Due to this humans are also consider to be a bioweapons akin to tyrant or mr x from resident evil.
Frantic footsteps thundered all across the ship’s hull. Viewscreens across the corridors were emblazoned with bright red text in galactic standard, flashing a simple command: "Combat Alert. Battlestations." Crewmen of a thousand different member worlds of the S’lari Federation worked like a well-oiled machine in the dimmed light - ensuring that the Shield of Eternity would be prepared for what awaited them once they dropped out of FTL. That the pride of the fleet would be called to the border worlds on such short notice was no small matter. The message was clear: if war was coming, the Federation wanted to snip it at the bud.
"Admiral on the bridge," the second-in-command - an Avian race with a proud white and brown crown of feathers around him known as the T'cophan - stated as he sat up from the command chair and moved swiftly to his operations station.
The slender, lizard-like Rafesk moved at a brisk but graceful pace to her chair - glancing at each of the bridge crew to determine their morale. Admiral Brooke always had a good sense of gauging the atmosphere of the room, and acting accordingly.
"Status report," the Admiral inquired, sternly.
"We are approaching the system at FTL-6," the helmsman replied, her eyes still focused on her station, "ETA at 10 clicks."
Admiral Brooke turned to her second-in-command, "Commander H'ribn, what can we expect when we drop out of FTL?"
The Commander pressed a few buttons on his station, turning on a holographic map. "The Patrol Ship 'Venerable Starlight' is holding its position in front of the Terran Freighter 'TFS Pasig'. They are within far orbit of Kesper V. Corvette 'Shining Blade' and Research Vessel 'Wings of Revelation' have responded and are holding flanking positions on the freighter. Patrol Ship 'Ardosia' and Battlecruiser 'Sword of Forever' are also en route," he replies, pausing for a moment to expand the map, "We are also expecting a Terran Diplomat to enter the system soon after us on board a Sol-Centauri Alliance Light Cruiser, the 'SCMS Earhart'. Intelligence suggests multiple FTL signatures entering the system on their side of the border - likely a similar build-up of force in case things escalate."
Admiral Brooke sighed, measuring the information that she had been offered. It is true that Terrans are known for their war-torn history, and many across the galaxy would argue that this is simply in their nature but they have always been a highly diplomatic species. More than that, as a found
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Feel like there’s something to be said for the destructive potential behind dropping a super-virus on high charity or something.
My first ever WP, but had this idea for a while. Would be cool to see this from either the alien perspective, or that of humankind!
“It’s about time we check up on... oh what was it called?”
“59-Orbit 3, the locals tend to call it Earth these days.”
Vexin, the conqueror of a thousand worlds, the enlightener of hundreds of races, could help baring his fangs in amusement. A world perfect for habitation with another that required work a bit farther out, a gas giant for fuel and a few more to look pretty for the propaganda shots. The Empire was large and prosperous with many races to serve it. It was a very well hidden fact among those that gathered the new races and planets that they always set them up to fail.
It was easy, when they found a planet with primitive intelligent life, they shot a capsule of bioweapons at the planet. They waited for the bioweapons to take hold by working through the ‘backlog’ of other planets, settling them and showing off the fleet to remind everyone that they had been saved from the invisible monsters that had plagued their planet. Once the bioweapons had time to settle in and wreak havoc, The Empire swooped in with their advanced technology and ‘saved’ the day. It was easy when you designed the weapons and always impressed lesser minds.
“Then spin up the warp and let’s go see how this ‘Earth’ is doing.” His voice was amused. “Time to save another sorry bunch of aliens.”
This... wasn’t right.
As Vexin’s flagship tore back into normal space, the sensors eagerly taking in data... no this wasn’t right at all.
There were spaceships already here, nothing like the designs approved by the Empire or even the illegal designs that ran on the fringes of Imperial territory. “What am I seeing?” Vexin asked, antennae twitching as he stared at the data.
“I am not sure! They are not familiar IFFs, they aren’t running from us like smugglers do.” The tech that had spoken stopped. “Maybe they left the planet in fear of the weapons?”
“Maybe...” Vexin mused. “But that is rare, even in my life I have only seen it once before, and it almost killed the entire Tagor race. Does the planet look okay?”
“59-Orbit-3 looks perfectly fine if a bit crowded by the space industry around it. Are those bases on the Moon?! That rock is barely habitable!”
Vexin twitched his antennae in annoyance. “Well then they must be running scared, prepare the troops to land to ‘contain’ the bioweapons, get access to the local data net if they have one, and ready my chamber for recording I want,”
“Vexin Sir! A message!” The technician working the communication array looked shocked. “They.
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Ka'bian followed the Human down the landing ramp of the oversized shuttle warily- this planet was, after all, absolutely infested with the species that had brought the galactic community to the brink of extinction. Only widespread use of weapons of mass destruction had managed to halt the tide of blood.
"Careful, friend. The armour of your kind might be mighty, but these fiends bit through starship bulkheads. Pray keep your weapon ready." The indentured servant swallowed drily, taking a better grip of his own gun. It paled in comparison to the one the Human carried on its back- itself taller than Ka' was- but it was still his only hope for survival if the blasted Yievoth reared their carapaced heads.
"Nah, don't worry about it! 'sides, this place looks lovely for the bargain we paid!" The biped covered in composite plating answered jovially, widening his arms in mention of the absolutely devastated wasteland of a world they stood in. Try as he might, Ka'bian simply failed to understand the thought process of these newcomers.
Then again, when a single shot from one of their dreadnoughts could crack a moon, perhaps logic or common sense was simply unecessary.
"Well, I ah- I am glad you find it to your liking." The heptopod squeaked out, staring warily at every small mound of dirt nearby. He'd never fought the things or even seen one alive- that was far before his time. Yet that the fact that they were still used as boogiemen to scare children spoke much of the deep scars the war had left, hundreds of years in the past or not.
"Ei, what's this over here?" The hulking armoured mass stepped forward with uncanny agility- how did something that big move that fast-, crouching down and tapping a small purple protuberance sprouting from the ground. It was indeed odd, even to Ka'. After all, this planet was never known for having land-based plant life-
The rumbling sound of moving soil combined with the screeching which immediately froze him in place was the answer. Keratin spikes exploding from the ground, followed by sharp jaws and black, souless eyes.
The Yievoth had awakened.
Such force was the one which the beast had burst from beneath with that even the Human was forced to take a step back to keep their balance, an arm instinctively moving forward to protect their torso. An impressive display of reaction time, but pointless all the same.
For a fraction of a second, Ka'bian thought back on the mistake that landed him this 'job': deorbiting a
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So we all know that originally zeds were developed by Horzine as a perfect soldier project. Do you think it was an actually good idea and would zeds be effective in terms of conventional (or not so conventional) warfare? Btw, why did the European armies fall so quickly anyway? As far as I'm concerned, the zeds pretty much wiped out all of Europe and possibly even North America
