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A tall sad figure welcomes you to the high tech state room. Everything is pristine, gleaming and shows advanced technology. A projection screen covers three walls, showing the system outside.
"Welcome, Player, welcome to Hyperion, famed for its beautiful cities, lush rainforests, unrivalled beaches and pleasure domes". He gestures to the view, his voice bitter. "This was before we decided to fight the UrQa with new technologies".
"What you see now is the result of our fight against the UrQa and our own hubris. We developed weapons that could shatter worlds, and planned to take the fight to the UrQa and scour them from this universe". He sighs, a sound full of sorrow and shame. "The UrQa have more experience at genocide than we did, and we learnt this to our greatest cost".
He coughs, and takes a sip of water. "The UrQa detected the vast energies we had forced through singularities into our weapons, and sent a massive fleet to reduce our system to dust. Our forces engaged them with conventional weapons, until our worst fears were realized. An UrQa Dreadnaught warped into our system, and we could not stand against it. Our ships were opened to the void, our outlying bases turned into plasma".
"As the Dreadnaught approached our main colony world, billions of lives were at stake. Our conventional forces were already destroyed, so we used our last and most powerful weapon: annihilator missiles. As we sent these, the UrQa Dreadnaught turned and flew towards our sun"
He is close to tears.
"These missiles destroyed the UrQa Dreadnaught, but the resulting explosion of the alien energy drive and the sheer power of these weapons started a chain reaction in our sun. Whilst this station, our main military installation, had enough shielding to survive the resulting nova and bursts of solar radiation, the rest of the system was not so lucky. What you see here is a system ruined, our sun destroyed. Vast clouds of plasma still broil in our system, our worlds lie poisoned, billions of our people have perished."
"We have nothing left. Nothing but revenge. If you wish to talk to more to me, I need proof of your commitment to destroying the UrQa. Bring me a Fused UrQa Energy Modulator from the remains of the battle. Although we have failed, I must trust your resolve to save the universe before I share our secrets with you".
Rewards:
* Experience given: 250 |