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Funnily enough, in the universe from which I imported my Terelains, no one really bothered to explain why the two most ancient and feared assassins of the Kingdom also shared names with Human deities. The closest it ever came to was the old Terelain joke about 'rent'

You see, the vast majority of Senate Space was at one time or another cliamed territory of the Kingdom, though most of these systems only had a very light presence - mining or research outposts for the most part. One such research outpost was a space station in orbit of Jupiter, which the Terelains abandoned and crashed into the gas giant millennia ago when they were downsizing their territory with the emergence of the 'Younger Races' around 8,000 BCE. The Terelain joke being that there was never any official ceding of territory by Teelains to other races, so technically most of Known Space is on loan to them, so they all have a hell of a lot of rent backed up.

Incidentally, the Terelain name for the Sol System is Tamrith-Ilus, and their name for Earth was Ilus.

Here comes the CDC! Anyone know what Ebola Zaire is?

Wow...

Its edited, but the disease is still deadly

Sweet Mother Tara! A ZOMBIE plague!?

That's a Devastator class biological weapon if ever I saw one... especially when combined with the ISBM technology. It seems as if the HRA are determined to commit atrocities the likes of which have not been seen for twelve millennia.

As soon as the Terelains learn of this... then they will have no choice. Escalation is inevitable, a declaration of Eternal War will occur. The full might of the Grand Fleet will be directed towards the total extermination of the HRA.

Ebola Zombie creates a zombie like creature that, yes, still will crash and bleed like Ebola Zaire will.

So, it's an EBOLA/ZOMBIE plague.

But yes. I'm a ruthless, intelligent, deadly, and clever enemy to fight. I may not have the best weapons, but I think of ways around it. But if you want to eliminate me, try destroying the silo containing the Hacker Missiles.

If you keep escalating this conflict with more weapons like that, the Terelains will have to start pulling out the big guns, and I mean the kind of weapons were you alter the orbits of planets or just pulverise them... or just blow up the star. They have that kind of technology, but they really really really don't like using it. They're the kind of weapons that you can't rebuild from, even glassing a planet and wiping out all life on it still leaves the planet intact for biosphere regeneration.

In the end, it'll be the interstellar equivalent of a nuclear exchange, with the Coalition Alliance trapped in the middle.

I think the Terelains have the best technology and a very big fleet, but an inherent defensiveness of tactics and an inability to recover rom large losses.

The HRA have less advanced tech but more ships and the ability to soak up losses and a willingness to use weapons unpalatable to others.

The Coalition Alliance has the least advanced tech and the fewest ships and are even less able to recover from large-scal losses than the Terelains, but they're very sneaky and they have the home-field advantage. They have tricks and surprises that catch their more advanced allies and enemies off-guard, with the relative 'primitiveness' of technology ocassionally working in their favour as some enemy weapons and defenses are less effective than against more 'advanced' technologies.

Oh... and I guess the 'Unknown Advanced Intelligence' is probably the worst off, what with a single heavily damaged ship loitering in an active combat zone. We probably should acknowledge their ship at some point...

Probably. How about as a boarding scene, no?

I think he was following us, so we'll have to get to our fleet staging grounds before we can board him and see what's up with this dead carrier. I hope we can get a couple more of these timeship guys to show up, then all three of us can gang up on you

2 vs 1 is okay, but I've always preferred a 3 vs 1 match up in military matters. It makes beatin the other side easier...

Wait! I GOT IDEA!

Eon's ship was a time traveling ship, no? So... What if the cargo it was carrying... Was ONE OF THESE THINGS? I mean, it could be a ship trying to escape!

I don't think the Time Dancer was big enough...

Not a ship, I mean something interesting.

Like one of my Virus Missiles, a torpedo, one of our leaders, something.

That has some interesting possibilities... though send weapons, leaders or something back in time implies you lose, or start losing, this war.

EXACTLY! So a last ditch effort that didn't work!

So how much damage will we inflict before your inevitable defeat? How many worlds and how many millions will be lost?

Didn't say it was me.

Time Dancer is off limits.

IF Eon comes back and decides to use that ship, itll be far game.

However, Im pulling GM rank, and pulling it out of play for possible something else. Nothing game breaking or one sided. But you guys are one a similar track I was pondering.

As far as the U.A.I, they should be acknowledged as they should relatively be caught up by now with the Coalition and Terelians. Detectable is another question.

And as far as..."weapons" go, I will say only this: "Think in terms of logical projection and "plausibility," this is science fiction and not science fantasy."

I know it appears kinda late for that, but just keep in mind no super death megazord matrix cylonian sonicscrew drive reality existance thumbtack hyper bomb. (People have done this, and this just reminded me.)

I'm sticking to the laws of physics and science, brother. I have not done anything out of the ordinary for me. However, I have met people like that. For instance: Anti Matter missiles? Impossible. Matter and Antimatter cancel each other out INSTANTLY, and create the biggest explosion ever.

So, tell me if I'm crossing the border into idiocy, please?

Actually, it would be theoretically possible to contain Anti-Matter in a perfect void, then once the missle hits the target, the containment unit would break, allowing the Anti-Matter to annhilate with regular matter.

How you'd make such a matter-less void, I'm not certain. Perhaps utlising artificial gravity generators to suspend the anti-matter in a chamber from which you've vented every single particle of matter.

Which would create a void that has nothing in it, so gravity is impossible. In other words, theoretically, this is what you just said:

Create a void with no positive particles in it.

In reality:

Impossible, because gravity is a particle, which you would need to suspend the antimatter in the void. So... It's rather odd...