Chapter 649: The Spoked Offensive (1/2)
Kandi'kayn nudged Shandaar with his psychic powers as the psychic hologram shifted again. It showed four Young Ones trying to drive forward a clutch of combat slavespawn that were capable of rapid adaption to enemy actions as well as being psychically linked.
They were resisting being moved down the hallway to the point that the Young Ones were using their psychic powers to push them forward while the slavespawn's legs skittered on the flooring as they tried to push backwards.
**it appears the slavespawn are in no hurry to encounter the lemur** Kandi'kayn mused.
**how far have we fallen that our slavespawn show more pattern recognition and self-preservation than one such as the chief defense officer** Shandaar asked.
**they have fallen far convinced of their own superiority and perfection unaware that the universe ever moves on and the old falls away to the new** Kandi'kayn whispered back.
**what do you two plot** the Vessel Commander asked, rotating in place, held aloft by its psychic powers, phasic energy rippling below it.
**a plan** Shandaar admitted.
**of what sorts** the Vessel Commander asked, narrowing its eyes. It did not trust Shandaar at all, there was just something about the younger Atrekna that it did not trust.
**a plan to save ourselves from the mad lemur before it works itself into a high enough battle frenzy to rip through the bulkheads and kill us all** Shadaar said. She smiled to herself inside. **should the lemur become too frenzied it will not only seek to kill us all but it will seek out things to devour for nourishment as well as beings and objects to satisfy its sexual urgings which will only grow the longer it fights**
There was silence on the command deck for a long moment.
**what urges** the Vessel Commander asked.
**biological mammal sexual urges** Shandaar answered. **the Mad Lemurs of Terra are exceedingly violent in their sexual copulations violence is a part of their reproductive cycle and so violence excites them**
**sexually** Kandi'kayn added.
**how would you know this** the Vessel Commander scoffed.
**during the Siege of Nineteen Stars I observed lemurs overcome with violent sexual urges attack one another in a breeding frenzy** Shandaar half-lied. She held up a lemur holographic storage device that she had discovered in the pockets of a corpse shambling about the streets of the Tomb World. **you may observe if you wish**
The Vessel Commander used its phasic powers to bring crystal over to itself.
**be warned the images still contain a slight amount of lemur rage aggression lust sexual excitement and desires** Shandaar warned.
The side of the holographic storage cube read ”B.A.S.S. RAIN FOREST CROSS SPECIES YIFF LUST XCIV” on the side in glimmering pink letters.
The Vessel Commander scoffed and set its hand on top of the floating cube, closing its eyes and 'reading' the contents of the cube with its phasic powers.
In less than two seconds the ship commander screamed and threw the cube away from it, backing away, its skin covered in oily perspiration and ripples of fear.
**they were eating each others faces and groins and mammaries while they grappled on the ground in the tropical rain forest** the Vessel Commander screamed. **some had fur and some had wings and some had tails and... and...** the Vessel Commander shuddered and turned away, fighting to regain its composure.
**should the lemur work itself into too much of a frenzy** Shandaar added to the communal mind with a shrug. **eventually it will even find us sexually appealing** She tossed another cube that showed brightly drawn cartoon characters with the label ”Hentai Cthulhu Tentacle College BASS Rave CCXCVII” on the side. **observe**
The Vessel Commander and several others touched the cube.
In seconds they all pulled back with keening cries of alarm.
**the lemur will attempt to put our feeding tentacles into its solid waste disposal orifice** was the panicked cry by several of the Atrekna unlucky enough to view that section.
More than a few had fainted.
**as you can see it is imperative should we want our feeding tentacles and orifices to remain unsullied by primal brutish breeding frenzy that we either kill the lemur or** she let the silence hang in the air. **get it off the ship**
Horrified, all of the conscious Atrekna on the command deck all nodded together. So disturbing had the graphic imagery been that the conscious did not seek to drag away the unconscious and impregnate them. Just the idea of such made them shudder with disgust at the memories.
**how can we do that** the Vessel Commander asked. It waved a feeding tentacle at the Defense Officer, who was shrieking at a half dozen Young Ones that it knew they could hear it and they better go in that room and kill the lemur if they knew what was good for them. **the lemur does not seem to want to go along with our plans to kill it**
Pulling both cubes back to her own hand, Shandaar floated forward. **the lemur's brain allows it short circuit our predictive analysis brain structures which is why we keep losing fights**
The Vessel Commander started to scoff and stopped. It remembered that the Young One had faced off against the lemurs four separate times and survived.
Most didn't survive their first meeting.
**lemurs are driven by primal urges as you saw** Shandaar said, floating up slightly. **we will use those primal urges to make the lemur do what we want**
**how** the Assistant Security Officer asked, hoping that Shandaar could come up with a better plan than ”run at the lemur with this gun” that his supervisor was trying to convince him of.
**first how far are we from a lemur or Inheritor of Madness system** Shandaar asked
The navigator looked up, his eyes black and full of whirling gold specks. **five hours**
Shandaar looked at the Vessel Commander. **make for that system while we begin this plan of operation**
**will it enable us to survive** the Vessel Commander asked. It was starting to feel something, something new, and it wasn't sure if it liked it or not. It wasn't sure what it was but just thinking about the Mad Lemur being aboard his ship made that feeling start in his stomach and behind his two chambered heart.
**more than sending another wave at it** Shandaar said. She closed her eyes for a long moment then opened them. **the lemur uses motion based predictive analysis based on observation data cause and effect chains which is why we cannot predict them using our own temporal mechanics and movement based predictive analysis powers**
The Vessel Commander nodded.
**close observation of the lemur has shown that the theory that they use phasic powers to predict opponents actions like any other advanced species is incorrect and faulty** Shandaar said.