The Galactic War III
After having retreated from its conquests earlier in the decade, the Spore emergerd from its exile with horrific power. Intead 36 ships, each of the three fleets crossing Cynur Territory had grown to complement 50 Destroyers, 5 Cruisers and 5 Battle Ships within its ranks, exceeding what had been fought to be the "natural" limit to its swarm-like coordination and blatantly showing to each of the nations what they had quitely feared: as fearsom as it had been, it hadn't even been trying in earnest.
The Spore deployment at Menkar:
Observation vessels following the Spore advance reported it using well know tactics, hitting the first enemy System as one, whereby they defeated two unbidden fleets at the cost of just short a fifth of their destroyer force, before splitting in three to clear out another of the Unbiddens fortified systems each. Meeting no other fleets, the spore was expected to dillute its forces further, but instead the fleets stayed put.
The Spore pacifies Menkar
They had waited for construction ships to arrive, as became apparent several months later, as these began to set up wormhole generators in each of the pacified systems. A curios behaviour for what is widly believed to be a non-concious amalgamation of slightly psionic mold cells. In fact the spore had never been observed setting up transit outside infected systems, somewhat confining itself even in wars.
The reason for its behaviour would become apparent as soon as the construction was done, with all three fleets tunneling towards the Ezak System. This indicates, the spore knew were to find the Unbiddens portal into our galaxy, or was at least able to determine its location by way of analyzing the subspace disturbance most galactic nations scientists had noticed several months prior to the Unbidden.
As most of my readers may know, the Galactic War did not end in 2285, nor for many years to come. Entering Ezak in and no less on the Edge auf the System closest to the Portal, the Spore delved directly into unbidden defenses, utilizing various means of disturbing our reality to support the Invaders. As no observational craft survived for longer then a few minutes, it is hard to say what exactly happened, but with the retreating forces of the Spore reduced to a meager half dozen battle ships, there's hardly room for imagination.
While the thought of something wich could easily scuttle a full blown offensive of not one but three spore fleets, superior to any ever encountered by the galactic nations was utterly terrifying, petrifying even to most, it was utterly incoceivable by others, who would claim the true body of the spore fleets had entered the portal, fighting the unbidden on their turf. The returning ships, the claimed, were the once damaged in battle. Of course this is nonsense, as it is well known the Spore would not repair ships mid campaign, much less divert firepower if it was still needed.
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Unfortunately I haven't got pictures of the Spore fleets getting slaughtered. But basically picture the spore eating its own medicine thrice over...
