Oasa, upon hearing Rooster's garbled message, decided now was the time to act. The Malcontent, hundreds of times larger than the entire battle, suddenly announced it's presence to the rear left of the Ancara lines. The Malcontent's turret control systems picked forty independent targets. Thirty eight no longer existed within a moment. This time, the Malcontent did not slink off again. She waited for whatever the Enemy could throw at her...

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Carnotaur sent a message to Rooster. "Please repeat. I could not understand you! Please repeat!"

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Thanks for the compliment Rooster!

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Millennium. Its coming, prepare for it.
Coming to the (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiaSW.com/games/ev/chronicles.html")EV Chronicles(/url).

Aboard the Ancara flagship, the Xei Kai , the high commandant was staring contemptuously at the ship. He angled his head to deduce just why it was a sphere, and his eyes brightened. After several yells in Ancaran toward his tactical station, his officer turned to a board with several icons of a wide variety of multi-situation weapons. The officer yelled more commands to the targeting officer, and pressed the icon of a large green blob. The targeter locked onto the Malcontent and a green ray shot out from the portside cannon. From the outside, the ray looked to have no effect. Then the hull began to crumple like an aluminum ball and the truth was revealed. The crust of the planetship was being disintegrated by the ray and the hull was losing stability. The shield generators ad weapons on the surface were becoming inactive one by one. Now a flaming sphere flew through the battlefield. Carnotaur watched as their only hope floated helplessly by. If something wasn't done, the Ancara would overcome the battered fleet within minutes....

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Oasa transmitted to the Corocian fleet, "hyperspace out. I'll finish this. come back in two days. Do it!"

The Malcontent's engines were still functional. Oasa brought the majestic ship to a stop. Sadly, he issued a "scuttle ship" command to the huge Voinan crew, and initiated a self destruct sequence. Quickly he got into his pod equipped with a subspace distorter, which would make his ship "invisible" to the coming explosion.

Five minutes later, the Malcontent was nearing implosion. The entire crust of the planet had dissolved under the massive energy of the mysterious green beam. The entire Ancaran fleet encircled her, firing away furiously. Confident of his success, the Ancaran Commander never bothered to wonder why the rest of the fleet left. He would never find out.

The Malcontent went nova in a spectactular fusion of planet, ship, and slush deuterium. Minutes later, as temperatures finally fell below 12000°C, all that remained of the glorious ship and the equally dangerous fleet was dust. All the hyperspace links in and out of the system had been obliterated. Oasa and his crew, meanwhile, were drifting aimlessly in space, waiting for the Corocians to find a way to rescue them.

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Damn it! I pressed the Clear Fields button on accident! Here's a summary, don't complain:

Three escape pods got through, Rooster opened them. One was a corpse, one was a deformed Miranu (the character), and the other was an engineer who lost his foot. He lost it and a crystal segment in a heavily armored fighter which avoided the explosion. His foot had his lifepad on it, and he suggested they use it to locate the fighter, and that Oasa could board it and bring the crystal back using the slipstream drive....

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Do we think it's about time to start a new post and advance the timeline a little? I think the whole Ancara thing is getting a little boring, and i'd like to have a slightly larger group. If everybody agrees, i'd like to open a second thread (since one of the mods will decide this one is too long soon) as a sequel to this one. I'm also taking a vote on the time to start it again (some of us got midterms, right?), new events and rules. It's an open forum from now on, along with your final posts.

I'll start a new one as soon as we think everybody's done with the forum.

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a sequel sounds good to me. Now, will someone rescue me before my air supply runs out?

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It's your deal, Oasa. I sent you the message saying to bring yourself back in the heavy fighter. Then just dock with the Silvership Sarana which Daedalus and i are aboard. Give me the crystal, and i'll take a transport through to rescue your people.

And if anyone was wondering, I wanted the Ancara thing to be so we would have a couple terribly dangerous ships floating around the quadrant. I wanted a surprise variable. Go ahead and continue with the forum :)!

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A sequel sounds good. The problem with the Ancara thing is that we need other people to control the Ancara. if the sequel was in the future with different races that you be it would be cool.

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Give them shell! give them solid shot! Damn them, give them anything!

I think that's about all we'll get out of a forum. I'll start the sequel asap. It's been fun people, and it's gonna continue to be.

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The sequel is now "LBS 2: The Prophecied Light".
No other posts should be made regarding the timeline.

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