The Rebel Faction

EzCode Parsing Error: color=orange]The Retakkenari Hive Imperius. The dictator and emperor of the Retakkenari Swarm, the King. It is in it's very young stages of life, 164 years exactly. Most Hive Emperors live to be about 800 standard years. This means the newer one is more naive and small, but not weak.

The Hive Imperius called upon his Assistant in telepathically.

"High Elder, I require your assisstance. I have decided to make an expedition. I would like to find maybe another world like ours. We need more room, our population is vastly large for out little planet."

The Imperius thought for another moment.

"Also. Bring your most trusted friends. They will go also. When you get here, make sure they are ready to leave immediately. For years I have said nothing, but I recieve messages from odd places... too far to understand where they are. They also speak Retakesh. This makes me believe that there are other worlds, get ready. You will be going with them."

The Hive Imperius the supreme dictator of the Retakkenari. The Imperius has learned to grow ships, and even build them from metal. He has taught the others how to take advantage of encountered pink-skins... and try to learn their language. The Imperius still has to accomplish pin-pointing planets with their hyperdrive before they fly very far.

The Imperius's brain is much stronger than the rest of the Retakkenari, it has force powers equal to a Jedi Master... which enables it to see through the force and speak telepathically. They get strength this way from either eating pink-skins... or lots of practice. His commanders and officials are of Jedi Knight strength.

(OOC) Wrong name... sorry.

Orbitting Retak was yet another marvel that few Retakkenari would ever hope to behold, thought K'taruuk as he stared through the viewport aboard one of the captured alien ships.

He strode across the bridge, glancing down into the work bays below where the bridge crew attended to thier tasks. He could see thier hearts were filled with a great lust to go fourth into the galaxy, as much for thier own sense of intrigue than the Hive Imperius'. K'taruuk would not dissapoint either of them, something was out there, something familiar, and he had sensed it long ago. You see, being in the presence of two Hive rulers for so long, he had gained a sense of who they were, a recognition of thier mind and how it worked . . .long ago, in deep thought, he sensed there were more, more Hive leaders, and more Retakkenari exactly like him.

He just had to find them.

However, what then? What if they didn't wish to rejoin the fold? What if they took this as an insult, and fought back. Was his crew prepared to fire back and defend themselves from thier own people, more to the point, was he?

What if this trip had doomed thier race to certain doom at the hands of a far more aggressive and far more powerful enemy.

So many risks to take into account. So many dangerous obstacles that the entire swarm, let alone him, knew if they could overcome.

Though, no matter the risks, he thought, if they were indeed friendly, the spoils would be more bountiful than he could possibly have imagined.

This was going to be an exciting trip.

K'taruuk sat shifting in his new command chair. As irritating as it was, his current seat proved far more comfortable than the alien furniture that littered the ship before it's refit. Hopefully the upholstery wouldn't detract from his ability to perform his duty on the mission.

"Bring all systems online." He growled. Rising from his uncomfortable chair he began to walk the length of the bridge, studying the worker drones that went about thier tasks of power the ship to life, as they scurried around the small pits that fell parallel to the command walkway, and onto the main viewport.

Placing a claw onto the glass ahead of him, he took another long, hard look out to the vast expanse of space that lay ahead. His task force-should he need it- hung to left and to the right, grouped in formation, ready to jump at his command. He tapped his long thick talons across the viewport's surface, closing his eyes, and closing his mind from the hive.

This mission will prove fruitful to the swarm, but far more beneficial to my aims than the Imperius'. While we both seek growth for our people, we both employ very different means towards that end.

The Imperius, he is still young, and has much to learn about the way of things, he seeks power for our species through knowledge and exploration, while I find these things through force. If we something, we take it.

When the time comes for action, his pasafism will fail him, and he will realise the only one true way of gaining knowledge . . .through strength and aggression.



K'taruuk removed his hand, placing it behind his back with his other, he opened his eyes and drew a deep, long breath.



"Tactical, bring the forward disruptors to bear and release a training drone. It's time for a little target practice. There's no time like the present to test the weapons on this behemoth."




Shortly after K'taruuk spoke, a small, glowing green blob drifted into view, and began manouvering across the space in front of the ship. It was a Retakkenari combat drone. Not a fighter per say, more of a droid with an engine. It excelled in its job as providing a training target, as it was fast and manouverable, however it's armour was not substantial enough to put it into combat. K'taruuk often enjoyed endulging his itchy trigger finger on many of these drones at once, he found it quite . . .relaxing.

Target forward disruptors onto the drone and standby to fire on my command.

The drone continued to buzz around in space, dodging and diving, conducting a series of evasive manouvers . . .awaiting its own destruction.


"Ready batteries three through seven . . .fire."

The searing glow of turbolasers lit up the immediate vicinity in a light show of great destructive power. The tiny drone, unable to avoid the hail of incoming fire, exploded in sparkle of flame and debris before fizzling out in front of them.


"Release six more drones, and have them activate thier weapons."

"Shields up sir?" said the tactical officer.

"No."

"But sir, won't that mean we'll be open to attack. They're weapons may harm the ship."

"Do I sense a lack of faith in my abilities to command this ship?"

"No sir . . . I was merely suggesting that we."

"Suggest nothing or I will have you're head. Now do as I say and bring all weapons online."

"Y . . .yes sir."



The cluster of tiny green drones sailed out in front of K'taruuk's command ship and flew into formation. Charging thier disruptors, the drones began to cruise toward the mothership at breakneck speed, opening fire as soon as they sailed within firing range.

"All ahead full!", screamed K'taruuk, as what appeared to be a grin formed across his already angered countenance.

The old alien star destroyer's engines roared into action, bringing the ancient vessel springing to life.Slowly it began to edge forward . . .toward the small cluster of attacking drones.

As the Victory Destroyer's pace quickened, each of the six drones impacted onto the hull, dissapearing in a ball of fire, scorching the armour plating of the ship but causing little damage.

"Now, never question my orders again, or I will kill you. Is that understood."

The quivering officer could only shake out a nod, before an enraged K'taruuk stormed off the bridge.


As he stood in the turbolift his regrets about this mission resurfaced. His crew seemed far from ready to undertake a mission of this magnitude. Even in orbit most had never ventured this far from the Hive. It was surely going to take a tremendous amount of leadership on his part to make it work since he was the only being on the entire ship with combat experience among the boat of fesh new faces.

Eight days had passed, and some were beginning to
lose the hope of ever finding another world with people like them on it. However, eight days had passed, and the Hive Imperius was still more determined and hopeful than anyone to find this new world . . .and find it he did.

On the dawn of the ninth day into the historic voyage, after much searching they had found the world in question, what remained, was to find out just who inhabited such a place.


"Scan the surface, I want to know absolutely everything there is to know about what's down there." Siad the Imperius, who's eyes had become mezmorised by the spinning planet that sat just beyond the viewport glass.


"Right away sir," said one of the officers, who began to activate the scanners, "Initial data coming through now . . .oxygen/argon atmosphere."


"So it's breathable." Muttered the Imperius into himself.

The officer continued."Sixty percent water, fourty percent landmass. I'm reading lots of vegetation, and massive lifeform readings, however, I can't pinpoint whether they're Retakkenari or not."He turned looking back his ruler.

"Well, I suppose we will have to go down there and find out for ourselves.


K'taruuk, prepare a landing party . . .and I will be accompanying you."

"But, Imperius, there may be unforseen dangers on the surface . . .you'd be putting yourself at great risk. Siad K'taruuk, in obvious concern.

"My friend, that is a risk I'm willing to take. I didn't plan on coming here, for possibly the greatest discovery in our species history, to simply watch from orbit, now did I."

" . . .No, Imperius." Sighed K'taruuk. "You're right, as always."

K'taruuk gave a gentle bow before departing from the bridge, with the Imperius in tow.


.........


Their shuttle departed from the main hanger of the mothership half an hour later, everything was prepared and ready to go. They were armed, if the need to defend themselves arose. Hopefully it wouldn't come to that.

"Sir, we're reading a small object in front of the ship."

"Activate scanners. What is it?" the Imperius enquired.

"It seems to be some form of primitive surveilance device, a satellite of some kind. It's been highly degraded over time, my readings of the carbon scoring and rust show it to be over two hundred years old. It's still sending out a signal."

"Hmm, can you track the signal?"

"Yes sir. It seems to be directed back down to an area on the mid western continent, I can't pinpoint exactly, but I can land us in the general direction."

"Good, keep gathering sensor data for as long as possible. I want to know everything about it.


The shuttle continued on it's course towards the planet, changing to the new heading discovered from the satellite telemitry. K'taruuk and the Imperius gazed on as the cloudy atmosphere broke away to reveal the lush surface of Tekkit. As far as the eyes could see thier where trees and greenary of every kind. Never in his lifetime had he seen anything like this. The only plant life they'd ever seen had been the moss that grew in the underground cities on Retak, a huge difference to the towering trees and far stretching plains of this planet.

On the plains ahead, a multitude of animals frolicked and fed on the land. Beasts of every shape and size. This was certainly a breathtaking sight.


The shuttle zoomed over the treelines off the plains and settled in a small clearing, powering down it's engines and coming to rest finally. The Imperius turned to K'taruuk and his men.

"This is it, this is what our trip has been all about my friends."

The doors hissed open, and instantly the cool air seeped into the carrage causing everyone in the cabin to take in a deep breathe of the new, fresh air.