The Chiron Chronicle IV: 2180

[Cyber]

From: Chief Commander of Blockade Guardians
To: Colonel Santiago

Colonel, something unbelievable has happened. Hive troops have withdrawn from the border and news from the Free Drones say that the Hive has declared Blood Truce and Peace treaty talks have been initiated.
Though they have withdrawn, now they can consentrate their full military strength against us, so the situation is getting serious here.
A good point is that they have to go through Free Drone territory before getting to us.


From: Colonel Santiago
To: Chief Commander of Blockade Guardians


Commander, this is just trick of the Hive, but a clever one. I hereby order you to withdraw from the Blockade. Destroy everything possible that cannot be taken with.
You are to establish a new blockade to the Free Drone-Spartan border, and a second one on our side of the river west of Centurion Caves and Defiance Freehold. The rovers of all nearby bases will be sent to help you with your task of building the two new blockades.
You have your orders, now obey them.

Colonel Santiago

To: Foreman Domai
From: Colonel Santiago

Foreman, what is this? Peace with the Hive, after what they have done to your people? After what they represent?
However, do what you wish. Just remember, don´t dissapoint us by making extra deals with them, like giving them rights to pass through your territory and attack us.
We are still friends and when, not if, the Hive betrays its part of the bargain, the Spartans are ready to assist.

[[LordLMP]]

To: Colonel Santiego
From: Foreman Domai

Colonel, I do know what they done to our people and want they represent, but you know has I that they would eventually would break through the blockade. So rest is needed.
I have no reason to make any extra deals with them when they continue to badly treat their workers. Would be hypocrisy of me and they seem to hve been forced by the Planetary Council to cease attacks aswell.
I have notice thought that your units are destroying part of the blockading and forming up at our borders. What is the need of this?

Foreman Domai


To: General Kane, Hive
From: General Braddock, Peacekeeper

It is agreed. I will send you people Doctrine: Air Force after I start seeing the Hive it side of the deal.

General Braddock
Peacekeeper Continental Forces


To: Prophet Dawn, Cult of Planet
From: General Braddock, Peacekeeper

Mind Worms or not, people would die in the coming war. Anyhow, we will provide you the SAM ability along with High Energy Chemistry and Advanced Military Algorithims in exchange for help of 10 of your mindworms. I will only send you the techs once i see the Mindworms arrive at U.N. Haven City.

General Braddock
Peacekeeper Continental Forces

To: Chiron Alliance Leaders
From: Commisioner Lal

I am worried about the Spartans and the Peacekeepers on the continent. General Braddock seem to be ready to drag our faction into an unwanted war. Many lives are at stake. What can we do stop this?

I am also worried about the increase in tensions on the Chiron Continent.

Commissioner Lal


dream to planetmind from Lal

planetmind... can you help deal with a problem we have a U.N. SeaQuest? There seem to be a Spartan Probe Team holding up in a Freighter. My people there are worried about the two extra reactors. They can be use to cause great harm to my people there... and would give Braddock enough reason to start his war. please, can you help?

[Cyber]

(OOC:LordLMP, you have just given a revolver to a chimpanzee . Doctrine:Air Power can be a very powerful weapon in the hands of the Hive, not only against the Spartans, but against the Chiron alliance west of Hive.

From: Colonel Santiago
To: Foreman Domai

Just minimising potential losses, Foreman. We won´t do any treaties with those b*stards, and I won´t leave my soldiers on the now needless blockade to be sitting ducks, and the unmovable equipment there is more valuable destroyed than in Hive hands.
We are making the new blockades in order to assure that the damn Hive won´t march unobstructed straight to Sparta Command if they possibly get through your territory, so don´t worry.
We are always near to help you when the Hive renews its attacks. But for now the old Blockade has to abandoned.

Colonel Santiago

[Blake]

TO:Colonel Santiago
FROM: Cha Dawn

As you are surely aware Santigo I have no units in your territory. No doubt your "evidence" is just another peacekeeper trick.

Prophet Cha Dawn


TO: Prophet Cha Dawn
FROM: General Nisadou

The Cult army has been dispatched.


TO: Commander Braddock
FROM: Prophet Cha Dawns

My army has left Chiron Stigmata and consists of 9 Mindworms, 3 spore launchers and support vechiles. It'll take a detour around Nautilus territorial waters and should arrive at UN Haven City in a few weeks. If you would be so good to set aside a large patch of land near UN Haven City for Cult use it would make supporting my mindworms a lot eaier.

Oh, and one of my mindworm scout units will turn up at UN Haven City in a few days, they'll be in quite a hurry and possibly pursued by spartans.

Cha Dawn


OOC: I've posted detailed Cult army stats in Admin, a "large patch of land" is about 2 game tiles.

[da illen villen]

I would like to take over the Free Drones. Could someone please tell me the rules, the history, and where everything stands now?

[Christantine The Great]

Dream to Commissioner Lal...

I detect something. It appears to be some type of PlanetForce that will no longer respond to my commands. I believe that it is heading for the old Peacekeeperbases near the EarthSpartans. Shall I send a fleet to investagate?

I know of your situation in U.N. SeaQuest. Shall I dispatch an Planetisle to use the psiwave aganst them? It the Planetisle can get close enough it can induce vomiting that will eventually cause the probe team to rip out all of their internal organs...

Dream to Datajack Roze...

If you believe that your presence is dangerious then please leave! I do not want to endanger your troops. Please leave two of your rovers behind though. I just want the rovers, not the weapons...


Dream to Col. Santiago...

Ha...ha...ha...


[This message has been edited by Christantine The Great (edited March 01, 2001).]

[[LordLMP]]

OOC: da illan villan, read thread Chiron Chronicles Discussion. Lal's/Braddock's replies tommorrow... me tired

To: Nautilus of the Sea
From: Admiral Proudmoore

Third Fleet as detected a fleet of Isle of the Deeps and a single Unity Foil moving around our borders towards west. They seem to belong to the Cult of Planet. We also detected communications back forth between the Eastern Continent and the Cult.

Admiral Proudmoore
Third Fleet


encrypt message via Free Drones bases
To: Branko
From: Probe Team at Centurion Caves

The Spartans units that was at the Free Drone Blockade are setting up another blockade along the Free Drone/Spartan borders. Spartans have increase security among its western bases. It seems they are aware of probe activity or simply us. With its new blockade up, we would have to get out of spartan territory from the north.


[This message has been edited by [LordLMP] (edited March 02, 2001).]

[Cyber]

2nd War Rover Unit of Southern army
Hunting the Cult Scout unit near UN haven City
Recorded by Command Rover Log

""Commander, we have detected the worm. It´s near the border and is about to cross it.""

"Well, give it a shover missiles for a warning. If it doesn´t stop, continue shooting and open a commlink to its trainer... damn piece of fungus..."

Without a reply, dozens of missiles were shot. They collided into the ground right in front and behind of the Cult mindworm. The worm stopped for a second then continued its frenzied charge for the border.

""No response, Sir. Opening a commlink now.""

From: Commander Jakob Weiss, 2nd War Rover Unit
To: Unidentified Controlled Mindworm Unit

This is Commmander Jakob Weiss, from the 2nd War Rovers. You are hereby arrested for spying and tresspassing through Spartan territory. Stay where you are, and do not cross the border, otherwise you will be destroyed.


""Sir, no reponse. It is just about to cross the border.""

"Not, if you ask me. Shoot with all you´ve got!"

""Yes, Sir!""

All rovers started launching missiles, that combined into one big hale going straight for the mindworm. The worm suddenly stopped, as if it knew its end had arrived. Then, in a millisecond, the worm vaporised as the combined power of the missiles hit, turning first into a bright explosion and then a huge cloud of smoke and dust.

"That settles it."

""Sir, there are some PK units gathering at the other side.""

"Good, they just witnessed Spartan superiority in combat. Now lets get out of here. Oh, and contant War Outpost to send someone to study whats left of that thing."


As the Spartan rovers left the site, they didn´t see the crawling trainer getting out of the thick cloud of smoke.The human crawled barely the last few meters over to peacekeeper territory, and the PK rovers went to pick him up.

[Blake]

Continental Peace Keeper rover patrol

The embarrased peacekeepers stood in a loose circle around the cult Trainer, the poor man lay on the ground crying, and seemed to be trying to tie himself in a knot.
"Is he shell shocked..?"
"Don't think so"

The captain of the patrol attempted to talk to the trainer, with no success.

"Does anyone know what language the bastards speak?" shouted the captain.

The peacekeepers shuffled uncomfortably, eventually one of them ventured "Sir!, if I may, I think he is grieving the death of his mindworm... my sister was in the Peacekeeper psi corps, the bond these trainers have with there worm is.. well... my sister had to pratically live with her worm, eventually she dropped out of the corps, the emotional strain was too much."
"hmph, and the mindworm was probably this guys only companion for years."

The cultist managed to compose himself enough to stand up, still shuddering violently he tried to speak, his speech was almost unintelligible but from his gestures it was clear he wanted to go back towards the border.
"He wants to go back for his worm, sir"
"He's crazy!"
"The spartans HAVE gone..."
"I'm not risking good men on such foolishness!"

The Cult trainer had got his bearings and started stumbling back towards the border. "Stop that idiot!"
One of the peacekeepers ran to the trainer, "I'm taking him back to his worm Sir!, atleast let the poor man have his dignity"
The captain scowled, and yelled "It's your arse, I ain't gonna stop you!", he then ordered the rest of the patrol to prepare the rovers for a quick getaway.

The cultist performed a hurried ritual over the shattered remains of his worm, then with the help of the peacekeeper collected most of his equipment. Barely had they made it back accross the border when a spartan rover screamed into view. The Cultist turned and howled at the spartan rover, the peacekeeper tried to keep him moving. A brave PK rover sped to the border and collected the cultist, hightailing back to rejoin the patrol.

The cultist sobbed and clutched at a couple of planetpearls recovered from his mindworms corpse. Eventually he stopped sobbing, and tucked one of the planetpearls into a small amulet, the other he gave to the peacekeeper which had helped him. The peacekeeper was embarassed, but accepted the gift, for fear of instulting the cultist, and because a planetpearl was worth a LOT of money.

[[LordLMP]]

OOC: just shows how important Braddock's proposal was anyway, Braddock doesn't give a hoot, just want to kick Spartans butt Of course, Lal wouldn't like it a single bit if he finds out. Quote: There is a reason for everything i do and say -LMP
Note: Data Acquisition and Haven City civilians are mostly evacuated, so mainly of military people and maybe a pk probe team. so higher risks for spartan probe teams, especially two!

To: Prophet Cha Dawn
From: General Braddock

Your mindworms can land at sector 116,66, there is still fungus there. Cannot provide you much more, since rest of lands near Haven City are farms, forests, solar collectors, sensor arrays and bunkers.

General Braddock


dream to planetmind from Lal


a PlanetForce? does it belong to the Gaians? the Cult? Antimind? why are they moving towards the oldpeacekeeper bases?
as for SeaQuest...yes, would really aprreciate it... they were there for a month now... don't know how the probe team can last that long...


To: General Braddock
From: Commissioner Lal

Planetmind as detected a fleet of Isle of the Deeps moving towards Haven City. It is possible its an invasion force from either the Antimind or the Cult. may even be help from the Gaians, but they haven't said a thing to me concerning it.

Commissioner Lal

To: Commissioner Lal
From: Captain Svensgaard

Commissioner, my Third Fleet as detected a fleet of Isle of the Deep moving towards Haven City, as you may know already or not. They also have been detecting communications between the East Continent and the Cult of Planet, so the mindworm fleet most likely Cult for sure.

In another matter, if your General Braddock's Continental Forces attack the spartans first, then the rest of the alliance cannot legally help you really... military wise anyway. Nautilus Pirates are ready to send their marines and battle dragons in if needed, but not if PCF attacks first.

Oh, before i forget, the Hive seem to be up to something aswell. After the Truce, they remove large amount of units from the Free Drone/Spartan border. The Spartans retreated its Blockade units so they can establish another blockade along the Free Drone border. Possible there will be a Big War on that continent.

Captain Svengaard

[Cyber]

(OOC: The Spartan probe teams in UN Data Acquisition are just gathering easy info for now, otherwise keeping a low profile.)


In freighter Apollon

The Spartans were still holding on. After a month of being on that ship, the food supplies were running out fast.
Three weeks ago, when the PK security forces finally found out where they resided, they sent tens of commandos to raid the ship, before they had enough sense to scan the freighter. The commandos were all dead now. Either by a trap or a Spartan gun.

The Captain sat on his chair in the bridge, staring blankly into the monitors. He was tired and wounded in the left shoulder, and breathed hardly. Two other surviving probe team members were behind him, trying to do their jobs of monitoring the ship.
The Captain was having a flashback, first seeing his family, his two sons and his wife playing outside their house. They we all so happy.
Then he saw as one of his probe team members desperately jumped into a group of eight heavily armored commandos, and killed them all with a shredder gun, before he was shot square into the chest and fell on the
ground, dead.

Suddenly, an excrusiating feeling of sickness overwhelmed him.
"Sh*t!... Psionic attack!Put your helmets on!" The Captain screamed.

The Captain and the two Spartans put their psionic helmets on, just as another wave of sickness hit them. The Captain fell from the chair on his knees, holding his stomach as if it was ripped open.The Two other Spartans were on the ground already, almost paralysed from pain.One of them took out his knive.
"Got to cut it out...Got to cut it out..." he repeated as he struck the knive into his guts, again and again.

The Captain found out that his mind still worked and he could somehow move.
He crawled to the comm. console and actived the automatic message sending system. A message was sent to the Hive. A message that was encrypted, but encrypted in a way the Peacekeepers could intercept and decipher it.

To: Chairman Yang, the Hive
From: Hive Probe team number 7

Sir, we have failed. But the trick to throw the blame on the Spartans worked.We are now detonating the three reactors. Please forgive us and our families.END

The Captain then took the remote control for detonation from his pocket and looked of what was left of his crew. One was dead, his guts spilled on the floor, and the other one was lying lifeless, her head dripped in her own vomit.

The captain looked again at the remote control. This is it. The time has come. The Peacekeepers are going to pay.

Then a powerful wave of agony and sickness overwhelmed him and he fell on the ground, the remote control flying out of his hand. At the same time, klaxons started wailing all around the bridge. The peacekeepers were trying to raid the ship, and now one of them had stepped into a trap.

The Captain started crawling on, in tremendous pain, towards the remote control a few feet away.
He reached the remote, just as the bridge was raided. Peacekeeper commandos poured in from everywhere, screaming and shouting something the captain couldn´t understand anymore.

"All of you, go to Hell!" He screamed back at them and punched the red button on the remote control.


************


A member of one of the probe teams that came from Apollon watched from a transport foils window the base. UN Seaquest was being evacuated as fast as possible, and all four surviving probe teams were now on one of the numerous transport foils getting out of the doomed base. One of the original five probe teams had tried a more radical way to get out, by stealing a transport foil, but that had been a failure.

The Spartan was sitting comfortably in a second class seat with a window view, when suddenly the whole base turned into a fiery, bright ball of fire. He turned his face away, thinking that they were too near. The tsunami would crush them.
A second later, the pressure wave hit the transport hard and broke the windows, the pieces of synthglass slicing the passengers.

The Spartan spy, a large piece of synthglass in his throat, saw as his last glimpse of life a huge wave coming towards them. Then everything faded away.
























[This message has been edited by Cyber (edited March 02, 2001).]

[Christantine The Great]

A Isle Guard Isle of the Deep was off the coast of U.N. SeaQuest, using its psi powers to destroy the Spartan probe team, when the tidal wave hit. The Isle was thrown up on the wave. As it coasted on top of the wave it got a message from Planetmind. The action that the Isle was doing was called "surfing" by the Earthhumans. The Isle experienced "fun" for the first and last time in its life before the titanic wave crushed it.

Dream to Commissioner Lal...

I believe it is a...PlanetCult fleet. They are heading to the old bases. I do not like it. Something is going on between them and AntiMind. I am going to stop them...


OOC: About 10 Great Boil IoDs are heading for the Cult fleet to intercept, not attack.

[Blake]

TO: Prophet Cha Dawn
FROM: Commander of Cult army

Prophet, we have a problem here. Earlier today the demon boil isle detected a disturbance in the resonance fields, we sent one of the sealurks out on recon and found about a dozen isles headed on intercept course with the fleet. The sealurk tried to make contact, but failed, altough it felt the planetminds presence.

I've ordered all isle's and the sealurks on full alert, if the hostile isles continue on the current heading we intend to hit them with everything we have. Hopefully it doesn't come to that, but if we don't strike first we lose the only advantage we have against hostile forces. I'm going to do everything in my power to get this fleet to UN Haven City. The spartans will be stopped.

Meditative transmission to planetmind from Cha Dawn

planetmind... planetmind!... I know you can hear me. my native army has detected a dozen of your isles on intercept course... why? have you gone senile in your old age planetmind? do you think I intend to join forces with the spartans and help them wipe out the peacekeepers? my army IS a peacekeeping force, you were too weak to stop the spartans... but they must be stopped. i intend to re-inforce the pk defense border... hopefully the spartans reconsider there attack when they see the increased odds they are against... if not then with the peacekeepers help I intend to teach them the errors of there ways.. or destroy them.. call off your isles planetmind... if my army doesn't arrive at the the peacekeeper borderzone then you will have helped the spartans destroy the peacekeepers... is that what you want?? ...prehaps you are the one which is allied to the spartans?

[[LordLMP]]

U.N. Headquarters

Lal looks at the monitors of the footage of the destruction of U.N. SeaQuest from a Missile Foil, before it was destroyed by the blast... collapses on his chair, mourning for those lives...

The U.N. Navy as already dispatch ships to recover any possible survivors. U.N. Intelligence and U.N. Security has started investigation on this disaster.

U.N. Pearl Harbor as intercepted the transmission sent from U.N. SeaQuest to the Hive, before it got destroyed. Copy of the transmission as already been sent to U.N. Headquarters. It seems that the Probe Team that as captured the Apollon is actually a Hive one.

Lal decides to contact the Chiron Alliance before declaring an emergency Planetary Council meeting without proof as to who that probe team belonged too.

Safe Haven

Captain Svensgaard quikcly receives the reports from Nautilus Intelligence of the thermal nuclear blast which destroyed U.N. SeaQuest.
Its like the Nuclear Destruction of Pearl Harbor fiasco of the 2040s back on Earth. The transmission to Yang from the Apollon Freighter isn't enough to actually prove that the probe team was from the Hive, so the Chiron Alliance cannot declare vendetta upon the Hive, or the Spartans in which the probe team may of also come from without any valid proof. like back on earth, which they cannot proved who sent the terrorists to nuke Pearl Harbor with a stolen U.S. military transport. He has ordered the Nautilus Intelligence to investigate and contacted Third Fleet to send rescue ships to the scene and help the U.N. Navy to recover any survivors.

U.N. Enforcement Base

General Braddock received the reports of the destruction of U.N. SeaQuest aswell. He was at rage, almost destroying his office at Peacekeeper Continental Forces HQ. He also received reports concerning the transmission sent to the Hive, which he didn't believe. Probebly the Spartan Probe Team, which was originally assumed, sent that message to frame the Hive. Intelligence still wasn't able to prove if it was the Hive or the Spartans which the Probe Team belonged. He was almost about to order the Frontal Units to commence attacks on the Spartans, but he hold itt off. That would be a stupid move, since if He attacks first, the Chiron Alliance wouldn't come to help out.

[da illen villen]

To the Free Drone Citizens

Today we have a new leader of the Free Drones. His name is Brian. Today he announced his plans for the destruction of the Hive. This of coarse will have a great affect on the industrial asspects of us but it is for the graeter good.