This Pilot

This pilot sits in the command chair of a cavern. This pilot looks at lines and lines of inventory. At patches of green and red. This pilot sighs as his tail brushes the cold deck beneath. This pilot looks at his crew. The core of this pilot's crew have been with him since he took command of one of the Union's red missile boats. They were young then. Their eyes were wide as they looked to the stars for the first time unfiltered by the atmosphere of the New-Homeworld. This pilot hand picked his crew from the lower families of his clan. They serve this pilot well. They represent the low-country well.

Their clutch mothers would be proud.

This pilot is saddened at the thought of the clutch-mothers. The war took some of this pilot's brave low-countrylizards. The Sirion was a mighty ship but the Empire broke her three times. Ten mourning clutch-mothers.

This pilot looks at more lines of inventory; Robots bound for Sargas and Drugs for the Sector.

This pilot looks at a navigation screen showing him a galaxy passing him by.

This pilot sighs. He is a warrior without a war.

Final Message to the Resistance

Brothers and Sisters,

We have not forgotten you. The galaxy is in flux. Keep close to your hearts the message of hope. Someday you will tell your grandchildren stories of an empire past.


This will be the final message to you for some time.


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Call To Arms

This subspace transmission is being beamed behind empire lines piggybacked on an advertisement to avoid the jamming net:


Brothers and Sisters,

Over the past few cycles the Union struck a heroic blow against the Ska menace. Six great engines of oppression were taken away from the enemy in the Empire Pardus Contingent. A Union fleet, supplemented by Federal forces, struck the sector of Heze. Almost simultaneously a wholly Union fleet attacked Procyon. Heze now exists as a liberated sector and in Nari the citizens of Nari two have taken so well to the freedom of Union rule that in just a few weeks these industrious people have built their first Scorpion at the Nari II Fleet yards. Some day a Son of the Union will defend you with a battleship made in what was formerly the playground of the emperor and his sick minions.



We are now fighting the Empire in their territory instead of ours.

But the fight is not over.

As I broadcast the emperor marshals his forces. Now is your time. We have received intelligence that garrisons in the Keldon core will be redeployed to bases in the Pardus Cluster and Pardus Rim clusters. Now it is the time to rise up and throw off the Ska'ari oppressors. Your local cell commanders will be contacted by our operatives. But they can only lead the way. You must take the initiative. You must be the agent of your own liberation.

We will take the pressure off. We will make the emperor cast his eye some place else. Take back what is yours. Take back your birthright. You, my brothers and sisters, are the ones who brought this great age of discovery to the galaxy. The Ska'ari will trample on your legacy no longer. For they are shrewd mathematicians, faced with a two front war out in the galaxy and a bloody insurgency behind their own lines, they will take any bargain they can get. We are not required to kill every one of them, we must only beat them back until clutching our homes in their pincers is not worth the pain.

Tonight, after you send your hatchlings to sleep, gaze up at the stars. Find Sirius and know that we are there. Find the star Procyon and know that we are there. Now look upon your own horizon on whatever world you live, and know that we are there too.

As always, check your usual drops.

Dog star no star.

Dog star no star.

Rocking chairs rock empty in the empire.

Rocking chairs rock empty in the empire.

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PASSing Through

This subspace transmission is being beamed behind empire lines piggybacked on an advertisement to avoid the jamming net:

Brothers and Sisters,

A heroic battle was fought yesterday inside Empire space. After receiving intelligence that an Empire military outpost had been neglected by the vaunted Ska'ari Military Industrial complex, a group of Union fighters hastily made for Pass EMP-05. A fleet of Union warships converged on the military outpost to hold the door open for as long as possible. For the next few hours the Empire Keldon Core was open.

Relief supplies, support commandos, weapons and equipment went through the wall and are on their way to those of you listening in the resistance.

But all good things must come to an end and a pair of unwitting Imperial warships met their demise at the hands of the Union fleet. With the Ska'ari Navy alerted the clock bega The Union fleet's foot in the door would not last for longer. PASC after PASC was sighted mn ticking.oving into the area. The Union fleet leader bravely told the officers under his command to hold the line.

When the assault on the military outpost finally came another Imperial fell under the withering fire of NN550 fleet missiles. With the door slammed shut the Union fleet broke for the neutral zone. In the ensuing fire fight two brave Union warships were destroyed.

The Battle of PASS-EMP 5 was over. The 3-2 kill score does not do justice to the importance of this battle. Hundreds of soldiers supported by a handful of Union warships made it covertly into Empire space. These operatives will work with your unit commanders in operations to come in the next few days. Keep fighting the good fight and as always check your usual drop locations.


Winters sun melts lead.

Winters sun melts lead.

The royal hall enters midnight.

The royal hall enters midnight.

Intercepted Revelations

The following message was intercepted by a Union listening post somewhere in the South Pardus Rim and was decoded thanks to the heroic sacrifice of several deep cover operatives who were killed shortly after decoder data was transmitted to Union Intelligence officers:

Message Origin: Ska
Message Destination:??????
Encryption Classification: Omicron

Begin Message>>>>>

The high command has initiated program 2. Any messages concerning program 2 are for tier one eyes only. Tier two officers, even nobles are to be separated from any information concerning program 2. Conglomo nobles are to be separated from any information involving program 2. Even Conglomo tier one nobles. Once the reliability of program 2 has been assured in testing against undesirables program 3 can begin. Begin conditioning planetoid class cruiser hulls for program 3.

End Message>>>>>

Dark History Revisted.

This subspace transmission is being beamed behind empire lines piggybacked on an advertisment to avoid the jamming net:

Brothers and Sisters,

Today I greet you once again in trying times. War has always been the highest test of the resolve of a sentient species, for we must compromise ourselves for killing. You may ask yourself how am I to kill a fellow Keldon? Remember: The beast on the plain knows no remorse when it kills for its survival. Neither must you feel remorse. You are fighting for your survival. For the survival of freedom. Sometimes in war we must put the very best of ourselves aside and let the beast rule the day.

The imperials have no aversion to freeing their inner monster. Word has trickled to Radio Free Keldon that the siege of Mintroassa City on Urlafa was only broken after the Ska'ari introduced a genetically inferior strain of the Pardus virus into the population. The funeral pyres for the dead could be seen from orbit. The Ska'ari and their collaborators once again prove blind to the lessons of history.

So I say to you my brothers and sisters when faced with such monstrosity we must respond in kind. The Gornz have a saying that sapients do not kill sapients. But can any species capable of using plague to kill hundreds of thousands of males, females, and clutchlings really be deemed sapient? When fighting the Ska'ari and the Ska'ari collaborators know that they have been engineered to fight for the conquest of the entire galaxy. No path is too low for them. They have used the most vile of methods to curb resistance on one of their own planets. Imagine what they might do to the home clusters.

To our Federal friends:
We know that you are tired of war. We also know that you are no friends to the empire. But surely you know that if the Union were to fall at the pincers of the Ska'ari then the emperor and his hordes will have no place left to go but Earth and Rashkan. The Humans and the Rashkir have a long tradition of fighting for the oppressed, for fighting against crimes against sentients. There is no bigger crime in the galaxy than what is being perpetrated against the Keldon freedom fighters in Ska'ari occupied Keldon space.

The empire have reintroduced the Pardus virus. They have brought it back straight from the blackest period in galactic history. Thousands of square light year were lost to us for generations because of their negligence once. What price will we pay for it this time? If this chapter of history ends with Ska'ari victory the sacrifice of those brave Keldons on Urlafa will be whitewashed from the history books.

The line must be drawn here or else the emperor will begin drawing a new line around Earth.


Fleets farm variant amounts of time.

Fleets farm variant amounts of time.

Skulls fear nothing.

Skulls fear nothing.


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Developments

This subspace transmission is being beamed behind empire lines piggybacked on a commonly used long distance communication channel to avoid the jamming net:


Brothers and sisters,

Yesterday I brought you good news of far off battles. Today I bring you messages of hope that have originated more close to home. In the past day or so hundreds of tons of food has been acquired from the open market on Keldona I. This food has been diverted from the usual destinations and is going to be distributed among the resistance cells. Also, over 200 Fleet missiles were purchased from Keldana I arms dealers by deep cover Union commandos. The warheads in these missiles will go far in helping you free your brethren from the Ska'ari pincer. Finally, dozens of escape pods were purchased from Imperial store houses. These will be taken to a safe place until a use can be determined. It is good enough to know that they are being denied to your enemy.

Also- it has been rumored that Union saboteurs have made their way into the emperors King Relon missile laboratories and corrupted the programming that makes these disgusting weapons of murder so devastating. I am sharing with you footage here of a valiant Chitin class gunboat fighting against one of the Emperor's flag ships:

Thanks to our operatives, who have been whole heartedly supported by you for months this brave Union crew lived to fight another day.


Imperial jamming techniques become more sophisticated each day. So I do not know how much longer I will be able to reach out to you in this manner. But please, do not lose heart, because we will not abandon you. You are our brothers. You will be our saviors. For when we have helped you throw off the yoke of Ska'ari domination you will help us usher in a new age of Keldon peace and enlightenment under the Banner of the Union.

Until next time, check your usual drops.


Rocking Chair.

Rocking Chair.

The Pen is Mightier than the PASC.

The Pen is Mightier than the PASC.


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