Archins Mistake

What Have We Done!

THE BEGINNING OF WHAT COULD BE THE END:

According to the scans The Archin UpHeaval had managed to merge all galaxies into one. LostHero only wanted to send his people home, but instead he bought their home to them. Their home world of Archintras was quickly colonized once again. He had sacrificed himself to aid his people and for that he would always be remembered. but their homeworld wasn't the only thing that came though. Since their departure the Dark Elements faction had managed to completly overrun the PeaceMakers, Nedian and all minor races. Now Reports were flying in about strange Black ships that attacked any ship they encountered, killing without hesitation. a special report showed the Dread Lords and Dark Elements Faction battling in the Vol-far system. the Dread Lords had the fire power but they were impossibly out numnbered. Doom rays took out half the attacking but then thousands more ships came racing into the fight completely vaporising the Dreadies fleet. the battle didn't last, our scout's analizes of the wreckage showed that the larges peice of dread lord ships was about 12cm long 2cm wide and 1/2cm thick, not even worth salvaging. Archin had unleashed a giant.

Archin now had established their small but fast growing empire, thought they were small they were greatly feared by the Drengin and opposing empires. Now the Archins under the rule of former commander Flora (now Leader Flora) are now expanding into an area not controlled by the Dark Elements faction.


THE BEGINNING:

Flora went over the countless reports coming in, they had settled a good planet.

This would be a good place to set up a strong hold.

they were far from the other races which gave them the element of suprise, if they could build a large army here then taking the Drengin would be no problem.

But they didn't have all the time in the world, Dread lords patrol these areas so colonization was a must.

The first planets was ThrowBack, a fairly decent planet that would serve them well.

The second planet colonized was KnockBlack, since it was a class 4 it wouldn't serve them very well, but it was a start.

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2 hours ago intelligence found evedence of these 5 races operating in this system. it was an evenly matched war.

"Maddam, your survey ship is ready. we intend to depart 0700 hours if you are ready." her crewman Klisk reported. "yes, i will be ready in time, dont worry" she replied. how did LostHero deal with such stress, leader was a hard job. Trading with alien races, the war, refugee handling and economic issues not to mention public morale. Archin's were still doubting her ability to act as a leader for the Archin UpHeaval.

After departing another Colony Cruiser had reached it's desination.

Crenna would be nammed the economic captial.

Their ships were changed too,

the Colony cruiser hadn't change much it still had the same basic shape.


The Catapillar CrashLand was made to come thundering though the atmosphere so fast that no flak turret could hit it. with fast deployment abilities it was by far the most effective invation machine yet.


The frame worker is basicly only a minor upgrade to the forger.


the first Archin trader, it was fast and cheap making it a very effective trading machine.


Basicly no changes exept it could travel 9 par-sec a week, very fast.


The Raptor Mk.1 would serve as a Dread lord killer, it also carried the new Archin Weapon. The EMC! (Electro-Magnetic Cannon)


Desguise as a cargo hauler this ship was designed with 2 EMC's and 2 ADV. deflectors to jump the Dreadies ships.

These ships were 6 times more powerful than the original Solar series ships meaning that Archin could possibly verse a Dread Lords Escourt with 1 Raptor. it would be overkill to have a fleet of raptors.

After a few weeks Flora and her survey team found evidence of a Dread Lords, Dark Elements Faction battle. The Space around their system was littered with debrie. it would seem the Dark alliance was using new metals to construct their vessels. Flora ordered this metal to be attached to their ships to increase their HP. they would continue to search for the metals for as long as possible.

each Battle feild offered at least +4 HP.


After a while Crewman Klisk reported rich deposits of Emerald on a small moon that had broken orbit from one of the near by planet, the Emerald ran right to the very core the Moon it would take at least one average Archin life time to extract all the emerald from the moon (Archin's Live to be 1200, but they start to become disabled in certian areas aound 900). Flora ordered refineries to extract that resources, this might cover the income shortage they had been experiencing.


Archin's were flying though tec's faster than most major races were (keep in mind they have more planets and are set on surcidal. also i dont have any research improvement what so ever, apart from the tec 'Archin Deep Thinking' which i traded with the Altarian). Altarian and Archins were at the top of the research ladder, far exeeding any race.

Something that did catch Flora's attention was religion. Human's had the belief that clouds were a place called heaven were everyone goes after death. Drengin believed that once you die you are sent to fight an everlasting war. whilest Scottigalian believed that there is one star for every scottigalian alive. Flora wished to understand more about these beliefs and religions. research was done and a was completed the very next week.

but it didn't stop their. research reported the findings of telopaths among Archin socity. Tests were conducted and descoveries were made.

Now it was the latest crazy to become telopathicly enhanced.

Cewman Klisk yet again descovered more galactic resources Military, influecial and morale.

he earned a promotion and was given a raptor to patrol the borders of the Archin empire.

that very next week he managed to make contact with the Human to inform them of the dangers that lurked in this system.

they understood and reported back to their leader.

More advancements came out of the research agencies and... A BREAK THOUGH!

How could Archin have been so blind, Planets are living things. a telopath managed to comunicate with the Planets and a treaty was made. Mass driver, gas, core detonation and tidal disruptor Invation tactic were to never be used again. Flora made an apology on behalve of all Archin. the Planets were pleased with this and only requested one more thing, that we share our knowlegde with all races. it was done, but only the altarian listened.

the planets also let us in on a little secret. Magic is real!

though hard to learn all races could us it, Arnor did. It Greatly increase our chance againest the Dread Lords.

As time passed A terran trade ship was spotted traveling towardsour empire.

it was ordered that a economic starbase was to be constucted to show that we welcomed the humans.

a United planets was called...

in this session it was decided that a constuctor should have a minimum speed of 3 parsecs a month to advoid conflicts with enemy war ships. because archins had a small population compared to the other races. our vote did little to affect the out come. although we did vote for 3 parsecs.

"Flora, we need more facilities if we are to increase our productivity. could you send down a couple of Frame workers to assist in the constuction" the cheif miner asked of PlatCom. Flora agreed, but she sent more than just 2 frame workers.


The base was upgraded to it's max. the economy was increase and finally the Archins could go 100% production output without leaving the green for morale (Morale was above 70%).

Another way to increase our economic supplies was Trade. terrans and altarians were very good trade partners, they would surely be willing to accept what we had to offer.



And Finaly the Galactic bankers could thrive once again, though their bases need an upgrade they were doing their part to increase the economy.

Now it was time for war! dread Lords were using capatial ships so why shouldn't we. before we even designed a war frigate we had already started on a Proto-Type Cruiser.

the war took a turn for the best.

To Be Continued...
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Woot, good work on this LostHero! Keep up this quality! Whoooo!

GalenEvil
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i have just found a small fault that will slightly alter the game. turns out all the minor races have been overwriten and i now have the Arnor, PeaceMakers and Dark Elements Faction on the map! they weren't suposed to be there
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Continued...

ARCHIN GRAND FLEET:

Archin were fast becoming that strongest of all races. even though Archin only owned 4 planets in this system they were still stronger than most.

their empire was on more than just planets.

The relization for new fire power was at hand. sure, our fighters were strong, but againest on of those dreadies battleships they were insects waitting for the swat. a new heavy amoured unit was needed,

The Shell!

Using traditional Physics the shell could turn way some beam weaponry and repel Almost all Mass Driver weaponry. it was armed with 2 EMC's.

"Flora, that's the last of the battle fields in this system. were preparing to upgrade to a PT Cruiser now" the Com's officer reported.

Flora had ordered the upgrade of her ship to commence after they had finished surveing. the Upgrades were under way, Wing leader klisk had kindly offered to guard their ship whilest the Upgrade were been comenced.

amour plating was placed over the Hull plating they had salvaged from the wreckages giving it triple the strength of a normal Shell class frigate!

Flora's new ship was prehaps stronger than any ships built yet (i lituraly mean it, it probably is). that states are as follows...
>HP: 64
>Defence: Beam; 2
Missile; 0
MassDriver; 4
>Attack: Beam; 4
missile; 0
Mass Diver; 0
>Speed: 7
>Range: 2.3 sectors
>Sensors: 3

This ship was a one ship Armada.

Final the Trade Hauler had reached it's destination.

the 'Pearl' had reached the terran planet of Mars. this trade had increase their economy greatly and with the new galactic bankers continuously upgrading their starbase it wouldn't be long before the treasury was overflowing.

Now it was time to build a fleet in a matter of 5 weeks the Archin had managed to build yet another imperial fleet, but it wouldn't stop their.

no they would need a massive army if they were to destroy the Yor!

another meeting was held. It was nerve wraking to be in the same room as the Drengin but alas she must do it. "how do i look?" she asked Klisk who seemed to be pulling a sour face.
"you need something Archin like on this outfit" the outfit was of Human making, she promised to wear it to improve relation between the weary races. "i know" Klisk said again and whilest doing so he rumaged though a chest and pulled out a drengin rib cage vest. the vest was her favourite, decorated with emeralds and saphires and the bones were coloured gold. the whole thing was coated with a clear liquid that set hard and gave the vest a shine. most other races would think it to be synthetic but the Dengin would know and that's what counted. She could see the Kona was uneasy whilest in the UP meeting.

the metting it's self went smoothly, the meeting was to discuss whether troop transports should carry weapons. Archin's answered no, it might have been againest the Altarian and Humans vote but since we were about to attack the yor it seem best that their transports carried no weapons.

Flora returned to find their first frigate completed. This new shell would be command by a Main Captian.

they would have to be careful though, the yor had already perfected their Cruisers.

12 new units complete and 2 catapillar crash landers. the army was building but not fast enough, social upgrades and more military funds were announced thus dramaticly increasing production allowing use to pump out another shell and Space Tanker.

it was going well until we found our destiny.

The Peacemakers Have returned!

To be continued...
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Continued...

THE END OF THE DREAD LORD WARS:


(New Picture for Archins, cool huh)
PeaceMakers! Here! this was terrible news. Archin would have to face their long lost enemy once again. the dark elements faction must have missed this small group of PeaceMaker scum. they wouldn't be around long enough to do anything though.

Archin ships were flying off the production lines fast than any other race could produce ships. they would soon assault the Yor. after that the Dread Lords and then the Korax. not even the Archin's expected this though.


the Dread Lords had failed. the last of the Dread Lord scum had been wiped of the face of the earth by the combind power of the Dark Elements faction, Yor and korax. the Dark Elements faction did most the work. Archin ships had been designed to destroy Yor and Dread Lord units, not Dark Elements faction. their Current armies were no much use againest Archin new threat.

how ever Archin's did prepare for the worst, they had kept an evenly balanced combination of all the defences just in case of unexpected event (such as this). therefore The raptor Mk.2 was created (no difference in looks).

"Flora" the Platcom device buzzed in her ear. "flora we have reports coming in from the moon of BlackWillow (original called LostCity)...

... There are large deposits of Emerald up there that would increase our economy by billions of dollars, but it would seem that the emerald is growing in tunnels filled with lava. permission to go harvites these emerald with a secialized team of extractors" the voice over Platcom was Davlin. "permission granted, but safty first, no heroics down there ok" she said sturnly. she knew davlin was carful he always was.
he accepted the terms and cut the line.

in other new the Scouter name Pheonix was sent into the black to reveal our first Yor target.

it was a long flight but he was sure he could make to the base and back. he just hoped he didn't run into any Peacemaker entanglements.

To Be Continued...
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Continued...

THE PEACEMAKER Vs DARK ELEMENTS FACTION WARS!:

The Archins now had a sizable force in this system.

Report came flying in from sectors all over the galaxy of black ships heading for the iconian and torian Homeworld, a warning was sent ahead of the Dark Elements Battle group. we could only pray now.

this force had all the fire power it needed. though this was only a small force compared to that of the Archin defence navy which consisted of thousnads of ships.

doing some deeper research into magic and expedition was sent, on the barren waste land of Oncer III a wreckage was found. it was thousands of years old and more importantly, it was of Archin design. inside the abandoned crft was a book, it looked new, but in fact it was what they had been looking for. the Book of Hereldry (AVD. Magic) the book reveal secret locations for magic objects, class 26 planets and Even the Centre Planet!

though this descovery lead to many other questions like what was a 10000 year old sub-light troop carrier doing here? doing yet another search of the ship revealed a second magic?! the Psi, the magical entity that created the Universe (in other words the Psi is the Father of God). "if we manage to locate the Psi we might be able to find the reason why this cruiser is here" The Leader researcher report. Flora's mind was working over time, an archin ships all the way out here? even after 10000 years an Archin Sub-Light Troop Transport could not have reached this system on it's own, it would need basic hyperdrive to the edges of this system for the Archin's original home world. "conduct further survey leader, we need answer and were running Rapidly out of time" she fear for the survival of her people.

"Prime Leader, new report" the computer hummed at her. the voice was of Scouter Pheonix "Systems are shuting down... batteries low, only enough fuel to make it home" He said in a weezy voice, it was a recording "I'm no were near the Yor base, we need better life support if were going to make it this far. earlier i was attacked, PeaceMakers. My ships is still intaced but my life support systems have failed, i'm going into Kryo on the return tr... (alarms) wait they've retur..... (Explotion then static)" Flora held her head in her hands. she felt terrible, how could they stand up againest these new enemies.

research was failing once again, Altarian were getting greedy and making unfair trades just to get hold of our unique tec. it was a relief to to get a signal from a Torgalian runner that they had a fair trade for us.

"shall we send him in now Prime Leader?" He security officer asked. "yes please do" she had not had much time to prepare but the Toraglians insistend that she not worry about such things. "Welcome Tela-dei, please sit" she getured to a louge made of scales. "no please, i prefure to remaind tall" he said in a creakly voice. "Please tell us of your trade we are very interested" she said calmly, it wasn't to hard to please torgalians. maybe because they were suck good friends "We take Altarian Tec and gave to you" he said "but a catch. we need money, bad money at the moment 5000 big cozy and we gave". the offer sounded fair, Archin economy could easily cover the lose. "it a deal, were more than welcome to deal with our friends" so the deal was settled.

To avenge the death of our scouter Archins decided to attack a Peacemaker outpost.

Not only would this weaken their military but it would also give us the upper hand when we take over the resource.

then it happen, drought. BlackWillow was suffering from a major drought and if something wasn't done then all would be lost.

there for comunication with the planets reveal that the planet was dieing. it had reach the end of it's life span. funds were allocated to try and keep the planet alive.

then the worst possible thing happened, we found the Dark Elements Faction!

We needed to improve our military straight away. new ships were built and and designed, all we could do was pray that they weren't here to kill.

we need better range so a new scout was made, the hyper scout.

we managed to locate the Yor's base but our Transports still couldn't reach such a distance not without a near by planet for resupply. humans and altarian wouldn't trade, torgalian were to far away so we were left to wait.

Flora's Cruiser flew toward victory. a full armada of war ships dropped out of light speed before the mining outpost. a spray of mass driver weaponry struck outer hull of flora's ship but recieved no damage. She smiled and ordered all EMC's to fire, the Electrical weaponry spread across the starbases hull like fire spreads over tissue paper. the EMC's blew gas tanks and cause major internal damage.

the battle was over in seconds. no damage was recieved.

though it would seem that Altarian and humans were traitors, they teamed up with the Peacemakers and attacked our fleet. Humans lost 2 fleets while we only lost 3 Raptors. out running the rest of the fleets all units were ordered to return to the home system. human's could attack at anytime.

at the next UP meeting Flora sent a droid to do her bidding. as she had expected it was a trap. a trip wire bomb set by the Humans.

the meeting was called to see how many people wanted to end the war suprisingly only Torgolians, Drath and Archins wanted to end it. the others wanted to continue fighting.

it was clear now that Archin's didn't have any allies. toraglians were great allies but they were to weak to aid us in battle, they needed help to fight the Drengin.

then the first good news came in. "prime Leader we have found the Psi" said the Lead researcher "though it does not know why this ship has landed here it did tell us of how we might be able to contact our ancestors and find out". it was indeed good new, but alas it might have come too late.

THE END... Until next time.

A LITTLE EXTRA:
As Archins had feared Humans and Altarians had made the wrong choice. After a month the Prime Judgment (leader of the PeaceMakers) had planted a trap inside the Human and Altarian Military forcing them to surrender all their planets to the PeaceMakers. Now the peacemakers had returned to power. the Dark Elements Faction had Managed to Over thorw the Troian and iconian despite our early warnings. the Torgolian had manage to extend their small empire and join the archin's in tthe fight. the Drath were banished from their Alliance with the Evil races after voting to end all wars. they were then taken in by the Archin UpHeaval and Torgalian Empire to to form 'The Resistance'. The Humans, PeaceMakers and Altarian are now 1 empire called 'The PeaceMakers'. the Evil Races now call themselves 'Puppets of the Dread Lords' and 'The Dark Elements Faction' is stronger then ever.

The Next Story I Write Will Include This Setup.
Over is the Dread Lord Wars, Begun the Black horizon wars has.
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whoops for got to mention

the Dark Elements Faction now own's 1/3 of the Galaxy, Peacemakers own 1/4, the rest of us are tightly tucked away in the last part in the 5/12 we've been left with.
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and i also forgot to mention

The Thalan and Arcean make up the last of the 'Old Alliance".