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[Xernea] The shield flickered and died. For a few moments, the city was entirely unprotected. Then, it flickered once more and came back to life, more oblong in shape this time as the shield's perimeter was changed to match the still surviving stabilizers. Those who had been near the...

[Xernea] Things were looking grim for the humans. While the number of fatalities was heavily tilted towards the Cygnus, their numbers were simply too large. Despite the advantage of surprise attack within the city, the new deployment was killing all of the militia members. The air strikes and...

"Sir," a messenger spoke to the commander. "The enemy has warped into the city beyond the shields, leaving some troops on the outside." The commander frowned. "How is the retaliation faring?" The messenger looked down at the tablet the report had come in from. "Large numbers are dropping...

The moment the veil appeared, many of the defenses turned immediately towards it. While many defenses were along the edge of the shield, they hadn't been naive enough to only place them there. Automated turrets opened fire on the Mormens that made it in, and mines, jerry rigged from mining...

As the energy came down, the Cygnus surely thought this marked the end of the shield. However, those who saw it coming in the settlement only grinned. How foolish could they be? The energy hit the shield and arked down to the generators and struck them. The energy spread out across the shield...

Thankfully, the stabilization properties in Holonite allowed the shield to remain up, despite the brutal bombardment. Even still, it was highly straining to the system, and people ran here and there attempting to stabilize it further. As the army landed on another terrain, the commander sighed...

The particular moon they'd landed on was a mining colony. Fortunately, they were near multiple space military bases and many of the workers were trained with firearms. Furthermore, if the moon was lost, relatively few lives would be lost and little ground too. Unfortunately, this also meant...

The communicator's mouth flopped open and closed a few times, trying to figure out what to say. "B-but it isn't uninhabited!" She said with anger. "This planet has been under the control of the Interplanetary Federation of Holon for almost ten galactic standard years now!" Meanwhile, commanders...

Max reappeared in the building they had left from. He looked at the Mechina coil and stashed it away. He'd see about finding a way to implement it into his suit later. He looked at the arm with a sigh. "What should we do, sir?" A soldier asked. "What will YOU do?" Max was silent in...

Max frowned as he thought this over. In the end, he determined those were all legitimate points. "Very well. I will simply have to increase defenses. Thank you for this discussion, I shall be on my toes. How shall I contact you again, should the time arise when that is necessary?"

"Apologies if I made that sound accusatory," Max said humbly, "But the smokescreen in our capital town certainly drew their attention. I understand your intentions, and while I thank you certainly for having this meeting with me, the fact remains that now the Arclight have their gazes turned...

Max sighed. This would prove to be very difficult. Due to the precision of what the Insurrectionists were saying, he was more tempted to trust them. Regardless, he still had to play it safe. "Our system of passcodes for containing Festers should do the trick to prevent any moles. Any time I'm...

A man approached one of the Terran soldiers and stuck his hand out. "I trust you are... the Terrans?" The man said. "We were sent here as ambassadors for a trip down to the surface." Behind him stood a group of similarly uniformed men. Despite the similarities in uniform to the soldiers...

Max frowned as his final questions were answered. He thought on what he'd been told whilst his soldiers did the same ((I presume they were present as well.)) He would need more time to think on this. "Well," he said finally. His mind was still reeling, but at least he had some semblance of...

Max frowned as he recalled his conversation with them. "Well," he said calmly. If what the Arclight said was true about them, he wanted to gather as much as he can before angering them. So he stayed calm and level, not wishing to incite anything. "They told me they were once a war-mongering...

Maxwell nodded to his guard nearby, and the diplomats left while the actual guard remained behind. Max then radio'd in and summoned a few more. Soon there was a small force of the fifteen most elite soldiers nearby, on edge and ready to fight, should things turn south.

Max considered this for a moment. They HAD been about to tell him everything, though that could've been a ruse to trick him into following him. "Only if I may bring a force of my own," he said. "Forgive me, but blindly following someone suspect of being a national enemy seems like a poor...

"Certainly," the soldier said to the Terrans. "I can call upon one of the diplomats who is well versed in this situation, though they'll have to fly themselves over. I also need clearance from the king to have the authority to give them a command, so you might be waiting just a bit."

The soldier nodded to the Terrans. "Let me check." He called Max and checked to see if it was okay. After a few moments, he turned back to the Terrans. "Right. You can, provided we give you an escort. There are suspicious and potentially dangerous activities going on down there." @tims run...

((Ugh, never got a notification of this, or anything else for that matter.)) Max nodded. "I made contact with your opposition in the atmosphere. They seem very intent on capturing you. They told me you were insurrectionists: rebels who wished to destroy all diplomacy and ruin us. They told us...