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cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92011-08-13 01:21 am

Lirath - Ground Battle

 After dropping off some of the crew at Balisair, it was time for the crew to set course for Lirath. The situation greeting them wasn't the most promising.

The cracked surface of the moon called Lirath was one of its most unmistakeable features. One of the three moons of the planet Kehoe, it had been terraformed and served as a settlement for a hundreds of different species, some humanoid, some not. Despite occasional class struggles, environmental issues, and speciesism blocking their way, the darker parts of Lirath's past were largely left behind, and an era of peace and tolerance had reigned for quite some time. The only problems they'd had recently were with a terrorist group whose cause for their actions had been a mystery, but they weren't tied to any particular species or social group and had been likened to a cult and had largely gone quiet in recent years.

Now the peace on the moon of Lirath had been shattered by the invasion of the Ohm.

The capital city had been destroyed. Now, all that was left of the peoples of Lirath was evacuating from one of its smaller cities, one known as Smyteval. A desert city, existing in a valley in between a rocky range of canyons and mountains, even though it was in the low ground, the natural channels of rock served as bottlenecks for any Ohm attacking from the ground.

GIA squadrons patrolled in space, locked in explosive warfare, protecting the Bleed-gate that had been activated to see the evacuated ships to the refugee world, and a shield created by massively-powerful shield generators extended around the city and up into the atmosphere, creating a shielded tunnel so ships could escape.

Word had come that there was a vital weapon to be deployed on Lirath, one that needed to be destroyed, hence why the Transmigration 9 had been called in. Given the diverse crew, and the ships that were in its hangar, there was at least someone or something on board that could blow the weapon up if it did show.

There was no sign of it yet. Right now, there was just chaos, streams of evacuees boarding ships, armies of Ohm engaged with GIA soldiers outside the shields, and forcefields that everyone hoped would hold out just a little bit longer.

The crew would be following Leon's orders but finding themselves fighting side-by-side with GIA platoons, full of various species that were currently all getting their asses kicked severely.

[ooc: STAGE 1 is now open! Please do not tage STAGE 2 until it's announced as open as well.]

[ooc: STAGE 2 is now open!]

[identity profile] dhianeila.livejournal.com 2011-08-17 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
They take ... they did take. At least Dhianeila knew they took many things. Humanity had been a selfish thing for so very long, and still remained as such, even before the last moment she remembered before waking up on Stacy. They took riches from the Earth, other planets and the powers around them. And being what they were, they had no way to return any of it. But that was part of their journey, to get to the point where they could fix things, give things back. They had started to get there, after obtaining the powers of the race before them who reached the point where they could move on to another universe.

Dhianeila wanted to plead again, but words didn't come at first. What could she say to that? Did the Ohm even mean take in the sense she was thinking of? Or had they taken something from them? And did they want more? Everybody on Stacy wanted their homes back. Wanted their lives and their friends and family back. Would the Ohm understand that? Would they see these things as the 'more' that they made sound so disgraceful? All of these thoughts were sudden, and probably felt through their connection. Take and want more ... Dhianeila felt overwhelmed with the power she was feeling from those surges.

If you hate us for taking, why do you do it as well?

[identity profile] ohm-nom-nom.livejournal.com 2011-08-17 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
{{YOU PERSIST.}}

For a moment, there is a brief flash of something. Not an image, not a feeling, just something that the being has been holding on to for a long, long time. But the sensation is gone too quickly to comprehend it.

{{NO MORE. IT WILL END HERE.}}

[identity profile] dhianeila.livejournal.com 2011-08-18 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
That sensation ... Dhianeila couldn't comprehend it, even though she felt it. If only she knew what it was...

We persist because we do not understand. It was easy enough to admit. They were all lost, weren't they? About the Ohm, about the GIA, even about the ship they were on. But they were struggling, struggling to learn everything. Struggling to figure out their place in it all.

Help us, please, she said again, a final question, because the power overwhelming her from the being was quickly becoming to much to handle.

[identity profile] ohm-nom-nom.livejournal.com 2011-08-19 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
The intense rage continued to flare, and the two of them the psychic pressure from the being forcing down on them. It was an oppressive, choking feeling, accompanied by excruciating pain. It would be so easy for it to kill them both then and there.

But then, at Dhianeila's plea, it relented. For a brief, singular moment, they could sense another emotion hiding beneath the surface emanating from the being. But it was too unclear, too buried beneath the other emotions that they could not sense what it was.

{{No.}}

With one mighty push, it sent them away, severing their connection to the Ohm, leaving them once again with more questions than answers.