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Merchant Shipping near the fringe going 1000ly inwards on the 'west' side of the galaxy has been disrupted by heavy pirate activity, and is on the virge of collapsing.

A merchant ship launched a distress probe inwards towards earth orbit, containing information regarding what might be the largest pirate vessel ever built.

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A pirate communications probe has been sent to Earth orbit, to transmit a message that they now control the outer fringe, and includes this message:

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What can The Dominion of Lord Edward and The Holy Empire of Cow Warriors do to help this situation?

Lord Edward II
Dominar of The Dominion of Lord Edward
Holy Emperor of The Holy Empire of Cow Warriors
Owner of the Much Mechs mech store

OOC: for all that care, Lord Edward is the parent nation of Cow Warriors, I own both of them but jus got Lord Edward resurrected.

3 Gorgon class Carriers and 6 Tugger class Cruisers, and a new ship, never seen before by survivors, 1 Pestilence class Dreadnaught, are on the outer fringes of the Sol system, near the Kuiper Belt, with full cloak on, mining the Kuiper Belt objects under near complete cloak, building fighters, small capital ships, and munitions, for the oncoming attack.

OOC: What factions are currently controlling Pluto? Or Charon?

OOC: Not me. NG spacport alpha circles around Ganymed.

IC:
Untill today no pirate group has ever tried to attack any NG convoy but in reaction to these alarming news further convoys to destinations next to the occupied space will be escorted by more than the usual two LCs and four DDs.
The Homefleet (1st fleet) will be made ready for possible battle.

We will not allow those pirates to take over control.

Commander Kees Shumacher was awoken by a blaring alarm. He stumbled into the bridge and loudly asked what was happening.
"We found a ship, sir," said a scared-looking underling.
"So?"
"Uh, sir, it's... dead, sir."
"We find a lot of those too."
"With tortured bodies?"
"What doo you mean?"
"I think you should see this..."

After Commander Shumacher's vomit was cleaned from the bridge, he sent a message back to fleet headquarters near New Jupiter recommending war on whoever would have done such a thing.

OOC: We don't torture bodies, we only kill the people. It is more efficient to just shoot them in the head.

IC (somewhat secret, depends)

To this date, 300 planetismals have been used as resources along the Kuiper Belt. A small shipyard equipped with a prototype cloaking decide is being used to manufacture medium sized ships, like Tugger's. About 600 Fighters total have been manufactured. Several constructed Tuggers set up bases of operations in other areas of the Kuiper Belt, and have been launching pirate raids using the manufactured fighters.

Some Heavy Fighters have been seen orbiting Pluto, and Charon.

OOC: I control a good portion of the Kuiper Belt, and am based there. The Belmore Family and The Snel Race are partially based on Pluto.

IC: "Radio message in from a miner," reported an officer in one of the control rooms. "It's a distress signal. They're not under attack, but some on the asteroids are exploding. They suspect mines. Admiral, what are your orders?"

"Dispatch a battle group to see what's going on and tell the miner pilot to get out of there," Admiral Henderson replied. "Send 6 Patrol Boats, 6 Missile Boats, and 5 Escorts. Let's find out who's in our territory."

OOC:

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Name:Penguin Class Miner (Miner Mk I)
Classification:Other
Crew:1
Armament:1 massive laser cannon
Landing Capable:No
Size:300 m^3
Other craft:1 Passenger Liner/Freighter Mk III
Engines:SFSF non-FTL engines[1.3 G acceleration]
Amount:50
Notes:Designed to use a laser to slice asteroids and comets into chunks and collect the usable chunks of water or metal, it is used for long voyages into the Kuiper Belt.

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Name:Flapjack Class Escort (Escort Mk I)
Classification:Medium Warship
Crew:220
Armament:2 front-mounted laser cannons, 2 larger front-mounted laser cannons, 1 front-mounted missile array, 2 smaller rear-mounted missile arrays.
Landing Capable:Yes
Other Craft:10 passenger Liners/Freighter Mk III, 15 fighters[in development]
Engines:SFSF non-FTL engines[4 G acceleration], 2.5x SW-type hyperdrive
Amount:50
Notes: 6 of them have Space Fold.

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Name:Walking Warhead Class Warship (Missile Boat Mk I)
Classification:Small Warship
Crew:50
Armament:3 forward missile bays, 2 forward heavy missile launchers, 1 rear missile bay, 1 ventral missile bay
Landing Capable:Yes
Other craft:5 Passenger Liners/Freighters Mk III, 10 fighters[in development]
Engines:SFSF non-FTL engines[4.2 G acceleration], 2.2x SW-type hyperdrive
Amount:59
Notes:7 of them have Space Fold.

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Name:Cigar Box Class Warship (Patrol Boat Mk I)
Classification:Small Warship
Crew:50
Armament:1 front missile bay, 2 lower fromt lasers, 1 large front laser, 4 rear lasers
Landing Capable:Yes
Other craft:5 Passenger Liners/Freightes Mk III, 10 fighters[in development]
Engines:SFSF non-FTL engines[4.5 G acceleration], 2.2x SW-type hyperdrive
Amount:59
Notes: 7 of them have Space Fold.

"Sir, we have incoming vessels"
"Hmm... tell HQ to consider moving primary facilities to the Oort Cloud, to prevent possible detection. Intensify cloak on our ships as well."
"Aye Aye"

"Admiral, new reports coming in. There are enemy craft in orbit of Pluto. Also, some disturbances are being registered on the Kuiper Belt, though it is not conclusive what they are."

"Recall that battle group. Fortify our territory. Put out 25 Patrol Boats, 25 Missile Boats, and 35 Escorst. That should hold whoever this is if they choose to attack. Put the SI3Ds and UMWPs on full alert."


OOC: Don't get too close to the 5 mile x 5 mile cubes. The house my nation, and if they are attacked or if you don't states your intentions, I will send out my defense systems.

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Name:SI3D Defense Sphere
Classification:Defense Technology
Crew:0
Armament:Numerous laser cannons
Landing Capable:No
Engines:none
Amount:Classified

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Name:Deathbarge (Unmanned Weapons Platform Mk I)
Classification:Defense Technology
Crew:0
Armament:4 front missile launchers, 2 front laser cannons, 2 larger front laser cannons
Landing Capable:No
Engines:SFSF non-FTL engines[3 G accelation]
Amount:149

Gone for an hour. Don't blow anything up.

baxxor!

OOC: We don't torture bodies, we only kill the people. It is more efficient to just shoot them in the head.

I guess it wasn't you, then.

OOC: Is Charon controlled by you, Independent Pluto?

IC:

The Major facilities have been relocated to the Oort Cloud, where they are just as efficient, but with longer shipping delays. The Kuiper Belt facilities are being fortified. Several can now be considered battlestations. Cloaking and Jamming facilities are online.

Around Pluto, small stealth observer fighters (Wraiths) are still flying around, just getting a view. They are also scanning Charon.

<doublepost>

OOC: Is Charon controlled by you, Independent Pluto?

IC:

The Major facilities have been relocated to the Oort Cloud, where they are just as efficient, but with longer shipping delays. The Kuiper Belt facilities are being fortified. Several can now be considered battlestations. Cloaking and Jamming facilities are online.

Around Pluto, small stealth observer fighters (Wraiths) are still flying around, just getting a view. They are also scanning Charon.

OOC: No, no facilities there. TG the Snel Race, if they still play. How effective is your cloaking?

IC: Upon the detection of small craft of some description around Pluto, an Escort broke off from the main group to investigate. Platforms and spheres are fully active and ready to fire at any time.

IC:

On scout fighters, it is pretty much impermeable. On Capital Ships, depends on the class. In the Kuiper Belt or Oort Cloud, asteroid and comet intereference should keep them very well cloaked. The Stealth is also optical.

On scout fighters, it is pretty much impermeable. On Capital Ships, depends on the class. In the Kuiper Belt or Oort Cloud, asteroid and comet intereference should keep them very well cloaked. The Stealth is also optical.

OOC: In that case...

IC: "Captain, there's nothing here," reported the sensors officer of the escort.

"That can't be, we were getting readings from here less than an hour ago that couldn't have been asteroids. Saturate fire where we last got those readings, laser batteries only."

"Sir, the odds of the enemy still being there at this point are very small."

"I know that, but we have to start somewhere.

OOC: I might have time for one more post, that's it.

The Bridge shook as the ship took two shots. The Captain prayed to whatever god existed that the cloak generator would hold... and it did. Albeit taking some damage, they were still invisible. He knew that if they were seen, the entire plan might be for nothing.

Secret IC:

A small commprobe entered Pluto space with a message basically asking if a community of people could settle on Charon.

OPS of NG spaceport alpha:

"Sir, we've got message that IP vessels are firing their weapons in the Kuiper Belt."
Fleet Admiral Steiner: "Do we know what they are firing at?"
"I'm sorry, Sir, we got this information from a merchandising ship and their sensorics are not the best. Shall we send out some destroyers to investigate?"
"I think we'd better ask IP what happens out there before we decide to send ships into their space."
"Aye, Sir."


Tarnsmission
From: NG spaceport alpha. Fleet Admiral Steiner.
To Independant Pluto.

PATH:NGSPA/SATREL16/CONFIRMED/CONFIRMED/SATREL16/AMPLB1/SATRELJ2/IP

This is Fleet Admiral Steiner of the NGSN. We were informed about that parts of your fleet are firing their weapons in the Kuiper Belt.
We would like to know if this is somehow related to the alarmingly news about pirate activity on the fringe.
If you need any assitance feel free to ask. Our crews are ready for turkey-shoot."

RETPATH2/CONFCODE/DECODE/DECODED/SETMARK/ENDCODE

Tarnsmission
From: NG spaceport alpha. Fleet Admiral Steiner.
To Independant Pluto.

PATH:NGSPA/SATREL16/CONFIRMED/CONFIRMED/SATREL16/AMPLB1/SATRELJ2/IP

This is Fleet Admiral Steiner of the NGSN. We were informed about that parts of your fleet are firing their weapons in the Kuiper Belt.
We would like to know if this is somehow related to the alarmingly news about pirate activity on the fringe.
If you need any assitance feel free to ask. Our crews are ready for turkey-shoot."

RETPATH2/CONFCODE/DECODE/DECODED/SETMARK/ENDCODE

"This is Admiral Henderson, currently in command of Pluto Fleet. It's good to hear a friendly voice. I don't think we need help now, but we may as the situation develops. A while back we detected some odd readings back in the Kuiper Belt, just a little outside of our territory. We sent out a task force to check it out, but recalled them when to reading disappered. We still don't know what they were. Fearing attack from the pirates, which had been getting closer recently, we deployed a good portion of our fleet. We recently sent out an escort to investigate similar readings around Charon. The captain decided to fire weapons at the location of the readings, and that's what you saw. It seems that they hit something, but they con't see what . . . one moment please." He cut the transmission.

"Admiral, incoming communications probe. It seems to be a request to settle on Charon. That appears to be what was hit by the lasers."

"Why would anyone want to settle on Charon? Whatever. Have a Patrol Boat take in the probe, and refer the request to Snel"

He switched the transmitter back on.

"Sorry about that. As I was saying, they seemed to have hit something. New data indicates that it may have been a probe. Once we examine the porbe in question, we'll know if it was hit. Still, the probe doesn't explain the odd readings from the area, and we can assume that something hostile, possibly pirates, were there. If whatever was in the Kuiper Belt and around Charon comes back, we may need your help. Not for now, though. Feel free to enter our territory though. The defense systems wo't shoot at you."

"Thank you for your generous offer. If you don't mind we will send out some destroyers to have an eye on the situation in the Belt."

NG Destroyers:
mass: 85.000 t
length: 93 m
armament: 4 rocket launchers, 4 Lasers, 5 anti-rocket/anti-torp rocket launchers, 5 anti-rocket/anti-torp Laserclusters
Top speed sub light: 0,7c
Top speed FTL: Eta string=(subjective)2576,4c

"Thank you for your generous offer. If you don't mind we will send out some destroyers to have an eye on the situation in the Belt."

NG Destroyers:
mass: 85.000 t
length: 93 m
armament: 4 rocket launchers, 4 Lasers, 5 anti-rocket/anti-torp rocket launchers, 5 anti-rocket/anti-torp Laserclusters
Top speed sub light: 0,7c
Top speed FTL: Eta string=(subjective)2576,4c

"Thank you for your generous offer. If you don't mind we will send out some destroyers to have an eye on the situation in the Belt."

NG Destroyers:
mass: 85.000 t
length: 93 m
armament: 4 rocket launchers, 4 Lasers, 5 anti-rocket/anti-torp rocket launchers, 5 anti-rocket/anti-torp Laserclusters
Top speed sub light: 0,7c
Top speed FTL: Eta string=(subjective)2576,4c

"We would be glad of that. Though we have more ships thab the pirates, we couldn't hold them off if they have a capital ship. If it's even them, of course."

OOC: I just thought I would let you know I tend to ignore laser weapons, because against shiny armor its useless.

OOC: NP, if there is any trouble DDs or LCs can't face I'll bring in bigger ships, armed with 8 feet (radius) grasers.

IC:
A flottila of 12 destroyers are leaving NGSP alpha. They should arrive at Pluto orbit in approx. 7h.
Another flotilla will arrive at the Kuiper Belt in approx. 0.4h.

Battlestations are maned, the ships are prepared for combat although nobody knows what they will face ... or if there is anything to face.

OOC: What factions are currently controlling Pluto? Or Charon?
OOC: The Snel. If you want the surface of Pluto, go for it. But don't even think about digging more than a few meters below the surface without asking. As for Charon, 010 left the surface covered in computer networks. Not much space left there, except for NYNJ's Nomad colony, a Menelmacari research station.

A small commprobe entered Pluto space with a message basically asking if a community of people could settle on Charon.
PLUTO:: Unusually high activity in PC space detected. Request instruction.
CHARON:: Confirmed. Possibly hostile. Ready passive defenses.
PLUTO:: Incoming transmission... Routing to Charon.
CHARON:: Recieved. Outgoing transmission...

<BeginTransmission:Charon->Probe>
There is significant unoccupied surface area. With compensation, we would be willing to assist in clearing the old Unity Networks.
<EndTransmission>

3 Gorgon class Carriers and 6 Tugger class Cruisers, and a new ship, never seen before by survivors, 1 Pestilence class Dreadnaught, are on the outer fringes of the Sol system, near the Kuiper Belt, with full cloak on, mining the Kuiper Belt objects under near complete cloak, building fighters, small capital ships, and munitions, for the oncoming attack.

OOC: What factions are currently controlling Pluto? Or Charon?

I control parts of Pluto, especially a orbiting Naval Yard, Xanter controls parts of Charon...

IC:

The 5th Fleet centered around Pluto went on high alert after information was received about an impending attack by pirates...

OOC: I just thought I would let you know I tend to ignore laser weapons, because against shiny armor its useless.

OOC: No, you'd have to have *just* the right kind of mirrors for each kind of laser.

The first flotilla arrived at the Kuiper Belt and starts investigation.
The second flotilla should arrive at Pluto in 6.5 h.

In an area farther from the point of activity in the Kuiper Belt, the Dreadnaught temporarily decloaks and fires off 200 (the Pestilence class is a huge ship, in relative pirate terms) Skipper II Ground Attack missiles towards Pluto.

OOC1: Skipper II missiles are basically nuclear-tipped missiles that have small cloak generators, going in and out of cloak to keep guidance functioning.

OOC2: Five Civ Nat, i never stated i planned to attack, so how did you get this 'information'?

Aboard of the NGNS "Attila", flagship of the first flotilla.

"Captain, we've got multiple birdies incoming. Onehundred ... onehundredandfifty ... twohundred. There are two-zero-zero birdies on way to Pluto."
"WHAT! Where did they come from?"
"Calculating course ... calculated. They came from somewhere within this area."
A map of the Kuiper Belt appears on the display and a small area is beeing enlarged.
"Tell Captain Sarler her flotilla shall try to intercept those missiles if possible and inform IP about the incoming danger although I'm sure they already saw the missiles. We will move to this position" the Captain pointed at the marked and enlarged area on the display " and see what's hiding there. Inform both, IP and Space Command, about what we are going to do and change the condition to red!
Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to war."

The "Attila" and the other ships of the first flotilla head towards the position where the missiles were fired from.
The second flotilla tries to intercept the missiles but the ships can't speed up fast enough. Laserclusters pierce into the darkness again and again and some missiles explode. Anti-missile/anti-torp rockets follow but the distance is too far and the missiles' clocking doesn't allow a constant targeting. So only two rockets hit their aim.

The Captain of the Pestilence chuckled.

"Launch Full Invasion, Phase 1".

All of the fighters within range, about 450 (due to construction on the 'belt and the 'cloud) are dispatched and fly towards the fleet, with missiles armed. The two Gorgons fire their plasma cannon without targeting info, hopefully hitting the N.G. fleet, if not, hitting Pluto.

It is not long before news of this reaches LRR outposts. The Isaac Newton battlegroup prowls through space just outside the Kupier belt going nowhere in particular, although planning to visit Independent Pluto.

Aboard the Newton itself, disturbing readings were coming in.

"Voltaire, compute the trajectories of objects UO-334 through UO-534."
"Done. They are phasing in and out of sensors, but contacts show a trajectory twoards Independent Pluto."
"DAMN!!! BRIDGE, THIS IS SENSORS!!!! WE HAVE A POSSIBLE MISSILE STRIKE ON INDEPENTENT PLUTO!!!!!!"
"DAMN!!!! SET COURSE FOR INDEPENDENT PLUTO!!!!!! FLANK SPEED!!!!!!! ALL SHIPS, THIS IS THE NEWTON!!!! MAKE COURSE FOR INDEPENDENT PLUTO!!!!! FLANK SPEED!!!!"
"ALL WEAPONS ARMED AND READY!!! ALL FIGHTERS READY FOR LAUNCH!!!! CORVETTES ARE IN LAUNCH POSITION!!!!!"

The battlegroup, one of six, is a very fearsome sight. Its 30+ pocket destroyers, as well as cloud of frigates, some armed with long-range torpedos, others armed with flak cannons, are alone a formidible force. Added to this are about 550 assorted strike craft, consisting of the fearsome super acolyte, and Scimitar corvette, and five Abraham Lincoln class battlecruisers. (Dreadnaught sized.) Their antimatter drives are soon at full power, and the group accellerates twoards the IP system.

"Independent Pluto, Independent Pluto. This is the Isaac newton battlegroup. Come in please. Message repeats."
"Independent Pluto fleet, this is the Isaac Newton Battlegroup. Come in please! We are heading to your position at flank speed."
"General Quarters! General Quarters! All hands, man your battle stations! Pilots, man your craft!"

Aboard the LRRSV John Quincy Adams, a Flak Frigate......

"Frigate group Delta, assume battle formation Yankee One Nine Nine. Power up your shields, and prepare for agressive manouvering."
"Weapons are on-line. Tracking systems 100%."
"Drives are within safety parameters."
"All battle stations are manned and ready."
"Safety and escape systems are ready."
"Lets hope we won't need them."

Aboard the LRRSV Mikhail Gorbachev, an Abraham Lincoln class battlecruiser.......

"All systems on-line."
"Drives functioning within safety parameters. Engineering is fully manned and functioning."
"Thats good."
"Primary cannons on line."
"Point-defense grid on-line. Torpedo bays on-line. Missile bays on-line."
"DR-5783 to bridge, Plasma conduit A-8 repaired. I am heading back in."
"Roger that, DR-5783. Plasma cannon grid on-line."
"Prepare to engage."

From the LRRSV Isaac Newton......

"Unknown hostile ships, please break off your attack now. We will allow you to return to your homeworld safely. We will not fire unless fired upon. But be forewarned, we will not hesitate to defend ourselves and Independent Pluto. For your own good, please break off your attack." (Message repeats)

In an area farther from the point of activity in the Kuiper Belt, the Dreadnaught temporarily decloaks and fires off 200 (the Pestilence class is a huge ship, in relative pirate terms) Skipper II Ground Attack missiles towards Pluto.

PLUTO:: Uncomfirmed incoming contact. Possibly hostile.
CHARON:: Verified. Contact tenuous. Trajectory confirmed.
PLUTO:: Activating active defense mechanisms.
CHARON:: Reciprocated. Mission kill in progress.

The Charon Node began firing off leading kinetics along the objects' predicted paths, accompanied by high-energy uvasers.

(OOC: FYI- UVASER= UltraViolet Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. UV lasers.)

"Hell and damnation. Where do those fighters come from?" Captain Wallmann, captain of the "Attila" and commander of the first flotilla, asked shocked.
Then a plasma beam streaked the shields of NGSN "Attila" and the whole ship staggered.
The NGSN "Jäger" didn't have so much luck. A plasma beam penetrated the shields and the armored hull, causing a direct hit in the fusion-power-plant. The magnetic bottle of the plant collapsed and the ship passed away in an impressiv ball of fire.
"Helm, nintey-degree turn to starboard for all ships on my sign!
Weapons, I want a whole port broadside of all ships on those capital ships! Missiles and Lasers. They have to be taken out before the fighters come into range. I'm sure they will open fire as soon as they are. Prepare the active defense systems for lots of incoming targets.
Comm, call Captain Sarler back. We'll need her!"

"Sir, capital ships are locked as targets. All weapons clear for fire."

"Helm, turn now!"

"Turning. Thirty degree ... fifty degree ... seventy degree ... ninety degree, Sir!"

"All port weapons: FIRE!"

22 missiles, ship-killers, with nuclear pulsed lasercluster warheads as well as simple nuclear warheads, are heading towards the capital ships, following the 22 lightfast laser beams.

OOC: So you can fire several million KMs to the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud, where the cap ships are :)

The missiles I launched use CO2 to jet them towards Pluto, then, within range, activate. The fighters were assumed to take some time. Same reason I don't understand LRR being able to see them...

<tag, in case of any further intrusions into Sol>

OOC: So you can fire several million KMs to the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud, where the cap ships are :)

The missiles I launched use CO2 to jet them towards Pluto, then, within range, activate. The fighters were assumed to take some time. Same reason I don't understand LRR being able to see them...

OCC: You said they slipped in and out of cloak, did you not?

But anyhows.....

IC: The battlegroup continues to hurtle twoards Independent Pluto, getting no response from any of the parties the tried to contact.

Aboard the LRRSV Isaac Newton......

"MULTIPLE SMALL CONTACTS, DESIGNATE FIGHTER CLASS!!!! HOSTILE!!!!!"
"ALL FIGHTERS PREPARE FOR LAUNCH!!!!"

The entire battlegroup prepares to engage. The advanced IR and LIDAR sensors will detect any ship that is so bold as to de-cloak to attack. And the withering firepower of the Newton battlegroup, veterans of many large-scale battles, is enough to bring even the most powerful ships to their knees.

"UNKNOWN HOSTILE SHIPS, WE KNOW YOU ARE HERE!!! DE-CLOAK AND RECALL YOUR FIGHTERS AND WE WILL ALLOW YOU TO RETURN FROM WHERE YOU CAME SAFELY!!!!"

OOC: The missiles are skippers, not the capships. And you still have not told me how you detected them from several million km away. Until then, I will pretend you are not doing anything.

"Good to see some help around here. We're having 10 Patrol Boats, 15 Missile Boats, and 15 Escorts to help."

"Intruders: You now have to forces of three nation brought to bear against you. Decloak and retreat now or we will utterly destroy you."

The battle group started to move toward the surce of the missiles, assisted by nearby UMWPs running on remote control. They fire guided high explosive missiles running on minimum fuel consumption in case an enemy decloaks nearby.

OOC: I am not recognizing LRR

IC: The fighters break formation, arm missiles, and fire at various ships.

OOC: The missiles are skippers, not the capships. And you still have not told me how you detected them from several million km away. Until then, I will pretend you are not doing anything.

OCC: We saw the missiles, not the ships. And plus, the LRR battlegroup was not several million Km away. In fact, it was only about 300,000km away. And in space, ranges like that can be covered very quickly. GAH!!!!!! I AM SICK OF YOU ATTICAN!!!!!! SICK AND TIRED!!!!!

IC: The LRR battlegroup stops in its tracks, suddenly realizing that what they say must have been a sensors glitch. Then all of the antimatter reactors spontaneously explode, destroying all the capital ships. That leaves about 40 lightly armed support frigates.

OOC: I am not recognizing LRR

IC: The fighters break formation, arm missiles, and fire at various ships.

THe guided missile engage and launch themselves at the fighters [if they came out of cloak to fire] and the missiles. One of the Patrol boats takes a hit, and falls back. The missile boats launch small anti-missiles designed for short-range enemy warhead destruction.

OOC: declare losses for the guideds and the antis.

The 40 light frigates head twoards pluto, unaware of what is happening because Attican says so.

OOC: LRR, the Kuiper belt is located at about 30AU from the Sun, and Pluto is located about 38AU. Depending on Pluto's current orbital position, it's closest distance is about 8AU.

IC: Several fighters who were slow to recloak were slammed by missiles, igniting into flame. 35 fighters were destroyed by these, and several anti missiles hit them, destroying 10. out of the 450 missiles (HE), 125 were knocked out my anti-missile systems.

OOC2: What happened to the ground-attack skippers?

OOC: LRR, the Kuiper belt is located at about 30AU from the Sun, and Pluto is located about 38AU. Depending on Pluto's current orbital position, it's closest distance is about 8AU.

IC: Several fighters who were slow to recloak were slammed by missiles, igniting into flame. 35 fighters were destroyed by these, and several anti missiles hit them, destroying 10. out of the 450 missiles (HE), 125 were knocked out my anti-missile systems.

OOC2: What happened to the ground-attack skippers?

OCC: They saw the missiles, not the bloody ships. And if I recall, I was talking about Independent Pluto, not the planet pluto. And if I recall correctly, Indenendent Pluto is located in the Kupier belt. Not to mention, LRR is nomadic so we can reasonably participate in space RPs anywhere in the galaxy.

IC: The ships continue to limp twoards indenendent pluto. The few sensors still on-line pick up IR spikes in the distance, but the frigate crews decide to make for the cover of IP's fleet instead of waiting out in open space for the hostiles to reach and destroy them. (LRR engineering is not very good. A single frigate would not stand up to even two of the vastly superior and all-powerful Galactic Pirates fighters.)

OOC: LRR, the Kuiper belt is located at about 30AU from the Sun, and Pluto is located about 38AU. Depending on Pluto's current orbital position, it's closest distance is about 8AU.

IC: Several fighters who were slow to recloak were slammed by missiles, igniting into flame. 35 fighters were destroyed by these, and several anti missiles hit them, destroying 10. out of the 450 missiles (HE), 125 were knocked out my anti-missile systems.

OOC2: What happened to the ground-attack skippers?

A missile boat was hit badly by the remaining missiles. In a heroic effort, it's crew moved into the thick of enemy vessels, and it exploded silently.

OOC: Think 30 megatons of nuclear warheads and a few more tons of high explosives. *BOOM*! hehe.

OOC: Good thing I am attacking Pluto, while your ships are attacking the Kuiper Belt.

IC: About 50 fighters are knocked out by the blast in that region. Others decloak again to fire more missiles (Note, 1 missile is equivalent to 100 tons of High Explosive).

OOC2: WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE SKIPPER MISSILES?

"Mayday, Mayday. This is LRR frigate group Beta. Our battlegroup was just destroyed and we need assistance. The reactors won't hold much longer! We need help as soon as it can get here!"


Aboard the John Quincy Adams.......

"EVA SUITS!!! EVA SUITS!!!! GET TO THE ESCAPE CAPSULES!!!!!!!"

Several of the spherical escape capsules fly away from the crippled frigate, but most of the crew is still inside when the reactor blows.

Meanwhile, the Leonardo Da Vinci battlegroup is a mere two hours away from Independent Pluto in hyperspace. It is about the same size as the Newton Battlegroup, except in terms of fighters it has around 200 more.

OOC: Good thing I am attacking Pluto, while your ships are attacking the Kuiper Belt.

IC: About 50 fighters are knocked out by the blast in that region. Others decloak again to fire more missiles (Note, 1 missile is equivalent to 100 tons of High Explosive).

OOC2: WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE SKIPPER MISSILES?

The PBs and Escorts fire lasers at the decloaked fighters [dammit, how many do you HAVE!]. The missile boats fie another round of antis and retrat to a safe distance so that they won't be hit. 2 Escorts, 2 Patrol Boats, and 3 UMWPs are destroyed. The platforms fire 150 ton HE missiles at the fighters.

OOC2 response: They hit Pluto. I don't care. Snel might, though.

OOC: So you can fire several million KMs to the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud, where the cap ships are :)

The missiles I launched use CO2 to jet them towards Pluto, then, within range, activate. The fighters were assumed to take some time. Same reason I don't understand LRR being able to see them...

OOC: eep! sorry, thought the caps would be in the Belt, too :oops:
OOC: Good thing I am attacking Pluto, while your ships are attacking the Kuiper Belt.

IC: About 50 fighters are knocked out by the blast in that region. Others decloak again to fire more missiles (Note, 1 missile is equivalent to 100 tons of High Explosive).

OOC2: WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE SKIPPER MISSILES?

OOC:My second flotilla destroyed some of them, but only few 'cause the missiles were too fast and they were to far away a.s.o.

As there are problems with finding out who is where and what is where and ... (HELP! I'M LOST) could we get a short summary where the single battlegroups are? I think this would help a lot.

My first flotilla is next to the Kuiper Belt and the second flotilla is on half way between the Belt and Pluto heading towards the Belt to support the 1st flotilla.

In an area farther from the point of activity in the Kuiper Belt, the Dreadnaught temporarily decloaks and fires off 200 (the Pestilence class is a huge ship, in relative pirate terms) Skipper II Ground Attack missiles towards Pluto.

OOC1: Skipper II missiles are basically nuclear-tipped missiles that have small cloak generators, going in and out of cloak to keep guidance functioning.

OOC2: Five Civ Nat, i never stated i planned to attack, so how did you get this 'information'?

OOC: There's something called sensors and scouts... I have Meteor Class Assault Frigates patrolling the fringes of this solar system...

IC: A trio of Meteor Class Assault Frigates were dispatched to the Kuiper Belt to investigate the abnormal amounts of energy being emmitted from that area. In addition, the 3rd Carrier Battle Group has been activated at the Perseus Naval Base orbiting the Earth and has been dispatched to Pluto to reinforce the Pluto Naval Base.

But the Galatic Pirates attack took the fleet positioned around Pluto by surprise. The Admiral in command was not stupid and moved to counterattack...

Official transmission with Plutonian Forces:Data Encrypt AV-116:Sending Location:SS Vanguard


Attention Plutonian Forces,this is system patrol group 615,are you in need of assistance?

DECRYPTION DATA SENT,AWAITING RESPONSE

OOC: We don't torture bodies, we only kill the people. It is more efficient to just shoot them in the head.

IC (somewhat secret, depends)

To this date, 300 planetismals have been used as resources along the Kuiper Belt. A small shipyard equipped with a prototype cloaking decide is being used to manufacture medium sized ships, like Tugger's. About 600 Fighters total have been manufactured. Several constructed Tuggers set up bases of operations in other areas of the Kuiper Belt, and have been launching pirate raids using the manufactured fighters.

Some Heavy Fighters have been seen orbiting Pluto, and Charon.

FUCK! I'm dead! :shock:

OOC: Charon is my homeworld :wink:

OOC: We don't torture bodies, we only kill the people. It is more efficient to just shoot them in the head.

IC (somewhat secret, depends)

To this date, 300 planetismals have been used as resources along the Kuiper Belt. A small shipyard equipped with a prototype cloaking decide is being used to manufacture medium sized ships, like Tugger's. About 600 Fighters total have been manufactured. Several constructed Tuggers set up bases of operations in other areas of the Kuiper Belt, and have been launching pirate raids using the manufactured fighters.

Some Heavy Fighters have been seen orbiting Pluto, and Charon.

f---! I'm dead! :shock:


OOC: Charon is my homeworld :wink:

OOC:How the hell is Charon your homeworld?ITS NOT EVEN A PLANET!ITS A MOOOON!

Official transmission with Plutonian Forces:Data Encrypt AV-116:Sending Location:SS Vanguard


Attention Plutonian Forces,this is system patrol group 615,are you in need of assistance?

DECRYPTION DATA SENT,AWAITING RESPONSE

Speaking for NG, LRR, and IP, HELL YES!

OOC: We don't torture bodies, we only kill the people. It is more efficient to just shoot them in the head.

IC (somewhat secret, depends)

To this date, 300 planetismals have been used as resources along the Kuiper Belt. A small shipyard equipped with a prototype cloaking decide is being used to manufacture medium sized ships, like Tugger's. About 600 Fighters total have been manufactured. Several constructed Tuggers set up bases of operations in other areas of the Kuiper Belt, and have been launching pirate raids using the manufactured fighters.

Some Heavy Fighters have been seen orbiting Pluto, and Charon.

f---! I'm dead! :shock:


OOC: Charon is my homeworld :wink:

OOC:How the hell is Charon your homeworld?ITS NOT EVEN A PLANET!ITS A MOOOON!

5CN,in my rp,"The Founding of Xanter", told me I had landed on Charon.(Don't get me wrong, I never thought I was going to end up having a moon as my homeworld)

Official transmission with Plutonian Forces:Data Encrypt AV-116:Sending Location:SS Vanguard


Attention Plutonian Forces,this is system patrol group 615,are you in need of assistance?

DECRYPTION DATA SENT,AWAITING RESPONSE

Speaking for NG, LRR, and IP, HELL YES!

We are underway..

Someone in the backround says:"Goody"

Folowed by a "Hush,Watson"

Traileric Patrol Group:2xDiablo VI Battlecruisers(Secretly developed)http://www.computerandvideogames.com/screenshots_library/dir_152/vortal_pic_76037.jpg

18xObsidian Class Ion Stream Frigateshttp://www.gamesxtreme.com/content/games/378/screens/2.jpg

1xNR-300 Carrierhttp://www.gamesxtreme.com/content/games/378/screens/7.jpg

60xDarkangel Interceptorshttp://www.all4games.com/pc/homeworld/017.html

The SI3Ds wait for the battle to get in range...

Double Post.

IT HAS BEEN DELEATED!!!!!!!!!

About 5,000 km from charon, there appears a huge number of hyperspace signatures.

*Plays Psycho Killer, by Talking Heads*

One by one, the vessels of the Leonardo Da Vinci battlegroup rematerialize in normal space. This group is about the same as the Newton, except bigger. There are easily 700 fighters and corvettes, 150 frigates, 35 pocket destroyers, 6 battlecruisers, and, of course, the Da Vinci itself.

Aboard the LRRSV Leonardo Da Vinci.........

"General quarters! General Quarters! All hands man battlestations!"
"Weapons grids on-line! Primary cannons tracking 100%! Point Defense tracking 100%."
"Engineering?"
"All set down here!"
"Good."
"All fighters manned and ready for launch. All corvettes manned and ready for launch."
"LRRSV Leonardo Da Vinci to Independent Pluto and allies, would you be so kind as to give us a recap of the situation?"

Aboard the LRRSV Thomas Huxley, an Abraham Lincoln class Battlecruiser.......

"Everything's ok. Were ready for battle."
"Fighter wing is ready for launch."
"Engineering is all set."
"Helm?"
"Yes cap?"
"All set up there?"
"Aye, cap!"
"Repair bots report that they are ready for launch on command."
"But them on automatic."
"Aye. Repair bots, automatic mode. Damage is 3/3%."

Aboard the LRRSV Steely Dan, a Demios class Corvette (Frigate by LRR standards)........

"All systems functioning within normal parameters."
"Weapons on-line!"
"Roger that."

Aboard the 100 Super Acolytes of Red Group.......

"We are ready for launch. Systems checks?"

A resounding "All set" can be heard in the intercom.

"Ok, then. When we get out there, claw formation. Shunt power to drives."

The battlegroup prepares for action. Corvettes can be seen launching from the Da Vinci. The 10 corvettes carried by each Abraham Lincoln also launch and form up.

I can always depend on my ol' buddy trailers.

OCC: Could someone tell me what ships are where? I can cut down my full battlegroup to a squadron of pocket destroyers and patrol frigates if it is too powerful for the purposes of this RP.

I'm in the dark, ask the pirates. No, don't power down, force this guy to retreat.

OOC2: WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE SKIPPER MISSILES?OOC2 response: They hit Pluto. I don't care. Snel might, though.
OOC: Perhaps a few. They were being fired at all the way.
IC:
Multiple hostile contacts detonated on the surface. Not enough to harm the Node, but plenty to send plumes of flash-boiled nitrogen into Pluto's tenuous atmosphere, resulting in multihundred kph winds. Not good for any surface installations.

PLUTO: Hostile contacts confirmed. Damage to the surface. Recommend increasing threat level.
CHARON: Agreed; threat level increased to defcon 4. Outgoing transmission...
<BeginTransmission:Charon->All>
Attention all vessels. This is the Charon Node. Recent events have requisited the alteration of the PC threat level to defcon 4. All vessels are advised to land or leave the area. Forceful clearing of Plutonian space will commence in 5 minutes. That is all.
<EndTransmission>

Irises opened all over the surface of Charon, and at select points on Pluto. All surface lights were extinguished as the railguns and energy weapons were made ready.

I'm in the dark, ask the pirates. No, don't power down, force this guy to retreat.

K.

The battlegroup begins a sensors sweep of the area, hoping to find the hostile ships. IR sensors are also used, but are not very helpful in scanning for cloaked ships at long range. They rely mostly on an extremely prescise and versatile LIDAR, which would be able to pick up any pirate ship that had to de-cloak. Visual sensors are sometimes able to pick up discrepancies in the visual image of space, but this only works at short range.

Bump.

As there are problems with finding out who is where and what is where and ... (HELP! I'M LOST) could we get a short summary where the single battlegroups are? I think this would help a lot.

My first flotilla is next to the Kuiper Belt and the second flotilla is on half way between the Belt and Pluto heading towards the Belt to support the 1st flotilla.

OOC: All of my capital ships are in the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud, my fighters are around Pluto, opposite Charon ( > O o ).

IC: One of the Gorgons, cloaked, moves in to jam Pluto's communications.

The Fighters arm their main armament, each is armed with a single small nuclear warhead (stolen from a raid on several Klonor ships), and the fighters begin going under Pluto's atmosphere, which, luckily, is currently not frozen. They arm their warheads, and prepare to fire on any facilities detected.

OOC: All of my capital ships are in the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud, my fighters are around Pluto, opposite Charon ( > O o ).

IC: One of the Gorgons, cloaked, moves in to jam Pluto's communications.

The Fighters arm their main armament, each is armed with a single small nuclear warhead (stolen from a raid on several Klonor ships), and the fighters begin going under Pluto's atmosphere, which, luckily, is currently not frozen. They arm their warheads, and prepare to fire on any facilities detected.

Aboard the LRRSV Leonardo Da Vinci......

"Communications Jamming, in the vicinity of Pluto! It appears as though the action will soon start."
"Prepare for combat! All fighters, prepare for launch!"
"Multiple anomalous IR signatures over pluto! Probably cloaked fighters or landing craft!"
"All ships in range, cloaked ships detected over Pluto. We cannot feed you targeting data, as the distance makes the signal harder to track. Snel Race defense network, be on the lookout for cloaked ships in your area! We will deploy a corvette group if you think it would help."
"Find the source of the jamming! Now!"
"I have a general search area!"
"Give it all you've got! Frigate group Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilion, prepare to move in on search area!"
"Aye, command!"'

Aboard the LRRSV Stephen Jay Gould, an Abraham Lincoln class Battlecruiser......

"Ready the heavy plasma Cannon!"
"Charging now! .4% and climbing!"
"All weapons grids are on-line! Fighter and corvette groups are ready and waiting for orders!"
"Prepare to engage!"

Aboard the LRRSV Duane Eddy, a Revelation II class Pocket Destroyer........

"All weapons on-line!"
"Torpedo tubes loaded and primed!"
"IR sensors?"
"IR sensors aye!"
"Destroyer Squadron Alpha, offensive formation 1! Prepare to form with the other groups on command!"
"DE, we copy!"
"Aye, DE!"
"Roger that, DE."
"Will do, DE."

(A squadron is 5 destroyers. When operating independently of a battlegroup, they usually are accompained by various models of combat frigates.)

Aboard C5-L, a Scimitar Class Corvette.......

"Pilot to gunner, status?"
"100% tracking! Feed systems 100%!"
"Engineering 100%!"
"Five group, prepare for launch!"

(Rather strangely, LRR's use of fighters revolves around protecting the core group from frigates and corvettes, as well as fighters. But all combat to this effect would take place not far from the core group. The fast, heavily armed Scimitar and Scythe class corvettes are used to conduct offensive operations against the enemy fleet. They are usually the gaurd for a wing of Thunderbolt Bombers, a craft which I forgot to mention thusfar.)

The Fighters arm their main armament, each is armed with a single small nuclear warhead (stolen from a raid on several Klonor ships), and the fighters begin going under Pluto's atmosphere, which, luckily, is currently not frozen. They arm their warheads, and prepare to fire on any facilities detected.
OOC: Going under the atmosphere would mean coming within a few meters of the surface. Not exactly the best strategy... Anyway, good thing all my stuff is below ground. : )

IC:
As soon as the Fighters came within effective range, they were met with a barrage of uvaser fire, going for mission kill, 500 gigawatts per 1/2 second pulse. And the good thing about laser weapons is that you can't tell where they're coming from. Charon went pitch black as all available energy was shunted into the defense grid, and the promised clearing of Plutonian space began, mostly by way of .125c 2kg tungsten/nickel kinetic missiles. 1 petawatt of laser/plasma fire was on standby.

'Heheh' the Captain of the PGS Thor said.

'So they want to play with Ion weapons, do they? Charge the capacitor. Bring us on the six of the Stephen Jay Gould!'


Over the low beam channel (extreme low beam, technically able to reach the end of the galaxy quite fast), what appears to be a call for reinforcements is heard, but it is in an unknown dialect.



OOC: The Thor is cloaked.

IC: Aboard the Pestilence

'Decloak and prepare Scatter Missiles. I want full shields! Prepare for incoming weapon vollies!'

The Pestilence again fires volleys of missiles (basically, think of the 200 prior missiles, but these missiles then open up and 10 more come out of them. Cluster Missiles.) towards the LRR fleet.

OOC: Each Scatter Missile will easily knock down a fighter, they have the force of a fighter smashing into something. Note that only the Pestilence class carry them in this number, and there are only two Dreadnaughts of that class so far.

IC: Near the surface of Pluto

'Fire Ground Clearers!'

OOC: Ground Clearers are basically mini-mini-nukes that hit the ground and explode downwards. We don't want to destroy the surface, only whats under it (my ships have been there a long time, we know there are few surface facilities).

The Wing Commander watched as fighters around him were downed, but rested assured that their weapons were armed.

PLUTO:: Nuclear detonations detected. Damage to outer layers. Shunting to deeper sections. Outer layers going off line. Preparing for sterilization procedures.

CHARON:: Comm link lost. PLUTO presumed disabled. Investigating.

Uvaser fire began to abate, but right only to allow for other things. Clouds of militry-grade nanophage began pouring forth from the scattered irises, concealing literally thousands of isomer bombs.

The nanophage instantly began breaking apart downed vessels, as well as any Fighters stupid enough to maintain low altitude. Once more, the aim was mision-kill as opposed to total destruction.

Once the isomer bombs cleared the atmosphere and were in metastable low orbits, they all detonated at once, releasing a neutron flux in the dectuple digits, not to mention several petawatts in gamma rays.

In short, enough to vaporize the entire surface, wreacking havoc with any vessels still within a few tens of meters of the surface, frying all insufficiently shielded biological matter within several tens of kilometers of the surface, blinding anyone stupid enough to look at it, and instantaneously heating the Pluto-side hulls of nearby vessels to exceedingly huge temperatures.

Sincerest apologies to those few others with the misfortune of being on the surface.

Meanwhile, a squad of ten Shadowcraft launched from Charon towards Pluto.

(OOC: What sort of cloaking is being used?)

OOC: EM cloaking, basically masking the ships presence. We are still working on gravity well cloaking.

OOC2: Let the fighters do signifigant damage to Pluto's systems. I have ideas for a complex RP.

(OOC: Oh, there's definitely been major damage. What else would you call sterilizing the entire surface? They just won't let the central node get damaged. Absorbtive, refractive, or chameleon-style cloak?)

OOC: Refractive. Though some ships use Chameleon.

Klaxons blare throughout the ship.

"INCOMING MISSILES!!!!!"
"LASERS LOCKED!!!! SHUNTING ANTI-CAPS GUN POWER TO SHIELDS!!!!!!"
"BRACE FOR EVASIVE MANOUVERING!!!!!!!"
"I'VE GOT A LOCK ON THE POSITION WHERE THE MISSILES ISSUED FROM!!!!!"
"SJG TO COMMAND!!!!! WE'VE FOUND THEM!!!!!!!"

The Dreadnaught manouvers wildly, surprisingly agile for a ship of its size. The Laser point defense cannons and close by flak frigates are able to take down most of the missiles. However, some of the cluster heads get through to the shields. The shields block most of the warheads, but still several get through, striking a plasma conduit. This knocks out one of the ships three heavy plasma cannons. (Think Somtaaw Seige Cannon, Homeworld Enthusiasts.)

"LAUNCH REPAIR BOTS!!!!!"
"ALL CREW, FULL EVA GEAR!!!!!"

Aboard the LRRSV Leonardo Da Vinci..........

"SJG REPORTS LIGHT DAMAGE!!!! THEY HAVE A LOCK ON THE HOSTILE'S POSITION!!!!!"
"HOSTILE SHIP!!!!!! IF YOU WISH TO ESCAPE INTACT YOU BETTER BREAK OFF AND RUN NOW!!!!!!!"

The battlegroup quickly powers up completely. The ships prepare to engage any hostile ships that decide to risk an attack. About 40 Torpedo frigates fire their ordenance at the origin point of the missiles. The LIDAR gets a reading of what the ship looks like. It is very similar to what was encountered near Gamma Draconis. But the battlegroup is ready. They are veterans of many battles. But fighters are witheld for the time being. Several wings of corvettes are launched, their fast-tracking guns able to take down missiles and fighters alike.

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OOC: The Pestilence has already cloaked by then

IC:

The PGS Thor gets behind the Stephen Jay Gould, seemingly unnoticed.

"Fire!"

The massive carrier decloaks, and an immense energy ball is released from its primary plasma/energy conduit, directly towards the SJG.

OOC: The Pestilence has already cloaked by then

IC:

The PGS Thor gets behind the Stephen Jay Gould, seemingly unnoticed.

"Fire!"

The massive carrier decloaks, and an immense energy ball is released from its primary plasma/energy conduit, directly towards the SJG.

OOC: Just how close is this to my nation?

IC: Nearby Patrol Boats and Missile Boats that had not been dispatched to Pluto to defend against the fighters sighted the carrier.

"Enemy ship in range!" called a sensors officer on one of the craft.

The patrol boats [7] fired their dorsal lasers, getting closer to the enemy carrier. The missile boats [9] fire long range HE missiles while trying to get in close enough to use the heavy launchers.

OOC: The Pestilence has already cloaked by then

IC:

The PGS Thor gets behind the Stephen Jay Gould, seemingly unnoticed.

"Fire!"

The massive carrier decloaks, and an immense energy ball is released from its primary plasma/energy conduit, directly towards the SJG.

OCC: The Gould is still manouvering wildly and has its IR sensors up. It would know if the thor were there.

IC:

"ENEMY SHIP ASTERN!!!!!"
"HARD VERTICAL!!!!! PREPARE TO FIRE MAIN BATTERIES!!!!"
"ENEMY HAS FIRED WEAPON!!!!!!!!"
"DAMN!!!!! PULL!!!!!!!"
"THE ENEMY SHIP HAS DE-CLOAKED!!!! ITS IN TORPEDO PERAMETERS!!!!"
"LAUNCH!!!!!!!"

The SJG pulls hard, just missing the ball of energy, a testament to its high-power antimatter reactors, which allow it to escape any situation with utmost expedience. A wing of 10 scimitar corvettes are in formation with it, and they easily move out of the way. The Energy ball does do heavy damage to a trio of Flak Frigates which were not able to evade the shot in time. The entire LRR battlegroup is soon in full battle formation, prepared to give any attackers a fatal dose of plasma, light, and antimatter. The SJG itself launches a cloud of torpedos at the Thor, EMP warheads.

Aboard the LRRSV Leonardo Da Vinci.......

"ENGAGE!!!!! ALL GROUPS, FORM UP!!!!!"
"WEAPONS GRIDS ON-LINE AND TRACKING!!!! ALL SYSTEMS 100%!!!!!"

The Battlegroup manouvers wildly, their IR and gravwell sensors sweeping the area for cloaked ships with the design to sneak up on them. They form up to perform an attack on the Thor. Now keep in mind, this is the entirebattlegroup minus fighters and most of the corvettes. This means all but around 20 frigates, a good 35 destroyers, 5 battlecruisers, and the LDV itself.

OCC: GP, the SJG is not a single ship out in the void. Very near it is the rest of the Battlegroup, minus fighters which are docked.

The two flotillas of destroyers are heading towards the area where the first missiles came from (this would be the Pestilence I think).

OOC:Are these cap ships still firing at the destroyers? I'm a little bit lost about what realy happens.

Elsewhere........

The Hugo drive yards rolls out its newest creation, the LRRSV Edmond Halley. On the deck of the yard, the crew (400) boards the ship. A band plays the LRRSF anthem, also known as the mikado overture. This massive, flying saucer shaped dreadnaught, is the largest and most capable ship used currently by LRR. Armed with around 120 Laser point defense turrets, 80 antimatter cannons, the best antimatter drive ever made by LRR, 6 anti cap-ship plasma cannons, and with capacity for 700 Super Acolyte fighters, this is a truly amazing vessel. It can even service a Revelation II destroyer internally! Soon, the rest of the Halley battlegroup is assembled. Several service robots unveil an Opium Pipe motif engraved onto the side of the massive vessel. It is also equipped with inertial shocks to allow it to turn very quickly.

[encrypted transmission to LRR battlegroup]

Congratulations on still being alive. Please transmit coordinates to us when the enemy is found. Reinforcements are coming from the Pltuo engagement and active defense duty. All in all, you shoulf have 15 Patrol Boats, 18 Missile Boats, and 12 Escorts watching your back. Please disregard unencrypet transmission.

[unencrypted]

LRR battlegroup, we are retreating. Good luck.

With that, the ships in the area start to move towards IP, but not very quickly.

[encrypted transmission to LRR battlegroup]

Congratulations on still being alive. Please transmit coordinates to us when the enemy is found. Reinforcements are coming from the Pltuo engagement and active defense duty. All in all, you shoulf have 15 Patrol Boats, 18 Missile Boats, and 12 Escorts watching your back. Please disregard unencrypet transmission.

[unencrypted]

LRR battlegroup, we are retreating. Good luck.

With that, the ships in the area start to move towards IP, but not very quickly.

"Thanks, IP. Your ships would he helpful if we were sticking around. But we are pulling back to a position closer to Independent Pluto itself. Closer to the core of your fleet, you see. Or perhaps we could pull into a single massive battlegroup."

Just then, a Sub-Etha transmission comes in from fleet headquarters on the Hugo Drive yards.

"Leonardo Da Vinci battlegroup, we are dispatching three Destroyer squadrons your way. They should arrive in about three hours."

In that case, we'll do the same. We're calling all craft to within the range of the defense systems, including the ones near Pluto. the SI3Ds alone should be enough to hold the pirates off for a while.

In that case, we'll do the same. We're calling all craft to within the range of the defense systems, including the ones near Pluto. the SI3Ds alone should be enough to hold the pirates off for a while.

"Ok. We should probably consolidate our efforts and defend Pluto and Charon. We've got 15 more destroyers plus frigates en route to the area. If we can hold off for three more hours, we'll have reinforcements. We can also call in evac ships if you think it is necessary. But we will only be able to remove about 50 million people per trip, using maximum resources."

"Ok. We should probably consolidate our efforts and defend Pluto and Charon. We've got 15 more destroyers plus frigates en route to the area. If we can hold off for three more hours, we'll have reinforcements. We can also call in evac ships if you think it is necessary. But we will only be able to remove about 50 million people per trip, using maximum resources."

"I'd like to keep the fleet defending our area of the Kuiper Belt, mostly because if we did that we'd have guaranteed reinforcements in the form of the defense systems. If you think that defending the planet itself is a priority, we could send a force to clear out the fighters there. Otherwise, I think that the main threat are the cpaital ships out in the Belt and Oort Cloud, even though we've only seen two. Evac will not be necessary, and if it is, we can handle it ourselves."

"Ok. We should probably consolidate our efforts and defend Pluto and Charon. We've got 15 more destroyers plus frigates en route to the area. If we can hold off for three more hours, we'll have reinforcements. We can also call in evac ships if you think it is necessary. But we will only be able to remove about 50 million people per trip, using maximum resources."

"I'd like to keep the fleet defending our area of the Kuiper Belt, mostly because if we did that we'd have guaranteed reinforcements in the form of the defense systems. If you think that defending the planet itself is a priority, we could send a force to clear out the fighters there. Otherwise, I think that the main threat are the cpaital ships out in the Belt and Oort Cloud, even though we've only seen two. Evac will not be necessary, and if it is, we can handle it ourselves."

"Whatever works for you. But our main concern is finding the hostile ships. We've never before encountered cloaking technology, so our sensors are not tuned to find it. We can do with short ranges and big ships, but smaller, and the efficency drops."

"Whatever works for you. But our main concern is finding the hostile ships. We've never before encountered cloaking technology, so our sensors are not tuned to find it. We can do with short ranges and big ships, but smaller, and the efficency drops."

All that's been sighted near Pluto are fighters, and with cloaking, we'd lose there. I think that our best strategy at this point is to wait for reinforcements under the protection of the defense systems and wait.

Bump

"Ok, IP. We'll sit tight then. Be on the lookout."

OOC: GP's move here, unless you want the reinforcements to show up now.

IC:

The fighters near pluto, the remaining at least, cloak, and begin leaving the atmosphere. All capital ships and fighters in orbit also cloak and begin moving away as fast as possible.

The one Gorgon, the PGS Thor, was ripped to shreds by the barrage of fire brought against it.

The fighters and capital ships begin exchanging messages. This is what is heard:

-Fighter groups 1 and 2, prepare to dock-
-Docking... now.-
-Dock Successful.-
-Fighter groups 3 and 4, prepare to dock-
-Aye aye, docking.-
-Dock Successful-
-All remaining ships return to waypoint epsilon-
-Verify weapon is in place?-
-Verified-
-Pestilence to HQ, to you read?-
-Pestilence this is HQ, over.-
-Primary Directive Acheived.-

IC:

The fighters near pluto, the remaining at least, cloak, and begin leaving the atmosphere. All capital ships and fighters in orbit also cloak and begin moving away as fast as possible.

The one Gorgon, the PGS Thor, was ripped to shreds by the barrage of fire brought against it.

The fighters and capital ships begin exchanging messages. This is what is heard:

-Fighter groups 1 and 2, prepare to dock-
-Docking... now.-
-Dock Successful.-
-Fighter groups 3 and 4, prepare to dock-
-Aye aye, docking.-
-Dock Successful-
-All remaining ships return to waypoint epsilon-
-Verify weapon is in place?-
-Verified-
-Pestilence to HQ, to you read?-
-Pestilence this is HQ, over.-
-Primary Directive Acheived.-

The LRR battlegroup continues to be on the lookout for any audacious enemy ships. Fleet doctrine does not permit undertaking offensive operations with the full battlegroup, so the cloud of LRR ships continue to loiter in the area around pluto.

OOC: You would -not- have seen the Thor beforehand, as I stated the cloaking devices were EM cloaks. EM (Electromagnetic) waves include:

AM - FM - Microwave - Infrared - Visible - Ultraviolet - X-Rays - Gammy Rays

OOC: You would -not- have seen the Thor beforehand, as I stated the cloaking devices were EM cloaks. EM (Electromagnetic) waves include:

AM - FM - Microwave - Infrared - Visible - Ultraviolet - X-Rays - Gammy Rays

OCC: Gravitational Waves. At close range or in open space, the gravitational sensors aboard LRR ships can detect the gravitational imprint that ships leave. And at close range also, the standard sensors can detect cloaked ships simply because there are holes in the senosors picture where no Microwave radiation is getting through.

And attican, wouldn't your EM cloaks have to have more energy than most stars and galaxies? Because with all the EM forcethat those large objects exert, we can still see them. Sure, light waves get bent as they pass close to an object of high electromagnetic force, but we can still, for example, see the sun. That seems like a little error there.

OOC: So, now that we are on the technology thing...

Tell me how a gravitometric sensor would work...

Also, I can simple scatter the EM waves, making it seem I am in many places at once. Plus, IR sensors are pointless in space, far too much spatial interference.

OOC: So, now that we are on the technology thing...

Tell me how a gravitometric sensor would work...

Also, I can simple scatter the EM waves, making it seem I am in many places at once. Plus, IR sensors are pointless in space, far too much spatial interference.

Ah forget it. I hate arguing with you.

And don't make me play the age card. These cloaking devices must have some energy source! And that energy source, unless some mystic quantum phenomena which I have no hope of understanding, would have to run out at some time.

Kill the OOC'age before someone mod/alerts this. LRR, to get this back on track, have reinforcements arrive, maybe.

Kill the OOC'age before someone mod/alerts this. LRR, to get this back on track, have reinforcements arrive, maybe.

IP, you have no idea how close I am to exploding. I hate attican empire.

IC:

The destroyer squadrons soon arrived on scene, a full 15 ships, plus about 30 small corvettes.

OOC: If thread needs an OOC counterpart, I could start one.

IC: As the battlegroup arrived, it was noticed by a Patrol/Missile zBoat pair patrolling the area.

Transmission to LRR ships

Greetings. This is IP fleet, and I for one hope to hell that you're the LRR reinforcements.

OOC: If thread needs an OOC counterpart, I could start one.

IC: As the battlegroup arrived, it was noticed by a Patrol/Missile zBoat pair patrolling the area.

Transmission to LRR ships

Greetings. This is IP fleet, and I for one hope to hell that you're the LRR reinforcements.

"What? Oh, yes. We are. They will be leaving now."

The LDV battlegroup dissappears into hyperspace, headed to the Betlegeuse system.

OOC: LRR-it was your choice to RP :)

Transmission from the Admiral

Welcome. Could you come closer to our fleet's core and fill in the spaces that the da Vinci group just made. Thanks. Let's get these pirates out!

OOC: IP, you can read, correct? I already left...

OOC: But do we know that?

OOC: True. But assuming missiles aren't hitting your ships anymore...

OOC: LRR-it was your choice to RP :)

Let's just leave it alone, ok?

OOC: True. But assuming missiles aren't hitting your ships anymore...

They could be regrouping for a second attack.

IC:

Before long, there is a group of LRR Packrat class cargo corvettes swarming around the wreckage of the Thor. They take aboard small pieces of wreckage, and then deposit them in the hold of a trio of Debryn class freighters.

The fleet stays on alert, though only about 20 Patrol/Missile boat pairs stay on active patrol duty.

Trade and negotiations resume as normal, though convoys have more escorts guarding them.

OOC: Your wreckage, at best, is small shreds of metal. Destroying the ship usually implodes the fusion engine.

OOC: Your wreckage, at best, is small shreds of metal. Destroying the ship usually implodes the fusion engine.

If they collect enough small shreds, they can reassemble the ship! (+- a large portion)

We also now have invaluable data concerning Galactic Pirates ships and capabilities.

The fleet stays on alert, though only about 20 Patrol/Missile boat pairs stay on active patrol duty.

Trade and negotiations resume as normal, though convoys have more escorts guarding them.

The LRR destroyer squadrons (call them a flock) patrol the Kupier belt.

The battle had destroyed the small military installation located in orbit around Pluto. The evacuated survivors transmitted messages to the Fleet Headquarters in orbit around the Moon.

Emergency Transmission

Pluto Science Facility has been destroyed. Unknown groups are fighting each other. Heavy losses to the ships and personnel at the site. Repeat... Facility has been destroyed. Request assistance...

End Transmission

Aboard the LRRSV Jeff Beck, a Revelation II class destroyer.......

The steady stream of CSNJ on the destroyer's speaker sysem cuts out momentarily.

"Captain, we're picking up signals from some small craft in the vicinity of what looks like a destroyed outpost."
"Hm. Well, then. Helm, set course for the source of the transmissions."

Liutenant Igor Vladson walked into the chambers.

A voice, apparently from nowhere, beckoned.

"How went the attack?"

Igor: "It was more successful than we had hoped for."

"Good."

A dark figure entered the room. The Head of the Pirates was a fearsome sight indeed. Not human, but rather, Bish, a reptilian humanoid known for their cunning and agression.

"You are aware I shall have more work for you?"

Igor: "Of course, my Liege."

"That will be all then. Dismissed."