Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-28365753-20161115225201/@comment-28718853-20161208192152

Before I take action, I send four small scout ships on a week-long mission to gather more information on the planet. If it's going to be conquered, then I'll need to know as much as I can about it. Three days pass with constant updates about the planet and its inhabitants, their societies, their structure, but on the fourth day, there's no response from any of them.

I have several communications officers attempt to contact them on their channels, but there was nothing. They stayed together as a group, and their last known location was in a volcanic region of the planet. Volcanic, of all places. Unlike the admirals before me, I care for my men, so I send a team outfitted with environmental gear to search for the ships and hopefully, to find the crews alive as well.

About four hours into the search, their scanners pick up three of the four ships. The team gives each wrecked scout ship a thorough investigation, but there are no sign of any of the crews. However, a recording of the events leading to the crash was recovered. It was played and we heard everything, "Mayday, mayday, this is First Lieutenant Ozwrath of the Gram, our ships were attacked by Wyverns and we are going down, repeat, we are going do...!"

The recording cuts off, presumably when the actual crash happened. I shake my head in silence. I order the team to get back to their ship and return to the flagship. The team begins the trip back, but they stop when they hear growling. They have their plasma rifles ready, but the black-furred creatures known as Hellhounds pounced them faster than they could react. The remaining member was fleeing, shouting, "We've been attacked, requesting an evac no..." a Wyvern swooped in and scooped him up, carrying him off through the sky.

I curse myself. Another team lost to the inhabitants. If I try to launch anymore low-altitude or ground missions down there, they'll just get captured. The Empire's motto calls for all planets to be conquered, but I am someone who thinks things through. To use an orbital bombardment would be to destroy valuable resources, and a full-scale invasion would risk the lives of millions of troops.

After four full nights of thinking, I decide to send in the bomb cruisers to soften up any strongpoints. I'm about to order my ships into position when two vessels are detected approaching the flagship. They're immediately recognized as the scout ship and the troop carrier I sent before. I watch them when one of my communications officers says, "Admiral, the scout ship Wonder is hailing us."

"Patch him through," I order. The comms officer presses a button and a screen comes up showing the captain of the ship with a rather proud smile. "Admiral, we were able to capture four of these creatures and wish for you to see them," he boasts. "Send them up to the bridge in handcuffs," I say. "As you wish Admiral, glory to the Emperor," he says. "Yeah, glory to the Emperor," I say in a despondent tone, thinking about all of those men I lost.

Soon, the captain arrived with four monsters in tow: a Kunoichi, a Hellhound, a Jinko, and an Arachne. I look over each one, the Hellhound baring her teeth at me and growling, the Kunoichi and the Arachne standing in deep silence, and the Jinko following me with a deathly stare. "Nice work captain," I compliment. "You're too kind Admiral," said the captain.

I look over at two guards and say, "Take these four to the detention center, I'll have an interrogator question them later."

The captain raises his hands with a smile and says, "I'm sorry Admiral, but I can't let you do that."

I give the captain a stern glare, "We are about to begin an invasion captain, and you are under no authority to tell me what I can and cannot do."

"Tell that to your mother," the captain mutters as he pulls out his laser pistol and shoots me right in the chest. As I'm falling, I get a brief glance at the four mamono and spot that their handcuffs were glowing red, not green, meaning they were unlocked. I hit the bridge floor as the four monsters break out of their handcuffs and spring into action, knocking out and subduing the guards and officers.

I place a hand on my wound, but instead of feeling pain I feel...an intense burning pleasure. Was the Empire conquering planets through lust? I wouldn't know because I never got shot until now. I didn't have enough time to process this as I heard a panicked voice on the intercom scream, "Admiral, these ethereal life forms are invading the ship, they must have come in from AAAAAHHHHHH OOOOOooooohhhh."

That terrified scream became a moan of pleasure. I looked at the four monsters in front of me and think, "Who are you!?"

The Jinko steps up to me and places a foot on my chest to keep me pinned. I watch as the captain and the Kunoichi step up to me with some kind of platinum panel with an ambiguous symbol carved into it. The captain holds the symbol close to my face and I watch the symbol glow blue. He then walks over to my command chair and presses a blue button that allows the user to contact the entire fleet. He speaks through the panel and into the small reciever saying, in my voice, to my shock, "Attention all ships of the exploration fleet, stand down, that is an order."

Voices come in over the intercome of all of the ships depowering their weapons. Once that was finished, the captain spoke into his earpiece and said with a crazed grin, "They're all down, fire!"

He then points to me and says, "Get off of him, I want him to witness the grand Empire's first great defeat."

The Jinko does as instructed, and I stand, the pleasure barely stinging me. I step over to the window and I see it, a massive purple sphere of lightning hurtling towards the fleet. Clanging can be heard from the door to the entrance, and someone shouts, "Admiral, are you in there!?"

The Hellhound calls out, "Yeah, he's in here, but don't worry, we're not gonna kill him, in fact, you're gonna love this!"

In minutes, the sphere is in the center of the fleet, and a bright explosion of nuclear proportions occurs. The entire room shook tremendously and I was thrown to the floor, vision going black.

I don't know how long I was out, but a slow blink and I have a blurry view of the completely destroyed command center. Another blink, I can make out through the fuzziness a strange tentacle-eyed like creature approaching me. Another blink, my vision begins to clear and the creature is right on top of me muttering, "Well well, lookie lookie here, seems like I struck gold with the Admiral of this fleet."

Another blink, more clear vision, and the creature, a Gazer, is unzipping my trousers with a wicked grin on her one-eyed face. Another blink, and she's looking straight into me saying, "Oh honey, trust me, you'll love me."

I found it becoming increasingly difficult to think clearly, my mind becoming loaded with lewd and dirty thoughts as I stared helplessly at those foul...no gorgeous eyes. My mind and my body begin begging for her pleasure. Soon enough, I get it.

I don't know how long the activity lasted, but I do remember waking up to the Gazer telling me that she had a lot of fun and that the fleet had been reduced to mere brothels. I fold my arms, thinking of my career, my accomplishments, my failures, none of that seemed to matter anymore. I had a sweet woman who loved me and that was all that mattered. My allegiance was no longer to the Emperor, but to the monsters that were called mamono. I took my new girlfriend by the hand and we made our way to the hangar where we would hopefully find a shuttle to take us down to the planet, if the pilots weren't already lost to lust.

I couldn't find that captain that had betrayed me earlier. I was gonna have to remind myself to thank him the next time I saw him.

(Hope it's good.)