mm... harsh... so, ready for the final assault?

As the Last Alliance forces reach Ryverrift, they are engaged by a Riftwalker fleet of huge porportions.  They are outnumbered severely, but they push forward.  Despite their best efforts they are surrounded and stopped.  A cry for help on all known frequencies is transmitted.  They receive no reply. 

Their hopes dashed, the crews prepare to surrendur.  More ships appear on the tactical display nearly doubling the size of the non-ACO forces, and the comms crackle to life, "Now the gate has been unlatched, headstones pushed aside.  Corpses shift and offer room, a fate you must abide... ahahahaha....."  What little hope they had left is shattered, left in pieces in the depth of space. 

Aboard the Ascension, flagship of the fleet, the bridge is nearly destroyed.  An electrical panel explodes, showering the floor below it with sparks.  The captain rests his hand upon the arm of his chair, expecting to die as shields fail.  An unknown fighter begins transmitting, "Boom de yadda, boom de yadda, boom de yadda, boom de yadda."

The sensors officer reports, "Captain! The new contacts are destroying the enemy ships!"

"All batteries, redouble fire!  We will not go quietly into the night!  We will not vanish without a fight!  We will survive!  Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!"

A huge contact appears on the TAC display, and begins firing upon Riftwalker ships. 

"Get me a visual on that contact!"  The captain ordered.

The TACdisplay filled with the image of a dark colored ship, shaped seemingly like a terran squid, with a main body that curved upward near the back, and "tentacles" were moving about, aiming at ships and firing a laser that isntantly destroyed its target.  It accelerated through multiple ships, and they broke across its hull.  It stormed through the Riftwalker lines surrounding the beleagered ACO fleet, escorts of Halrbringer destroyers following.  Other ships seemed to be destroyed by nothing, indicating that Athenas were also among the escorts.

With this distraction, the ACO manages to land a ship at the Rift generator. The Hydrogue technicians on board the ship get out and shut down the Rift. They then proceed to reconfigure some things and then reboard the ship. The Riftwalker forces at Free City are called back to Ryverrift. As the Riftwalker fleets arrived minutes later, due to their adavnced hyperspace technology, the last ACO forces activate their hyperdrives and blast back toward Free City. A comm message is sent to the unknown saviors of the ACO: "We appreciate your help, but if you value your lives you will go back where you came from." After the departure of the enemy forces, the Riftwalkers focus their attention on the Rift. A technician is sent down to activate it. It comes online and re-opens the Rift to Unspace. But this time, instead of Riftwalker ships coming out, the Riftwalkers are sucked back in. Howling with rage, the Riftwalkers are puled into te Rift, which promptly closes behind them. The ACO reverts to realspace at Free City. The galaxy is safe, but there are only a few billions left to occupy it. This would be a serious problem, were it not for the fact that the former LOA and NACA had both required DNA samples of citizens, for medical purposes and other such things. This DNA database meant that a large number of former denizens of the galaxy could be cloned, and thus the population could be increased rapidly. With territorial birders restored and the Riftwalker threat gone, the UGS begins rapidly colonizing the deserted northwestern section o the galaxy.

Samurye.

and so here we are again. history repeats itself....

..I am old, now, and the leader of whats left of the UGA. Noobis, my heir...

...he...his ship fell into a black hole. No radio signatures, no tacheon pulses, the only thin that was transmitting anything was the damn black hle itself...we have no idea what happened to him.

If I die, there will be no leader to lead our people, and we may lose the UGA. Humanity, for the first time in ages, would have lost, and losing the game means one thing: extinction...

In some sort of miracle, I have all but used up all my hope. Fighting, losing, winning, leading. I was hoping that Noobis could carry on my legacy. now, he is gone. now...'cough, cough'...now...the flame is dying...Hope...

Hope...

Hope.....

*Johnson Shnizel, great hero of the UGA, goes into cardiac arrest...*

*...He dies the day after...*

CNC Johnson Shnizel, UGA. 05/30/2972-04/21/3051

"Hope"

******

"Listen, You have got to believe me. I have seen your people die by the hands of those riftwalkers, They are out for vengance. They have taken almost all of our galaxy, and they are determined to overtake your galaxy! the Hydrogue in our galaxy are all but-"

*Noobis feels a chill on his back*

what is wrong, Human Noobis? The Hydrogue Grand Council demands that-

"No...John..."

3009

* Noobis, along with the crew of the Battleship UGAN Dengora and the ship herself, have rifted from the black hole they accidentaly fell in, and out into a new galaxy, entirely ran by the Hydrogue. This galaxy is where the Hydroluge originate from, and have faced the Riftwalkers before. Now, Noobis is trying to negotiate with the Hydrogue for assistance in the Great Rift wars...*

Why should the Hydrogue help you?

"Because you've helped us before. Because you do not the same thing that happened to you happen to us. And if you don't, those Riftwalkers will scour the universe to find the people who exiled them thousands of years before."

Hmmmm....this council may consider a treaty...what do you propose?

"You follow us to the black hole we hame out of, send your entire fleet in, and wipe out the rifties for good. We return the territory of the Hydrogue to you, and we will remain friendly towards you, and help you out in any further conflicts, as well as create a mutual trade agreement..."

...In return...?

"we reclaim all lost territories."

hmmm....

The council determines your plan...adequate. we accept.

wtf!?

-Noob?

The Lord Avatar didn't go through the portal. He instead activated the device he had been hiding since the start of the Rift Wars, causing time in the Milky Way to loop back to 3009, when the Milky Way was just a collection of warring factions. Everybody in the galaxy was mindscrubbed and now have no memory of the Rift Wars (except you, Noobsauce, as you were in the Hydrogue galaxy at the time). This is the ultimate plan of the Riftwalkers, and they will keep the Milky Way galaxy in a time loop forever.

In order to break the loop, Lord Avatar 진한 핸드 must be killed. He's not here yet, so we must wait another 50 years or so before he arrives with his armada. Alternatively, we can jump into Unspace and assassinate him, although this will be our only visit into Unspace since the Riftwalkers will seal off the specific entrance. Even if we succeed, it's not over, as the same loop is being implemented in multiple galaxies across the universe. To free each galaxy, the respective Lord Avatars must be killed and each rift sealed. Unless we can find a stable rift that facilitates multi-direction travel, we will not be able to defeat the Riftwalkers completely and will only be able to trap them in Unspace.

[IE] The Undying.

*Sigh* Here we go again. How many Lord Avatars are there? Can't Noobsauce tell us what happened?

Samurye.

Seeing as the Riftwalkers failed to wipe my memory, I propose we do this:

1) Invade the Vetaron Confederacy so as to stop them from developing and building the rift generator; or

2) Create an ironclad peace treaty with them promising territory if necessary.

Option two is not an answer, I'd say we build up our forces and invade them at once, to prevent it from happening, sounds kinda of evil

-TheDarth

Mass Effect Reaper? (I just finished the game for the second time about ten minutes ago. )

Also, those rhymes are awesome. Where did you get them, or did you make them yourself?

[IE]Tal Gendron'nh

I agree.

Lets invade at once.

I will order the Teratronians to begin mobilising.

Three Lord Avatars and three galaxies trapped in loop. If you include ours, that makes four. I'd recommend sorting out our galaxy first and then helping the other three galaxies.

The Undying.

yep.  Sovereign.    I got the rhymes from a movie.  I'll let you guess which one. 

and for the rest of you guys - the fleet is BMP! didn't you notice the ship types that were escorting Sovereign?  the Halbringer is unique to the Sultanate

-Fate

The Ashi Sultanate expands north and west, and expands to (not into) the UGA border to their south.  They immediately begin building X-303 Armored Cruisers, and begin researching plans for the Darksaber II.  They stumble across a mysterious dreadnought... (sound familiar?)

-Fate