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(Posting for Jimathon, who wrote this post but had to get off-line before he could post it)

Jimathon did what he always did when he made a major decision, got hopelessly drunk. His concubines and security guards were actually quite used to it by now. But they never got very good at dealing with his drunken fits of telekenetic anger. The kind that usually resulted in gruesome and random deaths. Alas, that was the persona of this...character. This character who, after many long years of vampant apathy twards life, the universe, and everything, decided it would probably be best to start shaking a couple things up. Jimathon never started anything small...

"Open a communication to West Esterbery Starbase. Tell them...(sigh).. to ready all ships of 1st and 2nd fleet to Delta protocol. Have them cloak and ship out to within 100,000km of Ribos. Ready the rest of the fleets to Gamma protocol." Jimathon spoke so concrete, and with such lack of emotion, his assitant's heart felt a feeling completely alien to most people, it was like fearing lava going in another direction away from you, yet seeming so close.

"Sir? Um, are you sure?...about this?..it's kinda...."

"SHUT UP! I didn't ask for your opinion, now go! And get the Duke on the com. He kinda owes me one...time to call it up."

"YES SIR!"

Yep...lava, lava that was going so far, yet was so close.

The Duke Solomon Klonor, entering the palace with Arbran jead of state kelly Robinson, is instantly beset by messengers.

"Sir! We have a priority message Jimathon! It came in under the direct Sub-Space line!"

"****! I'm sorry Ms. Robinson, but this is an emergecny. if you'll excuse me."

He quickly hurries out of the room to the nearest com station.

"Jim, what the hell is going on?"

Jimathon tried to pull a smile, and failed miserably. His usual ability to smile at everything was quickly dimititing due to his insatable hunger for trophy lights. They were consuming him, but that's a tale for another day, "Yo! K-man, You owe me one since I gave you those trophy lights. So, I figure I should call it up. Have you ever heard of the nation of Bobaria? Because he's a very ugly color on my political map, I have decided to destroy him, and take his lands. You know, as a diversion..and stuff. In return for your help (Not that I really need it.) you can have a planet or two from the spoils. You know you want to... It'll be like old times sake, but more evil." Jimathon then managed a smile, and quickly got rid of it through a swig of Elarian Ale.

"You called me away for this? I'm in the middle of some very serious negotiations."

After a brief pause

"So, which planet do we blow up first?"

He can't help but grin

Jimathon looked at the Duke, his smile grew exponentialy with each passing second, as did the Dukes. Soon Jimathon had no choise but to regain his composure before his smile went beyond the boundries of his face.

"We're going after Ribos first, it's nice and isolated. Also, I hear it's got a NICE red light district. (wink) Tell you what, after we toast Bob how about a little shindig over there. I'll bring the collostomisers, you bring the women. See ya then."

Jimathon shut off the com and smiled again, this time he was thinking about how it was just WAY to easy to start intergalactic wars.

The Duke stared at the screen for a second after it had shut off, glad that his wife was out of system and wasn't screening his calls.

He quickly dials a new number into the com and is connected to the Ross 128 military base.

"General Kisler (Salm's replacement), dispatch the 4'th combat fleet to the Ribos system. Inform Bobaria of the ships, tell them they're passing through to Ikeya and give all the recognition codes so they wont be pestered before the attack. Contact me once the ships launch."

He sits back and waits for the confirmation of the launch.

Admiral Joe was about to fall asleep when the inter-com blazed to live

"Sir, Incomming message from a Klonorian fleet, they say that they're passing through to Ikeya."

"What the hell could they be doing there?"

"They didn't say."

"Don't let them through yet.

GDA representative Ouranos was bored. He had absolutlu nothing to do.
He was on a 'tour' of sorts, wandering various military instalations/ships of GDA members, and doing nothing.
He was, however, in the room when the Klonor ships called. He was also curious, having only seen ships of Dontgonearthere, and those were big, and rather ugly, he wondered what a Klonor ship looked like. Idly, he went to his quarters to see if there was a decent telesat around.

OOC: Just a warning, this is nothing personal, but:
If you attack Bobaria, the GDA will be forced to intervene, this of course, simply means fighting to Bobarias borders, unless otherwise decided by Council, so the fight will not be carried to your lands/territories.

A small Eurydian spy-sat floated through space in proximity to the Klonorian fleet as it attempted to enter Bobaria space. It had been recieving transmissions of no value since it was dropped there; mostly white noise and jumbled subspace transmissions.

One message stood out through the noise. The message would have been of little significance to most nations, but the Eurydian Republic's vast information network allowed them to put two and two together.

The satellite rotated slowly, bringing its "sensor eye" to bear. It sent out low grade EM pulses at the Klonor ships, anything more intense would've alerted both Klonor and Bobaria.

It began receiving information almost instantly. Shield strength, hull strength, as well as any surface weapons capabilities were picked up by the spy-sat. It quickly compiled the data and sent it to High Command quicker than a man can bat an eye.

Almost as quickly the dynamics of the various Eurydian fleets floating through space changed as highly encrypted orders were sent to the various fleet commanders. While the information and directives sent were large in quantity, anyone observing the various ships would hardly notice a change at all.

(OOC: Sorry to just barge in and claim to have a spy-sat in your territory Bobaria. It would most likely have been dropped when a transport would've passed through your territory. If you wish I can recant the statement and remove myself from the RP.)

OOC: Hey Jim, Klonor, I don't have any military alliances and only a small fleet(11 capitol ships, one of which(the flagship Emberwind) hasn't been seen in over a century); dare you to attack me ;) :twisted:

IC:
Two Kanuckistani Superfortresses and a Battleplate were still cruising the Ross 128 system after helping repel the last attack on the Klonor instalation there; noting the fleet movement, one of the vessels queries the local space traffic control, wondering what's going on.

Kanuckistan it's kind of ridiculous that your ships would still be around now, that's been over for a LONG time...

OOC: No reason for them to be any where else; Klonor's a semi-friend, and Ross 128 has been attacked a few times, while Kanuckistani assets have never been attacked, and the Home Cluster has plenty of firepower avalible to it.

At the very least, it provides a centeralised staging point for my heavy assets in this part of the galaxy.

OOC: K, I got no problem with you, but there is no IC reason for your ships to still be there. After a while the garrison there would get pissed and either attack you, or claim you had WMD and were planning to attack me so the Galactic United Nations would forbid any action and I'd ignore and attack you anyway (wait, didn't that happen somewhere?)

OOC: Well, they'd leave if asked, unless your guys attacked first out of arrogance or paranoid or something; then we'd have some fun RP, tho you'd probally get your ass handed to you on a silver platter :wink:

No actually he wouldn't, but that's ok...

OOC: Uh-huh, right. I would in no way have my ships float amid the crushed remnant of your pathetic ships, laughing in supreme supremeness

OOC: so are we just gonna keep seeing who has the largest wang... or are we actually going to RP? :wink:

BTW... Klonor, how many ships do you have in your fleet at Bobaria... specifics would be helpful.

OOC: Klonor, I imagine a Superfortress would readily gut your Colossus, to say nothing of the Battleplate.

You're looking at nearly a third of a heavily militarised Decenber nation's navy.

OOC: Don't know yet, it depends on other RP's going on right now (mainly one with Guanyu). The 4'th combat fleet is my heavy combat fleet, but it's been split up for other stuff.

[OOC]: I will be involved in this as the GDA gets involved,

OOC: *pokes lapse*
We dont know they will be under attack yet, even though it was a rather poor excuse for declaring war (I want to), lets play it out, eh? Im sure somebody in Bobaria will get to a radio in time to tell us that hes under attack.
Bobarias on Earth, right?

OOC: Bobaria is not under attack, and has received no info that it will fall under attack.

Also, Bobaria is not on Earth. It's a bunch of star systems (Ribos, Ikeya, some others). We're about to attack Ribos, but nobody knows it yet.

OOC: Ah, ok then, im sure I have something there for some reason.

OOC: Well, DataNet seems to have managed to assess what Klonor is up to. Tracking fleet movements, transmissions to and from various ships, as well as the spy-sat in proximity to Bobaria space.

Don't worry though Klonor, I haven't told Bobaria a thing.

Also, you do realize that the ball is in your court Klonor... Bobaria answered your question pertaining to entering his space with a, "No... we're not letting them in yet." *shrugs* Just uh... makin sure you didn't miss anything.

OOC: So, Klonor, would your guys have asked my ships to leave Ross 128 with words or weapons fire? If it's the later, we'll have to start a new thread.

In the Capitol on Thunderstraat, King Karl was just opening his mail when a courier ran up.
"Sir! We have news of another war by Klonor!"
"Again? For an Innofensive Centrist Democracy, they sure are warmongering. Who are they smashing this time?"
"Looks like Bobaria, a nation whose defense systems seem to have been bought from Klonor. Jimathon has allied with him, and the GDA seems to be lining up to help Bobaria."
"Jimathon?"
"I don't know either."
"Well, hopefully the GDA will concentrate on this more than the DC situation."

OOC: THERE ISNT A WAR YET! The GDA is on an OOC alert, basicaly, we tell our members that there may be a war, but they dont know it ICly.

crap, sorry
"This just in, sir. There isn't a war, just warlike talks."
"Did you use the telepaths again?"
"Uh... yes, I think I did."
"How many times have I told you to wait until an ordinary confirmation to tell me stuff?"
"You haven't, sir."
"Right."

Kanuckistan, it would have been a polite suggestion. No threats or veiled threats unless you'd refuse to leave

Eastern Bloc, we were discussing some stuff off NS and I guess I forgot to post :oops:

IC:

The Duke sat up as the Bobaria rejection came through.

"No? WTF do they mean no? Communications, get Bobaria on the com. I want an explanation."

OOC: For all Bobaria knows we're still great allies, and I've passed through his systems hundreds of times before in identical circumstances. There's no real reason for him to say no, so my dude is just getting pissed.

OOC: Ok; you just made it sound like your people'd be lible open fire given the shadow of an excuse if they thought they could win. :wink:

Don't get me wrong, they would

OOC: I wasn't on much yesterday and won't be on today, so I'll try and get at least one post in.

IC:

Admiral Jordan looked out the viewport and sighed. His fleet streaked across space, bounding stars and planets in seconds, but it still couldn't get anywhere fast enough for him. He knew, he could feel it in his bones, something would go wrong with this one. Of course, the Jmathon Empire had a way of dealing with fear... Alcohol and large guns.

"At least I have guns," Jordan murmered to himself.

"What, sir?" Asked First Officer Dunn. (This Dunn is the same one who figured out the Steveolemue/Duke connection in the kiddnapping incident, Trophy light based surgery saved him.)

"Nothing.......acivate the com and call Jimathon."

"Calling, Sir."

"Chicos Tacos, How may I help you?" Answered the man at the other end of the com.

"It's Jordan, Sir. We're here."

"Sorry bout that, just having some fun," Jimathon spoke joyfully, though slurred, "Anyone see you?"

"No, Your Holiness. The new JCDII cloaking devices work WAY better than the JCDI."

"Good, wait for my command to fire, till then,Position the fleet aroung the Bobarian fleet. Every ship he has has to have ten guns on it ready for a one shot kill, understood?"

"Si, mon capitan"

Jimathon, turned off the com and called his secretary, "Call K-man and tell him our fleet is in place and I'm waiting for him to confirm our party." Jimathon laughed again.

need to wait for Bob to post before I can respond to Jim

The Duke sat up as the Bobaria rejection came through.

"No? WTF do they mean no? Communications, get Bobaria on the com. I want an explanation."

OOC: For all Bobaria knows we're still great allies, and I've passed through his systems hundreds of times before in identical circumstances. There's no real reason for him to say no, so my dude is just getting pissed.

"I don't like that tone"

"Ahem," a very annoyed King had just walked in "what the hell do you think you're doing!?"

"Just "

"Quite! Let them through. NOW!"

"Yes sir"

"Sir! Bobaria has sent their acceptance. They're letting the ships in."

"Idiots. (that'd be the Duke) Launch the 4 'th fleet. Have them rendevous with the Jimathon fleet in Ribos and send a message to the Emperor, tell him we're on the way."

Transmission to Guanyu:

"Hey, wanna blow the crap out of Bobaria?"

OOC: Didn't really feel like making a quality post

OOC: Since it's late, I suppose I'll respond in kind.

"Sounds like fun, what do we blow up first?"

"The Ribos system. Jimathon has a fleet cloaked in-system and I have a fleet there that's supposedly passing through to Ikeya. Get some ships there any way you can."

"I'll have General Heston in there in seven hours with the 12th Fleet. There'll be six cloaked Phoenix Hawks moving into position then, and the rest of the fleet will follow after the party starts."

12th Battle Fleet:

1 Modified Annihilator the GANS Hobbes (Fleet Flagship)
3 Annihilator War Cruisers
5 Silver Wolf Destroyers
5 Scimitar Warships
7 Phoenix Hawk Corvettes
6 Modified Phoenix Hawk Cloaking Corvettes

A single Star Dreadnought shifted from the chaotic realm of hyperspace to the relatively quiet realm of realspace. Aboard the Hrunting sat Captain Beowulf, the most well known commander in all of Eurydice. The sleek design of the dreadnought was shown against the backdrop of the solar system's star as it approached all parties involved.

"Hello to everyone. It might seem quite strange for you to see us Eurydian's so far from home, but to be quite frank, there is a storm brewing here... a storm that shouldn't be allowed to gain speed."

He waited a moment, allowing the words to sink in.

"We do not liken ourselves to elitist bastards who impose their will upon all who are smaller or weaker, and so we come simply to talk."

He closes the transmission to Bobaria and relays a message to Klonor's lead craft. "I really don't understand why you feel the need to attack him, and I'm sure the reason for this unwarranted agression is one of pure... ignorance. Still, we hardly feel the need to use a harsh tongue. I will simply ask that you... don't attack Bobaria."

Beowulf was sure the Klonor ship would respond with a "screw you" of sorts. He wondered why he had been sent there in the first place.

OOC: *pokes lapse*
We dont know they will be under attack yet, even though it was a rather poor excuse for declaring war (I want to), lets play it out, eh? Im sure somebody in Bobaria will get to a radio in time to tell us that hes under attack.
Bobarias on Earth, right?

err, okay then. Misunderstood the first part of the thread (what, it was about 12 oclock at night). Post edited accordingly, i dont know nothing yet.

Now, to read the rest of this thread...

Ouranos quietly slipped away from the computer. This was quite odd. The Klonor ships were there, but...something else was as well. A sort of brieft shimmering amoung the stars, which usualy denoted heat or sound waves on-planet, but they were to far out to cause such things.
A few thoughs clicked through his head, trying to connect.
Before long he was at the planets shopping mall, looking for a new cloak.

OOC: Eastern Bloc, you know me so well

IC:

"Screw you! We're on a peaceful mission passing through this system, and then on to Ikeya. I don't know where you get your info from, but there is no attack planned. Now, but out!"

As he speaks the ships reorganize themselves, moving into a defensive posture aimed at the newly arrived EB ships.

OOC: Wow...overreaction much? :D

OOC: Class just started (I'm at lunch right now) so I can't post more beyond that one, barely acceptable post. See you in a few hours!

Ouranos quietly slipped away from the computer. This was quite odd. The Klonor ships were there, but...something else was as well. A sort of brieft shimmering amoung the stars, which usualy denoted heat or sound waves on-planet, but they were to far out to cause such things.
A few thoughs clicked through his head, trying to connect.
Before long he was at the planets shopping mall, looking for a new cloak.

Is he supposed to be seeing Jim's ships or mine? Or both? Because my ships don't create a visible space distortion.

OOC: I don't think he would be seeing either of ours, as neither produce a distortion. That would defeat the purpose of a cloaking device.

IC:
Jimathon looked carefully at the screen. It relayed the positions of his many ships, all poised to rain burnination on their enemys. As he looked he realized just how menacing it is. To live in a universe where at anytime a hidden enemy can spring out of nowhere and blow you to bits.

Oh well, that's what he had orbital defences for.

Jimathon walked to the battle com console, pressed a small brown button, and spoke, "Yo, it's Jim! I just wanted to let ya'll boys know we're rootin for ya. We got a couple of brewskies waitin for ya. So do your country a favor please, TAKE NAMES AND KICK ASS!!! YEEE HA!!! Admiral, you have permission to commence burnination!"

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The admiral and his men were shellshocked at the... strangeness of the emperors speech, but it did moralize the men. You could see the exitement and elation on thier faces, with just enough fear to be useful. Jimathon had done it again.

"You heard him, all stations to black alert."

"Black alert called." Said Dunn, rather more nervious of this moment than the rest of the crew.

"All stations ready...." He took a sip of collostomiser, ".......Take names..." On that command the ships took targets, ready to blow each one out of the sky in one fel swoop, "...KICK ASS!"

The ships opened thier guns and pure energy death rained from them. The crackling energy ripped through the Bobian fleets. The Jimathon ships wer so numerous and mighty one could almost see ships resigning to thier fate. Cores exploded and people died everywhere. Anyship that could pull a forsefull counter was in a million pieces before it could. Sheba's (Flying Ducks) Began to fly into the atmosphere, the suicide ducks bagan to fly into space yards and capital ships. The Jimathon fleet was haveing a degree of succes all to known to them, it was called the element of uber-surprise.
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Jimathon looked at the batlle screen, then opened a comunique to the Ribosian capital, "Uh, this is Jim, just wanted to say hi!...HI! Oh, and those funny lights in the sky, those are... a couple friends I sent over to party. Hope you don't mind."

Jimathon was going nuts with glee.

The Duke, glanicng at his new General's holo image, remarked in an exasperated voice, "We need to get that guy off the sauce."

Then, with a nod to the General, opens communications to the ships that were supposedly "passing through"

"You boys know what to do. Trigger the first explosives, then burn the rest of the ships out of the sky!"

OOC: Okay, I'm gonan write two versions of what happens next. This is because I'm not sure if some stuff is in Ribos or not. Depending on whether it is, or not, will effect my reactions.

IC:

With a soundless bang the Klonor defenses under construction in orbit around the Ribos capital erupt in a ball of flame, the explosive inlaid by the Klonor Defense Forces all going in a single instant. The massive frames and metal bodies timble down to the planet,

OOC: after here this happenes whether or not the constructions are there or not

IC:

The Orion destroyers sight in on the shipyards, using their massed Laser fire and Beam Cannons to slice the structures in half.

The ships that had formed up to defend against the Eastern Bloc destroyer split apart, the Mercury Corvettes hidden inside them spurting out and flying forward at speeds no other ship could match, heading out towards the ships that had managed to survive Jimathons attack. Their massive numbers of light Beams and laser turrets opeing up and showering the ships with fire

OOC: so your ships are attacking me... or no?

attacking Bobarian ships. We've got nothing against you

attacking Bobarian ships. We've got nothing against you

OOC: All right I’m glad I clarified that. I wrote up an uber-post in response to you attacking me… but now… it isn’t needed. Since I wrote the whole thing for nothing, I'll just make my IC short, but sweet.

IC: Beowulf shook his head and ordered the Hrunting to phase, taking them back to Eurydice. There's no word known as diplomacy within the Klonor vocabulary... or so it seemed. This encounter would be logged in for future reference, although Beowulf doubted he would ever see Klonor ships again.

OOC: Bye Bye!

OOC: Klonor, the defences were being built in Antares, not Ribos.
Also guys i don't have very many ships there.

IC: A Mentu and 4 Aten cruisers were destroyed in the initial assualt along with 2 Hapshepsuts being damaged.

The rest of the fleet and the masses of Ankh II sentry guns* fired back with beam cannons, lasers, missles, and every fighter availible was launched.

But it was seemed hopeless, the capital at Antares didn't want to send any support incase it was attacked next and it seemed no one was coming to help, but none the less signels were being sent in all directions in the hope that someone would respond.


*Upgraded Ankhs with modern technology so that they can stand a chance against fighters......

Galactic Defence Alliance Communique:
To: Klonor, Jimathon.
<encoded>
<Decrypt>
We have recieved word that you have begun an offensive action against a member nation, cease immidiatly or we will be forced to take action to defend him. All GDA garrisons within said nations borders are being strengthened.
<Decrypt>
<Encode>
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The Five Civilized Nations as a member of the GDA demand that both Klonor and Jimathon cease their hostile actions... Non-compliance will be considered an act of war and hostilities will begin... Choose wisely...

My OOC reply to your ultimatums: Go suck an egg.

IC reply: Jimathon looked at the messages on his screen, he opened a com channel for a reply, "Go suck a egg."

OOC: Bob, that's why I calrified that I wasn't sure if the defenses were being built there or not, and why the next part of the post works whether or not the defenses are there

The Duke, listening in on Jim's communication, provided his own version of a response.

"Go jam an egg up your ***"

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As the pitiful defenses remaining at Ribos fire back at the Klonor and Jimathon ships the Jump-Node opens and out flies the rest of the Klonor fleet (kept in Sub-Space since there's no way in hell Bobaria would think this many combat ships could be there on a "peaceful mission").

Without any delay the two Megingjard Destroyers open fire, sending Harbinger after Harbinger at the groups of sentry guns.

The 10 Leviathan cruisers escorting the Megingjard's move outward, engaging the two damaged Hatshepsut destroyer's with their Heavy Beams.

OOC: I second that. Bob agreed to this war OOC before it ever started. BUTT OUT!

So....Guanyu.....you gonna attack or just float in space?

I've just found out that I'd been in the GDA nearly since it started. Sorry, guys, I'm gonna have to hurt you.

OOC: I second that. Bob agreed to this war OOC before it ever started. BUTT OUT!
OOC: He may have OOCly agreed, but our Alliance is IC, so we HAVE to defend him, since he is being attacked without IC reason, and since he did not ICly provoke the attack. Provide evidence proving me wrong and the GDA will leave.

Actually, we do have an IC reason. I actually didn't know about it till today, but IC I'd know about it all along. Ribos happens to have been claimed by the nation of Arbra quite a while ago, before Bobaria claimed it. Since I've just re-oppened negotiations with Arbra I would have attacked Bobaria as an "evil invader" (But, I'm still fine with the GDA being here. More people to shoot :lol: )

The Kanuckistani Thunderhead-class Superfortress KHGV Proactive Target Acquisition apeared, seemingly out of nowhere, several light seconds from the planet and quickly heating conflict, weapons and fields fully powered. It was in the area, and was intent on carrying out Kanuckistan's 'Good Neighbour Policy' by helping to thwart who ever had come to lay seige to the world.

However, seeing the attacking ships to be from Jimathon and Klonor gave the commander pause; they were considered to be on good terms with those two nations...

After a few moments of indicision, the vessel hailed one of the larger Klonor ships, the ships commander, an atractive hunam woman holding the rank of commodore, requesting in form but diplomatic to know what the hell was going on here.

OOC: Just sitting off to the side for now.

So....Guanyu.....you gonna attack or just float in space?

OOC: Sorry, I was at school and barely had time to post what I did. I'll correct that now.

IC: Seeing that the attack had commenced, the captains of the six cloaked Phoenix Hawks ordered their crew to decloak and open fire. The ships suddenly came into view, almost immediately beginning to pour destruction into the Bobarian fleet, Phased Assault Cannons and Tri-particle Cannons blasting away. A message was sent to the rest of the fleet informing them that the battle had begun and that they should move in-system. Most likely the rest of the fleet would not be needed, but GAN officers are taught to be cautious.

The remaining Mentu exploded in glory, the Ankhs were thinning out, and the remaining ships made a run for the jump node to Antares.

OOC: I'm dissapointed in my allies.

The Klonor ships, taking a few final potshots as the Bobarian ships flee, move to orbit the planet and to dispatch the remaing sentry guns.

Beam Cannons spear through space as Harbinger warheads detonate and shatter the remaining Ankh's.

Unopposed the ships send a transmission down to Ribos City, capital of the planet

"This is Admiral Petrarch of the GDD Aquitane. We have destroyed the fleet defending your world, and your planet is at our mercy. Surrender now, or we will be forced to destroy you."

The Kanuckistani vessel, it's requests seemingly ignored, picks up the Klonor transmission. After a moment, the female commander sends a secure tightbeam to the broadcasting ship.

"This is Commodore Davidson of the Kanuckistani High Gaurd Vessel Proactive Target Acquisition to Klonor vessel; what's going on here? I trust you don't intend to target civilian populations..." a hint of a threat creaping into her voice as she voices that last bit.


OOC: You can't intercept or otherwise monitor the tightbeam transmission; we don't want to compromise Klonor's barganing position befor we ICly know what's going on. :wink:

Supreme overlord timelapse had only just heard of the attack on Bobaria when he head that the defense had failed. In the ten minutes between the two messages hes ordered a large proportion of the fleet to assist with the defense including:

Eclipse class super star destroyer:
The flume (flag ship)
Executor class supers star destroyers:
Vengeance
Shame
Victory class star destroyers:
Orinous
Werner
Plerst
Request
Brueanian Leviathens (*20)
Blade master assult frigate:
X54Y
Blade master corvettes (*20)
Blade master space fighters (*40)
600 tie interceptors
384 Ewings

It was the largest space fleet Lapse had ever sent out and was the first voyage of ESSD The flume.

Several hours later the ships left orbit into hyperspace to meet at the rendezvous

<<message to all GDA members>>
<<heavily encrypetd>>
<<Decrypting...>>
<<...>>
<<Noble GDA members, To help defend the worlds of Bobaria, we should fight as a united front. Rendezvous at position [xyz], half way between Antares and Vasuda. Do not attempt to confirm or RSVP this message. All fleets meet there in 72 hours unless previously engaged
Lapse
<<This message will be destroyed in 3 minutes, any attempt to save message will result in destruction of computer>>
<<end high priority transmission>>

OOC: Klonor, Ribos will surrender once you explain how you can be attacking me because of your ally being here once apon a time if Jim chose where to attack.

OOC: Sorry, it would be a bit of a godmod to just happen to have a massive fleet on the way.
Oh, yes, and Lapse, if AHT hasnt telegrammed you, he quit, which I suppose makes you Commander of the Space Fleet, if you should accept it.
And finnaly, because of retroactive reality altering, and the fact that I was (and still am in some peoples opinion) a 'stoopid n00b', Piledrivers are now 17 miles long :), also because I decided to finnaly update GLACORP, reorganize, and refit, making the stats slightly more real)


IC:
<Encrypting>
Message to all GDA members, this is Overlord 47, request immidiate departure of avalible ships in attempt to defend Bobaria, a member nation, from attack. Please 'rout all ships to the following coordinates.
<coordinates>
<Encrypt>

DGNT began to ready is massive ships.
The Piledriver class, Famine was being undocked, after having its AMM system refitted for better target aquisition.
Eighteen Justice class destroyers were also forming up in a wedge, with a great hollow at its centre, waiting to recieve the Piledriver. Each ship's front prongs gleamed faintly in the starlight as manuvering engines lined them up for the jump.
In the next layer, the Millenium class battleships, fifteen of them, were positioned to cover the rear and the flanks. Between all the ships, tiny silvery dots floated, ramships, solid steel cylinders with a tiny neutronium core, ready to make the dive into enemy ships. Last, five Watcher class command ships, senors rotating the fully scan the area, arranged themselves near the middle of the cone, all fighters were recovered, dropships loaded, missiles readied.
In a blinding flash, seen for half the globe (but only by Futuretech nations :wink: ) the fleet sped off to its destination.
On the ground, the defences went up as well, the countrywide shield went up, as well as the citys individual shields, convoys of civilian trade were replaced by tanks and anti-aircraft guns. Turrets, like dogs, rose from the ground and shook the sand off themselves. GLAHQ, slowly retracted into the saftey of its mountain, its staff hoping two miles of mountain could stop whatever came next.

OOC: it's DC, i'm too lazy to switch
IC: 4 Fleets jump into hyperspace. they should arrive within the day. each consists of:
1 Destroy-class capitol ship
2 Annex-class Carrier:
5 Death-class Cruiser.
10 Doom-class Destroyer:
15 Annihilate-class Frigate:
20 MMU/MSU- (Mobile Medical Unit/Mobile Scientific Unit)
in addition, an Annhilate-class war cruister, specially modified, comes along. the 4 fleets form a box around it, ready to defend their leader to the death.
a subspace burst transmits towards the mass of ships "we are coming, Bobaria, just hold out for a little while."
and a small transmission to DGNT. "we'd like to buy a piledriver. modified, of course"

"What are you talking about DC ships? Were DGNT Military, not GLACORP, talk to the storefront, if you dont have the transponder code, here:
http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=100898

See you at the rondeavue''

IC: sorry. we're gonna be there within the hour now that the emperor's hyperdrive is working again. didn' mention it, because i don't want them to see weakness.

OOC: Bob, it's quite simple. The nation of Arbra had claimed and colonised the Ribos system before you. When Jimathon decided to attack for no reason, I attacked due to my obligation to defend the territory of my allies who are unable to defend themselves (long story, long war, Arba can't really do anything).

IC:

"Commodore Davidson, we do intend to target civilian populations if they do not surrender. This entire colony is an invasion of the territory of the nation of Arbra, and if they do not accept the rule of Arbra over the system, or accept transportation to a different system, we will be forced to destroy the colony."

OOC: Bullshit

IC:
[To Admiral Petrarch]
[From Governer of Ribos colony]
"Bullshit."
[End transmission]

[To Admiral Petrarch]
[From Vice-Governer of Ribos colony]
"We will need some time to prepare before we surrender."
[End transmission]

OOC: Of course it's bullshit, I though it up in like 5 minutes. I didn't even know Arbra was in Ribos until after the war already started (although my character would have known IC)

IC:

"No time is necessary to surrender. It is merely two words. 'We surrender'. If you do surrender we will give you time to prepare to leave the planet, or time to negotiate with the Arbra authorities, but there is no preparation necessary for surrender."

OOC:posting as DC again
IC:the fleet has arrived at the rondevous point. one question remains. where's DGNT?

OOC: Now to get you to admit that IC......

IC:

"We surrender....... can i buy you a drink?"

OOC: Now to get you to admit that IC......

IC:

"We surrender....... can i buy you a drink?"

"There's a bar onboard, there is no need. If you are choosing to evacuate the planet we shall give you time to arrange transport. If you plan to stay here under the rule of Arbra we shall contact them so you may commence negotiations."

The Klonor fleet then begins to spread out, taking up an even orbit over the planet, so that each ship has a clear line of fire down into the populated areas in case the Ribosians decide to do any funny business.

"We have a few transports to evacuate on."

3 hours later two ships lift off from the surface and head to the Jump-node

OOC: So, the entire planet population (which is only one city) fits on two transports? Okay

IC:

The ships, watching the transports move away, begins to scan the planet to make sure all the Bobarians had left

OOC: No, it'll take awhile to compleatly evecuate all of them.

OOC: Gotcha. Then forget the ship action in the last post

OOC: Just to give my ships something to do

IC:

As the evacuation commences two Ganymede class Mobile Space Docks jump in systems and begin to repair the almost insignificant damage caused by the pitiful Bobarian fleet

OOC: it's DC, i'm too lazy to switch
IC: 4 Fleets jump into hyperspace. they should arrive within the day. each consists of:
1 Destroy-class capitol ship
2 Annex-class Carrier:
5 Death-class Cruiser.
10 Doom-class Destroyer:
15 Annihilate-class Frigate:
20 MMU/MSU- (Mobile Medical Unit/Mobile Scientific Unit)
in addition, an Annhilate-class war cruister, specially modified, comes along. the 4 fleets form a box around it, ready to defend their leader to the death.
a subspace burst transmits towards the mass of ships "we are coming, Bobaria, just hold out for a little while."
and a small transmission to DGNT. "we'd like to buy a piledriver. modified, of course"

The "Annhilate-class war cruister" mentioned would I assume be only coincidental in its nomenclatural similarity to my Annihilator War Cruiser? Or is it one of mine? Since you have one, I thought it prudent to check.

The DGNT ships arrive a few minutes after DC's.
TRANSMISSION TO DC FLAGSHIP:
Thank you for arriving, hopefully the remaining allied fleets will soon arrive, until then, we wait. Plan your formations or something.
END.
Three nanocams are moved into position at various points around the Klonor fleet in half-phase cloaks.

OOC: do I need to fight?

OOC: Where are you guys again? And what are you doing there?

OOC: Also, the war is now over. Bobaria surrendered Ribos. I've got no IC reason to attack anywhere else. So, the war's done.

OOC: 5CN: Yes, if we decide to retake Ribos. But thats only if Bobaria wants it back.
Klonor:
1. Nowhere in particular, just some random point in space on its way to Ribos.
2. We're here because you attacked a member state of the GDA
3. The war might not be over, see 5CNs answer.

IC:
Transmission to all GDA fleets:
Hold positions, there is now a temporary truce, until such time as Bobaria requests us retake Ribos

Transmission to Klonor:
Will you grant passage to unarmed transports to remove civilians from the combat area? You may inspect the ships when they enter/leave the system to make sure they carry nothing other than civilians and whatever cargo they may carry.

"No, we will not. This system is owned by the nation of Arbra, you shall have to gain permission from them to gain access. Bobaria is evacuating the planet with no difficulty, no other ships are necessary. Any ship attempting to enter the system shall be deemed hostile and shall be destroyed."

OOC: When I said "what are you doing there" I didn't mean "why are you in this RP", I meant "what actions are you taking at that place." I was just kinda wondering what you guys were up to

OOC: It was a staging point, so we could all arrive in-system at roughly the same time.

IC:
"Very well...DGNT out"

OOC: Ribos' planetary administration surrendered under durress; it doesn't look like the Bobarian government itself had any say in the matter(besides, just because they surrendered doesn't mean they'll stay surrendered).

IC:

The Kanuckistani ship replys, again on tightbeam; still holding several light seconds away from the planet, her powerful sensors watching all within the system.

"Klonor vessel, be advised that we will take any necessary action to insure the safty of non-combatants, should hostilities flare up again. Your threats upon the populas apear to be facilitating a peacful conclusion; just make sure you don't have to act on them."

OOC: It was a staging point, so we could all arrive in-system at roughly the same time.

Gotcha

OOC: Ribos' planetary administration surrendered under durress; it doesn't look like the Bobarian government itself had any say in the matter(besides, just because they surrendered doesn't mean they'll stay surrendered).

OOC: Exactly.

IC: Upon hearing of the surrender at Ribos the 3rd, 4th, and 5th battles groups at Antares prepared to meet the enemy fleets.

Secret IC: "Send a message to the GDA rendezvous point, tell them we want to take back Ribos....."

<<Secret IC:>>

The Lapse fleet arrived at the rendezvous to see that Dying camels fleet and DGNTs fleet had already arrived. He was late to the rendezvous as the commander had wanted a cofee stop 3 systems over.

The ammasing fleet was huge, It was obvious that all participating GDA members had brought the biggest armada that was practically possible.

"Have we recieved any notification or messages from Bobaria?" the commader of the fleet called from the Bridge of The Flume
"No sir" a Leiutenant called from the flagship of DGNTs fleet

"Well stay here until we recieve -" the commander was interupted mid speech
"Forces of the GDA, we would like to retake Ribos, Prepare for battle"
"Guess we do go then..." finished the commander, "Could i ask all captians of ships to report to The Flume for the battleplan

On the bridge of the 5CN flagship, the Nahel Argama

Admiral Horatio Gates Nelson groaned when he read the transmission. The recently refurbished 5CN 3rd Fleet was to proceed to Ribos to assist Bobaria and the GDA in taking back the planet.

"Send out a transmission to all vessels..." Nelson ordered.

"Aye sir..."

This is Fleet Admiral Horatio Gates Nelson, we have orders to proceed to Ribos and take the planet back from Klonor. All ships prepare to jump....

After finishing, Nelson sat on the bridge thinking...

One after another, the 5CN ships jumped into hyperspace bound for Ribos...

ETA to destination 2 hours...

The 3rd, 4th, and 5th battlegroups prepare to jump to Ribos

OOC: What did you think i meant by 'meet the enemy'?

DGNT messages to all ships in the area <Encrpted>:
Well, it seems that 5CN and Bobaria have gone ahead. For this, we can simply let them come in first and get shot up, then we can flank the opposing forces, which I understand is composed of Jimathon and Klonor ships.
Our Nanocams havent picked up any more combat, a few civilians took some potshots at Klonorian forces and got vaped, which I can understand. So, DGNT forces will come in from Galactic North, DC forces from East, and Lapse forces from West.
In the bay, DGNT bombers begin loading Wrath Anti-capital ship torpedoes, and fighters take on smaller 'air to air' missiles for fighter escorts. Troopships are seen testing hull cutters and marines practice boarding drills.
On the surface of the mighty ships, minimal power bolts blast targets, and gunners fine tune their weapons.

(OOC: I belive that basicaly means from the top, left, and right.

OOC: So, the Galactic Defense Alliance is invading Arbra? Neat (Major combat!)

OOC: No no no, we are the Glorious Liberating guys of Justice and Honour, you evil...err...evil thing! 8)

OOC: Ah, but the Ribos system is claimed, colonised, and owned by Arbra. I was defending him (at least, that was my IC excuse for my pointless war on Bobaria). So, by invading Ribos to attack me and to recapture the planet that Bobaria inhabited you are invading the nation of Arbra. Kinda paints the GDA in a whole new light.

OOC: Maybe if you'd tried diplomacy.

OOC: Ah, but the Ribos system is -- owned by Arbra. I was defending him (at least, that was my IC excuse for my pointless war on Bobaria). So, by invading Ribos to attack me -- you are invading the nation of Arbra.

((OOC: Who are they to know if you (AND Jimathon) are actually up to something more extensive. You are *at war* with Bobaria, even if the colony itself surrendered. And you happened to be on the side that declared the war. This doesn't affect the alliance Bobaria is in at all, you just gave them a Casus Belli to, as you said, invade Ribos, although you invaded it first. By attacking you in Ribos, they are responding to unprovoked aggression of both Jimathon and Klonor warfleets. Shouldn't be too hard to grasp.

And by the way, if this keeps up, your credibility on the diplomatic scene will be torn apart (with Jimathon). Who is going to trust dishonorable scum, who claim that they are on a peaceful mission and STILL attack non-related civilian targets? Not the Ur-Quan, at least.))

OOC: Don't forget Guanyu also attacked me.

OOC: When did I attack non-related civilian targets? The only things I have shot at are warships which were in the system illegally. The attack on Bobaria was not unprovoked, as they had in fact invaded the Ribos system by building a colony there and stationing warships there without bothering to contact the owner and ruler of the system. All I have done is defend a small ally who has had his territory taken over by somebody else.

OK, the forum ate my first post, which was reallly awesome. Here's the summary:

1. My fleets all recloaked
2. The 2nd was sent to the rear of GDA fleets, but none of you can detect it.
3. The 3rd went to the other side of the planet to await a probable Bobarian retaliation.
4. 1st went to the side of Dontgonearthere and started taking names in anticipation of kicking ass.
5. An aide was sent to think up and distiribute an excuse for the invasion.
6. The 7th, 8th and 9th are readying for invasion of Antares.
7. Jimathon is smoking.
8. Hi mom!

Note: I hate the forums...they ate my post. It was like they ate my child.

Jim, we're not there yet.

I know, it was anticipatory. Cause it's obvious you'll do it.

OOC: umm...Jim?
How did you know where we were? It could be in the middle of a nebula that blocks sensors, it could be in an asteroid field, and in any case, all transmissions were either ultra-short range, or encoded narrow beam, which means that you would have to have some damn serious comm equipment following us around, IE: On the ships. Since all of my ships were build by me, with no aid, and nobody has bothered with any of my RPs so they have never had a chance to be on one of my ships, how did you get it there?

Sorry, I Was ill informed..by..myself. I beg your pardon. In that case I just ...I dunno...Sit around the planet with my fleets and wait. I'm sorry once again.

Note: Will someone come in guns ablazin'? I'm bored.

OOC: S'alright...in any case, we will jump once 5CN and Bobaria arrive.
Anyway...can I get some stats and numbers for ships present?

Bob keeps saying that he's gonna wait for somebody else to do something before he does. SO, you're waiting for him and he's waiting for you.

As for my numbers, ask Bob. I gave him the info yesterday and have since forgotten the exact numbers

OOC: When did I attack non-related civilian targets?

((OOC: When you started the attack, really. Saying "I'm on a peaceful mission, REALLY, LET ME THROUGH!" and attacking an "ally" makes you lose credibility. The colony you attacked still is a civilian target, and you did attack it. The only humane thing you did was that you let them leave without killing them.))

only things I have shot at are warships which were in the system illegally.

((OOC: And still the idea was to make the local Bobarian *colony* leave with the force of an ultimatum. Peachy.))

The attack on Bobaria was not unprovoked, as they had in fact invaded the Ribos system by building a colony there and stationing warships there without bothering to contact the owner and ruler of the system.

((OOC: Well, "invading" a system of a DEAD NATION is hardly a major offense. Remember destroying Arbra? If it gets resurrected, it's hardly Bobaria's fault. And apparently Arbra hadn't even claimed the whole place, or it'd be quite likely that Bobaria would've heard of it.))

All I have done is defend a small ally who has had his territory taken over by somebody else.

((OOC: And how did you do it? You used your other, a bit larger ally's trust, made a sneak attack, forced the colony to surrender by attacking its defenses, you didn't even try diplomacy BEFORE you attacked, hence it was deemed unprovoked. You don't just ATTACK someone for colonizing a place you think isn't his, unless the concept of diplomacy is completely unknown to you. And somehow I doubt that Arbra has a claim on the whole system, and since Bobaria had that colony of his there, this should be more than apparent. Call it a gut feeling, but I feel that Bobaria didn't force his way there.

What you thought was a "Casus Belli" was lost the moment you declared war without a warning whilst *inside* Bobaria's "borders". If everything goes as they should, no one's going to trust you again. Ever. You are unreliable, a threat and dishonorable scum.))

Arbra is not dead, I'm in an RP with him right now. And calm down! I'm pulling this out of my ass, I didn't think I'd even need an IC reason going into this war. Bob agreed to this before it was even started, he even helped write the first post. It was supposed to be nothing except just violence and us blowing the hell out of each other. I didn't even know about Arbra living in Ribos until after the war had already started. Calm down, and stop caring so much about my reasons for doing this.

1 Modified Annihilator the GANS Hobbes (Fleet Flagship)
3 Annihilator War Cruisers
5 Silver Wolf Destroyers
5 Scimitar Warships
7 Phoenix Hawk Corvettes
6 Modified Phoenix Hawk Cloaking Corvettes

My new flagship may also get involved, it needs a shakedown cruise. All stats can be found on my storefront: http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=88433&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

This is all great!...But can someone start killing things again?

Well, I would, but im going to be gone all day tommorow, so my allies can RP my ships, see my storefront for their details.

As long as SOMETHING happens.

Arbra is not dead, I'm in an RP with him right now.

((OOC: As we all know, Arbra WAS dead, as I said, and it was resurrected. There's a difference between the past and the present.))

Bob agreed to this before it was even started, he even helped write the first post. It was supposed to be nothing except just violence and us blowing the hell out of each other.

((OOC: You still don't get it, huh? OOCly, both sides might've even agreed to it. ICly, Bobaria didn't know you were going to attack him, and thusly the attack was a sneak one from within. You attacked him with Jimathon and Guanyu, and you claim you're there to "help a smaller ally". If that was the truth, you would've tried to solve this thing diplomatically. Even if you didn't have that shoddy IC reason, you'd still have your credibility shot down, and it's not going to help you much anyway. You know, consequences for one's actions...))

I didn't even know about Arbra living in Ribos until after the war had already started. Calm down, and stop caring so much about my reasons for doing this.

((OOC: But I have been very calm all this time, but anyway, you're just digging your own diplomatic grave with Jimathon and Guanuy. Well, who am I to stop you. You have lost all your credibility (if you ever had any) in the eyes of the Ur-Quan - who have ships scouting this sector of the Galaxy all over the place.

Oh right, why don't people EVER seem to consider the possible side effects of their attacks? OF COURSE an attack on a nation that you were friends with causes deterioration to your so called diplomatic status. Not even a single one of your "friends" would give you access to their systems after you do something like this, since you just broke the fragile trust. No one trusts a backstabber.

OF COURSE your ex-friend's allies will come to help him when you attack him, no matter how "justified" you think your sneak attack was. And if you need a real life example of this kind of behavior, I'll use an easy one for all you Americans: Pearl Harbor in the year of 1941. Oh well, guess this is enough for this post. Continue, you dishonorable scum!

EDIT: And that, of course, meant Guanuy, Jimathon and Klonor, not just Klonor, so that no one gets the wrong idea. They are ALL untrustworthy now!))

An half an hour after the 5CN fleet had left, the Lapse fleet also entered hyperspace. The admiral thought it was extremmely likely that the enemy fleet would attempt oo flank Lapses allies somehow and It would be profitable to the GDA fleet battacking the system too have backup coming.

The fleet, already in positions, entered hyperspace

OOC: I would write a more detailed post but im just too tired now

Arbra was never dead. Arbra was not resurrected. Arbra never died.

I have a question for Ur-Quan: Did I miss the part where you had anything to do with this RP? Because I looked and could not find any IC involvement that you even have with this series of events.

OOC: Thought is bad for Klonor.

IC: "What the hell are they doing?! Not going in first, I'll tell you that!"

I have a question for Ur-Quan: Did I miss the part where you had anything to do with this RP? Because I looked and could not find any IC involvement that you even have with this series of events.

((OOC: Of course, I am not taking any active part in this RP, but still, your current actions will affect any future discussions or anything else you might have with, at least, the Ur-Quan. You cannot attack a nation and think that it's just fun and games ICly. There are consequences.

Which is, and has been my point. You can't just start a WAR without actually declaring one, while INSIDE your enemy's borders and think no one'll notice. Information about that attack WILL reach many different nations, no doubt about it. It's very likely that those who will learn of your treacherous actions will have to reconsider their relations to you. Which could basically range from "Do nothing" to "Cut relations". Two of you haven't even stated a real reason for your attack, so Klonor here is the least nasty and evil, and still is quite enough of both.

Like I said, there are consequences you'll have to face, and that's that.))

The vanguard vessel of the 5CN fleet, the Trafalgar Class Carrier Battleship, the Atreus, came out of hyperspace near Ribos and set up a special Hyperspace Beacon Director...

ETA of rest of fleet: 30 minutes...

OOC: Where are your ships?

OOC: Whos ships?

ooc: klonor and jimathon

OOC: Klonor's fleet is in orbit of the planet, and Jim's are cloaked.

And here's Klonor's fleet

3 Hecate class Destroyers
5 Orion class Destroyers
2 Megingjard class Heavy Fire Destroyers
5 Deimos class Corvettes
15 Mercury class Corvettes
15 Fenris class Cruisers
10 Leviathon class Heavy Cruisers
1 Faustus class Research Vessel

"What! They did what!?!" The admiral shouted at his sensors officer.
"Whatever...you!" He rounded on his navigation officer "Get the ships in position! Move it!"

The cone of ships rotates, seemingly slowly, and then jumps.
ETA Some five or six minutes after Lapse.

With a flash of blue two Klonor ships apper in the system. Shaped like some kids idea of a flying saucer the two ships immedietly take up orbit over the planet. One ship positioning itself above Ribos City, the other exactly 180 degrees around the planet.

As soon as they're in position they begin to give orders, taking command of the fleet in in the vicinity. After a few brief minutes of tense discussion the Klonor fleet positions itself to repel the inevitable counter-attack.

OOC: Here is 5CN's 5th Fleet under the command of Fleet Admiral Horatio Gates Nelson...

Thirty Meteor Class Assault Frigates
Ten Musai VI Class Assault Cruisers
Five Fox Class Corvettes
Three Ra Cailum II Class Battleships
One Aurora Class Battleship
Two Trafalgar Class Carrier Battleship
Three Argama Class Carrier Battleships

OOC: How did you gat new ships onto the system without going through Antares?

IC: *Roughly 3 minutes before Lapse*

In an instant the Bobarian fleet arrived in Ribos to crush the vermin who had invaded without rime nor reason.

The Asartes, the Mandes' and the Atens moved to engage Guanyu's fleet. The Hatshepsuts, Sobeks, and Mentus headed for the planet and Klonor's fleet. The Apothess'(They're basicly just extremely long ranged guns with engines) fired at the GANS Hobbes, while the the Hedetet stayed behind to protect the Tanen and to act as a command center. Oh and all Fighters/Bobmer were launched.



OOC:
1 Tanen class super Carrier
1 Hedetet class Destroyers
7 Hatshepsut class Destroyers
3 Apothess class Destroyers
2 Asarte class Destroyers
18 Sobek class Corvettes
12 Mandes class Corvettes
22 Mentu class Cruisers
11 Aten class Cruisers

OOC: It's spelt "rhyme". And the ships could either have already been en-route when the attack started (which is unlikely due to the time they'd have to have just been floating in Sub-Space) or they just used my backup FTL drives. They're slower than Jump-Node travel, but they can go anywhere.

The Klonor fleet both condences and expands. The heavier ships, the Orions, Hecates, and Leviathans, move towards each other to concentrate their firepower.

The lighter ships, the corvettes and smaller cruisers, move outward and up (relatively) from the oncoming ships, attempting to leave the big guns a clear lane of fire as well as keeping their own guns barred.

Finally, there are the two Megingjard's. They lag behind, not moving fro their positions. Waiting for their prey to come to them.

The Atreus launches jump beacons which set up on the flanks of Klonor's vessels, guiding the 5CN fleet to a pincer attack on the Klonor Fleet... At the same time, the Atreus's Cloak-Negation Sensors detected the Jimathon vessels cloaked nearby. To disable those vessels, the Atreus fired multiple savoes of EMP missiles towards those vessels...

Bobaria, can you post a link to stats on your ships please?

The Atreus launches jump beacons which set up on the flanks of Klonor's vessels, guiding the 5CN fleet to a pincer attack on the Klonor Fleet... At the same time, the Atreus's Cloak-Negation Sensors detected the Jimathon vessels cloaked nearby. To disable those vessels, the Atreus fired multiple savoes of EMP missiles towards those vessels...

How would your sensors detect them?

My ships don't have a flank. Before my post they were spread out over the entire planet, and now they're all in motion and moving between each other. Nowhere would a flank exist for the entire fleet. If you're merely jumping in at the flanks of individual ships, then you will be putting yourself in perfect position for a crossfire from my ships that will most likely slice your ships in half.

The Kanuckistani Superfortress continued to maintain it's position several lightseconds away from the planet, intending to stay out of the coming battle if it could be helped; a message broadcast to all ships already in the system or upon their arrival.

"This is Commodore Davidson of the KHGV Proactive Target Acquisition to all ships; we are neutral in this conflict. Be aware, however, that any vessel, from either side, which fires upon civilian non-combatants will be targeted and destroyed without mercy."

OOC: Unfortunately I cannot post the response to Kanuckistan that I desire to post because I would probably get in trouble for flaming.

OOC: In front of your ships...

IC:

The Jump Beacons, guided the rest of the 5th Fleet into a sudden attack on the Klonor vessels...

To the astonishment of many onlookers, fifty-three vessels flashed into real space, their guns blazing against the Klonor vessels.

Fleet Admiral Horatio Gates Nelson watched grimly on as his vessels poured missiles and beam cannon and pulse cannon fire on the unsuspecting Klonorian vessels.

DGNTs ships flash into the system.
Immidiatly ten Ramships fire their high boost engines and accelerate toward Klonors forces.

OOC: Ramships are basicaly freighters with solid hulls, some big engines and a suicidal droid piloting it.

IC;
The remianing ships deploy in the old cone formation and follow behind the ramships. THe Piledrivers guns begin to shimmer slightly.

The Lapse commander ordered his ships to pull up 15 minutes before entering the system. He had an idea, and it could possibly work.

The plan was to do a quick hit and fade on Klonorian trading hopefully drawing away some of the enemies ships from Ribos. The selected out post was a short jump, out of normal hyperspace routes from Ribos, and so waqs perfect for the attack. The commander dispatched a single victory class star destroyer to make the attack with the rest of the squadron mcontinued on towards Ribos. The ship would b there in 2 hours

They would now arrive about 7 mi9nutes after the DGNT fleet.

The Lapse fleet arrived in system in time to see the big DGNT robot ships accelerate twards the enemy fleet. The Lapse fleet was several hundred kilometers behind the rest of its allies but it may have being better if the enemy attempted a flanking manouver

OOC: DGNT be careful with those.

IC: The Apothess' change targets to the Odins(Klonor's saucer) and opened fire, as does the rest of the fleet. (Open fire not the changing target part)

FCN, you'd be firing into emptiness. The ships are in motion, moving extremely fast. You'd have to jump in next to them, stop, check where they are and where they're moving, then start shooting. And why are my ships unsuspecting? They've been prepared for a counter-attack for quite a while

Lapse, I have no outposts near Ribos. I don't know who you're attacking, but it's not me.

IC:

The shots from the FCN fleet flashes through empty space, the maneuvers already in progress by the Klonor fleet carrying them out of harms way.

The Mercury and Deimos corvettes which had been moving up and down relative to the attacking Bobarian fleet suddenly reverse their engines, rocketing back towards the tops and bottoms of the FCN ships. Without warning they open fire, hundreds of Beam Cannons and Laser Turrets ripping into the bottoms and the tops of the suddenly trapped ships.

The DGNT Ramships, speeding towards the lead Klonor ships, instead meet a pair of Harbinger Warheads face to face. The two Megingjard's fire salvo after salvo of solid death at the robot ships.

(Bobaria, how many Apothess's are there firing at the odin?)

The Meteor Class Frigates and the Fox Corvettes accelerated and while performing barrel rolls attacked the moving Klonor vessels... They avoided the fire from Klonor's vessels

Meanwhile, the squadron of battleships were attacked, but because of the heavy overlapping shielding of the battleships, none of the shots penetrated to hit the hull. The cruisers spun away from the battleships while firing at Klonor's vessels, capping the T...

The ITN DC Fleet jumped in. The system was starting to look a little crowded...
The new experimental Greenstar energy vessels jumped in from Thunderstraat. They looked like big chunks of metal between which two long glowing rods went. They glowed with energy from the rod exhaust.
The 2,500 ships from the DC fleet formed up near the GDA rendezvous point as the Greenstars powered up. They took their energy from raw hyperspace, and the only trouble was getting rid of it.
The Greenstars' only purpose so far was to power the prohibitively expensive energy fields. They did that purpose in the peacetime tests extremely well.
As the field went up, the glowing green energy which gave the Greenstars their name dimmed. A ripple seemed to come out of the space around the fleet.

A small chunk of rock hit the shield. It bounced off.

"We are GO for entry..."

(Bobaria, how many Apothess's are there firing at the odin?)

OOC: All three of them and it's the one above the city.

FCN, your ships are hit with the firepower equal to 10 Orion Destroyers and you suffer no damage?

Four ramships explode, their antimatter drives creating brief holes in reality, and lighting both fleets up. Three more are knocked off course, not having enough fuel left to manuever, they slowly come to a stop, blasting at enemy ships with underpowered decoy lasers.
The remaining three are now within a few miles of Klonorian forces, and accelerating.
Behind them the main DGNT fleet unleashes a volly of long range missiles, having just come into range.
Now fighters begin to launch, mostly in between missiles from the tubes. They form up in a staggered X, while heavier models form spheres around the big ships. Bombers take up position slightly behind the fighters.

OOC: Funny thing about rarely posting, noones fired on me yet

IC: The Jimathon fleet reappered, The Kabal classes immediatly began firing ministar energy into the main fray, hopefully not destroying any Klonor ships, but there was no gaurantee. The Forward Elements of the fleets performed a lazer wall manuver, creating a disruptive energy wave to disrupt energy weapons. In the insuing haze of electricity a wall of Shebas flys in, pedal to the medal, and rams themselves into Bobarian and DGNT ships. The insung fireball/energy explosions were so disruptive one could look and see the the chaos as enemy fired on enemy.

"This is FUN!!!" Dunn relayed to himself.

DGNT, which ships are the ramships going for?

OOC: Their going for whatever is the biggest threat within sensor range, so basicaly, the biggest ships they see.

Nobodys shot at you Jim, because you've been cloaked. And...ummm...I dont think their is a main fray yet...I just got into missile range, which, for me, is further than lasers, the ramships arent going to be affected by much other than very concentrated missiles.

IC:
The DGNT ships, on seeing the Shebas immidiatly launch AMM missiles, throwing up a wall of shrapnel, destroying about a quarter of the ships, the rest impact on the hulls of the outer Justice class ships, crippling two and damaging a few more. The two crippled ships fail to explode and spew molten fragments, but simply undergo a slow darkening of the ships guns and lights as escape pods are launched, and picked up by passing ships, or head toward the planet.
Five ramships turn toward the Jimathonian ships and begin to accelerate.
The portside turrets of the ships on the left of the cone turn toward Jimathons ships and open up with a withering blast of energy, metal, and explosives, as the fighter/bomber formations adjust themselves, the X's bend to form conelike objects, the bombers begin to rotate slowly as they make their runs, unleashing antimatter payloads.

Aboard the Famine
"Well, two lossess, that wasnt to bad. But lets see if we can distract them a bit, dispatch a landing force to the planet with some of those new prefab turbolasers. Make sure they dont land near any towns or cities, we dont want any more enemies than we already have."

Five lander shuttles begin to load, massive laser parts are secured underneath them.

OOC: Unfortunately I cannot post the response to Kanuckistan that I desire to post because I would probably get in trouble for flaming.

OOC: So long as it's IC I could care less; especially if it gives me a valid excuse to shoot at you :P 8)

OOC: Gotcha. And why land stuff on the planet? All my ships (and those of my allies) are out of range of any ground launched attacks. Since there's no people left on the planet, there's no point in putting anything on it.


IC:

As the Ramships bear down on the Hecates they each sight on (One Hecate per ramship) and take aim. On one signal their entire arsenal opens, 7 Beam Cannons and 32 laser Turrets firing at each robot vessel.

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As the Apothess's move towards the Odin maintaining orbit over the now abandoned Ribos City the Odin begins to spin, giving each of it's Hornet Missile launchers a chance to lock on. Once the Apothess's are in range they open fire, it's 72 missile launchers releasing volley after volley

(24 Launchers per attacking ship, 4 missiles per launcher, that's 96 missiles launched at each Apothess per volley)

The Guanyan fleet, tired of waiting for the Bobarian ships to attack, enters the fray with guns blazing. The thirteen total Phoenix Hawks engage the Mandes at range, firing their long ranged weapons, Tri-particle Cannons and Refracted Particle Cannons. The five Scimitars and five Silver Wolfs all open fire on the Atens, spraying them with coruscating pulses of light and flashes of energy (same weapons as above). The Annihilators move ahead to rendezvous with the Klonor fleet. Having encountered heavier resistance than anticipated, the Hobbes sends out an encrypted message to GAN HQ calling for a very specific reinforcement...


OOC: DGNT, as a tip: Don't try to use the ramships on me, they won't do much to my fleet. It would just be a waste of your ships.

Two of the ramships have holes blown clear through them, from one end to the other, but momentum carries them on, the last one is shielded by the first two and takes only a few blows, as each ramship nears its destination it fires its final (if they exist) boost rockets, accelerating to...i dont know, something quite impressive, and impact, three multimegaton blasts rip through space as the rounded front of each ramship smashes through hull and shield.

OOC: Ill leave it to you to determine what got hit...anyway, landing on the planet gives me a good place to deploy from, fighter repair base and such, plus I can set up realllyyyy long range guns, givin time.

IC:
A detachment of five ships, four Justice class with a Millenium on point detach and engage the Guanyu forces. The Millenium comes close to the nearest Guanian ship, blasting away with its full array of energy and particle weapons, and begins blasting away at concentrated points, attempting to create holes through which a present can be launched.

The Famine:
"Sir, we seem to be rather outnumbered..."
"Right, request reinforcements, at least one more piledriver, five Millenium and ten Justice, and some ramships, preferably with full fighter loads."
Off to port a Justice class explodes in a brilliant cloud, taking a swarm of enemy fighters out.
"And tell them to hurry."
The great ships energy shields had been reduced to %75, falling pretty quickly, its seventeen mire long bulk made it a pretty obvious target, fortunatly, it was well defended.
"Sir, the ramships are gone, we report three impacts."
"Damn..."
"On the good side, sir, our main guns are now fully charged, we may fire when ready."
"Well, target and fire!"
"Yessir!"
The ships guns vibrate as they are adjusted, two point toward the most conentrated area of Klonors fleet, the others at Jimathons forces, space seems to shimmer slightly, then thin beams, about the size of a normal humans forearm spear forward, the guns visibly heat, and a huge blast of energy is expelled from all four cannons, the Piledriver is moved back slightly, against the full force of its five main engines with all their subsidaries, and destroys any fighter unlucky enough to be behind it at the moment. The beams sear through space, vaporizing anything smaller than twenty meters in diameter.

OOC: Sorry, I havent exactly been in many wars, if this is godmodding, gimme a hint.

OOC: BTW, Bobaria, how's the evacuation of Ribos' civies going?

Pretty sure it's done. it was only one small city

The only real problem I have with your post, DGNT, is that I don't think that you should be posting what penetrates my shields. If you could revise it, I would appreciate it, but if you won't that's fine.

Lapse, I have no outposts near Ribos. I don't know who you're attacking, but it's not me.



then where is the nearest outpost

OOC: It'd be either Ross128 or Gamma Draconis (both a good several hundred light-years away). Also, both are the locations of large military bases that have more ships stationed there than at Ribos. I'd say there's about 5 or 6 times the power in each of the mentioned systems, and that doesn't include the planetary defenses (Harbinger Cannons, Mjolnir's, Tsunami Cannons, etc.) Good luck in your attack You'll need it

Oh, there's also (dramatic pause) THE COLOSSUS! (dramatic music)

OOC: Klonor, the Apothess's firing range is extremly longer then yours.
Guanyu, I did attack...
Kanuckistan, there's still thousands of people down there

IC: 3 Mentus and 1 Sobek were destroyed be Jimathon's dishonorable tactics.

7 Atens exploded in shame. The Mandes quickly closed the gap between their enemey and returned fire with dozens of beams cannons and countless laser turrets.

Secret IC: Guanyu commander(did he have a name?) is it possible that we could convince you to switch sides? IF you help us invade Klonor you will get one of his systems all to yourself.

OOC: Klonor: you wouldnt mind if i joint in my vast fleet aint seen action in decades and i wonder if I still have the largest capital ship ohwell just reply if ya want me to join

OOC: The GDA might be interested in my response in your Recruiting Thread (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2327603&highlight=#2327603).

FCN, your ships are hit with the firepower equal to 10 Orion Destroyers and you suffer no damage?

OOC: No real damage except a few blown circuits and a disabled warp drive on one of the cruisers... All my vessels have been modified with multiple layers of shields...

IC:

The multitude of agile Meteor Class Assault Frigates and Fox Class Corvettes performed manuevers like those of fighters and virtually impossible to bigger vessels.

A trio of Meteors while performing barrel rolls began launching Nova Pulse Missiles at the location where the cloaked vessels had suddenly opened fire. Meanwhile a pair of Musai VI Class Cruisers moved to assist the DGNT and Bobaria vessels, while a Trafalgar Class Carrier Battleship, the Hercules escorted by a pair of Shield Ships moved behind...

The battle continued to rage...

OOC: Better then?

OOC: Bobaria, you said your ships were moving toward my ships, but the only attacking ships diverted to the Klonor fleet. I, however, did attack, and yet I only see damage from Jim's attack. Is the part of that that mentions the Atens and Mandes in response to mine?

DGNT, are you attacking my Annihilators or the ships I have attacking Bobaria?

5CN, respectfully, I think you are full of sh**.

And BTW, his name is General Heston.

(The Atens and Mandes were attacking you....... and I believe i made a post saying my fleet attacked.)

OOC: Bobaria, you said your ships were moving toward my ships, but the only attacking ships diverted to the Klonor fleet. I, however, did attack, and yet I only see damage from Jim's attack. Is the part of that that mentions the Atens and Mandes in response to mine?

DGNT, are you attacking my Annihilators or the ships I have attacking Bobaria?

5CN, respectfully, I think you are full of sh**.

And BTW, his name is General Heston.

Guanyu I don't care about what you say... Your a hypocritical bastard and everyone knows that so mind your own business...

An Ur-Quan Marauder had been observing the fight from the very beginning of it from a safe distance. It was so well out of the way that even the highly advanced Ur-Quan sensors were having some minor difficulties following the ongoing combat, which is why it has stayed unnoticed.

FCN, your ships are hit with the firepower equal to 10 Orion Destroyers and you suffer no damage?

OOC: No real damage except a few blown circuits and a disabled warp drive on one of the cruisers... All my vessels have been modified with multiple layers of shields...



OOC: Dude, that's godmodding at an insane level.

Sovieta, you're welcome

OOC: well i can't roleplay the damage if i don't know how much weaponry an orion has...

It's listed at my storefront.

http://hometown.aol.com/jbk405/images/ksig4.jpeg (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=59081)

OOC: Thanks its been a long time since i played nation states or atleast rped atleast more than 50 days

IC: "The fleets of the Sovietian Empire are being prepeared, Sir" Said the newly appointed Commandant of the Battle "We expect it will take around one year(1 Day) to reach the area of battle"
the Leader nodden in agreement as he signed the last paper to have the ships move forward

OOC2: Just for some information could i just get a lil brief idea of whats going on who is attacking who and for everyone elses information i have ALOT of ships:)

OOC: Okay, we really just started this war cause a few of us wanted a good fight (That'd be me, Jimathon, and Bobaria). My, and Jimathon's, IC reason for attacking Bobaria is that he'd illegally claimed, settled, and armed a planet belonging to the nation of Arbra (which he did, but it wasn't on purpose and none of use even knew that Arbra owned the planet until after the war started). Guanyu is helping me and Jim because we asked him to. DGNT and FCN are helping Bobaria because they're all part of the GDA (Galactic Defense Alliance) and are required to defend one anothers borders.

OOC: Ah okay so i an against DGNT,FCN and Bobaria

IC: The last of the personal board the ships and the noise of engine starting up can be heard a little while later the ships are off and encourse to the area of battle, on closer look at the ships the letters GA can be seen though faded from decades

OOC: Don't forget Lapse is helping too.

((Don't forget good ol' Thunderstraat got in a few pages back...))

The order was given. The fleet moved in. Two and a half thousand ships accelerated toward the last reported position of the Jimathon fleet.
Admiral Sant stared at the screen. "This should be a good match," he mused. "The ships that can't be seen against the ships that can't be hurt*..."

*-IC all the way, methinks the admiral is a bit full of it

Two and a half thousand? I certainly hope an overhwelming majority of those are fighters.

doublepost

Two and a half thousand? I certainly hope an overhwelming majority of those are fighters.

Either that or they're overwhelmingly made of cardboard. :wink:

*shrugs* I was going to come back and show you guys a thing or two about space warfare... but I don't want to if there's gonna be a whole bunch of numberwanking.

This goes far beyond numberwanking.

Numbers are pretty sucky unless its only to give an idea of how many would be sent into combat but not like used again methinks

2,500 is two and a half thousand AND that's all I've made in an RL month of all resources going to spaceships AND yes they are mostly fighters.

Plus fuel, food, hospitals and other support.

I can count, and though the number would seem small compaired to my fleets all together but uh im jus braggin i got way more ships then you but i aint using many of em as i need to defend, explore, colonise etc

OOC: Kaunukistan (sp?) recently allied himself to the GDA, so that carrier will be joining us soon. As nobody is reacting to anything, im going to assume that no extraordinary maunvers are going on.
Oh, my reinforcements have arrived.

IC:
Space twists on itself again, as the DGNT reinforcements arrive. At first, its a few Justice class ships, poping into space to make sure that it hasnt become a minefield in recent times. Secondly, the main body, made of of Millenium class ships with Justice escorts. Finnaly, a second Piledriver appears, followed by supporting ships, four DCL-5000 laser cannons, with an escort of 2 Justice ships each. Finnaly, fourteen ramships appear.

OOC:
Total forces (capital):
48 Justice ships, eight of which are crippled, but still functional
20 Millenium class, two of which are crippled
2 Piledrivers
4 DCL-5000 lasers
A DCL-5000 is the big gun of a piledriver, without the piledriver, its a laser with engines.
Twenty Ramships, three of which are currently in a rapidly degenerating orbit.

IC:
Abourd Pestilence
"Signal the Klonor and Jimathon flagships, I want to talk"
"Right sir"
Message to Enemy Forces:
This is the Piledriver class ship Pestilence I have been authorized by the GDA to conduct negotiations. The GDA desires to end this war before it escalets to sector wide conflict, or Galactic scale warfare. If you are willing to grant a temporary truce in order to complete the evacuation of Ribos and conduct such negotiations, our governments would be greatful. We are not talking about surrender, or even abandoning the Ribos system. If Arbra could be brought to the table, it would be quite helpful, and payment could be arragned for damages and property violations of the Ribos system. If not, then...well, its fairly obvious.

OOC: As nobody is reacting to anything, im going to assume that no extraordinary maunvers are going on.

Reacting to what? I reacted to Bobaria's attack on my station, I spoke to Lapse about his upcoming attack on one of my stations, I shot at FCN's ships, and I blew up your ramships. What didn't I react to?

OOC: sorry about delays in posting in this war, ive been doing other stuff etc:

OOC2: also, i will still have that VSD and fighters, id have known IC that there were no outposts around


IC:

The Lapse fleet powered upo to come into the battle..
"release 12 squadrons of fighters" the commander of the fleet ordered from the Flume.
The 144 nimble fighters took off to intercept the enemy starfighters already heading towards the fleet.

"Move the flume to the back of the formation, get 2 VSDs, to stay with us whilst the rest of the fleet goes and atacks the enemy. And remember to try to diable the enemy ships, perhaps we could come out of this conflict with a larger space force"
The flume slowed down and the rest of the formation sped past it.
"Now, target the enemy vessel posing the most danger to our GDA fleet."
The flume spun around on its axis to aim at the flag ship of Klonors fleet
"Now, fire the super Laser"
"SIr, if we fire now, we wont be able to fire it for another 10 minutes" stated a coporal
"I know the facts coporal" replied the commander, "Now, fire the superlaser"
"The energy beam lanced out at the enemy vessel"

OOC: note, this Laser beam isnt a planet destroying beam, rather a more easily charged but less powerful version

OOC: As nobody is reacting to anything, im going to assume that no extraordinary maunvers are going on.

Reacting to what? I reacted to Bobaria's attack on my station, I spoke to Lapse about his upcoming attack on one of my stations, I shot at FCN's ships, and I blew up your ramships. What didn't I react to?

I think he meant that there werent any huge ship fights for people to ract too

OOC: I can't post any ship actions until FCN posts damage from my attack. Sorry, but we'll need to wait till he gets on. And the superlaser is the superlaser on the Eclipse class Super Star Destroyer, right?

OOC: I can't post any ship actions until FCN posts damage from my attack. Sorry, but we'll need to wait till he gets on. And the superlaser is the superlaser on the Eclipse class Super Star Destroyer, right?

yep, just the eclipse class

*wishes for a death star*

Yay! My victory is now that much closer

OOC: The Thunderhead-class isn't a carrier, it's a fleet-killer. It's also just out of it's own effective weapons range.

And Dontgonearthere, if you're asking for a truce, don't forget to ICly tell the rest of us to stop shooting :wink:

IC:
Power levels in the Kanuckistani Thunderhead-class Superfortress KHGV Proactive Target Acquisition spiked; the vessel's Streaming LDS drives stuttering - a 'microjump' of just over a light second bringing the now-enemy fleets within range of the great ship's guns. The twenty heavy 'blisters in the forward battery
quickly track the Klonor Megingjards and Hecates, the heavy cannon within each loosing fire not even a modest battery of Harbinger cannons could match; four lances converging upon each of the targeted ships.

"Agressing vessels," the 'Acquisition's commander's voice boomed across the battlefield, "In accordance with a recently signed Mutual Defence Pact with the GDA, I have been ordered to kill you. Stand down if you value your lives. That is all."

Sovieta's Jaguar Faction fleet nears closer to the area of battle the Jaguar Faction unlike others has a better use of a speed and piloting

"Open a channel to The Grand Duchy of Klonor's ships" says the Jaguar Faction Leader as he gets into his special seat "Greetings fellow captains i am informing you that the Jaguar Faction has arrived ahead of the expected time we shall be ready for combat as soon as needed but first we would like any information on the enemy's ships and amount if you know we thank you for any co-operation if anyone of you need help or need repairs im sure we could help in anyway possible the transmission then closes the Leader rises and tells one of the crew to inform him of any replies

Kanuckistan, how can your weapon batteries be more powerful than a barrage of 5-gigaton nuclear warheads traveling at incredibly high speeds? How many of these guns are on the ship?

"Deploy some satelites i want as much visable as possible in this fight we cant let the other Factions go in blind now can we", "But Sir we did" "Shut up!" as soon as the order was well orderd many small satalites where dispatched from the Jaguar Faction Flagship, Issabela II within minutes a visual map of the field was visable for the crew to see in there goggles (We use 3D Goggles instead of monitors) "Edge the fleet slowly closer to the area of battle and ghost this fleet" as said the ships main engines turned down and power was kept to a minimum to avoid any majorbly noticable detection with fighters on standby 24/7 ready to be launched if discovered

Kanuckistan, how can your weapon batteries be more powerful than a barrage of 5-megaton nuclear warheads traveling at incredibly high speeds? How many of these guns are on the ship?

OOC: 24 super-heavy particle-beam cannons(four cover the rear arcs, so they couldn't fire), and I belive you mean 'gigaton'.

The ship is powered by a matter-annielation Hawking Reactor, and it would cost an estimated $120 trillion to replace the most modern varrients(that would be the Juno refit; the seven of this class I have were built over roughly a century, and that was some time ago. They have been extensivly updated sense then over numerous ocasions to keep them as up-to-date as possible, as they, and the three larger Battleplates, are pretty much my entire military).

OOC: As nobody is reacting to anything, im going to assume that no extraordinary maunvers are going on.

Reacting to what? I reacted to Bobaria's attack on my station, I spoke to Lapse about his upcoming attack on one of my stations, I shot at FCN's ships, and I blew up your ramships. What didn't I react to?
OOC: Well, there were three that you didnt blow up...
And Dontgonearthere, if you're asking for a truce, don't forget to ICly tell the rest of us to stop shooting
OOC: I was gonna wait until he accepted, since telling your people to stop shooting before the truce starts is generaly a bad move. :wink:

OOC: ...plus most of my ships ARE going to be de... oh, no one's listening... ho-hum, wait for Jimathon to engage...

OOC: I didn't mean I'd blown them all up, just a bunch that were attacking me.

Two of the ramships have holes blown clear through them, from one end to the other, but momentum carries them on, the last one is shielded by the first two and takes only a few blows, as each ramship nears its destination it fires its final (if they exist) boost rockets, accelerating to...i dont know, something quite impressive, and impact, three multimegaton blasts rip through space as the rounded front of each ramship smashes through hull and shield.

OOC: Ill leave it to you to determine what got hit...anyway, landing on the planet gives me a good place to deploy from, fighter repair base and such, plus I can set up realllyyyy long range guns, givin time.


OOC: There are the ramships that Klonor's yet to respond to, I belive. Post in question's the second-last one on page 8.

...

... jimathon?

..... Five Civilized Nations?

.......Klonor?

I'm waiting for FCN. Like I've been waiting for days

OOC: He's active; probally lost track and forgot about the thread. I've sent him a telegram.

Ok...lets all sit around...waiting for somebody else to make their move :roll: 8)

I'm waiting for him to respond to one of my attacks. The reason I'm waiting is because his response will determine the amount of ships I have available for everything else.

Heh, just trying to keep the thread up.

As the 5CN warships began to become increasingly entangled with the vessels of the other nations, a long-range emergency transmission was received from the 5CN Homeworld of Citadel.

-=Emergency Transmission=-

-Under attack by unknown alien species.
-Heavy damage to orbital installations.
-Require reinforcements.
-Order withdrawal from Ribos.

With that transmission, Fleet Admiral Horatio Gates Nelson ordered a retreat.

This is Fleet Admiral Nelson, ordering an immediate withdrawal of all vessels back to the Citadel. Prepare for more battle...

The 5CN warships began to disentangle themselves...

OOC: man. 11 pages. i'll report my actions when i get the chance to read this. regardless, this will happen.
IC:one modified planetbuster-class ship drops out of hyperspace, along with the fifth fleet. they will rondevous(sp?) with the others.

OOC: well then, nobody attacked me. and i'm resurrected, remember.
IC: The 5 fleets rondevous(sp?). the commander is transferred to his new craft. the planetbuster. the War cruiser will be used as a second-in-command ship.
the 5 fleets begin to follow DGNT's fleet. the planetbuster puts up a massive barrage of firepower, supported by cruisers, destroyers, and captital ships. every ship with a DC power cannon opens up on one 20 cubic KM area in the Guanyu defense.

OOC: FCN, dude I'm still waiting for your response to my attacks. You might be leaving, but I still need to know what happened.

OOC: Ok...im pissed.

IC:
"WHAT IN THE BLOODY HELL IS GOING ON!?"
"Sir, it appears that 5CN is withdrawing from the combined force..."
"WELL HE BETTER HAVE A DAMN GOOD REASON! GET HIS ADMIRAL ON THE COMM NOW!"
"Yessir...here you are sir"
"FCN Commander, just what in the FUCK are you doing!?!"

Outside the ship a shot one through the shields and destroyed the exaust for the teritary engines.

You know, I don't even remember what's going on anymore. Does anybody know what page my last IC post is on? Cause I haven't the tiniest recollection what the attack on FCN even was.

((OOC: You said..

The Mercury and Deimos corvettes which had been moving up and down relative to the attacking Bobarian fleet suddenly reverse their engines, rocketing back towards the tops and bottoms of the FCN ships. Without warning they open fire, hundreds of Beam Cannons and Laser Turrets ripping into the bottoms and the tops of the suddenly trapped ships.

FCN, your ships are hit with the firepower equal to 10 Orion Destroyers and you suffer no damage?

And he replied...

OOC: No real damage except a few blown circuits and a disabled warp drive on one of the cruisers... All my vessels have been modified with multiple layers of shields...

IC:

The multitude of agile Meteor Class Assault Frigates and Fox Class Corvettes performed manuevers like those of fighters and virtually impossible to bigger vessels.

You said it's unacceptable, and demanded more casualties. After that he said he doesn't know how powerful your Orions are and you told him to see 'em in your storefront. Hope this helps.))

IC: The Ur-Quan ship continued observing the fight, although it seemed ridiculously ineffective and inefficient. The Marauder would soon leave, unless something would happen.

Thanks Ur. And I stand by my godmodding statement. I don't see how the firepower of 10 Orions couldn't cause much damage. The attack doesn't have to destroy the fleet, or cripple every destroyer, or anything major, but it will cause damage.

((OOC: Well, his shields, as shields usually are, could be made for beam weaponry, which could easily drop the amount of damage dramatically, although, if all were concentrated on a few ships, they would still receive more damage than just getting a few circuits blown and a warp drive disabled.

But then there's still that one thing, his ships' armors could have been made beam weapons in mind, which would, with the shields, practically nullify the effects of beam weapons. But then projectiles, like missiles and the like, could still cause damage, and after the armors' have been breached, those beam weapons could damage the ships too... Oh well, dunno, I guess he just didn't know how well equipped your ships were.))

Normally I'd agree with you. In fact, my ships are layered with armor that works specifically to absorb Beam fire, and overlapping shields do drastically lower damage. It's just the pure size of the attack on his ships. People often say the Colossus has near-godmodding armament, and 10 Orions is almost double that. There would have to be some type of actual damage.

Eh, I'll just wait for him to post.

Dying Camels, it's spelled "rendezvous".

And can you link me to your tech thread please?

OOC: FCN, dude I'm still waiting for your response to my attacks. You might be leaving, but I still need to know what happened.

Fleet Admiral Horatio Gates Nelson ignored the transmission from DGNT. He gazed out through the bridge and watched with sadness at the destruction of several vessels in his fleet. Three cruisers, six frigates, and two corvettes had been destroyed or disabled. And because of the emergency, Nelson was forced to leave behind stranded two cruisers and a battleship, due to damaged hyperdrives. After all the ships disentangled, Nelson ordered the jump into hyperspace.

The three stranded warships withdrew near the DGNT warships and began firing upon Klonor’s vessels. Meanwhile, hundreds of fighters and bombers screamed through space engaging the enemy…

Dying Camels, it's spelled "rendezvous".

And can you link me to your tech thread please?OOC: what do you mean by tech thread?

A thread or site where I can see what your technology is, for instance what your weapons do or how your shields are designed. If you don't have that, just link me to your storefront.

http://moderators.united.net.kg/NS%20Pic%20Hosting/untitled.JPG (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=88433)

The Getting Help Page (http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/page=help)
Step into The Meatrix (www.themeatrix.com).
Perception Is The Key (www.perceptionisthekey.com/moderators)

As the remaning FCN ships move towards the Klonor battlegroup the corvettes moving in from the top and bottom spread out, surrounding the attacking vessels and blasting them from all sides.

OOC: Klonor, you've also some attacks that need responding too. My Superfortress and those three ramships that survived defencive fire and reached your ships.

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As the huge fleet approached the last reported position of Jimathon's forces, a small spark caused a world of difference. Or, to use a horrible pun, a star...
You see, the Greenstar engines ran on an extremely unstable premise. The boundless energy of hyperspace was channeled through the engines and created, in a sense, a star. A star of pure energy. The excess heat, which could be counted in the millions of degrees, was vented through the trademark "bulbs" in the middle of the craft. The light produced by this did, indeed, resemble a green star.
On one of the vessels, there was a spark. Or a spot of dust. Or a monkey let loose in the engine room. We'll never know. Because suddenly, without warning, the far port power ship exploded. For a few brief, intense, seconds, a brilliant green flash overrode all other sensations. Those nearest to it could almost feel the energy as a tangible thing.
A small green star formed, for about ten seconds. The scientists would call this a miracle. The military would call it a disaster. Young boys watching footage of the battle for centuries to come would call it very, very cool.
One quarter of the DC Fleet was destroyed. Nearly all of the expensive flagships were eliminated, as well as half the carriers and a third of the other capital ships. The inner-port power ship was shut down ridiculously fast to prevent a chain reaction. This left the mighty shield covering less than half the space it had previously occupied, covering much of the remaining fleet but leaving a large portion without protection. The inner-port Greenstar silently melted into the void (to use another not-so-bad pun).
For a few minutes no one did anything. They just sat there. And stared.

i launch 4,ooo thousand misslies at klonar

OOC: Allright, whose puppet whoring? Anyway...TS...you blew up Dying Camels fleet?

If he did I'd say it's minor godmodding, he's declaring DCs losses.
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OOC: Klonor, you've also some attacks that need responding too. those three ramships that survived defencive fire and reached your ships.

I already responded to the ramships

Osiris Faction & Anubis Faction Flagships closley followed by there fleets

Anubis Faction Flagship Control Room
"Computer open a connection to the Jaguar Faction's Flagship" within seconds the connection is open and fully encrypted "Commandant what is the report so far on the battle" "We have deployed Satalites as you could probly tell from the images relayed to you and apart from that we havnt made any moves we know little expect that there was a bright green light a while ago and to be honest it was very, very cool i suggest opening a channel to one of our allies and hopefuly find out what exactly we should do or what to attack", "Very well Commandant" The Anubis Faction Commandant turned around and told one of the messengers to go and send a message out to all of there allies telling them they arrived and are awaiting orders or something to do

OOC: Klonor, you've also some attacks that need responding too. those three ramships that survived defencive fire and reached your ships.

I already responded to the ramships

OOC: Ah, well, I'm still shooting at you.

OOC: I was hoping not to say this, but your ships are to powerful. If I'm remembering the stats right (and there's a very good possibility that I'm not, I have a very bad memory) then they're on the godmodding level. Sorry

OOC: Hence why, the last time it came up, I never gave exact firepower figures; I'm trying to rebalance power levels in acordance with known examples, hence my scaling of the SF's by using your Harbingers as a comparison.

I hope to come up with exact figures, but it could take a while to get a balance I'm happy with.

Oh, and the particle beams will be sustained until the targeted ships *crumple*; well, atleast they'll try to. Shouldn't take long either way.

OOC: You just signed an agreement with the GDA, and that's why you're in this war, right?

OOC: Mutual Defence Pact, yes.

OOC: Would you have sent a message to my government announcing the new pact before you attacked?

TS...you blew up Dying Camels fleet?
No, no, NO! The fleet is simply called the DC Fleet because I spent a couple NS months gathering it near Dying Camels when I was going to attack him. It's my fleet.

Didn't everybody already know that?

OOC: No; we'd have waited until afterwards, just like you did with Bob. I'm going to mention a message being sent in this thread after the initial vollys are exchanged.

We ICly have a policy of treating people as they treat others :wink:

Oh, and the ship's commander did relay the reason for the attack, just as they started firing. To quote for easy reference;

"Agressing vessels," the 'Acquisition's commander's voice boomed across the battlefield, "In accordance with a recently signed Mutual Defence Pact with the GDA, I have been ordered to kill you. Stand down if you value your lives. That is all."

TS...you blew up Dying Camels fleet?
No, no, NO! The fleet is simply called the DC Fleet because I spent a couple NS months gathering it near Dying Camels when I was going to attack him. It's my fleet.

OOC: Ah, so your new superweapon blew up in your face, then.