To Mor'aye'ahn's forces at AOD1, and allies

Message sent to the Fort Lendill forces:

"well, Ollie, this is another fine mess you got us into"

Message continues on FL and allied bands:

A image of Ragman appears, "now that that's out of the way. anyone got any ideas? you really don't want to see what will happen if they put that big ass gem into thier device. I am not sure how much warping the fabric of space-time can take. If you think that temporal wormhole Angel D made last year was bad, think what could happen if they dragged everything from here to refuge over to say the Pegasus Galaxy. either we need to stop them from putting it in place or make sure that they can't activate the galaxy drive. I now open the floor for suggestions. After that there will be a short break for running in circle screaming."

The comms crackled a little as one of the GELPORS of Mor'aye'ahn's fleet chimed in. It wasn't the leader as most of these fighters relied on a larger craft for orders but it was the first one to chime up. "Excuse me President Ragman sir, would you mind explaining the situation further? We are still sorting out our sensors as to where we in fact are and how we got here." The voice was obviously the synthetic chirp of a SUARM.

Lakura looked around, startled, she had no idea where she was or how she got there. Everything was fuzzy, it was cold, she could tell that, and she was in a small....thing, she saw darkness through a....window was it? Small dots of light in the distance everywhere, she definitely wasn't home....home? Her head hurt just trying to think. It was cramped in here, suddenly a voice came out from no where she heard the talking, and looked around finally the image of a manl on the main control area. The controls of this vehicle looked very complicated, not at all like an airship's controls. The another voice, a odd tinny one referring to the first one as a President Ragman.

Lakura was so confused, she looked at the image of the man and at the direction of the main com crystal and replied, "My name is Lakura of the Aegelis, who are you, where am I, how did I get here, and what is going on?" As she said there dozens of other voices belonging to Aegelis also chipped in all confused wanting to know what was going on. Maybe this President Ragman could tell them.

"Lakura my name is T'ren Spears, leader of the Blackheart forces. Something happened, you used to be a Quall na drone. Then you and your ships changed." She paused staring at her scanner, my god their were so many bloom ships. "My people have helped fixed your ships. The Quall were helping us fight the angels of desolation, a force that is obsessed with causing destruction on a horrific scale."

"We are heavily out numbered, if we don't work well together we will be destroyed. They have a machine in the hub that can pull us from wherever we are back to this location. We can't run, all we can do is fight."

She let go of the transmit button and bit her lip. "President Ragman, Mor'aye'ahn please tell me we have a plan to stop them."

V'ric sat in the command chair of the 'Grace, observing the dogfight from the orbit of Tapestry. When the Uloh starfighters had joined in he grinned. He had heard of this civil hive of Manslayers, and felt a kinship to them. Another race trying to live peacefully in the galaxy while being persecuted for the acts of other of its kind. He'd also heard from Lily of the honor of their leader, the President Ragman. V'ric respected the man, though they'd never met.

As a flash blinded the viewscreen, sensors and klaxons went wild. "Shut that damn noise off!" V'ric shouted over the sounds. "Report!" The alarms were silenced as First Officer Archer began to speak. "Sir, sensors show we've moved, but we're not exactly sure WHERE. No damage to any of our ships, other than what occurred during the battle. Commander Mor'aye'ahn and Rol'aye'ahn's ships as well as the Uloh fleet are here as well. However," He paused. "The two GELPORs carrying Commander Mor'aye'ahn and Master Vanguard Lil'ye'ahn to the surface are unaccounted for. As the captain of the Master Vanguard's flagship, I believe that leaves you in charge her fleet in her, ah, um, absence." V'ric's heart dropped, but he kept his concern to himself. He had to worry about the entire fleet, he knew Lily would understand.

The viewscreen flickered back on to reveal an organic crystalline computer array dominating the center of the solar system. "Is that what I think it is?" V'ric asked to no one in particular. The Kiou tech officer Zandria turned to answer him as a communication came through from President Ragman explaining the situation.

V'ric paused deep in thought as more chatter crossed the com from other ships also inquiring where they were and what to do. "Com, tell all fighters to return to their main ships for the moment, I want to get as many repairs done as possible while we figure out a plan. Rosethorn and Willowwhip are to move in to flank us until further notice. Archer, what is the status of our NESA?"

His first officer grinned. "Currently it's unprogramed, so we can code it for anything you want boss. We can have it ready to be deployed in about three hours tops, if you need it."

V'ric knew Lily had other plans for the NESA, but desperate times called for desperate measures. "I want that coding time knocked down to one hour from the time I give the order. Com, send an encrypted message to President Ragman only, letting him know we have a NESA that will be available for deployment within an hour, he just needs to give me the word."

"What just happened?" I screamed with a roar across the command room.

"Well, uh, sir, we were sucked threw a wurm whole." Lt. Mal tried not yelling back at his commander.

"What are our coordinates?" I asked back at the Lt.

"Our scanners are saying its A.O.D. space, sir." the Lt. answered right back.

"Did we lose anyone in that fight against them?" Looking at the Lt. with an evil stare.

"All are here with us and in good repair, besides the shot we took, sir. Also we have a transmission from a President Ragman?, sir." Lt. Mal looks back at me.

"President Ragman, just let me know if you guys plan on leading an attack against them, my sensors are going crazy still and i just want payback on these guys. Who the hell decides to just create a wurm whole while in a fight. I wanna destroy these cowardly bastards. Let me know what the plans are and once the battle plans are drawn i will send my fleet to help kill those bastards." I roar into the screen looking at President Ragman with the intent to kill something.

OK, well as far as i can tell, we need to do all that we can to stop them from putting the diamond into that computer thingee. we need to stop the frigate from getting any closer to the core,

we also need to do something about the majority of the estrain ships.

i can stop them from putting the crystal in. it may get a little meesy.

T'ren Spears swallowed. A little messy was an understatement. "We will support you in anyway you need. We will make a run to disable the frigate. If we hold it hostage maybe we can survive this mess. if anyone knows a weakness of this giant hub thing please let me know, if we can take it out we may be able to escape."

Lakura shook her head, Angels of Desolation? Machines in Hubs? She had no idea what was going on or who these people were. She was in a tiny craft surrounded by weird craft and in front of her in the distance was an entire armada in space.

"So, we cannot leave, you say. How do you suggest we get out of this, the giant fleet in front of us is this force who wants to cause destruction? What do you propose we do about this, my people aren't familiar with these craft that we are currently in, I do not know how effective we will be in them.
We have access to our fire leyas we can use it if we get close enough though not sure how effective it will be though out here."

There was a static coming from the GELPORS craft that hosted the SUARM delegate. "Lakura, if my understanding of your statement is correct the crew of the fleet of SUARM Space will assist you in learning to pilot your craft. As this will have to happen soon I do suggest that you pay careful attention so as to be effective in this mission... We SUARM do know how to pilot craft but we are not as talented as the organic pilots chosen by our creator Mor'aye'ahn."

There was a pause before the same chirpy mechanical voice came through, much clearer this time. "President Ragman. We are in agreement as my organic companion has described this mission as a variation of the strategy 'smash and grab'. We have no reservations in joining you to keep the Angels of Desolation from using that gem for whatever nefarious deeds they may do with it, however we have exhausted our payloads of debris and the offensive capabilities of the GELPORS craft is hampered more than slightly. We request any ammunition that the fleet of the Uloh Free Confederacy would feel is appropriate for our methods of combat and efficient in overtaking these foes."

Meanwhile on board the radios were repaired by the engineer teams that stayed in the crew cabin. Soon all ships of Mor'aye'ahns displaced fleet began communication with each other to do a head count of what indeed they did have. Zil8118 was now the de-facto leader of this branch of the fleet until they deemed otherwise or until they returned to the main fleet that was left at Tapestry.

Lakura and the rest of the Aegelis paid close attention to SWARM as they explained the basic controls of space craft and they began to carefully move the ships around trying to get the feel of it. They weren't very good but after a short bit they got the basic idea of it down.

"Thank you SWARM Delegate, we have the basic idea down but I don't think we could preform any high speed maneuvers. It would be best if we went after larger slower targets and I think i might have one in mind. If i am understanding the chatter back and forth correctly that massive structure is the main concern yes? As I do not trust myself or my people against smaller craft like these or the star ships I would suggest that we move against that really big one. We have the basics of these whip like appendages of the ships down, we can fly toward it surround it and slam the whips into this Hub. We can then concentrate our fire layas into it and attempt to burn it up from all around. Do you think this would be effective?"

Zil8118 took the time to explain things carefully to the aegelis surpressign the shock of finally meeting one after only hearing legends from Mor'aye'ahn as well as the crew-memebers who were in fact children of the Falosini. "As our creator says 'any plan is a good plan on paper, only through experience do we measure their merit'. With the attack of the forces gathered I do believe that their forces may be spread thin, however be careful, sometimes slow moving structures may be the most protected."

Well, i have an idea about that, we will use these nano whips to grab space debris or rocks and create energy bridges to the land of the Quall on their surface. We will then hold that in front of our craft and any defensive weapons fired upon us will pass through the energy bridge and fire down upon our enemies the Quall. Once we are close enough we will close the energy bridges and toss the shield away then attach to the hull of the Hub. We will then concentrate and attempt to melt the entire structure, any leyas shield will be shattered and the Hub consumed in flame.

This is starting to sound like workable plan. Seeing as i have the largest fleet here, i will attempt to take the blunt of the attack.

my forces will act to stop the enemy ships and clear the way for the agelis and suarm forces to attempt to attack the hub. if any of you think you can a bombing run on several of these planets, I have just about had it with the AOD forces and think we need to put fear back into thier hearts. I am working on making several devices that need to be released in the atmosphere of some of the planets.

actually I will take that responsiblity personally.

I will assign 500 fighters to help escort the agelis toward the hub.

I will make the stealth run on the planets in the saragosa bombedier.

President Ragman... If I may be so bold, I have heard rumors of E-strain having organic weapons that might be useful as 'grapeshot' for our gelpors. Is this information correct?

depends on what your are talking about? they have a varity of weapons.

I am unsure... I am just looking for options as our fighter craft are highly limited and need better offensive weapons if we are to impact this fight more in our favor.

not sure there is much we can do to arm you ships. I could send over some lamias to act as turrets, i guess

V'ric chimmed in over the com 'Zil8118, If you need quick repairs and restocking of ammunitions, feel free to dock with either the 'Grace, Rosethorn or Willowhip. We will spare all that we can.