Forum:Kirtchans Mission

Kirtchan looked at his watch.

"Fourteen more hours to Klexia"

Even with the warpspace generator, travel was slow, usually taking weeks to go from system to system, the Alfar races had a faster method of travel, but he was nowhere near their territory. Travelling alone often meant dealing with the sheer monotony of his station. On the warpscope were imagery of dosands of ships, although it was impossible for him to recognize them with such impersice equipment.

Much later, he arrived at his destination. He dropped into the atmosphere, turning on the defense barrier to shield his ship from the stresses of reentry. After a few minutes, he activated the repulsors to insure that the ship would not destroy itself once he landed. He arrived at a barren wasteland a few miles from the city. Anything habitable was usually under a dome to shield itself from the temperatures and radiation encountered, while at the same time keeping the atmosphere from escaping. He turned on his hoverjeep, steering it towards the colony of Toverna Klexia.

Underneath a large dome was the city, at the very top of it a glowing blue cloud of Thaumic Energy was seen, giving the illusion of a livable atmosphere, occasionally "lightning" would strike from the top. Vehicles and people were careful to avoid it, lest they became fried by the effect. People of all different races clustered on the streets, oni and humans, toruskar and nathrallians. He even thought he saw a Gaiaurgic alf somewhere, although which species it was was hidden by the clothing often worn by members of the Gaiaurgic faith. Hung on flags was the symbol of Lunastris, a blue crescent moon. If the Aztecs were to deploy their weapon, a place of trade like this would have been the perfect spot for a terrorist attack.

He went over to a small building out of the way, where his agent gave him the stolen weapon inside a briefcase. It was an iron cylender, contained within it was a cluster of thaumaviruses desinged to infect human geniuses and thaumatronics, which would kill the former and destroy the latter, which would have allowed for an Aztec ship to arrive and, presumably, use the viruses as a sacrifice to their Devic overlords. His mission was to into interstellar space and destroy the virus with his engines. As he left the city his fear was realized, a ship with the familiar markings of the Jaguar warriors.

The Jaguars were a tradition of warriors stemming as far back as the Aztec wars of 1700. They were always the strongest of the Aztec warriors and were allowed to have the best equipment, in the old days this meant enchanted obsidian weaponry, in modern times it meant robotic armor. Throughout history they were feared. If the empire was willing to use them here it meant they were absolutly sure where their precious weapon went.

As fast as possible he went into his ship and fired up the Thaumic Engines at full power. He escaped from the atmosphere and checked behind him. Their ship closed up to him and boarded his. To protect his life he gave up the weapon and allowed them to leave with it.

If they were paying more attention they would have noticed his "backup plan", an expensive thaumic explosive hidden inside the briefcase. As he watched the warpscope he smiled as one ship dropped from view. He went over to the calculated site of the explosion, where he would check for anything remaining of the ship and their weapon.