The Second Tau Empire

MaxwellCharlie

Drakador_Chaos
(Don't let Manifest near this feather. XD)

Drakador_Chaos

MaxwellCharlie (You are right, even though most likely not in the way you expected, he certainly doesn´t want to get near that thing.)

MaxwellCharlie

Drakador_Chaos
(I admit, atm, you are right. Manifest is nowhere near his full power... But when at it's full potential? Oh you'd be surprised. Btw, would it be possible for you to pm (discord) me some of the background of this feather? Im kinda uber confused and freaked XD.)

Jenwuf

MaxwellCharlie
(Insert meme about me taking 9 days to respond to someone asking why a character took so long)
Akio
"Well... there was a lot to ask."
Something was still not right about him...
Its like he was standing watching the end of everything, while staying completely calm.

Drakador_Chaos
The facility on the station, specially constructed for the experiments was ill equipped to deal with the creature, and in the end, they had to resort to trying to wait for it to calm down... if it ever would.

Although, as a backup a small robotic tracked remote control weapons platform, would be able to enter the facility and attempt to kill the creature, as hard as that might be.

Drakador_Chaos

Jenwuf
...after several hours, the room containing the Anhysbys was nearly completely destroyed, though, inside, there was an eerie silence, a look on the observation systems confirmed that the Anhysbys was lying still in a corner of the room, all of it´s systems seemed to be back to normal, suspicously normal, as if nothing ever happened, the feather lied unmoved on it´s pedestal, unscathed by the rage of the other-dimensional being, not long after this the Anhysbys seemingly tried to contact whoever was in closest proximity via it´s telepathy...
"Where am I?"

MaxwellCharlie

Jenwuf
Tharix
That only made him more confused, so, he didn't ask any more questions. He looked up at a large news broadcast television within the station, and heard something about a Resistance. He continued fallowing Akio.

Jenwuf

Breaking News
Mass arrests within STE
Mass numbers of arrests where carried out overnight around the entirety of STE held territory, this follows growing civil unrest due to the public distrust over the JTAE alliance, to the point of some groups forming to directly attack numerous important military trade lanes. One such group calls themselves Clan Silver Fox, they supposedly consist of hundreds of thousands of mainly 200 year war Exiles. Amongst these trade lane attacks, one stood out from the rest due to its sheer scale, ending in an entire capital ship escort dead in space, its crew knocked out with an unknown weapon. Audio recordings show a huge spike in sound energy on the ship, which leads many to suspect they have access to sound based weaponry, ones eerily similar to the ones used by the STE ground forces to subdue the growing numbers of rioters.

Us here at globalcloud managed to get an interview with one "resistance" leader:

"So, what makes you want to go out and hinder the new alliance between us and the Anhysbys?"

"They are Monsters! They kidnap our people to use as translators! They kill others to use as biomatter for their war-machine. They are a threat to all of us, and the empress is wrong for allowing them to be so close to us!"

"But what do you have to say about the sudden influx of jobs and security now they are here? And our expansion thanks to them?"

"Its a load of $£&#! We had security before, we have a internal police force, we even had expansion going on, and what did they do? Bugger all! They just built a load of their so called 'nurseries' and bloody ran off back to their own dimention, the #$£&!"

"so... any thoughts on their statement saying they are here to stop Them?"

"Yeah right, as if mate, I've lied better when I was five"

The empress released the following statement:
"We will continue to act as we are until we gain the information held by someone on their way to me as we speak. All acts of violence are wrong, and you should all understand this. It saddens me to see action before even I could gain information vital to figuring out what to do."

It may seem faith in the STE's accepting nature is at an all time low.
We will continue to report on this as it happens here, but for now, back to the studio.

Jenwuf

Drakador_Chaos
A soldier, half asleep on the other side of the main door was startled by the sudden voice, and decided to enter the room. The others stared on in confusion.
"H-hello?" he called out once the door closed behind him.

MaxwellCharlie
The two walked throughout the station back to the tube network, and then with little conversation arrived at their stop. Within seemingly no time at all, they where walking towards Akio's house...

Brank

Jenwuf Welcome to the Dominion STE

Drakador_Chaos

Jenwuf
...as the soldier entered the room he saw it was a completely wreckage, instruments and devices lied shattered across the room and there were dents in the walls, ground and ceiling of the room, curiously, the feather was still on it´s pedestal, unmoved, unscathed, even more curiously the Anhysbys was hovering peacefully amidst the wreckage, apparently observing it´s surroundings and trying to make sense of it´s current environment...

MaxwellCharlie

Jenwuf
Tharix
He was still a bit creeped out from earlier, with... whatever that thing was that was terrorizing the ship, but he was hiding it. He turned to Akio. "Akio? I have a... well I'm just going to ask it." He paused. "Akio, what exactly is going on? I can tell, quite clearly, that something is off, I just can't put my finger on it..."

MaxwellCharlie

@Jenwuf Brank
O_O YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!

Brank

MaxwellCharlie yep. STE is now part of the Dominion solar

MaxwellCharlie

Brank
Dammit Tharix, what have you gotten yourself into XD

MaxwellCharlie

@Brank
Could you, maybe, reply to what i wrote on DS?

Brank

MaxwellCharlie hold on, I was busy

Jenwuf

The STE join Dominion Solar
A last resort perhaps?
Yesterday night, the announcement was made that the STE would be joining the Dominion Solar, this has caused uproar within STE space, and the smaller fleets of our navy are reporting huge numbers of attacks, alongside our ground force bases on [Redacted] being attacked by civilians, often in retrofitted civil landships.
These attacks are likely due to Tau's having stood alone for so long up until now.

It is possible, that this act of allegiance is due to the Anhysbys.
Since three days ago, numerous reports of Anhysbys snapping into a Permanent red glow caused by their aggression and Eho-drives.
The Blood Feather research team have confirmed this is not their doing.
However, the planet below Jarl's hope station has begun pulsing much more rapidly, and seems to be glowing more red. Could this be the cause?
Either way, it is likely joining the dominion solar was due to this sudden deterioration of the JTAE alliance.

The empress released the following statement

"Please remain calm, the information I received will become vital in my decision to do with the JTAE.
And us joining the dominion solar is for the benefit of all of us!
There will be a council meeting later today about these issues."

Jenwuf

Sombreroman
The fleet passes many debris fields, all of them seem entirely silent, no lifesigns are detected in any of them.
The debris consists of many different ships, however it is clear these are mainly Civil Tiark co. Ships, alongside numerous different capital ship models, mainly old ISC era designs.
Hundreds of STE fighters litter each site, launched from nearby STE capital class ships. Interestingly whatever reduced the rest of the fleets to dust could only slice parts off of the STE capital's.
The battle sites suggest the two sides where fighting each other, before something else destroyed them.
Interestingly, the fleet picks up a transmission on loop from one of them, around the location of the sent transmission from before.
//Transmission Start//
[Black box recording dated 03/08/ERROR_yearunspecified]
"Damnit! Those #$@£ing rebels have pulled us out of Echo-cruise again.
At this rate we will never get this info to them."

"launching all fighters Ika!"

"well, lets get this-"

"Ika! Capital FTL signature detected!"

"Wha-
GREAT GODS! THATS A BLODDY MAJESTIC CLASS!
ALL POWER TO SH--"

-Bang-

"Crap, we need to send this message, they hit our comms!
Send the message to a pilot! Their comms will do"

"Ok Ika.
What do I say to send, and who to?"

"get a pilot to send it to BLADE, they should be able to get it to where it needs to be,
Just let them know it is the Anhysbys turning hostile, not something else."

"aaand done.
Hopefully he can get it sent."

"Well... now we wait"

"But! We could escape!"

"No... I'm not leaving my crew behind."

"Another warp signature Ika!"

"Great...
WAIT, THATS A BLODDY ANHY---"
[end of log]
[ERROR: T]
//Transmission end//

MaxwellCharlie
Akio
"I'm not so sure, I don't think its their fault...
And the alliance was us hoping to stop it... ha, I wish that worked."

MaxwellCharlie
A bus drove up to near the landing pad from the nearby civil airport-like building.
The driver hopped out and spoke.
"Hi, welcome to jarls hope station, we here at--"
then, he actually looked at Ferox and the ship.
"Oh... you are... oh.
Why did the operator send you here?
Oh well sorry about that, who do you wish to speak to?
I'll take you there."

Drakador_Chaos
"Hi? Are... you... ok?" He asked quietly.
The soldier kept his gun aimed directly at its head... as if that would do anything.

Jenwuf

MaxwellCharlie
Akio
"Well, I can't tell you everything...
But overall, that damn planet is responsible.
You see, the Anhysbys put it there at some point.
Due to that, it started to influence our universe.
And well... it manipulates things, and makes them unstoppable.
There is no stopping it entirely, but maybe we could slow it down."

MaxwellCharlie
//Transmission Start//
"Uniform-Foxtrot-Alpha S##shipnumber_here [ERROR, unknown ship model], This is a Core system station.
Docking request accepted, please land at internal landing pad 46

This station is currently using the Autoreply function due to all
Operators being busy, we here at Tiark co. Apologise for any inconvenience."
//Transmission End//

MaxwellCharlie
Due to the amount of rebel activity distracting the STE, they barely even notice the ship...

MaxwellCharlie

@Jenwuf
Grand Admiral Ferox
A medium sized ship warped in. "This is Grand Admiral Ferox of the UFA, requesting permission to dock or land." Spoke a female voice through the comms.
image https://i.imgur.com/DNgKWHJ.png

MaxwellCharlie

@Jenwuf
?????????????
A ship of unknown origin is spotted at the edge of JTAE/STE territory. It quickly enables a cloaking devise and disappears.
image https://i.imgur.com/BHaXoI3.png

MaxwellCharlie

Jenwuf
Grand Admiral Ferox
The ship docked and the bay doors opened. Out walked a being. The being wore what looked like an impossibly heavy suit of armor, being made of a tungsten-osmium alloy. No part of the being's actual body was actually visible. The being had the generic female shape, and was escorted by three others.

MaxwellCharlie

Jenwuf
Tharix
He nods. He sorta understands now. "So, the Anhysbys were basically toying with us? Manipulating us?" He pasued. "Then why are we allied with them?"

MaxwellCharlie

Sombreroman Jenwuf
?????????????
Everyone within about 10 km of Jarls Hope, including the humans of BLADE, the Taus residing in Jarls Hope, the Avellaturi, and even the nearby Anhysbys, felt as if something was... watching them...