The shadow of the massive ship hung over the planet like an executioner's blade that was ready to come down upon it the moment that its captain gave the order.
Thessia Homeworld of the Asari race was once believed to be the safest planet in the galaxy and it was now burning as the invaders searched for any survivors that they could take.
The invaders wasted no effort in looking for anyone alive even amongst the burning remains of the defense fleet and space stations.
The Asari fought bravely even going as far as to kill themselves just to deny the invaders any hope of taking them captive, but their efforts were in vain.
To the invaders, their lives were meaningless if they weren't useful to them.
Hours seemed to pass by like seconds as the galaxy gathered its strength to help their allies.
Yet when the fleet arrived to help its allies, they found an empty planet, the different races searched high and low yet no matter where they looked they didn't find a single living being.
The only thing that they found were the desecrated remains of the defenders, it didn't matter if they looked in the highest skyscrapers where only the wealthy could ever hope to set foot in.
Or the deepest of bunkers where the planet leaders hid their darkest secrets.
There was no one left and the invaders had taken everything that had value with them.
Thessia had lost all of its plants and wildlife, the invaders had gone as far as to drain its oceans dry and the only reason that there were any buildings left was that the invaders didn't care about them.
The invaders didn't even leave the planet's minerals alone, they had taken everything and the galaxy was a fraid.
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The screams of pain and ecstasy could be heard through every ship in the fleet as the men enjoyed their prize, the siege of the planet had been more than a success.
The planet barely had any defenses just a couple of space stations and what was barely a fleet, it didn't matter anyway because they had won and were now going home to sell everything they got.
"All alright guys tell me how the auction goes I have to get some sleep, I have work in the morning." the captain of the Phalanx said to his friends as he tried to log out, only to find that the log-out option was gone.
"Guys where the hell is the Union?" he heard the Captain of the Starkiller Base say to everyone before his friends began to search through their maps for the Union's location.
'What the hell the map says that we're in the right spot but there's nothing here." he heard the Captain of the Ark say to everyone.
'Guys try to log out." he said to his friends who immediately did what he told them to do and to his dismay he heard them all ask themselves where the log-out option was.
"There must be a glitch in the system." he said to everyone as he tried to send a message to the developers but the message didn't go through and his screen said that the person or group didn't exist.
He felt his heart beating inside his chest as fear began to overwhelm him and the joy of what he had just done earlier was completely forgotten.
"Everyone relax, our families will find us and unplug us. For now, we just have to play, and like it or not we are stuck inside the game." Starkiller said to everyone.
He let out a breath of relief, Starkiller was right, eventually, someone was going to realize that they were gone and would pull the helmets off their heads and they would be back in the real world again.
He couldn't help but smile as the fear left him, it was a good thing that they had chosen to use their strongest ships, so they didn't have to worry about anyone attacking them.
It had taken them a long time to get the ships and that was the reason why they hardly ever used them.
Each ship could easily pass as a planet or space station that could house entire fleets of smaller ships.
They had chosen to be the bad guys this time, but only because they had never done it before.
The Union was a group made of different players who did their own thing and as a result, the Union was responsible for everything.
Pirates, blame the Union, Mercenaries, blame the Union
An honorable group of men and women sworn to protect the peace, you guessed it blame the Union.
There were only two rules in the Union, once you are part of the Union you don't attack anyone that is a member of the Union.
And the second rule was aliens are and always will be beneath Humans.
The second rule existed because of how Human players were looked down upon by everyone else, to put it simply Humans didn't have the best technology or weapons.
There isn't any reason to mention the difference in speed and strength when comparing a human to an alien.
Normally this would have made the Union a haven for Human players, but the Union didn't care about doing that.
No, the Union existed for one reason and one reason only.
Revenge.
Fine, an alien species has better technology, it's a good thing they made it for us.
If that planet full of aliens has cleaner water than ours, then that just means that the aliens aren't using it.
Normally people would have called us the villains of the story or the organization that was responsible for the world's problems but the truth was that every other race had a group like ours.
The reason was that that was just how the game was played, like it or not, no matter how a player wanted to play the game, they would eventually need to join or create their own group to survive and grow their empires.
"So what do you guys want to do?' he asked his friends.
'I don't know about you guys but I'm going to go and have some fun." he heard the Ark's captain answer him before he cut off communication.
"Same here" he heard Star Killer say to him before everyone else said the same thing before they turned off their microphones.
"Computer have the probes look for any aliens that are similar to Humans but are different enough that none of us have a problem hurting them." he said to the computer before he stood up and walked out of the bridge.
There was no point in him being stuck inside the game and not enjoying his time in it, so he followed his friend's lead and went to have some fun.
There is a darkness amongst the stars. Something that looks for anything good in the universe before taking it and corrupting it.
Many call it by different names but most simply call it the Union.