Kelswa-Steiner: The Hour of Steiner Has Come! 08/28/3133
INN - Interstellar News Network
PORT HOWARD – For several hours this morning, the HPG on Towne was overrun
and briefly commandeered this morning by elements belonging to the Stormhammers,
one of the newest armed factions to arise since the collapse of the interstellar
communications network. Led by Landgrave Jasek Kelswa-Steiner of Skye, in
Prefecture VIII, the Stormhammer forces immediately opened all communications
channels from the HPG to both planetary and local interstellar networks, and
continuously broadcast the following prerecorded manifesto until elements of the 21st
Centauri Lancers and the Towne militia were able to drive the invaders back:
Stormhammer units rally against a combined defense force consisting of the Centauri
Lancers, local militia, and the Triarii Protectors. Casualty estimates remain
unconfirmed at this time, as do the number of Towne citizens who have already been
witnessed answering Kelswa-Steiner’s call, braving the battle lines under a flag of
truce to board the Stormhammer DropShips.
INN will keep you posted on the latest developments in an around Port Howard as
they occur.
Towne Log
+ Don’t believe a word of this drek, guys! I’m freaking IN the battle zone, and these
Stormhammer clowns are anything but the noble sods they’re making themselves out
to be! :- FMLurder
+ Lurder? You outta your mind? You got gunplay in that city, and you’re staying
online, yammering about it to us??? Don’t they have shelters in PH? :- WetWillie
+ Steiner bastards are going too far this time! Bad enough to have the soldier
wannabes around here, but some money-grubbing Lyrans sniffing around? I’ll be
damned if the Archon’s gonna take Towne without a fight! :- GreasL
+ You heard the message, GreasL. Jasek is just calling all the Steiners home. Even
you can’t be too blind to see that, any day now, it’ll be the Snakes or the Feddies
coming here to claim Towne. You want to be around for that? :- ElSi
+ Spoken like a Sweiner, ElSi. Knew all along you had a soft spot for the Archon!
Why don’t you just go and join up with your darling heroes out there? Can’t miss 'em,
I’m sure – they’re the ones SETTING BUILDINGS ON FIRE!!!! :- FMLurder
+ Well, maybe if the Towne militia let 'em land, they’d not have to fight their way in! :
- ElSi
+ Cripes, ElSi, this ain’t some rugby game we’re watching on HV. It’s the real deal!
We’re under attack here – all of us! :- FMLurder
+ Speak for yourself, Lurder! I’m outta here! :- ElSi
*** ElSi has left the server (To hell with all of you!) ***
+ What the – ? :- Draco041
***FMLurder has left the server (Connection Error at Source)
+ !!! :- CMike
INN - Interstellar News Network
PORT HOWARD – For several hours this morning, the HPG on Towne was overrun
and briefly commandeered this morning by elements belonging to the Stormhammers,
one of the newest armed factions to arise since the collapse of the interstellar
communications network. Led by Landgrave Jasek Kelswa-Steiner of Skye, in
Prefecture VIII, the Stormhammer forces immediately opened all communications
channels from the HPG to both planetary and local interstellar networks, and
continuously broadcast the following prerecorded manifesto until elements of the 21st
Centauri Lancers and the Towne militia were able to drive the invaders back:
- “People of Towne, and those systems still able to hear my voice across the
stars, I, Jasek Kelswa-Steiner, Landgrave of Skye, bid you welcome on behalf
of the Lyran Commonwealth and my fellow Stormhammers! I am at once
honored and dismayed to speak to you this evening, but duty demands that you
learn the truth of the universe beyond your world. The noble experiment that
was The Republic has failed. Even now, armies great and small turn upon you
with an eye toward carving their own personal empires. Devlin Stone has left
us alone in the dark, and he is not coming back to us – ever.
“And yet, in the darkness, I bring you hope, the hope that comes to save those
who remain loyal to the dreams of House Steiner! I know that many of you
have felt it in your hearts – the yearning to return to your roots, to embrace the
glory of the Lyran Commonwealth, a legacy of peace and order, a realm free
from the chaos that swirls around and threatens to consume all!
“To you I proclaim that I have come to bring you back into the fold! As the
Terran Hegemony before it, and the Star League it once bore, The Republic of
the Sphere shall crumble into dust, and as it does the armies of the greedy
Successor Lords shall descend upon you all! Those who do not wish to be
absorbed by force of arms must join with us! The Stormhammers will protect
you as we bring our people – the Lyran people – back to their birthright, back
to your true ruler, the compassionate and generous Archon, Melissa Steiner!
Together, we shall raise the mighty fist of Steiner, and together we shall
overcome the chaos and the darkness! No nation, no Clan, no band of
renegade terrorists will you ever need to fear again!
“Come quickly, my brothers and sisters. My warriors in and around Port
Howard shall protect you from those who seek to keep you in the darkness. All
of the true children of Steiner may come home now, safe from the persecution
of a dying Republic, or those invaders who will inevitably consume it.
“Return to House Steiner! Join with the Stormhammers, and we shall salvage
the legacy of peace, prosperity, and order that Devlin Stone once promised!
Together, we shall reunite with the noble Commonwealth, and right all
wrongs!”
Stormhammer units rally against a combined defense force consisting of the Centauri
Lancers, local militia, and the Triarii Protectors. Casualty estimates remain
unconfirmed at this time, as do the number of Towne citizens who have already been
witnessed answering Kelswa-Steiner’s call, braving the battle lines under a flag of
truce to board the Stormhammer DropShips.
INN will keep you posted on the latest developments in an around Port Howard as
they occur.
Towne Log
+ Don’t believe a word of this drek, guys! I’m freaking IN the battle zone, and these
Stormhammer clowns are anything but the noble sods they’re making themselves out
to be! :- FMLurder
+ Lurder? You outta your mind? You got gunplay in that city, and you’re staying
online, yammering about it to us??? Don’t they have shelters in PH? :- WetWillie
+ Steiner bastards are going too far this time! Bad enough to have the soldier
wannabes around here, but some money-grubbing Lyrans sniffing around? I’ll be
damned if the Archon’s gonna take Towne without a fight! :- GreasL
+ You heard the message, GreasL. Jasek is just calling all the Steiners home. Even
you can’t be too blind to see that, any day now, it’ll be the Snakes or the Feddies
coming here to claim Towne. You want to be around for that? :- ElSi
+ Spoken like a Sweiner, ElSi. Knew all along you had a soft spot for the Archon!
Why don’t you just go and join up with your darling heroes out there? Can’t miss 'em,
I’m sure – they’re the ones SETTING BUILDINGS ON FIRE!!!! :- FMLurder
+ Well, maybe if the Towne militia let 'em land, they’d not have to fight their way in! :
- ElSi
+ Cripes, ElSi, this ain’t some rugby game we’re watching on HV. It’s the real deal!
We’re under attack here – all of us! :- FMLurder
+ Speak for yourself, Lurder! I’m outta here! :- ElSi
*** ElSi has left the server (To hell with all of you!) ***
+ What the – ? :- Draco041
***FMLurder has left the server (Connection Error at Source)
+ !!! :- CMike
| August 28, 3133 |