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Locusts Rising
« on: January 28, 2012, 02:28:19 AM »
At long, long last...The Raiding Fleet makes first move in a long time. Three Hornet Super-Capitals, five Wasp Capitals, all flew for this planet out if nowhere. And then...The Psychic Scream. The massive burst of pure Psychic power, flooding the minds with it and overloading their foe's brains. When they got close enough to the world, they'd send down their Planet Cracker Castes first, the massive worms breaking into the crust of the planet and forcing their deeper, assuming they did make it. This place was cold to them...Unlike most Locust targets, where they burrowed in the hot crust of a temperate planet. Not this one...It was refreshing, even felt good. Their jobs would much easier due to this. The Raiding Fleet mranwhile prepared their other Lorcar for on-world warfare, putting them in the Bio-Pods for descent upon the prey planet.
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Re: Locusts Rising
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2012, 05:34:55 PM »
"Sir, we have multiple contacts! Reports confirm, it's the Locust Race!" a technician shouted at a general in the temporary construction site on Walape, where a new military base was being built for the Anrufe. They had experienced this particular race, the Lorcar, on more than one occasion. Their first meeting with the race had been about nine years before, on the Anrufe's homeworld, which the Lorcar had nearly completely destroyed.

"RAISE DEFENSES!" the general yelled. The base suddenly began to sink into the ground as a cavern under the base, newly digged, opened up, swallowing the base whole, before resealing itself. Shields appeared around the area in a further attempt to protect the now underground base. Of course, normal shields would not block the psychic screams. Not at all.

As the Castes rained down from the sky, Carvenplaren which had been newly pumped into the atmosphere in a gas state binded itself to their forms. As they picked up heat even in the cold atmosphere from the inertia, the gas began to turn to a very, very solid state, the Carvenplaren coating the castes, sealing them shut, and trapping them into the ground. They wouldn't be going anywhere any time soon.

The Anrufe's home base was quickly alerted of the situation. A transmission was relayed from a remote location off-world through the base computers to the Lorcar ships.

Code: [Select]
Stop... Now. Or prepare to be wiped out. We can be friends, or we can be enemies. Your choice.

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Re: Locusts Rising
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2012, 03:49:30 AM »
Unfortunate, but technological transmissions aren't meaningfully interpretable by Lorcar, incapable of understanding these transmissions as anything more than Static noise. Annoying static, at that. In return, they emitted another psychic scream, also carrying forth their annoyance and lack of understanding of the received message. In addition, the Lorcar felt the gas hardening around their Planet Crackers, through their Hive-Link, and used a form of telekinesis to break off the material hardening upon their skin, to allow them to move when necessary. They psionically scanned the atmosphere, in addition, to figure out what was hardening the Planet Crackers, as the did their work. In any case, these Castes ignored the Antigen base for now, focusing on other life beneath the surface, or valuable materials the Lorcar could use, such as from this planet, definitely ice.
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« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2012, 02:34:24 PM »
Upon realizing what was occurring here, the Anrufe's psychics on the ground sent their reply to the Lorcar via telepathy. A JD window opened above the planet, and none other than the Anrufe titan came forth, blocking all the sunlight from hitting the planet. It's massive size could be seen from nearly anywhere on this side of the planet at the moment. It had come to defend the Anrufe, if it would need to.

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Re: Locusts Rising
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2012, 01:02:12 AM »
OOC:Aught, in my above post that's supposed to say Anrufe, not Antigen. This phone auto-corrects spelling 'errors' even when you don' want it to. ><
"Friends? Between those who do not share a Hive-Link, who do not know all the thoughts of the other?
No...Such...Thing."

The Locusts replied, with a weaker burst of telepathic power, enough that their message is heard and safely interpretable by their brains into words they'd understand, rather than concepts or thoughts like the Lorcar communicated. As the Titan appeared out of its warp, the Locusts bombarded it with telekinetic power, attempting to pull it apart and twist its cannons, bend the metal itself closed. Of course, shields would probably negate most of these attempts, but in that case the psychic power would just wreck havoc with the shielding. The scan of the atmosphere completed, as well, the Locusts now knew what was hardening their Planet Crackers. Unfortunately there was little they could do as of the moment as their mental strength was being taxed a bit. If the giant worms got petrified again, they'd be broken free but a longer-term solution would have to wait.
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Re: Locusts Rising
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2012, 06:05:37 PM »
Unfortunately for the Lorcar, the titan DID have shields, and it was, obviously, massive in size. The Lorcar's assault did little to it, but would progressively cause some damage if left unchecked. CutFiber bombs were beamed down to the sit of the planet crackers. Their forms would explode, and the hardened shells would fall, its mass hopefully enough to crush the crackers. Even if the explosion and mass was not enough, decay fields began to be emitted around the crackers.

Realizing the effect their transmissions had on the Lorcar, extremely high frequency packs of static were now broadcasting all around the planet. Massive Phase Shift guns newly erected on the planet began to shoot waves at the Lorcar ships in space which would begin to tear their forms apart on a subatomic level, starting with the shields. What was broken down would be sent into random points in space. The titan also started to shoot railgun fire at the ships, and to charge Tower Time Sun.

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Re: Locusts Rising
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2012, 09:31:42 AM »
In response to the new broadcasts, the Lorcar simply stopped receiving them in order to continue concentration. As they detected the cannons being fired upon them from the ground, the three Hornets held them with telekinetic force before turning the barrel/whateveryamacallit at one another to stop them from daring to fire anymore(though the telekinetic barrier all the Bioships had was severely weakened by the initial attack by the cannon). Meanwhile, the Wasps caught the bombs being dropped upon the (by now entirely underground)Planet Crackers, decided to put them to a better use in launching them telekinetically at these same Phase Wave cannons, using their enemy's weapons against each other. There was little that could be done about the heavy decay except by attempting to ward off the field particles everywhere with a slight psychic shielding, but the interference of the Crackers being underground combined with the bioships being a bit...Preoccupied made it a fairly weak ward, probably easily circumvented.
As well, the Raiding Fleet launched several Yellow Jacket Frigates, Bee Fighters, Bumblebee Corvettes, and even a few Worker Bee Repair 'Fighters' for the apparent spacial battle to occur. The Yellow Jackets led the rest of the Swarm to the enemy Titan, as the Hornets aimed their massive Bone Cannons at the Titan in order to open fire. While their ammo was only made of bone, it would still deal heavy damage to the enemy ship's shields, enough to weaken them for the incoming Swarm.
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« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2012, 03:28:10 PM »
"SIR! A CODE: FREEDOM OPERATION HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED! WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE!" a technician yelled at the captain within the Titan.

"We can't just abandon the planet!" the captain argued, "You're insane. Move the titan directly towards the enemy ships, redirect all power to shields. We're going to ram them."

"Sir, we c-"

"DO IT!" he yelled angrily.

All non-essential power was redirected to the shields of the massive titan, which began to move towards the enemy fleet. In moments, it would crash into them.

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Re: Locusts Rising
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2012, 08:32:03 PM »
The Locusts might not have been as large as the Titan, but they were far nimbler. Not that they WERE nimble, no, the smaller ships could be but not the Wasps or Hornets-Just MORESO. As it was, the Titan was on a collision course for Walape now, and as the Locusts passed it by, they used Telekinesis at its thrusters...Intending to rip them off the ship and leave it incapable of redirecting itself from its course. The wreckage might have something useful...
1/5, getting rid of shield+ripping off engine. Not LIKELY to succeed, buuuut I'll at least try.
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« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2012, 05:36:46 PM »
But the titan's shields were at full strength, it would continue on its course. Even had the Lorcar somehow gotten past the shields, they would find that the titan was far too large to completely stop. And even if they had succeeded in that, it's inertia would be more than enough to keep it on its crash course. The Magiship worked by manipulating space around it, not by standard fueling. It was going to crash into the Lorcar, and if it had to, it would take Walape with it.

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« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2012, 05:41:08 PM »
Suddenly, a hail of blaster fire would rain outward but not on the Anrufe....but on the Locusts that plagued the plane, the Lorcar. They would be under attack and somehow it would seem from a familiar source. Someone was helping the Anrufe, but who? Hundreds of Corvettes, 200 of them filled the area with Anti Pysker fields up as they began to relentlessly hammer the Lorcar ships with laser fire and missiles of the lanar variety, rail guns and what not. Two large frigates would emerge and let loose hundreds of Narrikian equivalents to hornets which would attack the Lorcar ships as well, with barriers meant to block telepath or telekinetic abilities. A transmission would be sent ot the Anrufe.

We have decided that in this, we shall help you.

This was the first exploratory force.
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Re: Locusts Rising
« Reply #11 on: February 07, 2012, 10:51:29 PM »
OOC:I'll assume you meant Narrikian versions of Yellow Jackets launched from the frigates, unless you mean the actual insects when you say hornets which would really be kinda weird. Lorcar Hornets are Super-Capitals, after all, and their Wasps are Capital-Class. Also, I don't think you actually HAVE Anti-Psyker fields anyways, so...Since I asked Zak, who would be the only person you'd get those from and he said he hadn't traded those to you...

Of course, the Locusts still weren't in its path anymore, having scattered around it already(passed it by and all). No longer in a single swarm, they continued around the ship, still assaulting its shields with psychic power as it headed for its own planet because...Well...They still haven't taken its shields down anyways, and really wouldn't know if the Titan's propulsion. As far as they knew, the enemy would still be vulnerable to such a assault. Or that was the plan, until the new prey arrived. Their attacks were mostly annoying, kinetic projectiles stopped easily with psychic force and with the lasers, the light making them up bent around towards the new enemies firing at them. The Kinetic projectiles were also sent back at the ships that fired them, though in the case of the rail cannon slugs those wouldn't be going at Rail Cannon speeds of course. Still, fast enough that it WOULD causeway damage, at least to shields. The surprise attack distracted the Locusts, though, which to them forgetting about the Titan's shields. But anger lent them focus, which the directed again in a effort of taking the shields down entirely, while still moving away from the Titan. The smaller ships, Bees/Bumblebees/Yellow Jackets that accompanied the larger ships immediately took to attacking the new ships, in a attempt at destroying them entirely.
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« Reply #12 on: February 07, 2012, 11:04:21 PM »
OOC: What I happened to mean was the Fighters of the K Empire.

Upon attack from the Lorcar Ships, commands for the heavy artillery to be deployed would of course be made and so the devour nanites would be loosed as a barrier would be formed around the entire area, it too resistant to the Psyker abilities the Lorcar used. The barrier would contain atmosphere and wind and so devour nanites would be released, eating away at the defenses of the Lorcar.  As for the attacks the Lorcar released those would meet wall after wall of portals, sending them back at the Lorcar ships and all the while more corvettes and frigates would arrive in the system, but these would not be assisting with the ones attacking the Lorcar. Rather they would form a barrier/cushion of sorts and try to catch the Anrufe?s titan, all of the crew of the ships that had arrived for that purpose working in perfect harmony to perform that mission. As for their annoying ability to use telekinesis to redirect the fire power, the crews on board the first group of ships came up with ideas and so added an Anti Telekinesis barrier in the area to stop that.

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Re: Locusts Rising
« Reply #13 on: February 07, 2012, 11:29:25 PM »
OOC:Oooooooohhhhhh, OK, gotcha. That makes sense.

Of course, the Locusts weren't close to the enemy ships, and hadn't directly attacked them with psychic force, merely redirected their attacks at them, making the anti-psychic barriers being put up essentially useless. However, the Lorcar saw the Narrikian's own redirection, and this time did the exact same thing, but redirected the munitions at the enemy Titan, using the weapons of these new enemies against that which they were apparently supporting.

One of the Hive-Drone Castes noticed the shift in the tides if battle, and reported it to the Hive General aboard that Bioship. The General mulled it over, and told the Drone to call in a single, allied ship, just in case...
Soon enough, a massive Psychic pulse rang out.

1/4 until Hornet Queen arrives at battlefield.
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« Reply #14 on: February 07, 2012, 11:36:58 PM »
When the attacks came at the Anrufe Ship, it would also meet another wall of portals. But these would open inside the Anrufe Titan, and do damage to them. A delayed psionic message would be sent to the Lorcar.

STOP, AS WE ARE HERE TO TAKE THE SHIP! This would have immense force behind it.

All manner of artillery would be fired upon the Anrufe Titan. The Ringer would be used, to hopefully turn the minds of the Anrufe on board to mush.

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« Reply #15 on: February 08, 2012, 04:40:02 PM »
As Lorcar continued to attack the titan's massive shields, the titan was mildly surprised by the new arrivals (which, by the way, would not be able to simply open a wall of portals inside the Anrufe's ship, as it was well prepared to deal with the wall of portals, quickly redirecting their output elsewhere before they could do damage). They used the momentary distraction that the new arrivals provided to open a massive hyperspace window and fly through it... Were they... Seriously running away?

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« Reply #16 on: February 08, 2012, 04:41:19 PM »
But before they could get into Hyper Space and leave, one of the corvettes would fly through and open an AHS inside of the Window...cancelling it out and bringing them back to real space, thus causing them to be stuck there.
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« Reply #17 on: February 08, 2012, 05:10:05 PM »
OOC: Should have done AHS BEFORE I went into hyperspace.

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Re: Locusts Rising
« Reply #18 on: February 09, 2012, 08:55:46 PM »
With the threat largely quelled, the Lorcar launched several Bi-Pods directly at the planet, along with a few more Planet Crackers. They remained wary of the other ships, very short fused, but would not attack...Not...Yet.
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« Reply #19 on: February 09, 2012, 09:01:25 PM »
...And then, the output of the massive titan's hyperspace window opened, splicing through several of the enemy ships, which would, at the very least, cause massive hull damages and cause some loss of life. The titan did not emerge from the window... Not yet.
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Re: Locusts Rising
« Reply #20 on: February 09, 2012, 09:10:00 PM »
OOC:Time Tower Sun?
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« Reply #21 on: February 09, 2012, 09:13:55 PM »
OOC: No, just a hyperspace window, which releases Zero Point energy on massive scales in order to allow a ship to move through it from subspace to realspace.

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« Reply #22 on: February 10, 2012, 09:37:20 AM »
The Hyper Space Window did open, sending out Zero Point Energy which would take more than a few of the lives of the people on board the ships. 20 of the corvettes had been destroyed, and reinforcements were called in as two hundred more frigates would appear on the scene after the AHS outside of HS dropped allowing them to come forth and handle the mess here. The Frigates would open portals and try to use the surviving members of the Anrufe on the planet below. Those would be beamed up into holding cells with AM, AT, AST and AOW properties.  Later they would be interrogated and questioned about the plans of the Anrufe and what not.
As for the Lorcar, since they were no longer actively hassling the Neo Narrikian Empire they would for now be ignored and so each of the ships would prepare to withdraw from the area, but keep their weapons at the ready?including the barriers they had made and what not.  Later more innovation would be done to handle the Locust Race, but for now they had to wait it out.

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Re: Locusts Rising
« Reply #23 on: February 10, 2012, 09:58:58 AM »
OOC: As I said, you should have done AHS BEFORE my post.

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« Reply #24 on: February 10, 2012, 10:07:08 AM »
OOC: I realize that, but you never pulled out anyone on the ground.