PUBVIAN GESTALT
OK, that was fur loosing terrifying.
What was those voices?
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
The Combined Military Authority is what became what's known as "The Combine" which was a military despotism centered around Betelgeuse that took over after we glassed Terra and when control shifted due to the heavy combat in the TerraSol system.
They crushed any rebellion against them from DASS, BASS, everyone. Even hung some planet-crackers over Rigel to ensure compliance. Devoted everything to destroying the Omniqueens.
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
I'm not even part of that, but I have to admit, that was scary as hell. It was like the Voice of Doom.
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AKLTAK SOARING WORLDS
It was probably the scariest thing I've ever heard over these channels.
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
It doesn't help that those channels keep popping up and talking because of Daxin and the Imperium of Wrath and some of the idiots.
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PUBVIAN GESTALT
Daxin? As in Daxin "The Walking War Crime" Freeborn? As in the Daxin of Ladinston 194 fame?
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Yup. Same one. Might want to update your databases regarding him, since he's moving around again.
A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation.
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PUBVIAN GESTALT
Can't believe he's still around. How many of the other Immortals are left?
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TRENA'AD HIVE WORLDS
None. He's the last of the ones you're talking about.
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PUBVIAN GESTALT
He was one of the Terran Janissary that landed on Pubvia. One of the Ten Thousand Immortals.
What happened to all of them?
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
Killed during the First Terran-Mantid War.
The Combine threw them away during the war.
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TNVARU GESTALT
Wait, there was more than one Terran-Mantid War?
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
After the first one, more Omniqueens got spawned, so the Terrans 1%'d the Mantids.
That was the Second Terran/Mantid War.
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
Which one did Daxin rip the head off of the Omniqueen?
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RIGELLIAN SAURIAN COMPACT
First.
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
And, well, you know...
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AKLTAK SOARING WORLDS
Oooh, I gotta hear this.
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PUBVIAN GESTALT
This sounds good. Dish.
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
All right. So, Omniqueens spawn out in kind of 'spokes', sending out Young Queens to the next system. Once the Young Queen reaches Omniqueen she sends out more.
Now, during the Great Culling, a handful of Young Queens kept their heads down. See, they had a plan. They let the Terrans stomp the hell out of everyone, then stayed quiet.
At the time, only a few of the Imperium Immortals were still around. Most of them out at the Great Hellspace Rift AKA The Eye. Daxin was one. One of the Omniqueens managed to kidnapped him.
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RIGELLIAN SAURIAN COMPACT
Like morons.
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
Yeah, like morons.
Now, at the time, we had no idea there were about a dozen just matured Omniqueens out there.
Then Daxin ripped the head off of one of them.
We all felt that. I mean, for ten thousand light years, hell, maybe through the entire Milky Way Galaxy, we felt the Omniqueen beg, felt her scream when Daxin ripped out her eye, then felt her die when he sawed her head off with a Warrior Caste bladearm.
That made all the other Omniqueens jump before they were ready.
What they didn't know is that the Terrans had installed High Frequency Phasic Control Inhibitors on just about every world.
See, the Omniqueens had intended on having mature queens enter Terran space, take control of the Mantid citizens, and attack the Republic of Aligned Planets from within.
To top it off, every Mantid in existence heard the roar.
Which led to the Great Rebellion.
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PUBVIAN GESTALT
What roar?
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ALL> I JUST WANT LEFT ALONE!
ALL> Laughing
PUBVIAN GESTALT
Damn, that's a hell of thing.
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DOKI!
MANTID DOKI DOKI DOKI FREE WORLDS
Oh no.
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TREANDOKIDOKIA'AD HIDOKIVE WORLDS
Oh crap.
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NEKO MARINE MILITARY CHANNEL
DOKI! PUFFY PUFFY PUFFY PUFFY! DOKI
PUFFY ORKY PUFFY!
>DA ORKIEST ORK BOSS has logged on
PUFFY!
PUFFY!
MANTID FREE WORLDS
Crap, this is going to take a while.