NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC:Here we go.

It had been seven hours since the Beast remnant fleet had fled from the small group of ships that had come to the resque of the Hiigaran resource fleet.The simple fact that some of the Beast still lived was enough to shake the New Diamon to its foundation,all ships had been recalled to Hiigaran space.A Beast sample proved that the previously used chemical base to destroy Beast infection was now useless.Now,Hiigara's only defense against this monster was rendered useless.Many veterans of the Beast Crusade saw the begining of another war to ravage Hiigara and her allies.The New Diamon had no choice.They knew diplomacy would not work against Beast.Another war had begun.A war with no chance of winning.

Bump for members.

Bump.

BUMP!

BuMp

The Stephen Hawking battlegroup motors just outside of Hiigaran space, harvesting asteroids as it goes. The massive group of ships comes upon a rich asteroid field, at least 20,000 km across.

Aboard the LRRSV Stephen Hawking.......

"Ah. Here's a nice field. Docking control, release the harvesting units!"
"Roger that, bridge. Harvesters away."

A gaggle of LRR asteroid harvesting units moves out into the asteroid field, gaurded by a rabble of Cavalier II class corvettes, with the nose-mounted mass driver replaced with an ion cannon.

Aboard Rock Rat 5, a Wigan Pier class Resource Collector.......

"Steady as she goes......ok. Within range. Commence mining."
"Roger that. The torches are warming up now......"
"Captain, I'm picking up some anomalous contacts 20km to the east and closing!"
"ALERT THE ESCORT!!!!!!!!"

A 9-ship delta of corvettes flies out to meet the anomaly, expecting trouble.

Aboard the corvettes of Javelin squadron.........

"I have sensors contact! We are very close!"

Out from behind an asteroid comes a ship, covered in beast infection.

"KILL IT!!!!!!!"

The corvettes swarm around the subverted Dervish frigate, their ion cannons impacting its hull in many places. Finally, the frigate stops firing back, gas escaping from all over the hull of the striken ship. Finally, it explodes, and the corvettes return to the harvesting section.

"Command, we advise recalling the harvesters."
"Roger that. We saw what happened out there. All ships, high alert! Prepare for hyperspace jump into the Hiigara system!"

The resource collectors motor back into the protective docking bay on the Hawking, and the ships of the battlegroup hyperspace out bound for Hiigara.

anybody there?

anybody there?

Bump,sorry LRR.

ICLY:A severely damaged Acolyte staggered amongst the LRR ships,broadcasting a service beacon,it appeared as if the pilot was wounded,if not dead.For the ship was piloting on Maintinance AI.

Bump,sorry LRR.

ICLY:A severely damaged Acolyte staggered amongst the LRR ships,broadcasting a service beacon,it appeared as if the pilot was wounded,if not dead.For the ship was piloting on Maintinance AI.

Just before the group hyperspaces out, a patrol destroyer grabs the acolyte with a robotic arm, drawing it inside its docking bay. Soon, crews are all over it, and have extracted the pilot.

The pilot was nearly unconcious and babbling in delerium,the inside of the vessel was partly infected,that organic red matter painting a small porton of the inner walls.Somehow he had resisted being subverted.It appeared as if the carrier and the other surviving ships had already fled without him.

Bump..

The pilot was nearly unconcious and babbling in delerium,the inside of the vessel was partly infected,that organic red matter painting a small porton of the inner walls.Somehow he had resisted being subverted.It appeared as if the carrier and the other surviving ships had already fled without him.

"Get the plot out!"

The hangar robots cut away the cockpit and drag the barely consious pilot out and into the medical bay.

"Unknown bio-mechanic entity inside the ship!"
"Release the Acolyte!"

The acolyte is immediately thrown out into space by the hangar arms, where it is blown apart by a well-aimed ion cannon shot.

((sorry about being late. Thanksgiving, and all that.))


The momentary warmth before destruction at the hands of the ion cannon was enough to trigger a tiny impulse from the infection.

Stimulus-perception-response

The Hive, this new breed of Beast, extends itself, its growing and disparate limbs, towards the location of the stimulus.

Several miner vehicles, thought missing in the turmoil of the end of the war, power up and return to their duties among the mineral-rich rocks.
Beacons are deployed to alert the large ships to their presence, their trnasponders still reading the friendly IFF codes they had worn when built, before they had come under the influence of the Hive.

Glimmering stars break the night of a remote icy wasteland of a world. The light of noon briefly flares in the sky, and thunder splits the air with violence. The descending objects are quickly lost from sight, and disappear into great drifts of snow, where they are quickly buried. It would be less than half a local day's trek to reach the nearby station, the token holding that secured the planet, acted as scientific research outpost, and resourcing station.

-=Segmentum: Anaen, The Cradle of Onarr=-
-=System: Solunn, an Outlying Fortress-System of Anaen=-
-=Bridge of the O.S.S. Chivalry, Overlord Class Battlecruiser=-

Ship-wide Vox: "This is Admiral Yakonin, all crew standby for entry into the Warp. We will proceed in ten minutes to the site of a located Hive infection to investigate. Battlefleet Honourbound will accompany us in order to eliminate this threat and make contact with the non-Hive inhabitants of the system."

*The Chivalry turns ponderously away from the Forge World of the system and moves out into space, accompanied by its Battlefleet, until it reaches a safe distance to enter Warp. Once this distance is reached the ships shimmer and vanish, heading for the Hiigaran system*

((OOC Note: Details for the Onarran Fleets are taken from http://www.specialist-games.com/battlefleetgothic/fleets.htm#))
((OOC Note: The Chivalry is accompanied by two Gothic Class Cruisers, two Lunar Class Cruisers, ten Dauntless Class Light Cruisersm, twenty Cobra class Destroyers and twenty Firestorm class Frigates. This does not include the mining and supply ships they have with them, but is the entire fleet that I am planning to use (unless the RP goes on longer than anticipated) ))

((bump))

What sort of org are you all members of?

I use HW Taiidan technology, and I have fought the beast in an RP before. Just wondered if there was some HW org I could join. Sorry to hijack.

The LRR battlegroup stops its hyperspace jump into the Hiigaran capital system mid-way, in order to soak up new information.

Aboard the LRRSV Stephen Hawking........

"Full sensor sweep of the area. Be ready to leave at the first hint of trouble. Bloody subversion entities. Can't ever be too careful around them."
"Aye, cap. We're on it now. Nothing found so far. Looks quiet out there."

The various systems suites of the Michael Strogoff class heavy carrier that is the Stephen Hawking buzz to life, their operators staring at the sensor screens.

"Bogey designate UK-2-A on inbound high-speed velocity, 42.7 degrees Y plane, 56.8 degrees X plane, 500 kilometers and closing. ETA 15 minutes."
"Roger that. Visual range in 4.32 minutes."
"Point defense guns fully powered."
"UK-2-A now 489.6 kilometers and closing. Flat accelleration."
"Roger that. Prepare to launch intercept flight."
"Nine-ship intercept flight manned and ready for launch."
"FC, you may launch at your discretion."
"Roger that SC. They are powering up now. Designate Rezitativo-3."
"Roger that flight."

The nine Sajuuk interceptors motor out of the Hawking's cavernous launch bay and form into a delta formation.

"Rezitativo-3, you are clear to engage. Target 430 kilometers and closing."
"Roger that, control. Heading to engage."

The nine sajuuks speed out into space.

The LRR battlegroup stops its hyperspace jump into the Hiigaran capital system mid-way, in order to soak up new information.

Aboard the LRRSV Stephen Hawking........

"Full sensor sweep of the area. Be ready to leave at the first hint of trouble. Bloody subversion entities. Can't ever be too careful around them."
"Aye, cap. We're on it now. Nothing found so far. Looks quiet out there."

The various systems suites of the Michael Strogoff class heavy carrier that is the Stephen Hawking buzz to life, their operators staring at the sensor screens.

"Bogey designate UK-2-A on inbound high-speed velocity, 42.7 degrees Y plane, 56.8 degrees X plane, 500 kilometers and closing. ETA 15 minutes."
"Roger that. Visual range in 4.32 minutes."
"Point defense guns fully powered."
"UK-2-A now 489.6 kilometers and closing. Flat accelleration."
"Roger that. Prepare to launch intercept flight."
"Nine-ship intercept flight manned and ready for launch."
"FC, you may launch at your discretion."
"Roger that SC. They are powering up now. Designate Rezitativo-3."
"Roger that flight."

The nine Sajuuk interceptors motor out of the Hawking's cavernous launch bay and form into a delta formation.

"Rezitativo-3, you are clear to engage. Target 430 kilometers and closing."
"Roger that, control. Heading to engage."

The nine sajuuks speed out into space.

The LRR battlegroup stops its hyperspace jump into the Hiigaran capital system mid-way, in order to soak up new information.

Aboard the LRRSV Stephen Hawking........

"Full sensor sweep of the area. Be ready to leave at the first hint of trouble. Bloody subversion entities. Can't ever be too careful around them."
"Aye, cap. We're on it now. Nothing found so far. Looks quiet out there."

The various systems suites of the Michael Strogoff class heavy carrier that is the Stephen Hawking buzz to life, their operators staring at the sensor screens.

"Bogey designate UK-2-A on inbound high-speed velocity, 42.7 degrees Y plane, 56.8 degrees X plane, 500 kilometers and closing. ETA 15 minutes."
"Roger that. Visual range in 4.32 minutes."
"Point defense guns fully powered."
"UK-2-A now 489.6 kilometers and closing. Flat accelleration."
"Roger that. Prepare to launch intercept flight."
"Nine-ship intercept flight manned and ready for launch."
"FC, you may launch at your discretion."
"Roger that SC. They are powering up now. Designate Rezitativo-3."
"Roger that flight."

The nine Sajuuk interceptors motor out of the Hawking's cavernous launch bay and form into a delta formation.

"Rezitativo-3, you are clear to engage. Target 430 kilometers and closing."
"Roger that, control. Heading to engage."

The nine sajuuks speed out into space.

The LRR battlegroup stops its hyperspace jump into the Hiigaran capital system mid-way, in order to soak up new information.

Aboard the LRRSV Stephen Hawking........

"Full sensor sweep of the area. Be ready to leave at the first hint of trouble. Bloody subversion entities. Can't ever be too careful around them."
"Aye, cap. We're on it now. Nothing found so far. Looks quiet out there."

The various systems suites of the Michael Strogoff class heavy carrier that is the Stephen Hawking buzz to life, their operators staring at the sensor screens.

"Bogey designate UK-2-A on inbound high-speed velocity, 42.7 degrees Y plane, 56.8 degrees X plane, 500 kilometers and closing. ETA 15 minutes."
"Roger that. Visual range in 4.32 minutes."
"Point defense guns fully powered."
"UK-2-A now 489.6 kilometers and closing. Flat accelleration."
"Roger that. Prepare to launch intercept flight."
"Nine-ship intercept flight manned and ready for launch."
"FC, you may launch at your discretion."
"Roger that SC. They are powering up now. Designate Rezitativo-3."
"Roger that flight."

The nine Sajuuk interceptors motor out of the Hawking's cavernous launch bay and form into a delta formation.

"Rezitativo-3, you are clear to engage. Target 430 kilometers and closing."
"Roger that, control. Heading to engage."

The nine sajuuks speed out into space.

Joy, beautiful spark of the gods,
Daughter of Elysium,
We enter fire imbibed,
Heavenly, thy sanctuary.

Be embraced, Millions!
This kiss for all the world!
Brothers!, above the starry canopy
A loving father must dwell.

Can you sense the Creator, world?
Seek him above the starry canopy.
Above the stars He must dwell.

Be embraced, Millions!
This kiss for all the world!
Brothers!, above the starry canopy
A loving father must dwell.

Can you sense the Creator, world?
Seek him above the starry canopy.
Above the stars He must dwell.

Joy, beautiful spark of the gods,
Daughter of Elysium,
We enter fire imbibed,
Heavenly, thy sanctuary.


(A.k.a. Bump)

Anybody 'round no more?

Anybody 'round no more?