TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

　　OK, I give up, why is a raven like a writing desk?

　　---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

　　TREANA`AD HIVE WORLDS

　　Because

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　　CONFEDMIL

　　ANTAEUS FLEET ENGAGED WITH PRECURSOR FORCE IN ARMADA STRENGTH

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　　MANTID FREE WORLDS

　　antseus? Antaeus?

　　antaeus? Antaeus? ANTAEUS?

　　AAAAAHHHHH! AHHHHHH!

　　HELP ME! THEY`RE COMING TO GET ME!

　　AHHHHH! THE DEFIANT MARAT! THE SAVAGE SINGING DUCK! THE CURSED UNDYING HOOD! THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS MISSOURI! THE SUNSHATTERER YAMATO!

　　HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME I DON`T WANNA DIE I DON`T WANNA DIE I DON`T DIE

　　>>Mantid Free Worlds runs back and forth screaming

　　>>Mantid Free Worlds huddles in the corner covering her head and shivering

　　don`t let it get me don`t let it get me

　　---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

　　TREANA`AD HIVE WORLDS

　　Calm down, sis. It`s OK.

　　You`re just having a nightmare. The Antaeus Fleet never actually existed. Like the Tooth Fairy or the Queen of France.

　　---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

　　CONFEDMIL

　　They have been awoken. They have been repurposed.Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation.

　　This is permissible under Total War.

　　ANTAEUS FLEET ACTION SUCCESSFUL

　　REPAIRING ANTAEUS FLEET

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　　RIGELLIAN COMPACT

　　Wait, the Antaeus Fleet is real?

　　I thought it was an old rumor.

　　---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

　　TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

　　What`s an Antaeus Fleet?

　　Why is she trying to climb up the wall?

　　What is everyone so terrified.

　　---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

　　CLONE WORLD CONSORTIUM

　　Wait, the Antaeus Fleet is real? I thought it was just a scary story we told each other to freak sis out.

　　---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

　　CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE

　　It`s not real.

　　Ships that are destroyed and come back as twisted copies of themselves? Ships that break apart to reveal another warship trapped inside like a bug in amber?

　　It`s a ghost story. Nothing more. We just tell each other about it to scare each other. It`s a ghost story. Like the IRS.

　　---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

　　DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS

　　How would you even make something like that? It`s impossible.

　　CONFEDMIL is just messing with us.

　　---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

　　TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

　　I don`t know, he sounded pretty serious and Mantid freaked out.

　　---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

　　BIOLOGICAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS

　　It`s just a scary story to explain what happened during the Mantid War.

　　Something blew a hole straight through the Mantid`s psyche.

　　I mean, just the word Antaeus is enough to get her to freak out.

　　---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

　　MANTID FREE WORLDS

　　HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME!

　　<-----BREAK----->

　　>>TERRASOL HAS ENABLED ADMIN CONTROLS

　　>>MANTID_FREE_WORLDS HAS BEEN DISCONNECTED FROM EMOTIONAL LIBRARY

　　MANTID FREE WORLDS

　　Oh, thank the Digital Omnimessiah and the Twelve Biological Apostles.

　　---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

　　TREANA`AD HIVE WORLDS

　　Calm down, sis, the Antaeus Fleet is just an old ghost story.

　　---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

　　MANTID FREE WORLDS

　　The Missouri is REAL. I`m telling you.

　　---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

　　RIGELLIAN COMPACT

　　Well, yeah. It`s currently with the 19th Fleet heading into Lanaktallan Space.

　　---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

　　MANTID FREE WORLDS

　　Not that one.

　　THE Missouri. The Destroyer of Worlds, the Reaver of Souls, the Unstoppable Fury.

　　THAT one.

　　---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

　　TREANA`AD HIVE WORLDS

　　That one`s an old rumor. It`s just trying to reconstruct what happened during the war, sis.

　　---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

　　RIGELLIAN COMPACT

　　Yeah, sis, it`s just one of those stories Space Force guys like to tell each other about to creep each other out.

　　---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

　　DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS

　　You know the thing. The whole "A Captain who goes down with his ship with enough rage will find himself chained to the Captain`s Chair of one of the Undying Ships of the Antaeus Fleet in order to redeem himself and his ship" kind of thing.

　　---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

　　CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE

　　Yeah, you know, one of those "I know a guy who knows a guy who totally knew this Marine who ended up as part of the shipboard compliment of the Warspite."

　　It`s just ghost stories we use to scare each other.

　　---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

　　TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

　　You mean like Daxin?

　　---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

　　TREANA`AD HIVE WORLDS

　　Shit.