[@OfWindAndRain] [b]Zerg Planet: Light of New Dawn Galactic Coordinates 13788-0920 Lynat Sector Border World 0248[/b] [img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/be/d7/bb/bed7bbc797777a451b03f69e4dbbc2de.jpg[/img] Overmind 0024 laid prostrate in the command room of his flag ship that was orbiting the planet. He was analyzing the sensor data that his three leading drone carriers was observing. He could see what they saw, even as they were accelerating away from his planet and towards the lone unknown vessel. As for the lone unknown vessel, he could see it clearly, too -- especially since it had disabled its silent running cloak and was now as bright as day. Saliva fell from Overmind 0024's mouth. He groveled. He wanted it... that unknown vessel. He wanted it as a prize. He wanted to eat its inhabitants. He wanted to take it over and assimulate any of its advanced technology. Surely... it had to be advanced, if it could cloak that well? While Overmind 0024 was licking his lips, he wondered if he should alert Overmind 0001 back in the home system on the Zerg Homeworld... of what Overmind 0024 saw here in the border world. He wondered... and then decided not to. He would keep the existence of these aliens to himself -- and when he had assimulated them and had dissected their ship... then he would alert Overmind 0001 of the good news. Overmind 0024 grinned. A big smile appeared on its bulbous body. The simple idea of taking that ship apart made him excited. "Carriers 0007, 0008, 0009 -- Deploy fighter-drones!" yelled Overmind. "Deploy all of your warship infiltration units as well! Accelerate all fighters and infiltration units towards the unknown vessel. All fighters are to target the unknown's propulsion. Once the unknown vessel's propulsion is down, all warship infiltration units are to latch onto its hull and take it over from inside. It is ours!" He watched as Carriers 0007, 0008, and 0009 ejected all 300 of its fighter-drones as well all 60 of its warship infiltration units. Each warship infiltration unit was a pod that could move on its own. Each pod contained a spider. A spider was an infiltration unit that could latch onto enemy hulls and then cut their way into the enemy's inside. Once inside, it acted as a soldier -- it would kill everything that was inside the targeted starship and attempt to take it over from within. --- [@o0V0o] [b]Planet Xaro's Awakening Galactic Coordinates 14122-18522 Omicron Sector Homeworld of the Zerg Collective[/b] Overmind 0001 gazed at the battle reports from the war with the Victorian Empire. He was ecstatic. So far so good, he thought. It was true. His scouting fleet had been utterly annihilated in the system that was so called [b]Olix[/b], but they were just scouts... nothing more. As for his main force of 400 drone carriers, they were almost at their destination -- the star system Olix. He wanted that system so bad, for none other than the fact that it was key to claiming the Victorian Empire's homeworld. He was at their door steps! He could smell the odor of victory! Once he had taken Olix, he would immediately head towards the Victorian Empire's homeworld and then began enslaving the empire's people -- not simply at the Victorian Empire's motherworld but here in Olix as well. His plan was to defeat all the defenders of the star system called Olix, and then proceed to land ground troops on all the planets and planetoids in Olix. The idea that he would take over the population of an entire system thrilled him to his very core. Once enslaved, the population would become slave animals, which his collective would feed on and turn into biomass, which would be part of mechanism in which the Zerg Collective would breed more of its own... His 400 drone carriers were almost at Olix... almost there to ravage and defeat the system's defenders.