Heavenriver
Galactic Sector Report on the Heavenriver Nebula
Submitted by: Lévai József
The Heavenriver Nebula, so named because of its eye-opening sapphire glow and streaming riverlike shape, turned out to be more than just a simple nebula sector the moment one warps in. What the nebula hides under its sapphire clouds is an entire galactic system, full of planets teeming with life and unique each, and home to three unique alien species.
Species Intel
TriSys
Replic
Croissade
Fallen Rose
2012. júl. 11.
2012. máj. 23.
Infantry - War, Circa 225 CE
If you're recieving this audio message the first time, soldier, then you've just set foot to the universe of Infantry, originally developed by Harmless Games LLC (hardly an appropriate name, given the wartorn times, ain't it?) and published by Sony Online Entertainment and also provided free. Consult the Infantry Archive often - don't make me go all ol' geezer storyteller on ya.
Sitrep in a nutshell: the calendar is 225 CE (Collective Era). The Collective, a pure-democracy Solsys megapolity which unified Earth and spread Mankind to the Solar System, is gasping dying breaths... but it won't give up the ghost just yet, not without a fight. Operation: Ragnarok permanently severed the bonds between the Collective and the Solsys planets, with Titan, unofficial capital of Outer Solsys, being the strongest of which. Psionics, humans with phenomenally unhuman psi-powers, the first recorded being Albert Rene in 116 CE, are emerging in Solsys to mixed reactions, from joy of a new tool to fight the darkness with to freak witch hunts. War is now boiling upon all of Mankind.
As of 225 CE, Titan and the Collective are at all-out, take-no-prisoners WAR.
And this is where you come in, soldier. Choose your zone, choose your side, choose your weapons, choose your victims... and engage trigger finger upon enemy contact. From the heavy metal warfare of Mechanized Skirmish to classic Capture the Flag warfare on, for instance, Heinreich's Point, from the Bug Hunt between Collective Marines and the Skrall, from participating in King-of-the-Hill havoc on Chambert's Moon to waging battle as anyone you wish to be in the entire Solsys at war in I:RPG, from causing Zero-G sports mayhem in Gravball and yes, even wage outer space war as captain of your Fleet and much, much more, your military options are unlimited. Whether you are a typical Infantryman, a Jump Trooper, a Heavy Weapons Trooper, a Commando, a Gravtank/Mech Pilot, a Spacefighter Pilot/Starship Captain, a Partisan, a Psionic Trooper or even a Skrall yourself, the Solsys is a battlefield, the battlefield your playground.
But a word of warning: War never changes.
So what are you waiting for, soldier? Enlist now!
2012. ápr. 10.
Omega Antares
Omega Antares
A Cautionary Tacnuke Episode
Omega Antares.
Antares System.
Alpha Space.
AD 2196.
AP 56.
Narrator: This planet in Alpha Space, Omega Antares, in life, was a Pannonis-like moonless planet orbiting a red star, once home to four alien species and civilizations - the doglike Carnes, the batlike Nokh'torr, the scaraboid Hercoli and the twinhead sectoid Anterei (the undercutting and upstaging Atlantis of the four) - locked in a cold war in 21CB tacnuke war tech levels. Today, a complete nuclear winter cemetery, an eternity of blue snow falling on blackened metropolises and green oceans, with all four species exterminated by the very neonuclear and tacnuclear weapons they have created, based on 1950s-style OGRE cybertank tech, their only legacy orbiting their dead world being the Anterei magnum opus and, therefore, Omega Antares' executioner: Doomsat Omega, a colossal orbital weapons platform packing enough tacnukes and neonukes and spaceborne assault auton-mech squadrons led by Antares One, all armed with the patented Nanodeath nanite weapons system, to wipe out entire civilizations... a function it executed perfectly - perhaps TOO perfectly - in this planet's twilight days.
Omega Antares remained an unknown dead planet... until one day along came a rocket-Transformer from Pannonis: the rocket Transformer Genesis-1, with a crew of 5 Maximals: Minuteman, Cassiopeia, 6Shooter, Rapier and Zero Vector. All of the Unitec Starcom. All of them unaware of this new planet they've set their optics on, much less that giant Doomsat now orbiting this nuclear graveyard. But whatever the cost and come what may, the Unitec Starcom is ready for any mission, any battle... perhaps even for this.
Who knows, the Starcom team might come out of their latest mission heroes - even like reliving Crefac 13...
A Cautionary Tacnuke Episode
Omega Antares.
Antares System.
Alpha Space.
AD 2196.
AP 56.
Narrator: This planet in Alpha Space, Omega Antares, in life, was a Pannonis-like moonless planet orbiting a red star, once home to four alien species and civilizations - the doglike Carnes, the batlike Nokh'torr, the scaraboid Hercoli and the twinhead sectoid Anterei (the undercutting and upstaging Atlantis of the four) - locked in a cold war in 21CB tacnuke war tech levels. Today, a complete nuclear winter cemetery, an eternity of blue snow falling on blackened metropolises and green oceans, with all four species exterminated by the very neonuclear and tacnuclear weapons they have created, based on 1950s-style OGRE cybertank tech, their only legacy orbiting their dead world being the Anterei magnum opus and, therefore, Omega Antares' executioner: Doomsat Omega, a colossal orbital weapons platform packing enough tacnukes and neonukes and spaceborne assault auton-mech squadrons led by Antares One, all armed with the patented Nanodeath nanite weapons system, to wipe out entire civilizations... a function it executed perfectly - perhaps TOO perfectly - in this planet's twilight days.
Omega Antares remained an unknown dead planet... until one day along came a rocket-Transformer from Pannonis: the rocket Transformer Genesis-1, with a crew of 5 Maximals: Minuteman, Cassiopeia, 6Shooter, Rapier and Zero Vector. All of the Unitec Starcom. All of them unaware of this new planet they've set their optics on, much less that giant Doomsat now orbiting this nuclear graveyard. But whatever the cost and come what may, the Unitec Starcom is ready for any mission, any battle... perhaps even for this.
Who knows, the Starcom team might come out of their latest mission heroes - even like reliving Crefac 13...
2012. jan. 26.
TRANSFORMERS - Aether Age
[Commander's Foreword:
No doubt I am a big fan of HG Wells' sci-fi masterpieces, such as War of the Worlds, and Victorian Sci-Fi and Steampunk and Victorian wargames, for I know Science Fiction in Victorian Age Earth was a simpler time - and I quote "a time when the horrors of the industrial age had been prophesized but not yet experienced; when the frontiers of science fantasy had not yet been fixed by post-atomic cliché; and when the entirety of scientific understanding had yet to outstrip the capacity of a single mind." And Transformers: Hearts of Steel was an interesting concept of putting my favorite Robots in Disguise in the Industrial Revolution age (too bad they botched it), inspiring me to do the same... but with a fresh-faced Aether-powered Transformer cast and set on an unfamiliar world in a freshly discovered alien star system. Now, imagine what happens when land ironclads roll in to battle and suddenly transform to put 'em metal dukes up on 'em gowshdurned invadin' tripod-ridin' Martian SLIME....
And you'll get the idea in this, my Victorian-style cartoon series.
Plus, I am creating the series - and therefore the Vhyrjo Junis system - in memory of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and beginnings of today's Republic of Hungary... and also to show my sheer disgust of the Crowning of Franz Ferdinand and Elizabeth as emperor and emperess of my nation. Cheering for the very Habsburgs that had our Revolution and Republic steamrolled in 1848-49?! The Hungarians of this time REALLY need to wake up and use steam-powered battle robots to free Hungary once more - why would I care if, while the Habsburgs and Russians conquered Hungary with fire and steel, Sissi conquered our country with her heart?!
Call me obsessed, insane even, but I know that with new technologies come change - and the change I want best is the chains of slavery be broken on every nation of the time, including Hungary... even if it meant getting our hands bloody and bustin' out the Metal Hussars. After all, revolutions are costly, and this one has a HUGE blood-price we must pay.
Disgust vented, on with the merry show, ladies and gentlemen...]
Vhyrjo Junis.
Spring.
Aether Age.
This lush, raindrenched forest planet, her Marslike moon and two neighboring planets in the Vhyrjo Junis system, Gemiin and Taeoros, is facing the beginning of a new epoch of the delphisect Vhyrjj species with the discovery of the Aether and the invention of radical machinery and technology, civilian and military, based on this anti-gravitic energy... and with them new ideals and governments and, in the end, revolution. Eeyrjs and Hyjuis, grown sick of matriarchic oppression, rise up with their fighting walkers against the aetheric fleets of the Vhyrjunis Dominia, while the free, distant Syrhji United Republic is only a year away from developing space superiority.
The Eastfront is ablaze as Jyn-Myuy land ironclads roll to meet the crawlers of Kiijysja, and even Mek'khe'syjr natives are learning how to drive panzertrains to defend their sacred alpic-taiga homeland from Vhyrjunis encroachment in this Victorian era. The biggest change, of all things, is the passing of Archqueen Vicjhyro Vhyrjunis at the hands of distraught Hyjuis revolutionaries in barrel walkers.
Surpassing all that is the coming of the first aliens of the Vhyrjo Junis system, and after them the invasion of the Mahr'os lunar invaders. Those aliens, some siding with Syrhji, Mek'khe'syjr and the Revolutionaries and some for the Dominia and her League (which the militarily mighty Jhürsch Reich is its only member left), and the Mahr'os, is known galaxy-wide by a name:
Transformers.
- TRANSFORMERS -
AETHER AGE
Just as the Aether changed vhyrjj society and technology, so did the Transformers prove all vhyrjj exobio theories of life beyond their planet... and that only made the whirlwinds of change howl even harder across Vhyrjo Junis in Anno Vhyrjo 848, as the Dominia, after centuries of rule, is at the verge of falling and the vhyrjj at the edge of taking their first steps into outer space, the moon Vhyrjo Myrjys, and Gemiin and Taeoros and the space beyond their system. The Transformers siding with the Republic and the revolting states are labeled "Revoloids", while those in league with the Dominia - who actually are Mahr'os harbingers - are called "Mechintons", each masquerading as land ironclads, aeroplane fighters and bombers, warships - aero and sea, even crawlers and starships, be it from Dominia design to Mek'khe'syjr possession, only revealing their true Mech modes when the time is right, using a mix of vhyrjj aether and weapons technology beyond what the vhyrjj can possibly accomplish and comprehend. The Revoloids and Mechintons, in their mortal war for the future of Vhyrjo Junis, would inadverdently attract the attention of alien eyes who slowly, and surely, will draw their plans against the vhyrjj. Come tomorrow morning after this war of the worlds, Vhyrjo Junis will never be the same - and never will it return to the days before Aether...
Anno Vhyrjo (AV) 848.
Archqueen Vicjhyro is dead.
The Transformers have landed.
The Space Race - and the Invasion - has begun.
- THE COVENANT -
Meanwhile, in the freezing purple-snow arctic graveyard that is Ivjius Arctia, there lies the Cache, home to the covert nation that discovered and published Aether in the first place on Vhyrjo Junis, known simply as the Covenant. A sovereign nation of vhyrjj explorers, innovators, geniuses and revolutionaries, the Covenant is best known for their fantastic aetheric inventions and technologies they have given to the planet as a gift, including blueprints for aether-starships. But like everyone in revolutionary-time war-torn Vhyrjo Junis, the Covenant has a dark side.
They alone knew of the nations and the tribals abusing the aether, so they founded their all-aetheric army.
They alone knew of the Transformers, so they forget their "Chimera" transforming walkers.
They alone knew of the Mahr'os invasion to come, so they prepared their bio-weaponry.
And they alone knew of the Archqueen's passing, so they have desecrated the Dominia Mausoleum and exhumed her lifeless body so the Covenant can commence the most unholy project in Vhyrjo Junis history:
The rebirth of Archqueen Vicjhyro Vhyrjunis as a Chimera... "Virgo".
Lest all hope shall be lost for the revolution and Vhyrjo Junis as a whole, lest the future shall be lost to an insane queen brought out of the frave, the Revoloids MUST go forth and put this unholy experiment to an immediate and final rest and prevent the Dark Archqueen-Chimera from ever arising, once and for all ending the Dark Aether Age before it even begins. This is a mission for the Aether Paladins and the Virgo Aevia Matricracy, and it must be done...
else the Covenant will be the midwives of the beginning of the DARK AETHER AGE.
And while Syrhji and Jhürsch aetheric airships duke it out above the burning cities of a dying old matriarchic empire, while the Mek'khe'syjr defend their sacred home and the divided Nejunis scream and quarrel for aether in their childish civil war, and while the Covenant is preparing to unleash their unholy nightmare upon an unrepentant planet, nobody on Vhyrjo Junis would've believed that, in the last years of the 9th Vhyrjo Century, they were being scrutinized by life on their red moon, Vhyrjo Myrjys... a warlike krakenoid alien species, vast, cool, unsympathetic, possessing enough military walkers, agrav warships and psionic powers to wipe out an entire civilized planet, has regarded their sister planet and the Transformers with envious eyes and strained tentacles, knowing there is a worthy enemy at last... their targets have bit their Cache bait.
They are the Mahr'os. They are the Harbingers of War.
And they slowly, and surely, are drawing plans against Vhyrjo Junis... starting with Aertorrya.
The War of the Vhyrjo Worlds is at hand. Heaven help those caught in it...
Prologue:
Vhyrjo Junis History at a Glance.
Prior AV 848.
Book the First:
Railroads to the Aetheric Revolution.
AV 848.
001: Arrival of the Transformers, Part the First
002: Arrival of the Transformers, Part the Second
003: Arrival of the Transformers, Part the Third
004: Syrhji - Liberty or Death
005: Hyjuis and Eeyrjs - For Matria and Aether and Republic
006: Mek'khe'syj'Aehu'ah - Paradise Under Siege
007: Kiijysja - Crimson Revolution
008: Vhyrjuis and Jhürsch - Extreme Times, Extreme Measures
009: Psivrija - The Ichor
010: Vhuls and Svihr - Breaking the Dominial Chains
011: Mek'khe'syj'Aehu'ah - The Sacred Fighting Machines
012: Jyn-Myuy - Blue Sun, Red Eyes
013: Hyjuis - Siege of Castle Byda, Day the First
014: Hyjuis - Siege of Castle Byda, Day the Second
015: Eeyrjs - Viva la Republique d'Eeyrjs
016: Vhyjunis - Rise of the Aether-Matriarch
017: Jhürsch - The EisenKaiser
018: Wasteland - Horrors of Revolution and War
019: Syrhji - Dawggun Jhürschers
020: Syrhji - Ah've Been Workin' on th' Warroad
021: Nejunis - The Nejunis Civil War
022: Aertorrya - The Royal War Machine, Part the First
023: Aertorrya - The Royal War Machine, Part the Second
024: Aertorrya - The Royal War Machine, Part the Third
025: Kiijysa/Jyn-Myuy - The Eastfront Battle of the Century
026: Nejunis - Civil War Temper Issues
027: Hyjuis - Memories of Revolution's Beginning
028: Ivjius Arctia - How it All Began, Part the First
029: Vhyrjo Junis - How it All Began, Part the Second
030: Ivjius Arctia - How it All Began, Part the Third
031: Syrhji, Hyjuis, Eeryjs, Vhuls and Svihr - Together We Stand and Fight
032: Wasteland - Revoloids and Mechintons in the Wasteland
033: Psivrija - Torch of Prometheus, Day the First
034: Psivrija - Torch of Prometheus, Day the Second
035: Virgo Aevia - A Transformer's Time with the Matricracy
036: Aertorrya - The Republic of Aertorrya Or Transforming Machines Need No Crown
037: Jhürsch - The Last Straw of the Eisenreich
038: Syrhji/Jhürsch/Hyjuis/Vyhrjunis - Brawl'n 'bove th' Burnin' Empire
039: Mek'khe'syj'Aehu'ah - Deliverance from the Dominia, Day the First
040: Mek'khe'syj'Aehu'ah - Deliverance from the Dominia, Day the Second
041: Mek'khe'syj'Aehu'ah - Deliverance from the Dominia, Day the Third
042: The Shape of Things to Come, Part the First: The End of the EisenKaiser
043: The Shape of Things to Come, Part the Second: The Storming of Vhyrjunis Citadel
044: The Shape of Things to Come, Part the Third: The Aether-Matriarch's Last Stand
End the First Book.
Book the Second:
The Chronicle of the Covenant Aetheric War.
AV 850-890.
Prologue:
Assessments of the World and its Sins
by Covenant General-in-Chief Maerjunyrs Ivjius.
045: The Coming of the Covenant, Part the First
046: The Coming of the Covenant, Part the Second
047: The Coming of the Covenant, Part the Third
048: Ivjius Arctia -
049: Nejunis -
050: Syrhji -
051: Hyjuis, Eeryjs, Jhürsch and Aertorrya -
052: Aertorrya -
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End the Second Book.
Book the Third:
The Unholy Archqueen-Chimera and the Dark Aether Age.
AV 890-900.
Prologue:
A Newly Reanimated Archqueen-Chimera's Memories
as recalled by Virgo.
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End the Third Book.
Book the Fourth:
War of the Vhyrjo Worlds.
AV 901.
Prologue:
Eve of the War with the Unknowns
by Wershthonn Maxxij, Syrhji Ranger Marshal
100: Eve of War, Day the First
101: Eve of War, Day the Second
102: Eve of War, Day the Third
103: Aertorrya - The Nightmare of Invasion Begins
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End the Fourth Book
The Movie:
The Transformer Rennaisance
and the Vhyrjo Junis Space War
after AV 901 and beyond.
Runtime: 149 Min.
No doubt I am a big fan of HG Wells' sci-fi masterpieces, such as War of the Worlds, and Victorian Sci-Fi and Steampunk and Victorian wargames, for I know Science Fiction in Victorian Age Earth was a simpler time - and I quote "a time when the horrors of the industrial age had been prophesized but not yet experienced; when the frontiers of science fantasy had not yet been fixed by post-atomic cliché; and when the entirety of scientific understanding had yet to outstrip the capacity of a single mind." And Transformers: Hearts of Steel was an interesting concept of putting my favorite Robots in Disguise in the Industrial Revolution age (too bad they botched it), inspiring me to do the same... but with a fresh-faced Aether-powered Transformer cast and set on an unfamiliar world in a freshly discovered alien star system. Now, imagine what happens when land ironclads roll in to battle and suddenly transform to put 'em metal dukes up on 'em gowshdurned invadin' tripod-ridin' Martian SLIME....
And you'll get the idea in this, my Victorian-style cartoon series.
Plus, I am creating the series - and therefore the Vhyrjo Junis system - in memory of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and beginnings of today's Republic of Hungary... and also to show my sheer disgust of the Crowning of Franz Ferdinand and Elizabeth as emperor and emperess of my nation. Cheering for the very Habsburgs that had our Revolution and Republic steamrolled in 1848-49?! The Hungarians of this time REALLY need to wake up and use steam-powered battle robots to free Hungary once more - why would I care if, while the Habsburgs and Russians conquered Hungary with fire and steel, Sissi conquered our country with her heart?!
Call me obsessed, insane even, but I know that with new technologies come change - and the change I want best is the chains of slavery be broken on every nation of the time, including Hungary... even if it meant getting our hands bloody and bustin' out the Metal Hussars. After all, revolutions are costly, and this one has a HUGE blood-price we must pay.
Disgust vented, on with the merry show, ladies and gentlemen...]
Vhyrjo Junis.
Spring.
Aether Age.
This lush, raindrenched forest planet, her Marslike moon and two neighboring planets in the Vhyrjo Junis system, Gemiin and Taeoros, is facing the beginning of a new epoch of the delphisect Vhyrjj species with the discovery of the Aether and the invention of radical machinery and technology, civilian and military, based on this anti-gravitic energy... and with them new ideals and governments and, in the end, revolution. Eeyrjs and Hyjuis, grown sick of matriarchic oppression, rise up with their fighting walkers against the aetheric fleets of the Vhyrjunis Dominia, while the free, distant Syrhji United Republic is only a year away from developing space superiority.
The Eastfront is ablaze as Jyn-Myuy land ironclads roll to meet the crawlers of Kiijysja, and even Mek'khe'syjr natives are learning how to drive panzertrains to defend their sacred alpic-taiga homeland from Vhyrjunis encroachment in this Victorian era. The biggest change, of all things, is the passing of Archqueen Vicjhyro Vhyrjunis at the hands of distraught Hyjuis revolutionaries in barrel walkers.
Surpassing all that is the coming of the first aliens of the Vhyrjo Junis system, and after them the invasion of the Mahr'os lunar invaders. Those aliens, some siding with Syrhji, Mek'khe'syjr and the Revolutionaries and some for the Dominia and her League (which the militarily mighty Jhürsch Reich is its only member left), and the Mahr'os, is known galaxy-wide by a name:
Transformers.
- TRANSFORMERS -
AETHER AGE
Just as the Aether changed vhyrjj society and technology, so did the Transformers prove all vhyrjj exobio theories of life beyond their planet... and that only made the whirlwinds of change howl even harder across Vhyrjo Junis in Anno Vhyrjo 848, as the Dominia, after centuries of rule, is at the verge of falling and the vhyrjj at the edge of taking their first steps into outer space, the moon Vhyrjo Myrjys, and Gemiin and Taeoros and the space beyond their system. The Transformers siding with the Republic and the revolting states are labeled "Revoloids", while those in league with the Dominia - who actually are Mahr'os harbingers - are called "Mechintons", each masquerading as land ironclads, aeroplane fighters and bombers, warships - aero and sea, even crawlers and starships, be it from Dominia design to Mek'khe'syjr possession, only revealing their true Mech modes when the time is right, using a mix of vhyrjj aether and weapons technology beyond what the vhyrjj can possibly accomplish and comprehend. The Revoloids and Mechintons, in their mortal war for the future of Vhyrjo Junis, would inadverdently attract the attention of alien eyes who slowly, and surely, will draw their plans against the vhyrjj. Come tomorrow morning after this war of the worlds, Vhyrjo Junis will never be the same - and never will it return to the days before Aether...
Anno Vhyrjo (AV) 848.
Archqueen Vicjhyro is dead.
The Transformers have landed.
The Space Race - and the Invasion - has begun.
- THE COVENANT -
Meanwhile, in the freezing purple-snow arctic graveyard that is Ivjius Arctia, there lies the Cache, home to the covert nation that discovered and published Aether in the first place on Vhyrjo Junis, known simply as the Covenant. A sovereign nation of vhyrjj explorers, innovators, geniuses and revolutionaries, the Covenant is best known for their fantastic aetheric inventions and technologies they have given to the planet as a gift, including blueprints for aether-starships. But like everyone in revolutionary-time war-torn Vhyrjo Junis, the Covenant has a dark side.
They alone knew of the nations and the tribals abusing the aether, so they founded their all-aetheric army.
They alone knew of the Transformers, so they forget their "Chimera" transforming walkers.
They alone knew of the Mahr'os invasion to come, so they prepared their bio-weaponry.
And they alone knew of the Archqueen's passing, so they have desecrated the Dominia Mausoleum and exhumed her lifeless body so the Covenant can commence the most unholy project in Vhyrjo Junis history:
The rebirth of Archqueen Vicjhyro Vhyrjunis as a Chimera... "Virgo".
Lest all hope shall be lost for the revolution and Vhyrjo Junis as a whole, lest the future shall be lost to an insane queen brought out of the frave, the Revoloids MUST go forth and put this unholy experiment to an immediate and final rest and prevent the Dark Archqueen-Chimera from ever arising, once and for all ending the Dark Aether Age before it even begins. This is a mission for the Aether Paladins and the Virgo Aevia Matricracy, and it must be done...
else the Covenant will be the midwives of the beginning of the DARK AETHER AGE.
- MAHR'OS -
And while Syrhji and Jhürsch aetheric airships duke it out above the burning cities of a dying old matriarchic empire, while the Mek'khe'syjr defend their sacred home and the divided Nejunis scream and quarrel for aether in their childish civil war, and while the Covenant is preparing to unleash their unholy nightmare upon an unrepentant planet, nobody on Vhyrjo Junis would've believed that, in the last years of the 9th Vhyrjo Century, they were being scrutinized by life on their red moon, Vhyrjo Myrjys... a warlike krakenoid alien species, vast, cool, unsympathetic, possessing enough military walkers, agrav warships and psionic powers to wipe out an entire civilized planet, has regarded their sister planet and the Transformers with envious eyes and strained tentacles, knowing there is a worthy enemy at last... their targets have bit their Cache bait.
They are the Mahr'os. They are the Harbingers of War.
And they slowly, and surely, are drawing plans against Vhyrjo Junis... starting with Aertorrya.
The War of the Vhyrjo Worlds is at hand. Heaven help those caught in it...
Prologue:
Vhyrjo Junis History at a Glance.
Prior AV 848.
Book the First:
Railroads to the Aetheric Revolution.
AV 848.
001: Arrival of the Transformers, Part the First
002: Arrival of the Transformers, Part the Second
003: Arrival of the Transformers, Part the Third
004: Syrhji - Liberty or Death
005: Hyjuis and Eeyrjs - For Matria and Aether and Republic
006: Mek'khe'syj'Aehu'ah - Paradise Under Siege
007: Kiijysja - Crimson Revolution
008: Vhyrjuis and Jhürsch - Extreme Times, Extreme Measures
009: Psivrija - The Ichor
010: Vhuls and Svihr - Breaking the Dominial Chains
011: Mek'khe'syj'Aehu'ah - The Sacred Fighting Machines
012: Jyn-Myuy - Blue Sun, Red Eyes
013: Hyjuis - Siege of Castle Byda, Day the First
014: Hyjuis - Siege of Castle Byda, Day the Second
015: Eeyrjs - Viva la Republique d'Eeyrjs
016: Vhyjunis - Rise of the Aether-Matriarch
017: Jhürsch - The EisenKaiser
018: Wasteland - Horrors of Revolution and War
019: Syrhji - Dawggun Jhürschers
020: Syrhji - Ah've Been Workin' on th' Warroad
021: Nejunis - The Nejunis Civil War
022: Aertorrya - The Royal War Machine, Part the First
023: Aertorrya - The Royal War Machine, Part the Second
024: Aertorrya - The Royal War Machine, Part the Third
025: Kiijysa/Jyn-Myuy - The Eastfront Battle of the Century
026: Nejunis - Civil War Temper Issues
027: Hyjuis - Memories of Revolution's Beginning
028: Ivjius Arctia - How it All Began, Part the First
029: Vhyrjo Junis - How it All Began, Part the Second
030: Ivjius Arctia - How it All Began, Part the Third
031: Syrhji, Hyjuis, Eeryjs, Vhuls and Svihr - Together We Stand and Fight
032: Wasteland - Revoloids and Mechintons in the Wasteland
033: Psivrija - Torch of Prometheus, Day the First
034: Psivrija - Torch of Prometheus, Day the Second
035: Virgo Aevia - A Transformer's Time with the Matricracy
036: Aertorrya - The Republic of Aertorrya Or Transforming Machines Need No Crown
037: Jhürsch - The Last Straw of the Eisenreich
038: Syrhji/Jhürsch/Hyjuis/Vyhrjunis - Brawl'n 'bove th' Burnin' Empire
039: Mek'khe'syj'Aehu'ah - Deliverance from the Dominia, Day the First
040: Mek'khe'syj'Aehu'ah - Deliverance from the Dominia, Day the Second
041: Mek'khe'syj'Aehu'ah - Deliverance from the Dominia, Day the Third
042: The Shape of Things to Come, Part the First: The End of the EisenKaiser
043: The Shape of Things to Come, Part the Second: The Storming of Vhyrjunis Citadel
044: The Shape of Things to Come, Part the Third: The Aether-Matriarch's Last Stand
End the First Book.
Book the Second:
The Chronicle of the Covenant Aetheric War.
AV 850-890.
Prologue:
Assessments of the World and its Sins
by Covenant General-in-Chief Maerjunyrs Ivjius.
045: The Coming of the Covenant, Part the First
046: The Coming of the Covenant, Part the Second
047: The Coming of the Covenant, Part the Third
048: Ivjius Arctia -
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Book the Third:
The Unholy Archqueen-Chimera and the Dark Aether Age.
AV 890-900.
Prologue:
A Newly Reanimated Archqueen-Chimera's Memories
as recalled by Virgo.
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Book the Fourth:
War of the Vhyrjo Worlds.
AV 901.
Prologue:
Eve of the War with the Unknowns
by Wershthonn Maxxij, Syrhji Ranger Marshal
100: Eve of War, Day the First
101: Eve of War, Day the Second
102: Eve of War, Day the Third
103: Aertorrya - The Nightmare of Invasion Begins
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The Movie:
The Transformer Rennaisance
and the Vhyrjo Junis Space War
after AV 901 and beyond.
Runtime: 149 Min.
2011. dec. 17.
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2011. júl. 16.
Pannonis Cold War History
Classified by order of West Union Armed Forces HiCom
[TOP SECRET - EYES ONLY]
Anno Pannonis 56: Cold War Transformers
The planet Pannonis and its twin moons Magor and Hunos, ever since the great Pannonis War 2 in AP 39-45, began with the Triaxis military mobilization and the joint invasion of Pannos with the then-newborn East Concordium, both partners in crime, and ended with the West Union launching the first-ever two neonuclear strikes on Teppon, present day NiuTeppon, as the infamous Operation: Judgement Day, has felt its coldest winter in the Cold War in pannonii history by AP 56.
By this year, tensions between the blue, democratic West Union and the red, communist East Concordium were so tight, both superstates were at the edge of breaking from paranoia, at the edge pushing the button to launch all neonuclear weapons - silos, killsats, lunar silos - and bringing about the death of Pannonis itself and the pannonii race as well.
At the edge of a possible Pannonis War 3.
The Cold War has been so intense, the occasional urban battle, fought on land with levtanks, powersuits, combots and gravline battletrains, on air with linear interceptors and flying wings, on sea with seaforts, carriersubs and strikesubs, and even on space with orbital platforms, orbital warships and orbital combots, plus secret space corps, erupted in flames here and there, the typical view of an urban battlefield reminding a pannonii of 1956 "Hungary", the most war-torn era of this nation on "Earth", a planet mostly mentioned only in our folklore.
This is where the Hexagon comes in - an independent space station built after PW2 by all the superstates known. The Hexagon and its armed forces, the Hexagon Peacemakers, has one mission: to keep and make the peace on Pannonis and prevent any side from ever pushing the button to Pannonis' mutually assured destruction (MAD)... no matter what. But as of recently, the Hexagon hasn't been themselves - the mere sight of Peacemakers waging war on peaceful, neutral nations out of insanity or for reasons unknown has become more and more frequent and gut-wrenching every day. We have come to believe a "power elite" might be the puppeteers controlling the Hexagon's actions for their pleasure... and the evidence is starting to mount.
Worst still, we have been intercepting transmissions of unknown origin from Magor, confirming our worst fears of any Triaxis remnants' existence, as well as the nightmare of their return - Magor has secretly been the HQ for the Luna Triaxis, who have been developing technology decades-- no, centuries... make that lightyears beyond currently existing tech available on- and offworld. Basically, they have been building a hi-tech lunar army to reap their vengeance upon us.
And just when the global picture was bad enough... enter, one snowy winter night, an alien race of mechanical beings we have classified X-TFs and they themselves call the "Transformers".
When the entire planet was fast asleep in dreamless, fitful sleeps, two percieved alien starships were spotted planetfalling into Pannonis - one crashing in the Union on X-TF Crashsite Alpha and the other in the Concordium on X-TF Crashsite Omega - and one more was seen smashing into Magor, on X-TF Crashsite Luna. Pannonis as a whole did not expect this that night.
Come the next sunrise, history as we pannonii knew it... was history.
Pannos, both Union West and Concordium East, woke up to a day that will go down in infamy as the day the X-TFs, split into Unitec and Concoroid factions - no doubt the X-TFs are in civil war, first fought their appearantly generations-old war here on Pannonis, the leaders being respectively "General MAX" and "Polaris". X-TF technology is so advanced, it allowed them to transform into any scanned vehicle and put even our most advanced main battle combots available - and the Concordium's own - to utter shame, as demonstrated by combot wreckage strewn on the urban battlezone during what the Unitecs called "Mission 1".
After the battle on Pannonis ended with the Unitecs winning, General MAX told some of our forces rescued in the battle their story and their mission. The Unitec mission is of benign intent. Of Pannonis' complete disarmanent of all known weapons systems, primarily neonuclear weapons, in their mission of mercy to lift the wraith of MAD from our world.
The Concoroid mission, on the other hand, was of simple, malign intent: an all-out armed intervention campaign aimed to bring our race a few steps closer - or, if needed, cast entirely - into the freshly open grave of neonuclear extinction, by all means available, at all costs acceptable.
Operation: False Gods was one such Unitec mission in the time the Union's Gemini killsat system and the Concordium's prototype Ikon were hacked by Haywire into launching all-out, decisive neonuclear strikes... against the very superstates that created, launched and activated them, all while disabling the point defense satellites to avoid retaliation. The false gods in question? The Killsats themselves. Thank Pregenitor the Unitec flyers and our flyboys, and the heavy hitters on ground, sent the killsats a long way down, blasted to pieces and without the neonuke warheads primed... although not without encountering heavy Concoroid resistance.
As the war raged on, we learned that the X-TFs come in different flavors. There's the X-TF Commandoes, one mech armies that can dish out and soak in a lot of punishment, and there are the X-TF SpecOps, the aces-in-the-hole mechs, specializing in SeALS - Sea, Air, Land, Space warfare. And each are like the Pannonis snowflakes: no two are ever alike.
After Operation: False Gods, there were many PW3 close calls we have prevented and ultimately smashed: brainwashed Hexagon hostage takeovers, Red infiltration on the battletrains, flying wing squadrons taking wrong turns, occasional new recruit training mishaps... even that SAR (Search and Rescue) mission at Pannos that turned ugly the moment the Reds and Hexes showed up. Time and again have the Reds plotted to plunge us to Doomsday... time and again have the few-and-almighty used Hexagon to turn us into a prison world... and time and again have we taught 'em a lesson in humiliation.
But knowing the Lunar Triaxis, one can't keep up saving the Union - and Pannonis as a whole - from MAD forever, much less cheat Death itself. And it was only a matter of time before, one night, the techno-facsists on Magor made themselves known by launching an all-out orbital blitzkrieg that caught us with our "panzers" down.
And guess what: the Triaxis has X-TFs too... led by what we know as "Charon".
The invasion, called the "Triaxis Nacht" by our boys and, by the Triaxis slimeballs, "Operation: Erwachen", was the most furious and devastating of them all, with Unitec VS Triaxis, Concoroid VS Triaxis... and even Triaxis VS Triaxis battles flaring up here and there, from the Union to the Concordium, from the Independent Alliance (InAl) to even between Hunos, the Hexagon and Magor... basically, Pannonis has become one Inferno of a fireworks show. Too many cities have become total urban battlezones, too many blood and oil was spillt, and much, much more displays of raw firepower than you can shake a lineargun at. Bullets were flying all around the planet and the moons.
Our joint mission was to break and end the Lunar Triaxis invasion through full-scale strategy, tactical guerilla maneuvers, and the good ol' military ultra-violence. All this with X-TFs. Not an easy mission, considering how nasty and hi-tech the invaders were and the unholy alliance we have to make with the Reds. Nothing worthwhile ever is. But guess what - we kicked serious Triaxis keister, and thanks to us, the invasion flew to pieces like a 3D puzzle.
With Operation: Erwachen ending a complete disaster, General MAX and we decided to bring the war directly to the doorstep of the Lunar Triaxis' home turf... and for that purpose was born the assault starshuttle GEMINI and tomorrow's Experimental Stealth Team "Nightghosts", hailing from a possible future of AP 96. Of course, the Reds want payback too for the Nacht - which explains IKON and the "Chernos", also hailing from the possible future.
After a day's thought, agreement and preparation (although we would've used the Hunos neonuke silos on the Magor base... but let's save the best for last), the West Union and the East Concordium - and General MAX and Polaris - launch a joint assault mission to the moons on Magor.
Operation: Luna's Ghosts.
Our mission to make the Triaxis devil Charon and his shock-troopers pay dearly for that night was well underway. Not without some... "detours", however.
AP 72: Concordium Invasion
AP 84-91: Pannonis War 3
AP 96: The Visitor Invasion
AP 96-99: Alien GENESIS
AP 99: End of an Era
[TOP SECRET - EYES ONLY]
Anno Pannonis 56: Cold War Transformers
The planet Pannonis and its twin moons Magor and Hunos, ever since the great Pannonis War 2 in AP 39-45, began with the Triaxis military mobilization and the joint invasion of Pannos with the then-newborn East Concordium, both partners in crime, and ended with the West Union launching the first-ever two neonuclear strikes on Teppon, present day NiuTeppon, as the infamous Operation: Judgement Day, has felt its coldest winter in the Cold War in pannonii history by AP 56.
By this year, tensions between the blue, democratic West Union and the red, communist East Concordium were so tight, both superstates were at the edge of breaking from paranoia, at the edge pushing the button to launch all neonuclear weapons - silos, killsats, lunar silos - and bringing about the death of Pannonis itself and the pannonii race as well.
At the edge of a possible Pannonis War 3.
The Cold War has been so intense, the occasional urban battle, fought on land with levtanks, powersuits, combots and gravline battletrains, on air with linear interceptors and flying wings, on sea with seaforts, carriersubs and strikesubs, and even on space with orbital platforms, orbital warships and orbital combots, plus secret space corps, erupted in flames here and there, the typical view of an urban battlefield reminding a pannonii of 1956 "Hungary", the most war-torn era of this nation on "Earth", a planet mostly mentioned only in our folklore.
This is where the Hexagon comes in - an independent space station built after PW2 by all the superstates known. The Hexagon and its armed forces, the Hexagon Peacemakers, has one mission: to keep and make the peace on Pannonis and prevent any side from ever pushing the button to Pannonis' mutually assured destruction (MAD)... no matter what. But as of recently, the Hexagon hasn't been themselves - the mere sight of Peacemakers waging war on peaceful, neutral nations out of insanity or for reasons unknown has become more and more frequent and gut-wrenching every day. We have come to believe a "power elite" might be the puppeteers controlling the Hexagon's actions for their pleasure... and the evidence is starting to mount.
Worst still, we have been intercepting transmissions of unknown origin from Magor, confirming our worst fears of any Triaxis remnants' existence, as well as the nightmare of their return - Magor has secretly been the HQ for the Luna Triaxis, who have been developing technology decades-- no, centuries... make that lightyears beyond currently existing tech available on- and offworld. Basically, they have been building a hi-tech lunar army to reap their vengeance upon us.
And just when the global picture was bad enough... enter, one snowy winter night, an alien race of mechanical beings we have classified X-TFs and they themselves call the "Transformers".
When the entire planet was fast asleep in dreamless, fitful sleeps, two percieved alien starships were spotted planetfalling into Pannonis - one crashing in the Union on X-TF Crashsite Alpha and the other in the Concordium on X-TF Crashsite Omega - and one more was seen smashing into Magor, on X-TF Crashsite Luna. Pannonis as a whole did not expect this that night.
Come the next sunrise, history as we pannonii knew it... was history.
Pannos, both Union West and Concordium East, woke up to a day that will go down in infamy as the day the X-TFs, split into Unitec and Concoroid factions - no doubt the X-TFs are in civil war, first fought their appearantly generations-old war here on Pannonis, the leaders being respectively "General MAX" and "Polaris". X-TF technology is so advanced, it allowed them to transform into any scanned vehicle and put even our most advanced main battle combots available - and the Concordium's own - to utter shame, as demonstrated by combot wreckage strewn on the urban battlezone during what the Unitecs called "Mission 1".
After the battle on Pannonis ended with the Unitecs winning, General MAX told some of our forces rescued in the battle their story and their mission. The Unitec mission is of benign intent. Of Pannonis' complete disarmanent of all known weapons systems, primarily neonuclear weapons, in their mission of mercy to lift the wraith of MAD from our world.
The Concoroid mission, on the other hand, was of simple, malign intent: an all-out armed intervention campaign aimed to bring our race a few steps closer - or, if needed, cast entirely - into the freshly open grave of neonuclear extinction, by all means available, at all costs acceptable.
Operation: False Gods was one such Unitec mission in the time the Union's Gemini killsat system and the Concordium's prototype Ikon were hacked by Haywire into launching all-out, decisive neonuclear strikes... against the very superstates that created, launched and activated them, all while disabling the point defense satellites to avoid retaliation. The false gods in question? The Killsats themselves. Thank Pregenitor the Unitec flyers and our flyboys, and the heavy hitters on ground, sent the killsats a long way down, blasted to pieces and without the neonuke warheads primed... although not without encountering heavy Concoroid resistance.
As the war raged on, we learned that the X-TFs come in different flavors. There's the X-TF Commandoes, one mech armies that can dish out and soak in a lot of punishment, and there are the X-TF SpecOps, the aces-in-the-hole mechs, specializing in SeALS - Sea, Air, Land, Space warfare. And each are like the Pannonis snowflakes: no two are ever alike.
After Operation: False Gods, there were many PW3 close calls we have prevented and ultimately smashed: brainwashed Hexagon hostage takeovers, Red infiltration on the battletrains, flying wing squadrons taking wrong turns, occasional new recruit training mishaps... even that SAR (Search and Rescue) mission at Pannos that turned ugly the moment the Reds and Hexes showed up. Time and again have the Reds plotted to plunge us to Doomsday... time and again have the few-and-almighty used Hexagon to turn us into a prison world... and time and again have we taught 'em a lesson in humiliation.
But knowing the Lunar Triaxis, one can't keep up saving the Union - and Pannonis as a whole - from MAD forever, much less cheat Death itself. And it was only a matter of time before, one night, the techno-facsists on Magor made themselves known by launching an all-out orbital blitzkrieg that caught us with our "panzers" down.
And guess what: the Triaxis has X-TFs too... led by what we know as "Charon".
The invasion, called the "Triaxis Nacht" by our boys and, by the Triaxis slimeballs, "Operation: Erwachen", was the most furious and devastating of them all, with Unitec VS Triaxis, Concoroid VS Triaxis... and even Triaxis VS Triaxis battles flaring up here and there, from the Union to the Concordium, from the Independent Alliance (InAl) to even between Hunos, the Hexagon and Magor... basically, Pannonis has become one Inferno of a fireworks show. Too many cities have become total urban battlezones, too many blood and oil was spillt, and much, much more displays of raw firepower than you can shake a lineargun at. Bullets were flying all around the planet and the moons.
Our joint mission was to break and end the Lunar Triaxis invasion through full-scale strategy, tactical guerilla maneuvers, and the good ol' military ultra-violence. All this with X-TFs. Not an easy mission, considering how nasty and hi-tech the invaders were and the unholy alliance we have to make with the Reds. Nothing worthwhile ever is. But guess what - we kicked serious Triaxis keister, and thanks to us, the invasion flew to pieces like a 3D puzzle.
With Operation: Erwachen ending a complete disaster, General MAX and we decided to bring the war directly to the doorstep of the Lunar Triaxis' home turf... and for that purpose was born the assault starshuttle GEMINI and tomorrow's Experimental Stealth Team "Nightghosts", hailing from a possible future of AP 96. Of course, the Reds want payback too for the Nacht - which explains IKON and the "Chernos", also hailing from the possible future.
After a day's thought, agreement and preparation (although we would've used the Hunos neonuke silos on the Magor base... but let's save the best for last), the West Union and the East Concordium - and General MAX and Polaris - launch a joint assault mission to the moons on Magor.
Operation: Luna's Ghosts.
Our mission to make the Triaxis devil Charon and his shock-troopers pay dearly for that night was well underway. Not without some... "detours", however.
AP 72: Concordium Invasion
AP 84-91: Pannonis War 3
AP 96: The Visitor Invasion
AP 96-99: Alien GENESIS
AP 99: End of an Era
2011. jún. 26.
TRANSFORMERS: Red Alert
[Commander's note: the Transformers are no doubt my favorite robot action figure toyline and TV series... especially Beast Wars (Matter of factly, Beast Wars was my first exposure, the first episode I saw when I was little was Chain of Command), and I've had an unhealthy interest in the Cold War through the Red Alert line of the Command and Conquer series created by Westwood Studios. I thought... "Transformers + Cold War = Delicious heavy metal mayhem." And that's how I created this series... with a little alien spicing.
Without further ado, on with the show...]
Planetary cold war, like snow, descends upon the lonely Earth-type planet, orbited by its twin moons, named "Pannonis" in its 56th year in winter, snow covering the ruined urban battlezones.
The cold war between the West Union and the East Concordium was so tense, some cities of Pannonis' omnihumanoid dominant natives, the pannonii, can be easily mistaken for Hungary's war-torn era of AD 1956, both superstates' aggressive natures kept in check by experimental, unconventional weapons systems, such as maglev tanks, linear interceptors, flying wings, orbital weapons platforms, lunar neonuke silos, gravline battletrains and, as of late, powered suits and combots, in addition to secret space corps.
Peace is kept and made by the Hexagon independent space station, making sure nobody pushes the button to MAD by both sides, out of paranoia or not - but as cruel fate would have it, those powerful few behind the scenes are using the Hexagon and its military to spill innocent blood for the sheer love of it to the point of weakening everyone's nerves. What's worse, one of Pannonis' moons, Magor, is secretly home to a surviving superstate of subjugators thought gone for good: the Triaxis, massing its own hi-tech guerilla military to one day redecorate the snowland in blood for their defeat.
Worse still, with all these orbital combots in use by all sides on the wartorn urban planet, pannonii alien paranoia, like the winterfall, blankets the planet as much as neonuclear hysteria chokes Pannonis, Magor and Hunos to the point of nervous meltdown. And as fate would have it, an alien machine race, already known as the Transformers, came upon and crashed into Pannonis one snowy winter night...
One side, the Unitecs, wish to rid Pannonis and the pannonii of the horrors of war. No matter what.
The other, the Concoroids, undergoes armed intervention to see what makes this world tick.
Times change. But war never changes. Never did, never does, never will.
Anno Pannonis 56.
A year that will go down in history as the year the Transformers made the pannonii cold war go hot.
EXTRA hot.
TRANSFORMERS
Red Alert
Episode Guide
Season 1 - Anno Pannonis 56
001: Mission 1, Phase 1
002: Mission 1, Phase 2
003: Mission 1, Phase 3
004: Operation: False Gods
005: Going Red
006: Hostile Hostages
007: First Time For Everything
008: Top Guns
009: Search, Rescue and Destroy, Part 1
010: Search, Rescue and Destroy, Part 2
011: Search, Rescue and Destroy, Part 3
012: Triaxis Nacht
013: Mission to the Moons
014: Hexagon, Part 1
015: Hexagon, Part 2
016: End of the Line, Part 1
017: End of the Line, Part 2
018: End of the Line, Part 3
Holiday Special: Red Christmas
Season 2 - Anno Pannonis 72
019: Red Tide, Part 1
020: Red Tide, Part 2
021: Red Tide, Part 3
022: Day Off
023: Special Forces, Part 1
024: Special Forces, Part 2
025: Special Forces, Part 3
026: Look Who's Back
027: Neonuclear Disaster
028: Time to Heal, Time to Kill
029: Enemy Public #1
030: Project: Genesis Pannonis, Part 1
031: Project: Genesis Pannonis, Part 2
032: Project: Genesis Pannonis, Part 3
033: Operation: Curtain Call
Season 3 - Anno Pannonis 84-91
034: Pannonis War 3, Part 1: It Begins
035: Pannonis War 3, Part 2: Invasion Pannonis
036: Pannonis War 3, Part 3: United they Fall
037: Pannonis War 3, Part 4: Friends from High Places
038: Pannonis War 3, Part 5: The Heart of It All
039: Pannonis War 3, Endgame: Out of Ashes, Peace
040: Morning Again in Pannonis
041: Zone 56
042: Under New Management, Part 1
043: Under New Management, Part 2
044: Under New Management, Part 3
045: Return of the Big Rigs
Intercepted Alien Transmissions - Preview to Visitors
T Minus 3: First Contact
T Minus 2: Invasion En-route
T Minus 1: Final Warning
The Movie: Visitors - Anno Pannonis 96
Season 4 - Anno Pannonis 96-99
046: Whirlwinds of Change, Part 1
047: Whirlwinds of Change, Part 2
048: Whirlwinds of Change, Part 3
049: Whirlwinds of Change, Part 4
050: Research and Destruction
051: GENESIS
052: Earth
053: Visitors
054: Flight of the Monolith
055: Revelations
056 - Halloween Special: From Beyond the Grave
057 - Halloween Special: Unholy Alliances
058: Codename: Extinction, Part 1: Warning Bells
059: Codename: Extinction, Part 2: Cardinal Assault
060: Codename: Extinction, Part 3: One Minute to Midnight
061: Gathering Storm
062: Golgotha, Part 1
063: Golgotha, Part 2
064: Golgotha, Part 3
065: Golgotha, Part 4
066: Golgotha, Part 5
Season 5 - Late Anno Pannonis 99
067: Operation: Liberty, Phase 1
068: Operation: Liberty, Phase 2
069: Operation: Liberty, Phase 3
070: Operation: Liberty, Phase 4
071: Operation: Liberty, Endgame
072: Tomorrow
073 - Christmas Special: Cyber-Angel's Song
074 - Christmas Special: Coming of Silent Night
075: Operation: Revelation, Phase 1: Alpha of the Omega
076: Operation: Revelation, Phase 2: Hexagon Revisited
077: Operation: Revelation, Phase 3: Dance with the Devils
078: Operation: Revelation, Phase 4: End of the Road
079: Operation: Revelation, Phase 5: A Farewell to Pannonis
080: New Generation's Eve (Operation: Revelation, Endgame)
081: '56 Forever (Series Finalé)
Top-Secret Films - AP 56-99
O001: Unitecs
O002: Concoroids
O003: Triaxis Invaders
O004: Hexagon Peacemakers
O005: Project: Genesis
O006: Visitor Invader Fleet
O007: Pannonii Cold War History
O008: AP 56: Cold War Transformers
O009: AP 72: Concordium Invasion
O010: AP 84-91: Pannonis War 3
O011: AP 96: The Visitor Invasion
O012: AP 96-99: Alien GENESIS
O013: AP 99: End of an Era
Without further ado, on with the show...]
Planetary cold war, like snow, descends upon the lonely Earth-type planet, orbited by its twin moons, named "Pannonis" in its 56th year in winter, snow covering the ruined urban battlezones.
The cold war between the West Union and the East Concordium was so tense, some cities of Pannonis' omnihumanoid dominant natives, the pannonii, can be easily mistaken for Hungary's war-torn era of AD 1956, both superstates' aggressive natures kept in check by experimental, unconventional weapons systems, such as maglev tanks, linear interceptors, flying wings, orbital weapons platforms, lunar neonuke silos, gravline battletrains and, as of late, powered suits and combots, in addition to secret space corps.
Peace is kept and made by the Hexagon independent space station, making sure nobody pushes the button to MAD by both sides, out of paranoia or not - but as cruel fate would have it, those powerful few behind the scenes are using the Hexagon and its military to spill innocent blood for the sheer love of it to the point of weakening everyone's nerves. What's worse, one of Pannonis' moons, Magor, is secretly home to a surviving superstate of subjugators thought gone for good: the Triaxis, massing its own hi-tech guerilla military to one day redecorate the snowland in blood for their defeat.
Worse still, with all these orbital combots in use by all sides on the wartorn urban planet, pannonii alien paranoia, like the winterfall, blankets the planet as much as neonuclear hysteria chokes Pannonis, Magor and Hunos to the point of nervous meltdown. And as fate would have it, an alien machine race, already known as the Transformers, came upon and crashed into Pannonis one snowy winter night...
One side, the Unitecs, wish to rid Pannonis and the pannonii of the horrors of war. No matter what.
The other, the Concoroids, undergoes armed intervention to see what makes this world tick.
Times change. But war never changes. Never did, never does, never will.
Anno Pannonis 56.
A year that will go down in history as the year the Transformers made the pannonii cold war go hot.
EXTRA hot.
TRANSFORMERS
Red Alert
Episode Guide
Season 1 - Anno Pannonis 56
001: Mission 1, Phase 1
002: Mission 1, Phase 2
003: Mission 1, Phase 3
004: Operation: False Gods
005: Going Red
006: Hostile Hostages
007: First Time For Everything
008: Top Guns
009: Search, Rescue and Destroy, Part 1
010: Search, Rescue and Destroy, Part 2
011: Search, Rescue and Destroy, Part 3
012: Triaxis Nacht
013: Mission to the Moons
014: Hexagon, Part 1
015: Hexagon, Part 2
016: End of the Line, Part 1
017: End of the Line, Part 2
018: End of the Line, Part 3
Holiday Special: Red Christmas
Season 2 - Anno Pannonis 72
019: Red Tide, Part 1
020: Red Tide, Part 2
021: Red Tide, Part 3
022: Day Off
023: Special Forces, Part 1
024: Special Forces, Part 2
025: Special Forces, Part 3
026: Look Who's Back
027: Neonuclear Disaster
028: Time to Heal, Time to Kill
029: Enemy Public #1
030: Project: Genesis Pannonis, Part 1
031: Project: Genesis Pannonis, Part 2
032: Project: Genesis Pannonis, Part 3
033: Operation: Curtain Call
Season 3 - Anno Pannonis 84-91
034: Pannonis War 3, Part 1: It Begins
035: Pannonis War 3, Part 2: Invasion Pannonis
036: Pannonis War 3, Part 3: United they Fall
037: Pannonis War 3, Part 4: Friends from High Places
038: Pannonis War 3, Part 5: The Heart of It All
039: Pannonis War 3, Endgame: Out of Ashes, Peace
040: Morning Again in Pannonis
041: Zone 56
042: Under New Management, Part 1
043: Under New Management, Part 2
044: Under New Management, Part 3
045: Return of the Big Rigs
Intercepted Alien Transmissions - Preview to Visitors
T Minus 3: First Contact
T Minus 2: Invasion En-route
T Minus 1: Final Warning
The Movie: Visitors - Anno Pannonis 96
Season 4 - Anno Pannonis 96-99
046: Whirlwinds of Change, Part 1
047: Whirlwinds of Change, Part 2
048: Whirlwinds of Change, Part 3
049: Whirlwinds of Change, Part 4
050: Research and Destruction
051: GENESIS
052: Earth
053: Visitors
054: Flight of the Monolith
055: Revelations
056 - Halloween Special: From Beyond the Grave
057 - Halloween Special: Unholy Alliances
058: Codename: Extinction, Part 1: Warning Bells
059: Codename: Extinction, Part 2: Cardinal Assault
060: Codename: Extinction, Part 3: One Minute to Midnight
061: Gathering Storm
062: Golgotha, Part 1
063: Golgotha, Part 2
064: Golgotha, Part 3
065: Golgotha, Part 4
066: Golgotha, Part 5
Season 5 - Late Anno Pannonis 99
067: Operation: Liberty, Phase 1
068: Operation: Liberty, Phase 2
069: Operation: Liberty, Phase 3
070: Operation: Liberty, Phase 4
071: Operation: Liberty, Endgame
072: Tomorrow
073 - Christmas Special: Cyber-Angel's Song
074 - Christmas Special: Coming of Silent Night
075: Operation: Revelation, Phase 1: Alpha of the Omega
076: Operation: Revelation, Phase 2: Hexagon Revisited
077: Operation: Revelation, Phase 3: Dance with the Devils
078: Operation: Revelation, Phase 4: End of the Road
079: Operation: Revelation, Phase 5: A Farewell to Pannonis
080: New Generation's Eve (Operation: Revelation, Endgame)
081: '56 Forever (Series Finalé)
Top-Secret Films - AP 56-99
O001: Unitecs
O002: Concoroids
O003: Triaxis Invaders
O004: Hexagon Peacemakers
O005: Project: Genesis
O006: Visitor Invader Fleet
O007: Pannonii Cold War History
O008: AP 56: Cold War Transformers
O009: AP 72: Concordium Invasion
O010: AP 84-91: Pannonis War 3
O011: AP 96: The Visitor Invasion
O012: AP 96-99: Alien GENESIS
O013: AP 99: End of an Era
2011. máj. 20.
GENETOS - A Shmup for All Generations
Report written by:Lévai József
Planet Genetos Search Project (PGSP)
fighter pilot
Pro-Log
"Tatsuya Koyama... you made my day."
I doubt there would be any more appropriate words than this for my intro to my mission report to the Project for one of the most original and peak-of-life shmup mission assignments I ever undertook: GENETOS. My first impressions on my first contact with this game can be best summed up as "a free, interactive shoot 'em up history lesson" - so I took that chance to leave a BIG mark on history (pun intended) and signed up to the Planet Genetos Search Project... as fighter pilot of course.
As you may have heard, the experimental GENETOS GenerationShift System outfitting my Planet Genetos Search Unit craft can be activated once enough DNA cells from downed enemies was collected... that meant evolving from one generation to the next - and that translates to more advanced graphics and firepower and weapons to waste the bad guys with. Hey, it's an EVOLUTIONARY shooter simulation - you expect something else? Oh, and the heads of the PGS Project gave me my priority objective: blaze my path throughout the history of shmups from start to finish in the search for a new world, namely planet Genetos, wreakin' havoc to any bad guy and "mutant" in my way. Sounds like giving the fans their daily mayhem, huh?
If you think this mission's gonna be a piece a' cake... you got another thing comin' your way, FAST: I'm not the only one with the fancy ability to evolve into new times, so if I get overconfident, future generations will be wondering what the hootin' heck IS a fossilized advanced space fighter wreck DOING here in 1978.
A nasty job, some say insane and impossible... but someone's gotta take risks.
And I'm gonna make doggone sure that someone's ME.
That was my cue to climb into my GSS craft, start up all systems and initiate launch sequence into time itself... starting from the beginning of shump history as we all know it.
- Operating System: Running.
- Weapons: Online.
- Sensors: Online.
- Engines: Online.
- Generation Shift System: Online.
- All systems nominal.
- Genetos Search Unit ready to launch in: 3...
2...
1...
And THAT'S when I lit the candle. Shoot 'em up video game history...
HERE
I
COME!!!
1ST GENERATION - Invasion from Space
Ship: Space Invaders cannon. Movement restricted to bottom and can only shoot one bullet at a time.
You can tell that this is the first ever generation of shmups: limited graphics, music, movement, sound effects... thanks to then-primitive technology. But hey - Space Invaders is as simple and innovative as simplicity and minimalism allows. Even the goal's a piece of cake: shoot down those lil' invaders from space before they hit the ground, but watch out for enemy return fire. Too bad in GENETOS, there are no shield bunkers to cover your hide... oh well, at least you can begin harvesting green DNA debris here, too.
Mutant: Alien Mothership (Boss)
Ship: Galaga-like space fighter. Movement restricted to bottom half and can shoot twin shots.
Main weapons system can be changed here.
That's right, folks: a Generation Shift means you have evolved from one generation to the next thanks to those DNA you collected. And guess what you get:
A spiffy new space fighter straight from the late 80s' arcade shmup game classics, such as Galaga and Star Soldier. With your twin burst LASERs and expanded movement, that obsolete alien mothership stands ZERO chance now. Die, alien scum! DIE! HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!! (Sorry... got a little bit sucked into the anti-evil alien invader business.)
Well... that's it for Space Invaders and the 1st Generation as a whole. Next stop: the 80s.
To the Next Generation...
Mutant: Giant Spinner
GENERATION SHIFT: 3RD GENERATION
Ship: Advanced space fighter. Ship has a wider frontal shot and can use bombs.
Movement is no longer restricted. New weapon: bomb.
This is the first ship to allow stat changes for Yellow.
3RD GENERATION - Galactic Soldier
4TH GENERATION - Bullet Curtains for You
FINAL GENERATION - Planet Genetos or
Darwinian Doom
PHASE 1: Birth
PHASE 2: Variation
PHASE 3: Selection
PHASE 4: Prosperity
PHASE 5: EXTINCTION
2011. máj. 1.
Mother's Day
[Personal Log recording...]
As I type this log into my system, today just happens to be May 1st, which here is Mother's Day... and it's come to my attention just how much it stinks seeing mothers die from my 3 and 9 o' clock, left and right, in my missions, accident and/or intent - I take a look at the photo below and my mind processes about it. In fact, the world would be void with my mom gone... and her comeback as a stinkin' gun-totin' rottin' reject known as a zombie'll only make the pain of loss worse than it already is, knowing from playing one DooM too many.
There are times I wish mommy would be with me forever, and I suppose the ZECT Rider system's Clock Up would do the trick... but hey, we're only human, and this ain't the Grid - people don't belong there, not even Sam, even if I happen to build a digital space station to call home.
There are times I wish mommy would be with me forever, and I suppose the ZECT Rider system's Clock Up would do the trick... but hey, we're only human, and this ain't the Grid - people don't belong there, not even Sam, even if I happen to build a digital space station to call home.
So, here's to all the moms, then, now, forever...
(Of course, losing family does not affect Imperial Space Marines. In fact, you take one of their battle brothers down, hundreds of your troops are gonna be fed to their war machine's furnace... just a quick warning.)
2011. márc. 11.
XONOTIC - GPLFPS of a Different sort
If you can see this, boils and gargolyes, you are wondering why I've secceeded into that OTHER next-gen GPLFPS. Simple. You're not gonna like the ending, though, Nexuiz veterans.
Let's start with the basics, will we?
Nexuiz was originally developed by Lee Vermeulen and Forest 'LordHavoc' Hale, who started Alientrap Software in the summer of 2002. The goal of the project was to create a high quality first person shooter that could be played freely across all platforms in one package: PC, Mac, and Linux. The engine that powered Nexuiz was Forest Hale's Darkplaces engine.
The first version of the game was released in 2005. Development continued with many online contributors over the years, with version 2.5 released in October of 2009. Since its release it has been downloaded over 5 million times, and is included with many Linux distributions.
In mid-2010, it was announced that a new XBLA, PSN, and Steam downloadable version of Nexuiz would be done from the ground up by IllFonic using Crytek's highly anticipated CryENGINE3 game engine.
That's where everything blew out of proportion... and out of the airlock, naturally, for Nexuiz players.
In short: everything was fun and games of death when Alientrap created this gem of a freeware FPS we called Nexuiz out of the modified Quake DP engine... until that team of showoffs named IllFonic showed up and announced the console version powered by CryENGINE3 like they own the game or sumfin'.
*PFFT* Least they were so kind to put the classic Nexuiz up for download.
While I appreciate the Victorian-style designs - after all, it's not "The Beauty of Brutality" for nothing - this did not bode well for we freeware gamers and Nexuiz players. It was an outrage - a bleedin', fraggin' OUTRAGE! So great was this outrage, we would make AT wish they NEVER did that!
So sad, and yet so true, that all this is happening live before all our faces.
That's where the fork comes into play.
That's where Xonotic comes in.
Some of us were smart enough to fork early in March 2010 and continued where Nexuiz left off. The classic deathmatch you knew and loved in DooM, Quake, Painkiller, Serious Sam and other classics with next-gen effects known in Halo, F.E.A.R., Crysis and so on... only this bird's focus is on the community - power to the people, you might dare say.
And what did I do? Easy.
A hijacked game with its absentee founder and the hijackers themselves has no future at all as it stands, so I promptly blew this old deathmatch joint for another.
Don't believe me? Take a stroll here and you'll see what I mean.
Of course, I had to pay respects to the original AT freeware FPS Nexuiz (by playing some deathmatch games, of course) before moving on to the future that is Xonotic, the community-powered Phoenix of GPLFPS. You too can be part of the team, but heads up - some of the community can be... crude and crass.
Hey, isn't democracy that way?
2011. márc. 3.
GuwangeDash - Annihilatin' Big in Japan
(Cripes. And just when I thought XenoFighters R is the only crossover shmup...)
GuwangeDash, AKA Guwange-Ruga-Daioujou-XII-Kizuna-Down (Ugh. Long title's gonna stick with me for a while...), is like one massive shoot 'em up party from the fine japanese folks from the GuwangeDash 2ch thread - and naturally, everybody's invited.
Let's do the math, will we, folks?
CAVE +
Treasure +
G.Rev +
every doggone STG developer left
=
the unholy japanese freeware fanfiction shmup mess that is GuwangeDash.
The situ in a nutshell: looks like the ultimate in military dictatorships, consisting of the worst of the worst of an already bad bunch in the world, have finally got our one and only Blue Planet in Sol that is Earth all under their control, all with the help of the most omnipotent gem large and in charge behind the scenes.
But just when you think all hope's gone with the wind... better think twice, 'cuz here comes the most lethal shmup All-Stars squadron, ranging from hi-tech fighter-bombers to assault helicopters, from oldie-goldie veteran spaceships to the bleeding edge in fresh military technology, all ready to make this alliance of evil shmup enemies and bosses equal to the ground.
There's one catch, alas: what of this
Dream Team would you pick to go on a one-fighter starfleet rampage
through a bullet curtain of death?
One thing's for certain, though, in this shmup war to end all else: if you're goin' out in a blaze of gory glory, the enemy would know they've been in the fight of their lives.
Only one way to find out: download this gem of destruction from our friends in the Land of the Rising Sun and let it rip.
BIG time.
Because the second I'm in one the fighters, trigger on finger, the enemy in front of me and the computer says "DESTROY"... everything's about to go south for the bad guys.
WAY south.
WAY south.
2011. febr. 26.
Xeno Fighters - The Ultimate Tribute Shmup
To tell you the truth to begin with, femmes and mechs, I have quite an unhealthy addiction to sci-fi action games - especially FPS and shoot 'em up games. And this humongous tribute shmup over here, created by Team XF, ain't no different: Xeno Fighters in its current R edition. Glorious to think that it all began when Alluro got hooked on Raiden Fighters' manic gameplay and wide ship roster in '97. The rest, as they said it best, is history...
history in the form of the ultimate freeware indie RF-style tribute shoot 'em up to end all else.
Imagine yourself into a future where BRES, consisting of Keto lizardbreaths and human traitors, has declared an all-out, everything-goes war on human military history itself, and ATHENA's Anemoi squadron - the balanced Amada Vipros, the fast Phyxius, the damage-dealing Zaiva and the finesse Xelcor - is the one and only roadblock on the traitors' roadtrip to space/time domination. But with a wide array of guest fighters also making up ATHENA's fighter-bomber roster, spanning dimensions, human imagination and different video game eras, the BRES traitors will learn the real hard way the Anemoi ain't flyin' solo. That history's flying on their side.
Again, to tell you the truth, all you pilots out there, I used to play this shmup way back when I was a kid... 2003's EX version, if my memory's correct. Believe me, all of it was freakin' glorius just watchin' all those alien scumbags' sea-air-land-space military forces and their superweapons burst into flames from your starfighter's ragin' assault throughout military history, the future, space and beyond, right up to the final battle with the Xeno Mothership, all while heavy metal and techno music blare through your helmet's headphones.
Best part of it all: it's freeware.
'Twas a grade-A toughie, though. Only some real veteran starfighter pilots can survive an ordeal this extreme, and boy I'm glad I was one. But hey, with Xeno Fighters R's latest beta version, V0.10 out, I can report back to active fighter pilot duty any freakin' time I want. I can get my fighter-bomber of choice up in the air and, for example, lay waste to a wartorn city full of enemy tanks, big and small and really big, and turn an entire bomber squadron and its fighter and attack jet escort into airborne debris - especially if they are high above Hungary.
Oh yes. And make that giant leap into outer space and beyond - and right on top of BRES' space forces - for all mankind.
Guess what: that time's now. Why not you, too? If you feel up for some wanton shmup destruction, download the latest beta and blast away - or the 2003 EX version if you jones for a historical fixin'.
For all I care and love, I would love making those invadin' alien airheads attend their own funeral pyres time and again...
2011. febr. 19.
The Tale of ALLTYNEX - Phase 3
The Tale of ALLTYNEX
(a tribute to Siter Skain's Alltynex3 Trilogy)
by Lévai József.
Dedicated to Alice de Panafiru
Phase 3: Kamui
A great many generations marched past since the war with the Raiwat and the ZODIAC tragedy.
Since Ophiucus and the 12 ZODIACs are now distant, painful memories, we, humanity's remaining children, have been recovering from the aftershock and working on rebuilding our civilizations, our homes, families, lives, as well as updating our technologies to adapt to these new times, including this orbital complex where the final battle between Ophiucus and LIBRA and the two Kamuis was fought.
Alas, one man's hubris in his technological revolution would send us to a complete relapse of the ALLTYNEX incident of 2192 AD...
In an effort to improve AI and revolutionize computer systems, a top scientist named Xaffiquel creates a revolutionary, yet ethnically questionable method by which to infuse the human brain with a powerful computer, a bio-neurochip, to create more effective weapons: the Xaffiquel Theory.
We'll spare you the disgustingly sick details on the bio-neurochip. Believe us - some things are best left unknown. But for all we know, unmanned fighters with human brains fare much, much better than target practice, crash-prone and soulless UCAVs.
That theory proved successful, with the best possible neurofusion results being Rank-S... but in a strange and cruel twist of irony and unrevealed circumstances,
his daughter, Alice de Panafiru (aka Alice, Pany), is chosen as a subject and her brain is uploaded into an automated Kamui fighter in a bio-neurochip.
Irreversibly, Alice cannot go back to being a normal girl anymore.Devastated, Xaffiquel decides to take vengeance on humanity and uses the theory on himself, uploading his mind into the orbital control platform, Zaphichel, and rebuilds the supercomputer Alltynex, now known as AlltynexOS, to aid him in his efforts.
But like the Alltynex of 2192 AD, AlltynexOS turned on him and takes control of all of Earth's military forces...
save for the single Kamui driven by Alice's Rank-SSS mind and soul.
This rouge Kamui was now the only thing standing between Zaphichel and AlltynexOS and the human race.
Alice wasted no time at all. She had to prevent the insane supercomputer and her deranged dad from exacting vengeance and commit a genocide that would make the ZODIAC war and the 2192 incident pale into insignificance in comparison. And thus, armed with its energy cannons, Thunder LASERs, the Thunder Sword particle beam and Alice's soul, the rouge Kamui fighter started up and took off to defuse the greatest threat to humanity ever since the events of past generations...
First, she cut a swathe at the automated space warships and the battlefleet as soon as she made her unauthorized launch from the orbital complex, eventually encountering and making short work of the aerial battleship Soryuu above Earth orbit.
Soon as she got rid of the aerial defense ships up in the stratosphere, Alice launched an all-out land-air-sea assault on the automated defense grid on the floating continent named Babylon. No enemy machine unit was left online after the assault, not even the heavy assault cruiser Kokutaka.
Diving deep into Fort Valley, Alice burned her way through the warship and mecha defense grid through the underground complex in her bid to launch a surprise attack on AlltynexOS... but she was only going into Gate 99 over Oukumo's burning, offline chassis.
Emerging from Gate 99, the rouge Kamui fighter had to deal with everything the defensive systems the Urban Hierarchy has got: assault warships, heavy assault tanks, fighter-bombers, flying wings and, of course, a squadron of mass-produced Kamui fighters, controlled by anyone other than Alice. None of these Kamuis had the soul Alice has.
Having dispatched of the Kamui fighters, Alice had the rude surprise of having to engage with what appeared to be a next-generation ZODIAC prototype - a sick fusion of the Raiwat Scutum I-P ship and ZODIAC battleships. After dodging its lethal assaults and inflicting enough damage to the automated battleship, it disengaged its unneccessary and damaged parts and switched to full attack mode, unleashing something... familiar. Something Alice had feared this would happen ever since the ZODIAC war....
The wings.
To make sure the ZODIAC tragedy does not, I repeat, does NOT transpire yet again and wipe away what little remained of the human civilization, Alice unleashed everything she had to blast the only next-gen prototype out of existence in a tiringly tough battle.
With the next-gen ZODIAC prototype gone for good, and with it any chance of a repeat of the ZODIAC tragedy, Alice raced into the heart of it all deep under the No-Usu underground complex where AlltynexOS is housed. Not even the mecha could stop the Kamui from penetrating into the supercomputer's inner sanctum.
Once inside, Alice de Panafiru was treated to a free, fully interactive history lesson as AlltynexOS booted the holo-battle simulator, disabled safety locks, and initialized historical datafiles of two past warmachines, all ready to do battle for one more time.
Round 1 was the first Guardian Soldier encountered in the Mars asteroid belt long, long ago in 2192 AD, brought to the virutal battlefield of today. Despite battlefield experience, though, that obsolete hunka junk was no match for advanced technology and human soul combined - all made manifest in Alice's Kamui.
Round 2 was when the Scorpio Zodiac at the orbital elevator during the Valkyness Uprising made its comeback. Despite being once as dangerous as it is now with its particle beams, aspect LASERs, stinger and antimatter nukes, Alice made sure this was the last time the arachnid riot cruiser ever returned to active duty. By sending it all flying apart into a huge fireball, of course.
Round 3 was when AlltynexOS decided it was the last straw and engaged the Kamui directly using the holographic hexa-weapons platforms of all types. The ensuing battle was by no means a piece of cake, but eventually, Alice emerged victorious, crashing Alltynex's system for good this time, evacuating as the whole facility was engulfed in a raging inferno.
But the real grand finalé is just beginning up in satellite orbit. Alice is now faced with the painful final objective of putting Xaffiquel completely out of his misery by nullifying the very orbital control platform he transferred his mind into:
Zaphichel.
And put him out of his misery she did.
After-Action Report
Much as it pained Alice de Panafiru to put an end to her father, Xaffiquel's insane existence, the rouge Kamui fighter and her soul can finally rest in peace, knowing that humanity was once more spared the horror of complete and irreversible extinction in cold, uncaring machine hands, which is permanent proof of something even the most sentient supercomputer will never have. Something that made this Kamui fighter different than the other hi-tech weapons system.
A human soul.
But at the point of no return, where does mankind go from here now, after the ALLTYNEX Incident of 2192 AD, after the Raiwat War and the ZODIAC Tragedy, and after the Xaffiquel Incident?
Only time knows for sure.
But mankind can easily blame all this on his greatest technological triumph, the most hi-tech supercomputer ever constructed and, therefore, his gravest error ever commited. All of this begins, and all of this ends with...
ALLTYNEX.
And thus ends...
] End of historical holofile. _
] Closing Historical Program... _
] AlltynexOS Rev.222.4020
KAMUI Virtual Battle Simulation System
System Status: Online.
Ready to run battle simulation - awaiting programming... _
The Tale of ALLTYNEX - Phase 2
The Tale of ALLTYNEX
(a tribute to Siter Skain's Alltynex3 Trilogy)
by Lévai József.
Phase 2: RefleX
After the ALLTYNEX crisis, a new Earth government was established to alleviate the damage the Mother Brain's machine army have done. But it proved to be so tyrannic when they became militaristic with their counter-Zodiac war machines and battlefleets, some of us liked it better when ALLTYNEX was still online.
We can only take their injustice for this long before we reacted - violently, of course, thus forming a resistance group known as Valkyness, the mission being the overthrowing of the government, with technological support from the Cult of the Holy Serpent. Our secret weapon:
the Phoenix Mk. 2, an enhanced version of the mainstay Valkyness Phoenix starfighter, equipped with a reflective ShieldShotSystem (SSS) - the works of Dr. Dennis.
The time for Valkyness to rise was now.
Just when the Phoenix Mk. 2 prepared for launch in a Cultist Carrier, a pinpoint raid from one of the Earth-Zodiacs, the air-battleship Virgo, nuked the battleship, but the Phoenix launched in the nick of time and began its assault, its guns and SSS shielding ripping the government airfleet and one of the Zodiacs, Pisces, and forcing Virgo to retreat after a long battle.
Following the government forces massing at the Moon, the Phoenix's pilot had the nerve to invade the government HQ at Earth orbit, getting rid of the supertank Taurus and the riot cruiser Scorpio on the way.
Leaving Earth orbit and en-route to Luna, the Phoenix launched a surprise attack against the Meteor Fleet, annihilating the flagship Zodiac Sagittarius and the twin Geminis.
Turned out the Meteor Fleet had its hands full with something worse than us rebels.
The battle with the government's most advanced battleship, Cancer, was long and a challenging one, especially when it switched into a more powerful, crablike attack mode. The battle ended with a surprise particle LASER blast from an unknown battleship, obliterating Cancer and the gov't and Valkyness moonbases in one fell sweep.
It is then the Phoenix realized the situation has become much more dire, for Earth faced an invasion by a fleet of incredible power. After a day's thought and preparation, it is decided the Phoenix will attempt to repel the invaders.
What began as a civil war between human factions for the fate of Earth has permutated into something greater - and much more horrible.
As the Phoenix warped back to Earth, it is now clear all human forces fight as one. The civil war was over due to the much greater threat.
The "Raiwat".
The Raiwat were once humans who existed many centuries ago and ventured into space unknown. Some of these humans settled on a planet and over time evolved, turning into what appears to be a wolf/human form - leading to being nicknamed "space werewolves". These Raiwat invaders are conducting an assault on Earth - but many do not understand why, save for their high command. The reason seems to deal with something about ZODIAC, but it is yet unknown. The Meteor Fleet was created to deal with the Raiwat, led by the City-Buster gunboat squadron Enlopy.
As the Phoenix descended into Earth, all of Earth's remaining forces, both the world government's and Valkyness' alike, fight to repel the Raiwat invasion. Here, the Phoenix fights against the Inspector-Defender craft called Scutum, whose purpose is to observe the progress of the Raiwat assault. After the battle is over, the human Virgo and the Phoenix descend into the ruins of the Alltynex core to fight their greatest threat yet.
Some words on the origins of the ZODIAC battleships before we continue.
The 12 ZODIACs were created by the Raiwat as automated vessels, each having incredible power and all similar in design.
Their most distinguishing features are the energy wings that appear out of the back to signal full power and also the near interpenetrate, energy reflecting shield. The 12 ZODIACs have the same naming scheme as the Earth versions, that is, VIRGO, CANCER, TAURUS, SCORPIO, SAGITTARIUS, etc. The ZODIACs, despite being of the same design, are slightly different from one another in their method of thinking and ability.
For unknown reasons, the Raiwat lost control of the ZODIACs and they began a rampage that nearly turned the Raiwat into a permanent exhibit in extinct species. Somehow, they were able to deactivate the ZODIACs and seal them away forever.
The Raiwat military decided to reactivate the ZODIACs and use them against Earth. They declared war on humanity because they feel betrayed by them... but it is not known why they feel this way.
The ZODIACs did not go unnoticed though. Dr. Dennis discovered the ZODIACs and attempted to create weapons on Earth that were to destroy the Raiwat ZODIACs using his research on the ZODIAC Core. He dubbed these vessels with the with same naming scheme as the Raiwat: Virgo, Cancer, Taurus, Scorpio, Sagittarius, etc., all vessels that the Phoenix previously fought.
Upon entering the place where Alltynex once existed, the Phoenix fights against once of the ZODIACs, the same one that destroyed Cancer, called VIRGO. After fighting for a short time, VIRGO realizes how much of a threat the Phoenix can present and unleashes its full power, spreading its energy wings. VIRGO proceeds to escape the ruins, crashing into and destroying the human-made Virgo in the process.
During this continued fight, VIRGO fires all manner of powerful weaponry but the Phoenix's shield handles the load.
Finally, VIRGO decides the Phoenix is too much of a threat to ignore and destroys the Phoenix Mk. 2 by firing everything it has against it. The attack manages to cripple the fighter and kill the pilot.
However, something... beyond extraordinary occurred.
The Phoenix Mk. 2 reactivated itself and gained a similar power to the ZODIACs.
The special core that Dr. Dennis installed in the Phoenix Mk. 2 was the 13th ZODIAC core: "Ophiuchus". This 13th ZODIAC was created when the original 12 ZODIACs were exterminating the Raiwat and was designed to destroy said battleships. Having been activated, the Phoenix began its new programming and proceeded to terminate VIRGO, then go after the remaining 11 ZODIACs.
Some time passed after these events.
The Phoenix Mk. 2/Ophiuchus continued to assault the remaining ZODIACs, destroying them one by one while all the ZODIACs counter-attacked, as detailed in a Raiwat commander's personal log. The resulting battles completely devastated humanity's civilizations, and left the human race teetering on the edge of extinction.
The remaining humans managed to create a massive fortress in Earth's orbit and created a special "automated vengeance system" designed to attack all of the ZODIACs, including the Ophiuchus. These weapons are the Kamui fighters, designed using the research of the ZODIACs and the Phoenix Mk. 2.
In the final battle, the only remaining ZODIAC is LIBRA.
Having detected the Phoenix, LIBRA attacked the Earth station in an attempt to draw out Ophiuchus and is successful. However, the AVS was also activated, and two Kamuis were dispatched to deal with both of the ZODIACs. 
Unfortunately for the Kamuis, they ended up being no match for the ZODIACs, despite their power. In one final attack, LIBRA vaporized the Kamuis and in doing so crippled itself, leaving the Phoenix to deliver the killing blow.
Then, having completed its programming, Ophiucus self-destructed in order to prevent the ZODIAC tragedy from repeating itself.
(That'll teach us humans to believe too much in our horoscope.)
But as far as devastating wars and incidents are concerned, one happened before, and one will happen again.
'Twas only a question of when.
To be continued...
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