Stardate: 30.5.2260
Location: Drengi System, Drengin Imperial Sector
Drengi. The red planet which had given birth to one of the galaxy’s most fearsome race of warriors – the Drengin.
It was not a friendly planet. No…everything from the thick red atmosphere of methane and CO2, the miles of barren plains, crisscrossed by raging rivers of lava gave the impression of death…of hell. But even in this place of despair, life flourished. Huge cities were seen all over the planet’s surface, with millions of Drengin going about their lives. This was the heart and soul of the once mighty Drengin Empire.
Despite their fearsome skills as a warrior and their advanced technology, the Empire had been beaten back by the combined forces of the Terran Alliance, Torian Confederation & Altairian Republic. Where once the Imperial Star Navy had been the most powerful force in the galaxy, now its planets had fallen one by one…until only Drengi remained.
Around the galaxy, celebrations were in full swing as humanity and its friends looked forward to a new age of peace. Sure, the Yor Collective still survived, but it was isolated now and no match for the combined strength of the galaxy’s other races. Evil, it seemed, was on the losing side.
But unknown to them and the rest of the galaxy, their lives were about to change forever as history prepared to repeat itself…
For Drengi had a secret. Hidden many hundreds of miles below the planet's surface.
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The room was dominated by the massive machine in the center of the room. Connected by thousands of huge wires to the walls, the red glow of the room gave the giant object an ominous twinge. Occasional waves of electricity cascaded up its base to the sphere at the top, where it crackled and disappeared. The entire machine hummed with a slight sound and vibration, eerily similar to a living organism. In fact the entire room crackled with unseen radiation and a feeling of pure unbridled and unimaginable power.
“Lord Kona…the Ra’Tok Kragaton is ready.”
The huge Drengin simply nodded, continuing to look at the magestic machine. This was the Drengin answer to the Alliance. The end of all things…and of life as everyone knew it. This was what had wiped the Arnor and a majority of the Dread Lords off the face of the universe…and it would do the same to all life currently existing in the universe.
For the Ra’Tok Kragaton, meaning Scourge of the Universe was a very ancient Precursor artifact built in the waning days of the Great War between the elder races. It was designed for one purpose only - to use the power garnered from Drengi's core to emit a psychotronic beam which would create a progressively increasing tidal wave of psychotrons, that would spread around the galaxy wiping out all organic and metallic life. It was unstoppable and it was ready.
For any other species, the idea of universal genocide would have been a terrible thing to consider. But for Lord Kona the choice was simple. For a Drengin honour was everything and what greater honour was there than to die taking all your enemies with you. And besides it was what the Dread Lords had created him for…for he was something more than mortal.
He beckoned and the die was cast. The hum intensified as the machine started shaking as more power was fed into it. Warning alarms could be heard as a red haze started enveloping the room. And then without warning a horrendously powerful beam shot out of the device, pierced through the planetary crust and out into space.
Even as the planet Drengi went dark, the beam set out on its mission of universal annihilation.
The age of the younger races had come to an end…
