Shattered Planes Archives (Seasons 4 & 5)
Saeculum Galaxy => Marid Solar System Placeholder => Marid Colony A => Topic started by: Capxeno on April 28, 2012, 10:49:32 PM
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The Pearl of Ice dropped out of FTL. Its captain and crew had not seen this system for years, the feeling of being home was oen fo violent anxiousness. Ready to strike at their very people's colony. This was a matter of spite. It had been eight long years, they had invaded many world since their fleet became operational.
The collective, their leaders, their people could have feasibly found them by now, however, the Wayword's many spy networks showed that no, they were not searching, and even more than that all of the Veterans MIA from Djinn One... are considered war criminals by the Collective.
On orders of General Kuun, the Pearl of Ice is to establish contract with the Colony A, to ask for automatic defenses be shut down so that the return, "whole" of the Djinn One fleet might land and debrief the Internal Affair Office as to the status of the Djinn One survivors and the results of their mission all those years ago.
Outside the system, out of range of the Collectives detection capabilities. The Wayword's fleet
resides, a number of Gremory classes. This wasn't an invasion, for abandoning the Wayword to their fate and for besmirching their names with the dishonor of being called war criminals. The Wayword planed to wipe out The Marid colony A.
Now, how did they plan to this? Simple, when the Colony command ordered the automatic defenses down for a planetary landing... they would strike.
~This is the Djinn One fleet acting commander Tslar. I am captaining a ship made from scavenge materials, eight years after the start of our mission, we have returned. Requesting landing protocol, confirmation number....~
~Responding, this is Internal affairs, please begin landing sequence~
With that communication, the colony fate was sealed. 20 FTL slug rounds were fired from outside the Collective detection capabilities. While a number over five thousand frigate Zunal classes and 500 nagant classes, dropped in the system and opened fire.
Truth be told, the fight last 24 seconds. You see, while yes the colony was not without its own vessels. The Wayword striked the system when all of its combat vessels were on trading missions. While a few frigates were lost to autonomous weapons fire, the moment the FTL slugs hit the planet, it was over. Each slug routed the local population and eliminated military infrastructure. It turned in a clean up operation. While the few parent gems that were on the colony were take hostage.
A message managed to reach Salahiem, to warn him of what was happening. However within an hour, the system was wiped of any hostile resistance. In the Waywords mind, those who had abandoned them were punished.
For the Collective... it meant the Merchant Society was at war with it own kind.