The ship quickly made its way towards terra tripsolus solar system, at the same time a large dark shadow also sped towards the same.
Angel made a grrr sound as she heard this mans whine regarding his nap. Snapping back to the channel she sighed "Moe it is a class A giant type relic. Your nap will have to wait. " just as she was finished talking the green haired girl once again blurted out "Ma'am calculations are complete. The relic will reach the planet 2 shards before us". Coleen seated next to the captain sneered "dammit we won't make it in time to prevent casualties". Angel also cursed and barked into the private com "Also prepare for damage control, looks like you are going in hot"
Time to fanelians is graded in steps, mites, shards, passes, phases, and cycles. While these do correlate with seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years, there are stark differences between them. Steps is regarded near seconds but as it is a grade of the time it takes to physically make a step, each step is actually closer to a third of a second. Mites however is extremely different to minutes. There are 200 steps to a mite, and the term gets its name as it represents the time it takes this rat sized bug on their home world to jump from one spot to another.
The time duration is actually long as these bugs have extremely powerful rear legs and are almost like a giant flea. Shards are the representation of hours but are rated on the time it takes a specialized energy crystal shards to either deplete its energy or refill its energy. A standard shard would be about the size of a finger. There are 40 mites to a shard. Passes are the closest as they represent the time it takes a full rotation of their home world. With 20 shards to a pass their day is slightly quicker than earths. Their home world is also slightly bigger than earth so the rotation is even faster. Phases represent the time it takes the 3 moons around the planet to complete a full lunar cycle. With there being 6 per cycle. A cycle is almost the same as a year in representation, but the actual duration is about 2.5 earth years to a full cycle.
Moe grumbled his dissatisfaction at that knowledge. "There you go taking advantage of me again" he says. "Any indication of type of relic it is?"
Angel turned to defense control and waited for a response. The small green haired girl sweated as she waited for the information on the screen to calculate and update. Green eyes staring intently at the info screen in front of her. Dainty little hands brushed some controls before she let out an audible gasp. Her small round ears laid back near her head as she stuttered and whispered "unknown specialty type relic".
Angel glared at her and spoke out "what was that? Louder please". The girl turned and face the bridge looking directly at Angel and repeated again in an audible voice. "It is an unknown specialty type relic". The whole bridge went quiet. Not a single person made a noise. Your could hear a single sweat drop hit the floor.
Relics refer to an ancient and mysterious type of entity. None of them truly understood what they were, but what they did and could do was another story. Relics are graded using a letter system from D - S with the integrals being D, C, B, A, and then S. Each grade up would be like the difference in power between an ant and a lion.
On one of the colonies of fanelia, 200 class D Medium relics descended nearby. The colony was not small with almost 5000 occupants maintaining and attempting to grow the colony. As it was set up by the royal academy it had the latest defenses and was actually staffed with 20 priests. Priests are not religious, they are what the special defenders were labeled. Priests are also labeled from D - S depending on their affinity for energy shards. The 20 priests stationed here were all of B grade meaning they had a fairly decent shard affinity.
The 200 relics were able to wipe off the entire colony from existence in 1 shards worth of time. This should not say that the priests being two grades higher than the relics were weak, but at the overwhelming destructive power of the 200 relics.
The size of each relic is exactly that. A standard size would be considered a regular human size, while small would be like a dog, and tiny would be a bee. However medium size actually ranges from the size of a rhino to the size of an elephant. Large goes even bigger starting at the size of private jet and going up to the size of a blue whale, and then giant would be about the size of a 30 story sky scraper up to the size of an aircraft carrier. Everything past the size of giant, as there had only been two relics to ever appear that were larger than giant, was considered titan sized.
The two titan size relics that have appeared in history varied greatly in size. One would have been the size of Mount Everest, while the other was considered the largest calamity to ever be seen, being the size of our entire planet. These two relics were also the only two to ever be given names.
The largest of the two was dubbed Planet killer, as it seemed to do exactly that. This relic, once seen, would always wipe out the planet it targets. The titan sized relic was shaped like a giant angler fish. Main differences being that instead of a dangling light from it's forehead, it had what looked to be a thousands of tentacles attached there. Instead of two eyes it had hundreds all over the surface of its face. It's jaw was also round and looked like that of a lamprey. It was unknown how it moved in the emptiness of space. It did not have a tail or any other appendages to propel it, it would simply move.
When it moved towards a planet, the tentacles would extend, and pull the floating masses directly to its mouth where they would be ground up slowly, swallowed, and digested. At the end of this cycle, compressed and processed chunks of space debris would be released from a large area on its backside.
The other titan sized relic was labeled Death Quake. This name came from the fact that the last thing people would feel would be a violent shaking of the earth before darkness, then death. This titan has more of a worm look to it, with again a lamprey style mouth. However unlike the other with an abundance of eyes, this one didn't even have one.
The history of relics is spotty at best. No one knows where they came from. It was speculated they were some type of left over weapons of a long forgotten warring circulation, while some think they are the retribution of the universes creator sent to punish the wicked. The only thing that every theory agrees with. When relics show, death and destruction on a massive scale awaits.
While relics do not have defined shapes or appearances, they have one similarity between them all. That is the grayish, rock looking outer skins. This is another reason they are called relics, as all seem to look like old statues or weathered stones.
At this moment there is a large Class A relic heading straight for earth. Not only that, it is an unknown special version that has not been seen before. The boeing 747 sized grey ball creates a comet like tail. even the spaced out particles of space ignite from the friction of its passing. A soft red glow of eyes can be seen emanating from within the blue and white fireball. if there were dense enough particles to transmit sound in space, you could hear a soft repeated phrase coming from the relic. "Kill, Destroy, Demolish, Consume".