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Captain Django and the Syndroid Threat ..Chapter 1 How it began

The Beginning After the Bugs had destroyed his hometown and killed his family Cpt.Dj fell into a deep depression. He had never felt that alone in his life before, stationed at this miserable outpost somewhere in the vegan system. Living of a ten beer no food diet for weeks, Cpt.Dj slowly retarded, vegetized even, to the mental capabilities of a cucumber. Suddenly though, he heard the alert..... Bug Attackstalkers where closing in..!! Doublesighted he boarded his Barracuda and hit the boosters... It was a tough job for him to steer out of the launchtube, it seemed to him that the Barracuda reacted with a large delay.. Once outside though he started to focus on his aim.... KILL THEM BUGS!!!!!!!! He concentrated, aimed .... and BOOOOMMMMMM..

Djangos Death After having destroyd the bug attackstalkers Cpt.Dj and his men landed and searched for the hive. Soon they found the entrance, took their blasters and searched for the queen. Having fought themselfs through a mile of bugtunnels they found her,fat and ugly, breeding on the eggs of new soldiers. Cpt.Dj himself aimed his blaster and set fire to that evil breed, relishing his victory seeing the final struggle of that vile creature. Loughing and joking him and his men set off to leave the cleaned hive,drunk with luck and beer. Unfortunately they had overseen one bugsoldier, that all of a sudden,jumped out of the darkness and pierced Cpt.Dj`s heart....!!!!! His men reacted fast, blastering that evil beast, but too late for Cpt.Dj... All they could do for him was too hold his hands as his eyes focused eternity, hearing his last words mumbling about loyality and honor, as he faded away. Now!!!! what does that tell us ???????????? "Dont search a bughive drunk"

A brave mans grave Commander Fred Taylor deeply regreted having lost one of his best men. Cpt.Dj had been one of the bravest soldiers he had known. Though worn in years of battle Cpt.Dj had always fought against all evil, stood against all enimies .. and died for what he believed in. He had been Fred`s brother in arm, against all bugs and beers. Deeply hurt Commander Taylor turned to hide his tears from his other men. This could not be left without revenge.....!!!!!! Fred Taylor would strike back... A grim smile turned up on his face, those bugs would pay..!!!! The price would be high, but freedom must be bought with the blood of patriots. He waved his men, they boarded their Barracudas and started into the beautyfull sundown of the vegan moon.

The Queen Never before had anyone managed to penetrate a bughive that deep. Commander Fred Taylor had urged his men forward even though having lost half of them to the heavy bugartillary.Straining the manouverability of their battlehawks to the most they fought their way deep into that hive. All off a sudden a large chamber opend. There she was ... the mother of all bugs.. the main Queen breeding the queens .. thousands of eggs!!!! That should finnish them.. Fred didnt know if he would leave this hell alive, but he orderd his men to activate all weaponry left and fire.... Damn!!!! he hit the button...

Victory Waves of destruction ran through the hive as the combined firepower of the battlehawks hit the center. Within seconds the whole structure trembled and finaly colapsed. Commander Fred Tayler and his men strained the battlehawks boosters to the most and it was just a matter of milliseconds that they escaped the deadly fire of their own plasmthrowers. They had cleaned the vegan moon successfully.... and survived, at least some , the scarred remains of those bugs would give a fine monument, for Cpt. Dj and men like him..

Captain Django and the Syndroid Threat ..Chapter 2 Freds Misery

Unemployment Registration The galaxy was in peacefull human hands. Commander Fred Taylor returnd home, the home he had had fought for, defended even, many years.. but all he found was an empty room,with memories long forgotten,and yet blasting his mind with unbelievable intensity. His old battlewounds started hurting as he opend the mail seeing that document, he threw it into the air and blasted it...there would be another war somewhere else in some other time maybe,if not him , his brothers in arms would fight it.

Freds Error After his retirement Commander Fred Taylers favourite place to hang around was the Sky Cafe, a real nice bar on a moon of Bavar, a planet in the fomalhaut system. One day though , having lived on his usual diet of a Bugburger, 10 beers, and 6 tranquilizers he felt so almighty that he thought he wouldnt need to take the shuttle and could fly by himself. What a fatal error..!!

Dead man walking After Commander Fred Taylor had made his fatal mistake, his body drilled itself right into the ground of that moon,landing in the sewagedrains. The poor man was dead, but somehow he hadnt realised that fact.

Captain Django and the Syndroid Threat ..Chapter 3 Birth of the syndroids

The rising With his dead mind the corpse of Commander Fred Taylor stumbled through the catacombs way below that moon of bavar. Suddenly his stumbling body was picked up by an ancient medbot. Not aware what was happening he was brought into a large cave and hooked onto a huge machine. And what a surprise, next to him lay our beloved Cpt.Dj. The civilisation that long ago had perished on this moon had been a mean warriorrace. They did not burry their dead but put them into the syndronizer, a machine that automatically uses machinery spareparts to repair all damage on the dead, brainwash them, and make to the meanest and most mercyless soldiers of the universe. The U.P. didnt know, but it would have to withstand its greatest menace yet. The first 2 syndroids where born again.

Interceptor While Syndroid django was still in repair Syndroid Fred was shown his new hardware. What a machine. A cougar interceptor. Very ugly but what a functional design. It could land on its tailfins and had 14 thrusters. 2 Maindrives and 12 rotating manouvering thrusters, which must make it the most manouverable vessel in the universe. The best thing was the cockpit. It was fitted onto the ship with 2 rotating rings so that the pilot always stayed in the same position and absorbed most of the G-Forces in risky manouvers.

Hardware As Syndroid Django was repared he inspected the weapons chamber. There where hundreds of "Gargoyl" class battledroids and about the same number of "Warhammer" droids. Most of all, there where thousands of plasma rifles. They would need a lot of syndroids to be armed with those,a lot of corpses to be transformed. There was work to do.

Little did they know All the Dystopian newspapers reported that Cpt Dj , once their hero, was missed. Most believed him dead,and there was deep grieve. Little did they know that he returned, out of the sewers in the Dystopian downtown, the ideal place to look for Syndroid material, among the drunk and the hookers, the multicultural leftovers of a rotten universe.

Captain Django and the Syndroid Threat ..Chapter 4 The Alliance

The return Syndroid Dj, feeling quite safe while gathering new material , got a bit uncarefull. He was picked up by the native "Syndroid Patrol" a mean command, specializing in catching and regenerating syndroids. He was thrown into this huge machine, a syndroid ressurection plant. Implants where removed, destroyed tissue regenerated and brainpatterns recalled. After an 8 day long and painfull process, where he wasnt even put out of the machine once he left the machine as our proud Cpt.Dj. Painfully remembering the dental repair unit he left the place as fast as he could. Unfortunately there wasnt any aftercare, so he stood there in his rugged uniform and no money. He remembered vaguely, that this had happend before in his life. 10 years ago , when he had been one of the U.P.`s best fighter aces he got captured by the "Zombie Troopers" and they gave him a real bad treat. After the U.P. could free him, it had took 2 years for the best docters to put him back on his feet. Unfortunately, he wouldnt have that much time, he clearly remembered Syndroid Fred and his evil plans. He would have to act fast, at first establishing an operations base. He needed a drink and a plan fast, he made the mistake of beeing cought and transformed twice in his life. This would not happen to him again for sure, usually he even learned by the first mistake. With a grim smile he searched for the next bar.

Getting ready After frying Bugburgers for 3 months at McSirius, a popular fastfood chain, Cpt.Dj had enough money to afford a small cottage in the slums on the outskirts of the town, where the trees still wore the scars of the last war, which thinking back, had been a period of laughter, warmth and comradship, compared to the situation now. He had lost 3 month in which syndroid Fred was active.Fred must have build up a huge underground organisation by now, spreading through most of the known universe. To avoid a catastrophe for mankind and all other living creatures, Cpt.Dj would have to find the main base of the syndroid army and destroy it. At first he needed a fighter and since he didnt have any money left, he would be forced to steel one. He shoulderd his protonblaster and stepped onto the alley that led to the spaceport.

The escape Very early next morning Cpt.Dj reached the towns spaceport. He spyed out the hangars, and there it was... his favourite Machine, a MK IV Barracuda. He blasterd the Guards and boarded the fine fighter and with a risky manouver he flew right out of the hangar. The alerted Spaceportcrew immediately send some Battlehawk bombers to stop the Captain. Hitting his Turbodrives Cpt.Dj accelerated his machine to a limit where any other man would have fainted by the involved G-Forces. The remaining syndroid implants had improved Cpt.Dj on reflex and endurance. Once away he would visit his friends spread all over the universe and talk them into an alliance against all syndroids. He was sure that even his old squadron, the most feared U.P. Battledogs, would quit service and join him in what he considerd to be his crusade.

Drakonia After his grand escape Cpt.Dj set course to "Drakonia", the homplanet of the feared lizards. The Lizard Lord, remembering the duell in the jungle bar well, cause of the headache the day after, granted Cpt.Dj an audience. So Cpt.Dj became the first human to negociate with this reptilian race. Cpt.Dj was sure to talk the Lizard Lord into an alliance against the Syndroid Threat, in this very bitter hour all living races would better stick together to survive.

Lemuria After having talked the lizards into an alliance, Cpt.Dj set course to lemuria. Snort the beerrustler, a good friend, would surely help him too. Reaching Lemuria Cpt.Dj couldnt trust his eyes though. He shouldnt have tought the Lemurians to produce beer and spirits. They had tranformed their wonderfull Jungleplanet into one huge destillery. He doubted that deaddrunk Rustlers would be much of a help against the syndroid threat.

Dystopia After a nights sleep and a good meal in the Sky Cafe`, Cpt.Dj boarded his Barracuda and sped through the deserted Streets of the outskirts of the still sleeping Dystopia, towards the center, where the emporers palace was located. He once helped them, surely now they would help him. With the alliances he formed it would not be hard to even convince the U.P to take the syndroid threat serious.

Hall of destiny Cpt.Dj had formed all his alliances, he even talked a hive of bugs into his crusade against the syndroids. Now joined as friends, against all evil, came the most important part of the quest. They would have to convince the U.P. superiors to take the syndroid threat serious. With the mightiest force of the universe on their side .. it should be possible to win that battle. Slowly they entered the U.P.`hall of destiny.

Armada Listening to Cpt.Dj`s story and seeing that even the bugs and lizards took the Syndroid threat seriously, worried the U.P.`s President such that he decided to give up his Galaxy domination plans and sign a peacetreaty. The Syndroid threat could only be fought with the combined forces of all spacefaring life in the milkyway. The President alerted most of the U.P.`s Fleet and orderd them into the Vegan System where all bug and lizard forces had allready gathered for the final battle which would decide the future of the galaxy. Heavily escorted, the mighty U.P. Stardestroyers sped towards their destiny.

Captain Django and the Syndroid Threat ..Chapter 5 The Battle

Mothership While Cpt.Dj was buisy gathering allies, Syndroid Fred had not been lazy. In his cougar interceptor he closed in on the construction site to check the progress. Parallel to him and his men transforming living creatures to syndroids, he had activated the construction bots to build the huge mothership, which would carry many thousand syndroids through the emptyness of space bringing death and destruction to the universe.

Dogfight The U.P`s forces task in the battle was to secure orbital superiority while the combined galactical strikeforce got ready for ground attack. Enemy fighters gave the U.P. Stardestroyers a bad time as they tried to manouver into firing position on the syndroid mothership. Cpt.Dj and his most feared squadron picked them off the sky one by one, but the syndroid fighters where numerous and like angry wasps they sped around the destroyers trying to hit the vital parts of those gigantic ships. Cpt.Dj and his men would have to give their best if they where to succeed.

Collision Most of the syndroid fighters had been destroyed but the huge mothership was still withstanding the U.P`s Spaceforces. The Captain of the Stardestroyer U.P. Revenger, which was allready badly damaged,decided on a suicidal manouver.He gave order to set a collision course. Cpt.Dj, seeing how the course of the mighty ship changed, realised what the Captain was up too. He gave order to his men to leave orbit as fast as possible. He wouldnt want to be near those ships when the reactors exploded. As he sped away, driving his attackboosters to the limit, he saw how the mighty ship drilled itself into the syndroid mothership, both desintigrating, as the maindrives blew up. Feeling sorry for the thousand good crewmen on the U.P. Revenger, for which death came sudden, he set course towards the rest of the fleet. There where dropships that had to be escorted to deliver troops for the hopefully final strike.

Dropping Until now there was no enemyfire coming from the planets surface as Cpt.Dj and his men escorted the dropships with the U.P. groundforces. The large structures lay there looking almost deserted. However, Cpt.Dj knew that the vital parts of the syndroid base lay far beneath the planets surface and the syndroids would gather their mainforce there. It would be a tough fight for the spacemarines, taking over tunnel by tunnel and room by room.

On the ground While his Squadron secured the dropsite from the air, Cpt Dj landed on a vast plane. Since he was the only man alive knowing what a syndroid base looks like from the inside he had been put in charge of the 4th Batallion Spacemarines which had the order to takeover the entrance of the base and hold it at all costs. Cpt. Dj watched the marines as they formated on the dropsite, heavy hovertanks would support them in the first part off the battle.

The coin Cpt.Dj had taken the syndroid forces at the main entrance by suprise. With little losses the 4th batallion had taken it over and held it well. While the united galactic forces bombed the surface of the planet, Cpt. Dj and a platoon of his best men fought themselfs to center of the syndroid base. He would have to find syndroid Fred , the conversion unit and destroy both to bring peace to the universe. It was a tough fight through the tunnels and the most painfull decisions Cpt.Dj ever had to make where "Who the hell takes the look around the next corner". Among those men where his best friends and comrades, but yet again he flipped that fatal coin, that decided on life or death.

The door Most of the platoon had perished in the blasterfire of the defending syndroids as Cpt.Dj and his men fought themselfs deeper into the huge base. The surroundings became more and more familiar to Dj and he knew that the conversion unit was nearby. All of a sudden, at the end of a long tunnel, a door opend and there he stood in the bright, blazing light. Syndroid Fred himself, the last evil obstacle to take, before peace would come to the universe.

Showdown Syndroid Fred retreated into the conversion chamber and hooked himself onto one of the huge converters. He would now make another step in evolution, he wouldnt be stopped. Hitting the "Big red better not do it button" he was suddenly emerged in a net of pulsating light, transforming him into a beeing of pure evil energy, throwing plasma balls at Cpt.Dj and his men. What a grand show Fred thought, feeling godlike, undestructable and allmighty. Unfortunate for syndroid Fred though was, that Cpt.Dj wasnt impressed at all by all the fuss. Cpt.Dj stormed into the room and blasterd him.

Captain Django and the Syndroid Threat ..Chapter 6 The end

Honours The syndroid threat had been eliminated, and most of it, had been Cpt.Dj`s tireless engagement. In the Lemurian "Hall of great warriors" he was honourd. They all came to tribute him, the Dystopians, the Lemurians, the Lizards and the Bugs and last but not least his own U.P. squadron, all showing their utmost respect for his heroism. He was awarded with following medals of honour : the Dystopian "wounded Dog " in Gold. the Lemurian "Spirit Defender" the Lizards "Lost Tail" the Bugs "Crushed Beetle" and the U.P.`s "Lion of endurance" Cpt.Dj wore his best uniform to stick them on, it must have been his finest moment. With the Milkyway peacefully united there was little use for good soldiers so Cp`t. Dj decided to take some time off. As he left the "Hall of great warriors" to search for a bar with his friends, he wonderd, what to do with the rest of his life .... but then again he knew, there are thousands of galaxys like the milkyway, and he would surely discover new lands.

Happy end The wardroid in the corner of the bar drooled into his can of oil, desperate, for with no war around, his future seemed dark. That didnt bother Cpt.Dj though, cause he was far to busy calming down Snort, the Lemurian Beerustler who was upset by Emporer Möes drinking habits, cause he couldnt understand how anyone could have a drink with living fish in it. While the Lizardlord told him dirty jokes about fertilizing eggs, which Cpt.Dj didnt understand at all he noticed the sixbreasted bargirl, throwing an eye on him, with luck, he would take her home tonight. That was life like he loved it, with a deep breath he gatherd all emotions he could and let the night come upon him.

The end of Captain Django and the Syndroid Threat

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