Age of Strife

the ISA in Edge Gate begin noticing that there is a particular build up of deomon on the east side of the city. they prepare a small fleet, and begin searching the area.

Relevant to Omega: the Rogue comes into orbit above Charn. it begins scanning, examining the situation, and searching for any signs of the nest. (just searching in general and gathering what information it can. note: the Rogue's scanner is good, but the Reliant's is lightyears better.
question: what do they find Omega?)

Relevent to Omega +Anglachel: the Reliant reaches Ember, it begins scanning the city, and sending out fleets to search for the nest. they take on any demons they meet, but the undead gaurds have been doing pretty well defending the city by itself (remember what Hikari wrote), as well as the gaurds.
the cruiser sets down. "thank you for your help. if you have anything else which may help us, please we would love to hear it. otherwise you are welcome to leave. do what you wish, help us or not. we are also willing to provide transport to anywhere else in Lorden with escort (We want the ship back)."
(Anglachel: your guys are still welcome to be where ever. on the Reliant, or on the cruiser, or off the ship in Ember. )

**Remember that Charn is now a massive rain forest and only about 300 people on the far side of the city survived Dolgur**

(Omega, is there still a nest there despite it being turned into a rainforest?)

Josh divides the fleet up into two groups to investigate both. while on the way down, they scan to get an aierial image of what it looks like. the Rogue remains in space

(Silence they'll be on the ship with your guys and theron, etc)
***
Adar breaks his concentration, his mind still reeling from the strain
Adar manages to focus is eyes and looks at Alpha, "I found some sir, but not all of them, their minds are
strong, I'm still learning sir"
Alpha nods, "I understand Adar, you are doing well for one so young, I was lucky to find your corpse after that tragic accident, your clans gift of telepathy is very usefully to me, you may go now"
Adar informs Alpha of what he discovered then leaves
Adar only managed to find Theron, the Twelve and Aerrow, the others he found, but their minds were too powerful
***
The black shadows just keep coming, there seems to be no end to them
All the black shadows speak as one,
"Flesh that parts quiet along the knife blade
Lyrics that resonate, ring alive, fade.
Spirals of black cloud move forth to defy.
While I am living, this hope cannot die."
***
Charn is slowly being rebuilt

Josh orders anouther section of the fleet to help protect the remaining people of Charn from the demons. it is difficult as the there are few people in small areas, with large concentrations of demons. (im counting on you Omega to tell me what the two groups of fighters and cruisers find in the small areas)

The Ascetic of the lidless eye grits his teeth at the insult.
He contacts Oziah the Peerless.
Oziah strikes the ground, which is covered in his ash.
All the ash that he has ever created explodes, and is annihilated.
It's being is added to Oziah's life force.
Thus, anything created out of the ash is destroyed.

the two groups scan it, and send the information up to the Rogue for analysis. they almost immediatly get the results back.
they begin firing some test shots, and try to see if they can find the heart of these huge things. array includes lasers, bullets, missles, and one torpdeo for each (very, very heavy hitters)

(btw, since when did Theorn and Aleria leave the cruiser? its fine. but i just wasnt aware of it. did they leave while in Ember, or did they take up the offer for an escort somewhere else in Lorden) she gets directed to Evleyn "greatings Aleria. i understand you want to speak to our medical team yes? why do you want that?" (note, she is unaware of Thoern's location)

Oziah pushes his way to the cloud.
He was designed to destroy these shadows, and that's what he's doing.
He doesn't expect them to die permanently, but he can stop them temporarily.

(oh yea. totally forgot, sorry. in that case lets say they landed in Ember in a hurry, then brought him over to Scout Eyes (as it has a small medical facility), and the medic team agreed to help save him, BUT they would NOT agree to help disect, and examine him for a cure. may we take it a couple steps back (totally my fault). sorry, but i want to stay true to my characters of the ISA. back to Theron first on the medic table)
the medic team begins examing Theron, with the help of Aleria. they soon bring him into a stable condition, but when Aleria goes to begin examining and to test the omega virus they stop her immediatly. "sorry Aleria" says the medic "but for a start we need permission from Theron if we want to use him as a hamster. and we also by protocol do not disect people unless the person is already dead, and we are examining the cause of death. of course its more extensive than that, but basically, we arnt letting you disect him"
the ISA is will to take samples (with Theron's permission) and exmine them. also do extensive scans on Theron himself (e.g. MRI). but that is as far as they will go, and will not provide any equipment to do such a thing. also the test's mentioned above will not be allowed to be carried out by Aleria.

A wift of the Darkness floats through the void, near Lorden.
Emri arrives beside it.
"Let me be frank, if I may. We want your help"

the medical officer contemplates on this. meanwhile Jaheria has heard of what has happened, as well as Evelyn. Jaheria suddenly steps forward, having come in and started listening to Theron "alright. these are the condition, with your consent" she motions to Theron "WE can take samples, and do test on them. but we are not going to use you" (Theron) "as a test dummy. there will be no injecting, disecting, amputating of Theron. This is on behalf of Evelyn by the way. now the equipment you have here is just about as good as any other ship, but what we dont have is some of the more advanced scanners such as MRI. if you wish Aleria, we can take Theron up to the Reliant and conduct the scans and you may view what we find. but you may only view them from here, you may not come up onto the Reliant. these offers are final, take it or go. Josh has also approved these, so dont push your luck."

"Alright. lets begin then" the medical officer steps forward knocks out Theron with a needle (that is, use the butt of the needle to hit him on the head...), if that doesnt work, he then goes onto to try some other methods until Theron is unconsiouse. he then begins using a few tools to scan him and find out what they can from the scans. although it wont be fully extensive without some of the Reliant's scanners. he finishes those and asks Aleria what she thinks they should do next.

Adar sighs, "Wonder why Alpha, has ordered me to do this, finding Shard and Kassern is not going to be easy, they may have been captured, by the people of the flying ships, strange people those are, and they have some very strange weapons at their disposal, perhaps enough to take down one of the Twelve temporarily, seems Alpha is growing more tense, his thoughts are troubled, his usually calm mind is in a state of panic, and it strains my mind to be within his, but it won't for long as I continue to learn....last I heard of Kassern and Shard they were heading for the city of three moons, best head there...."
Adar creases his brow in concentration, "seems something is amiss in the city of three moons, it feels like something almost living, but it isn't human"
Adar soon arrives at the city of three moons, having teleported himself there, "Shard!....Kassern!!"
Adar looks around, the air is deathly stale...but there is enough for Adar to breath normally

Oziah reaches the cloud.
He turns into silhouette and charges into it, reaching it's heart.