(OOC I leave for a couple of hours and this happens?)
*Summons the swarm telepathically*
A massive, 6-limbed creature bursts through the Tavern floor. Through the tunnel it made, swarms of ravenous, cat-sized, flesh-eating things.
EAT THE STRANGERS! The large Monster slices right through a pillar with one of its talons and charges an eel-like electrical attack.
Alt: Entering orbit, a fast moving, small ship soon finds its target and smashes into etg's orbital defense system. Cloaked until impact, the ship shatters into a silvery dust. This is no ordinary dust but a swarm of nanites which disintegrate the hull, into which a second ship enters. This one doesn't shatter, it unfolds to reveal itself as a conscious, metal beast. More come. They obliterate the structure, destroying both the software and the satellite itself. Etg's other space stations prepare to defend themselves. Then a gigantic ship reveals its presence. It dwarfs the stations. Within it, the alt swarm prepares the vast array of terraformers, a few of which were destroyed on the planet below...