Seeing the ukraine message for silence advertisement I was waiting for, I order Gary to get his air wing ready to head over to Kiev and begin air operations in ukraine. I get a smiley face in return, the pilots been ready and itching to go. I have done every thing I could do to protect the pilots. Plasmetal airframes, shields, and void container to increase loadout, and magical inscriptions to replace various mechanical systems.

Gary hit the orcish frontlines with a vengence. They had complete air superiority as nothing the orcs had could damage the plasmetal specters, let alone pierce though their shields. Gary ran his air wing with four hour shifts, switching pilots with Mckinley and his pilots. The news was filled with a ranting madman, but I just tune that out and watch specter pilots acrue a ridiculous ground kill counts. The volunteer pilots were making a killing in bonus money, which only encourage them to farm with the expected vigor of pro gamers.

Their live battlecams went viral as people all over the world watch fifty live stream from cockpits of the specters in action. The militaries and the world was facinated and horrified at the devastation the specters unleashed on the russian military. After watching a half dozen direct sam hits and the six specters continue unharmed. I had militaries around the world soon asking if I would sell them Specters. As if I would sell them such powerful aircraft.

Of course, there is always the greedy idiot who defects for the money. I am sure is was a whole lot a money. I happen to be attending video conference with nato at the time. I get a whole lot of stares of well, what are you going to do about losing a specter look. I sigh at their dislike of a youth in charge of nukes, tilt my head to my right and voice "who is being stolen?" I also see a message from Elsa six, but I ignore it to wait for an answer.

They hear a female voice respond "Elsa six, young master."

Then I accept the connecting to Elsa six and hear "this is Elsa six young master!"

Oh and promptly reply "nice work out there Elsa six! But right now I have an emergecy mission for you worth one hundred points, Interested?"

I promptly hear "mission accepted young master!"

I return with "I want you to eject the pilot and return home. I have a new pilot for you so you can continue earning merit points."

They hear a whoosing sound and someone screaming and hear "ejection completed, returning home young master."

Then I go "good girl! You earn a hundred merit points for that!"

She volleys back "thank you young master!"

I end with "got some old people to applease, gotta go." This followed by Esla's chuckling before the screen returns to my face with empire at war running in my background. A fragment of my divine sense was playing the game's planetary invasion of Fondor as a form of tower defense. I leave my border worlds without space defenses so I can enjoy my favorite version of tower defense in a game that was not meant to be a tower defense while I was attending the nato conference.

Using the thrawns mod, it get invading by many factions so their is plenty of replayability. Besides, you can play all the faction and use their units for ground defense. The new dark empire mechanic is great, my favorite xr dash eighty five droid tank comes with it. So any imperial faction can now have it if they game dark empire storyline. Three of four of these bad boys can keep your base defended, supported by artillery and one or two infantry that is close to drop zones. Then the free units from factories, makes it an interesting kind of tower defense game.

The free meat shields from factories are my eyes for my four to five artillery units. If you want a jedi challenge, then choose four artillery units and that way it gives you a fifty fifty chance. Pick five artillery units for advantage and easier game. The best worlds you want at least five factory spots, because you need to use up three spot to turn it into a tower defense game. Well two if your are daring to go without base shields, which I was playing before the new update happen and lost that save. I had gone over a hundred turns and only lost two land battles, both to enemy force users.

First you need the government building to build the factories. To turn the planet into a tower defense game, the second building is the planetary shields. Now you do have to worry about orbital bombardments and bombing runs ruining your day and turning it into a tower defense game I love. My favorite mod used to be alliances for the engineers, but the dev keeps unbalancing the mod with new units.

For instance airfields now pop up in the drop zone, and there is no limit. Trouble begins when rebel heavy bombers can easily tank two anti air turrets and win and barely scratched at that. Which each airfield spawning a heavy bomber, all the ai factions are killed off by the rebels. So by mid game, nothing but rebels are left to fight, when there should be three or four still going strong before the airfield update. Which means turn off the rebels and a few other factions to get a decent game, but what is the point of playing empire when I cant smack rebels around?

So that meant going to thrawns mod and finding the different factions for ground defense interesting. But by far my favorite is the empire for the xr eighty fives as the best planetary defenders. Plus their artillery is great as it actually armed with anti infantry blasters that most factions do not have for their artillery. I like the tank drones because I can get rid of the anti air unit for another tank drone since they are great for all enemy unit types. Unlike imperial walkers, tank drones rarely chase after targets.

Nato could not say anything since they had the full attention of another fragment of my divine sense. Like I would waste most of my attention to a conference I did not want to attend in the first place. Most of my attention was trying to keep up with the mental chatter of my nine wives. But after two days of air superiority that was transending to godhood, as over thirty direct hits had been shrugged off without any appearant damage to any specter.

I gave the old folks a good stare before tossing "Specter problem solved, what is next on the agenda?"

Suddenly word is announce that the Nova Kakhovka dam was destroyed. I watch the blame game begins as the old folk choose ukraine or orkia for the cause. But, considering the growing list of the orc's war crimes, most believe orkia was the culprit.

The destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam really pissed me off. To the point that I wanted to end the war with the sheer use of might. I should have done this when I declared war, but at the time I did not want to get too envolved in a war I had little interested in. But the madman keeping upping the ante that he can not afford to pay. Now I am calling his hand with a virtual plague of missiles and war machines adding to the fire of orbital bombardment. My gloves were off finally.

I send a division of scarabs from Odessa to aid in the rescue of trapped flood victims. Traveling in double line on the highway eastward, they took the world off guard once more and wonder just how many scarabs did I have. Flying ukrainian and underworld flags on the dual antennas, so everyone gave way to the fast moving Scarabs.

Videos filled the internet as seven hundred and twenty nine scarab pour out of the Odessa, kyiv, and Königsberg eastern trade tower. The two northern scarab divisions were all about inflicting damage to the orkian army. Diverting attention away from the odessian scarab division rescue mission.

Traveling at one hundred and ten miles an hour on highways, they soon reach the flooding dnieper and began rescue operations. Scarabs being able submerge and work up to three thousand feet underwater had no problem entering the flooded areas. Thousands of people were rescued as they climb on top of the main body to be delivered to dry land. It helped that the scarabs can translate the operators words of comfort into ukrainian langauge. The orcs began shelling the rescue operation, but soon came under orbital bombardment from my defense satalites.

I was so pissed that the orks had no honor, I ordered a continuous bombardment that ended at sunrise along the entire orkish frontline. The energy beams fire at a non visible light spectrum, so the orks really had no idea what was raining down on their artillery and vehicles. In the end, a mass route of orks ensued as a second division of scarbs arrived. As the first division had assembled a teleporation gate north of the flooding. This division however did not participate in the rescue operations, but instead crossed the flooding dnieper as night fell.

The Königsberg division cross into belegrod to secure the newly delivered nukes. I made sure to have a defense satelite watching over the launchers, if they are stupid enough to turn them on, they will recieve an orbital greetings from an high energy cannon. That just happens to fire in an invisible light spectrum, thanks to the stealth restriction I added to ensure no one expects my underworld communication satelites are armed to the teeth against extraterrestial threats.

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Since it was a natural disaster, I order three hundred unloaded warskiffs to enter though the telportal gate to aid in the rescue operations. This of course sent the world and militaries into a frenzy. Sure they knew about the anti gravity crystals, but they never suspected I could outfit so many war machine already. Warskiff was promptly listed as part of underworld securities military antigrav transport, and much to every military displeasure, also not for sale.

As I stood in the command center watching everyone doing last minute prep work for the rescue operations. I had a thought and ask Laura if we had all the orkian communication frequencies for both military and cilivian.

Laura nods with "Yes husband, we have them all."

I rub my hands and return "Most excellent, please broadcast rammstein on all their channels. Pump it up to max so they can enjoy like true fans. Might as well find all the popular heavy metal bands from nato nations too. Guess we should double the number of slicer microbots."

Slicer microbot were beetle size drones who only task was finding communication lines and cut the cable every fifty meters. That way the orks behind their frontlines have spend the entire day either splicing the ends together or lay out new lines. Their black shell aborbs sunlight to help recharge their batteries, and seek cover during the day by hiding in bushes to recharge for their night activities.

Laura blinks, then smiles with "I'm on it!" Then the whole command center broke out in laughter.

The world watch in wonder as war skiffs dance above the water, darting from house to house picking up two scores of people and animals before returning to dry land. Eventually I had to divert five skiffs to ferry thousands of prisoners of war to free up the growning number of scarabs doing unexpected guard duty. Since I can't stun them, since they would fall in the flood waters and drown. I am obligated to rescue them to avoid the roasting of a certain species of entitled. But my wives awaken my professional pride, but I was not going to mix ukrainians civilians with orks.

The division of scarabs quickly over runned the orcs postitions when they begin emerging from the flood waters in the middle of the night and began rampaging though the exhausted and now terrified ork surviviors. Breaking though the orkish lines to destroy their massed vehicles and depots with ease. Battlecams on underworld net proved to be an eye opener as they tore apart the orkish tenches with ease. With phantom wolves souls serving as soul controllers, they howled and growl as they sought enemy vehicles and bunkers. Serving to enforce the orkish belief of an alien invasion was happening.

Six hundred scarabs pour south toward crimea and three hundred headed east munching though the orkish frontlines like ravenous monsters. They were moving fast, not sticking around to fight time consuming evolved soldiers. Their purpose was to destroy artillery, anti air, and armored units and reach the T2202 road. Though any command centers and depots discovered was quickly engaged by a pair of micro missiles. I taught the phantom wolves the value of the double tap and they all took strides to make it so.

Unfortuneately for the ork evolved, my own rankers from underworld came out to play with them. Riding on to scarabs like the crazed battle junkies they are, until orkian evolved foolishly stick their ugly mugs out. Which they did in decent numbers, I have found out that the orkian high command had issue a bounty for scarab kills. I was losing a few scarabs per hour, but the orkian evolved hourly losses exceeded one hundred at one point. So I happily accept the kill ratio and order the pick up of the destroyed scarabs.

At one point a Incursion drone carrier picks up a big ork running with scarab toss over his shoulder and I wonder just how much the madman was offering. It did not take long for a team of assassins to catch up to the orkian evolved and finish him off to recover the damaged scarab. Black plasmetal is easy to recycle and reused, and not all meteorite impacts make obsidian iron ore, which means earth had a limited supply to make black plasmetal. I was only willing to use a small portion of underworld resources for the real world.

I happily take that kill ratio and made sure to transit gate the destroyed scarabs back home to be recycled for their plasmetal. I check on the fabrication plants and see since the start of the war I had only eighteen hundred scarab security force. Now I see the twelveth thousand and forty first scarab come online and it's spirit soul controller pilot the new scarab to join the deployment zone.

Forty eight gates surrounded the deployment zone from three sides. When a gate flashes open, the words squad, company or regiment would appear. The closest scarabs are quickly task for the gate and the exact numbers rush for the gate with hive mind precision. An underworld sarab division is made up of three regiments of scarabs. Each regiment of scarab is made up of three companies of nine squads of three scarabs units. Each scarab unit is made up of three scarabs. So squad has nine scarabs, a company has eight one scarabs, a regiment has two hundred and four three scarabs and last of all a division would have seven hundred and twenty nine scarab operators.

A division of scarabs had left the kyiv and Königsberg trade towers at the same time as odessa and were beginning reach the orkish borders and frontlines and had spread out as they near Bakhmut. I had brided Lithuania with a trade tower in exchange for safe passage to Belarus. Their arrival had already been passed to the frontlines, as the scarabs swept pass ukrainian soldiers who went up in cheering. Using micro missiles and fifty milimeter autocannon magic ammo, the scarabs assaulted the ork lines obliterating trenches and mine fields with seismic missiles as they went. The ukrainians watch in awe as anti tank and artillery shells blast harmlessly off the scarab shields, though many were intercepted by micro missiles as well. Putting on a dazzling good show for the exhausted ukrainians.

The orks stood no chance as the over powered scarabs waded though their defensive lines effortless. Quickly passing through the ork layered defenses to engage their armored vehicles. Then proceed to hunt down the artillery and anti air defense. Occassional command center would cook off followed by ammo and fuel depots. The devastation caused by the sudden nightime blitz cause many orks to simply flee in terror. After watching the scarabs rip though their lines, any fight left in them surrounded by bodies of their squad mates and not one destroyed scarab.

In the end, not many orks survived to surrender as most died from seismic missile or explosive autocannon fire. Only when it was evident the orkian lines were in a complete route did large numbers began surrendering the the chasing scarabs. The orks were so stubborn, costing over eighty percent death toll before recieving a collective lightbulb to surrender finally. Those who surrendered recieve the blue bolts of stunner rounds. The heavy stunner rounds put the surrendered orkians in a coma that can last one to two days.

Of coarse there were complaints that I should have been using stunner rounds from the get go. But I was angry on how prisoners of wars were treated, mainly the castrated ukrainian prisoners. So I ordered the scarabs to kill and only use stunners if an ork actually surrenders. I simple posted back mad animals are a menace to society. I photograph an ork foaming at the mouth with a bloody knife shouting no children for you. I got my point across, but a few pro lifers continue to sprout their entitled nonsense forcing me to lower their nations trade value to shut their nagging.

More like their citizens shut their mouths for me, silence is bliss after all. People should think carefully about who they mess with, especially if the retaliation cause all your citizens to pay and extra ten percent for underworld goods and services. Childish to the extreme, but you know what, some people just can not get it until you hit them where it counts the most. The anger of millions of their own people. If you mess with me in the real world, this is how I mess back, I do not play around. Earning the ire of the world's current crop of modern diplomats foolish first contact with a cultivator nation.

The funny thing though, that night, calls of aliens attacking positions across the dnieper flooding orkian communications. At first the calls for aliens attacking was laughed at, but then a few call start coming in from zaporizhzhia front. People were laughing less until bakhmut sent combat footage of black four legged crab like creatures with shields burrowing into the command center doorway. An underslung rotary cannon quickly ends the combat video with no doubt the destruction of the command center.

The freshly awakened orkia's high command remained stunned as they listen to the unending reports of bad new"...more calls about alien crab war machines were attacking from Kherson and even reports in belgorod. Nothing worked, anti tank and artillery had no effect against the black armor. The alien crab's shields took combined effort to bring down, but all our weapons left nothing but blast marks with no appearant damage. Our troops are fleeing the massacre, estimated loss already surpass seventy percent and climbing rapidly."

That was the last report of their lives as seismic boring missiles detonated inside their bunkers. Their own media blackout of the lost of kaliningrad had made most of their frontline grunts uninformed about the dangerous underworld scarabs. Promoting the scarabs as an upcoming science fiction western movie instead as they contemplate what to tell their people. Their line of reasoning was if they exist, why have they not conquered the world already? Their stop gap measure not to panic their already poor morale of their army has cause the death of so many of their soldiers.

Ukrainian high command quickly order troops to advancing realizing the perfect opportunity, trying to keep up with the fast moving scarabs that were disappearing into the night. The only sign the scarabs were still racing east was the constant din of missile explosions and buzz of the under slung rotorary autocannons. Leaving flares beside comatose orks for the ukrainian to police. They cleared their way to the T2202 objective in just under an hour and formed defensive position west of the road. The orks took massive losses as any vehicle that came in range was destroyed by missiles while troops were mowed down effortlessly by the heavy autocannon. When they check the bodies marked by flares, they were shocked as they realize they were alive and in some kind of coma and needed to be guarded.

Their matt black plasmetal frames appearing suddenly at night was like the boogymen came to life as the orks screams abruptly ending was like a sweet melody to the ukrainian recon units task to follow the new underworld allies. The frontlines had already been push over hundred miles as ukrainian motorized infantry struggle to up while capturing key locations. While the infantry was busy rounding up thousands of comatosed orks among the bloody carnage.

The madman of orkia ranted endless after ukrainian troops pour in and secured everything west of T2202 and now on the doorsteps of crymea. The orks counter attack but failed to make any headway westward as scarabs supported the ukrainian defenders as they dug new defensive lines. Over ten thousand orks had been captured including plenty of war assets that were commandeered to help defend the new defensive lines.