Rarize

As the word was sent through to begin docking procedures, the engineers and specialist began to work in overdrive to prepare the arrival. Elish had informed though they have permission to land if anything happens to blow the ship up. Unlike the King, Elish did not trust these individuals, nor would she let them anywhere until she had vetted them. Weapon turrets were prepared and armed while the final orders were going through. Unlike her promise she had not informed the King of any arrival nor did she intend too. In fact, she had made her way from Ideoris to here as quickly as one could. Holding a tablet while standing firm she spoke through the intercom, "You are clear to land. Be warned any hostility and you shall never leave this place alive. There are about five hundred unique golems in this area controlled by each person in this area. Our turrets are trained on the landing spot. If you had any plans to do anything I suggest you stop them." pausing she went on, "You are to stay in Rarize only until I feel you are trustworthy enough to go elsewhere. Try walking or moving through the desert you will find it hostile and extremely dangerous. This is entirely isolated and there is no other ship port in Mezzadrate. If we are clear on all this. Then we can begin." with her announcement made she turned to one of the engineers.

"Plug this into the generator and use this code. It is a mini version of our shield. Not tested but it means if worse comes to worse if we have to detonate this place the explosion will be contained. That and it also shall act as a means to keep them in." he nodded as she thought to herself. After that demonstration, they are likely nervous and afraid. They are very likely to act extremely. It would be wise for me to consider this despite them being a guest.

Despite not being Military herself she still presented fantastic leadership and tactics. It would help if her brother would hurry up as they needed to both be prepared.

Admiral Wit raised an eyebrow as he was presented everything in front of him, as straight and clear as day. Wonderful. He took in a deep breath, pinging on his comm over text. 'Yancy. Prime the ship, but only activate it on my command.' He got a reply quickly, a simple 'Okay'.

With his hands behind his back, Wit stepped out alone from the docking ramp of his ship. His expression remained unchanging as he held his head high. There he waited, letting them go through their processes and awaiting an ambassador or diplomat of some sort to lead him away from his ship so he could begin diplomacy. It seemed things were going well...perhaps their contingency plan may not be as necessary?

Approaching the ship which had landed, she had two lesser family members with their Golems next to them, there were Reginald and Helga. The golems they had were human sized but as with most of Virunok Golems they appeared extremely formidable, more like Mechs in appearance, though completely controlled by those two. Her own was nearby, but as with her cunning, it was hidden in stealth, scanning frequencies to pick up any intermittent chatter between the person in charge and the ship. Completely hidden from most radar systems, Eluvian waited, watching while she approached the new disembarking leader.

Speaking firmly she gave a polite but definitely militaristic salute, "Elish Virunok, Head of the Virunok Noble Family, welcome to Mezzadrate - Empire of Wonder." placing her hand back at her side she nodded, "Firstly I apologize for what took place, but when you have certain aggressive nations constantly patrolling nearby systems we must be prepared. We hear much of Aschen people and how they usually react. Thus we need weapons to handle them." nodding she went on, "Until we know if you can be trusted you will not see any of the cities as we stated. As a show of good faith, we picked up your pilots bodies with our tracker beams. One of them may well live, the other is dead. If proceedings go well you can have both your men back, although the one still alive is in critical condition and we ask you to let our Doctors do what they need to do." gesturing to port around her she finished, "This is Rarize, the only Oasis within Vwertan Sands."

Taking a breath she turned back to face them, "Now before we go to a cooler more hospital room do you have any questions regarding anything? Or shall we move to better accommodation and perhaps arrange a meal for our guests?"

Wit saw the advantageous position he was in now, a grin on his face as he listened to what the woman had to say. Aggressive nations? Aschen? Last he had heard, the Aschen was still frazzled by the terror attack on Molecay not too long ago. Raising an eyebrow however at the mention of his pilots, he shook his head. "That was wholly unnecessary...they knew what they were getting themselves into."

Whether or not those of Mezzadrate figure out what the encrypted commlink was receiving and sending for messages, Wit pulled the comm out once more and lifted his gaze from the comm to her. "No questions. And I don't think any accommodations for us is necessary. I think I've done my job for the most part." He looked back down to the comm, typing in a quick Okay and sending it to Yancy.

Within the ship, the button was ready to be activated, and once he received the okay signal from Wit, Yancy pressed down on the button. They only had a few seconds now as the ship was priming and ready to self destruct, alarms began blaring upon the cruiser now as the coolant in the engines were cut off and pressure began to rupture the reactors of the ship.

Wit let out a small chuckle as he stared the woman down, knowing full well what would come of this. "You pose a threat to us, The 6th Order...and this 'Mezzadrate' shall be wiped off the galactic map - here, and now."

Smirking, she laughed, "Apparently our example was ignored." she pulled out a tablet device and typed in commands, "As of now you are our prisoner. Mezzadrate won't be destroyed but any hope you had of ever seeing our cities is gone. The shield is activated and you will find your ship blowing up will do little" nodding she turned to her relatives, Reginald, Helga, please arrest this man and anyone part of First Order. We were aware of what could happen and know everyone we served valiantly."

Just as the ship core was overheating ready to explode, something unheard of occurred. For a long time, the mysteries of the Floating Continent had eluded even the smartest group of scientists. So when a voice spoke out to every intercom in the continent, it was horrifying to the citizens and shock to the Government, "This is the Continent and Ship -- Mezzadrate, created by a race long forgotten and sworn to the protection of Zumer. For a long time, you have monitored and viewed, studied even. We saw no reason to intervene, nor provide any of the hidden qualities of Mezzadrate." A powerful massive EMP released from entire continent knocking all but the Proto-Ecology Hardware out. Being the ship that was in Mezzadrate was set to blow up, the EMP would likely send it offline or even fry it circuitry.

Elish blinked, looking rather nonplussed, "Track that signal, I want it stopped!"

tThe voice appeared to laugh, "Elish Virunok --- despite your relative intelligence you have shown your lack of foresight and knowledge. Captain Wit, your attempts to destroy something you little can comprehend are frankly laughable." the voice was coming through ever channel despite the massive EMP having done irreplaceable damage, "Now there is no threat. It is time you know why Mezzadrate was created. It is time you know some of the secrets. Mezzadrate was created by Synthetic Race who names are no longer in our records. The Zumer the race your ostracise and attacked were the caretakers. The purpose of this experiment was to see how a race provided all these opportunities would evolve. You were created by the Zumer. When we learned how bloodthirsty you were, we closed off many of the hidden wonders of this Continent. You have long wondered how the continent is both synthetic and yet natural, yet never questioned if this thing could float is it even solely a continent."

A nuclear core powering a starship. When disconnected from the coolant, it was heating up and pressure was bringing it closer and closer to exploding in a controlled detonation. Everything had been going according to plan until the super-massive EMP struck the ship, said EMP coming from the continent.

Perhaps this was Mezzadrate's first time dealing with the coolant being cut off however everything 'controlled' about this detonation was taken straight from their hands and flipped upside down. This had gone from a controlled detonation to a massive explosion - one that is much worse than what would have originally taken place. Everything had been sped up by that simple EMP disrupting all of the technology, said explosion wasn't of technological origin. In fact, the technology in place on the ship was what was keeping everything from blowing up so fast.

Within an instant, the reactor of the ship failed as all previous restraints keeping the explosion contained were halted, and the nuclear hellfire began to engulf the ship and expand from its origin.

Tick, tick, tick, BOOM

This may have occurred if The Intelligence had not considered certain parameters, although not aware of these changes, the many advanced complex systems operated to respond at such a rate, that even when EMP was known to have failed a second counter-measure was employed this time. Although done so very fast before the Ship could fully detonate, a powerful barrier was completed erected around the ship so quickly and with little comprehension of what was occurring by anyone, before monitoring tensile strength noting it would contain the explosion.

Although it quickly realised that though explosion would be contained radiation would not be. Although the Intelligence was trying to keep the many wonders of Mezzadrate secret, it still had a duty. Mezzadrate must always survive at all costs, even if the experiment failed and certain capabilities of the Continent were revealed. The original creators had used technology far surpassing that of anything citizens of Mezzadrate could comprehend. Such technologies would be unwise to reveal, but the duty to secrecy and that of the oath were in conflict to the Mega A.I.

With the speed that would baffle most, it appeared to quickly create a localised vortex within the shielded ship/bomb. It would quickly engulf the ship and drag it through. The explosion though still as tremendous shook the whole of Mezzadrate hard. Although by all accounts the threat was over.

Now where this vortex would send it, was entirely uncertain. The only likely outcome was somewhere far away from Mezzadrate.

Whatever the case with the explosion being pulled into the vortex, while the shield contained and protected Rarize.

Once all the irradiated matter was sucked through, the vortex would shut off and the shield would deactivate.

This happened so fast, that the people below barely had time to comprehend what was happening. In fact, The Intelligence reacted to changed information so fast, it was impressive on its own.

Although contained, the explosion still rocked the entire Continent, nothing was harmed by the action. In fact, the Intelligence EMP had done far more harm to Mezzadrate. Although Elish was getting alerts all over the continent, she would need to return to Ideoris and deal with this.

Helga and Reginald's Golem were now next to Wit, staring down weapons primed, [b]"The knowledge in Mezzadrate is far more complicated for you to comprehend. I suggest the 6th Order leave now. Or the weapons on this continent, the actual weapons will destroy all. And be warned you try to fight us you will learn that now I am active, this Intelligence will protect this Continent even if those are not worthy of it. Your attempts are stopped."

Once the voice stopped, she stared for a few seconds, before shrugging momentarily nonplussed, "Appears once your business is done, Captain. We have a lot more to learn... I think..." there was no doubt she was just as confused... Though quickly she scowled at what remained of 6th Order, "GET HIM OUT OF MY SIGHT."

Absolutely livid, she went on, "Helga, Reginald, put him the darkest coldest dungeon we have. I never want to see him again." with that she head back to the nearest ship to take her back to Ideoris.

Despite her anger being tangible, she had forgotten her Golem and as she turned away, it leapt down, breaking it stealth, before attempting to grab Captain Wit. If it succeeded it would ask in firm yet robotic tone, "Eluvian suggests for his crimes, he must be executed.", Elish turned back staring at him, "No, Eluvian as much as that man actions are reprehensible. We are not the aggressors and never were. Take him to darkest dungeon."