Feng looked at Meari and  snorted.I have taken part in one loyalty feast.. the  child was dead, by the time i recived my portion.... Had I  been the one to  Bring  Down Shadow, I would have had  another feat for my next rank up..... but now i see many of the Criminals whom the  Empire  has  bounties on....one might be able to get his own fleet, if  he  killed the right ones...

.........

 The Admiral looked out the static  field once more, from his spot  on the scaffold,well, Doc  Henry? We  first have to recover our assault  troops... Then you may go if you feel  you might  aid them..or? more importantly,  learn something.

 Meari shook her head and replied," Criminals huh well you follow Aliens who eat humans, and enslave them. They are not criminals, you and the SSN are criminals for allowing your race to be eaten and enslaved. You call the ESN and APF criminals for fighting against the Empire and trying to free their people from the Empires grasp. I just dont get why you fight for the Empire, it is evil, destructive and only cares about themselves, and if the Demons promised you anything dont believe them they all lie. So you took part of that disgusting barbaric ritual, and you would be excited to eat another human child. You are a blight on the humans and all who think like you, I dont understand why you bow down to Aliens on one side and say all aliens are bad on the other you are the biggest hypocrite I have ever seen or spoken too. We might loose the Empire but I would rather die fighting for my peoples freedom then their slavery."

 Feng  shrugs,... we do what must be done for our people. centuries  went by  with  our people and sevral others, treated us badly for our  way of doing things...now?  we  found a power to back us? The Big 4 will  rule Earth, and we  will have all the other  countries who defied us... used  for Tribute to the Empire.

 Shoey was making his  way past once more. he only caught the last few  words  as she  gave a shake of his head...you have no idea what's in store  for you, do you?.. You see those Tail fins  on theBow  wall.. they are Enemy  Aces, or Traitors who were 'high profile"... Your  Tail Fin is going to be up there....But they were lucky... The LC kill a couple of them in the air... Blu was beaten to death with  the LC's bare hands., after he force  Blu to land  on Bura....now?  what do you think he's gonna do with you....

 Shoey  walks  on....

 Feng  snorts,.. Nothing will happen.. I will be exchanged for some  'important prisoners'.. and   i'll be back to haunt you...

 Meari shook her head, and just says," You fool you will have no control, or control over a feeding farm that is what your planet will be dont fool yourself in believing their lies. Your whole race will be used as food and slave labor all of you. You humans will believe anything will you. think you really believe they will give you any real control you will be feeding stock what a life too fight for."

 Meari nodded to Shoey and then cant keep from laughing after Feng speaks. Then she says," Oh my Captain traitor you are going nowhere except in a bag. It is just how much of you is left to put into it will be up to the LC and if you do have any useful intel tell him quickly he will be nicer  maybe." Meari shook her head he had no clue what he was headed for, where he would pay for eating a already dead baby because you watched them eat it alive mother fucker. Meari wanted to hurt this asshole so bad but she knew the LC would make him pay, and maybe let him help, I mean he loves aliens and will follow them right. Meari will watch him closely after telling him that, she had her shotgun ready and a throwing dagger as well.

Mila was picking up on Feng's bad vibes and stalked stiff-legged in his direction, snarling. She really, really, wanted to bite! The only thing holding her back was the niggling thought that Her Human wouldn't approve of an attack outside of open conflict.

 Feng   shook his head as Meari spoke...you are an alien?.. were you an outcast that you  serve  with this fools? YUou might  find yourself a decent  Demon mate if you knew your place...

 he watched the  blood  splattered  beastie   snarling at him, and  grinned,Largrans  are   quite  found of  dog meat.. when we capture Hyrians , we send them straight to  The Largran  Larder ships.

 beth was  shaking her head as she  watched  and  listened ...half to   Izzy, Half  to  anyone ,she   said. I don't know what earth has become, But if  there are enough  people like Feng  doing the moving and the shaking, we might need  to cleanse the whole  damn mud ball..

 Meari rubbed Mila's head and looked at Feng," Oh Captain Traitor you are the fool, I was no outcast I earned this position and was assigned to the Hermes by War Lord Lilith. I would never mate with a Demon dont care for human meat they eat it to much." Meari just starred at him and after the dog meat comment, Meari smiles and says," Mila if you ask the LC he might letyou take a chunk out of the traitor but I bet he tastes nasty." Meari turns to Feng with a cold look, " I did not realize humans where so stupid to believe the Demons and their promises, I have seen, read and my family has watched them over many centuries. The Demons will use you to beat us and then eat all of you, they do not care about humans at all except to eat and use as slaves."

Mila stopped growling to accept Meari's caress, rubbing against her hand.

Considering Meari's words, she conceded that she might be right. Feng certainly smelled disgusting, she wasn't convinced that he'd taste any better. If she did bite him, she'd probably spit the bits out.

  The Admiral   walked  down the scaffold, giving   Henry a  pat on the shoudler  as he rounded the  stirs   to walk towards   Feng.  Feng stood  abruptly his  hands clenching in fists, and a smile on  his face.

   Shoey   appeared  as if by magic   on the other side of  Feng.....Lets  say, You make it  past me, Meari  and Mila? The Admiral works out with  The SM, Shadow  and Captain Si...just..you know.... for  for thought.


   The Admiral stepped a bit past Meari and Mila  , he looked relaxed  as he eyed Feng.I'll ask you this? What kind of Non-combantants are  on that  Station....

 Feng sneered,why would  i tell you....

 If the LC was here, you would tell me... I have a few people who, who might get you to talk, but it would take   too long.. you might be able to save some folks...or... you may choose to save......none.

 Feng's  sneer didn't go away,... go?  Butcher more of your own kind, i will not help you , lessen your guilt.

 I have no guilt? I  do not Give one Damn about Earth since they  signed with the Empire....Q=We  will get  the 'good  people' off that planet, we'll let the Empire  harvest the others, and  by the  time  we  arrive,  there should be very  few  'good people'  for us to worry about.

 ..so? You will destroy the station, no matter what i tell you....

 aye, that we  will. There is only a  time difference of  getting    good people off, or allowing them to die a cleaner death, then  if we let the station stand...

 Then Kill them all..The Empire  has enough  food and Slave in the rest of the System, to not even miss this  station...

  The Admiral looked up at Beth...You get that?

 ..Aye  Sir.. it is streaming as i speak... if you want to add anything...

 ..people of the Nest station...if you are  captives for food.. fight! rebel..try to escape  the  cages..... workers... turn on your supervisors and  SEC....Those of you who willingly  aid the Empire? It would be better for you to   run out the static  field... Good people... commandeer shuttles, transports, what ever you can get your hands on, save as many as you are able...even if you are adrift, we will be able to pick you up....Otherwise, you will go down with the station, We cannot  allow it to exist..good luck... if you make it to the BAlck.... call for aid, we will hear you on all channels...


 Beth   cut the feed, Hack looked  at Feng.....Thank you.. having  an SSN Captain say what you have said, speaks   more then what words i  would have sent...

 Hack  went  back out  towards the hanger Dec, Hennings grinned and Gave Feng a wink...

 Feng stood there, dumbfounded, his mouth half opened .

Already feeling a little on edge from the barrage of pleading messages she’d had to process from Earth, Izzy would wince at Beth’s comment ”That’s a very brutal option...that’s like crushing your shiny new Ferrari because you’ve got a flat tire..sure things are bad but it doesn’t mean we should destroy the good with the bad” Izzy quietly replied in between sorting comms messages all the while wondering if and how she could get her mother and perhaps even her aunt off of Earth and onto Fuji should it come to the worst.

  Beth nods, then gives a shrug,never liked fancy cars  like that... there's a few of them at the bottom of the   east river  with the drivers  handcuffed to the   wheel...

 I was lucky enough to see  some of that happen, but never lucky enough to make it happen.. she  started to laugh ,..there's a  tale in one of the  holy myth books? abiut   these angels  running around a  city lokign for 'good people ', or thier god  was going to destroy the cities

 she   tries to stop her giggling,so the   'hero' tries  to   barter  down how many  good people they can find? right?... and in the  end , the Angels  say..'there isn't any'.. I just think they were bummed out they couldn't  party?.. anyway... the god  lets some people run away and  he nukes two towns....now..why is that so damn funny?.... because,  that god who's ego was hurt, wiped out  two whole cities ... that means. he slaughtered  all kinds of babies... same guy had an angel run around with a sword  killing babies, because he  didn't like a  king messing  with his  favorite pets?... But all these stories came from Oil Lord lands, so... they're pretty messed up anyway from the oil fumes.

 I guess  we get to be gods this time  with Angels    and every other kind of  Myth creature  our people  read about since  they  crawled out of the caves..

 Meari nodded to Hack as he walked by her, Meari saw Feng stand and clinch his fists. Meari had one hand on her One eyed jack's knife and the other on a throwing dagger as she let the shotgun fall on its strap around her shoulder. She watched Feng closely and nodded to Shoey after his comment. Meari smiled at Mila as she was also watching Feng and all meari had to say to Mila was get him and she would, Meari could tell Mila did not like the traitor Captain.

 Than the Admiral spoke to Feng, Meari listened but kept her eyes on Feng he was too close to the Admiral for her comfort. Meari smiled at Feng and replied," Thank you for your fine help for the ESN and APF, well at least he doesnt eat his own kind like you Captain Traitor. He is weeding out the bad apples and you are a very bad one, we will weed out all the bad apples, destroy the Empire and hopefully get all those SSN and EDT traitors. Then live free as all you traitors die for the wrong cause. I guess you dont get it, the only reason Admiral Hack went to total War  was because the Demons started it first the Admiral is just better at it so far." She smiles at Feng and also nodded and smiled at Hack as he walked away.

Henry giggled at Beth's interpretations of the scriptures, but didn't say anything. He saw belief as a private matter and wouldn't dream of correcting someone else's opinions. He wondered what his friend Ralph Udall back in Oxford would make of it, what with him being a leturer in theology as well as a priest in the Anglican Church.

  General  Bale looked at Henry , he had a soft smile on his face as he said in a low tone,We have people who have not  been well versed in the 'holy books'..and, quite frankly, every time we meet a new species  that  we find out  were the basis of  Myths and legends . It makes me  wonder as well...Still , the point is made , well enough, and we do not  seem to have too much  help out here, outside of  people who carry a charged pulse rifle.

 he gives a  shrug  and  sips from a bottle of water

.....................

 Beth  called  Hack  back to teh scaffold, he  jogged over and ran up the  stairs., Cummings   had told  them what his  plan was... Hack smiled and agreed.. Cummings  asked about prisoners...

 The Admiral was stern as he said...if they follow  orders given them stage them on the second hanger Dec...one of the  Empty  transports   we captured  will be  filled and sent to the  Deltas...if...they resist, or  , in anyway , not follow the instructions  kill them out
 right...we don't have time   to deal with possible  problems....BUT... anyone , Captain and above, gets  sent to the Hermes...

 Already Done , Admiral..I'd  rather  just  space the Blighters, Meself...

 Indeed  Colonel...But those Captains and  above need to  suffer a bit...atone for many things.... The troops, will get what they paid  for in the delta's... Not all the ape folk there   are 'civilized  ' yet.

 he nodded to beth who  sent orders to the   empty transports  the SSN brought along  for thier 'spoils"  Crews  were actively install ESN transponders,  and marking them    for Emmies  Yellow Star Line.

 oddly enough, there were no prisoners from the transports that were captured...

...........

 Feng  listened from below the scaffold...Using our  own vessel to destroy a  Nest station that has become the symbol of Empire/Earth co-operation....

 Shoey smiled his   gum-chewing  smile,Pretty neat, Huh?..I think it  would  be neat to strap an Offcier   in red, to each  torpedo and  let them ride it the whole way in...

 you are talking about humans!

 Naw?.. real humans  don't   Join the Empire....

 You fight along  Hyrians and Ape folk...

 Ape folk were never Empire... and they  have slowly joined the  APF as  members... The Hyrians paid thier price  for  being  Empire..now they are repaying us, for helping undo the damage, and,,for giving them a few other colonies where  the Hyrians
 can thrive and grow  with other APF members.... You? Poepl like you?..have just signed on to be part of the menu...

 Meari looks at Feng," You are upset about strapping traitors to torpedoes, but you eat defenseless human children that completely baffles me. You hate Aliens but surrendered to one, you only protect your human life, I dont understand that at all." Meari laughs and added," Empire Earth Co-operation that is funny, the Demons dont Co-operate they enslve and eat their enemies that is the partner you chose."

Mila growled again. She was itching to sink her teeth in to something soft on Feng, even if she would spit it out afterwards.

  Feng looked at the Grrrring  Doggie,you better hope  the largrans or  Creshians  do not get you..they love to eat dog meat...

 Grgeor  padded over to the  area,,, his head tilted  90 degrees as his  tail thumped, The Larger Larg sat  a few yards   away, his head also Titled.

 Shoey  laughed,..... you keep this up? you might not get to see the LC.....


 beth  frowned, as she called down,.....I don't  want  to miss out on what the LC  has planned....

Henry stood up.

"Your wish is my command, Beth. Mila, Gregor, Rigg: come here NOW!"

He didn't need to shout, the command was implicit in his voice (and reinforced in Mila's mind via the implant). What Beth wanted, Beth got!

"The three of you, come and sit here. No doubt Kray will let you have whatever is left once he's done. If any of you can stomach it, that is."

  Beth   giggled  a bit. Gregor   and Rigg padded  back by Henry and sat  down.  It didn't stop Gregor   from leaning over  with his tilted head, eyeing up Feng.

 there was a chuckle from Chewy , as he said,buddy?  you don't know what you're in for.... I want  you to think  about those  kids, who  were sent to the kitchen for  those 'loyality meals'... think how scared they were, think of  what they went through as you sat there...because...buddy?.. you might just get the same thing

 Feng was Sneering at Shoey, until he saw the...downright ,,, delight on Shoey's face

  Folkes snorted,Don't  worry , China  Man.. I'm sure you won't be  alone.

Henry sat again, chuckling as he rubbed the heads and petted the three animals at his feet.

 Meari just gave Feng a wicked evil grin, and replied," Oh yes Captain Traitor be afraid be very afraid, the LC left you alive for a reason and I bet he has wonderous plans for a Traitor like you. Oh well we could call Demons and have then get ready and eat you alive how would you like that CAPTAIN TRATOR." Meari could not believe these humans could betray their race and be content with being food and slaves, dont they know whatever the Demons tell them is a lie and they will never follow through.

 ( from troy)

 The shuttles   were comign  in.. QM folks  began to run out   crates of Ammo, while  Dana and Sneak  readied more  sandwiches   and  drinks.

 The Admiral Approached the assault shuttles,  Meeting with  Hirr, Roy and Lyri.....Get your wounded to Med tech.. your dead against the Bow  wall... see if you need to take  anyone   with  you.  We  will be joining the shelling  , not that you are back... after the  Shelling, you are  being sent  with other  assault teams to break into  thier CNC.... your job is to get  as much Intel as you are able... cred Discs  and such are good.. if you have a chance  to take  Captains, or above prisoner..do so.... if it is too much trouble, then kill them,,,, the whole thing is going to be blown to bits, i want nothing left for them to rebuild on...If they want another station here, they'll have to build a new one

 make sure you eat and drink, this  is going to be the butcher's work...

  Motioning  to Beth who Opened ALL COMs, Hack began..... Delta   Ships, The Hermes is rejoining the  Line... on my Mark, the shelling will continue  for another  30 minutes, to give assault teams  time to reload, and refresh..... when I give the word, the  Fighters will go in again, to knock down  any resistance, and try to open holes.... all  Ships  assault teams  are going to  land on the  North Pole about  1/2 mile  down, and try to cut through to  the CNC...Once inside, You will gather Intel, Cred discs and   eliminate any enemies  you  find..that is  all...

.............................

 After the COM was  shut  down, the Hermes  turned to have her  Portside Guns to bear on the Station.. Hack Pointed  and  Folkes And Meari to bring  Feng towards the static filed...

   Captain Si  ordered the  Guns to fire, and to aim for areas already damaged... Feng  felt the ship shake as  HArd Ammo and Pulse  round   sizzled off into the  night..from thier postion, the station took up most of the  view of the Black..Explosions twinkled around the surface, like some disco ball. other places  exploded, leaving dark holes with   flickers of  fires.. the east-west Ring was buckling and breakign away the north-south began to  get damaged as well

 Feng watched and looked at Hack.....you are .destroying it

 That's the Plan, Captain..The killer Planet will be no more...

 All those people...

 90% will die... if  we happen upon civie slaves, we'll try to save them...at this point...our 1st priority is to turn th station into pencil shavings..

Zob was one of the first to step off the shuttle he made his way over to some empty crates and sat down setting his helmet off to the side and wiped the sweat from his brow, "That was quite the trip..." he then took about 3 or so cans of soda and a bottle of water from Dana and sneak when they did their rounds, "Shoey... who is pretty boy over there?" he asked referencing Feng by the Static field.

  Shoey grins ,.. That there is Captain Feng..He is  'the highest ace" of the SSN, least ways  this fleet... LC made him hand here after shooting him up..I think he has plans for him...

 Meari stands up and motions for Feng to get up as she brings her shotgun to bear.  She smiles at Folkes and they move Feng towards the static field. Meari smiles at Zob, and says," Zob this is Captain Traitor he likes eating babies and turning his people into food and slaves."