The Fate of the Lost
Ted sat in the medical room, the queen on the bed next to him. Mirage, being the closest thing they had to a changeling medic, was currently finishing her inspection of the injured queen. She didn't like it, but Ted could still see a bit of worry in her actions.
"She's lucky queens are so resilient or she'd be much worse off." The shape shifter told him, taking a seat next to the alicorn while wiping some blood off of her hooves. "As it is, she should recover, though she'll have trouble with egg laying for a few weeks. That's going to leave her miserable, as normally the process is painless and a natural part of a queen's life. If she ever gets to this point again, though, sterility is not only a possibility, so is death. What was she doing anyway?
Ted stared at the queen for a few moments, before levitating a jar up to the changeling, a thin layer of green slime on the bottom.
"That... that's not possible, changelings don't, they can't." The mare floundered for an explanation. "She, she actually...why would she do that?"
"I told her I didn't want to love someone who wouldn't love me back. I was trying to get her to understand the differences in our ideas of love. I just didn't take into consideration she'd interpret my words in such a self destructive way."
"So she tried to find her own emotions under those she ate?" The alicorn nodded. "She... oh wow."
With a look of determination, Mirage grabbed the jar in her magic, walking over to a supply cabinet and pulling out a clean container, though it was much smaller. Before Ted knew what she was up to, she knocked back the small layer of liquid in the jar, wincing as it entered her system. Focusing, she then started spitting a much less concentrated green goop into the jar. After filling it up about half way, the mare stopped, panting a moment with effort before slapping the lid back on the container.
"I thought I could get away with putting it into a smaller container, but that stuff's concentrated. Pure love of that strength would feed a small hive for several months." The mare shook her head, before floating the jar over to Ted. "She wanted to give you her love, but changelings don't do this kind of thing ever, so there's no way to know how to accomplish that. As it is, she managed to pull actual changeling emotion. It tastes horrible, by the way."
The alicorn looked at the glowing green jar for a moment, before popping the lid off and sniffing its contents out of curiosity.
"So she'll recover?" He asked.
Mirage shrugged. Looking back at the queen, she shook her head. "If you really want to help her the best thing you can do is just give her your concern. It's your hope that she gets well, and a changeling body can react to focused emotions. The fact that it's for her actual form and not just her disguise will also help. I think it's why the emotions we've been getting here are so potent. Before I ended up here, I'd never really gotten anything from ponies except for fear, and I always ignore that. Negative emotions taste bad."
Hopping off her seat, the changeling made her way to the door. "I've left the hatchlings with Ms. Goodhooves long enough, I need to get back to them."
"Why do you hate her so much, Mirage?" Ted asked, turning from the jar.
As the mare turned to defend herself, he held up a hoof, forestalling her argument. "Don't tell me that you don't or that she's evil or something silly like that. The moment you saw her you were speaking against her presence. You'd already decided you were against her existence."
"It's not that, it's just..." Mirage looked behind the alicorn, frowning at the insensate queen.
"She's not from your hive?"
"I... yes. Queens never accept changelings of other hives except in the most desperate of circumstances, and the moment she can replace them with her own workers, she will. The only way a queen would keep the drones is if she claimed them as her own, and the process can have adverse effects on sapient drones."
Ted cocked his head at the Mirage. "That's why you've been keeping the nymphs clear of her? Your worried she may hurt them by trying to claim them? What does claiming entail, anyway?"
"It's joining the queen's hive and her link." The changeling explained. "Being a queen, she can influence those she's connected with, whereas for me and the nymphs it's just the reassurance of a nearby presence and allows us to find each other even in disguise. She would have access to everything a changeling is; your old hive's numbers, their location, their preferred collection sites, everything. In most cases, I've heard of queens suppressing a drone's personality, devolving them to those golems the queen has in her chambers at the moment. It's safer that way, as there's no risk of the claimed drone moving against the queen."
"Wait, is that normal? I know Pandinus mentioned being able to command the true drones easily, but can all queens do that suppression thing?" Ted asked.
"Of course."
"Then what's the difference in being in your mother's hive and Pandinus' hive? You said your hive was scattered, so there's no way to betray them is there? And your collection grounds were on the other side of the planet, if they even exist anymore." Rising from his seat and smiling, he approached Mirage. "I understand. It's not about what she can do to you, that you're not willing to give someone you don't know that kind of power over yourself, correct?" When the changeling slowly nodded her head, he continued. "It's fine. I don't know if I'd ever be able to trust someone so completely, even my own mother, much less someone who I don't really know all that well. Just the thought of someone being able to take my mind from me is a terrifying thing, as back home our minds were considered sacrosanct; holy and untouchable. However, that doesn't excuse the hostility, Mirage. This is part of what your kind, as a species, is."
The alicorn gave the mare a quick nuzzle, cutting off any response. "We're all supposed to be working together here, Mirage. As I said, the lack of trust is to be expected, but try to be a bit nicer. Talk to her, tell her why you don't hang around her, why you won't leave the nymphs with her. Learn about her, you may find you have more goals in common than you realize. The continuation of your species would be a big one." He said with a grin. Finishing his impromptu sermon, he left the room, the jar floating just ahead of him in a magical grip. He made his way up the stairs to his room, placing the jar on the nightstand beside his bed. It was a gift, no matter how twisted the method of its procurement was, and to throw it away was to insult the pain Din went through to give it to him.
'In the nose, out the mouth. Let the worries follow.' He thought to himself, following an old breathing exercise in an attempt to calm himself down. It had been nearly a day since he'd found Pandinus in that state, the sun just starting to set. The eggs were a total loss, Mirage saying that the starvation ended up stopping the queen's body from properly developing them. The drones that were already hatched, having no input from the queen, fell under Ted's jurisdiction by the queen's own orders. He'd had them finally repair the nest, then set them under Gleam's authority. That was a weird experience, as the drones were nowhere near the intelligence he was expecting without the queen to guide them. They did one task, then waited for the next order, and if the task was too complex, they would just stare at you, as if to say "Error: Command not recognized." Luckily the mare seemed to be able to understand this shortfall better than he could, as she soon had them fetching things, or providing support for other beings throughout the temple.
The alicorn finally allowed himself a light meal, his nerves calmed enough to allow his stomach to hold food, reviewed a few status updates from Weaver and Gleam, and finally passed out in his own bed.
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The dream world was a calming place for Ted now. To his knowledge he had no equal here, as Luna's power was stunted by the traitor's arrays, and she either didn't know of any creature that could match her or one did not exist. It was also his escape, a place to sit back, relax, and unwind.
"Why must you listen to this infernal racket while studying your lessons?" Luna asked, almost yelling over the sound of Ted's conjured radio. It was currently playing some of his favorite pop rock songs. Quite loudly, too, a calming reminder of his high school days. Of home.
"I don't want to hear about my study habits from you, miss 'scream at the questions till they either give up the answer or are blown from the desk.' It's how I used to study, and it's relaxing to me."
The lunar alicorn reeled back as if struck, a blush forming on her face. "How did you know about that? What reason would the parasite have to take those memories?!? I swear, Tia still brings those nights up every now and again to embarrass me!"
The larger alicorn slowly raised his muzzle from the diagrams he was studying, staring at the ex princess with a stony expression. "You mean to tell me you did that on a regular basis?" He asked, voice tinged with disbelief. "I thought it was a one-time thing and that's why it was there." Burying his head under his hooves, he bemoaned his misfortune. "Why do I get stuck with the crazy one."
"Nonsense, I am the superior choice for such tutoring. My sister would either treat you like a foal or tease you mercilessly even as she taught you the spells. I can tell you this from experience." Luna said, before pushing a few more diagrams over to her student. "Add these to your practice sessions, though I suggest finding a place that won't be missed if this offensive spell misfires. It can be quite destructive, but will aid you greatly. Teleportation, this array here, is another useful ability to have once you have mastered it. Most battle mages that are capable of mastering it use it more than any other spell. Be weary of teleporting yourself while too close to the ground for the first few tries. Being an alicorn, you have the distinct advantage of being able to practice in mid flight. That is the preferable alternative considering your lack of a warded training room."
"With that I bid you good night, Cimmerian. May the stars bless your path." Having said her part, the smaller alicorn departed his dream, leaving Ted to store the spells away in some of the dream memory-space Luna had taught him to use. It was extremely useful considering she was the closest thing he had to a magic tutor at the time, and she couldn't give him physical copies of the spells.
Eventually the alicorn decided it was time to prepare for wakefulness. He left his own dream, making one last pass of his followers before turning back to his own form to prepare for the morning. Moments before he finished his rounds, he noticed an odd tingle, a presence inside the dream realm he'd not felt before.
Looking around, he realized it was not a presence, but an entire, by his guess, ship of new dreamers. The large group was just off shore of the abandoned port to the west, just beyond what he knew was the beach. At first he'd assumed the were pirates or bandits, looking for an abandoned port to restock on water and food that could be scrounged up without having to pay for such things, but this was dismissed as he approached.
Most of the dreams were nightmares.
This world was different in many ways, but bad guys didn't all have nightmares the first chance they got. Not at the ratio he was seeing aboard the ship. His first instinct was to calm the dreamers, but he needed information first. Bracing himself for the worst, he entered the first dream at full speed. The dawn was coming, and he didn't have much time.
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Blades and steel. Empty eyes and gnashing fangs. The droning buzz of insects in flight and the screams of those nearby. The first dreamer was almost hysterical, but he'd picked up some important facts. Changelings were what had driven them away. The second thing was that the refugees, that's what they seemed to be at least, were griffons.
'The demilitarization wasn't a move to making the griffons safer to deal with, it was preparing their lands for invasion.' The alicorn realized. The timing was too perfect, too precise for such a thing to be coincidence. The next question was why changelings?
Exiting the first dream and brushing against it in the dream world, he calmed the dreamer before diving into the next.
The next moment he was standing among a large group of griffons, all upon a mountain settlement. They'd all stopped, curious at the strange sounds from the eastern valley. Following their gazes, he saw the army as the dreamer had remembered it, a vast collection of shining chitin, of glinting armor and blades in the evening light. At the head of the group, a single equine figure turned around and motioned to the horde, and the air was suddenly alive with the sound of a thousand buzzing wings.
'This makes no sense.' Ted thought to himself, even as he watched the swarm approach. 'The Mad Queen was rooting out changelings, forcing them out of their homes. Mirage and Sahkest even said- oh fuck.' The alicorn's eyes widened in realization. The changelings weren't being executed, they were being captured. Taken prisoner by a species that had subverted the will of not one, but two alicorns, some of the most powerful creatures on the planet. How hard would it be to do that to weaker species? Actually, considering what Mirage had explained to him earlier, it would probably be easier to accomplish with the changelings en mass then with any other species.
"That would have been Din's fate. Mind probably shattered, pumping out eggs to fuel the Parasite's war machine. And that would have been the fate of the nymphs, their minds and bodies stolen to add another cog into the war machine." He muttered to himself, his rage building. Each of the changelings before him may at one point have been sapient beings, but their bodies were not their own. Their eyes were empty, and those that had anything in them at all were filled only with the greatest bloodlust. These weren't sapients. These were animals, trained from birth to be throw away soldiers, hatched for the specific purpose of subjugating another species.
How ironic was it now, that the species that none had spoken out for as they were slowly hunted to what many assumed was extinction were now the ones being used to incite such fear. If even a few had wondered what was happening to those who were carted away this wouldn't have been such a total surprise. Mirage was right though. No one watched out for the changelings. No one cared what happened to the bugs, they weren't intelligent anyway. Just a bunch of mindless parasites.
Ted shook his head, even as the army swarmed over the town, injuring those who they came across and killing those who resisted. To steal one's property was something he expected, he'd even heard of those who stole the identities of others. Yes the changelings did it, but that was for survival, not some sick enjoyment received by being able to ruin someone else's day. This however, was the theft of the mind, the body, and the very soul of the individuals involved. The drones had no choice, those that were sapient before. They were suppressed, most likely a passenger in their own bodies as Luna herself had been all those years ago. She wouldn't let others be subjected to that fate. Not after being subjected to that terrifying hell for so long herself.
Tapping a hoof against his head and giving it a shake to straighten his thoughts out, the alicorn left the nightmare, calmed the rest of the dreams he found, and made his way back to his physical form. He would meet them at the shorelines of the port town in the morning, and welcome the refugees to the area. He would learn what they knew of his enemy, and devise strategies against her.
The Parasite not only stole the body and soul of the creature it had possessed, but that of almost an entire race. It was one of the most horrific crimes he could think of, in this world or his own. The Parasite would find no sanctuary from his wrath when he was ready to strike. He would see that thing burn in hellfire eternally for Its transgressions, even if he had to personally provide the flames.
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Sweet hallelujah, an update!
That last chapter was quite a doozy and such a bad place to have computer troubles on.
Anywhoozles, nice chapter! Can't wait for more!
The Perpetuator of Undefined Havoc,
Nameless Destruction
Glad to see Pan isn't dead. That last chapter was intense.
Keep up the good work!
Yay! I've been watching my favorites for this to pop up again.
My god, ITS ALIVE THANK FUCKING CELESTIA IT LIVES...
Yeah... Now that's out I want to say good job on this chapter but wow parasite taking over twily and then using her to take over changelings that's just mean bro
ALSO how will he ever fight twi she has the power of 3 alicorns and has a changeling army UPDATE SOON I must research this throughly
Hooray an update!
6239878 You are forgetting something. Chrysalis was stronger than Celestia after the impotent love. The potent love for the Changelings should make them strong enough to create impossibly strong supersoldiers, maybe even at the level of normal Alicorns.
If Ted and his Changeling Queen would pair, their changelings would be even stronger... one squad for one army.
Squad wins.
Author uses Story Necromancy! It is super effective!
I see Nightmare Twilight is going the Zerg Rush route. Smart and terrifying in equal parts, to say nothing about the horrible enslavement and torment involved. This particular Nightmare really isn't holding back much on the nastiness.
Happy to see you're working on this again!
6239878 He'll fight smarter, not harder, is my guess. Trying to challenge Evilight head on at this point would be retarded, unless he can find some sort of seriously major power up or a hell of a lot of allies.
Personally, I think the Elements will be involved. There would be a certain delicious irony in blasting the former leader of the Harmonies with them to drag the nastiness out of her.
I have many stories, that i am tracking, but this one is the only one, that i wait impatiently. I miss everyday updates.
Hells yeah. Welcome back!
YAY an update!
Yaay, more devoted followers arriving to become infatuated with serving the Nightmare.
Wait, updates. Theyre Griffons. On the reciving end of Borg Changelings.
I really, really hope Ted goes through his homework first, before going out and meeting these guys, because he is going to need it. Otherwise theres going to be a several less hungry Griffons, and a lot of missing nymphs.
I believe you mean wary, not weary.
Anyways, good chapter. I look forward to the next one.
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There's also the possibility that this shipload of gryphons will not join the temple but merge with the village nearby. Considering the trauma they went through, I would not be surprised that they keep their distance from the temple where free-range changelings amble about. If nothing else, they'll prove an invaluable source of intel on the evil queen and her tactics... and become some fresh allies against her.
Speaking of subservient changelings, if queen's can steal drones from other hives, would not a powerful Changeling Queen be able to ninja Nightmare Twilight's drones? She's not a Changeling for starters which seems to me would make her hold on their minds precarious at best-- in a mind-controlling way. Fighting smarter would mean guerrilla tactics; snatch and grab, taking out small units which are then added to Ted's army.
I really hope Pan bounces back from nearly killing herself. And Ted needs to talk with her, really talk. Assumptions and not getting your point across was almost fatal. And if she doesn't want to talk muzzle to muzzle, take it to dreamland.
I see the Nightmare got a side of +5 Intelligence after infecting Twilight.
That's pretty damn chilling, really.
In a earlier chapter when it Twilight was walking around it was made mention that the shadows seemed to be crying, I'm wondering if the Nightmares are more like symbiotic not noticeable unless you are looking for them specifically than parasitic but go classic psychotic Nightmare take over parasite when they combine with ponies
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So, what we need is massed Siege Tanks on top of the hills with a small army of Stim Pack Marines hanging around nearby?
Good chapter.
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Parasite/Twi: I have an army.
Ted: We have a hulk.
6240507 *Random guy sitting nearby*: I have the rest of the Avengers.
6240466 Well, with some forging, enchanting and creativity Ted and company could probably create the magical version of power armor and if they get a hold of a zebra, preferably a shaman like Zecora, I'd be surprised if they couldn't make potions mimicking the effect of Stimpacks.
The Siege Tanks are harder to duplicate... Armored dragons that have Unicorn-manned magic amplifier turrets on their backs?
6239943 The Squad loses. Because even if better, they would still be outdone by numbers. Endless unending numbers. Also the Army could lost a million battles, it only needs to win 1 to win the war. And the squad could win a million battles, but always have to be prepared, always training, never sick, for they lose 1 battle, they dead and lose the war.
Sorry, but in a test of strength vs numbers? Strength always loses in the end.
More please!
He really should start researching mental and spiritual wards. Get some witchdoctors, necromancers maybe a shaman or two around the temple for the parasite to contend with.
What kind of space engineering do you do? Because none of my friends play it to the same level I do, and I would love to have someone to play it with.
Oh and the chapter is okay too.
Fucking. Lovely.
6240562 I have Jehuty, Anubis, Ard Jet, Aauman, the entire Wraith species, the Jafaa, and everyone from Startrek on speed dial. Oh, and Darth Vader is my father, he'll back me in this with his super star destroyer and the Death Star V2.0. I'm with you, so your army just got that much bigger.
6240649 Take a look at the Winter War and/or the Six-Day War. Sometimes strength (and terrain/strategy) wins out over numbers.
Excellent chapter. Glad things are back up to snuff for you.
Lock and load, guys, sacred grounds have been breached and the Parasite has taken this too far.
Conquest is what they want? Well, they're gonna get CONQUERED and absolutely rekt!
I wonder... Can Ted use his mightly powers and build a orbital strike station? I mean, look at how changelings attacked during the Canterlot wedding? Freaking kinetic bombardment and the lil buggers were pretty much unharmed from the impact. Now imagine sending them down at orbital reentry speeds?
Best deployment method ever. Deepstrike em while squishing the enemies underfoot in the process. Now let's throw in Land Raiders and Commander Boreal. BOLD BRUHVAHS!!!
6240932 That would turn them into a MAC round. Or a comparatively simple rail gun slug. After all, there is already a theoretical version of that. See the second recent G.I. Joe movie for an example. A kinetic re entry telephone pole managing to produce enough force that on impact the continental plate is jarred. Now, make the weight smaller and refine the point until it could pass for a dull monomolecular dagger. Yeah.
I've got a hunch that explanation about queens being able to claim the drones of other hives is going to be a big part of Nightmare Books' downfall. Yes, that's what I'm calling her now.
Welp, now that Ted knows about the whole recruitment method of Nightmare Twilight, it should be fairly obvious to him how to cut her down to a one on one size. Sabotaging supply lines, waiting for them to be repaired, and sabotaging them again. This will slow down some troop movement, delay supplies for them, and make the actual Equestrian army and guard an ineffective force. Dealing with the changeling rush would be slightly more difficult due to them being emotion consumers. Severing cities and towns from each other by using fear is difficult when you don't have the numbers to cow each city and town in question, because training can only do so much for holding something like that. Of course, the biggest problem there is having your own supply lines cut. So, the safest and easiest way to win would be let rumors run wild about a new alicorn who actually cares for those under him, be they pony, diamond dog, changeling, griffin, or dragon so long as they do not harm others under him unless it's in self defense.
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If we're going for sheer "F U" factor, we could always direct a Tyranid Hive Fleet at Twilight. She might have Zerg, but Tyranids are what Zerg wished they could be.
"Hey Twilight, how's that magic working out for you?"
"It feels like something is clawing its way out of my horn!"
"And to think that they haven't even reached the planet yet..."
6241241 Oh no, direct the bugs from Starship Troopers to Equestria for MAJOR "F U" factors.
6241265 The Tyrannids are a Interuniversal species that eat whole universes just to stay alive. Also known as, The Bugs would wet themselves due to just how many ships are in a Tyrannid Hive Fleet.
6240649 The Queen doesn't have just one army, the Squad's not just one squad. I meant in terms of relative strength, the Squad is stronger than one army.
No, not really. Unless they fight directly in the brood-chambers.
Try telling that the hulk.
Oh, and that reminds me of pyrrhic victories. Usually the enemy is stronger and has the greater number, yet the 'weaker' side still wins. Funny how you cannot say that it is always that way, but you do.
I mean, you have kind of a point with even the 300 dying after all that time, but we are playing in Equestria here. If the Squad holds the enemies off as long as the 300 did, the Queen has laid a new batch of eggs. And meanwhiles another has matured etc., get what I'm aiming at?
Oh, and not always. In a narrow hallway a smaller, but stronger group usually is better than a billion idiots running down the hallway. Because in that magnitude it is quite possible for there to be enough people in the smaller group to form shifts.
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6241455 knows what I'm talking about, though he's overplayed the Tyranid's capability. They're extra-galactic, not extra-universal, and it's suspected that they've eaten at least one entire galaxy of biological material.
They don't attack places. Or Cities. Or continents. Or planets.
They attack star systems as a whole, generally across entire sectors of space.
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That's not what a pyrrhic victory is. A pyrrhic victory is when the winning side is also decimated. Sure, they won, but the victory was so costly that it's almost like both sides lost at the same time.
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Ok i see the reasoning behind it now that i know what it is. I am loving the story btw the picture just confused me as i didnt know what it was. And i think i'd use something that matched more with the seriousness of the story. I'll browse around see what i can find.
6241533 The only time a force with less men would win over a force with more men, is if the force with less men were on the Defence, and at a choke point. And even then, it would have to be in a completely sealed and indestructable bunker.
Even look at the movie 300, where a group stood up to mass numbers. And they did well. But even THEY lost to numbers eventually. Especially when they got out manuvered.
Also the Evil Queen DOES have endless supply of army. She had snatched up every single changeling and bound them to her will, with EVERY queen make more and more mindless drones.
The only way for the good guys to win in this story, is to sneak up to the Evil Queen and 'assassinate' her somehow. But if they could never get close to the queen very quickly without her knowing, they WILL lose.
And don't be drawing information about less people willing over more by strength from Cartoons/Animes/Games, because in those you can no lose. Period. You will always win, even if it makes no logical sense, which takes the fun out of it Because what's the point if the good guys always wins no matter what.
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I swear, you guys are acting like I cancelled the story or something, not had computer trouble for two weeks. LIKE I SAID IN THE BLOGS!
6239972 Necromancy requires the target to be DEAD!
6240649 Even Spartans lose some battles, right Noble team?
6241671 A victory only in name, that's how I remember that one.
6241987 Strength VS numbers is always going to depend on several factors. Defense isn't the only way they would win though. The rebels in Star Wars didn't do that, they resorted to guerilla warfare. That would work extremely well against a large, untrained force as you can remove what little command structure is there through assassinations, damage supply lines/supplies, and maybe eventually cause a mutiny.
A very good chapter. The descriptions of what has been done to the changelings and how they are being used are vivid enough to make me actually feel anger at a fictional parasite.
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Nah, I don't consider a story canceled until it doesn't update for a year. I'm just glad it's updating again! I missed reading it.
6242246 Using Starwars is kinda a bad idea for this arguement... xD Because they only one because of 1 man using the Force once to destroy the Death Star which had a very Video Game like weakness. And that's only because The emperor nor Vader decided to kill Luke or his sister. The rebals themselves? Worthless and did nothing. In fact, don't most of them die? Meanwhile the Empire, if it didn't build such a stupid Flaw in the Deathstar would have found the Rebal bases, and blow them up and the planet they were on too...
Also realistically, the Storm Troopers wouldn't be as bad at aiming as they were shown to be(Stupid bad AI programing they had way back when). Especially since they were all clones from the greatest bounty hunter in the universe....
Just look at Starwars 1 and 2, before they created the 'clone army' The 'Droid Army' was going to end up killing every Jedi. Without a backup of just as big of an army, just as quickly, with actual military training instead of being mindly like the Droid Army, they would have lost even tho a single Jedi is meant to be able to take on an Army by themselves... Aka, look at The Force Unleashed for that bit, and most every Starwars game where you play a Jedi.
Even Starwars, the good guys only one before Vader actually grew a concious, somehow, and killed himself and the Emperor. If he didn't, Luke would have died, and they would have went on to kill everyone else...
6242246 Sorry man, the necromancy bit was intended to be a joke, but I guess the timing was bad.
I don't consider a story dead unless it's been inactive for at least three or four months or the author flat out says the story is done and over with.
All I can say is welcome back!
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First, Vader didn't kill himself, he died of injuries he took while throwing the Emperor off the platform.
Han and the others took down the shield generator, Lando and rogue squadron blew up the second death star. Yes Luke and Vader killed the emperor, but only because they did it before the rebels blew up the station, so don't give me that "rebels didn't do anything" shit. Besides, where did the shuttle come from? Who got the data that said where the first death star's weakness was, or the second's location and set up the plan? Did you forget the "Many Bothan's died to bring us this information." line from Mon Mothma? Behind every victorious hero, there's a whole slew of characters that helped him reach that point, not all of which live to see that victory. It was one of my favorite lines from an old xwing game guide (the book actually read more like a journal from Keyan Farlander than a walk through.) had Han ending the award ceremony with the line "I don't deserve this. The one's who really earned these awards were the ones who didn't make it back." I think It was Han, it's been years since I read that book, like at least 14 years.
*proceeds to readjust pen protector.
6242512 I understand, but as I said, I find it weird everyone's celebrating like I'd not updated for a few months. Still, I guess that means I've done something right here if everyone likes it that much. It's all good, as long as I don't get ppl sitting outside the house screaming at me to "Update the story Moar!"
You were on hiatus? Huh didn't notice.
6241671 Hm.. I guess I read the wrong article.
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I used to play that.
The second time I played through I made sure to kill EVERYTHING. I think I personally had something like 30 Star Destroyer kills by the end of the game.
'Persistence' is taking down a Star Destroyer in an A-Wing.
6241671 Oh, right. I meant that other victory, sorry. Thanks for telling me about my mistake