Old Cult-territory (3) [End]

Gladiaxa

Drakador_Chaos The defensive bases on the asteroids (with the guns above), are towing farther than it was of the territory of the cult.
But also, they fire on small asteroids to direct them in the direction of Bloodcult vessels, without aiming them directly.

Gladiaxa

Gladiaxa and small ships will take your shots

zergRush99

Drakador_Chaos the Hivemind jamped and start spining around the storm, hoping to spot something

Drakador_Chaos

zergRush99
...as the Hivemind traveled around the storm and by that also around the core territory, he started seeing just what dimensions this storm actually had as it seemed to enguld the entire inner Cult territory without a gap, the only things he passed by occassionally were carcasses of large Cult ships and a few dying stars as well as barren planets,t hough nothing of interest...
Until he eventually, about 1/3 of teh way aorund the inner core, he saw something in the only a few hundred kilometres away from the borders of the storm he saw a massive construct, it looked liek a massive nearly perfeculty round sphere the size of a planet and looked like a cage made up of various polygons...
As he went closer he saw the "cage" seemed to be completely black, interuppted by thick strands of flesh which seemed to connect the cage with something the middle which looked like another considerably smaller sphere about the size of a Lucifer at most, engulfed by the fleshstrands that went out to the cage, though from this distance he was unable to make out any more details...

Catplayz

Drakador_Chaos
Kelran did as he was told, though still made sure to keep enough energy for his escape.

Drakador_Chaos

Catplayz
...as Kelran touched the sphere with his hands he felt...nothing?
He started to fuel the orb with psionic energy and it started emanating a dim red light, after about ten seconds it apparently stilkl wasn´t filled and he started feeling that it was not only him feeding the orb anymore, but the same time orb draining his psionic reserves, he started sweating from the continuous efforts in the Cult-territory, how long had it been since he entered? eventually after about thirty seconds, the orb seeemd to satiated, it now emanated a deep red glow and a outstanding psionic energy, as he let go and dropped to the ground for a few moments from the exhaustion, the orb lifted off it´s pedestal and was now floating approximately 10 centimetres above it, kelran got up and saw that his map had apparently went offline but the comms sprang to life...
"Ok, all overrides active, we start getting data! Head out of the corridor then right and downstairs."

Drakador_Chaos

Gladiaxa
...as the primal hunter shells made contact with the ships that had been moved into the firing arc some of them got severly crippled, while other luckier ones got away with a few dents and scratches, though as the beast saw the (I suppose it´s the ones without the defensive installations) asteroids being flung off into Cultspace it suddenly held fire...apparently observing what was happening...was it...confused?
It was still floating there and the eye was stilll charged, though as of currently it didn´t fire anymore...

Gladiaxa

Drakador_Chaos -Sir, what's going on?
-It seems that everything is fine, the strategy has succeeded. Now, let's go back to our business, but let's keep an eye on them.

zergRush99

Drakador_Chaos the Hivemind got closer to the cage and entered it, but was still far away from the central peace. Was tring to get a closer look at the strange constraction

Catplayz

Drakador_Chaos
Kelran headed the way he was told, running with all the speed and energy still available to him

Drakador_Chaos

Gladiaxa
...as they were about to go back to work, a psionic presence entered their minds, a voice booming in their heads, it was apparently the massive beast in the distance...
"What do you want here, followers of the ones who seek to defy all life?!"

Drakador_Chaos

zergRush99
...Whatever it was, it seemed to be inactive, there was no energy radiating from the cage nor from the core, there seemed to be a large open gate in of the cores walls and the core apparently had the same shape as the cage, with the same polygonal segments, just walled off and considerably smaller...
The cage itself was also rather odd, the gaps in between the frame were large enough to let large numbers of ships through and as he took a closer look at the material the cage was made of, he saw that veins were running along what seemed to be a black metal making it look as if it was biological...

Drakador_Chaos

Catplayz
...as he ran he felt the hunger and hatred of the Bloodwraith coming closer with every moment, it´s distant screams shaking his body, his mind feeling as if he´d be wading through water, it´s constant presence pressuring his mind even from a distance...
...as he reached the lower end of the stairs there was only one corridor around him, apprently turned left at it´s end...

Catplayz

Drakador_Chaos
Kelran continued running, while also hastily detaching one of his remaining psi-baits from his belt and throwing it behind him.

Drakador_Chaos

Catplayz
...as he turned left the corridor ahead was apparently relatively long it was difficult to tell what the other end looked like from here, though the comms did not spring to life this time...was the rest of the path just straight forward?
He heard parts of footbridges crashing down as the beast made it´s way further towards his direction, the surrounding shelves were filled with odd-looking scrolls whose borders were covered with some sort of runes...

Zachary

@Drakador_Chaos @RandomCommander ?

Drakador_Chaos

Zachary -> Drakador_Chaos

8nathan

At the edge of Bloodcult territory, a massive fleet of ships appear. Weak and with no weapons, this is the entire population of a planet in cryo sleep, trapped in pods until they reach a safer place to live. The ships have been drifting for months, as the original flight plans were lost, and there is no longer anyone awake to correct them.

(i cant get image links to work sorry)

Drakador_Chaos

8nathan
(Are you aware this is the possibly the most inappropriate area to send a bunch of cryopods to? You essentially just threw a free meal at the Cult ;<.<)

8nathan

Drakador_Chaos ik im literally that bored
Ive been following the cult for a while
i know they will just eat them
Call it scientific curiosity about how they operate

Catplayz

Drakador_Chaos
Kelran continued running, while also trying to sense whether there was anything behind the shelves

Gladiaxa

Drakador_Chaos
-Sir?
-I'm taking care of it. We are here because this point will serve as a vanishing point for our fleet when it finishes its next steep. Their pursuers will not be able to activate the FTL in your territory and some will not dare enter it. In addition the guns will be used to slow them down. We can then bend in space time, and they will be too far to know where we will go.

zergRush99

Drakador_Chaos the hivemind went through thr gates, being ready for something to appear out of the darkness.