The New Solaric Empire

Drakador_Chaos

Tson
...silence...
...several Solaric patrol ships followed their daily routine, scanning the systems outer parts for anomalies, checking on the defense installments...
...as a small dot appeared and moved into the sensor range at the borders of the system, from the shape and size it seemed to be an asteroid, and even while it´s size was considerable, it was nothing out of the ordinary...
...that is, until it changed direction, now directly heading towards one of the systems mining planets, despite the fact that it was utterly unhabitable, the mining planet was quite resource-rich and had only been recently been opened up for mining and the asteroid would probably do considerable structural damage to anything on the surface and below if left unchecked, even if that would still be in a few months or even years from now as the thing didn´t move too fast...
(On a sidenote, it´s in a border-system, not anywhere near the core.)

Tson

Drakador_Chaos

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Three antiquated Solaric SYS-DEF light cruisers deviate from their patrol path to investigate and if neccassary destroy the said asteroid, their ancient scanning systems attempting to obtain a basic scan at mid-range

Drakador_Chaos

Tson
...as the ships get closer they start picking up electromagnetic signatures from the asteroid, it seemed to be a total of 151 km in length and about 87 in width, but apart of that it simply looked like an everyday asteroid, rock and craters covering the surface, slowly rotating and moving towards the planet in the far distance at only 68 km/h...
...the scans did not penetrate too far into the surface though the upper few metres seemed to be nothing but rock...

Tson

Drakador_Chaos
On the bridge of the "Impenetrable" Commander Boze stared blankly at the display, this was perfect, the one USO they had in 50 years was just a slightly large asteroid, he didn't ask for an EL attack, just a pirate raid would do, I mean it would have been so easy to let things slide, to let his crews off combat drills and to ignore protocol, this was a backwater system, but he slaved away, a SYS-DEF commander, the indignity of it, he had been at college with Blak for sol's sake, and he had got better grades, but Blak had been in the right place, at the right time, and made Supreme Commander.
Not that he envied Blak's current position.
He had felt a bit guilty about all his bitterness against Blak when he heard of his disappearance.
Still.
"Ok, Tractor teams i want that rock shifted, move it into a system-exit path as defined by protocol 1-5."

Drakador_Chaos

Tson
...it took a while to change the course of the asteroid as it had the size of a small moon, though several minutes later they had finished the work and the asteroid was on course to leave the system, a few moments later they registered another pulse of electromagnetic energy coming from the thing, though it apparently wasn´t enough to make any changes it´s course or have any other effects for that matter...

Tson

Drakador_Chaos
"Hmm"
Boze was thoughtful, what did that mean? EM waves... well it surely couldn't hurt to inspect it, it had been a Very dull year.
"Marine squad five launch to asteroid surface, I want a detailed ident on that thing."

Drakador_Chaos

Tson
...there was apparently no more pulses by the time the marines reached the surface just a dim trace of electromagnetic radiation, apart of it´s size the surface of the asteroid seemed to be rather bland, rock, dust, not even any caves...

Brank

Tson A Large Colony Ship Arrives, along with 2 Frigates and a Small Wing of Fighters
:;Hello, We are the Sunset Republik, we would Like to Merge with the Solarics, due to an Economic Depression.;:

Tson

Drakador_Chaos
The Marines deploy a small remote drill, implanting a scanner node several feet under the surface

Tson

Brank
++Greetings unknown ship, this is capital station "Minaret", please state your full crew compliment and offensive capabilities, whilst doing so please transit to the coordinates we are transmitting, and remain at this point until you are cleared.++

Brank

Tson
We Have a Total crew on all ships of 1000, and Civilians of 3000
We have One Colony ship with only basic Point-Defense
2 Frigates with a total of 100 Laser guns, and 8 Missile Launchers, along with 4 Manifold Launch Platforms
We also have 30 Khala Class Fighters with 1 Missile Launcher and 2 Laser Cannons
Coordinates: System Sol

Tson

Brank
Suddenly an alpha-grade stasis field is projected around the civilian ships and most of the fighters freezing them in time, then armed fighter-zippers swoop down toward the 4 manifold launch fighters
++Fighters evac your crews at once or they will be destroyed, repeat evac or die++

Brank

Tson
:;Please Help Us! Our People are Starving!;:

Brank

Tson The Frigates Eject all Escape pods, no people are left on them.

Tson

Brank
The rash delay of the frigate commanders proves costly for the four fighters, laser bolts lance out from the fighter-zippers, overwhelming the four ship's shields and puncturing vital systems, the ships explode, taking a few of the straggling escape pods with them
Then the stasis field lowers, and freighters swoop in to pick up the remaining escape pods and to dock to the other ships and transfer crew.

Brank

Tson
"Why would you kill Innocents just because they Lagged behind by a few seconds, you Monsters"

Drakador_Chaos

Tson
... a few minutes after deployment the scanner nodes were ready to employ deep scans, a pulse of energy went through the asteroid and a few moments later the res...
...the marine frowned just as Boze on his light cruiser.
About 30 kilometres of the outer shell seemed to be nothing but solid rock, rather dense one at that, no traces of any rare resources or anything alike, which was already odd enough, though everything below that seemed to be a mix of a large variety of different metals and rare earth elements, partially refined and unrefined, enough to make any normal miner drool over his controlroom console...
Though even that was overshadowed by the core. Boze looked at the scans again, an asteroid shouldn´t have a core, not a liquid one either, just what was this thing?
The Asteroid in fact seemed to contain a core at it´s center with some sort of unidentifiable liquid, which also seemed to cause issues with scanning, so they were unable to "see" more than a few metres into the core either, which apparently measured about 1.5 by 0.7 kilometres, as well as in these lower areas there seemed to be strong electromagnetic currents going through the surrouning material, looking like a massively chaotic magnetic field of a sun...

Tson

Brank
++Those weapons were of imminent danger to our defence and for reasons you could never comprehend, they had to be destroyed immediately++

Brank

Tson
"YOU COULD HAVE AT LEAST LET THOSE INNOCENT MEN LIVE"

Tson

Brank
++I frankly value the safety of this sector more than that of those few souls, I am of course sorry, but you cannot know what peril hangs over this empire whilst those devices exist++

Brank

Tson He Walks off