The Snow Arena

[Ëlwe (Thingol)]

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Day 22

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We have arrived at our former Airstrip in Australia on Terra (Earth). We have found some Tau left there, aproximately 100 wich brings our total around 170 men. We have brought our 3 Tanks into the trenches and we are constructing simple underground hideouts. We are also trying to fix the destroyed broadcasting system to start sending help signals at day 24.

Terra now is more peacefull than ever though the surface is still scorched black everywhere wich tell the story of a great war wich waged only a few days ago on this surface. We have been able to recover a Baracuda fighter also but it will not be able to aid us verry much against a full scale assault when we have been discovered.

 

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Day 23

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It was a quiet day today, you could simply feel the nerves in the air. The broadcasting system had been repaired and underground hideouts have been finished. We have covered the Hammerhead Tanks with some remaining branches, trees and leaves to hide them from first sight.

 

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Day 24

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Another quiet day, maybe even more quiet as yesterday. We have started broadcasting into space and are awaiting answer from the fleet...

[MyDogsTale]

occ- Disregard the previous post about the battle between me and Mojlnir. here is the real and fair thing.

 

Suddenly, and out of nowhere MyDogsTale's armada appeared...He had uncloacked.

MyDogsTale formed himself into the form of a human, and sat down on his throne...

 

-Can somebody please find out where Ëlwe has set up his new base?

 

A young Sargeant came running with a piece of paper.

 

-Sir! Sir!, we've detected some faint radio signals, they appear to be from Ëlwe

 

A smile appeared on MyDogsTale's face.

-excellent, broedcast a message.

 

Crypted message to Ëlwe: Tale fleet to Ëlwe, Tale fleet to Ëlwe...Can you respond?

we are prepared to send you 2500 warriors, I repeat 2500 warriors. Please send coordinations

 

 

Commander Hammasson stood on the bridge and studied the newly arrived fleet:

-What is that? Sargeant, I need a report on it's origin.

 

-Sir! there is none available! It seems that they have come from nowhere

 

-Nowhere?How can that be possible?

[Pack Rat]

Prague-system > Planet Prague: The Return of the Titan.

 

The Clonewar: Alpha \ 5264-AS.

 

On that day Prague was destroyed, it's inhabitants slaughtered by the pillaging army's send by Lord Peregrine. The former pride planet was turned to ruins and all what it stood for was washed away in the blood of it's murdered inhabitants. Those who survived fled underground.

 

It was on that day that the Red Nation fell apart and was divided into factions. Every faction who swore never to unite again unless it was under a true leader, a true knight of the Red Nation.

 

Today, 7 years later, it seems that man has come. Prague has been rebuilded. Ivan Radjov stood in front of his roomwindow at the Office of Knights, the former residence where the leaders of the Red Nation resided. Now he was the only one who lived their, except for his servants and his wife, Vera.

For the last 5 years he had been trying to get full control over the Prague system but he knew that would only be possible if he was able to unite the factions again.

For three years the factions refused everything he proposed because none of the factions liked him and knew he could not be trusted.

 

For some unknown reason the last two years the factions changed, they became more open for his propositions and not two months ago they agreed to unite once more. He would finally be able to resurrect the Red Nation, not THE Red Nation but his very own nation where he had total control.

 

His wife entered the room.

<It is time...> she said.

Ivan knoded. Today he would resurrect the Red Nation and seize total control over the Prague system.

He smiled as the thought flew trough his mind.

 

On the Red Square, where once Lord Pack Rat stood, where once Commander Aleksei stood, now he would stand there. In front of his troops. As the doors of the Office of Knights opened to the balcony that overviewed the Red Square cheering rose up from the square. A full restored Red Army, all in uniform, cheered to their new leader as Ivan Radjov stepped forwards to speak to his men. The 10 faction leaders stood behind him, Admiral Nickolai was one of them. The 10 leaders their faces were serious unlike their men who were full of joy to be finally reunited.

 

Loyal troops of the Red Nation!

Today the day has come where each one of us has silently prayed for.

Today I stand here where once the two greatest leaders of the Red Nation stood,

Lord Pack Rat... The man who thought us the meanings! Lord Aleksei who led us to the oppossing of Peregrine and Armiena!

We are in their debts! But we shall never forget them! Lord Pack Rat now rests in peace on the planet Emour and Aleksei faded away with the war.

From now on I shall be as couragous and honorfull as the two men who stood here before me.

 

We have returned!

 

I am your new leader!

 

A loud cheering rose for the square. Ivan smiled as he overviewed the cheering men and women.

From the streets of Prague two military transports made their way trough the crowd followed by 3 tanks. They stopped in the middle of the square while the cheering transformed in curiosity. Ivan looked surprised. He had not planned this! what is going on?

 

Armed forces jumped out of the transports and opened a path to the Office of Knights. One of the armoured transports placed itself in the middle of the path that the troopers had made. A door opened and a man stepped out. Wearing a long black cloack, hiding his face and clothes. Thousands mouths fell open of incredibilty and curiosity. Escorted by 10 men the man walked over the square to the Office of Knights.

 

Ivan was furious.

<Who is that man?>

He turned himself around and ran down to the square, straight at the cloacked man, followed by the 10 leaders of the factions.

3 meters from the man Ivan stopped and stood trembling in fury.

<Arrest that man!>

<I cannot do that, Radjov...>

Radjov turned himself around and yelled in fury

<Who refuses to follow my orders? Who called me that way?>

<I did...>

Admiral Nickolai stepped forwards.

Ivan now was at the climax of his fury.

Radjov stared at Nickolai...

<You... Very well, arrest them both!>

Nickolai drew his blade and kept it in front of Radjov's face.

<There is only one leader of the Red Nation and it is not you...>

<And who is it then? You?> Ivan said laughing.

 

<No! I am...> the cloacked man said.

Ivan turned himself around and stared at the cloacked man in disbelief.

<Who are you?>

 

The man threw of his cloack and an incredible cheering rose from the Red Square. The men and women of the Red Nation went crazy of joy and even the 10 leaders stood smilling and relieved as they all recognised the man's face.

 

Instead of a cloacked man, there now stood a man in the uniform of a Red Nation's commander.

 

<You? But it cannot be? You were dead!>

 

Aleksei smiled...

<I look very good for a dead person, don't I?>

<But how?>

<My return has been planned for the last 2 years. You really don't think the factions wanted to unite under you? No, I let you do the work of rebuilding Prague and establishing your little dictatorship while I prepared everything for the return of the true Red Nation.>

 

Ivan fell onto his knee's before to be taken away by the guards. In the meanwhile the cheering had not fainted. The Red Nation now had fully returned with the same military strength. Fireworks were shot to return celebrate Aleksei's return and with him the return of the Red Nation.

[Ëlwe (Thingol)]

Mydogstale

 

We have established comunications with our backup. They have come with 15.000, more than expected. Space stations have been established around pluto and venus. 5.000 men are reported to have set for Eart and the other 10.000 stays to get the space stations up and running.

I am in command of this entire force so do not fear. I am safe now and am aproaching Mjolnirs fleet with a overwhelming 8 Capital ships, 50 escort ships and over 1000 fighters. Earth has now been claimed as our colony. Let's drive that Mjolnir male without a father back to the flames of the Sun!

 

Aun'O Ëlwe

 

Here are the tau ranks with closest translation to human language.

 

Tau ranks - fire/shas ------- ethereal/aun -- Air/Kor ------- Water/Por

'la --------- warrior ---------- prince --------- Messenger --- Bureaucrat

'ui --------- veteran --------- prelate -------- Carrier -------- Envoy

'vre ------- hero ------------- king ----------- Pilot ----------- Magister

'el --------- noble/knight ---- holy ----------- Captain ------- Diplomat

'o ---------- commander ---- Highest -------- Admiral ------- Ambassador

 

Tau ranks - Earth/Fio

'la ---------- Worker

'ui ---------- Senior

'vre -------- Overseer

'el ---------- Engineer

'o ----------- Planner

[MyDogsTale]

Message to Ëlwe:

 

Excellent! I see that you have provided some information about ranks also...Im afraid we don't have so many titles, we are in a way...more crude.

But i'll send some info about my troops, in case you would need to command them some day.

 

Titans:

The pride of my army, as tall as three men, strong as nothing seen before, and they are created to command others.

Unfortunatly these arn't the brightest creatures, but they are frightening and intimidating, and excellent fighters both in close combat and in firefights.

They carry a sword which is as tall as a man and is made from titanium, very very durable.

For fire fights they have been armed with a multi-use rifle, harboring a grenade launcher,A high powerd laser and a plain uranium bullet feeder system.

 

there are approx. 100 of theese under my command.

 

Black warriors (n'gul nagash):

A very powerfull human "breed" that i designed during my stay in the other universe...the DNA modifications make them durable and hardy.

In battle some would call them barberians, yes, they are wild and don't mind taking skulls for show...but the effect of a warrior coverd in skulls is a most intimidating sight.

They are also armed for close combat and fire fights.

They carry all from axes to swords and maces. all made from Titanium.

They use a Rifle with a standard Uranium bullet feeding system, as well as a Laser sidearm.

Since their natutral age is about 200 years, this allows their training to extend to 10 years or more, making them elite soliders.

I have approx 6000 of theese.

 

Lower cast's (n'kar do'merg):

Draftees... armed with nothing more than a simplified version of the High powerd laseer rifle MK-90034.

These are the men sent to the slaughter house, ment for making way and holding positions so that others may retreat, average lifespan: 35 years

Training time: 1 week

I have approx: 12000 of theese.

 

My fleet consits of:

5 Battle ships (the bismarck 2 series)

4 Dreadnaughts

30 cruisers

750 fighters.

and 200 landing vessels

 

My weapons has some nasty effects, spending time in the outer realms has a tendency to do that.

 

 

I await the attack day. Call for me, I won't let you down.

 

End of message.

 

MyDogsTale cloaked his armada, and coverd himself in nearby sun disturbanses that has a nasty effect on radars.

[Pack Rat]

Prague-system: Walls to build

 

Now with the Red Nation re-established at Prague the Red Nation could begin to retake what was once theirs: the Prague-system.

Commander Aleksei Rodovar had given the order to Admiral Nickolai to regain controle over the Prague-system.

On board of the Novosibirsk, Admiral Nickolai sended out several wings of Titan battleships. Most technology had remained the same as 7 years ago only defences and armory were updated. Altough the Titans were designed in the Second Clonewar, the new titan-class was updated with a new armory and shields.

Also on Prague, the reconstruction of the Juggernaut-class had begon. What is still to this date a mistery is where Commander Aleksei had kept the godships. Also it was Aleksei's last intention to reveal the location of the godship-class fleet.

Only the Novosibirsk was a massive cruiser, a mobile battlestation on it's own. Due the war the Red Nation wasn't able to construct more cruisers, so the Novosibirsk has become a unique battleship.

 

To re-gain controle over the Prague-system any hostile remainings of the Clonewars has to be removed, mainly any remainings of the Peregrine-cult. Also the battlestations contructed by Armiena had to be removed.

Surprisingly the Red Navy had not much to clean up. The Cult was defeated shortly after Peregrine's 'destruction'... Armiena fled the field and hasn't been seen till this date. Rumor is that she took of to some planet called New Earth.

The Red Nation has not the intention to look after Armiena.

Afterall, without Peregrine what does the Nation have to fear from her.

 

To have a fully running economy and to be able to recruit a massive military strength two more planets were colonised: Kursk and Minsk. The Red Nation now controled 4 planets in the Prague-system. In addition the Red Nation placed two more battlestations-shipyards between the 4 planets. Nova Scotia and Nova Zembla. With now full controle over the Prague-system the Red Nation could focus on bigger problems, like the war in the Earth-system.

[Ëlwe (Thingol)]

hello Lord Packrat,

 

I have heard of you and I wish to know your disposition towards Peregrine the Hell bird, Mjolnir, my army and others. And I wish to know how far the distance is between The sun of the Solarsystem we are residing right now. And I wish to form an aliance, do know if you do not join us you must be destroyed.

 

 

Aun'O Ëlwe

[Pack Rat]

Prague-system: Nova Scotia-battlestation: Word of Liberty

 

The High Command of the Red Natiopn received the message send by Elwe. After a short discussion a reply was send. Thanks to a long range transmitor on the battlestation Nova Scotia, they could send messages to systems far away.

 

Lord Elwe,

Today We speak in name of the Red Nation, tomorrow it may be our sons.

We have decided to answer your questions. You ask after our disposition towards Lord Peregrine... The Red Nation has once be the number one opposer to the mad god. We have fought Peregrine for many years and paid a great price for it. Many lives were lost, including Lord Pack Rat. Aleksei Rodovar is now in command of the Red Nation as he was after the death of Lord Pack Rat. The conflict between the Nation and Peregrine started over 650 years ago and ended 600 years ago.

 

War had reached the system and we united with Lord Peregrine only to be betrayed afterwards. Moljnir, Armiena and ourselves were the opposers to Peregrine. War raged and when defeat was in sight, Peregrine disappeared. That was the end of the First Clonewar. Peace had returned and we could rebuild and breath freely again. Armiena, Moljnir and the Red Nation. At that time we had a small vast empire on Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune and Mercury.

 

2 years later war broke out again for Peregrine had returned to the system. Blood was wasted once more and the Red Nation was driven out of your system with only a handfull survivors, driven to our far colony's in the Prague-system, our last refuge. It was in that time that our faith was crushed once more. Armiena who had foughten a long our side in the first war betrayed everybody and joined sides with Peregrine. The Red Nation had found a new prime enemy but never succeeded in confronting our new enemy. Everywhere there was a battle to be foughten we ran into Peregrine's forces. The war raged for another 10 years in the Prague system and on planet Emour where we would finally be defeated. Were we defeated on Emour? No... We were defeated from the moment we were betrayed and had to flee like dogs... But we could not see and kept fighting, we kept having hope that one day we would be free again.

Halass, we did not see that day. The Red Nation fell apart and was only to be reunited a few days ago.

That's our disposition towards Peregrine... A man who slaughtered us in many sneaky ways without facing us once face to face.

 

And Moljnir, we have foughten along side him for a very long time. When we were in desperate need of trust and faith Moljnir gave it to us after the betrayl that Armiena had commited.

For this reason, we cannot draw arms against Moljnir and are we here by rejecting your offer of an alliance...

However, the Red Nation shall not interfere with the conflict. We are neutral, tho do know that it is our duty to aid the wounded.

 

If peace would have roamed the systems and not war, then I would have happily accepted your alliance. You must understand that we cannot betray an old friend altough we will not come to his aid for we have lost enough blood.

 

Aleksei Rodovar in name of the Red Nation

 

Aleksei stared trough his window that overviewed Red Square.

All these years later, now that Peregrine and Armiena have vanished in the darkness of space, there still cannot be peace.

 

Aleksei curses mankind for it's stupidity.

[Peregrine]

Prague:

 

The small courier ship and its four fighter escorts slipped silently through all of Prague's defenses, and into the planet's atmosphere. By the time the defense network picked it up, the ship's pilot was already on final approach to Red Square. It was far too late to fire, any shots directed at the courier would cause massive civilian casualties in the city. As the afternoon crowds cleared away, the 30m ship performed a flawless landing in the center of the Square, its escorts in perfect diamond formation, wingtips mere inches from the adjacent hull.

 

An officer and six flanking guards stepped down from the courier's door. All wore the now familiar blue and gray uniforms of elite Peregrinist soldiers, and the guards carried new rifles close by their side. As they walked through the crowd, people cleared a wide path, fear winning over hate, with a little persuasion from the courier's heavy guns which though now inactive, could make quick work of the crowd.

 

The soldiers headed directly for the capitol building. When they reached the door guards, all seven stopped and made no attempt to force their way through. The lead officer stepped forward, a datacard in hand. "I bring a message from Admiral Tabanne of the Habassan Alliance 4th Fleet, and an offer of alliance. Summon Aleksi immediately. If out intelligence is correct, we have no time to waste."

[Ëlwe (Thingol)]

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Day 30

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Space stations are now operational, there are 5 near Venus and 5 near Pluto. Meanwhile the constructing of capital class cities on Terra has started. This is indeed the place where the new colony whill be located.

A few Manta ships have arrived at Terra, almost all Earth caste from Bork'An. Some of the Manta ships also headed for the Space stations to populate them. Some space turrets are being manifactured for defence of the colony.

 

(No troops have been sent to check on the Red Nation for we haven't heard of the odd event wich occured a few hours ago.)

 

Aun'O Ëlwe