Gene Roddenberry's
Andromeda
vs
STAR WARS
"All That Glitters..."
"In all the long history of our own galaxies,
no government has ever been a corrupt,
despicable and evil as the GALACTIC EMPIRE was
in their own Galaxy.
Not even the Nietzscheans."
Rain-Drops-Keep-Falling -
"What Lies Beyond"
CY 11987
Chapter One
All that remained were three small Cutters over a dull, brown looking planet with two small oceans. These small vessels fired missile after missile into space, but with little effect, the Magog had come in too great a force.
Hundreds of swarmships filled the space above the brown world gathering force for the final push. Soon the coarse furred creatures would descend on the brown planet taking its population for food, our using the still living bodies of their victims as incubators for their progeny.
A brilliant flash blinds the sensor drones recording this horrific scene. For a moment all who are watching are confused, and unable to determine the source. The image clears in time for the source to become apparent.
A massive wedge shaped craft passes slowly overhead, nearly on top of the Magog fleet. It is difficult to get a sense of scale for the large craft even as the swarmships turn to attack it. A large hanger at the bottom of the wedge began disgorging small ball shaped fighters with strange vertically planer wings.
The wedge craft begins to fire at the swarm. Green bolts of energy smash into the attacking swarm often seeming to vaporize the oncoming craft.
The image changes, pulling back from the battle and gaining a better vantage point for the fight. Two other craft are visible, smaller then the wedge and looking very fragile. The smaller craft had two sections separated by a long thin shaft, but even as the Magog focused their attacks in those seemingly weak areas they were destroyed.
The wedge craft at this angle was more distinct, had two large openings on the bottom, one much larger then the other, it seemed to be propelled by three massive ion thrusters, and its topside was dominated by a large T-shaped tower with two massive globes on top.
All around the wedge craft and its two companions, swarmships were dying. Many tried to clamp on to the attacking vessels hull but were simply vapourized for the effort. It seemed now that only a few dozen swarmships remained, they're numbers had been decimated...
A random green flash arced toward the probe, the image dissolved into static.
Only a few days later Captian Dylan Hunt of the Andromeda Ascendant showed these images to his crew,
"This recording was taken by security satellites in the Kafreion system and brought to us by fleeing Commonwealth slip-couriers," Dylan told them, "Kafreion has been negotiating entrance into the Commonwealth for the past two months fearing that they would be a target of growing Magog aggression."
"It seems they had good reason to fear," Tyr remarked dryly, "Who are their rescuers?"
"We don't know," Dylan responded, "Theses ships have never been seen before, they are a complete mystery."
"I assume will be investigating," Beka complained half-heartedly.
"They cut through a swarmfleet like it wasn't even there," Dylan told her, "With fire power like that, the Magog would never be a threat again."
"Can I interrupt here boss," Harper interjected, "We haven't exactly had great luck with strange aliens we've never met before. If they're that powerful, is this really a good idea?"
"The boy is right," Tyr added, "If they are that powerful what is to stop them from turning that awesome power against us?"
"Nothing I suppose," Dylan admitted, "But we need allies against the Magog, or we'll lose everything anyway."
The crew remained quiet for a moment, considering what there captain was asking them to do. Tyr was the first to break the silence.
"All right, we'll go, but do not let them take advantage of your blind idealism Captain Hunt, or we may all regret it."