[IC] Eternal Galaxy: Shards of Starlight - Part I

[Kristia]

Venturia
Between Egale and Celestora System
Freighter


"Alright then, guess it is very important for you, I won´t touch it" the bioroid said putting her hand away from the pendant

("Well.. she atleast can react with natural emotions, so the trance must be wearing down, I won´t bother her then.") she thought ignoring now the pendant

[Cucoo5]

Venturia
Between Egale and Celestora System
Freighter

Anankerisa let go of her pendant and then smiled. "Let's play a game." Her smile broadened.
Then the pendant glowed a soft red, and the light seemed to drip from it...like blood.

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Venturia
Helios System
Planet: Duon

"No...no...It's just I'm alittle worried, that's all. Nothing major...ha ha ha..." Nero Turned to the soldier. "Ok communications are down with the cruisers...but fighters should still have something. If we can get through to a squadron we're all set..."
"So we need the channel."
"...you wouldn't happen to have that info...would you?"
"As Defense Coordinator, I would have thought YOU would have that..."
"Tsk! I Don't have that...they wouldn't give me it anyway..." He turned and put a hand to his forehead. "Ok, Nero, Think...what to do...what to do..."

[Koishi]

Venturia
Helios System
Planet: Duon

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"Why not go around the fight, and come in from the side that these friends of yours are on? If that's not possible, have you thought to just simply wait?" Mima suggested.

[Kristia]

Venturia
Between Egale and Celestora System
Freighter

The sudden happiness made the bioroid worry, even more because the pendant´s color changing

Yet she wanted the girl to be calm atleast so she followed the thought "Allright then, what would you like to play little one?" she asked to the girl

[Cucoo5]

Venturia
Helios System
Planet: Duon

"If only it were that simple." The soldier spoke up again. "As soon as we got into the air, we became a possible target. Now we have to get back to the cruisers ASAP or risk getting intercepted. If hostiles are in the area then we're sitting ducks."
"And going around isn't an option. Typically the NGO cuts off transports coming from the planet. The only way out of this mess...is to go straight through the heart of it." Nero seemed to gain a new resolve. "Fighter escort or not, we have to plunge straight through the skirmish. It's better that than risk getting singled out. Now do we have any fighter pilots among us?"
Silence answered him. "...Wonderful..."

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Venturia
Celestora System
Freighter

"Let's play..." Anankerisa started but then the intercom system interrupted her as a voice declared they had entered the Celestora system. "Let's play a game of fate~ hehehehehe"
Suddenly she vanished, but her laugh seemed to echo throughout the ship. It seemed to be coming from everywhere at once. "HEHEHEHE~ PLAY MY GAME OF FATE~!"

[bookdragon2000]

Venturia
Sol Inceneron
Planet Werban's outer atmosphere

"Don't worry, it's not electronic warfare exactly, but regardless of whether you are ready or not, you can't dodge it. Black roses? Aren't you guys some mercenary group? Why would I be interested in something like that?" He sent back, he laughed scornfully as he considered the rest of the message. "Legend? I don't have the time for that. You want my reply? I decline. Now get out of my way, convince me fast, or be blasted."

His hand hovered over the button that would send the bullet into the midst of that squadron, "I give you 5 seconds."

"5...4..."

[Cucoo5]

Venturia
Sol Inceneron
Planet Werban's outer atmosphere

"Yet you have time to become an infamous rogue?" Ember leaned forward. As she did she gestured for the others to break formation. They did, with one going back away from Nhiome moving as though leaving altogether, another circling right, and the third circling left. "We can help you survive. Right now Alpha Division has sent three Omega Class Destroyers and Four squadrons here to capture you or destroy you should you resist." Ember smiled again. "A bit much for one man, don't you think? I for one don't want to see perfectly good talent go to such a waste..." Her smile broadened as she paid close attention to the guns of his ship and grasped the controls of he fighter while raising forward shields to maximum while projecting them forward a bit to act as a small sort of wall. "If it's a projectile I should be able to give myself time to dodge it if it hits the shields..."

[Koishi]

Venturia
Helios System
Planet: Duon

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"I think i'm starting to hate you people." Mima grumbled.

[Kristia]

Venturia
Celestora System
Freighter

"But how..?" Mara could just say those words as the girl just disappeared from existence, but her voice was echoing around the ship

This was getting troublesome, yet the golden eyed had no knowledge of the little one´s abilities, so she could only keep on track

"Ok, so how do we play a game of fate?"

[Cucoo5]

Venturia
Celestora System
Freighter

Anankerisa's laughter was all that answered her. Suddenly her voice faded and alarms through out the ship went off. "NGO Beta Class Battle Cruiser Approaching!"

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The Captain of the Beta Class calmly opened a channel to the freighter. "Egale System Freighter, you are trespassing in NGO controlled territory. Prepare to be boarded."

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Venturia
Helios System
Planet: Duon

"Don't hate us, hate the people that love to make our lives miserable." The soldier responded to Mima. "Though you can hate him as much as ya want." He gestured to Nero. " And especially hate him when he's right."

[Koishi]

Venturia
Helios System
Planet: Duon

---

"I think it's easier to hate you all equally." Mima replied.

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Venturia
Celestoria System
Planet: Mortem

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A lone base stood on rim of a large crater, and it looked to be heavily defended. The logo of the NGO was emblazoned on one side of the base, as several armed guards walked through a corridor. As they passed through, a vent above was taken off, and The Reaper dropped down, scythe in one hand, kunai in the other. It scurried through the corridor, until he caught sight of a lone guard, looking at a datapad.

A good victim.

The Reaper sprinted forward; it's scythe burying itself in the guard's throat, before it cut through entierly, spilling blood over the metal floor. Two guards rushed in, assault rifles at the ready. It then tossed a couple kunai, one ending up through the gullet of one guard, the second ending up in the brain of the other.

All of this occured in the time of 2.5 seconds.

[bookdragon2000]

Venturia
Sol Inceneron
Planet Werban's outer atmosphere

Nhiome paused, considering the fleet after him, he needed to get out of here fast if he wanted to avoid that fleet. That meant he had to shoot, he kept an eye on the squadron that was splitting up, no matter, he did not even need to hit one of them for his bullet to take effect. He sent a last message, " I may be one man, but i have more than one ship. Then he cut off communications, and adjusted the time fuse on the bullet. He aimed, and fired, the bullet flyting straight into the middle ground between his ship and the squadron.

The jammer detonated and the first electromagnetic pulse exploded in a large radius to cover the entire planet and the surrounding areas, knocking out all communications, trackers and all other long range technology. On the ships themselves, navigation, altimeters, locators, cameras and similar things ceased functioning, including on his ship. Now the ships could still steer and travel, but little else, visual had to be relied on. He turned his ship to orientate it such that the sun was located slightly to the left of his front and shot off towards Inopia, leaving the disorientated fighters behind.

[Kristia]

Venturia
Celestora System
Freighter

Well.. my thoery was right, Be grateful little one, I congratulate you for having the ability to attract events" Mara said outloud while walking towards her ship´s docking bay.

Meanwhile the bioroid ship had a faint whirring inside as it started locking itself to prevent any chance to be opened

[Cucoo5]

Venturia
Sol Inceneron
Planet Werban's outer atmosphere

"The boy doesn't know the definition of what electronic warfare is..." Ember growled as she realized her mistake. She had lowered the shields around her fighter, thus allowing it to be affected by the pulse. As Nhiome tried to flee she took off after him. "Tsk, such manners! Well, let's teach him some!" As she said this to herself, since her systems were disabled, she tried to reboot everything.

Spear, who had gone out of the atmosphere, only felt static as his shields were on standard. He saw on his radar the trajectory of Nhiome and immediately accelerated to intercept. "Ember! Dragor! Vulpes! What's your status!?" No response. "Damn...I must of been lucky to catch the edge of that...if it can go through shields..." He dismissed the thought and got a lock on Nhiome's ship. "Time to slow you down, jackrabbit!" Approaching the ship he fired his fighter's heavy cannon to weaken the shields of his target. Then he followed up with a barrage of pulse machine gun fire, forcing Nhiome back into lower atmosphere.

Ember sighed as she watched Spear do what she originally commanded him to do. "Shouldn't have knocked out my systems, darling, otherwise I would be telling him to not be trying to keep you trapped."

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Venturia
Helios System
Planet: Duon

"Well aren't you miss sunshine..." Nero mused to himself as he looked over to the pilot. "Oi, what's the situation? Anything on radar yet?"
"Nothing yet, though there's something on long range, can't tell yet but it seems big..."

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Venturia
Celestora System
NGO Patrol Ship

The captain issued the order to have a squadron of Drone fighters bring in the freighter. Soon enough, the freighter was docked in a massive hangar bay. Infantry soldiers moved into position at any entrances.

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Venturia
Celestoria System
Planet: Mortem

The commanding officer of the base paced through the command center, watching the various officers perform their duties. He walked over to the long range sensors officer. "Any activity yet by the Beta Division?"
"None sir, they haven't noticed our presence."
"Good."

[bookdragon2000]

Venturia
Sol Inceneron
Planet Werban's lower atmosphere

Nhiome cursed, dodging the pulses coming up behind him, that leader of the squadron was right, the atmosphere was most definitely not his element, in space he could have accelerated however much he wanted in whatever direction and he would be fine. He could not even go into space now, the fighter behind him had opened fire with the heavy cannons earlier and there was a small leak now in the cargo area, he supposed it was to lower shields, but he didn't have any in the first place. He was already going quite fast, slightly faster than the fighter behind him, but in these close confines, it didn't help much, considering the pulses were much faster than his ship. He orbited the planet, firing at the fighter with his rear cannon, it must have come as a surprise, most fighters could only fire forward, considering that was where their guns were orientated, but the pulses that hit did little to the other fighter, must be the shields...but what if he knocked out those shields?

Nhiome set a course for where he thought the jammer had detonated, he could not be sure due to his systems being down, he did not even try to reboot them, he knew it would be useless, he had designed the jammer with that in mind. It fire off another pulse every minute for as long as it could, usually around an hour. It had not even been half of that yet. He set a machine to load his third gun with an explosive shell, one advantage of projectiles: most pulses could not just explode without impact. So with the rear cannon fixed on the fighter pursuing him, the front cannon began firing off random pulses at the other ships to discourage them from joining in as he sped towards the location of the jammer, where the pulse was stronger even as the third gun turned to face the fighter behind.