Story:Unleashed

Unleashed is a story about the return of a deadly species, long thought dead. This story is a prequel to the large saga of Chaos Crisis stories. It is also the first in the sub-arc "Rising Ancients".

Prologue
"Sire, are you sure this will work?"

"Yes. This will work," He said in a wispy yet confident tone, seeing doubt in the loyal man's mind. "Do not worry, it has been worked out and tried. We will escape this war and awaken in the future. Everything has been worked out. There is no need to fuss,"

"Well, uhm, it's just...It will be a very long time, and, well, is everyone sure it will work?" The man said, still very worried about what could happen to them if anything faltered.

"I've already told you, everything is fine. Now come along, we could be late and then we will have missed something,"

The two of them walked along a small pavement made of metal while it rained ever so quietly on the immense, dark buildings either side of them. In the sky was complete darkness, or at least one could mistake it for that.

A large sphere was in the sky almost completely blocking the view of the stars. An immense structure built by the people on the planet below it. Amazingly complex, yet on the outside so bland and boring, and maybe even a bit menacing.

The two men continued down the street in the rain and into a large, cone shaped vehicle which sat at the end of the pavement When they got inside it rumbled a bit and then shot off into the dark sky towards the magnificent sphere, never to be seen again by anyone...

Introduction
In the Andromeda Galaxy, among one of the many, many systems there was a brilliantly blue star. Around this star were five planets. Each of these planets were very different.

The first planet was a dry, inhabitable, ball of rock. With Mesas and Plateaus as far as any eye could see. This planet had no atmosphere and was constantly bombarded by radiation from the blue star.

The second planet was a hot, humid planet. This planet was habitable, but not by much. On this planet were tiny archaea and bacteria which swarmed together in large masses, enough to look like an ocean. These bacteria were constantly trying to survive, the top layer always being burnt off making the small atmosphere humid.

The third planet was a small planet. Just barely getting it's classification as a planet. Yet, it had a large atmosphere that stuck to it. Enough to make it look just a bit bigger than the first two. This planet was actually very cold and had frequent storms as the dirt in the sky blocks out the star. Nothing lives here at all.

The fourth planet is again a small planet. This one however has no atmosphere at all. This planet is highly eroded by highly concentrated acid that was once on it's surface. Making jagged peaks and deep canyons. The acid has since diminished and the atmosphere stripped away, but the spiky landscape was still preserved.

The final, fifth planet was large planet. This planet was a bit strange however. It was a perfect grey sphere. No landscape of any kind, or atmosphere to let life grow. This sphere was strange and had actually been the subject of an investigation. A nearby interstellar civilisation that spanned about seven star systems had sent a small fleet to investigate the planet. Especially since any communications were actually scrambled when they came close to the planet.

This civilisation called itself the Baska Theocracy. The Baska were a highly religious civilisation than was comprised of a species of amphibians.

These amphibians were tall and slender, with green skin that had a bright yellow stripe down the middle. They had four limbs, two arms and two legs. They also had a head on top of their body, which was a sleek vertical oval shape when looked from front on. On either side of their head was a large bulbous eye, with a large pupil and small purple ring around it. Their arms and legs both had one joint, and three fingers/toes at the end which were flat and circular.

The Baska had a fairly advanced and friendly civilisation, which strictly kept to religion. They had spotted the oddity of the large sphere and had made attempts at seeing what it was. After it was deemed impossible by nature they sent out several probes, which all failed. So, seeing that they would need to get a personal view of it, sent a manned mission to the sphere, which was now named (by them) Kijivu.

This manned mission was comprised of one large exploration vessel, upon which were 1,700 individuals. The spacecraft was powered by four separate ion drives which were built onto the back. They angled outwards and were attached by separate rectangular hulls which connected them to the main body, which was an oval, slightly squashed at one end. In the right lighting this spacecraft would have been coloured green, with a yellow stripe going horizontally across the hull of the ship.

This ship and it's inhabitants however were going to get a surprise when they investigated Kijivu...