The TECH Conflicts (Non-Canon Private Roleplay)

The TECH Conflicts are a couple of Non-Canon roleplays that are about a Conflict developing between TECH Foundations, and the Jkirk Federations/Empyrdom of Anticytheris.

The Participants
Joshua the Hedgehog

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Josh the Hedgehog

Side 1: The Jkirk Federations
The Jkirk Federations is a Highly Advanced, Intergalactic Faction, that is led by Adex Zarvok Burns. Jkirk had gotten involved into conflict upon investigating an Asteroid orbiting Mobius, of which led into an Hostile Confrontation against both Jkirk and TECH. The factions on this side are listed below:

The Jkirk Federations (Main): Functional

Side 1: Empyrdom of Anticytheris
The Empyrdom of Anticytheris is a magitechnologically advanced intergalactic military faction chiefed by Joshua Zephyrius, Archon Emperor of the faction and the king of the wind continent Ventilus of Planet Antiquus. The Empyrdom tried to test the capabilities of TECH after it attempted to explore Ryker whih ended up in a hostile confrontation on 3240 ATS. The factions of this side are listed below:

Empyrdom of Anticytheris (Main):  Functional

Side 2: TECH Foundations
TBA

Jkirk - TECH
Fort Jkirk, Downunda Mobius, 2:34 PM.

The Jkirkian Faction Leader, Adex Zarvok Burns, had just been hailed by General Wade Lester.

"What is it, Lester?" Adex had answered.

"Sir, we have just received reports of an Asteroid orbiting Mobius." Lester said.

"Lester, that would be it's moon. Why are y-"

"Not it's moon! I mean an actual Asteroid, sir. For some reason, we haven't detected it before, but now all of the sudden, we've Detected it on our scanners." Lester said.

"Interesting... how is it orbiting Mobius... and why...... Send in a expedition force over to the Asteroid." Adex ordered.

"It will be done, sir." Lester replied, before adjourning communications.

TECH HQ, The Eye, 2:45 PM.

Meanwhile in TECH Headquarters, the Eye had acquired a suspicious object in the solar system.

"Sir?" One of the watchers said, "we have an unknown object in the 7th section."

Lieutenant Briggs peered over, intrigued. "Do you suppose it could be just a comet?" He asked.

"It's too small to be a comet, Sir, and its trajectory is aimed to impact the HQ not too long from now."

"Odd," Briggs said. "Focus on your section and figure out what that is. I'll call the SEG (Space Exploration Group) to go and research it up close."

"Yes, Sir." Said the watcher, and she went straight into examining the molecules of the unknown object.

A few minutes after the call, a SEG ship has left the headquarters, traveling almost head-on to the object.

They can suddenly detect an object coming out of Mobius' Orbit, of which said object was a Jkirkian Reaper X3Y Airship. It was heading straight towards the Asteroid (I don't know if they were referring the Reaper as the object).

(I'm referring to the expedition force, and assuming that the force will come on one ship. Sorry if I'm wrong, edit if needed)

The SEG just barely passed by the airship, viewing the spacecraft on the side and seeing the symbol of Jkirk Federations. They instantly reported in.

"Commander, we have a spacecraft with a JF symbol on its side! It's trajectory is heading straight towards HQ!"

Before long, the news spread all over TECH HQ. Jkirk has always been monitored by TECH because of its power, but they never thought they would have to act because of JF. The HQ Special Forces unit became active, aiming massive SAM towers in the direction of the Reaper, awaiting orders to attack. The feeling around the headquarters was intense.

The Reaper X3Y Airship entered the area. It's massive size (800 Feet Wide, 350 Feet Tall) would have been very alarming to anyone within the area. However, it was just hovering the area. If anyone were to attack it, they would be making a very big mistake.

Over a dozen infestors flew around the ship, each object clamping into the system, ready to hit it with major emp strikes or viruses if needed.

The ships crew immediately saw the infestor ships swarming around the Ship's shields. "Sir, we have contact on the Asteroid, some kind of Self Defense force." Said a Crew member, who was talking to Lester.

"Do not engage. If they are Self Defensive, then there must be a Faction up there. Hold your position." Lester ordered.

It was an extremely tense stalemate for about half a minute. Then a small machine rolled into view. It hacked the Reaper, but with no serious effect, only to make a radio message.

"To the people of this spacecraft, you are invading territory. Exit the asteroid boundary immediately or suffer trespassing consequences."

The machine would have to crack through very difficult codes and such in order to hack such an Aerostat. Due to it's difficulty in hacking the Aerostat, they would have had to resort to using Radio Transmissions, instead of Hacking into a manned Aerostat.

"And how would we know if this is your territory?" The captain of the Aerostat replied.

"You have been given a chance not to be arrested and apprehended. Final warning, leave the area, or we face the right to shut you down." The commander demanded. People around Commander Price heard how he had to repeat himself, and took it as a warning to prepare to fire. They began priming their weapons.

"You threaten us? The very second your forces fire their weapons, you will spark a War that you cannot win." Warned the Captain.

General Lester was hearing on the conversation, so if the Reaper were to suddenly 'Disappear', he would be the first to mobilize the first Jkirkian Forces.

"You have been warned to leave this territory, and by law, we are allowed to defend ourselves. Shut down your engines or we will force it down!"

"You do realize that if we shut down our engines, we can't leave the Asteroid, right?" The captain said.

The crew of the Reaper X3Y had started preparing the Aerostat's weapons, in case Conflict develops.

"You've been given the chance to leave, and have failed to do so. You are now legally considered as hostiles."

Off radio during the chat, the commander had ordered the infestor controllers to hack the ship's controls to use it at any given moment. "Get control over the ship and bring it down," he ordered. The controllers did what they were told, and they began the hack.

The controllers would find it very difficult to hack into a Military Aerostat, despite any training they have had.

"...Well then. I guess we fire our weapons.... Fire our weapons." The Captain ordered.

The Reaper X3Y starts firing it's 8 Reaper-305 Plasma Cannons, 2 Reaper-476 Heavy Railguns, and 60 TS4L Defensive Plasma Cannons at the hostile ships that were around it. Due to the Defensive Plasma Cannons being Automatic, and the firing of the weapons were sudden, causalities are to be expected on the ships.

The Aircraft within the Reaper's hangars were given 5 minutes to ready up, and begin attacking any TECH ships/aircraft.

Over 9,000 infantry units barged into the area of combat. Scorpions were being docked and getting ready to fly. Meanwhile, the Infestors went from hacking to EMP strikes, then self-destructing with cesium explosives to leave gaping holes in the Reaper.

50,000 more members were already approaching as backup from Mobius.

Thanks to the Reaper X3Y's shields, it had sustained very little damage from the cesium explosives, while it's Defensive Cannons had shot some of the Infestors out of the sky. However, the very second an EMP hit the shields, although not entirely disabled, the area the EMP had hit the shield had left a temporary 'hole' in the shields, so any weapon that goes through that are able to bypass the shields, and effect the Reaper's hull.

The Reaper retaliates, by firing it's Plasma Cannons at the approaching Infantry, while saving it's Railguns for a more dangerous target. Due to the Aerostat's Cannons being fired at Infantry, and said cannons were Area of Effect weapons, they would inflict major casualties on TECH's Infantry, while the very sight of the Reaper might decrease morale for TECH's defending forces.

Aircraft within the Reaper's hangars were almost ready to launch, and will be launched shortly [Upon the next turn].

Several dozen TECH members died from the initial attack, leading everyone else to approach cautiously, or just stand their ground within building protection. The Scorpions were in the air, and due to its immense acceleration and deceleration speed, they were sudden and possibly unexpected. Three nearby SAM towers became online, each SAM tower capable of blasting heat at 50 million degrees Fahrenheit due to its fuel source being fusion power. They fired at the ships, two of them using area effect blasts, one using concentrated blasts. A Roving Truck appeared in the area, opening its back hatch and unleashing two dozen more infestors.

Upon seeing this, the crew of the Reaper decides to retreat, by opening a Rupture so it may escape. It doesn't mean that it's unable to be hit however, as some of the SAM missiles were either blasted out of the sky by the Defensive Plasma Cannons or got blocked by the Shield, very few managed to hit the Hull. Aircraft Launch was cancelled, seeing at the Reaper was attempting to escape via Rupture.

"Call off your units," said Commander Price. "Let them retreat, we have the wounded to care for, we are not an army that will pursue the enemy when they retreat." The wounded infantry from the initial blasts were quickly gathered back into the safety of a TECH building. The Commander watched the Reaper from a camera.

The Reaper successfully escaped, leaving no confirmed causalities on Jkirk's side. The Reaper would be heading over to an unknown planet that's known to Jkirk as: Xervedia, for repairs, and to mobilize a Strike Force to strike the Asteroid.

As of now, the TECH Conflict has begun.

"Code TL Major has been initiated. The battle is cosmic concentrated. Send forces for a cosmic division, alert other celestial bases. The objective is to get all of Ryker (name of the asteroid) online and ready for combat if they return."

The commander was soon offline, and it was only ten minutes later before Ryker's skies were filled with nearly a thousand Scorpions. A second matter barrier was established to back up the first one.

Over at Xervedia, the Reaper had arrived over at the planet via Rupture. Once the ship made touchdown within a Aerostat Yard, it's crew had began exiting the ship, and it was immediately put in repairs. The captain himself was called over to a Command Center to give his debriefing to the Faction Leader: Adex Zarvok Burns.

Within minutes, secured communications were established between the Captain and Adex (Brace yourself for a big entry).

"Greetings, Captain. I assume you have a report on this Asteroid I have been hearing about?" Adex asked.

"Yes, sir. It so turns out that this Asteroid has been inhabited by a highly advanced faction, their identities are unknown however." The captain replied.

"Interesting. What are the technologies of this faction?" Adex asked.

"Sir, they seem to have a mass unit capacity of Infantry, along with EMP/Conventional Kamikaze Jets. They also have a lot of SAM Sites at the Asteroid, along with Transport Trucks that deploy the Kamikazes. They also used some unknown technologies, and before we retreated, they deployed some kind of Aircraft that either Teleports, or is extremely fast." The captain reported.

"Hmm.. SAMs, EMP Kamikazes, and Speedy Aircraft? Is that what I'm hearing?" Adex replied.

"Basically sir, yeah." The captain said.

"I see.... this is categorized as a Level 3: High on the Threat Scale, then. I am hereby allowing authorization of Protocol 35. I advise sending in Ground Forces, with AAA Cover, along with Aerostat and Aircraft Support. Notify our fleets in Fadenhawk, Fermodix, Mobius and Vexatar to be ready to deploy within 20 minutes. We will overwhelm them with our superior numbers." Adex said.

"I will notify General Lester of this, sir." The captain said.

"Good, good. This debriefing is adjourned." Adex said, adjourning their communications.

TECH recovered from the initial attack. Their opponents' attacks were recorded by camouflaged cameras.

The work was brought up to the Lieutenant Commander Morgan. He looked at several of the videos, studying what was happening.

"Start talking," he said after a while.

The soldier did as he was told. "Sir, the enemy... they had the technology we've expected them to have. A widespread attack took out the front line soldiers. Reports claim the attack to be a plasma blast, meaning that they may possibly have a counter-strike to plasma weapons like we do, sir.

"However..." the soldier said, "reports show where the infestors self destructed, no initial damage was done, but later attacks have caused damage in the surrounding areas. We may have uncovered a weak spot of the ship, and we must create a larger dose of the same effect to make sure they don't adapt..."

Morgan waved him off. "This is the part where I tell you all what to do, not you... still," he said as he stood up, "you're right. We have no idea what tactics this enemy uses. It's best to consider them an evolving force and work from there. Have the reinforcements arrived?"

"Two million militia members have arrived to the asteroid, sir. A few Goliaths are making their way here as well. Reports from celestial territories had sight of the ship traveling towards a distant celestial body. It could be a base."

"Send a covert division crew towards that planet. I want them to tell us what they are planning, then shut as much of it down as possible."

"Yes sir!" replied the soldier as he went off to tell his comrades. Morgan looked back at the video, noticing the power of Jkirk. We truly have no idea what we are up against...

2 out of 5 of the Jkirkian Fleets have already been mobilized. For them to mobilize this quickly is no surprise at all, despite each fleet's variable size. The fleet was ordered to rendezvous at Xervedia, so that the Fleet Commanders may devise a strategy to attack the Asteroid.

The DA14s were well on their way to following the retreating spacecraft. The Dark Arrows are a group of spacecraft from the Covert division, usually around 2-5 at a time. DA14s are the fourteenth creation of the Dark Arrows. Each DA14 can only hold five people, but the speed behind it is the reason why it must be light. Tachyon technology allowed the planes to travel up to 10 times ftl. However, the acceleration is slow, so this craft is only used for travelling, not fighting. As the crew got closer to the ship, they turned on optic disabling. This rendered them invisible to the entire electromagnetic spectrum, and vibrated the ship to a frequency where its matter itself cannot be found established unless extreme technology is used.

(Wait, i'm confused. What's going on? .3.)

(Basically, your retreating Reaper is being followed by spy ships)

(You do realize the ship has already reached Xervedia and has already docked, right? o3o)

(yes... I stated it twice in my part... did I not state it clear enough?)

(No, you didn't really state that they instantly got to Xervedia, but okay. .w.)

(sorry)

(Ah, it's alright. Your still pretty new to this, and getting worked up over a roleplay is just stupid. o3o)

The very minute the spy ships had gotten close to the Xervedia System, they would have been detected by mass quantities of Detection Systems on Xervedia. As such, when they got into Orbit, they were met with massive resistance from both the Orbital Defense Platforms on three of Xervedia's Moons, and 2 of the 5 waiting Fleets that were within Xervedia's orbit, as said Fleets/Defense Platforms knew of the Ship's whereabouts due to, once again, the Detection Systems on the planet. If they were to somehow get past that, the Planet's surface would be swarmed with Factories, Testing Facilities, and Defenses (of which this is the reason why the planet has a massive pollution rate, huehue), and said defenses would have almost instantly spotted the Spy Ships, thanks to the Detection Systems. There should be no way that they could survive (Unless they Escape if they are in Orbit) from this massive Militarized Planet.

The DA14s launched a numerous amount of flares to protect them from incoming fire while also enabling a small size matter barrier as enhanced protection. As they attempted to hack into the Detection Systems, the mini eye scanners below the planes took pictures and sent the information to all TECH bases.

The mass amount of Defenses would have shredded through any countermeasures they had attempted to deploy. Said pictures of the Planet would have allowed TECH to see it's overwhelming amount of defenses and such, and because of said defenses, Morale would greatly decrease.

After two spacecraft went down and one was heavily damaged, the DA14s decided to regroup to base. They used their emergency reserve fuel to burst their way from the planet, firing all flares they had remaining, while radioing in the nearest Celestial body that they would land there.

Multiple commanders were frustrated by the amount of forces on that planet, but for one. His base, a moon known as Axt, was a few parsecs away from Xervedia. He was commander Kaiser, a meta. Kaiser seemed slightly deterred, but otherwise still confident. While the asteroid Ryker had the most TECH militia, Axt is the most powerful TECH station. As Kaiser viewed the photos, he knew not to attack the enemy planet directly according to the forces, but the feeling was mutual.

Suddenly, a person entered the building at a speed faster than what can be considered normal.

"Commander, the request for the new weapon is done," he said.

Kaiser smiled. "Show me what it can do."

(Did no one die from that?)

(what do you mean? A ship did go down. It's not like I just typed that in and hoped that you won't look at the revision history to see what I changed... or something...)

(I see now)

Seeing that Jkirk just got 'attacked' by some ships on Xervedia, the Faction Leader was immediately notified by this, he immediately authorized the use of Jkirkian Orbital Supremacy Stations (Otherwise known as J.O.S.S), of which many were already battle-ready when the conflict began. The J.O.S.S that was located on Mobius immediately prepped up it's weapons, in case it was attacked, or was ordered to attack.

The TECH Militia had then decided to check in with the TECH technology field. This field contains people with doctoral degrees and 180 IQs, so their expertise in making inventions quickly and efficiently was guaranteed. Since TECH Militia and TECH Works were two different sections, technology was already being invented prior to any conflict.

The leading weapons engineer Dr. Brown had a chat with Commander Price. Brown held some kind of weapon in his hand.

"We've hit a new breakthrough with the tachyons and gravitrol weapons," he said. "By harnessing their ability to approach speeds faster than light, we've been able to revamp technology onto a level where the ammo of this TAC-1 has reached speeds of 1.3c... that's thirty percent faster than light." He handed the weapon to Commander Price, who observed it for a moment.

"It's heavy. There's no point of a fast bullet weapon if it takes time to pick it up and fire."

"It is a prototype, Commander, we still some tweaks to fix. Once it is done, we want you to be the first person to test it before it is mass produc--"

"We are at an intense war right now," Price's voice was calm, but threatening. "I don't care about whether or not I'm first, I care if the thing works without backfire. What about the gravitrol weapons now?"

The interruption had Brown anxious for a moment. "Right... Th-the gravitrol gun is capable of launching a mine that creates a gravity field in a 20 foot radius, the mine itself being around 90 G. Though bullets and people would get pulled in, TAC-1 bullets are faster than light, and will be unaffected by this gravity."

Price seemed impressed. "Get them done, and get them to us as fast as possible." He turned around, but then looked back. "And I want them flawless, don't rush to me with a gun that shoots the user."

Brown stood there for a brief moment as he watched Price walk away. "Y-yes sir!" He stated before returning the prototype.

The Asteroid would have probably detected the presence of the J.O.S.S on Mobius.

On Xervedia, 5 out of 5 of the Fleets have arrived to group up, and form an attack on the Asteroid. The 5 Fleet Commanders began devising a plan to tactically approach the TECH HQ (Note: They have no idea it's the TECH HQ). Most thought to divide the Fleet into separate fleets to engage TECH on multiple fronts, while others thought to Attack Head-on with every ship together. After some debates, it was finally agreed that they would split the combined fleet into 5 Fleets, to engage TECH on multiple fronts, put pressure on them, and then have Reinforcement Fleets 6 - 10 swoop in, and go for the kill. The Fleet Meeting was adjourned with a Fleet Commander requesting the mobilization of 5 more Fleets, to act as a 2nd Wave, and additional reinforcements.

TECH HQ was in its prime form. Since they were playing the defensive, they thought that Jkirk would be returning with a bigger force. It only made logical sense. After the immediate reinforcements arrived, the first thing they did was revamp the asteroid's matter barrier to its prime form, made to resist nuclear weaponry just in case Jkirk came down to it. The TECH members of The Eye were now alert, ready to report in even the slightest unusual thing. Space explosive meteoroids were orbiting the planet. While on the outside, they seemed like normal meteors, the inside had an explosive ready to ignite by motion sensory of a 100 foot radius. The explosive itself was covered by a special mineral that blocks it from all but gamma rays on the electromagnetic spectrum. Nearly two hundred of these were deployed in designated orbits as to not cause a premature ignition.

The second and third group of reinforcements stood by on Mobius. There was a change of plans for the third reinforcements, however. A radio message came in from Commander Price.

"Lieutenant Wilson," he said, "Jkirk bases on Mobius has been bustling with more activity than usual. If anything takes to the skies, don't let it leave the atmosphere."

"Yes, sir," Wilson replied before switching channels. "Attention units. We have a change in objectives. We are initiating Operation: Duck Hunt. I repeat, Operation: Duck Hunt. Get to your assigned locations, now!" Worldwide, the TECH Militia's third reinforcements began moving into the perimeter edges of Mobian Jkirk territories.

The Jkirkian Territories on Mobius seemed to only include 37% that of Downunda, this gave TECH the numbers advantage, however Jkirk has the Home Advantage, having Military Forts/Outposts constructed from the Jkirkian Revolutionary War that allowed Jkirk to have a massive Military Influence, while also having deep details of that of Territories' Terrain, with TECH most likely rushing in blind.

The J.O.S.S on Mobius had just been given the authorization to use the Xervedia Orbital Plasma Cannon at will, and as such, the crew on the space station started the 10 minute charge-up sequence for the Cannon to fire. In order to give the Fleet a chance to actually attack, they began suddenly firing at the Asteroid of which the HQ was on (again, unknown to Jkirk). Due to the J.O.S.S's weapons having superior range, they were able to fire out of the 100 foot radius of the Meteroids (Note: They have no idea they were one of TECH's weapons, also 100 feet in space is very small. Very, very small. .w.) with their Plasma, Anti Matter, and Dark Matter cannons. Spacecraft began prepping up for a Raid on the Asteroid, which would ready up within 5 minutes.

The 5 Fleets over at Xervedia began entering Ruptures, as 5 attentional fleets on Xervedia, Vexatar, and Fadenhawk were being mobilized as Reinforcements.

(Before I start, I know 100 feet is small. It's not about the quality this time, but the quantity.)

(Hmm... I think I sense something within you... I don't know what it is though. Be careful with your tone however... you might cause problems)

(I made it bold so you could see the message in case you missed it. No tone was made, sorry about that.)

(Ah. Apologies for accusing you of having a tone .3.)

"Did anyone else get that reading?" Reported a watcher as the matter barrier sustained a decent hit.

Another watcher responded. "Sir, we've got reports of a large emission of plasma and negative forms of matter from one of the Jkirk Territories."

So they've created this as well, Price said to himself.

Just then, Briggs approached Price. "Sir, the new weapons are ready to be used in combat. They're in mass production right now, and we've already have 10,000 of each to give to your defense." Due to technology being an entirely different section of TECH, they are able to rapidly produce things.

"Send the TAC-1s to the HQ Defense Division immediately, give the gravitrol weapons to the terrestrial and aero division." He turned to radio in someone. "Wilson, dark matter is in possible use against us. You're going to be given gravitrol weapons to cancel out the dark matter, and possibly cause a plasma fusion. If we're lucky, their whole base will burn as a result, so this needs to happen, but only if they fire the cannons again."

He looked back to one of the watcher, her eyes glued to the several screens ahead of her. "Is there any way of knowing when they will fire that again?"

"It seemed to build up energy before firing, sir," she replied, "We will have plenty of time to react if necessary."

Good, he thought, but not good enough. "Attention offensive watchers, get the satellites ready to give them a taste of their own medicine."

Meanwhile, Commander Slate had finished gathering his Aero division to fly high tech camo-planes around the Jkirk bases of Mobius. Not to the extent of being within their perimeter, however, similar to the terrestrial force. The planes have their missiles ready to fire upon the base, but they weren't normal missiles...

The Camo Planes would have faced extreme amounts of AAA (Anti Air Artillery) Fire the very second they would have entered Jkirkian Territories on Mobius, due to various detection systems, which would have resulted in them retreating, due to a mass decrease of Morale (I'm starting to get the feeling you don't know what Morale is, because it seems you've been somewhat ignoring it). Evacuation orders of Jkirkian Civilian Installations had already been given after an hour on the incident of the Asteroid, and the first wave of civilian spacecraft were sent. The minute TECH Aircraft were sighted on Jkirkian Territories, a full mobilization of Jkirkian Forces of Mobius were authorized.

The J.O.S.S fired another barrage at the Asteroid, and due to Anti-Matter and Dark Matter being extremely effective against Matter, the so-called Matter Shield would be taking a massive beating, along with Plasma being exceptionally good against Shielded Targets as well would have contributed to the Matter Shield's beating. Various types of Jkirkian Spaecraft, such as BG-471 and BG-479 Space Fighters/Space Bombers and GT42K Interceptors came swarming out of the Hangars of the J.O.S.S, which would very much indeed cause problems for TECH, due to their overwhelming numbers. Genesis Transports were also deployed as well, in order to pave way for a Land Assault on the Asteroid.

Multiple Ruptures began appearing around the asteroid.

On Mobius, the planes continued circling the edge of the perimeter like the shadow in the corner of one's eye. It's there, but it doesn't threaten anyone. (I thought I was using decreased morale here, because I was thinking about putting the planes within the territory, but I kept them out of it and only to fire after you made the first turn. Can you explain?) Terrestrial forces saw no signs of danger, but they remained alert, taking 3 hour shifts.

Back to Ryker, the matter barrier was on the imminent verge of collapse, but the Ryker satellites were now online. The satellites began rotating to focus on incoming spacecraft, firing at them with anti matter. A few hundred Scorpions flew out of the matter barrier, however keeping their distance because of the amount of strength in their unprepared attack from the first battle.

SAM towers began charging up their tachyon upgrades. Since these were just installed, it would take them time to fire, so matter barriers were placed over them, and they were protected by infantry using their own TAC-1 weapons.

(Morale is basically the person's positive will to do various actions for someone. When morale is at a high standpoint, the individual/group will have very positive spirits, and would love to continue on. When morale is at a low standpoint, the individual/group will have very negative spirits, and some would likely retreat without given the order, refuse to fight, surrender to the enemy, or desert their positions. Morale is a big key in combat, so when it increases or decreases, there's a big chance the tide of battle will turn in either your, or the enemies favor. Of course Morale could also apply to Civilians during their work hours and such, but this isn't a civilian workplace, so.... XD)

(gotcha, I will try to elaborate on it more later on)

(Many thanks)

The J.O.S.S detected TECH's Satellites when they became active, and thinking they were Orbital Defense Weapons, the crew concentrated 25% of the J.O.S.S's arsenal on the Satellites, while the rest still fired at the asteroid, now knowing it is protected by Matter Shields.

The 5 Fleets that were mobilized at Xervedia had fully exited their ruptures. Fleet 1 was at the Northwest portion of the Asteroid, Fleet 2 was at the Northeast, Fleet 3 was Southeast, Fleet 4 was Southwest, and Fleet 5 was at the West. As they exited their Ruptures, it was noted each fleet contained 8 Reaper X3Ys, and 2 unknown Aerostats of smaller, but still massive size.

The Jkirkian Atmospheric (Ground and Air) Forces were 37% mobilized, with the first wave of Civilian Transports now entering Mobius' Orbit, preparing to enter their Ruptures. TECH might mistake them for Military Spaceships, although it's a 50/50 chance.

"Activate the last resort protocol for the matter barrier." Announced Price.

Scorpions and Ryker satellite controllers were warned of this protocol, so they turned on their EMP immunity mode. This temporarily shut down their weaponry until it was deactivated. The matter barrier instantly dissipated by turning itself into a EMP field, spreading outwards very quickly, far enough to almost affect satellites orbiting Mobius. This may have affected the civilian spacecraft if it has gotten beyond that point.

With the matter barrier down, defense was sacrifice for strength, as forces on the ground of Ryker attacked with their TAC-1 guns. The SAM Towers were now online, and began turning towards the skies with their new tachyon weaponry.

The civilian Aircraft had entered their ruptures before the EMP took effect, which was good. Fleets 1 - 5 were not lucky however, as they were close to the EMP's Area of Effect, and therefore disabled. They are vulnerable to attack for 3 - 5 turns. 1 out of 2 events are to happen to the J.O.S.S. A: The J.O.S.S on the other hand was somewhat out of the range of the EMP Field (Likely), and continued to fire at the Satellites and Asteroid. If the EMP were to hit the J.O.S.S somehow, then the J.O.S.S would have activated their single EMP-Countermeasure Feature to prevent being disabled, and either way they would continue to fire at the Satellites and Asteroid.

67% of Jkirk's Atmospheric Forces were mobilized, while Fleets 6 - 10 were fully mobilized, and are ready to deploy upon the Fleet's or J.O.S.S's command.

Several offensive satellites began going offline once their matter barriers began breaking down due to J.O.S.S.'s fire, but Commander Price told them not to fire at the J.O.S.S. station. They were to divert their attacks on the disabled ships to assist the Scorpions, planning to take them out as fast as possible.

On Mobius, three Goliaths began flying upwards to the asteroid. Two of them mainly being reinforcement crew, and one being an all out offensive.

Meanwhile, Many infantry foot soldier units began backing off out of fear of going against a ship, since many dozens were already killed or injured. The vehicle infantry showed more bravery since they were under some protection of a matter barrier. The SAM Towers proved the most valiant of all of the ground forces, launching their faster than light weaponry at J.O.S.S.

The infantry soldiers that went in safety for cover began controlling healing robots known as HHTs, and they also sent out about fifty Infestors, their goal being to reach the J.O.S.S. and shut it down.

The J.O.S.S would most likely be out of the SAM Tower's range, as the J.O.S.S is miles upon miles away from the Asteroid, and a simple SAM Tower would not have the range capability to target a Space Station (unless if the Sam Tower is a Orbital Defense Tower, but I doubt that) that's not within atmosphere, however Fleets 1 - 5 are able to be targeted, as they are actually close enough. As more satellites were shutting down, more of the J.O.S.S's arsenal began targeting at the Asteroid, along with the incoming Infestors, and assuming it's no longer protected by Shields, the Asteroid would now be taking surface damage. Strangely however, the J.O.S.S began to tilt it's bottom view towards the Asteroid. It also seems the J.O.S.S is ignoring the Goliaths that were flying to the Asteroid.

Jkirkian Atmospheric Forces on Mobius are fully mobilized, and are now ready to defend/attack on command, while Fleets 6 - 10 are also waiting for the order to be given.

"Um, sir?" An offensive satellite launcher said, "one of the hostile spacecraft is tilting in an odd fashion. Could it be malfunctioning?" Price looked at the screen, seeing what the watcher said. He had a look of worry on his face just as a stray shot destroyed the satellite.

An incoming message for the Goliath vehicles came from Price. "Reports are showing one of the enemy spacecraft tilting its ship towards us. A possible AGA (Air to ground Assault) could be happening. When you get here, I want your weapons prepped to fire immediately at the target."

The atmospheric barrier, the strongest matter barrier, was destroyed, but the barriers surrounding the buildings still stood because of the protection. The ground itself had its terrain roughed up, causing trouble for the infantry, a few knocked off their feet, and some more injured from the initial fire. Fearing a repeat of last time, the infantry cautiously backed away from the action, and they pretty much could do that, since the TAC-1 automatic rifles were faster than light, therefore making the accuracy numerously better than their previous sniper rifles. Some of the units switched to their secondary weapon, the classic EC plasma rifle. They began firing at the disabled fleet while they had the chance.

The SAM Towers continued firing at J.O.S.S., a few of them taking some damage. (Tachyon tech allows the bullets to travel faster than light. Because the only force that can really act upon that speed is incredible gravity (or some other force you may have), the range of the tech is now millions of miles. They WERE merely atmospheric at highest range, which was why they were called SAM towers, but the tachyon upgrade changes that.)

(I see.)

The J.O.S.S's shields kept tanking the SAM's missiles, and because of it's massive size, it takes little to moderate damage, and because of the J.O.S.S's shields being able to tank FTL Missiles, morale would increase for Jkirk, but decrease for TECH. The Goliaths will begin to see that the bottom of the J.O.S.S wasn't turning towards them... but to the asteroid. As the bottom of the J.O.S.S neared the asteroid, any surveillance units/equipment could see a Plasma Cannon, that seems to be readying to fire at the Asteroid. Unknown to TECH however, the J.O.S.S was using it's Xervedia Orbital Plasma Cannon [Of which said cannon is going to fire at the next turn]. TECH might not know on what to think of the XOPC. and might have their commanders puzzled at the sight of it. The rest of the J.O.S.S's arsenal kept firing at the Asteroid and any Spacecraft that was in it's way.

The disabled fleet wasn't doing so good, however, as it was taking damage from the Infantry's TAC-1 and EC Rifles. However, thanks to the Reaper's Armor, and the fact that these are Infantry Weapons most likely designed to take on other Infantry, and not entire Aerostats, damage was also little to moderate. It was also fortunate that the Disabled Fleet wasn't targeted by the SAM Towers.

One of the SAM Towers seemed to be offline, but it turns out that the units controlling it fled the tower, going to the main building to use the override controls for it.

Price took note of progress. Eventually, he radioed the SAM Tower units. He noticed that the disabled fleets weren't taking much damage from the normal infantry weapons, and the SAM Towers were the same against J.O.S.S. Price radioed in the SAM Tower units.

"If we are to do any real damage now, take out the fleet before they get back online--"

"Sir, the ATG attack could be a possibility. The hostile ship still seems to be working at highest capacity."

"Right..." he changed his connection to the Goliath unit commanders.

"What is it, Commander Price?" said the Goliath commander, Smith.

"A possible repeat of the Omega Organization's ATG assault could be happening. If the gravitrol weapons are installed already, aim them on one side of the hostile's main ship in an attempt to tilt it away from Ryker."

"All but one of the Goliaths were installed, the attack threw off the schedule."

"What does it have as substitution?"

"Plenty of infestors."

"Launch them all at the ship and set them to EMP and self destruct."

The Goliaths all unleashed their new gravitrol weapons on the right side of J.O.S.S, attempting to tilt it away from Ryker.

The attempt was unsuccessful, as the J.O.S.S's bottom had successfully faced the Asteroid. It did, however, reflect any incoming fire that was fired at the time. The J.O.S.S began to fire their Weapons at the incoming Infestors as well. The J.O.S.S's crew on the other hand, saw this as their only chance to use their WMD, and immediately fired a Xervedia Orbital Plasma Cannon Normal Blast (which was a Red Thin Plasma Ray) at the Asteroid. Upon contact, the Blast would affect an area of 20 Miles, reducing anything in it to ruin. The blast might even be so powerful to knock the Asteroid out of Mobius' Orbit, if it were to make contact with the asteroid (Which would be most likely to happen, seeing that Plasma Rays are almost instantaneous).

Disabled fleets 1 - 5 on the other hand, had just began regaining their power, and as such, their Weapons and Shield Systems were back online within minutes of reactivation, as well as their communications.

The Eye went silent as they watched a portion of the headquarters get flattened. The blast was only 11 miles due to the alloy metal made to make the base, as well as the matter barrier's main purpose being to survive nuclear level bombings.

Eventually, one had spoke. "Sir, a WMD was launched in the are clearing out miles of land around the mining facility."

Price looked over to it, then he reported to the President. The President confirmed it himself. Jkirk was Threat Level M (Extreme). All tactics taken for Threat Level M were initiated.

The surrounding ten miles of the area of the blast were told to evacuate the area, pushing them on the other sides of TECH.

The TAST (Total Annihilation Special Troops) force was unleashed from another side of the asteroid, and they got to work fast. The first thing they did was use the prime matter barriers, a barrier made to resist nukes from all types: Hydrogen, Plutonium, Clean, Dark, and Anti. Only the TAST may use this barrier as a last resort because of the fact that it is extremely hard to build and repair quickly and efficiently.

The few infestors that did make it to J.O.S.S. struck it with EMP before exploding, as told. The Goliaths were informed to fire their gravitrol weapons around the area of the infestors to mess up the inner gravity of the ship, then they were told to fall back until further instructions once that was done.

The infestors had only affected the J.O.S.S's shields, just like last time with the Reaper X3Y earlier, and thus far the Gravitrol Weapons were having only a minor effect on the J.O.S.S. The 11 Miles that were affected by the XOPC was perfect for the Jkirkian Assault Force to use as a Landing Area to deploy Ground Forces. All of the fleets had fully regained their power as well. Fleets 1 - 3 took this chance, and proceeded to the affected area that the WMD hit. Anything within said affected area would have been destroyed instantaneously, even units/structures with Shields. Fleets 4 and 5 remained in their areas, so that they may pursue any retreating Spacecraft.

Fleets 6 - 10 were told to arrive at the Asteroid by the J.O.S.S's crew, and thus said Fleets entered their Ruptures to head over to Mobius.

TECH and Jkirkian Personnel on/around the Asteroid could probably tell the Asteroid was starting to move away from it's orbit, slowly outwards from Mobius.

''' As you obviously know by now, I can rarely get time to do this roleplay to to other activities. The few things I can do on the wiki are quick things, such as a quick comment or the Satan Claws roleplay. I cannot get much time to do this one. Yesterday, I HAD THE TIME TO DO IT.... but I fell asleep and my battery died. Forgive me. '''

(Ah, it's alright. o3o)

What was probably unknown to Jkirk was that TECH expected WMD attacks, due to their HQ being on an asteroid. Automatic rockets all over the planet easily became active and redirected the asteroid's course. Also, due to expecting WMD strikes, The main amount of buildings were actually deep underground, protected by an alloy of false chaos energy allowing it to resist nuclear weaponry and radiation. The communications for this area were disconnected, however.

The TAST's barrier was activating, so far covering 45% of the Asteroid.

Some new aircraft from TAST was coming into play. They call the jet Judgement, a reference to judgement day. They contained weaponry on par with goliaths in terms of power, while being incredibly fast and small at the same time. What each one of the jets had was a chaotic bomb, a nuke with nearly 95% of the radiation removed. They had no initial intentions of using the nuke immediately, neither did they had the intention of immediately leaving the safety of the barrier.

Meanwhile, ground forces were making their way to the perimeter of the affected area with radiation suits. The suits not only protected them from radiation, they were heat and energy resistant as well.

The infantry with the Radiation Suits might realize that the area had not even a single dose of Radiation (Assuming they equipped those Radiation Scanners).

Fleets 1 - 3 were now at the affected WMD area, and began mobilizing Ground Forces within their hangars, as well as Aircraft/Spacecraft. If any hostile forces began showing up at the Landing Area, they would immediately be under fire upon sight/detection from the Aerostat's Plasma/Railgun Cannons. Fleets 4 - 5 and the J.O.S.S kept on firing at the Asteroid, determined to decrease TECH Morale and devastate the surface of the Asteroid. Assuming that the barrier is made out of a stronger type of Matter, the barrier would still be weak towards any Anti-Matter Weaponry, and perhaps even Dark Matter. Said barrier would have some resistance to any Plasma Weaponry, however.

The ruptures belonging to Fleets 6 - 10 had began appearing at the Asteroid, thus providing reinforcements for the Jkirkian Assault Force. If this assault fleet were not to be enough, then a Battle Group would be notified to be mobilized once 74% of the Assault Force is destroyed, or if the J.O.S.S is destroyed. Said J.O.S.S began charging up an Overcharged Blast of the Xervedia Orbital Plasma Cannon, which would be more powerful, but takes 30 minutes to charge up, thus giving TECH time to prepare, although they wouldn't be able to see it charging up.

The radiation readings were at a safe scale, and this made the infantry switch to more suitable armor for the environment on the way there. The transportation vehicle was literally like a moving one story fort. It hovered across the terrain at 50 mph on average. On another mobile fort was robotic machinery. Being made by TECH, the robots have been made to resist EMP and magnetic strikes from hostiles.

As stated before, the TAST barrier is able to resist attacks from anti and dark matter assaults. Still, protection never lasts forever (a reference you won't understand), and the TAST barrier will begin to break down like the matter barrier over an extended period of overwhelming strikes. However, it would last much longer.

Tactical Jets (TJs) were getting ready for launch upon the attacked area. These are tiny camouflaging unmanned planes not meant for full on war, but for a tactical assault.

The explosive meteoroids were now being controlled by the Eye, some of them being duds as a distraction. The meteoroids discreetly began making their way toward J.O.S.S.

(Wait a minute, how are these Robotic Machines able to resist EMP and Magnetic Strikes?)

Upon seeing the Meteoroids, The fleets that were not at the landing zone, along with the J.O.S.S, had began firing 80% of their weapons at the approaching Meteoroids. The sheer amount of fire would cause a massive loss to said meteoroids. At the landing zone, Transports had just filled up with Ground Forces, and Aircraft/Spacecraft have just been ready to be deployed. As such, 14 Genesis Transports (in total), and a mass amount of Aircraft/Spacecraft [Refer to the Jkirk Federations Database to see what kind of Aircraft and Spacecraft are being deployed] had began exiting out of the Fleet's Hangars.

The XOPC's overcharged shot was at 10%.

(For EMP, a conductor material that is highly resistant to heat is coated around the circuitry of the androids. As for magnetics, it's like a reverse electro-magnet shield. The fact that TECH has been a thing for over two centuries, and, hence the name, it is about technology, it's pretty obvious they would invent a counter to it.)

The meteoroids increased in speed, going from 2,000 mph to 5,000 mph. They began moving in awkward paths in order to become unpredictable and even more scattered.

Meanwhile, the ground troops had stopped over a certain area of the wasteland. This may seem odd to Jkirk if they had noticed it.

For watching members of the Eye, some began noticing energy from the J.O.S.S.'s XOPC. They reported this in. Eventually, Judgement planes were now right under the barrier, several Tactical Jets surrounding each. They were approaching under J.O.S.S from all sides.

(I don't understand. It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that sometimes i'm completely oblivious .3.)

The Meteoroids would still be under heavy fire, and despite their change in path, would still lose a lot of them [Please list the amount of lost meteoroids in order to avoid confusion, please], along with the approaching Tactical Jets. In order to prevent being overwhelmed, the J.O.S.S ordered fleets 6 - 8 to defend the J.O.S.S, while also ordering any Spacecraft in it's hangars to be deployed. As such, massive amounts of Spacecraft were deployed from the J.O.S.S, and Fleets 6 - 8 began approaching the J.O.S.S, while the Rest of the Fleets around the Asteroid (since the Meteoroids just forgot they were there .w.) continued to fire at the strong Barrier, and which a lot of weapons being fired at it, it's certain the Shield wouldn't last for long.

Fleets 1 - 3 would have attacked the approaching TECH forces upon sight with their cannons and such [Which was said earlier above]. The Genesis Transports landed upon the surface of the Asteroid, deploying a wide variety of Infantry and Land Vehicles, while some of the Aircraft began attacking the approaching Tactical Planes, and TECH Ground Forces.

The XOPC Overcharged Shot was charged at 20%, almost enough for 1 Normal Blast.

(In short, TECH's android's have been designed to resist EMP and magnetism attacks due to research. They are not completely immune, but highly resistant).

(Ahh.. I see now... so, how powerful must the EMP be in order to break through the resistants?)

(The same amount of power it would take to put out an average city block per droid. Be glad that their travel speed is slow)

About 120 meteoroids were destroyed, 80 more still approaching. Now that fleets were lured out, the Goliaths were reported back into action. (The meteoroids didn't forget they were there, it was more of priority. Besides, no one apparently was blown up by the asteroids anyways.) (True Dat.) The Tactical jets surrounded the Judgement planes, still under the barrier. One of the Tactical Jets, however, had done the peephole strategy. The plane had snuck out of the matter barrier, fired a large missile of some sort towards J.O.S.S., then when back below the barrier.

The bomb began accelerating towards J.O.S.S. at hypersonic speeds, with it having a minuscule version of the matter barrier protecting itself.

On the ground, a mobile Fort was placed down. It may seem as they are camping in the area. Another ground force had tachyon snipers, aiming at infantry and land vehicles from nearly 20 miles away, but not firing yet. With the aircraft charging at the TECH ground forces, the Eye was able to warn them, and the Tactical Jets followed suit.

(Wait a freaking minute, isn't anyone getting hit by these large Plasma Cannons and such from the Aerostats and the Aircraft? Now while yes, I completely understand that you're typically new to this sort of thing, it is highly important, as I have said earlier [I think], that you describe on who got hit, and who didn't... because it's kind of looking like these Cannons and Aircraft Weaponry are just magically missing 100% of the time [Unless if i'm somehow mistaken somehow]. Annnd while i'm in a questioning mood, where the hell did this Fort come from? If it came from underground, then that I understand, but anywhere else, it would have faced a lot of weapons being used at it. .w.)

(I keep forgetting to state casualties, I take the blame. As for the forts, yes and no. They are both located above and below ground, there is a major storage facility for them that stretches from two stories up to eight stories underground. That, and the fact that there are several of these, not the ones just located in the ground zero zone. Anyways, I will go back and add in the casualty amounts now.)

Empyrdom - TECH
Anticytheris Receptacle, in Antiquian orbit: 8:30 AM

Through the intergalactic supernatural comm interface called the astral panel, Alice and the R&D were searching for other close territories around the Mobius solar system that may threaten their ally: the Jkirk Federations. Aside from searching for some, an unknown asteroid somehow caught Alice's attention.

"Hmm, what is that...?" she curiously asked. "An asteroid?" She began to pan to the location with her astral panel- powered by Aetermana, versatile energy teeming around the Heluxion solar system, which was nearby the aforementioned system.

"Eh, I should get Lord Joshua's permission to explore the heavenly body." She opened an astral channel linked to the Zephyeurian astral comm array.

Zephyeur Castle, Cryglen City, Avalaera, Ventilus, Planet Antiquus: 10:30 AM

Joshua was sitting on the throne while viewing footages from different sources recorded by the vigilance sections of the Empyrdom. A Receptacle channel opened, revealing Alice.

"Greetings, milord," she greeted.

"Something you have for me, Alice?"

"Yes," Alice answered. "It has come to the R&D's attention to conduct an expedition to a certain asteroid in orbit around Mobius. Right now, I am asking permission to explore it and find new materials for the Empyrdom's use."

"I see," Joshua responded. "Let us see.... We can check it out, then. What divisions will you deploy?"

"Perhaps two vigilance clusters to investigate the region."

"Good, then."

The two vigilance platoons were loaded into two peregrine chassis which warpdrove away to the Mobius solar system.

TECH HQ, The Eye, 10:30 PM.

A new watcher has gained some odd interference. He called upon his radio to Lieutenant Briggs "Sir, we have some interference in the first section."

"What does it look like, watcher?"

The watcher took a few seconds before answering. "It seems as if... there are (I'm assuming by cluster, you mean groups, just edit this if I'm wrong) a large group of unknown objects heading towards us. Could be a newly discovered meteoroid group."

"Don't get your hopes up, rookie," Briggs said, "It seems a little far, so just scan the objects for the material, it could possibly be something we can harvest."

"On it, Sir," the watcher replied as he opened up a new holographic window for scanning the cluster.

As the two peregrine chassis, UFO-like pods, were scanned, they were made of a strange material- hexsteel. They were nearing the asteroid.

"Uhh.. sir? Isn't this an artificial element?" He said looking at the foreign metal.

"That's... hrmm." Briggs was actually surprised by this. "I'll get Colonel Price to set up the SAM stations, you monitor that spacecraft. Get as much information on it, ALL of it." Then Briggs radioed in Price with the warning.

The two peregrine chassis beeped as they captured a visual of the asteroid from 10,000 km away. This did not capture a detailed imagery at all- only the signatures of manmade structures on the asteroid. This gave an alert to the Receptacle's nexus tower.

"Hmm, an inhabited asteroid?" wondered Alice.

"Have the reality invaders record the footage," ordered Joshua.

Each peregrine chassis released two pebble-sized construct from their outer pods. They were the intergalactic surveillance units of the Empyrdom: the reality invaders. They have a minuscule size and they harness the astral somatic system (which only this unit has such technology from the Empyrdom, because of, again, its minuscule size and mass which contributes to the system freely affecting it because its effects are relatively limited when applied to an object with more than a kilogram). These units began to record the footage of the asteroid through astral imagery from the Astral Vigilance system of the Empyrdom.

The peregrine chassis attempted to dock on the asteroid if possible. Each of them might unload one silent lancer to negotiate with the resident faction if any.

"Sir, odd objects are approaching from the ship," a local watcher claimed. "They seem to have no mass, but are up of matter, how can that be?"

This completely got the commanders attention. He radioed Price again. "Commander Price, you may be dealing with intelligent life, unknown objects are headed towards the HQ."

Price replied. "Roger that, we'll have this place on lock-down procedure." In only a few seconds, the matter barrier for the asteroid was activated. The matter barrier packed all atoms tight against each other while preventing chemical bonding to occur, creating an invisible force field down to the atomic level.

The silent lancer stood there. The four reality invaders were already inside the asteroid as it went back then to magnify its imagery.

From the astral panel, Alice was observing the footages. "Milord, should we send the expeditionary force?"

"We should not expend our main expeditionary force. Why not the First Caelean Squadron?"

"Yes, milord."

"Hmm, how did a base come to exist on this celestial body? Has the Federations discovered this before...?"

From a distance of forty thousand kilometers, several air vehicles capable of vacuum travel gradually emerged from a warpdrive focus. There were six phantasmal marauders, ten azure eidolons, and eight prismatic arcs. They were heading towards the asteroid. This might look hostile despite the Empyrdom's intentions to defend themselves should other lifeforms attack the vigilance platoons due to the fair amount of units.

"Sir, we are receiving several spacecraft," said the watcher, "and matter scanner reports show highly advanced technology on board."

This was unexpected. "All units of the Cosmic Division, this is a possible invasion threat. Take your spacecrafts to the orbit of THQ, hold your fire until I say, but load the infestors immediately!"

The infestors were small machines, a meter in diameter, but they were quick to use. The infestors had a code built in, allowing them to pass the matter barrier with no interference as they traveled towards the Silent Lancer. A half dozen infestors latched on to the Silent lancer, priming the viruses and the EMP strike in case it had to be activated.

Suddenly warning lights went off. The territory had been breached. The Eye's electromagnetic spectrum sight could reveal all lights, as well as show the matter of objects, so the reality invaders have been spotted. The infantry forces of TECH HQ had their helmet scanners locate the two machinery, and they were locked on, ready to fire at command.

Unfortunately, the reality invaders could not be detected at this point with non-supernatural tech, as these constructs have transferred their material shell in the astral plane through the astral somatic system. The silent lancer got latched with the infestors. However, the silent lancer was an energy being—an Aeretherian, trained in marksmanship instead of swordsmanship, unlike the aetherblader, encased within light armor.

The current amount of people ready to retaliate was 300,000, with two million more on the way from Mobius.

The First Caelean Squadron stopped before the barrier.

"Looks like they are opting for self-defense," Alice said.

Joshua grinned at the sight of the technology on board the asteroid while watching the footages from the reality invaders. "Interesting. Why not test their mettle?"

"What are you planning, milord? Surely the casualties will be-"

"There will be no deaths in the Empyrdom in this one," he replied. "We often use mechanical and energy forces. Now, prepare to link with their comm."

"Y-yes, milord."

The Receptacle's astral comm attempted to connect with the asteroid's radio comm.

The HQ Defense leader, Commander Price, accepted the message. "You are trespassing in our territory. According to law, we are allowed to attack after the trespasser has been warned twice. Leave this area, now!"

"First things first," spoke Alice. "Our lord wishes to test your mettle."

The First Caelean Squadron prepared to attack under the will of the Emperor himself.

"Stand down!" Price yelled. "FINAL WARNING!"

Joshua sighed. "He should have said 'yes'. Attack."

"Yes, milord," Alice said. "Issuing attack orders to all units inside or near challenger's territory."

Without prior signal to the challenger, the Imperial units began their attack. While the reality invaders were still there, Joshua told Alice to prepare the Judgment Armada.

The phantasmal marauders retracted their armament- a streamlined antimatter blaster unit called the arch barrel. As they began to activate their astral somatic function, a limited system yet on a higher scope than the reality invader's perpetual astral somatic system, they virtually transferred their hull to the astral plane for a limited time. The projectiles they release from their barrels, however, are not subject to the function. They began releasing high-velocity rays of antimatter at the asteroid. The prismatic rays focused natural energy into their energy prisms, which in turn released thin continuous particle beams at the asteroid as well. Of course, all these projectiles will be in contact with the barrier as soon as they hit, if they do. The Garudions and the azure eidolons were at standby to intercept any enemy aerial unit retaliating against the fleet.

Meanwhile, the two peregrine chassis began to unload 50 and 49 silent lancers which began to fire at any structure inside the asteroid with thin, single, yet instantaneous beams of processed, high-density, black Aetermana with their dark lancers which look like futuristic sniper rifles.

TECH was prepared for an attack the moment the commander had to warn the invaders a second time. The strikes from the antimatter weapons onto the matter barrier damaged it heavily, and a backup barrier was being established as this was happening. The infantry began activating their forearm plasma shields, large enough to protect a third of their body. The infantry retaliated with their standard EC rifles, each one being a concentrated beam of energy as hot as the surface of the sun. They shot it at the Lancers already inside the matter barrier. A dozen Scorpions flew up to the matter barrier, easily passing through it via an atomic coding, and took the battle to the ship. Meanwhile, the backup from Mobius was nearly there.

The silent lancers, rigorously trained in parkour and athletics, were able to read the trajectories of the beams (if they were not instantaneous) and began to make maneuvers with their flexibility and retaliated with the same weaponry. Three of them from the first platoon were severely hurt but the others were trying to support them. After such an outcome, most of their attacks may have hit the TECH's structures.

The azure eidolons and garudions were primed to intercept the scorpions trying to intercept the other half of the squadron. The eidolons began to glide toward them in supersonic speeds while accumulating energy into their calamity spears. It may come off strange that these intricate air vehicles were trying to charge at them in this situation. The Imperial forces were meager in number but they seem to be very effective as individual units...

The reality invaders beeped as a reaction to sensing impending energy signatures nearing the asteroid. One of them panned to the source of the signatures which was the TECH reinforcements, although not seen yet from this view. Regardless, this sent a signal to the Receptacle, which is in a currently unknown location.

Coming outside the TECH structures was hundreds of troops, a few of them being metas (ones with supernatural abilities). The metas immediately pursued the front line, some of them with insane speed, others who could control the temperature of their environment, and even some that could heal the wounded in battle. The wounded were also healed from the attacks from HHTs, with some of them healing the wounded by cellular reconstruction, while the ones not currently healing using their turrets to guard the healing HHTs. The reinforcements were almost to the asteroid around the time the satellites began going online.

The phantasmal marauders recharged their arch barrels for few seconds due to data transport magitech, while the prismatic arcs cooled down their prisms for one minute.

As the dogfight was still ensuing, the azure eidolons activated their flash astral somatic systems, causing their hull to switch to the astral plane for a short time- just in time before they actually attack. They rammed towards a line of Scorpions at almost superluminal speeds after a short burst from their tachyonic drives. Their calamity spears, harnessing the Archon Emperor's Ancient Aerokinesis itself, will obliterate almost any unit in its path with at most average-class material (not energy-type) defenses.

The reality invaders continued to record the footages within the asteroid, including the dogfight itself. The silent lancers, while within crossfire, recorded visual data from the TECH metahumans on the asteroid and summarized them through the Mnesian virtual memory system, operational within the lancers' helmets. The peregrine chassis hovered above them.

Several Scorpions were destroyed in the process, but the amount that remained began firing their cannons at the azure eidolons.

A few flying metas took to the skies, firing their blasters at nearby silent lancers while bobbing back and forth to dodge fire. The reinforcements have finally arrived, and two million more TECH militia joined the battle. About 4,000 of the metas could fly, and they took to the skies in their protective suits to charge into battle. There were now over a hundred Scorpions in the sky, and even a few Winged Goliaths, which were basically slow moving, but almost completely unaffected by the best conventional weapons. The Goliaths also had over twenty weapon stations attached to them in such a way that even if the weapons were destroyed, the true WG would remain in action. The WGs turned on their matter barriers as they launched fire with their dark matter cannons.

Because the calamity spears' effectiveness are greatly increased against matter-based defenses, any Scorpion caught in the eidolons' attack will, if not are, be obliterated or severely damaged, because the matter barriers are not energy-based. As they were flying around at the same speed, the plasma cannons could less likely hit them as the projectiles were not as fast as them. If they hit, they deal little damage as they were protected in strong ethereal barriers. Meanwhile, the silent lancers were maneuvering towards the two peregrine chassis while few of the formers were hit which reduced their energy reflector shieldings considerably. The two chassis converted a whole platoon of them into data for a couple of seconds, loaded them, and began to increase their altitude, rapidly accelerating to less than Mach 1 speeds.

The prismatic arcs and phantasmal marauders were hit by the dark matter projectiles but the damage was redirected to their energy reflector shields. At that moment, they began to back away from the asteroid, accelerating to superluminal speeds.

Price surveyed the whole battle from the Eye seeing the flaws that TECH made and the defenses their enemy shows, then opened the channel to all forces. "We are dealing with an enemy that prioritizes with energy weapons. Matter barriers are proving useless for Scorpions! Turn them off to increase your speed output! All forces, use the alternate mode for plasma weapons, they are showing to be ineffective. "

Price changed the channel for his flying metas. "Prevent any more forces from leaving Ryker at all costs!"

The metas obeyed, and they began dodging and weaving more fire because of their suit's autodoging function, and had changed the mode of their gun to fire EMP and AMP (Anti-matter pulse) blasts any enemy, hoping to either shut down a spacecraft or to kill an enemy. The WGs slowly made their way above the part of the base that was attacked.

Meanwhile, injured infantry were pulling back from the main battlefield.

The two peregrine chassis, as they were accelerating upward, made it fairly harder for the metas to hit them with EMP and AMP blasts. However, they were hit somehow due to the sheer number of the enemy within the premises of the asteroid. The AMP dealt fair damage to their shielding. Regardless, it was strange that even EMP blasts are of no expected consequences to them...

As the Imperial air vehicles in the vicinity of the asteroid gained enough speed, they warpdrove away from the area.

The new force of metas came onto the battlefield, alert for anymore danger that may be possibly on the ground. Meanwhile, systems from many weapons were cooling down, and watchers from The Eye scanned for any more threats.

There seemed to be no Imperial units in the vicinity since the vigilance platoons have been loaded in the chassis which, along with other air vehicles, had warpdriven away. It was unknown to where they warpdrove to.

"Hm..." mouthed Joshua. "Not bad."

"They focused on numbers, milord," stated Alice. "However, they cannot seem to fare very effectively against few Imperial units we have deployed. Their technology is somewhat similar to the Federations, only that they often rely on matter-based defenses and flying infantry. This is awfully similar to the Myriad as well..."

"Simply put, they are a coincidental combination of technology and tactics that we have encountered from related factions. Interesting."

Anticytheris Receptacle: 9:10 AM

The First Caelean Cluster and the two peregrine chassis that loaded the standard vigilance platoons have arrived within the vicinity of the Anticytheris Receptacle. They began to dock to different hangars on the foothold.

"We must not attack right away afterwards, as their perception is heightened in this state," advised Joshua. "They will anticipate that we will return in great numbers regardless of time."

"Milord, the forces have returned. We will be receiving reports as soon as they check in," notified Alice.

9:14 AM

The Department of Imperial Research and Development has started to study the footages they have captured from the expedition. It also included the decoded information from the visual imagery captured by the silent lancers' Mnesian virtual memory system. They have been studying the capabilities of TECH in the previous situation, especially their Scorpions, the number and various abilities of their infantry, and the timing of the deployment.

Meanwhile, with the Imperial council, the officers were seated on a rounded rectangular glass table. Joshua and Caitlineia, however, were seated at the back, away from the table, with Alice at the front.

"Currently, we have been facing a new hostile faction from an asteroid in Mobian orbit," said Joshua. "We have no knowledge of their name itself but we have some of their shown capabilities."

Alice displayed a virtual projection from an astral panel. "They can overwhelm an invading army by their sheer number. It is advised we utilize area-of-effect weaponry and energy weapons which proved to be effective against their unit durability."

"Question," Cordelia alerted. "The asteroid is not so large as suspected. How did they send that many reinforcements in a short time?"

"Presumably they have other territories like we do," Joshua speculated. "It will be impossible to have many units, no less infantry, to reside in a small asteroid."

"Which gives me an idea for a proposal," added Severina. "From the asteroid's current location marked by four of our reality invaders, we will track their other potential territories from where reinforcements emerge."

"So sending a vigilance platoon for each Mobian sector will do," Joshua said. "Having a lone reality invader each will be time-consuming as they are not swift as our standard transports."

"Just as said, br- um, milord."

"As of now, our time is short. Council is temporarily adjourned," proclaimed Joshua.

TECH Headquarters, The Eye: 11:00 PM

Back at Ryker, TECH's asteroid, Price was finishing up the footage using some kind of tablet. He was walking over to one of the reinforcement lieutenants.

"Lieutenant Jones...." he called out.

Jones turned around quickly, but not in surprise, but because he was expecting it. "Commander Price! Um, about the delay--"

"Cut your excuses. I don't care what it was. You were ten minutes later than your drills show, and there were no enemy attacking from the southern region. Ten minutes of lives could've been spared. And for what? Maintenance? I told you, and everyone else, maintenance should've been done two days ago!"

"Sir, I--"

"Enough. When you joined this organization, it was required to have experience. You're obviously showing none now." In the corner of his eye, Price saw a soldier that has proven very good in battle. The soldier claims he is a meta, but has shown no supernatural talent, which makes it all the better. "Campos!" Price yelled.

Campos marched up to him. "Anything needed, Commander?"

"I need you to switch roles with Jones. You are the reinforcement commander now." Price turned towards Jones. Give me your badge." Jones kept a serious face, but he was boiling inside as he gave the badge, and Price gave it to Campos.

TECH Works, 11:00 PM

Meanwhile, in TECH Works, Dr. Brown and his team were given the recording of the battle to look over. They found out that their forces. In the video, they uncovered the attacks against TECH were composed of antimatter to counter matter barriers, the forces were incredibly fast and could dodge their weaponry, and were capable of assaults that ignore matter barrier defenses. They seemed to be weak against AMP.

"This is a pretty advanced group," Dr. Brown said to his colleagues. "I think to sum up the problem we have against them, we are too slow, and we have to wrong tools for defense."

The other nine colleagues collaborated in this for about half an hour (until 11:27 PM), then they decided to work on tachyon weaponry for the speed, gravitrol weaponry to negate a few of their weaponry, and proceed with creating the new gamma energy barrier at a faster pace. These things wouldn't take long to get out in use for the TECH Militia, as TECH Works is an entirely different part of TECH, and that these inventions are now the priority.

11:10 PM

The watchers of The Eye were on high alert now, scanning their regions much more carefully than they normally would've. They had their defensive satellites activated and primed. SAM Towers on Ryker were going online again, and the Goliaths were on the asteroid, all weapons being checked for any problems. It was a hard job to do, considering the Goliaths were made to hold tens of thousands of people.

On Mobius, another reinforcement unit was being built up since the aquatic division would not be needed as much.

Anticytheris Receptacle: 9:15 AM

Meanwhile, the Imperial R&D was developing additional Rift Aspect-based weaponry for higher lethality against TECH. Also, using acquired combination technology from the Jkirk Federations since two years ago (in the events of Empyrdom x Jkirk Federations Chapter 1), various countermeasures were being devised. Strange drones called Materia downloaders were constructing new variants of Warmouse-class tanks called the siege warmice since 9:10 AM for demolition. It seems their work was swift and organized because of their melding coils that can mold and meld materials within the time of construction. Over 24 vigilance platoons were stationed on the Receptacle and ready to be deployed to Mobius. As their transports took flight while loading them, they warpdrove into 24 different designated sectors on Mobius.

Joshua was checking the live footages again from four reality invaders. He began to speak through the astral comm array. "Relaying orders for Protocol XVII Interference. Judgment Armada II to the frontlines and four elite interference platoons on the middle flank."

"It shall be done, milord," Megresiel Septans, a seemingly senior Empyrean Magistrate of the Empyrdom and one of the chiefs of the armada crew, answered through a hecatoncherein carapace astral comm interface.

There were four stationed hecatoncherein carapaces, massive aerostats made as armada flagships and transports for battalions, outside a floating hatch. 32 blimp-like empyrean dirigibles accompanied them. 16 azure eidolons, 24 prismatic arcs, and 36 phantasmal marauders were supporting from the rear of the main armada.

9:17 AM

"Jonathan, how are the siege warmice going?"

"Lord Joshua, we have around a hundred of them being constructed in the machina mill- each will be done after 9:22 AM."

"Good. I will have them assigned to the battlefront under three minutes."

9:25 AM

30 siege warmice were assigned to the current battlefront and were being transported by two peregrine chassis. The Imperial battlefront, now composed of the Judgment Armada II on the front, the four elite interference platoons on the middle, and the two siege warmice array on the rear.

"Debriefing to the armada," proclaimed Cordelia. "When a swarm of hostiles engage, the carapaces must engage first to divide their flanks into half. The dirigibles must deploy all nexus cluster units to confuse the enemy as they wreak havoc on both altitudes. All air vehicles, engage any intercepting air unit while the carapaces unload the battalions for main ground skirmishes. Siege warmice, aim for infantry swarms as they are divided."

"Debriefing complete," Joshua said. "Warpdrive sequence, initiate."

The aerostats began to gather energy within their thrusters as all the air vehicles encircle them while accelerating to superluminal speeds. After five minutes, they were warpdriven to a location 90,000 miles away from Ryker.

Ryker TECH Works, 11:26 PM

The first test gamma energy barrier was placed around a metal that is the same as the constructs on Ryker. Anti-matter and dark energy blasts proved ineffective, but dark matter seemed to be able to get through. The barrier still needed kinks worked out.

The Eye, 11:30 PM

The Goliaths were in orbit mode, travelling around the asteroid to be the first defense against another attack, using images from the eye to locate anything nearing the asteroid that was out of the ordinary. Meanwhile, The Eye had noticed the hostile group emerge from its five minute disappearance, 90,000 miles away. It wasn't long before they were reported in as warping through space at relativistic speeds. Because of this new factor being played in, TECH decided to keep their advantage of a defensive war, and to truly figure out what they're up against.

Being always defensive at this state, however, will give them a slight disadvantage because the Empyrdom was in its tactically offensive stance. Each hecatoncherein carapaces calibrated their two Scadian plasmatic barrels, supercooled plasma cannons, to aim at the Ryker. If enemies were trying to intercept them at this point, then they would point at the hostiles accumulated in clusters outside of the asteroid.

What Empyrdom didn't think of, however, was the fact that a defensive war meant a war on the home turf. Hundreds of meteroids were pulled orbiting the asteroid. These weren't normal meteoroids, as in them were explosive that could reach hundreds of miles of area. The motion sensors inside the meteoroids were able to sense motion in a 100 mile radius, and the whole bomb was covered by a material that hid it from any source of light on the electromagnetic spectrum except for gamma rays. Attempting to EMP, disarm, etc would instantly ignite it anyways, if Emprydom thought to check the meteoroids.

The next line of defense came very quickly since the distance from Mobius and Ryker wasn't large. The size of the second line of defense dwarfed the initial amounts in the first battle. There was a new type of plane out there, known as the chrome blitzers (CBs).

While not very durable on their own, they are excessively quick and able to change velocity on a dime, rivalling Scorpions. They take on two tactics: the sniper tactics, and the blitzing tactics. Normally, the sniper tactic is used, where the CBs keep a distance of 1000 miles, firing their energy projectiles that move at half the speed of light. However, if the enemy relies on heat based or energy based weaponry, the take the blitzing tactic due to being highly resistant to this.

The Goliaths were called out of orbit to install upgraded weaponry, and the third line of defense was on its way.

This specific Imperial battlefront, however, was meant for a whole-scale invasion, though it was not as big as a theatre. Regardless, their streamlining tactics provided more room for further reinforcements should the need arises. A war on the home territory does not really ensure an advantage for the home faction since they lack sufficient intel regarding the Empyrdom overall, while the attacking side has extracted a good amount of intel through covert surveillance on the asteroid. The Astral Vigilance detection systems, which were developed from astral magitech to track anything having energy regardless of type, has detected multiple energy signatures around the asteroid.

Joshua was viewing the situation on the asteroid from four footages. He received a transmission from the carapace crew.

"Milord, we have suspicious activity around the hostile territory," Megresiel Septans, the chief of the battlefront, alerted Joshua through the hecatoncherein carapace's astral comm array.

"What is the situation?" asked Joshua. He was watching the situation on the asteroid through four footages.

"Designated energy signatures are separately forming a dotted ring around the heavenly body. The foci within the surrounding meteoroids are concentrated with potential energy. It looks like they are also mobilizing their forces to fend us off."

"I see. Deploy all nexus cluster units towards the asteroid. We shall conceal ourselves for now and strike with the main force when they leave themselves vulnerable. It seems they have gathered so many units that they are trying to expend them for naught."

"It shall be done," Megresiel obeyed. "Orders to all dirigible crew. Deploy all nexus cluster units towards the asteroid. As for the carapace crew, aim the Scadian plasmatic cannons at the hostile territory. Fire when they dispatch their clusters!"

Currently, the Imperial battlefront has reached 30,000 miles near Ryker. They were closing in from all sides with a number that is not to be underestimated. Each empyrean dirigible within the battlefront deployed 12 nexus cluster units, disc-like floating units with a diameter measuring one meter. As of this moment, there were 384 of them charging towards the asteroid from multiple directions. They released a huge net of instantaneous thin red particle beams at the matter barrier which, of course, was protecting the asteroid.

The air vehicles were primed to retaliate against any hostile spacecraft that intercepts the aerostatic armada. The hecatoncherein carapaces aimed at the asteroid with their plasmatic cannons.

"Interesting," Joshua thought as he was observing the footages. "Their sheer number is calling for the warmice to mitigate them. And it looks like they have another type of aircraft. However, their defenses lack enough preparation so we need to take speed into account if we want to defeat them. Nonetheless, we need to exercise caution while maintaining offensive."


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Once the second line of defense had fully arrived to Ryker and were inspected, they flew up right over the matter barrier's perimeters. From a view from space, by now Ryker would oddly look like a polka-dot planet, ready for its dots to instantly dash out from it the moment battle occurred.

The Eye had noticed the oncoming fronts, and warned the second line of defense to arm its weapons in case of an attack.

The new barrier was finished, and was set up for installation right under the other barrier.

The asteroid defenses might have failed to react accordingly to the invasion of the numerous nexus cluster units. The matter barrier might be significantly affected by the particle beams before the new gamma barrier is set up. As these units, which are heavily scattered around the territory's perimeter, were close to the asteroid by now, it is highly likely that they will trigger 60% of the explosive meteoroids around it.

If this happens, each of the eight hecatoncherein carapaces will simultaneously release twin high-density streams of supercooled plasma at the gamma energy barrier. Due to it being plasma, it is more effective against energy barriers (energy reflector shields are an exception because they are more of ethereal origin which is a reverse type of the usual energy barrier). No less, supercooled plasma is more effective than superheated plasma when dealing with energy-type defenses.

(By units, do you mean your units, or my units? My units are the second line of defense, so they are closer to the asteroid than the meteoroids.)