about our damaged radar." General Tarqin answered. "Sir, the ships orbiting are firing towards the ground surface and you have a commlink request from Fleet Command officer Greer." one of Tarqins aides reported. "Moniter the firing situation and close all communication lines, shut off all Terran recognizable radar identifaction and take us in nice and slow.".

Fleet Command Main Monitering Station
General Greer had decided not to advise High Command about the situation yet as it would only be on his head if he failed to take care of the situation. He realized their was a strong possibility that the U.S.S Star Grazer could be defecting, but why would they head home then? Of course he took Tarqins word seriously but it was hard to believe his supposed "findings" were true. He was monitering the screen when Tarqins ship went into Leo II territory and suddenly dissappeared from radar. "What the hell! Get me a scout ship out there ASAP, we have a possible defection scenario class 2113. Try to communicate with Star Grazer and if you cannot send some escorts with that scout. We have a major situation here!" Greer barked the orders as quickly as Tarqin dissappeared from radar. He knew that High Command would now support him in this scenario so he contacted the President and informed him of a possible Class 2113. "Sir we cannot contact Star Grazer, her communication ports have been manually shut off." a communications officer reported. Greer then began to think about what would happen if Tarqin was right. That would mean that something big was happening at Leo II, he ordered back 6 capital ships and didn't inform High Command, they would only complicate matters.

Leo II Surface
Ryi got in his battle suit, a custom DPA-3000 outfitted with jump jets and shoulder lights with integrated targeting system. He then proceded to grab his assualt pistols with extended clip size and power bolt firing capability's. He was ready for a fight. "Sir, your estimations were correct and the attackers have proceded to send landing pod's down. Orders?" asked Private Razputin. "Do whatever it takes to give them hell. If my men wish they may remove their suits and use brute force at their own risk." he ordered. He heard a battle begin a few miles away, he boarded a light attack transport and piloted it towards the battle site. Just as he arrived he jumped out and let the vehicle slide straight into his enemy's. He unloaded a full clip on what appeared to be a commanding officer and proceded to shoot the man who attempted to stab him seconds later. He then loaded in his next clip and fired at a small box on one of the soldiers, he immediatly saw the man gasp for breath in his mask and fired at another enemy's box but this one had it on his eyes with a small infared object sensor on it. He appeared to be blinded and fired every were in a desperate attempt of survival. One of his men puched the box directly and heard the man scream in agony. He realized the small boxes must have been artifical sight, hearing, and air generators or something of the sort, quite odd almost every soldier had one on him he thought. "Men! Attack the small boxes and visors on them! remove their masks!" he yelled out as he provided cover fire to Alfa Squad. His men abandoned their suits and attacked with their brute strength. He saw one Drengin use a uppercut on a mans mask, it was nothing special except the man flew 15 feet skyward. Ryi then abandoned his suit like his men and began building up momentum as he charged towards one of the men, he headbutted the mans chest and his rib cage almost completly broke. His mask flew off and he saw a deformed face with one of his earlobes missing. He decided he didn't really deserve one any way and ripped off his other with his mouth. The man covered the remains of his ears and screamed in pain. He saw a group of them approaching him and he grabbed one of the mens necks and snapped it, he then threw the body into the group throwing all of them 10 feet away. The battle had only just begun and he already was having great fun. But the thing that bothered him was that the men wern't Terran, the Terran army wouldn't accept soldiers who were partially disabled due to their "ethics". To hell with Ethics he thought, any man willing to fight should be allowed to do so.

U.S.S Star Grazer
"Commander Tarqin, the ships have deployed landing pods and we have identified the ground troopers. Apparently they are part of the Drengin Army and they have broken into a battle with the unidentifieds." Robert reported. "Curious, it seems as though someone tipped off the Drengin to our little Radar problem, they simply arn't that smart. Wev'e only informed the Thalans of our Radar problem and only to close the alliance deal, traitorous bastards, to smart for their own good." Tarqin thought out loud. Suddenly a Terran scout ship and escorts appeared on the radar and headed straight for the ships in orbit, he wished them luck becuase they had no idea what they were running into. "We got multiple ships in sight, advise command that they are also firing at Leo II. " reported the scout ship. Since scout ships were not equipped with planetary troop detectors they had no idea a large battle was taking place. "Im getting weird sound waves, sounds kinda like gunfire." reported the scout once more "Probably nothin', advise command that we may have the U.S.S Star Grazer in sight." commented the escorts. "Hey are they firing at us?" asked a somewhat suprised scout. "Oh shi-" yelled the scout just as they got blasted into space particles. General Tarqin noted their deaths and held a small ceremony in their honor. He knew they were looking for him, otherwise their would only be repair ships heading towards the radar system. He decided to also note that the Drengins had luanched a few ships into space to aid in the fight, they had fired at the scouts also. What a debaccle this had become in such a short time Tarqin thought. He then began to turn his thoughts to Natalie and all the civilans counting on his very decisions, he started to think of a variety of ways he could stop the unidentifieds and then thought of a very risky and odd possibility of a plan. He hoped it would work, it was a "Hope to God It Turns Out Good" type of plan.

An Odd Couple
Chapter 17
"Ryi and Tarqin"

Terran Presidental House
Word had gotten out of the scout ships being shot down by mysterious forces quickly,
Alan Bradley had recieved the news shortly after the scouts were shot down near Leo II. "Mr.President we have recieved word that 3 of our scout ships have been shot down near Leo II, please take into account this is our blindspot (Alan agknowleged with a nod). Our leading Generals excluding the recently gone renegade Tarqin have come up with a list of possible scenarios, number one on their list is that Tarqin or another unidentified source have shot them down. I however have a diffrent theory." stated General Greer. "Proceed." said Alan. "Well sir what if Tarqin is right? I mean it's happened in the past and wild guesses have turned out to be completly correct. I propose that the "terriosts" are exploiting our blindspot and sending in a massive attack fleet towards Earth, in other words im requesting a Order 22 (Total Recall of Navy for Defensive Purposes)." Greer proposed. Alan responded "What you have proposed would result in our outer worlds being at great risk and would cuase widespread panic across not only our territory but the entire galaxy. I understand your viewpoint Greer but thats a heavy proposal youv'e put on the table, do we have any proof at all that's Tarqin isn't a madman?" Greer answered "Sir you personally sent him as the commander of the Alatarian Savior operation, not only did he give us a good image but he also saved billions of innocent souls, and arn't the scout's being shot down proof? It would take more than 5 seconds for the scouts to be destroyed by a single capital ship." An aide then rushed into the room rustling through some important documents, he looked extremely worried yet excited at the same time. "Excuse me gentleman we have recieved some disturbing news from Fleet Command, the've played the sound receptors last recordings and the have found that their was multiple capital ships moving throughout the area, all of which were to big to be the Star Grazer. The disturbing part is this must mean that somebody who isn't on good terms with us is in the neighborhood." reported the aide.

U.S.S Star Grazer Prepping for Orbital Descent
"Robert I have to tell you something important." Tarqin said to Robert. "Yes?" Robert said. "Im planning to make contact with the Drengins, as crazy as it may seem i believe we can benefit eachother with a deal." Tarqin said with a low voice. Robert replied "But Tarqin the last time..." Tarqin interrupted "Yes i know what happened last time somebody tried to contact them privately, but im confiden- no, pretty sure they will accept our help in their time of need and maybe repay the favor.". "Ok il'l start up the comm line." Robert complied reluctuntaly. They heard large amounts of gunfire in the background of the commline and lots of brute like roars, the sounds of combat brought back bad memories to Tarqin and he tried not to show it. "Something wrong Tarqin?" asked Robert "No i'm fine, just try to get through to their leader of some sort." Tarqin asked politely. He turned on GNN news as he awaited contact. The report he heard was terrifying "The unspecified terror group has countinued their onsluaght with seemingly limitless supplies and ships and have captured numerous outer planets of other races. Reportedly the Yor have overthrwon their leader N-1 and attempted to negotiate a surrender with the terror group. At this moment the Yor are assumed defeated, all of their leader unit's were sluaghtered during the so called negotiations driving all other Yor into discord and confusion. Without guidance from a leader they are absolutely hopeless. The Thalans have so far lost no planets and has tooken light losses." Tarqin had not realized the power of the men until this moment. The Yor attempting a surrender? If you proposed that years earlier you would have been locked up in the loony bin. "We have contact and we are descending." reported Robert.

Battlegrounds of LeoII, Drengin Frontlines
Field Commander Ryi had killed so many men in just an hour that he almost lost count. Although an enjoyable conflict this one was beggining to turn in the favor of the enemy. What they lacked in strength they made up for in numbers and artillery. Mostly artillery though. He noticed one approaching the frontline and he ran up to the man, grabbed his rifle and quickly proceeded to blow off the mans head. Pathetic weakling, you cannot compare to our brute strength with your puny rifles. He then heard a loud rumbling not of hyperdrive nature, more like a ship going through it's last stage of landing. He looked up and saw a mid sized Terran Capital Ship with the words STAR GRAZER written on it's underside in bold text. He then recieved a message. "We understand you need help, we are offering our assistance in exchange for a favor." he heard the voice say in crude poorly translated Drengin dialogue. "You must take us for idiots, I'd rather soon endure skin peeling heat than ally with you!" Ryi declared. As if on cue a large napalm like bomb hit the frontlines nearly burning his face off. "Having a change of mind?" asked the human. "Ok, but this doesn't change anything about my nations status with you! And who in Lord Kona's name are these bastards?" asked Ryi. "We are just as confused you are. Now alert your men to get aboard our ship and once there is not enough room to board their ships and follow." the human instructed. "And how will this help us?" Ryi asked in a skeptical tone. "We have an H1." informed the man. "No further explanation needed, and what is your profile?" Ryi replied. The human knew he must have been reffering to his name on the profile question. "General Tarqin of the Special Forces Fleet, we will need your help in earth's defense and we offer you help for the rest of your lives, and what is your profile?" Tarqin said. "Field Commander Ryi of the Drengin Army, and i accept your gracious offer."

The story is entering the final act and comments and suggestions at this point are extremly helpful so please comment if you have something on your mind. Rest assured i will finish the story and finish it, the only thing i cant garuantee is that there wont be a cliffhanger.-The Author

Citiziens of Earth...
Chapter 18
"The Long Road Home"

U.S.S Star Grazer
Tarqin watched his men do what they do best, work. As the hundreds of Drengi were brought aboard they encountered a few problems, for one they liked to play rough which had resulted in a few major injury's, secondly the Drengi didn't seem to comply to nicely with instructions and reacted to them if they had been slapped in the face, and finally the weight problem. Drengin's apparently weigh about 2 to 3 times more than the average human which could pose a problem. His men in computing and statistics had immediatly begun to crunch the numbers and the results were still pending, time was running out. As the unidentifieds grew closer and closer more was at stake, and Tarqin was not willing to risk any more lives. Someone not human patted his shoulder pad, Tarqin jumped in suprise and Ryi began to luagh. "I had come just to tell you that my men are a little disgruntled at my decision and we should set up defense lines just in case! You humans are so spineless I mean really!" Ryi countinued to scoff and luagh as the translator onboard decoded the language. Ryi's men wern't the only who were disgruntled, Tarqins men were a little less than pleased to learn of their new passengers also. Tarqin began to talk "Ok Ryi im going to cut to the chase here,I expect no problems from your men as we head to...(Tarqin Puased)..our destination. We will do our job and you will do yours, the ship is battered from the descent due to enemy fire and any more problems can blow us to hell. Do you understand?" Ryi stopped luaghing "I cannot garuantee you anything, as i said before post your guards near the passenger rooms, we may have some trouble." suddenly the ship began to shake and the sounds of thousands of footsteps filled the air. "Start takeoff procedures now!" ordered Tarqin.

Earth, Natalie Tarqins Apartment
Natalie sat down and took a deep breath, all the news of war had put the citiziens of Earth in a paranoid state. She was not ready to accept that type of lifestyle so she had decided to take a deep breath everytime she got paniced. She picked up her history class book entiteled "The First Space War", a study on the Human vs. Drengin inital conflict. The book was inaccurate, thought Natalie as she read through chapter 12, her father had tuaght her the Drengins were warlike beings highly incapable of understanding and complience with any race that is not adistic. The book stated the Drengin engaged war with us due to religious reasons and other contributing factors. Historians are ignorant thought Natalie, they alway's think there is a good reason behind conflict or change. In this case it was a matter much to complicated to be understood by some mere author sitting somewhere writing the next chapter, it was a matter best left to the Drengins herself she thought. Maybe we should get their side of the history books, why had no one thought of this before. She answered herself in a flash, "They have, but no one in their right mind has ever approached a Drengin with the notion that they were safe." she told herself as she finished up chapter 12. She wondered if she should turn on the news but decided against it, it would only remind her of the danger her father was probably in. Ever since he left to save Altaria he had not contacted her.

Fleet Command Strategizing Room
Greer entered the room he had been in so many times before, the Strategizing Room. His first visit was when he was a aide to the president before Alan Bradley, this was after he had seen combat of course, they had hand picked him out of 43 choices. He hoped to god he was the right man for the job right at the moment, the fate of the Terran race was at stake. "Gentleman, our reports have shown that the U.S.S Star Grazer was not the ship that shot down our scouts, as a matter of fact it appears to be a group of much larger ships but most noticeably an Omega Class battleship. This ship has been identified as the U.S.S Intrepid, the last of it's kind. All other Battleships of this type have been put out of service for low munuverability and the tendency to blow up during orbital descent due to high weapon heat levels. The Omega class Battleships are currently being replaced by a new design still being developed as we speak. This is the ship that poses the biggest threat, although not confirmed i have reason to believe it is the Flagship of some sort. They are currently over Leo II, our radar blindspot and we are sending defense ships to earth as we speak, half of them will be diverted to Leo II as the offensive force. The defense force will compose of about 5 normal fleets and the offensive will have about 7 attack class fleets...." as Alan Bradley countinued his briefing Greer began to compose a better plan, send all ships to earth, the plan the president called for only used a tiny fraction of the Navy and Greer thought it was best to be on the safe side. Of course Alan had a notoruis history of keeping a large chunk of ships idle and sending the few who were fighting to the offensive attack. This had lost and won the Navy many battles before and Alan seemed to be sticking with it. Greer countinued to make a better plan as the green glow of the Strategy Rooms main screen glared at them.

U.S.S Star Grazer
"We have liftoff!" Robert said with a feeling of accomplishment. He had just assisted with about 1/3 of the normal takeoff procedures and had speed things along quite quickly. Tarqin had noticed this and planned to request a promotion for Robert if they still had their jobs when they came home, not to mention their lives. As the ship quickly took off Ryi examined the Terran equipment and took notes on them, Tarqin guessed that Ryi had never encountered human technology up close and was excited, he was right about that. The navigators made sure the Drengin ships were following them and then set course for Earth. As they passed the first levels of atmospheric checkpoints they spotted a large battleship in the distance probably getting a lock on them, Robert noted this and was sure to keep an eye out on it. Suddenly a large explosion rocked the passenger bay and gunfire sound filled the ship. Tarqin immediatly ran for the blast doors button and pressed it. The Control Room blast doors closed and were then triple sealed to ensure safety, "Ok can somebody tell me what the hell is going on!" Tarqin yelled at his crew. One of his men came up and got brushed away by Ryi who began to speak "I believe we have a mutiny in progress, more specifacally my men." Ryi then got on his comm link and began to talk to his men "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" he roared into the headset. One of the ground soldiers replied "We are just commencing the plan, remember? Our oath was to kill all humans so we deduced that you were planning to backstab them." Ryi was furious and yelled "DO NOT ASSUME ANYTHING YOU IDIOTS! YOU DO STRICTLY AS I SAY AND ONLY WHAT I SAY!". The foot soldier then advised him with a polite tone "Field Commander Ryi, due to your traitorous behaviour you are considered a enemy of the Drengin Empire..." Ryi didn't wait for him to finsih and shut off the commlink. With a great explosion the blast door opened and
Drengin troops began to pour in. Ryi and the rest of the main crew took out their weapons and began to fire. "Im sorry for the inconvience Tarqin but my men are apparently not complying with my orders." Ryi said as he fired at his own men. Robert then noticed they were in space and approaching the battleship at a fast rate of speed, he advised Tarwin but nobody seemed to hear him over the blaster fire. The battleship opened fire and the ship shook violently. [Shields Offline,Collision Warning] his computer screen read as the battleship got closer and closer. Tarqin then noticed and said "Switch course to nearest safe route!" Robert did as ordered and the fight began to die down as the Terran ground troops came to assist. The ship was turning, but way to slow as the battleship was just 1/2 a mile away. Apparently the Collision Avoidance command only worked if you were dodging smaller objects or were far away from the collision hit area. The battleship didn't stop, it was like a much more deadlier game of chicken. The ships got extremely close and all of the warning light flashed when Tarqin yelled out "We arn't gonna make it!". Robert then hit the manual control button and Ryi dashed towards the captain seat. He pulled up with all of his might as the battleship grew closer at only a few hundred feet away. The Star Grazer pulled up and scraped the top of the battleship with the bottom of it's hull barely dodging it! "Holy shit that was close!" Tarqin said as they passed the battleship. "We aren't safe yet, almost all lower hull systems are damaged and the passenger bay's life support system failed on impact. The good news is that battleship will take a while to turn around and they are probably shocked enough by our close call." Robert reported. Tarqin then sat in the nearest chair and let out a large breath. Ryi countinued to stand as if nothing happened. They then set the autopilot to Earth and countinued their trip. Earth was still hours away.

Wow.

Humanity is Screwed  
Chapter 19
"In Other News Today..."

U.S.S Intrepid en Route to Earth
"Supreme Commander, our radar operators have identified the ship that collided with us as the U.S.S Star Grazer. Shall we commence chase procedures?" "No, our priority is to swiftly destroy planet Earth at all costs. Concentrate all power to the engines and prep the Hyperdrive." ordered the Supreme Commander. "Yes sir." the orderly replied. The Zycoduim will have to be placed in the most strategically correct area, the Supreme Commander thought to himself. New York city would be the target as it bears the most citiziens out of all the cities on Earth. "Ready to hyperdrive." reported the orderly. "Ok, secure all loose cargo and crew members. Prepare to hyperdrive whole fleet to Earth." The Omega class battleship began to pull back in reverse very slowly while charging it's engines, a low buzz like sound was heard throughout the ship. The buzz like sound grew louder and louder as the ship began to reverse at a higher rate of speed, the engines glow changed from a light blue to bright white color. The ship then suddenly lurched forward at incredible speed and a brillant white light followed by a popping sound were seen and heard from Earth. And just as fast as they had begun to hyperdrive, they had reached Earth. "The rest of the fleet should be here soon, in the meanwhile give Earth a little wake up call." ordered the Supreme Commander. The artillery was fired seconds later.

GNN Broadcasting Station, Earth
"Welcome to GNN News broadcasting 24/7, I'm your anchor Anne and here is my co-anchor Charles. The Terran Government has gone to Defcon 1 at this point and is declaring the new Terror group a major threat to the galaxy. We have compiled a list of destroyed or devestated races the Yor, Korx, Torians, an- wait a minute it seems that we have some frightning news to report, apparently the Terror Group is right over Earth and are firing artillery at New York City and other- (short puase)we are having signal proble-." the broadcast was then cut off and the Supreme Commanders mask filled the screen. "Hello citizens of Earth, there is no where to run and no where to hide. Stay indoors or in your puny shelters if you like, but either way you will be exterminated by the awesome power of my army!" the Supreme Commander said followed by a gahstly laugh. He then countinued "Our mission is to exterminate all who do not surrender to our mighty will on contact, and you humans have decided to resist. This decision will lead to your downfall, nobody can save you now, not even the small force you call a navy! Like the great one's before us we shall take a name that will strike fear into the galaxy, we shall call ourselves the Dread Lords!" the Supreme Commander proclaimed!

Numerous Locations
"What the hell!?" yelled Alan Bradley as he and the rest of High Command began to quickly respond to the situation. "Oh god..., get the navy back here now!" ordered Greer. "Mr.President! More ships have materialized over Earth sir!" reported one of the radar operators. "Tell all civilans to get to the nearest shelter and stock up on supplies." Alan Bradley ordered. "Sir, even more ships are coming." "Advise all other nations we are sending out a distress beacon, we need all the help we can get." Greer told some of the technical crew. "Do you think there will be casualty's?" Alan Bradley asked Greer. "Sir, i believe the question is how many there will be."
Natalie Tarqin began to cry in fear. She had been watching the news when the signal got overrun by the maniacal tyrant. She ran to her food storage area and fitted all she could into her suitcases. She called up a shuttle to take her to a shelter and took all other things neccasary for survival. She had gone over the drills about a million times but could never imagine things like this actually happening to her. She heard artillery strike just miles away from her apartment and hurried up with the packing, outside she heard screams of terror and crazed citizens crying for help. She heard the artillery again except closer this time, she saw the hovershuttle land and boarded it. She looked out the back window and saw her apartment get obliterated by artillery from space.
"Tarqin! The unidentifieds have hyperdrived to Earth." reported a crew member. "Shit, hyperdrive to Earth now as fast as we can." ordered Tarqin with a worried tone. "We cant risk that, the ship is severly damaged and we need to concentrate our crews tasks on repair work. Need I remind you how many of our men were in the passenger bay that failed to run it's life support systems?" advised the crew member. Tarqin didn't need a reminder, although the mutinous Drengin were all killed on impact so were all his men in the passenger bay. Tarqin looked towards Ryi who looked stressed. "Excuse me Field Commander, is anything wrong?" he asked using his translator. "What is not wrong? I have murdered my own kind just for survival, that is not a very noble act. All I can hope is that Lord Kona will understand my error and allow me to countinue service. " Ryi answered. Tarqin had not been aware that the Drengin were so dedicated to their cuase, he always thought of them as a race who din't care about honor. He left Ryi to his thinking and turned his thoughts to getting to Earth. Even if he did get there he wouldn't have enough firepower and men to aid in the defense of Earth much at all. But that didn't matter, like Ryi I would rather die for my cuase than retreat like a coward he thought. "Countinue at normal speed and hold course, we will fight for Earth even if it means certain death, all who object may take the escape pods." ordered Tarqin. Nobody objected.

The Fight Countinues
Chapter 20
"The Battle for Earth"

Natalie Tarqin, Old New York Sector
The HoverShuttle sped through the highway dodging all of the debris and wreckage in it's path as the artillery countinued to strike New York. Natalie Tarqin sat in the shuttles seat tense as they went towards the nearest open shelter. Her driver was just as scared as her and apparently was getting a little to shaky to drive well, she knew this becuase they had nearly hit a large peice of shrapnel. She heard something in the sky like a rumbling sound, the clouds around the source of the sound began to split away and a grey metallic object came into veiw barely sightable by the human eye. A flame erupted around it as it grew larger and larger, she immediatly knew it was a ship coming in from space. It increased speed and descended more rapidly until it was clearly visible and could be accuratly classified as a Omega Class Battleship, only one was in existence and it was the U.S.S Intrepid. It gradually slowed down to a halt and the hull glowed a sickly red from the extreme heat, it fired a bolt right at an old skyscraper near the new freeway. It directly hit it as a large ball of flame erupted from the skyscraper, it began to fall down in the direction of the freeway just a few miles forward of their position. They countinued their rate of speed as the skyscraper fell over like a domino right at them, Natalie knew they wouldn't make it but the driver thought otherwise. "Turn around!" she yelled as they grew closer "No, we could make it through, if we turn around we will surely be killed by the artillery!" the driver said with a fearful voice. She jumped out leaving all her luggage in the car, the tower hit the shuttle square on the hood and ripped through the highway like a knife. The resulting shock wave made the ancient asphalt on the highway ripple and threw Natalie into the sky. She fell to the ground under the devestated highway hyperventilating. She saw the ship descending slowly towards the ground, it let out it's landing stands.

Military Personnel Bomb Shelter
"Gentleman, I need not explain why we were sent down here so lets get straight to bussiness. General Greer has the floor." Alan Bradley stated. "Thank you Mr.President, although your plan may work on our less populated more military concentrated planets, in our situation it is evident Earth is more culturally developed. I find it neccessary to rethink our strategy." "Very well then Greer, what is you proposal?" Alan asked. "Sorry sir we have to postpone that for a minute here,we have an incoming transmission from Thala." one of the crewmen interrupted. "Put them on." Alan said with a sigh. "Hello Terrans, we are glad to report we have lost no planets to the New Dread Lords or so they are called. We can provide full support aide to your defense, we reccomend you engage a full retreat however. Our leading strategists reccomend it and they have not failed us yet." Hisethsius said without a trace of emotion in his voice. "Hisethsius we except your offer however we will not retreat, may we ask how many of your population have died?" Alan replied. "Approximatly 85 billion of our hive, all were expendable and we are already hatching replacements.". "That is quite a large amount, we have to go now but send all reinforcments to Earth please." Alan Bradley then hung up the phone and got back to the point. "Good news gentleman, we have reinforcements from the Thalans, advise all security checkpoints to let them through with warm welcomes." "Well anyway my plan involves the use of one of our five projects, we must utilize the-" Greer got cut off. "Greer our projects are still early in development and are highly dangerous." Alan advised. "Fine, no Project use, my plan will see that we commence a major scale retreat with 1/2 of our fleet and leaving the other half here." Greer proposed. "No, we will countinue our course of action, we are winning the battle." Alan commanded. "Well not exactly sir, although we will destroy them at this rate it wouldnt be considered a tactical victory. Earth would be destroyed as well as our economy and outstanding cultural and militaristic influence. We would be ripe for the picking by other civilizations." reported General Hudgins. "Sir we have damaged enemy vessels landing all over Earth and before you ask they used the play dead technique to get through. We also have a unclassified smaller capital ship entering the area." one of the radar operators reported. "It's Star Grazer." Greer stated. "What?" Alan questioned. "The U.S.S Star Grazer has come to make a last stand." Greer said.

Old New York, 3rd Battalion of Marine Corps
"They landed over here." one of Falcons men reported as he pointed towards a large crater. "Looks more like a crash then a-" suddenly a capital ship plowed through a bunch of skyscrapers in the central city cuasing a large spectacular explosion followed by screams from the civilans. "Shit! Advise command they got nothin' to lose." Falcon ordered one of his men. "Yes sir, should we check it out?" "Yes, change direction." they then went towards the crash site in the central area. When they got there it looked like a mass driver had hit the area, shrapnel,flames,scattered equipment, and dead people were scattered everywhere. The stench of rotting flesh filled the air. Suddenly hundreds of men crawled from the wreckage and began firing at them. "We have hostiles! Appear humanoid in nature, report to command they are wearing artifical atmospheric suits and helmets." Falcon ordered. His right hand man nodded and then Falcon raised his rifle. He fired 3 well placed shots into one of the hostiles arms. The bullets ricoched of the arm as if it were cybernetic in nature. He turned of his instincts and began to use his knowledge, if they needed suits without them they would die. Before he could act one of the hostiles jumped at him and knocked him over, they wrestled over Falcons rifle until Falcon punched through the mans mask. The mans face was pale white and was missing an eye, the remaining one was red. The enemy screamed "You Terran bastards!" as he used his last bits of strength in a futile attempt to beat Falcon at melee. After the encounter Falcon made a mental not that the man was definetly human, or very close to it. Another explsoion rocked the area as another capital ship plowed through New York. "We cannot win this fight alone men, call in backup and fall back!" he ordered. He turned around and saw the capital ship that was apparently still crashing coming right towards him, before he could react it crushed him with its sheer power from the crash. It then smahed through the rest 3rd Battalion Marine Corps as if they were pins in a bowling alley.

How do you get into an alliance with Altarian? In my games there the first to go- or its me. Anyways, good writing!