Ultimatum
Duranium Lord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STE_ugj7s2M
It seemed that the defenders would have many allies in this fight. However, they were not the only ones to have reinforcements. Like flies drawn to a carcass, other scavengers had arrived to feed off of the undefended and weak of this world. The droid was surprised that there had been no remaining military to defend the various worlds from this fate. Surely the Alliance had seen this coming, had been able to prepare for such an outcome. Nothing lasted forever; history had proven that fact for millennia, so why were organics so surprised when what they had built collapsed?
The droid watched keenly as the various fleets and ships began to take positions around the planet, like wrestlers they seemed to sit in anticipatory silence, waiting, sizing up their opponent in the hope of finding their weakness to exploit. It would not be long, Ultimatum guessed, before opening shots were traded, and then the space above this world would explode into lights and death. How many people would die this day? How many bright-eyed soldiers, fighting for their homes or their people, believing they are in the right, would fall with nary a hope of seeing tomorrow? How will the monsters released this day be contained? How many of the innocents would perish for the greed of those who lacked compassion or vision?
Ultimatum forced himself to remember that these were organics, they were naturally disposed to failures of emotion. Changing his mind's path to prepare for the inevitable conflict, the robot began a near-instantaneous verification of the readings he received off each ship. There was an unusually large ship Ultimatum noted, his eyes drawn to its insignia and reading. It struck him as familiar. It created a sense of knowing the unknown; an organic might have said they had a thought on the tip of their tongue. Ultimatum had neither a tongue or ideas. His electrical pathways blazed in the language of droid minds at near light speed, allowing the possibility for several thousand of his 'thoughts' to pass in his mind, in the time it would take for an organic to have one. As it was, Ultimatum had to pilot a vessel and therefore was maintaining a far lower numeric advantage. He noted several transports heading for the surface, and in that moment Upari spoke to the droid, "Those are dread ships. They carry death."
He knew what he had to do now, if he was to help he had to reach the planet. Perhaps he would come face to face with whoever was giving Ultimatum such a hard time recalling. With that deicison made, Ultimatum sent a message to the allies he knew, along the frequencies he regonized as theirs, "Going to make a run for the surface. Will alert at next opportunity." He proceeded to push the ship into a dive, pointing down and away from the planet before going through a slow curve, that would, when he hit the atmopshere send him in the direction he believed the landing craft were heading, or near there to. He hoped.
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