Space E-war

[dinoman666]

The packet, being more energy than a physical object, simply kept going, crashing into the ground right where Dylan had been standing moments before and making a small explosion of fire near the merchant. At the same time, the mercs continued to fire on the merchants, taking advantage of the distraction their grenades caused...

[Godzilla Forever]

The lead Liinrette is quick enough on its feet to move to its side and avoid the deadly attack, being used to an attack similar to it being used by Saurians when necessary. The lead lunges at the soldier, striknig his foe with its sharp claws....

The other Liinrettes peck towards the soldiers with their strong beaks, managing to crack a couple of their shells......

Jessica sneaks a bit to an area obscured by a few crates to the left of Morleon's position, trying to get a shot on him as she holsters her pistols and gets out her sniper.....

[UndeadRaptor]

Dylan is launched off his feet and crashes into the ground away from his cover, and watches as some of his friends are killed while the others fight back. The lead soldier bites down onto the liinrette's leg, before violently shaking and bringing the animal down. The other soldiers began fighting back aswell, a couple either biting the creatures or spitting acidic fluids at them...

[Godzilla Forever]

The liinrette is quickly brought down, now unable to do what it is good at: running.....

A few liinrettes fall, but the others flee quickly from the scene, deciding there's not enough food to be worth it....

Krythnriin and the hutners spot their prey, and begin to circle it, readying their hunting bows.....

[dinoman666]

Morleon popped out of cover, pointing his Locust at the exposed Dylan. "I've got you now, you little b***ard..."

[UndeadRaptor]

Dylan begins coughing, which starts breaking into a laugh as he says, "no, I got YOU." In an instant, as if on cue, the merchants popped from cover and began blasting Morleon with multiple weapons, a couple of guided missiles even straying towards the mercenary. The soldiers begin dragging the dead and live prey back to their forming colony and begin finishing killing them as they soon reach there...

[Godzilla Forever]

Jessica takes advantage of Morleon's fatal mistake and fires a bullet at him, aiming for his head....

[dinoman666]

His shields weakened by Dylan's merchants, Morleon only managed to fire a single, accurate burst at Dylan before Jessica's sniper bullet blew his skull to pieces, spraying green blood over the walls. His remaining mercs soon fell as well, lacking a leader to keep them focused...

[UndeadRaptor]

Dylan cried out in pain as he was shot in the stomach multiple times, before seeming to become motionless from being injured. The merchants continue finishing off the Eclipse Mercs, not knowing Dylan was down...

[Godzilla Forever]

Jessica focuses on the soldiers, firing three times, managing to hit a couple, but the last bullet misses, before she takes cover and reloads.......

[dinoman666]

The last of the mercs eventually fell from the concentrated fire, leaving the room silent, except for the muted hum of the false beacon in the next room...

The Collector Cruiser entered Lorek's atmosphere, hovering high above the mining facility, its ominous silhouette visible from the surface. Spotting the merchant ships below, trying to dig through the rubble to the facility itself, the cruiser opened fire, sending a bright yellow particle beam at the ships, slicing through the smaller craft with vicious ease...

[UndeadRaptor]

The merchant ships, including the large one with the civilians and G.E.A soldiers, quickly began fleeing from the scene while leaving merchants, Bori-Saurochus warriors and G.E.A soldiers on the ground, exposed. Dylan moaned in pain as he tried getting up with little success, as some of the merchants nearby rushed over to him...

[dinoman666]

The particle beam sliced through one unfortunate ship and hit the pile of rubble, now smaller thanks to the effort of the G.E.A. The beam bore a large hole through the pile, providing passage into the facility. It began drifting closer to the planet's surface, its massive bulk casting an ominous shadow over the facility as it got nearer, practically blocking out the sun...

[UndeadRaptor]

The G.E.A soldiers, along with their merchants and the Bori-Saurochus, rushed towards the door and fled into the facility. The ships still in the air narrowly escaped, before boosting up a hyper-space jump and flew from the planet complety-except those that cloaked to avoid detection...

[dinoman666]

The Collector Cruiser ignored the fleeing ships. They were of no consequence to it. Deciding to take direct action, a small swarm of Collectors buzzed down from the Cruiser, heading for the facility's entrance...

[UndeadRaptor]

The G.E.A soldiers, along with the merchants and Bori-Saurochus, began leaping into the crates and using them to hide. Dylan was starting to feel somewhat weak from the attack, just as another mercenary pulled his torso armor off, seeing three bullet holes in his stomach...

[dinoman666]

A single Collector walked into the corridor. The tall, brown insectoid creature clutched a strange, organic-looking rifle in its three-fingered, clawed hands, and it had no visible facial features, except for a quartet of yellow, expressionless eyes that stared impassively at the number of corpses on the ground. Suddenly, the Collector began to spasm, and its carapace began to crack apart, golden light pouring from the inside of its body, as a deep, grating voice echoed from it: "I will direct this personally." With a final spasm that caused the Collector to momentarily hover into the air, before settling back to its feet, the creature straightened, its eyes now glowing as if lit from within. A few more Collectors soon joined it, and they began dragging the corpses outside, as another monstrosity began to descend from the Cruiser as well: a Praetorian...

[UndeadRaptor]

The merhcants, soldiers and Bori-Saurochus warriors pressed themselfs as close as they could to the bottom of each crate, the tops partially on the boxes to avoid actually suspicion of them being there. Dylan's group began tending to the wounded man, while the others went into the next room...

[dinoman666]

The next room was relatively small, with a large, boxy-looknig tower structure sitting in the center, a single console in front of it, likely to control the false beacon...

The possessed Collector looked around at the bodies as they were being dragged away, then walked deeper into the facility. "Prepare these bodies for ascension," it growled to the others as it left...

[UndeadRaptor]

Two mercenaries began dragging the corpse of a Eclipse Merc into the next room, before putting the body up near a control panel. Another one busted the console possibly controlling the false becon, as one merchant looked at a sercurity screen, before seeing the Collectors within the facility...