The Scleratic Invasion of Welt: Prologue

The Scleratic invasion is an armed conflict that opposed the Dalmer and the Sclera, an alien race of Extra Weltians, this prologue is to explain how the Sclera came to arrive on Welt. 
== Khesil ==
Main article: Khesil
The planet of Khesil is the homeworld of the Cilia and the Sclera. It is a grim place, constantly wrapped in fog, with lakes of strange acidic liquids and vast forests. On the planet are two species of anthropomorphs, the Cillia and the Sclera, constantly at war with each other. 
== Tides of conflict ==
The reason of the divisions between Sclera and Cilia is their relation to local wildlife. The Sclera raised creatures named brain maggots. These are suspected to be the cause the white eye effect, increasing intelligence and stunting growth. 
Brain maggots control the host’s actions, but not the Sclera themselves, who have internalised the maggots to the point that their eyes turn a glowing white, it can only be influenced. 
The Sclera’s who felt they were losing control routinely used the Maggotbane, plant organisms that eat the brain maggots. The maggots are stored in a plant form and shot with sufficient force to fracture the hosts skull and into the brain. They cannot stand bright light and will force their host to avoid it. 
The Sclera then as a collective used their superior intellect that the Cilia feared. These childlike versions of Cilia then built many great machines, such as a machine that could stop the rain, vast underground cave complexes, and employed generally higher tier technology than the Cilia, (such as piping, hydraulic presses, electricity, magnetism and buzzsaws). The Sclera developed industries, habitations and inner city constructions, and apparently automotive industries (given the Cilia’s appreciation for flaming tires). 
The cave factories could move around, had anti gravity technology and a sort of automated machine gun technology. 
These facilities were powered via small carnivorous carrion eating creatures that tunnel underground. These creatures have relentless energy, and are used to run in wheels to make engines run. 
=== Breaking point ===
In the the Cillia rightly feared the Sclera’s technological research, because one of the machines the Sclera built stopped the acid rains. Rain is a constant hazard to the Sclera and Cilia alike, but this eventually built up and released all the water at once, making puddles everywhere destroying everything the Sclera’s had built, countless Sclera and Cilia die, and the former earn the hate of the latter.
The Cilia then waged a genocidal war against the Sclera, and were extremely effective, whittling down their numbers to a few thousand. 
== The Sclera-Cillian war ==
Countless are the transcripts of survivors that detail the struggles of the Sclera to escape the Cillia’s wrath, when they burned down their settlements, habitations and factories. The barbarous nature of the Cillia expressed itself by their waging of genocide against the Sclera. They would impale them onto spikes outside their settlements, would set out blade traps on popular routes designed to cut off legs of travelers. They even used the local fauna to aid them, haunting stories of Sclera being stalked by giant Spiders, and the terrifying hum of swarms of giant flies signaling a downpour of flaming explosive tires onto Sclera settlements are legion. And even then they devised cruel torturous ways to even rob the Sclera of their own identities, the Cillia discovered plants that fed on the Brain Maggots, and would subject the Sclera to hours of this torture as the plants would root through the Sclera’s head searching for their prey, leaving the eventual surviving victim a brainless husk of their former selves.
Given their frailty and culture that didn’t necessitate violence, the Sclera were completely taken off guard by the Cillian aggression's, coupled by their reduced numbers they were out of options but to hunker down in their massive factories.
They then repurposed these facilities to the construction of their spaceship, the Whale and the Halo.
== The Hotel ==
The Sclera in their gigantic factories organized themselves to creating the necessary technologies to save them from the bloodthirsty Cillia. An Ark-like spaceship was devised to travel all the Sclera together to a new land on Khesil, away from the Cillian genocide. 
Using their advanced technology, they divided the production of the ship between factories and worked as fast as they could to build the necessary tools they would use when arriving to their new home, such as habitations, food processing, and tools. 
As time progressed, the Cilia continued their genocidal assaults on the Scleratic installations, slowing down their progress on the spaceship to a snail's pace due to lack of personnel. This prompts two actions from the Sclera. 
The first being to fortify their main assembling site into a veritable final fortress to become the refugee center for all persecuted Sclera, which they would come to call the Hotel. 
The Hotel is the Scleratic’s last hold as a race, where the entire brain maggot infested species regrouped.
=== The War Machines ===
The second was to develop war machines to combat the sieging Cillia, notably the Attack dog light anti infantry walker, then the heavier Ardeidae variant, then the submarine refugee collection sea vessel the Bright Star and, when supplies were short, the metal recycling and food processing unit, the Anoplura. 
The results from the war machines were mixed as the small population of Sclera meant few pilots for their machines, and had little effect to curb Cilias progress onto the Scleratic installations and killing of the refugees arriving at the Hotel. 
When the rains proved too strong for the ground to absorb, the Sclera’s scientific analysis concluded that their final fortress and most of the landmass of Khesil would be flooded. Sieged, and surrounded by a society that would see the Sclera speared to the eyes of all, in a world that could quite possibly be covered in the dissolving liquid, a hard decision had to be made. 
The Sclera then decided to continue their efforts in building the Whale and the Halo, their final Ark ship, designed to save their entire species.
=== Whale and the Halo ===
The ship is composed of two parts, the whale and the halo. The whale being the central piloting module surrounded by the Halo, which contains all the production, habitation and manufacturing facilities necessary to support the entire scleratic civilization.
The whale is a ship roughly the size of a medium sized.
Whale, a two and a half km long, 1.8 km large, largely ovaloid ship that pilots the entire race to their destination, the ships power, and indeed the entire civilization’s power comes from the ten towering pillars of grey black materials that form a ring around the fount, the pilot's seat, and the meeting area for the ruling body of the Scleratic. The darkened platform is the warp bay from which the Scleratic warrior warp from the Whale to the halo, transportation on the whale, and indeed in the hotel as a whole, is done via warp pearls, fragile glass pearls that are thrown, and once impact is made, the user is teleported to the impact area, making the scleratic infantry very mobile.
== Leaving Khesil ==
The predicament left the Sclera with no choice but to escape aboard their spaceship, the Whale and the Halo, which would eventually lead them to Welt. The weather changed their objective from displacement elsewhere on the planet to spatial exodus to a planet that would accept their ways.
So, with a heavy heart, the Sclera all boarded the Whale and the Halo, save for a few brave volunteers who went out to battle the Cilia, ensuring that they would not interfere with the launch. 
The Ardeidae pilots who remained to defend the launch, to avoid capture and torture from the Cillia, kept a Maggotbane in the walkers cockpit to open as a last resort, showing the Cillia that they were not afraid of their methods, and purposely subjected themselves to what they saw as the ultimate torture.
=== Finding Welt ===
Once in atmosphere, the Sclera watched their home country disappear under the heavy rain clouds, knowing that at best, their former countrymen the Cilia were dissolving in the rains they were responsible for. They set themselves to finding another planet, and found Welt. 
They discovered the planet of Welt, by sending electromagnetic pulses that scanned the planet's atmosphere (these pulses disabled most of the DCDEA’s satellite array in the process). 
Upon realising that the atmosphere was drastically different from Khesil, they developed a method that Ardeidae walkers could serve as mobile terraformers, taking in the Weltian atmosphere and expulsing it in the form of Khesil’s atmosphere, similarly to photosynthesis. 
Upon approaching the atmosphere, the Wilhelm, a Dalmer defense satellite, unable to communicate with the DCDEA but fully operational, takes the Hotel for a threat and opens fire on it, causing the Whale to desolidarise itself from the Halo, (the latter shatters due to the Wilhelm’s artillery fire) and crash into the Wilhelm, destroying it. 
=== The Halo in orbit ===
What happened when the scleratic arrived on Welt is that the halo shattered into innumerable pieces, although the atmosphere avoided the entire race suffocating immediatly, the Scleratic lost many of their own as well as most of their more advanced technology.
The shattered halo, a 40 km diameter ring that serves as the Scleratics home until they find a new home, the halo, consists of myriads of rocks, some the size of a house and others larger than the whale itself, on these rocks are forests of fruit trees which they tend to as a food source. The rocks are holed out with tunnels and rooms where the scleratic live, but the rest of the time they live on the outside of the rock, collecting fruit, working in the industries or the rare tall purple buildings that dot the halo, the function of these is unclear. Transportation in the halo is via either transport ships that ferry users from one island to another as well as plate ships. But the rest of transportation from one rock to another is via warp pearls.
=== The Whale’s breach ===
The Sclera on board the Whale, completely taken off guard fail to deploy the Whale’s landing gear in time, causing it to crash land in the forests of Khazzan. Its hull integrity and its equipment suffers little damage but the shock of the landing kills even more of their race. Enraged at the unfairness of their fate, the Sclera unanimously decide that as a race they will aggressively conquer the planet.
And thus began the Scleratic invasion of Welt.
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