Space E-war

[dinoman666]

Snikch had escaped Maricas with no difficulties, using a healing balm he had brought with him, called Skalm, that would speed up the healing of the wound on his arm. His sip headed back to Skav, and he sent a message to his master.

The screen on Snikch's console snapped on, revealing nothing but darkness. Suddenly, two red eyes appeared in it, and a voice growled, "Did you kill him?" Snikch shook his head. "The Marican security was a bit too good. Maybe if I strike at night..." The voice cut him off, growling sharply. "No, I want you back here. The Maricans are aware of our intentions now. We must prepare for their arrival." As the Skaven were regular visitors to Maricas, they knew quite a bit about their military, and were going to plan accordingly. Snikch nodded. "Yes, Nightlord." The console switched off, and Snikch continued on.

[Doc 42]

The counciller was still by the guards unconcious form. He suddenly smacked himself on the head, curseing. He turned and said allowed "Mar'netic, Skaven assassin, uploading video feed to you now..." A red dot on the wall nearby suddenly lit up and a calm male voice said "Understood, counciller... I see... Skaven... Permission to act on instinct?" The Counciller frowned, a face of anger. He spat "Permission granted, hive mind..." The dot dulled once more, the Marican Defence A.i triggering the nessecessary orders within the second.
Mar'netic's personal view screen highlighted the escapeing Skaven craft, the planetary awareness center picking it out as the most likely target. He said calmly, updating his log "Deploying pair of Owl class Phoenix drones... ETI-3 hours."

Two circular doors opened up on a smallish unmanned satilite... out of the doorways The two Owl drones zipped out, the large fighters folding out into their space flight forms. Their long wings folding out, mulitple purple jets activateing along their length. Their fan like tail 'feathers' spreading out, more purple jets of flame erupting from between the gaps.

[dinoman666]

Snikch's ship intercepted with a couple of Skaven stealth ships, courtesy of Clan Eshin. He hailed them, but otherwise let them be, as the two ships were hidden with Warpstone-powered cloaking technology. They were there to cover Snikch's back, in case he was followed.

[Legendary Elite]

"Now then, perhaps you can tell me about the Arachnids, Field General." Kepe said. As far as he was concerned, the Arachnids were the biggest threat. Those creatures could easily consume the Imperial Fleet without much difficulty, which was good on Kepe's part but not good for the Sangheili though. They needed to remove the threat as soon as possible...

[Doc 42]

The owls massive iris eyes adjusted slightly and constantly, makeing small clicking sounds. A small warning window poped up on its hud, informing of it of short range enemy communications from around the target ship. Bottem line being "Proceed with caution"

The Owls split up, barrel rolling away from eachother. The one on the right locked on to its target, a red triangle slideing along its vision and finally resting on the Skaven ship. A second window poped up informing it off various data on the enemy ship, speed, size etc..
A hatch opened up just below the joint between its body and wing, a missile slideing out, still atached to its launcher, preparing to fire....

[dinoman666]

Snikch's ship boosted away, heading to Skav, while the Stealth Fighters moved behind it, making a direct hit from behind almost impossible.

[Doc 42]

A Blinding blue flash illuminated the Owl as the missile took flight, the launcher slideing back immeidiately. The small powerful missile zipped through space, leaving a blue trail behind it as it homed in on its target. The missile suddenly exploded before hitting its target, slamming into an unknown ship and blowing its rear to peices, sending the rest of the ship foreward in a cloud of flameing wreckage...

[dinoman666]

As one of the stealth ships went down, the other turned to face the threat and fired off a large salvo of green energy blasts from the rapid-fire cannons on its side. Snikch's ship activated its Hyperdrive, disappearing into space and arriving at Skav.

[Doc 42]

The owl barrel rolled to the side, avoiding the arc of green lasers and then dodged back through the line of fire, barely avoiding the shots. Its 'nose' cannon begun rotateing, it fired a three shot burst of orange firey orb like projectiles towards the enemy ship... The other Owl veered off away in pursuit of the fleeing ship...

[dinoman666]

The Stealth ship veered to the side, dodging the blasts. As it strafed, it fired as well, sending a large volley of green energy bolts at the hostile ship.

Snikch's pursuer ran right into the Skaven fleet over Skav, which Snikch's ship had disappeared into. The fleet immediately opened fire on the drone...

[Doc 42]

The Owl rose into the air, spiralling out of the way of the enemy weapons fire. It was impossible to dodge all the shots but the few that hit were asorbed by its shield. it began to retreat, still takeing damage in the rear...

The other Owl drone dived down, tucking its wings in to avoid the lasers. It spread out its wings flying along below the enemy ship, its cannon fireing out chains of firey projectiles. its chest opened up, revealing a drop down Multi purpose Laser. The laser swiviled around and then fired a strong blue beam towards the Skaven stealth ship.

[Anaclagon]

"Those creatures are just some random infestation...large powerful creatures, they pretty much make all ground forces useless. Too powerful, to fast...in space its our only option, their spores or their boarding parties are usually decimated by the shields or by our fighters and defensive point laser turrents and turbo laser batteries. In other cases these, "Plasma Bugs" are just giant bugs that fire bursts of plasma into our ships from the planet surface..our shields hold slightly but we have to pull out eventually but decimating the planet is usually our only course of action, though they do tend to go underground..." The field general replied. The bugs where a threat to everything but he wasnt going to cower like some inexpirenced officers would have...

[dinoman666]

The Stealth Ship fired more shots at the retreating drone, but was hit from behind by the laser, exploding in a brilliant green fireball. The Skaven fleet aimed its many weapons at the drone, the enemy ship's own armament barely a scratch on their shields. The Drone couldn't dodge forever, and eventually it was hit by a powerful blast of energy.

Snikch had escaped back to the planet's surface and headed underground to his Clan's territory.

[Doc 42]

The Drones shield dissipated and it wheeled away in flames, however, it was still opperational. It was prepareing to find a planet to hide on when it recieved an order right from the Marican hive mind itself. The Drone immiediately exploded in a blinding flash of white light, its frame completely disintergrateing.

The other drone's laser returned to its slot and it turned around, flying back towards maricas, accepting that its target had been lost... The Skaven would pay...

[dinoman666]

The Skaven fleet immediately began defending the perimeter of the planet. The cruisers were well-known for being extremely tough and well-armed, able to take on even a Super Star Destroyer in a one-on-one match.

Meanwhile, the Council had gathered in Skavenblight to discuss what to do about the impending Marican counterattack they knew was going to happen.

[Doc 42]

The 4 Marican soilders walked along the metal catwalk, looking down to the dusty planet miles below... They were on an active Autonomous war coloney. They were the same survivors from the Arachnid attack. They were here looking for rescue. Suddenly red lights flashed on and an alarm blared across the station, the leader said "What the hell?" The soilder in the panther suit flicked his visor up and said "The docking bays... they are activateing... aww crap... Everyone hold onto something!"

They all did, just in time... The deafening roar of engines broke into their ears along with the blast of the atmosphere being penetrated by giant ships. A huge Asteroid like ship zoomed down towards them along with 4 other similar ships. The first one seemed to open up, claw like arms appearing from the ambusher drone and its legs flopping down. The ship landed with both legs onto a huge thick magnetic bar, all of its components slideing out. the amount of weaponary was staggering. Two large laser cannons on its shoulders... Its long range plasma cannons on its arms... Even a missile module on its back. On its very front was a particle cannon, mostly used for pulse bullets more than anything though. Three sensors near the front, a largeish head and two 'eye stalks' at the front. After barely 30 seconds of the ship running various tests, it jumped off the magnetic bar, folding back up and launching off into the sky with a roar of its engines. The entire coloney shuddering. A second and a third drone came down to land onto different parts of the bar, doing the same as the first. one of them was badly damaged, missing an arm and one of its laser cannons was damaged. The machine ran through its tests and then a long mechanical arm lowered down towards the stump of the arm. There was a loud release of air and the stump was dissconnected from the socket and pulled out. The same happened to the laser cannon. Another arm and cannon slid along a rail from above and were connected up to the drone. After it had repeated the test and passed it, the drone leapt off the magnetic bar and took flight again. This happened constantly, up to 12 Giant ships tearing out of the sky at once as the fleet moved through the repair facility. Different types of Droneship landed into different sections of the base, the mass repair job being completed in minutes. The leader looked into the sky, his jaw dropping at the spectacle. The Ambushers were forming up above the planet, the giant form of the Super Drone Climetrix. The massive Drone turned slightly, all of the ambushers weapons folding out in unison. Orange flashes lit up the sky, tiny orbs zipping away into space away from the ambushers, shell caseings ejecting out the back and falling to the planet below...

[Anaclagon]

Meanwhile a secret force was being assembled...desperate times called for desperate messures. The Imperials forces, a strike team prepared for combat...their plan would prehaps work to perfection but for now they were prepared. Two strike teams were being prepared as the Imperials still were ready to send reinforcements. A massive battle was to errupt once more...

The Dark Lord of the Sith narrowed his eyes...the time has come. While the 501st Armada, the elite and vast fleet of Imperial Star Destroyers under Darth Revan were reiceving orders but first other things had to be corrected as things had to be ready and organized...Defenses were heading to "emergancy modes" free reinforcements would scramble to places that needed aid.

As for now...two weapons of the Empire was about to begin.

[Legendary Elite]

"Then I suppose you don't know of any particuliar 'source' the Arachnids come from? By that I mean a biomass that might possibly 'breed' these monstrosities?" Asked Kepe. He at least had some information with regards to the threat. The Flood he already knew and then there was these large lizard-like alien lifeforms that attacked them. But it was mainly the Arachnids he was concerned about...

[Anaclagon]

"Some planet...we've never seen..." the field general replied. At least the elite was changing the subject for now..

Revan eyed the scanners, the task force was being readied, last minute preperations were being checked off as the might of the Galactic Empire had to be shown here. The fleets were assembled, the commanding officers were given their orders.

The Grand stood by the Dark Lord as the council of the Sith Lords themselves were anxious...everything was tense at the moment but the clone troopers were all calm, they prepared for combat as the massive Imperial vessels prepared for battle, all they needed was the order..

[Iceking]

The praetorians in the hive of the largest predqueen were resting for now, having returned from a terriotry patrol. The hybrid queen herself was a formidable fighter, but she didn't need to do anything else at the current time, except lay eggs. The rest of her kin knew this quite well, Having seen their queen battle an intruding queen once.