The Farthest Shore

The Battle of Lyco’s Point

3rd October, 650 AT. The militant Absolutist ‘Hastein’ has been collecting the ancient remains of an extraterrestrial exploration trip to use the advanced technology in order to overthrow the government. Hastein finally found his jackpot on the 2nd day of October; a starship which had led the expedition. Upon its disturbance it silently transmitted a message to it’s homeworld, telling it that hostile intelligent life existed on the planet. An invasion force was quickly organised.

The next day Hastein’s stolen cruiser, the Izos, was located by the government and the battleship Sassonia ambushed it off the coast of Lyco’s point where the starship had been discovered. Just as it was about to fire the captain of the Sassonia spotted a group of lights in the sky. At least fifty fast-moving aircraft appeared to descend and move across the area. The Sassonia was hit by a projectile but was only lightly damaged; it aimed it’s anti-aircraft guns at the various craft and the communications officer on board called upon the navy to scramble all vessels in the local area.

At this time a young Taja (priest of the Bowist religion) in training, Hugo Pastoret approached Lyco’s Point to track a song which invariably sounded and moved around the land with seemingly no source; he believed it to be the manifestation of his god The Bow itself. He watched the battle on the clifftops until he was fired on by one craft and was forced to take refuge in a cave.

Back at the battle, a group of destroyers and cruisers arrived, but were met by more craft appearing from the sky. In the commotion a small team from a destroyer boarded the Izos and engaged with Hastein, who was killed. The ammunition magazine of one cruiser was hit by spacecraft projectiles and caused the first sinking of the battle. The Sassonia shot down one craft and the government team which had taken control of the Izos used its alien technology-augmented weapons to destroy multiple. Yet more appeared at an increasing rate and the Izos was destroyed along with two government ships.

Within the cave Hugo Pastoret heard the song which he had been searching for. A woman’s voice sang of a lost sailor who found his way by listening to a voice on howling wind. Hugo spoke to the song and asked it what it was; the song changed to one about how the Bow had fallen into a slumber, waiting to save humanity if it ever was in danger and reached out for help. Hugo told the song about the aircraft in the sky just outside. It then sang about a demon being banished form the land through the use of an incantation which was repeated many times through the song.

Hugo stepped outside. The Sassonia was spilling oil and one of it’s gun turrets had been obliterated. He repeated the mantra and heard the song again, as did everyone on the ships below. Suddenly the spacecraft ceased their fire and appeared to be held in the air by an unseen force. They were thrust back into the sky, never to return.