Archin's Revenge

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The Archin UpHeaval (Pronounced ARC-IN) a year ago were banished from there home galaxy of Florin by the Peacemakers and sent to exile in a galaxy called the Milky Way. Whilest prepareing to expaned into the stars they encountered life forms much like themselves, the Drengin. Drengin, who were at war with the Terrans, Arcean, Altarian, Torian, Iconian and Talan, showed warmth towards the newly arrived Archins. just as the Archin UpHeaval were given a solar system they decided to call Forin the Talan and Altarian arivede in the system and quickly settled near by systems. With the Drengin busy the Archin were left to settle Florin 2 (Lost City) and Florin 3 (New Archin). This is were i, Lost Hero, was elected to lead the the mighty Archins to ultimate victory againest the enemies of the Drengin. I was mainly elected because collection of verious trophies (Skulls from different races), and my skills as a military tactics officer exeeded all others. I was worthy of command. Just before we were ready to join the fighting my servey vessel found a smaller race, the Dread Lords. I thought nothing of them at the time but when i think about it the drengin could have told us if we had bothered to asked who they were. The first attack was swift and precise, the Dread Lords Quickly took the recently colonized world of Crenna. Over Intercom (an FTL transmiter) we heared the last of the population dieing. since most battles were fought on the ground we never Found any need for Space weaponry, now more than ever we needed it. science wasn't on our side so i made the reluctant decision to abandon to planet, it was a lost cause. "One day, we will return" i promissed "as Predators, not Prey!". Now that day has nearly come...

ARCHIN'S REVENGE:


It has been quite some time since the last Dread Lord attack, since then i feel i have grown wiser. turns out that this wasn't an isolated case, reports came in of small Dread Lord groups poping up all over the place. Looks like the time is nearly upon us the attack the infamous Dread Lords, let them feel what it was like when they slaughtered our empire binding the captured with chains and forcing them to work in under ground mines so they could build the battle ships. I still have the skull of a Dread Lord mounted on my shelf. Funny, their quite weak without the powerful weapons. My crewman informed me yesterday of 5 new ships we would be using to conquer the Dread Lord.


The Colony Cruiser would expand our empire much faster than a normal transport would.


The Forger would Construct the nessecary starbases needed for such a mission.


The Super Scout would seek out the Dread Lord outposts faster than a other scout could.


The Solar Fighter would soon make up most our fleets and wipe out the enemy scum.


And the Solar Corvette, the strongest of our ships would house our best military minds so we had increase chances of winning.

Yes, soon the Archin UpHeaval would have a proud militia and those who opposed my rule wold fall prey to these powerful vessels. "Prime Captian! Prime Captian!" The young trainee flew down the corridors almost missing the door to his private chambers. Benson was the youths name, the young male was very energetic but had no respect for his superiors. Though the young commander in training did show exeptional skill when i came to organization and command decisions. "Next time Benson, it's called a ComPad, USE IT" Lost Hero barked, but the youth wasn't scaried. 'Good' he thought, this one was ready for the real thing. "Sorry sir but a report form the Tira colony cruiser. they have found what apears to be a Talan Outpost, scientists have conducted sensor sweeps and have studied the stellar cartography of this system and evidence has been found that Talan and Altarian have followed us here" Benson look very pale. but this didn't worry Lost Hero one bit, their military would be ready soon. Then Lost Hero took the map in Bensons hand.

This is what had worried benson, the Archins were boxed in...

To Be Continued...
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Continued...

ARCHIN'S REVENGE part 2:

During the colony rush, the Archin empire had managed to swipe a good 5 planets dueing which a Discovery was made?!

The Class 18 planet we called 'SilverNight' was believed to once have been an Arnor world.

Maybe this is why the Dread Lords haven't been found yet, they were arfaid of this world. LostHero's pilots were itching for a battle, but so far no one had even see a spect of dread lord tainting this sector. The Archin Empire had a few other planets too...


Rockra Class 8


Tira Class 10


KnocBlack Class 5

and ofcourse the Archin Homeworld of Lost City (even if it isn't their true Homeworld). The Archin Empire had grew strong and Proud under the fine leadership of LostHero.

Now the Archin empire had a firm foot hold wiping out the pittyful Altarian and Thalan would be no problem. there tiny fighters were mere shadows of the Archin Solar fighters who could surly destroy them in one foul swoop.


Thalan fighter.

Archin solar fighter.

"May i sir" the voice of his former commando startled him. commander flora had been his chef advistor for meny months now. "ofcourse flora, please" LostHero offered her a chair but remained standing. "sir whilest scaning this anomaly" she handed him a screen to observe.

"we managed to find a log entries dating back to the precurser era, i have segested that all crewmembers read it to increase knowledge of the enemy we are up againest".
"grand work comma... Flora, that was very wise of you" he felt like saying more but knew it would be pointless.


new tecs were ariving from high command, designs for new engines and such. LostHero made the most important discovery of all! the dread lords hidden base!

this was indeed a fine day. Quickly an army was put together, the Archin imperial fleet would destroy all dread lords who stood in our path, or so we thought.

never has the Archin UpHeaval felt such a force, an entire fleet destroyed by a mere fighter. the war just got deadlier.

To Be continued...
Reply #3 Top
Looks good, and Im glad to see more depth.   
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Continued...

SPIRIT OF THE WORRIER:

People were scaried, they had all right to be. Even in the last 10000 years the Archins had never encounter a force as strong of as deadly as the Dread Lords. Now LostHero began to worry for the saftey of his people, they could not fight and they couldn't run. it was unbelievible that 2 solar fighters were simple destroyed by by one dread lord escort, on a more positive note the enemy sustained sever damage to all systems when it took on our solar fighters. we would need a fleet of at least 4 fighter to take out a Dread Lords Escourt. On his way to the bridge LostHero was intercepted by a young man named George. "Sir this news just in from The GNN new weekly!" his face showed no sign of emotion but his voice clearly did, he couldn't blam him.

The Dreadies (a crude name for dread lords) were building Troop transports.

LostHero quickly hand the back the new report and sprinted of the the bridge. his braided hair twisted and flicked around him like angry snakes, his armor clattered about him like it was going to fall loose. he knew it wasn't though, Archin battle armor what made of think plates of titainium. Not one other race could wear this armor fue to it's extreme weight. Archins did mind it though, they thought it quite light. when he reached the bridge he ordered his Com station to patch him thought to the High Council. "High designate, you hear the news?" LostHero held his head high and kept his voice clear. "Yes Liege we hear, we await yor orders sir" the obediant council were clearly at a lose on what to do. "i want every planet guarded, get to work on building a new weapon and i DON'T want the dreadies taking Lost City, Defend it with your lives". "yes liege, constuction has begun on all planets" the com channel was closed, it would only be a matter of time before the Dread Lords would try and take the captial.

The Good news was a proto type frigate had been built using a cargo chassis.
http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/3758/prototypecruiserfl5.png
LostHero just hoped that this would lead to great discoveries.

Battle after battle Archin and Drengin ships went in on a desperate attempt to defend the Dread Lords. now though the Drengin were creating Death fleets in a desperate atempt to hold the dreadies at bay.

out of all 4 race the Drengin and Archins were to only ones attacking the enemy, or maybe the thalan and altarian were biding there time, builing up their forces so that when we finished the Dreadies they would attack us. it was to our suprise when they offered a peace treaty so that we all may focus on the threat at hand.

New reports came in that the dreadies had lauch the troop transport, 10 million trops were on their way to Tira! Quickly a message was sent to evacuate Tira. LostHero would rather see his people scattered though space than in the slave mines of the dreadies.

To our utter suprise though the dread lords had more than on target.

knocblack was lost!

the pain of failing millions of people swept though lostHero like a tidal wave, crushing his very sole. He needed to get back to Lost City, quickly. as his ship raced though space new reports were coming in, the Dreadies were Attcking Lost City.

With a full uplink to the computer main frame Lost Hero could see the New Proto Type Frigate get to work. This time though it wasn't an escourt. the Dread Lords were using a Battle Cruiser, whilest we used a solar fighter and the new proto type. the battle was swift, the Archins lost.

the proto type didn't even leave scorch marks on the living ship. reinforcements were arriving from Silvernight and rockra but they wouldn't arive for some time yet.

the Archins knew the end was near.

To Be Continued...
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Continued...

FEAR!:


Fear wasn't commonly found in Archin society, but now more than ever fear seemed to be the only this on the streets. LostHero looked of the reports, he now sat in the imperial hub since his return. the war was going sour, friends became untrust worthy and enemies earned greater trust. The Drengin seem ok to start with, but now they had shown signs of starting a war!


this concerned LostHero greatly.

The Altarian on the other hand had shown conern for our races safty and had given us a gift "starship defence"!

they had earn LostHeros trust.

the stress of running this empire had driven him to the edge of insanity. he felt like lash out at someone blades drawn and weapon armed, his hatred for the dreadies ever so strong. Satalites had taken pictures of ever upcoming battle, the pictures would help decid were we send our ships.

The Drengin lauched countless assaults.


Thalan defended their home system with a fleet code named 'The Hope'.


The Dreadies constantly attack Lost City, this is were we would need to send our forces.

2 Weeks later a report came in of a troop ship that was on an intercept course Lost City! LostHero knew all too well what the war had done to Treasurey, they simple couldn't pay the galactic builders to make a defence ships. this would mean every man women and able bodied child would have to fight! the dread lords were coming.


they would be here within the week.

Armor was made and weapons destributed amongest the population. LostHero went to his private chambers to prepare. his armor had been checked and his blades sharped, now all he needed was is gun and helmet. just before exiting the chamber he took a quick galance at his dread lord skull, it seem to be smiling, mocking him. he walked up to and quick as lightning snatched it of the bench. he would attack it to his shoulder plate, 'it will give the men hope' he thought to himself. then he heard a low humming as the dread lord ship passed over head, the time had come.

10 million againest 10 Billion seemed like over kill to LostHero, but he knew better. he stood, againest the councils better judgement, at the front of the of his armies.

the Battle began, pulsers fired countless shots at the oncoming armies and missiles blew away most the dreadies. but when the dread lords started fireing it was clear why most colonies had never fended of the dread lord scum. red lightning lanced out before them disabling huge carrier tanks and basicly cooking anyone it touched. LostHero charged forward angry swelling in him, he threw down his weapon and drew his Kyser Blade. he ran in slashing at any dread lord scum he could find, even when he had clamed so many lives his lust for revenge was unquenched. it went on like this for what seemed days. finaly the dread lords fell to the power of the Archin Upheaval. the battle was finaly won, but it had clamed over 5,000,000,000 Archin lives, too many as far as LostHero was concerned. now it was back to the space battles, fleets of our ship had already been destroyed, so a new ship was developed.

The Laser Corvette!

this was but a small upgrade for what was about to happen, the dread lord attacked our patrol group. they kept recording until the very end, apartedly they were using new tactics. the tri formation broke of as soon as the dreadies fired thus reducing the damage to all ships. the impressive display would certianly increase our chances of survival.



it was good to see that people were trying, even through all this termoil.

this was short lived though because now the Dread Lords were using DREADNAUGHTS! a single fighter fought the desperate fight not even leaving a scratch on it.


he was one of my best pilots.

i wasn't long before the Dread Lords struck again, this time taking Lost City!
LostHero barely escaped with his life.

Later that month a united planets meeting was aranged, the call was about where prisoners would be kept, which race will take them in and make them work in construction. Archin weren't about pass on an offer like this, free slaves to increase productivity.


the dreadies were indeed powerful. now the Archin Upheaval was down to it's last 2 planets rockra and silvernight. both wouldn't be able to resist an invation from the dread lords. were slow, but surely, dieing.


ever since the start of the war we have continously lost (not including invations), now was our first victory! though it was an unarm transport that was destroyed Archin felt proud of it.



now more than ever though the Archins need money! a small group of idolistic Archins clled themselved the galactic bankers and setup a small starbase close to the silvernight/Rockra sun.

the construction of this starbases increased our income, but this was just a small relief.

The Dreadies werent going to rest until all races were destroyed. it was decided that new fire power had to be found to combat the dread lords. the outcome of this new research was the classic fighter...

And gun corvette...


it was though this power that lead to the second win for the Archins, this time it was the death of a dread lord Escourt. a truly honourible win.


LostHero took this as a sign that we could win, science was pumping out new weapons so fast that they might yet have a chance of winning. Thanks to the new slaves productivity on both planets was increase allowing us to build many ships, thus LostHero ordered the creation of a second Imperial Fleet.


Now was to time to take the offencive, research reported that they had just finished planetary invation. thus a new ship was built, the Death Cruiser!


the dread lords seemed to be aware of this to since reports came in that a massive force was heading our way. it started with the destruction of the Galactic bankers. with the destruction of the massive structure income hit rock bottom.

but this was only the begining.

the imperial fleet enaged a small fleet of Dread lord fighters only to be destroyed.
this was the end, LostHero had no choice, a Colony cruiser was made and 500 million people evacuated. there were still billions stuck down on the planet but Lost hero could do nothing for them.


LostHero would never be the same after this...

the Archins would hide in the vacuum of space were dread lord wouldn't find them.
Reply #6 Top
Wow!

I love the use of lots of screenshots.

This just shows that a defeat can be a great story!

Hydro
Reply #7 Top
Archins aren't defeated yet we will return. it's amazing that we could hold them of as long a we did. primative space weaponry verse blackhole weaponry and we still managed to take down a few dread lord ships. i'll be writing another as well.
Reply #8 Top
Great story! Sorry that I have yet to add another addition to my own story, but have been preoccupied by work. Or at least the illusion of work I am about to start working on mine again right now.

I hope that you are able to play a game wherein the Dread Lords do not make an appearance, cuz they just are, to put it bluntly, raping the Archin.

Nice ships btw

GalenEvil
Reply #9 Top
they'll be sorry they were ever born the next time they verse me, i'll have a little suprise for them. Archins have descovered the secret to Xeno Ethics!
Reply #10 Top
it was a good story
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i made a new ARR. 'Homeward Bound: The Archin's Story'