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If those who were Matsupa with their Zealot hordes, thought there would not be those who sought revenge; they were sometimes and I add SOMETIMES, not often.. in for a surprise.
Invading, subjugation and control, could work, for small areas, small continents. Raid, pillage and plunder.. then leave. A kind of guerrilla tactical approach, would mean fewer casualties. A more brutal, savage frenzy, that also
gave, the meat eaters, the carnivores; fresh succulent flesh.
Where they, established temples and statues; sacrificial shrines to their Gods? The whole planet, could face their fury. Terror and FEAR, were the key, to ensuring the natives of that world, would submit to their Gods..
NO mercy. All, of their free will, their once happy world or not as may be the case but certainly better, than the hell, they were now dragged into? Many, soon realized the meaning of the words, slaves and food, for their new masters.
A desire to see death, rather than continue living, if one could call it that? Mines and those forced to work in them, the deep dark, damp and often mold killing spores that if the radioactive particulates did not slowly eat at your body, the sepsis would.
Worse still those who died were left to rot. The stench was overpowering and by that we can also say; spreading diseases that infected those around the corpses. Water could also carry toxins released from the blood or other excrement; dead tissue.
Sai of the Jui was from one of the colonies attacked. Almost half, of the ones who had been there, family as we would know them and friends; dead. The grau food stores, others including equipment and of course, mined materials, metals; stolen.
Structures torched and or, flattened by forces, beyond his comprehension. Some unknown to the raiders, were hidden, deep underground. Experimental laboratories, biochemical and bio agents mostly for the good rather than the bad aspects of agriculture and health if not well being of his race.
The colony, had experienced, the after effects, as most do of new worlds, Environmental re weather and more, BUT also parasitic in origin. Fleas, ticks, mites; similar comparisons. Affecting them, but also their ‘livestock’, animal, sometimes vegetative!
The laboratories, had saved them in producing the anti bodies or finding ways to modify, adapt as necessary to all of the other, well most of the other; issues. IF we compare them to the Human(a) and no they were NOT; their species was very similar AND carbon based lifeforms.
The Zealots of course, were a mixed batch, of carbon based, to silica and some other artificially produced forms. The sight of seeing so many of ‘his’ own dead or dying had been the first time he had ever been witness, such a moment in hell.
HIS own kith and kin slaughtered, his ‘Sku’ (sister) had been partially eaten; alive. Putting her, out of her suffering, had given a whole new meaning, to knowing pain. Most of her internal organs, had been removed and, the one who had eaten her, had known how to keep his meal alive.
NOTHING, that would have seen instant death, or even resembling that, would occur as it fed.
Leaving it to slowly die, still partially alive, though not in pain. A substance had been injected into her to stun its victim. Paralysed.
That substance, would start to wear off and, the pain, would have been beyond anything, she would ever have known. Such was starting when Sai had arrived. Most of her gone, barely holding onto anything resembling life.
He leaned into inject her with the kiss, of life eternal as their lips met and the drug flooded what was left of her..
A slight burn, not felt by her for which he was at least relieved as she gasped her last breath. Gone.
Nima was his best friend, his companion, who too, had seen the slaughter, of his closest. Both of them, with one desire, to track the killers, to ? The appearance of Biu who, worked in the underground laboratories and, the ones who had survived?
To find, their above ground kith and kin dead or dying? She handed them, a small box or casket. NOT too heavy, but lined and for good reason. She explained to them, what it was and, how they had to transport it?
To one side of it a device had been attached. A fusive reactive, two vial netron and proton radium detonator plus a timing sequencer?. IF they were in close proximity to it, they would be killed instantly. If they wanted to stay alive ! Certain distances, had to be maintained,.
How were they, going to find, their attackers? Kib another Scieste, had stepped forward to give them the means. Whilst the Zealot hordes, had rampaged, he had kept his wits about him and knew, he had to give his own, due back at any time, the means to?
He had approached their craft, to plant as we would know it, a loor device. (locator). One that emitted, a VERY strong, magnetron based field. Since the attackers, had left them a short time ago, if, they left NOW and got up into space, the odds, were in their favour, to find that signal and, lock on to it?
In no time, their craft, was in space, with a small crew to man it, others could not be spared. They, had to remain, just in case, their enemy returned.. unlikely, but, there was a lot of clearing to be done. 
Aboard their craft they activated the pulse sequencer. It fired a high energy pulse into what might seem the emptiness of space..
A scanner, appeared and the area of space they were in was now transmitting..
A ‘sweep’ radius, of the immediate area, produced nothing, but moving forward slowly, they continued to hold their breath and listen.
The beep beep beep, of the scan, as the signal, increasing in power, suddenly got louder, much louder.
Then the echo. Yes the ECHO. The pulse. had hit the loor device and IT, reflected back to them their signal, giving them all they needed to know, re where their enemy was.
The closer they got, the louder the beep.. until finally they were slowing to carefully keep their distance AND to not attract the attention of their enemy. NOT that they needed any real concerns where they were concerned.
The Zealots, had been a small raiding party AND, whilst there was the Zealot commander with two others, in charge of the raging mob.. there was NO accolyte or ITs apposso.
Raiding parties, were granted such priviledges, provided they returned, to surrender their cargo and fresh FOOD, to the Accolyte and ITs Apposso.
Feasting by them was in progress and, the ones in charge, of the main craft defences, had seen, the arrival of the raiding party and oh yes, left their posts, as one might say, well deserted, at the thought, of sharing in the fresh food.. a feeding frenzy.
That meant, the craft beneath them, had not been detected. Positioning itself below a maintenance hatch to unload Sai in his space suit drifting attached to a cord, across to the hatch blowing the hatch locking device.
The enemy vessel was huge, A Cobkli 4 series cruiser with a Mobi2 star drive. Powerful as one might say with a mini dwarf star and associated component arrays. Capable of some impressive speeds. YET not really moving at all.
Too much celebration going on. too much feeding and gorging themselves. Drunk? Well yes and for the Zealots nothing unusual. To the point of fights breaking out, brawling and bruising even attacking and eating some of their fellow Zealots.
NO reprisals if they did. Those that got eaten, were weaker and, did not, deserve pity let alone respect?
One that had just feasted were now feasted on and found to be delicious re the added food already digested by
them.. succulent tasty treats.
Burping, belching, farting and then collapsed to fall asleep? NOT alone re that. The only only ones who were in any semblance of being awake were the minions who were or had attended to the Accolyte and her Aposso.
Sai had entered to locate the Mobi2 star drive. The area it was in? Blowing the chamber lock, he could open it and, after programming, the timing sequencer, he gently left the ‘bomb’ as we would know inside.
NOT that he, was planning on hanging around and we might think cos of the explosion? NO! the area it self was radioactive on a level that was NOT good, not good at all re Carbon based lifeforms.
Luckily, his space suit, gave him, some protection, but even that, could still ‘leak’, radio active particulates, into him. Now moving back, towards the hatch, to reopen it, he stepped out, hooking the line to his suit, as he, floated back, to those waiting for his return.
Back onboard and a special ‘shower’ IN his suit.. before, removing that, to use a sonic body cleanse. feeling refreshed. he now rejoined the others moving away from the enemy. NO misjudging the distance. THAT size of craft would leave debris scattered like an asteroid field.
As for the Mobi2 star drive? An explosion, equal, to an atomic one, or TWO in one! The explosive, fall out, bad enough, the after shock wave, at almost double, if not triple the energy released!
How, would they know, if, the explosion had worked? Using a Globe sat unit, to observe it after tipping them off.. an it broadcasting the event? Across the Qiverse. for all who could see it.. and few could not..
Globesat, were greedy, for anything, that kept their audiences, buying their goods.. morality did not come into that equation. Also the tecnology was far more advanced than most re its capabilities for knowing how close it could get to its target? without blowing up or!
The screen, illuminated, as the image, of the enemy craft, cleary visible. Time was up. no explosion? True it had failed or had it. One, of those, who were immune, to the effects of that chamber had entered. NOT steady, on their limbs.. not at all.
Stumbling against the device, cursing at the sensation of pain.. it picked up the device and threw it, at the bulkhead, with a screech, enough to deafen most .. NOT that that would be of any consideration..
The fluid containers, cracked. the fusive reactance, hissed, before the detonators triggered, combined with the Mobi2 star cluster arrays, the shields destroyed, the explosion that followed tore the craft apart like a pair of scissors snip, snip; SNIP..
The blast area, was the largest Globesat and, most, of its viewers, had ever seen. In fact, the aftershock, had caused the Globesat unit, to wobble.. NOT damaged, but the transmission, was momentarily interrupted.
Resuming its imaging the debris was all too clear.
Sai, could, with the rest of them, savour the moment. Recorded, to be placed, into their archives. So that those who had lost their kith and kin to the enemy would see due justice had been served.
Others too, had wtinessed the destruction. The Matsupa knew, the star system, that craft, had been in. all seeing, all knowing and stored in THEIR repositories the data. THEY would not forget and another craft would be sent to take revenge. 
ALL and yes, ALL planets, colonies, within that star system, NOT already under their control would now, feel their wrath. NO mercy, was the norm BUT, this?
NOT one living thing, was to remain alive., UNLESS, the ones, who were responsible, for the destruction of THAT craft, were made known to them.
For now Sai and his world could relax. The realization, had not, gone wasted, re knowing, they were weak, on their defensive capabilities.
That, would gradually change. New cannons, new underground escape routes and reinforcements to the point of impenetrable.
The Matsupa would return to that system. When they did, the time, it would take, for them to get to Sai, would be, long after, he was gone.
The reason, as to why, that Accolyte Oom was there? No longer, of any consequence.
Oom was an ancient being and whole worlds would fall before IT.
The Matsupa Elite, had come to recognise IT as extraordinary. Even the powers of a Jin, paled in comparison,
Ice cold, calculating and the moment, any being, appeared, in front of it, they were ripped to pieces.. no, to fragments, NO! Dust to dust to DUST.
NOTHING, could kill it. NOT even the Matsupa elites had that power The race it came from? Mellika.
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