Opali lifeskimmer

Opali Lifeskimmer story.

Opali freedom fighters clash with the Opali Greater Hive's forces in the Diadema region. They seek to steal a starmap with access to old planets expected to be used by oofy elements (read evil bad guy corporate house stuff, yk? Guys in or upset by Chaymoq's instability who wants those weapons to win the civil war?) End up finding a piragu (Old One) husk and a buncha people operating out of it, fight hellspawn as usual and have a similar fight over the thing as before but with the folks having mysterious access to a human which is for some reason needed to access the tech, Sy(bil). Wierd cos old ones very much aren't human. Sy has the uncanny ability to connect with the plantoid based tech of Piragu stuff. Prysmi symbiosis is a common trait of humanity and exploited by many biotechs so discovering who made Sy to have this purpose leads to other places... The twin prongs fielded by the process are secured by the Free Galaxy/Draconis.

Maybe season two could be Diadema/OGH being like oh no some guys did a bad and stole some ships, will your help me!? A commander from the previous Diadema runins or a noble of some kind could be a cool minor antag. The baddies of the next season could by Star Children or Gunrunners who use the bio-synergy tech and cybernetics of projects like the Sapphire to get boons to depose the solar government. Introduced in this way:

We see Draconis agents fight Diadema cos they want "peace" even if unjust in the OGH. DR agents then run in with Chaymoq folks trying to take back their stuff before it gets to the FGA/FreeChay, with Sy gained in exchange?. Losing the intel, they must resteal it with Sy's help, escaping from a dire situation with Sy's help and abilities. They reget the intel and escape with a small team. With wonder and awe, they explore the piragu husk, seeing all its secrets before accidentally activating it, the light of which the Chay's find... -- With new ships and bots pumping out and the bots al responding to Sy, the question of how to alert the FGA/FC to their presence begins. There begins a race against the clock once the comms array is destroyed, making it so the Draconites must hold off a siege and invasion with Sy controlling bots to assist while the team sergeant goes on a mission to get help. The battle is almost lost when the FGA comes to the rescue. By the time Diadema gets there to police the situation, it's already over. Just dust and echoes... Team Dragonscales win :)

UNRELATED NOTE: The husk is a late war forge of the sheathe producing shield stripping particle beams and shield piercing carbon railguns with the help of biogas and standardized carbon spokes. This bioforming tech was relatively common in the later Accords, as the bio-bots and prysmi attest to. These ships are particularly deadly to forces relying on shields, as they're made to punch through most kinds. They are technologically unusable without piragu bio-tech a secret no GC member has.

THEN -- OGH goes to Sol and is like look what happened, we got a rogue group of guys who just stole a massive artifact capable of fielding untold numbers of ships. These things are supposed to be dead so it's concerning that they've awoken them, moreover, that they destroyed a buncha modern ships with their magnet beams. -- After some deliberation ASAB is like okay we'll help you check it out cos human bells can be pretty nasty. Sapphires decloak around the delegation, these will be your aids. "Girls, non-lethal unless absolutely necessary. Intel is worth exponentially more than casualties here." -- THEN the FGA is like YAY we got ships, this compliments our goals so much, we need to be careful about deploying them, however, cos the feds(tm) are absolutely on our tail. Let's test out the two prongs (finger scythes?) on a minor engagement, let's free our (resistance general guy,) Crusher. (Saw garrera/Zhao type?) They discover that the LLP sent out a group --- Possible answers is an LLP guy who's like humanity is a prophesized big bad and they save and use prysmi tech. "I must reawaken the fleets and sicque them on people via anti GC bels so I can manufacture consent to kill me some humies and prysmies" Sy was gifted from a mysterious benefactor (as noted with data on the Chay ships) and that thread eventually leads to the  GC. Dragonscales keep up mercy missions taking special care not to alert interstellar attention. In the meantime, they search for suitable locations to host the forge, swayed to mercy mission cos of the curse of having a conscience. Operates kinda star trek core/SW:Rebelscore. Finally, they get a base and are almost immediately attacked :( The fleet vies for protection by pledging allyship with Sol. protecting the intel, people, and project, but throwing Sol onto the S list of the GC.