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The Lucifer SuperDestroyer dropped out of sub-space, charging its Flux Cannons and waiting for its prey.

The 50 kilometer bulk of the Kanuckistani flagship Emberwind materalised five thousand kilometers behind and facing away from the Lucifer for dramatic effect; weapons hot, Astral Lances aligning to harness cataclysmic energies. Her swarm of interceptors, 2400 strong, began once more forming up as the behemoth began to come about at a seemingly leasurly pace.

Had the hunter become the hunted, or had the Lucifer bitten off more than it could ever hope to chew?

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OOC: I still don't see how it could be that big. It would have to cover at least 2,500 square miles, and I don't see how a person coul build and maintain something that big. If you made it less than that, its mass would break itself in half whenever it turned. Oh well.

And which side is port and starboard?

IC:

The (whichever side is the right when facing the front) Flux Cannon begins to charge, then it lances out with the destructive power capable of destroying a planet. (actually, it takes multiple shots to destroy the surface of a planet, I just said that to illustrate its destructive power)

As the beam burns into the side of the Emberwind hundreds of Manticore, Scorpion, and Basilisk fighters busrt from its bays and form up into death dealing squadrons, aiming dead center into the enemy formation.

[Post Count +1]Go Emberwind![/Post Count +1]

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OOC: It's 50 kilometers long. IIRC it's about 20 wide and 10 high(still haven't been able to find the concept-sketch :-/ ). My ship is not a flat 50x50km plane :wink: :P

And how is a 50km long ship be any more unplausible than a 5km long one? It's sci-fi; both are unfeasible with modern materals technology(and I'm not building with anything you can find on a periodic table of elements). :D 8)

Anyway, this is my last post for the night; 3:40am local.

IC:

The Kanuckistani flagship's armour takes the assault for a second and a half befor the gravitic shield flare, deflecting the beam away from the ship. A nasty looking scar stretches a hundred meters along the ship's dorsal armour, but scans quickly reveal the onslaught, for all it's power, boiled off less than fifteen centimeters of the subatomic-partical latice forming the Emberwind's thick hide at the deepest point!!

Meanwhile, her own fighters close with and engage the enemy smallcraft; thousands of partical beams, easily within range of the launching fighters, began opening up upon the the Lucy's suppost ships even as they leave her bays.

The Emberwind herself continues to come around, broadside to the Lucifer as her light cannonry start to open fire; a hail of multi-gigaton-flavored crimson death streaking through space with unerring accuracy.

And yet, one couldn't help but feel that the great ship was intentionally holding back...

OOC: Sorry, I meant Kilometers. And I said at least 2,500. And the reason that a 5 km long ship is more plausible than a 50 km. ship is because it's mass is substantially less, the stress on the ship is a lot less.

IC:

The Lucifer seemed to pause in space, almost shocked at the minimum damage. But the Shivans were not startled for long. It quickly rotated in space, bringing its forward cannons into range. The planning was simply, use the first shot to breach the shields, and follow through with the other two cannons to drill the ship. It had worked before, and it would work again (but will it work now? That is the eternal question)

Even as it spun in space the individual fighters were locked in mortal combat. Their shielding was enough to repel the first shots from the Emberwinds crafts, and they answered with a barrage of their own. Thousands of Hornet swarm missles left the missle bays, dozens of missles targeting each individual fighter.

As the missle trails faded, a wing of Nephalim bombers left the bays, unseen because of the distraction, and headed out to the Emberwind.

OOC: You're still thinking 2D; my ship is not a flat 50x50km plane ;-) Anyway, I'm just saying that both examples are equally imposible with today's materials technology; the degree is, overall, a fairly small one.

But enough with the destraction...


IC:
The interceptors danced amidst the enemy onslaught with mind-numbing skill, screaming through the collective furball at thousands of gees to evade persuing missiles; at the same maneuvering then into allied lines of fire. Dozens died to sucessive hits, but the threat was soon past, and they once more set upon the Lucifer's fighters enmass with a vengence.

Elsewhere, the Lucy's bombers made it past the battle unmolested, but that was the least of their pilots' worries; for the Emberwind had been given the best of everything Kanuckistani science had to offer, and that included a point-deffence system that could swat down relativistic missiles.

The slow bombers would prove little challange for the great ship's targeting algorithyms; a singular particle lance flickering out when they closed to a thousand kilometers, two and a half thousand gigatons of energy instantly spearing through the cockpit of the lead Nephalim. The titan fails to follow up the attack, however, instead toying with the minds of men who were already as good as dead.

Meanwhile, the Emberwind continued it's lazy turn; strange sensor reading eminating from her as she prepares to strike the killing blow.

OOC: The Shivans don't really care about their own lives, or much of anything else except killing all intelligent races. Toying with the "minds of men as good as dead" is kind of pointless.

IC: The Lucifer complete's it's rotation, all three Flux Cannons now targeted on the Emberwind.

The starboard cannon agains unleashes its fury, again barely breaking the seal surrounding the massive ship.

But this time it did not stop there. The two forward Flux Cannons, dormant until now, lock onto the exact spot of the initial strike, and fire. Reaching the Emberwind before the first cannon finishes firing they collide with its unshielded hull. The light is bright enough to be seen from half a light year away.

IC:
This time, however, the Emberwind's gravitic shield engages with perfect timing, space itself bending befor the oncoming barrage of the Lucifer's starboard cannon; unbelivibly, the entirity of the onslaught seeming to bounce off the Kanuckistani vessel's primary shield.

Ironicly, the Lucifer's tactic works in the Emberwind's favor, the concentration of fire upon a single point allowing it to get away with only projecting a single, relativly small area of of graviticly warped space.

Her light guns pause for this display, moments later resuming their barrage upon the Lucifer, a scant five kilo-klicks away.





OOC: You missunderstood my earlier post; the shield engaged shortly after the Lucy's cannon bit into the Ember's hull, not befor.

My gravitic shields bend space, so that the stuff traveling at the ship is redirected; the effectors could care less how much or little stuff you throw at them, because they never feel it. Think of it as kinda like a fan blowing mosquetos away from a window.

The Emberwind also has more conventional shields, but they're not engaged right now.

OOC: I did mis-understand. Damn.

IC: Taking the Emberwinds attacks on her shields, the Lucifer quickly switches tactics. All three Flux Cannons point at a different part of the ship (Who didn't se this coming?) and are set on continuous fire (meaning the shot will go on for many minutes instead of lasting the multiple seconds that it usually does).

They all shoot at the same time, but do not remain in place. As the gravitic shields come in place to bounce the beams, the beams slide down (or up) the ship, working like a sword slicing into a person.

Then the hundreds of individual laser turrets open fire, lancing out with less powerful energy than the cannons, but more than able to make up for it in shere number of shots. The Emberwind must either split up its gravitic shielding to cover all those places, are take thousands of laser shots across her entire hull.

OOC: Off for the night; sorry, don't have time to type a reply :(

Good night

(And for some reason I think this one battle is going to go on for a long time)

OOC: Nah, not too much longer; The Emberwind'll be firing her main guns soon. You might also remember we have a fighter-battle going on; I've conceeded some losses already.


IC:
Once more the Emberwind is assaulted anew, and once more her resiliance proves suprising; gravitic shielding deflecting the Lucifer's main barrage, bent backwards, the beems coming close to hiting the Lucy herself as they're bent back. Meanwhile, the laser fire is outright ignored; spread out across the hull, dampers bleed imparted energies away from the armour befor even the outtermost layers of the lace can dissassiciate from the whole.

Between the two great ships, her fighters continue to press the enemy, their agaility making them all but untouchible; but still they take losses to the sheer mass of enemy fighter fire.

The Emberwind herself continues to pound the Lucifer with her light cannonry, finally smiting the remnents of the bomber wing nearing her befor loosing her heavy guns upon the lesser titan; seven quad-cannon blisters, each no less than a kilometer across, lock on to the Lucifer, twenty-eight beams in all spearing into her at a range their designers would have considered point-blank; all converging upon a single point.

Seven hundred and fifty teratons per second each, they were, and still her astral lances were to come into play.


OOC: You probally know, but 1 teraton=1000 gigatons or 1'000'000 megatons.

Woooooooooow.....*Looks at pretty ships....drools...*

OOC:Kanukistan,might I ask how your weaponry harnesses power from The Astral Plane?I mean..your crew would have to be chanting incantations like madmen in there..

OOC: You know what, both these ships are invincible. Your gravitic shields prevent anything from touching it, and the Lucifer's shields are impenetrable. Both our ships have thousands of fighters, and neither of the fighters can effect the other ship. This is fun, but pointless. And never ending. Sorry.

OOC: It's 50 kilometers long. IIRC it's about 20 wide and 10 high(still haven't been able to find the concept-sketch :-/ ). My ship is not a flat 50x50km plane :wink: :P

OOC: I couldn't find a concept sketch, but I found an actual picture of the rear:

http://www.darkjedi-darthmaul.com/spaceballsHTML/013-Spaceballs-Ship6.jpg

P.S. If you don't know where this picture is from, you have not witnessed one of mankind's cinematic masterpieces!

Ludicrous speed!

I'm surrounded by assholes!

Oh great, just what we need. A Druish princess.

One last quote, then I'll leave you to your RPing:

"Raspberry. There's only one man who would dare give me the raspberry. (pulls down mask) Lone Starr!"

*camera smacks Dark Helmet in the face and he falls over*

OOC: Sorry for vanishing; RL ate me(luckily it forgot to chew, and I was eventually able to claw my way through it's chest).

As for invincibility, see below(I also have a small reserve of 'aces' for dealing with tight spots; the Emberwind is only one of them): the Emberwind's deffences also have an achellies heel or three, but that would be 'telling' :wink:

If you're in the mood to continue, I'm good to go.


OOC:Kanukistan,might I ask how your weaponry harnesses power from The Astral Plane?I mean..your crew would have to be chanting incantations like madmen in there..

OOC: It's not harnessing the astral plane(atleast not the one you're thinking of). It taps an ultra-high energy-density dimention and creates an 'upwelling' of unscenely high energy quasi-matter along an arbitrary fourth spatial axis(yes, it's normal for your head to hurt after reading that, and yes, I have a liscence to technobabble(military-grade, even) :wink: ).

It can either operate in 'lance', 'blade', or 'splash' firing mode. Lance manifests a spherical cross-section of the upwelling and utalises specialised inertial revectoring effectors to redirect a portion of the stream to form a massivly powerful beam weapon that can cut through a planet like it wasn't there(open the 'focus' and you have a handy-dandy anti-fleet weapon). Blade is similar to gridfire of the culture novels, where a tight area of upwelling is created extending out some distance; it's fairly short-ranged(at this point, it's worth noting that the Lucy's well within point-blank range as far as the Emberwind's concerned), but the arbitrary nature of the fourth spatial axis means that even metaphasic shields can't save your ass. Splash is basicly a shotgun varrient of Blade; you'll get a large number of small upwellings around a point. Other firing modes exist, but these are the main ones and demonstrate the basic capibilities of the weapon system. Oh, and the Emberwind has two of 'em.

OOC:Oooooooo....


Mebbe I should counter with Ethereal.*Obviously joking*

OOC:*Fake smile,begins making gun plans of things that harness spiritual energies.(Hence what the Ethereal Plane is.)*