The story
In the year 2391, Earth discovered a colonizable planet, which had an atmosphere with almost identical proportions of gasses as Earth, with one of their many deep space probes. With two of their brand new Intrepid Starcruiser, capable of moving at 6/1000 slower than the speed of light, they traveled to this new paradise. On this planet, dubbed AR-767.332 by ECC(Earth Central Command) the probes had detected what they had believed to be a single, enormous, structure, visible from space. When the ISS(Inter-Stellar Starcruisers) arrived there after more than a century of travel to the outside world, merely a year and a half to those aboard, they discovered an single, ancient, and mostly destroyed, city. One feature of the city that intrigued the mission commander was a single large building at the exact center of the city that was, remarkably, still mostly intact, and so they set up basecamp inside that building. After they explored some more of the city they realized that that single building was the only one with any kind of power systems active, mostly due to the repair drones crawling all over the place, in many cases taking the surrounding buildings apart for raw materials for the repairs. After fiddling with the computers for months, the human scientists claimed they had "translated" the alien language, but in reality they had no idea what had happened; the computers just switched to "English mode" as one scientist admitted later. Eventually, the humans learned the name of this ancient city: Üghluu-Gäara'tiis(which is commonly referred to as Ulu-city by the humans) which roughly translates to "Our home of one."
It was shortly after this that they humans stumbled upon the fate of the Sug'nacu-kiin, the native sentient species that had built the city. They had abandoned all of their smaller cities and attempted to build one enormous city across the face of the entire planet. In their anxiousness they ignored the environmental consequences of what they were doing, which was destroying the ecological system around them. The goddess that their entire species had revered at one time "Made herself manifest" according to the logs of one of the citizens that had died centuries ago. The Sug'nacu-kiin ignored her instructions to stop what they were doing; then "the world around us rose up to defend itself." At that point the scientists stopped taking the logs literally and assumed it was metaphoric; after all, plants that attack you? Those can't honestly be real. The logs spoke of plants that moved across the planet to attack the people of that world, and when the plants were injured a black ooze leaked out, then the ooze came alive and attacked them. In less than one of their years, all of the Sug'nacu-kiin were either dead or taking any ship off-world they could, leaving this planet abandoned for over two-hundred years; seven-hundred forty Earth years.
Three weeks after they gleaned what they could out of the memory core a humanoid walked out of the forest surrounding the city. They had no idea how, but it looked like a human female, and even spoke English. She identified herself as Gaia, which was the name that the database had called the Sug'nacu-kiin's goddess. She told them this world belonged to her and told them to leave. Being the hubris-tic and entitled beings that all "pureblood" humans were in this day and age, they refused. Gaia told them they had one day to reconsider, then disappeared back into the forest. After a day had passed, their starcruisers mysteriously exploded with no obvious cause. Now they were stranded here. It was then that the humans realized that the logs had been literal. The plants attacked the outer walls, but thankfully there were defense barriers on the walls, keeping the plants from getting in for now. But with nothing other than the food they brought with them, they knew it would be only a matter of time before they'd have to venture out to find food. It wasn't long before the ooze creatures described in the logs appeared, somehow phasing through the energy barriers that had kept the plants out. The ooze creatures attacked the humans, killing some, somehow infecting others, forcing the humans to actually fight back using their energy weapons, mostly laser rifles but some pulse phase weapons which were designed to pull molecules apart, but were mostly ineffective. It wasn't until the Clan soldiers came in that the battle turned in their favor.
The Clan of Marza Lu'ktan, or what the "pureblood" humans called "mixed bloods" were a sub-species of humans, all branch species created through genetic engineering which gained their independence on Mars roughly a hundred years ago. The Clan occationally accepted outcast humans, but almost entirely consisted of the genetically engineered. Referring to themselves as Clanners, they developed weapons technology in a completely different direction than the humans did. While the humans developed beam and energy weapons, the Clanners went back to tradition, using projectiles. These projectile weapons were originally designed to bypass the energy shielding that the Human military was using during their war for independence. Due to the variety of types of ammunition for these weapons, it allowed the Clanners to be uniquely qualified to fight these ooze creatures, especially the discovered that they were scared of fire. Incendiary rounds were standard, coming in two varieties, those that explode, and those that stick and burn; both of which proved exceptionally useful against these organisms, which they later called Ulans.
Using more information they managed to pull from the Octi-didecal(28 digit rather than binary code) memory core, they stumbled upon research to "cleanse" the infected. Of course, the cleansing usually had side-effects, resulting in either physical or mental mutations and instability, or in some cases, a combination of the three. Now, it's a fight for survival, and in some circumstances, not just against the plants and Ulans.
In the year 2391, Earth discovered a colonizable planet, which had an atmosphere with almost identical proportions of gasses as Earth, with one of their many deep space probes. With two of their brand new Intrepid Starcruiser, capable of moving at 6/1000 slower than the speed of light, they traveled to this new paradise. On this planet, dubbed AR-767.332 by ECC(Earth Central Command) the probes had detected what they had believed to be a single, enormous, structure, visible from space. When the ISS(Inter-Stellar Starcruisers) arrived there after more than a century of travel to the outside world, merely a year and a half to those aboard, they discovered an single, ancient, and mostly destroyed, city. One feature of the city that intrigued the mission commander was a single large building at the exact center of the city that was, remarkably, still mostly intact, and so they set up basecamp inside that building. After they explored some more of the city they realized that that single building was the only one with any kind of power systems active, mostly due to the repair drones crawling all over the place, in many cases taking the surrounding buildings apart for raw materials for the repairs. After fiddling with the computers for months, the human scientists claimed they had "translated" the alien language, but in reality they had no idea what had happened; the computers just switched to "English mode" as one scientist admitted later. Eventually, the humans learned the name of this ancient city: Üghluu-Gäara'tiis(which is commonly referred to as Ulu-city by the humans) which roughly translates to "Our home of one."
It was shortly after this that they humans stumbled upon the fate of the Sug'nacu-kiin, the native sentient species that had built the city. They had abandoned all of their smaller cities and attempted to build one enormous city across the face of the entire planet. In their anxiousness they ignored the environmental consequences of what they were doing, which was destroying the ecological system around them. The goddess that their entire species had revered at one time "Made herself manifest" according to the logs of one of the citizens that had died centuries ago. The Sug'nacu-kiin ignored her instructions to stop what they were doing; then "the world around us rose up to defend itself." At that point the scientists stopped taking the logs literally and assumed it was metaphoric; after all, plants that attack you? Those can't honestly be real. The logs spoke of plants that moved across the planet to attack the people of that world, and when the plants were injured a black ooze leaked out, then the ooze came alive and attacked them. In less than one of their years, all of the Sug'nacu-kiin were either dead or taking any ship off-world they could, leaving this planet abandoned for over two-hundred years; seven-hundred forty Earth years.
Three weeks after they gleaned what they could out of the memory core a humanoid walked out of the forest surrounding the city. They had no idea how, but it looked like a human female, and even spoke English. She identified herself as Gaia, which was the name that the database had called the Sug'nacu-kiin's goddess. She told them this world belonged to her and told them to leave. Being the hubris-tic and entitled beings that all "pureblood" humans were in this day and age, they refused. Gaia told them they had one day to reconsider, then disappeared back into the forest. After a day had passed, their starcruisers mysteriously exploded with no obvious cause. Now they were stranded here. It was then that the humans realized that the logs had been literal. The plants attacked the outer walls, but thankfully there were defense barriers on the walls, keeping the plants from getting in for now. But with nothing other than the food they brought with them, they knew it would be only a matter of time before they'd have to venture out to find food. It wasn't long before the ooze creatures described in the logs appeared, somehow phasing through the energy barriers that had kept the plants out. The ooze creatures attacked the humans, killing some, somehow infecting others, forcing the humans to actually fight back using their energy weapons, mostly laser rifles but some pulse phase weapons which were designed to pull molecules apart, but were mostly ineffective. It wasn't until the Clan soldiers came in that the battle turned in their favor.
The Clan of Marza Lu'ktan, or what the "pureblood" humans called "mixed bloods" were a sub-species of humans, all branch species created through genetic engineering which gained their independence on Mars roughly a hundred years ago. The Clan occationally accepted outcast humans, but almost entirely consisted of the genetically engineered. Referring to themselves as Clanners, they developed weapons technology in a completely different direction than the humans did. While the humans developed beam and energy weapons, the Clanners went back to tradition, using projectiles. These projectile weapons were originally designed to bypass the energy shielding that the Human military was using during their war for independence. Due to the variety of types of ammunition for these weapons, it allowed the Clanners to be uniquely qualified to fight these ooze creatures, especially the discovered that they were scared of fire. Incendiary rounds were standard, coming in two varieties, those that explode, and those that stick and burn; both of which proved exceptionally useful against these organisms, which they later called Ulans.
Using more information they managed to pull from the Octi-didecal(28 digit rather than binary code) memory core, they stumbled upon research to "cleanse" the infected. Of course, the cleansing usually had side-effects, resulting in either physical or mental mutations and instability, or in some cases, a combination of the three. Now, it's a fight for survival, and in some circumstances, not just against the plants and Ulans.
