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It has been almost 9 months since Triton fell to the Red Dragon's control. Chief Executive Officer of the Capsule Corporation, Jacen Capsule, sat in a military conference room in the heart of a rather large ZDF spacedock in orbit of Zarahemla. He looked around the room at the small council of his highest friends. Other than the sound of tapping fingers, the room was silent. He rolled his eyes with a sigh, "Where in space is this Jonas fellow...? You guys did tell him 1900 hours, right?"

Almost on cue, the doors opened, and a man with short hair and a small electronic device on his temple came into the room, eager to apologize. "Sorry Mr. Capsule-- Preside-- CEO-- Sir, I was putting the final touches on my--"

"Shut up already and get to the point. You have some new information on Triton City?"

He nodded quickly, sounding shy of breath, yet still excitedly hyper, "Yes sir, a scout ship found the Triton Instillation. There's about 700 Million people there, even though it's over an uninhabitable planet... Really quite an excellent location... full of all sorts of materials and soils needed to manufacture the Red Dragon's strongest technologies. We were thinking of sending a better scout ship in, but--"

"Whoa, settle down, you're getting ahead of yourself. Keluma, right?"

"Yes sir, Lieutennant Commander Jonas Keluma."

"Any relation to Commander Sariah Keluma, of the Valiance?"

"...yes sir, she's my elder sister."

"Ah, good news... anyway, where did you say the Triton Instillation was?"

"Oh, right, yeah, look here." He looks down at the table in the middle of the room and taps the device on the side of his head. A beam scatters forth onto the desktop, displaying a map of Capsule Corporation territory.

http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/kershaw.jpg

Jonas pointed towards the obviously highlighted system and expanded a text display, the zoomed in on the image. "This is Kershaw IV. Now, as I said, we didn't get much sensor data from the passive scans, but we did pick up the signatures of at least 700 million demonic spirits... or at least the enslaved spirits of those captured in the Red Dragon's power."

"You are sure that this is the location of Triton City?"

"Yes, among others."

"Others? Like what?"

"There were several large signatures... such as battlegroups, mother ships, other space stations... and the Planet Killer."

A military commander, female, raised an eyebrow, "We found the berth of the planet killer?!"

"Yes, we are certain... only one thing in our records has ever given off that much energy."

She spoke up again, with contained excitement, "Well great, this has 'Major Target' written all over it."

The CEO sighed and jumped back in, "Yes, or a massive hostage situation... we make an attempt to rescue and they wipe out everyone on the surface... hundreds of millions of innocent hosts... decimated. Larissa, what do you suggest we do?"

Larissa Capsule, the commander of the Zarahemla Defense Forces, answered her CEO, "Special forces seems the obvious route."

Jonas sighed, "Well, that could be hard... this place is a fortress."

"What about a full on assault, starting with the Planet Killer?"

Larissa's heart shifted, "That could work! If we put enough force on that planet killer as soon as we defold, they won't have enough time to defend the ship. But what good would this do?"

Jacen exhaled slowly, "Not much, since we do not know if the Red Dragon herself is there... but if we make a big enough dent on their forces, it should slow them down a lot, and they'll have to rebuild a new planet killer before slagging another planet." He turned to Jonas again, "Anything else?"

Jonas nodded, "Our intelligence says there are at least 3 Dark Elders on that planet."

"Dark Elders?"

"The Red Dragon's most powerful and immediate disciples."

"Allright... so what do you say we round up the allies and make a run on this place as soon as possible?"

"Absolutely yes... though we should probably run a scout mission or two."

"Right. Call the ally leaders for a meeting. Larissa, I want you to personally see up the gathering of the allies."

"Yes sir, I will ready the CCSS Liahona... we'll be out of here by 0900 tomorrow."

"Good. Anything else?"

Everyone stood silent for a moment.

"Dismissed."

Everyone in the room stood, saluted, then filed out to get back to their callings.

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72 hours later, the CCSS Liahona, Valiance Class (http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/valiance.htm), dropped out of its cascading hyperspace fold at the outer edges of Sol System... but not after telling a few of The ZDF's allies to rendezvous in orbit of Neptune's moon, Triton.

OOC: Any allies or wannabe allies of the Capsule Corporation may post their gathering here.

http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/zdf.jpg (http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/ccdex.htm)

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Suddenly 100 miles away from the CCSS Liahona Longswords started poping up on scaners suddenly a massive ship defolded. The PSN Dark Tide a Striker Class (http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/v/reinforcejr.jpg) comand ship. 3 Wings of Longswords launched and began checking scouting the area. Slowly after several scouting rounds the Longswords begen docking in the hanger. Phoenix sighed as he watched the fighters dock. He had met one of the Red Dragons fallowers befor when he was infected and he hadn't forgotten that memory. Suddenly a jr.officer broke his train of thought by reporting the wings had finished docking.

For protection purpose only, 2 grups of Ammons and two groups of Thunders (18 each) buzzed around the Liahona, orbiting like little electrons.

Com. Larissa Capsule's expressions wrinkled slightly as the phalanix ship approached... "we could use any help we can get..." she said to herself before openning a channel. "Greetings, Fleet Commander Phoenix. I thank you for coming. You have been briefed on the situation, right?"

"All I know is that we are throwing rocks at the hive. And that this mission is gona be extremly risky," Phoenix says ove the com "But we do have one advantage." Phoenix then smirked

"Either way, this will eliminate their ability to destroy entire planets. Wait.. what advantage?"

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"You see when I was infected with a enhanced strin of th BP virus one of the Red Dragon's fallowers offered me a place in that asshole's army. With luck they will not know that I am not infected still and I can infiltrate and cause I distraction or if you want I can board the Planet Killer and do some massive damage. While you work at the outside I can damage the inside," Phoneix says as that smirk on his facee slowly lengthens. The bridge crew apon seeing this slightly shudered.

Larissa raised an eyebrow, "Right, umm.. I don't know if that will work... they can kinda sense the difference between good and evil...its kinda their thing." She sulked down into her chair slowly, "Come aboard, we can think of something here."

"Also don't forget I am vampire and I still carry that virus in me," Phoenix says "And my fighter will be launch in 10 min." With that the Dark Tide killed the comunitcation. Phoenix slowly began walking towards the lift. As he steped in the lift started traveling downwards to the expansive hanger in the lower decks.

6 LRR destroyer squadrons arrive at the grouping point. They carry a total force of 4,000 naval infantry along with the firepower of the individual ships.

"Capsule Corporation ships, this is the 3rd destroyer Horde of LRR. We have arrived to aid you in your recapture of Triton city, and the destruction of the planet killer."

She smiled at the site of the allied forces rallying. "Greeting LRR Horde, thank you for coming. And thank you for bringing all your forces. Ours are waiting at Zarahemla right now, as are many other allies. I need to ask you for some specifications on your ships, do you have something I could read?"

((Got a storefront or something?))

OOC: Joinin' in. Taggy.

Admiral Holdean strode about the bridge of the Endeavour, the Liberty-class Capitol Ship commanding Liberty Fleet Delta.

Holdean turned to the Navigation station. "ETA?"

His personally-appointed Nav operator clicked in a few keystrokes and answered, "Sir, we'll be arriving in about 1300 hours. Thank god for Xanthalian technology..."

"Damn right," Holdean muttered as he strode back to the ever-so-popular Command seat. Tha new FTL Drives had just been installed when the Endeavour and her fleet were called into action.

"Sir," spoke a voice from behind. Holdean turned and saw his Communications officer. "Incoming message from FleetComm. Breifing, sir."

"Put it through," requested the worn-out Admiral. A video screen appeared on the Bridge board. It was the face of his long-time CO, Burkhaul. "Well, sir, long time, no see. Whadda'ya got?"

"Holdean, sorry we yanked you out of dock so fast, but we're trying to keep good relations with the Capsule Corporation, Raysia, ZDF, whatever they call themselves. We're still trying to piece together what this is about, but from what we know, the Capsule Corporation is going to attack Triton city, and needs all the help they can get. We'll call back in about 7 hours. Set the ship under AI command, and give your crew some R&R. Burkhaul out."

Holdean snapped a salute and the video screen closed. "Ops, you heard him. Set AI command and rest up."

ooc: just to tell you where this is going... think "helms deep" of space ;)

Only, umm we're on offense, and we're up against an army of enslaved people and ships that make the borg look like an ant colony.

But still, BIG battle commin.

OOC: Summary of what is going on...

first off, read this thread: http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=96465

That's a summary thread of events so far.

And read the first post on this thread: http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=94788
That's the loss of Triton city.

all other campaign links can be found here: http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/rd.htm

So basically, Red Dragon is a demigod who managed to enslave over half of the Capsule Corporation population, as well as most of our forces, as well as forces and populations from MANY other civilizations, most of which have never set foot in the milky way.

So on this planet we're attacking, over half of the forces will be former capsule corp forces. So, obviously, please keep casualties to a minimum and just go for the big ships, because the people enslaved to the Red Dragon can eventually be set free... but of course, not untill the end of the campaign.

So basically, attack all the space ships, don't attack the space stations or the planet's surface.

From the hanger of the Dark Tide Phoenix's fighter launched. It was a Longsword LX-9 Comand Fighter only rececntly placed into each battle group. It slowly made it's way towards the CCSS Liahona.
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30 Lightyears away the PNS Firestorm, Cannon Assult Ship flew at the max speed the fold drive gave. Inside the ship's hanger the air was thick with energy as pilots and the hanger crew began rearming each fighter with Moray space mines. Closly fallowing the Firestorm, three Mark X NP Carriers with full a payload of fighters each flew in a Delta formation.


OOC: Ship stats
PNS Firestorm
Crew:50,000 (including pilots)
Hangar storage:100 (90 Longsword LX-1 Assult Fighters, 4 Longsword LX-5 Bombers, 1 Longsword LX-5.3 Bomber, 4 Longsword LX-8 Intercepters, 1 Longsword LX-9 Comand Fighter)
Armament:4 Nupetieit-Vergnitzs cannons
Overall length: 5,502 meters
Overall width: 1,148 meters
Overal Cannon lengths:700 meters
Overal Cannon Width:50 meters

Mark X Carrier
Crew:5,000 (includes pilots)
Hangar storage:75 (All Longsword LX-8 Intercepters)
Armament:3 Hellfire Plasma Cannons
Overal length:1000 meters
Overal width:300 meters

PNS Dark Tide
Crew:5,000 (includes pilots)
Hangar storage:95 (90 Longsword LX-8 Intercepters, 4 Longsword LX-5 Bombers, 1 Longsword LX-9 Comand Fighter)
Armament:7 Hellfire Plasma Cannons
Overal length:1200 meters
Overal width:400 meters

EDIT:Forgot fighter stats
Longsword LX-1
Crew:5
Armament:2 Light Plasma cannons, 3 110mm turrets
Overal length:15 meters
Overal width:7 meters

Longsword LX-5 Bomber
Crew:4
Armament:1 110mm turret, 15 HE Shiva missle (the .3 has a single Furry Tactical nuke ((think very very small nuke under a mega-ton)))
Overal length:20 meters
Overal width:8 meters

Longsword LX-8 Interceptor
Crew:2
Armament:2 Rapid fire plasma cannons, 1 rear angled 110mm turret
Overal length:13 meters
Overal width:6 meters

Longsword LX-9 Comand Fighter
Crew:1 plus AI
Armament:2 Rapid fire plasma cannons, 1 110mm turet, Moray mine layer (holds 15 HE mines)
Overal length:10 meters
Overal width:6 meters

Right now we are going to commit all of our Kryptonite Mk III and Valiance battlegroups.

That means 5 Valiances, and 32 Kryptonite Mk IIIs. We're also throwing in 30 Celestial-Class Farad Artilleries.

Everything else is staying behind to guard Zarahemla.

So total forces being committed by the ZDF:

5 Valiance-Class Cruisers
32 Kryptonite Mk III-Class Cruisers
54 Omni-Class Assault Frigates
30 Celestial-Class Farad Artillery Frigates
74 Reflex-Class Corvettes
30 Tachyon-Class Frigates
1512 Mahonri Moriancumer Gunships
3024 CCF-10 Thunders
2016 CCF-90 Ammons
1008 CCF-11 TrickFighters
2016 Legolas Mecha
1008 Samson mecha

Total stats: 67 Heavy Farad Ships, 158 support capital ships, 10584 smaller attack craft.

No marines will be brought, and no civillians will be brought... Strictly space combat.

The CCSS Liahona, upstaging the CCSS Valiance, will lead this assault.

OOC: Info on ships available at CC Website:
http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/ccsig.jpg (http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/ccdex.htm)

Holdean woke up to the voice of the Nav officer. "Sir, we're 20 minutes out."

"Thank you, Nav," replied the refreshed Holdean. He got up, dressed up in his best command suit, and left his quarters for the bridge.

Upon reaching the bridge, Holdean was swamped with Sensor data from all stations. Weapons were check, all fighters ready, marines locked and loaded, ship on course, all vessels present, etc. He walked to the command seat, sat, and waited.

"Sir, we're one minute out," reported the Nav officer again.

The Admiral read through the reports from all vessels. Same as always. "All stations, prepare for anything."

The stations responded in unison, "Aye."

Nav reported once more, "30 seconds."

"15"...

"10"...


"Five... Four... Quantum Drives decellerating... Two... One... Lightspeed exited."

In space, a section of the void twisted, turned and warped. As quick as the blink of an eye, three massive capitol ships and numerous Destroyers and Cruisers appeared out of nowhere.

ooc: FH- We aren't going into battle just yet, we're just getting allies together... you don't have to be at battlestations lol you are in the frikkin Sol System. Either way, can you please supply a link to some stats and and maybe post how many forces you are committing? BTW... I don't think you'll need marines for a space battle... just bring your heaviest artillery ships.

IC: Larissa smiled as the group from Foe Hammer arrived. She glanced at the sensor readins of all the fighters and ships popping into the area... surely anyone on neptune would begn to wonder what the heck was happening at Triton.

Triton itself was barren... a massive crater sat in the ground where the base of triton city once mounted itself... mining tunnels led into cold space.

She openned a channel to all the allies currently in the area, "Attention all Allies of the Capsule Corporation already here. Please, if you have not done so, send a delegation to the CCSS Liahona for a status check and briefing meeting. If you do not have a shuttle, we will provide one for you. Thank you."

She smiled at the site of the allied forces rallying. "Greeting LRR Horde, thank you for coming. And thank you for bringing all your forces. Ours are waiting at Zarahemla right now, as are many other allies. I need to ask you for some specifications on your ships, do you have something I could read?"

((Got a storefront or something?))

"Hey, what are our ship's specifications?"
"I dunno. Do we have any?"

The hyperspace signatures of four LRR battlecruisers appear in the space next to the giant horde of destroyers. The other such massive force protects the WWSETI system.

The cruisers take up formation with the destroyers and frigates.

OCC:
http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=101900&highlight=

The ships you are concerned with are the Rockland Class, Albany Class, Abraham Lincoln class, Blade Mk. 10, Franconia Class, Montpilier class, Hammer II class, and the Hartford class.

LRR fleet:

4 Abraham Lincoln class battlecruisers
72 Destroyers
144 frigates
240 corvettes
6 sensors ships
8 resource collectors
4000 naval infantry

"Sir, Capsule Corporation is requesting stats on our vessels. Proceed?"

"Aye," answered the Admiral as he chewed on the end of an unlit pipe. He couldn't light the thing, it was the regulations that stopped him from doing so, but chewing on it was good enough for now.

"Uploading, sir."

[code:1:9bb1a4b7d6]STATUS ON FOE HAMMER THETA-CLASS LIBERTY FLEET
Command Vessel:
FHSV Endeavour (Liberty-class Capitol Ship)
9.2km Long
6km Wide
1,200+ Laser turret Emplacements
125 Magnetic Accelerator Cannons (MAC)
150 Mini-MACs
Other various weapons/missile launchers
HDS-T27 Capitol Vessel Shield
Level 6 LightSpeed Drives
7 Wings (1008) of Fury-class Heavy Fighters
2 Wings (288) of Hellfire-class Light Fighters

Other vessels
Two Chaos-class Capitol Ships
9km Long
6km Wide
1,000 Laser Turret Emplacements
Level 6 Lightspeed Drives
HDS-T27 Capitol Vessel Shield
100 Magnetic Accelerator Cannons
120 Mini-MACs
Other various weapons/missile launchers
6 Wings (864) of Fury-class Heavy Fighters
2 Wings (288) of Hellfire-class Light Fighters

Six Halsey-class SuperDestroyers
1.2km Long
350m wide
400m tall
150 Laser Turret Emplacements
Level 6 Lightspeed drive
HDS-T16 Medium Vessel MilSpec Shield
10 MACs
15 Mini MACs
1 Wing (144) of Fury-class Heavy Fighters

12 Nebraska-class SpaceCruisers
1km Long
250m wide
300m tell
100 Laser Turret Emplacements
Level 6 Lightspeed drive
HDS-T16 Medium Vessel MilSpec Shield
8 MACs
12 Mini MACs
1 Wing (144) of Hellfire-class Light Fighters[/code:1:9bb1a4b7d6]

OOC: Those are the basic ships. I'm not gonna take the time to count ALL the fighters, gunboats and repair vessels.

Larissa smiled as her sensor readings were confirmed by the LRR and Foe Hammer transmissions.

"We just might be able to pull this off," she said pleasingly to herself, then opened a transmission to the other ships. "Repeat, please send a military delegation for an attack planning meeting."

Larissa smiled as her sensor readings were confirmed by the LRR and Foe Hammer transmissions.

"We just might be able to pull this off," she said pleasingly to herself, then opened a transmission to the other ships. "Repeat, please send a military delegation for an attack planning meeting."

We are sending Admiral Sarah Henne as a delegate for attack planning. She will arrive aboard the FHSV Fang, a Stealth Prowler.

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The Republic of Tiburon will send out its main force to destroy the 'planet killer'. The first wave alone will include a planet-destroying capable force of our own, consisting of the Gundam Force Attack Unit, the space fortresses Barge and Libra, 200 space battleships, 500 Taurus Mobile Suits, 500 Leo Mobile Suits, and 100 space fighters.

Space Fortress Libra Main Cannon System:
http://www.epy0n.com/gallery/epi43/43100.jpg

Space Fortress Barge Main Cannon System:
http://www.epy0n.com/gallery/epi41/41079.jpg

OOC: Tiburon... I'm kinda iffy on the whole Gundam thing.. so be careful ;)

*Gundam is listed as "yeah right" in my book ;)*

lol... And Gundams are listed as *most probably* in mine... :wink:

Admiral Ivan Shostakovich sets out for the ZDF command ship in a Sherpa class corvette.

The military delegations are docked and led into a conference room in the heart of the Liahona, where several Capsule Corporation brass and guardsmen stand against the walls, surrounding a table where the delegates are to sit.

Larissa is standing at the head of the table, just behind a holoprojector displaying a map of the galaxy.

"I thank you all for coming. As you may or may not know by now, the Galaxy is threatened by a force known as The Red Dragon. They seek to enslave anyone and everyone that could serve their will, and destroy anyone who they deem inferior. The Capsule Corporation's former capitol of Triton, the moon which we are now Orbiting, has already fallen to the Red Dragon's army... but it was one of the few to actually be enslaved, rather than utterly destroyed."

Larissa Capsule zoomed in part of the map, to a point tens of thousands of light years from Sol, until a single star could be seen. A system of planets (not to scale) soon appeared in orbit of the image.

"This is the Kershaw system. Our scouts have reported to us that this system is a berth of the Red Dragon's armies, and the lost city of Triton... home to an estimated Seven Hundred Million enslaved beings, and at least 300 capital ships. We also know that one of their most powerful weapons, the infamous "Planet-Killer" ship, also finds harbor here.

"Our goal is to bring up a force of enormous, if not rivalling mass, and attack them in surprise. Our targets will be all capital ships, especially the Planet Killer and other mother ships. But please be careful not to hit the cities or "civillian" space stations or surface dwellings... for they hold hundreds of millions of slaves, which can be freed upon the Red Dragon's fall... our ultimate Goal.

"Sadly, this Goal will not be accomplished in this battle, but this battle will remove them of their power and force of arms is removed, and ensure the safety of those worlds and systems who have not yet seen their power.

"So, simple blitzkrieg, and everything else will take place on the field. Our retreat will be after we have confirmed either 75% of their losses, or 50% of ours. Any questions?"

Her eyes glanced around the rooms... she hoped their would be questions from all, for she hated sending people into a battle without knowledge.

Admiral Henne raised her hand.

"How large are the Capitol Ships and the Planet Killer? We could call in a few requests and have two other Liberty Fleets here in no time, if need be."

"What kind of defenses do they have against a massive torpedo barrage? Also, how much damage can the planet killer take while still remaining functional?"

"What kind of defenses do they have against a massive torpedo barrage? Also, how much damage can the planet killer take while still remaining functional?"The Planet Killer is roughly 12 kilometers long when Idle, and would be fairly easy to destroy if not for the loyalty of the other ships in the fleet. They have the ability to act as shields in the way of the planet killer, and absorb hits for them... these protecting ships have been quite a niussence in our previous attempts to destroy it. Also, in its condensed form, the planet killer is practically a brick... so vaporization would be more effective than pummeling. Use energy weapons over kinetic and explosive when possible.

As far as missile attacks go, it depends on the missile. They do have shielding which can detonate missiles outside of their effective range, so you might want to bring out the heavy nukes et cetera.

Admiral Henne raised her hand.

"How large are the Capitol Ships and the Planet Killer? We could call in a few requests and have two other Liberty Fleets here in no time, if need be."As I said, the Planet Killer is roughly 12 kilometers long when Idle and compacted, and folds out and expands to roughly ten or twenty times the length when building energy to destroy a planet.

On average, the Capitol ships that will be your targets range between 800 meters and 5 kilometers... some are extreme, but you won't really find anything bigger than the planet killer. But do not be fooled by their size, they all have great power and defense.

The Farad weapons will most definately be a powerful asset, because in previous encounters, they had little or no protection against the high energy outputs.

So basically, if you have any superlasers or heavy explosives, bring 'em.

"What kind of defenses do they have against a massive torpedo barrage? Also, how much damage can the planet killer take while still remaining functional?"The Planet Killer is roughly 12 kilometers long when Idle, and would be fairly easy to destroy if not for the loyalty of the other ships in the fleet. They have the ability to act as shields in the way of the planet killer, and absorb hits for them... these protecting ships have been quite a niussence in our previous attempts to destroy it. Also, in its condensed form, the planet killer is practically a brick... so vaporization would be more effective than pummeling. Use energy weapons over kinetic and explosive when possible.

As far as missile attacks go, it depends on the missile. They do have shielding which can detonate missiles outside of their effective range, so you might want to bring out the heavy nukes et cetera.

Admiral Henne raised her hand.

"How large are the Capitol Ships and the Planet Killer? We could call in a few requests and have two other Liberty Fleets here in no time, if need be."As I said, the Planet Killer is roughly 12 kilometers long when Idle and compacted, and folds out and expands to roughly ten or twenty times the length when building energy to destroy a planet.

On average, the Capitol ships that will be your targets range between 800 meters and 5 kilometers... some are extreme, but you won't really find anything bigger than the planet killer. But do not be fooled by their size, they all have great power and defense.

The Farad weapons will most definately be a powerful asset, because in previous encounters, they had little or no protection against the high energy outputs.

So basically, if you have any superlasers or heavy explosives, bring 'em.

"Once I arrive back at the Command Ship, I will order one more Fleet into the area. One shot from one of our Magnetic Accelerator Cannons has the power to punch a large hole through a Super Star Destroyer. We have at least 100 of these on each of our Capitol Ships. We should have about 600 of these cannons and about 800 Miniature versions on hand by the time the battle starts. Easy as hell. All we need is cover. Lots of cover. If the Capitol ships are as powerful as you say, our shields will cover us for a few minutes of taking constant hits. All we need is cover, and we can take that Planetkiller down easily. The smaller Capitol ships will be no problem for our Destroyers and Cruisers.

ooc: 100 ubercannons on each ship? Umm, why doesn't that sound right ;)

ooc: 600 ubercannons on each ship? Umm, why doesn't that sound right ;)

OOC: They're not as Uber as you think. The SSD was empty... lol, just like that movie "The Pentagon Wars". It's not 600 per ship. Check our ship stats. There's about 100-125 large cannons and 125-150 small versions on each of our capitol ships. How they work is a large magnet in the cannon barrel attracts space debris, heats it to the point where it's white hot, and fires it off at nearly the speed of light. The white-hot metal burns through the Ship's hull, and some of the metal makes it through the entire ship. It can easily destroy a large ship, thanks to explosive decompression.

"Once I arrive back at the Command Ship, I will order one more Fleet into the area. One shot from one of our Magnetic Accelerator Cannons has the power to punch a large hole through a Super Star Destroyer. We have at least 100 of these on each of our Capitol Ships. We should have about 600 of these cannons and about 800 Miniature versions on hand by the time the battle starts. Easy as hell. All we need is cover. Lots of cover. If the Capitol ships are as powerful as you say, our shields will cover us for a few minutes of taking constant hits. All we need is cover, and we can take that Planetkiller down easily. The smaller Capitol ships will be no problem for our Destroyers and Cruisers.If I understand, your Magnetic cannons merely fire globs of heated debris at the enemy. We want to vaporize them, not damage them. Like I said, this ship is a brick, and pummbling it and burning it will do no good... we have to vaporize and disintigrate it.

However, this brings up a good point, that you should all understand:

The planet Killer is built to expand as it gathers energy... thus, whatever energy weapons you fire at it have to be strong enough to vaprorize their hull in large chunks about a half a cubic kilometer at a time.. otherwise the ship will -absorb- the energy into its pores and begin to charge its very large capacitors, stretching until it can not hold any more energy, at which point it would probably discharge on us. So be careful about what you throw at it... too much of the wrong kind of energy and we could be feeding the fire. So stay away from heat weapons like lasers, and electric weapons... stick to pure energy like Farad or antimatter.

ooc: K Foe Hammer, I guess that's... acceptable... *hides his fleet of ships with weapons capable of vaporizing super star destroyers in one hit*

ooc: 100 ubercannons on each ship? Umm, why doesn't that sound right ;)
Yep, 100, but still, they're not Uber. They're just giant magnets that fling molten hot metal at the enemies. And they're compact and require little energy, which explains the large numbers.

But, we haven't tested it to it's fullest capacity... No one has ever though of using the MAC at... LEVEL FIVE!! *cue mysterious music*

I got a really good turning point that will occur when the Admiral in charge of the Foe Hammer fleets decides to use... LEVEL FIVE!! *cue mysterious music*

ooc: 100 ubercannons on each ship? Umm, why doesn't that sound right ;)
Yep, 100, but still, they're not Uber. They're just giant magnets that fling molten hot metal at the enemies. And they're compact and require little energy, which explains the large numbers.

But, we haven't tested it to it's fullest capacity... No one has ever though of using the MAC at... LEVEL FIVE!! *cue mysterious music*

I got a really good turning point that will occur when the Admiral in charge of the Foe Hammer fleets decides to use... LEVEL FIVE!! *cue mysterious music**bumps for foe hmmer because he didn't hear a bloody thing i wrote: "Once I arrive back at the Command Ship, I will order one more Fleet into the area. One shot from one of our Magnetic Accelerator Cannons has the power to punch a large hole through a Super Star Destroyer. We have at least 100 of these on each of our Capitol Ships. We should have about 600 of these cannons and about 800 Miniature versions on hand by the time the battle starts. Easy as hell. All we need is cover. Lots of cover. If the Capitol ships are as powerful as you say, our shields will cover us for a few minutes of taking constant hits. All we need is cover, and we can take that Planetkiller down easily. The smaller Capitol ships will be no problem for our Destroyers and Cruisers.If I understand, your Magnetic cannons merely fire globs of heated debris at the enemy. We want to vaporize them, not damage them. Like I said, this ship is a brick, and pummbling it and burning it will do no good... we have to vaporize and disintigrate it.

However, this brings up a good point, that you should all understand:

The planet Killer is built to expand as it gathers energy... thus, whatever energy weapons you fire at it have to be strong enough to vaprorize their hull in large chunks about a half a cubic kilometer at a time.. otherwise the ship will -absorb- the energy into its pores and begin to charge its very large capacitors, stretching until it can not hold any more energy, at which point it would probably discharge on us. So be careful about what you throw at it... too much of the wrong kind of energy and we could be feeding the fire. So stay away from heat weapons like lasers, and electric weapons... stick to pure energy like Farad or antimatter.No heat weapons on the big ship :)

"Ya I got a question," Phoenix says "Would a boarding party be able to get onto the Planet Killer and take it out from the inside? And what are the amounts of fighters we are dealing with?"

ooc: 100 ubercannons on each ship? Umm, why doesn't that sound right ;)
Yep, 100, but still, they're not Uber. They're just giant magnets that fling molten hot metal at the enemies. And they're compact and require little energy, which explains the large numbers.

But, we haven't tested it to it's fullest capacity... No one has ever though of using the MAC at... LEVEL FIVE!! *cue mysterious music*

I got a really good turning point that will occur when the Admiral in charge of the Foe Hammer fleets decides to use... LEVEL FIVE!! *cue mysterious music**bumps for foe hmmer because he didn't hear a bloody thing i wrote: "Once I arrive back at the Command Ship, I will order one more Fleet into the area. One shot from one of our Magnetic Accelerator Cannons has the power to punch a large hole through a Super Star Destroyer. We have at least 100 of these on each of our Capitol Ships. We should have about 600 of these cannons and about 800 Miniature versions on hand by the time the battle starts. Easy as hell. All we need is cover. Lots of cover. If the Capitol ships are as powerful as you say, our shields will cover us for a few minutes of taking constant hits. All we need is cover, and we can take that Planetkiller down easily. The smaller Capitol ships will be no problem for our Destroyers and Cruisers.If I understand, your Magnetic cannons merely fire globs of heated debris at the enemy. We want to vaporize them, not damage them. Like I said, this ship is a brick, and pummbling it and burning it will do no good... we have to vaporize and disintigrate it.

However, this brings up a good point, that you should all understand:

The planet Killer is built to expand as it gathers energy... thus, whatever energy weapons you fire at it have to be strong enough to vaprorize their hull in large chunks about a half a cubic kilometer at a time.. otherwise the ship will -absorb- the energy into its pores and begin to charge its very large capacitors, stretching until it can not hold any more energy, at which point it would probably discharge on us. So be careful about what you throw at it... too much of the wrong kind of energy and we could be feeding the fire. So stay away from heat weapons like lasers, and electric weapons... stick to pure energy like Farad or antimatter.No heat weapons on the big ship :)

Actually, something completely different will happen at level 5. I don't want to spoil it, though.

"Ya I got a question," Phoenix says "Would a boarding party be able to get onto the Planet Killer and take it out from the inside? And what are the amounts of fighters we are dealing with?"In short, no, a boarding party would have no chance. Plus we have to make this strike fast, because the ship will escape if it has enough time to phase cloak and fold out, but that won't happen if we take it out before they can charge their coils and react.

As far as fighters... we don't know. We know there are at least 300 cap ships, so we could be encountering anywhere up to 30 to 50 thousand fighters. So just be prepared for anything.

"Ya I got a question," Phoenix says "Would a boarding party be able to get onto the Planet Killer and take it out from the inside? And what are the amounts of fighters we are dealing with?"((too lazy to log in as zdf))

In short, no, a boarding party would have no chance. Plus we have to make this strike fast, because the ship will escape if it has enough time to phase cloak and fold out, but that won't happen if we take it out before they can charge their coils and react.

As far as fighters... we don't know. We know there are at least 300 cap ships, so we could be encountering anywhere up to 30 to 50 thousand fighters. So just be prepared for anything.

"One more question. Would we be able to capture a capital ship and use it to our advantage later on?"

"300 Capitol ships?! How many vessels do we have total?

"Well, er..... 50,000 fighters...... this battle sounds more and more suicidal by the minute."

"Well better pass out the cigars. We are gona realy need some luck to pull this off."

"One more question. Would we be able to capture a capital ship and use it to our advantage later on?"

"Wonderful idea. We have AI Technology onboard our Capitol Ships that allows us to hack into the control interface of an enemy vessel. Basically, it's mind control for Spacecraft. We've never tested it, but with the digital tests, we've had a 70% success rate. We could use this on some of the Capitol Ships and go Kamikazee. Sound good?"

"Sounds good. Atleast if we can pull that off we do hve a chance of some of us returning."

"I have an idea. If we can group everybody's vessels inside the shields of the 9 Foe Hammer Capitol Ships we'll have by the time the battle starts, we'll be able to hold out longer.

A further 10 ships arrive near the fleet's position. They look like freighters, but are actually remote-controlled suicide ships, packed with explosives. They are built to smash into enemy fleet command ships and detonate themselves.

The LRR horde is careful not to come close to them. They will be sent in along with the torpedo barrage. The torpedos are armed with antimatter warheads, and more destroyers trickle in, bringing the LRR destroyer force to around 90.

Guys guys guys, calm down... the ZDF alone is committing 10,000 fighters and roughly 200 capital ships. And these guys's capitol ships are pushovers, we can take most of them out in one farad hit... especially if we catch them with their shields down.

And as for capturing or boarding... well boarding is suicide, and capturing will do no good as most of the ships there are either common alien tech or Capsule tech.

Be warned though, they may have at least 20 Farad weapons... at least.

*Two full Liberty Fleets exit Hyperspace on both sides of the Moon. The fleets kick in their engines and join up with the other fleets.*

"I have an idea. If we can group everybody's vessels inside the shields of the 9 Foe Hammer Capitol Ships we'll have by the time the battle starts, we'll be able to hold out longer.Our goal is not to "hold out," our goal is to bust into the battlefield guns blazing and do as much damage as we can in ONE wave, then pull out. Hopefully we won't HAVE to encounter their fighters, and do not deploy your own fighters until you absolutely have to. We will be fighting at range, starting with the farad artilleries, then moving in with the missile frigates and stuff.

If all goes well, this battle should last NO LONGER than 10 minutes... Blitzkrieg.

The ZDF Forces arrive in orbit of Triton, since everyone else seems to be massing there.

5 Valiance-Class Cruisers
32 Kryptonite Mk III-Class Cruisers
54 Omni-Class Assault Frigates
30 Celestial-Class Farad Artillery Frigates
74 Reflex-Class Corvettes
30 Tachyon-Class Frigates
1512 Mahonri Moriancumer Gunships
3024 CCF-10 Thunders
2016 CCF-90 Ammons
1008 CCF-11 TrickFighters
2016 Legolas Mecha
1008 Samson mecha

Total stats: 67 Heavy Farad Ships, 158 support capital ships, 10584 smaller attack craft.

No marines will be brought, and no civillians will be brought... Strictly space combat.

The CCSS Liahona, upstaging the CCSS Valiance, will lead this assault.

OOC: Info on ships available at CC Website:
http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/ccsig.jpg (http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/ccdex.htm)[/quote] Remember, fighters are not to be used unless necessary for defense... we don't want the little guys in the hot zones.

Well, let's do it.

Well,before we go, we gotta know how long it will take us to get ther. It's 29,000 light years away, so that's just about a 24 hour trip for us... how about you giuys? We need to time this down to a second... we probably won't make any stops after 500 ly away, where the ZDF ships and the Phalanix ships will make a fold jump straight to there. How about Foe Hammer, Tiburon, and LRR, what are your FTL abilities?

Well,before we go, we gotta know how long it will take us to get ther. It's 29,000 light years away, so that's just about a 24 hour trip for us... how about you giuys? We need to time this down to a second... we probably won't make any stops after 500 ly away, where the ZDF ships and the Phalanix ships will make a fold jump straight to there. How about Foe Hammer, Tiburon, and LRR, what are your FTL abilities?

"Our FTL drives can keep up with yours. We'll follow you in and out of hyperspace."

Well,before we go, we gotta know how long it will take us to get ther. It's 29,000 light years away, so that's just about a 24 hour trip for us... how about you giuys? We need to time this down to a second... we probably won't make any stops after 500 ly away, where the ZDF ships and the Phalanix ships will make a fold jump straight to there. How about Foe Hammer, Tiburon, and LRR, what are your FTL abilities?
Well, before I discovered that the FTL tech I traded for was ub3r-wanked, I could do 5,000,000,000c. But now I'm down to about 1,000c, unless I can get better tech. Hey CC, I made you a trade offer in your Revamping Shield Tech thread.

Well,before we go, we gotta know how long it will take us to get ther. It's 29,000 light years away, so that's just about a 24 hour trip for us... how about you giuys? We need to time this down to a second... we probably won't make any stops after 500 ly away, where the ZDF ships and the Phalanix ships will make a fold jump straight to there. How about Foe Hammer, Tiburon, and LRR, what are your FTL abilities?
Well, before I discovered that the FTL tech I traded for was ub3r-wanked, I could do 5,000,000,000c. But now I'm down to about 1,000c, unless I can get better tech. Hey CC, I made you a trade offer in your Revamping Shield Tech thread.Wow, that's pretty freaking slow... Maybe we can arrange a tow?

Well,before we go, we gotta know how long it will take us to get ther. It's 29,000 light years away, so that's just about a 24 hour trip for us... how about you giuys? We need to time this down to a second... we probably won't make any stops after 500 ly away, where the ZDF ships and the Phalanix ships will make a fold jump straight to there. How about Foe Hammer, Tiburon, and LRR, what are your FTL abilities?
Well, before I discovered that the FTL tech I traded for was ub3r-wanked, I could do 5,000,000,000c. But now I'm down to about 1,000c, unless I can get better tech. Hey CC, I made you a trade offer in your Revamping Shield Tech thread.Wow, that's pretty freaking slow... Maybe we can arrange a tow?
Sure. But still, will you take me up on the Cascading Hyperspace Fold Drive/Selective Shield Technology trade?

"One ship won't make that full jump. The Firestorm needs much longer to prep it's fold drives befor it can get close. I'll see about placeing the 3 Mark X NP Carriers on the 'Hard points' to allow the jump to be made with the Darktide."

*All vessels in the Foe Hammer Fleets either docked with the Capitol Ships, or latched to the outside for the long tow.*

Ready to go whenever you are.

well, with Foe Hammer's FTL, it'd take him over 27 years to reach our target... so we'd probably have to just have him hitch a ride on our cascading hyperspace-fold drives... that's about a week-long trip then.

So how about we meet at the target point (500 LY from Kershaw) in 7 days? I think we can all make it by then.

Remember, pack light... don't bring civillians of course, and don't bring marines except for self defense... and remember not to use your fighters for offense, because they'll just get in the way of the artilleries.

Got ya. I'll see about refitting the Firestorm with some Hellfire Plasma cannons.

well, with Foe Hammer's FTL, it'd take him over 27 years to reach our target... so we'd probably have to just have him hitch a ride on our cascading hyperspace-fold drives... that's about a week-long trip then.

So how about we meet at the target point (500 LY from Kershaw) in 7 days? I think we can all make it by then.

Remember, pack light... don't bring civillians of course, and don't bring marines except for self defense... and remember not to use your fighters for offense, because they'll just get in the way of the artilleries.
OOC: If you agree to trade the tech, I can bring in the Cradle MRS (Mobile Repair Station) and have the drives installed installed in an hour RL, with the crew working round-the-clock, sweat till you drop labor shifts.

well, with Foe Hammer's FTL, it'd take him over 27 years to reach our target... so we'd probably have to just have him hitch a ride on our cascading hyperspace-fold drives... that's about a week-long trip then.

So how about we meet at the target point (500 LY from Kershaw) in 7 days? I think we can all make it by then.

Remember, pack light... don't bring civillians of course, and don't bring marines except for self defense... and remember not to use your fighters for offense, because they'll just get in the way of the artilleries.
OOC: If you agree to trade the tech, I can bring in the Cradle MRS (Mobile Repair Station) and have the drives installed installed in an hour RL, with the crew working round-the-clock, sweat till you drop labor shifts.you aren't gonna get that many drives built and installed in 6 days...

well, with Foe Hammer's FTL, it'd take him over 27 years to reach our target... so we'd probably have to just have him hitch a ride on our cascading hyperspace-fold drives... that's about a week-long trip then.

So how about we meet at the target point (500 LY from Kershaw) in 7 days? I think we can all make it by then.

Remember, pack light... don't bring civillians of course, and don't bring marines except for self defense... and remember not to use your fighters for offense, because they'll just get in the way of the artilleries.
OOC: If you agree to trade the tech, I can bring in the Cradle MRS (Mobile Repair Station) and have the drives installed installed in an hour RL, with the crew working round-the-clock, sweat till you drop labor shifts.you aren't gonna get that many drives built and installed in 6 days...

Yeah, you're probably right. Bring in the tow ships.

No need to bring in anything special, we'll just expand our power to carry your fleets... that's why it will take so much longer.

*to all*

So, agreed? meet at the redezvous point at 1200 hours 7 days from now.

No need to bring in anything special, we'll just expand our power to carry your fleets... that's why it will take so much longer.

*to all*

So, agreed? meet at the redezvous point at 1200 hours 7 days from now.

Go ahead and attach the tow lines. We will kick in every single available engine and drive we have (The ships docked to the outside of the Capitol ships + The Capitol Ships) to help speed up the process (Which is basically like nailing Jell-o to a tree)

No need to bring in anything special, we'll just expand our power to carry your fleets... that's why it will take so much longer.

*to all*

So, agreed? meet at the redezvous point at 1200 hours 7 days from now.

Go ahead and attach the tow lines. We will kick in every single available engine and drive we have (The ships docked to the outside of the Capitol ships + The Capitol Ships) to help the acceleration process.Please don't, you will only complicate things...

If you know our tech, you know that we travel through hyperspace WITH space folds, rather than using our engines... makes us go a lot faster, like using a rocket pack on a speed skater ;)

So all you would have to do is shut down your engines and feed us some powerr, and maybe take some of our heat off our hands.

No need to bring in anything special, we'll just expand our power to carry your fleets... that's why it will take so much longer.

*to all*

So, agreed? meet at the redezvous point at 1200 hours 7 days from now.

Go ahead and attach the tow lines. We will kick in every single available engine and drive we have (The ships docked to the outside of the Capitol ships + The Capitol Ships) to help the acceleration process.Please don't, you will only complicate things...

If you know our tech, you know that we travel through hyperspace WITH space folds, rather than using our engines... makes us go a lot faster, like using a rocket pack on a speed skater ;)

So all you would have to do is shut down your engines and feed us some powerr, and maybe take some of our heat off our hands.

We'll run our Charging lines (BIGASS Jumper Cables) to your vessels.

The LRR fleet heads off to the RV point. This will be the first time LRR uses Farad weapons, which have been mounted on the Abraham Lincoln class cruiser and will be mounted on the newest version of the Rockland class destroyer.

The LRR fleet heads off to the RV point. This will be the first time LRR uses Farad weapons, which have been mounted on the Abraham Lincoln class cruiser and will be mounted on the newest version of the Rockland class destroyer.ooc: lol you don't exactly "mount" a farad artillery... it's integral ;)

The LRR fleet heads off to the RV point. This will be the first time LRR uses Farad weapons, which have been mounted on the Abraham Lincoln class cruiser and will be mounted on the newest version of the Rockland class destroyer.ooc: lol you don't exactly "mount" a farad artillery... it's integral ;)

OCC: Impliment would be a better word.

By the way, I will send you a telegram within the next 3-24 hours regarding the Farad system. I am very interested in it, and plan to convert most of my ships to farad capability.

The LRR fleet heads off to the RV point. This will be the first time LRR uses Farad weapons, which have been mounted on the Abraham Lincoln class cruiser and will be mounted on the newest version of the Rockland class destroyer.ooc: lol you don't exactly "mount" a farad artillery... it's integral ;)

OCC: Impliment would be a better word.

By the way, I will send you a telegram within the next 3-24 hours regarding the Farad system. I am very interested in it, and plan to convert most of my ships to farad capability.ooc: nFarads have to be built in from the beginning, it makes up the frame of the whole ship... not something you just add on.

Admiral Hayes read the report. "Capsule's taking the offensive? Of course we're in for it! Rally up whatever we can get."

"Yes, sir!"

The TRSN is deploying Fleet 35 (OOC: Despite name, there's only 3 Fleets in NS). This consists of 35.1, the Battleline; 35.2, the Fighter Group; and 35.3, the Bombardment Section. It is headed by the Dreadnought Vanquish, and consists of:


1 Pulsar Class Bombardment Dreadnought
1 Nova Class Line Dreadnought
1 Gale Class Fleet Carriers
4 Vanguard Class Battlecruisers
4 Vortex Class Battleships (Mk. 1)
4 Storm Class Battle Carriers
8 Typhoon Class Missile Cruisers
8 Hydra Battlegroup Support Frigates
4 Argus Class Sensor Frigates
8 Phalanx Class Destroyers
Numerous Picket Ships


The Universal Guide to All Things TRSN

History of the Terran Republic (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=94265&highlight=)
Fleet Forces (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=94198&highlight=)
Starship Weaponry (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=94238&highlight=)
Ground Forces (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2155440#2155440)
Infantry Weapons (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=94229&highlight=)

Larissa smiled at the forces as they massed at the deep space rendezvous point.

"haha! Nice of you guys to drop by! TRSN Force, you guys up for a fight? Just remember this is gonna be a Shock-N-Awe type of attack. We're gonna Jump in, Bust up a whole buncha crap with as much force as possible, and get out before we suffer too many casualties. The reason we need allies is for the obvious cannon fodder, pardon the horrible expression, and of course the cannon power."

http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/zdf.jpg (http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/ccdex.htm)

"Roger that. We can bombard from system edge with our Missile Group, and our Force Beams will tear away the armor for you."

*blows off dust and removes mothballs*

OK, I'm gonna get this goin again... who all is still here?

I'm here and ready to kick some ass

I'm here and ready to kick some assThat's the spirit... who else was here again?

Recap of currently massed forces:

[code:1:c8a8ae443f]5 Valiance-Class Cruisers
32 Kryptonite Mk III-Class Cruisers
54 Omni-Class Assault Frigates
30 Celestial-Class Farad Artillery Frigates
74 Reflex-Class Corvettes
30 Tachyon-Class Frigates
1512 Mahonri Moriancumer Gunships
3024 CCF-10 Thunders
2016 CCF-90 Ammons
1008 CCF-11 TrickFighters
2016 Legolas Mecha
1008 Samson mecha

Total stats: 67 Heavy Farad Ships, 158 support capital ships, 10584 smaller attack craft. [/code:1:c8a8ae443f]Larissa looked over the long list of ships and squadrons currently present, ZDF, EDF, TDF, and all the allied forces.

"All ships and squadrons, please send your GO/NOGO confirmations to the CCSS Liahona."

She watched as a column of blue lights next to the list of ships suddenly began to turn green. After a minute, a few yellow lights were on, signalling that some of the forces needed just a few more minutes to prepare.

"Are we waiting on anyone else?"

http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/lar.jpg (http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/ccdex.htm)

[New Graphic for Larissa Capsule and the CCSS Liahona... just because I was bored. G'night!]
http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/lar.jpg

Heh impressive man. Wish I could do something like that. Ah well back to the graphic gore fest in my story.

The LRR fleet sends its list of GO/NOGO stuff to the Liahona.

The entire list is GO, except for the captain's chair on the Nelson Mandela, the lead ship of the fleet, which is a tad squeaky.

With Admiral Kucinich and Ix's battlegroups in Proxima, the Mandela is the only available battlegroup.

Larissa confirms the LRR status, and watches as the last of the fleet checks in.

"Ok everybody, here's the plan. I want all ships to be buddied up with at least one fold-capable ship. Farad Ships, I want you to see if you can't find a ship to jump with, and go ahead and charge up your main weapons.

"All ships: Have your weapons loaded, deployed, armed, and primed. Have your active targetting systems on, and prepare to target any and all spaceborne targets not of our fleet. Go ahead and program in the transponders of those around you so that your computer won't accidentally lock on. You will find many alien ships that your computer will not recognize, please remove your safety mechanisms and have those ships targeted.

"No probes have been launched, and enemy deployment patterns are unknown. Just bust in, and fire all guns.

"REMEMEMBER: Do NOT launch your fighters. We want to keep the smallcraft out of the way to leave room for the big guns. If you are somehow engaged at close range by fighters, then you may use your smaller attack craft.

"Everybody clear? Good."

The fleet begins to do as instructed, smaller ships grouping or linking up with Foldships. The capacitors in the foldships whirr as the drives warm up. All weapons on all ships deploy from their hatches, and crewmen man all the heavy weapons. The farad ships split their hulls and begin charging their energy.

"Countdown to fold, T-120 seconds."

http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/lar.jpg (http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/ccdex.htm)

The Phalanix battle group's fold capacitors humed and buzzed to life. They seemed like they were operating at the same time as the ZDF fold drives. Phoenix at that point began to walk over to a comand screan and looked at the smaller Hydra Star Striker that had recently joined them. "Glad to have some new weapons here," he says as he looks over the specs.


OOC:
Hydra Star Striker: Avanced Destroyer
Hight: 500 meters
Width: 400 Meters
Length:900 meters
Hanger Storage: 15 Hydra Missile Drones, 2 Eagle Dropships
Weapons: 13 Light Hellfire Plasma Space Morters, 2 Heavy Starfire Blue Plasma canons

Hydra Missle Drone
Hight:1 Meter
Width: .5 Meters
Length: 2 Meters
Weapons : 3 Hydra Micromissle pods (each posd carrys 13 missles each with a diffrent warhead for each drone. The warheads are Plasma, nuke, balistic, Hellfire plasma, Blue Starfire Plasma)

Larissa looked over the quickstats of the Hydra Cruiser.

"A little suggestion, wait untill the first wave of attack is over before using your missile weapons. We'll be attacking at a range of 500,000 kilometers."

http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/lar.jpg (http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/ccdex.htm)

"Roger that. Charging hyperspace drives."

"We use the drones for cover against enemy fighters. Except 2. The Blue Star Fire equiped ones, they are designed for large ships."

OOC: I wish TRSN and Foe Hammer were here... do you guys want to just go ahead and start the fight?

Here's the basic rules of how this will go down, being an NPC fight and all. When we fold into the battlefield, I'll tell you what the enemy forces look like, and where they are, and all that. I'll trust your judgement and storytelling ability on what kind of damage you deal and what kind of ship-to-ship tactics your enemies use, but I'll lay out the basic summary of events. Get it?

OOC: Just join in when you get the chance guys

IC:

The entire coalition enters spacefold in the same instant, and pops into position near Kershaw. Immediately spotting the large planet-killer mothership, Every ship fires it's first volley, mostly Farads. The waves of energy, already charged, soar towards the massive target, hoping to destroy it before it escapes. "Looks like we caught them off-guard!"

A good deal of the farad energy attacks hit guardian ships that stood close to the mothership to absorb hits, but the bulk of the beams hit the mothership dead on. It was an easy call to make that the ship would never survive. Beams cut through its hull, tearing sections apart, overloading coils, and adding so much energy to the ship that its coils collected enough power to swell up the ship's billows so much that they ripped apart at the seams, spewing raw energy out of every cracked pore of the mothership until it came apart, sending large chunks of debris everywhere, and creating a large shockwave that wiped out a few nearby ships.

Immediately, all ships opened fire with normal weapons, on both sides. Rail Gun slugs and beam weapons traded back and forth over the long distance as both fleets slowly moved towards each other.

Ships on either side were dropping like flies. When the 2 forces got to withing 10,000 km of each other, fighters begin to lanch from the red dragon ships.

http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/lar.jpg (http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/ccdex.htm)

um... bump?

The LRR fleet launches a full volley of torpedos at the Red Dragon ships, with mixed warheads, and then starts to manouver into a close engagement. They then start to fire in with ion and plasma cannons, and a small number of antimatter weapons.