Hyperspace: it passes through us, we feel the streaks touching our thoughts and skin. A blue tunnel leading us to a world where our brethren claimed they lost. Seconds passed, the tunnel brightens into shining white, then dimming down to dark blue, black and the sight of the galaxy from a distance. We looked around, trying to find it besides a star; we did. We see nothing but scorched black on the face of Kharak; they weren't lying. It's atmosphere dimmed to absolute airless.
We then see wreckage, remains of a drydock that launched their ship into our Garden. Unlikely that our brethren will ever return, we dispatch our swarmers to tear and take the remains of the Scaffold and melt down its remains into crucial materials we need to build more of us; Swarmers, Advanced Swarmers and Fuel Pods. Then, we thought of their homeworld they speak of, one where they truly came from before arriving onto this dust ball they lost.
Doubtful.
Even if we would finally reach their homeworld, we would not adapt to their cultures; we would truly be extinct, seeing how we tried to prevent them from leaving The Garden. Unless...unless they'd still have the nerve to make peace with us like they wished upon arriving.
The Garden...This ancient evil defiled it, stole it from us. We're no longer safe, we must survive and find a way to defeat this ancient evil, we just need to regrow our numbers. We enter hyperspace once more, upon engaging the hyperdrive.
Them! The Kushan! Just as we exited they appeared, we must strike now! Silencing their calls to their siblings so they won't know we're hear. We chose to disable them, not destroy, for we may need their knowledge if we're ever going to face off against the Ancient evil.
"Good."
T-The voice again.
"You have what i want. One of three for his will made manifest. Bring me two more hyperdrives and together, we can rule the galaxy! See me as a goddess, worship me and I'll treat you with care and respect for your efforts."
"You took our sibs away from us! You've taken the Garden from us! Defiled this sacred..."
"You will worship me! Obey my commands!"
"No! NO! NO!"
We broke her influence, we want to live!
"Defiance will be your destruction!"
Two distorted hypergates summoned two ships nearby.
"No one defies the Great Maker's children! We are the Vaygr! Refusal to join us will be punishable! And that punishment is DEATH!"
The Vaygr? The name of this ancient evil! We can't take them on as we are now! We must scavenge what we've claimed and run once more! We've downloaded schematics from the Kushan ships we've disabled for research and jump once more.
Two gunships against our Jellyfish. Two small craft against a swarm of our...Valkyrbees. We'd say it's a fair fight. We launch our Valkyrbees against the two gunships, ripping them apart before our eyes. We're afraid, yet there's still a little courage in us. If we're not fighting for the Garden we no longer have, then what else? What else are we fighting the Vaygr for?
We must know more!
We're deep within their territory now and we've got to find the root of this problem!