The UWSS now boasted a fleet of two hundred eighty warships of Avenger class and twenty special purpose craft, these needle shaped ships mounted the Shaper photon cannon as a propulsion engine, and as weaponry, and flew at point eight of light speed, no ship of any race matched them.  The seventy ships of the Shaper fleet closed in on Sol system in the last month of 3357, sixty years after the Argus was destroyed.  ADAM’s Trojan Sphere and four of the needles left Earth as soon as the patrols sighted the Sphere’s coming out of shift.  They sat immobile just as the first had absorbing energy while resting.  Russell’s ships were ready for them, bombs of blanket salts, peppered their surfaces, beams sliced off photon dishes and field bars alike.  The Sphere’s surfaces smelted furiously and swallowed the blanket powder.  Beams of photon cannon lanced out of recessed dishes in the Sphere’s hulls caught fifty of Russell’s ships unawares.  The Vegans had learned some hard lessons in sixty years.  Russell’s stiletto squadrons moved in for the kill, they pointed their drives at the enemy and blazed one hundred meter holes in the nickle-iron globes, the Avenger fleet began filling those holes with bombs and rock.  Thirty eight of the Spheres succumbed to being pumped full of explosive this way.  Two stiletto’s were lost as they got too close to a working Shaper cannon.  Russell’s fleet had lost eighty large and two small vessels by the time the Shaper’s were down to thirty Spheres.  At this point the Shapers began time hopping to avoid destruction but Russell’s hounds stayed with them.  In and out of time the ships of both winked in and out of sight life fireflies as the bitter slug-fest raged on and on.  Slowly the Spheres all came back into view as their power was used up and displacement was no longer possible.  As Russell’s ships reappeared they reformed in front of the Spheres and began slicing and pounding away at them again.  Russell watched ten of the remaining twenty explode and then ordered the cease-fire.  To his and most of his command’s consternation the remaining Spheres each exploded, apparently a self-destruct system had been used.  During one of its time shifts the flag ship Sphere had escaped and began its fifteen year flight back to Vega, the Grand Sarome Ta Neg Sah vowed to breed one hundred million Panuits and return to avenge his shame, but on reaching home the world was changed.  The great mothers of warriors were dead, slain in their thousands.  The Panuits and Panors left on Vega were maimed and blind, sick and infirm with a host of infections killing them.  Only the aristocratic Panomes, Saromes, worker and concubine females were unaffected by the plagues.  Within days of landing his Panuits and Panors on the Sphere were dying as well.  The ships computer mind succumbed to one of the bacteria and rotted in six hours.  Deprived of all that had made them the Shapers of their own bodies, of their world and even the universe, Ta Neg Sah wept for the fall of his races power, and swore to bring that power back one day, however it was to be done.  You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.


    ADAM’s Sphere ship had sown the seeds of destruction on Vega Four, thousands of green bombs were released into its atmosphere, the contents of which were Chamber’s genetically hyped up bacteria designed to attack only the hybrid males and females, the same genes which made them huge were the bacteria’s target.  The stock race of the Shapers was uninjured but in great confusion for more then the plagues attacking the brood mothers and warriors.  Over every major city or fortification a pall of yellow gas brought a days long dreamless sleep to all.  Upon awakening every subject slave was gone and never seen again, all the living computers had been poisoned to death, and every warrior on Vega fell ill.


    ADAM was thorough, but missed two ships even now hidden since their return from Fomalhaut Six.  These Spheres and their recovered crews were kept separate from other Vegans until their own leader came aboard then and infected both unwittingly.  The two Spheres remained hidden, buried in the Great Western Desert, their dead crews and companions sealed within.  The shifting sands covered them even more deeply.  For the whole of the United Worlds of man peace came, welcomed and wanted, but every race kept its weapons and its memory of the battles that saved Earth, Mars, Venus, liberated sixty worlds and populated them with the living legends of histories descendants; Ulysses, Ptolemy’s and Hannibal’s children, Geronimo’s, Kebbi’s, and Charlemagne’s children.  The sons and daughters of Earth were all represented.  In honor of the first ship and crew lost to the Shaper war the exact holomodel of ADAM’s Sphere and the Argus facing each other with a permanent laser beam passing between them.  Chairman Hughes dedicated the image to ADAM, Debra Hilds hopper teams, Jeff Calan, and Russell Carlin.  Humanity, old and new alike rejoiced at their victory and riches gained, not gold or precious gems answered their prayers but sixty whole new planets, to survey, name and divide among two hundred of humankind’s greatest warrior races.  The United World Government made good its word, every RACE warrior and his family was transported to a new home, a new Earth to begin again.  the UW sent Jeff Calan and ADAM as ambassadors to Fomalhaut Six and secured the insect hive mind called the Tornac, as an ally.  Sharing knowledge and weaponry with the Tornac to defend against Shaper attacks, smoothed the path to friendship.  The Shapers two campaigns had cost many millions of Tornac lives.  Even though their reproduction rate was rapid the Tornac were not resigned to losing lives every day.  Much knowledge and experience was gained from them as well.