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« on: September 30, 2013, 05:02:10 PM »
Catastrophy - [10] After being rebuffed by the defenses of Highland the Zemeri proceed with their usual grim and brutal effectiveness. Their doctrine of implementing catastrophic levels of overkill in the face of seemingly unbreakable opposition is once more engaged. Surprisingly, Zerky is once again in their sights, however only by coincidence of his alliance with Morgana. He simply got to be the first to realize what was happening.
What started as an idle admiration and coveting of a couple falling stars rapidly turned into a frantic flight for safety as the falling stars fell towards HIM. Zerkey knew innately there was only one source for something quite so malevolent: those pitiful creatures which should have been such easy pickings that he had tried to overrun so many ages ago. It turned out to be such a horrible, horrible mistake. There was only one thing for it, Zerky fled the city screaming in abject terror.
Meanwhile, up in orbit the fledgeling Zemeri space program had just finished its program of gathering up all of the loose slag, tailings, waste and depleted meteors they could lay their hands on. The massive collection of gargantuan rocks were then propelled towards Highland with one devastating goal: the complete and utter obliteration of Highland and the areas surrounding it and in the process, the annihilation of Morgana's remaining forces on the continent. By the time they ran out of rocks little remained of the city or its surrounding islands but smoking, overlapped craters.
Amazingly enough, Zerky actually got to the mainland before most of the city was obliterated though through a freak accident one of the rocks thrown from orbit fell off target. Zerky, seeing that meteors were all falling well away from where he now was let out an exclamation of victory: He had escaped not only from Morgana but also (at least in his eyes) beaten those wretched Zemeri. Unfortunately for him, this was the point where one of the minions shouted and pointed to the sky where the rogue meteor was proceeding to break up into a hailstorm of flaming meteoric grapeshot coming directly for him. The wretched creature could do little but screech in horror as he and his entire camp was reduced to little more than burning shreds.
Edit: - Strangely enough, the above occured but due to an odd quirk of temporal mechanics, it turns out that Zerky was not infact in Highland at the time when the Zemeri proceeded to render it and its contents down to a couple meters below the bedrock level via orbital meteor bombardment. Instead he simply had horrific nightmares of the event for a good three weeks after it happened, starting well before news even reached anyone under Morgana's command.
Once the bombardment had ceased the next stage of the Zemeri plans commenced. While the primary stronghold of the immediate foe had been obliterated, the area was practically a wasteland so, in their usual grim manner the Zemeri mercenaries set about laying the groundwork for the repopulation and restoration of the region.