Leia Nash's Story

Vengelixo took a quick glance at the Aschen chart within his realm before relaying it to the Piton VII. It provided a lot of information within the map. Although very unhappy with the Aschen decision, there wasn't much he could do at this moment, but he would be back. With no words spoken, Vengelixo and Spark communicated through their private connection.

Spark spoke calmly to Vengelixo, "I know you want to eliminate this virus, but if they want to deal with it, they can. You and I know what this virus is capable of, maybe they should to."

Vengelixo responded, "It's fine with me. When they find themselves overwhelmed, we will return. Mark the location on the map and give them our Signal so that they can contact us when they need to. We'll fall back and move to the next mass of the space station."

Spark spoke up to the Aschen ship, "We will leave. We did not know we were in private zone. We're going to leave a communication line open with your ship so if the virus is present and you have any questions, you can't contact us."

The Piton VII opened a line with the Aschen to keep them connected for future reference. Following that, the space around the Piton VII began to fold in. As quick as they came, they left. Where they jumped, nobody would know.

Vengelixo took a quick glance at the Aschen chart within his realm before relaying it to the Piton VII. It provided a lot of information within the map. Although very unhappy with the Aschen decision, there wasn't much he could do at this moment, but he would be back. With no words spoken, Vengelixo and Spark communicated through their private connection.

Spark spoke calmly to Vengelixo, "I know you want to eliminate this virus, but if they want to deal with it, they can. You and I know what this virus is capable of, maybe they should to."

Vengelixo responded, "It's fine with me. When they find themselves overwhelmed, we will return. Mark the location on the map and give them our Signal so that they can contact us when they need to. We'll fall back and move to the next mass of the space station."

Spark spoke up to the Aschen ship, "We will leave. We did not know we were in private zone. We're going to leave a communication line open with your ship so if the virus is present and you have any questions, you can't contact us."

The Piton VII opened a line with the Aschen to keep them connected for future reference. Following that, the space around the Piton VII began to fold in. As quick as they came, they left. Where they jumped, nobody would know.

If only the party could get more interesting.

Roughly 20,000km above the derelict space station nestled within what could be described as a stellar graveyard. Space itself bent and warped into a brilliant flickering sphere of white that shot forward, and then faded to reveal a 30km long Planetary assault carrier. It was the bulbous hull outline of an Imperial Aschen Reverence II Class Assault Carrier.

Settling into position, debris from the various ships within the Jarrako downs lightly tapped against the hull of the ship, displaced by the spatial distortion as the massive Aschen ship maneuvered into position.

"FTL Jump complete, confirmed sector K-45, Quadrantem Alpha, Onyx. I've traced the Zero-One signals to an installation located here, three nine seven carom two one niner." Lieutenant Sandusky reported as he turned towards Admiral Nash.

"I've confirmed replies from the rest of the fleet, they'll be stationed outside this region of space." He added, handing her the data slate.

"Very good. We have confirmed Zero-One activity in this sector?" Nash inquired, with a nod to the affirmative from her XO.

"Very good, Isolate the station and set condition one. I want marine strike teams ready to board as soon as we get that thing inside the main bay." She said, turning to face the large holographic readout of the station, with DRADIS pulses highlighting the wrecked starships in the area.

Two audible beeps signaled that the DRADIS had picked up something else, the Soulburst.

"Unidentified DRADIS Contact bearing two one nine carom one one six!" The Tactical officer called out, while alarms began to blare throughout the ship's CIC.

Nash narrowed her eyes, as the Helm officers maneuvered the massive carrier ever slightly.

"They're moving in on the station." The Helm officer replied.

"Gods damnit." Nash cursed. "Main batteries alpha through omega, acquire the target and hold your fire."

The massive Aschen ship slowly moved into position directly above the Soulburst, roughly a dozen or so massive Dual-barreled turbo-disruptor emplacements on the ventral side of the ship swiveled to life, adjusting their targeting onto the vessel below. Each discharge from these batteries exuded fourteen megatons on it's target once it fired. However these batteries did not fire, even as they powered up, and the Reverence II's shields flared to life.

From bow to stern, an envelope of light engulfed the massive bulbous vessel, it's computers ran their targeting parameters.

Soldiers moved to their defensive positions as the CIC Crew began to plan their next avenue of attack.

"We need to seize that Zero-One signal at all costs, get me a marine strike force on a Raptor in five minutes." Nash ordered.

Things were just fantastic for Russian, while Daisy the captain began to angrily talk in his ear about things that were rather simple compared to all the shit he seen. Stealing a prison core, raiding a prison planet unseen, Childs play for anyone with experience. Now try fighting your way through a demon infested planet and blood crazed cultists wearing power armour and wielding guns capable of destroying tanks or swords capable of tearing apart mech all with what you could find by yourself.

Now here he was getting grabbed by Rei who thought he purposely set off the explosives. It was understandable that he was irritated with all that was going on, but now he was getting pissed off. Rei who was shaking him and yelling at him made the shards of metal sticking out of him make his wounds even worse. "Are you serious you fucking moron! Like I would purposely set of explosives without warning you stupid lot! The fucking door was rigged and quite frankly the baby captain distracted me. Right now you are being a jackass by shaking me when I am injured here you bitch! And you dear "captain", you try fighting the shit I seen, I like to see you crash land on a demon infested planet with nothing but a simple pistol and survive for a few weeks without getting killed by said demons, blood crazed cultists wandering the planet holding guns capable of destroying tanks and swords capable of tearing apart mechs. I promise you would be dead in seconds!" He yelled at Daisy and Rei until all of a sudden he was let go when another group of people warped in waving white. What was even worse was when his arm device began to alert him when it detected more ships entering the area around the station. "One thing after another...this is why I work with people with brains...money be dammned at this point, at this rate I am more likely to kill my "team" then work together." Russian muttered as his wounds got worse thanks to Rei shaking him and dropping him to the floor.

What surprisingly caught his attention throughout all the madness was the sounds of morse code. A grunt could easily recognise the sound to be an SOS. He would have answered morse with morse but he was injured, bleeding and pissed off at the moment.

Sara paused after the first set of knocks, and heard muffled voices on the other side…
Angry, arguing, then a faint buzz… Something was going on over there…

‘ Mavrick, what are the odds of a ship being able to detect us…?’

‘ Fairly slim… Well for me anyways, you’d show up, if only faintly for organic life since you’re no longer cloaked.

‘ That’s what I thought… I think we need to---’
She cut off as something roared through out the empty halls, Sara’s camouflage snapped back on and she returned to being all but undetectable, The ships might notice that a once barely visible life form had simply vanished, might have died perhaps?

‘ Lets fall back and wait this out, stay soft… until we can place the demo charges, and get the hell off this scrap heap. ‘

Mavrick said , covering the door still. Waiting for the door to open still, not that they had made and effort on it.

Sara quietly agreed, and quickly moved about 25 paces back the direction they had come. Once she was in position to watch the door Mavrick followed her keeping his weapon trained on the door til he cleared the intersection, then moved quickly and quietly down the opposing wall Sara had taken. This gave them eyes on the only two directions and attack could come from.


Should anyone come through those doors, they likely wouldn’t notice the two cloaked cyborgs unless they walked into them, and even then they’d have to go out of their way to do such with both of them hugging the walls closely.
Should something unexpected move up on them they'd hold fire until they were sure they were being attacked.

Seth made his way back to the others, only to find far more than he had left.

"Ok, what the hell is going on?" he asked Rei was clearly ticked, Daisy was holding her gun, Russian was holding wounds, which explained the explosion Seth had heard. "I leave for two minutes and everything just gets shot to shit. And who the hell are these people?" he directed his question toward the new comers. "And where's the door you came through? Because the one I came through just locked, and I'm about ready to get the hell off this hunk of shit and cut my losses."

He edged his way over to the cryo-statis pod that he had claimed before everything seemed to go down hill, placing a hand on it. His fingers drummed absent mindedly on the box as he waited for someone to explain something, anything, that would make some of this make sense. The expression on his face wasn't a hopeful one.

Sin let loose a long sigh of annoys,"you need to leave here now before it's to late." ignoring the young women holding the gun at him he looks to his team behind him giving them orders through their mind-link. After few mins his team disappear into the shadows leaving only him and his two body-guards still in the room.

"Prince Sin we have company, an assault carrier just FTL in are sector and have position above us with weapons targeting us and their shields are up."

Without wasting more time than they have Sin order Soulburst to take action through the mind-link. Soulburst is a self-govern ship that runs mostly on AI control. At that moment Soulburst went into action an let loose a large EMP-pulse wave directed at the unknown warship overhead. Soulburst wont be effected by the EMP because it power source is't electric by nature or any equipment the Asphodelian have on hand. After firing the EMP Soulburst proforms a SSJ {Small Space Jump} appearing just behind the massive warship just a few leagues away just to prove a point. Powering up it's Displacement Shields and main-weapons as it waits for warship to make it's next move. Soulburst main weapons are the four large Dark-matter orbs located in front of the ship that able to fire cadence dark energy with the speed of light at any mutable targets.

Sensing the two scouts from the hive hiding overhead Sin walks in the middle of the room to gain their first attack, and just then they drop down to attack hoping to catch Sin by surprise. landing on the left and right of Sin holding short swords they try to slash at Sin neck but they were to slow even so there movement look like a flash of lightning. With binding speed Sin draw his own long sword purrying both of there attacks and slicing one of their head off in one motion, not giving the other one the time to run to report back to the hive Sin extended his left hand and blasted its head with a blue-flame based attack spraying blood all over the place. Putting his sword away he looks at the group of humans and with annoyed voice.

"Gess we have to work together get out of here alive, so can we not kill each other"

The crew of the Reverence II Absolution continued to work tirelessly as the opposing alien vessel made the first move.

The electro-magnetic pulse, like any other energy weapon washed over the shields of the Aschen vessel, from the ventral to the dorsal side, the pulse washed over the barrier and caused it to glimmer a brilliant white for the faintest of moments.

Aschen technology was naturally hardened against EMPs thanks to it's crystal based computer structure, hardened gel-circuitry and quantum positronic hybrid systems.

The EMP was detected, however, even as the alien ship made it's tactical jump behind the Reverence, Admiral Nash was tracking it's every move, a brilliant flashing red icon on a holographic display in front of her.

The sheer size of the Reverence II would make it difficult to maneuver and come about to bear in the tight stellar junkyard, so Nash considered her next options carefully.

"Tactical; aft batteries come about, direct hard-light shields to the aft section, engage and destroy the target." Admiral Nash ordered

Several dozen massive single barrel turbodisruptor batteries swiveled up and about from their recessed positions on the armored hull of the warship. Turning they garnered a firing solution on the Soulburst. AI Assist through the ship's central AI and targeting control came to life as information was beamed all about the ship.

"We have firing solution, rear quadrant." One of the tactical officers reported. "Enemy vessel is powering shields, and weapons."

Nash nodded slightly, all two-hundred and fifty Turbodisruptor batteries were reporting firing solutions. A few salvos would likely be sufficient to collapse the shields of the unknown vessel, a few more would assure it's destruction.

"Main and auxiliary show clear! Batteries locked and zeroed in!" A gun captain reported on the shipwide intercom.

"Planck Packs online and charging, we'll be able to inhibit their jump capabilities shortly!" Another tactical lieutenant reported.

"Very good, engage and destroy; execute." Nash ordered.

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The Reverence II Slowly came to life, like an angry beast it powered gargantuan weapon systems, it's tactical and combat systems zeroed in on the Soulburst, and finally there was a surge of energy. Capacitors discharged into primary ignition systems, and the ship opened fire.

Turbodisruptors discharged towards the soulburst, each brilliant bolt of green light carrying 14.3 megatons of explosive force, the equivalent of a large thermonuclear warhead.

These weapons discharged in a single salvo, and then began to discharge in a staggered pattern that would wear shields down quickly. The point had been made, the Soulburst was tangling with a ship beyond it's class, and surrender would be the only alternative to destruction.

Glaring she walked over to Russian purposely and raised her hand before slapping him across the face, "I'm clumsy, what the fuck is your excuse retard? There is a reason you don't use explosives on old space stations, most of them were built to sense such disturbances." growling she marched over to monitor just ignoring the others as she franctically typed various details, but as she suspected the explosion had activated inner code, "FUCK! FUCK! Russian if I ever get off here you are being spaced!" muttering she indicated to Rei, "The whole station waking up, everything... but this is bad the core was never meant to last this long... yet something seems to be taking advantage of this surge..." putting her head in her hands she frantically tried to derail anything, but even if the protocol could have been reversed, something seemed determined to keep it going, feeding off the energy...

Letting out an aggressive sigh she tapped the console working on locating the threat. Just as she was doing the whole station shook with the chaos out in space, the escalation evident. Despite her expression growing colder she slammed her hands as the console refused to respond, "I AM LOCKED OUT, SOMETHING LOCKED ME OUT..." just then the consoles all around grew red almost like blood, but even in her worried state Daisy recognized something, "THERE'S AN A.I ON BOARD..." of course she had no idea who it was, she furiously tried to break through, but all she could do was open the door being banged on. Now she was locked out. Daisy was no hacker so in utter frustration she turned to Russian, "If you break through then you won't be spaced... But that A.I it's locked me out and preventing me doing anything else, except minor things..."

Pausing she added, "The core can't take all this power use it's old and was never meant to last this long..." exhaling she turned to the new arrival, "Hey you whatever you are, make yourself useful the whole station waking up which means all security systems will switch on... we need to deactivate the core... I have an idea how to do it, but I won't go on my own..."

"Not if I get there first.." Rei muttered in agreement with Daisy. Russian was really rubbing her the wrong way, and before she could start to make sense of everything again the station shook and lurched sickeningly throwing Rei hard against a console. "What the hell? Of course there's an A.I. on board." She groaned in irritation mildly distracted.Rubbing her now sore ribs and back through her jacket, she turned around to inspect the console near her. This was getting worse by the minute and someone's curiosity was about to kill several people. Sighing, she could see that she was no longer along just for the ride and fun. Rei forced herself to focus, she shoved Daisy out and away from the other console before swearing again under her breath. "Fuck it all to hell... We have company and they sure as hell aren't friendly! It's the Aschen!" She said worriedly.

Rei had a feeling that what they were there for, wasn't the rock but the computer system. "Okay here's the deal kiddo, you're going to take tall dark and creepy over here down the core. While I try to buy us some time.. the system's infected." It was hard to explain how she knew what and why the system was infected, but she had a sure hunch that that was what the Aschen had come looking for.

Looking back over her shoulder at the door, she could have sworn during the all the commotion she'd heard someone or something pound on it.

A series of blasts would strike against the shields of Absolution with no small degree of force, as a black vessel shaped in the general silhouette of a falcon swung into her visual range. The vessel had no distinguishing marks, carried no brand, and was not like any vessel on record. It was the size of a small frigate at only 40 meters in length, but it's unique silhouette and design clearly indicated that it was meant for maneuverability and speed. More curious, the crew of the Absolution would notice that it did not show up on any scanners or sensors. As far as technology was concerned, the vessel did not exist. It's dark coloration and lack of distinguishable features or identifiers clearly meant it was a stealth based vessel.

Whoever the vessel belonged to, they were clearly not friendly, as they strafed the Absolution with weapons fire again. The weapons fire, interestingly enough on it's own, had no known comparason in any database. The blasts were not nearly strong enough to penetrate standard starship shielding. What the Absolution's crew would quickly come to realize however was that the blasts were little more than a side effect. A sort of metalic gel was spreading rapidly on the outside of the Absolution's shielding, and had already covered half of it, essentially trapping the larger vessel in a cocoon of some form. At the same time, four pods ejected from the stealth ship, hurtling straight for the station. These pods bypassed the station shielding somehow before impacting the stations hull.

Inside the station, in the very room Rei and Daisy occupied, a set of four red circles appeared on the ceiling as the pods burned through the hull into the room. Once they had cut through, those four circles dropped to the floor, and through the newly created breaches individuals in a strange dark leather attire dropped through, sealing the breaches behind them. Hoods pulled over their heads, faces wrapped with scarves, their outfits giving the impression of hunters, with dark leather tunics wrapped tight, coattails loose and fluttering from their waists, belts with pouches and sheathes holding knives, swords, and even an axe. Every one of them had a quiver full of arrows on their back, though oddly enough no bow could be seen on their person. Two of them were obviously female, and one stepped forward and pointed at the console, commanding clearly in a strong voice. "Mnyala you take the console, Farii you and Shander take defensive positions, and all of you." The leather clad soldier gestured at the original occupants of the room. "My name is Di'Noa, do not be afraid, we are here to help"

One of the others, Shander, responded to his commander. "Sir, how long until the ship returns." His voice was light and youthful, no more than a couple decades for sure. Di'Noa nodded and said "Ex-fil is scheduled for five minutes, no more."

The station shook violently, but the two cyborgs were hardly phased physically by the violence going on around them. Mavrick took point once the shaking stopped and was quickly followed by Sara.



The two cloaked cyborgs moved from hallway to hallway while covering each corner until they had gotten halfway to the large barricaded area they had passed through before. Sara’s HUD flashed red on the upper right corner. Indicating there was iminate critical systems failure and a to the Ai controlling the system’s regulations and security systems.


Who ever was in the control room now might notice that some of the motion sensors were being tripped , but if they watched the live video feed they likely wouldn’t notice the two moving down the halls due to the advanced cloaking technology. Depending on if their was audio or not, they might have been able to hear footsteps.



“What in the gods name?” Sara asked as she took up a defensive position behind a hastily made barricade.

She began digging through the layers of warnings and code gathering what information she could about the core and the on board AI that was causing issues… , then something happened she didn’t expect.
For a single moment fear like she had not experienced in many years ran through her mind. Something had attempted to Trojan her system. Thankfully the method of compartmentalization Sara used for digging through other computer systems had kept the Trojan out, out of her mind. Deciding not to fuck with it anymore Sara even disconnected the servers.

“ Mavrick, there is something fucky going on around here. We need to gather the last bit of personal information for the Renev. That old ass core is gonna burn itself out at the rate everything is going.”

“ Can’t you just shut it down?”

“ Not now, The onboard AI did something weird and tried to hack ‘me’.”

“ Hack you? Never heard of an AI doing that… What do we do?”

Sara’s mind raced for an answer, but there wasn’t a solid one to be found…

“ I think a hard restart would work but we gotta get to that core, we can collapse it with the charges to wipe whatever the Renev didn’t want anyone getting a hold off out of existence and we can leave. ‘

“ Good, i’m tired of this place…. Wait, didn’t you say something about teleporting to the planet's surface? “
Sara’s mind reached back…
“ yeah there are short range teleportation rings onboard.”
“ Let’s keep that in mind just incase we can’t get to the ships… “ Maverick said, tagging the location of their ship on his and her HUD. It was at the bottom of the current area they were at about 3 miles away.

“ Alright… let’s start heading to the main core and AI control center”
And with that , they were off.

As the station shook something in the back of Seth's mind said it was just as good a time as any to throw that handy helmet on. As he did so Daisy proclaimed that an on board AI had locked her out of the system, then that the core needed to be shut down and she wasn't doing it alone. Rei declared that the Aschen had arrived, and started to take command of the situation to Seth's relief, she seemed like the level headed one so far. He made a note to inquire of the crew before he randomly accepted money to join scavenging mission next time.

He was only slightly amazed at the appearance of even more individuals, these dropping out of the ceiling. "Oh, good, Robin Hood is here." He quipped. One of them ordered his men to various parts of the room. Apparently a lot of people knew a lot more about what was going on than he, or anyone else he had come with, knew. And they all seemed to be showing up at the same time.

"Look, someone tell me what to do, and how to get off this giant space coffin." He sighed heavily, "Coulda been drinking cocktails in any number of places right now, but no, I had to go on an adventure in fucking space."

He looked around again, deciding that the devil you knew was just as good in this situation as the devil you didn't, "Rei, what do you need from me?"

When Russian slapped across the face by Daisy, he just rubbed his face and sighed in disgust. "You can certainly try it..." He muttered under his breath as he decided that the metal shards in his body had to go. Taking off his uniform revealing a simple white, short sleeved shirt. He pulled the shard of metal from his body and wrapped his uniform around the wounds to slow the bleeding. Thankfully the two metallic shard were around the same height so wrapping them with his uniform was not a problem.

Russian slowly stood back up, allowing his body to get used to the missing blood in his system. He then heard Daisy yell about getting locked out of the system and that an A.I was onboard the station. "So you need to to hack the console? I don't know, I think my brain is a bit startled after that slap and my arms aren't working properly after someone was shaking me to high hell. But jokes aside fine...I rather not die here." He spoke as he marched to the console Daisy was at and plugged his device into the console and began pressings hundreds of icons in a matter of seconds.

However the systems security seemed to be heavily beefed up, what seemed like an ordinary military grade system turned into what he could describe it as. "This is like trying to cross the grand canyon over a tightrope, with a motorcycle, while being shot at by rockets. I can crack this no problem, but its going to take some time. Especially since the A.I keeps on reinforcing the firewall every bloody second! You wanna challenge the best hacker! bring it machine! I will downgrade you to windows eight when I am done with you!"

The phrase from bad to worse come absolutely to mind. And that was really how she truly felt. She knew the others wanted to likely lynch her, but she still had one way to appease them. The ship schematics revealed what powered the core was a very rare expensive component which removed would completely put Jarrako Downs to sleep outside of minor systems, but she had to get to the core. Nonetheless these people had no allegiance to her so she lift her little hand console pressed a few buttons before her ship responded. Not even the greatest hacker could steal her ship it was encoded to her own DNA. It was an extreme modification she had done. With that done she continued walking down long passages with her guide, "So are you a vampire or do you just look like one?" she half joked to keep things in a state of levity, "My estimations we don't get to that core before all systems are on the explosion would make it impossible anyone to get out in time..." her guide was very silent making things more pressing, but being away from the other was a relief and armed with her shotgun she occasionally cocked it. A nervous thing.

In reality she was not even sure if she could make it in time, navigating this ship was going to take forever and considering core was right in the middle point. They needed to find transporters pronto. Thus she started performing scans of the area to pin point where transporters landed and figure out a course. None so far got close enough.

Shoved back from the console, Rei just threw her hands in the air. "Oh fuck it, I'm done with all of you twits." She said as she turned to leave. But then there was the matter of Seth offering help; and while Rei was about ready to just leave him there with Russian and Daisy, she supposed that he had been the least amount of trouble. "Help? You know how you can help? Get me the hell off this rust bucket excuse for a space station." She snapped, evidently frustrated beyond reason with the situation at hand. It appeared to her that Daisy's half baked scheme had bought them more trouble than she was willing to pay for.

"Because I'm done, those two can just stay here for all I care."

Sin lost in his train of thought worrying about his ship he decides to order his ship with his mindlink to SSJ (small space jump) to a safer location and cloke itself. He needed his exist plan, he would hate being stuck here. After that was done he can get back to the task at hand to help this girl to the core hopping she don't get trigger happy with the shotgun or hers, being immortal won't stop the pain and judging from that shotgun of hers it will really hurt. So to make sure that won't happen he decide to take the girl on her offer to keep things in a state of levity and talk about himself a little while they make their way to the core.

"yeah... I guess you can say I'm a vampire but that will be only half right, you see i have the blood of a first born which means i am a demon by all accounts. You see i left my kingdom behind because their way was destroy this and kill that and for some reason that is not me anymore so i took and position to where i am always far away from that place as i can. When i go back i will kill my father for killing my mother. I hope this don't fighting you because i am true to my word i will never hurt you."

When he was talking his red and purple eyes glows brightly from the emotion of speaking about his past and the rage made shadows leak from his body into air around him.

Sin grab a small blood orb from his pouch and hand it too the girl encase we get separated in this maze of a place.

"I have an idea to get to the core much faster than walking, you just have to trust me and hop on my back and hold on. if we get separated you can summon me by that orb i gave you from anywhere and any dimension you are at and i will be there in seconds.

Waiting on her answer he walks a few paces ahead of her thinking what his father would say to him working with humans and not feeding on them.

Seth's mind was starting to run through various ways of escape. The most obvious one being the horse they had rode in on, but he wasn't sure Daisy was sane enough to cut and run at this point. It seemed like most of the people with means of escape where more interested in staying on board than leaving, despite their warnings that that was in fact a poor choice. There was the plasma weapon Russian had fired, it had made short work of metal, perhaps it would be useful.

"What about outside? Seemed like there must have been a ship or two out there." Seth thought out loud, having moved on to crazier ideas. "Just float on out there and pick one up..." He continued to mumble. He found himself fidgeting with the lock box again. "Call a cab." He mumbled, then more directly, "Daisy could loan us the keys."

His mind was starting to filter through random scenarios, but he didn't have enough information, he didn't know what he had to work with. He looked at a monitor that showed the outside of the docking bay, Daisy's ship attached to the umbilical, the debris, and another smaller craft that seemed to be moored to some sort of external holding space buoy. It looked old, but it didn't look damaged. "That looks promising, in that it's not this station." He directed Rei's attention toward the monitor. "We just have to get to it."

Perhaps the Planck Packs were useless, perhaps they weren't. They hadn't been used in the scope of a Daemonic infestation as of yet so whether or not they would work was a mystery, that was until now.



The very first thing Admiral Leia Nash did was move from her ready room to the CIC of the Absolution, the 30km long Reverence II looming above Illumene.

Alarms blared, screaming throughout the ship with a crystalline echo as the ship's crew prepared for battle.

"Sitrep!" Admiral Nash called out, and the XO turned from his monitor to face her.

"The Planet's just been overtaken by some kind of anomaly, the Watchtower and the fleet is mobilizing, and ground forces are being overwhelmed. It's a slaughter down there!"

Gritting her teeth, Nash called out. "Assume attack position! Activate the Planck fields!"

The Absolution moved from it's position above the planet, over the massive tear and slowly eased down, armored panels retracted to reveal massive Turbodisruptor batteries, once recessed into the hull, they swiveled out and to the ready.

"Planck fields charged and ready!" An officer called out.

"Activate them!"

The second the order was given, the Reverence II Began broadcasting it's Planck field, which extended outwards at least an AU in every direction, for those on the ground there was a deafening thunderclap, the tear to the warp was forced shut, and the skies began to clear.

However this did nothing for the Daemons already on the planet, but it would stem the tide and prevent the ground forces from being overwhelmed.

Heavy point defense guns swiveled to life, using precision targeting algorithms, the Reverence II began to shoot down those in the air, brilliant lances of plasma energy arced through the air, and through the Blood-letters unlucky enough to be caught in it's grasp.

Those on the ground were not spared either, with local police, CPF, and Imperial Marines regrouping, they would eventually all be pushed back from where they came from, as Illumene erupted into an open warzone.

If only one could comprehend the power of the warp, logical sense, impossibilities that would never happen in the material reality are not factors of the warp and would happen regardless of if its impossible or not, and when the warp seeps into realspace, this same effect occurs.

That the tear created by the blade only grew larger in its defiance to close, the very warp itself screaming with the rage of countless daemons, the lesser tears upon the planet would be slammed shut for now, but the presences of millions of daemons in realspace made for the Planks patching job to be not much use, the flaming hellblades of the flickering daemons on the surface ripping through armoured and unarmoured foe alike, taking them out at range was key, but many attempted to phase, with the active plank field this would be their undoing, weak compared to the will of their lord Khorne they disappeared trapped back into the warp. And so they did it the old fashioned way charging, some if not many were cut down.

But the armoured juggernauts were the first in amongst the aschen troops the bloodletter herald atop the armoured beast’s back swinging with insane glee and the beast itself charging down and ripping into its foes, the greater daemons of khorne the blood thirsters, greatest of his champion strode through the streets reaping kills with the 8ft bladed axes of the kind they multistory giants leading the assault from the front. Small arms fire failing to pierce the armour of khorne bestowed onto each of the greater daemons.

With a blood curdling rage the blade that had opened the tear surged from the tear at the Absolution aiming to skewer the ship, the result of this attack would begin filling the Reverence II class ship corridors and compartments with balefire roasting all the aschen aboard the ship without mercy, not even attempting to remove the smaller ship from the blade, it began to pull back dragging the ship towards the raging warp tear. Only causing further daemons to appear aboard the ship and rip into everything with hellblade and rage.