Message to the Triarians
"It is up to you, you could exterminate our species in whatever way you want. So why haven't you? You could overpower every nation in this galaxy right now, but you have decided not to. It is illogical, you have no extensive morals to hold you back, so why not conquer us? The galaxy is your playground, you are infinitely more advanced than all others here, and yet you haven't even fired a single shot at us! Why? The Ceramus tried to conquer us, that's why we destroyed that system, we refuse to allow them to take the only slight advantage we have away from us, and now you threaten to give them technology instead of stomping all over us! None of us understand this war at all, all we know is that we were attacked! When we are attacked, we fight back to the best of our ability, in spite of how completely superior the enemy is. We gave them a chance to give up their gains, we even offered to help them colonize for once, but they responded with more weapons fire. We would like nothing more than peace, but the Ceramus seem bent on fighting us! It's completely illogical, losses could be prevented by peace, and now they're simply trying to destroy what they could ever gain? The only way we can respond is with destruction, they refuse to speak any other language to us. The system had to be destroyed, we couldn't let them get the power of the antiproton streamer along with their kinetic bombardment weapons."
Retsukuu Yomo
The president stared at Retsukuu astonished, reports flooded in on the screens around the room about how the planet had been saved by some sort of shell. No Lakfakalle-born psychic could possibly do that.
"You... you saved our planet! What do you want? We'll give you anything! You just saved our lives!" He said, barely believing it could all be true.
Message to the Equestrian Empire
"Shuroh and Terra have been destroyed. The death toll is twenty billion, Lakfakalle has been saved inexplicably. The Kalle system appears to have gone supernova, the fleet was contained within some sort of shell. Do not approach the Kalle system until it has been confirmed that it is safe. In the event that the Kalle system has truly lost its star, we will request assistance in constructing a massive warp ring to move the planet to a new system. You have to construct a defensive network, we are severely outgunned and outnumbered. Do not engage the enemy if at all possible, we cannot afford any losses."
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I'm a weeaboo communist. Are you surprised?
EDIT: You probably are now, but I'm not going to tell you why you wouldn't have been like two years ago. You get to agonize over that yourself.
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The LCF just destroyed a star system, you may want to reconsider...
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Message to the Equestrian Empire
"Invasion of the reverse engineering site is no longer a viable plan. They are progressing much faster than we were, therefore, we will destroy the system. Continued work on the project cannot be allowed."
LIV Shuroh
The Shuroh has been stripped down to only the vital crew of navigator and pilot and launched at the Keillv system. The particle tractor system has not been activated, and the current velocity is 5000c. The ship is taking an erratic course to the system, apparently trying to take the longest course possible. However, due to its great speed, it should reach the system within the week ((This same post)).
Military Expansion
Ships continue to be built, with the entire production power of the planet going into them, it is up to one warship a month. The prototype carrier is being built around both Shuroh and Terra, each planet building half of it. Unfortunately, the crews are still learning how to operate Equestrian equipment, so instead of putting Equestrian weaponry on the vessel the LCF has decided to just build really big shield breakers and hope they work. Construction of the fighters continue.
1 New Warship
10 New fighters
Carrier Construction: 25%
Infrastructure expansion
The central module of the ORCCC has been launched, construction has begun on more shipyard modules.
Keillv System
A gravity lensing effect approached the system with an apparent speed of 5000c, the signature matched up with a Lakfakalle vessel's warp drive. Just a minute before it reaches the system, a message was transmitted.
"I am become death, destroyer of worlds."
A minute later, the ship dropped out of warp. A huge cone of radiation and particles was emitted from the vessel's bow, glowing blue due to the sheer density of the radiation. It spread across the system, until it came to the closest planet to the vessel that it had come from. That planet was immediately ripped apart, leaving nothing behind. The cone continued to spread outwards, hitting the reverse-engineering site next. Within six hours, the cone had expanded across the entire system. A single star went out in the skies of planets across the universe, a single star out of trillions. An event so insignificant that only astronomers on planets in the same galactic arm cared about it. Yet for two nations, it meant everything.
"Invasion of the reverse engineering site is no longer a viable plan. They are progressing much faster than we were, therefore, we will destroy the system. Continued work on the project cannot be allowed."
LIV Shuroh
The Shuroh has been stripped down to only the vital crew of navigator and pilot and launched at the Keillv system. The particle tractor system has not been activated, and the current velocity is 5000c. The ship is taking an erratic course to the system, apparently trying to take the longest course possible. However, due to its great speed, it should reach the system within the week ((This same post)).
Military Expansion
Ships continue to be built, with the entire production power of the planet going into them, it is up to one warship a month. The prototype carrier is being built around both Shuroh and Terra, each planet building half of it. Unfortunately, the crews are still learning how to operate Equestrian equipment, so instead of putting Equestrian weaponry on the vessel the LCF has decided to just build really big shield breakers and hope they work. Construction of the fighters continue.
1 New Warship
10 New fighters
Carrier Construction: 25%
Infrastructure expansion
The central module of the ORCCC has been launched, construction has begun on more shipyard modules.
Keillv System
A gravity lensing effect approached the system with an apparent speed of 5000c, the signature matched up with a Lakfakalle vessel's warp drive. Just a minute before it reaches the system, a message was transmitted.
"I am become death, destroyer of worlds."
A minute later, the ship dropped out of warp. A huge cone of radiation and particles was emitted from the vessel's bow, glowing blue due to the sheer density of the radiation. It spread across the system, until it came to the closest planet to the vessel that it had come from. That planet was immediately ripped apart, leaving nothing behind. The cone continued to spread outwards, hitting the reverse-engineering site next. Within six hours, the cone had expanded across the entire system. A single star went out in the skies of planets across the universe, a single star out of trillions. An event so insignificant that only astronomers on planets in the same galactic arm cared about it. Yet for two nations, it meant everything.
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Oh, it is. It's getting more real than you could ever imagine.
You see, the LCF doesn't like it when you steal their technology...
You see, the LCF doesn't like it when you steal their technology...
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I second this.
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Everyone knows nanobots run on plotonium, so of course they didn't see the meeting.
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Nanobots
A nanobots swarm has found the system where the Ceramus is reverse-engineering the antiproton streamer, the Freidsmekalre's wreckage is being held in the system. Preliminary scans indicate that the system in protected by at least sixty vessels, and that the Ceramus have cracked the protective shell of the antiproton streamers. Unfortunately, this activity was not performed in-atmosphere, as such an event would have destroyed an entire continent. The location was sent back to Lakfakalle when the entire swarm jumped back, having been ordered not to alert the Ceramus.
Message to the Equestrian Empire
"We have discovered the facility where the Ceramus are reverse-engineering the antiproton streamer device. We are planning an attack once we expand our fleet sufficiently, we request assistance in this attack. Any vessels you commit should report to Lakfakalle and land in the ocean or hover in the sky, the enemy now has near-lightspeed bombardment devices. The shields of Lakfakalle should protect landed or hovering ships from any kinetic bombardment."
Military Expansion
The ten new warships have been completed! They are being kept in orbit of Lakfakalle, waiting for the order to attack the Ceramus. With the fighters having been proven in battle, fifteen more have been produced, bringing the total to 20.
Weapons Development
Research has begun on a new weapon designed for taking out shields, based off of the shield breaker used by rockets to pass through the Lakfakalle planetary shield. Of course, any other species would know it as a laser.
New Ship Designs
To complement the fighters, the LCF has designed a carrier vessel of sorts. It is quite a large ship, capable of carrying ninety fighters. The vessel will also be armed with one spinal antiproton lance running the length of the ship, multiple electromagnetically-propelled flak cannons, 10 antiproton streamers (5 on each side), and 10 projectile weapons capable of switching between kinetic and explosive ammunition (5 on each side). To be honest, it's a fusion of carrier and warship. Probably why the new class is being called the Freidsmekalre War Carrier, the first part being in honor of the crew of the warship Freidsmekalre. A prototype is now under construction, until completion, fighters will simply dock with the standard warships.
A nanobots swarm has found the system where the Ceramus is reverse-engineering the antiproton streamer, the Freidsmekalre's wreckage is being held in the system. Preliminary scans indicate that the system in protected by at least sixty vessels, and that the Ceramus have cracked the protective shell of the antiproton streamers. Unfortunately, this activity was not performed in-atmosphere, as such an event would have destroyed an entire continent. The location was sent back to Lakfakalle when the entire swarm jumped back, having been ordered not to alert the Ceramus.
Message to the Equestrian Empire
"We have discovered the facility where the Ceramus are reverse-engineering the antiproton streamer device. We are planning an attack once we expand our fleet sufficiently, we request assistance in this attack. Any vessels you commit should report to Lakfakalle and land in the ocean or hover in the sky, the enemy now has near-lightspeed bombardment devices. The shields of Lakfakalle should protect landed or hovering ships from any kinetic bombardment."
Military Expansion
The ten new warships have been completed! They are being kept in orbit of Lakfakalle, waiting for the order to attack the Ceramus. With the fighters having been proven in battle, fifteen more have been produced, bringing the total to 20.
Weapons Development
Research has begun on a new weapon designed for taking out shields, based off of the shield breaker used by rockets to pass through the Lakfakalle planetary shield. Of course, any other species would know it as a laser.
New Ship Designs
To complement the fighters, the LCF has designed a carrier vessel of sorts. It is quite a large ship, capable of carrying ninety fighters. The vessel will also be armed with one spinal antiproton lance running the length of the ship, multiple electromagnetically-propelled flak cannons, 10 antiproton streamers (5 on each side), and 10 projectile weapons capable of switching between kinetic and explosive ammunition (5 on each side). To be honest, it's a fusion of carrier and warship. Probably why the new class is being called the Freidsmekalre War Carrier, the first part being in honor of the crew of the warship Freidsmekalre. A prototype is now under construction, until completion, fighters will simply dock with the standard warships.
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Lakfakalle
As Yomo walked into the building, guards pointed their pistols at her. They appeared to be a Delphan and a Loroi, the Delphan had much darker blue skin than the Loroi. The Delphan's eyes glowed purple, and the Loroi's glowed orange just like a Triarian's.
"Identify yourself!" The Loroi yelled, her voice was perfectly stern and unafraid despite the fact that the intruder just walked right through the closed door.
Operation Free Market
As the agents moved closes to the molds, they could hear a conversation going on.
"The ISF has ordered another batch of Hyphelia Vs! Cargo variant! You know the drill!"
"More Vs? What are they doing up there?"
"Something about a new station, orbital assembly and all that."
"Oh great! We're helping to build something that'll put us all out of work!"
"Come on, it's not like we've got some kind of crazy antigravity engine or anything! They'll always need rockets to get crew up there!"
"Shut up and keep welding the damn parts together!"
Someone stepped up to what appeared to be an intercom, which was uncomfortably close to the agents.
"Deliveries, we need another computer core! No, Hyphelia V! Yes, there is a difference! Yes, I will issue demerits if you don't shut up!"
The man stepped away from the intercom, heading back to the rest of his crew. Cranes lifted the finished plates into place in the center of the building, where construction crews welded and riveted them together. Other cranes lifted in parts from across the factory, which was apparently extremely large. So large, in fact, that one couldn't clearly see the sides from the center of the building. It was a primitive factory, but it still worked fast and good, something that primitive species usually found it impossible to accomplish.
Suddenly, some sort of ring flew over the heads of the agents at great speeds. It slowed abruptly once it reached one of the construction areas, and floated into place in the large stack of parts. Workers moved over to it on the scaffolding to weld it to the stack. One of them waved over in the direction the ring had come from, a single Delphan was standing there waving back, his eyes glowing purple. Apparently, he alone had moved the ring.
"Gee, that Delphan does good work!" Said one of the workers in the construction area that had recieved the ring.
"Yeah, pretty amazing to think the guy's disconnected from the Collective. Normally you'd need the hive mind to work with his precision." Said another one of the workers.
"He's a special one. He made a good choice, going into rocket manufacturing. The business is really taking off with the war and all."
Nanobots
Having encountered Triarian space, a message was sent to a single nanobots. It soon flashed through the entire swarm.
"Triarian not target, Ceramus target. Flow around Triarian space, find Ceramus space."
The swarm began to move around the Triarian border, continuing the search for the Ceramus.
Comms Tap
For once, the Triarians didn't pick up propaganda. Instead, they picked up a sitcom. A sci-fi sitcom. About aliens picking up a sitcom and then destroying Lakfakalle over how terrible it was.
It lived up to its predictions, it was definitely bad enough to destroy a planet over.
As Yomo walked into the building, guards pointed their pistols at her. They appeared to be a Delphan and a Loroi, the Delphan had much darker blue skin than the Loroi. The Delphan's eyes glowed purple, and the Loroi's glowed orange just like a Triarian's.
"Identify yourself!" The Loroi yelled, her voice was perfectly stern and unafraid despite the fact that the intruder just walked right through the closed door.
Operation Free Market
As the agents moved closes to the molds, they could hear a conversation going on.
"The ISF has ordered another batch of Hyphelia Vs! Cargo variant! You know the drill!"
"More Vs? What are they doing up there?"
"Something about a new station, orbital assembly and all that."
"Oh great! We're helping to build something that'll put us all out of work!"
"Come on, it's not like we've got some kind of crazy antigravity engine or anything! They'll always need rockets to get crew up there!"
"Shut up and keep welding the damn parts together!"
Someone stepped up to what appeared to be an intercom, which was uncomfortably close to the agents.
"Deliveries, we need another computer core! No, Hyphelia V! Yes, there is a difference! Yes, I will issue demerits if you don't shut up!"
The man stepped away from the intercom, heading back to the rest of his crew. Cranes lifted the finished plates into place in the center of the building, where construction crews welded and riveted them together. Other cranes lifted in parts from across the factory, which was apparently extremely large. So large, in fact, that one couldn't clearly see the sides from the center of the building. It was a primitive factory, but it still worked fast and good, something that primitive species usually found it impossible to accomplish.
Suddenly, some sort of ring flew over the heads of the agents at great speeds. It slowed abruptly once it reached one of the construction areas, and floated into place in the large stack of parts. Workers moved over to it on the scaffolding to weld it to the stack. One of them waved over in the direction the ring had come from, a single Delphan was standing there waving back, his eyes glowing purple. Apparently, he alone had moved the ring.
"Gee, that Delphan does good work!" Said one of the workers in the construction area that had recieved the ring.
"Yeah, pretty amazing to think the guy's disconnected from the Collective. Normally you'd need the hive mind to work with his precision." Said another one of the workers.
"He's a special one. He made a good choice, going into rocket manufacturing. The business is really taking off with the war and all."
Nanobots
Having encountered Triarian space, a message was sent to a single nanobots. It soon flashed through the entire swarm.
"Triarian not target, Ceramus target. Flow around Triarian space, find Ceramus space."
The swarm began to move around the Triarian border, continuing the search for the Ceramus.
Comms Tap
For once, the Triarians didn't pick up propaganda. Instead, they picked up a sitcom. A sci-fi sitcom. About aliens picking up a sitcom and then destroying Lakfakalle over how terrible it was.
It lived up to its predictions, it was definitely bad enough to destroy a planet over.
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Monkeypants said
I really need to get an intro but with the war going on in the rp I'm afraid of a tl;Dr situation. Guess ill give it a shot anyway eh?
Don't worry, you won't get one of those. Probably because the war is going on. Both sides need more allies, and therefore we will be trying to justify making contact with you first. Besides, I'm writing propaganda every post now. People almost certainly don't read it, but they totally could if it had any significance.
Also, the LCF isn't primitive. It's extremely primitive. get your facts straight!
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Nikolien System
While the crews were still celebrating their victory, the tiny ball passed through the system, undetectable by their sensors. Then they were alerted to its presence all too late when it hit Lakfanikolien. The crews panicked and tried to get their captains to leave the system, but Lakfakalle sent orders: nothing gets past Nikolien. The ships were forces to stay in the system, protecting it from any further Ceramus attacks. However, seeing a planet destroyed hurt their moral. Only one person in the entire fleet knew what was going to happen when the nanobots found the enemy homeworld, the rest had not yet been informed. Knowing this, Kuuyi sent a message towards the origin point of the ball. If there was anybody still there, at the very least they would be intimidated. They would probably laugh though.
"You think destroying a planet is power? You have no idea what kind of power we have! People can survive the destruction of planet, but nobody could survive the destruction that we will bring!"
Nanobots
The nanobots have been dispatched! Being equipped with micro warp drives (Actually cheaper to build than the normal ones), they have been sent out in a circular pattern away from Lakfakalle. Already, new swarms have been produced from the remnants of Lakfanikolien and other such small bodies in systems all around the sector. With any luck, they will find the enemy worlds within a few weeks, at most months. Almost certainly not years. At the current rate, the war will be over before the end of the year!
Operation Free Market
After a while, the cadets decided to report in. The military personnel were taking their time with the cube, hoping to wait for the agents in case spies were hidden in the large cube that could be broken easily with a Triarian weapon.
"We've got a negative here, food court's reporting a negative as well. None of the civilians have reported anyone aside from someone who apparently didn't understand basic customs. Turned out to be a drunk guy. We're coming with you."
The titanium cube was put into a military truck, which gave off a terrible smell and had wheels. Apparently, the LCF had yet to invent antigravity technology. The truck was exactly what one would expect from a low-tech military, laughable green camo, gunpowder weaponry, the usual primitive attachments. Two other vehicles seemed to follow the truck through the city, a police vehicle and a much older car. Both looked as if they had been constructed purely to look good, the frames weren't even made of a light alloy. Had the Triarians remembered the humans in their 1950's, they would recognize the aesthetics. Kind of funny, fifty thousand years later and they end up with the same designs.
The truck stopped at a factory, smoke was billowing out of large towers on top of it, dating the civilization even better than their weapons. The cube was carried off the truck by four Abh using the well-tested "stick stuff under it and carry that stuff with sticks" method. A human certainly couldn't pull that off, though, and the Abh didn't even look that muscular. There was obviously more to them than met the eye.
The cube was carried into the factory, and towards what was almost certainly a metal reclamation facility. A vat of molten metal stood there, being piped into various curved molds. Other vats were there was well, being piped into the same molds. A fully completed construction was being lifted out of the center of the factory by multiple helicopters, flying though an opening in the roof of the building. It was a cylinder, painted white and marked with the words "Royal Space Force" in dark red. The Triarians probably wouldn't recognize what they were building, simply because the device was so ancient in their memory that it was completely alien to them. It was what the humans called a "Rocket".
The cube was put onto a conveyor belt heading towards the vat, to be melted down and then molded into part of a primitive yet beautiful device. If the Triarians didn't get out of it somehow, they too would become part of a primitive yet beautiful device.
Comms Tap
The Triarians have once again come across propaganda, apparently, this "Ceramus War" was somewhat important to the LCF. Mainly because they are enraged enough to put out these productions. Interestingly enough, this one seemed to be a news video as well. News combined with propaganda: The mark of a primitive society at war. The only thing that could have made it more stereotypical was if it was in black and white.
"Once again, the enemy attacks the Nikolien system!" Yelled the announcer, with actual, true anger in his voice. "Today, they destroyed the planet Nikolien with a kinetic bombardment device traveling at .95c!" The video was showing footage of the attack, it was a show of power that might even intimidate the Triarians.
The video then switched to a clip of an Abh in a white and gold Star Forces uniform, which contrasted with her blood red eyes. A caption informed the viewer that she was Admiral Spoor, of the Imperial Star Forces.
"They think they have power over us with their new weapon, but we still have the upper hand. As I speak, we are planning a counteroffensive against the alien menace. Their home system will be no more once we find it."
The music from the last propaganda video started, and once more a battle scene was shown. Except this time it was a mock battle between a planetary defense ship and a group of five small craft. The PDS, interestingly enough, had been jokingly painted with the words "Qourux Scum" and "Triarian Oppressors". The small craft flew in, leaving striking blue engine trails, and fired some sort of pulse weapon at the parts of the hull the words were painted on. When the pulses hit, the words and the hull behind them simply disappeared. A caption identified the footage as "Spaceborne Fighter Test A-2"
As the music continued, the video showed the launch of a Hyphelia 1B orbital shuttle, and a CGI rendition of some sort of giant space station (the CGI was actually incredibly good, considering their computing power). Another caption identified the station as the "Orbital Refining and Construction/Combat Complex (ORCCC)". And of course, it wouldn't be LCF propaganda without a shot of multiple ships flying horizontally while firing weapons. That seems to be a staple of LCF propaganda.
An image was display of the Imperial Star Forces flag once more, just like in the first propaganda video:
Then, the main announcer spoke again, the volume of his voice greatly amplified.
"Join the Imperial Star Forces NOW! Go to your local relations office or call 7785-21-ISF! End the alien scourge! Protect Lakfakalle!"
While the crews were still celebrating their victory, the tiny ball passed through the system, undetectable by their sensors. Then they were alerted to its presence all too late when it hit Lakfanikolien. The crews panicked and tried to get their captains to leave the system, but Lakfakalle sent orders: nothing gets past Nikolien. The ships were forces to stay in the system, protecting it from any further Ceramus attacks. However, seeing a planet destroyed hurt their moral. Only one person in the entire fleet knew what was going to happen when the nanobots found the enemy homeworld, the rest had not yet been informed. Knowing this, Kuuyi sent a message towards the origin point of the ball. If there was anybody still there, at the very least they would be intimidated. They would probably laugh though.
"You think destroying a planet is power? You have no idea what kind of power we have! People can survive the destruction of planet, but nobody could survive the destruction that we will bring!"
Nanobots
The nanobots have been dispatched! Being equipped with micro warp drives (Actually cheaper to build than the normal ones), they have been sent out in a circular pattern away from Lakfakalle. Already, new swarms have been produced from the remnants of Lakfanikolien and other such small bodies in systems all around the sector. With any luck, they will find the enemy worlds within a few weeks, at most months. Almost certainly not years. At the current rate, the war will be over before the end of the year!
Operation Free Market
After a while, the cadets decided to report in. The military personnel were taking their time with the cube, hoping to wait for the agents in case spies were hidden in the large cube that could be broken easily with a Triarian weapon.
"We've got a negative here, food court's reporting a negative as well. None of the civilians have reported anyone aside from someone who apparently didn't understand basic customs. Turned out to be a drunk guy. We're coming with you."
The titanium cube was put into a military truck, which gave off a terrible smell and had wheels. Apparently, the LCF had yet to invent antigravity technology. The truck was exactly what one would expect from a low-tech military, laughable green camo, gunpowder weaponry, the usual primitive attachments. Two other vehicles seemed to follow the truck through the city, a police vehicle and a much older car. Both looked as if they had been constructed purely to look good, the frames weren't even made of a light alloy. Had the Triarians remembered the humans in their 1950's, they would recognize the aesthetics. Kind of funny, fifty thousand years later and they end up with the same designs.
The truck stopped at a factory, smoke was billowing out of large towers on top of it, dating the civilization even better than their weapons. The cube was carried off the truck by four Abh using the well-tested "stick stuff under it and carry that stuff with sticks" method. A human certainly couldn't pull that off, though, and the Abh didn't even look that muscular. There was obviously more to them than met the eye.
The cube was carried into the factory, and towards what was almost certainly a metal reclamation facility. A vat of molten metal stood there, being piped into various curved molds. Other vats were there was well, being piped into the same molds. A fully completed construction was being lifted out of the center of the factory by multiple helicopters, flying though an opening in the roof of the building. It was a cylinder, painted white and marked with the words "Royal Space Force" in dark red. The Triarians probably wouldn't recognize what they were building, simply because the device was so ancient in their memory that it was completely alien to them. It was what the humans called a "Rocket".
The cube was put onto a conveyor belt heading towards the vat, to be melted down and then molded into part of a primitive yet beautiful device. If the Triarians didn't get out of it somehow, they too would become part of a primitive yet beautiful device.
Comms Tap
The Triarians have once again come across propaganda, apparently, this "Ceramus War" was somewhat important to the LCF. Mainly because they are enraged enough to put out these productions. Interestingly enough, this one seemed to be a news video as well. News combined with propaganda: The mark of a primitive society at war. The only thing that could have made it more stereotypical was if it was in black and white.
"Once again, the enemy attacks the Nikolien system!" Yelled the announcer, with actual, true anger in his voice. "Today, they destroyed the planet Nikolien with a kinetic bombardment device traveling at .95c!" The video was showing footage of the attack, it was a show of power that might even intimidate the Triarians.
The video then switched to a clip of an Abh in a white and gold Star Forces uniform, which contrasted with her blood red eyes. A caption informed the viewer that she was Admiral Spoor, of the Imperial Star Forces.
"They think they have power over us with their new weapon, but we still have the upper hand. As I speak, we are planning a counteroffensive against the alien menace. Their home system will be no more once we find it."
The music from the last propaganda video started, and once more a battle scene was shown. Except this time it was a mock battle between a planetary defense ship and a group of five small craft. The PDS, interestingly enough, had been jokingly painted with the words "Qourux Scum" and "Triarian Oppressors". The small craft flew in, leaving striking blue engine trails, and fired some sort of pulse weapon at the parts of the hull the words were painted on. When the pulses hit, the words and the hull behind them simply disappeared. A caption identified the footage as "Spaceborne Fighter Test A-2"
As the music continued, the video showed the launch of a Hyphelia 1B orbital shuttle, and a CGI rendition of some sort of giant space station (the CGI was actually incredibly good, considering their computing power). Another caption identified the station as the "Orbital Refining and Construction/Combat Complex (ORCCC)". And of course, it wouldn't be LCF propaganda without a shot of multiple ships flying horizontally while firing weapons. That seems to be a staple of LCF propaganda.
An image was display of the Imperial Star Forces flag once more, just like in the first propaganda video:
Then, the main announcer spoke again, the volume of his voice greatly amplified.
"Join the Imperial Star Forces NOW! Go to your local relations office or call 7785-21-ISF! End the alien scourge! Protect Lakfakalle!"
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