Tyki

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

@supertinyking

The clones appearing rather suddenly around the planets of the sergal empire were rather briefly subjected to being targeted by massive amounts of planetary defenses being charge before shortly powered down as the clones were recognized, Logar's transmission being recieved by kalus even though he was expecting another visitor.

"hello emperor logar, good to see you again. might i ask why you're calling?" kalus replies evenly, a tad busy at that point with tide being sent to a rim-colony to assist in defensive structures being constructed and field work when needed but was largely there for heavy lifting, the fields being worked often times being micro-orchards simply in need of hands more so than skilled laborers. "as you can probably tell, alot's changed... your settlement on the home planet was destroyed to an invasion of the undead but we can offer you a few planets with remnants of what looks to be clone technology on them that we've yet to settle" kalus says evenly, seeming distracted

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

@thewizardguy

"you shall be directed to high general kalus karillius, head of foreign relations and trade" the sergeant in charge of the defensive station replies evenly, four frigates taking up positions around her ship before saying "prepare for tether and warp towing to his location" as small ports along the frigates open up, small, spherical drones with four insectoid-like appendages which latch on to her hull, creating minor damage but nothing of note before a field surrounds her and she's rather suddenly transported into the orbit of a large snowball of a planet with four moons, all of which being colonized with mass amounts of various ship designs comeing and going for trade, refueling, and resupply. rather than warp her to the planet from orbit, the small drones take her to a local star port, having her exit her ship with one of the drones acting as a guide of sorts, it's size not much larger than her head. [this is regulations base a-35-D you will follow me for scans and weapon turn ins, all weapons seized shall be returned upon your departure.] the auditory equipment in it made it sound incredibly stereotypical of a low-grade robot but it's make and codeing making it look to have been designed for mass production with the vocal option being a design choice. The drone takes mia into a room, ordering her to place all effects on a tray protruding from a wall including her clothing, the tray sinking into the wall to scan for anything of note, any devices with jamming equipment picked up and turned off. Once she disrobes four large rods come out of the ground before passing all sides of her over in light, the automated voice coming on, stating [sub-dermal metal detected. state it's purpose]

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

@Wraithblade6

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

@LowKey123

i do...

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

so, after talking with matt, the sergals meeting matt shall be retconned due to too much power gaming and derps on both ends (mostly his) and he'll be posting all the nerfs he's making to his 'matt' char soon(tm)

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

@thewizardguy

as the frigate's wreckage is sent floating through space epsilon is rather suddenly subjected to it's own energy being multiplied, causing a massive overload and sudden, explosive, destruction. with one of matt's ships being clipped from the planet, the laser striking it's energy core and causing a heavy malfunction before another ends it, the sergal's other ships entering a holding pattern at the solar system's border. "you appear to be under the impression that you're in charge of us. you're not. you're a foreign leader conversing with a planetary sergeant. further destruction of my ships will result in total annihilation of all ships entering sergal space. i will not repeat myself" the sergeant replies, epsilon's destruction unable to be traced to anywhere except by speculation, though the method of it's destruction could very easily be attributed to failures in the thermal regulation hard-ware which would be known to happen from time to time rather than an outside source.

The current frigates in the holding pattern run system wide scans, glossing over the 'corpse' of epsilion before the sergeant asks "what was that wreckage there?" ((you know she's not asking about the frigate)) as five move in, firing EMPS to knock out planetary defense systems in sufficient quantity to actually kill off their varinat of fruit flies across the entire system before moving in, being even more paranoid than matt with their approach.

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

@supertinyking

the maggots rather suddenly find themselves teleported away to a completely sealed box of incredibly thick, acid proof glass, their bio-signatures catalouged and traced back to their source.

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

@supertinyking

the captain sighs before plugging shepard's brain into a neural uplink, downloading his short term memories, the particularly traumatising ones being unable to be wiped, leaving the captain with a movie to enjoy with her wine and seal jerky of the slaughter.

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

@supertinyking

considering the scouting party would be equiped with scanners and not be complete retards from some b movie horror flick, they bombard the dead from orbit, not touching that shit with a ten foot pole after what happened last time, leaving only shepard to be teleported onto the ship in a confinement pod before being questioned and diagnostics run. "what happened to your people shepard?" the captain asks evenly, the planet's warp signatures scanned and traced, any and all portals or teleportations found, traced, tracked, and catalouged, leaving nothing hidden while the entire planet is subjected to a rapid degredation process, completely removing any remaining corpses or biological matter at all before being re-terra formed.

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

@thewizardguy

"this is merely a scouting force. if you wish, i could call in all ships at my disposal? captain, what was the last head count?... thought so. the total would be a fair bit over two hundred as of last cencus taken for this system. Also, you're not one to talk about moving into unwanted territory with too many ships Mr. 'send in the carriers'. i will at least send them to their proper locations though" the sergeant replies dryly, giving him the same treatment he'd given them (even if it was rather exaggerated) as the ships plot a course for Haxagon, entering orbit before launching every scan odin can think of and then more, explaining why so many ships were sent; it was simply faster due to the amount of simultaneous scans that could be run, though epsilon seems to be detected and it's sub routines read, the mention of blink missiles causing the frigates' shields to take on an odd property preventing targeting of that particular weaponry battery type. [disengage hostile intent. we are here on peaceful terms and are merely scanning. if you refuse then we shall begin eradication of all hostiles]

@supertinyking

once the clones are prepared troop wise, their raids having most likely earned them a small fleet of their own with specialty carrier ships and upgrades to existing ships using new tech which appeared similar to geo tech but was thoroughly sergal, showing that the wreckage they'd sold had gone to good use in the R&D department.