Resurgence Capellan Confederation

== Sian ==
“Captain, Electronic Warfare suites are active, blocking all communications!” shouted a Lieutenant on the bridge.
“Captain!” called another officer, “Spectral fighters are beginning their maneuvers to prevent any runners.”
“Blake blesses us this day as our crusade for Holy Terra begins!  Engage the enemy forces with absolute violence!” shouted Precentor ROM, his audio channel connected to all of the fleet.Warships and Jumpships were still emerging from their jumps at the Nadir and Zenith jump points.  Leading the assault, the Manei Domini pilots in their Spectral fighters were pulling off incredible maneuvers against the defending aerospace pilots. 
An absolute shock and awe attack was Precentor ROM’s goal as he made his way through the IS by way of forgotten worlds and advanced jump drives.  His goal was to strike here at the Capellan Capital of Sian, then continue to a Hidden World in Lyran Commonwealth space. 
It was unbelievable to see the volume of fire being focused on the completely surprised Capellan forces.  However, they were protecting their Capital world for a reason and began to fight back, their retaliation becoming more and more severe. 
Nuclear warheads were authorized and a pair had already been fired.  The Capellans returned the gesture, given that they would gas civilian populations, it was expected.  Both fleets experienced a loss of a couple vessels and fighters but the Electronic Warfare was not hindered.  Precentor ROM wanted to make sure they could not call for aid or spoil the surprise of who was attacking.
Throughout the Farragut Warship the thunderous sounds of Gauss Rifles and autocannons shook the hull.  Looking down the Captain saw that his entire formation of the first wave had deployed.  By numbers alone, the defending forces had no chance.  His entire flotilla, meaning to wage war across multiple factions and dozens of worlds at once, was an overwhelming behemoth of death.  The final massive vessel had emerged and was preparing its payload. 
“Open the floodgates and show these heretics the light!” shouted Precentor ROM, still connected to the Captains of each vessel. 
With that, the hum of bay doors radiated through the ship and on each side of the bridge’s Ferroglass canopy a dozen fighters for the final assault slung by at maximum velocity, along with dozens and dozens more from other vessels.  By now, the waves of weapons fire hitting the Capellan formation of warships, pocket warships, aerospace fighters, and jumpships had forced them into a defensive position. 
Aerospace fighters were wrapping around the ships like defensive bubbles but for every Spectral fighter they took out, at least two Capellan fighters met their doom.  Looking beyond the waves of newly deployed fighters entering the fray, he could see the initial wave fighting in the Capellan rear lines, preventing any cowards or runners from getting outside the Electronic Warfare Suite’s range.
Precentor ROM grinned, deep in thought, he lost track of the voices around him.  Missiles were arching in from all around him, flashes of aerospace fighters exploding, sending their remains off into space, a nuclear detonation hitting a vessel from each of the forces.  Where some might view this in absolute horror, Precentor ROM continued to grin, Blake’s Light had made its way to Sian.
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A newly promoted Captain worked along his console.  It was an honorary role being stationed on a moon of Sian.  Never in his wildest dreams did he figure they would be attacked at their own homeworld, so he continued about his duties, counting down the time to go home.  He had a date with his Nuwa born girlfriend that evening. 
An alert ping lit up on his monitor to his left, he shifted his gaze and began looking over the information populating the screen.  Running a few tests it seemed to continue coming back the same way.  Fairly standard projection for asteroids of that size, leave them be, they burn up in the atmosphere.
In fact, they would be passing by soon almost directly above him.  Quickly he brought his mobile device up and called his girl. 
“Hey sweetie!  How’s work!” she asked cheerfully.
“Going well, all looks fairly calm, I wanted to tell you to look up, we should see a handful of asteroids pass by in the next minute or so!” he told her.
“O very cool!  I am looking out from my office window now!”
“Your day going well?” he asked as they waited for a couple minutes.  They had a brief conversation, talking about the evening’s fun ahead and through ‘til morning. 
“O I think I see them!” she shouted, her office was in one of the tallest buildings in the dome.
“Well you get the bird’s eye view!” he joked back at her.
“Honey…. Something… doesn’t….. look…. right…..” she said, each word coming out trembling more and more….
A shiver went down his spine, he was about to say ‘what’ when his jaw dropped and eyes went wide. 
A massive asteroid passed by Nuwa overhead, it seemed to be covered in paneling that looked like solar panels.  It was gigantic; suddenly his computer almost blew out its speaker as the alarm went on at full volume. 
“I have to go!” he hung up, throwing his mobile device on the console, bouncing and landing on the floor.  Shutting off the deafening alarm he began punching in warning sequences to alert everyone in the armed forces to activating civilian alarms. A thumping, as if someone was knocking on the door, broke his concentration. 
He looked up for a second, no one was outside the office door, but he saw a flash from his window.  He stood and got a better angle looking out and up.  Flashes were happening on the dome, aerospace fighters were flying by!
He could see the thick, dense glass beginning to crack, he reached over and hit the general alarm for all civilians to shelter in place.  Already, the automated system was deploying a metal shield that would seal underneath the dome to keep the atmosphere in.  It raced up and around.  But, it was seconds too late, as the dome cracked.  Like a whirlwind, atmosphere began getting sucked into space. 
In the distance he could see bodies lifting into the air.  “Comon! Comon! He said to himself, watching the metal shielding rising.  A few bodies departed the dome, a second later, the metal shield sealed.  Anyone still up that high fell to their deaths below.  He began issuing override orders to get first responders to the area. It was going to be horrific.  He took a second to be thankful his girl was in her office building. 
Interrupting that single second of calm, a camera feed looking down at Sian was watching as the colossal space rock hurtled toward the planet.  He looked down for a second to see the data scans of it.  Millions, tens of millions of tons…. Metallic core…. And there, on the rear of it, where thrusters were at…. Before him, on the screen, a sword and sunburst next to a purple bird, a final insult before this catastrophe.
His lips curled in rage, as he sent the image across the Nuwa, to armed forces and civilian entities alike.  His eyes began to water as he watched, absolutely helpless. An orange glow began to form around the edges as it entered the atmosphere, he noticed the continent of Wuhan directly in its path.  A blinding flash forced him to close his eyes.  Satellites were picking up nuclear radiation as it impacted the planet.  A massive shockwave departed from the impact around it, all 360 degrees. 
In seconds, the planet had drastically changed shape and color.  Blue of the oceans was now covering other continents, the atmosphere itself changed shape, a massive chunk of Sian drifted off into space.  Satellite readings showed everything trailing behind… Trees… buildings… cars… bodies…
As the minutes ticked by, the planet began to glow red.  Alarm claxons went wild as the planet was about to shatter.  With the planet gone, the moon would lose stability; there was no telling what would happen.  Command Staff had already departed the moon as he read through a handful of readouts. Military and civilian vessels were already ferrying people to the ships stationed around the moon. 
He looked to the viewscreen of Sian again… Deep red gouges in the planet’s surface were glowing all over it, then it ruptured, tears streamed down his face. The Chancellor was dead, it was simply impossible for him to have departed the planet quickly enough.  A video feed of the moon Fu Hsi showed a water covered chunk of the planet collide with it, shattering the moon. 
Likewise, the planet was hurtling toward Nuwa.  He prayed to his diety, closed his eyes, and did not open them no matter how thunderous the rumble of death became. His singular moment of relief came from the loss of his hearing, the second the roar became so loud that he knew his death was seconds away….
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“Captain, deploy the Demons to their vessels, I want everything, personnel lists, who was in command, frequencies, everything.” Shouted Precentor ROM.
“Yes, sir!” he responded as he began issuing orders. By now the Capellans were shattered, small dogfights were taking place, scattered among the overwhelming Blakist vessels.  Boarding craft filled with Demon Series Battle Armor were en route to swarm the Capellan craft.  Some of these troopers were only recently pulled out of cryo – having only last been awake in 3080.  They did not experience the quiet of the rebuilding.  In their minds, their last battles were merely days ago.  Awakening them and telling them the Clans took Terra gave them a level of hysteria based rage that was unfathomable.  A couple of scientists paid the price for that upset.
After their boarding action, various BattleROMs were sent up to Precentor ROM.  It was very clear which were from new Manei Domini and those who were in combat “days” ago. Blood coated the bulkheads and few prisoners were taken.  Minimal casualties were had from the Demons numbers. 
It was an interesting plan that worked out. Capellan forces could see the flashes of combat from other defensive positions in the system.  However, with the Electronic Warfare suites at maximum capacity they could not tell what was going on.  Precentor ROM bluffed his way into convincing the other forces that he was taking command from the previous dead Commanding Officer of the Capellans and that they had handled the attack.  Quickly he placed the blame on the Federated Suns and Free Worlds League. And while pretending to be a Capellan officer, he claimed the location was secure.
Cleverly, he misguided them to go on a wild goose chase, looking for other pirate points that would not be in the way of Blake’s gift. There was a reason he was Precentor ROM, he was deep cover Maskirovka before returning to Blake space in the Deep Periphery.
After ceasing communications, he stood at the front of the bridge watching the massive arms clamped around a gigantic asteroid a few hundred meters away from the Farragut. It was covered in shielding, similar to Chameleon Systems or Stealth Armor.  It would appear like multiple smaller asteroids that wouldn’t cause any concern. 
A large glow showed behind the asteroid, in the Erinyes, followed by its sudden surge forward, its own thrusters glowing to life under maximum thrust.  An internal mass driver gave it a sudden surge of speed and it would only gain speed as it approached Sian.  Multiple vessels began their jumps to the next system, far out of the way, lost on all modern maps of Capellan space. 
Across the bridge it was silent… Silent for all except the deep guttural chuckle of Precentor ROM.  
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