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A Very Strange World, Part 5
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Looking out of the porthole only confirmed Ypicitus’ suspicions. A vast space battle raged across the blackness of local space. Th’eik mother ships had positioned themselves at the Lagrange Point in orbit around a local moon beyond a large array of fighters. Ypicitus and Grzzk looked toward the ship they had left behind, a great fire blazed across her bow - she was breaking up! The Chegwin hordes had somehow managed to break through the Th’eik defensive lines, and had mounted a concerted attack on the ship. They could see thousands of escape pods firing off along the sides of the great ship; many were picked off at almost the instant of launch by the highly manoeuvrable and heavily armed Chegwin crumb-fighters.
Never before had Ypicitus seen such ships, she had always assumed the Chegwins to be a one-off, but clearly there was a greater evil at work here. The attack on The Land of Thud only 5 years ago had clearly been a precursor to something far larger.
Ypicitus stared at the planet they were headed toward, clearly this was the same planet where the Th’eik had initiated their attack. The Th’eik had launched their bombers and fighter escorts a mere three hours previous. Only a few fighters remained when they returned, and were being chased down as what could only be described as a giant space-faring Jammie Dodger. Sending out more fighters to attack the Dodger proved fatal. Whenever a hit was placed on it, the Th’eik lost roughly 23 fighters, and the floating biscuit simply crumbled, each crumb becoming much faster ships and only bringing total defeat closer.
Ypicitus jumped as their escape pod began to rumble and shake, she looked at Grzzk expecting her life to end, but Grzzk merely smiled and said, “Rys’seTrd.”
Sighing a breath of relief, Ypicutus began the systems checks she had been trained to do, they would enter the atmosphere soon, and any failures could be fatal.
Looking out of the porthole only confirmed Ypicitus’ suspicions. A vast space battle raged across the blackness of local space. Th’eik mother ships had positioned themselves at the Lagrange Point in orbit around a local moon beyond a large array of fighters. Ypicitus and Grzzk looked toward the ship they had left behind, a great fire blazed across her bow - she was breaking up! The Chegwin hordes had somehow managed to break through the Th’eik defensive lines, and had mounted a concerted attack on the ship. They could see thousands of escape pods firing off along the sides of the great ship; many were picked off at almost the instant of launch by the highly manoeuvrable and heavily armed Chegwin crumb-fighters.
Never before had Ypicitus seen such ships, she had always assumed the Chegwins to be a one-off, but clearly there was a greater evil at work here. The attack on The Land of Thud only 5 years ago had clearly been a precursor to something far larger.
Ypicitus stared at the planet they were headed toward, clearly this was the same planet where the Th’eik had initiated their attack. The Th’eik had launched their bombers and fighter escorts a mere three hours previous. Only a few fighters remained when they returned, and were being chased down as what could only be described as a giant space-faring Jammie Dodger. Sending out more fighters to attack the Dodger proved fatal. Whenever a hit was placed on it, the Th’eik lost roughly 23 fighters, and the floating biscuit simply crumbled, each crumb becoming much faster ships and only bringing total defeat closer.
Ypicitus jumped as their escape pod began to rumble and shake, she looked at Grzzk expecting her life to end, but Grzzk merely smiled and said, “Rys’seTrd.”
Sighing a breath of relief, Ypicutus began the systems checks she had been trained to do, they would enter the atmosphere soon, and any failures could be fatal.
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