I walk to mandalores office

*Varn finishes up fixing the main railgun* Whew! That took a while.

*goes about upgrading and repairing my robotic arm*

[b]Brady trains in the forest, cutting trees and doing push-ups. He is bored.[/b]

Eric phases onto the hostile station, immediately taking note of its structure. The room he entered was a hangar of sorts, or so he thinks, and the architecture is of a fairly plain techno-human layout. He draws his Gauss Cannon and the Aegis, and sets out towards the Railgun. (Open mainly for Xry to narrate, but if anyone wants to join they can)

[b]the Alamo leaves the asteroid field as soon as the engines are online. All ships are recalled to the hangers [/b] "Everyone fall back and someone blast that -blam!-ing asteroid field to kingdom come!"

*Sithis's team is near the enemy recon team* Lynn, take out that first ship leave one alive. *Lynn flies out towards it already making shadows come alive and kill their owners* Ill make this fast... *A giant shadow seems to swallow the rest of the ships leaving them without anyone inside of them and free to take* Elise, Chandler go take those ships. *They go take two more ships and we begin to fly away* Lynn: guys, I've got a few hostages. The captain of this ship and whoever locked himself im the bathroom.

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[b]Valdimir arrives and drops from a ship Also has a squad of mini mech bots and a few fireflies [/b]

*Sithis and his team wait for orders in their ship*

*The starboard engine is fixed, so Varn moves to the other one*

[b]500 enemy fighters and small ships arrive [/b]

*Varn sprints to the engine room, then starts fixing* Gotta fix this fast!

[b](Long Post. Open to JT, Mandalore, and any other high-ranking characters.)[/b] Eric carefully places himself into the pod, making sure that his neurally connected to the simulation before he closes the hatch. Connecting can be a dizzying experience for some, but Eric is practiced at it, and the phase hardly bothers him. Inside the sim, he faces off against ten men, all armed, while he has but his arm and a little cover, in the form of a car. The simulation gives him a second of preparation before the men start shooting, and Artemis quickly analyzes their guns. 5 are using assault rifles, utilizing high-caliber, but not armor-piercing rounds, thankfully. 3 of the others are using SMGs, which ARE using AP rounds, which could be very problematic. The other two both carry marksman weapons. Eric quickly pulls a door off of the car, and lifts it to protect against the incoming fire. He uses the door handle as grip as he hold it in one hand, while his other arm turns into a coil-gun. This particular one, a gauss cannon, utilized an asynchronous linear-induction motor to propel rounds at Mach 40, and is capable of completely obliterating a target upon impact. He quickly gets behind the car to escape their fire, and fires through the transparisteel windows at his foes, choosing his targets with prejudice. One of the assault rifle users went down, quickly followed by another, until they finally got the hint and went behind rubble for cover. A deathly silence fell over the battlefield, and Eric used his anti-grav boots to levitate him off the ground, without a noise. Echolocation revealed the locations of the nearest 4 targets, 2 assaults, and 2 SMGs, and he proceeded to kill them with his particle blade; a stealthier weapon by far. Five down, five to go. He heard the sound of the marksman rifle before he saw it, and instinctively raised the shield; he did so far faster than any regular human could, reacting within milliseconds thanks to Artemis. The force of the bullet knocked his shield back, but he used the backwards momentum to aim his Gauss cannon and take out the sniper. An unfortunate assault trooper who was trying to flank Eric got slashed across the throat instantly. Now it was two against one, more than fair odds, but Eric's luck changed fast. His gauss cannon suddenly disappeared (it turned back into his prosthetic arm), as did all the dropped weapons on the battlefield. The assault trooper quickly rushes at Eric, trying to take advantage of the situation, while the sniper covers him. Eric detected them, and knew that he only had a second to react. He suddenly burst out of cover, activated his boots, and flipped in front of the soldier. The boots reflected off of the man's chin, which snapped his neck. Finally, it was down to him and the sniper. Still in midair, Eric threw the shield in desperation towards the sniper. It was a one-in-a-million throw, but somehow it sliced through the soldiers bodysuit like it was made of butter, and the world dropped away in front of him. [b][//Simulation Complete. Good Work\\][/b] Eric emerges from the pod, and faces the panel of officers, who had set up the scenario to test him. "Happy now?"

Begins working in an empty room in the alamo. Is moving shelves and boxes in

*wakes up from what seemed like eternal sleep. My robotic parts are damaged, bad. I can still see here, but I'm badly wounded. I trie to walk around and try to find something... Nothing... Wait... Is that?.. "My ship!" I must have crashed. The ship is damaged as well. It's to the point where I cans get anything to work. All I can do is wait inside and pray to God that someone or even something exists in this place...

[b]The Alamo floats Beaten and crippled in the range of the rail gun that attacked it. I hail the station to get a response. [/b] "This is Admiral Mandalore Rodriguez captain of the Alamo. Reveal yourselves and surrender otherwise we will destroy your station and kill everyone aboard."

*Hologram flickers* "It's been awhile....My AI core failed and I had to go into a shut down. Most of my data is intact, including this old blue print I found." *The hologram flickers and it shows a blue print for an anti matter bomb* "Remember my old boss? Yeah he had a theory on anti matter and...well it's pretty crazy."

From deep space warp signatures began to materialize. Early warning systems indicated a fairly large fleet. As they came into real space around earth, their hulls bore a familiar mark. The Russian fleet had returned and with it a familiar face. Pavel kovalenko stood on the command bridge of the [i]Will of the People[/i] he sent out a hailing frequency to all listeners. "This is general pavel kovalenko of the Russian federation. I have returned after my deep space exploration. I bring many tales and artifacts, if I am needed Moscow is where you might find me, the kremlin expects my return."

*walks into mandalors office* it's been a long time old friend *wry smile*

[b][u]A few hours after the Europa incident Onboard the [i]Cobalt[/i] alongside the [i]Alamo[/i][/u][/b] *sends a message to the Alamo via comms* "Hey, it's been quite some time since I was last here. Mind opening a hanger door so I can land?"

*Sithis sits on a dloating tree talking to his team* Elise, show me what powers you have learned. *One of the girls go and take my trees shadow make it walk around then she jumps into the shadow and phases through it* Cool. Chandler, your next. *the guy makes my shadow turn into a physical form and the he makes a ball of shadows and fires it at the shadow pushing it back behind me* Great. Lynn, wanna show me what you can do? *The last girl walks up and everyones shadow comes to her and the begin a mortal kombat tournament* That. Is. Amazing!

Eric simply stares at the holographic display of Him, with no emotion on his face; after all that had happened to them, how could he have discernible emotion? This was the man, no, being, who had saved him from certain death. He was the being who took off his arm, and then fought alongside Eric to save his friends, and then left him for dead after a fight. Ginger was the most complicated, and perhaps the most dangerous person that he'd ever met, and even after all Ginger had done to him, for him, he didn't know what to call him. [Artemis]: The two of you are galaxies away, there's no reason to fear him. I doubt that even ATLAS would like to be involved in Sol Alliance conquests, so he wouldn't come here even if he could. [Eric]: You're right, of course. I... I just can't forgive him, but I can't thank him enough. He showed me who I am, and then almost killed me. Why would he leave me behind? Why didn't I kill him when I had the chance? [Artemis]: I'm in your head, that doesn't mean that I can decipher your unconscious thoughts. Perhaps he is just as confused as you are... She pauses, knowing what he wanted to see next. [Artemis]: Ugh... Playing recording Footage plays, stolen from the Axion Cruiser. 13 years ago, the original Ginger had gone rogue, insane perhaps. He had turned on his team, the best friends that he ever had, and nearly killed them all. One being, against the greatest soldiers in the galaxy, and yet they were almost powerless to stop him. So how was it that he, an un-augmented human, could beat him when the Genesis failed? He realizes that someone is behind him, and quickly turns off the footage (Open for casual conversation)

*Varn puts a box in the main crew's quarters* I'm taking tech requests, put your request in the box. [spoiler]AKA just tell me in italics.[/spoiler]

*a familiar looking alien cyborg walks in* ...Its been a long long time...well not for me, time dilation i was studying worm holes and black holes for about ten minutes, But for you i guess, its been a long time id be glad to help again