NationStates Jolt Archive

***Son Jin: outskirts of Fedral Union Territory***


Son Jin was a desolate world far on the reaches of fedral union space. It had been nearly destroyed by an attempt to move its moon, slamming in to the planet leaving a massive ring of debris in place over the devastated world. Still the fedrals had made use of it as a mining colony.

It would be perfect for the operation the tannelornian federal government had planned as a first strike against the fedrals in the war against their former allies. The operation had called for three distinct strike forces and a contingency fleet to provide immediate heavy support if the fedrals responded faster then anticipated.

The entire expeditionary fleet had been mobilised. One hundred and twenty capital ships, the pride of the tannelornian navy was within five hundred light years of the star system, the operation was about to commence.

Lord Brandalahim ordered his flotilla, the magnificent warriors of heavens fury forward, preparing to jump in to the system. The flotilla consisted of Heavens righteous fist, the morgenstern that carried the flotilla's flag as well as the Incorruptible purity of focus, the zweihander that lead the heavy assault contingents that made up the flotilla's fighting ships. There was only one loengren reaction cannon armed einhander in the flotilla, the rest were pulsar and X ray laser variants, mounting super heavy dual weapon mounts on the one hundred and seventy five meter ultra heavy turrets. Only two shield carriers, both armed with loengren made up the fighter compliment of the first task force. Still they brought with them almost one thousand morgenraete III' omega's.

The force jumped as one appearing deep within the system, not near enough the enemy planet for FTLi to be an effect but close enough to measure the time to battle in mere minutes.

They immediately fanned out, seaking any federal ships they could find, the three X ray variant einhanders took up long range fire support positions, behind the carriers. The formation fanned out over millions of kilometers, launching morgenraetes as they headed towards the planet of son jin.

Exactly thirty five seconds later a second flotilla jumped in, this time much closer to sonjin, their jump coordinates being transmitted by the first flotilla in, the magnificent warriors of heavens fury. Flotilla Zealous persecution of duty consisted of two zweihander dreadnoughts, the retribution and the Divine mercy who lead the assault flotilla as well as the morgenstern fleet carrier Light of hope. This flotilla contained no shield carriers, instead it consisted of an even mix of three each of pulsar, x ray laser turret and loengren reaction cannon armed einhanders. They launched morgenraetes, almost seven hundred of them started to fan out looking for any targets they could find.

The fleets moved towards the planet in a zig zagging, millions of kilometers long orbit, looking for anything that might register as a combat target over the world, or near it as well as waiting to see what defense the systems defenders could offer. As they moved in the net of a DEM jamming wave started to over take the system. Whatever distress calls they may have sent out would likely have abruptly stopped. However the force composition of the tannelornian fleet assets would remain largely unknown to whomever aided the colony.

In exactly one minutes the true strike force would jump in system. one hundred and twenty eight Kernschatten stealth high maneuver frames would move in, under the cover of the fleet action about to happen and the DEM jamming wave. The kernschattens were piloted by the elite of the tannelornian knights, the divine celestial cavaliers.

The fleet rode on blue plumes of fire as plasma shock expansion engines combined with the gravitic impellor effect of the urenbecht field lit up the night behind them, even as the urenbecht fields distorted their image in a constant mingling of red and blue shift. It would be quite obvious to any defenders by now that they were under attack.

Son jin defense station Alpha November bravo minutes before the incursion:

“Commander!” a young ensign spoke out in a corner sensors booth of the well lit chrome white walled and metal plated command center, holographic panels flipped on and off all around as the old dark skinned grey haired commander stood looking back at the ensign.
He nodded and responded “yes ensign” in a clam collective voice, also a rather quiet one.
The ensign responded quickly with brash urgent voice saying “Commander , we are detecting enemy ships moving in our sensor posts see them all over the place forming up in to a fleet pattern, they seem to be Tannelorni in design and signature, what should we do commander”

The commanders eyes opened widely his mind jolted with a burst of excitement and fear at the same time, the union was expecting the invasion to begin soon, but they didn’t know when, his brain filled with platitudes of tactics and life, he looked over to a holographic map that his senior staff had gathered around and walked towards it his shimmering body gleaming in the white chrome light, mean while his rough facial expressions where that of an emotionless sentinel , his eyes panning the map and the view of countless dots of enemy ships as they floated ominously on the screen. He started looking around to his senior officials they looked back and they nodded, they knew exactly what to do there facial expressions calm collective and cool.
He looked around then said “Battle stations, engage procedure bravo alpha Charlie kilo…

Sonjin space… space ripped open with sub light gravimetric engines , suddenly thousands of fighters ripped forth from the carrier taskforce assigned to this area, capitol ships followed suit there ominous bodies flowing towards the incursion forces fighters swiftly moving ahead, there gleaming bodies cut through space like a death s word. Each ship in the carrier group had a power level off the scale of any known ship in the universe other than the most advanced entities, there huge advanced reactor cores powered sub light drives, they pushed these massive behemoths along, yellow and white streams of particles slowly exited the back of the ships stopping and fading a few meters from the engines. Commander O Connell gritted his teeth slightly; he looked around his hands on the holographic tactical table he looked around and said “right have mine bombers do there stuff.. Constrict enemy forces, have fighters move in for the kill and move our guns in rage for counter battery fire…” With that order thousands of mine bombers swarmed the areas in front of the fleet, there chambers opened and several mines from each of these thousands of fighter bombers swarmed out, positron mines now filled the dark void of space in a large wall, the gleaming mine fighters rushed off in all directions covering the advancing fleets path in the middle with mines , they moved closer and closer, so close they could be hit by the enemy’s weapon but this serves a purpose, when the miners compile there field right in front of enemy vessels the front ships wouldn’t be able to stop in time, and the back ships would have to go around either splitting up or moving around in on direction, exposing a flank to fire.

With the mines coming in place battery and counter battery fire rained forth, blue red crimson beams of ultra heavy fire storm cannons rained from the fleet hundreds upon hundreds of fire storm beams rated at the terraton level, there blue lighting like affect lit up the dark endless void of space with a sense of being, the fire storm bombardment was followed by a new kind of weapon the union was working on for decades, D – Disruptors.. suddenly thousands of ultra heavy yellow D-Disruptor beams rained from the 10 ship carrier task force , there yellow bight appearance adding another mosaic of colors to the first counter strike, in conjunction with D disruptors and fire storm cannons, pulsed Fire storm cannons and rapid fire positron torpedo tubes raced outwards.
Blue green pulses of torpedo fire raced in a huge rapid stream of about fifty five torpedoes per second, the area was spammed with massively powerful positron torpedo tubes space was lit up its dark void absorbing the rainbow of battery fire from the union fleet. It had begun the union would take no assault and would fight with the full might of its ships. The commander on the carrier looked forth his eyes panned space as his ships fire again and again energy and mechanical noises reverberating throughout the ships the crew running around attuning to business making sure the ship ran correctly the AI Floated above its round body appearing in multiple colors as it fluctuated around, the ships massive power reserves poured in to weapons defenses and engines, Centurion defense systems activated fire storm defense grids where online.

The star base also shot out thousands of torpedoes streams of rapid fire positron torpedoes, and quantum blink torpedoes flew out, as the blink torpedoes got close to targets they would blink and cause a space time warp in a localized area , pulses of fire storm cannons also rained froth from the star base covering open arcs..

***Son Jin***

Lord Brandalahim grinned softly in the luminescence of the command bridge of his vessel, heavens righteous fist. "Seek and ye shall find." he stated rather flatly to no one in particular. The ships prepared for battle, the fedrals had announced their presence with a hail of weapons fire, still too far out to do more then show the Tannelornians exactly what they were up against. Ten vessels so far had responded, likely the systems defense force.

Like a school of cetaceans on the hunt the tannelornian flotillas broke off from formation, staying well outside of the effective engagement zone until they had encircled their foe. At distances that great it was highly unlikely enemy fire would find a tannelornian ship, lag even of ftl sensors as well the time lag caused by the defensive urenbecht shields would see to that, as would the agility of the tannelornian vessels. Once the ships of the magnificent warriors of heavens fury were satisfied of their angles of attack, they moved in to range of the enemy weapons fire. PD pulsar lasers started to send out streams of fire in the night as they systematically destroyed any missiles or C-fracs that got past the rather large screen of morgenraetes even as missile bays let fly with hundreds of Brilliant pebbles to clear a path.

The ships armed with loengrens chose their targets. The massive ten second beams of destruction were followed by volleys of brightlance fire from secondary batteries of all the ships. The primary targets were the large carriers forming the heart of the task force. In all six of the massive loengren beams lanced out from the heart of the flotilla as the morgenraetes moved in to intercept the federal fighter wings, engaging them in a dizzying ballet of death, frenzied dervishes of destruction loosing massive volleys of high powered space-dogfight missiles, spitting pulsar and brightlance death from their main cannons and rifles against their fedral counterparts.

Shots started to impact against the ships, some of them slipping past the PPBS screens and impacting against the DEM armour, pockmarking the surfaces struck with small craters. They were being as evasive as possible at this point, the distance between ships would make it hard to coordinate fire effectively and urenbecht fields were designed to take advantage of Tannelornian non linear tactics. The only weapons that were being aimed true were the massive loengrens, dual Xaser turret's and twinHeavy Pulsar lances on the turrets. Only once the carriers were knocked out would the flotilla close in for the kill.

***Flotilla Zealous persecution of duty***

Flotilla zealous persecution of Duty watched the battle unfolding before them satisfied. They had their own mission to accomplish, the launched a massive salvo of kinetic kill "brilliant pebbles" c-frac scatter shot missiles towards the planet. The tiny c-frac ball bearings would burn up in atmosphere, but wreak havoc on mines, battlesats or ortillery platforms in orbit. The morgenraetes of the flotilla proceeded to attack any battlesats and ortillery that would survive, waiting only for the heavy weapon impacts to slam home.

Pulsar and brightlance fire started to take aim at defensive installations and majour power signatures on the planet or in orbit, opening fire in a devastating display of tannelornian might. Heavy pulsar lances scanned for the real objective, heavy lifts in to the mining complex on the planets surface. A small settlement was found on the surface, gravitic and electromagnetic sensors, as well as standard vision enhancement searched for what they knew must exist in the area.

The heavy loengren compliment of the vessels of the flotilla started to fire upon the battlestation that had opened fire on them, the morgenraetes on PD duty combined with the PD systems of the tannelornian vessels managed to lessen the damage substantially. Still here and there impacts were felt across the hulls of the ships. The battle was still far too early to see who would have the advantage. As massive loengren beams in tandem with high powered Xaser blasts struck out at the battlestation, it was obvious it would soon be decided.

***Kernschatten strike***


As the battle was joined and the fully powered up tannelornian ships of war started to release a rather large amount of DEM interference, stage two of the plan was set in to motion. The strike was being lead by two members of Pious, Hector Valarus and Jan Azantine were in the lead of a strike force of over two hundred of the new and highly advanced kernschatten stealth high maneuver frames. Their power systems were at minimal, except those devoted to keeping the urenbecht gravitic stealth shield operational. They coasted towards the planet, appearing as no more then floating jetsam and flotsam, debris of already destroyed missiles and c-frac shells.

Jan had been complaining the entire time about not being able to take his beloved P variante 'raete, of course the additional maneuverability of the kernschattens had seemd a plus at first, he found himself missing the much larger weapon payload and FAST packs of his favourite steed. This mission called for the utmost stealth, and the kernschattens limited production run had to be tested under fire.

With heavy battle raging around them, it was highly unlikely that the fedral sensors would see them coming, especially considering the interference and electronic warfare measures being taken. The high maneuver frames slipped past the heavily engaged fedral defenders, entering the atmosphere with little fanfare on gravitics alone...


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Morgenraete High maneuver mode/fighter mode http://www.artemisgames.com/robotech/images/vf-x-5.jpg

Kernschatten High maneuver mode : http://www.mahq.net/mecha/macross/advvalk/xf-x-7-battroid.jpg

Kernschatten superiority stealth fighter mode : http://www.mahq.net/mecha/macross/advvalk/vf-x-7-fighter.jpg

http://www.robotechresearch.com/rpg/mecha/rdf/veritechs/vf_x_24_ghost/v_x_7_fighter2_small.jpg

Various weapons pods equipped in hands [morgenraete] or arm shields [Kernschatten]

Inertial displacement sensors on board the battle carrier had scanned the area, the stealthy ships had been detected moving through the net and fighter command on sonjin was notified , constant bombardments of long range weapons flew out of the carrier and other ships, the 3 km battle carrier lunged out hundreds of ultra heavy fire storm cannons smaller ships and other ships followed suite again, the dark bleak sky was filled with blue red and crimson fire as beams of fire storm fire gashed around it was like a laser opera hundreds upon hundreds of beams from the fleet flew towards enemy ships, qauntum torpedoes jumped to FTL and then jumped out extremely close to enemy shields
The commander on the carrier looked forth as his entire detachment fired its full payload thousands upon thousands of micro fusion missiles flew from MIRV packs. Hundred of positron and quantum torpedoes streaked through the night sky like brim stone heading for judgment, he looked out his eyes panning the entire fleets fire, the shields reacting with enemy counter fire. The battle carrier shook the white chrome well lit bridge sparked slightly as the ai floated over head its color changing slightly as it shook

Son jin fighter command scrambled suddenly fighter bays opened up from the side of mountains, glossy F -116’s started taking off, an interceptor variant of the new combat fighter.

http://img226.imageshack.us/my.php?image=f116nm2.jpg the black hulled gleaming beauties flung from the ground at full speed on an intercept course, there hybrid gravimetric drives pushing them forth at full speed, 2 squadrons flew in formation scanning with gravimetric, inertial displacement , and other sensors, ECM and ECCM defense was engaged around sonjin. Explosions and energy fire reverberated throughout the hulls of the federal carrier task force, micro missiles drone missiles and energy beams filled the dark sky as the federal war ships went forth there bodies cutting space like a flaming sword as they fired a conclave and rainbow of colors, the commander grinned his body shimmering in the bright light of the bridge and the lights of the battle the holo screen was filled with fire on both sides, federal ships retaliating as tanny vessels hit them. Mine layers raced forth lunching anti matter and gravimetric distortion mines infront of oncoming ships as well as rushing towards them escorted by F-118’s who where equipped with anti fighter anti capitol ship engagement packs. It would take time for them to reach the target but it would be short and sweet… F-118 alpha omega … the hot shot Capitan looked around out in to the dark voids of space, his fighter careering with his squadron towards enemy ships , he looked from side to side and saw his wing men there fighters pushing forth as there engines glowed dull blue in a small stream of particles rising from there engines. They centered on several mine layers, there engines and weapons ready to go. He spoke on the ID communications array “ well we have fire incoming lets start maneuvering to avoid them I also want bravo and Charlie flight to head in front of us lets do a wedge formation, omega delta and India flights will start flanking maneuvers on fighters I want them to fall back and start coming around under stood” the message was replied with “affirmatives” from assorted people
The fleet had taken light damage and some losses, the battle station had taken moderate damage to it shields and light damage to its hull, the battle station charged up its atlas sling, suddenly a huge burst of anti matter flew from the station at Light speed , it covered in an EM bubble centering around a projectile and an anti matter glow.
Suddenly a message from the station erupted it called for re enforcements,
As soon as the enemy stealth fighters had entered the atmosphere plasma flack guns started erupting from scattered positions around the ground, huge balls of plasma shells with shard of metal continued in them that would scatter and as soon as they hit air turn to plasma. AA missile towers and Pulse AA cannons fired off as well swarming the sky with them. “The message read: to all federal forces in the area the enemy is upon us we need assistance our fleet is holding out as best it can but I doubt it could hold out for long, we need assistance” the commander face turned a little excited his eyes popped out as he saw fire erupting form his ships like never before rainbows of colors filled the sky explosions of smaller ships colored the bridge, his eyes focused on the flag ship incoming, these arrogant fools did not know what they had stepped in to, massively powerful GAC targeted the flag ship, suddenly huge numbers of positron shells flew at
. 20 c towards enemy ships at long ranges, mark three centurion defense systems incorporating 6 layers of drone, chaff, lighting field and point defense guns engaged, long range distortion missiles flew from capitol ships tubes there objective to cause a 50 km massive shock wave as they exploded part of subspace crunching it then letting it go, all this fire all this ordnance was directed at enemy ships the battle station it self and asteroids opened fire as well with thousands upon thousands of mini missiles and mini drones all doing erratic maneuvers towards fighters.


F118: http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/127/f118kg0.jpg