1 Year Earlier
Eidolon VII, Cylon Mining Facility
An Eight who had taken to referring to herself as Night watched the various machines work, the automated processes of harvesting the various metals required for constructing the Cylon ships and units. She was the only biological cylon on the planet and had been assigned as an overseer of the facility after the more "human" of her kin had decided that they could have their own little captive population of humanity for their use.
Recently things had gotten odd, strange disapearances had forced her to call in a large number of Centurions for patrol purposes to find out what the hell was going on after one of the few she already had was found in a state that was best described as eviscerated, but the planet was lifeless when the council had set up shop on this out of the way hellhole.
The strangeness had begun shortly after an anomaly on the sensors had been detected and then vanished on the far side of the planet, but even the search patrols had found nothing.
Her attention shifted from her thoughts as the squad of Centurions reached the area and a visual display seemed to activate instantly before her.
An abandoned mine shaft from the earlier mining before the upper layers were tapped out, but it was strange to her now. The machines steps seemed to make an odd crunching sound rather than the normally hollow echoes of their normal steps.
It was moister than it should, the light atmosphere of the mines was normally used to keep pressure within and allow easy clearing of liquid pockets and the like without it freezing for problems.
A brief flash of motion brought her attention to a specific screen, the one of the scouts before the feed was severed and the alert was sounded.
"What the hell..."
xXx
Tunnel XXIV
The beast destroyed the intruder, an odd machine that tasted almost like the Protoss ones to its fangs. Dropping the sparking and ravaged machine it crawled slowly across the ceiling between the support struts towards the next one as its connection to the Cerebrate passed all of its information along to its countless siblings that lay in wait around the machines colony.
Motion caught its eye as the human shaped metals moved under him and he lashed out with a stream of spines that reduced anothers head to a look almost like a detonated can and impaled a third having finished a third of the enemy forces in less than that many minutes.
Millenia of evolution in several galaxies and even realities had still left most sentient life with one major weakness, they lacked the instinct to look up for threats first.
And the Hydralisk took advantage of this by dropping amidst the machine enemy and attacking like a rabid bear, its wild strikes savaging seven more but only dropping six of them with the seventh suffering major damage. One of the other two was also damaged but had managed to kill the beast before it could destroy more of the cylon forces.
The beasts death scream filled the dark maze as its burning eyes faded to lifelessness.
The three Centurions seemed to almost visibly relax as they surveyed the corpse and prepared to retrieve the beast for examination when thousands more eyes seemed to flood the darkness around them.
The machines felt an even more alien emotion, for the first time the Cylons felt fear as the might of the swarm crashed into them like a flood and the attack began in an instant before the machine enemy realized that the place was claimed by the swarm in the name of the Queen of Blades.
The three were reduced to scrap as hundreds of Zerglings swarmed over them on their way out of the tunnels towards their goal of the surface facility.
xXx
Surface Mining Facility
Night stared at the empty screens before her until the alarms sounded again to signify a perimiter breach. A glance through the security cameras showed thousands of these monsters pour out of the abandoned tunnels and into the camp as the Centurions tried to stand their ground in small numbers.
Quickly she dashed for the Heavy Raider she had stashed away as a just in case precaution and started lift off protocols. In the hopes of escaping somehow from this madness.
As the craft lifted off and out of the hanger something immense rose before her and engulfed the craft in its gargantuan jaws before they closed with a snap and everything went black.
The Eidolon system was the first to fall to the servents of the Queen of Blades and her Cerebrates...
Eidolon VII, Cylon Mining Facility
An Eight who had taken to referring to herself as Night watched the various machines work, the automated processes of harvesting the various metals required for constructing the Cylon ships and units. She was the only biological cylon on the planet and had been assigned as an overseer of the facility after the more "human" of her kin had decided that they could have their own little captive population of humanity for their use.
Recently things had gotten odd, strange disapearances had forced her to call in a large number of Centurions for patrol purposes to find out what the hell was going on after one of the few she already had was found in a state that was best described as eviscerated, but the planet was lifeless when the council had set up shop on this out of the way hellhole.
The strangeness had begun shortly after an anomaly on the sensors had been detected and then vanished on the far side of the planet, but even the search patrols had found nothing.
Her attention shifted from her thoughts as the squad of Centurions reached the area and a visual display seemed to activate instantly before her.
An abandoned mine shaft from the earlier mining before the upper layers were tapped out, but it was strange to her now. The machines steps seemed to make an odd crunching sound rather than the normally hollow echoes of their normal steps.
It was moister than it should, the light atmosphere of the mines was normally used to keep pressure within and allow easy clearing of liquid pockets and the like without it freezing for problems.
A brief flash of motion brought her attention to a specific screen, the one of the scouts before the feed was severed and the alert was sounded.
"What the hell..."
xXx
Tunnel XXIV
The beast destroyed the intruder, an odd machine that tasted almost like the Protoss ones to its fangs. Dropping the sparking and ravaged machine it crawled slowly across the ceiling between the support struts towards the next one as its connection to the Cerebrate passed all of its information along to its countless siblings that lay in wait around the machines colony.
Motion caught its eye as the human shaped metals moved under him and he lashed out with a stream of spines that reduced anothers head to a look almost like a detonated can and impaled a third having finished a third of the enemy forces in less than that many minutes.
Millenia of evolution in several galaxies and even realities had still left most sentient life with one major weakness, they lacked the instinct to look up for threats first.
And the Hydralisk took advantage of this by dropping amidst the machine enemy and attacking like a rabid bear, its wild strikes savaging seven more but only dropping six of them with the seventh suffering major damage. One of the other two was also damaged but had managed to kill the beast before it could destroy more of the cylon forces.
The beasts death scream filled the dark maze as its burning eyes faded to lifelessness.
The three Centurions seemed to almost visibly relax as they surveyed the corpse and prepared to retrieve the beast for examination when thousands more eyes seemed to flood the darkness around them.
The machines felt an even more alien emotion, for the first time the Cylons felt fear as the might of the swarm crashed into them like a flood and the attack began in an instant before the machine enemy realized that the place was claimed by the swarm in the name of the Queen of Blades.
The three were reduced to scrap as hundreds of Zerglings swarmed over them on their way out of the tunnels towards their goal of the surface facility.
xXx
Surface Mining Facility
Night stared at the empty screens before her until the alarms sounded again to signify a perimiter breach. A glance through the security cameras showed thousands of these monsters pour out of the abandoned tunnels and into the camp as the Centurions tried to stand their ground in small numbers.
Quickly she dashed for the Heavy Raider she had stashed away as a just in case precaution and started lift off protocols. In the hopes of escaping somehow from this madness.
As the craft lifted off and out of the hanger something immense rose before her and engulfed the craft in its gargantuan jaws before they closed with a snap and everything went black.
The Eidolon system was the first to fall to the servents of the Queen of Blades and her Cerebrates...