gob drummit, i've been starved of this for so long!! ^___^ i love these! mkay, here it goes... (umm, is this on ONE planet...? /:( if so, let me know so i can change this, but am i okay in having an alien race of humanoids with interstellar travel and such? cuz i saw m-16s...) (Primary Nation) T.A.O. (tempest armada omnocracy) "we move as the storm, and spread as the rain" Government Category: nomad military/colonists Government Priority: interstellar colonization/resource expandandaion and collecting Economic Rating: alien black market;high standard;average Civil Rights Rating: decent, based on old customs Political Freedoms: low, based on old customs Income Tax Rate: n/a, no income Major Industry: various alloys and minerals gathered from colonies, tritonian metal from jaedaiesIV National Currency: daggoth National Animal: Azuran dragon of jaedaiesIII Total Population: throughout galaxy; 1,210,000,000 Leader: interstellar telepathic mindlink of unknown tribunal, on unknown location of avarusVII Military Leader: tsuyoshi asakura, "will of the fleet" (commands through mindlink system of main ship) Secondary Nation: T.A.O. assasin guild overnment Category: subnation Government Priority: death Economic Rating: none Civil Rights Rating: none Political Freedoms: none Income Tax Rate: none Major Industry: death National Currency: daggoth National Animal: none Total Population: 8,300 Leader: Shinigami sasuke takamura Military Leader: same the tribunal watched uncaringly from the rim of the system, through the eyes of it's mighty fleet. with some amount of aggrivation, they silently conversed with themselves through the psychic bonds they shared,and thought as one. "we are surprised to find this planet inhabited. our plans of seeding this rock seem to have met an impass." the group mind thought about its options, only for a split second. "we will let them destroy themselves, it would seem our prospective colony would be useless now anyway. let us scout this system for 'other' prospects. we will inform the fleets." and with that, the tribunal sent the wave of mental energy fleetward, traveling at near instant speeds. tsuyoshi asakura felt the pulse of will, and relayed the tactical information to the control deck of the massive fleet leader, the righteous fury. "allright, relay the path changes to the rest of the aramada, we're going to investigate the small, watery planet 7th furthest from the main system star. ETA is 2 hours, prepare all ships to enter the Infinity modulation envelope... the main ship began to glow, as the hundreds of smaller ships around it closed in towards it. suddenly, a ball of translucent blue light balooned from it, expanding ever more, until it suddenly collapsed to the size of a city block and shot forth in a beam of luminescence. in two hours, the process reversed, and the fleet found itself hovering over a small world of vast ocean, dotted by archiplaigos and a small continent. "send in a seedship to scout the atmosphere, and search for mineral traces." asakura spoke, now fully awake and standing on his control deck. at his words, one of the pilots entered a command into the strange, spherical control sphere that he operated, sending a massive, arowhead-like pod shooting towards the small continent. when it landed, it seemed to dissolve, spreading tendrils far from its center, seemingly rooting into the ground. a large spherical mass seemed to be pushed into the air by the tendrils, and it finally ceased to transform as the pod sat exactly 43 feet from the ground. inside, a small team of researchers began their work, sending their information to the righteous fury. the tribunal thought again. "we are slightly disturbed by the violent destruction of that previous colony. we will have the assasin guild scout this, and we must ready the fleet for possible battle." and at that, sasuke seperated his band of small, silent warships from the fleet. they looked somewhat like a crescent, having a small cockpit positioned between the crescent wing, and small beam generators mounted on the middle of either side of the wing. they sped towards the orbital aggressors. ETA of scout position, 8 hours. purpose; investigation... for now.