NationStates Jolt Archive

Prime Minister Lorien stared out at the assembled fleet of VSN warships, supply ships, and troopships, ready to ferry whole divisions of Veredian ground troops to any world that the Prime Minister chose. With his imperial party's recent sweep of the elections, several major changes in the government, and the heavy militarization that his new government was carrying out, the time had come at last to fulfill his promise to the Veredian people, to forge an empire across the stars.

"Sir, Admiral Davidson reports that the Black Death and the fleet are ready" the naval base commander reported.

"Very well, give me a direct link to the fleet" the Prime Minister ordered.

Within seconds a comm. line had been established between the console that the Prime Minister was standing at, and the fleet before him. The Prime Minister flicked a switch and spoke into the comm, "Men and women of the Veredian Expeditionary Fleet. You are the best that Veredia has to offer, you shall go forth on this day in the name of Veredia and her people, and you shall lay claim to new worlds that will strengthen us. With each world that you claim, we grow stronger, and through your might, we shall forge an empire that will forever be remember amongst the stars, good luck, and godspeed".

With that quick message, the fleet broke their parade formation, and departed into hyperspace, moving beyond the borders of known nations to a collection of worlds that did not belong to any major nation.

OOC: Anyone is welcome, having someone to RP as a small world with limited defenses would be great...but just feel free to join in any way you feel appropriate I suppose...

*TAG* I may join as a primitive (modern tech) world ripe for conquest later. Depends on the amount of time that I have.

**Tag offering system in next post**

*tag - would you believe I was once in your shoes? I made the mistake of annexing puppets though, never do that*

The Maelficum system swung in lazy orbit, the three Jovian planets the only source of movement or energy. A trio of escorts tagged to the Takian Mining company floated in orbit, the missile ships scanning for pirates and waiting for the next convoy to leave orbit. On the ground, miners worked diligently in the airflooded shafts of the mineral ritch moons, slowly but steadily filling a freighter with valuable minerals.

The alarm rang at 15:30 standard time, noting a disturbance deep in system.

"Pirates?" the security officer said, looking over his boss reclining in a flimsy chair in the environmental habitat.

"likely, send one of the Keikos to investigate. . . likely nothing more than a few escorts or smaller craft looking for easy prey."

"dispatching" the officer said lazily

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One of the small ships powered up, it's frame sliding through the aethreal darkness as it moved to scout the incoming group.

Lol my space corps are bord can i join this ? and if i do it would be as the U.T.A :P ))

OOC:
The GDA may be interested in this, one of our goals is to protect weak(er) worlds...or I might join on my own :P

(dont we have to ger persmstion from the athuor first lol?)

Taka, do you mind if my planet is in the Maelficum system.

New Haton: Hattian Armenia

The large and lush green moon of Armenia was home to a large group of Hattian colonists who practiced self government and had very little connections to their homeland. The colonists had established a medium sized nation, they lacked the ability to produce any large spacecraft but had a well trained military for fighting with the other colonies on the planet. The planet was rich in resources and allowed the inhabitants to generally live good lives.

Chancellor Zaitsev of the Republic of Hattian Armenia strode through the great hall in the middle of the city. He opened a large wooden door and entered the Ministry of War. "Greetings Minister, how goes the conflict?" he said to the man sitting at the desk. "Our tanks are stalled on the Eastern Plain, and I have just recieved some news. Our sensors have picked up a fleet entering the system." Zaitsev sat down on the plush chair and tapped his chin. "Hmm, send scouts and check it out. We don't want to be caught by suprise..."

Southern Hattian Armenia

The sleek HSC-4s (Hattian Space Scout Model 4) took off quickly from the launch pad in the middle of the golden plain. They headed off towards the disturbance...

((OOC: not at all, care to be on one of the Jovian Moons though? I'd rather not mess with any terestiral planets))

((OOC: Anybody see an entrance for me anywhere?))

OOC:
*coughGDAcough*
Once he attacks some 'poor helpless primitives' he can be...dealth with. :wink:

((OOC: not at all, care to be on one of the Jovian Moons though? I'd rather not mess with any terestiral planets))

No problem, editing now...

((OOC: I'll wait for the GDA to call me to jump into this. nnn... the whole Klonor business left my reputation a bit bruised...))

OOC:
I thought he attacked you :?

OOC: All of you are free to join in whenever, you can simply RP as a world in a totally different system, the expansion is likely to consist of more than one star system if possible. Lol, Dontgonearthere, I didn't plan on attack "helpless primitives", I plan on attacking small independent colonies with technology equal what mine was only a few years before (pre corpsac civil war in which our technology upgraded a bit), and besides, all conquered peoples will be given full Veredian citizenship with all rights and privileges, we aren't a-holes lol. BTW, stats on some of my ships and nation (plan on updating soon) are available at http://www.geocities.com/the_dominion_of_veredia/ Facehuggeria if you want to RP as a modern tech nation in perhaps another system, feel free to, I can dispatch a smaller force to attack it. TFU, feel free to join in also, though what exactly do you intend to do?

IC:

The scout force had entered the system, consisting of four Lifeless II corvettes and an escort of V-19 Security fighters, it could have easily been mistaken for a pirate fleet. The ships made their way towards a series of moons in which small colonies and mining operations were occuring. The force commander relayed a message back to the fleet which drifted in hyperspace.

Admiral Davidson reviewed the message then turned to his comm. officer, "Comms, get me a fleet-wide patch" the admiral ordered.

The comm officer nodded and pressed a few buttons then turned back to the admiral, "Ready sir".

"Fleet, our scouting force has reported several mining establishments and small colonies. These are ripe targets for expansion, once our scout fleet has reported back with more information, we are to drop out of hyperspace weapons-hot, if any hostile threats come up, wipe 'em out, troopships will then deploy, and seize control of all major command centers on the moons. Let's do this with as few casualties as possible people" the admiral ordered as the fleet's weapons were readied, and fighters launched.

an Dark Empire escort fleet was at lunar orbit, watching the Build up was ordered to Shadow the Veredian Fleet. knowing that a bunch of the ships were of the Empire Design they hoped they would not be used badly.
"mam there ships are leaving, should we follow" the Helm officer asked
"yes follow them keep weapons off line but ports open if something goes wrong i dont want to be off guard." the admeral ordered.
"Yes mam" the helm officer replyed

the small Escort fleet entered hyperspace shadowing the Veredian fleet.

Escort Fleet:
2 Skull Class Carriers
3 Tigerclaw Class Destroyers
8 Loki Class Frigates
4 Kabal Class Frigates
5 She'Klan Corvettes

On my moon there are multiple colonies that were founded by different countries that are constantly at war. Who knows, they might ally and fight against you...

Scout Squadron 1

"Fleet detected on long range scanners, corvettes and a fighter escort..." The scouts flew in perfect formation, their skills honed by many battles with pirates. "This is Hotel-4, my guess is that they are pirates, break off and head for home..."
The small scouts engines flared and they sped off towards their home, broadcasting emergency signals along the way...


(Edited)

The small escort reached maximum range, it's sensors pulling up holographical images of the ships.

"I'll be damned. . ." the admiral said, looking over the incoming ships with growing aprehention. "Those appear to be. . . regular military warships."

"the hell?" his first mate said, looking over the designs "They aren't as good as ours. . . but damn. . . when did Pirates get this kind of capital?"

"I don't know. . . I'll deliver the ultimatum and we'll hope for the best." He thumbed the transmition switch, projecting a holographic display to the coms channels.

"Attention, unidentifed vessles, the mining rights for this system are owned by the Takian Mining Guild, you are not authrized to be in this vicinity, we remind you that piracy is a high crime in Taka, and that if your intentions are anything less than honorable, you will be destroyed on sight. . . turn around and exit the way you came, or present your papers allowing you to visit."

He turned it off as his first mate hands him the reports.

"fighters launched. . . and the Hatians are running. . . shit, all hands, prepare for battle, flood the tubes and prepare a scatter volley to cover our retreat. . . get the other two online and ready back at home base. . ."

OOC: Hattia, the fleet you detected consists of four corvettes and (already launched) fighter escort, the main fleet is waiting in hyperspace, undetectable in normal space. Taka, mind giving some specs on the vessels in the system? Corpsac, I lost the link to your storefront, would you mind giving it to me so I can look up those Kabal class frigates, I can't recall them off the top of my head.

IC:

"Attention Takian Mining Guild, this is Captain O'Herring of the VSS Shadow we are not pirates and take great offense at being called such. We have come to claim parts of this system in the name of the Veredian Empire, and threats will not be taken lightly", at the instant, twelve jump gates opened and twelve Destrier cruisers emerged, locking their weapons on the takian threat.

"Takian Mining Guild forces, this is Rear Admiral Hosein, while we are prepared to obliterate your vessels, we would rather not, I am authorized to work out a deal, you can maintain all current mines, but are to give us ten percent of all mine production, and if we need more, we get priority for purchasing at a large discount, refusal of these terms will result in summary destructed and seizure of all Takian facilities in system"

Meanwhile, nearer the moons themselves, the rest of the fleet dropped, lead by the immense form of the Black Death, particle beams and pulse cannons were trained on several colonies, and orders to stand down and prepare for Veredian troops were sent out.

The troopships launced compliments of fighters, to serve as escort for large numbers of Jackhammer assault ships http://b5tech.com/earthalliance/earthallianceshipsandvessels/earthotherships/icarus.jpg which ferried units of ground forces towards the lunar surface.

Eh...On the second thought, I'm not going to RP as a world that is ripe for conquest. I'll just send an expeditionary force to explore (and occassionally blow stuff up! :))

With the crisis in Klonor, it was determined that it would be best to explore space as quickly as possible, so that if necessary, the CF populace could be evacuated to a lush colony world while the Klonor/Somebody else's fleet bombards the Nation into dust.

As such, numerous expeditionary forces have been deployed to explore space. The most important one, though is this one. The CFV Indignation, the CFV Annhilator, the CFC Requiem, the CFC Morita, the CFC Rogue Hammer, and the CFC Honor

They were sent to explore, little did they realize that they would be thrust into a bloody campaign of military conquest.

OOC: The Indignation and the Annhilator are both Dreadnought class battleships, with plenty of weapons and large crews. All the other CF ships are of the Battlecruiser class, which is only one kilometer long compared to the Dreadnought's 4.5 km. I'll post the stats tommorow morning. Fournately, I have a delayed opening. So that means no school for two hours! Woo Hoo! Anyway, I don't plan to permanently deprive you of your conquests. :wink:

edit due to stupid server, and the fact that I couldn't get on last night to delete it.

OOC: I think I'll supply a colony as...bait.

IC:
The colony of Gaviran is a small, and boring one on the outskirts of Core space. It isn't exactly the best defended location, but a mixed squadron of Z-95s and Y-wings are stationed there to keep pirates away. It is known mainly for its mines and is a producer of common, yet still valuable gems.

Nick Scarcliffe sighed and wiped sweat from his brow. The young man was working the fields where his family of four children, including him, grew food for the colony. Lots of chores, nothing much else to do. The orange sun beat down on him, and he decided to take a break.
Nick looked up at the sky, wondering if there's anything interesting out there...

((OOC info:

Keiko Class Missile Frigate

A varient on the Naruto class, it is distinctly smaller, allowing it to slip under the majority of incoming fire. Cunning, armed to the teeth with deady missiles, and much more agile than the majority of FTL capible starships, the Keiko is a terror in the hands of a well trained admiral.

Armorment: (16) lance batteries, spine (8 port, 8 starboard) (100) torpedeo tubes, port (100) torpedeo tubes, starboard; PD clusters

Armor: two layers of deflector shields, no back up generator, 1.5 m titanium polymer bend, 50 cm titanium armor, 2.5 cm tungstun ceramite, HEPD field

Docking capacity: 1 gunship, 5 interceptors

Length: 350 meters
Width: 116 meters
Height: 116 meters

Volume:

cubic meters total: 4,709,600 cubic meters
cubic meters interal volume: 4,250,745 cubic meters
Volume of Hulling: 458,855 cubic meters
Volume of Decks: 842,490 cubic meters

Mass: 11,965,132 tons

Decks: 22

Crew: 4 skeleton crew, 10 minimum combat crew, 30 maximum sustainable crew

Boarding actions: 10 marrines, 1 heavy boarding mecha, 3 boarding mecha

Fold Drives: 1

Cost: 95 billion

Operations Costs: 380 million

Gunship

The largest ship in the Takian Fleet unable to sustain long space flights, its speed and armor are more than enough to protect it long enough to releace its ordinance, and its fold drivers allow it to pull out of a dangerous possition quickly. They come in two varieties, the anti-capitalship and the anti-escort, the first loaded with torpedoes, the second with heavy balistic weaponry.

Armorment: (4) AA gun turrets, (1) AA missile battery, (1) Appocrapha class streamer cannon (5) torpedos (optional, 2 railguns and 2 additional torpedeos, or 8 additional torpedoes)

Armor: single layer deflective shield, 30 cm reinforced titanium, 25mm tungstun ceramite, HEPD field

Fold drivers: 1

Crew: 2 skeleton crew, 15 maximum (Pilot, navigation, gunner, ordinace officer, engeneer, 1 heavy boarding mecha, 3 light boarding mecha, 7 marines)

Power: 1 Matter/anti-matter battery, 1,000 hour combat operation

Price: 8.6 billion

Interceptor

With the evolution of the fighter bomber, ships were needed to surpass them, an ultimate fighter, thus the creation of the Longbow and Crossbow class interceptors.

Armorment: (2) light laser cannons, (3) hardpoints

Armor: 7.5 cm reinforced titanium/polymer blend, 5 mm tungstun ceramite, HEPD field

Crew: 1


Power: 1 plasma battery, 150 hour combat operaion

Price: 135 million

Tactical Power Armor

Though it may look bulky, tactical power armor is really a flexible titanium/polymer blend with an integrated flexible crystal matrix designed to hug the users body and adapt to the environment as it comes. . . through advanced user interfaced AI, it can either allow a solid object to enter for containment and storage, or can become solid to protect the user from projectiles, debris, solar radiation and the like. It carries enough air for 24 hours of sustained use, and enough booster fuel for 3 hours of sustained thrust/maneuvering. It also has a built in recovery becon, allowing the quick rescue of downed pilots.

armor: 1 mm titanium/polymer lined fabric, 2 mm tungstun ceramite plates

Price: 100,000



Light Boarding Mecha

The lightest of the Mecha boarding suits, it has a user interface AI and a built in boarding rifle. More of powered armor than a true mecha, its joints are lightly armored, if at all, making scatter weapons the boarding suit's biggest threat.

armorment: boarding rifle

armor: Titanium plates, 2-2.5 cm thick, 2 mm tunsgtun ceramite

Price: 1.5 million



Heavy Boarding Mecha

Like a more massive, more heavily armored verson of the light boarding mecha, this mecha comes with both a plasma cannon and with a las cannon, providing heavy weapons support.

Armorment: Las Cannon, Plasma Cannon

Armor: Titanium plates, 3 cm thick with 1 cm titanium/polymer blend joints, 2 mm tungstun ceramite, HEPD field

Price: 3 million

In the mining moon, there is a small garrison of marines, mostly armed for close quarters combat, as well as boarding mecha to provide heavy fire. As this is a Mining security force, rather than Takian military, the ships are. . . well to put it bluntly, cheaper than normal, meaning that these statistics are much better than what you will be facing.))

"Fakku Bakka, zetsumei Gaijin" he said in Takian, the meaing of which was made abundatly clear as the sides belched forth 150 torpedeos, the deadly silver bolts flying towards the nearest ship, shaking apart into smaller, faster, but less powerful anti-aircraft missiles, a cloud 3000 strong. Under this deadly rain, the smaller craft guns sublights, spinning about face and heading towards the protective cover of it's two wingmen. On the ground, security forces are alerted, and the mines move to shut down all non-essential elements in preparation for seige. The workers take up arms, each gathers personal sidearms, as well as standard issue rifles, though a palipable sence of fear evades the borrow-like mine shafts. . . the defences were set up to discourge pirates. . . not to hold off a full invasion force. Every man, woman, and child prepares for the worst, while patriotic music and inspirational slogans begin to play over the loudspeakers.

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OOC:
You plan to fight with equals? Wheres the fun in that? :P
Anyway, I have a colony or two I wouldnt mind losing. Until then, Ill wait.

OOC: http://s6.invisionfree.com/International_Mall/index.php?act=idx

IC:
"Mam there ships exited here and opened fire orders?" sead the Tac officer watching the Holo Table.
"we wait, wait till we know what the ships there do for all we know the ships could take that fleet out with out a blink of an eye or they wont but after the Ships there attack then we jump in and open fire on contact the Sol fleet tell them so send us ships" she replyed
"aye mam" sead the comm officer

the ships waited in the blood red of hyperspace,sitting waiting sooner or later they would attack.

OOC: Fighting with relative equals proves we aren't cowards, and pisses less people off :)

IC:

"What the f***?!" Rear Admiral Hosein muttered as he saw the immense volley of warheads tear apart a good number of fighters. Many of the small warheads impacted the Destriers but their armour shrugged most of it off.

In response, all twelve cruisers opened fire on the missile ship, fourty-eight particle beams, fourty-eight pulse cannons, and ninety-six Mk.5 mass drivers flew with incredible speed at the hostile ship while the corvettes moved to engage as well.

Meanwhile, a Coreworlds colony had been targeted and admiral Davidson relayed a message to the colony, as well as the Hattian colony among with several other small ones, "Attention colonies, this is Admiral Davidson of the Veredian Empire, your colonies have been claimed by us, and are to be annexed. Assault ships and fighters are enroute, and warships are moving orbital bombardment positions, you are to surrender immediately, any resistance will be dealt with severely" to prove this point, the Black Death opened up with six particle beams, raking two colonies with a trio of beams each.

OOC: As promised...Stats! :)

Dreadnought battleship:

Legnth: 4.5 KM

Width: 1.5 KM

Fighter Capacity: 350 assorted fighters and bombers
(200 Starfire fighters, 150 Eclipse bombers)

Transport capacity: 30 Avatar transports inside the docking bays.

Weapons:
4 Heavy Plasma Beam Weapons
1 Super Heavy 'Graviton beam' (Designed to take out other big ships)
10 Standard Laser turrets
35 Point Defense laser turrets (for missiles and such)
Two 300 megaton torpedo launchers.

Shields: Heavy "Accumulator" Shields

Armor: 6 foot Carbon Nanotube/Depleted Uranium sheath.

Crew: 25,000

Additional personel: 2000 CF Elite troopers

Dreadnought:
http://www.projectxenocide.com/public/CTD/Cpl.%20Facehugger/Dreadnought%201a.jpg

Battlecruiser class:
Legnth: 1km
Width: .5 Km
Weapons: 2 200MT torpedo launchers
4 Heavy phased particle beam Cannons (similar to a standard particle beam, with one major exception which I will mention later)
8 Point Defense laser turrets
4 Conventional laser turrets
2 Anti-fighter missile launchers
2 Heavy Railguns (the main weapons of this ship)

Crew: 1,200
Elite trooper compliment: 200

Shields: Standard "Accumulator Shields"

Fighter capacity:
12 docked to the bottom hull

Bomber capacity:
4 Docked to the upper hull

Boardingship/Transport capacity: 1 inside the main cargo bay.
Battlecruiser:
http://www.projectxenocide.com/public/CTD/Cpl.%20Facehugger/humhull3a.jpg


IC: The 1st Expeditionary fleet in unison activated their hyperdrives and ripped a relatively large, but temporary hole in space-time, allowing them to enter the bizarre dimension known as hyperspace. The entire fleet entered it, and soon after, with nothing keeping it open, it closed up. The travel time took two days, although to the crew, it only seemed to take a second before they arrived in a system. It appeared as though there was a war going on.

Meanwhile, a Coreworlds colony had been targeted and admiral Davidson relayed a message to the colony, as well as the Hattian colony among with several other small ones, "Attention colonies, this is Admiral Davidson of the Veredian Empire, your colonies have been claimed by us, and are to be annexed. Assault ships and fighters are enroute, and warships are moving orbital bombardment positions, you are to surrender immediately, any resistance will be dealt with severely" to prove this point, the Black Death opened up with six particle beams, raking two colonies with a trio of beams each.

Message from the Chancellor

Bring it on!

Message to the other colonies

Greetings, as I am sure you have heard, we have been 'annexed' by some the Veredian Empire. I am sure you do not want this, I propose an alliance between our nations. None of us wish to lose our sovereignity.

Chancellory Building: Ministry of War

"Minister, what can we do to resist them?" The Minister of war opened up a large book, "Well, they just attacked another city from one of their large ships, we do have the anti ship nuclear weapons that we had just finished. They were meant for the other colonies though." The Chancellor tapped his foot, "Fire them, concentrate on that ship that just fired at us, and mobilize the whole military, I want every man, woman and child who can carry a weapon to be ready."

Southern Hattian Armenia

The tops of the silos opened slowly and the missiles slid out and headed towards their targets. They were accompanied by a cloud of fighters who kept their distance...

the CorpSac fleet exited hyperspace, as soon as it did weapons went hot, the commander was sitting there "send this message" she ordered giveing the comm officer a note.

[code:1:5e1f175821]
To:Veredia Empire Ships
From:DESC Livercast

Your ships have acted with hostility towards one or more of our allies your ships are to leave the system within 1 hour or we will be forced to attack if u carry on we will attack.

[/code:1:5e1f175821]

Sha'La Homeworld

"sir the Veredia are on a rampage what do we do?" sead a Sha'La house lord
"we wait, get the Black Hand fleet on stand by and lets give them a gift, send the DESC Sha'Til (Shin Zu Class frigate) with escorts (10 lifeless Corvettes) make shore they have no markings. understand" sead another Sha'La Lord
"vary well do we tell the Veredia?" the first lord asked
"yes send them a message but dont let them know its us" sead the 2nd lord

[code:1:5e1f175821]
To: Veredia Empire
From: a good friend
Subject: returning the faver

we are sending some gifts to you to help in your conflicts and anther fleet will be waiting
[/code:1:5e1f175821]

The Frigate shook with the blows, as mass driver shots were shunted off of the HEPD fields. The captian's face drains to an unhealthy palor, appearing to glow grey in the sickly holographic light as the incoming rounds grew in frequency and power.

"Divert everything to rear sheilds, we. . . "

An explosion of sparks marked the spectacular passing of the first absorbtion shield, as it was caught unprepared for such a volley, it's generators bursting into flames as they overloaded.

"Shit!" he bellowed, tapping out an SOS, and alerting his two companions to prepare for full scale combat. "all hands, level one alert, inform the navy we are being invaded. . ."

"negative sir, this isn't Takian territory, they have no jurisdiction here."

"What?!?" he bellowed, turning unbelivingly towards his first mate.

"Well, if we mine on international space we don't pay taxes. . . so the corporation decided"

"Son of an Avian! Get a message to HQ that we are under attack by a military presence, and to send reinforcements."

The ship sped along, her sheilds flickering in the lance like light of the incoming fire. She moved towards the moon as her two sisterships raced to her aid, preparing to engage and defend the colony as best as possible. Anouther volley of torpedeos, 150 of the larger fusion torpedeos streaked out, targeting the closest ship in an attempt to overwelm and discourge the enemy from continiuing the fight.

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**Takian Airspace, Arbiter System**

"sir, reports coming in of imperialist manuevers against some peripheral targets. . . it's out of our jurisdiction, but I could submit it to High Command as a flex of muscle that needs to be blunted. . . recomendations?"

"send a standard reply to the nation involved, inform them that we will not allow them to enter airspace claimed by Taka, and that we will consider them Hostile Neutrals from here on out. . . rattle the saber a bit, but for God's sake, don't start a war with them. . . our people are still shaking from the Adamite Invasion, and it's made them a bit gunshy."

The young officer nods, tapping out a message to be delivered to the imperialistic nation's capital as well as the flag ship.

[code:1:04e12c1b92]Nation of Veredia, you are dangerously close to entering Takian System Space, and we warn you that should you enter any system claimed by Taka, you will be attacked and destroyed by the combined force of our navy. The system you are entering is international space, and as such, your campain there is between the Takian Mining Guild and yourselves, and our military will not intervene, but if you enter the Arbiter System, the Nemisis system in the NMS galaxy, or the Alpha Centauri System, you will be opposing one of the most powerful fighting forces in the universe. As of now, you have been reclasified as Hostile Neutral, and should your ships come in contact with Takian ships in the future, it is recomended that you power down shields and weapons, less you appear a threat and be fired upon.

Chief Petty Officer O'Brian,
Coms officer at Arbiter Orbital Command

by order of

Admiral Toji
Commanding Officer of Arbiter Orbital Command[/code:1:04e12c1b92]

Meanwhile, a Coreworlds colony had been targeted and admiral Davidson relayed a message to the colony, as well as the Hattian colony among with several other small ones, "Attention colonies, this is Admiral Davidson of the Veredian Empire, your colonies have been claimed by us, and are to be annexed. Assault ships and fighters are enroute, and warships are moving orbital bombardment positions, you are to surrender immediately, any resistance will be dealt with severely" to prove this point, the Black Death opened up with six particle beams, raking two colonies with a trio of beams each.

Colony Administrator Jakan Regalor stared in horror at the destruction caused by the particle beams at two colonies. "Send a secure transmission to Coredia! They must know of this! Ready the fighters! We aren't backing down without a fight!"
"Jakan, you saw the destruction wrought on those colonies, they will do the same to us!" A council member said.
"Grrr...fine. But get word out, now!"
"Right."

[code:1:e4760f9339]*Imperial Top Encryption*
To Coredia:
We have been annexed by the Veredian Empire! We request aid, fast! Don't know how long we can resist...[/code:1:e4760f9339]

The Expeditionary fleet 1 moved towards the Takian colony.

"Admiral! Look! There's a war going on!" A young ensign exhalted. He noticed it first, he felt sure there would be a promotion in it for him.

"Tell the fleet to keep its distance, until we know who is fighting who." The admiral's answer shocked the Ensign. He expected the fleet to leap into battle and annhilate the bloodthirsty alien ships, like the movies and holovids dipicted.

"But sir...It is going to be fairly obvious to everyone that our fleet entered the system. What if they open fire?" The Ensign had to save face somehow, after all, he had appeared very childish back there.

"Then we'll destroy them. Now take us to the edge of the battle, ensign" The admiral's voice was like a jackhammer pounding into the lowly ensign's self esteem. Not that the ensign didn't deserve it.

"Aye sir." The ensign responded

The entire fleet, some six monsterous ships, moved to the edge of the battle.

"Chancellor, we've detected another fleet entering the system." The Chancellor looked up, "I'll send them a message."

[code:1:955d80eeb5]
From: The Chancellor of Hattian Armenia
To: Unknown fleet

I am Chancellor Zaitsev of the Republic of Hattian Armenia, we have been wrongfully annexed by the enemy and we request assistance.
[/code:1:955d80eeb5]

"Admiral!" The communications officer yelled over the comms traffic. "We appear to be recieving a transmission! Patching it through now!"

The voice on the other end of the comlink sounded desperate."I am Chancellor Zaitsev of the Republic of Hattian Armenia, we have been wrongly annexed by the enemy, and require assistance."

While the Admiral favored patience, it was clear that the Hattian colony had been attacked without reason.

"We've never been on bad terms with the Hattians. Order the fleet into the battle! Charge all weapons! Lets give em hell!"

"Err...Sir? Who do we target, we still don't have IFF tags for the combatants. We might be shooting at a friendly for all we know."

Now it was the Admiral's turn to be embarassed. "Uh...Get me a comlink to the Hatian colony."

"Link established, sir" The comms officer snickered a bit as he said "sir"

"This is Admiral Mertens of CF Expeditionary force alpha. Please respond, we do not what ships are hostile. Please provide us with IFF data."

OOC: Taka, thats a beast of a ship to take a full volley of fire, but it dodged most of it im assuming since you mentioned it was relatively small and fast lol, id love to get my hands on one or two of them... Hattia, im assuming those nukes are very powerful...

IC:

Alarms blared across the Black Death and anti-orbital nuclear weapons were launched from the surface at the fleet. The Black Death, along with the rest of the fleet poured immense fire into the oncoming volley, but several slipped past, with engines at full, the Black Death managed to evade one, but two more smashed into it after escape pods were jettisoned. The two large warheads slammed into the underside of the ship, one broke apart the entire front right section, while the second blew up the rear left of the vessel, leaving the crippled burning hulk drifting.

The battlecruiser Pride of Loria picked up Admiral Davidson, who was to say the least pissed beyond comprehension at losing a second Black Death in its baptism of fire. He immediately ordered the large capital ships of the fleet to concentrate fire on the center of the Hattian colony's capital, intent on leaving nothing but charred rubble. A trio of corvettes with a large fighter escort moved to engage the Hattian strike craft, while several frigates moved to block off the Coreworlds colony.

The rest of the corvettes took up firing positions to provide covering fire for the Jackhammer assault ships as they landed and disgorged forces of armour and infantry who moved to engage colonial ground forces.

Meanwhile, Admiral Davidson, pleased that much of the fleet was now at work levelling the Hattians, he moved to respond to the Takian message, and make contact with the Facehuggerian fleet that had just been spotted, as the Destriers had recognized the fleet's markings from when they had launched their first ship. Also, Davidson had to respond to the Corpsac message.


To: Takian Fleet
From: Admiral Davidson, Veredian Space Navy
Subject: Imperial expansion
Message:
I understand your fears at what is presently going on, however, you need not worry, as Veredia would never dream of assaulting official Takian Space, this system is international space, and that is why it has been targeted. Since your mining guild has fired first, all Guild forces in system will be destroyed or captured if they do not surrender or retreat, however, once the mines are under our control, I am sure my government would gladly sell some of their production to you at a slightly discounted rate.



To: Facehuggerian vessels
From: Admiral Davidson, Veredian Space Navy
Subject: Your presence in-system
Message:
On behalf of all of Veredia, allow me to welcome you to this system. We have laid claim to colonies here, and are currently in the process of annexing them, please maintain a safe distance from the combat zones, as it could become dangerous due to stray weapons fire. If you wish, you can proceed to the Sol system and visit Veredia itself.



To: DESC Livercast
From: Admiral Davidson
Subject: Current fleet operations
Message:
We are here because our nation must expand if it is to survive or make progress in this galaxy. To this end, we are currently annexing colonies in this system, and while it is always an honour to meet Corpsac vessels, and we hold great respect for you and your empire, we cannot, and will not cease our operations here. You yourselves have forged an impressive empire through war, and thus, of all people, should understand what we are doing here. Please, do not engage, we do not wish further bloodshed between us.



To: Veredian Naval Command
From: Admiral Davidson
Subject: Reinforcements
Message:
While we believe ourselves able to complete operations at our present strength, it is getting crowded in this system, and some extra ships would be excellent to hold in reserve in hyperspace should things take a turn for the worst.


*Aboard the VSS Destrier*

Rear Admiral Hosein stared bitterly at the screen depicting the trio of Takian vessels. One of them had taken quite a beating from a full volley of weapons fire, but the task force had underestimated its speed and size. The would not make that mistake again.

"Fleet, move in, full power to engines, concentrate fire, four ships to one of their vessels, I want them destroyed, and I want them destroyed NOW!" he ordered, as the ships closed in on their targets.

Meanwhile, the corvettes proceeded to probe the Mines' defenses, and try to force them into a surrender if possible.

"Admiral! We are recieving a transmission from the Veredians. It's pretty obvious that they are the aggressor here."

"Got em! Tag their markings. We now know who to shoot. Comms, relay this message to the Veredians:"
[code:1:96c631e292]To the Veredian fleet;
You have comitted a wanton act of agression against friends of the CF government. Please leave the system within the hour, or face reprisals. Surely there are other, unclaimed systems nearby?[/code:1:96c631e292]

"I don't think they'll take the bait, but we had to try. Attack on my mark."

The Chancellor's APC rushed through the rapidly crumbling city, occasionally picking up civilians. Inside, the Chancellor thought "We will head to the mountains, we will be safe there... for a while..."

The military launched the last of it's anti-ship missiles (non-nuke) at the enemy capital ships while the small and agile fighters manned by well trained and experienced pilots swarmed around the capital ships.

Message to Hattian Armenia from the Empire of Severnaya

Greetings, we will ally with you against the enemy. The forces of Severnaya are at your disposal...

In the small nation of Severnaya, fighters took off and streaked towards the battle.

To: Facehuggerian fleet
From: Admiral Davidson
Subject: Threats
Message:
While there are surely other unclaimed systems, we are here, and we have lost a warship, we plan on avenging that loss. We will continue our operations, but we do not wish a conflict with you, but if you attack us, we will lay waste to your ships.


The Veredian ceased their bombardment of the Hattian colony, having done considerable damage, and turned to face the Facehuggerian vessels. In addition, the latest development had been relayed to Veredian Naval Command, and the Destriers had been told to be ready to end their own fight and backup the rest of the fleet.

*Veredian Naval Command*

Admiral Lyril reviewed the latest update from the expeditionary fleet, and turned to relay new orders, "Send the entire first fleet to reinforce their position, if the Facehuggerian fleet wants a fight, they'll get one" he ordered.

*VSS Destrier*

The twelve cruisers moved to within firing range and began their assault on the Takian ships.

OOC: Hattia, I'm assuming your (and the colonial) ground forces use ballistic weapons, although since Coreworlds is star wars, you use blasters correct?

IC:

Lieutenant McCauley manuevered his fighter in position with the rest of the squadron, the Hattian pilots were putting up a damn good fight, but against the best Veredia had to offer, the battle wasn't necessarily in their favour.

The squadron opened up with their 35mm mass drivers and let fly their pulse guns, smashing apart a flight of Hattian fighters. One managed to survive the barrage and barreled into a head on collision with the squadron leader, the XO took over and ordered the squadron to split up and take their own targets.

A Hattian missile claimed another Vortex, but a barrage launched from a light destroyer claimed three of the Hattian fighters down in revenge. More Hattian fighters, now backed by fighters from one of the other colonies made a vicious counterattack, taking down nine Veredian fighters.

McCauley responded with a curse and a stream of mass driver rounds which hammered into a Hattian fighter and destroyed it. More Hattian fighters went down and the Veredian Vortexes regrouped, and now backed by Jackhammer assault ships, made their way straight towards the enemy strike craft.

*Assault Ship 023*

The assault ship rocked as enemy fire impacted onto the vessel's hull, but there was no real damage. The hefty armament of the ship, and the other Jackhammers, raked the ground, clearing out hordes of Severnayan ground forces.

The ship touched ground, and the primary bay doors opened, a lance of Velara hovertanks raced out, hammering enemy positions with rail cannon fire. Infantry poured out of the various hatches, and the bay doors of the assault ship, Sergeant Hunter rallied his platoon to him and charged out to the Severnayan infantry positions.

One of his platoon members launched a rocket at a machine gun nest, sending bodies flying in all directions. Hunter raised his mass driver rifle to his shoulder and poured numerous rounds into a pair of Severnayan soldiers. The soldiers' compatriots returned fire, wounding two men and killing a third.

The battle continued to rage, as the assault ships continued to land more and more ground troops dirtside. Lead by armour forces, and with some light vehicles for themselves, the infantry followed closely, downing any Severnayan soldier in sight.

[code:1:1ccd9bc7b8]
To:Admiral Davidson
From: Admiral Shela

Then it will be war you have attacked a coreworld Colony they are one of our most favored Allies its not personal.

[/code:1:1ccd9bc7b8]

the Dark Empire ships swang round the moon, as soon as they came round they opened fired.
2 muti missile fussion missiles flew at the Black Death within 400Kms they split into 4 warheads each they speed towards the ship 300Km.....250Km....200Kms....150Km......100Km......50Km.
the other ships opened fire plasma fire went for the ships, 2 Manson dreadnoughts exited just behind the Veredia Ships they opened fire, fighters swarmed the Veredia. the fight wasnt to disable the VE ships but to destroy.
out of nowere the Sha'Til exited hyperspace.

"mam a Shin Zu Frigate with escorts has just enter the area mam there...Pirate ships markings and IC tag shows pirate" sead the Scan Officer
"WHAT!!!" she roared back "GOD DAM IT get ehe She'Klans to attack them"

Planet Ravan the Heart of the empire

the Throne room
in the dark throne room the elderly Empiress was sitting there when a Adviser ran in.
"Empiress the Veredia have attacked serval colonies one of witch was a Coreworlds colony" he sead "there message to one of the ships were fowarded to Here"
the empiress read the mesage, she looked up with shame in her face
"does noone luarn from others mistakes Imperlism is not the way" she sead shaimfully "assemble the Houses time to go to war"

the council room
"i wish to put forward a declaration of war and put forwards to the houses a vote" the empiress sead from her thone in the room.
"and who is it with may we ask and why, we know how you are mayne!" sead a Sha'Tal lord
"the Veredia Empire for acts of Imperlism and attack a Allie" she sead "with weapons givin to them by us"
the Sha'Tal and Sha'La Lords looked away when she looked round, the lower houses mumered.
"you have heared the wishes and she asks you to vote all in favor say aye" the Chamber lord sead
"AYE" the room roared
"and agenst say nay" the chamer lord asked
"nay" few voices shouted
"Declaration of war is passed LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE" the CL shouted
"LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE" the room roared.
it was settled war was now on all the house gave full comand of there fleets to the Empiress.

[code]
To: Veredia Empire
From: The Dark Empire
subject: Declaration of War

the Dark Empire has passed the Declaration of war apon you as of 00:20 GMT we are at war

[code]

100s of ships were preparing to attack Mutipy Veredia targets new colonys, mining posts and surpply lines.
the war would be short but the empire was not taking chances, the Empiress knew that the Sha'Tal and Sha'La would try and use this to there advantage but she wouldnt let them she couldnt.

"Get my Son and his sister here now" the empiress ordered to the adviser who came in. about 10 minates later Adem and Faith walked in they were bickering.
"silences" the empiress snaped "this war i want Adem you to lead the Fleets attack them and kill there ships, the colonies to be taken over understand"
"yes mother anything elce" he asked
"yes tell me of any stange thing the Sha'Tal and Sha'La ships do right away no matter the surcamstainces" she replyed and waved him off. he left the room.
"now you Faith i want teh Stigmata to work hard on Veredia crack teams to attack there Plants on there colonies and such also keep an eye on the Trators i want them monatored closely" she waved faith off. she didnt like what she was forced into.

[code:1:e015e97312]
To:Admiral Davidson
From: Admiral Shela

Then it will be war you have attacked a coreworld Colony they are one of our most favored Allies its not personal.

[/code:1:e015e97312]

the Dark Empire ships swang round the moon, as soon as they came round they opened fired.
2 muti missile fussion missiles flew at the Black Death within 400Kms they split into 4 warheads each they speed towards the ship 300Km.....250Km....200Kms....150Km......100Km......50Km.
the other ships opened fire plasma fire went for the ships, 2 Manson dreadnoughts exited just behind the Veredia Ships they opened fire, fighters swarmed the Veredia. the fight wasnt to disable the VE ships but to destroy.
out of nowere the Sha'Til exited hyperspace.

"mam a Shin Zu Frigate with escorts has just enter the area mam there...Pirate ships markings and IC tag shows pirate" sead the Scan Officer
"WHAT!!!" she roared back "GOD DAM IT get ehe She'Klans to attack them"

Planet Ravan the Heart of the empire

the Throne room
in the dark throne room the elderly Empiress was sitting there when a Adviser ran in.
"Empiress the Veredia have attacked serval colonies one of witch was a Coreworlds colony" he sead "there message to one of the ships were fowarded to Here"
the empiress read the mesage, she looked up with shame in her face
"does noone luarn from others mistakes Imperlism is not the way" she sead shaimfully "assemble the Houses time to go to war"

the council room
"i wish to put forward a declaration of war and put forwards to the houses a vote" the empiress sead from her thone in the room.
"and who is it with may we ask and why, we know how you are mayne!" sead a Sha'Tal lord
"the Veredia Empire for acts of Imperlism and attack a Allie" she sead "with weapons givin to them by us"
the Sha'Tal and Sha'La Lords looked away when she looked round, the lower houses mumered.
"you have heared the wishes and she asks you to vote all in favor say aye" the Chamber lord sead
"AYE" the room roared
"and agenst say nay" the chamer lord asked
"nay" few voices shouted
"Declaration of war is passed LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE" the CL shouted
"LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE" the room roared.
it was settled war was now on all the house gave full comand of there fleets to the Empiress.

[code]
To: Veredia Empire
From: The Dark Empire
subject: Declaration of War

the Dark Empire has passed the Declaration of war apon you as of 00:20 GMT we are at war

[code]

100s of ships were preparing to attack Mutipy Veredia targets new colonys, mining posts and surpply lines.
the war would be short but the empire was not taking chances, the Empiress knew that the Sha'Tal and Sha'La would try and use this to there advantage but she wouldnt let them she couldnt.

"Get my Son and his sister here now" the empiress ordered to the adviser who came in. about 10 minates later Adem and Faith walked in they were bickering.
"silences" the empiress snaped "this war i want Adem you to lead the Fleets attack them and kill there ships, the colonies to be taken over understand"
"yes mother anything elce" he asked
"yes tell me of any stange thing the Sha'Tal and Sha'La ships do right away no matter the surcamstainces" she replyed and waved him off. he left the room.
"now you Faith i want teh Stigmata to work hard on Veredia crack teams to attack there Plants on there colonies and such also keep an eye on the Trators i want them monatored closely" she waved faith off. she didnt like what she was forced into.

[code:1:bc98f06b04]
To:Admiral Davidson
From: Admiral Shela

Then it will be war you have attacked a coreworld Colony they are one of our most favored Allies its not personal.

[/code:1:bc98f06b04]

the Dark Empire ships swang round the moon, as soon as they came round they opened fired.
2 muti missile fussion missiles flew at the Black Death within 400Kms they split into 4 warheads each they speed towards the ship 300Km.....250Km....200Kms....150Km......100Km......50Km.
the other ships opened fire plasma fire went for the ships, 2 Manson dreadnoughts exited just behind the Veredia Ships they opened fire, fighters swarmed the Veredia. the fight wasnt to disable the VE ships but to destroy.
out of nowere the Sha'Til exited hyperspace.

"mam a Shin Zu Frigate with escorts has just enter the area mam there...Pirate ships markings and IC tag shows pirate" sead the Scan Officer
"WHAT!!!" she roared back "GOD DAM IT get ehe She'Klans to attack them"

Planet Ravan the Heart of the empire

the Throne room
in the dark throne room the elderly Empiress was sitting there when a Adviser ran in.
"Empiress the Veredia have attacked serval colonies one of witch was a Coreworlds colony" he sead "there message to one of the ships were fowarded to Here"
the empiress read the mesage, she looked up with shame in her face
"does noone luarn from others mistakes Imperlism is not the way" she sead shaimfully "assemble the Houses time to go to war"

the council room
"i wish to put forward a declaration of war and put forwards to the houses a vote" the empiress sead from her thone in the room.
"and who is it with may we ask and why, we know how you are mayne!" sead a Sha'Tal lord
"the Veredia Empire for acts of Imperlism and attack a Allie" she sead "with weapons givin to them by us"
the Sha'Tal and Sha'La Lords looked away when she looked round, the lower houses mumered.
"you have heared the wishes and she asks you to vote all in favor say aye" the Chamber lord sead
"AYE" the room roared
"and agenst say nay" the chamer lord asked
"nay" few voices shouted
"Declaration of war is passed LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE" the CL shouted
"LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE" the room roared.
it was settled war was now on all the house gave full comand of there fleets to the Empiress.

[code]
To: Veredia Empire
From: The Dark Empire
subject: Declaration of War

the Dark Empire has passed the Declaration of war apon you as of 00:20 GMT we are at war

[code]

100s of ships were preparing to attack Mutipy Veredia targets new colonys, mining posts and surpply lines.
the war would be short but the empire was not taking chances, the Empiress knew that the Sha'Tal and Sha'La would try and use this to there advantage but she wouldnt let them she couldnt.

"Get my Son and his sister here now" the empiress ordered to the adviser who came in. about 10 minates later Adem and Faith walked in they were bickering.
"silences" the empiress snaped "this war i want Adem you to lead the Fleets attack them and kill there ships, the colonies to be taken over understand"
"yes mother anything elce" he asked
"yes tell me of any stange thing the Sha'Tal and Sha'La ships do right away no matter the surcamstainces" she replyed and waved him off. he left the room.
"now you Faith i want teh Stigmata to work hard on Veredia crack teams to attack there Plants on there colonies and such also keep an eye on the Trators i want them monatored closely" she waved faith off. she didnt like what she was forced into.

[code:1:7e939914cd]
To:Admiral Davidson
From: Admiral Shela

Then it will be war you have attacked a coreworld Colony they are one of our most favored Allies its not personal.

[/code:1:7e939914cd]

the Dark Empire ships swang round the moon, as soon as they came round they opened fired.
2 muti missile fussion missiles flew at the Black Death within 400Kms they split into 4 warheads each they speed towards the ship 300Km.....250Km....200Kms....150Km......100Km......50Km.
the other ships opened fire plasma fire went for the ships, 2 Manson dreadnoughts exited just behind the Veredia Ships they opened fire, fighters swarmed the Veredia. the fight wasnt to disable the VE ships but to destroy.
out of nowere the Sha'Til exited hyperspace.

"mam a Shin Zu Frigate with escorts has just enter the area mam there...Pirate ships markings and IC tag shows pirate" sead the Scan Officer
"WHAT!!!" she roared back "GOD DAM IT get ehe She'Klans to attack them"

Planet Ravan the Heart of the empire

the Throne room
in the dark throne room the elderly Empiress was sitting there when a Adviser ran in.
"Empiress the Veredia have attacked serval colonies one of witch was a Coreworlds colony" he sead "there message to one of the ships were fowarded to Here"
the empiress read the mesage, she looked up with shame in her face
"does noone luarn from others mistakes Imperlism is not the way" she sead shaimfully "assemble the Houses time to go to war"

the council room
"i wish to put forward a declaration of war and put forwards to the houses a vote" the empiress sead from her thone in the room.
"and who is it with may we ask and why, we know how you are mayne!" sead a Sha'Tal lord
"the Veredia Empire for acts of Imperlism and attack a Allie" she sead "with weapons givin to them by us"
the Sha'Tal and Sha'La Lords looked away when she looked round, the lower houses mumered.
"you have heared the wishes and she asks you to vote all in favor say aye" the Chamber lord sead
"AYE" the room roared
"and agenst say nay" the chamer lord asked
"nay" few voices shouted
"Declaration of war is passed LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE" the CL shouted
"LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE" the room roared.
it was settled war was now on all the house gave full comand of there fleets to the Empiress.

[code]
To: Veredia Empire
From: The Dark Empire
subject: Declaration of War

the Dark Empire has passed the Declaration of war apon you as of 00:20 GMT we are at war

[code]

100s of ships were preparing to attack Mutipy Veredia targets new colonys, mining posts and surpply lines.
the war would be short but the empire was not taking chances, the Empiress knew that the Sha'Tal and Sha'La would try and use this to there advantage but she wouldnt let them she couldnt.

"Get my Son and his sister here now" the empiress ordered to the adviser who came in. about 10 minates later Adem and Faith walked in they were bickering.
"silences" the empiress snaped "this war i want Adem you to lead the Fleets attack them and kill there ships, the colonies to be taken over understand"
"yes mother anything elce" he asked
"yes tell me of any stange thing the Sha'Tal and Sha'La ships do right away no matter the surcamstainces" she replyed and waved him off. he left the room.
"now you Faith i want teh Stigmata to work hard on Veredia crack teams to attack there Plants on there colonies and such also keep an eye on the Trators i want them monatored closely" she waved faith off. she didnt like what she was forced into.

OOC: Corpsac, I made a new thread for your war, I had been intending to do what i did with it for a little while now, just happening a lot sooner than I expected, the battle between my fleet in this system here however will continue in this thread, or you can move it to the other one if you want. If you want more specific information, just TG me, I'll be sure to check them. The new thread is at http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2977686#2977686

IC:

While some of the fighters and assault ships handled the Hattian and Severnayan fighters, the capital ships turned their guns on the Corpsac fleet. Concentrating fire on the most powerful ships first. The twelve Destriers, in the middle of their assualt on the Takian frigates, much to the Takians' surprise, entered hyperspace. They emerged not long after just to the side of the Corpsac/Veredia battle at the colonies.

The cruisers combined fire on the small enemy warships, three to a frigate, and opened fire.

The capital recieved word of the colony under forced annexation, and ordered the ISD battle group Fireblade to the colony. This force consists of:
3 ISD (MK II)
2 VSD
2 Neb-B frigates
4 Tantive corvettes
8 squadrons. Two of each Wing type here: A, B, E, X. TIE Interceptors and Defenders (both shielded) are in one of the ISDs, raising squadron compliment to 14.

Commodore Joshua Toldreyn stood aboard the bridge of the Fireblade, looking out at the blue of hyperspace. The Emperor has ordered him to do whatever is necessary to prevent the annexation of Gaviran and any other colony that is threatened, and so the Commodore shall carry out the order.
The fleet soon reverted to realspace over the colony, and it seems that it already is in the process of being annexed.

[code:1:102039a526]Veredian vessels, you are ordered to cease and desist all attempts at annexing our and our allies' territory. Failure to comply will result in your destruction. Choose wisely.[/code:1:102039a526]

IC:

*Sigh* "So be it. If they will not leave, we will have to evict them. This is Mertens to all ships, commence attack!" The admiral didn't want to get into this fight, but he couldn't just stand by while friends were subjugated.

Over Thirty Eclipse bombers (Each loaded with twenty 200 Megaton fusion torpedos) launched from the Indignation towards the enemy capital ships, ready be joined by fifty Starfire fighters from both the Indignation and the Annhilator. This small amount of fighters would probably suffice. More could be launched, if required, but why waste the resources?

Meanwhile, the plasma turrets on the dreadnoughts glowed to a hellish red, within seconds, eight beams of azure plasma lanced out towards the Veredian ships.

"Sir! Main gun charge at eighty percent...90 percent...one hundred percent!"

"Open fire. Target their biggest ship."

"Aye sir." The weapons officer licked his lips. It is a rare occurance that a dreadnought's main gun is fired. There usually hasn't been the need.

A monsterous white-light beam of excited gravitons, brighter than the system's sun fired from the Indignation's hull. Static washed over displays all over the ship, everyone on the ship felt a slight shock as the monsterous beam fired. The main gun was designed to take out other large capital ships. And this it does quite well, at the cost of leaving the ship vlunerable (except for low level defense lasers) for a few seconds.

The Battlecruisers targeted the smaller enemy warships with their railguns and fired. Dull *Thunk*s were felt on the battlecruisers as they released their projectiles at near light speeds (1/2 lightspeed) They then added blasts from their phased particle beam cannons to the frey. (The PPBC is specifically designed to kill shields. It does double damage to them while doing slightly less damage to an unshielded target. I'll be providing an explanation of how this works later.)

Overall there was a massive amount of firepower heading to the Veredian fleet.

An Adornian Nova-class missile corvette drops out of Transit into the system. It sits out of weapons range, observing the on going battle. A young ensign enters the cramped bridge and makes his way to the captain.
"Sir, according to our scans and calculations, the Veredian fleet will overwhelm the other forces. Shall we intervene?"

The captain turns to the ensign.
"And start an intergalactic war? I don't think so...Have you relyed the information to high command?"
"Yes sir, we should-"

A voice breaks into the conversation form the commuications panel.
"Captain, High Command has ordered us to hold position. They say a small task force is on route to continue observation, and possibly open diplomatic negoations or interven at the Commodores discretion."

The captain mutters something about incomptence in High Command and then turns to the bridge crew.
"Battle Alert Yellow. Shields up. Do not ifre unless fired upon."
"Yes sir!"

At the edge of the system a huge swirling red vortex appeared and hive invasion fleet kraken emerged in responce to the corpsac fleets aggression.
The huge fleet roared into the system firing pulses of emp into any and all ships / fleets attempting to stop the madness that had erupted.

Open comms from Hive Fleet @ all vessels:
WE ARE THE HIVE WE ARE PERFECTION, SEACE FIRE OR DIE!

ooc> Fleet consists of:
1 Hive Patriach size = 1/4 the size of our own dear sun
1million swarm fighters
2 Hive Queens size = of the planet mars approx
500,000 swarm fighters each
4 Norn Queens size = medium sized moon
100,000 swarm fighters each
8 Young Norn Queens size = 3 - 6 km diameter
50,000 swarm fighters each
100 royal guard size = 100 meters in lenth
400 cuttle fish transport = 75 meters in lenth
each carrying, one Lictor pod, 1 avatar pod, one tamed Carnifex and 500 ground troops.
1 Patrionius - exactly the same size and appearance as a Norn queen.
Full compliment of hive bioweapons

At the edge of the system a huge swirling red vortex appeared and hive invasion fleet kraken emerged in responce to the corpsac fleets aggression.
The huge fleet roared into the system firing pulses of emp into any and all ships / fleets attempting to stop the madness that had erupted.

Open comms from Hive Fleet @ all vessels:
WE ARE THE HIVE WE ARE PERFECTION, SEACE FIRE OR DIE!

ooc> Fleet consists of:
1 Hive Patriach size = 1/4 the size of our own dear sun
1million swarm fighters
2 Hive Queens size = of the planet mars approx
500,000 swarm fighters each
4 Norn Queens size = medium sized moon
100,000 swarm fighters each
8 Young Norn Queens size = 3 - 6 km diameter
50,000 swarm fighters each
100 royal guard size = 100 meters in lenth
400 cuttle fish transport = 75 meters in lenth
each carrying, one Lictor pod, 1 avatar pod, one tamed Carnifex and 500 ground troops.
1 Patrionius - exactly the same size and appearance as a Norn queen.
Full compliment of hive bioweapons

At the edge of the system, the KHGV Unconventional Diplomacy hung in space; the 350 meter long ebon form of a Kanuckistani Dark Valor-class 'Pocket Dreadnaught' Frigate watching and listening on passives while sheathed in near pefect layers of ECM; concealing the vessel's presence, in many ways, more perfectly than a true cloaking device.

Via undetectible zero-point datacoms, several members of the Admiralty debated reaction, and tho several Superfortresses, and even the Battleplate at Earth, could respond almost instantly, it apeared that other forces had the repulsion of the invaders fairly well in hand; tho the frigate that was their eyes would make an excelent showing in and of itself, and would likly have been deployed, if not for the sudden arrival of Hive Fleet Imodius...

Imediatly, plans to deploy a single frigate were scraped, and nearby supercapital ships alerted; they'd stay quiet and see how the Hive acted; intervention, now, would likly only come if the Hive threatened the populace. And then, it would be swift and decisive.

OOC:
My ECM includes grav-field negation to avoid mass detection systems, BTW.

**OOC: taps the hull, six feet of reinforced titanium/polymer, tungstun ceramite and hardened titanium plateing, hence the 95 billion dollar price tag. It's a beast of a ship alright, fast enough to evade most fire, and armroed enough to shrug off the rest, they are well made, and built to last. . . hence why there are only three defending this system.**

One of the ships was caught flat footed, shot after shot raking across it's shield, before they collapsed allowing shot after shot to gouge chunks from the hulling. A lucky shot catches the ship as it turns to evade fire, cutting a swath across the torpedoe tubes and fusing several of them shut. The other two weave, utilizing the powerful engines to their fullest and evading major damage. In unison, the two target and fire at the largest ship present, a cloud of 300 fusion torpedeos streaming out against the single target, while the beligered ship manages to fire off a single broadside volley in mid-roll, a mear 75 scatter torps firing to engage the fighter escorts. Once again the silver arrows shake apart, revealing 1500 anti-air missiles.

Though impressive, the ground commander watches the battle above with a sinking realization that they could not win against such overwelming odds. . . he turns the key in the security hut, and opens the safe. Within, a small, metalic sphere shimmers as it pulses with energy, and he takes the small device. Anti-matter. . . a last resort, and one he prays will not have to be used to vaporize the planetoid.

"They can't get this deposit. . . " he says, grabbing his mining notes and pulling a large map of the mineshafts to the core of the moon down. "they can't get the Takatanium. . . I can't allow it. . ." he looks at the tiny orb for a moment, reguarding it with hatred, yet reverence "even if I'm forced to make it react myself. . . they can't get it." He slips the orb in the pocket of his jacket, grabs a pistol, and vanishes deep into the complex, heading to the furthest reaches of the mine, and towards the single mineral vein of true value to the Takians.

"Sir hive want us to stop fireing think there goin to attack us?" sead the comms officer
"dont think so but...dam it tell the ships to pull back tell the manson dreadnoughts to cover our butts and fighters to do the same" she ordered

with that the capital ships turned away the mansons still fireing to help the other ships pull out.
3 Loki Firgate were hit by the Hive EMP and were lsot due to incoming fire from Veredia ships they exploded with wounderus sight.

[code:1:b4d44e7c82]
Hive fleet may we ask why you want us to stop fireing? the Veredia Goverment has been overthrone and a new imperalist "King" as he calls himself now has taken over, our fight is with him not you and u have remained a loyal allie thanks to your EMP we lost 3 ships with vary good crews but we will not hold u responsible for now
[/code:1:b4d44e7c82]

OOC: i will post agin in a few hours g2g college to go to :(

*The Hive concentrated emp fire upon the remaning ships now ignoring CorpSac fleet. The hive was pissed it was obvious- but why. . .

The entire fleet began to move towards the centre of the system, the 10 capital ships raking their single huge emp cannons in solid pulses through the enemy fleets, the hive Patriach however simply followed the other ships having noted a disturbance in the warp, he could feel another ships presence but did not as yet know where it was nor who it was. 6 royal guard turned their attention to the Taka ships. The elite royal guard spin in space having evolved to perfection their shimmering black carapace glinting against the star studed backdrop of space. They opened fire causing a wave of emp larger than their target to surge towards it.*

open comms from hive Patriach:
WE ARE THE HIVE STAND DOWN YOU WEAPONS IMMEDIATLY OR YOU WILL BE DESTROYED.
We are the hive we are perfection.

Closed comms @ corpsac fleet:
Our will is our own corpsac, do not question us for you will not like the answers. As far as you are concerned we are colonising this system.
We are the hive, we are perfection.

the CorpSac fleet pulled back with the mansons giveing cover fire, fighters pulled back and dock. a total lose was 3 frigates, 1 Tigerclaw, 3 She'Klans, 6 Lifeless Mk I, 35 fighters.

[code:1:9a84f43bcf]
To: All ships
From: Admiral Shela

We are goin our ships are needed elce were, we will return if the Veredia has not been driven away we will return in numbers. if there gone we will leave any colony under the control of Veredia when we return will be attacked and retruned to the rightful owner. good luck to you all but Veredia

[/code:1:9a84f43bcf]

with that the ships moved away and entered hyperspace leaving the system for a new target.

The shin Zu Frigate turned and opened fire on Hive ships near by, the captin a sha'La out law of the empire had a bitter haterade for the Hive and now he had the chance to attack.
opening fire with all he had the escorts moved in attacking fast but were cut up and destroyed. the shin Zu frigate tryed to fight but was destroyed with ease by the Hive ships.

OOC: hope u dont mind Hive

Static washed over the displays of the CF ships, and everyone onboard felt a slight tingle. But the ships themselves were undamaged, their computers had been specially hardened when they were designed. Some minor systems suffered a slight loss of memory, but within seconds, they reset.

"What the hell was that!?" Mertens yelled. The fleet was confused, that EMP blast hadn't come from the Veredian fleet.

"Sir! We're recieving a transmission...mother of god...That ship is huge! Relaying transmission to you now."

The voice on the other end of the comlink sounded alien "WE ARE THE HIVE STAND DOWN YOUR WEAPONS IMMEDIATELY OR YOU WILL BE DESTROYED."

Mertens listened attentively to the "hive"'s transmission. "Hmm...Sensors, get me a reading on that ship."

"Carbon...Amino acids...Trace radioactive elements...That ship is alive!" The sensor operator replied.

"I see. I want the torpedos equipped with Genebuster bombs, but don't fire them until I say so. Lets see how this pans out before we attack them. Cease fire upon the Veredian ships for the time being." Mertens didn't want to have to use the Genebuster warheads. They had been only recently developed, and he considered their use dishonorable. They were universal bioweapons (well, universal to anything with DNA strands.) He didn't enjoy even having the option to use bioweapons on any enemy, but with such a large target, such weapons would be necessary.

OOC: Hattia, I'm assuming your (and the colonial) ground forces use ballistic weapons, although since Coreworlds is star wars, you use blasters correct?

IC:

Lieutenant McCauley manuevered his fighter in position with the rest of the squadron, the Hattian pilots were putting up a damn good fight, but against the best Veredia had to offer, the battle wasn't necessarily in their favour.

The squadron opened up with their 35mm mass drivers and let fly their pulse guns, smashing apart a flight of Hattian fighters. One managed to survive the barrage and barreled into a head on collision with the squadron leader, the XO took over and ordered the squadron to split up and take their own targets.

A Hattian missile claimed another Vortex, but a barrage launched from a light destroyer claimed three of the Hattian fighters down in revenge. More Hattian fighters, now backed by fighters from one of the other colonies made a vicious counterattack, taking down nine Veredian fighters.

McCauley responded with a curse and a stream of mass driver rounds which hammered into a Hattian fighter and destroyed it. More Hattian fighters went down and the Veredian Vortexes regrouped, and now backed by Jackhammer assault ships, made their way straight towards the enemy strike craft.

*Assault Ship 023*

The assault ship rocked as enemy fire impacted onto the vessel's hull, but there was no real damage. The hefty armament of the ship, and the other Jackhammers, raked the ground, clearing out hordes of Severnayan ground forces.

The ship touched ground, and the primary bay doors opened, a lance of Velara hovertanks raced out, hammering enemy positions with rail cannon fire. Infantry poured out of the various hatches, and the bay doors of the assault ship, Sergeant Hunter rallied his platoon to him and charged out to the Severnayan infantry positions.

One of his platoon members launched a rocket at a machine gun nest, sending bodies flying in all directions. Hunter raised his mass driver rifle to his shoulder and poured numerous rounds into a pair of Severnayan soldiers. The soldiers' compatriots returned fire, wounding two men and killing a third.

The battle continued to rage, as the assault ships continued to land more and more ground troops dirtside. Lead by armour forces, and with some light vehicles for themselves, the infantry followed closely, downing any Severnayan soldier in sight.

Yeah, they use ballistic weapons.

[code:1:2c701d4a1e]
"Home base, this is Alpha-1. Heavy losses, estimate 60%. What are my orders?
[/code:1:2c701d4a1e]

[code:1:2c701d4a1e]
You must hold, we are evacuating everyone to the mountains...
[/code:1:2c701d4a1e]

Severnaya

[code:1:2c701d4a1e]
All forces, withdraw to the capital immediately!
[/code:1:2c701d4a1e]

The infantry began running towards the capital while armor units turned and fought for a few minutes to slow the enemy down. The Veredians were following and soon came in range of the artillery placed in and around the capital. MLRSs opened up units targeted by soldiers with laser designators and conventional artillery began firing in front of the retreating soldiers.

There was a crackle and space seems to distort for a moment near the Adornian corvette. A few seconds later a small fleet of ships apears from Jump Transit. Leading the fleet is the Noble-class vessel, Red Dragon. Accompaning it are five Royal-class cruisers, seven more Nova missile corvettes and a Monarch-class carrier.

Commodore James White sits in the command chair of the Red Dragon, a dreadnaught of incredible power. This would be the first time he would lead these ships into battle. He stroked the leather of his armrest for a moment. After a brief assesment of the situation, he turns to his communications officer.
"Battle Alert Blue. All hands to battle stations. Launch fighters and standby."
"Yes, sir."
"Oh, ensign, call in some reinforcements. This is going to be tough...."

*The cuttle fish transport vessels hurtled towards the planet that was under attack their hardened carapace standing up to the buffeting as they ripped through the atmosphere. Moving at breakneck speeds avoiding any potential anti aircraft activity their sped towards the ground pulling up at the last moment. The 50 craft opened up and 500 hive warriors emerged from each vessel and formed into orderly groups before moving towards the fighting. The creatures had picked up fighting on the ground and would not stand for it. They were only 3 ft off the ground but they where moving at a constant 90MPH towards their targets huge foot long scything talons ripping through any undergrowth that attempted to impede them.
One of the hive queens turned on the attacking corp sac vessel, a huge purple lance of plasma surged towards it. The beam was easily the size of a planet. It slammed into the corp sac rebel vessels and for a moment their was only blinding light. Then the energy dispersed leaving behind nothing but trace elements to show that a ship had once been there.
The rest of the fleet turned their attention towards the still attacking vessels firing lances of emp into them so as to disable and not destroy them, with the exception of the hive patriarch who began to move towards the spot he was firing upon along with 13 royal guard.*

open comms from Hive Queen @ all now passive ships:
*A soothing female voice crackled onto the air.*
We are the hive, we are perfection. We praise you for your Honor in this matter and for standing down, please allow us to settle this situation. Should you take no further aggressive action then you will be allowed to leave unharmed. The hive apologies for any damage to your vessels caused by our emp bursts.
We are the hive, we are perfection.

open comms from Hive Patriach @ Cloaked Ship:
WE ARE THE HIVE WE ARE PERFECTION, IDENTIFY OR DIE!

open comms from Royal Guard @ remaining aggressor ships:
*A hissing tin voice crackled over the air*
WE ARE THE HIVE WE ARE PERFECTION, THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING STAND DOWN OR THE USE OF LETHAL WEAPONRY SHALL BE ENGAGED.
WE ARE THE HIVE WE ARE PERFECTION.

"Attention hive vessels, this is Admiral Davidson, have stood down, and now that our systems are becoming operational once again after your EMP blast, we are withdrawing from our system, please allow us time to withdraw our forces from the ground"

The infantry and armour units on the ground retreated back to the Jackhammer assault ships, which had been spared from the EMP blast since they were in the atmosphere of the moon, and they withdrew to the troopships, it would take several trips, but they hoped the Hive would let them leave.

Meanwhile, aboard the Veredian fleet, engineers and technicians and anyone who could help them worked frantically to get systems back online, so far communications, main power, and engines were back, to some extent. They worked furiously to get the rest of the ship back online as well, hoping to be able to leave as soon as possible.

OOC: Well, that was anti-climatic.

open comms from Hive Patriach @ Cloaked Ship:
WE ARE THE HIVE WE ARE PERFECTION, IDENTIFY OR DIE!



An audio-only laser tightbeam transmission was bounced off one on the nearby gas giants shortly after the reception of the Hive ultimatum; a simple yet effective method of replying to the Hive Patriach without revealing their position.

"We represent a currently neutral third party interested in only the well being of civilians in this conflict; we hope that your intervention has removed the need of deploying our own forces, but will continue to monitor. Leave the local populations alone, and we care not for your activities within this system."

And that was it; the Unconventional Diplomacy's commander, having been breifed on their fleet's last run in with the Hive, deciding it best to avoid naming his faction, lest the Hive make a point of creating further conflict out of spite. However, should it come to that, they had been issued several new munitions sure to ruin the Hive Fleet's day.

OOC:
Hive, even detecting them through the warp should be nigh-impossible; all my ships and facilities, with rare exception, maintain active ASPEW field coverage.

ooc> I know where u are - particles are bumping off you in a similar way that water molecules swirl around an object in the sea, the hive can detect this due to their adaption over billions of years.

ic> The ground troops roared into the clearing as the Veredia troops began to pull back the first series opend fire on the retreating troops with snare gel, a thick glue like substance used to capture prey. Large globules raced across the small space with their firers hot on its heals ready to pounce upon fallen prey.

comms from Hive @ all passives:
We are the hive, we are perfection. Leave now and never look back upon this place.

cooms from Hive @ Veredia Admiral:
We are the hive we are perfection, You may leave but your ground forces are forfeit. Consider them "lost in action". Think yourselfs lucky to still be alive.

comms from Hive @ unidentified ship:
We are the hive, we are perfection. Your reasoning is bland, leave here now or suffer our might.

The hive ships swirl into orbit firing emp into the ships hiding in the moons shadow to stop them leaving.

Admiral Mertens sat down in his chair. "Comms, send the following message to the 'hive fleet.' Tell them that we'll move out to the edge of the system, but if they make any moves against the civilians in these systems, their lives will be forfit. But phrase it more...diplomatically."

"Aye sir!" The comtechnician got to work on the message.
[code:1:ca18346daa]To "the hive"

We will withdraw to the edge of the system, but if you mistreat the civilian population in any way, we will return. We'll be watching...[/code:1:ca18346daa]

a bump so I see what evil plans the hive has in store for these planets.

comms from Hive @ unidentified ship:
We are the hive, we are perfection. Your reasoning is bland, leave here now or suffer our might.

The hive ships swirl into orbit firing emp into the ships hiding in the moons shadow to stop them leaving.

OOC:
Are you firing on my ship? You just told it to leave, so I'll assume you aren't, for now.

And my ship'll continue to maintain stealth operations; they don't know you can see them as you claim, and it should atleast make them a harder target, and nearly impossible to get decent sensor data of(which should be fairly interesting; it's a neat ship).

IC:

The Kanuckistani vessel's reply came in the same manner as befor;

"Your might does not concern us; the welfare of the innocent does. Our military stands ready to reply with unyeilding force, in defence of the innocent and kin alike, should either be threatened further by any party this day."

A handful of seconds pass in silence, befor...

"Perfection is a relative state which gains meaning only in light of ultimatly arbitrary paramiters; it is without meaning outside of some finite context and thus not absoloute by definition."

Admiral Davidson cursed under his breath, reports were streaming in that the ground forces were being overrun by the hive, they were using some sort of weird gel like substance to ensnare them. The remaining Jackhammers and fighters returned to the troopships and fleet, which hastily departed.

http://www.planetc.com/users/~drgnslyr/stds9/ds9-1.jpg
Mean wile out post 116 was observing all the conspireing events and relaying information back to UTA space command HQ.
(i may join this if im not ignored.. id appreshate not being ignored)

OOC: I don't know about anyone else, but seeing as I have no reason to ignore you, if you RP properly your in...are you still planning on joining the three kingdoms RP?

OOC: Your participation should pose no problem, TFU, provided that all the participants leave godmoding at the door.

Ohh yeah, BUMP so I can find out what hideous fate the hive has in store for the civilians on these planets.

Ok, I need to go off topic to ask a really stupid question. (Please dont pelt me with rocks) What is godmoding? No one has said it to me but i would still like to know. Sorry for going off topic.
Thanks. :D

Ok, I need to go off topic to ask a really stupid question. (Please dont pelt me with rocks) What is godmoding? No one has said it to me but i would still like to know. Sorry for going off topic.
Thanks. :D

Godmoding...Check the stickies for a more complete answer, but the short and sweet is this:

When a nation does something that its stats can't support (such as a 5 million man nation having a billion man army, or a march/april 04 nation having large numbers of space ships.)

Or having combat effective tanks/planes/whatevers that are too cheap (such as a 500$ tank, where as real tanks are more on the order of 5,000,000$.)

Ohh yeah, *throws rock*

(cool :D and im going to be invloved in the three kingdoms rp and this one if its ok :P at any rate )
The constolation class TAS stargazer was moveing towrds the battle fleild .. at warp factor 8, a few Hour's later it arives Scaning the entier feild and all ships present ..

http://www.strategyplanet.com/sfc/omega/shipyards/fed/ca/wztngfca.jpg
(lol ooc that ship is an exploration ship ... deisned to" investgate ")

((OOC: I'm a bit confused now, has the Hive entered the Maelificum system, and if not, what about the war going on there?))

OOC: Taka, Hive is in system, threatening to blow up anyone who tries to open fire, and annihalating my ground forces. My fleet has fled, as Corpsac has declared war on me and thats going on in a different topic.

OOC: Taka, I'm pretty sure that the hive has a sinister motive in mind for helping you. My fleet is at the edge of the system and can respond to any hive agression within seconds. Of course, I'm going to need a lot of firepower to take out something as big as a planet (a norn queen or whatever the hell the Hive's command ship is.)

... :|

Admiral Mertens was sitting in his quarters, contemplating what could be done about the hive. He was sure that they had something evil in mind for the Taka colony, as well as the others. But they had some big ships, and to take those down would require alot of firepower as well as alternative tactics...

He punched the small communication device in his room "Comms, send command a message. Tell them that we will require more firepower, and tell them to load up on genebusters, they'll need it."

Now...How would he defeat the massive hive fleet...

OOC: Taka, I'm pretty sure that the hive has a sinister motive in mind for helping you. My fleet is at the edge of the system and can respond to any hive agression within seconds. Of course, I'm going to need a lot of firepower to take out something as big as a planet (a norn queen or whatever the hell the Hive's command ship is.)

OOC:
I've got a Battleplate and a pair of Superfortresses on standby. They should be more than enough to win in a conventional fight; his fleet composition is almost exactly what my supercap ships are optimised to fight, but taken to the extream.

((OOC: Bigger they are, harder they fall. . . if need be, I've got a few more Mining Guild assets I could pull out to fight against the Nids))

The three Keikos watched the retreating enemy with a sence of relife and dread, watching the massive living ships slowly move into orbit.

"Relay a message to Takian Command, inform them we've a new threat moving in here. . . and I don't think it's going to stop with Maelificum. . . Arbiter may be in its path next."

[code:1:ac84a37c79]

Unknown lifeforms,

We thank you for your assistance, however we feel that your presence here is a potential problem, and request you stop advancing, and pull back to the edge of system space. If you either can not, or will not comply with this, we will be forced to take drastic actions to assure you do not pose a danger to our colony. The Takian Armada has been notified, and we will not take kindly to uninvited presences in our system space. As of 0800 hours, the Maelificum system is a recognized Takian System.

[/code:1:ac84a37c79]

Above Hattian Armenia

"Alpha 1 to all ships, stand down. Message from Hive fleet recieved. Do not let them get close to the planet, any ideas on how to kill it?"

OOC: BUMP!!! I must know what evil plans the hive has in store for these planets.

The huge fleet moved into a gentile orbit around the planet. The hive dropships moved off the surface taking with them the enitre army that had been deployed (ooc need numbers pls) leaving only faint traces of and sign their had been a conflict - only 18 had fallen and their bodies had been taken back to be reconstituted into the hive. The cuttle fish transports took off and retunred to the orbiting hive queen.
The Hive patriach recognised the enemy ship for who it was - the energy signatures very recognisable to it. The patriach well jumped and was instantly in orbit with his fleet. It opened comms to the people below.

comms:
We are the hive we are perfection, we regret to inform you that this system has been selected as a breeding ground for the hives young norn queens. We must request your evacuation of this planet - you have as long as you deam nessacary. The hive however is not infinate in its temper. As such you will be timed. We will inquire as to your situation and would be more that willing to help you, in return we request only that you leave this system. We must itterate we have no intention of halming you, however if you have anycaptured troops we request that they be handed over to hive powers for ajudication. We regret to inform you that the nearby star is to be novaformed and as such the stability of nearby planet cannot be garanteed.
We are the hive we are perfection.

The hive fleet orbeted far above the planet weapons on standby monitoring movements on the planet below. 13 Royal guard began sweeping the area up to over 5,000 miles ranged ensuring that the hive would not be surprised.

"Nova the sun?" the security officer on duty asked, looking over to his boss "is that even possible?"

"It shouldn't be, but lets not take any chances. . . stall for time, I've got a plan."

She tapped out a secured transmition to Arbiter command, along with anouther to the hive, encrypting it slightly.

As read by the Hive


To Hive

After carful consideration, lack of data not withstanding, we have decided that you are trustworthy, and have decided to accept your offer. To assure the saftety of our people from pirates, we will be sending freighters to return with fighter escort. We ask that you allow them through without incident, both for your convinence and ours of course. Assistance is not nessisary, though we ask that you allow us one week before opperations are completed and we may remove all assets from system. We will releace all claims on this system, and turn it over to you without incident, thank you for giving us a chance to be prepared for our evac.

Takian Mining Guild



The message was sent out, decrypting imediatly at the hive ship, however a halfway decrypted message reached all other ships in the vicinity, some words easily decrtpying before others, reading



xx Hive

xxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx, xxxx xx xxxx not xxxxxxxxxxxx, xx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx xxx trustworthy, xxx have decided to xxxxxx xxxx xxxxx. xx xxxxxx xxx xxxxxxx xxx xxx xxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxx, xx xxxx xx xxxxxx xxxxxxxxx xx xxxxxx xxxx fightxx xxxxx. We ask that you xxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxx, xxxx xx xxxx xxxxxxxxxx xxx xxx xx xxxxx. Assistxxxx xx xxx xxxxxxxx, xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxx xxx xxxxx xx one week before opperationx xxx xxxxxxxxx xxx xx xxx xxxxxxx xxx xxxxxx xxxx xxxxxx xxx xxx xxxxxxx xxx xxxxxx xx xxxx xxxxxx, xxx xxx xx xxxxx xx xxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx, xxxxx xxx xxx xxxxxx xxx x xxxxxx xx be prepared xxx xxx xxx.

Takian Mining Guild

*A cutttle fishtransport vessel sped out of the fleet rushing towards the ground, it was accompanied by 3 royal guard ships that spiraled around it in a figure of 8 swirl as it burst through the upper atmosphere the hive sent out a message.*

comms:
We are the hive, we accept your time barrier however an avatar has been dispatched to oversee the evacuation of your populace. Again, we mean you no harm and as such are passive towards you, should you open fire upon us then we will retaliate with full force.
We would like to reitterate that we are intending to nova form the star in this systemfrom its present state to a purple quandratus. A very rare star type that is perfect for the maturation of our norn queens. The star in this system is ideal for novaforming of this kind.
Once again we thank you for your understanding.
We are the hive, we are perfection.

*The 4 hive ships rippled through the sky puncturing through the low cloud cover at over mach 5.*

(you rleizre i got a ship near all of you in that feild)

The constolation class contunies observeing .

Ops : we have just interspeted a message from one of the factions sir
Tomson : what the ... *patach it though .*
Tomson : *lsiens to it * its a peace messge ..
Ops : ill contunie monitering the freqancys
Tomson : you do that lt
Tact : *yawns* can any thing ever be so boring ?
Ops : ...
Tomson hehe

:arrow: :arrow: (ignored i guess lol)

The CFV Annhilator had intercepted the message from the Taka colony to the hive, and the Taka colony to everyone else.

"Pretty clever. Alright, those buggers are planning to nova the entire system. I want all the firepower we can possibly have. Nukes, Genebusters, the works. We cannot allow the hive to do this. It'll result in the the destruction of several lush and ecologically viable planets. Be ready within the week. I'm going to my quarters. Do not disturb me unless it is absolutely necessary." Admiral Mertens was tired, he felt as though he hadn't slept for weeks. This hive business, with their giant "starships" looming over him was draining his energy. He needed to find some way to destroy those giant ships. He hoped that some of the other ships nearby would be able to assist him with such a hurculean task.

The ground was a flurry of activity, crates of Takatanium being loaded onto shuttles while the trio of Keiko class missile frigates waited in silence, all combat systems turned off. In Arbiter, the remainder of the Takian mining guild gathered together, planning and preparing for the attack.

((OOC: care to skip ahead one week?))

((OOC: care to skip ahead one week?))

OOC: I don't mind, but I'll need to call in some additional forces. Even if the big ships are destroyed, we'll still have to deal with plenty of small fighters.

((OOC: Bugs against a windsheild. . .

turst me, I've got a plan for them))

((OOC: Bugs against a windsheild. . .

turst me, I've got a plan for them))

*The cuttle fishtransport landed in the compund immediatly the 6ft form of the avatar - simply a tall female humanoid - steped out of the ship - looking about she could see that work was being done no matter how ineficcient it was. She looked about and noticed an officer - walking calmlyover to him she said:*

We are the hive representitive, take me to whomever is incharge immediatly. Failure to do so will result in a loss of one day from your required time. Do you understand?

The security officer nodded, walking her towards one of the many habitational buildings. He signaled for her to wait as he hit the coms device.

"Unfortunatly, many of our most secret documents are inside, so we can't let you in to see them, we will however, be glad to make whatever accomadations are nessiary for yours stay. . . I'm afraid we've never run into your. . . um, species, before, so we will have to run a few simple tests to assure that you aren't contageous with any unknown pathogens."

The door slides open, and four men in white suits exit, crarrying medical scanners.

***************************************************************

In space, the Keikos initiated deep space scans, passing the beams over the hiveships as they did so, gathering whatever data they could.

*The hive was enraged*
The avatar turned towards the guard eyes turning from a plae purple into a flame red colour.

"We do not feel you understand the urgency of this situation your delays have just cost you 1 day. You now have 6. That you would dare to assume we would allow any diseases in our culture - we have eradicated all know diseases from your pathetetic excuse for a dna strand. Now let me see the commander immediatly or we will remove another day from your schedule."

She snarled like a tiger at the men in hazard suits. 50 geneharvester jumped out of the landed cuttel fishtransport, 6ft tall and coverd in a black carapace armour, they had no visual weapons however their claws where huge their 6 limbs raking the ground as they walked. Spreading out they watched for any further sign of aggresion.

In space the hive senced the scan its flesh tingeling. Well the hive let them have their fun, they would learn little other than they are an organic fleet, their were very vew solid structures so they would be unable to detect anything further in than a few miles on the larger ships the scans dying out due to the absorbtion.

The men in Hazmat suits drew sidearms, backing against the habitation and leveling them at the invaders. None were fired, as training kicked in to prevent an accident. The officer stepped between them and the avatar, bowing politely.

"my appologies, we will get the commanding officer right away."

six days. . . he thought to himself. still doable, but we can't lose any more time. . .

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Guildmaster O'Dama stepped into the bright sunshine, his cronometer counting down time till zero hour, though twenty four hours had been cut from it to compensate for the loss of time.

"I see you brought more than simply a bodyguard" he said flatly looking over the brood of genestealers. "Perhaps you do not understand our view point here. . . We claimed this system and now we are to simply turn it over? If command had any backbone what so ever we would call your bluff, but instead, I'm forced to negotiate or retreat with a bunch of bugs. . . none the less, I am the commander of this opperation, and we are packing up and preparing to go home. . . we will be through dealing with you in five days, twenty three hours and fifteen minutes, fourty five minutes ahead of shedual, even with your change of plan."

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In Arbiter, the Takian Mining Guild's full starship armada, three cruisers, six stealth ships, a pair of ambush vessels, and a plethora of lighter support ships gathered. Four smaller ships, little more than automated fold drivers with thrusters, clustered together, the armada's trump card. Guild High Guardian Seita watched the ships drifting in the Aether, reading over reports.

"It's not good, but it's not impossible either" he said to his second, the man cloaked in shadows. "they are organic, with very few hard structures, meaning kinetics will punch holes through them that will heal quickly. They are very flexible as well, so most of our damage is going to be in heat form. . . lances should be particularly useful as it will punch through the skin to burn the wound, and keep it from healing. Novas may be useless, or nearly so. . . if the Takatanium charge freezes the area of impact to near absolute zero, it would provide the rest of the warhead with a brittle object to punch through, though I doubt we could keep momentum after we passed the initial area of freeze, the anti-matter would be more than enough to split them like overripe fruit."

The shadowed man nodded, his mind playing out how the battle would run. He stepped into the light, long metal cords following behind him, attaching to his shaved, oversided head.

"and psychic abilities?" he asked, his eyes flaring at the thought of battle "psychosis in the ship itself?"

"we can't tell anything about it's cerberal structure, so we aren't sure. Simply use caution and we should be able to weather it."

He nods and slinks back towards his computer terminal, both his prison and his life force.

"so it will be. . . so it will be" he said, closing his large eyes. The Agrol's mind stretched out, flying past the stars with impossible speed, till he came to the Maelificum system, and the deadly living ships above it.

Are you the one? The great devourer that will consume all of our races with unbiased hunger? Who are you? he asked, probing into one of the smallerships, tapping through it into the hive mind. Who are you, and what is your purpous here?

OOC:
Technical note: unless they're supercharging the spinal mounts, my Dark Valor-class vessels emit nothing, save ECM(which perfectly mimmics ambient emmisions and the ilk to prevent creating a solouette) or active scans(and they're only running pasives now). So, between shielding, armour, and ECM, there is no 'energy signiture' to detect(one advantage over active cloaking devides vs advanced ECM); of course, that's probally rare enough to qualify as 'recognisible' :wink:

IC:
The Kanuckistani vessel maintained it's position a little over a million kilometers away from the Hive fleet, coincidentally within their own effective energy weapons range by a margine of several hundred thousand kilometers, but then, Kanuckistani beam weapons had always been long-armed by most standards, and few knew the exact figures outside of the High Gaurd. Still silent, practicly adrift, sheathed in ECM and virtually invisible; watching, waiting.

Meanwhile, the KHGV Sword of Inevitible Justice, under Admiral David McKenzie, was undergoing the last stages of a partial refit beyond the galactic rim, where Kanuckistan's primary fleet yards were located in secret; the Battleplate shadowed by a pair of smaller Superfortresses, already having recived similar upgrades; the trio of warships even now taking on special loads of munitions for the expected battle, while heavy, long-range Displacer platforms were configured to deliver them to their destination at a moment's notice, 145'000 lightyears away.

The avatar looked right at the commander as she did so her chest seamed to burst open spewing fourth over 30 synapse harvesters into the room. The tiny orange glowing orbs targeted the life forms foregin to the hive and went straight at them faster than a bullet they hurtled at their targets aiming for synaptic regions.

ooc these things will slam through your skin renedering you unconcious in under 5 seconds you will have no feeling after 2 however. They tap into your cerebrum and grow into a hive node inside you connecting you to the hive. Once this is done, apporx 5 mins after implantation, you are under the full control of the hive and the hive knows all that you know. they are coated in a highly caustich acid that will melt through anymetal including the unreactive Pt (platinum)

ic The hive senced the presence and immediatly blocked the ship from the hive concious it now knew nothing of what it was. Over 700 million voices flooded the intruders mind all talking at once then there was scilence. A hive avatar acknowledged the connection.
Stranger to the hive, we welcome you. We are the hive we are perfection. You wish to be as one with us?
We are here for the resources offerd by this system, we intend to nova form the star into one more suited to our needs. We have searched over 3billion systems looking for a suitable star to form and this one is perfect for our needs.

((OOC: I hate this server with a vengance, I just lost a goodly sized post in it. All the info you will need on my ships is listed here (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1840121#1840121)

**Maelificum Mining Facility**

O'Dama grunted in agony as the orb embedded itself in his face, collapsing to the ground as a wave of darkness enveloped him. All hell broke loose on the ground, miners and security guards grabbing weapons and opening fire on the attackers. A security officer watched from one of the habitats, typing out an emergancy message.

[code:1:666301eeaa]
betrayed by hive

require imediate assistance

[/code:1:666301eeaa]


He finished and pulled a pistol from the desk, taking up possition at his office window and fired through the glass into the skirmish below.

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**Arbiter

"we've been attacked, begining opperations early" the captain said, all ships folding at the same time as the psyker hurridly wrapped up his conversation.

[i]I do not wish to join you, I simply regret that we must now destroy your "perfection" You have violated the sanctity of Takian life, and as such, must now be disposed of. Goodbye[/b]

Space shimmered as the Takian Fleet appeared in orbit, spaced out apart from the Hiveships. Energy crackled as weapon mounts came to life, pouring death onto the living starships.

((OOC: currently the largest ship is being targeted and fired upon, you are facing

3 cruisers
6 stealth ships
2 ambush vessles
10 Attack Frigates
15 Missile Frigates

First volley is against your largets ship in the hopes its a command node of some sort.

3285 fusion torps (standard near nuclear warhead)
7280 weapons batteries (each weapons battery is 1 plasma cannon, 3 high powered lasers and a rail gun firing in unison)
33 slicer cannons (half a million terrawatt cutting lasers, designed to cut starships in half)
270 lances (railgun launched fusion bombs)

))

"Admiral! We are recieving a terse transmission from the Takaians! Uh...Looks like the hive betrayed them, just like we thought it would."

"Helm! Bring the fleet into battle! Concentrate all weapons fire upon the big ship!"

Within seconds, the CF fleet excuted a tactical hyperspace jump and appeared on the other side of the hive fleet (not on the side that Taka is firing from)

The monsterous weaponry on the dreadnoughts fired, but it was unlikely to cause signifigant damage to something that size. Onboard, however, Eclipse bombers with fighter escort were loading up with the insidious biological weapons known as 'genebusters.' These weapons would completely annhilate any DNA strands (double helix or more complex only) they come into contact with, making them lethal against virtually all organic life forms. Unfournately, the Dreadnoughts had not been provisioned with enough of these weapons to take out a planet entity, but it *should* surely cause plenty of damage.

The Eclipse bombers launched, carrying their lethal payload towards the hive vessels...

OOC: Total bombs, provided all bombers make it through; 2,000. Each has the capacity to obliterate New York City (by killing all the inhabitants.)

Total 300 megaton nuclear torpedos heading towards the largest hive vessel; 24

Total rabid llamas launched at the main hive vessel; 1.

Bumpy. Must see what happens.

The Kanuckistani vessel remained where it was, no sign of change aparent; elsewhere, the three massive fleet-killers of the Kanuckistani High Gaurd were rushed to full readyness; ordinance magizines not quite full, many systems only tripple-checked, but otherwise ready to depart within minutes...

The only question now, was if the Hive would strike out at the civilians still in the system; for such an action would be all the justification needed to burn that fleet from the face of the galaxy. But, still, Kanuckistan had no grudge against the Hive, nor did they genuinly seek conflict with them, or anyone; still ignorant of the Hive's darker aspects. Prehaps, if they knew, Kanuckistan would not be so restrained in their spelling of certain bloods...

TAG

Instantly the hive knew everything. They did not react all the neuclear weapons stuck home exploding on impact. There was a haze and then the brilliant like cleared to reveal the hive patrich, only now it was not the size of a star. It was closer to the size of a small solar system. It had simply used the neuclear radiation as an energy source and grown.
On the ground the remaining synapse harvesters went loco hurtiling towards various targets slamming into their NECKS (not face lol) the geneHARVESTERS moved around the avatar protecting her zhile she fired into the marines with her psycannon. It rented real space as it slammed into structures and men alike tearing them appart should it hit.
In space the hive returned fire, Patraich now firing a pulse of plasma the size of a red giant it rippled towards the attacking fleet. The remaining capital ships simply floated in awe at the huge vessel as its soft outer flesh changed into a cold hard carapace.

OOC: If you don't want me too get involved say so and I'll stay out of this one.

IC:
Species 2865 detected, grid 56-140.
Directive: Destroy infestations.
Action: Change course to intercept.

blah blah blah

I've just been reading this thread, and won't interfere IC, but thats just stupid. Where is it getting the mass for the growth, especially to that size? It can't just convert pure energy into mass. That can't happen. Also, how is it absorbing megaton range blasts with absolutely no damage? And to quote SD.net, this is more likely how the battle would go:
"Captain, I'm picking up an approaching ship."

"What can you tell me about it?"

"Oh my God, it's organic! What are we going to do, Captain?"

"There's not much we can do, Ensign. Organic technology is so far beyond our grasp that we can't even imagine the power they must have. All we have is high-powered guns, nuclear missiles, and our primitive metallic armour. What are you reading from their incredibly advanced bio-ship?"

"Their ship is soft and flexible. Its construction materials are semi-permeable and laced with a network of delicate circulation passages. Instead of using impermeable high-density materials, it's made from countless tiny thin-walled cells which tend to rapidly break down in the presence of corrosive chemicals or radiation."

"What? And we were supposed to be afraid of this? Open fire!"

SQUISH ...

Double Post

OOC: hey, what's going on around here? *scratches head*

OOC: Thanks for bumping the thread, I lost it. :) Anyway, everyone is ganging up on the giant hive vessels. Ohh yeah, don't use nukes. Apparently those things use radiation as food. Whatever. :0

Good night, see you all bright and early tommorow morning.

ooc> I learned not to use nuke the hard way. (Long story) **Use poisan gas and acid, but dont use biological or virus weapons** :roll: :roll: