The hivemind is conquering for me?

Following up the Phalanx's assault, Another knight made its way down the chokepoint. Upon seeing our position, it made his way over, as did the other knights who decided not to follow the Phalanx for some reason.

As the mercenaries were finally able to rest and tend to the wounded, they ignored to approach of the knights and left it for their better ups. As the knights made their way up the stairs, they eventually stopped a couple meters away from the main barricade. "We are looking for Kathrine Hyllus, is she still among the living?" The man asked.

"Present knight, you have our gratitude for your troops hot drop." Kathrine said as she came forward and removed her helmet for easy identification. "They are proud to have undergone the drop my lady, no gratitude required. In fact its the King who wishes to show his gratitude to you for such excellent work. In fact-"

The man stopped talking as a unique figure walked over to Kathrine. "You, identify yourself. That armour is non spartari and in violation of multiple code and law breaches." The other knights turned their weapons upon me in case I tried something.

"Kat, do you wanna take this one?" "Sure. Knights stand down, you are aiming your weapons at an Arcon who has all the documentation needed for the suit back at our ships. If I were you, I would keep those weapons of yours pointed exclusively at our enemies."

The knight commander was silent for a moment before he spoke one more. "If those are your orders ma'am. We have been instructed to follow you until the city is ours completely, then you are free to retreat to your ships and wait for the all clear."

Kathrine was pleased to hear the King sticking to his word and not making her mercenaries do more than required.

"Very well knights, we will enter our convoy once more and used the armoured guns to reinforce the Phalanx's assault, I am sure they have been put to a stalemate by now correct?" "Yes my lady, the planets guard have retreated behind a fallback point and both forces have taken up defensive positions according to my comms." The Knight commander said.

The mercenaries were given 10 minutes to rest. The dead were placed inside of body bags and would remain here until we begin to extract from the city. While getting prepared for our assault, I noticed Dolan had gone over to the knights and had initiated conversation. He began pointing at me every so often, probably my suit more likely and began laughing like a lunatic.

While Dolan was making friends, Jacob was busy cataloguing all the equipment that has been used. I walked over to him and heard him muttering. "So with the ammunition expended we have do-do-dodoo. Yeah, as I thought." "Hey Jacob." He turned around and frowned curiously.

"Apollo, do you need something?" "Yes, I used a lot of my ammunition during the fight just now, do we have any hydrogen and laser cells left?" I asked

Jacob rolled his eyes and began to check his notes. After a minute he responded. "Yes, we have enough to satisfy your needs, in the APC with the number 63 for your hydrogen and go to Caleb's logistician for ammo for your Deimos weapon." He said before looking back down at his documents and getting lost in the numbers once more.

After reloading my minigun, I went over to Willy for my Deimos ammo. "Ah the cunt of the hour. Walking fucking tank here. How many rounds do ya think you were hit with? I bet a cunt load."

I smiled at Willy being himself after a rough battle. "You would win that bet then, though I'm pretty sure I had a guardian angel watching over me and making sure anything that could have damaged me was floored before it had the chance."

Behind me, Janine let out an exasperated sigh. "Darn it, I thought I was sneakier this time. You and your space magic hearing." She whispered the last part in a huff. "Willy shut your trap before I hit you again and give me my ammo." She gave forewarning as Willy was about to open his mouth.

He took the warning with great seriousness and handed over Janine's ammo. "The same for me as well please." I said, wanting to get it over with while he had an invisible hand over his mouth.

A few minutes of light conversing with Janine later, we moved out once more to join the phalanx and attack the planetary guard in an assault. The knights had moved ahead of the convoy and had already began to lay down heavy fire at the defensive position.

The defensive position in question was a rather wide hill with chest high walls running across the entire thing at different elevations. I had no clue what it was doing in the middle of a city, perhaps a cultural landmark of some sorts? Either way, the defenders had turned it into a makeshift fortress with heavy weapons and added fortifications of their own.

The front vehicles of the convoy had began to open fire at the enemies own heavy weapons while the rest of the men got our of the vehicles ready to deploy. As Dolan was giving a battle plan to take the fortification, I felt something above me.

It was familiar. I looked up into the sky and my eyes went wide with shock and excitement. 'What are you doing here!'

Meanwhile, Rekosh was growing a little impatient. "My Seer, its no good letting our new allies think lesser of us for not engaging. We should aid them now." The rest of the Starforged had long since made there way here and were growing restless as the smell of blood was evident in the air.

Aeletha opened her eyes and exhaled through her nose. "The time is not yet right, The hunger has not yet descended." "What hunger my Seer? Your vision's wording confuses me." Rekosh asked again. If the hunger was not the Spartari's hunger for bloodshed, he knew not what it meant.

Aeletha was ready to continue waiting for a sign while ignoring her bodyguard when she felt something. A probing, it was not a conscious probing, more along the lines of-" With her blind eyes, she looked upwards. "Rekosh, what do you see in the sky." Rekosh was confused as he turned around to face his Seer. "My lady the same as the last few hours just Spartari ships and-"

Rekosh paused. Is that what he thinks it is? Where did they just come from? Aeletha could read her bodyguards body language thanks to her energy and informed. "Rekosh, send in the men the moment that thing crash lands, we need to keep as many people alive as possible.

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Hours ago... A small splinter hive fleet were stuck inside a peculiar Psionic tendril. They had been ordered to retain biomass after suffering a devastating defeat a long time ago and fled into the tendril.

Unfortunately for them, The navigator tendrils of the ships had all been exploded off and could no longer find their way out of the tendril. As a result, the four ships that had managed to survive entered into an extended torpor, cutting themselves off from the hive temporarily to alleviate mind pressure.

That was until the main hive ship, the 18km long living ship felt something. Cosmologically, very close. Its mind was slow, having not used it in over a decade, but with its thought, it reached out to the Agitator leader of the ship with a single thought. "Mate- Apollo."

The Agitator left torpor in an instant, its urge for that word rendering it at perfect efficiency, it the linked itself with the mind of the ship to understand why it said that glorious phrase and it knew immediately. Apollo had activated some sort of imprint the queen had left inside of him.

The Ship no longer needed to navigate the tendril, for it now had clear coordinates in its mind after the only short moment Apollo activated its link. Even if it was the last thing this fleet did, If they could see their mate one last time, they would be happy.

As the Hive inside of the ship came back to sapiency, Their link to Jewel became activated once more. She was most curious as what Apollo was up to as he had not used his gift in over a week and she longed to see him as well. She knew he was on a planet that had no affiliation to her, regarding cults, so a surprise visit would not hurt.

Hour later, The hive blasted out of the tendril right into the middle of a space battle between a prey species and a robotic species. They cared little for the ships, as they had nothing to combat them with currently and proceeded with the plan of crashlanding into the planet below. all the while getting bombarded with an untold amount of munitions.

The ships began breaking apart under the hail of fire and large chunks, filled with bio forms, began to rain from the sky unto the planet below. It would not take long until the largest ship also descend into the planet as well, for it was hungry.