Realm of Resu - Shikyu, The Converts Stronghold
For how many years had the Crusade faltered? For how many years has Neth the Keeper of Knowledge, withheld his information? For how many years has Liad tested them? These are many questions which had caused the Great Schism. The Moross Crusade, and its legacy lived strong among it warrior elite, the Resu... but since the rest of its territory fell victim to the collapse of government so many other star nations across the galaxy have suffered in these chaotic years after the darkness has lifted, there has been a divide in even the most faithful. As the population began to decline after losing so many to the Netherworld, fear began to overwhelm the fearless, the strong became weak, and those on the only path started to compromise for lesser false paths which lead nowhere but to death. In the eyes of Stone Hermes, a new contagion had began infecting his Morossian Kin... a contagion which could only be stopped with total extermination... or aggressive reincorporation.
The First Convert, perhaps somehow with advanced knowledge of the very act of conversion, believed on faith he had stumbled upon a miracle disguised as a monster when discovering an alien contagion of one of the Morossian Resu' most hated enemies - The Yuuzhan Vong of the defeated Horde. The contagion being: The Vongspawn Virus. Unfortunately, as the last several years of testing on a variety of subjects has proven, the silicon-hydrogen base molecular combinations of Resu biology are inherently incompatible with the carbon based viral infection. So while a human pirate could certainly be infected with the Vongspawn virus and subsequently infected by the Techno-virus (as well as vice versa)... a Resu could not.
That was, until approximately a year ago.
A special plant found in the depths of one of the terrestrial planets in the system which had been subjected to the colonization efforts of the Resu, to adapt its oceans to a more acceptable and life breeding territory, seemed to have rapidly evolved over the last several centuries, to incorporate the massive amounts of left over "bio-carbon" from the extinguished native life, in rare conditions, into its biology for specific life preserving functions. In essence, silicon plants with not only a carbon diet... but in small part, a separate carbon biology. Cultivation of these plants began immediately for the First Converts research purposes, and experimentation on humans (while still helpful in some extent with understanding the foreign Vongspawn virus) waned. Cases of being captured by Resu dropped dramatically, as the fatalities began to rise.
In recent months, the Resu had began to incorporate these special plants into native Resu animals as parasitic implantation, heavy enough in carbon structures to effectively accept the Vongspawn Virus in any meaningful capacity. They began to pump these animals up with just enough carbon in their bloodstreams before become a toxin, and used the plant to sap the poison out, growing into them and supplanting native silicon flesh with a silicon-carbon blend. That is when they witnessed the power and adaptability of the Vongspawn Virus once it was able to modify a creature biology. Bony protrusions began to sprout out from these beasts, each one containing compounds of both silicon and carbon...
... then there was another break through; once adapted to a silicon creature, it could then spread (albeit in a weaker state) to another silicon creature without any carbon diet, so long as the new plant made contact and injected the cocktail toxin. Which brings us, to this day.
"Lord Resu, your warriors are ready to receive your Blessing." Before Stone Hermes, a procession of eleven Morossian Resu all female stood strapped to the wall, ready to accept "The Cure". The unnoticeably aged Veteran, turned around not with a sword in hand... but a vined and bony spear. Behind him, there were ten more spears. He spreads his arms wide as electricity cackles between his tusks.
"Queens of Shikyu," His booming electrical voice struck the whole room with its well practiced projection and power.
"Once more shall you sire Emperors to the Realm of Resu! Too long deprived of youth, you shall all birth in a new era... a New Resu. Accept the Blessing-Curse of Liad, for our test is over! Plague has overwhelmed the Realm, but as all else in life, we have conquered it!" A collective roar filled the room with bright and hot lightning bouncing between the members.
"Are you prepared?"
"Yes." The females before him spoke in unison, the heat of excitement growing in their bodies.
"Then let the Gods watch us!" And with the closing of the Resu prayer, the herculean might of Stone Hermes buckled down on the spear in his clawed hands, as he hurled it through the water at incredible velocity, utterly penetrating through the metal cut of the center female. An electric cry of utter agony and rage exploded as the mortal injury released its unique cocktail of toxins into her body.
Stone Hermes had watched the transformation in animals many times before, and knew it would take many hours before it would be complete for a Resu... and that was after the accelerating factor of mortal peril. Before the night was done, none of these females would even remember who they were, let alone what they were going to become. A new species, a new dawn, a New Resu.
Sadistic joy filled him as ten more spears punctured the other females in a likewise manner, witnessing the birthing of a new race which would end all others.
[member="Bryce Bantam"], [member="Neelig Waawat"]
(Post 2)
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