Bugs Itch: The second Bug War

[BugHunter]

BugHunter: "Alright Light-Stepper, weapons check"

Light-Stepper: "Null sec. E online...."

*The Hunting Star has landed onto the planet which awhile ago it was observing. This planet which has been used as a hunting and training ground for BugHunter's clan for many generations has a very strong jungle like surface. Right now, BugHunter and his crew are doing checks on their equipment in preparation for the inevitable conflict*

*We find BugHunter outside and observing as Light-Stepper is in the Hunting Star's cockpit testing its weapons systems. He's talking to him through comm-link. The rest of the nameless crew of 10 (i forget how many to a corvette) are busy scurrying about doing what looks like equipment, stock, and ammo duties*

Light-Stepper: "Everything is a green... Power levels at full... Guns 4 and 5 have full ammo..."

BugHunter: "Light-Stepper, aim at that rock over there"

*He aims at a rock which is 4/5ths of a mile away*

*Promptly, Light-Stepper aims and fires a single pulsar at the object and hits it with high precision. The rock explodes*

BugHunter: "Good" (nods head)

*a vid-link pops on in one of the monitors in Light-Stepper's cockpit. Its the veteran hunter who was babysitting the newbie hunters on their training bug hunt*

Veteran: "We're almost done out here. All the newbies are doing very well. Every one of them has at least one trophy (aka. a bug head). Only minor injuries have occured. And we only got one more bug out here to hunt down"

Light-Stepper: "Good to hear. I'll tell BugHunter"

*The vid-link shuts off and Light-Stepper does what he said he would and tells BugHunter through com-link*

((ooc: the difference between vid-link and com-link is that vid-link has visual as well as audio, and com-link works just like radio. I dunno, i just made it that way...))

*After Light-Stepper spoke, Young-Tusk abrubtly comes on BugHunter's com-link*

Young-Tusk: "Hey boss, I'm done with the repairs up here on the Swatter ((one of the corvette class ships in my group)). Can i come down there with you guys? I want to do some target practice, too. I'm bored up here..."

BugHunter: "No"

Young-Tusk: "Oh but come on..."

BugHunter: "You're suppost to be up there looking after all the other ships. And speaking of which, has the extra help i called for arrived yet?"

Young-Tusk: "Well yeah. 2 groups from Sector 8 have arrived. Top-Knot said he'd meet us at Starport Pub 11.

((ooc: The two groups Tusk is referring to each consist of 3 corvette class ships, making 6 ships. So now i have a group of 10 corvette class ships. The Spawning ship and the group of newbie hunters will be staying here around this training planet. I dont know why I'm typing all this for, you guys will never remember it. Mostly its for me, hehe. And yay, I'm bringing back the Starport pubs! I did mention that my clan uses them as quasi bases of operation, even though they're open to the public, didn't I? ))

BugHunter: "Alright then, after we're done down here, we'll go to Starport Pub 11"

*Shuts off com-link*

Bughunter: "Light-Stepper, try shooting that rock thats a mile away"

[Tassatul]

*After the engagement with Agrithno, Tassatul returned to the business of infesting the planet. Within a few hours, the entire surface was overrun with bugs, rapidly infesting the population, boosting the attaker's ranks. Tassatul was even careful to let a few battered, damaged ships escape, in order to spread the word, hopefully, to Katt, BugHunter, and anyone else who might be a threat to the Infested Empire*

I must find Agrithno. . . hopefully, he has not shared this technology with anyone, so the Swarm can have it to ourselves. . .

[Cobra5]

((To answer some questions-

Fighter- 1 or 2 crew
Corvette- 5 to 15 crew, multiple guns, turrets
Frigate- 50-100 crew, Heavy weapons, sometimes docking bays
Capital- 500-3000 crew, Multiple heavy weapons, docking bays and hangars
Super Capital- 4000+ crew, everything you could need

So yeah, bughunter, your ship's size was dead on. If a ship has say, 300 crew, then it could really be either a capital or a frigate... the diferentiations arn't exact... its just a general, vague classification

Anyway, the good guys have to find a way to unite eachother. They already know that Tassatul has been infested... so perhaps they could join up and look for him? They don't know where cobra is.

Or... hey- cobra's twin is lost and alone. he need help. maybe he could come to bughunter for help, and tell him the whole story?))

[Deimos]

((I was going to meet up with Dan's other character, Sirius...until I got shot at by Coral...so now i'm space- if you want, after I hit lightspeed, I can meet up with you...I'm pirate after all, I don't really have a side...kinda...sorta))

[Cobra5]

((If you're not a bug, your against the bugs, no matter what 'side' you are one ;D. Becuase, no matter who you are or what you do, to them (or... us ) you are just food...

So that's a good way for you to become involved. You may be attacked by bugs, and decide to join the little resitance we are forming.))

[Jalathas]

This looks cool, unfortunately, I have no idea what the bugs are or what's going on. HELP!

[Coral]

"Target released decoys. We cannot find him sir-"
" 'We cannot find him sir, our brains are walnut-sized'. FIND HIM."

The corvette continued on course and increased speed to flank, and prepared for a light speed jump.

"Why are we chasing this guy, sir?"
"Im bored. Now move it!"

[Cobra5]

Jalathas said:

This looks cool, unfortunately, I have no idea what the bugs are or what's going on. HELP!

((I'm in the process. I typed up an excelent sum-up for it once, and I'm looking for it. When I find it, I'll post it in the Adventures guild))

[BugHunter]

((ooc: Thanks for reminding me on the ship sizes. Then that means my Spawning Ship is a frigate class. And I'm tired right now, but I want a post a sequence with my group joining up with Top-Knot at the Starport Pub. Once i get to the Starport Pub, you can do whatever you want to pull me into some action.))

((ooc: okay, i'm back and re-energized )

*We find BugHunter done with his weapons and equipment check of his prized ship, the Hunting Star. He and the newly promoted newbies (who are in their own ship) are making their way back to the gathering point near that frigate classed Spawning ship which is up in orbit. The other 9 corvette class ships are waiting there as well. Once the newbie ship has docked with the Spawning ship, BugHunter addresses the other ships*

BugHunter: "Okay guys, lets go to Starport Pub 11"

*A dial-up warp hole opens up in front of them and they go through. On the other side is the Starport Pub 11 in the distance. They can see Top-Knot's corvette class ship and a fellow hunter ship docked onto the Pub (that makes 12 ships, yay) amongst a rather large conglomeration of civilian ships and space trucks*

((ooc: As you can see, I didn't feel like gettin fancy in this post. I kept it short and simple, hehe..))

[Tassatul]

((I think im going to wait a bit for everyone to reform before i do much more massacreing of planets Anywho i was thinking, Will, do you have in your head an idea about how the galaxy is set? Like where planets and the Draconis sector and peoples homeworlds are? Not that I want to give you more work, but maybe you could make a map(just something simple, nothing real fancy) that kinda shows this. So you could label the Draconis Sector, BugHunter's clan's main planets, maybe even stuff like the Kaiou-Tur empire and the Imperial(i think thats what its called) zones, and things like that. I wouldve made up something myself, but i wasnt sure if you had ideas about ti already, and plus your much better at making maps on the computer. Mine would have to be handrawn to look any good. Anywho))

[Cobra5]

((hm. Never thought about that. No, I didn't have anything in my head, but I wouldn't mind doing it

I'm also planning on doing a terrain map for the World RPG, while we're on the topic. It won't show regions, but it will show... terrain. And country borders. But I'm not gonna start on that untill the RPG is done.

Anyway, if you want to do it, be my guest. If not, I could, space maps are pretty easy (I did one for UCvsCNE

And I'll post when Bughunters ready. Take your time, though... I hate it when people rush me, soo... you know.))

[BugHunter]

((ooc: Hey, dont forget about the Starport Pubs, hehehe. You know how i originally planned on getting BugHunter involved, which was a long looong time ago...in a galaxy far far away, lol. was to have my newbie training planet get suddenly surprised attacked by bugs and I'd find the newbies dead somehow and then all hell would break loose. Then my Spawning ship would get attacked and there'd be this huge fight and my hunters would actually unleash our tamed bugs against the enemy bugs and blah blah blah, blood guts and explosions. Woulda been cool... But since we changed formats from the BugsHunting:The Return thread or whatever it was called, i kinda threw that idea away.... oh well, lets focus on the present. yay.))

*So BugHunter and his fairly large group dock into the Starport Pub 11. The miscellenous and not so important part of the party go to the regular bars. BugHunter and a select few go to a private area where they would find Top-Knot and his advisors*

Top-Knot: "Ah, BugHunter, its great to see you again. So what is this emergency you speak of?"

BugHunter: "Top-Knot, our buried past is starting to come back up to haunt us"

Top-Knot: "So...you mean its the --"

BugHunter: "..Bugs, yes. They're back and the situation is much worse"

Top-Knot: "Oh good, and here i thought it was about those incremenating pictures.... er, I mean, WHAT!? I thought we cleaned up that mess. We were able to contain that outbreak years ago. We destroyed the renegade Queen as well. Her head is mounted on your wall."

BugHunter: "Aparently a select few bugs managed to slip away unnoticed and now a new threat has emerged. Light-Stepper, lights"

*Light-Stepper dimmed down the lights and booted up a hologram of the news broadcast that all our heroes saw sooo long ago. It shows the infested Tesseract*

BugHunter: "As you can see, a new strain has appeared. We already know they're based on our old version of bugs, but there's something different.... This type here (points to the tesseract) has managed to infest this whole capital ship, allowing it to be controlled by an unknown source. And from the news of missing ships in the Draconis Sector, where this broadcast was made, we can only guess at how large an army has already been gathered. Our only hope now is to seek out this new thread and eliminate it."

*Blah blah blah, basically BugHunter is explaining the situation to Top-Knot (who is his superior). If i forgot anything or messed something up, sue me.*

*Top-Knot and his advisor see the urgency of this issue and obviously agree to help*

Top-Knot: "Ok BugHunter, we agree to help. ((ooc: duh...)) Since we are the ones who are at fault for not getting rid of them in the first place, we should be the ones to take full responsibility of cleaning up this mess"

((ooc: Seriously, do i have to keep on typing this? You already know the drill. My guys need help, seek help, get help, and then get out there to kick some ass. What more do i have to say? Man...I think i'm gettin tired... Oh no, sleepy crankiness creeping up again! Aaaahhh! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!))

[Cobra5]

((lol, yeah, the RP usual. Well, now you're on the way to Draconis. And you did an excelent job of summing it up... you've even mentioned stuff I forgot. My character will meet you there, in Draconis, since thats where he is right now. Once you get there, I'll show up.))

[Deimos]

((acutally, a map would help me too...I just left Malendrome, and I'm not sure as to where that is in comparison to everything else))

*With his pursuers thoroughly confused, Sho had Cygnus jump the Black Squall to lightspeed as soon as it had reached optimal velocity*

Cygnus: "so then Sir...do you have a heading?"

Sho: "well...err...chart a course...for...hmmm"

Cygnus: "I can see that you don't have a heading...well, think about one- we'll have to leave lightspeed eventually...Sir"

Sho: "aw fer Betelgeus's Sake...Shaddap!"

((I'll leave it at this until I can figure out something to do, but i'll definitely be joining your little resistance...once I figure out how))

[Coral]

The force of the lightjump blew up the corvette, and Zraask didn't see anything for 5 minutes. He awoke in a white pod-suit thing, with his soldiermates also in white pod-suit things, all floating around like idiots, with grey metal debris flying around.

"Jeezes christ, boss, im swear im never, ever going to do this again. WHAT DO WE DO NOW!"