A Call To Unity (Conference Thread, IC, Open)

"And so they've returned," Sharp said when the Suprions had finished speaking.  In a tone of deep concern, he continued, "Well, everyone assembled should prepare themselves.  I'll explain for you these things called Delieggen.  They were supposed to be gone, but obviously Governor Henry wasn't thorough enough."  

"Wait," Silva said suddenly.  "I'll enlighten them.  You know their historical information, but I've been keeping tabs on their old homeworlds since those scientists disappeared.  I have a bit more to share."  

She then said in a commanding tone to Markinson, "Jack.  Prepare an Intelligence unit against them, and tell Assistant Director Kennison to handle operations for now, until I'm finished here at the Conference."  Once the agent had left, the Director added, "Now, the Delieggen.  As Commandante Yorik explained, they are shape shifters.  They are also masterful infiltrators.  There were only ever a few billion of them, but every one of them were on par with my agents.  And once upon a time, the Confederacy tried to wipe them off the face of the universe."  

Feeling the tension in the room increase tenfold, Silva added, "It was five hundred years ago, and one of the biggest milestones for the Confederacy as a galactic power.  We had stood above alien race for centuries by then, but our near extermination of them marked it as official.  Now, some of you might condemn our attempt to annihilate another race. To you I say, you have no idea what monsters they were and are.  They were ancient enemies of the Dothvalians, and they lived on worlds of fire and smoke.  This war was the first time we had to make armour that had breathing equipment for our commandos like the Dothvalians have.  If we hadn't had filtration on all the volcanic planets we hit, we'd have suffocated in minutes.  But why we initiated the war.  For decades, they had slowly infiltrated the Confederacy, eventually reaching very high posts and murdering our highest officials.  They would kidnap citizens on our more remote planets and sacrifice them to their false idols.  They killed some of our leaders.  If they hadn't tried to kill Governor Gabriel Henry, who ruled the Confederacy at the time, we may not have tried to eradicate them altogether.  But they had been murdering our citizens, assassinating our leaders, and harassing other nations within Triangulum.  So Confederate Intelligence took a closer look, and found nothing redeeming about them.  Murder, rape, robbery, infanticide, human sacrifice, idolatry, and other sins.  All of these things they practised on a daily basis.  And not just a rogue element.  The entire society was evil, through and through.  Once the war actually started, they fought with a demon like ferocity more terrifying than modern necromorphs, and aside from the Abyssals, they're the most wicked beings you'll ever know.  The war against them was led by High Admiral George Hamilton, and others.  This war lasted fifteen years, and it was a nightmare for everyone who fought it.  For fifteen years, those monsters dug their heels into the ash and lava of their homeworlds.  For fifteen years, they butchered our soldiers on a dozen planets."  

She stopped for a bit, allowing those in attendance to take in this information.  "But we had a mission.  These things were shape shifters, they were as big as an Inquisition Knight in their true form, and when they were cornered but still in darkness, they fought with a ferocity unlike anything you know.  The vicious manner in which Confederate troops fight when they're determined to win?  We learnt it from them.  Our only men who survived were the ones who learned.  First we followed them into the smoke, darkness, and fire of their homeworlds.  Once we cleared the surface of each world, we found them filled with tunnels and underground cities.  So we followed the monsters down as well.  We found shrines to things called the 'Lords of Darkness', and their warriors sometimes said 'the Lords of Darkness are coming.'  I believe these Lords of Darkness were the Abyssals, and the Delieggen were trying to help them return to the universe.  But we must have prevented this when we destroyed the shrine.  Burnt their temples, levelled their cities, felled their greatest warriors, executed every single one we could find."  


Silva concluded, "The last and bloodiest battle was for their homeworld, Karlaazen.  We lost as many men to these creatures as we did to colonising Triangulum.  For half a millennium, it's been a ruin.  They never rebuilt their cities on the surface.  But obviously they've recovered, and it's time to descend into the planets' fiery cores once more.  This time, we'll finish what we started."  As a look of fiery determination crossed her face, Silva added, "No one at the conference is required to aid us in this task.  It's our carelessness that allowed them to return, a mistake we'll now correct.  Dont try to dissuade us.  The universe is better off without them."  

Then a three dimensional hologram appeared as Silva pressed a button, one of a Delieggen in its true form, with its grey skin, sunken eyes, and irises blacker than any space.  And of course their massive size, as well as black and orange armour.  She smiled as she said, "This is a Delieggen in its true form, and we thought them gone."  

"Then, the military units of the Council will escort that machine to the Federated Colonies, where it shall be given to the Science Division of the Colonial Armed Forces.", the Captain said, smiling. As if that was the response he was waiting from the other delegates.. the humans clearly knew that the Keltakens would interfere sometime in the future, but now, they could focus on the Invaders. Cardinal seemed pretty happy about it, while the Hegemon and the Luminarian Empress seemed to be more concerned about the consequences of that referendum.

But then the Confederates started to talk about the Delieggen and what they were actually. As Director Silva continued to explain, the only one who actually seemed to be somewhat interested in the subject was of course, Cardinal, the blind girl even smiling when the Confederate woman mentioned the details about the society of the Delieggen, and then once again when she mentioned how the Confederate forces hunted them, destroying the surface of their planets, and then taking the fight into the underground, going as far as to something that could be called a xenocide...  the Hegemon seemed to be rather concerned, listening carefully at what the Confederates were explaining, but the other Colonial delegate, the Holy Empress seemed to be... rather shocked. Her race was one of the most pacifist in the entire Federated Colonies, so she clearly didn't like to hear about how corrupted the Delieggen society was.... and the measures the Confederates had to use. The Luminarians hadn't been evil at all, but for a large part of their history, until they joined the Federation, they had been hunted, enslaved, raped and killed without mercy, due to their nature. Their culture itself believed that nothing was evil, beyond salvation.. it was well known that they had been proposing actions to try to save the Abyssalized Colonials for quite a while. So hearing what the Confederates had did to the Delieggen, and what the Delieggen had done to the Confederates was rather.. disturbing.

"Yeah, please spare us from your reptilian threats for now.", Cardinal said rather rudely to the delegate of the Keltaken Empire, although quite obviously, he was a Goshwaken, not a Keltaken. "It serves you good to have your Empress kidnapped, and even if we're supposed to be allied or something, I must say it: your nation fully deserved it." Then, the silver haired girl looked at the Confederates. "Well, well, who would have guessed that the Confederates were able to do something like this... I can understand your reasoning, though, it seems that you ended up pretty well next to your current ally. Two nations guilty of xenocides... what a match.", she said, smirking. "Though, next time, try to nuke their planets, destroy them. Try not to fail, if those, Delieggen or whatever you call them survive, they could be a lot of problem. We're going to perform a full check on our entire Officer Corps and on the Council and the Diet just to be sure."

Still seeming rather shocked, the Holy Empress managed to say something, although in a pretty low voice. "The Colonial Federal State will however express a formal disagreement at the acts of the Confederacy in this matter. The Article of Colonization compel us to do it. Under normal circumstances.. the Articles would require us to intervene, and stop the xenocide, like we did back on Drathia.. but under these special circumstances, it can be.. overlooked."

The Hegemon sighed. He didn't like the way Cardinal was speaking, but unfortunately, he couldn't stop her anyway, so he simply remained silent until she stopped talking, waiting again until the Empress also said what she wanted to say. "We.. understand. We can offer you military help if so needed, but the Colonial Federal State will never approve the use of its troops in xenocidal actions, I hope that you can understand that. And we're pretty focused on the current Invader fronts anyway, so we'll only be able to spare a few battlegroups anyway.", the purple eyed boy said. "Those Delieggen seem to be capable of giving us many problems...."



And just as the Hegemon was thinking about how to deal with this problem, especially considering how many other problems the Colonies currently had to face... maybe by making the KOLSI check the Officer Corps, the Council, and the Diet like the Cardinal suggested.. he suddenly noticed a presence behind him, but before he was able to fully realize what was happening... it happened.

"Boo!", somebody cried behind him, making the Hegemon fall out of his seat, turning around only to see a pink eyed girl looking at him, and just behind her, a purple eyed girl, looking at the one who scared the Hegemon with disapproval.

"I scared you!", the pink eyed girl said, laughing, already clearly recognizable as Sigma, not only due to the glowing color of eyes, but also because of her general appearance, as she didn't seem to have changed at all from the moment she had barged in the emergency session of the Parliament back then, and of course, because of her smile. "You should be more careful, you know!"

"I must apologize for my sister's behavior, we haven't been meaning to interrupt.", the other Abyssal, clearly Omega said, apologizing. The two Abyssals seemed to be present at the Conference.. until the Hegemon roughly unsheathed his sword, trying to hit Sigma, only for his sword to simply pass through, revealing that she was a.. hologram?

"You can't!", Sigma said, sticking her tongue out at her older brother.

As Silva listened to the Colonials speak, she remained quiet. After all three had spoken, the Intelligence Director said evenly to the Cardinal, "Perhaps, Cardinal, you can loosely use the term xenocide here. But we didn't work so hard because we hated the Delieggen. We couldn't allow them to wreak havoc elsewhere. Had we let them spread beyond Triangulum, the damage they could have done becomes infinite." She then said to the Holy Empress, "Thank you, Empress, for your decision in this matter. I assure you, we dont start this again without the utmost necessity." She finally said to the Hegemon, "And thank you, Hegemon, for your offer of aid. The Confederacy is prepared to face the Delieggen alone, and doesn't ask the Colonies to violate their principles by aiding a debatable xenocide. But if you would like to send units to assist and observe, feel free to do so." She then added,"But this changes nothing. Our commandos stand ready to bring the fight to the Invaders in the Milky Way. If you will accept our help, of course."

Once the Invader Knights had been spotted, Sharp smiled and said in a calm tone, "Unexpected guests. Welcome to the conference. I hope you're enjoying the scenery on Karsopolis. Tell me, why isn't Michael with you? It seems odd for him to be absent."

He then added, "And are we right? Are you the 'Lords of Darkness' the Delieggen so fiercely believed in? Were they trying to summon you back into our dimension during that ancient conflict?"

"Seems we have to listen what they have said...", said the Heirarch of the Protectorate, Artanis in a tone both concern and horror. Continuing, he turned to Sigma, "We will ensure that in this big fight you wish for, we will take along with us to hell. It is only fair."

Still not finished, he turned to the Hegemon, and said, "Hegemon, I can detect that the entire Colonial delegation seems to know what they are speaking of... But their negative emotions are preventing me from telepathy. Hegemon, tell us. What is this IT that they speak of? The IT that was there, that escaped, and is expanding? We must know, so that we will know how to deal with it..."

'You would think that natural selection would eliminate idiotic creatures such as this one...Seems to be more the Keltaken role as of lately the idiot threatens and boasts like a king without providing little strength to back it up...possibly will make a good target for when this damn war is over.' the goshwaken thought to himself. In truth the Keltakens had far more then just one interest in this conflict, survival was of the utmost priority but the second was to check the strength of their potential enemies, so far the Keltakens had remained unscathed and all efforts where being made into all kinds of projects, one of the most notable was the creation of a new Capital ship it would be the size of a small moon with it's own impressive assortment of weapons with new ones to be created inside its many labs. It was in one of these labs a special parasite was created, perhaps it wouldn't be noticed for a time if something where to happen to this Okvhar, the side effects wouldn't be seen for quiet some time. The Goshwaken ambassador would have to wait for a right time, however he did feel bad for the parasite having to use a host as dull as this one seemed, oh well. Leaning into his coat pocket he pressed a red button and quietly spoke into it in Keltaken native, "iniaviaave zeava proavocal avhe porandor muukav ukurvive. . . " to those who could understand the basic keltaken language "Initiate Zeta protocol, the empire must survive" The Acrunai would know that Zeta protocol is the final contingency of the Empire, suspending Keltakens in cryogenic sleep for eons possibly until an Acrunai could awaken them and bring their kind back into the world, it was a plan devised after the first intergalactic war encase the humans ever could get the upper hand, the Keltakens would lock themselves away in hidden vaults along with the genetic code of their follower species to create more. If the worlds would burn the Keltaken and their technology would survive in some way, shape, or form. Regardless this just went to show how prepared the Keltakens where to keeping their species alive, for those not yet euthanized by practices of the Darthains the Keltaken Empire could see a resurgence in a matter of centuries and time was something Keltakens had in spades. 

"So then, if this concludes everything I need to go and make a few reports to the ground council, "Holy Empress, Hegemon, Cardinal, I have been given orders to ask if you would accompany me back to Keltaken space to meet with our new regent when time permits...It is long overdue that the heads of the Heads of our two groups should talk again. I would insist that you come with me once you are all able, it would be best for all of our sake." with that the goshwaken settled back into his seat pressing the red button again as to turn off the communicator with the KDF or Keltaken Defense Force. Things had certainly turned interesting, turning to the confederate delegate Sharp, "It may be wise for you my friend to come with us as well, their is much to be discussed and little time to do so." 

Okhvar paused and looked at the Goshwaken intently, and said, "I heard you. It seems that you know not that we Suprions can read minds, and can sense every motive. Indeed, you know nothing about us. At least, the Eldari know us, though almost everyone here don't. Nonetheless, if you think we're mad, yes, we are mad though not in your sense, 'idiotic'. Well, I will not be offended by such trivial things. And don't worry, you'll see how we back it up. Oh, we have met many like your kind and I believe that our races might have met before. I am convinced that our peoples would be the best of friends after this 'damn war' is over, in spite of what you may do. We are fond of watching your species - we have many things in common. Forgive me if I sounded very odd or dull to you. It is difficult not to when our people were once beheld as gods during days of old and gone through so much."              

Then, another prominent Suprion delegate, Fio'taun the Exarch from the Council of Seers, said to Governor Sharp, "Considering that among us here, the Suprions are the nearest to the Confederacy in terms of distance, it is only practical that we will aid you in scouring these wretched Delieggen from the galaxy. The Suprions are at your service."