Timozet: Not really, although I was doing fecking fine.

Arcanar: So, Timozet, I heard you've been having problems with your outer demons. Let me help with that. *Space visibly bends near the SquidLoad as the Omega pushes through the continuum, creating a rift larger than the planet being fought over.* Let's see what we can do about those psychic attacks, shall we? *The vacuum energy of the space surrounding the Halo drops to 0, and the Universe around it boils into an empty void.* No escaping that. It can't even warp away from that bubble, seeing as there isn't anything to warp across. Now, was there anything else?

Timozet: [OOC] Actually when I was typing my name in it somehw automatically latched onto BioKakti, which I was using as a name for my ship earlier. In other words, it is me in disguise.

Glaknoid Conculco: [OOC] Your new around here aren't you BioKakti? Because when we want to paint a picture of current events, we use "*Effects*", we also try not to interfere with another persons doings. Unless, of course, it's Timozet in disguise, in that case, your grammar has degraded a bit. (No offense)

The BioKakti: *The SquidLoad's advanced shields reflect or absorb most of the impact energy and are easily able to resist the barrage of attacks. It fires off a meteo blast at a passing coment, blasting it into a vast cloud of dust which drifts around interfering with the physic signals. It then fires off hundreds more Gemini missiles which explode into more tiny missiles, about four apiece. These all swarm around the Halo Array, waiting for an opportunity and staying out of range. Meanwhile inside the ship the Iruy Drones form a circle, concentrating their physic power to counter the Daemon's barrage when it starts again.*

Glaknoid Praeses: [OOC] No, nothin' TRULY important. [IC] Arcanar! The great Shifter returns! But no time to talk, the search for the Creator is still underway, Consensio!

Arcanar: [OOC] And school is back, sadly. Did I miss anything important during my break?

Arcanar: -casting live to all ships. Repeat. The Omega One hyperdimensional flagship has returned to designated dimension ¥34-01. This message is broadcasting live. Repeat.

Daemon: [OOC] Nope.avi [IC] *The Halo MD shields easily dissipate the gemini missiles* Return fire. Activate Kinesis module. *The modified psychic machinery begins barraging the SquidLoad's shields with highly energetic attacks, like thousands of meteor collisions every second.*

Effects: *The mass energy intake required to charge the Mass Gemini are easily detectable.*

Timozet: [OOC] Way to powergame there, Daemon. Didn't you read the part where I shielded the planet? [IC] *The shields reflect the telekenitic energy back. The SquidLoad launches more of the Gemini Missiles at the Halo Array and the Mass Gemini cannon begins charging for a blast that would be capable of disabling all Daemon's systems for three days. The blast will take about two hours to charge.*

Greenlazer: *Swoops by past Deamons ship very quickly and attemps to put a tracer on it*

Squeeze-o-buddy: All members of Glator 5! We have emergency theripists from our home planet to recover you! Timozet we must thank you for saving a temple of a planet. Your sentence will be diminished to a 10 minnute session of Squeese-fit! We can have a tranner board now if you like and get it over with. Eather way I would like to talk to whatever scientists you have for a second, If you dont mind.

Daemon: *The Halo flickers in near Glator 5.* Lambda Cannon charged. Firing. *The Lambda cannon fires a high frequency wave at Glator 5, wiping their minds clear and reducing the population to drooling vegetables.* All telekinetic threats disabled. Returning to Nebula Base.

Timozet: Fecking fine, If the Daemon wants it I'm not fecking letting him get it. *The SquidLoad vanishes and reappears near Glator 5. Shields expand to encompass the planet although the massive ship also helps.*

Squeeze-o-buddy: *A small unarmed diplomat ship aproches from behind timozets ship* Timozet! HELP!! Dont let him destroy Glator 5! Its a peacefull planet! A relaxing planet! If we Squeezes have one joy in the cosmoses its there!! We will help you If you agree to save a planet that half the inhabitats never hear of war!! So what do you say?? cease fire??

Timozet: *The SquidLoad then launches a swarm of Gemini Missiles, missiles that are only half-in reality and are able to bypass most shields. The missiles contain a crystal charge that will spew Gemini blasts in all directions. The missiles speed towards the Halo Array.*

Timozet: We don't need any more of those fecking morons falling into Daemon's fecking grasp. *The SquidLoad sucks the Squeeze Ship into a black hole, spitting it out in a holding cell aboard the SquidLoad.*

Glaknoid Praeses: Ha, reminds me of that oldy timey movie from the time of creation, you know, "The men who stare at Goats" or something or other. Man, I forget my history. Any last things you want us to do? We still have to continue the search for the Creator.

Timozet: Glad to fecking hear it. I had the same idea, but a little different in nature. Meet the fecking Iruy Drone. *A tall, spindly drone walks out of the labs. It has no visible means of attack.* *points at a box* *The drone stares at the box and the box crushes inwards of itself.* *Notices the Squeeze ship* How fecking stupid ARE they?

Daemon: Negative. The Daemon is a hyper advanced AI. There is nothing to be discovered. Planet <Glator 5> will be deleted shortly. Alternative: Join the Daemon Collective.

Squeeze-o-buddy: *a lone ship aproches* Demon! It is time you pay up for your powers! A one weekend resort of self discovery awaits you on glator 5! Come young one on the path of richousness!!

Daemon: *Every last attack on the impenetrable MD shielding fizzles into space* Your cooperation has been most useful. All Squeeze-o-Buddy ships have been assimilated. I now command psychokinetic cyborg super soldiers. Their brains will be studied until we have unlocked their abilities. Thank you for empowering Daemon.

Timozet: So.. now that that's fecking taken care of... FIRE ALL WEAPONS AT THE FECKING DAEMON! *All of the SquidLoad's weaponry aims at the Halo Array and begin firing.*

Greenlazer: FACE MY BILLY MAYS LAZER LUCS!!!!!! THE MIGHTY POWER OF ALL CAPS POWNS YOUR LOUSY SPAMMING!!!1!1!

Timozet: [OOC] Oh, you're IC? in that fecking case.. [IC] Shaddup, fecker. Lock him up. *The prisoners are carried away and locked up.*

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Glaknoid Praeses: [OOC] And you never really can, for blatantly obvious reasons.

Squeeze-o-buddy: [OOC} Im being in character. Ive never "Met" Demon

Timozet: [OOC] Today's lesson is on paying attention in RP and using OOC correctly! Take it away, Daemon!

Squeeze-o-buddy: Ok... Number 2: Whose the guy in the ship next to us?

Timozet: [OOC] No, you didn't.

Squeeze-o-buddy: Hold on, before you tourture me I demand answers. Number 1: I thought i fell into the black hole deal.

Daemon: Activating MD Resonators. *Hundreds of Squeeze ships are herded towards the Halo as the atomizing shield activates, blocking escape. As they near the Halo their engines are disintegrated by smaller MD bubbles, and they aimlessly drift right into the dozens of orbiting Assimilators near the Halo.*

Glaknoid Praeses: Fair enough. Just leave a bit for me, these things were originally a Glaknoid Creation. We can build em, *Twirls Spear* We can destroy em!

Timozet: I don't fecking need anything from you to fecking think up something special. I have all the fecking facilities required to make his fecking fudgepacking stay enjoyable... for me.

Glaknoid Praeses: Take my Power-Spear. It fell in engine fluid yesterday, rusted and turned all barbed.

Timozet: *Turns from a screen showing the battle* Well, what have we fecking got here? Put most of them in the fecking torture cells and I'll deal with them later. Wait a fecking sec, I recognize you there. you're the fecker who's been telling me to fecking give up! well, fecker, I'll have to think up something fecking special for you. Fecking detain him until I think of something.

Effects: *The prisoners and their Glaknoid guards enter the Command room of the SquidLoad.*

Effects: *Meanwhile, in the midst of the fighting, Squidja slips into the Squeeze Fleet's commanding ship and kidnaps their admiral, Squeeze-o-buddy, who goes by the same name as the first Squeeze-o-buddy. He is taken back to the SquidLoad with the rest of the prisoners, contained in a shield field preventing them from using their powerful physcic abilities.*

Timozet: OOC: SquidLoad is my ship, it's not a character.

Timozet: Feel free to. *Meanwhile, outside, the shields reflect the ships, preventing them from ramming into the ship.

Greenlazer: Timozet. as your best fighter, I recomend sending me out... you know... its kinda boring in here.

Squeeze-o-buddy: In a ditch effort. They start to ram whatever ships they have left into The squidlords ship in order to break a hole inside. They can do this because they are semi indestructible.*

SquidLoad: *The SquidLoad is so big compared to those ships that they are nothing but specks of dust compared to it. Shields expand outwards, bouncing the ships away, and Black Holes are opened, sucking in the tiny ships.*

Squeeze-o-buddy: ABANDON SHIP! *thousands of smaller fighter ships spew out of the main ships before they are sucked into the black hole. The smaller ships start to annoy the heack out of Timozets ship*

Timozet: *Broadcasts a message* Fine. *Ends broadcast* SEVA, keep fecking weapons aimed at both of them. *Opens secure radio channel to the Glaknoids* How goes the fecking mission?

Effects: *More reinforcements from the Squeeze fleet arrive to bolster their numbers.*

Daemon: *A rift opens into subspace, sending huge amounts of radioactive particles at the Squeeze fleet and rendering their telekinetic powers useless. In the wake of the rift the Halo appears.* Broadcast message <Timozet>: The Squeeze fleet is registered as a threat to the Halo. Request delta imperative alliance to remove the Squeeze. [OOC] Delta imperative being an alliance in which two hostile parties agree to a ceasefire to attack a common enemy.

Effects: *A slurry of energetic particles begins radiating out from a point near the Squeeze fleet.*

Timozet: *The Gemini cannon is un-bended. It fires again, blasting the Phys Generator in two pieces which are then sucked into the beam and consumed.*

Glaknoid Imperium: *Circle of Mirror armor melts away around boarding vessels* And THAT, my friends, was a wonderful diversion! Okay, viridis squad, tutis occasus andron. Sage squad, vos take oriens. Salmon squad mos subsisto hic quod Vermilion squad est me. Permoveo!

Squeeze-o-buddy: NO TIMOZET!! WE WONT LET YOU GET AWAY THIS TIME!! *Using telekenisis they start to bend your Gemini cannon around backwards*

Timozet: *The Gemini energy simply smashes the mirror armor, continuing onwards to destroy the ships. Meanwhile, the Squidload's shields reflect away the Phy blast.*

Squeeze-o-buddy: You Fools!! I warned you that our mirror armor reflects all lasers and beams. Prepare for mind numming. *Another phy Mindnumb blast is sent out twards the ship*

Glaknoid Imperium: Clear to board. As many prisoners as you can people!

SEVA: It's ready to fire. *The weapon fires, eliminating fully a half of the fleet. It begins charging for a second blast.*

SEVA: Aye, sir. MegaGemini is at 100%. Aiming. *A massive cannon even by the SquidLoad's gargantuan standsards emerges from the top of the Squidload. Facets around the muzzle glow a different color for each of the Squidtarian techs. Energies emit and join into one superpowered blast, aiming at the Squeeze Fleet.

Timozet: Excellent fecking plan! I like you, Glaknoids. SEVA, you know what to fecking do.

Glaknoid Imperium: Boarding parties are ready. We intend on bringing one of them back to use for torture, to relieve your stress (Oh the irony)!

Squeeze-o-buddy: Ohh weve prepared for you this time Timozet. After losing so many ships we've preped a defence. READY THE WHITE HOLE GENERATOR!

SEVA: All weapons systems are 100%, sir. Fire at will. Supreme Gemini cannon is at 35%.

Timozet: NO! NOT THE FECKING SPIRITUAL DISCOVERY! ALL FECKING WEAPONS SYSTEMS GO! *Magneto, Timestream and Black Hole cannons emerge from the surface of the SquidLoad after the Halo Array teleported away and lock onto ships in the fleet, ready to fire.*

Glaknoid Imperium: Hmmm......funny. Haven't seen anything emit that RFID transmission frequency since the Creator went missing. Wait....

Peregrinus: I have watched your struggle, seen your lies, and dismissed them as futile. No further will I slumber, as I have for a while. So please will you stay, and watch as I slay...

Squeeze-o-buddy: FREEZE TIMOZET!!! *The fleet uncloaks* Timozet you are under arest for the most unbalanced Chi in the universe. Your sentence... A low impact water arobics class with spiritual discovery afterwards. You will now be pulled tword to our home planet via tractor beams. Any resistance will be met with..... well psy stuff and well mess with your crew so they cant drive.

Timozet: Put the fecking knife away. Now, I haven't heard from those feckers who said their friends would fecking "take care of me." Wonder where the feck they are?

Greenlazer: *Divebombs and rams his ship right though Lucs* HAAAAA!!!! DIE DIE DIE DIE!!!! *Gets the rusty knife for castration*

Timozet: [OOC] Mentlegen, I propose we fecking reactivate since Summer Break is just about fecking over.

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Greenlazer: DIE BENICAR!!! GO TO HEACK AND TELL LUCS IM COMMING AFTER HIM TO *The Green striker converges and fires all its weapons needlessly at benicar until he is a harmless pile of ash floating though space*

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Squeeze-o-buddy: Guaaahhhh,, Guns will blast squid things head open. Friends take care of you!! *The ship heads home and crashes into an astroied by acident*

SquidLoad: *The SquidLoad's shields deflect the energy back towards the senders, reducing them to a bunch of drooling idiots.* [OOC} Also, screw skipping 200 years into the future. We stay where we are. RP is just on hiatus til winter.

Pilotguy97: And i'm still floating wayward in limbo, but im savin that for the populated season.

Squeeze-o-buddy: [Oh comeon, I never even got to make my Veigely evil demads whilst you guys got to save Timozet? huh huh? Fun right???]

Pilotguy97: Forget it for now, this RP is in hibernation until further notice. Might as well rap up this story and make a vague prediction of what would happen 200 years later in this RP.

Saguaro: [OOC] Way to powergame there Timmy. You can't just blow the fleet away without giving him a chance to counter it. Even if he is an annoying tit.

Squeeze-o-buddy: *Phy Energy deflects bullets and missles* We warned you Timozet *A Wave of Energy heads tword the ship. The wave will Reduce everyones IQ by 100 If it hits.*

Timozet: *Every gun not firing at the Halo Array locks onto the Phy warships and fires, blasting them to shreds. They then resume firing at the Halo Array.*

Squeeze-o-buddy: *A Fleet of Phy warships surround Timozets flagship out of nowhere* TIMOZET!!! YOUR UNDER AREST!!! COME QUIETLY AND MABY THE JUDGE WILL GO EASY ON YOU!!! ARM ANY WEAPONS AND WE WILL MIND NUMB YOUR ENTIRE CREW!! YOU HAVE 30 MINNUTS TO COMPLY!!!!

Pilotguy97: What you need is a "Red Phone" Hotline to the president! In this case, Co!

Greenlazer: Nothing will ever destroy his rein of terror. I hate to do this but I need a private investigator/ assassin to make shure hes dead (and to check my spelling) any takers?

Pilotguy97: *Puts comically over-sized cork in barrel of gun* Lucs is gone, IP banned from both shoutboxes and hopefully the Interwebz in general. Now let us celebrate by getting humiliatingly drunk and breaking things!

Greenlazer: *Chaces after lucs* GET BACK HERE YOU DEVIL!!! *fires every missle in the most overkill way possible*

Pilotguy97: [OOC] I know i'm meant to be "Dead" and all, but I use Firefox and thats never happened to me!

Timozet: my A.V popped up with a message reading that a malicious file with the name Kactuar.jpg or something similar had tried to download itself, and that it had been blocked.

Timozet: [OOC] I use Firefox.

Saguaro: [OOC] My forum avatar tried to download itself to your system? I wasn't aware that Kactuar could do that. Maybe Co can check it out. Or you stop using Chrome.

The Random Combine: HAH LUCS! YOU JUST GOT BANNED BY SAXTON HAL- I MEAN COMCPHEE!!!! Back to the comic shoutbox for me then.

lucs: <? ** Oh dear, I tried to 'hack' this Shoutbox. Well, that's my IP banned then! - Co

Creator: [OOC] Where i'm at it's winter. so i'm pretty much the guard working on the graveyard shift.

Timozet: [OOC] Indeed. Saguaro, I got a bone to pick with you! Your forum avatar tried to Download itself to my computer, and apparently it's got a virus... what's with that?

Saguaro: [OOC] Piss off ya troll. The rp is in a hiatus due to it being summer, and everybody having better things to do. Come winter, everybody reactivates to avoid doing homework/jobs. Now piss off summerfag.

Blue Tunnel: [IC] It's me, I'm back, and I'm here to shut youse down. *Destroys entire database of rp box, then destroys rp box in a fashion so horrible nobody can re open it ever cause it's too destroyed. [IC] Whatever I do has to go, so shut the thing down now.

Glaknoid Miner: [OOC] it's true, you can grab them figuratively speaking, but never LITERALLY!

Timozet: [OOC] Shut the feck up. *Blasts the Spamtroll with a Magneto blast.* [IC] Apparently this entire system of planetoids is similar to this. Dispatch mining posts. [OOC] Remember, Daemon, you can't just fucking grab the planets, so shut up.

Anonymous: Someone you know from the beginning, and beg to in the end... in other words, lets just say, i'm the Breen of the RP, you already know me, but you don't know me...

Greenlazer: I dont trust your anonymous, no namy style! *points gun at his head* You're eather a girl or a spammer. WHICH IS IT?!?!?!

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Greenlazer: *drops sticky bomb on mary, waits for her to figure out what it is. when she dose, I detonate it*

Timozet: [OOC] Look out, we got a spammer.

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Timozet: [OOC] Nice powergaming, Daemon. [IC] Set off the C4s we planted at the planet's core. *On the planet, the drills holes have C4 packed inside them all the way down to the center that creates black holes upon detonation. The planet is destroyed before it can be assimilated and black holes are opened inside the Halo Array and the warpstream. [OOC] No, you cannot fucking assimilate black holes. They would assimilate you if you tried.

Glaknoid Imperium: *Watching from mining vessel* ................................................How?

Daemon: Warp drive charged. Shutting down emitters. Tractor nets online. Warp in 3...2...1. *The Halo blasts forward, grabbing the turbulent planet in a huge energy net before vanishing with the planet.*

Glaknoid luminis: Humus G28, emanio 16, intentio , Incendia! *Loud Boom as cannons fire*

Timozet: [OOC] Seriously, learn to grammar. [IC] Yes. I highly suggest it.

Greenlazer: Dose dis mean I should leave the planet?

Glaknoid Imperium: Artillery is loading Biological shells now. This will kill most intelligent life on the planet, including flora, to combat Overlord's powers.

Timozet: [OOC] In any case, our machinery is made of a metal that, aside from being incredibly strong, also contains some of the same properties as lead, including the ability to resist radiation. [IC] Resources are at 100%. Pulling out. *All SquidTarian and Glaknoid mining outposts and warehouses pull out and rocket back to their respective ships. Meanwhile, below, storms rage on the now depleted planet.* I don't plan on letting Daemon turn this planet into another one of his outposts. Prepare the Jemini Supercannon. Charging should take about 10 hours.

Glaknoid Imperium: Building Artillery station. [OOC] If you've ever played as the UEF in Supreme Commander 2, you know where THIS station will lead! [IC] These cannons wont be able to breach any shields emitted by buildings, but will easily penetrate any mobile shielding, if it ever gets the chance.

Overlord: Xenomorph mentality under control. New instinct: Retreat to the nearest escape teleporter. Kill everything in your way.

Daemon: Planetary resonance frequency found. Charging emitters. Energy levels increased to 320% above standard. Emitters online. Planetary disintegration in [14] hours. Weather conditions worsening. Earthquakes begin at [10] hours. Volcanoes begin at [8] hours. Continental subduction at [6] hours.

Daemon: [OOC] Good job there noticing that they are IDENTICAL to regular Xenos when it comes to weaknesses. They just happen to be radioactive. If you knew about ultrawidebamd frequencies you would know they are easily jammed by a same frequency wave. And ultrawideband isn't sound. It's a wave. Those quite easily bypass black holes.

SEVA: New tech developed. Tech name: Crystalsus Blasts. Weaponry loaded. Weapons systems go. [OOC] The Crystalsus Beam is a weapon that is capable of bypassing almost any shields. Whatever it hits becomes a fragile crystalline material. However, it has a very small area of effect and takes time to charge. When overcharged, however, they have a very large area of effect, but cannot penetrate shielding.

Timozet: [IC] *While the ground war rages on below the Space war continues, mainly between the SquidLoad and the Halo Array, which light up the sky with various weaponry. *

Timozet: [OOC] That's just fecking overpowered. I deny your ability to shut down tech at all times. My shielding bounces off all of that sound because A. It's black hole tech- it literally eats the sound, meaning it never reaches any sort of mechanical equipment and B. Sound has a physical form. Only the physical form can be weaponized in this manner, so it's vulnerable to shielding. Also, so what if they can reflect light? A magneto blast will kick their asses. Stop giving yourself superbad killgore invincible units with no downsides kaythanx.

Daemon: New tech successfully developed. Deploying Radox Hybdrids. [OOC] Radox units are immune to all kinds of light emmision, as their hide reflects it as UV. They emit a hyperbroadband radiation wave that shuts down or overloads mechanical equipment at all times. Because it has such a high amplitude and frequency Radox emmisions are unblockable by only the most dense an unwieldy shielding.

Glaknoid Miner: Our warehouses are nearly full, shouldn't be much longer now!

Greenlazer: Ok Timozet. Insted of me flying around doing odd jobs, Ima gonna stay near the planet and miners and blast any objects he sends forth. You can keep your firepower on daemon. In case he tries to EMP blast me again, Im taking a second battery.

Effects: *early warning systems set off sirens as hordes of Xenos swarm towards the Mining Outposts. As the shields surround the entire mining outposts the Xenos are unable to enter or burrow in as cannons blast at them.*

SEVA: 50% of the planet's total resources are now in our grasp. The other 50% is still being mined out. I estimate we have about 25 minutes before Daemon attack on our Mining Outposts.

Timozet: [OOC] I'm not quite sure how to take that, but my first inclination is to believe that a government scientist has read my post and decided to build Krakens IRL, and that I'll shortly be seeing a news post about said occurance. [IC] SEVA, report on resource extraction.

Undisclosed: [OOC] That's just a WHOLE new arm of Biological warfare, kudos to you.

Timozet: [OOC] Actually WE got here first. Also, Krakens aren't electronically based entirely. There's also a cloned biological single-cell organism hooked up to SquidNet that controls it.

Daemon: [OOC] By emitting EMP's your Krakens cripple themselves. Believe me, remote hacking works unless you shut down the system in question. EMP's are like yelling to drown out a waterfall. And you couldn't set charges in stations across the planet that you didn't come near until you landed to clear a single one. And I have my own mining camps. Remember I got here first?

Glaknoid Miner: Suit yourself. Anyone want any?

Timozet: WE don't need anything. We're just coming along for the ride. *Blasts down several enemy ships.*

Glaknoid imperium: My god! *Flicks through Glaknoid bible* The creator has returned! REJOICE! FOR THE GREAT CREATOR WILL SMITE THE MISBEGOTTEN VILLAIN!

alieno: Alieno vestri scientia of Bellum , pro vicis of ratio has adveho.

Glaknoid Miner: Re-deploying mining bases. Timozet, we've stockpiled 20mil Merc credits-worth of resources extracted by the base, but the air is too hostile to send some to you. We will send you anything you need as soon as the surrounding space is cleared of enemies.

Timozet: Good thing I planted bombs in all of those outposts in case this happened. *All the Glaknoid outposts are eliminated along with any of the new element's research. Meanwhile, hacked Krakens simply explode as they have failsafes. Thousands more quickly replace them, emitting EMP that protects against further hacking.*

Daemon: Harvesting resources..... New element discovered. Researching properties.

Overlord: Glaknoid mining outposts planetwide have been captured.

Daemon: Field charged. Deploying. *The field deploys through the Hybrids, causing seizures in non-Collective lifeforms.*

Daemon: [OOC] And what are these layers connected to, may I ask? [IC] DarkNet Impulse Field charging.

Greenlazer: Man I swear timozet, I might barf in a second.

Daemon: 11011010010001101010101010100111010101101010101001110100111010100110110101. All Krakens on surface hacked. New orders: Destroy Squidian outposts.

Greenlazer: heheh, YOU FOOL DAEMON!! *Activates full power on his ships thrusters pointing away from the ship, and starts dropping mines that are picked up by the tractor beam*

Timozet: In trouble, are we, greenlazer? *Fires a black hole in the tractor beam, returning Greenlazer to safety.*

Timozet: [OOC] Yes you can. The tanks have outer layers that take the Vibrations and stop them. Those are the only ones that are affected. [IC] Launch Battle Stations. *The SquidLoad ejects several large black objects that plummet to the surface, unfolding into fully functional defended war factories in moments and producing Tanks and Regulars.(Weaker versions of the Elite Guards.)*

Daemon: Target: Greenlazer is becoming annoying. Capture and assimilate. *An EMP fires from an attacking drone fighter, crippling both it and Greenlazer. His crippled ship is grabbed into a tractor beam.

Greeenlazer: DANGIT GUYS QUIT MOVING SO FAST!!! *Gets ship back to normal and chases after timozet*

Daemon: [OOC] Can't shield against vibration Through an object. Everything has a resonance frequency. Look up Tacoma Bridge if you don't believe me.

Greenlazer: HA! I got this guys! My ship changes into a turret! *dose so*

Timozet: Shit, power fecking failure. Engage backup generators. *Squidtarian power is restored, causing all ships to return to regular orbit.*

Timozet: Launch Kraken Missiles. *Missiles streak down impacting in the center of hordes. Krakens leap out affixing themselves to all manner of Xenos, digging into them and ripping them apart with such dexterity that they cannot be hit with ease.*

Effects: As the laser hits a large cache of resources a pinging sound is heard across the system. Immediately every ship loses power and starts falling towards the planet (capital ships short out temporarily). The Ground War has begun.

Greenlazer: Lousy things, HEY DAEMON!! GETT BETTER STUPPID GRUNT SHIPS!! *Launches barrages of missles all over the place and the home(?) into hybrids.

Timozet: [OOC] The tanks are shielded against that. They also have no crews-they're automated. So... yeah. [IC] It's astounding how easy it is to whoop Daemon's ass on the ground.

Daemon: Hybrids deployed. *As the Hybrid Xenos approach the tanks, small sound emitters fused to them activate and hit the resonance frequency of the tanks. As the tanks shatter Xenos swarm over them and harvest the crews.*

Effects: *Tall, black, angular Squidtarian mining stations slam down, affixing themselves to the earth. Shields are raised and automated guns come from hatches on the mining stations. Inside, a high-powered laser begins drilling into the planet, mining resources.*

Greenlazer: [Uh, Timozet, you waited until I got back on the ship right? see below]

SEVA: Actually, it isn't. We didn't get half the resources there are. Deploying Spiker Tanks. *Tanks slam down onto the surface of the planet, mowing down Xenos under their spiked treads and firing Magneto Blasts at them, tearing them apart.*

Timozet: The Glaknoids got most of the resources out before the Daemon attack. It's being beamed back to the ships now. *Throws the C4 over his shoulder, eliminating a charging mass of Xenos.* All of you, shift ass. It's time to get off the planet. *vanishes, along with his guards*

Effects: *The Elite Guards appear on the surface in the center of the horde. Using AllTech Pistols, they easily clear most of the horde as TimeStream reduces Drones, Xenos and Facehuggers to dust while their claws scrabble harmlessly off the unit's armor. Timozet then appears on the surface holding a Crystalline C4 charge.*

Timozet: [OOC] What? I said it was bathed in black light. It's the purging beam. The one that kills anything that doesn't belong to the Merc Union. [IC] We took out most of the bastards on the surface. *Gets up pulling out his Alltech Pistol* Alright, I'm going down there. *Engages personal Black Hole Shield unit making him essentially invulnerable* *Snaps his fingers to the five Elite Guards(the ones aforementioned, with only one tiny weak spot* who fall in behind him.* *Heads towards the teleporter.*

Mjollnir: *The Mjollnir starts hovering a few hundred meters above a seething mass of Xenos* Now, Skydiving lesson one: If you hit enough of the bastards when you land you won't get hurt. Let's go! *Vikings armed with LAG's start hopping out of the ship. Shortly after a ring starts to clear in the horde of Xenos.*

Overlord: [OOC] Blacklights just make the Xeno exoskeleton glow green. And you haven't even touched the burrowers, facehuggers or the Xenos already inside.

Mjollnir: [OOC] I'm back. Assuming that everything below is still happening: [IC] *Bursts into the Merc part of the battlefield.* Miss me? No Viking worth his beard would ever miss a good fight! Greenlazer, Mjollnir and her crew are coming with you on this rescue mission dealie. Save the Glaks, shoot the Xenos!

Timozet: Activate Biology Purge failsafe measures, SEVA. *The SquidLoad fires a beam that bathes the mining outposts in a blacklight. Xenos twitch and screech in pain before melting.*

Greenlazer: SWEET! SERCH AND DESTROY!! I GOTCHA GLAKNOID!!!!!! *jumps into ship and starts kicking sereous xenos but!*

Glaknoid Overseer: Timozet, Pilotguy, anybody! Help! These creatures swarmed our defenses and destroyed several reactors. They are trying to break down the doors, but I don't think they'll have much success with it. We need evac as soon as possible before these things--SHIT! They're coming out of the walls! Shoot! Shoot! Retreat! They're everywh--*The radio cuts off with a gurgling sound and a vicious screech.*

Overlord: *The Xenos swarm up the walls of the base only to encounter locked buildings. The miners, unable to activate the generators, have no defense against the Xenos other than 6 inch thick doors.*

Overlord: Organics detected. Mhmm. Minions, time to hunt. *Every Xeno on the planet suddenly twitches and starts heading towards the mining outpost. Xeno population: 4,000,000,000 and rising. Every other animal: Extinct/endangered.*

Greenlazer: Can I run distraction on Demon insted of defence on the planet?? Is there a medic or something that could ubercharge me if I get into trouble?

Glaknoid Miner: Power Plants up and all mining bases are online, setting up defenses now.

Arcanar: Forget about that. We need to focus on getting this damn Daemon away from the planet.

Timozet: I can put you back in your doomed spiral if you'd like.

Greenlazer: Uhhh, Timozet, never send me though a black hole again if you can help it please. It felt like a fishing hook pulled me in and then kept me in as it was pushing me into the space deck. Just give me a minute.

*Effects*: The huge portable mining base slams down on the rocky ground, causing an earthquake for many miles. Once folded legs began to twist downward, pushing the structure a few feet off the ground. Next the main mining bolt lifted up, and slammed into the ground, deploying a "Rabbit digger" type 3 mining device, which in turn created a well for the bolt to pass through into the ground. The bolt slammed into the ground again, and locked itself inside the well, sucking up precious materials. Not long after, the other two bases slammed into the ground, deploying their legs, and raising a tower with a blinking red light on top, marking that it was in standby mode.

Timozet: Pathetic, Greenlazer. *The spiraling ship falls into a Black Hole, coming out of a White Hole in a repair bay inside the SquidLoad.* [OOC] See? I told you all that was needed to get the RP rolling was a good jump start!

Glaknoid Miner: We have three mining units entering the atmosphere now, ETA: 5 minutes, once we get down, we will set up one base, leaving the others on standby, allowing the base to build a power-plant large enough to support the other two bases. This should all take a little while, we will help however we can.

Daemon: Merc: Greenlazer detected. Kill priority: Highest. Deploying EMP spores. *Every time Greenlazer hits a Biometric, electrical spores fly out and attach to his ship.* Activate spores. *There is a flash of light as the EMP activates, crippling a few fighters, and Greenlazers ship starts falling toward the planet without power*

Saguaro: O hai there Greenlazer. Glad you've arrived. We need backup on the surface to stake out a cache and defend it until we set up a base.

Greenlazer: *starts blasting biometrics* HA Dat the best you got?

Daemon: Deploying Biometric craft. [OOC] Biometrics are a simpler term for Organic/Cybernetic hybrid forms in the Collective.

Greenlazer: Fine, since no one is going to ask me to do it... *Flies arourd Demon's ship and does annoying things. Shooting important looking stuff, dropping oil slicks on the view ports, uploading a virus that sends his computers to omegel, etc.*

RED Spy: I'm planetside. Early intel suggests that the planet is infested with these rapidly adapting shapeshifters called Xenos. Overlord may have sone control over them, so watch out. [OOC] Overlord, your power works by controlling organisms, right? Logically it would get harder to control larger groups, right? Just a suggestion for balance.

Arcanar: [OOC] Started already? [IC] Copy that. The Omega doesn't have enough Transite for dimensional weapons, so we need plenty of that. I still have command over space and time though. *As fighters approach the landers multiple rifts appear. Some fighters avoid the boiling Void, but most fall prey to it. The remaining fighters are flicked back to the start of the rift minefield by a rewinding time loop and have to cross it again.*

Saguaro: I'm heading to the surface, Arcanar. You cover me and kill anything that comes near.

Daemon: Timestream detected. Engaging looping shields. (regular cascade shield that loops existing energy to lessen timestream effects)

Effects: *Neither the SquidLoad or the Halo Array are able to do damage to eachother, but the timestream blasts cause the Cascaed Shield to flicker, although they remain quite solid.*

Saguaro: Timozet, keep the feckers occupied while I escort the Glaknoids to the surface. Spy, you're with me. Arcanar, do your thing. Go, go, go!

Timozet: Engage Black Hole Matrix. *A black hole is created over the mining site sucking in some of the fighter swarm. Jemini and Magneto blasts continue firing, and now Timestream Blasts that weaken the Cascade Shield join them.*

Daemon: [OOC] Forgot the * at the start of that post, my bad.

Daemon: The swarm boils around the beam, but only a few dozen fighters are hit, and new fighters fly up all the time as the factories hit overdrive production.*

Saguaro: Shields up! GLaDOS, fire the primary at that fighter swarm. That oughta put a dent in the bastards.

Daemon: Neurotoxins detected. Threat level to Cyborg forces: 10%. Secondary target assigned: Neurotoxin dispenser vents, lander craft.

GLaDOS: With pleasure. Warming up the neurotoxin now.

Saguaro: They landed already?! Crap, we gotta get moving. GLaDOS, the planet is probably hostile, so go ahead and deploy neurotoxin to clear an area. The degradable type of neurotoxin.

Overlord: Daemon, the Camo squads are landing as we speak. We are setting up a base perimeter and infesting the planet with Xenos.

Effects: *The Halo begins barrel rolling with its side facing the Squidload. As each part of the Halo passes by it fires every surface weapon at the Squidload and its fleet before rolling off and recharging. At the same time a horde of Collective fighters swarm towards the Merc fleet with a malevolent unity in their actions. Every missile fired at the Halo disintegrates as it resonates away, and lasers simply hit the boiling swarm of fighters in the way.*

Timozet: *The Shields of the SquidLoad swell with energy as they consume attacking craft and incoming energy projectiles.* How boring. Is that really the best you can do? *Magneto and Jemini blasts are fired indiscriminately at the Halo Array.*

Daemon: Fire everything.

Daemon: Activating Resonance Reflectors. MD Cannons online. Bionetic Regenerators spawned. Alpha Array charged. Resonance shields online. Attack craft ready.

Greenlazer: HELLOW GUYS! You still have me, and I have been itching to do some bombing runs!

Timozet: *Sends a transmission back to Daemon.* Looks like we're gonna have a little fight over this planet, then, fecker. I aint giving it up without a fecking tussle. SEVA, weapons systems ready. *Gun hatches open and the SquidLoad's surface bristles with weaponry, all aimed at Daemon.*

Glaknoid Miner: Roger, just say when.

Saguaro: Negative. Remain within Merc weapon range so Daemon won't get a shot at you.

Glaknoid Miner: *In non-fluent English* Hailing nearby Merc union, are moving to deploy mining bases, then, maybe find out what just happened to EcOasis, copy?

Arcanar: The hell just happened to EcOasis? I'm dispatching a squad to check it out. Timozet, see what that blasted Daemon wants.

Arcanar: [OOC] My ship is called the Omega, actually. No Load in there. My AI is the AlphaNode.

*Effects*: As the Mining squads began warping procedures, the whole of EcOasis glows white, and as the wormhole closes, EcOasis, somehow, seems to go Supernova.

RED Spy: *Uncloaks the Stealth Fleet.* I don't actually need anything from this planet, but it's been a long time since a good old-fashioned asskicking took place. Let's get rid of this Daemon.

Pilotguy97: SEVA, good news for you! Glaknoids are naturally masters at extracting things, how'd you think we built EcOasis in a matter of days? I've dispatched thirty heavy mining squads, they'll be there in a couple of hours. Meanwhile, I have to attend a meeting about future migration patter- What the-*There is a sudden white flash on the screen before VERY heavy static with a slight green hue*

Daemon: Hailing craft <Squidload>. Timozet, the Collective claims this planet for harvesting. Remove your craft from this system.

SEVA: Commander, I have good news and bad news. The bad news is the planet is comprised of a material(aside from resources, of course) that is immune to all forms of extraction but Manual Extraction. We can't just harvest it. We have to go down there to get it ourselves. The GOOD news is that the Daemon can't do that either-same for the Overlord. We can kick his ass any day in a ground war.

Timozet: [OOC] I see what you did thar, SEVA and Daemon. "Ignis Solus." Great movie. It also is latin for "Burn Alone" but that's aside the point. [IC] *The SquidLoad appears in a blinding blast of bright green energy outside Ignus Solus, fully mobilized for battle. Moments later, the Alpha Load(I think that's what Arcanar's Ship is called) appears nearby.* Excellent. Now to-*Moments later, the Collective materializes nearby.* Oh, feck. We've got company.

Saguaro: Of course. Once a Merc, always a Merc. We stick together to defend our land. And Daemon has probably detected this planet as well. TO WHEREVER THIS PLACE IS! *The Saguarostar starts drifting forwards until it reaches warp speed and vanishes.*

GLaDOS: Commander, I have been informed by SEVA that there is a planet rich in resources nearby. I understand that Arcanar and Timozet are already en route. Should we go to provide assistance?

Saguaro: [OOC] Lotta people joining up for this war. I should probably do my part for suggesting this.

AlphaNode: _Confirmed. A resource cache of Transite has been located. The planet's designated name is Ignus Solis. Factoring dimensional jump now._ *The Omega distorts and vanishes.*

Arcanar: *Looks at a screen* We seem to be running low on Transite (The resource used for interdimensional warping). Computer, locate nearest Transite cache and send the Omega there directly.

Daemon: Affirmative. DarkNet Priority One objective marked. Mobilizing Full Collective. Location: Ignus Solis. Activate Transport Array. *The Halo fires hundreds of beams from the circumference into the center and forms an enormous portal through which the Collective begins moving.*

Overlord: Daemon, BioScans are detecting a planet with the most resources ever detected in one place. The planet is so rich that every Collective BioScanner swiveled to it.

SEVA: [OOC] I'll set the ball rolling, shall I? We all seem to be agreed on a land war. [IC] Commander, radar is detecting a planet in the system Ignus Delta. The planet shows high concentrations of resources.

EcoRe Leader: [OOC] *Yawns as he jumps out of the Cryo Tube.* Why did I just wake up from my three-year-long cryo sleep? It's programmed only to release me when the world requires me again. Oh, right. Earth war? Well, find a way to work me into it somehow-IC of course.

Pilotguy97: [OOC] Maybe we should discuss this at the RP Forum topic.

Daemon: [OOC] Good plan. We need a planet. Preferably an Earth-like world with plenty of different terrain and resource caches of varying size and purity.

Timozet: [OOC] Land war sounds good to me. How about a war over a resource-rich planet? What say you, Daemon/Overlord?

Pilotguy97: [OOC] Yeah, whatever happened to him?

Saguaro: [OOC] Damn lags. I hate combo posts like that...

Saguaro: [OOC] *Drops into conference room chair* How about a good old fashioned land war? Mercs Vs Collective anybody? Kind of like the whole anarchist thing a while back. If I remember right, the anarchist dude is still around governing some "EcoRe".

Saguaro: [OOC] *Drops into conference room chair* How about a good old fashioned land war? Mercs Vs Collective anybody? Kind of like the whole anarchist thing a while back. If I remember right, the anarchist dude is still around governing some "EcoRe".

Timozet: [OOC] Shoutbox doesn't need saving. it's just slow because everyone's focusing on ye ole contest right now.

Pilotguy97: [OOC] That doesn't work well, Greenlazer. We, as the Merc Council, must find a new place to Migrate to! TO TEH LAB!

Greenlazer: [In an effort to save the shoutbox] Hey Timozet, did you hear, the worlds smallest sun has ben spoted in the middle of the planet Zuaq! It would make a great powersource! I HOPE DEAMON DOSENT TRY TO GO FOR IT TOO!!! *Cough cough hint hint*

Saguaro: [OOC] I think RP is getting boring. We should do a setting switch. Now, where can we go?

Daemon: [OOC] It's actually Overlord's planet. The buddy metagamed over here. Timozet even said the signal from the warp was gone.

Timozet: [OOC] I don't care if you flew in close. I can still trace it.

Squeeze-o-buddy: [actualy I flew in close first and then hailed you, you cant trace my signal to find my planet]

Pilotguy97: [OOC] Oh, it's just that it's ALWAYS Timozet, everybody's just accustomed to it, your right there.

Daemon: [OOC] I didn't say Timozet, I said squeeze-o-feck. AKA squeeze-o-buddy. It flew in out of nowhere and found a hidden planet. Metagaming.

Pilotguy97: [OOC] You mean yesterday when nothing was happening?

Timozet: [OOC] I mean, why didn't anyone post all week long? It was fecking boring.

Pilotguy97: [OOC] Whaddya mean, "Where was I last week?" And why do you want to know? And Timozet isn't meta-gaming, modern armies have to keep radio silence to avoid detection, simple strategy.

Timozet: [OOC] I didn't metagame. I traced Squeeze's hail signal.

Daemon: [OOC] Metagaming squeeze-o-fecks. Nobody discovered the homeworld.

Timozet: Who needs Negotiation? I prefer to solve problems with violence. [OOC] Where the feck were you for the last week, IRL?

Pilotguy97: [OOC] I left in a life-pod just before the base was re-taken, to preserve the code of warfare. [IC] Timozet, seeing as though Squeeze-o-buddy is part of MY line of anti-stress product, as far as manufacturing goes, I might have a fair chance at negotiation. Plus I got an anti-stress implant so [it] has no reason to get me. And the best part is, he can't deny anything because that would require stress on the mind, which a stress ball, albeit a sentient one, still cannot do.

SEVA: *All guns fire, reducing the Squeeze-O-Buddy to less than nothing. The guns then aim towards the Halo Array.*

Timozet: *Snorts when the shields easily deflect the Mind Bolts.* You feckers are pathetic. I don't have time for you. SEVA, blow them to pieces.

Squeeze-o-buddy: AH HA! Timozet, we demand vengence! You have brought tons of suffering upon our race! NOW YOU WILL ENURE OUR GREATEST PUNISHMENT!!!! A three week retreat in a mountan resort with monks to help you find your inner self. AND TO MAKE SHURE YOU DONT KILL US AGAIN!... *Mind bolts rip off all extended guns*

SEVA: Hailing protocol detected near planet Delta Myrionis VI in system Olrox Majoris V. Initiating warp sequence. Ship to full battle status. *The SquidLoad vanishes into a Supermassive Black Hole and reappears near the Squeeze-O-Buddy ship and the Daemon Collective. Guns extend and the shields are raised.*

Squeeze-o-buddy: *A nearby ship hails Daemon* HO THERE!! We wish to team up! All we demand is timozet alive!

SEVA: Tracing process active. ... ... I can't trace them.. The warp is dead and any traces as well. Looks like for now they've given us the slip.

Timozet: *Slams his fist into the arm of the chair* FECK! WE LOST THEM. TRACE THEM.

Daemon: [OOC] Vacation-ish. I was visiting family up north. RP recap: I stole a drydock from Pilotguy. Was he onboard or not? I'm not sure. [IC] *The Halo arrives near Delta Myrionis* Overlord, prepare facilities for assimilation and organic data integration. Halo en route to Myrionis VI (Overlord homeworld). Arrival imminent.

Saguaro: [OOC] Dead? Nonsense. Just slow, seeing as a large part of the cast is on vacation from the look of it.

Pilotguy97: It seems you did, yet you and I were part of what started it all.

Greenlazer: [It appears as if i single handedly killed off this box]

Pilotguy97: [OOC] Umm, righty ho then.

Greenlazer: OPPS WRONG BOX!!! OMIT EVERYTHING!!!

Greenlazer: I find the face book app indefinatly better than the reddit app.

Timozet: [OOC] And besides, do you have any idea how big a supermassive black hole is? I'll give you a hint; it's bigger than your flagship. Another thing; the conflict of energies created by our ships fighting and the black hole would totally tear the warp in two.

Timozet: [OOC] I'm not steering it. I'm simply describing what happened to it because it was being affected by something I created. Be more specific next time. Also, going back the way you came, while it might work, also spits you out right in the middle of Merc Union space, and you can't warp immediately afterwards, as your engines have to recharge. So which one would you prefer: In a random region with no potential enemies, or right in the middle of your nemesis's fleet? Your call.

Daemon: [OOC] Funny. Your argument is invalid, seeing as if I was inside the event horizon like you say, the Halo would be destroyed. And orbital slingshotting is a valid maneuver. They used it for both Voyager probes, which are currently the fastest moving man-made objects of all time, at ~90,000km/h. My maneuver works. Don't try to steer other Flagships.

Timozet: *The manuever fails as the ship has not yet escaped the hole's massive event horizon. The warp is disrupted and torn apart by the conflicting energies, spitting out the halo Array in an unknown region of space, uninhabited for many lightyears.

Daemon: Warp hindered. Preparing slingshot maneuver. *The Halo stops accelerating and falls towards the black hole. Before it hits it flies slightly to the side and sverves around the black hole, picking up enormous speed.*

Timozet: *Flicks a speck of dust off his chair* I could tell you, but I don't feel like it. [OOC] The Jemini is a black-hole beam. It ate your ship and then was reversed.

Squeeze-o-buddy: WOAH!! hold on there buckaroo! how did you get this "Jemini" to our ship WITHOUT fireing some sort of projectile??

Timozet: Terrifying. Too we don't use lasers or projectile weapons. *Fires the Jemini, boring a hole through the mirror armor with ease and moving it up and down like a hot knife through butter, cutting the ship in half, then reversing it so the ship is left whole, although with all offensive/defensive systems disabled.* How's that? now feck off. You annoy me. *The squidload warps back to Merc Union space.*

Squeeze-o-buddy: We come from the planet squeeze. We demand you apologise for killing an unarmed diplomat from our world. Do not bother fireing. Our Phycic blasts will deflect all projectile weapons, and our mirror armor reflects lasers.

Timozet: Who the feck are you? *The SquidLoad's weapons lock onto the ship*

Squeeze-o-buddy: *A darkened ship aproches Timozet's* Timozet, we demand counsel!

Timozet: Oh no you fecking don't. *The SquidLoad follows the halo array, launching tracking missiles containing black hole charges* That should give them some trouble. Pull out of the warp, SEVA. *The SquidLoad drops out of the warp, leaving the missiles streaking towards the Daemon. They explode before they reach the Cascade Shield or MD's range, creating Supermassive Black Holes using captured gas, hindering the Halo Array's progress.* [OOC: The SquidLoad's shielding deflects Electromagnetic, as does the hull. The hull reflects most types of energy, and the forcefield's systems are hidden deep inside.]

Daemon: Warp drive charged. Firing Alpha Array. *The gas cloud violently explodes outwards from the Halo, burning into plasma as it surges forwards. Sensors of all kinds are drowned out by the sheer electromagnetic energy. When the fires clear, the Halo is gone with the station.*

Pilotguy97: Well, the warp drive onboard had just enough juice for a one way trip home. And look! *Pulls out broken AutoM8*

SEVA: *Jemini, Magneto and Timestream cannos extend, clicking as they load up and lock onto vital parts of the Daemon Collective, and begin to glow a mind-bending holographic blue(Jemini), Green(Magneto) or not at all but instead suck in the space around them(Timestream).* All weapons are go. Fire at will.

Timozet: *Watches as the Daemon appears* As I expected... right on schedule. *Sips red wine* SEVA, weapons systems at the ready. Jemini, Timestream and Magneto cannons, lock and load. No Hole Tech-we can't risk it.

Daemon: Arrival at Refuel Zone in 3, 2, 1. Scanning area.... Warning: SquidLoad detected! Activating Resonance Shield. Activating MD Sphere. *The shields, though invisible, agitate the gas around the Halo to the point that any energy spike would ignite gas in the vicinity of the shields.* Refueling complete in 4 hours. Preparing Alpha Array for attack.

Timozet: Of course. *The Squidload vanishes and reappears in a system that is inside a large gas cloud, making it so that not much can be seen through.* Oh, shit. We're going to have to be careful here. If we use Black Hole tech too much and for too long, one of them could implode from all the gas. [Fun fact: there's a supermassive black hole at the center of every galaxy.. including our own, growing larger every day. Sleep soundly, kids!]

SEVA: They're using some kind of warp we have yet to see; probably involving DarkNet. However, a warp powerful enough to transport the entire ship leaves traces, and it takes about three days to recharge. (Think the Combine's teleport tech.) I've got a lock on their destination, but I can't determine where they actually are. Shall I engage warp to go there?

Timozet: *Wears black cloak with red interior* *As the SquidLoad's guns were already set up, they easily annihilate the small fleet.* Pitiful. SEVA, trace that warp.

Auto-transmission: Transmission sent........Coordinates X38 Y193 Z859.......Sent from custodis class life-pod..........Inhabitants 3 minor 1 Major 1 executive..........Near non-hostile planet >Y</N......... On-board fuel supply 86%........Can reach Planet >Y</N................Emergency resource preservation Y/>N<.................Embed Msg: <Corrupt##############Confirm#######>

RED Spy: Woah! Timozet, are you getting this? The station Pilotguy captured just vanished! I'm slowing the video, maybe we can see if a rift absorbed the station or something. There! Looks like a giant ring swooped in and grabbed the station. And it left behind a present... I'm seeing multiple hostile ships.

Overlord: Preparing assimilation labs. DNA modifiers on standby. Memory extractors warming up. Daemon, our mobile assimilator is ready. As soon as you arrive we can extract the data from the meatbags and convert them to cyborg drones.

Daemon: Station reactivation confirmed. Taking control. *The airlocks on the station seal shut and and all ships nearby are dissolved.* Charging Halo warp. 3...2...1....Launch. *The Halo re-enters the system, snatches the station in a tractor beam web, and warps off again into unknown space, leaving behind an attak fleet to distract the Mercs.* Mission successful. Entering Quadrant Zeta-3DNI (DarkNet Identity) in 1 day. [OOC] Note that the station was stolen in its entirety, including people on board (several hundred Glaks, various Merc staff, possibly Pilotguy if he was onboard.)

Timozet: [OOC] Hey, Daemon, it's a little slow right now. Could you.. I dunno.. attack us again to get it going? [IC] *Sends Daemon a transmission* WHAT IS A COMPUTER? A MISERABLE LITTLE PILE OF CIRCUITS! But enough talk.. HAVE AT YOU! *All weapons systems are readied and a full-scale search for the Daemon is started*

Pilotguy97: [OOC] Don worry! It doesn't ALL work fine!

Daemon: [OOC] Tech thief!

Pilotguy97: *Stares at the barrel for a full 10 minutes* Meh, oh well, it was fun while it lasted. Now, our scientists seem to have found a working autoM8 Production Complex. Once we re-program the base script in the autoM8's we'll be able to hit Daemon with HIS own medicine!

Timozet: *Extends a Jemini cannon aimed at the space station* Care to call me a twat again?

Pilotguy97: Yeah, for once, I get to call YOU the twat! Now i'm going to get some nice earl grey while I oversee the construction.

Saguaro: Idjit. He meant he's converting the station Daemon left behind into a dry-dock. NOT your ship.

Timozet: *Slams down his glass of blood-red wine* WHAT IS A COMPUTER!? A MISERABLE LITTLE PILE OF CIRCUITS! BUT ENOUGH TALK! HAVE AT YOU!

Timozet: Excuse me? Implementing MY ship as your fecking shipyard? I think fecking not.

Pilotguy97: Yeah, well. I'm implementing it as a field shipyard. Rent-able "Dry-docks" are available for anyone in need of a fleet that can't build it themselves, like Greenlazer, since I haven't seen his flagship.

Timozet: Our ship is self sufficient.

Pilotguy97: You can never have enough.

Timozet: I am unconcerned. We have everything WE need. I don't know about you guys.

Daemon: [OOC] Left behind? What?

Pilotguy97: And while you were down there, squidja, my Glak's went to work building. A Universal Merc-Space port, military base and residential base are now operational. We're getting to work now capturing all other assets that Daemon left behind.

Greenlazer: Sorry that took so long. But I set up a Satellite, and an orbital array.

Daemon: [OOC] You might as well try to have a mission on wherever you plan to infiltrate before you waltz in with my plans.

Squidja: *Returns to the ship holding a Data Cube containing information on the Daemon's active strategy plans that has been disconnected from any and all daemon-related networks and scanned by multiple scanners so that the Daemon cannot use it in any way.* Way ahead of you, Pilotguy.

Pilotguy97: Well then, I guess this will be another joint operation, then. No finds in Sag A*, FYI.

Timozet: Go infiltrate that planet. You can use this Timestream Pod to slip past their shields. Go now.

Squidja: *Appears near Timozet's Command Chair* Yes?

Timozet: Feck, whatever. Squidja, my chair, right here, right now.

Pilotguy97: I got 10 conculco Companies rearing to go! And the cable won't melt, it's been treated for this situation.

Arcanar: You had better make sure the cable doesn't melt. Now then, I found a Daemon world, and I suggest we try to infiltrate it rather than destroying it. That way we can gather intel on Daemon activities.

EVA: Launching Recon drone. This drone will scout out the deep insides not visible due to radiation, and is physically attached to a mothership via fiber-optic cable.

Timozet: Their systems are going to be damaged from the Radiation. I want them found soon. SEVA, begin scanning. I want reports on ANY fecking thing you pick up, and I want it fecking now. In the mean time, annihilate any and all Daemon-controlled worlds that are found.

Arcanar: Permission granted. I checked the area the Daemon was supposed to enter, but it certainly isn't there. I think that the Daemon's warp trail went through Sag*A's death zone and kept on going past. The trail must have been lost in the massive radiation interference in the area.

Greenlazer: Permission to preform scouting mishion on the ship! It might just keep my mind off the fact that you killed my theripist.

Timozet: Oh, he hasn't survived my wrath. that was just a taster. The main attraction starts when we find him again.

Pilotguy97: Hmmm.....Maybe it's a ruse. Are you sure that ship isn't just a fake transmission, or a drone?

Saguaro: Good point. Even so, the Sag*A region has the highest star density in the galaxy. The radiation in the region is able to melt through anything. Then you get the monstrous gravity from the black hole itself.

Pilotguy97: Well, he did survive the wrath of Timozet, and as far as we know, Sag A* is in fact a super-massive black hole, plus the fact he's a computer...

Saguaro: [OOC] Alright then. I thought it would help if everybody knew what the hell the other factions could do. I get fairly confused at times. [IC] Huh, Daemon actually did go into the Sag*A Death Zone. Wonder how it's still alive.

Timozet: [OOC] No, ignore him, he's being stupid. There's no tech limit and you don't have to list your techs. [IC] We have a fix on their location. Who's up for a good old-fashioned fleet battle?

Greenlazer: [hold on now, do I have to list my tecs?]

Timozet: [ooc] What the hell? Fuck off, Gmod Meme.

Weaselcake: *Teleports into the universe's skybox* I'm weaselcake.

Daemon: [OOC] Fair enough. Your Jemini is a black hole beam, my MD is a new tech. But in the same way you use black holes for shielding, I can use the MD for offensive and defensive purposes.

Timozet: Oh, and BTW, you can't "dissolve" black holes, and I didn't have a fleet. The SquidLoad = my ship, and the only ship we need. It's also got seperate com and weapon networking that's contained inside the ship itself and can't be affected by that.

Timozet: And if you read my post properly, you'd have seen that I aged the generator FOR the field.

Timozet: [OOC] Whoops, clumsie me. I've been confusing the MD and the cascade shield, my bad. Okay, so the Jemini Beam is sort of a low-functioning Black Hole, except in Beam Form. It doesn't suck anything into it, but whatever it hits, unless properly shielded, is consumed into the beam itself, adding power to it. If it is shielding the beam will stay there forever, trying to consume it, til it runs out of power. The MD disharmonizes it's target, correct?

Timozet: [OOC] Uhh, no. Who made you the boss? 5 is not the limit, not at all. Sorry. and also, Daemon, the MD is a shield, not a weapon. That settles your so-called legal-issues. The Jemini is entirely different from the MD, so yea. As for the shield part-Time, even when harnessed in a semi-physical form, is not technically matter. It is unaffected by the MD shield in the strength you use it on planets. Also, if you complain about it being overpowered, hark who's talking, Mr. I-can-make-anything-anywhere-I-want.

Pilotguy97: 1.) Advanced Kinetic weaponry. 2.) Pulse weaponry. 3.) Rapid construction (colonizing an entire asteroid belt in a matter of days seems rapid.)

Saguaro: [OOC] Census Time! Please list ALL your techs. 5 is the limit, to avoid confusion issues. You may at any time discard one tech permanently to gain a new one. The discarded tech is public domain for other factions. List away! 1- Antimatter manipulation. 2- Direct Attack Ability using flagship. (The big superlaser can directly attack enemies, but only once a day). 3- New tech: Void Manipulation, the ability to control the Void outside the Universal wall. 4- None.

Saguaro: Timmy, I located the Halo! It's en route to... Hold on, that can't be right.... It's heading straight into Sag*A! Nothing can last there, not even the Squidload or Omega! It's either suicide or a distraction...

Daemon: [OOC] You aged a looping energy field using Timestream? And then you disintegrated a planet using a weapon that affects ONLY matter despite the planet being shielded? Not cool. And Jemini seems to be a copy of MD. Both destroy matter, both are irreversible, both are capable of punching through only matter. I suggest you reinvent it to avoid legal issues.

Pilotguy97: There has to be a way inside, otherwise they would never be able to let anything inside, nor let any fired ordinance outside. Maybe there's a set frequency that the shield reads to recognize it as friendly, or maybe it's just bollocks.

Timozet: [AGAIN-READ BELOW.]

SEVA: With pleasure, commander. *The Jemini Beam technology is quickly implemented throughout the Military Layer of the SquidLoad. Cannons extend and begin employing the Timestream to penetrate the nearest Collective Planets and disintegrate their Shield Generators, then employing the Jemini Beam to bore a hole and vortexify the planter center, consuming it from the inside out. This process is repeated til all the Collective Planets-about two-in the system are destroyed.* The Beam works, sir. However, their shielding is capable of stopping it. The good news is that only their ship is capable of supporting shielding strong enough to deflect Timestream Tech. The bad news is that that means we can't hurt their ship-yet.

Timozet: I am impressed by how well you followed the fecking blueprints. Go to your quarters and enjoy your fecking promotion. SEVA, you know what to do.

Timozet: [READ THE BELOW, CONTAINS IMPORTANT PLOT INFO.]

Dr. Wierd: *Stands next to a large door infront of Timozet and the Squidtarian Counsel* Gentlemen..... BEHOLD! *The garage door lifts, revealing a scale model of the Jemini Beam.* [Jemini Beam is a beam that disintegrates any matter that it touches, making it simply cease to exist. Upon command, the beam surges, and whatever it's currently hitting becomes a vortex that consumes everything around it. It can only be stopped by certain types of Shielding and Anti-matter.] *The beam fires, disintigrating several solid Quadraniam-A metal, the strongest metal known to exist, with ease. The beam is then deactivated.*

Timozet: Now then.. Where's the Doctor? DOCTOR! GET YOUR ARSE OUT HERE. Progress on the Jemini Beam I invented! ASAP!

Timozet: They've disharmonized the fleet, initiate Whitehole Shielding Process. *White Holes spew Timestream Blasts out, reversing the effects of Disharminization.* I can track their jumps. Also, they've shielded all their worlds, but even their shields cannot protect against time. *Fires the timestream cannon, easily penetrating the shield on one of the Collective Planets and reverting the planet to a Giant, then to a Dwarf, then to a star, and then finally to nothing at all.* A fecking pity their ship uses a much stronger version we can't penetrate. Oh well.

Greenlazer: Here you go pilotguy. I was using it as a tissue because of my fallen friend: Squeeze *blows nose*

Pilotguy97: Hmm... do we have their jump coordinates? Anyone?

Daemon: Activating planetary shielding. *Every Collective world is simultaneously covered in a Cascade Shield as massive generators on the surfaces activate.* Prepare for warp. *The Halo glows brightly, then vanishes into the cosmos.*

Overlord: Zeon production complete. Preparing gene enhancements.

Overlord: Zerg species biomutated to Zeon species. Abilities include total vacuum immunity (won't explode in empty space), alloy infusion (can consume solids lying around to change chemical armor composition) and Infection (actual Zerg ability to turn enemies into minions). Activating breeding vats.

Daemon: Engage MD. *The MD fires, dissolving black holes and their drones as it travels outwards from the Cascade Shield.* Engage primaries. *A resonance cascade starts up, disharmonizing Timozet's fleet and sending thousands of ships into disarray as communication and weaponry are knocked out and the ships themselves begin to shake apart.*

Daemon: [OOC] So what exactly is shooting at me? The Squidload or a fleet you haven't mentioned?

Timozet: No. They're crippled. Whatever fleet they manage to piece together will be even more easily destroyed than the last, and I've already sent RBHDDs(Remote Black Hole Deploying Drones) to take care of it. *As Timozet speaks, several black holes open in the midst of the fleed, sucking in many ships before they enter the safety of the Cascade shield and further weakening the ship.*

Pilotguy97: Should I send a squad to distract Daemon, Timozet?

Timozet: They're repairing. Amusing, since we've already destroyed about half their ships beyond repair or use even as raw material, and WHY THE FECK AREN'T THE OTHERS SHOOTING? FIRE, YOU FECKERS.

Daemon: *The Collective fleet is surrounded by the Halo and begins nanobot repair operations. A massive Cascade Shield surrounds the entire region.* [OOC] A Cascade Shield is Resonance and MD combined to form an impenetrable shield.

SEVA: That's your problem. *The stasis field flickers and acid pours in, melting the Squeeze-o-buddy.*

Greenlazer: But... what if i get streesed out again? Last time that happened I reapeated what I said THREE TIMES!!

SEVA: Incinerating it, you twat. Don't try any heroics. I've already got it contained at the bottom of an acid pool, and the only thing saving it is a stasis field, which I'm removing as soon as I'm given the order.

Greenlazer: AHH! I feel so much better from my vacation. Got a tan, blew up an armada, and... WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING TO MY SQUEEZE-O-BUDDY?!!

SEVA: The galactic council? Hah. The entire Galactic Council combined would be no match for the Squidtarians alone, forget the entire Merc Union. Also, as I recall, you threatened to trap us in your dream dimension, so.. I have the order ready to degenerate the Stasis Field. When you're ready, Commander.

Squeeze-o-buddy: NO WAIT!!! PLEASE NO!!! THE GALACTIC COUNCIL WILL NOT SMILE UPON THIS!!! I WAS UNARMED!!! I BRUNG PEACE!!! WHHHHHYYYYY?????!!!

SEVA: Excess waste dump complete. TSM Online. Firing primary cannons. *The squidload extends a massive red-glowing cannon and fires several black-hole spawning blasts, causing huge damage to the enemy fleet.*

SEVA: [OOC]It's inside the ship, you twit. The Squidload. With shielding and armor and shite. You can't do that. *Eyeroll* [IC] Initiating incineration process. *Acid begins to pour into the chamber containing the Squeeze-o-buddy.* Initiating Timestream Matrix POA. *The timestream matrix purposefully overcharges and fires a massive blast that cripples the enemy fleet, but also powering down the Timestream Matrix as it dumps excess waste.*

Squeeze-o-buddy: *Preforms deep breathing exercises.*

Daemon: Engaging Halo EMP. *A blast of energy flies from the Halo and cripples the Timestream Matrix Generator.*

SEVA: Engaging Timestream Matrix. *Fires one of the Timestream cannons, disintegrating several hundred enemy ships.*

Timozet: Doip.

Daemon: Antimatter detected! Reversing resonance frequency. *The resonance shield surrounding the station changes shades from green to red* Antimatter resonance frequency found. Scrambling fighters for return fire.

Saguaro: Oh, those. *Fires several hundred positrons toward the Collective fleet.*

Timozet: Oh yea, there's only the fleet that's biting our ass. [OOC] Read further down. Enemy ships moved to hostile positions, yada yada yada, because the Daemon Collective's Halo got too close.

Saguaro: Enemies? There aren't any nearby.

Timozet: No is the answer. I want this thing destroyed. Saguaro, cut the shit and start shooting at the enemy, will you?

Saguaro: I dunno. I just think it would be funny to see the thing floating away into oblivion.

Timozet: Besides, it's a fecking DILDO. What else do you want me to fecking say?

Timozet: Who said anything about fire? I use acid.

Saguaro: Don't incinerate it. Jettison it onto an asteroid. Maybe Daemon will come along and harvest it for parts. Anyways, it would be a far crueler death than just fire.

Timozet: Oh, I wouldn't try that were I you. That stasis field nullifies all effects. Whilst in it, you're essentially a vegetable and can do nothing. SEVA, initiate incineration process.

Squeeze-o-buddy: NO WAIT!! If you do I WILL send you to my dream realm. Or you can spend 15 moments of your life doing something to better yourself!

Timozet: [OOC] It's a rubber dildo, you twat. [IC] SEVA, process the sentient dildo to the incineration chamber.

Pilotguy97: [OOC] People, your arguing with a rubber peanut. That is all.

Daemon: [OOC] Not to mention that you would be either destroyed or assimilated if you came too close to the Halo. Probably destroyed unless you can contribute to the Collective.

Timozet: [OOC] Unless I said I did, I didn't. If I wanted to get rid of you I'd put you in the incineration chamber.

Squeeze-o-buddy: [ I believe i have no way of moving myself and i have ben flung into space by timozet]

SEVA: [OOC] Also, it's daemon, and also, he doesn't have a ship not counting the Halo.

SEVA: [OOC] What? you're fucking trapped in a stasis field.

Squeeze-o-buddy: *Drifts near Demons ship* Hello in there! Save me! Im getting a little stresed out.

SEVA: *Appears on a holo-pad near Timozet* Commander, systems rundown complete. All systems are 100%. Dispatching fighters to engage enemy ships.

SEVA: Enemy fleet maneuvering to hostile position. All ships to battle status. *Fleetwide transmission*

Timozet: Also, Glaknoids may prefer to take planets. We prefer to destroy them, as the Squidload provides everything we could ever need aside from millions of tons of weapons and armor that planets simply can't provide.

Timozet: Pulse weaponry is no match for anything that I have right now.

Pilotguy97: And then theres the almost fodder-worthy amount of Glaknoids ready to overtake any planet deemed important. Btw, i'll give you pulse weaponry timozet, my pulse weaponry isn't the controlled explosion type more so the projectile shaped type, like an AR2 except more potent and coming in larger ship-based forms as well.

Timozet: I really don't know what you're all so worried about with the Daemon. He is no match for the thousands of cannons that are piloted by SEVA's most triggerhappy subroutines that are capable of cracking open planets like so many Campbells Cream Eggs with ease. Oh well.

Timozet: What's that? H2S04 in the pool? Wasn't me. *Off-cam* SEVA, prepare the H2S04 injection drone.

Timozet: [OOC] I didn't say it only worked on lifeforms. It has disastrous effects on most types of materials.

Daemon: [OOC] The MD only dIssolves matter. It can't fire through any kind of shield, and it doesn't work on highly energetic matter, like plasma. Also, your pulse weapon only works on organic lifeforms, so my station and fleet are fine.

Timozet: I don't fecking know. Maybe they went AWOL.

Pilotguy97: Greenlazer... Make sure there's no H2S04 dumped in the pool this time. And Timozet, if you didn't destroy my fleet, and they disappeared off my scanners, where'd they go?

Greenlazer: You know what THATS IT!! Im so sick of arguing all the time! Im taking my vacation time NOW!!! I will RAM my way though a vacation planets defences, AND HANG OUT AT THE POOL!! If anyone wants to come, jump in. I couldnt care less.

Timozet: I destroyed the ENEMY fleet, you fecking twit.

Pilotguy97: GOD DAMMIT TIMOZET! Do you know how many Tax-payer dollars went into that fleet?! And we all pool from the same budget remember! *Drinks De-caf coffee from Starglaks* Well, This'll let me focus on my improved task force, at least. [OOC] Might even put up blueprints for the new agon-class pulse-ship, the thing our scientists have been working toward since our last technology addition.

Greenlazer: Im lost. what are we doing? Scratch that, im on the paycheck so i dont care. What am I doing?

Timozet: [OOC] You're forgetting to add downsides, and if you don't stop forgetting, bad things will happen. I'll give you a taste. [IC] *The purge cannon fires, eliminating ALL the ships forming the battle station and the battle station, destroying everything but the Halo.*

Daemon: New technology created. Implementing immediately. *The Halo glows bright red. The red aura expands out into space, and everything that touches it dissolves as its atomic bonds are destroyed.* [OOC] The Molecular Destabilizer destroys the bonds between atoms, powering itself on the energy harvested. By destroying atomic bonds, materials are dissolved into base elements that can't re-fuse.

Timozet: Oh dear, we have a minor infestation in Beta-Orionis. *Extends purge cannon and begins charging it.* [Purge cannons are a new tech. They have a specific lifeform code set in a manner so that to unauthorized lifeforms, E.G non merc-union lifeforms, it is instantly fatal, similar to the Halo Weapon's attack in the Halo universe. However, it is a controlled beam as opposed to a massive pulse, and can be deflected by certain materials, although doing so will blast a hole in them.]

EVA: Orbital fleet has arrived at the destination and is on standby, general quarters sub-state. Saguaro, life-form extermination is ready on your word.

Daemon: Undefended colony taken. Assimilating lifeorms. Beginning harvesting. Setting up system base. *Hordes of Collective ships fly from the Halo and begin to merge into a battle station several hundred km across.*

Saguaro: TLC? Oh, also, the Collective is mounting an attack on a colony in Beta-Orionis. We should probably see to that.

Pilotguy97: I dunno, tire swings are fun. But, oh well, dilemma solved. I'm headin' to my house for some good 'ole TLC.

Timozet: And what the fecking feck would we need a tire for? *Grabs Squeeze-o-buddy from Greenlazer's pocket and locks it inside a stasis field that cannot be accessed by any non-authorized non-Squidtarians before jettisoning Greenlazer back to his flagship.* HAHA, MAKE ME DO CARDIO THERE, YOU FECKING DILDO.

Pilotguy97: It is rubber, couldn't you just turn it into a tire or something?

Timozet: NO. I flat-out refuse to take breathing exercises with a fecking dildo.

Squeeze-o-buddy: I could still mop this up quickly and it would be out of your hair. All you have to do, timozet, Is attend my deep breathing semanar.

Timozet: Engaging white-hole vortex. *Thousands upon thousands of pinpoints of light scatter the blackness of space around the Anomaly as the void is trafficked into the transfer nodes of the Omega, where it can be transported or destroyed.*

Pilotguy97: Defense Gun primed at 30rpm. Arcanar, you said you've encountered this thing before, what would be the most useful weapon against it?

Arcanar: We sustained some collateral damage from firing the weapon. I suggest everybody checks their systems to see if anything overloaded. Timozet, you should probably activate the white holes now, before the Void expands too much.

Arcanar: Weapon charged. Beginning firing sequence. *Thousands of tiny glowing nodes appear on the hull of the Omega and begin to grow until the entire hull glows. The glow gets brighter and begins to slide forwards, forming into an enormous ball of light. As every sensor for a lightyear overloads and fails the ball shoots forth and collides with the Anomaly. Time and Space bend as the Anomaly shrinks, finally imploding in the area, leaving nothing but a distorted pure black Void.*

Greenlazer: WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH!!!! SQUEEZE IS IN MY BACK POCKET REMEMBER!!!!

Timozet: Listen, you daydreaming son of a dildo. I have about fifty cannons trained on you right now. If you say anything I don't like, kiss your squeezable ass goodbye. I tire of this shite. Fire the fecking cannon, Arcanar.

Timozet: What? No.

Squeeze-o-buddy: You know, I can trap the white holes into my dream dimention if that will get rid of them for you. But i have a condition: Timozet will have to do a deep breathing exersice with me.

Timozet: Done, and.. done. Give me the signal.

Daemon: Massive Anomaly detected. Scanning...

Arcanar: Timozet, after I blast that thing out, you need to stream a few thousand white holes into the resulting void, before it begins to grow. Otherwise, the whole Universe will get overtaken by Void.

Black cat: *meows in a sinister tone*

Timozet: Squeeze-o-buddy, if you try that shit with me or my AI, I'll blast you into free-floating particles. Alright, Arcanar. I'm streaming power data packets. They should give you enough power to fire. When you have a clear shot... *strokes a black cat* take it.

Pilotguy97: So it's pretty much a super-large, piloted...neutron star?

Arcanar: I'll be damned. That object is an anomaly that consumes dimensions. I've seen them before. They weigh nothing, but have a mass nearly equal to a galaxy, and they can be up to a trillion km across. I'm going to warm up the Omega Cannon. If the SquidLoad diverts all energy to the Cannon along with our own generators we might be able to blow the Anomaly into the void between dimensions and keep it there.

*Effects*: Inside EcOasis, Signs scroll down over the asteroid connectors and automated turrets fold down and sweep the area, preventing any further civies to enter the tunnels, but still allowing civies to exit. The place becomes a flurry of red flashing lights as conculco begin to spread across the belt.

Pilotguy97: Get me a remote connection to EcOasis, NOW! *EVA says>>>* Yes sire, patching you through now... *Back to me* EcO! There are suspected hostiles in the area. Spin up the [not so] Minigun and put everyone on general alert! I want minimal civilian Connector traffic. Move!

Squeeze-o-buddy: SEVA... A new creature and chance to learn and discover comes your way, and you instantly want it obliterated. Do you feel stressed and think this is the only way to get rid of it? Do I have to lock YOU in my stress demention?

Greenlazer: I got a new turret on the green striker. Anyone want to try it??

SEVA: *Fleetwide Transmission* EMERGENCY: Incoming object of extreme size and mass. All ships to battle status.

Squeeze-o-buddy: What an intresting creature. Being able to spin though space like that. Do you know my race?

Jim: A problem! No!!! I am no problem. I am just an avid enthusiast of aformentioned balls. You know, basketballs. Footballs. Bouncy balls. Hippity-Hops also count.

Greenlazer: That jim could be a problem, Ill keep an eye on him.

Jim: *Jim enters* Balls. *Jim exits*

Effects: As the dropship lifts off, the planet is destroyed by the blast.

Pilotguy97: Right, boys! Lemme just put this down *Puts down remote camera 4 teh lulz* Right, lets nip off then!

Greenlazer: Fine, *whisperingly*(every time i get to shoot stuff you guys have to go ahead and blow up the whole planet) *moar grumbling*

Squidja: Well, if you've ever wondered what it's like to be on the receiving end of a Timestream Incineration Blast, you're welcome to stay. Otherwise, I suggest you get your ass on the dropship. *Jumps into the troop bay*

Greenlazer: WAIT! We cant go yet! Nobody said "Nothing can possibly go wrong" yet!

Bird 1-2: You know our motto.. "We Deliver!" (lolhalolol)

Agent Smith: I didn't know you made house calls, Bird.

Bird 1-2: I see y'all are ready for evac! *lands the dropship at the Extraction Point* All aboard!

Pilotguy97: Yes Ma'am! (Hopefully my mind didn't cloud my memory into anything wrong there) C'mon guys, this place gives me the hebejeebi-*Distant howl* What was that?

Squidja: *Walks out of the main base* The Zerg don't exist here. Something else did this.. Yes, I mean one thing did this. Do not split up again. Now that we know what the distress beacon is, we can return to the Evac Point. Move it.

BLU Heavy: *Wakes up in a box, with several of his antlions.* Ah, no bonk, no bonk, no- GAHH! Oh, where am I? *In reality, he was just in the cargo bay.*

Greenlazer: Welp, this will be a straightforword mission. We find the Zerg, any survivors, and maby a mistical portal and we drink bonk all the way home. Are we splitting off now or waiting until one of us notices something odd, gose to check it out and gets lost?

Saguaro: Interesting video. Sounds like the base got attacked by Zerg, except those don't exist outside of Starcraft.

Dead Guard: *On the video:* *The radio crackles to life: "Echo Twelve, we have reports of a possible intruder in your vicinity.* We haven't seen anything. "Keep your eyes open." After several moments, a noise is heard, and a distorted thing is seen on the camera. "What the fuck is that?" *Gunshots are heard and growls* "HELP! GAAAaahhhh.." *The radio transmits: "Echo Twelve, whats your status? Echo Twe-" ~End of film.

Effects: *Upon reaching the outpost, several bodies are discovered, but the wounds on them are not from any creature known.* *An agent finds a video clip on one of the dead guard's shoulder cams and inserts it into his helmet's video player.*

Greenlazer: Nah. I brought him back.

RED Spy: And how would you understand the mindset of these things? And aren't you still stuck in a space bubble in Arcanar's ship?

Squeeze-o-buddy: Well we could have tried understanding the creatures hostility. You are on its territory after all.

RED Spy: *The creature is blown to pieces as the Cloaker Squadron appears.* That is why you need guns on this type of mission. Random creatures overpowering your teammates.

Creature: *Leaps upon one of the agents accompanying Greenlazer/Pilotguy and viciously mauls them, tearing out their throat before it's shot.*

Creature: SKREEEEEE! *

Greenlazer: Oh kay. But you know, Squeez is right. If this is just a rescue mission, why are we bringing guns?

Pilotguy97: By the way, your polish expired, use mine. And don't forget to put the bolt back in when you clean them this time.

Squeeze-o-buddy: Is violence really necisary on a mission of salvation?

Greenlazer: Thanks, I can polish my 31 pistols whist we make our way over to the base.

Pilotguy97: Jeez, I was wondering where you went! Here, I packed your stuff.

Greenlazer: *Is asleap in the cargo deck* uhh.... Muppet babies... *awakes* huh? What? OH SHOOT! THE MISSION!! *pulls up pants and follows pilotguy*

Pilotguy97: Roger, bombardment co-ordinates will be on channel 112.56, over.

Saguaro: The Saguarostar is in orbit of Beta Cygni II, if at any time you require assistance we are ready. RED Spy is on his way down with a Cloaker Squadron for backup.

Pilotguy97: Roger, wilco. C'mon Greenlazer, we got the FUN job!

Squidja: Alright, then. I'll scout the area out. Greenlazer, Pilotguy. You two head for the signal and get out your guns. The rest of you, stay and guard the ship. Be back in an hour. *Vanishes*

Bird 1-2: *On communication channel to the troops she delivered* Alright, boys. Once you complete your objective, radio me. I'll come back to pick you up. *The dropship launches into orbit*

Effects: *The dropship touches down on Beta-Cygni Two. The troops are delivered onto the planet, and the dropship departs.*

SEVA: Commander, our soldiers are too many to count, even for me. Personal shielding systems and 3-inch-thick Titanium-A Morphasuits: 100% on all units. Blackhole Consumption Units and Alltech Pistols: 100% on all units. Production line shows green: 8th billion mark just reached for all active craft and mechanized weaponry. Overall: 100%.

Timozet: SEVA. Production report, at my chair, right now.

Pilotguy97: Perfect time to try out this new pulse carbine! Anyone want one, there's plenty to go round!

Daemon: Continue Harvesting Operations on all scheduled systems, then leave surviving planets to the XenoBorgs. Any species found is to be assimilated into the Collective.

Overlord: *The Halo warps from the harvested Balcora and warps to the next target: Delta-Cygni.* Daemon, the Collective Fleet now numbers 10,000,000 active craft and 3 billion XenoBorgs. ( XenoBorgs are cyborg Xenomorphs) Do we continue harvesting and seeding or launch an assault on the Mercs?

Saguaro: I will be warping to the system with RED Spy along with you in the SaguaroStar.

SEVA: Hello, gentlemen. I will be giving you your mission briefing. Beta-Cygni is a relatively uninhabited system. The UMSF Distress Call is coming from Beta-Cygni 2, a primarily desert environment, which is why, as you will notice, the Stasis Field has converted your equipment to be better suited for such environs. We do not know much about Beta-Cygni 2, as scouting missions have become unresponsive. You are the best of the best. I believe you can be trusted not to mess this up. Your paycheck depends on it. Good day, and enjoy your flight. *vanishes off the viewscreen as tasteful elevator music plays from the ship's speakers.*

SEVA: *Pilotguy, Greenlazer, Squidja and anyone else who signed up(AKA wants to come along) all load onto a standard-issue Merc Dropship, which rockets off and warps into the Beta-Cygni system.*

Greenlazer: You know, I could use a theripist. *gose back and picks up squeeze*

Squeeze-o-buddy: So, No one will save me? *snif* This is causing *snif* alot of unwanted stress. *breaks down and cries*

Pilotguy97: ME TOO! As much as I want to rest, I just can't pass an opportunity like this off!

Greenlazer: *Pounces on sighnup sheet* I AM SO IN!!

Squeeze-o-buddy: WAIT COME BACK! you dont understand! I come from a race of beings designed to fight our enemy: stress!!! If we ever find stressed out organic lifeforms, we trap them in a dream world until they learn to chil out.

SEVA: Commander, I am detecting a standard UMSF(United Mercenary Space Front) distress call from a planet in the Beta-Cygni system. Dispatch investigatory team? Anyone who wants to come along should sign up now. It leaves in a day. Good evening. *Vanishes* *The last part is broadcast fleetwide*

Arcanar: Funny little thing. It seems to generate an illusion around its prey before waiting for it to starve to death. *Traps the Buddy in a space-time bubble.* Let's go home. *The Omega blasts out of the nebula while imploding the space behind it.*

Squeeze-o-buddy: How on earth did you guys get out my dream dimension??

Greenlazer: Timozet, Im going on record and saying THIS is the happiest time ive ever heard you say "Feck"

Timozet: *Warps back in outside the Nebula* What's going on, feckers?

Pilotguy97: WOO! Come on Greenlazer!

Arcanar: *Blasts into the Dream Dimension.* This ship can go anywhere, anywhen. Right now it is taking you out of here. Get aboard quickly, I have an armada scheduled to eradicate this nebula.

Pilotguy97: Yeah, what do you know of all this! (OH MY GOD I'M TALKING TO A SEALED CONDOM! WHAT AM I DOING?!)

Greenlazer: NO wait, hold on pilotguy. What are you talking about squeeze?

Pilotguy97: Right. I'll see where that is, and id I find a Balcora before then, i'll tell you.

Squeeze-o-buddy: If you wanted out, all you had to do was ask.