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the Hamoriti’s emergence. There they found a much smaller Li’vorkrachnika fleet
in middle orbit and the scattered remains of the rest showing up in pieces on
the surface. Not wasting any time the Trinx attacked and destroyed the
Li’vorkrachnika, securing the system against further outside influence and
establishing a loose blockade/monitoring spherical formation around the planet.
    On the surface the Hamoriti had
moved off from the much more shallower shell and the
crude conduit that the Li’vorkrachnika had dug down to it. That hallow had been
expanded upon when the Hamoriti had came up, but it
was still within 1000 kilometers of the Hamoriti’s present location and it
being deemed too dangerous to attempt an insertion. The Trinx doubted enough
would be left of the shredded Ancient facility, but given they had no hope of
victory they were going to press every lead they had.
    While they waited for the Hamoriti
to move further off around the curvature of the planet before attempting an
orbital insertion, they monitored closely what was happening, seeing several
large holes in the path the creature had taken. Presently it was walking across
the forested landscape leaving lake-sized footprints in a trail easily visible
from orbit. The large holes, however, had burrowed down into the bedrock and
were now covered at the base by formerly molten rock that had resolidified .
    Though it wasn’t doing so now, the
Trinx knew from the Oracle that the Hamoriti had the ability to externally
digest rock in its molten state, essentially soaking in the various elements
they required while leaving the excess material outside its body. Each of the
big holes in the ground were burrowing points where it had been going after something
it sensed below the surface, possibly corovon or other raw materials that it
required.
    As such, any potential physical
restraints on the beast would likewise melt off when it activated this ability,
with it also possessing the means to disrupt any energy based alternatives. The
Hamoriti were mountain-sized juggernauts that you couldn’t stop no matter how
hard you tried…and they contained biological anti- grav ,
meaning they could fly across terrain if needed, and even through space.
    The Trinx knew that they couldn’t
keep the Hamoriti on planet or even in the system if it wanted to leave, so
their mission here was to observe and then attack any minions it produced
before they could snowball out of control. Those minions were biological
technology that the Hamoriti produced, and even now there were a few sites
along the Hamoriti’s trail that were showing positive contacts on the Trinx
sensors.
    They were defensive growths,
essentially a turret covering seeds that would begin harvesting surrounding
resources and producing the mobile minions. If they were allowed to continue
unchecked they’d become a huge problem even if the Hamoriti didn’t spawn any
more. The problem was they were still within the firing radius of the Hamoriti,
and unless it got very sloppy it wouldn’t move off until they’d developed
further.
    That meant the Trinx had a choice to
make. Sit and watch while their long held nightmare’s forces took root and
began to multiply…or go in to eliminate them and hope to weather the Hamoriti’s
firepower long enough to accomplish their mission, at which point the monster
would begin spawning new seeds again, starting an endless war that they could
never win.
    If for no other reason than to buy
time they made the strike, sending a portion of their fleet into extreme
weapons range where they began firing down on the planet from low orbit with
pinpoint accurate energy beams, hitting and vaporizing the growing biomatter in all the various locations simultaneously as patches
on the Hamoriti began to form on its ‘skin’ and charge with energy. As they did
the Trinx, knowing they were going to have to sacrifice themselves to take out
their targets, held position and continued firing