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-- Tenelapis, Warp Space, 0150 hours -- 

''As the Protoss fleets warp in, the Aneph Tenelapis Fleet intercepts them mid-way. In instants, the Protoss capitals are destroyed, torn apart by precision fire while helpless to respond. Carrying along the warp vectors, the Aneph ships jump out in the middle of the Protoss fleet where the Protoss’s capitals were supposed to be.''

Bereft of any heavy support, the Protoss drones begin to be torn apart by the superior ANF craft, the small ships unable to harm them no matter the numbers.

''In the end, the Protoss fleet never even makes it to the vents. Some manage to get past the Aneph fleet, only to find that ground forces have already been prepared. Crust-mounted railguns fire in rolling volleys of arc light, obliterating any ships that try to enter.''

 

-- Aneph Continent, Warmind Bunkers 001 through 004, 0200 hours -- 

''The four Warminds hold council, their thoughts intermingling on the highest planes of informational existence. In the bunkers themselves, Aneph scientists speak with the Warminds, coordinating the response and providing new information gained from the failed Protoss assaults on Tenelapis and Earth – up-to-date IFF codes, frequency transmissions, et cetera – as they are received, while Aneph forces combat the incursions. ''

''Rasputin deliberates quietly with Admiral Tato and Tato’s advisors, while Frederick and Charlemagne both discuss orders with officials from the Aneph Bureau of Naval Intelligence. Eris herself needs no orders, though she speaks with Silas Tierce and his crew anyway, transmitted over a completely secure link from the Aneph Tenth Fleet’s positions. ''

Then, the bunkers grow quiet, as well as the ships across the solar system.

The Warminds stretch their hands across the galaxy, and their fingertips caress the minds of lesser intelligences…

 

-- Above Aiur and Vesta, Orbit, 0200 hours -- 

''A shudder runs through the two planets’ orbital defense grids in unison as they are subjected to a devastating assault from every receiver they possess. The lesser intelligences are overwhelmed in instants, unable to spare even enough processing power to raise the alarm. The Protoss AIs are excised and deleted in a single ruthless moment, and manual and/or remote controls for every station in the grid were silently overridden. ''

''The stations turn under RCS impulse towards the planets, but no Protoss notice, all focused intently on their warp detectors for an attack from outside. ''

''In a frozen space between seconds, space lights up like the surface of the sun as the planetary defense grids fire in a perfectly synchronized volley, over and over, heedless of the damage caused to their reactors. ''

''On the planets below, their atmospheres are ionized instantly by the passage of so many turbolaser blasts, and kilometer-wide sheets of plasma vaporize whatever was under them at the time. Turbolasers and MACs blast cities into nonexistence, while heavy railguns target military bases below, killing millions of soldiers before they have time to react – and more importantly, the other AIs below. ''

<p class="MsoNormal">''As the Protoss fleets in orbit realize what’s going on, the crusts of the planets have been turned into so much radioactive, pitted ash, littered with fragments of glass and bone. The damage went kilometers deep, not sparing a single base. Occasionally, the crust of the planet would erupt in a massive fireball as an underground base went supernova.''

<p class="MsoNormal">''Desperately, the Protoss turn their guns on their own orbital “defenses,” destroying them. But the damage is done; billions of Protoss have been already killed, and Vesta and Aiur are both incapable of ever even supporting life again. ''

<p class="MsoNormal">Even then, the Protoss fleet itself had taken losses, unable to destroy all the stations in time; the stations had focused their fire on the enemy capitals, killing many.

<p class="MsoNormal">''Into this maelstrom of chaos and destruction warps the Aneph fleets on standby; over 300 capitals, including the ANF Dominus Imperator. The Imperator and its associated 150 capitals arrive at Aiur, while the other 150 go to Vesta. ''

<p class="MsoNormal">''The Dominus Imperator’s main weapon fires as soon as it exits Exodus Drive in the middle of the Protoss’s hastily thrown-up warp disruption. The space-time weapon tears apart a large concentration of capitals and other ships that had clustered together for protection, and the Aneph fleet proper opens up on the remnants of the Protoss fleet with superheavy railguns, guided telepedo launchers, and pure fusion-tipped rockets. ''

<p class="MsoNormal">''Meanwhile, around Vesta, the situation was much the same. The feeble weapons of Protoss’s mass-produced frigates and below fail against the ANF fleets’ armor, while the Aneph ships return devastating fire into the hearts of the Protoss formations.''

<p class="MsoNormal">Without the benefits of any orbital defenses and with ninety out of a hundred of their fleet unable to do any significant damage to the Aneph capitals, the Protoss fleets soon fall, torn apart by Mach 30 superheavy railgun rounds and the Dominus Imperator’s seemingly endless arsenal of 2040 shells and fusion rockets, among more un-understandable weaponry.

<p class="MsoNormal">''The Aneph fleets now wait among the shattered wreckage of the once-proud Protoss Home Fleet. Fightercraft go over both planets’ new rings, examining the debris for any surviving Protoss equipment or personnel. Occasionally, flashes of plasma and laserfire light up space and then grow silent, the Aneph craft having executed any resistance. ''

<p class="MsoNormal">''All the while, the ANF capitals cruise the belt like sharks, the occasional break-out frigate obliterated by their heavy guns. Within fifteen minutes, new orders are received by the bulk of the ships – leaving a few capitals behind to finish mopping up any resistance left – and the fleets warp out, bound for their new targets on separate vectors.''

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<p class="MsoNormal">-- Earth, Warp Space, 0230 hours -- 

<p class="MsoNormal">''As the Derect attempts to warp in, it is ambushed by the ANF Dominus Imperator, fresh from its mission to Aiur. Opening up with its full arsenal, the helpless Derect – effectively just the stick it looked so much like under warp attack – is destroyed, multiple superheavy railgun shots shearing it apart.''

<p class="MsoNormal">As the two dropped out of warp, the Derect depressurized, venting its crew into space, and then its reactors exploded along with its warp core, consuming the ship in a fireball of plasma and null-space warp particles.

<p class="MsoNormal">''Meanwhile, half of the Aneph Home Fleet joined up with the Dominus Imperator, and together, they laid waste to the fragile drones accompanying the now-destroyed Derect. ''

<p class="MsoNormal">''The other half, meanwhile, intercepted the Protoss siege cruisers and Eirennes in-travel – synchronizing warp with the Scarlet fleet --, destroying a good portion of both Protoss detachments and then attacking the remainder as soon as they dropped their bubbles. Any damage inflicted to the actual Earth defenses by them, therefore, was minimal. ''