Downfall

It’s a nice peaceful morning aboard the slipshod bucket of rust Battleship commanded by Dr Dredd. It starts off as usual, a nice coffee in the morning, a newspaper in hand, and a view of clear space right on the bridge of the |DP| Nautilus. The only thing that differed from making it the perfect morning was the sudden coms alert that shook Dredd and ended up spilling his hot coffee all over him. Normally Dredd would’ve cursed and ignored it, but no one would call if it wasn’t urgent. He sighs and answers it only to find it wasn’t necessarily a call, but rather an automated call conveying a bunch of coordinates which with thorough research ended up to be precisely in the Weth system at the Mrrtrak battle station which was rather odd... the invaders were cleared out years ago, and humans can’t pose no significant threat. Since this was extremely odd, Dredd decided to take the call out, preparing his battleship and setting course for Omega-3.

So far, Dredd hasn’t encountered too many threats. The occasional Corsair and Red Hessian raid often crossed his path, which Dredd let through out of the goodness of his blackened heart but also because time is of the essence to see what the callout was for in Weth. At long last, he arrives in a dead and quiet system. Omega-3, Which is not only home to one of two Hypergates to the Inner Core, but also home to a new clan, one which he needs to avoid. And much to his luck, he made it safely to the Hypergate. At first glance, he thought that they must’ve been disabled, but when he asked to board, he was met with a positive AI response. As soon as he boarded, he tried talking to the AI, but they only replied with simple ‘yes’ and ‘no’ answers. He then suspiciously refueled and resupplied his Nautilus then hurried back on it to journey back into the Inner Core...

Dr Dredd sighs in a state of peace as he stares at the beautiful ring around a supermassive black hole. He mutters to himself about how if he could make a base right here, he promises himself he’d stay there forever, but for now, he had more pressing matters to attend to... the sudden callout about Weth. He cautiously travels around the blackholes, through countless systems until he hits the small jump gate to Weth. He sighs to himself knowing he can’t bring anything bigger then a frigate through the tiny gate. So he set his famed Nautilus to autopilot around the system keeping itself busy while he launches out of its hangers in a fully decked out Chimera fighter. He jumps into the next system and gasps in shock seeing something truly horrifying

All around him are the debris of the three main Defense stations that guard the very entrance to the Daam’Kavosh empire. He shakes his head in disbelief and decides stupidly to take the trade lane down to the Mrrtrak battle station. As soon as he got there however, an even more horrifying scene flooded his head...

It remained intact

But there were no Daam'Kavosh anywhere. All that could be seen, were the debris of several ships, trade lanes, and the occasional scanner echo. Just as it all registered in his head, he had an idea. The Nomads. They're generally thought of by humans as the sensor echos that fill the Canis Sector and will often venture out around the small empire of the Daam'Kavosh. Maybe they had seen what had happened to the once glorious Daam'Kavosh empire... or at least have a theory. The only problem is, they have an intense hostility issue with anyone and everyone except their creators. Dr Dredd charted a course for the Old Kavash Arc in the Banysia system, deep inside the Canis Sector, the abandoned Kavosh colony.

After journeying through the ruins of the Kavosh territory, he managed to find his way to the Banysia and took his first ever glance at this system. He'd only ever seen photographs from other travelers, he marveled at the nearby planet with it's orbital structure that formed a type of ring system, and the obelisks leading towards the Kavosh Arc. He activated his cruise engines, and set towards the Arc. "Strange... there's a lot of flashing lights centered close to the base..." Dredd mumbled squinting at the weird color spray close by the station. Upon further inspection, it was revealed there was three Daam'Kavosh gunboats buzzing around and it turned out they were firing against... Nomads?

Deactivating his cruise engines, and activating his weapons instead, he provided assistance against the swarm of blue. Firing off flaks and secondary turrets, many of the Nomads fell before the mighty battleship, and several more fell to the sheer power of the Daam'Kavosh. Once the blue and purple swarm had been destroyed, the Daam'Kavosh invited Dr Dredd inside their seemingly last vestige of their existence, to talk, to plan, and to come up with a way forward.

It appears, several of the Daam'Kavosh split off and left The Inner Core sector, and had gone back to being named the Dom'Kavash. However, they didn't leave without leaving a parting gift for the remainder of their brethren. Digging deep into the central node of Nomad Intelligence, the more intellectually advanced Dom'Kavash managed to change the allegiance of the Nomads, rendering nobody safe from their swarms of terror. During the treachery of the Nomads, nobody managed to catch where the real traitors went. However, it is believed that they fled towards the Hypergate that led to the Altair sector. If this is correct, it could not only spell trouble for our brothers and sisters that we've only just reconnected with in Altair, but the rest of the Sirius sector...