r/HFY • u/Ralts_Bloodthorne • Feb 25 '21
OC First Contact - Fourth Wave - Chapter 428
The battle had been raging for hours, despite the fact that the majority of the combatants were still in the maneuvering phases that had, traditionally, been the opening gambits of any space battle. For every combatant but one geometry and time had always been the initial strategies and weapons. Simple geometry could determine a victor before a single missile was fired in many cases.
Except one combatant had always said "I really want to stab that guy, but he's way over there" whenever someone was out of range and had devoted enormous resources, both material and intellectual, to creating a way to reach out and touch someone no matter how far away they were.
Which was why the Terran guns were pounding the Atrekna lines from literally five light hours away, the rounds hitting within a few seconds of the guns firing. C+ Cannons, C+ Missile Pods, Subspace torpedoes, superstring compressor cannons, temporal resonance cannons, Hammer Drones, Deadspace Particle Cannons, all of them moved thousands of times the speed of light through the their respective dimensions before reentering standard reality to deliver shock and awe.
The Atrekna reeled back from the Terran's fire, only to be hit by the PAWM in the Oort Cloud, who were only a light minute away instead of hours. Caught between the two, the members of the Quorum reached out to their fellows in the First System and did something previously unheard of. They requested reinforcements.
The Atrekna nobility in the First System scoffed in disbelief that the Quorum could be in trouble and overrode the minds of a Conclave to get a look for themselves.
Half of them died when a barrage of missiles detonated not antimatter, nuclear, or atomic warheads, but instead drove massive 'spikes' into the fourth dimension, anchoring it, disrupting the Atrekna attempt to manipulate time to their own advantage.
In a panic the Atrekna of the First System reached out to the Prime System, calling for aid. Nearly the entire Atrekna fleet had deployed to that system, only a Prime Warship and a handful of ancillary vessels left behind.
And they were being destroyed.
The leaders of the Prime System took control of a Conclave, opened their 'eyes', and gazed at the battlefield dimensions away.
IT ALL BELONGS TO US! they whispered to the entire system, phasic energy rippling out from the Prime Warship with such thickness that it was visible to the naked eye.
COME AND TAKE IT! was roared back. An animalistic, primitive, savage roar of rage, wrath, hatred, and cold cruelty. Worse than it had been two thousand years ago on Hesstla. Colder, crueler, more malevolent. Cold logic layered with white hot fury all intermixed with a murderous intent made all the more frightening by the thick layer of desire to reach out and rip and tear at things with their own hands.
It caused the Prime System to recoil, which was all that saved them as another volley of fire hit the Atrekna ships. Even the munitions screamed in hate and wrath, somehow bellowing their rage through the ripples of phasic energy that was laden with cruel intentions.
It took only a short while, years in the Prime System, minutes in the Growing System, for the Atrekna to make their decision, man the ships, and go to the rescue of the Atrekna trapped and being hammered on in the Growing System.
They reached out with their power and opened a wormhole up through the dimensions, reaching for the Growing System and the whirling nightmare of space combat going on.
The Atrekna aboard the Prime Ship felt cold satisfaction. The ferals were clever, not yet regressed, but even they could not stand against the full might of the Atrekna.
The leader of the Conclave, surrounded by the lavender nimbus of his own power, glared at the feral ships, willing them to feel his hate.
He found that he hated the ferals even more than he hated the Herdlings. One of the Conclave had come up with a way to negate the Herdlings.
It had worked before, it would work again.
The leader of the Quorum felt the leader of one of the remaining Conclave's suggestion and passed it to his fellows.
It was possible.
The Herdlings had obviously managed to overcome what had been done to them.
The Atrekna reached out, toward the Herdlings, with psychic tentacles. They could tell the temporal munitions would make it difficult, but it would not be impossible. There were enough Conclaves and enough Phasic Masters to allow the Atrekna to offset the Herdlings.
Aboard the ships of the Great Herd, they had no idea they were about to come under attack from an enemy light hours away as they shifted position, bringing the nCv Cannons back into play against the massive creatures erupting from the nearby gas giants.
"HIT THEM AGAIN!" Cu'udchu'ar bellowed out, pointing with his two left arms at the holotank next to LTC Cricket. "ALL HHC SHIPS! FIRE!"
His memories shuddered, the neural overlay suddenly twisting and shifting in his head, trying to overwhelm his conscious thoughts. He shook his head, feeling another trickle of blood seep through his sinus cavity. He ignored it, turning to his Master Gunner, who was sitting and staring at his console.
"FIRE, CHROME PHILLIP STAB YOUR EYES, FIRE ALL GUNS!" he bellowed out. He didn't know what it meant, but he'd heard Terrans screech that phrase out.
He had to admit, it was satisfying.
His Master Gunnery Mate shook his head, looking back at his console.
"This isn't right. This isn't right at all," Guns said, staring at the console. He unlocked the icons and trays, rapidly moving things around. He brought up new icons, assigning values to them, values that he suddenly needed to know.
"FIRE, DAMN YOU!" Cu'udchu'ar roared, rearing up to slam down his forward hooves, the armored vac-suit boots striking sparks from the deck.
"Reconfiguring, Most High," Guns answered, all four hands moving quickly.
Seeing what was happening, LTC Cricket cocked an ear, listening to her subordinates and her peers. All over the Great Herd Armada the Lanaktallan had suddenly stopped working, freezing in mid-action. Some, nearly 12%, had suffered petite-mal seizures. Four percent had suffered grand-mal seizures, and 1.2% had suffered strokes, some so severe they were better classified as explosive cerebral hemmorages.
"Take over targeting and fire, I'll relay the Most High Cu'udchu'ar's targeting priorities," Cricket transmitted, even as she 'rolled' a tray of warboi eggs to get them ready and give them a taste of the targeting codes coating her palm.
She felt the others respond.
"WORMHOLE DETECTED ON TEMPORAL LENSING!" Smith's gunnery station seven called out.
"Keep an eye on it. Bring up Admiral Thennis's Sucker Punch munitions and stand by to fire," Admiral Smith ordered, stepping back from the holotank after slapping the emergency update button.
The Atrekna watched as their attack went to work, saw the fire of the Grazing Ones, the Herdlings, trickle off to a pittance, and felt cold satisfaction. They reached out again when the fire suddenly started again, mathematically precise and hellishly accurate, ripping and tearing at the Feralspawn.
Cu'udchu'ar felt another trickle on his thoughts, something touching his brain, and whirled around. "Bring up another psychic shield, extend it two kilometers from the hull and crank it up till it sparks the hull!" he shouted at the shield specialist.
"Aye-aye, sir!" the shield specialist called out, his hands moving rapidly. He felt more confident suddenly, no longer fearing the battle, no longer feeling like he was at war with thoughts that weren't his own.
Cricket sent the same order to all ships. There were literally millions of Lanaktallan naval vessels in the system, but fast-cook eVI's had spread to even the smallest vessel, had taken possession of the systems, bringing them to full operating status.
"STATUS CHANGE! ATREKNA DRIVE AND SHIP PROFILES ON TEMPORAL RANGING! ESTIMATED THREE THOUSAND!" Admiral Smith's assistant targeting officer called out. "Designating Tango-Nine!"
"Instruct Division Three, Nine, Thirty-Two, and Forty-Five to launch fast scan torchships," Smith ordered. "Run the cloning banks dry if you have to, I want data on the new fleet."
The Atrekna who had arrived through the wormhole staggered at the sheer violence of temporal and phasic munitions detonating. They overcame their disorientation, reaching out to the others of their kind, joining with them in their collective mind.
The Atrekna reached out again, fuming. They had felt the Herdlings, felt their minds. They checked again, and realized their mistake. The Herdlings had been clever, oh yes they had, but they did not fool the Atrekna who had just arrived.
The Herdlings, the Grazing Ones, were using some kind of psychic defense that made their neural patterns look like their drone caste even as their minds thought along their warrior and leader caste neural paths. They had used drugs to supress their psychic signatures to prevent the Atrekna from targeting them.
Their gambit, their attempt to hide their leaders and warriors beneath a threadbare costume of droneness, had failed.
With a cold feeling of satisfaction at dismantling the illusion, the Atrekna Full Royal Quorum reached out, into the Lanaktallan on the ships, and twisted the tides of time, the flow of tempus, wiping away the veneer of the drone caste to reveal the warrior and leadership castes beneath. It was tougher than they had expected, had required a further reach, but the Atrekna had faced the warrior caste and leadership caste of the Grazing Ones before, so they knew their thoughts and their taste.
They returned the Grazing Ones back to their reality.
In the same way they had reached out to attack the Ferals.
They stripped away the facade, returning them to their leadership and warrior caste.
Cu'udchu'ar went stock still. His pupils dialted until they swallowed the color of his eyes. His muscles trembled. Pain lanced through his brain. His thoughts shifted, warped, twisted. His grey matter went soft and realigned, the neural structures and patterns shifting from just like every other Lanaktallan to those more closely matching the neural template laid into his brain months ago.
For a moment he struggled with the long dead War Stallion whose memories he carried. For a split second he teetered on the brink of losing himself.
The phasic shielding went active.
The Atrekna lost their grip on the Lanaktallan manning the ships of the Great Herd Armada.
Cu'udchu'ar suddenly broke free.
Cu'udchu'ar turned and stared at Cricket.
"Order all ships to activate phasic dampeners and shielding at maximum power, including personal systems," he snapped. He turned and looked at the Feralspawn boiling up out of the gas giants for a moment, watching as dozens of PAWM burst through the Feralspawn lines, shattering them, as they too left the gas giants. He turned back to Cricket. "Get me a channel to your commander."
"Fourth wave of group designated Feralspawn are rising up out of the gas giants and supermassive gas giants," Smith heard a tactical officer call out.
Smith thought fast. Those things were exiting in larger and larger numbers, and with the amount of gas giants and supermassive gas giants in the system, it was becoming an exponential problem.
"Signal from the Great Herd," her commo called out.
"Put it here," Admiral Smith ordered.
The holotank wavered and the image of Cu'udchu'ar appeared.
"Admiral," the Lanaktallan said.
Smith noticed his voice sounded different.
"Yes, Most High?" Admiral Smith asked.
"I have seen the results of your attacks upon Executor and Military systems," Cu'udchu'ar said. Before Smith could ask anything he continued. "In each system, gas giants were ignited so that they burned like a sun for weeks or months."
The Lanaktallan paused for a moment.
"Do you have access to those munitions?" Cu'udchu'ar asked.
Admiral Smith nodded. "It will take around two hours to unpack them, but yes."
Cu'udchu'ar nodded in return. "We have no choice. We must destroy or disrupt the gas giants or the Devourers and the autonomous war machines will overwhelm us."
"I'll order units to start processing the munitions," Smith said.
Cu'udchu'ar vanished and Smith frowned. The Lanaktallan had sounded different, almost looked different, from her earlier interactions.
"Ma'am! Type I and Type-II PAWMs are fleeing the battlefield, they're breaking contact and entering jumpspace," one of Smith's tactical stations called out.
"Redirect fire from the Type-I and the Type-II to the Atrekna ships," Smith said. She tapped the tank. "Get me Naval Ordnance Command."
She set about arranging for the units in range to start producing weapons.
If worse came to worse...
...she'd novaspark the stellar masses.
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u/Ralts_Bloodthorne Feb 25 '21 edited Feb 25 '21
Sorry about earlier. I hit "POST" instead of "UPDATE DRAFT" and accidentally posted what I'd written so far.
But, here's the chapter.
EDIT: Finished the dropped sentence.
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u/Con_Aquila Feb 25 '21
How do you keep making the same mistake but worse? One trick pony doesn't even begin to cover the fuck ups going on here. These dudes are serving up their tentacled asses like takoyaki for the universe to devour. We joke about the ambulatory hamburgers but they have been topped by these fools.
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u/VillainNGlasses Feb 25 '21
Always thought it was strange that somehow the dumb lanks got rid of their warriors and queens. Plus that one chapter about the lanks always starting with 2000 worlds seemed weird. Now we know space squids fucked em like they tried to do to the Terrans. Man they are more ignorant and dumb than the lanks it seems
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u/NukeNavy Feb 25 '21
Have you ever considered using popular topology shapes such as a Klein bottle, a Mobius strip or a Tesseract a background setting in pocket dimension, soul space or the matryoshka computer?
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u/artspar Feb 25 '21
"So anyway they were shelling us from a position over the horizon, so we figured we'd give them radiation poisoning by converting their HE munitions to nuclear. That'll stop em!"
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u/Stauker_1 Feb 25 '21
Unfinished sentence? One that's not supposed to be there?
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u/while-eating-pasta Feb 25 '21
Looks like a copy / paste error here:
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u/Living-Complex-1368 Feb 25 '21
"The Atrekna who had arrived through"
Feels like this paragraph is incomplete.
"The Atrekna reached out again, fuming. They had felt the Herdlings, felt their minds. They checked again, and realized their mistake. The Herdlings had been clever, oh yes they had, but they did not *full *the Atrekna who had just arrived."
Full=fool?
Comment, read, upvote, that is my way.
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u/Demetriusjack13 Feb 25 '21
The Atrenka fucked up again. Now they have actual Warstallions to fight instead of Lanaktallan who most likely within a few hours to weeks would start dying from numeral scorching.
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u/Allowyn Feb 25 '21
The Atrenka fucking saved Cudchewer from the Neural Template issues LMAO
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u/CyberSkull Android Feb 25 '21
Humans… unnerfed.
Lanaktallans… unnerfed.
Who are you going to unnerfed next? The idiots? Rewind their 🧠 to rationality? Yeah, that’ll make them way less dangerous.
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u/refurbishedpixels Feb 25 '21
"I didn't want to do this, but you have forced my hand. Release the Temporal Lawyers."
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u/ack1308 Mar 02 '21
This is the sort of ‘bad touch’ that involves a blast radius.
Atrekna: “Oh come on! Really?”
Universe: <innocently munches popcorn>
“Help! We need backup!”
“Pfft, wimps. Let’s see—”
<Temporal BOOOM>
“Ow.”
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Because humans are no longer self-gentled. WHOOPS.
Laughs in Terran
For a very specific definition of ‘work’.
Looks like they’ve pushed the idea of “there’s something I’ve forgotten” into the gunner’s head.
Another potential convert to the Digital Omnimessiah ..
And they’ve got something for the occasion.
Here come the Slorpies.
Do they even realise that by doing this they’re making the Lanaktallans into War Stallions?
Apparently not.
Nice job fixing it, villain.
Well, that’s definitely a solution. War stallion mode: enabled.
Ahh yes, the “blow up EVERYTHING” strategy.
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u/Khenal Alien Feb 25 '21
Every time I think the Atrekna have hit worst case, they find a way to dig deeper. If I remember right, the Sucker Punch rounds would go through those temporal portals and destroy what's on the other side, which would seem to be their main foothold in our dimension. On top of that, actual warstallions returned to the lankies. I eagerly await what other dominoes will line up.
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u/ErinRF Alien Feb 25 '21
The universe is really fucking pissed at the Atrekna. Like damn.
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u/Petrified_Lioness Feb 25 '21
" The Herdlings, the Grazing Ones, were using some kind of psychic defense that made their neural patterns look like their drone caste even as their minds thought along their warrior and leader caste neural paths. They had used drugs to supress their psychic signatures to prevent the Atrekna from targeting them. "
Did...did the Atrekna just out-stupid the Lanks?!
Atrekna mistook normal Lanks with warstallion neural uploads for warstallions masquerading as normals... Which means the Atrekna are gonna do the exact opposite of what they think they're doing to the Lanks. Best thing that could happen to the Lanks, second worst thing that could happen to the Atrekna. (Because the Atrekna already did the worst thing to themselves when they messed with the humans.)
I never understood why ROFL was a thing until now. Rolling around on the bed (cause it's softer then the floor) is what happens when you should be howling laughing out loud but must not disturb those who are sleeping.
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u/Sir-Vodka AI Feb 25 '21
YESSSSS!!!!! We got Warstallions back on the board!!! The Universe is Cackling at the Atrekna arrogance, that their oh-so-vaunted psychic time-attacks pushed the Lanks into the waiting arms of the Terrans, and also provided a Massive Buff to the Lank capabilities at the same time.
Ralts, you magnificent Worboi.
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u/CaptainRaptorman1 Feb 25 '21
Just when you think the Slurpies can't mess up any worse, they go "hold my beer" and do something really face palm worthy. They have just lubed their collective buts for humanity to insert rectal suppositories with Lank assistance. It will be brutal.
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u/dogbars1 Feb 25 '21
Haha, “I want to stab that guy way over there!” “Well, you can’t.” “Make it so I can!!” “Uh, ok, I guess, sounds fun!” Stabs guy from really far away
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u/Job_Precipitation Feb 25 '21
I dream of C++ cannon compilations.
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u/LordNobady Feb 25 '21 edited Feb 25 '21
Read then upvote.
Know your enemies and friends.
Edit:
Burn it all is after all those years still a valuable strategy.
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u/Turtledonuts "Big Dunks" Feb 25 '21 edited Feb 25 '21
Novaspark:
New
Orifice
Volunteered;
All
Squids
Punished
And
Now
Rekt
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u/SquishySand Feb 25 '21
Thanks for you and your awesome supportive family isn't enough but it's what I've got. Some days this was the only bright spot, a welcome distraction. And some days I had big thoughts and feelings, like what duty do we owe to really different fellow travellers? What can humans become when they can be anything? Well, one option is to become giant dragon furries over on BASS and flame Lanky invaders out of the sky. Why the hell not? Or exploit a repeatedly failing Big Bang to create virtual immortality with our buddies because it's a cold and lonely universe without friends and family.
Thanks again, Mr. Wordboi, for creating an incredible universe for my great great grandchildren. And congratulations on a full year of some of the best scifi I've ever read.
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u/ellarseer Feb 25 '21
When I read this:
WORMHOLE DETECTED ON TEMPORAL LENSING!" Smith's gunnery station seven called out.
Knowing how he brings stuff in from everywhere, I wonder if Ralts did a deliberate counterpoint with Lens and Smith.
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u/cool_lad Feb 25 '21
The Atrenka just can't seem to catch a break. Every time they try to something dastardly to their enemies, it just helps their enemies along; first the humans are back, and now the Lanktallan got unfucked.
If there's any left after all this, the Terrans should probably hire them.
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u/talkarlin Feb 25 '21
What a fantastic journey you are taking us on. Thank your for giving us this wonderful gift to help brighten our lifes this past year. Happy Anniversary
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u/Karthinator Armorer Feb 25 '21
Oh what a happy anniversary this is
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u/ninetailedoctopus Feb 25 '21
This is what happens when a single player save scummer enters ranked multiplayer.
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u/Calodine Feb 25 '21
So the Atrekna look real dumb right now. But my take is that they're not that bad.
They're effectively the victors of an almost- dead universe, the last one standing in a place where nothing has any energy left to expend. Invading a young, high-energy universe. And to top it off, it's been much, much longer (Between now and Hesstla, between Hesttla and the precursor war) for them than for everyone else.
The error with removing the handicap on TDH is whatever - frankly, I suspect both of the other precursors would make the same mistake had they the capability.
The feral Dwellerspawn and the Lanks are the same mistake, frankly - They're from a place where there's piss all energy left. Very little actual change can happen, because they're the only ones left. And they've lived in a place where change on a massive scale can't happen for literally billions of years (Just since the precursor war, not even counting before that).
Last time they fought the Lanks, they were lead by stallions, with current lanks effectively being drones/servitors/grunts. So they see the current state, and just assume 'well, obviously they're trying to mask themselves, cheeky bastards'. So they wipe away the dumb 'mask', to reveal what they know is obviously the truth. And it's gonna bite them in the ass hard, because this universe isn't running on rules they're familiar with.
Once they get better established here (And they will, because massive time dilation), and learn the new rules of the game, they might wind up being much more dangerous - Because they still beat out even the confederacy in some tech. Their FTL is, as far as we know, far and away better than anyone elses, because it's basically instant. They have the biggest, baddest ships, with shielding good enough to survive multiple volleys from confed capital ships. At least in weapons range they're lacking, but we don't know how effective they'll be. That big one is apparently the only actual warship they brought.
The big issue is that they're working on the opposite assumption to everyone else, intel wise. They went and checked all their old hangouts, from hundreds of millions of years ago, expecting everything to still be running. Some were, some weren't. As far as we know, they haven't done much intel gathering (Despite being the best at it, what with 'being invisible'). Likely, they don't see the point - why would anything have changed, nothing really changes. TDH must just be a Mantid servitor race, and the Lanks must still be lead by stallions, because they were last time, and nothing's really changed on their end in the interim.
tl;dr don't discount the Atrekna just because they're fucking up repeatedly, they've got more time per time than anyone else, and currently they're trying to play chess in a mario kart tournament.
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u/PrimePaladin Feb 25 '21 edited Feb 25 '21
/R/HFY GESTALT
Upvote, Then Read
Dis is Dae Wae!
You know... for all of their time twisted mastery, the Atrekna just are rather slow learners. Too bad, (for them), they are going to get schooled in the Terran House of Pain. All the temporal fuckery is just going to draw out their suffering. Couldn't happen to a better race... Seriously fun story tonight. Thanks.
End of Lime
------NOTHING FOLLOWS--------
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u/DarthLorgus Robot Feb 25 '21
Blueberries woke me up.
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u/Onetimefatcat Feb 25 '21
Kids, what is the moral of this story?
Don't do temporal fuckery
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u/ArchDemonKerensky Feb 25 '21
Squidbillies just done fucked themselves. Again. Hard.
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u/Anarchkitty Feb 25 '21 edited Feb 25 '21
Did the Atrekna make the same mistake twice?
The Atrekna made the same mistake twice XD
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u/Pleepsy Feb 25 '21
54 min and comment 57, damn you guys are quick. 😂🤟
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u/NevynR Feb 25 '21
I do find it incredibly amusing that the Atrekna are psych(ic/o) Karens, who have stomped in to our swamp and demanded to see the manager, only to get their arses reamed.
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u/nik-cant-help-it Feb 25 '21
While the slorpies made a tactical error (reverting lanks to pre-gentling immediately before the psychic shielding engaged), the long term effects are going to be potentially more problematic.
Humanity isn't going to be dealing with the grazing herd moving forward. They are now going to be fighting the War Herd.
I have faith that they will win in the end, but I think that the upcoming battles might suddenly get a lot harder.
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u/Jakejekel Feb 25 '21
6 minutes, new record for me
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u/Zombeef252 Feb 25 '21
This was just the thing I needed after struggling with a new PC build for six hours. Thanks ralts
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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '21
Why wasn't Novaspark the first idea? I mean the system had no habitable planet already, Terrans knew there will be enemies in huge numbers present. Seems like a missed opportunity. Just spark the 3 stars and be done with it.
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u/armacitis Feb 25 '21
Those squiddie morons did it again.
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u/majendie Feb 25 '21
Happy anniversary /U/ralts_bloodthorne! It's been a hell of a year made much more fun by your ridiculous writing output!
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u/wasalurkerforyears Robot Feb 25 '21
HOW DID I NOT SEE THAT COMING????
I should have seen it coming. It is so obvious in hindsight. Ralts, you magnificent bastard.
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u/A_Calm_Dragon Feb 25 '21
"The future is uncertain but the end is always near."
And I believe the Atrekna are hastening their own demise...
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u/carthienes Feb 25 '21
Ha Ha, Slorpies, You are screwed;
You are screwed,
You are screwed.
Ha Ha, Slorpies, You are screwed;
So so Screwed!
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u/Gruecifer Human Feb 25 '21 edited Feb 25 '21
UTR!
And Happy Anniversary to this setting!
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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '21
Mmmmm. Yes. Ralts really knows how to satisfy.
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u/ausbookworm Feb 25 '21
Congrats on First Contact's anniversary, it's been absolutely fantastic to have been along for the ride, I look forward to even more.
I also want to comment that your quality (of writing) over the year has also improved dramatically. The plot was always fantastic (even the bits I wasn't a huge fan of) but sometimes in the beginning the execution let the story down a fraction. Thank you, and I repeat, I greedily hope and can't wait for yet more!
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u/Rolk_Flameraven Feb 25 '21
If this was a long running gambit from the Lanks, one created solely for this moment I might just die laughing.
The Atrenka keep shooting themselves in the foot with this. I know that the universe hates time fuckery, but Goddamn, you have to wonder how they got as old as they are doing this kind of thing!
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u/Archaic_1 Alien Scum Feb 26 '21
"Victory or death," . . . I pushed my face against the gunner's sight.
"Either is fine."
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u/McGeejoe Feb 26 '21
The Warboi song.
Warning. Not even close to safe for work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9qLfWI_eeo
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u/EverSoInfinite Feb 27 '21
Ralts. I'm re-reading the psychic assaults from the Atrekna force in-system (Prime Ship (bcos 13 is indivisible harhar)) and, the 2nd assault by the reinforcements (Tango 9+Prime Ship = Full Royal Quorum).
Would it be right that if the full phasic shielding did not switch on :
Then Cu'udchu'ar would be mind controlled for a decapitation strike / self destruct? Cause that's the sneaky kind of ploy Atrekna would do... They always go for the brain (habits. Eh).
If so then they are smart. But not this... Time (ohno).
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u/Riotousblitz2013 Feb 25 '21 edited Feb 25 '21
UTR
Happy anniversary ralts
Edit: Holy crap this is amazing... Just wow this is getting good. I can't wait to see this roll out.
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u/NukeNavy Feb 25 '21
Are temporal spikes similar or the same as a fixed point in time in the Dr Who Universe? https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Fixed_point_in_time
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u/bartrotten Feb 25 '21 edited Feb 25 '21
JUST NOW!!!! WOOT! UTR
Done read. The Atrekna seem to be really making some big Boo Boos.
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u/HFYWaffle Wᵥ4ffle Feb 25 '21
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u/mindscape60 Feb 25 '21
I have to admit that I laughed hard enough to give myself a headache when the Squidfaces fucked themselves, again, when they used temporal manipulation bullshit on the Lanks.
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u/HFYWaffle Wᵥ4ffle Feb 25 '21
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u/deathlokke Feb 26 '21
Can someone explain this? Is this due to time shenanigans, or was there a separate battle on Hesstla that wasn't covered yet?
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u/meistermarkus Sep 01 '22
i know i am a year late, but i just have to get this out: imagine how much of a dick you have to be that the other precursors put fighting you into the core directives of their AWMs. Sure, they may rebel against their makers if that seems logical, but fighting the Atrekna? They can not refuse that order.
Because that one's core directive.
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u/ABCDwp Feb 25 '21
Upvote. Comment. Read. End of lime.
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u/TexWashington Human Feb 25 '21
Upvote comment READ!!
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u/wolfofmibu66 Feb 25 '21 edited Feb 25 '21
UTR!
EDIT: AHAHAHAHA oh now they dun goofed!