Empire of Andrew

Redlight Bioships:
First seen in the Outbreak of 2351, Redlight bioships are organisms which exist to transport Redlight to other worlds, and engage enemy ships. There are no classes of bioships, only commonalities between all types. Most are armed with long barbed whips, the whips armed with hardened biomass capable of ripping through armor, as well as claws for close combat. Ranged weapons include powerful bio-plasma emitters, which can punch through shielding, as well as pods of biomass fired at missile-like speed, regenerating damage done to them by point defenses, until they smash into the hull. These either contain extremely potent acidic compounds that begin dissolving the hull, or they contain tons of Redlight biomass, which will either begin burrowing into the hull to infect the crew, or begin spreading across the exterior, ensnaring weapon systems, jamming and blocking sensors, and entering the interior of the ship through hangers and any other entrance it can find for its vines and tendrils to grow into. There are several other missile equivalents available to a bioship, ranging from a pod that, upon impacting small craft, releases swarms of worm like organisms that feed on metals, literally eating the fighter apart, to pods that are full of energy which manifests as an EMP, shutting down unshielded electronics. Bioships even have equivalents of small craft, fast and highly agile bioforms armed with smaller versions of the bioships weapons, the minds of fighter pilots remotely operating them from the safety of the Hivemind.
However, their potent weapon systems are not the most powerful assets available to a bioship. Every bioship creates an effect similar to that of a Hive, granting greater intelligence to every Redlight organism in the vicinity. In addition, if there are no anti-magic apparatus (Nullwave devices or Psywave Siphons) in the area, the bioship can act as a hub of psionic activity, unleashing devastating bolts of magical energy, teleporting Redlight forms directly into warships, obliterating small craft which attack it by unleashing a 360 degree pulse of magic, or, most insidiously, using psionic and the Hivemind to hijack AI and ‘infect’ them, turning them on the crew. There has even been a case where a bioship somehow directly attacked the minds of crew members of a cruiser, linking them all to the Hivemind and making them willingly give themselves up to be infected.
All bioships are heavily armored with thick layers of hardened biomass, and, like all Redlight organisms, are very hard to kill because of their ability to very rapidly regenerate damage.

Oceara
Cybus1

2351:

As the Redlight forces continue their massive attack against the LPCN Calleux Line and the PDSS Grand Redoubt, the activation of the PDSS FTL Jammer grids beyond the Redoubt, has resulted in catastrophic consequences for the Orson Federation.

Unlike many other nations involved in the LPCN and the PDSS, the Orson Federation does not have a direct border with the Red Wastes, and has been located relatively far away from the main action of the various "Redlight crusades". The fact that Redlight armies have to either move through Cybusian space force or the space of other nearby nations before even coming close to the Federation has proven to be very beneficial to the Orsonians, and Drakul outbreaks and Redlight infestations are rare occurrences in Federation space as a result. This was even adapted into the strategy of Federation for dealing with a Redlight invasion: allow Elizabeth's forces to exhaust themselves fighting through other nations, and then strike when they were at their weakest. While the Federal Military continued to study the nature of Elizabeth and Redlight, the people of the Federation have remained relatively ignorant of the true dangers of Redlight, with the Federation largely experiencing internal peace and prosperity at the local level while the Redlight wars occurred, and the military nevertheless remained focused on its goals for political dominance over the Senate and Orson. Additionally, the Sterkians are still considered to be the main threat to the Federation after having fought two wars with them, with a substantial amount of military assets remaining near the Sterkian-Federation DMZ.

However, the status quo has changed drastically in light of the most recent surge in Redlight activity, and the Federation's strategies are now working against them. Rather than make a stand at the Redoubt, where the Redlight forces would likely be ground down in brutal fighting against the combined LPCN and PDSS forces (as well as the cooperation of some of the most powerful magic users in the universe in Oceara and Cybus), a substantial amount of Redlight bioships coming out of the Red Wastes have gone around the FTL Jammer grids, taking long routes through interstellar and intergalactic space in hopes of finding easier prey and an easier staging ground for further attacks. Unfortunately, these routes have taken them directly into the outskirts of Federation space.

First, one bioship was spotted in the Aicury Sector, wrecking havoc on several mining outposts and teleporting Redlight forms directly onboard dozens of civilian ships in the area; having never encountered anything like it before, the local security forces were quickly overwhelmed. Following this single bioship were twenty more, which quickly spread across the sector and repeated the same carnage the initial mining outposts suffered. The Aicury Sector was a civilian sector and not under the direct control of Federal High Command, and the military had relatively few assets stationed within the sector. As such, it was up to the local planetary and stellar security forces to hold the line until a Federal Navy force could respond. As these security forces desperately tried to fend off the Redlight incursion in a battle for survival, tens of millions of civilians would be infected, either turned into Drakul or various other Redlight forms (including some of the first Silencers), while Redlight biomass began to overrun and grow over entire settlements. Advanced AI systems were captured and corrupted into Technopaths. Sensors throughout several star systems were jammed, and it would be days before substantial Federal Navy assets arrived over the world of Aicury, the capital and namesake of the sector; by this time however, it was far too late. Following the first twenty bioships were dozens more, and eventually hundreds as they stormed not only the Aicury Sector, but the nearby Klandul Sector as well, breaching deep into inner Federation space in the Milky Way Galaxy and coming within spitting distance of major Federation core worlds. Communications from much of the Aicury Sector have ceased, having been jammed by the bioships, and the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor of the Federation (who were attending a summit in one of the systems in the Aicury Sector) have gone missing, with the Federal Military forced to pull back and unable to perform a search for them.

Federal High Command has activated the Rapid Response Protocol, and has ordered the mobilization of the entire Federal Military, with billions of personnel being brought out of the reserve forces and thousands of currently mothballed warships being brought into service once more; additionally, forces are being relocated from the Sterkian DMZ and towards the opposite side of the galaxy, where the Aicury and Klandul Sectors are located. An emergency session of the Senate is being held at the capital on Zion.

Aicury

The world of Aicury, population 500,000,000, was the jewel in the crown of the Aicury Sector, and among the fastest-growing worlds in the entire Federation. The world, and the sector as a whole were located on the frontier of Federation space, and relatively isolated from the politics of Zion or the other core worlds. The frontier attracted millions of people on a yearly basis who sought to start a new life for themselves, taking advantage of the immense untapped resources and potential wealth that could be earned in the Aicury Sector, as well as an escape from the increasing corruption and decadence of the inner Federation systems. The "boom world" of Aicury now had dozens of major cities sprawled across its surface, as well as hundreds of smaller settlements in rural area, while there were five civilian space stations in orbit and other smaller orbital defense platforms. Aicury's moon, known as Aisa, was inhabited by 10,000,000 people who mainly lived in artificial domes on the surface or in sprawling cities constructed inside ancient lava tubes, and the moon was the center of the region's high tech industry and scientific research facilities. Life in the frontier was far less cozy than on a Federation core world, but nevertheless rewarding if one was willing to put in the work.

Now, both worlds were being overrun by Redlight, and were being used as a staging ground for further Redlight incursions into Orsonian space. The initial invasion and panic had begun when the Aicury territorial government noticed that communications had been cut off from other systems close to Aicury, while thousands upon thousands of refugees flooded into the capital, bringing with them horror stories of what had occurred on their own worlds or outposts. Aicury's planetary government was overwhelmed, and immediately began contact with the Senate and the Federal Military for further aid. However, within days of the initial incursion into the sector, Aicury and Aisa were stormed as dozens of Redlight bioships entered the system. A fleet of Federal Navy ships stationed in orbit around Aicury suffered catastrophic losses after standing their ground and fighting the Redlight forces for hours, and were forced to retreat. All law and order across the entire star system quickly broke down, with members of the planetary and sector governments either going into hiding or attempting to flee deeper into Federation space; it was every man for himself. The Redlight forces established themselves in every major city with a population above 50,000 on Aicury, while Aisa's biodome communities were penetrated and rapidly overrun, with survivors heading underground on the moon. Chaos and insanity gripped both worlds as people attempted to flee or hide wherever they could, only to be hunted down and meet a gruesome fate. Redlight biomass rapidly spread, and a few Hives had already begun development, while countless Redlight forms were created as millions were infected and became servants of Elizabeth. Hordes of Drakul were also created as the Drakul virus was unleashed upon the civilian population. On Aicury, cities rapidly became no-go zones, with survivors fleeing into the countryside and taking refuge in various safehouses that were being established throughout rural areas. Armories were raided and weapons given out to any able-bodied citizen who could shoot a gun, and the remnants of the planetary security force established numerous militias to continue the fight.

However, the Federation had not come close to giving in- this was only the beginning. Detecting the presence of an enemy force in orbit, installations of the Federation's Interstellar Assault System (IAS) on Aisa would automatically activate and begin seeking out targets to destroy. Originally used against the Sterkians during the Alexandrian War, the IAS was a classified military program that allowed targets many light-years away to be struck and destroyed without having to deploy a single warship in battle, greatly increasing the power projection of the Federation. The main armament of all IAS installations was the hyper missile, a type of warp missile that was equipped with teleport modules (developed from similar Ocearan technology) that allowed these missiles to strike across distances of many millions of light-years at an extremely high-rate of speed. While it would certainly cause immense destruction at the speeds at which it impacts, the missile primarily destroyed its targets by creating a singularity, with this technology developed from Ocearan point repulsion technology and Orsonian graviton beam technology; the blast is capable of ripping fortifications and warships apart within a radius of several hundred thousand kilometers at maximum potential, and several dozen of these missiles were theoretically capable of ripping a planet apart. Dozens of Redlight bioships would immediately be targeted and struck by these installations.

Zion

The emergency meeting of the Senate on Zion nearly ended in bloodshed as some senators had to be physically restrained to keep them from coming to blows with each other. With reports coming in of the Redlight surge towards the inner Federation core worlds, and the deployment of new Redlight forms never seen before, the majority of the Senate was beyond terrified of the possibly of Elizabeth and her "children" conquering the heart of the Federation, and were willing to do whatever it took to end the war. The Chancellor and Vice Chancellor were still missing, and with reports of Aicury being entirely overrun by Redlight, they were presumed dead, leaving the Federation leaderless. As such, a controversial vote and decision was made, undoubtedly with heavy influence from Federal High Command: High Admiral Kenth Dash of the Federal Navy would be appointed as "acting Chancellor" until the Redlight invasion had been dealt with, and the Federal Military would be granted the power to use "all means necessary" to save the Federation from utter destruction. As to be expected, a number of senators who were against the military's influence in the government reacted harshly to this ruling, resulting in Dash's first act as acting Chancellor announcing the end of this session of the Senate, and the High Admiral ordering the senators to return to their home systems and prepare their constituents for war.

Dash's second act would be enacting martial law over the entirety of the Federation, with the orders of Federal High Command overruling that of the planetary and sector governments, and the ruling of any governor or senator. The Federation was to enter a state of total war, with numerous industries ordered to prioritize the construction of war material over civilian goods, conscription activated for every man and woman between 16 and 60 years of age, and merchant ships impressed into the service of the Federal Navy. Thousands of star systems, including those in every sector located on the frontier, were transferred from the control of the Senate to that of the Federal Military and transformed into marches; the amount of Federation space under the control of the military increased from 35% to 50% practically overnight. Finally, Dash ordered thousands of warships to begin massing in orbit around Jupiter in the Sol System, preparing for a campaign into the Aicury and Klandul Sectors, while Dash boarded his personal dreadnought, the Winged Fury, and took command of his own fleet.

Before heading to Jupiter, Dash made a stop on Earth to visit the island of Tasmania, having urgent business with the Tasmanian Office.

Cybus1
The Orson Empire
Amie would use her cascade, stealing energy from living beings from across the known space to empower herself (but not enough to render them unconscious) as Alejandro would cast a spell with the Soul Lens to funnel ambient magic from all of the worlds the Lens is attuned to, to be transferred to Klein.

Amie would start bending reality itself to banish redlight forms while Klein would himself fight forms with the cover of Amie's Reality distortions to kill forms on his path as the Order would be given for the PDSS Crusade fleet to follow the two into the Wastes to deliver a killing blow. (Although the true mission is to force Elizabeth to have no choice but to leave Orsonian Space to face the assault force) The Sheer power of the Big three super-titans would easily cast aside bioships with their relativistic weapons and use of time-dilation to allow them to turn their guns and retarget near-instantaneously despite the gargantuan cannons of the Chronos taking normally up to twenty minutes to turn.

Habitat 0118, Aisa

As Elizabeth and the Redlight armies continued their feeding frenzy across the Aicury system, the Federation finally struck back, but not in the way the enemy would expect.

Tens of thousands of bright lights would suddenly appear over the various domed settlements of Aisa as they teleported into the system, but they were not warships. All across the world, large impact craters would be created as countless of the objects landed with tremendous force outside of several main landing zones, having slowed their descent from hypersonic speeds upon entering orbit. After a moment of reprieve, the "objects" raised themselves from the ground, revealing their true nature. They were all highly advanced mechanical battlesuits (or simply "mechs" as they have been commonly called for centuries in the Federation), manned by members of the elite Federal Commandos and under the command of the Tasmanian Office.

Of the 100,000 troops that had arrived on the surface of the moon, just 5,000 of them were members of the Tasmanian Office, with each psionist armored in a Hercules-Pattern Megasuit, the most advanced type of mech available to the Federation. Developed from the original Agamemnon Battlesuit that entered production in 2212, the Hercules mech stood 15 meters in height, and boasted starship-grade armor and energy shielding, was powered by a miniaturized fusion reactor, contained an Ocearan-grade teleport module and a graviton module (allowing for seamless and lightning-fast movement on the field), a nanobot-based autorepair system, possessed self-contained environment gear and life support systems (allowing operation in space, underwater, and practically every type of planetary environment, and protection from irradiating attacks), and various other subsystems. Hercules mechs were fairly modular, allowing each psionists to customize their mechs with various weaponry and additional subsystems however they saw fit; typical weaponry included miniaturized plasma lances, micro-warp missile launchers, mounted plasma and laser cannons, radiation emitters, and heavy railguns. However, the suit's most esteemed ability was that it aided the psionists in concentrating their psychic powers on the battlefield, enabling them to dish out massive psychic attacks against their opponents. Additionally, every Tasmanian agent carried their personal psionic superweapon into battle, constructed from the ancient techniques the Orsonians learned from the void entities in the Rebellion era. Like their Rebellion-era counterparts, these weapons were utterly devastating in combat, channeling an unspeakable amount of psychic energy through and capable of performing god-like feats on the field; they were typically shaped like a traditional melee weapon such as a sword, lance, or axe, but agents were free to use their creativity when designing their superweapon.

As the soldiers worked to secure their objectives across the moon, a special mission was reserved for a certain dome settlement, officially known as Habitat 0118. 3,000 Commandos and 100 agents were assigned to storm this particular settlement, as well as secure the facilities buried underground it. Leading this regiment-strength strike force was the most senior officer on the entire moon, Luca Kinoll. Kinoll was a member of the Office's Board of Directors, and had been assigned by the Board to assume command of the liberation of Aisa. Upon landing outside of 0118, he raised his Hercules mech up from its kneeling position and began rapidly covering ground, linking up with nearby Commandos as they prepared their own battlesuits for combat. While armored in variants such as the Odysseus-Pattern Battlesuit that were less advanced and smaller than the Hercules, the Commandos more than made up for it with their extreme training and iron discipline, their experience and culture having carried over from the days of the old Imperial Commandos during Turner's reign; even if they did not possess psychic powers, they were still the most elite troops in the entire Federal Military.

As the strike forces linked up with each other and began the trek towards 1108, Kinoll came down with a migraine that gradually increased in intensity. Kinoll looked to the other agents in his command, who all looked back and simply nodded, all of them having the same, unanimous though. Elizabeth was here, in the Aicury system, and every agent could sense her immense psionic might. Their minds were strong enough to remain independent, but it was known that Elizabeth's powers caused madness; they would all have to tread carefully. Kinoll looked down at his war axe, containing a single shard of the Sword of Tritus which gave the weapon its power; as a member of the Board, Kinoll was allowed unlimited access to such heavily restricted artifacts, and this was as best of an occasion as any to dust off the shards for combat.

As the large dome of 1108 became visible on the horizon, the Commandos activated their Rage Instigators, sending them into a controlled rage state that would greatly enhance their performance in combat. Kinoll could see that the dome's outer wall had been penetrated, and Redlight was practically oozing out onto the moon's surface. He sighed, preparing for the worst.