I sighed, unable to sleep, as such I simply went over the reports from the research team I had sent to the Casino Discord plopped down. So far reports had been promising, several of the vending machines had been ripped out of the wall and scanned to see how they function, the very core of the technology was beginning to be understood, so this was good progress, once everything was studied and the like, I'd have all the machines removed and it turned into a normal Casino.

After reading the reports about the Madre, I read the reports about progress with the Automatic Heavy Railgun Cannons for mounting on vehicles like tanks, and jeeps, it was a 50 caliber railgun, long, sleek, holographic targeting sights, could hold 500 rounds before needing a reload, they had begun mass production two weeks ago, and I was checking the reports on how well they did against simulated targets, and animals such as deathclaws automatic turret versions also existed for easy defense in areas that needed to be guarded. Starship maintenance was going good so far, reports from my automated navy had nothing to report aside from shooting a few birds trying to land on the decks, so I had them dock a few hours earlier simply to resupply them with fresh missiles and railgun ammunition, but besides that there wasn't much to do at the moment for them. Speaking of Deathclaws, I had a select few modified to be sentient at last, they could speak, think, and act, like any person, they had more in common with perhaps a dragon than a person, but that was besides the point, this itself happened a few days ago, these new Deathclaws had undergone several tests to test their mental abilities and capacity for thought, and had been found to be as smart as an average pony, given enough time they would become citizens of the Empire once it was known they wouldn't just go on a killing rampage, they did not get treated like lab animals either they where treated rather well.

Saturnite alloy blocks from the Sierra Madre had been collected, and had been surprisingly easy to reproduce, now I just had to wait to see what sort of applications the metal would be useful for, I remembered it could retain heat for hours on end, glowing cherry red and never flaking, so maybe something to do with machinery that requires high levels of heat? I am unsure for now, I'm sure Astral Starlight would find some use for the metal alloy at some point. The Stallions, Colts, and Mares who had left Saddle Arabia to join my Empire, had all been assigned homes, which for the next year would each get a random wellness check by certified medical staff at random points in time, they would not be informed beforehand, so if someone was breaking the law about how to treat males, they wouldn't have time to cover it up.

Several humans had been imprisoned so far for attempting to force others to convert to their religions and not liking when they got told no, the reason for imprisonment was they had destroyed private property when told no, such as someones car having several dents bashed into it, much to the humans surprise the windows didn't smash when a rock was thrown at it, or even when bashed with a baseball bat, about 15 people, that left a few hundred more humans still able to walk about free, it would be another month before they got released. Very few had to stay longer than a month so far, a rare few who assaulted others for not converting however, got up to 1-5 years.

I recently learned as well, that Equestria was threatening to cut all trade off with Saddle Arabia unless they gave stallions rights, and enforced said rights, and that wouldn't be good for Saddle Arabia because Equestria was the breadbasket that they ate from, most food was imported from Equestria, true they did grow some of their own, but not nearly enough to feed everyone there currently, so their Queen was under quite a bit of pressure to do that. I get keeping traditions and all, my crystal ponies still kept up the gladiatorial styled battles for entertainment sometimes, but there is a difference between a tradition and simply abusing someone, so I backed Princess Celestia 100% on her decision, if worse came to worse, I could simply evacuate the colts n stallions from Saddle Arabia and drop several tons worth of food and leave the Mares non sympathetic to the abuse the males had been going through, to either change, or fester in their outdated ways.

----------------Equestria, Canterlot Castle---------------------

Princess Luna strode into her sisters room, Celestia had been going over a few scrolls about new laws and the like, and to finalize her threat against Saddle Arabia if they did not change how they treated males within one months time. "Sister, the stars have been acting strangely as of late."

Princess Celestia looked up from her work, putting down the pen as she raised an eyebrow. "Have they? What exactly have you noticed?"

Princess Luna shrugged before continuing. "They have been moving in strange, erratic patterns as of late, I just assume it is uhg...Lorenzo's...what did he call them again? Starships? Yes, his starships, since those have been moving around quite a bit lately."

Princess Celestia nodded. "It is likely just that, he informed me he would be doing some testing of some newer smaller starships, so it is likely just that, however I will call him later and ask, since his Empire is currently the only one with the ability to go beyond the atmosphere in any meaningful way and come back with ease, I'll call him in an hour after I finish these scrolls."

Princess Luna nodded. "Alright, I'm going to be at Discord's home for awhile, so if you need me just use the dragonfire jar he gave you." Before Celestia could tease her like she always did about dating Discord, Luna teleported away with a flash of white.

Princess Celestia looked at the spot her sister had been mere seconds ago, before smirking. "Oh Luna..." Celestia giggled to herself for a moment before going back to work.

------------------------------------------Equis, high orbit-------------------------------

Exalted Fleetlord Issit looked over the hologram of Epona-3, three large splotches glowing blue, a color considered weak by the Akun due to it meaning fear. "You say these scans show the most technologically advanced Eponite empires?" He turned one eyeturret to Shiplord Trid.

Shiplord Trid waggled an eyeturret in agreement. "Yes Exalted Fleetlord, our satellites show detailed images, their radio communication hubs, power plants, primitive as they may be, we have not detected any signs of atomic power-plants, so they must not have atomic weaponry from what we see, otherwise we'd have detected the trace radioactivity."

Exalted Fleetlord Issit turned both eyeturrets to Shiplord Trid. "No signs of atomics you say? Then they wouldn't have any shielded electronics, not knowing the need for them, unlike our own, theirs would be unshielded and could be completely disabled with a few well place atomic blasts high above their atmosphere."

Shiplord Trid's eyeturrets both shot to Fleetlord Issit. "By the Emperor, that is a brilliant idea!" All Akun within the room lowered their eyeturrets in reverence at the mention of their Emperor, as they had been taught to do so from birth.

Exalted Fleetlord Issit waggled his eyeturrets at a communications officer, the one from before, Drod. "I want several atomic shells launched and set to detonate once they get close to the planets atmosphere, the resulting electromagnetic waves should disable all their primitive electronics and completely scramble their communications, and destroy those primitive ball shaped satellites in orbit." Primitive as they may have looked, somehow they had been so primitive that their own networks couldn't connect to them, when they tried they got no responses.

Drod ,still somewhat frightened by his Superior waggled an eyeturret. "Yes Superior Sir, it shall be done." He turned his head back to the controls at his disposal and pressed a button to broadcast to all starships in the fleet armed with atomic shells. "This is Junior Officer Drod from Communications, Exalted Fleetlord Issit has ordered the usage of atomic shells to detonate as they get close to Epona-3's atmosphere, I am sending you all the expected time to fire now so you may coordinate this." Drod pressed a button on the computer and within seconds each starship got a firing solution ready. Each Starship with atomic shells was set to launch two shells each. It took only 15 minutes before the ships had gotten into the correct positions around the planet Epona-3, two large cannon poking out from just under the bridge of them as they slid out of their housing from within.

As shown by the computer to time all the shells, when the timer hit zero, each starships two cannons fired, their blasts pushing the starships back a small bit as their 280 millimeter atomic shells left their barrels like a bat screaming out of hell, the shells raced closer and closer to the planets atmosphere, and just before they'd have entered it, they blew with the force of 15 kilotons each, their blasts easily visible from those on the planet due to just how many had been fired, and how bright they had been, the satellites in orbit began to spark and dance with blue waves of energy, before they exploded with the force of a small bomb each. Across the globe electronics began to flicker and fail, Equestrian Hydro-Electric dams suffered the worst damage as the turbines began to spark and stutter from the EMP before stopping completely, leaving a quarter of the Equestrian Empire without electricity.

Exalted Fleetlord Issit let his mouth fall open silently in the Akun's version of a laugh, letting his small sharp teeth show as the others laughed with him. "That should leave them on their tails scrambling in panic, now I want the conquest to focus on the three most technologically advanced powers, once they are taken out, we can focus on the even more primitive savages of Epona-3."

Shiplord Yuhluh spoke up. "With all due respect Exalted Fleetlord, if the Eponites have electronics, and have advanced in such a small time, only a thousand of the local years, then I think it would be best to batter them with atomic shells until they pose no threat to the Akun Empire as a whole."

Exalted Fleetlord Issit glared at Shiplord Yuhluh, his snout turning red under the body paint covering the part of his snout which changed colors. "Are you completely addled! That would wreck Epona-3 and leave a dead world for the Colonization Fleet to arrive to in 48 years! You know as well as I that the Colonization Fleet should be well on its way to this system, they where set to launch after we arrived within the system, our messages beaming back at Vanov despite being at the speed of light, will still take 20 years to arrive, we can not sit and wait for orders we are on our own here and as Exalted Fleetlord I was ordered by the Emperor to take this planet and I intend to do it!" They all lowered their eyes at the mention of the Emperor.

Shiplord Yuhluh bowed his head in respect. "I meant no disrespect superior sir, I just thought it might be best, despite the fact these Eponite Empires having existed for far less than our own True Empire, they discovered functional radios and electronics within two thousand years, when for us it took 15 thousand to achieve the same thing, our Empire is five hundred thousand years old, millennia older than these young pathetic excuses for empires yet they have advanced at an astounding rate, I merely suggest what I thought was best for the Akun, because if they have advanced so fast in so little time, who knows where they will be in another two thousand years?"

Exalted Fleetlord Issit waggled both eyeturrets. "Your concerns are noted, now go back to your station and continue your work, I want to hear no more of this nonsense, their discovering of electronics was just an anomalous fluke, it could be nothing else." Shiplord Yuhluh skittered off, Issit never liked that male, he always tried to contradict what he said even before leaving Vanov and entering coldsleep, Yuhluh had tried to argue he should be Exalted Fleetlord and was more qualified, his argument was shut down rather quickly when the Emperor himself had told him to shut his mouth unless he didn't want to join the Conquest fleet. With that little conversation over, Exalted Fleetlord Issit could watch as six starships began to make course and enter the atmosphere of Epona-3, they'd land in the Empires they'd conquer, then unfold themselves into airstrips and into a mobile military, and connect, giving them a base for which the Akun could further plan the Conquest of Epona-3.
------------------------------------Lorenzo's Empire-----------------------------

I looked at the holographic screen which had popped up in front of me from my throne, it showed the feed to the satellites I had tossed into orbit when the Crystal Lorenzo had first launched, each one was offline, and the automatic up-link to them went down at the exact same time each one reporting catastrophic failure on every component within, turning the fusion cores held within into small bombs. "What the absolute FUCK?!" I growled and typed a few commands in, before the computer reported several large electromagnetic pulses had just taken place in the higher atmosphere of Equis, I'm glad I left the shields up, and had it standard to have shielded electronics, I thought I had just been paranoid since no one else on this planet was even close to an atomic bomb, let alone even knowing what uranium was, but the scans show several small nuclear devices, and I do fucking mean small, as in 15 kilotons small, the same as the first nuke dropped on Japan nicknamed 'littleboy' had gone off in the higher atmosphere.

I looked at the scan report for a few moments in just, disbelief, before I clicked a few buttons and brought the Empires defenses to RED. The Empire had several stages that the automated defenses would use to know what to shoot at, green meant incoming projectiles and nothing else, yellow meant hostile aircraft and the like, and RED, meant anything not known as allied and that couldn't get contacted and confirmation that it was allied or at the very least, neutral, would be shot down.

The PDS's , or Plasma Detection Systems, began going completely bonkers, locating two objects exactly 2640 foot long starships, 588 feet wide each, for those too stupid to know, 2640 feet was just about half a mile large, so these where NOT small by any means, I was about to authorize the AA guns to fire but several missiles slammed into the Empires energy shields as I was about to, looking at a camera that showed outside, citizens began to panic as large flashes of explosives began to pepper the shields protecting the entire Empire, and the moment the missiles hit the Automatic Anti Air Railgun systems took aim and fired their 20 millimeter railgun rounds at a rate that would make a machine gun blush. The screen showed the shots connecting and slamming right through the apparent starships that had invaded Empire airspace and impact against the shields, further damaging them. I pressed a button which would contact General Starlight Glimmer. "I want aircraft up there, NOW, I want survivors, if there are any, taken into questioning, if they have injured, have them tended to, I need answers and I want them NOW."

General Glimmers voice came through the speaker on my pipboy. "At once Your Majesty" Before the line went dead as the communication ended. Unknown to me, Two starships the exact same size had landed near Detrot in Equestria and had already begun to set up shop, same for the Griffon Empire in the city of Eggsburg. Had both of their communications not been down my radio would be screaming wondering what the hell was going on.

------------------------------------------Upper Orbit Equis------------------------------

Exalted Fleetlord Issit glared at Drod who dared to tell him something so impossible. "What do you mean two of our starships that where set to land in the larger Eponite Empire have been shot down!?" Issit wanted to claw the male's eyeturrets out.

Junior Officer Drod quivered, his snout turning completely ice blue in terror. "E-Exactly as I reported Exalted Fleetlord! I simply watched the radar and communications and the two starships sent to that Eponite Empire suddenly stopped responding, and are not acknowledging my or anyone else's attempts to hale them and get a report!"

Exalted Fleetlord Issit continued to glare. "I want several Killercraft dropped into the atmosphere to take a look at this for themselves!"

Junior Officer Drod waggled both eyeturrets so fast he almost made himself dizzy. "Yes Exalted Fleetlord! At once Exalted Fleetlord!" Drod pressed the button on his radio. "Seven Killercraft have been ordered to drop in atmosphere from a starship to investigate the loss of two Akun starships near the east continental mass next to the unnaturally large Eponite Ocean!" That was sort of true, to the Akun who where used to land surrounding small salty bodies of water, the Eponite Ocean seemed, too large, unnatural, never on their home world had such a large amount of water ever just sat around in such large quantities.

Five minutes later a starship had entered the atmosphere just past the point things entering would burn, and several Killercraft screamed out, their jet engines wailing as their turbofans took in oxygen for the first time in centuries since the last Conquest, and the Starship remained to hover in atmosphere to pick the Killercraft up once they had completed the task given to them. Within seconds they had accelerated to mach 2 and shot towards the location coordinates given to them, Flightleader Astroth pressed the radio button for his flight helmet, the speakers within small and compact, aligned perfectly with his hearing diaphragms. "Alright fellow Killercraft pilots! As you know we are to investigate and destroy whatever took down our two starships, and by the Emperor we shall do so!" Unlike Akun who worked on the ground, or in starships, Killercraft pilots had been trained to not lower their eyes in reverence of the Emperor unless on the ground, to prevent accidents from occurring.

The Killercraft began to close in on a giant walled section of land, which had been their target, within seconds they where within missile range and fired, aiming at what looked like AA guns on the walls, only to be horrified when their missiles got knocked from the sky like a pest, then to their horror, one Killercraft went up in a bright blue explosion as the hydrogen tank within got struck and brewed up instantly, killing the unfortunate Pilot within.

Flightleader Astroth screeched into his radio. "Evasive maneuvers! I want those guns taken out!" The remaining 6 Killercraft obeyed wordlessly, twisting and turning while shooting more missiles, and even their radar guided cannons, another Killercraft went up, then another and another, the last two males who's Killercraft got taken out so quickly and brutally had been lucky enough to hit the ejection button on their control panels, causing the top of their Killercraft to pop off with a hiss and the seats they sat on to eject, a parachute deploying seconds later while the Killercraft crashed into what looked like a translucent blueish shield. Flightleader Pilot Astroth looked at the last two Wingmales he had with him on his radar. "I am ordering a retr!" His transmission to the others got cut off as a railgun round slammed through the Killercraft cockpit, turning him into a fine red mist, while his Killercraft slammed into the ground and exploded with a brilliant blue light, another one did the same soon after, only one Killercraft managed to get away and make its way back to the starship that had been awaiting seven Killercraft to return to it.

---------------------------------------Lorenzo's Empire---------------------------------

I watched as the automated Anti Air Railguns ripped several lizard jets from the sky, and lizards is the correct term, small ones to, all of these where about four and a half feet tall, each one being marched along the streets to a secure facility in which they'd be kept and questioned, the pilots who had ejected from their aircraft had been picked up by Crystal Pegasi armed with automatic plasma rifles, and where separated to be questioned differently. The remains of the two starships had been slowly lowered into an empty field and scanned, before being fed power and being connected to a computer system which would scan any data they had, and that was rather easy, for all their apparent advanced technology, what with crossing the stars and invading, their computers are about the same as the ones Humanity had in the fucking early 1990's. Within mere minutes the scan was complete and power was cut from the starships, their primitive fusion reactors being sliced out and then hauled off on military trucks for study.

I looked over the data, and I was not impressed, not very much anyways, as I looked over the data the computer automatically set to translating their language as I was reading it, so what I read was in English, or as some would call it, Equish, their computer systems where not compartmentalized, cocky fuckers, this meant anyone that could connect to their networks, could hack into their shit if they knew how, or plant a virus or some other shit like that, they didn't even bother encrypting the data! I looked at the scan of the starships structure itself, from the looks of it, this species hadn't discovered antigravity craft yet either, since it had several rocket boosters on the sides and bottom which would push it into space, and keep it hovering in atmosphere. The computer let out a ding before it popped out a small crystal disk, of which I plugged into my pipboy, and with a jolt that felt like a thousand angry hornets stabbing the inside of my skull I screamed in agony for a few moments before the process was complete.

I gasped on the ground and shakily stood up, and grinned hard, that little spell and and technology combined, allowed me to implant their language into my own brain like adding code to a computer, the downside is it hurt like an absolute fucking CUNT to do so, Jesus fuck the migraine I had made me want to blow my head off, instead I took several doses of Med-X right from my inventory, and sighed with relief as the throbbing pain died down to a mild annoyance rather than something I'd shoot myself over. The robotic networks already got updated the moment the language was fully translated and could therefore, understand the little scaly fuckers. For organic troops and the like, a translator talisman, it would function by using magic to translate the language into Equish, which was going to be much easier since the computer already translated it, it just had to upload that information into the talismans I'd be having handed out.

I strode over to the interrogation room after taking a short car ride to the building, my legs a bit shaky due to what I had done to implant their language into my memory, without knowing it, it sounded like random hissing, clicks, pops and coughs, but since I now knew it, I could understand the Lizard Prisoners, which called themselves the Akun, they where about four and a half feet tall, and had three claws fingers and a clawed thumb, their faces where for the most part, immobile, their heads actually looking a lot like a chameleon, with their weird turreted eyes, one of the prisoners whom had been recovered from the starship was seated across from me while I gave it a cold look, and spoke. "I am King Lorenzo, Ruler of the Crystal Empire, and you my little scaled friend, are going to tell me exactly what I want to know, or I'll have to use force to get what I want from that little lizard brain of yours." An android wheeled in a tray with several sharp tools, a hammer, pliers, even a few small knives with serrated edges.

The one of the lizards eyeturrets shot to the tools of pain before it looked back at me with both eyeturrets. "I obey, Superior sir." That surprised me, I expected at least SOME resistance from this thing, but to so willingly just offer to tell anything I wanted? It couldn't know that the green crystal built into the center of the table was a changeling lie detector crystal, flawless every time to tell if someone was lying or not, so if it did lie, I would know.

I raised an eyebrow as I spoke, curious to see if this thing would actually try to lie, or if it would tell the truth. "I want to know why your Conquest Fleet decided to invade Equis, or as you'd call it, Epona-3." I kept an eye on the crystal, if this thing lied, it would beep loudly and glow green, if it didn't, the crystal would remain the dull dark green color it was.

The lizard lowered his eyes, his snout turning white, signifying stress if I remember the data correctly. "We are here to spread the Light of the Emperor and the culture and civility of the Akun to the primitive Eponites, as is the will of the Emperor, I am but a tool in his glorious plans."

I lowered my eyebrow. "How do you view this Emperor of yours?" I asked, I wanted to see what exactly these guys thought of their ruler.

The lizard raised both eyeturrets to me. "The Emperor is to forever be obeyed, he is the protector and ruler of the Akun, without the Emperor we are nothing, we would perish, and when we do perish, I shall serve the Spirits of Emperors Past as every member of the Akun has done so before me."

So they viewed their Emperor as some sort of deity? That somewhat made sense from the data I had read from their ships computers after it had been translated. So I spoke up again. "What is your name and rank."

The lizard looked up at me, its snout changing to a deep royal purple, meaning surprise, I guess he hadn't expected me to give a fuck about his name. "I am Chater, I was to be the Head Medical Professional when the base set itself up, to give orders to those below me in my station, however as you know, that failed rather miserably, that is a truth."

I chuckled, which seemed to confuse Chater for a few moments, before I stopped. "Alright, Chater, your going to go with this fellow here." I pointed to the android in a full suit of marine armor, hefting an AER-11 laser rifle. "To help with your wounded in the sickbay nearby, it would be best to have someone there who actually knows how to help."

Chater waggled his eyeturrets at me. "Yes Superior Sir." He got up, and the Android led him out, he was so tiny compared to the 6'8 android, it was adorable, I also found the fact their snouts changed colors to be absolutely fucking cute, it made me wanna pet them, I refrained from doing such a thing however, I think that would be viewed as VERY rude, and would get me bitten.

----------------------------------------------------------Equestria, Detrot--------------------------------------------------------

The Akun starships that had been ordered to setup shop, had done so very quickly, the two starships unfolding and connecting to one another, while a chunk of the main starship remained building like, to have a place to house Akun Infantrymales and Killercraft Pilots, and Landcruiser crews, another chunk was used as storage for their landcruisers and another for their Killercraft. Already Shiplord Ranzaer, in command of the base, had ordered several Killercraft to attack the primitive trash the locals had in the air. Several civilian airships had been shot down, and the city bombarded with missiles and bullets, while Landcruisers rolled along almost silently before their 150 millimeter cannons fired, taking out several Equestrian Tesla Tanks in one shot, Commander Ohed stood up from the cupola and his snout turned a neon green color, to signal happiness. "This is easy as a female in heat!" The driver agreed, as did the gunner, Ohed watched as a Killercraft shot past, letting a missile fly loose to strike another primitive local airship, it was indeed going to be easy as a female in heat he thought to himself, before those thoughts where quickly ended as a bullet found its mark between his eyeturrets and he fell over dead slumping in the cupola, an Equestrian Pegasus guardmare grinned, and worked the bolt on her bolt action rifle, looking for another target to hit. To her amusement one Killercraft made the mistake of flying through a pegasus cloud home and instantly went up in flame as it smashed into the objects held within, and resulting in the aircraft blowing up with bright blue flames destroying the home which she happened to know was empty because it was her home, a cloud home was easily replaced anyways.

------------------------Griffon Empire, City Of Eggsburg-----------------------

Like the Akun starships sent to Detrot, the ones sent here to Eggsburg had set up shop within the hour, an entire airstrip and barracks, airstrip, aircraft hangars and the like, and the commander here had commanded the exact same thing, several civilian airships got struck from the sky, even a few military ones. A griffon biplane tried to take down a Killercraft, but was destroyed using the Killercrafts radar guided cannon, the pilot not bothering to waste a guided missile on such a small and insignificant target. Landcruisers rumbled along, a griffon Renault tank opened fire with its machine gun taking down a few of the infantrymales that had been walking with the tank, in return the landcruisers machine gun opened up and tore huge holes into the thin plate metal of the griffon light tank, while the remaining infantrymales fired their automatic rifles as well in return. A griffon mark tank rolled up and aimed, before shooting with its cannons, the shells bouncing off the Akun Landcruiser. Landcruiser Commander Eivoll spoke into the radio to the gunner. "High Explosive shell."

The Gunner obeyed. "High Explosive Shell!" He selected the shell to be loaded and the auto loader system, the same as the ones inside the starships which shot nuclear shells, but much, much smaller, had it loaded within seconds, before he fired as ordered, the primitive landcruiser which had the nerve to shoot at them, went up in flames, black smoke and yellow fire as its ammunition cooked off and blew a second time, the crew had no chance to escape as the Mark Tank was turned into pure scrap metal and fire.

----------------------------------------------------------Lorenzo's Empire-------------------------------------------------------

I stood in the Bridge of the starship Crystal City, ready to launch, and checked the numbers I had gotten, the Akun had 857 starships, I had taken two out, so that left 854, each one the same size and shape, only 150 of them had atomic cannons, yep, CANNONS, almost like the fucking American M65 Atomic Cannon the US developed in the 19 fucking 50's, I think it was time to have a little chat with their Fleetlord. Maintenance had been completed and the ship was released from the massive maglocks which kept it locked in place to prevent it from moving about, and the platform which it sat on began to rise from the depths of the ground and rose to the platform which it launched from the first time, before Captain Tempest nodded and her crew sat at their stations keeping an eye on the ships systems as Captain Tempest activated the starship. One of the crew members began speaking. "Artificial gravity generators online, antigravity engines online, Dampeners online, Air circulation systems, online, power systems, online, energy shields, online, main weapons charged and ready to fire, we're go for takeoff." Captain Tempest gave a grin that would make a wolf piss itself and slammed the button in front of her, and pushed the lever forward, causing the starship to life off, and shoot into the atmosphere.

----------------------------------------------Akun Fleet, Exalted Fleetlord's Starship----------------------------------

Exalted Fleetlord Issit was about to have a seizure, he was sure of it, less than five seconds ago there hadn't been a massive starship within plain view of his starships bridge's armorglass port, yet now there sat a starship so massive he wondered how their scans missed such a massive thing, the holographic projector screeched in protest as a signal was forced through it mere seconds after the starship had appeared, and to the surprise of everyone aboard, before a hologram of what looked like a deformed Eponite appeared, wearing a weird metal ring on its head that held what looked to be several gemstones. "I am King Lorenzo, Ruler of the Crystal Empire, Your starships attempts at attacking my Empire, have failed, I had them shot down with such speed that they never knew what hit them, your Killercraft had the same fate. You will recall your forces from this planet and leave, now. Or you will regret the day you where hatched." The Eponites voice sent chills down Exalted Fleetlord Issit's spine, his snout turning ice blue beneath his body paint, the tone in which the supposed Eponite Emperor had spoken was cold, emotionless, calculating, but, it was his duty to see the Conquest succeed.

Exalted Fleetlord Issit pushed Drod out of the seat and took control of the radio set in which he had been using, and pressed the button before speaking. "This is Exalted Fleetlord Issit, Kinsmale of the True Emperor and the one true Empire, the Akun Empire, you are hereby ordered to surrender yourself, your starship, and your Empire to the rightful rule of the Akun, you have one minute to comply before we shoot you down." He feared even with all their atomic shells they may not shoot down that beast of a starship, it was frakin massive! But, it was his sworn duty to carry out the orders given by his Emperor.

The hologram of the Eponite Emperor made a weird motion with its mouth, its mobile face's mouth curling up and showing its teeth before it spoke, amusement clear in its voice. "No."

Exalted Fleetlord Issit gave command of the radio set back to Junior Officer Drod. "Order all starships with atomic cannons to fire upon that starship! I want it done YESTERDAY!" He screeched.

Junior Officer Drod obeyed. "All starships with atomic cannons fire at that starship! Do it now! As commanded by the Exalted Fleetlord!" He stopped pressing the button and turned around in his swivel chair to watch the aftermath.

All 150 Akun starships turned from their various orbits, and fired their atomic shells at the Eponite starship, well out of range of the EMP blast of the shells, let alone the actual nuclear blast, the shells impacted with the force of 15 kilotons each, several shells missed and blew up close to the planet, the flash was immense, forcing all who watched to look away for the few moments the Eponite Starship was engulfed with atomic fire and flame. Exalted Fleetlord Issit looked on in pure terror, his snout turning yellow to signify as such, when the flames and light died down to show the Eponite starship unharmed. "By the Emperor that isn't possible! This isn't possible!" He, along with the rest of the Akun, where so terrified that they didn't even bother to lower their eyes in reverence for their Emperor.

-----------------------------Lorenzo's Point Of View--------------------------------

I looked at Captain Tempest. "Fire the deathray, low power, cleave about a dozen of their ships into scrap, but do not aim for the one with their Fleetlord, only he can order them to surrender."

Captain Tempest nodded and took control of one of the deathrays and brought up the targeting sights. "Yes Your Majesty, with pleasure." She took aim, and fired, moving the deathray in a wide line 65 Akun starships got sliced through and several blew into scrap as the beam sliced through their primitive fusion reactors, Tempest laughing like a madmare, I think she was enjoying this a bit to much, after a few seconds, she turned off the deathray and stopped firing, the result was exactly, 65 Akun starships completely ruined, crews dead or dying from lack of oxygen.

I glared at Captain Tempest. "God fucking damn it Tempest! I SAID A DOZEN NOT SEVERAL DOZEN! If you can't obey orders I will find someone who can!"

Tempest seemed to wilt, her ears flopping down. "Sorry Your Majesty, It won't happen again Your Majesty."

----------------------------------------------Akun Fleet, Exalted Fleetlord's Starship----------------------

Exalted Fleetlord Issit looked on in pure horror and terror as a beam of green light sliced through a decent chunk of his Conquest Fleet, destroying them near instantly, melting through their metal armor and their insides and causing several to explode, very few escape pods rocketed away from the ruined starships, some didn't release any at all, which caused him severe stress and sadness, several thousand Akun Males, gone in an instant, lives wasted and instantly made pointless when the beam fired and killed them, he grabbed the radio away from Drod, and with much hesitation, spoke into it. "We...We surrender, I Only ask you spare the remaining ships within orbit, I will order my forces planetside to surrender to the empires they sit within as well." Fleetlord Issit looked down to the ground with both eyeturrets in shame, he had been sent here and hoped to be remembered as Fleetlord Issit, Conqueror of Epona-3, instead he found himself horribly outmatched, by one lone starship.

Author's Notes:

Holy fuckin shit! I have never written a chapter this long before! Hope ya'll enjoyed this, I don't think ya should expect a chapter this long again holy crapioli! XD, like always, comment, lemme know what ya thonk, I love reading comments, makes me sad when so few comment