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Coc0's fleet had been all but destroyed: His battle barge hang in low orbit with nearly all it's engines destroyed and a dozen hull breaches. all but one escort craft had been annihilated. and the red defiance was the only strike cruiser left unharmed. For it had, without orders, channeled all the power to the void shields. Many burning husks of once glorious strike cruiser floated aimlessly through space. Luckily, the majority of the enemy fleet had too been destroyed when strike cruiser "The unrelenting fist" rammed right into the fleet and detonated it's warp drives, sucking much of the fleet into oblivion.

Ludd glanced at the data-slate, there was something seriously wrong with the enemy's comms system...

Lord Maverick awoke.

Reclothing himself, once more, in his commanders uniform, he walked back to the command centre.

"Warmaster", a Comms-Trooper spoke.

"Yes, Trooper. What news from the battle?"

"Nikev has been shot down. His status remains unknown at this time. Lord Vera has gone to investigate."

A cruel, twisted smile played on the edges of the battle-hardened Warmaster's lips.

"Then Vera shall have his glory. Give him all the support he needs. Nikev is the prize for our efforts. What of Commander Fox?"

"Sir, Fox has been heard on the enemy vox-channels. She is, as far as we know, still alive."

Maverick frowned. This was unexpected. Was fox not killed in the assault on the compound?

"Bring her to me. Dead OR Alive. Send Ludd to bring her to me."

The Warmaster had a keen taste for expanding his own personal glory, taking "trophies" from his fallen enemies. Medals and weaponry were highly prized to him, serving as reminders of the many wars he'd fought.

"And contact Farseer Munch. His eldar host shall play merry havoc with the Space Marines on the field."

"At once, sir."

The Unswerving loyalty to the cause meant that not one order Lord Maverick had given this day was questioned.

"And Trooper... Find me some food."

The trooper smiled and saluted.

"You will have it, my Lord."

Ludd glanced at his communicator, and frowned. Maverick had ordered him to hunt down the mysterious ribon fox. Ludd wondered what Lord Maverick's persistent interest in the enemy general was fuelled by. Oh well, any chance to disrupt the non-thruster's attacks. Ludd walked over to one of the many earth-caste engineers in his tau auxiliries and requested his Suit was activated and his unit brought to him in the next ten minutes, Ludd smiled, this was going to be an enjoyable hunt.

Coc0's convoy moved forward towards the river. If the reports were true, and farseer munch's eldar had withdrawn from the river, then it would have been extremely easy to establish a position for their whirlwinds to set up. Sadly, this was not the case.

The captain sat on the roof of a land raider pelvicader, a land raider crusader fitted with special ammo adept at breaking the pelvis of enemies. They rumbled forward, crushing burnt tree stumps and other debris under their tracks when suddenly he believed he saw a shadow move behind the debris of a Valkyrie.

"Hold the convoy! I SAID HOLD THE CONVOY DAMNIT!" He cried over the vox and the convoy fell still.

"What is it commander?" Apothecary Vazec asked Coc0

"We are not alone..." He said.

Suddenly from behind the hill masses of thrusting scorpions charged at the convoy and Warp spiders appeared from the webway all around.

"AMBUSH!" He shouted as he leaped of the roof of the land raider and cracked the skull of one of the scorpions with a swift swing of his thunderhammer.

Ludd motioned to the rest of the squad, then opened up their special frequency vox.
"Keep in tight formation, watch the sensors, the first sight of ribon fox tell me, remember we need to take her hostage, anyone else is merely in the way."
Ludd and his squad kicked in their inbuilt jet packs, however there were no signs of amazement from the thruster troops around them as the squad nimbly leapt vast distances between buildings, the troops couldn't see them.

"DIE YOU HERETICAL SCUM!" Coc0 shouted killing four thrusting scorpions with one brute swing of his thunderhammer.

It was becoming a full scale battle at the convoy. The marines had called in air support which was answered by a thunderhawk squadron named "Pedro's Hawks" led by the ace Niko Alvarez that did strafing runs on the eldar ambushers and killed many. Predators blew away whole swaths of enemies and dreadnoughts crushed many scorpions with their massive fists.

But the crimson fists also took casualties: one of Niko's wingmen got blown out of the sky by flak fire from Thrusticon and crashed down onto a predator annihilator. Many battle brothers fell at the hand of scorpion chainswords and even one of the veterans of coc0's trusted command squad fell.

Ludd and his small dedicated unit made good time to the valley which supposedly held the crash site of ribon fox's drop pod. Ludd felt the suit adjust to his anticipation and heightened battle senses. These suits really were a miracle, almost completely invisible with inbuilt jet-packs and huge quad barrelled weapons, this was the way to wage war.

Suddenly an enormous flash of light blinded all the marines. The webway poured into realspace and out came large portions of the eldar force that had first withdrawn from the river. The first to come out were a large squadron of fire prisms which immediately fired a combined shot at the land raider pelvicader. It exploded in a huge fireball and captain coc0 and his command squad were flung away like feathers in the wind by the explosion. All became black in front of coc0's eyes...

Ludd and his unit stood on the edge of the valley, the smoking husk of a drop pod clearly visible throught it's clearing in the trees, however there was no sign of the elusive ribon fox, Ludd swore under his breath.
"Move in, looks like we've got a fox hunt on our hands."
(Been wanting to do that joke for SSSOOOO long.)

(OOC - is it just me or is this thread dead right now? It's just you and me ludd)

(OOC- Yeah and even I'm off to bed now... Sorry Coc0)

(Shall i finish it with exterminatus?)

[Removed by Fox]

((Fine, no exterminatus then, get the virus bombs out of their tubes bob, we're not doing it anymore))

((I think we should leave this thread till some pelvic thrusters are online, we can't do it without any of them.))

(OOC-I'm online now. I just woke up. I was watching Saving Private Ryan last night so I didn't get much sleep)

The Imperial forces started coming into view, at which point the fire prisms opened shots. The Eldar host was at 30% of it's original strength, the rest were weary, their armour covered in grime, a shadow of their former glory. By Vera, they would finish this one way or another. The Eldar could swiftly handle the guard. But Coc0's marine's had assaulted them from the east. Caught in a crossfire, the eldar retreated up the river, closer to Thrusticon.

fox, you're not on a fleet - I destroyed it. There are currently NO ships in the atmosphere.

(OOC-I think Coc0 said there are some crimson fist ships still(like 2) maybe fox teleported to it?)

OOC - there was no mention of the teleporting... And I totally wasted their entire fleet. Besides, the presence of a fleet messes things about. From now on, ground war only - light air support is still acceptable?

(( Can i still sometimes do something with my nearly wrecked strike cruisers and battle barge floating around in low orbit?))

(( I believe that we need a map to more accuratly represent where everybody is, and I agree no more fleets they make it hard for me to come up with anything if as I'm thinking of where everybody else's fleet and armies are and how to strategically navigate through all of them))

Maverick pressed the launch button in Command And Control. Minutes later, the remnants of the fleet in space above were decimated by the co-ordinated efforts of the planetary defense cannon system he'd installed as part of his defenses.

A twisted laughter escaped his lips as he prepared to destroy the remaining forces.

"Trooper, get me Ludd on the Vox."

Nikev had crash landed in a small canyon like space, FAR from the battlefield and all the violence, he hoped that Ribon Fox could command as well as she her files said and the stories foretold. Stumbling out, he suddenly could see an army running at him at a sprinting pace, obviously this was not his army. For he saw one the banners was the insignia of the hated Pelvic Thrusting lord's personal bodyguard unit. "Holy Emperor" Nikev murmured and quickly set to getting ready for his last stand. As he geared up and laid in wait, the army reached mere meters from the crashed ship. Looking down at the pile that lay before him, Nikev grabbed a las-gun and flung it as hard as he could out the breach in the hull as he could. Flying into the group, the overheating las-gun detonated and took out 10 troopers and wounded 3 more. Nikev began lobbing more and more las-guns out until he was out. Killing fewer and fewer soldiers as they scrambled for cover. Realizing that he was out of las-guns to throw, the army charged toward the ship smashing down the door.

As the door came down, Nikev opened fire with his dual bolt pistols with their specialized Armor Piercing rounds. Killing many before they could reach and subdue him. As they dragged him out of the ship, he clawed and fought the entire way, kicking a few troopers as he was hauled away, until one realized he struggle less when he rammed the but of his rifle in his gut.

The threw Nikev on the ground in front of the most Heretical of the Heretics, Shas' o Vera. After a speech that Nikev blotted out, and ignored completely, the words finally came out of Shas's mouth "Well, it is here you shall die, and your crusade failed.". As he said that, two troopers grabbed Nikev by the arm and lifted him as Shas'o vera unholstered his ranged weapon and aimed it at Nikev's head. As he pulled the trigger, time shifted in front of Nikev.

A Warp-Spider from NIkev's Retinue burst into existance and took the bullet for NIkev. Then, Time began Distorting everywhere as Warp-Spiders, burst into reality and began decimating Shas'o vera's forces. As NIkev's remaining forces charged into the battle, screams could be heard and gunfire erupt as the forces fought to the Death.

Finally, after a long and bloody battle. Nikev's forces had decimated the remainder of Shas'o vera's forces. Shas was the sole survivor of his retinue. "Put the device on him." Nikev told the Farseer that had arrived with the spiders and they placed a small device on the flesh of Shas's chest which Nikev personally held the detonater remote to. "Call in, Ich bin im Besitz der Welt ". Having said the phrase that was coded past Vermillion, to a code not even Nikev was sure of. Ships, MASSIVE ships rained down the into the sky, immediately lances were shot out destroying the planet to space guns that were set up. Drop pod smashed into the ground around Nikev and his retinue and Astartes, Guardsmen, Tau, Eldar, all the races in one alliance formed a massive defensive perimeter. Landing in front of them, was a massive transport ship that was escorted by hundreds of smaller ship to ship flyers that were tearing into the gargoyle numbers as they tried to kill them. Nikev and his retinue moved into the ship with their High Value Target and the ship lifted off, into the sky and merged with a larger ship. As they ship rose, the troops ran back to their drop pods and shot back into their mother ship. Leaving a small case, which upon the last ship leaving its range, Detonated and destroyed the area, leaving no trace of any of the the forces.

Once the ships were merged, flashes of light could be seen as that ship and its escorts warped to another Galaxy entirely. One that was not controlled by the Imperium or Thruster alike.





[OOC- This isn't the End. Only the beginning]

Ribon Fox wrote:((Hang on a minute, did any one know that i wasn't on the planet but commanding a fleet that was about to engage the Thuster fleet [got a funny feeling that no one read my posts], I have my army on the gound at the front lines [yes the 142nd is the IG army list i use ] and i was about to put a sniper who happens to have the same name as me out traped behind the emenys lines, she was the one in the escape pod (I let the destution of the Molly go by a minie Cyclonic war head so early...really?...But i didn't complain and carryed on...I have noticed that some of the litery skill is lacking in some of the posts, replaced with likes of ...BIG EXPLOSION...now your dead. No plot or any reason for the two line post. I tryed to show it as a short story size, just under a page of writing. We are all reasonably skilled and with at lest a combined IQ of 90 let us write as though we do ))

I read your posts......I coulddn't for the last two days though cause.....storm hit and the power went out both days before I could get online.....so a lot of bigger stuff I couldn't fully read as I was trying to catch up. But I would say you should still have a fleet out in space....as Planet to Space guns are very costly....and Frankley I don't see how the thruster armies could have such Perfect Weapons and Dedicated troopers considering they only have one Galaxy....which the Imperium could just exterminatus in things got out of hand....

(( OOC: oh damn... nice one Nikev, this will be interesting)

shas'o vera wrote:(( OOC: oh damn... nice one Nikev, this will be interesting)

thought I'd capture you seeing as the opportunity arose...

Commissar NIkev wrote:

shas'o vera wrote:(( OOC: oh damn... nice one Nikev, this will be interesting)

thought I'd capture you seeing as the opportunity arose...

so what happens now Nikev? part two coming any time soon?

shas'o vera wrote:

so what happens now Nikev? part two coming any time soon?

Part 2 is comming soon........as soon as I think of it

It will possibly be in a little bit

Maverick lifted his jaw off the cold, concrete floor.

"Tell Farseer Munch that he is in command. Tell no-one else of Vera's predicament."