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@Ragenaut Ah, nevermind then :P

I kinda assumed when you said you were scrapping your intro post.

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@Ragenaut Sorry you have to go, well, you're always welcome to rejoin whenever :)

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Totalist Space
Along the edges of some nameless system in the Totalist State, a lone Divine class warship exits FTL, a rare occurrence for the Collective to be sending just one ship. However, it was sent on an even more unheard of occasion, this ship was sent on a "diplomatic" mission, for centuries the Collective knew not of this word, every world and civilization they came across, they simply made demands and waged war if said demands are not met. This mission was an entirely alien concept to them, the Seven never bow to a foe, they simple prepare for the next wave of an invasion, but recent events have shown that some particular civilizations will not simple be on the defensive forever, and very soon the Collective will have to fight their own defensive war on two fronts, something the Seven wish to avoid at any cost.

The Collective vessel continued its journey deep in the system, sending out signals to alert any nearby totalist warships of its arrival.

The signal was intercepted by the sizable armada using the system as a staging ground. Immediately both the fleet and the ground forces deployed in the system went into full alert, expecting a Collective battlefleet to emerge soon after. Several hours passed before the local Totalist command decided to consider the possibility of trusting the Collective.

A message was sent ordering the Collective vessel to land in an out of the way asteroid orbiting the fifth planet of the system, as a small squadron was detatched to shadow the hostile vessel. Meanwhile, the purpose of the Collective's mission was relayed back to the Generalissimo himself, who decided to humour the request. Despiste the fact that no one actually believed that the Collective would accept the Party's terms.

After some time had passed, the Collective ship made way for the asteroid field, making its landing on one of the larger asteroids. Elsewhere, aboard the ship, in the Command Center, a cloaked woman had passed through sliding doors, garnering the attention of the very small skeleton crew of eight Agaathi. Once the cloaked had been unveiled, it is revealed this woman was of the quite elusive Ascended, her eyes glowing a shade of green, with small strips of whatever technology made her this way running down from her forehead to her chin. It was very rare to see her kind outside the walled cities on Collective Worlds. "Connect with their channels." she turned to and ordered one of the Agaathi servants.

"Yes, my lady." he replied as he pressed down some keys in a brisk pace.

"Let us pray to the Seven they see reason." she said to herself.

"Hostile ship." Came the voice, filled with evident disgust despite the garbled transmission. "We will be rerouting your communications channel. Do you have any holographic transmission equipment in your ship?"

"That we do." she replied. "I'm standing before the device."

"These are the codes you need to use." The voice replied and soon after the codes arrived through the comm channel.

One of the Agaathi servants entered the code, the holo-projection device sparking with life, scanning the woman for a brief moment before a holo image of the Totalist Generalissimo himself materializing right before her. "Greetings, I am Jana, Third Speaker of the Seven."

"I am the Director of Peace, Generalissimo Alexander Dollabella-Rybalsky." He replied, face carefully kept stoic. "And I am told you have come with terms for us. Be quick"

"Gladly, I come before you on orders by the Seven, we know what you intend to do next, and we wish to avoid this at all cost. We simple wished offer a gift of everlasting life, and I admit we...acted too rash in your refusal. However, reconsider, otherwise the death toll will mount in the millions upon millions for both sides. Reconsider our gift to your people, wouldn't you rather live in peace as my people live now? Free of war, sickness and death."

The Generalissimo laughed at her. "A gift? Oh no! What terrible misunderstanding!" He continued sarcastically. "Surely we can reconsider the whole situation based on this little tidbit of information." He chuckled lightly as he shook his head. "No, no, no. You have come here because the rotten toaster you call Queen has realized that she has bitten more than she could chew. Now you are looking to save yourself." The Generalissimo cleared his throat. "I will be transmitting our terms right now. Accept them all or we shall finish what you started."

Soon after the Collective vessel received a series of documents detailing the Totalist terms for peace. They consisted of large scale transfers of territory and technology along with the disarmament of the Collective and the establishment of hundreds of military bases throughout their remaining territory, along with the inclusion of the Agonis Collective as a member of the Totalist Sphere, essentially reducing it to a puppet state.

The Speaker read over the terms, her neutral expression slowly degrading into disgust and anger. "This is unacceptable!" she cried out, about to show her true colors. "Bowing down to inferior beings like you!? ." she paused for but a moment, and continued. "Absolutely disgusting...very well then, Director. If you wish to enact these demands, you'll have to do so the hard way, be prepared."

"We are more than prepared, Speaker." The Director smiled. "The entire might of the Party is arrayed against you. And from what I've heard, new enemies seem to be popping out every day now for you." He paused. "It may take a decade or a century, but mark my words, abomination, the end of your state is coming. You are just delaying the inevitable now."

"Cut off comms." the Speaker ordered. In that instant, the holo image of the director faded away. "Fire all weapons, if they wil not see reason, we fight to the death."

When the comms were cut, the Director gave similar orders for the squadron shadowing the Collective vessel. And just as Jana's ship unleashed its first salvo, so did the Totalist ships. In the end, the larger Totalist force managed to dispatch the hostile vessel with relative ease.

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@Willy Vereb Your Territory was replaced by Unaffiliated Space, a region of minor worlds and nations. If you'd like, after your post is up, we can relocate you, you'd still be close to the action. We had some players that went dark, so they will be removed eventually, how do you feel about being relocated here?

The General area of 8 and 9.

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Time for the usual :P

@silver or lead
@urukhai
@AspenIvan

You guys still with us?

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World of Kasius
Fringes of Collective Space
Kasius, a pristine garden world like that of Earth when it was at its prime, during the Golden Age of the Old Imperium, before the fall. Now like all others, it is a scarred battleground as forces of the Resistance and the Collective fight their neverending war for supremacy. Kasius however, was a world of great significance, it is here that leaders of the Resistance are based, or at least a segment of High Command. The overall operations of the Resistance are split into four Theaters of Regional Operations, Alpha, Delta, Beta and Epsilon, each was overseen by A subbranch of High Command. And it is here the Collective had planned on their major offensive against the rebel leaders of the Alpha Theater, after some years of tracking down Alpha Command to their latest location.

Ruins of New Izuno
Current Headquarters of Alpha Command
Just moments before HRF Invasion

"Hostiles on advance!" A soldier cried out, firing from cover along with several other humans and an aldzur.

"Come get some!" An Hexanagallion soldier snarled and roared, firing a heavy machine gun towards the charging rejected grunts. "I can do this all day assholes!" He continued unloading lead on the barely-seniant cyborgs until he heard several clicking sounds. "Reload!" He yelled, but before he got the chance, he was pulled down. "Masu! get in cover you crazy idiot!" shouted the human next to him, pulling him down with all his might behind the safety of the makeshift walls they set up. "You're a goddamn sniper's magnet!" he shouted over the gunfire. Masu simply made a smiling-like expression with his mandibles, "Hah! I'd say let them try at it!"

The Sergeant frowned to the over confident Hexanagallion. "You're no good dead to the Squad, soldier." He replied as he placed two fingers over the right side of his head. "Control, this is Echo One, we're facing some heavy fire here, requesting some backup ASAP." A response came as a feminine voice replied. "Roger that Echo One, we're sending armor support on your way."

"Much appreciated Control." The Sergeant then turned is gaze back to a Ge'He as he tinkered with a power generator, pressing down keys. "How are those Auto Turrets Sull?"

"I'm working as fast as possible sarge!" He replied, frantically trying to turn the generator on. "You stupid piece of crap! Turn on damn you!" He kept shouting at the generator as it refused to power the auto guns that would reinforce their forward position. He then resorted to smashing it in frustration, however, in his recklessness he was out in the open briefly, and was shot in the arm. "Gah!" he yelped, falling to the ground in agony. "Medic!" The Sergeant cried out, and without delay a young woman rushed over and dragged the injured Sull away into cover. The sergeant proceeded to fire blindly at the collective troops, and before they knew it, a Collective Main Battle Walker came crashing through, followed a mess of varusch troopers, the machine turned it's gaze and aimed towards the defenders, ready to fire it's main gun. "Ah shit.." the sergeant said, and right before his eyes, before they were t die, the very same walker exploded, forcing the varusch to scatter.

The group of soldiers all looked up in sheer awe as they witnessed something extraordinary, a fleet of alien ships hung over them, didn't matter if they were friend or foe, in the moment, salvation had come, a possible end to this war once and for all.

Command and Operations Center
In the center of this ramshackled base, located deeper in the city, General Itinus Kosh of Alpha Command and several others watched over a holo-display of the city battle, over a dozen platoons-worth of men add equipment were struggling across several locations around the city, a few squads such as Echo were left to guard small entry points leading to the base. The room begun to tremor, dirt and dust falling as they were being shelled by Collective artillery.

"Damn it, they got us cornered, and they're not letting up." The General said as he glued his eyes to the battlefield, Collective forces making a slow advance in great numbers. He turned to his Second in Command, a fellow Aldzur. "Any word on those reinforcements?"

"Other cells that have yet to report in are forming up, however..they won't arrive soon enough.."

"Damnnit!" he cursed, his fist slamming against the table. "We'll be dead before they get here..." soon however, alarms were set off, sirens crying out. "Now what?"

"Sir..." One of the Operators spoke up. "We got additional contacts approaching the city, and I don't believe it, but...they're engaging Collective troops."
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Just like like to make a quick announcement, Isotope has now been promoted as my Co-GM.

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@Chinese Jotunn I would suggest posting something more, internal or something more related to your nation, I know the lore is set, however it really is important to ask players first before interaction, such as with my faction, they're a war-like bunch who often kill on sight, but I first ask players if they wish for any interaction.

Edit:Nevermind, Monkey no longer see's an issue. Sorry about that.

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@Chinese Jotunn Glad we came to an understanding :)

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@Chinese Jotunn You are free to disagree with me, I welcome it, all I ask to just be polite about it, as I am with you.