Prelude to Trust

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[It's just a calm, quiet day as the Chalice and co. are travelling en-route to the DC base to get resupplied.  Dan is quite happily maintaining things, Ayame and Maxene might be doing doctoring things or maybe whatever, and Captain Smith is doing drives off the Chalice's bow and seeing how far ahead he can send the balls.  Buuuut... things are never that simple though, as suddenly a massive rip in reality forms in front of the Chalice; large enough to show the picture of a massive space battle between a wide assortment of ships and fighters -Mejire and Taraak forces- and some very familiar enemies!]



It's happening!  It's happeeeniiiiing!

[Smith is unsurprisingly panicking at the sight and is fleeing and getting below deck on the Chalice.]

I've angered mighty Neptune and now he's sending us to the planet named after him!



No, Captain!  It's just a battlefield... but are those the Harvesters?  I thought we'd already beaten-



Unfortunately it wasn't the case though, Chalice.

[A Mejire warship comes into view, somewhat damaged but still firing as a viewscreen comes on, revealing its all-female bridge crew; the dark haired captain -Rebecca- nodding although clearly stressed out by the hecticness of the combat!]

The Harvesters returned, and in numbers far beyond what they had before!  We were able to strike an alliance with the Taraak in an attempt to consolodate our forces, but we're still being pushed back!  We need the Nirvana... all of you even!  [The ship's rocked by a chance blast, and it's becoming clear that a whole slew of Harvester forces are charging in.]  If we don't stop them here then there's no doubt your world's next!



And considering the portal you just opened I'd be inclined to say you just helped speed up the process for them... not that they haven't done this on their own in the past.

[And indeed, suddenly even more portals begin to open up, hundreds of Harvester mechs and several flagships pouring out!]

Speak of the devil...

All hands, battlestations!  Apparantly the Harvesters are itching for a second round; let's see to it that we make sure they don't come back for a third.


(Have a gigantic battle thread for everyone that wants it.  This time, the aforementioned Harvesters are the adversaries, complete with their own imitation Vandreads and countless more forces to work with.  Also, we've got the exceedingly rare Sky/Sea/Space terrain going on due to the openings to the Vandread-'verse, so keep that in mind.)