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ONCE UPON A GALAXY:

Jordack fingered his headset dial to 'ultra-low' as he peered at the frequency meter of the oncoming asteroid. Nah, just the usual interplanetary traffic, nothing to worry about. There were only 6 days before it would collide with Aegis VII defense satellite and careen off in the direction of the nearby star system, the somewhat unfortunately named 'Soup' system. Planetary defenses should knock it out of trajectory long before then. Just another hour and he could clock out. Another lazy day listening to sonaradar sounds.

Jordack heard a low pulse thrum through his cyber-ears, wondering what that particular 'boom' noise in the background could be. He gestured his coffeebot to go and fetch him some stim. He heard it again, checked his meters. Difficult to tell if it was a boom or more of a thud noise, and an occasional bloop appeared on the monitors too, somewhat close to the blips he also heard earlier, but much more distant. He heard a buzzing sound in his ear and all of a sudden his head exploded into a ghastly stump of flesh, brain, and bone, as the implanted cortex bomb detonated. His body lay stumped in a grisly fashion over the control consol, sharing a pose with fetuses and burn victims alike as the coffeebot returned from its errand. On the screen, his last signal he intercepted, now read and processed... slowly... by the humble appliance droid, was a woman's voice, "Oh My God!it's coming, take all precautions before it's too lat..." a message repeating over and over like a bad old dos program that ends with "goto 1". The robot wondered......]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/278483/1322270.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/278483/1322270.page GMT
sounded over the intercom across the mile long starbase and suddenly, the place was a flurry of activity as little people with insignificant lives scurried around trying to figure out something to do about the fact that it was all going to end. Some of them grabbing pliers or spanners or fire-extinguishers, others arming themselves. It was humanity at its finest.

Then IT opened up. The hyper-space jump gate looked as big as the ugliest hooker's nether realms but multiplied on a planet scale... and out of it came the meatball. There was really no other way to describe it, it was the size of a small moon, and seriously, actually made of meat of some kind, some of it still moving... perhaps this was an unfortunately badly timed 'food relief' type program, Bugba didn't know... all he knew is that this huge clump of meat was heading right at his starbase, and there was an escape pod nearby if he could fight through the other hoomaans scurrying to get there.

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The ship's warp engines fired up for a short range jump...]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/278483/1349304.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/278483/1349304.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/278483/1349396.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/278483/1349396.page GMT
Cautiously Bugba took a step out of the pod. His foot met... nothing. He plunged downwards. Fortunatley the drop wasn't too steep, and he seemed uninjured, he must have landed on an outcrop of some sort. As he stood up he felt a twinge of pain in his right foot: he'd twisted his ankle. Mumbling curses, Bugba reached for the pistol at his waist. He checked it, then loaded it with six 'Torpedo Bullets', bullets made from a special armour percing metal found on his homeworld.

He stood up and took a step forward. His injured right foot met uneven ground and he fell to the floor, letting out a quick scream of pain. After a minute, Bugba gritted his teeth and stood up. That was when he felt the warm, moist breath on the back of his neck....
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Suddenly Nigel let out a high-pitched scream. Bugba covered his ears. Then Nigel turned and stared at him. Bugba felt a wave of static sweep through his body and for a moment his head spun. When it stopped he was seeing something different. Then it clicked. He was seeing what Nigle had just seen, Nigel must be telepathic! There he was walking up to the outcrop, looking over to the shooting stars. Then the view zoomed in.

Bugba's heart skipped a beat. The stars weren't stars tehy were repulsive pods that looked like meatballs, mycetic spores! Bugba, well Nigle, saw one pod pulse as something burst out. The beast was huge an muscular and a psychic aura seemed to surround it. It was a Hive Tyrant. Already waves of smaller Tyranids were being commanded onwards by the Hive Tyrant, in Bugba and Nigel's direction. The Hive Tyrant let out a huge, loud roar.

Bugba's vision went back to normal. Bugba and Nigel turned and started to run....]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/278483/1351460.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/278483/1351460.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/278483/1351562.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/278483/1351562.page GMT