Tower Station, Candidate One

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<< Attack on Candidate One commencing. Planet is a gas planet, seemingly uninhabited by any conventional lifeforms, according to our sensors. Opening Hyperspace Window... Now. >>

A hyperspace window opened over the massive gas planet, and three fighter squadrons, fifty fighters in all, flew out, surrounding the planet in low orbit, all guarding one large corvette. The massively assembled group, oblivious of any life on the gas planet, flew into place just over the planet... From a weapon hatch, the corvette released a massive bomb... A core bomb, freshly activated as it fell to the planet below.

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The Muundi and the Edoten were on defensive sorties, in the sector that the invaders had come out of hyperspace. These two ship had launched their Cannon funnels in a defense cloud in low orbit, just as a military exercise. Having coming out of hyperspace right in this cloud of Funnel cannons, the Muundi and the Edoten issued orders to fire. Targeting the Corvette from all directions on overclocked mode, The funnels themselves would explode at critical mass, catching any fighter in the blast. An outer layer of cannon funnels fired at any remain fighters, having been set to the lower setting fire fast and accurate in attempt to prevent any fighters evasive maneuvers from succeeding.

The remaining ships in Djinn Two had received word of the attack quick, as the Aultman captured the Core bomb in its Cargo bay, quickly sacrificing itself in a FTL jump on a coalition coarse with the Corvette. The Un, Plasus, and Ala launched their cannon funnels by the hundreds in a offensive formation at the Corvette.

Each firing at the Corvette and its fighters from a multitude of direction. Without Caliph here, Djinn Two was jumpy and hair triggered. The Aultman would collide with  the Corvette at FTL speed in less than a millisecond, with the cor bomb on board. The remaining ships at a safe distance as their cannon funnels did the work of attacking the Corvette and moping up the fighters.

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The fighters were positioned well close to the frigate, who's shields protected the entire mini-fleet from initial attacks. Still, they would not survive the constant bombarding of artillery for long. Their shield power had already dropped to 75% by the time they could react. Quickly, they prepared their defense.

The Anrufe had the advantage of Jumpdrive Type FTL in addition to their subspace hyperspace drives, with Jump Drive literally creating a "jump" from one point of space to another. They quickly typed in coordinates... To the other side of the gas planet. With a flash, the opposing ships and artillery charging towards where the ship had been would collide. The Aultman would likely be hit by friendly fighter before they could react.

In addition to this fact, energy was literally being sucked out of the Aultman by the core bomb, which was draining the ship of its power. The powerful it got, the more heat it would radiate, and the harder it would be to dispose. The Anrufe had not anticipated that the core bomb would be intercepted, but this could still work to their favor.

It would take several moments for another core bomb to be prepared. For now, the corvette readied its defenses and began to jump to random coordinates around the planet, each jump site picked to avoid the enemy, not to get closer to the enemy.

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The Aultman went past the field of firing funnel canons unscathed, reaching the just outside the Marid Homeworld Solar system. The Core Bomb draining of its systems put it dead in the water, another FTL jump would tear it to pieces. A crew of Marid were working frantically in attempt to disable the core bomb.


The Rest of the Djinn Two Fleet, began spreading their canon funnels in a cloud formation around every angle of approach of the planet. Being quite large this left maybe forty funnels to attack each angle. The Djinn Two Fleet running sorties around the planet in areas with the least canon funnels, hoping it would Hyperspace to areas with more funnels to avoid them.

In a strange flash of light the Djinn Three Fleet came into the system. Twelve brand new Zunal Class Frigates. They came out of FTL near, but nor in orbit of the planet. Having detected the jumping invader. The Fleet in a boxing-in formation folded surrounding the Corvette. Each time the Corvette jumped, the Djinn Three Fleet folded in turn, still surrounding the Corvette. Firing their Zero point Phaser Banks at the Corvette, hoping to make contact before the next Jump, thus also the next fold.

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While initial attacks were fairly ineffective at targeting the corvette, Fleet Three did prove to be a challenge. The corvette responded accordingly by releasing its fighters from formation. While Raven Fighters were designed for digging through planets, they were capable of literally digging into shields and hulls, though it would amount to considerable damage on the fighters later. Still, they began to attack the enemy ships which had surrounded the corvette, all while the corvette itself JD'd once more... Into the atmosphere of the planet, where it dropped another core bomb from its hatch.

The core bomb in the Aultman absorbed the body heat and energy of whatever came near it, and was now radiating intense heat. It was burning through the hull of the ship... And it was about to explode. If it succeeded in exploding, it would destroy the ship.

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The Aultman's crew worked frantically to deactivate the core bomb. Right when the final circuits to its FTL drive fried, the core bomb whined down, as the crew barley shut down the device. The Aultman now out of danger, but now stranded.

As the fighters left formation with the Corvette, a cloud formation of canon funnels from Djinn Two surrounded them cutting off their movement and bombarding them with heavy fire.

Djinn Three folded to where the Corvette was in the atmosphere, The Illi captured the core bomb by folding so that its cargo bay contained the Core bomb at the end of the fold. A second fold took the Illi far away from the planet, as it engaged its FTL drive. The Illi was now side by side with the Aultman as it hailed the Aultman's crew as to how to deactivate the core bomb.

The Rest of Djinn Three opening fire on the Corvette with their Zero point Phasers.


The gas giant itself rippled and shuddered as a loud, booming voice articulately demanded, "Who disturbs my experiments... and my slumber?"

[K2]

OOC: Very good, I must say.

The corvette was getting desperate now. The moment one of the ships jumped away, the corvette sped through the gap in formation. Now no longer surrounded by the enemy and free, it flew right down into the gas, activating a final core bomb as it flew down. It did not activate this core bomb outside the corvette... It activated it inside the corvette. While power began to be drained from the corvette itself, power also began to be drained from the planet.

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The gases of the giant began to surround the Corvette in phantasmal wisps of hellish fire, almost as if the tendrils of ensnaring gases were alive. The Corvette was being trapped in a pocket of all the gases of the giant as their true nature showed through, corrosively eating away at the shields and hull. A deep glowing orb deep in the giant shined for an ephemeral moment only to fade, disappearing.

A Earth-like world appeared in the Goldie-locks zone of this system, as a near shapeless bird figure appeared just outside the gas giants orbit. In slow deliberate motions, this figure flapped incomprehensible wings as it planet sized wing span.  Parent Gems from the pockets of boiling ice teleported to the Earth-like planet.

The Giants gases surrounding and compacting around the Corvette, pressure of near immeasurable scale would be pressing against the Corvette as Djinn Three escaped to Orbit around the Earth-like planet. Investigating the strange phenomena as an after thought of escaping the strange cataclysm the seemed to take over their home world

Djinn Two?s Cannon Funnels bombarded the now defenseless fighters as the controlling ships moved to a safer distance from the gas giant.  Chances are the fighters wouldn?t survive the funnels fire for long.

The Illi and the Aultman?s crew worked in frantic but skillful motions. The crew from the Aultman having already deactivated one core bomb was getting right to work on deactivating the second. The devise whined as it shut down. Two core bomb deactivated. The Illi?s Fold-Warp was fried and its FTL wouldn?t be operational for hours, but it had escaped becoming a sacrifice.

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The fighters were easily destroyed, and the second core bomb that had been intercepted was easily deactivated. In addition to that, the pressure being placed upon the ship, the countless attacks... It was all doing a fine job at getting to the ship, but after that, it was all useless. The core bomb worked by absorbing energy to create an explosion. It was being supercharged by the sheer amount of kinetic energy alone bearing down on it.

It would explode very soon with such a force that the entire planet and everything around it would be destroyed.

((2/5 of my posts till the planet is destroyed)

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Green emerald light over took the Gas Giant, as the Core bomb itself and the Giant vanished. Sliph had taken them far, far away. The attack on the Artificial had awakened a madman. Who in a strange feathered form of Emerald green and Black plumage was now on the bridge of the Corvette as Holy fire engulfed the crewmen in strange serpentine tendrils, all except the Captain.

The Gas Giant and the core bomb went critical far away from any system. Sliph having send it away in a display of lazy power. Does it make a sound if no one is around to see it in the dead cold of space? Who knows.

Djinn Two frantically sent its Cannon Funnels after destroying the fighters in a tight surrounding formation around the Corvette bombarding it with slow accurate and powerful bursts of artillery fire.

The strange man whose name is Sliph stood on the bridge of the corvette with something between amusement and annoyance on his face. His muscle twisting in a sardonic smile. His Holy fire?s serpentine tendrils flowing through the ship with purse as it tried to kill off the crew itself.

Looking directly into the eyes of the Captain, he asked again as the question rang not just in the air but in every facet of the Captains mind. "Why did you disturb my experiments? and my Slumber?" as he drew a long, curved Shashka from its sheath.

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The captain looked Silph straight in the eyes, a mix of fear and confidence in his eyes as he bravely replied, "Because it is what has been commanded of me. Know this, you can kill me here and now, but my ship is not even a single percent of the power that we represent. Others are coming now... And soon, you will all meet the power of the Anrufe."

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Sliph smiled genuinely, the emerald tone in his golden eyes glowing eerily. The tendrils of Holy Fire ended the rest of the crews lives in a screaming mess, the fire now left uncontrolled as it licked at the melting metal of the hull in odd serpentine motions. Sheathing his shashka, "Who said I was going to kill you? As the Captain of this ship... you will make the perfect specimen to vivisect for further study. Whatever this Anrufe is... will not hear your screams as you get to know my scalpel more intimately than any lover." in the flash of a moment both Sliph and the Captain disappeared from the bridge of the now most likely doomed Corvette .

The Cannon funnels of Djinn Two continued to bombarded the now empty ship, the fleet itself at a safe distance from the ship itself. Djinn Three was still trying to analyze the situation in a defensive Orbit around the Earth-like planet, that would most likely serve as the new Marid Home world. Exploration parties being send down to the planet itself.

Sliph appeared with the Captain in a room with strange basking yellow light. The room itself was located in a small pocket dimension, an abandoned lab from eons ago. The air had a think, still quality to it. making even moving through it feel like wading through a pool. Sliph manifested a number of chains that pinned the Captained to a odd shaped medical table. "It has been too long... since I enjoyed experimenting on a brand new specimen."

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OOC: The captain is an NPC, so you can do as you will from here.

But the good man... alien... was wrong. The Anrufe could indeed hear the captain's screams, because the captain had a LAP Communicator inside his brain, a psychic "long-distance" telephone. As soon as the Anrufe realized what had happened, they shut down the technology... And prepared to strike their new prey.

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Days passed in the pocket dimension, this lab was again witness to things man was not meant to see. By the time Sliph had fully vivisect and tested the advanced human that was called, "Captain". Sliph decided to twist and corrupt the poor soul's very body, the captain was now a shapeless mass of flesh and bone that could only moved in a painful roll. Many measures were taken to extend this captain lifetime, and his agony. Sliph merely smiled at his work and locked the Captain away in a cell that would automatically feed and take care of the Captains needs. Sliph would be back to see how the Captain has taken to his new form, in a few centuries.

Djinn Two salvaged the Aultman and the Illi in the past few days, as Djinn Three's away teams explored that planet and found a new city... filled with both the Parental Gems, and the Marid that had been on the Gas giant. Discovering a few new allies in the city itself where some Marid had spent that last few millennium in stasis.

In the light of great change, Djinn Four arrived from production. Ten Super Capitals orbit around this new homeworld, dwarfing the fleets that had defended their kind just days earlier. However, Djinn Two and Djinn Three were being folded into a task force for a now unknown mission.