OOC: Silly Var...this monstrosity was built as a trade fortress, with a living AI...of course it will register environmental threats against the trade route.
On a side note, how did you create a portal?
IC:
Environmental Alert: Registered: Comet Field inbound...calculating...calculating...
Trajectory set. Arboreal Intelligence - AI controls authorized.
Targets located, and locked.
Send forth my hands...the kraken shall abate this hail of nature's arrows...
The AI's cold eyes glowed in the depths of the core, thrusting his hand forward with an air of a frozen, robotic countenance...and he watched as his monstrous body of cellulose began its defense...against what he thought was a strange occurrence of nature.
My body of bio-steel, grow and be under my command. Cells of iron, obey the mind that wills you.
The deep reverberation of his voice echoed throughout the vast heart of the monstrosity, and with his command, the manual cellular controls were activated...he was ready for the first wave with shield in hand.
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Outside of the moon sized sphere of destructive tenancy, large spherical gates opened all across the surface, like docking bays, and tiny vines of tempered bio-steel came spindling out like strands cast from a spider.
They wrapped around each other and formed hundreds of tight, cellulose-iron muscular tentacles, wrapped in a pulse shield glove, floating there in the silence of space ready to engage the onslaught of weaker rocks.
The first asteroid came within range...
CONTACT!
The AI shouted as a cellulose vine-like tentacle caught the fast flung asteroid in its flexible, tentalic grip, and whipped it back around, using its own momentum in space to hurtle it back with increased speed into the chasm of space, barely missing the device that threw it.
The next asteroid came, and the next, locked on, and in targeted range, their set trajectories calculated and planned for the in the advanced interfaces deep beneath the surface of "The Kraken", soon they were hurtled back with expert speed, and aimlessly thrown into space, one asteroid came barreling forth towards one of the ring devices, and in an explosion of blue and scarlet, it was broken to pieces, and caught in the orbit to adorn the Kraken's Girdle.
I AM THE KRAKEN! The AI yelled in the ancient Laminari tongue his booming, echoing, deep robotic voice blasting into space on all channels and frequencies, wrapped in a sinister delight of cold, hard, patronizing laughter of cynical doom.