The Battle of High Pyrion

## Location

Planetary System of **High Pyrion**, **Pryion Minor** and its moons, are a nearby area of space upward of Karrot's north pole, and over 204 trillion lightyears (years on Karrots) to the universal east of the equator, headed rimward. High Pyrion, the center most planetoid with five (5) moons, and one partner planetoid, strangely aligned to Karrot's position in space on the 3rd dimensional axis. It will move with Karrot's **orbit**.

## Timeline of The Battle

### Participating Forces

* Hoppists (Grand Sop Army, Sop Generation)
* Hybrid Creatures

### **Pre-Battle: During the Great Hop Expansion**

(1 Day in Karrot's Time before the Battle)

As per protocol, Sop landed in his private ship to investigate the world, with one carrier in the above atmosphere, and one in orbit, directly adjacent to the Electric Eye exit node. Sop noticed the lack of appropriate gravity on the planet, and magnetically walked on the surface into the cloning building.

Observation indicated the facility is out of power, but is still maintained by light solar energy, and is self-sustaining, but not in working order. Sop counted hundred of billions of hybrids were created, however the populations of the separate species are unknown. All that is known to remain is the hybrid race, as no two distinguishable beings exist on the planet, but evidence of their existence and differences from this hybrid creation is clear when their bodies are destroyed. Dissection at a later point reveals conflicting structural design in the anatomy, and energy imbalances not likely to be sustained with current technology. Similar to an organic living being, Sop described the hybrid beings as being "an undead, fused abomination of nature, technology and the wrath of Gop's creations being tampered with".

Sop explored the planet briefly, and found the hybrids underground. Sop tried to greet the inhabitants to request Hoppist presence on their planet. He mentioned adding them to the K'Ursa Federation via proxy (given their location in the universe). However, upon first contact, the species was highly aggressive and attacked Sop. Sop counter-attacked out of self defense and retreated as soon as the immediate threat was eliminated.

***Note:*** *This hybrid race is vulnerable to heat based weapons such as blasters and lightsabers, but invulnerable to blunt force and sharpness, as they possess maximum Toughness and maximum Rigidity scores (some were captured during the battle and tested on).*

Sop went into his ship and ordered a preparation for battle. Sop declared further research on the planet and its society was irrelevant, as they appeared to "devolve" and become non-sentient.

### **Gop's Will**

The first phase of the battle began with orbital bombings and destroyer ships sniping off larger entities before they could counter attack.

Sop approached in his personal ship, ***The Obsidian Shard***, and began the bombing run on the cloning facility and destroyed it's upper layers. Several destroyer-class ships flew into atmosphere from hyperspace and began to deploy fighters and attack the building itself. Opposition forces were mainly kept to the ground with ones inside the building jumping to the ground as it was destroyed.

Meanwhile the ground expanded with several holes and the hybrid monsters came out the surface, piercing the crust of the planet in unison, and hurled the ground at the ships, however missing their targets. Sop demanded the ground and the planet's mantle to be protected at all costs, and to avoid ramming and blunt force attacks, and declared full use of heat, laser, thermal and ionized weapons to kill the hybrid monsters without destroying the planet.

Destroyers retreated, and carriers arrived, where Hops came from the sky in an orbit-fall. Once they surfaced, a massive hoard of billions of monsters roared and ran toward the ground forces. All soldiers activated magnetic armor and foot coverings to prevent themselves from being tossed around, and from the ground to be destroyed beneath them. This meant the monsters could not tunnel beneath and come up from under the Hops. Instantly upon landing, volleys of laser bolts and lightsabers clashed against solid metal bio-creatures and mass rioting occurred on the hellish landscape.

Once Sop destroyed the cloning facility and buried it upon its own foundation, he landed on a cruiser, got into an exosuit, and deployed sopself.

The tide of the battle was clear as soon as Sop set foot unto the ground, and slaughtered countless waves of the enemy in a moment, clearing a path the the facility for all the troops, to make certain the cloning facility was destroyed and no longer just dormant.

After the planet completed half it's rotation, it seemed most of the monster race was destroyed, estimating 200 billion enemy deaths, and no Hop casualties, with only weapons and armor being lost. Sop personally cleared the building out with his personal guard of **The Knights** and the remaining forces were ordered to hunt and eliminate any hostiles underground, thus causing them to release their magnetic effects. As this was done, a great many Hops were pulled underground, and their comrades hopped to avoid the new sinkholes around them. They then slid down the holes to rescue and kill what remained. Undetected, it appeared many of their kind was similar to the planet's surface in composition and lied in wait for the battle to end.

Sop and his Knights completed their search. With the main threat destroyed, Sop's own presence was not needed any longer, so they boarded *The Obsidian Shard* and flew out of the system to explore the nearest moon. Following his leave the remaining forces lead their counter-attack to the ambush was underway. All Tier 7 and below warriors were to eradicate the hybrid monsters and rescue all Hops. The moons were uninhabited and Sop returned the capital ship to make a public battle report at the start of the next day.

The battle ended with the remainder of the fight being underground, but with minimal damage to the environment and lasting under a half orbit. At the end of the second phase, no Hops were lost but many weapons and much equipment was destroyed or damaged in the battle. Planetary takeover was confirmed by Sop on the next morning via the **Hoppist Network**, and a small amount of Hoppist soldiers and scientists were to colonize and harvest the planet for metal resources.

## Aftermath

Colonies formed on the planet's surface and soon expanded to moons, except Jupis, and the planetoid. This planetary system yielded very high amounts of materials for the Hoppist Expansion in its early development. This battle's results began a longer tradition of completely life-wiping natives off of planets in order to take resources, before Sop's Ascension. This practice ended during the Hop Civil War's outcome. The special path of the planet relative to Karrots was enough to inspir a Hoppist Temple to be built. Constructed during Hop's reign, it stands depicting the battle and dangers of tampering with nature in a universal drawing.

The planetary system, before Hop left with Vibri, was discarded after 90% of its mass was taken. The planet itself is the only part left, with the area containing the Hoppist Temple and gardens were left standing alone as the planet continues to move alongside Karrots.

The moons remained abandoned, excluding Jupis, which was sought out by a research team commissioned by Hop.