Re: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] *Action* \"Citadellia\"

Alota's voice bellowed through the loudspeakers on every deck of the ship.
"RED ALERT, we are under attack, all Pilots SCRAMBLE, repeat SCRAMBLE!"
Jay, who at the time had been heading home from the shuttlebay, said
nothing, just swivelled on his heels and headed the other way.
The doubledoors hissed open, and Jay got caught in the surge of pilots and
license holding crewmen as they scurried through the door, the sounds of
voices and the alert klaxons screeching through the confusion. Jay clambered
onto a cargo crate and shouted into a megaphone "You heard the woman lets
move, formation zulu-5 and hit 'em from all sides, I want four squadrons,
I'll lead the first, Dean the second Kara the third and Amber the last" He
said, as the pilots headed toward various shuttles, "Oh and one more thing,
you're all coming back alive, thats an order!"
With that a mass of people clambered into starbugs, blue midgets, Kara and
Efof both headed into the Space Eagle, and whatever other support craft was
around"
Jay took the radio in the Phoenixe's cockpit, "Wave one moving out", his
thrusters fired and the black and oange hot rod blasted into space, flanked
by 15 other shuttles which split up, and moved toward the incoming craft,
weapons fire coming form bugs and humans alike.
This is what Jay was born for...
<get out there pilots!>
----- Original Message -----
From: "onion Ball" <theonion770@...>
To: <JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 12:57 PM
Subject: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] *Action* "Citadellia"
> **Action post**
> "Citadellia, Knight time"
>
> The small planet of Citadellia shines a dark green from space. Large
> blue/purple oceans cover roughly half of the planet, the other is green
with
> forest and woodland. From space, the planet has no signs which would
> indicate any life lives there, not civilised life anyway. There are no
large
> cities visible, or any areas cleared for industry. It all looks very
> unspoilt and natural.
>
> But a space traveller would have to be very close to see the planet at
all,
> as it is hidden very comfortably in a thick red nebula cloud. The density
of
> the nebula decreases around the planet, but from the surface all that can
be
> seen of the sky are shades of deep red.
> Although unseen from space, there are people living on Citadellia. They go
> about their lives unknowing and uninterested in what was beyond the nebula
> that surrounded their world. In fact they lacked any kind of technological
> developments which would have told them that they were living in a nebula.
> In fact they didn't even know that their world was round.
> The Citadellians hadn't made any technological advances in years, hundreds
> of years. Humans had been making new discoveries for centuries,
continually
> making a new gadget which did something new, then inventing one that did
> something a lot better. But the Citadellians were unable to make new
gadgets
> even if they wanted to (and they had long since given up), their world was
> devoid of anything which could be used as fuel, and the nebula around the
> planet had a strange electromagnetic field which prevented anything
> electrical or mechanical from working.
>
> Sir Tim Cullus rode on his Twon'Ha steed back towards his home castle. A
> huge tower of smoke came from behind him and his party of fellow knights,
> indicating their victory against their enemy. With them they brought gold
> and food they had pillaged.
>
> Sir Tim rode his two legged beast over the opened drawbridge of his home
> castle and into the courtyard. Hundreds of peasants and servants gathered
> around to hear him speak. Even Duke Von-Velcro, the ruler of the castle
and
> the land which surrounded it leaned out of the window of his tall tower to
> hear the hero.
>
> "We have victory over our enemies!" The mounted knight bellowed proudly,
> while trying to stand up and balance on his Twon'Ha. He gripped its reigns
> tightly as the animal's emu-like head turned to try and escape the close
> crowd.
>
> Sir Tim pointed to the smoke in the distance over the castle walls "Our
> neighbours have attacked us too many times, they hast stolen from us,
killed
> without reason, taken our land, taken our girls.."
> There was a huge cheer as three young girls got out of a Twon'Ha drawn
> carriage and were reunited with their families. Stolen food was
distributed
> among the crowd.
> "But they will do so no more! As they all lay dead!"
> There was a shocked silence from the crowd.
> Tim noticed that his audience didn't share the need for drastic action
like
> him.
> "Yes friends, it may sound extreme. But it was necessary."
>
> But his voice was cut off as everyone looked up in the air, a great ball
of
> flame streaked down from the red heavens. It cut through the red sky,
> seeming to burn the air itself.
> The villagers fled in fear, while Sir Tim Cullus steadied his steed. It
> threw him off in panic and he fell in the mud.
>
> Amongst cries of "The sky be falling upon our heads!" Tim looked up and
saw
> the object crash through the roof of the castle Keep and embed itself into
> the wet mud inside the courtyard.
> Sir Tim, being the brave soul he thought he was, approached the object. It
> was green and glowed slightly with continually varying shades. Everyone
else
> gathered around, as the immediate danger had gone. Now they were just
> curious.
>
> The object vibrated slightly. Sir Tim bit his lip, but knew everyone
> expected him to investigate. He was the bravest knight in the Duke's
> patronage. Even the Duke himself looked out of the castle tower and
watched
> with interest at the object that had knocked his roof off.
>
> The green round object looked scaly and slimy, and Tim was certain he saw
> something move under the skin, like a newborn bird within a transparent
egg.
> He drew his sword and urged everyone back. The egg started to crack
slightly
> and thick green goo oozed out of the cracks.
> Sir Tim realised people were not moving back as he had ordered. He turned
> around.
> "Everybody back now, it could be dan- Aaaaaaaaaaargh!"
> As he spoke a sharp long spike had smashed its ay out of the egg and
stabbed
> him in the upper leg, he could feel it hit the bone.
> Striking with his sword, he sliced the spike clean away. The rest of the
> beast now crawled out of the shell.
> "A dragon!" Screamed a villager.
> In fact it was a large insect, covered in green slime. It had large
pincers
> on its head and a big smooth body, held up with five and a half spiny
legs.
> It was obviously not full size, but was growing fast.
>
> Sir Tim had never seen anything like it in his life, a giant insect. But
had
> a duty to protect his people. He lunged at the creature and sliced one of
> its pincers off. Another knight tried the same, but the creature was ready
> this time, it knocked him to the floor and raised a leg, spearing the
> unlucky knight through the back.
>
> Sir Tim held his distance, sword raised in defence he took out his boot
> dagger and threw it into the bug's head. Distracted, he swung his sword
and
> chopped its legs off. The creature fell to the ground. Having grown to
> bigger than two men now, Sir Tim jumped on top of it and plunged his long
> sword through its still soft infant shell.
>
> Silence fell over the shocked crowd.
>
> Until the ground shook again, with the force of many more eggs hitting the
> ground.
>
> In the thick red soupy nebula above Citadellia, a giant spider shaped ship
> hovered silently. Silently unless you were one of the same species, in
which
> case you would have heard high-pitched screams of telepathic
communication.
> But only if you were an insect, or slightly mad. It fired glowing eggs out
> of a gaping mouth in the centre of its tendrils, which were spread out
like
> a dangerous rose.
>
> These
>
> On the Blue Dwarf Efof Yuwan'kar heard high-pitched screams. He'd been
> hearing them every night on and off since he saw the insects on New Ibiza,
> WW called them 'Hymenoptera'. He knew they were the insects that wiped his
> planet out. Every single Ffionian aside from him, what if they had
developed
> a taste for his species? They might try and hunt him down! He curled up
into
> a ball and squeezed into the corner of his room, pulling his blanket
around
> him for protection.
>
> ***Back on Citadellia***
> Near Duke Von-Velcro's castle
>
> The eggs fell to the ground like meteors. The ones which didn't burn up on
> entry cracked and unleashed infant "Planet Killer" monsters. They started
> devouring everything, plants, trees and animals to get enough protein to
> grow to their gargantuan size.
>
> One sprayed a huge tree with its digestive acids and sucked up the broken
> down proteins. Now it was full size, the size of two London busses it
> stomped off to cause some terror and destruction, ready for the main
> Hymenoptera mission to succeed.
>
> ***Castle Finningstein***
>
> Castle Finningstein was near Duke Von-Velsro's castle, the two neighbours
> had never been on bad terms, only a few disputes about farmland. But they
> had never exactly been friendly neighbours.
>
> Murdock was a wizard.
> When I say wizard, I mean people think he is a wizard, people think he can
> perform miracles like heal people, or predict it will rain. In fact he
just
> used science to fool people he had magical powers.
>
> Sitting on the roof of the tallest tower in the castle, the wizard could
see
> the insect coming, but it was too late. The huge monster didn't quite have
> long enough legs to step over the tall stone castle wall, so it crashed
> through. Dry stones and rubble scattered everywhere, smashing the heads of
> some practising courtroom jesters underneath.
>
> The monster turned around, as if it didn't know what to do next. Just
> crashing through the outer wall into the castle courtyard has already
caused
> everyone to drop things and run to the nearest exit. But the drawbridge
over
> the outside moat was shut, the hundreds of screaming villagers waited for
> the drawbridge to be lowered to escape.
>
> The insect turned around, looking down below at the small people, they
must
> have been like ants, so small compared to the giant. As it turned, a leg
> caught the thatched market overhang, and knocked it down. Walking forward
> the monster deliberately stepped on a knight, and then started stomping
the
> villagers with its spiny legs.
> Spinning around once more, its bulbous back end caught the drawbridge
tower
> which smashed like pottery. The drawbridge fell, but so did the tower
> rubble, blocking the only escape. The well defended castle which was built
> to keep people out now trapped them in.
>
> Murdock the wizard watched from his vantage point in alarm, unable to do
> anything. Then suddenly, the monster turned towards him. On the tall tower
> he was about eye-level with the fierce beast. It looked at him intently
with
> its multiple shining eyes.
>
> Murdock gulped. But the Hymenoptera's plan for him was far different that
> that of the dying villagers. Murdock was an intelligent man, and they
needed
> his brain.
>
> A flying mosquito Hymenoptera that he had not seen grabbed the wizard from
> behind, and flew him down to the ground. Holding him down with its insect
> arms, the mosquito injected a tongue into the base of his neck. He
screamed
> in pain and fright.
>
> Hundreds of smaller ant-like Hymenoptera which didn't look as threatening
as
> the ones the BD crew had encountered on New Ibiza swarmed through the hole
> in the castle wall.
>
> They began spitting out proteins around the wizard and large mosquito
until
> they had built a ship. Murdock was the core of the ship, he understood
now.
> He could hear the voices of the rest of the hive much the way that Seymour
> Niples had. But he was a part of it. He flew the small Hymenoptera fighter
> ship out of the planet and through the nebula. He could move so freely.
>
> As his ship wasn't electrical then the nebula had no effect. He flew out,
he
> knew his mission, to scout the area.
>
> But what was this? Passing a few hundred miles from the red nebula and the
> planet Citadellia was a blue oblong.
> He called for backup and soon 50 or more Hymenoptera fighter ships swarmed
> out of the large hive ship and joined by his side.
>
> They went to attack the Blue Dwarf.
>
>
> <Ok, sorry this was a bit late- I spend too much time at work! Can all the
> pilots, and people who think they can fly a Starbug or Blue Midget
scramble
> and we'll have a space battle. Kara, you and Efof can use the Space Eagle.
> Shoot them all down!>
>
>
>
> David "Onion" Ball
> Captain Seymour Niples, JMC Blue Dwarf
> WWW.BlueDwarf.co.uk
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> G'Kar: "Its called 'rice'."
> Londo: "Yes, and if it were that good do you think they'd be throwing it
at
> each other?"
> (Babylon 5)
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