Chapter 10

The Yuuzhan Wormhole

The title for this sounds a little lame but work with me, I'm getting somewhere with this, and my apologies on this story sounding like a New Age, thank you jlp511 for putting my story on your C2. Review Response:

Bienvenido S. Canonizado – (Cracking of fingers…let us begin) I'm sorry to hear that there isn't much Warhammer in the Philippines so I'll try and fill it in, first the Space Marine chapters that defected (That I know of the top of my head) were the Word Bearers, World Eaters, Black Legion, Alpha Legion, Emperors Children, and half of the Dark Angels Chapter with around half the number of Imperial Guard now renamed Traitor Guard. The Space Marine legions still loyal are the Ultramarines, Blood Ravens, Raven Guard, Blood Angels, half the Dark Angels, Space Wolves and umm… Salamanders, their weapons are more powerful than the Imperial Guard with Bolters that are a sort of power rifle weapon that's rounds could leave massive holes in a person. A dreadnought is a dead Marine reanimated in a box-shaped metal walker with stubby bolter arm and deadly looking claw and finally my favourite Chapters from both sides would be in order the Blood Ravens, Raven Guard, Word Bearers and the Space Wolves…phew I think that's it…if anyone else knows any Marine chapters that I missed please…I beg of you tell ME!!!

angelus288 – I had a feeling I made the AT-AT walkers too small I'll make the change and I think in the last crusade the Despoiler managed to break a path to half the galaxy before he was defeated by the Cadians…I'm not sure about that last part and I've seen the maps of the galaxy, the three main Tyranid hivefleets, the sudden rise of the Necrons and the Tau must be weakening them at least slightly.

Ravenor – I don't think the Alliance would tolerate such a blood hungry and xenophobic Inquisitor and thanks for the ranks of their Psykers.

Imperial soldier – I got the warp wrong…ah CRAP!!!

bookworm101 – I'll try not to disappoint especially with the Vong's little surprise.

Long live Warhammer40k – Whoohoo a hundred reviews plus.

Maugen Ra – Not giving anything away on the Inquisitor's interesting find and sorry I did get the idea of the girl from Entilza but she is not a vessel for a powerful being and she is not a ten thousand year old in the form of a little girl.

KarFoo – The website of my discussion is actually on this one, on the forums under Warhammer in a sub category called WH, WH40K, and Crossovers under once again Star Wars/Warhammer 40K.

melgar – hmm maybe.

theclerk2 – Sorry did kind of borrow the idea from Entilza but she isn't a vessel for a powerful being and she is not a ten thousand year old in the form of a little girl.

grayangle – What I said to Theclerk2.

Caedes.Leighton – One question…what or who are the Apex twins?

Nolife – Suck someone's soul out, don't you think that has the behavioural qualities of a Sith Lord and not a Jedi Master who believes that killing with the force is wrong…unless under extreme anger or suffering, hmm a Sith Lord sucking someone's soul out…would need to be a powerful Sith…get me my drawing board!!!...maybe the Original Lord, 25,000 years old trapped in a crystal…help!!!

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The system was perfect, small and out of the way of the other major powers of the galaxy, five planets, one of which was capable of supporting life orbited around aging twin suns. The shapers had set to work the moment the taskforce arrived culling the planet of its dominant life forms and reforming it into the spitting image of one of the ancient Yuuzhan Vong worlds, full of deadly jungles and plains full of the ancient creatures that lived on their home-world they named this new bastion Tricksters Blessing after their trickster goddess Yun-Harla.

In orbit around it the warriors and shapers built a living shipyard and research station, shaped like Yuuzhan Vong worldship's the spherical creatures were the size and shape of a small moon, around the system the Matalok Cruisers were busy setting up dovin basil minefields ready to suck any passing by ship out of their faster than light travel, tests on these mines had proved successful sucking out merchant ships, the Yuuzhan Vong would raid them and then destroy them killing or enslaving all on board.

Supreme Commander Sharlick Carr stalked through the dimly lit, pulsing corridors of the research station towards the head shapers laboratories where she had been busy testing the Tyranid bio-ship that they had captured a month ago and researching on the wormhole that brought them to this galaxy, she had called him to her lab with the promise of a great discovery.

The two towering Yuuzhan Vong warriors hit their fists against their armoured chests in salute as he passed by them into the lab, it was a fairly sizable chamber full of shaping creatures, tools and experiments on the living tables and walls

The head shaper was at the other end starring intently at the hanger connected to the laboratories, it was within this hanger that the Tyranid bio-ship was sitting, it had been culled and searched thoroughly several times by the warriors and psychically shocked twice by the Yammosk to be sure they got all the reptilian creatures before they let Shaper Yer have it, all around her were her adepts and fellow shapers who were working on different projects.

"What is it Shaper Yer?" Carr growled, the head shaper turned to him and smiled.

"Several interesting things my lord" she said "But first I have found that this bio-ship has the capacity to think on it's own to the point were it does not require a crew but is directed by a creature known as a Norn Queen, similar to a Yammosk but on a smaller scale, it appears that this ship suffered damage before it ran into us that killed its coordinator and caused the ship to wonder blindly"

"Yes, so"

"I think I have found a way to mimic it" she said "If you would just follow me"

She lead the Supreme Commander through the main lab into a smaller hanger designed for fighter sized creatures, within it was two Corralskipper's, the fighters were hovering around the chamber executing simple turns. At the end of the hanger was a small group of Shaper adepts, one of which was wearing a living helmet commonly found on warships.

"What about it?" Carr asked impatiently "They seem like regular Corralskipper's"

"Yes it does" the head shaper agreed "Except for the fact that they do not have pilots"

It took a while for that to sink in before the Supreme Commander spun towards the head shaper in surprise "What?"

"They don't have pilots" the shaper repeated "Both are being controlled by the adept wearing the living helmet, it took me and my staff a month but we have finally integrated the two…think about it Supreme Commander, we can build hundreds of these and place them under the command of a single warrior squadron leader who will coordinate them like a Yammosk"

"Impressive" the Commander replied "Are there any side effects?"

"I am confident they have been sorted out" she said hesitantly.

"What are they?"

"Several of the first experiments have been showing signs of incredible intelligence similar to the Bio-ship" she confessed "We destroyed them and tried again"

"May I remind you head shaper that we are short on living craft, even with the creation of a shipyard" Carr scowled "But an interesting idea…what about your research into the wormhole?"

"I think that given the right equipment I can recreate the scenario and stabilize a wormhole" she answered "But I am still having trouble with coordinate settings, the scenarios say that the wormhole will lead to the Alliance galaxy but may come out at random locations"

"What is the chance that it will lead to one of our last major strongholds" Carr asked.

"At the moment five-to-one Supreme Commander" she replied.

"It will have to do, can it be closed if it ends up at an Alliance held system?" he asked.

The head shaper hesitated again before giving him an answer "Yes"

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Four Matalok Cruisers hovered in strategic positions, making the four points of a diamond, these cruisers were modified with rushed artillery shaped emplacements similar to the one on the Yun-Yuuzhan.

From the bridge of the Uro-ik v'alh Battleship God's Wrath Supreme Commander Carr watched as the warships took up positions, the prototype weapons were very unstable and could destroy all four warships so the Commander evacuated them and left a skeleton crew of warriors on each ship, if this worked then he would have a working wormhole to the Alliance galaxy but if it failed his fleet would be at half strength.

Beside him was Head Shaper Yer who was looking on in interest to see if her experiment would work, the Commander raised his hand sending the order to begin, the artillery weapons glowed dark red before firing in unison, the four crimson beams meet in the centre with a flash and a massive wormhole appeared in the centre.

"Status on the wormhole" Carr ordered "Is it stable?"

"It's stable my lord" one of the scanning officers replied "Beginning transmission"

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Supreme Commander Devar Hurkk growled angrily as he scanned the latest set of reports from the battlefront, another two strongholds had surrendered to the Alliance in the past few days.

This was a disaster, ever since the Supreme Overlord was assassinated the empire had just fallen apart, his warriors had lost their warrior spirit and the many different domains were now fighting each other almost forgetting about the Alliance until their war fleets were at the door. Many leaders felt that they had angered the gods with this invasion and were abandoned, so they were now surrendering to the Alliance, following the lead of the Warmaster.

Hurkk however had other plans, he wasn't about to lie down and die just yet, he had sent an invitation to all surviving Yuuzhan Vong armies and fleets to meet up with him here, at the still held world of Nal Hutta, once the throne-world of the small Hutt empire, now his staging ground, so far over a thousand warships had arrived including six Worldships, Battleships, Cruisers, escort craft and troopships.

"Kwaad, Carr, Qourrick, Yem" his second recited over the colour patterns on the ships that were the signs of their domain "Good, good…many have come"

"Yes" Hurkk said "But not enough…no were near enough to win this war"

"The war is over Supreme Commander" his second replied "We are leaderless and our numbers are a tenth of what they once were, were just here to carve one last trail of destruction"

"I remember a time when we could assemble an invasion fleet five times this size" Hurkk replied almost wistfully, he almost fell backwards in surprise when the wormhole appeared in front of his worldship.

"What in the name of Yun-Yuuzhan is that!?" his second said in shock.

"My Lord" one of his communicators called "I'm getting a transmission from that wormhole…its Supreme Commander Carr"

"Put it on" Hurkk ordered "Supreme Commander, I thought you were killed on Coruscant"

"Reports on my death have been much exaggerated" Carr replied "You will not believe where I am"

"Where?" Hurkk asked in interest.

"In another galaxy"

"Impossible" the Supreme Commander replied after a pause.

"No its not" Carr said "That new weapon you gave me was hit by a turbolaser blast seconds before it fired, the resultant explosion created a wormhole…my head shapers have analysed your design and found a way to recreate it"

Hurkk smiled fiendishly showing his serrated teeth at the thought of this, a new galaxy, a galaxy where a new empire could be created…a second chance, perhaps the gods haven't abandoned them after all "We start a new empire"

"And let our enemies fear us" Carr said "Once we have gained a sizeable empire in this galaxy we will return and finish the war we started in the Alliance galaxy…how many ships are under your command?"

"I have a thousand warships and carriers here" Hurkk replied "Including over a million warriors and six worldships"

"Send them through my friend" Carr replied "And in the name of Yun-Yuuzhan we will win or die in glory"

"I will send the ships in attendance through first" Hurkk said "Can you keep the wormhole open for a day; more of our brothers and sisters should arrive"

"We can hold it open for a day…but no more Supreme Commander" Shaper Yer said.

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The escort craft came through the portal first, hundreds of Corvette, Frigate and Destroyer class craft, these ships swarmed around the system in search patterns checking that this wasn't an ambush, next to come through was the Cruisers and Battleships, teeming through the wormhole and moving a great distance from the blue portal and forming up in their assigned battle squadrons, finally the Worldships arrived, massive craft full of Yuuzhan Vong that rivalled the size of a moon, as the last one came through they took up orbiting positions around the closest planets.

Finally by the end of the day Supreme Commander Hurkk's worldship came through accompanied by a recently arrived fleet of two hundred warships before the wormhole finally closed, the Matalok Cruisers stayed where they were, if the invasion didn't go as planned they needed to recreate the wormhole.

Supreme Commander Carr knew just were to strike first, an empire not far away from here, his scouts had surveyed its borders, it was already at war with the human Imperium and those Tyranid creatures and the few vessels they had managed to intercept had informed them that it's name was the Tau Empire.

How was that? Sounds a little out-there but work with me on this. With a working wormhole to the Alliance Galaxy the Yuuzhan Vong can strengthen their military strength and numbers, they can start an invasion on the galaxy? Find out in the next chapter…Don't forget to review!

Question – What is the Greater Good? Is it similar to the force?