Jump Chain Gothic 12 - BTVS 4

Part 12

Babylon 5. Halloween Universe.

"I never did ask what brought you back to the station," said Susan Ivanova as we sat in her quarters and ate a small dinner "You didn't bring in any cargo so I was wondering why you came. Was it just to see me?".

Rather than have a meal and then have sex we were doing it reverse, and now we were sitting in her quarters with Susan wearing a silky nightgown as we sat together on a couch. I figured that the Earth Alliance officer had badly needed some stress relief and had decided that the captain of a ship that regularly docked at her station but wasn't part of her military group was suitable for such things. This wasn't something I minded at all.

"You must have heard of the peace agreement between the geth and quarians by now," I replied.

Indeed she had. News like that spread quickly in the more civilized parts of the galaxy as while not everyone's FTL drives were equal in matters like speed, perform and power requirements, there had been some standardisation when it came to subspace communications so you could pick up news stations across the galaxy with ease as long as you had the right tech and since this station was a centre of commerce as well as diplomacy it needed that tech. Some parts of the galaxy were out of contact with each other, but at least in the more civilized parts of space, you could keep up with the news and watch some entertainments.

"While there is a Mass Relay in that part of the galaxy that network is somewhat limited" I was now saying "and opening up new relays is risky".

The Mass Relays were scattered across this galaxy and they linked together, but unless you knew where they were and had the means to easily reach one they weren't always useful, some had been damaged or hidden, a few were heavily guarded as well. Which was why the USS Voyager hadn't been able to use one to get back to Federation space as while the Relay in the Sol System didn't work, as it was unclosed in ice, there were others in that part of the galaxy.

It might be possible to build more Mass Relays, although that would require a massive amount of Element Zero as well as other resources, as such I'd decided that it would better to create and build a Jumpgate in the Quarian home system. Sure this would involve placing hyperspace beacons as well, but there were people who could be hired to do such things.

This gate could be used by races with slower forms of FTL so that they could trade with the quarians and even the geth via the Gothic Consortium, my organisation would have a monopoly of sorts on trade it that part of the galaxy so it was only fair that I sort out a way to make that trade happen. Besides I had a surplus of money these days so it made sense to spend a least some of it.

"So I've decided to have a Jumpgate built somewhere near the quarian homeworld," I told Susan.

Jumpgates worked by manipulating four stable, energetic forces of opposing polarity generated by each strut. These forces worked against each other to create a vacuum effect, forming an unstable vortex which ripped open a hole of sorts in the spacetime continuum. This created a pathway to a layer of hyperspace via a singularity.

Though relatively stable devices, jumpgates, especially ancient ones had been known to be faulty on occasion. Usually, this only means a bumpier than usual transition across the event horizon but anything that disturbs the opposing gravitational forces between the struts can cause a reverberating shock-wave that collapses the jump point, essentially forcing the gate closed.

If a gate closes prematurely or incorrectly, the resulting explosion and release of energy rivals that of an exploding planetary body, with a blast wave that only the very fastest ships have a hope of escaping in one piece. Because of this, I would make sure to build the gate very far away from the habitable planets, or better yet in a nearby uninhabited system only a few lightyears from the quarian/geth homeworld.

Jumpgates required an enormous amount of power and could not simply be shut down to prevent intruders. In fact, it takes at least two days to safely power down a gate and another four or five to power up again. To attempt otherwise would result in a massive explosion of energy, destroying the gate and anything else in range. Yet another good reason not to have one in the same system as a homeworld.

The destruction of jumpgates in interstellar combat was considered a very grievous violation of the accepted rules of civilized warfare, as it jeopardizes the entire beacon system and is ultimately self-defeating as all races use and need the Jumpgate network. Whoever may win or lose a conflict, the network must go on.

Although destroying jumpgates is generally frowned upon during a war, it is common practice in wartime for belligerent powers to program their jump gates to deny access to certain frequencies, thus preventing an enemy from using friendly gates and forcing them to open their own jump points. This was done by Earth during the Minbari War, though given the degree of Minbari technical superiority, it offered little in the way of a tactical advantage to that group of humans.

While they weren't as important in this universe as they were in the B5 dimensions Jumpgates were still at the centre of interstellar commerce and trade as FTL drives like hyperdrives and transwarp take a lot of power to use and are very advanced technology that you can't just add to an existing vessel. Even vessels with built-in jump engines rely on the Jumpgate network for navigation.

Recording the signature of every ship that passes through, they allow the race that currently controls said gate to toll the travellers for its use and services, which are usually something arranged between governments by treaty. These treaties set tolling rates and rights to use certain trade routes, in exchange for the security codes necessary for opening the gates. The Gothic Consortium would control the codes for the new gate and any more that were built in that region in the future.

Also, ships equipped with jump engines will often use jumpgates in order to save energy and are often required to do so as a matter of book-keeping so as to log their travels. They used the network beacons to plot their course through charted space, then use a nearby gate as a basis point for journeying out of the network. Only larger, self-sufficient ships, such as the Earthforce Explorer class ship, tend to do this, as well as other military ships in the course of manoeuvres.

It is also possible to enlarge the size of a jump point simply by moving the struts further apart, though it's not known what the upper limit of this capability is as it most likely requires an increasing amount of energy the larger the vortex becomes, but this didn't worry me as I had great energy production technology.

In this universe new gates are being constructed all the time by various worlds, depending on the availability of Quantium-40. Opening up access to new, previously inaccessible areas of space, most are constructed for the purpose of finding yet more sources of Quantium-40 to build or repair even more gates.

Occasionally long-range probes would discover "new" ancient gates, and most still function despite being many thousands of years old. However, some of the older ones had proven to be a little bit "quirky", which could result in a somewhat rough transition in and out of normal space for the ship using them.

"Who is going to build this new gate?" I was asked.

I'd come here to Babylon 5 to find a group that could do just that.

"If you know of anyone who can build the gate then let me know," I requested.

I felt certain that the Earth Alliance had people who could do that and badly needed the business.

"We can sort this out in the morning," Susan said as she stood up and headed to her bedroom "I don't have to start my next shift for a whole eight hours and I want to relax".

I soon followed her to the bed. There was no real rush I still had more than a year and a half before this Jump ended, and I should take some time to enjoy myself between important projects such as dealing with the heretic geth.

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The Phoenix. Halloween Universe.

Ahsoka Tano hadn't failed to notice that she'd matured over the last few months ever since she'd become the apprentice of the Jumper known as Gothic. Partly this had to do with her filling out thanks to having access to enough food, but that wasn't all, it was as if the spell that had transformed from the girl who must have dressed as Jedi padawan and the adult Ahsoka Tano was now finally finishing.

She could now remember some events that she'd known nothing about before, such as facing the Imperial Inquisitors of the Galatic Empire and even her old master while working with a group of rebels. Thankfully that memory was rather vague, as it hadn't happened to her, as such it concern her much, but she didn't worry about and focused on what was going on in her real-life rather than on memories of someone else's life.

Since she felt more mature and confident she'd started working on a new outfit that both expressed her new state of mind, and would be pleasing to her new master. An outfit made of a small top that didn't cover her stomach, showing off her belly button, as well as slender yet firm pairs of arms and legs. She wore a "skirt" of the same material, it had energy absorbing properties and came with a utility belt that included a personal force field as well as some other toys. Her two sabres were attached to the belt. She also wore what she thought to be sexy boots and she strode with grace as she moved down the corridor.

The Battlestar was now in hyperspace, and she would soon return to Padme's ship so as to protect her friend while she did her work, but until then Ahsoka was on her master's ship and since she was here she intended to go see her friend.

As soon as her fellow apprentice opened her door Ahsoka looked her over. Raven had exotic purple eyes and very pale skin. Her hair, which was also purple, covered the spell caster's cheeks but didn't go far down her back as she didn't like it that long. She had a red clasp keeping her black cloak together over a very dark, skintight outfit. This was much like the outfit she'd worn as a Teen Titan, only it was darker, tighter and made of superior materials. It also was enchanted in ways that benefited the wearer. Like Ahsoka, she'd taken to wearing boots that weren't as practical as they could be.

"New look" Raven commented as she let her friend into her room.

The former Jedi looked around the bedroom, aside from a large collection of books that were scattered about it was very neat. Sometimes it seemed as if Raven lived in a disorganised library rather than a bedroom that just happened to have a lot of books in it.

"I felt that it was time for a change," Ahsoka said "I've really started filling out and I figure that our Master will like the new clothes. I want him to look at me more. It might sound a little silly, but I miss him checking out my firm butt".

Raven would not admit, but she too had missed Gothic's attention. He seemed busy these days and had many demands on his attention.

"You have filled out. Still, I've got bigger breasts than you" Raven teased, putting a hand on her chest as she spoke "And a bigger butt. Gothic's quite the ass man".

Ahsoka frowned.

"Well, of course, he looks at it a lot" she replied, "How could he miss it, you have a huge butt".

Raven had matured as well since joining Gothic's group, she was curvy and well-endowed thanks to both natural growth and some modifications performed by the Jumper.

"Size isn't everything" Ahsoka protested, keeping her voice soft as she spoke, "Our master likes my firmness".

The spell-caster did not agree.

"But you can jiggle it for him" Raven argued, "and what about anal, can it even fit in your ass?".

After some more heated discussion a fight looked to be about to break out, and when you had superpowers it was never a good idea to fight with your friends.

"Let's just find Gothic and let him decide" Ahsoka suggested.

They quickly found him in his study, he was going over some plans for future operations, and the two young females explained to him the source of their debate.

"So you want me to decide which of you is sexier?" he inquired.

That did seem to sum it up.

"YES!" the two girls said at once.

Gothic considered this.

"I don't want to choose" he decided "I find you both very attractive".

With that he went over to Ahsoka and Raven, placing his hands over them. With one hand, he massaged the former padawan's breasts, squeezing them firmly whilst the other gripped Raven's rear. He squeezed Raven's ass cheeks, and slapped them, making her ass bounce as he did.

"Raven's ass is very spankable" Gothic admitted, "But Ahsoka's is very sensitive".

For a time Gothic devoted his full attention to his apprentice in matters of the Force. He kneaded her ass cheeks and then smacked them again and again.

"Master, Raven's got nothing on me!" Ahsoka proclaimed "I can take the hardest of spankings for you".

Before long it time for Raven to be felt up. He turned to her, making her turn around as he took firm hold of her ass cheek with one hand and he squeezed her tits with another.

"See I have boobs and an ass he can actually play with," said the former part-demon.

Gothic then began to spank her and Raven let out a bit of a squeak.

"We could be at this for a while" the Jumper declared "You girls better get undressed".

The argument was soon forgotten as both of his apprentices eagerly stripped for him.

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Haestrom. Halloween Universe.

I was rapidly discovering that the quarian called Daro'Xen possessed a clinical intellect and that she was learning a lot from what was going on around here despite me not talking to her unless I really had to. Perhaps too much, but the Migrant Fleet and the admirals were my allies so I couldn't just tell her to get lost, and most of the tech around me that the admiral was very interested in, was well beyond even her understanding.

"So this barrier blocks out all of the negative effects of Haestrom's sun had on this planet?" I was asked.

Centuries ago a group of Quarian scientists had become worried about dark energy destabilizing Dholen (the local star) and causing it to mature into a red giant far too rapidly by reducing the mass of its interior. Though there was a consensus that the geth were not responsible for the anomaly, it was left unclear as to whether this phenomenon is natural or artificial.

During my time in the Mass Effect universe, I'd been aware of this oddity, but back then it had been beyond my means to do anything about it. Now things were different and I'd brought my Battlestar's sister ship, that was under the command of Seven and Sam to study the local star. Or at least they would investigate once we'd cleared out the hostile geth in the system.

Because of the Halloween spell, in this universe, the star, could have been much different a couple of years ago, had been altered to mimic Dholen, but it was a still of scientific interest and while Dholen's magnetic eruptions and solar output overwhelm most communications near it, it was unclear how the geth compensated, I got around this simply by having much more advanced communications technology.

In the Mass Effect universe, Haestrom was lost to the geth in 1896 CE. Soon after, all communication from the planet and its attendant space stations ceased. In both universes, they'd left the planet alone other than establishing several space stations near it, possible to study the star much like how their creators had. Only that had changed recently.

When scouting out this system we'd discovered extensive orbital construction around Haestrom, housing thousands of geth platforms and an unknown number of geth software "minds." It was not known how many geth are on the planet's surface as even my group's spy probes suffered due to the interference from Dholen, making remote scanning difficult.

However, we did have some estimations thanks to the main body of the geth, they understood their own mining, refining, and fabricating practices so they figured that the planet had about 20 more years of use before it was exhausted by the heretic geth who were clearly using this world to fuel their growing military might. What they planned to do with that might was something I didn't know for sure, but still wanted to prevent from happening.

While I could have just fired the nova bomb I'd gotten from the wrecked version of the starship Andromeda Ascendant and taken out the whole system, however, I only had one of those bombs, and this situation hadn't required something so drastic to deal with it. Besides, it wouldn't be a good idea to let anyone know just how much firepower I really had.

Another factor was that I saw this as a chance to further test my bot army. Taking out the Darkspawn race had been time-consuming, but not difficult, taking on the rebel geth, who were a military force with a lot of advanced technology and with tactics more refined than simply charging at the enemy, would be a much better test of my bot army's effectiveness.

In space, the opening battle for control of this system had been rather simple and one-sided. Two of my Battlestars had been more than a match for the rebel geth ships in orbit and so we'd trashed all their orbital stations in sort order.

Once that was done we could have reduced the surface of this planet to glass and taken out all the rebel geth that way, and since the sun was unstable there was little point sparing its ecosystem, but that wouldn't allow me to test my bot army against a real foe.

Plus this planet had been home to a major quarian colony, I was sure that was much here that they'd want to recover and I was sure that some of my companions wouldn't mind a look around either. Aside from that, the quarian people wanted to recover at least some of their colonies and earning more goodwill from them would only benefit the Gothic Consortium in the future.

"Yes," I answered the admiral, not seeing any valid reason to give further details.

The theatre shield currently protecting the base we'd set up on this planet was much like the one that had protected the Rebel Alliance's Echo Base in the Empire Strikes Back movie in that was an umbrella-shaped barrier that protected the base from orbital bombardment and in this radiation from the unstable sun. I'd beamed down the shield and had remotely switched it on before sending anyone down to the planet.

Although the shield was virtually impervious to orbital bombardment and radiation, it did nothing to protect this base from ground assaults. As such the heretic geth who currently controlled this system and were acting against the quarian/geth alliance. Until they were destroyed or at least rendered a non-threat the quarians wouldn't be able to return home so something had to be done about the rebel geth.

The rebel geth, who the main body of geth refused to fight as they weren't able to do such a thing, did at least share some intelligence with us and they were staying out of the fighting. The more orthodox geth were far more interest in finishing their Dyson Sphere in any case, any resources not being used to resettle the quarians were going towards finishing their gigantic construct.

The Dyson Sphere was not my concern, the heretic geth were, and many of the rebel platforms were now marching on the shield. They would be able to walk through the barrier and when they did those platforms would enter into battle with my bot army.

Sadly making peace with all the geth simply wasn't possible as they worshipped the old machines, the Reapers, granted there didn't seem to be any Reapers in this universe, but I had the feeling that Sovereign, the Reaper seen in the first Mass Effect film, was around here somewhere.

Given that the Collectors were active, and known to be buying slaves of many different kinds I suspect that upon awakening in this strange universe and finding itself alone that the Reaper had gone to the Collector base and would be overseeing efforts to build more Reapers so that they could go back to harvesting advanced organic life every fifty thousand years.

This would involve using the Collectors to gather examples of the sentient races in this galaxy as well as some of the tech, and then harvesting enough of a species to make a new Reaper. Which I knew was possible for the Collectors to do as I'd seen it for myself during the Mass Effect Jump.

If the Collectors were going after humans in large numbers I'd seen no evidence of this yet, but this galaxy was a big messed up jumble, and I had no idea how widespread humans were here. There could be hundreds if not thousands of humans worlds unknown to me that were vulnerable to Collector raids, but if I did end up attending to that problem it was something to think about later.

As I and the quarian admiral who was in charge of the forces of the Migrant Fleet on this planet, what few of them there were when compared to my own military might, entered the main part of the command centre, a building of quarian design that the Gothic Consortium had repurposed for this operation, I looked over some holograms of the other colonies we needed to liberate from hostile geth control. Padme's Battlestar and the Migrant fleet were handling that.

Once the rebel geth had been driven from the colonies my hope was that they'd regroup at the heretic base, the one that gets taken out during the Mass Effect 2 game, and since I had records of it from my Jump I knew where it was and could take it out at a time of my choosing.

There was Adas a world that was marginally warmer than Rannoch despite being further from its sun. Volcanic activity spews methane into Adas's atmosphere, and this haze retains heat in a greenhouse effect. Historically, the quarians used the geth to mine the planet, and according to the historical documents when the geth rebelled, the small quarian population on and around Adas was quickly overrun. Of course, that had never actually happened in this universe, but that stop certain quarians from bitching about it.

An asteroid belt in the Tikkun system is home to Uriyah, a rock large enough to qualify as a binary dwarf planet. Its companion, Etiel, is believed to have split off from the main body after an oblique impact. Both were heavily mined early in the age of quarian space exploration. Curiously, the geth built over the old quarian space stations, even though the mined-out asteroids have little obvious use. The current theory is that they provide a staging base to exploit other asteroids in the belt.

Since the mining outposts were in rebel hands I'd sent Padme to deal with that with part of the Migrant Fleet, once I got the admirals to agree to a joint operation, and while Padme was no military commander I trust Ashoka to deal with the mining outposts as she did have military experience.

Then there was Ket'osh. The planet was a quarian colony abandoned during the geth uprising and of note was that Ket'osh had a massive sensor array that tracks ship movements across all nearby sectors. However, the world was heavily guarded so the Migrant Fleet could deal with that.

Also of concern was the world called Kaddi which low gravity for a planet of its size. According to the files that world had proved a significant boon to early quarian explorers. Even before the discovery of mass-effect technology, it was easy to extract Kaddi's resources. When the quarians made their first contact with the Citadel species and gained access to eezo, profits rose and the orbital stations became a beehive of activity.

Now it was a hive of rebel geth activity and the vast majority of the Migrant Fleet's military might would be sent to deal with that world. They would have to destroy the stations as they didn't have the manpower to take them, but they could always build more industry later.

"The geth are surrounding the shield," said one of the quarians who'd joined my organisation.

One of the benefits of this alliance was now that I had thousands of young quarians willing to serve my consortium as part of an effort to rebuild their own civilization. This was a boon, but it was not what I'd planned when setting out to explore and exploit this crazy universe. Had I know that I would have to deal with the rebel geth as well I might have cancelled my group's involvement with this whole endeavour.

Still, there was no sense dwelling on that and once the rebels were dealt with I could leave the rest of the rebuilding of the quarian people to others. Besides, there was a certain amount of enjoyment in all of this. The rebel geth were an enemy that needed to be crushed and I felt no remorse in doing so the heretics were too deluded and dangerous to share this galaxy with.

"If you'll excuse me, admiral," I said to the high ranking quarian "I have some work to do".

Before she could object I walked away. I wasn't planning on missing out in this fight and this operation could easily be managed by my companions while I went out there to test some of our technology.

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Haestrom. Halloween Universe.

Samatha Carter sighed as she attempted to ignore the seemingly endless questions that spewed from the mouth of Admiral Daro'Xen, the alien woman's curiosity about all of this was understandable, but the Migrant Fleet officer had become too used to being obeyed and having all the information at her fingertips. Taking a step back and letting others run the show clearly didn't sit well with her.

However, Sam had to remain focused on 3D hologram before her as while it might look like she was playing some sort of sophisticated video game, in reality, she was conducting a force of bots, an army that was growing in number as the deployed ring platform, those transport devices could move through the shield, brought in more robots from the ships in orbit.

The only unit out on the battlefield that wasn't under her command was the war machine that Gothic was currently riding around in. But thankfully he wasn't yet rushing ahead to engage the geth, those robots would soon figure out that they could march through the barrier and then the fighting would begin.

That soon became two units as Jane, Gothic's adopted daughter, decided to join in with the fun. Normally this would be something Sam would object to, the battlefield was no place for an untested child, but this wasn't Jane's first Jump so even if the worst happened she'd respawn soon enough.

Not that there was much chance of that happening as these war walkers were made from technology from many different universes that had been refined and often improved upon over decades by some very intelligent people. If the geth had been able to bring their ships into play they would have the kind of firepower needed to destroy a Phoenix Knight, but the shield would prevent anything not on the ground from passing through.

As the geth moved more of their platforms around the shield so that they could march on the command centre from every direction at the same time, Samatha moved her forces to counter this. Under her command, she had an army of Sentry Bots based on the technology from the Fallout universe, recreated B2 battle droids from the Separatist armies that wouldn't normally be seen outside of the Clone Wars, and ABC warriors that took the role of heavy infantry in Gothic's bot army.

The group that Sam had joined so many years ago had never developed any proper tanks, and she didn't think that they would now, and with the other machines now out on the battlefield it didn't seem like they would ever need them. Still acquiring some sort of tank would be a good idea and Sam promised that she would mention this to the Jumper sometime soon.

Until today it hadn't been much of a concern as with teleporters, starships and portals so easily available getting around safely wasn't much of a concern so armoured transporters had not been needed, but if the group was going to engage in this sort of warfare they would need something better armed and armoured than Makos, the transports they were using now to quickly deliver bots to the right place.

For now, she had other matters to deal with. Geth platforms were starting to pass through the theatre shield and this meant that the fighting had truly begun.

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Haestrom. Halloween Universe.

The war walker I now within, which my group called Phoneix Knights, was based on the technology of a type of robotic combat walker in the service of the Imperium and sometimes the Adeptus Mechanicus in the 40k universe, called the Imperial Knights.

Each Knight is piloted by a single human warrior drawn from an ancient feudal aristocratic culture that stretches across the galaxy. Since an Imperial Knight is smaller and less capable in combat than even the smallest class of true Titan utilised by the Collegia Titanica, the Warhound-class Scout Titan. Knights normally deploy in squadrons comprised of several of these war machines.

These ancient battlesuits stand thirty to forty Terran feet (9 to 12 metres) tall, are protected by nearly impenetrable Ion Shields and armed with a devastating array of heavy weapons. Imperial Knights are colossal war machines that tower over the battlefield. They are propelled into battle by powerful servos and have the power to kick over tanks and crush soldiers into red paste.

My group's version of this technology was even more formidable as the rebel geth platforms were currently finding out. My personal Phoneix Knight, which was based upon an Imperial Knight of the Knight Errant class, strode over the battlefield as the robots attempted to bring it down.

Alas for the geth, not even their Colossus, war machines equipped with mass accelerator machine guns and a powerful Siege Pulse mass accelerator cannon could do anything against the shields of my war machine. Normally the Colossus is a monumentally dangerous foe, but fortunately, our technology was very far ahead of the geth and the best of it had been used in the creation of the Phoneix Knights.

I wasn't the only Phoneix Knight out here. Jane had decided to join me and while this might seem reckless she could control her war machine just fine having both the ATA gene and a mind powerful enough to make use of the Knight's full capabilities.

Any other time and I might be mad at Jane for risking herself like this, but I'd made her a Knight, which she carried on her person in a capsule, just for times like this, and since this wasn't her native Jump she'd respawn if killed. I could also sense her concern for me so I'd go easy on her later as I was actually in more danger than she was as a powerful enough destructive force, like a nuke, might be able to kill me regardless of all my protections.

"Stay with me, Jane" I ordered over the comm.

She soon replied.

"Yes, sir," she said crisply, sounding very military.

At times it was hard to believe that this Jane was the same girl I'd liberated from that lab in Hawkins just a handful of years ago. She'd matured well and had become an impressive young woman. But this was no time to dwell on such things as I had a planet to conquer.

Once all the geth around here were destroyed we'd have to leave the safety of the shield to hunt down any remains. Lucky for us the shields of these knights were greater than those that protected some starships so the radiation wouldn't be a concern, at least for a few hours and we could return to the protection of the shield whenever we wished.

I began to focus more on the here and now when I noticed a slight drop in the shield strength of my knight. A powerful mind like mine could focus on many things at once, this was how I could control an entire battleship from a chair on the bridge, but there were matters that required more of my attention at times.

This was one of them. Geth war machines, that seemed to the size of rats or small dogs to me, and the regular platforms might as well be bugs, were doing the logical thing and focusing all the fire they could on the biggest target and that happened to me as Jane's version of the Phoneix Knight was smaller and slightly less deadly, having been built for her.

She rode inside our group's version of the Knight Castellan model, rather than a Knight Errant like myself, this meant that her war machine was primarily used as a long-range artillery platform and was capable of striking the enemy from extreme range. Although slower than other Knights, this pattern benefits from substantially increased firepower and much thicker armour than its smaller counterparts. I'd purposely had this model made for her as it was safer for her to hang back and support other war machines.

This proved to have been wise very soon as Jane blasted those platforms and war machine focuses on me from a distance, and this left me free to use my more close up weapons on the lesser platforms, who would be hard to Jane to hit with her Knight.

"Gothic, the geth are landing more platforms just outside of the shield with their small support craft" I was told by Samantha Carter.

Hearing this pleased me. The rebel geth were committing their whole force on this planet to attacking us. Never knowing that more of my companions in cloaked M-ships were waiting to take down all of the geth ships on this planet now that they all converged in one area.

"You know what to do," I said.

Soon the M-ships, which had been hiding from the harmful rays of the sun, would de-cloak, raise their shields and destroy the enemy ships, leaving me free to crush the remaining platforms. However, since the geth existed as programs destroying the hardware was only part of the battle. I would need to destroy their software to which meant taking out the heretic base and any other places the rebel geth had servers stashed.

That would be handled later. Right now I had many platforms to crush and a planet to conquer. Good practice for the future Warhammer Jump.