War, What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing! (Invasion of The Silken Asteroids) [Crusade + Horde]

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="HK-36"]
On the Siege Tower

Siobhan had her own thoughts about the battle of Eriadu, but they were not relevant now. Apparently she had reached the group of Iron Company soldiers and Iron Knights just as HK finished his pep talk, which was perfectly fine with her because she personally really disliked giving speeches. Unfortunately it had been demanded of her a great deal back when she had been Exarch.

"They have yet to build giant mechanical dragons and are incapable of demonic possession," she added just as the droid had finished with his speech, not at all making a slightly sardonic reference to certain events that had transpired during the final battle of Gehenna. "Overwhelmning firepower is key. You've dealt with massed wave assaults and monstrosities before. Kill them all, the Force will know its own. You've seen the images of what happened on Aurum," she added because apparently even she could not resist the urge to make dramatic phrases.

Being an inherently cynical and jaded woman, she had far less faith in the idea of 'protecting the Galaxy' thing. Nor did she particularly care about it much, though equally she could not stay away from the battlefield for long, despite having moved up so high in the world. Their allies were not her usual cup of tea, but the Vong had put Aurum to the torch and nailed anyone they found to crosses, causing desolation of the sort reminiscent of the Bando Gora. She had seen the devastation there and butchered her way through hordes of space orks, beating their dark lord. That made the Moross Crusaders, regardless of what she had heard of them, far more preferrable, as much as she disliked shades of grey, but then she was open about her own lack of righteousness.

Dual MK1 bolters at the ready, she was clad in her custom-made beskar'gam that Ordo had designed for her as part of his deal with Firemane, which had resulted in his clan gaining several shipments of death dealing toys that they would surely soon put to deadly use, though presently she was still holding the helmet, leaving her scarred features open for all to see, long brown hair tied back so that it would not get in the way during the fight that was soon to start. The armour was heavier than she was used to, but she liked the power it had and in any case unless she used the Force she was a good deal less mobile than she used to be, the natural result of having pushed her body so hard in almost two decades of battering ramming.

"Heard I missed some fun on Eriadu. Ready to purge them?" she asked HK as she linked up with the droid. No Firemane mercenary platoon or Eldorai Angelii, just her. It should suffice. "Just like old times."

 

[Onrai]

Circe smiled on board the Ranator she had been given. She was a good distance away, and her ships were providing gunship support with Shimmra and Yo'gand-class Coralskippers. "Let's mess these guys up good."

The firepower would be superb.

[member="Supreme Overlord Dredge"]

 

[Saera Willamina Savan]

THE HORDE
RRDI Orbital Ring
ETA 50 Minutes
Deploying

Saera hadn't gotten any response. After ten minutes, it began to worry her. Even the hypercommunication relays didn't take that long galaxy-wide. With little hesitation, she finally packed her desk and holomonitor back up, and made her way to the dry dock where her new Crown was stationed. It would be a while before the Skira she ordered was finished being wrought, so the old RRDI Crown would have to do.
Unit after unit, Ventus interceptors and Languor-Class starfighters marked under the Techno Union began loading into the single large hangar of the indigo cruiser. Gunships hauled cargo and equipment in, and several dropships loaded with AT-LTA's finally docked. All of the ship's systems were checked and the nigh ten-year-old gal had disbanded from the ring. Once clear of the planet's gravity well and the room around the ring, it jumped into Hyperspace and faded into obscurity.

((( Will post at 30~ )))​

 

[Erebus Vivant]

Horde Side
Spaceship of Darth Vulcanus
Hangar
Erebus Vivant was finally convinced by the sith to work with them instead of constantly against them, into making an agreement with the dark lord himself. He stood within the hangar, leaning against the wall while his arms were crossed and his back was leaning against the wall near the entrance of the Hangar, which lead to other rooms. His eyes were opened and every now and then, he looked through it into space.

He was finally going into war, it was not something he had loved, but he wanted to do something different than that stinking hole that they called the academy. He decided to get his gear up and started to walk around the spaceship and came across [member="Darth Vulcanus"] . His eyes stared instantly into the Dark lord eyes. He was still not the obedient brutal pet that he wanted him to be, but Erebus was somewhat slowly getting there, after they had a brutal fight in the academy by sheer power of fist against fist, speed versus strength.

The young Acolyte looked further ahead as he said, "Wea..pons.." He had learned a few words in the basic language but was far from actually speaking it fluently. "I want..weapons..." He had repeated wanting to be geared up to be a foot soldier on the ground, since that he was used to fighting on the ground, but not yet to the funny weapons, they used there.

 

[The Red of Sinner]

Romeo entered the hangar bay,getting ready to enter aboarding ship. "Dredge, I hate flying, can't you least send me in with [member="Ashe the Reaper"]
or maybe @Break" He sighed [member="Supreme Overlord Dredge"]

 

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

horde side
dredges cruiser
xwing
stardust began doing a check on her xwing"ok wings check weapons check computer check ok we're good"she said as she got in her fighter startimg it up"[member="Supreme Overlord Dredge"] i request five corral skippers on me

 

[Olivia Dem'adas]

Dagon stretched his tentacles throughout the hull of the 800 meter long A-vek Iiluunu Carrier he currently occupied.
Biological ships were scarce among the Horde.
Few locations could produce the massive and exotic ships....
But Dagon had demanded he be released upon one of them.
Dagon had grown tired of his glass cage...

It felt good to be free of it...


Dagon listened and watched the actions of [member="Supreme Overlord Dredge"] from his nest aboard the "Star Locust".
The Overlord and his thralls were aboard the abomination ships...
Dagon reverberated with displeasure as his senses took in the metallic ships surrounding the pure, organic ship he controlled.
The massive organic ship rested in the heard of the Overlord's fleet...
Dagon watched passively as the Overlord ordered the destruction of several of the nearby asteroids.
Dagon understood the annoyance felt by Commander Dredge.
Dagon understood many things...

Many, many things.

Dagon's awareness extended over much of the space near the asteroids.
Dagon could feel the familiar tingle of Force Users among the Horde's allies and among their enemies.
Dagon could feel rage and anger and excitement among the young warriors of both sides.

Dagon skimmed the thoughts of those he connected with.

The enemy had gods.
The enemy believed that they had brought their gods to the field of battle.
The enemy believed that their gods would bring them victory.
The enemy believed that their gods could not be defeated.


The Horde had gods.
The Horde had many gods.
But right now...
They only needed one.


Reaching out, Dagon pushed his own thoughts into two nodes of strength within the enemy forces...

"I will take your god from you." Dagon said to [member="Stone Hermes"], his voice echoing within his skull.
"I will show you the might of our Gods. I will show you the will of Yun-Yammka."

With a single thought spread among thousands upon thousands of organisms, Dagon readied his ship for war.

"Your people think you a god." Dagon said to [member="Soliael Devin Talith"]. "You will be tested."

 

[Daniel Imura]

Akon looked down at his seat as the transport brought his team to the asteroids. Well actually it was Zoey's team, he was just hanging on for the ride. According to what he had heard, they were to be fighting an organization known as "The Horde", which featured his least favorite species: The Vong. Already strapped in his flight suit, provided graciously by the Crusade, he held his helmet in both hands, waiting for touchdown. Through his keen hearing, he heard the pilot relay a message to the team leader, followed by a soft landing. Getting up, he clasped his helmet on, making sure his shortsword was in its place on his back. Murmuring a quick prayer to the god Erebos, he fell into formation with the rest of the squad behind the redhead without a word. Directly following their exit of the ship, they were confronted by a few men. One asked a series of questions, only to be struck down by the woman. Fierce as ever, fire in her eyes, she announced their mission to the asteroids themselves, it seemed. Pulling his weapon out, Akon let the blade fly out and stood beside the woman. "I'll be honest, when you first told me about the Crusade, I never imagined I'd be fighting on some forsaken rock." He looked at her for a second and nodded. "Let's take these ugly motherkarkers down."

[member="Zoey Marix"]

 

[Garza]

I wiped the blade of it's gore and started to walk forwards with my 75 men. One of them happened to be [member="Akon Devoda"] a man that I had helped into the faction. Smiling as inwalked forwards, I answered him. "No matter where there are non believers, I will be there to combat them." walking forwards, a man popped out of a fox hole from the ground, but before he could lift his rifle, I threw him into the void of space with the aid of the force.

"Attack the facility, Akon, stay with me, we will go a different route."

 

[Daniel Imura]

Nodding, Akon looked over the landscape, watching after the men as they hiked over to the facility. As they made their way over, he felt a surge of adrenaline in the force as a concussion grenade hurled over the group. Reaching out with the force, he gripped it and sent it hurtling upwards into the far reaches of space. "Your forces aren't completely safe." He felt a sudden surge of pain. He was showing weakness. He reminded himself that the mission came first. "But... If they die, they die with honor. Let's go."

[member="Zoey Marix"]

 

[Dredge]

.

 

[Ordo]

Spoiler

[member="Zoey Marix"]
[member="Alexandra Cinthra"]
[member="Jared Ovmar"]
[member="Hannibal Oryen"]
[member="Azalus"]
[member="Neskar A'toll"]
[member="Darth Kentarch"]
[member="HK-36"]
[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]
[member="Evelynn"] -(Kisses BFF)

SILK ASTEROIDS
GROUND FACILITIES
OBJECTIVE: DEFEND AGAINST CRUSADERS (no clue who is where.)

Shhhhhhhhhhhiick.

The sound of a beskad leaving it's sheath was a sweet thing in the ears of the man who drew it and the sound of death in the ears of an enemy. Ordo stood calmly waiting for the enemies to come and face their fate. Memories of battles fought dance through his mind as his eyes gaze out from behind the 'T' visor of his buy'ce. The victories and losses all mingled together as he stood. A life of war and battle, of crashing against ones enemies like waves on a shore. The clash of bone and sinew as fist and bodies collided. It was a feeling that only the survivor enjoyed.

He slowly and deliberately sliced his beskad in an 'X' in front of him. Soon the clash would again would take place and he and his enemy would experience the freedom and purity of battle. They would fight and blood would call for blood. Soon he would fade into the Ramikad'yc the commando mind set and each blow each breath would be all that mattered.

"Come face me." He said inside his helmet. "Come drink with me from the cup war offers."

 

[Darth Vulcanus]

[member="Erebus Vivant"]

As Darth Vulcanus moved towards the hanger, he was intercepted by the acolyte that had challenged him at their first meeting. The beast grinned as he heard the man ask for weapons, that was something any true warrior should ask for. "Arm yourself with Vong Crab armor and take this" Krag said, grabbing a force pike from on of his guards and throwing it to the Tung, "Failure is for the weak and the weak do not deserve life." Krag warned, pushing past the warrior and moving towards the dropship. The Tung was more than welcome to join him if he so wished, just as soon as he grabbed some crab armor from the crates in the hanger. The New Order had more of it than they knew what to do with thanks to the Vong and their gracious gifts.

 

[Garza]

I smiled as Akon followed me. Even then, I continued to move forwards. And as we were, I stopped. A man was drawing an X into the rock with his sword. Upon further look, it was a beskad, and I knew who I was going to take out. I walked past Akon and on to the man.

"I'll take a sip Mando'ade. Shall we dine in hell?" I stood only 3 meters from him, and was expecting a good fight.

[member="Ordo"]

 

[Saera Willamina Savan]

THE HORDE
Landing Party Outside of the A/O
ETA to Drop 5 Minutes
En Route

Finally, nearly an hour after the initial blips came up on the facility sensors and investigation reports had met Saera's corporate desk, her detachment arrived. Two point five million credits of reimbursement and access to Aurum was a pretty good buy from the Horde in turn for the insubstantial support she was now capable of offering. It was a good mutual deal, especially one she saw fit use in. Get crystals. Burn out the Crusade. It was just business, but quite the good one at that.
A large purple vessel not marked as CIS but in fact to an independent faction to the south had jumped out of hyperspace several dozen kilometers away from the action.
"Alright, people. You know the drill! Get these dropships in the air and on the ground in ten!" yelled a commanding officer within the hangar.
Men and droids scrambled to load and check all craft as infantrymen began filling rank and file within them. Fighter after fighter left the great, bright ray doors and regrouped outside to enter the Area of Operations. Finally, the ships were starting to lift off and leave the hangar. In total, there were a good two platoons of men onboard the various craft and there were Languor starfighters escorting them, about twenty four in total. Saera commanded from the bridge. She would stay out of the battle personally... for now. It was unwise for the girl to personally expose her fragile self until safety improved a bit.
"This is Chair Admiral Saera Savan of the Ri'ess Regal Drives Techno Union fleet. Please state your confirmation of our arrangement and make sure you copy down our IFFs! Don't... shoot any of us down by accident, please. Out."

[member="Supreme Overlord Dredge"], [member="Enigma"]​

 

[Kung Seilois]

From his spot observing on the deck of the Tango warship; Seilois watched as the fleets fired on one another, but his head snapped to the left when he saw the ships moving close to the nuclear factory, from his limited knowledge of how the battle was developing, he was shocked that the Overlord would so quickly throw away the factory. Seilois could understand destroying it should the be losing in a last ditch effort to make the victory bittersweet, but to do so this early in the battle?

Seilois crossed his arms, cupping the bottom of his helmet with his hand; this battle was... odd. That said, he already felt out of his element being on a starship, even if he was merely watching and awaiting his own orders, his paranoia was high as he had very little control of his fate at the moment, and he did not like it. Tapping his comlink on the side of his helmet, he tried to establish a connection with one of the commanders on the Doom, "This is Mercenary Seilois, stationed aboard the Tango, am I to continue to hold my position?"

[member="Supreme Overlord Dredge"]

 

[HK-36]

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"] [member="Darth Vulcanus"]

Aboard the Siege Tower
Moross Fleet

The Siege Tower rocked and shook under the laser barrages of Sith Destroyer, returning with a barrage of their own while they still had an opening, although much smaller one,
"Shields absorbing damage, shields holding!"
Somebody called out on the bridge,
"Get us out of their range, we're not here to face Destroyers for them head on!"
The Yeoman called out,

The Siege Tower would enter among the formation of Moross ships, using them as cover from the Destroyer's barrages, although that may as well change at moment's notice should the battle erupt to its fullest and enter that chaotic stage of engagement. But for now, they were relatively safe as the Destroyer had to get through the ships the Moross brought to actually fight naval warfare. Thank goodness that the smaller frigate was faster than the Destroyer.

HK looked up slightly, jumping off the crates as the ship shook under Sith turbolaser fire,
"What is going on out there?"
The droid asked in a transmission to the bridge,
"Sir, the Sith flagship has focused its fire on us briefly, shields dropped to 75 percent power, we have escaped from range, shields recharging."
HK would look up to other soldiers around him and glanced to Sio, giving her a nod,
"Did you hear that, lads? The Sith know the Protectorate has arrived and want us gone before the battle even starts!"
He would motion towards the dropships and fighters then,
"Board the ships, we have Sith and Vong to fight!"
The troops called out "Yessir!" in unison as they dispersed to their dropships and fighters to provide escort.

HK walked over to Siobhan then, patting her on the shoulder,
"I would not mind having one or two of those dragons with us today, I worry how much death and destruction we will see today."
He would glance to the soldiers who were scrambling to the transports before looking back to Siobhan,
"I am glad you are here, though, if face Chaos then with a friend."
He motioned for Siobhan to one of the transports, the one they were going to take, HK's personal squad, two Knights and four Exterminators, were already present on board.
"As to Eriadu, it was a reminder, the Sith Empire may be gone for now, but we still have enemies in this Galaxy. I was able to push back the Vong, the mass drivers pierced clean through their tank beasts, and then it turned out that knock-out gas is lethal to them. I did not mean to kill them, Siobhan,"
He would look into the Colonel's eyes,
"I really did not mean to kill them."

He would look at her in something that could be called sorrow, if it wasn't that neither his voice nor face could show any expression, he would look aside then slightly,
"Where the Chaos is the signal from the Crusaders?"
He would open up transmission to the Bridge.
"Have the Crusaders signaled us?"
"Not yet, sir."
The Yeoman responded,
"Patch me through to them."
"Yessir, oh and there is one more thing."
"Yes, Yeoman, what is it?"
"The facilities on the asteroids seem to have been abandoned, we detect only scarce lifeforms."

HK looked to Siobhan once more,
"It looks like they are planning something, they did not post forces in the facilities on the asteroids."

And finally, he would open up a transmission to [member="Zoey Marix"] and [member="Soliael Devin Talith"]
"This is HK-36 the Iron Knight speaking, we are ready for departure to reinforce your troopers, we came under fire by Sith Capitol Ship, we got out of their line of sight for now but we request naval support. Our scanners also indicate the Horde did not post troops to protect the facilities aboard the asteroids, I recommend we extract any troopers we have on the surface, I calculate they are planning a trap."

 

[Garza]

Even as I stood there I smiled at the mando, answering [member="HK-36"] "Yes procede with caution iron knight. A fleet is on their way."

"Call the men back from the facility, if they want it gone, let it be."

 

[The Red of Sinner]

[member="Supreme Overlord Dredge"] was insane if he thought Romeo was getting on a small ship, to board a giant ship, shooting big guns. "Dredge, I'm not going out there, you're boarding ships won't make it if you launch them, they'll get blown to bits."

 

[Mercury Zealot]

MOROSS CRUSADE
SOL'S ASTEROID

[member="Dagon"], [member="Darth Ayra"], [member="Soliael Devin Talith"]

His God had called for him! Then it would be so, and no being that called itself above his faith, whilst hiding behind weapons, or a creature bound by another's will while spawned merely to think, could stop him. He would take both, and either by a full plunge of his hostile poisoned flesh, or by a thousand scraps he would make them forsake their organics!

Ayra unloaded as an invasive thought came into his head. Unfortunately for the Yammosk, without technology its words were incomprehensible to his purely electrical language. He was just as much an alien as he was, both equally non-human one might say. He was a fish out of water encased in metal flesh and all of him infected with the artificial faith of Moross, while his warrior mind was conditioned to zealotry. Even if he could hear the words... it would only make him more ferocious.

"Moment!" He called to his god, he had something to deal with first. Real quick, then cut off heads. He called to other Resu, told half to go with Sol.

Ayra though, would find that many of Sol's creatures were not so easily fallen. Few went down, as these were more than mere grunts. Many of them were the Elite of Resu, a branch of warriors already considered Elite on their own. There were 31 of them (now only 15 against Ayra). Resu rarely hunted in even packs, it usually made voting more difficult. Of course, there would be no voting today, they were lead directly by their God. The Resu were not certain as to how many Vali there were, but that didn't matter to him. They were brothers of creation alone, and though that bond was strong, they were as alien to them as the gods themselves.

At any rate, as Stone Hermes fully impale another Vong, whilst tearing off the head of another using teeth, tusks, and a clawed hand all together... he fried the head with speech as he munched its puny bones to dust, with guts turning into a silvery color due to the virus at his every touch. Behind him and his brothers, there was a wake of fresh new techno-zombies, that were vastly inferior to everything else in the room. Some of them functional, most were not.

He had sighted Ayra a ways back, and now he decided he wanted to gun for her. Since it was likely he wasn't any less impressive than his peers, he deigned to let her know he was going to personally tear all her limbs off using only his teeth... even if she became a zombie before then. How did he do this you ask?

Well of course he yelled... really really loud. He even stopped to "take a breathe" which in reality was him holding his "breathe" to store enough bio-electricity to formulate a huge discharge aimed right at Ayra's general position. While doing this huge burst, and ran towards her with a sword pointed down ready for a bisecting upward slash.