Editing Magical Realm Cyoa/The Fortress (section)

==The Fortress== 

Each Fortress is an semi-independent unit that usually wanders through the space, using the Divination of the Legion to warp close to planets rich in organic life or various materials to Harvest them and improve itself. It contains a large amount of weapons, both for orbital attacks and space battling. It's controlled by the Legion itself using an Elder (the most powerful kind inside the legion) to command it. Each Fortress can contain billions of soldiers and other minor units, that are kept into a hibernation state until the moment moment the ship leaves the void to warp into a planet or are encountered with an enemy. Usually, if you had the chance to visit one ship during his time into the void, there are only a few workers moving around, doing maintenance and patrolling, acting as the "immune system" of the Fortress. At the same time, these worker can preform upgrading operations to the soldiers that are into the hibernation status.



It's way of acting it's usually quite simply: they warp close to the planet disturbing it's gravity stability what usually damages the planet severely, and the launch from the Fortress a massive orbital attack that blow-ups any orbital defenses and planetary defenses. After the first attack round, the whole monster horde that lives inside the ship it's awaken. The ship knowing that it's protection will make any attack against it will be mostly useless, it launches a full attack, using the legion as herdsmen, and some times as transport, to guide the whole invasion fleet.



Only a few minutes after the orbital attack and the ship warping, the planet will suffer the whole army of a Fortress raiding it's cities (the Fortress will only attack defenses, and won't blow up valuable assets). If the military defenses are easily overpowered, the army won't kill the inhabitants at the moment, instead of that, they will start the Harvesting process.


In the case the invasion army it's effectively defeated and the loses are to big to make further pursuit affordable, the fleet will retreat to the ship and it will warp into the void again. When the next time comes, the Legion will have learned and evolved from his past mistakes, and studied the enemy tactics. Before they have time to recover, another strike will come, this time the attacking Fortress won't be alone. Its brothers will follow.


Once the battle has ended, the Legion will call a special kind of minions from the Fortress that are in charge of harvesting the attacked planet, retrieving anything that can be useful. They aren't too stronger by each one, but they number in millions. They're composed of the lesser animals that the legion encounters and can be converted into soldiers. Once the Harvest has ended (usually between a week after the battle has ended) the fortress will warp again into the void and go through the process of assimilation of the its new resources. These new acquired resources are split into whatever the Fortress needs to self repair, and the rest is halved between helping the fortress grown and helping the Abyss to grown.


The materials obtained after the pillage are used to increase and rebuild the layers of the Fortresses. In case a Fortress has grow too big to being capable of a optimal assault and it's movement results too hard, it will search another planet with a suitable size, and translate some of its layers into it, effectively creating a new fortress, that will follow the same destiny of its creator.


Both survivors and fallen from both bands will be took back to the Fortress, and undergo a process of assimilation, using the survivors gather intelligent, and then go under a quick process of assimilation, during which they will be assimilated into the fortress, using both magic and technology to turn them into soldiers to be controlled by the legion, losing their memories (as they will be assimilated by the Legion itself) and emotions, engrossing the armies of the legion. For the fallen of both sides, they will undergo to a quick process of reconstruction and evolution, trying to fix the weak spots that made them fall in the battle. Sometimes, if the race conquered it's powerful enough, they may undergo a process to transform the entire race into new Legion members, a much slower process that implies both indoctrination, linking to the Hivemind and several upgrades to preserve the magic soul intact (or at least shards of it), in order to create new individuals.