Megabolt cannons, acquired for atmospheric terraforming, would finally give Sakkra beam ships significant punch ... and a hope of hitting agile fighters, such as those used by the Klackons and - ironically - the Alkari themselves. Of course, they couldn't be used in time to protect Galos itself from an incoming Alkari fleet: It arrived two years later, just as Sakkra scientists discovered means of cutting their factory waste in half and improving the miniaturization of their fleets. Other defenders were in place, but might as well have saved their energy.
This image (from two years later, since the WarEagle and colony ships weren't present with the original fleet) should offer some idea of what the colony was up against. Unlike the Klackons', this fleet included little in the way of beam ships (though the WarEagle itself was quite deadly) - meaning that the fleet could be chased away without too-numerous losses in space ... though not of course before the colony was razed to the glassy surface. The net result - after also killing a Darlok colony fleet - was that the Sakkra people rebuilt the place yet again in 2486, leading - thanks to their year-old Advanced Space Scanners - to a nearly-complete picture of the galaxy.
By this time, events were beginning to turn RBO-29's way. Miamar offered unconditional peace in 2487, and then agreed to an immediate trade agreement ... and the exchange of her anti-matter bomb designs for advanced soil enrichment technology. The following year, Reajax II fuel cells opened every star within nine parsecs of Sakkra worlds to their fleets ... and opened the way to research into Ion Drives that would one day enable travel at warp 6. A major Meklar death fleet - five battleships and over thirty cruisers - was somehow repelled from Galos, and a couple of minor trades were capped by a major one with the Klackons: The latest Sakkra reduced waste technology for a Mark VI battle computer from the insect laboratories. With the completion of the Sakkra planetologists' Complete Eco Restoration project, work began on a universal antidote in 2497, and by 2500, work was nearly complete on advanced force field and weapons technologies. Of course, the other alien races didn't take the Sakkra lightly.
In spite of yet more bombers with built-in maneuverability - 366 anti-matter bomb racks graced the Darlok fleet that reached Nordia in 2500, the spud world just recently re-established as a Sakkra colony - Sakkra repulsor ships managed to hold the line and save the system successfully. Right on schedule, the Orion transmission station began another High Council meeting, but that was as inconclusive as all those that came before, leaving RBO-29 to glory in his ten-planet empire...
...and his treasury of 10,004,597 BC!
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