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					This is one of my earlier stories, and will be rewritten relatively soon.  It's pretty short, for now, so read it while you still can. To begin with, this is a story about the Phyrexian Dreadnought.  The life story, more appropriately.  This story takes place in another galaxy, on a planet that happens to be a water giant (aka, a giant planet made of over 95% water, with only one land mass that's only a few hundred miles long and wide.  The people who inhabited this planet where descended from sharks and other aquatic life forms.  They ranged from roughly 3 feet tall, to over 300 feet long.  They developed space travel as a result of manipulating energy, not as a result of burning fuels.  Most of the story, however, takes place on land. Somewhere in space, no one is actually sure where it happened, a planet exploded.  Whether this was from nuclear war, from some huge natural explosion, or from a meteor striking it, I don't know, and it really doesn't matter.  As the planet exploded as large number of life forms where crushed together, and I do mean crushed, and ejected into space.  This was not a willful act of anything living, or dead, it just happened by accident.  The main life forms where all killed in the crushing process, which, coincidentally, also caused a very large chunk of silicon to completely engulf the life forms.  Somewhere inside that jumbled mess of bodies and tissue a single ameoba lived.  Perhaps there was more than one, perhaps not, it's irrelevant.  That ameoeba began eating the other life forms, living and dead, very very slowly.  This wasn't a normal ameoba, it was a silicon based life form from either deep within the planets crust, or from a meteor that had hit the planet.  It happened to be immune to cold, and not need oxygen to continue living and eating.  Which was good for it, because it was deep in space, and one was in abundance, and the other was nowhere to be found. After years and years of eating and growing, the ameoba filled the entire inside of the chunk of silicon, so it began absorbing that as well.  Then, after close to a few hundred years had passed, and the silicon had all been absorbed, the ameoba finally crash landed on a planet.  The process of entering the planets atmosphere burned away a huge portion of the creatures body, but left just enough of it alive to matter.  The ameoba landed in water, not a difficult thing to to on this particular planet, and began eating other creatures right away.  This was relatively easy for it to do, as it was silicon based, and the other creatures where all carbon based.  It could eat them, but none of them could eat it. Again, after months of drifting in the water it happened upon a huge city filled with people.  The people noted it's coming, as it was relatively huge by then, and they caught it in an energy field.  Scientists from the people studied it, and tested it with everything they could.  Finally they reached a descision about it.  Years ago they had tried to create biologically engineered beings who could walk on land, travel in space, and be used as hunters and killers.  They where after all a very egocentric race, and extremely paranoid as a whole, and wished for nothing more than to be able to kill all their enemies, real or imagined.  The rich would pay for the beings to act as bodyguards, and the military would use them to whipe out civilizations so they could come in and flood out the planet in safety.  The initial tests had failed, even though they had created some beings who could survive on land, and had a basic usage of the energy around them, they couldn't survive in space unaided.  So, using information they had gained from the ameoba, their old test results, and some new information they had uncovered elsewhere, they set about their experiments again. After numerouse failures they decided to use some fo the tissue from the ameoba in their new beings.  The spectacular success of the new beings was astounding.  they could live in space, on land, underwater, even in freezing cold and burning heat.  They had a rudimentary form of energy control, which allowed them to wrap their bodies in an energy shield to prevent harm, and to project minor blasts of energy that could kill other beings from a short distance.  They created 12 such beings from the ameoba, using up most of it's body in the process. After the last one they decided to destroy the rest of the amoeba, so they had a person who was working for them at the time throw it into an energy furnace.  As the individual tried to throw it in it latched onto his arms with tiny psuedopods and began working it's way up his body.  Nobody heard his screams, nobody saw what had happened, and nobody was prepared for what happened. The ameoba absorbed his body, right down to the clothes and bones, and it also hooked microscopic psuedopods into his brain, absorbing all of his knowledge before it absorbed the grey matter as well.  The ameoba gained the ability to think and to reason, making it more dangerous than it had ever been before.  The ameoba took the shape of a person, doing it's best to emulate those it saw.  Unfortunately, the scientists caught it during the first day.  Luckily for it, they decided that instead of destroying it, they would use it as one of the beings they had created.  Who would ever know the difference? The first 6 of the beings where sold to private owners, to be used as bodyguards.  The other 7, including the ameoba, where sold to the military.  These 7 included a very young girl, who's body had been used in the expiriments when it was found that she possesed a lantent mental ability.  They hoped the abiltiy would come to the forefront during the training, and had not been dissappointed with the results.  Her ability caused people to feel sorry for her, and try to make her happy.  This would come in very handy later on. To make a very long story short, the beings exterminated over 40 planets before the amoeba, nicknamed Phy-Rexian, Phy meant 'Weapon', Rexian meant 'Of Destruction', and his sister Phy-Rianna,  again Phy for 'Weapon', Rianna for 'Of Annihilation', went to a particular planet where the people where exceptionally easy to kill.  Most of them seemed to have no strength whatsoever, and no way to protect themselves.  After destroying a few cities, and crushing the single opposition they had encountered, they began to sweep the countryside.  This was a pretty small planet after all.  After taking out a town or two they came to a single house in the middle of nowhere.  An old man was sitting outside in his chair, and seemed not to notice them.  Phy-Rexian blasted him with a small burst of energy, and then moved in to destroy the house.  The old man appeared behind him and gripped the sides of his head till his fingers sunk into the skull he had formed from his substance.  Somethign rushed into Phy-Rexian's mind and body, filling him with somthing he'd never felt before. Raw energy and emotions.  Little pictures formed all over his body as he feels his mind ripped apart, then rebuilt in a matter of seconds.  Just as soon as it began, it ended.  Phy-Rianna uprooted a small tree and speared the old man on it, then tore him apart physically.  Phy-Rexian fell to his knees, holding his head as the emotions and new thoughts filled his mind.  What they where doing was wrong, it had to be stopped, and the old man had died to show him this.  As he stood back up Phy-Rianna attacked him.  She had some sort of empathic ability to read his mind, and had discovered the changes in him before he could do anything about it.  The battle was long and hard, but eventually Phy-Rexian won.  He encased his sister in a large chunk of silicon and ejected her into space, hoping to save her from what he was about to do. When he returned to the planet he began systematically destroying, and absorbing the other Beings, or Weapons as they where generally called.  The battles caused massive amounts of damage to both the fighters, and to the environment of the planet.  Eventually everything on the panet was destroyed, and the oceans where so putrid with death and decay that they could no longer support any life forms.  All of the Weapons had been destroyed, as had all of the cities and all of the life forms on the planet.  So Phy-Rexian went into space to find a new home.  While in space he met a Dreadnought who took him back to the Dreadnought home planet.  after a long, long time he became the Dragoon class leader, then an elder, and finally the Overlord of the Dreadnoughts. But that, is another story...
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