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| Selvans | Mar 10 2013, 11:00 PM Post #1 |
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The Hippie God
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The Tree of Life: Lady Serket stood on the edge of one of the uppermost branches of the Tree, looking down across the battlefield. What had once been lush jungle surrounding the Tree was now a field of ash and rock, infested with the black forms of Kull Warriors, hiding behind makeshift cover that they had erected. When the attack had come, it came through the gate. Kull Warriors had poured through, somehow penetrating the gate's shields. They had managed to activate the Tree of Life's shields before the Kull Warriors reached it. So far the shields had held--they were meant to be able to withstand a bombardment from a space fleet for days. The battle was dark, but not hopeless. Until she showed up. Despair had taken over in the heart's of the Druid troops, and moral had begun to fail. And now the latest troop number reports showed that, somehow, the Druid numbers were declining. No one was entering or exiting the Tree, and no one was dying of wounds. They simply were vanishing without a trace. "Its that bitch," Serket though. "I don't know how she is alive, and I don't care. I will kill her myself. Slowly and painfully." Whenever Serket looked out over the battlefield her eyes always seemed to find Lilith. The figures were little more than dark specks from this high up, but even now, Serket's eyes were fixed on her. She couldn't explain it--it was like power and fear emanated from Lilith, and no one could ignore it. The orange glow of the Kull Warrior's weapons could be seen easily. Recently, strange black rock formations had begun to appear around the Tree. At first they though that the Kull Warriors were building them, but after watching security videos, they found that the rock formations were literally growing from the ground. And they were made of Naquadah. And now they were detecting some strange ionic build up in the atmosphere. The scans were saying it was gaseous Naquadah, but that was impossible--Naquadah would have exploded before it would have reached a gaseous state. "Lady Serket!" someone called from behind her. She turned and saw a Druid technician running towards her. "Lady Serket, you need to see this." He handed her a data pad, and she glanced it over. "This cannot be right, check it again. We should have weeks left of power..." "Its not a power issue. In fact, we ran the tests multiple times. There is no problem. Anywhere. The shields are failing, and for no reason." Serket growled as she looked down at the battlefield again. She found Lilith's form and screamed down at her. "I'm going to kill you, you bitch! You hear me? I'll kill you for this!" She turned and followed the tech away from the edge of the Tree and into the center of the tree. They entered one of the teleport stations, and the rings descended over them. They materialized in the shield generator room, and Serket quickly began to look over the scan's results. The tech had been right, the shields were failing, and for no apparent reason. "We estimate that we have three days of shields left if no other forces come to put a strain on it." "I can read the damn screen!" Serket snapped at the tech. Recently she had begun to feel differently, unable to regulate her thoughts and emotions as well. She, and many of the other's defending the Tree, had begun to have their minds fray. "I'm sorry," She said to the tech, but it sounded hollow. Three days. She thought, Three days until death. Three days until she would burn in Netu, like all who had done in their lifetimes the things she had done would burn. The face of the NAIAD System appeared in front of her. "There has been an unauthorized access of NAIAD Systems." Came the report. "Shut it down!" Serket exclaimed. "Attempting..." NAIAD responded. "Unable to shut down NAIAD remote access. Emergency access codes verified for off planet use in time of war. User: Selvans. This Code overrides your system access restrictions. Giving off-site user complete system access. "NO!" Serket exclaimed, staring at the screen helplessly. Anubis' forces had been attempting to access NAIAD Systems for days now. They had always been unsuccessful, but somehow they were making progress in ways that should not have been possible. "Error: Off-site user has insufficient interface for complete access. Transferring all possible system controls." NAIAD said. "All major system controls are still rooted in the secure Tree of Life servers." The NAIAD face dissipated, leaving Serket to think. She looked through the systems they had been able to access--video logs, communication reports. Nothing too serious. But then the location of the off-site access caught her attention. It was not from the planet. Rather it was through a subspace communication from a ship in hyperspace. Strange... Serket thought. Her thoughts were interrupted by what felt like an earthquake. "What now?!" She exclaimed, and she went to the teleport, and took it back to the top branches. As soon as the rings went back down into the ground, she looked out, and she could not believe her eyes. All around, the black rock formations had sprung into the sky, forming sinister black spikes, which curved in towards the Tree's shields. The shields were visibly flickering, and there was electricity flickering in the air around the entire Tree. She tried to raise the control room, but her communications were down. Although she hadn't been there, she had heard stories. There was only one place that had Naquadah formations like this. And no one had lived there for centuries. Eden. Serket trembled at the thought of Genesaria falling as Eden had. Serket doubted that the shields would last three more days. She would consider herself lucky if they lasted two. "And so begins the end of the world," She said. A thought sprang into her head from nowhere, and a strange one at that. A verse from one of the religious books of Earth. "From dust you were made, and to dust you will return." |
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| Selvans | Apr 4 2013, 08:48 PM Post #2 |
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The Hippie God
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Orbit of Genesaria: A hyperspace window opened, and a lone Tel'tak dropped out and quickly engaged its cloaking device. On the Pel'tak, Selvans looked down at Genesaria from space. Usually the Tree of Life was clearly visible from up here, dominating the planet's landscape. However, a thick grey cloud surrounded the planet, and its darkest point was around the Tree, where the atmosphere was almost completely black. Selvans took over the controls of the ship from the NAIAD System and took it into the upper atmosphere. "Warning, atmospheric particles are interfering with system functions," the NAIAD System told Selvans. He quickly checked his instruments, and found that the dust was indeed not just affecting sensors, but it was also somehow interfering with energy flow inside of the ship. "Perform a chemical analysis on the particles," he told NAIAD. "Analysis is unnecessary. The dust is a composite of obsidian with extremely high levels of naquadah in it. Naquadah concentrations reach up to 70% pure naquadah. According to my analysis, it should have already detonated, I am unsure as to why it is not unstable." Selvans listened with slight interest, but as long as his ship was flying and the naquadah wasn't currently exploding, his duty was down on the planet surface. He continued his descent into the atmosphere carefully, finding that if he went slowly enough, NAIAD could compensate for the energy flow variations. After his gradual descent, he broke through the black dust, and was flying over a dismal scene. The ground below him was grey and covered in the dust from the burned forests. Kull Warriors swarmed the ground around the tree of Life, and black shards of the obsidian rock material protruded from the ground for as far as the eye could see. As he flew over the battlefield, he suddenly felt a chill run down his spine, and then he saw her. She stood straight and tall upon one of her black obsidian formations, surrounded by Kull Warriors. And she was staring directly at him, locking eyes with him. As soon as he saw her, he felt a rage come over him, and he initiated a landing sequence. He couldn't think of anything other than destroying her as quickly as possible. He began to contemplate the idea of crashing his ship into her, but somehow he knew that she would survive that. His ship was about to disengage its cloak, when one of his consoles beeped at him. He snapped out of the rage that had come over him, and stopped the landing process. He immediately wondered how he could have thought about landing already. It would have been certain death. Lilith's powers of manipulation were far greater than he remembered... He read the message from the Tree. They had detected his ship, and were preparing to receive him in one of the upper docking bays. He navigated his ship towards the docking bay, which quickly lowered the shield to allow him in. He landed, and the shield was put back up. When he exited the ship, he was immediately greeted by Lady Serket and Lady Sia who updated him to their situation. When Selvans had heard of their situation, he began to analyze all the different pieces together. "Dead soldiers, with no bodies," he said to himself... "Where did these soldiers die? I want a map of the Tree, with their last known locations marked on it." Serket nodded, and began to pull up the information. As Selvans looked it over, a pattern began to emerge. All of the disappearances were happening in the sub-levels, and near one of the Tree's major structural supports. "Something down there is taking our men, lets go kill it." Selvans said. Tree of Life: Ground Sub-level #5 Selvans, Serket and Sia approached their third destination. So far none of the places of disappearance had given them any insight into what had happened. The disappearance at this site had happened in a corridor near the central structural support of the Tree, which ran all the way into the top branches. They began to look around for signs of a struggle or anything out of the ordinary, when Serket spotted something. "Over here," Serket called. They approached her, and she pointed to the ground in the corner, "There..." At this level of the tree, much of the ground was grass and dirt, but in the corner, a slick black rock was in the corner. It was obsidian. "It is strange, but how does it explain the disappearance?" Sia asked. As the words came out of her mouth, the black material began to move. The rock began to lose its shape and turn into what appeared to be a liquid. The goa'uld began to back up as this transformation took place. The liquid began to spread into the room, and then it started to rise into the air, spiraling and bubbling as it took on a shape. Selvans gasped, as Lilith stepped out of this wreathing mass. "Surprised to see me?" Lilith asked. Her voice sounded dead and was soft, but it seemed to penetrate the entire room, as if it didn't come from her mouth, but was everywhere at once. "I expected more from you, Selvans. After all, you did kill me." She laughed as she said this, but there was no joy or happiness in her voice. Only mockery and cruelty. "You will not leave this planet alive. I promise you, this time your death will be final." Lilith said nothing, just staring at them. And then she said, "Do you really think that you defeated me in any way on Eden? Your attempts at killing me were pathetic. But I needed to disappear to the galaxy, and so it was convenient to allow you to think that you killed me. I could have snapped you in half at any time." She looked at Serket and Sia and smiled. "Perhaps I should demonstrate for you." While they had been talking, a small strand of the black liquid had slowly crawled towards the Goa'uld Lords, and it had now reached Lady Sia's feet. It quickly wrapped itself around her ankle and pulled. Sia lost her balance, and fell to the ground. Responding quickly, Selvans raised his Kara'kesh, and sent a blast wave towards Lilith. As it approached her though, her body quickly and almost imperceptibly turned from its normal skin tone to a slick solid black obsidian color, which absorbed the blast wave and then it returned to its normal color. "Do you take me for a fool?" She asked, "Do you think I would come here if I thought you could harm me? No, this is just a cat, toying with her prey..." Serket had dropped to the ground to try and help Sia, but what had once been a tendril was now spreading up her leg at an alarming rate, covering her skin in a thick black tar like liquid. Then, it began to pull her. Slowly, Sia's struggling body was pulled in towards the black pool in the corner. "What do you want? From me, from this war, from anything? What do you gain from this? What is Anubis paying you with?" Selvans asked, "Nothing you do makes sense!" "What do I want?" Lilith gave another empty laugh. "Who says I want anything? There is nothing that anyone has that I could not simply take for myself. Anubis thinks I want power and destruction. But he has no idea what I am or what I want." She paused, looking at the struggling form of Sia on the ground. "Have you ever watched a small child playing with insects? The child crushes and kills the insects as he pleases. And if you ask him why he does this, he cannot answer you. I think that is a beautiful thing. Most Goa'uld pretend to be gods. I truly am a God, and you are like insects for me to crush for no reason..." Selvans looked at her, unbelieving. "You're insane!" Selvans exclaimed. "Maybe," Lilith responded, "But I am alive, and soon you will be dead. So maybe its better to be insane..." The black liquid had reached to Sia's upper torso. "Selvans," she gasped, "Help!" Her eyes were full of terror as she was being engulfed. Selvans dropped to the ground, and began to help Serket try and pull her away, but Sia continued to inch closer to the pool. Lilith just stood there, watching them struggle. As Sia's feet reached the black pool, a slight smile showed on Lilith's face. "I must admit, I do like this part..." she said. Sia's feet disappeared into the blackness, and as they did, a blood curdling scream came out of her mouth. As she was screaming, the black liquid began to engulf her face, and then it began to flow into her mouth, muffling the screams. Only Sia's arms were uncovered now, as Selvans and Serket pulled on them. As the liquid approached their own hands, Selvans and Serket stood up, and watched in horror as Sia was completely engulfed, still writhing and trying to escape. She slowly sank into the black pool, and vanished. Selvans looked at Lilith, his face quivering with anger and his body shaking with rage. "You will die for this!" He exclaimed, "I will kill you, slowly and painfully! You will pay for your sins!" Lilith's body slowly began to lose its shape and turn back into the liquid obsidian. "You forget. A God cannot sin," she said, as she sunk into the ground. Selvans and Serket stared in disbelief at where, just a few minutes ago, Sia had been standing. "Summon the Druid Lords for a meeting," Selvans told Serket, "I think it is time that we take the offensive in this war..." |
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| Selvans | Apr 14 2013, 09:39 PM Post #3 |
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Yggdrasil, Council Room: The Druid Lords looked tired and worn, and Selvans could not blame them. None had slept, and the constant noise from the Kull Warriors' bombardment was wearing them down, as well as that feeling of dread that none could describe that came whenever Lilith was near. "My Lords," Selvans began, "Today we decide our own fate. Today, we will find out the strength of our resolve. Today we will fight!" Selvans looked around. Some had stirred, but most had a look of hopelessness in their eyes. "If we continue to hide behind these shields, we will die. If we take to the field and fight, we have a chance to win, a chance to rise from the ashes once again!" A few more stirred, not most of the room seemed to believe in the idea. " We will drive this infestation from our world, and then we will drive them from the galaxy! Anubis should tremble at the thought of the Druid Lords and their armies coming for him!" A small cheer arose from the Lords assembled. It wasn't much, but it was all Selvans needed. Soon, the momentum would be fully in his favor. "Lady Serket, if you would describe our battle plan to the Lords, I will supervise the troops as they assemble." Serket nodded, and a view screen dropped, animating the battle plans... Yggdrasil, Battlefields: The scene had not changed for days. Black insect like forms crawled outside the form of the massive tree, shooting bright orange blasts at the tree's shields. And from the tree, purple bolts of energy responded to the black insects. However, now something had changed. The return fire suddenly stopped, and the shields dropped. The insects stopped firing, and began to organize into platoons. These platoons quickly began to advance on the Tree. Just inside of the Tree's entrance, Selvans stood, wearing his battle armor, standing in front of a group of over 100 Satyrs, their trinium whips energized, and their shoulder mounted cannons ready for firing. On the other side of the entrance, the entire courtyard was full of Sylvan Warriors, their shields at the ready, every group of 5 lead by a Forecaster. Selvans looked out over this Royal Defense Force with pride. No matter the outcome of the battle, they would give Anubis hell, sending countless Kull Warriors to Netu before they succumbed. Selvans looked at the video footage of the advancing Kull Warriors. It was time. He took a deep breath, and gave the signal. Activating his suit, he wondered how many he was sending to their grave today. He turned the corner and looked out the main gate. Waves upon waves of Kull Warriors were spread before him, a glossy black see of armor, advancing towards his home. Not today, Lilith. Today is my day. He thought. Looking behind him, he saw his Satyrs at the ready. He turned back,raising his voice in a cry, and began the charge. Behind him, he heard the cry taken up by his soldiers, and he could feel the ground shake under the power and strength of the Satyr charge. The Kull Warriors continued their march towards him, lowering their weapons, sending a barrage of energy at the advancing force. The Satyr's responded in turn, their massive shoulder cannons sending blasts of energy back at them. As the lines moved, Selvans braced himself for the impact. We must keep our momentum! he thought. The Kull warrior in his path stood firm as he approached. Its first and last mistake. Selvans' trinium armor and powered joint system activated in a massive sweep of the suit's arm. When his arm impacted the Kull Warrior, it did so with enough force to send the Kull Warrior flying over a hundred yards, crushing every bone in its body. They may be immune to energy blasts, but simple physics still work. Selvans ensured to keep moving forward, slamming other warriors aside as he ran. He began to hear the impact of the Satyr's with the line of Kull warriors, their trinium whips lashing out with enough force to send the Kull Warriors flying. From above, the battlefield looked like a Calvary charge of old. A small vanguard of heavy warriors pushing aside their enemies. The Satyrs were clearing out a wedge shape behind them, and now the Sylvan Warriors and Forecasters were filling in the wedge, keeping safe behind their shields. Selvans looked back and saw how far they had come. Not much further, he thought. He pushed his suit a little harder, charging faster. His shields were beginning to drain under the oncoming energy blasts. A few Satyrs had already fallen, their massive forms crushing Kull Warriors as they fell. Selvans reached the set point, and like clockwork the plan began. He heard the explosion far above his head. It sent a massive rumble, and then an ear shattering cracking sound. He looked up, and saw his plan unfold. Three of the Tree of Life's branches had charges set in them, which had just detonated. The massive branches cracked as they broke off, plummeting towards the battlefield below. The charges had been precisely placed, and where the branches would land was known to within 10 cm. He watched as the Kull Warriors in front of him scattered, but it was too late. The branches, over 50 feet in diameter, crashed down around his army, trapping the front platoons of Kull Warriors inside with Selvans' army, and cutting them off from their reinforcements. The point of the Satyr wedge had almost reached the fallen branches, and when they did, they turned to fight the Kull Warriors to their left and right. Now, they had lost their momentum, but the numbers inside of the branches were now even. The Kull Warriors had begun to regroup, and began to fight back. Selvans looked around, as his troops advanced on the groups of Kull Warriors. His army now had, in what had previously been a hopeless battle, turned the tide in their favor. His troops began to kill the Kull Warriors, and began to secure their position, placing ladders to the top of the fallen branches from which they could gain the high ground and begin the next stage of the attack. Selvans turned and picked up a Kull Warrior, crushing it with his hands and tossing it aside. As he watched its body land, he noticed something strange about the branch nearest to him. It was quivering slightly. And now, the quivering was turning to shaking. Soon, the entire branch was quaking with immense force, and then suddenly, it split down the middle, black obsidian rock punching through it like a knife through butter. Looking at the massive hole that had just formed, Selvans saw Lilith floating through the hole, the ground below her turning from its grass and ash mixture to solid black obsidian. And behind her form came the platoons of Kull Warriors. The platoons they had worked so hard to keep away from this battle. "Form ranks again!" Selvans ordered through his comlink, "Form ranks!" But it was too late. His forces had moved to kill the isolated groups of Kull Warriors, and they were too spread out to face this new front. The Kull Warriors charged through the branch's remains, killing as they went. Selvans listened with horror as he heard his commanders futilely try and regain control of the battle, as his soldiers were slaughtered. The the comm went completely dead, and he heard her. "Did you really think this would work?" Lilith asked, "I will rip your empire apart right here, before your eyes. Death has come for you, Selvans." Selvans could see her above the battlefield, his soldiers near her began to simply disintegrate into the black liquid that had taken Sia. And she was heading towards him... |
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| Selvans | May 1 2013, 04:10 AM Post #4 |
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Selvans remained motionless. So, this is how it ends? He thought to himself, Not with a bang, but with a whimper... a sad battle, doomed to fail before it was begun. No one will remember us. No one will read about this in the history books. We will fade away. Lilith landed in front of Selvans. "So," she began, "The mighty Selvans, Eldest of the Druids, is reduced to this. It would be amusing if it were not so pathetic. I was hoping that a mind such as yours would have given me at least a challenge in this battle." Selvans felt himself being lifted into the air. "Now to destroy you," Lilith said, "But first, I want you to watch your empire burn." The solid trinium armor of Selvans Royal Satyr Armor began to peel off of him, as if it were made of nothing more than plastic. The metal began to fall to the ground as Selvans was lifted into the air, spinning and watching the field below him. The hoards of Kull Warriors had begun to isolate the Druid forces into small groups, fighting furiously for their lives. As he turned toward the Tree of Life, Selvans was amazed at what he saw. Non-combatants had begun to pour out of the Tree, in order to give their life for the cause, to fight for a chance at freedom, rather than be hunted down by the Kull Warriors. Selvans had become numb to what he saw, when his Kara'kesh, which was still attached to his arm, lit up. Suddenly, pieces of his memory, which had been clouded by his despair, began to flood back. The plan, there was more. Something was going to happen, but Selvans couldn't put his hand on it. Hope began to flood back, as he activated his Kara'kesh. It was asking for approval. He couldn't remember what it was, Lilith's voice of despair was still too loud in his head, but he knew it was important. He pressed the button. He looked up, and he saw a glimmer of light darting just in sight among the gray cloud that was over head, and he remembered. "Lilith!" He called, "You will not break me!" She looked up at him, "Oh really?" She asked. "Three," was Selvans response. "What?" "Two." "Do you really hope you can still win?" "One." And with that, Selvans disappeared from view. Orbit of Genesaria: A Hyperspace window opened, and the mighty twin forms of the Naga and the Luna dropped out of hyperspace. On the Pel'tak of the Luna, sat Lord Veles, commanding the ship in the absence of Lady Selene, its regular Goa'uld leader. His view screen came alive with the face of Lord Pontus, who was commanding on the Naga. "Are you ready, Lord Veles? We have received confirmation from the surface." Pontus asked. "I am. Give the word." Pontus nodded, and the screen went blank. Veles turned to the Forecaster next to him. "Send the signal. We are liberating Genesaria." From the docking bays of the Naga and the Luna was launched a massive fleet of Al'kesh and Tel'taks, piloted by the legendary pilots of the Feng Flotilla. Veles beamed aboard the lead Al'kesh, and led the landing party onto the surface of the planet. Veles entered the thick naquaqah cloud that surrounded the planet, and then broke through. Beneath him he could seethe Druid forces being rounded up as the last of the Royal guard forces began to form small pockets of resistance. Veles opened up a channel to his fleet. "Let us send these dogs of Anubis back to whatever foul pit of Netu they crawled out of!" Now that he was inside of the cloud, he could use the signal booster to isolate Selvans signal. Once he had the lock, he beamed Selvans onto the Al'kesh. "Lord Selvans, it is good to see you," Veles began to say. However, he was cut short, as Selvans stumbled, and fell into Veles' arms. "Veles, I cannot begin to say what the last days have been like. Seeing you is nothing short of a miracle." Selvans fell the rest of the way to the floor, his mind still flooded with Lilith's voice screaming at him. "I will burn it all!" She was screaming at him. Over and over again, so loud it pierced all of his senses. "No, no, no..." Selvans whimpered. "No..." A Forecaster came and began to care for Selvans physical wounds, and Veles turned back to the battle. "Land there," He said, pointing to the opening in the tree limb, "We will trap them inside their own trap." Selvans was trying to focus on what was happening, using every ounce of effort that he had to stay awake. But he couldn't take it any longer, and darkness came over his vision. Selvans vision came back, but this was not reality. He immediately knew the place. The ground was a soft moss, and nearby a riverbed bubbled softly as it wound through a forest of cherry trees in blossom. In the distance on the horizon was a range of snow peaked mountains, and in its foothills was a city of marble. Eden. Undeniably the most beautiful of the Druid paradise worlds, completely untouched by the Titanomachy, the crown jewel, and most guarded secret of the Druids. It supplied troops and food for much of the druid army in the war, but more than that, it was a symbol for the Druid troops, a beacon of hope. Selvans looked around in disbelief. He knew this was a dream, but it was so realistic, better than anything he could imagine. He walked forward, and he quickly found himself at the city gate, its tall marble towers high above him, and the gates flung open. He walked in, but the city was empty. Only a warm breeze stirred as he walked through the city. At first it was calming and peaceful, but soon it turned eery, and Selvans knew something was coming. Then, he heard a soft voice on the wind. "Save us!" It called, "Bring us back!" He wanted to respond, but he found that he couldn't form words. And then another voice came to him, but this was not a soft voice. It was cold, and evil. "Remember this place? Remember what I did here?" The scene began to change. The buildings began to crumble before Selvans' eyes, the cherry forests lost their blooms, and began to rot where they stood. The ground that Selvans stood on began to turn black, and soon black obelisks began to protrude from the ground. "You cannot escape this fate," Lilith's voice said, "If this is what became of Eden, then what hope does Genesaria stand?" Selvans looked around. The planet had turned into a desolate wasteland of black rock. And then the first voice began to come back. "Save us!" It called, "Bring us back! Release us from her grip!" "My Lord Selvans?" Selvans opened his eyes slightly, and was blinded by the light the immediately assaulted his senses. "My Lord," Came Veles' voice, "The Tree of Life has been secured." "And Lilith?" Selvans asked, "Where is she?" "No sign of her, my Lord. She disappeared before we even landed our troops. The Naquadah cloud surrounding the planet has already begun to recede though, and already the plants are beginning to grow back." "She will be back. And soon. We must prepare." Selvans replied. |
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| Selvans | May 19 2013, 03:18 AM Post #5 |
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The Druid Council was convening in the aftermath of their victory over Lilith. But it did not feel like a victory--too many were dead, and too many were wounded. Lady Tian had arrived from the Feng Flotilla, and Lord Pontus had come with many of the scientists he had hidden on Nautilus. The Druid ground forces had been almost utterly destroyed, only the most basic ship guards were still alive. However their pilots and commanders had survived at the Feng Flotilla. "The majority of the fleet is still in tact," Lady Tian was saying, "Although they are not fully manned, they are all still flyable. But we will not have many men to spare for boarding enemy ships." Lady Selene stood to give the civilian report. "Ophios remained almost untouched by the war. The outer lying estates on Genesaria are abandoned, but most of their owners escaped to other planets or hid, and are slowly returning. Our mining planets also suffered many deaths, but the facilities themselves are intact. We have diverted all of the Ophios Slave Soldiers to work the mines." Selene was about to continue, when Lord Veles walked into the room. "My Lords, we have just received word of a major Titan offensive." Veles handed a report to Selvans, "As you can see, a Titan force has entered Lord Khnum's territory, and it appears that they have already destroyed a planet." Selvans looked the report over. "Hmmmm. We have always been uneasy allies with both Atlas and Khnum. And with this new vacuum of power, these first few battles will be the most important. Atlas has always prevailed before..." "Shall I ready the fleet to aid Atlas then?" Tian asked. "Ready the fleet, yes. But not to support Atlas. Should the Titan rise to power again, the galaxy will be the same as before--Atlas as the supreme power, with the other Goa'uld fighting for second place. I believe it is time for the Druids to sit at the pinnacle of the Goa'uld, and for that, Atlas must be defeated swiftly. Order the fleet to the Empire of Khnum, Lady Selene, Lord Pontus, Lord Veles and Lady Tian. I would like you to help me lead the attack. We leave within the hour." |
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