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The noise was deafeaning. A sonic boom across the land mass to land the craft on an ocean. NOT a lake or a river. Cei and his mate Lzi were Zealot commanders. Unusual for the fact they were NOT, nor accompanied by, cannibal; legions. 
Silica based beings. No soul, no body parts other than the shell they each ‘ inhabited’ and a trizilica controller that delivered, thought and reasoning beyond comprehension.
Data, that could be procesed, at a trillion times faster than most capable AI units.
THEY were there for strategy and to bring their elite foces to wipe out any and all would be opposition.
The Jin, had ordered their deployment, ahead of its arrival. No emotions, no empathy these things were not born killers. they were programmed to be EXTERMINATORS.
Fresh from the previous destruction of 3eU6, a space station and all on the adjacent moon; their plans for the invasion of the planet had been cancelled, well; for now.
A short ‘leap’. to this whatever it was. However it had been noted, that their presence, was significant.
The occupants had already managed, to destroy one of their previous Zealot invasion forces.
They were to be eradicated. NOT converted or forced to work for them; pest control.
Never, had they known, of the reveal, from data, sent to them, as to how these ‘primitives’, had managed, to destroy the numbers involved? The craft was not damaged. Defence shields and all related technologies had prevented that but?
An examination, of the area, previously occupied, had revealed massive temperature scorching converting sand, into particulates of silica and glass.
A weapon capable of that was unknown. True, there were some, that could use plasma streams but, looking closer at the destruction, the ‘aftermath’; what they had here? Too different.
The weapon of an ancient God? It happened and their archives, recorded some with similar appearance, a cause for concern and, their masters, had given them, a variety of tracking devices AND weapons that were very VERY powerful.
Light refractors, colour and, sound bandwidth identifiers gave them the means to identify such as ‘Transparents’. Capable of changing form using light refraction, atomic restructuring. NO ‘normal’ being could recognise that level of bandwidth.
Refraction was one, of the most terrifying AND the beings capable of that had caused serious problems for the Zealot forces. Damaged installations, equipment including the Chz device. One, of the most, heavily guarded; for whoever or whatever had entered and destroyed it?
One, of those things, being destroyed, created a massive blast, often resulting, in a crater being left behind.
Vaporised is a close representation of the truth. Dust and metallic residue, nothing else.
Thus the scanning equipment, was soon, activated, including defense shields, monitoring, securing and maintaining a barrier against would be intruders. 
inter dimensional shifting, was another nightmare for the Zealots. Suddenly appearing, the intruders could do damage or cause a lot of consternation in one hit. Unnerving mght be the best way to describe that.
A kind of jump from one space to another but that too had its problems for those doing it.
Vacant space or occupied, well solid in form. Make that mistake and you could end up being part of the fixings on a permanent basis. A gift of immortality.
More advanced level 5 beings who could do that were not going to end up that way. Too advanced scientifically with their knowledge of the ‘elemental table’ re physics. in particular.
Those who melt and meld, shifting from body to another.. might seem crazy and impossible but for some beings they could do just that. A partial take over OR a permanent one. All was possible for them. What lifeform or FORM that took could also be incomprehensible.
Solid forms like these Zealots were not at risk of any swapping. A lump with a system of autonomous responses,
was not the type of OBJECT and OBJECTIONABLE might spring to mind for their choice of habitat.
All in all these Zealots were as good a representation of the dammed as the dammed could be.
The ‘scouts’ for the Zealots were not those solid forms. More flesh than them but less where the local population were concerned. Modified ectoplasmatics with a biochemical makeup that could see them change into whatever they wanted to replicate; in appearance.
So convincing they could easily fool most sentient life forms. Listen to their heart beat? None until you leaned in and heard it... Emotive, responsive and oh yes, physical in every sense of the word when they chose to be,
Whips, chains being tied up, bondage in all its glory or is it GORY details.
Once they had your ‘scent’ you could never escape from them. Like a death sentence for some.
Hunted to extinction, now theres an analogy. IT would be just that. Memory AND the ability to retain data was second nature to them. Passing that on to those who they had a link with was in the blink of an eye one might say; that fast.
Micro fibre optic networks on the solid forms. Transmitted, stored and retained data shells. MILLIONS of them.
Each of their craft, had a central repository that stored TRILLIONS of data. The archives were accessible by those permitted access but the Matsupa AND that included their JIn, some Accolytes also had access.
The Aposso and the ‘clerica’ did not nor could, access the archives. That did not, stop their Accolytes passing on the information, to them before instructing them for ie an attack of similar where they needed to know about their victims.
NOW it was time for the ‘Puy’ (Punch) to strike at the locals AND there was NO planned settlement, random, completely random. The vaporisers were a form of weapons that fired a liquid before it soaked the skin and the moment it did, they were dissolved, gone.
TO one side of them, a shadow moved. The ‘Jester’ had seen them step out of their craft. These were machines built for one purpose only; to kill; no to exterminate. For IT that was good. Machines had autonomous systems that could be a playground for the Gods..
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