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Research Station 221, Mechlor System, CorpSacian Space

Colonel Jerold Brakke walked amid the devestation that was caused by the recent firefight. Research Station 221, had been infiltrated by a nation once thought to be an Ally of Indra Prime, the turncoat nation of CorpSac. Brakke knew that the research going on here had been extremely classified and very few people knew about what was being developed here. Only when he was given command of the small fleet of vessels permanently stationed here, did he get clearance to learn the true nature of the research being conducted so secretly. High Command had spent years of effort and trillions of credits trying to stay ahead of the rest of the galaxy by developing the best defensive and offensive technology ever concieved. This research outpost was the location where the culmination of the Indran endeavours would surface. It took them fifty years to complete, but the Spectre Shield was finally complete.

It was a major design breakthrough, which allowed for multiple things to operate untilizing only one device, where as before, they could not operate without multiple devices operating at the same time. The highly desired Spectre Shield was a device that incorporated multiphasic shielding, phase cloak technology and gravitic technology all in one. This device would allow a vessel to engage a phase cloak, while still being fully shielded from any foreign attempts to pierce the cloaking field. The special part, the gravitic technology, gave the ship the unique ability to remain outside the Universal Gravitational Field. With this ability, the vessel would be able to drop into normal space, coming from hyperspace, any distance from a gravitational field producer, like a star or planet. This was a major breakthough because other nations FTL drives were unable to cope with the gravitational disturbances that a planetary body causes to disrupt Hyper- and Subspace.

Apparently, CorpSac had gotten wind of this new development and decided it was high time that they take the design for themselves. It was still unknown how they got the information about the prototype in the first place, but that didn't matter anymore. This was basically a declaration of war between CorpSac and Indra Prime. A team of infiltrators managed to disguise themselves as a cargo runner and before anyone could do anything they had tranquilized every civilian and soldier between the airlock and the research hangar. Once they had captured the prototype vessel, the launched it and their own vessel to escape.

Brakke strode to the airlock, to which his command vessel, the Cerberus, was docked. Five minutes later, the Cerberus, undocked from the station and took its place at the head of the task force. Their Orders, to return the prototype to the station, or in worst case scenario, destroy the vessel to prevent it from falling into enemy hands. Brakke still hadn't gotten used to calling the CorpSacians his enemy.

The Indran Taskforce caught up to the CorpSacian vessel and the prototype, who had been joined by fifteen vessels, all in the frigate weight class. They charged weapons and fired warning shots across the nose of the lead vessel, who subsequently dropped out of hyperspace and prepared for a conflict. A communication channel was opened up between the lead vessel of both fleets.

"CorpSac Vessels, this is Colonel Jerold Brakke of the Indra Prime Battle Cruiser Cerberus. We demand that you turn over the prototype immediately, and surrender your vessels. This is non negotiable. The Prototype was fitted with command procedures that requires the input of command codes to activate the shield generator. You will not be able to use the ship against us, so cut your losses. Give it up right now. And we will spare you. If not, your diety had better be waiting for you, cause thats where youre going. You have two minutes. Cerberus out."

T.A.G.

Ah-Ha! Found it! #Tag# until I can generate a proper response from my "Automated posting system."

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Leo I Group--Cala (M96) Galaxy--Caladan System

The flagship of the Combined Five Civilized Nations Navy, the Nahel Argama II, a massive 12.5 kilometer long vessel, drifted slowly through space, easily dwarfing the smaller vessels flanking it on both sides. On the bridge, Grand Admiral Horatio Gates Nelson nervously paced the deck, waiting for the warpgate to complete its charging. The more than a hundred vessels of the Combined Five Civilized Nations 1st Fleet waited impatiently.

Although all of the vessels possessed powerful hyperdrives, they were slow compared with the more efficient warp gates. Thus, the entire 1st Fleet waited for the warp gate to charge.

After what seemed to be an interminable wait of three hours, the warp gate was ready. Slowly it powered up and one by one, the vessels of the 1st Fleet entered the warp gate, heading for the Sol System and Terra, to heed the cries of assistance from the rest of humanity...

Admiral Jonathan Ketcher sat at the command chair of the FRW Chimera. It was one of the newest Wormian ships. Construction of the first Jupiter-class had taken five years... not altogether terribly long. However, it was the simple fact that over 20 construction bases had been used to build the gargantuan starship.

Ketcher felt the sleek controls of his ship. The latest in technology was exemplified in touchscreen panels... the ship needed a mere 4,500 crewmen at one time to run it... and yet, it carried over 80,000 planetary landing forces.

Behind it was a Wormian battle fleet equipped for a full scale war. The first stellar war that Wormia would ever see... and possibly the last.

Ketcher shook his head. No. It won't come to that. He pressed a tiny blue button on the armrest of the command chair. Instantly, a solid hologram materialized in front of him. "ESUS fleet orders. Display." He barked at the computer.

The computer disobeyed, replying with, "Authorization not verified. Please state name and verification identification."

"Ketcher, Jonathan. Rear Admiral, Wormian Stellar Naval Force. Authorization code: gamma, gamma, echo, four-two."

The computer ticked for a moment, and finally, it responded with, "ESUS fleet moves and objectives."

The hologram flickered for a moment, and finally, a window opened in the center of it. A block of text stood inside.

From: The Temporal Research Commission of Indra Prime
To: First and Second Milky Way Battle Fleets, The Federated Stellar Republics of Wormia
Encryption: Fractal - 9

To all Wormian vessels in the pertinent fleets, you are to move under the command of the FRS Chimera, where you will move to the Melchor system under CorpSacian command. Strategic Fleet Command will give further orders when necessary.

ESUS out.

Of course... Ketcher knew the orders that would be given, "when necessary."

"Helm, best speed to the Unity Wormhole. Take us to the Milky Way."

The helmsman nervously nodded. No doubt he had been informed that Wormia was officially, at war.

The fleet moved on, the Chimera as its flagship.

Wormian Fleets:
First Deep Space Planetary Assault Fleet:
2 Gargantua-class Superdreadnaughts
-390 Omaha-class Dropships
-> 20 Infantry or 4 MBT's
15 Dominance-class Battleships
-170 Omaha-class Dropships
-> 20 Infantry or 4 MBT's
10 Talon-class Missile Cruisers
20 Raptor-class Frigates

Main Battle Tanks (MBT's):
-5,120

Infantry:
-41,000

Second Wormian Task Force:
2 Gargantua-class Superdreadnaughts
25 Dominance-class Battleships
150 Heron-class Dropships
-3,000 infantry, 600 MBT's

Infantry:
-435,000

Main Battle Tanks:
-3,000

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OOC: guess it time i made a post and its Mechlon not Mechlor

The Frigates were Raider Squads, pure black Lokie Frigates with no markings but Pirate but of corse Indra knew of all the Pirates that the DEC had under there control.
as soon as the Warning shot had been fired and the Frigates exited Hyperspace they were in Mechlon system, at the moment at teh edge of teh system a battle was rageing on between CorpSacian ships and Gronde ships it also happened to be the Research hub of the Entire Empire.
the Frigates turned on to the Indra ships, they looked as tho they were about to comply with indra Demands. but befor the Indra ships knew it teh Gun ports were open and weapons hot, opening fire at the indra ship, plasma Bolts slaming into the Starbord Shielding of the Indra ships as the rest of the weapons slamed into the the front. teh Frigates moved fast towards the indra ships, shields up and guns hot, the closer they got the more damage there weapons did and the more likly hood of being able to bord an Indra vessal. 4 of the friagtes Ion Drive engines were hit as the Indra weapons riped though the Shielding and armor. reactors at almost critcal the ships were left drifting in the night of space, the other ships still battled on knowing they were out classed and out gunned.

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OCC: Is this open?

OOC: sorry no its not, this is ESUS against me. If you would like to challenge the shivan mennace i would be happy to wage an OOC war but iam a little overextended for an IC battle with another nation at present.

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Indra Prime? Are you fighting Corpsac?

As the CorpSac disruptor beams raked across the surface of the Indra Prime vessels, they left patches of scorched hull but they still didn't manage to do much damage to the Indran Fleet. The effect of the Indran disruptors on the CorpSacian vessels was a different story. Each time the phased disruptors made contact with the ships surfaces, they punched through and opened a rip in the enemy vessels, with atmosphere pouring out. Less than a minute more of weapons fire, turned the CorpSac vessels into masses without defenses. Before the vessels were totally destroyed, the Indra Prime vessels halted their attack and opened a communication channel to the now damaged, flagship of the CorpSac fleet.

"Attention CorpSac fleet. This is the Indra Prime vessel Cerberus. Take this little conflict as a warning. With the actions you have taken these past few hours has severely damaged your relationship with with both Indra Prime and the ESUS. As of now, all military and economic aid is being ceased immediately. All ESUS fleet vessels are bring withdrawn from your space and returning to ESUS space. If you survive this conflict with Gronde and the Shivans, then perhaps you can explain yourself to you ESUS senate. For now, you are on your own."

The communication channel expanded to all ESUS vessels in the region, but was not secured, apparently an oversight on the colonel's part. If the enemy vessels attempted to intercept it, they could. With the channel now open to all ESUS vessels and to the CorpSac vessels everyone could hear the next orders.

"Attention all ESUS vessels. This is the Cerberus. Under general fleet order Delta Delta six Theta, I hereby assume command of the ESUS fleet. I am ordering the withdrawl of every ESUS vessel in the region to pull back to rendevous position Kappa Seven. Cerberus out."


With that the Cerberus began to pull out of the system with the rest of the Indran Fleet in tow. As she began to pass the prototype vessel, a tractor beam lashed out and grabbed the vessel and pulled it behind the Cerberus. From the command deck of every CorpSac vessel, sensors could see every vessel that was allied with the ESUS was leaving their normal position and pulling out of the system as one giant fleet. Among them was included the Four Indra Prime Regular Fleet and a part of the Temporal Incursion Fleet that had been stationed there. As the Cerberus was nearing the edge of communication range, she opened a tightbeam transmission channel with the "damaged" lead vessel of the CorpSac fleet. The only way it could be intercepted is if there was a vessel directly in line of site between the two vessels.

"This is the Cerberus. Phase one is complete. That was a great show, CS. Perhaps next time, we should be a little more reserve with the pyrotechnics. I think they will be fully convinced that we are now at odds against each other. I will contact the others and inform them that we are now starting phase two. If it doesn't go according to plan, activate your transceiver. We will respond immediately. Good Luck and God Speed. Cerberus out."

The small, battle damaged fleet assembled in CorpSac space, each equipped with a phase cloak. "Come in CorpSac, this is UA battlefleet Alpha Alpha Six. We are here to assist. The ESUS may be withdrawing, but we aren't." Over an encrypted channel, Acting Emperor Phoren Narqu spoke.
Total Fleet Assets:
23 'Baal'shir' class fighters, twin rotary rail guns, one heavy plasma bomb launcher. Approximately: 50'000 rail rounds, 250 plasma bombs each.
2 'Kormash' class missile frigates, dual missile pods, each holding fifty anti-matter warheads. Laser point defence batteries. Approximately: 10'000 anti-matter warheads each.

The 12 Mars class destroyers too, were getting into position.

"And now we wait."
"Suppose this can take a while."

Meanwhile deep in subspace reinforcements were on their way to parts unknown.

"I don't think I will ever get used to this kind of travelling. It just doesn't look right."
"Oh, I think it looks kinda beautiful."

Ketcher jerked awake. His quarters were of the same dim lighting he had left them on... bad dream. He sat up and gave his neck a quick roll. A somewhat disturbing crack resonated about the room. He stood up and walked over to the faucet in the bathroom and washed his hands.

It was about the time he was reaching for the towel that his quarters went from military grey to a loud red. Alarms rang throughout the hallways, and the intercom blared out loud, "Code red, code red, Admiral Ketcher, to the bridge."

He darted out of his quarters. His hands were not dried...

It took him about a grand total of two minutes to reach the bridge by navigating the ship's intricate lattice of hallways and turbolifts. It was the fastest way he knew.

"Status report." He said to the officer in command.

"Sir... moments ago we recieved several starship identification transmissions from this system. The signals were weak... but they were definite: CorpSac."

"I don't follow you. We are within a CorpSacian system. Mechlon is under the wing of the Dark Empire."

"... And Indra Prime." The acting conn finished.

"I see. Captain, does the presence of two fleets not of Wormia always prompt you to raise shields and charge weapons?" Ketcher asked.

"Sir... they were engaged. In ARMED combat."

A pulse of heat resonated within Ketchers body. He knew exactly what was going on... his crew did not. And, High Command had instructed him, it would stay that way until a later time. Ketcher worried that he was beginning to sweat... but he was fortunate to have genetics on his side where this was concerned.

"Hmm. Peculiar." He replied.

"PECULIAR? Sir, two ESUS members have just forsaken their brotherhood by opening fire. People are dying. And this is peculiar...?"

Ketcher's innards squirmed. Someday, this man would make a fine admiral. He was certainly NOT stupid.

"Captain, I understand your concern. However, if you will take the words I give you now, you will proceed to the nebula." Ketcher said this sternly.

"... What words?"

"Things are not what they seem, Captain." With that, Ketcher left.

Indra Prime? Are you fighting Corpsac?

No, CorpSac is a member of the ESUS, and we are rallying to his aid.

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The only Kanuckistani vessel in the system, the KHGV Jagged Razor of Methodical Dismemberment, ignored the heed of Indra Prime, as they had just engaged Gronde and it's AoN allies.

Kanuckistan might have been an ESUS member, and Indra the alliance's founder, but they were still steadfastly sovergine, and would not be dictated to; they would wait until the imediate battle played out befor withdrawing. To do otherwise would have been out of character.

OOC:
Just an FYI to those who may be confused; not everything is necessarily as it seems.

IC: The cloaked shivan probes within the corpsac systems were registering a vast ESUS fleet movement, they were leaving. The already reallyed Shivan fleet was now preparing to attack another planet however the second homeworld would be an excellent chioce.

Within the vast currents of subspace the shivan fleet was waiting. The hive mind was long debating this attack but now with the ESUS fleet gone it would be the perfect time to strike. But many Shivans were worried that this would be a trap. Corpsac a long and trusted member of the ESUS suddenly betray an ally when at this time they needed Indran help most.

However the general consensus was that there was something going on, the shivans did not know where or when but what they did know was that the corpsac homeworld had to be attacked.

The Torontonian Alpha Fleet was part of the fleet movement that was making it's way out of the Corpsacian system, the general crew was in shock. They had never seen such brutal action take place between two alliance members, many ponder this as the begining of the end for the new ESUS. Little did they know.

The Captians of the Assembled vessels knew what to do, they knew there part, and that is why they folled the ESUS fleet's lead. The Phase cloaks had been working well, although some of the engineers on the older ships were complaining of poor compatibility between the two systems, the Indran technology was crutial in the operation.

But what bothered the general crew the most, was, the sign of a greater war about to take place. Many of them had never seen real armed combat, and many of them feared of a war spilling out into systems, including the Torontonian Captial system, many invisioned cities buring, orbital platforms smoldering on the planets scarred surface.

Of course, this is what the ESUS was trying to prevent, and had been set back by this blantant treachery from the Corpsacians.

But the Captains knew, and they weren't afraid.

OOC: Ok, this is getting a bit confusing because there is already a battle going on in the second home system of Corpsac. That can be found it the other thread or is this another system?

Where are these battles taking place? There is already a war with Corpsac going on also.....

Where are these battles taking place? There is already a war with Corpsac going on also.....

OOC: Corpsac's Mechlon system.

Admiral Mertens paced around in his quarters. The fleet was phase cloaked along with the rest of the greater ESUS forces. Preparing for the first phase of what he called Operation: Shivanicide, although the other ESUS members didn't think of it like that.

He smilied. The Indran phase-cloaking systems were working within acceptable tolerances. The plan was working perfectly.

Across his fleet, crews were training. They only knew that they were going into a massive battle. They did their duties without hesitation, for they were the battle-hardened members of the CF Space Corps.

The Admiral sat down, pulled out a bottle of Vodka from his desk, and took a shot to deaden his nerves. "How many men will I have to send to death today?" he asked himself.

Ketcher paced his quarters. His fleet was still a good few hours away from the CorpSac system of Mechlon. He couldn't get bakc to sleep, he had tried for long enough, and decided that giving himself the nth tour of his quarters would help calm his mind. He could no longer escape the thought that throbbed in his mind like an excrutiating headache.

He walked over to the cabin's desk, and pressed a blue button, ambiently glowing with the aid of a bright LED within. The sound of an electric motor filled the room, as a flat screen rotated out from the surface of the desk. It turned on and the desk's internal computer booted up in under 5 seconds. Several touchscreen interface panels also activated.

Ketcher pressed a few of them in an order familiar to him, and the computer displayed, "Secure Communications Transmission." After typing out a few encryption bypass fields, a visual display of the logo of Strategic Command of Stellar Operations popped in. Only seconds passed, and Ketcher's "boss" was visible in the same window.

"Admiral Ketcher. How good of you to call me at this hour." The somewhat haunting visage of Admiral Caius Fehren, the man behind the Wormian Starfleet.

Ketcher was a bit... startled that a man of this calibre was standing as if awaiting the call at hand. Ketcher knew Fehren, he had been a virtual mentor to him since his first days in the Wormian navy.

Fehren was the stereotypical Admiral, aged, white hair, but a startling look of pride in the fleet he served. Traditionally, he hated enemies of his state, but with Fehren, despite the age of some conflicts, an enemy of the past was an enemy forever. Fehren had a deep love for Wormia, Ketcher would not dispute this, but... Ketcher had always suspected that Fehren was not above playing politics and utilizing his "big stick," as Roosevelt would put it.

"I apologize, Admiral. I couldn't help but continue thinking of the task at hand." Ketcher replied.

"You are fully aware of your objectives." He said.

Ketcher sighed. He was NOT about to decimate the Shivans. To some point, it bothered him how certain members of the ESUS Defense Pact eagerly awaited the annihilation of an entire species. He would not do it.

"Admiral, I've come to the conclusion that what we are doing is wrong. We can't simply annihilate the Shivans. Doesn't it concern you in the smallest respect that they too, are sentient lifeforms?"

"Sentience plays a massive role here, Mr. Ketcher. They are sentient. And warmongering. They actively... sentiently chose to launch massive assaults on Milky Way civilization. They very nearly conquered every square inch of Milky Way space, and they have already annihilated an ESUS member." Fehren said.

"This is absurd. You're talking about genocide." Ketcher replied.

"Admiral, they have already committed hundreds of acts of genocide."

"And this somehow permits us to commit it now? Doesn't it bother you on second that our children's children will be branded with this scar of betraying the very morals of ESUS? Of Wormia?" Ketcher replied, somewhat agitated now.

"Recall you are speaking to a higher ranking individual Ketcher. Accomplish your main objectives. That is your perogative." he said.

Ketcher looked away from the screen. He simply wouldn't do it. "Has the Chancellor been informed?"

"Mr. Thomas is well informed of our plans to act against the Shivan menace. Command out." Fehren was now quite distinctively angry with Ketcher.

The screen returned to the display of the logo of SCSO. Kether pounded the side of the desk. He couldn't... and simply wouldn't believe that, for one, the Chancellor that actively engaged genocide would commit it. He knew Admiral Fehren was not being altogether terribly straight with him. He was also, quite certain that Fehren was enjoying far too much power with the now quite expansive Wormian navy. The two of these problems mixed, and it spelled disaster. Or catastrophe.

Ketcher thought for a moment what he had said to the young captain earlier... Things are not what they seem, Captain...

Perhaps this too... applied to Ketcher....

---DESC High command 2nd homeworld---

Grand Admiral valkyrie was in his office he was worried, looking round he saw battle plans and such, medals and pictures of his family on the wall. there was a nock at the door.
"enter" Valkyrie sead
the door opened and a Stigmata Agent walked in, no expression on her face at all.
"sir..its done" she sead with no expression in her voice, it was cold.
"vary well leave me now" he sead turning round and faceing the window behind him, outside the City of Old Corpian layed.
"so its started" he sead, something moved in the shadows not comein into the light.
"yes it has....lets hope it works" a voice sead
"but there not stupid there goin to think somethings wrong, our task force was taken out to easy, its strange tho i dont understand why we had to do it" Valkyrie voice was full of worrie "the homeworld is the most logical place to attack, most of the Royal Fleet has been called back to the planet incase but it wont be anoth to stop them when they come.....im just glade we have one left to use"
"dont worrie......it will be over soon...and anyway it would be a fools action to try and take your homeworld this early with its defences at full and one of them left" the voice sead carmly.
Valkyrie turned round and picked up a Holo Photo of his family, he new the fate of the CorpSacian Empire was in his hands, Insectiods, Vampires, Elvens and humans were counting on him even tho they didnt know it.
"i pray the try for Mechlon after all its goin to fall sooner or later, Core is still strong....Sol II is lost. bah Logics why do people always fall for logics, thos Frigates in Mechlon are goin to die within the hour and our rescue ships are on way, we cant let thos ships fall into there hands if they do.....we are doomed" Valkyrie was not happy "genocide is one thing but to do it like this no....i cant belive its whats goin to be"
"dont worrie about the Frigates......and dont worrie you just keep up your side of the Bargin" the voice sead
"but what if..." Valkyrie head him leave, not by the door but he knew he was gone he felt it "what if we fail......."

---Hyperspace---

in the mist of hyperspace one ship was roaming around, not knowing when it would be called, inside the 2 cores spoke.
"do you think we will live"
"who knows, we're the oldest it would not matter if we stoped"
"im scard, the ships scard...we have never battled such a force"
"time will tell time has always told us what is the corse"
"maby not this time, i fear time is something we dont have...something the Empire has ran out of"
"maby so....but we are the ones to do what must be done.....for the Emperor and for our love of the Empire"

The two Vessels of Metallinauts make apppeared right behind the Kanuckistanian Vessels.
<Channel To Kanuckistan>
"You Stubborn bastards we knew that we would have to bail you guys out, you always bite off more than you can a chew. Now let's show Gronde the ESUS universal sign of 'You made a mistake when allying with Shivans and then attacking one of us' shall we?"
<Channel Closed>
With that the two ships Powered up their Auto Modulating shields and powered all weapons...
OOC:My Current Fleet is as follows
UFM Enterprise -Soverign Class Battleship
UFM Frantic -Excalibur Class Heavy Battle Ship
***Re-enforcements will arrive***

ooc:I am going to send my fleet pending admitance into the ESUS. P.S.I'm a friend of Metllinauts.

0100 Hours - Pheonix System
Wormian Strategic Command of Stellar Operations HQ

An officer of the Wormian SCSO entered the War Room quietly. The room was relatively quiet... now. It was being prepared for the battle at hand. Three janitors quietly listened to the most popular music of the times while washing the computer screens. The War Room was looking like a sparkling, massive version of Mission Control in Houston.

He walked down the middle aisle, and stopped in an "at ease" stance. "You called me, sir?"

Admiral Fehren leaned against one of the many handbars in the room. He stared into the massive map that was the Andromeda galaxy.

"I did. I understand you're a pilot, lieutenant...?"

"Diera, sir. Lieutenant Frederick Diera."

"...Diera. You are to take me to the Chimera, the new battlestar, under the command of Admiral Ketcher."

"Sir?" Mr. Diera was somewhat confounded at what seemed merely a waste of fuel.

"He will be relieved of command when we arrive."

The lieutenant snapped to an attention stance, and gave the admiral a navy salute with a loud, "Yes SIR!"

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0300 Hours - Mechlon System
First Mate's Cabin, FRW Chimera

Captain Tate Janus lay on his bed, wide awake, fingering a small energy disruptor pistol that he had acquired early in his naval career.

"...Things are not what they seem, Captain..." is what Ketcher had said...

He didn't so much mind being temporarily relieved... it was that the ship was his ship... in a sense... and he wasn't aware of what was going on. Something he didn't like was being out of the loop.

At three in the morning, he decided that it would be best to pursue it at a later time, with sufficient rest....

(OOC: I jumping forward a bit, my fleet arrives at the Sol System and then jumps to the Mechlon system)

0346 Hours--CorpSac Territory--Mechlon System--

Space shimmered as an entire battle fleet appeared out of hyperspace. As warning claxons began to blare aboard the vessels of the other ESUS member nations, the more than a hundred Five Civilized Nations warships, led by the massive 12.5 kilometer long Nahel Argama II moved into battle formation.

Aboard the bridge of the Nahel Argama II, Grand Admiral Horatio Gates Nelson, quietly surveyed the scene as he waited for all of his ships to be readied for combat.

Within five minutes after leaving hyperspace, the vessels were all in position. Swiftly, Admiral Nelson opened a channel with the Wormian flagship.

[code:1:e0e1db2963]This is Grand Admiral Horatio Gates Nelson, commanding officer of the Combined Five Civilized Nations 1st Fleet. I have orders to operate under the umbrella of the ESUS space forces, but I have been granted full autonomy to make my own moves...[/code:1:e0e1db2963]

OOC: Ok, being a member of the AoN, I suppose I am classified as Shivan ally.

IC: The Ulthwe Craftworld and her fleets arrived at Mechlon after leaving the Corpsac Homesystem. They arrived near the battle between Gronde/Corpsac. The Craftworld acted first, firing off its main cannon at the largest Corpsac ship.(ooc> you still have the mothership there, right?) The rest of the fleet advanced at an amazing speed, thanks to solar sails, and fired a barrage onto the DESC ships.

OOC: Just wondering, what does DESC stand for? I figure that the DE stands for Dark Empire and the C stands for Corpsac. But what about the S? Just wondering...... :roll:

OOC: Facehuggria, tell me when I can join.

The vast battle raging between Corpsac and the AON in the name of the Shivan alliance was vast, however it was not over yet. The Shivans had dispatched a new Diablo class super destroyewr to dispatch wih the Corpsac fleet this would be a battle to remember.

The Diablo descended out of subspace in the middle of the battle, beam and flux cannons charged it prepared to cause damage.

IB, you really have to stop this insta travel.

ooc> Imperial Brits: just keep in mind that the AoN is going after its own objectives in this war. They just made me classify myself as a Shivan ally so I could take part in this thread. :?

Ulthwe Craftworld: You got to this thread before me. There is hope for you yet. Way to stay heads up.

ic> Master Kalgar sat in the controll room deep within the protective armor of the Manticore Fortress. He was relieved. Finnally, a sizable battlefleet had arrived from a small group of AoN members. It consisted of one full naval division and one half naval division. These forces were quickly deployed to Mechlon. The new battlefleet arrived on the opposite side of the system to where the major fighting was occuring, as close to the interior as they could get. These forces quickly began to advance of the system. There would be a special mission for them.

On the other side, the battle continued to rage. The battered AoN fleet was rallied at the amazing sight of the Ulthwe Craftworld. The remaining forces made an advance of the Corpsac and ESUS forces.

OOC: Sorry about that i just assumed since i was invited and i had waited for a while that people would automaticly register that i took a while to travel but then again Jordaxia is childish in his own special way.

IC: The new superdestroyer never seen before in this galaxy began to open fire on the Gronde vessels. Its vast armaments and weapons were fully charged and ready to destroy the enemies fleet. The Forward Flux cannons located the nearest enemy vessel and opened fire with all the might of the Shivan Imperium.

http://69.93.183.37/917/143/upload/p911242.jpg

The Shivan vessel manouvering between the vast fleets opened up with a the port and starboard beam cannons on all Gronde ships, the rest of the Aon were considdered friendly. The Diablo maintaining its distance from the ESUS forces concentrated everything on the gronde fleet.

Double post

OOC; DESC means Dark Empire Space Core, then theres DEMC whats the Dark empire Mecha Core, DESMC Dark Empire Space Marine Core and then theres the Stigmata what means stigmata.

IC:

Mechlon system

"sir AoN reinforments from Sector 182 Mark 457"
"Subspace Tear forming sir....Shivan ship unknown"
"its weapons are hot"
"Alright Drop the FTLi field get us out of here" the Admiral ordered, the emperor Noded.
with it the Most of the Fleet opened Jump points, but it didnt matter tho not all wold get out a good 2/3s of the survieing ships would, leaving behind one hell of a mess.
as the ships entered the Hyperspace some got cut down by the income barrage of fire, the mothership was hit, the Shields light up, it was still in humanoid form.
as soon as most of the ships entered, it appeared a 2Km ship pure black spider appeared out of nowere. the Anlashoc had come the most powerful of the Stigmata ships, the other stigmata ship in the system seemed to know it arrieved even tho it was deep within the system, right away the fightered docked and it Phased out re phaseing a few moments later with the Anlashoc. befor it came tho the Anlashoc opened fire on the Shivan ship with all 50 of its Drones relised the to started to swarm the ship. its Gavermetic beams cannon slamming into the Shivan shields, the fighters swarming around targeting any fighters that might come as well as targeting the Shivan ship. with each hit to the mothership the fighters seemed mroe agressive more determind to kill this destroyer. when the younger one apeared it trageted the Gronde ships while its fighters went of to target the Caftworld ships.

The main battlefleet had exited hyperspace just infront of the Drone Carriers within the System. the mothership ativating the FTLi to stop them from running. even tho they were down to 1/4 (about 100-125 ships) the still opened fire, the didnt care the main fleet was still around somewere.

OOC: Data on the stigmata ships can be found here (http://s7.invisionfree.com/BIA_World_Factbook/index.php?showtopic=34) anyone who uses any of the infomation on there i will ignore as this is the FIRST time ever stigmata ships would have been seen, by Shivans and most other races. this to goes to my allies (no offence)

---DESC High command 2nd homeworld---
"sir its started the Anlashoc has entered the emchlon system as well as a younger one to surpport her, no ship will detect them Stelth system is active" the Stigmata Agent sead
"vary well you may go" he sead
she turned and walked out, he looked down, padoras box is open now he thought.
"you shouldnt think like that Valkyrie" the voice sead
"mmm...i wish you wouldnt do that" Valkyrie sead worried "this better work...mores on the line then what we think"
"maby but as i sead you hold up to your end i will hold up to mine" the voice sead, Valkyrie new he was smileing
"you best...you best" he knew the voice had gone...he knew that what he was doin was wrong but it would be for the grater good

WHAT ARE YOU DOING IB?! GRONDE IS THE FOUNDER OF THE AoN ALIANCE! Are you deliberatley trying to doom your self quicker?

OOC: Gronde is a weakling. the AOn will be crushed between the Shivans and the ESUS. Gronde demonstrated severe weakness so he must pay the price. Plus id o not take orders from anyone and gronde tried to order the imperium about so let it be known the the Shivans and ESUS now have something in common.

OOC: Gronde is a weakling. the AOn will be crushed between the Shivans and the ESUS. Gronde demonstrated severe weakness so he must pay the price. Plus id o not take orders from anyone and gronde tried to order the imperium about so let it be known the the Shivans and ESUS now have something in common.

Hopefully not for long.

"Sir! We're closing on the Melchon system! Your orders?"
"Alpha 7 configuration. Red Alert. Standing orders: Eliminate all hostiles, at any cost"
The small fleet sped towards the Melchon system, weapons powering up, shields activating

-Mekantan High Command (SECRET)

"Status.

"The plan is currently under way."

"Good. If ESUS is in trouble, scramble. We will move up our plans to betray the Shivans."

OOC: Bumpish thing. I'm not exactly sure what's going on, so when it is time to decloak, could someone tell me?

(Coprsac am i supposued to post in this thread or the other one .... you gave me the link to the other one when i said i would help yo uagainst gornde ...)

(Coprsac am i supposued to post in this thread or the other one .... you gave me the link to the other one when i said i would help yo uagainst gornde ...)

the war with Gronde is underdebate, ill get back to you on that

(all righty then but i would like to join this fight but these guys probably don’t want a noob like me in there thread )

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There are other threads of this conflict? Could someone please link me?

This is is the link to the burning of worlds thread. A Shivan attack is in there. Otherwise, just do a search on Imperial Brits. It's all there.

http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=150314

Ketcher sat at the command chair. The situation had worsened, but he had found about six hours of sleep, so he was ready for it. In order for the ESUS plan to work, the ESUS fleet under his command would have to jump, virtually skim the battle at hand, and stop in the CorpSacian Mechlon Nebula.

"Sir, they are pounding eachother to dust. They are ESUS members. What in god's name are we doing?" the Captain and First Officer Tate Janus asked.

"I apologize, captain, I cannot reveal that at this time. Carry out my orders, you will see them fit shortly. In the meantime, I expect you to carry out my orders without question, as is expected of a Wormian first officer."

"Yes sir." Tate was not pleased. Something was certainly not what it seemed.

The helmsman piped up, "Sir! We're skimming the battle.... now...!"

"Shields!" Ketcher screamed.

"DAMMIT! DAMMIT! FTL inhibitor sir! Coming out of hyperspace!!!"

"Kill it! Fire torpedoes!"

"Unable to target it!" Came the response from the weapons conn.

"We've passed it's sphere of influence... continue in hyperspace..." Ketcher replied. "Did they detect us?"

"Doubtful sir. We were in normal space for under a second... and the FTL inhibitor will affect their sensors enough that they won't detect that small of a time increment."

"Well... that's good..." Ketcher replied.

"We are now entering the Mechlon Nebula, sir..."

Ketcher leaned back in his seat. The worst was still to come, but, at least they would get that far.

"... and... it would seem we are being hailed sir."

Ketcher's head darted to the communications and sensors operator.

"... by a Bolt-class shuttle decloaking off the starboard bow..."

Ketcher sat at the command chair. The situation had worsened, but he had found about six hours of sleep, so he was ready for it. In order for the ESUS plan to work, the ESUS fleet under his command would have to jump, virtually skim the battle at hand, and stop in the CorpSacian Mechlon Nebula.

"Sir, they are pounding eachother to dust. They are ESUS members. What in god's name are we doing?" the Captain and First Officer Tate Janus asked.

"I apologize, captain, I cannot reveal that at this time. Carry out my orders, you will see them fit shortly. In the meantime, I expect you to carry out my orders without question, as is expected of a Wormian first officer."

"Yes sir." Tate was not pleased. Something was certainly not what it seemed.

The helmsman piped up, "Sir! We're skimming the battle.... now...!"

"Shields!" Ketcher screamed.

"DAMMIT! DAMMIT! FTL inhibitor sir! Coming out of hyperspace!!!"

"Kill it! Fire torpedoes!"

"Unable to target it!" Came the response from the weapons conn.

"We've passed it's sphere of influence... continue in hyperspace..." Ketcher replied. "Did they detect us?"

"Doubtful sir. We were in normal space for under a second... and the FTL inhibitor will affect their sensors enough that they won't detect that small of a time increment."

"Well... that's good..." Ketcher replied.

"We are now entering the Mechlon Nebula, sir..."

Ketcher leaned back in his seat. The worst was still to come, but, at least they would get that far.

"... and... it would seem we are being hailed sir."

Ketcher's head darted to the communications and sensors operator.

"... by a Bolt-class shuttle decloaking off the starboard bow..."

Ketcher sat at the command chair. The situation had worsened, but he had found about six hours of sleep, so he was ready for it. In order for the ESUS plan to work, the ESUS fleet under his command would have to jump, virtually skim the battle at hand, and stop in the CorpSacian Mechlon Nebula.

"Sir, they are pounding eachother to dust. They are ESUS members. What in god's name are we doing?" the Captain and First Officer Tate Janus asked.

"I apologize, captain, I cannot reveal that at this time. Carry out my orders, you will see them fit shortly. In the meantime, I expect you to carry out my orders without question, as is expected of a Wormian first officer."

"Yes sir." Tate was not pleased. Something was certainly not what it seemed.

The helmsman piped up, "Sir! We're skimming the battle.... now...!"

"Shields!" Ketcher screamed.

"DAMMIT! DAMMIT! FTL inhibitor sir! Coming out of hyperspace!!!"

"Kill it! Fire torpedoes!"

"Unable to target it!" Came the response from the weapons conn.

"We've passed it's sphere of influence... continue in hyperspace..." Ketcher replied. "Did they detect us?"

"Doubtful sir. We were in normal space for under a second... and the FTL inhibitor will affect their sensors enough that they won't detect that small of a time increment."

"Well... that's good..." Ketcher replied.

"We are now entering the Mechlon Nebula, sir..."

Ketcher leaned back in his seat. The worst was still to come, but, at least they would get that far.

"... and... it would seem we are being hailed sir."

Ketcher's head darted to the communications and sensors operator.

"... by a Bolt-class shuttle decloaking off the starboard bow..."

As the first ESUS fleet lead vessel, The Cerberus, passsed out of sensor range of any possible enemy vessels, she immediately disengaged the tractor beam she held on the prototype and engaged her phase cloaking device. As each of the other vessels began to pass through that plane, where the Cerberus had cloaked, they one by one followed suit and cloaked while still maintained their very specific heading which would take them out of CorpSac Space. As soon as every vessel had been cloaked, they all engaged every single weapon they had on board and turned the fleet around in one smooth action.

In less than a minute, the entire ESUS fleet was turned around heading back into CorpSacian Space, but this time, they had activated the weapons that would defend the CorpSac homeworld, not the ones that the Indran and CorpSac vessels used to put on the light show. With the installation of the phase cloaks on the ESUS fleet, a special sensor was also included on every vessel that allowed them to detect the presence of any allied cloaked ship. If the enemy could see the cloaked fleet, it would have been a sight that would have put fear into anyone. More than nine hundred ships of the line from the best national fleets in the ESUS were all prepared to go to war this day. With the phase cloaks engaged, every ship was able to pass through any matter in the system.

As the fleet pulled back into the system, they split off into groups. different groups left from the specific target of the homeworld and headed to their individual targets. A detachment of vessels were sent to the moons of the system and were ordered to conceal themselves within the structure of the of the moon itself. As the fleet approached the moons surface, appearing to be on a course that would inevitably end in the destruction of the ships. Quite rapidly, the kilometers ticked away as the ships continued their propulsion into the planet. 50km... 40km...30km...20km...10km...5km..1km..impact. Or so they thought. They passed right though the surface of the planet and glided through the solid rock as if it was empty space. They halted their forward momentum and returned to just below the surface where they would be undetected by the Shivan fleet which would most definitely arrive to take out an apparently weak enemy. With all of the remaining Underwater Asylum vessels along with the skeleton fleet of CorpSac, there would appear to be no better time than to strike against a member nation of the ESUS... or so it would seem to the Shivans. What they were unaware of, is that there was a huge fleet betting on the fact that they would attempt to take advantage of this sweet prize that the ESUS has spent a good deal of time planning and placing in the limelight just for the Shivans.

All across the system ships and flights of ships were getting situated in positions that would give them the absolute best locations for an ambush on the Shivan Fleet when they arrive to take their prize. This fleet was one of multiple that were ready to take the fight to the Shivans. In a little while, this entire system would be filled with weapons fire from more than a thoussand ships trying to protect two major assets, Underwater Asylum and the base of CorpSacian Operations. The only thing they could do now was wait for the dawn.

Commodore Gandara looked at the tactical screen, the devices installed on the ships were simply amazing, he could see on his screen all the cloaked allied fleet ships taking position on the system ready to spring the trap on the shivans..

"Tactical, Status of Commodore Aaryanna Nirze's battlegroup?"

"Sr. they are in position.. we are now covering the flanks and ready to attack when the order arrives.."

Gandara nodded slowly, "I want the first hits we land on them to be on their sensors, we punch their eyes, they'll have a harder time hitting us.. Comm, line of sight tight beam to Commodore Nirze, relay tactic, after the first wave, attack weapons and engines.."

"Aye aye Sr."

OOC: I will stop posting in the burning worlds thread and continue here.

IC:
The captain followed the battle with much interest.
"It is getting crowded here, doesn't it sir?"
"Yes, lets see what we can do about that. Helm, take us on a course of 34 by 256. Is the Ripper beam charged?"
"Charged and ready, its just in range but we will only just reach the core of the ship."
"Ok, fire it on that Shivan ship with sheat shielding, then launch all our fighters. You may fire the plasma cannons at those AoN ships and tell the cruisers to concentrate their fire on those solar sails.
The gunships can keep attacking the drone carriers from Gronde supported by the fighters we already launched. Carry out my orders."
'Yes, sir."

The 7 gunboats kept firing their particle beam cannon at the carriers while attacking the drones with their 2 laser turrets. The fighters now launched their 4 antifighter missiles whose antimatter warheads exploded in groups of drones instead of targetting just one drone. Unfortunatly 4 were taken out before they could fire. The rest fired and then engaged the drones with their plasma cannons using their excellent manoeuvrability to avoid getting hit.

OOC:Imperial Brits, although having no definitive information that the Shivans are a hive mind (i only ever found spectulations) decided that "i was untrustworthy"

Although i wanted to rp space, and especially Shivans, he just seems to fixated upon the one idea. i wish him the best of luck battling the entire ESUS by himself (the shivan imperium seems to be getting less intelligent by the day, see ekardias national animal for ideas)


Shivan Imperium : that guy wants to rp and help us. Lets kick him out, and say he knows nothing after he read up the entire site on Shivans!

I guess the ESUS just have to laugh at them

"Sir!? What are we doing? We should be helping the DESC forces, not sitting on our backsides in this moon!" Rear Admiral Hoovers said. He hadn't been informed of the plan. He hated to stand by while allies got the crap beaten out of them. Plus, he hated trusting an alien technology. If the phase cloak failed, they would appear inside the gas giant, which is obviously bad.

"Wait for it...Wait for it... All ships! Take up positions. The Trap is almost sprung, the time is almost now!" The Mertens yelled, not in response to the Rear Admiral, but over a comlink to the entire fleet

The weapons on the CF expeditionary fleet charged, billions upon billions of terawatts of energy death, just waiting to find a home inside a Shivan vessel.

The Fleet waited with bated breath for the order to attack...

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OOC: The Sathanas is not as powerful as you assume. Or rather, your opposition is not as weak as you assume. Two of my Dreadnought battleships could take it head on. And since I have ten of these things, you would be in some hot water.

On a side note: Check TGs, I wrote how to get images and links for ya.

Poog, the EDITOR fairy, is busy today

"Attention Hyperspatial Travel. We, the remnants of UA, find your treachery unforgiveable, and wish to challenge you at the Melchon system."

"Inform ESUS command that we are in position, ensign," Admiral Teras said calmly, not showing his eagerness for the coming battle. The whole crew was calm, from the pristine white control matrixes of the bridge to the reactor room. In fact, each of the Penguenian crews were in a trance of eager silence, for this was what a Penguenian lived for- an epic battle in the name of the Emperor's interests. There was no doubt that there would be one soon.

OOC: Damn, haven’t had the chances to post for this thread yet. All that matters is that everyone knows there are 200 Penguenian destroyers in the ESUS phase cloaked fleet. I'll try to be active but prospect looks bleak for a few days.

Poog is reaaaaalllyyy busy

Etc

As said before, we have assumed IB is Ekardia's national animal

ooc> IB...you have proved your stupidity. I never tried to order the Shivans around. You have betrayed your only hope of winning this war. Now you will die.

(I will make the post later when I get home)

OOC: I wouldn't count my fleet out just yet. Since you have said nothing about it I will assume your ships use the lasers as specified in the link you provided. I also have to make a guess as to where you are, be more precise next time.

IC: The attack came as a suprise and took out 40 of the fighters and 4 of the gunships. 3 others sustained damage but kept on attacking Gronde while their laser turrets also began to target the shivan bombers.

The cruisers and the battleships had more luck. They had engaged their shields and the Zeus had already fired the Ripper beam.

"Shivan fleet of the port bow. They are firing."
The Zeus shuddered as the weapons fire impacted. One of the cruisers took most of it and lost shields.
"The Madla lost shielding, our own shielding is absorbing the heat. We are fine for now."
"Ok, tell the cruisers to come about and go around the Shivan fleet while attacking them. Helm, take us on a course parallel to theirs and fire the plasma cannons at their capital ships. Start with the smallest ones and then work your way up. And when in position fire a broadside of antimatter missiles at them too. Launch our remaining fighters ASAP."

The ship shuddered as it fired its 2 twin plasma cannons at the enemy as 150 fighters came out of the ship. Moments later a broad side of 16 antimatter missiles was unleashed by the Zeus.
The cruisers fired their 2 plasma pulse cannons and 1 Rail-gun at the enemy as they made their way passing them on their right flank.

OOC: I wouldn't count my fleet out just yet. Since you have said nothing about it I will assume your ships use the lasers as specified in the link you provided. I also have to make a guess as to where you are, be more precise next time.

IC: The attack came as a suprise and took out 40 of the fighters and 4 of the gunships. 3 others sustained damage but kept on attacking Gronde while their laser turrets also began to target the shivan bombers.

The cruisers and the battleships had more luck. They had engaged their shields and the Zeus had already fired the Ripper beam.

"Shivan fleet of the port bow. They are firing."
The Zeus shuddered as the weapons fire impacted. One of the cruisers took most of it and lost shields.
"The Madla lost shielding, our own shielding is absorbing the heat. We are fine for now."
"Ok, tell the cruisers to come about and go around the Shivan fleet while attacking them. Helm, take us on a course parallel to theirs and fire the plasma cannons at their capital ships. Start with the smallest ones and then work your way up. And when in position fire a broadside of antimatter missiles at them too. Launch our remaining fighters ASAP."

The ship shuddered as it fired its 2 twin plasma cannons at the enemy as 150 fighters came out of the ship. Moments later a broad side of 16 antimatter missiles was unleashed by the Zeus.
The cruisers fired their 2 plasma pulse cannons and 1 Rail-gun at the enemy as they made their way passing them on their right flank.


OOC: Wetland i hope you are not travelling through Shivan subspace because if you are i will know about it and be able to head you off. CF dont spring the attack early we havent even begun the attack on his homesystem i will attack later to day. And Gronde, you are a pathetic 200 million nation i am going to mush you down. MUSH. Your threats do not frighten me oh and i am going to go all the way your homeworld, fleet, civilian populace will be destroyed.

IC: The new breed of Corpsac ships opened fire upon the SJ Diablo however its shielding absorbed the gravatational beams (Lucifer shields). The warship attempted to return fire however the swarming fighter like craft were too fast but the Diablo had larger things to worry about now. A Wetland vessel had just been detected entering the system and it was targetting the Diablo with their gridfire weapon (i have read the Ian M Banks books as well, your short description on how grid fire works matches word from word the passage in Considder Phleebas where it is described; an excellent book may i say) However this had been anticipated, The SJ Diablo powered up its subspace drives just as the Wetland ship was targetting it, within two seconds just as the ripper beam was powering up the Diablo entered subspace however this was no ordinary jump. Eight seconds later a subspace portal opened behind the Wetland vessel (hit me with your ripper beam now) Shuddering and damaging the enemy ship with severe gravatational disturbances the Diablo entered real spaace once again and opened fire with it's five forward flux cannons onto the enemy ship. The Diablo had just preformed a very difficult and dangerous Nano jump.

OOC: I must admit I have never heard of the books much less read them. I got the idea from Jordaxia and it sounded great. And I don't understand were you get the idea from that I am travelling through subspace. My own FTL system works like a warp drive. And I am afraid that this may be my last post for today.

IC:
The Zeus had just fired its broadside when the subspace portal opened behind them.

"Sir, a subspace portal just opened up beh...."
At that moment the gravitational disturbances caused by the portal hit the Zeus causing it to bank slightly to the right.

"Helm, hard to starboard now. Fire the particle beam cannons at the portal."

"No effect sir. Its the Shivan ship that disappeared a while ago. It's firing..."
Because the ship had started to evade the attack only three hit home, but that was enough.

"Ugh, ugh. Damage report."
"Engines 1 and 3 gone. Particle beam cannons, gone. Engines 4 is off line. Shields are down and our Ripper beam is off alignement again. 104 fighters are still waiting to be launched. We only have manoeuvring thrusters and core 1 is unstable."
The captain was silent for a moment as the main display screen showed the enemy ship.
"All power to engine 2, maximum Bend. I don't care how much you overload it, do it! And send a message to the fleet to fall back to us."
"Aye, sir."

The cruisers and 2 gunships managed to engage their FTL drive and reach the ship, but the fighters had no such luck. The ones fighting alongside the gunships were quickly dispatched and the 46 that had just been launched from the battleship were now left to fend for themselves. They fired their missiles at the enemy and then retreated hoping to find some place to hide.

The Zeus leaped forward but could only get several lightminutes away before the last engine gave out and left the ship stranded.
"How many men did we loose and how long before we are up and running again?"
"We lost 18 men, 45 wounded. It seems there was a design flaw in the livingquarters of the marines, they lost more then 150 men. That last attack tore of our armour around the engines and our particle cannons. Engines 2 and 4 will be back online in an hour but we can only reach 0.2c and we wont get FTL drive back in 3 hours. Shields are going to take 2.5 hours and we are having problems maintaining gravity. The Ripper beam however is going to be ready for use in 10 minutes. Engineering rigged something to fix that problem fast after the first time that happened and it has its own power core."
"I thought I was feeling lighter, launch our remaining fighters. They will have to protect us while we make repairs, notify our allies that we are out of the fight for now. Enlist the help of the remaining marines in the repair efforts."

As the captain looked at the bridge, he felt a bit sad. It wasn't long ago that this ship was still shining as it left spacedock and look at it now. Battered and almost broken, forced to retreat their first 2 engagements albeit not without dealing damage of their own.

OOC: damn NS... deleted my posts, I'll type it up again and modify it a tad to fit now
IC:
THe Blademasterian Carrier Angelfire had been scrambled hours ago, in response to the events unfolding. It was now on its way to assist the ESUS fleets with its load of 60 slipfighters.
Aboard the Angelfire
The Commander strode down the halls, heading aft toward engneering, as the 600-meter long vessel cruised through jumpspace. The #3 Fusion Drive had nearly failed during the hasty launch from the shipyard and the commander wanted to know why.
Captain Toras: "Lieutenant, what is the status of our sublight drives?"
Lieutenant Edwards: "Sir, the #3 engine's power couplings were loose during launch, they have been replaced and reinforced, the drives are operating at above 99% capacity."
Commander Tora: "Thank you lieutenant, if there are any more problems, they should be reported to the bridge immidiately."
Lieutenant Edwards: "Sir, yes sir!"
The commander strode back to the bridge, as the Angelfire cruised through jumpspace, only hours away from its destination. She was a top of the line Blademasterian Carrier, with mediocre armaments and a wing of fighters.
OOC: post on Aegis class specs in a bit

The Torontonian Ships moved into their respective positions with the help of the Indra Prime Phase Cloak, they awaited the order to attack. Most of the Crew watched as a battle already waged on between Imperial Brits and other nations. They anxiously awaited the order to open fire.

Several Light Years away

A small group of Explorer class Science ships had set up position. They we quite far away from the action, as not to get damaged. These ships had been charged with Chronicaling the events of this Historic battle for the ESUS. On the ships were several neutral parties, they would be the ones recording.

Two lightyears from conflict

The Delos-class battlecruiser Jennison dropped out of warp. Instantly, alarms went off all over the massive ship.
"Report!" screamed Captain Rachel Michaels.
"Unidentified ships, two lightyears off the port bow! Jesus! There are thousands of them!"
"Red alert, all hands to battlestations! Signal the fleet. Tell the colony ships to turn back..."
"TOO LATE!"

A pair of Shadow Cat-class colony ships appeared 1.5 lightyears away from the Jennison...1.5 lightyears closer to the conflict. One of them was hit by stray fire, exploding in a flash of green and red light.

The small Aegis class carrierdisengaged its jumpdrive engaging its stealth suite nearly simultaneously, and nearly colliding with the debris from a ship.
Commander Toras: "Conn! report!"
"Sir, we spced in in the middle of a ship exploding, unknown configuration and construction materials, but judging from the organic matter in the debris it was a transport or colony ship of some kind, there appears to be another of similar construction off the bow and a similar battleship one and a half lightyears to its stern, with other ships unidentifiable from here, I'm assuming they are not related to this conflict."
Commander Toras: "Conn I make the assumptions around here, disengage the stealth suite and open a channel with the cruiser."
"Sir, the Shivans might notice us!"
Comamnder Toras: "Conn if these vessels are unrelated we can't have them flying right into the midst of a warzone, Shivans be damned!"
"Sir, yes sir!"
The Carrier shimmered back into existance, several hundred meters off the starboard of the second colony ship.
Comamnder Toras: "This is commander Toras of the BWS Angelfire to unidentified vessels, you are entering a military engagement, please turn back, your vessels are in danger of being destroyed."

"This is Captain Rachel Michaels of the FSS Jennison. We were not even aware that there was sentient life this far from the core. Please explain this conflict, and why our colony ship was destroyed!"

The massive MAC guns and multiple AMP batteries on the Jennison began charging up, preparing for a possible conflict.

Commander Toras: "Captain Michaels, there is much sentient life out here, This conflict is between two space alliances attempting to gain superiority over one another, your colony ship was destroyed by stray weapons fire, it was completely unintentional, please stand down."
The Aegis' 6 fighter bays discreetly slid open in case the ships did not stand down, and a tightbeam communication was opened to the Anubis, waiting in jumpspace nearby, informing it of the situation.

"We request more information. Please explain how this conflict began. We do not wish for our people to be involved in this, but we wish more information. If we are to establish colonies in this sector, we need to know what threats there are out here."

A pair of Basil-class frigates dropped out of warp on either side of the Jennison.

"We request more information. Please explain how this conflict began. We do not wish for our people to be involved in this, but we wish more information. If we are to establish colonies in this sector, we need to know what threats there are out here."

A pair of Basil-class frigates dropped out of warp on either side of the Jennison.

Commander Toras: "Confirmed Captain Michaels, The Angelfire AI is preparing a data package to be transmitted to your vessel."

---Data Transmission---
The ESUS/Shivan war was started following attacks on allied nations. The Shivans are a race inhabiting subspace, but not much more data than that is availible to the Blademasterians. The ESUS or Extra-Solar Union of Systems is an aliance that strives to keep peace and only engages in conflict when it is necessary, in this case, an allied nation was attacked, and conflict was unavoidable. *data provided on known territories throughout milky way and Andromeda galaxies.*
(OOC: intentionally biased towards the ESUS)

Another shivan came into the system on the opposite side of the other shivan fleet teh wormian fleet was trapped btween them the Lcifer and 4 ravannas went straight for the zeus and and began firing beam cannons and flux cannons thousands of micromissles slammed into the zeus and the rest of the wormian fleet
1 moloch 2 rakshasas and 4 liliths went towards the UA fleet with the goal of obliterating it

ooc heres my fleet

Lucifer Agoniser
10 Ravannas
25 Demons
30 Molochs
35 Liliths
35 Rakashas
25 Cains

The 60 kilometer tall Thorhammer class Supercarrier BWS Anubis screamed out of jumpspace immidiately astern of the Angelfire. Its four massive fighter bays opened, revealing a total of 2500 fightercraft, all prepared for war.
Admiral Karin: "Commander Toras, The Anubis has arrived."
Commander Toras: "Ma'am welcome to the war."
Admiral Karin: "Roger that Commander, The Rapier is on standby should she be needed. Wormian vessels under atatck, do you require assistance? The BWS Anubis is prepared to assist."

Captain Michaels rubbed her chin pensively as the internal translator deciphered the data file.

"Commander Toras, you should know that there is a Feazanthian battlefleet two systems away on standby. I could call for backup to combat these Shivans, but my people need something in return. Could this Extra-Solar Union of Systems provide the Galactic Empire of Feazanthia colonization and exploration rights in this sector?"

OOC: What is this get Wetland day? And I am nowhere near the Wormian fleet or the nebula.

IC:
"Sir, subspace portal dead ahead. It's the shivans... its a Lucifer."
"I see them and he is right in the path of the Ripper beam. Fire!"
He also sent orders to the rest of the fleet.
Just as the beam fired, so did the Shivans. The flux cannons and micromissiles slammed into the armour of the ships. The first shots only melted parts of the armour but soon explosions rocked the ship and obscured the view of it.

Once the explosions cleared the damage could be seen. The ship had broken up into several large pieces. Some escapepods could be seen clearing the ship. The bridge was gone.

Meanwhile the fighters had already reacted to the arrival of the Shivans. 80 of them concentrated on the ravannas and fired their 80 capital missiles at them. The other 24 made a desperate attempt to take out the Lucifer with their capital missiles. The explosions from the dying Zeus caught 25 of the fighters and destroyed them.

The remaining fleet received the orders and changed course to attack the 1 moloch, 2 rakshasas and 4 liliths going towards the UA fleet. They would reach the enemy soon.

OOC: Wow Im gone on day and 3 pages go up. I will be counter attacking th IB forces attack Gronde.
IC: The two Metallinauts vessels reacted quickly to the inbound Shivans They flew along side the Vessels pounding them with their modified phasers and finished the volley by ending at their flank and realeasing a salvo of 10 transphasic torpedoes (these do a hell of a lot of damage) apiece.

IC:

The monsterous five kilometer form of the CFV Hydra, 1st of the Hydra class battleships gracefully edged its way out of the Chimera Shipyard complex. To the left and right were six more Hydra battleships, three on each side. They were all in various states of work. Most would be ready soon however.

"Lights are green. Everything's working perfectly, Sir. Chimera control has released control of the navagation systems. We're ready to go." First officer Faerun said. He was the first person of Elvish descent to be given such a position on a capital ship. He felt honored to be given such a responsiblity. But he also knew that the positon would be very trying for one like him, even more difficult than a normal first officer's job.

"Excellent" Admiral Blake said, his voice filled with pride in the new battleship. "Take us out. Next stop: Gronde. Are our elite troopers equipped? After wiping the floor with the Shivan forces in the area, we may have to engage in some...aggressive bargaining." The Admiral said, his voice potent and laced with expectation.

"Aye sir!" Faerun replied. He turned and began issuing orders to the crewmen; "You heard the Admiral! Plot in the coordinates for Gronde's homeworld! We don't have all day!" he said loudly, so the bridge crew could hear him. "Oh yes" he thought "This will be a fight to remember, and to think I'm actually participating in it!"

The Xenium Implosion reactor dedicated to the Hydra's quasi-space drive began charging. Within seconds, it was fully charged and ready to move to Gronde.

The XIR opened a small quasi-space rift, which the Hydra quickly entered. There was an all pervading green light in the alien dimension, it would take roughly two hours to arrive. But when it does, watch out!

OOC: Hydra pic and specs.
http://www.projectxenocide.com/public/CTD/Cpl.%20Facehugger/shivanicide.jpg

Stats:
Legnth: 5 Kilometers.
Width: 3 Kilometers
Armor: 15 Meter (!!) DU/CN/ECC/Clearplast/Crystal weave Sheath
Shields: Six banks of heavy "accumulator" shields
Crew: 35,000
Elite Trooper compliment: 13,000
Fighters: 0

Weapons:
60 Heavy PPBCs
13 Heavy Plasma Beam Weapons
4 Super Heavy PPBCs (capable of disabling subspace shields, once the proper resonance is divined.)
2 Super heavy Railguns
120 "Storm" point defense railgun nodes
4 Standard railguns mounted on swivel turrets.
3 500 MT Fusion Torpedo Launchers
1 Modular missile launcher
2 "Wavelock beam" weapons

As you can see, this thing has everything including the Kitchen sink.

Edit: I thought I should elaborate upon the additional hydras.

A new shivan fleet, one with a .... differing hive mind has currently warped out of subspace to damage the ESUS fleet and deliver an important message.
(OOC: this fleet has been travelling for quite some time)
This fleet consists of : (OOC: SF stands for Shivan Fighter, SB stands for shivan bomber, SC stand for shivan cruiser, SD stands for shivan destroyer and SJ stands for shivan juggernaut)
Fighters/Bombers
133 SF Dragons
74 SF Basilisks
65 Sf Manticores
54 SF Aeshmas
86 SF Maras
45 SF Astoroths
104 SB Nephilims
77 Sb Nahemas
Cruisers/Destroyers
12 SC Cain's
7 SC Rakshasa
2 SC Liliths
1 SD Demon
1 SD Lucifer - this ship has sustianed heavy damage , and is really only there for show purposes (but you wouldn't know that unless you ran an extensive scan on the ship)

All these ships open fire on wetland gunboats, fighters and other wetland ships. They will be disuaded from ever again attacking Shivan ships.

Also, a small task force has been dispatched to hunt down any Underwater Asylum remaining space travel. it consists of -
13 SF Dragons
1 SC Cain

Also, 1 SJ Sathanas will be into the fray in 4 NS years.

This Supercruiser is exceedingly powerful

OOC: as i do not know how too post sites, i will write it down normally (if someone knows how to post pics/links please help me with that) http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/techfs/fs1/species.shtml


(note: any foray into ships computers will reveal that this is the largest fleet we could muster, as many rebel minds have caused something of a disturbance)


A Shivan mind speaks - we will withdraw this fleet after 15 days of conflict. We have no desire to war with the ESUS

You are ignored. You know nothing of the Shivans. There is no seperate hive mind. You are ignored for all eternity.

The ravannas began to obliterate the fighters coming in toward them the shivan fighters began to enter the fray the zeus had been destroyed and now the wetland fleet posed no threat to the lucifers and the diablo the fleet jumped back into subspace except for what was pursuing UA 5 demons stayed to aid them

Ekardia/wetland. Your attack is ignored by me. Both posted each others casualties. Wetland, we know that the beam will kill him, however, you don't post it, and you know it. Ekardia, you also posted his losses.

IC: The new location for the Wetland vessel was relayed from one of the other clans to the Diablo. Once again the Diablo peformed a nano jump with intentions on destroying the Wetland mennace. The enemy warship had escaped our grasp once but never again. The vast hulk of the Diablo entered subspace and once again reappeared on the starboard side of the enemy ship keeping its distance away from the ripper beam. The Diablo let fire all the port beam cannons (22 of them) and smashed the enemies hull. The three starboard flux cannons however targetted the bridge engines and weapons systems and opened fire with all the might the shivans had.

IC: The new location for the Wetland vessel was relayed from one of the other clans to the Diablo. Once again the Diablo peformed a nano jump with intentions on destroying the Wetland mennace. The enemy warship had escaped our grasp once but never again. The vast hulk of the Diablo entered subspace and once again reappeared on the starboard side of the enemy ship keeping its distance away from the ripper beam. The Diablo let fire all the port beam cannons (22 of them) and smashed the enemies hull. The three starboard flux cannons however targetted the bridge engines and weapons systems and opened fire with all the might the shivans had.

"...Admiral Fehner. How good of you to come." Ketcher bit his lip. He... was... furious.

"Yes. At the moment Admiral Ketcher, you are temporarily relieved of command of the fleet until such time as this conflict subsides." Fehner said.

"Oh? I see. Well then. I should be on my way, then." Ketcher replied.

"You will go on the same ship I came on. Lieutenant Diera has strict orders to take you back to Phoenix Prime." Fehner said.

"Yes sir." Ketcher replied. He didn't mean it. Every shred of respect he had formerly held for the man went up in smoke.

He walked off the bridge escorted by Lieutenant Diera. Tate Janus looked on as Admiral Ketcher solemly departed the bridge of the Chimera. He followed.

Things most certainly were not what they seemed.

"...Admiral Fehner. How good of you to come." Ketcher bit his lip. He... was... furious.

"Yes. At the moment Admiral Ketcher, you are temporarily relieved of command of the fleet until such time as this conflict subsides." Fehner said.

"Oh? I see. Well then. I should be on my way, then." Ketcher replied.

"You will go on the same ship I came on. Lieutenant Diera has strict orders to take you back to Phoenix Prime." Fehner said.

"Yes sir." Ketcher replied. He didn't mean it. Every shred of respect he had formerly held for the man went up in smoke.

He walked off the bridge escorted by Lieutenant Diera. Tate Janus looked on as Admiral Ketcher solemly departed the bridge of the Chimera. He followed.

Things most certainly were not what they seemed.

Captain Michaels was getting tired of waiting for Toras' response. She opened a channel to all ships in the vicinity, as she had no idea who was Shivan and who was ESUS.

"Attention forces of the Extar-Solar Union of Systems. This is Captain Rachel Michaels of the FSS Jennison from the Galactic Empire of Feazanthia Exploratory Force Delta. The rest of the Exploratory Force is two systems away, less than a standard hour at maximum warp. I am willing to call in these reinforcements if the ESUS agrees to allow us to settle this area without interference."

Communication to Feazanthian Exploratory force (delta)

This system (mechlon) is currently inhabited by the DEC. Colonisation of another nations sovereign territory is unacceptable, and may lead to unnecessary hostilities, not to mention the fighting going on nearby. There are superior systems nearby. We recommend that you evacuate this system before you are targetted by hostile enemies. (Shivans)

OOC: Wow Im gone on day and 3 pages go up. I will be counter attacking th IB forces attack Gronde.
IC: The two Metallinauts vessels reacted quickly to the inbound Shivans They flew along side the Vessels pounding them with their modified phasers and finished the volley by ending at their flank and realeasing a salvo of 10 transphasic torpedoes (these do a hell of a lot of damage) apiece.
OOC:Please post damage IB

(OOC: I thought I posted this earlier, but it seems that the forums ate my post...

Due to the excessive amounts of godmodding/powergaming/numberwanking and n00bs who don't know how to roleplay for their life, the Five Civilized Nations will be dropping out of this RP for all purposes...

This means that for this RP and for others realting to the Shivan conflict, the Five Civilized Nations will not be considered as part of the ESUS. Once this conflict ends or is resolved, the Five Civilized Nations will be considered once more as part of the ESUS.

This also means that until further notice any movements by the Shivans, the ESUS, or anyone else into Five Civilized Nations territory will be ignored... Any reference to attacks upon the Five Civilized Nations will be ignored...

And for those people who are good RPers and are willing to stick this out, I commend your patience...)

BUMP :oops: :cry: :lol: :o :( :) :D :shock: :evil: :idea:

"Helm, bring us to 108. Take us out of this system, maximum warp..."
"BELAY THAT ORDER!"
The vidscreen was filled with the massive, shadowed figure of a man. His face was not visible, all that was visible was his flowing, orange robes. Orange was a color reserved for royalty. Michaels immediately knelt along with the rest of those on the bridge.
"Y-your highness. I was not aware that you were monitoring this channel..."
"OF COURSE I WAS! YOU THINK I AM DISINTERESTED IN THE EXPLORATION OF ALIEN SYSTEMS? I AM SENDING WORD TO THE FLEET! YOU ARE TO ASSIST THIS 'EXTRA-SOLAR UNION OF SYSTEMS' AND ENGAGE THESE HOSTILES WITH EXTREME PREDJUDICE! AFTER THAT, WE MAY NEGOTIATE FOR A SYSTEM! AM I CLEAR, CAPTAIN?"
"Y-yes...your highness."
The viewscreen went back to the battle scene, and Michaels rose. She was lucky. Most captains that displeased His Imeperial Highness lost their commands. "Helm, how long until the fleet arrives?"
"At maximum warp...sixteen minutes. It appears the colony ships are not coming with them."
"Well that's to be expected! All hands to battlestations! Prepare to engage Shivan forces."

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ooc jordaxia wetland said the ship was destroyed

Northrop-Grumman's 1st carrier battlegroup slowly moved into their pre-designated positions through the use of the Indra Prime Phase Cloak. The crew waited restlessly for the order to attack.

Gold and silver ships began dropping out of warp at the edge of the conflict. The Jennison and the two frigates accompanying it went into full reverse, putting themselves in formation behind the FSS Bec Corbin dreadnought. The largest ship in the fleet, the Bec Corbin was easily eight thousand meters long and packed some of the heaviest MAC guns and missile racks ever strapped onto a hull.


FSS Bec Corbin

Admiral Dowarty watched as the forces of the ESUS and the Shivan empire battled it out.
"All hands to battlestations. If His Imperial Highness wants us to kill Shivans, then by God we will kill Shivans!"


Feazanthian Ships

1 Bec Corbin Dreadnought FSS Bec Corbin
3 Hurricane Battleships
7 Delos Battlecruisers including FSS Jennison
12 Epee Cruisers
30 Wolf Light Cruisers
60 Mace Destroyers
89 Basil Frigates
123 Nordic Escorts

Fighters:
12 squadrons (100 fighters) of Dagger Light Fighters
8 squadrons of Scimitar Medium fighters
5 squadrons of Claymore Heavy Fighters

I'm really confused, it seems like some ESUS members are fighting each other, The shivans are ESUS and are allied with the AoN without the AoN getting any say, and IB, where did Gronde "show" any weakness?

No, the Shivans are at war with ESUS. The rest is confusing on purpose.
IB says Gronde shown weakness by requesting Shivan assistance. (I believe.) Ekardia, you both posted each others casualties, which is Godmodding. Therefore, to me, the ships never died, because the conflict never took place.

BuMp FoR Ib DaMaGe PoSt!! IhAtE sHiVaN sMaCkTaRdS

OOC: Wetland i hope you are not travelling through Shivan subspace because if you are i will know about it and be able to head you off. CF dont spring the attack early we havent even begun the attack on his homesystem i will attack later to day. And Gronde, you are a pathetic 200 million nation i am going to mush you down. MUSH. Your threats do not frighten me oh and i am going to go all the way your homeworld, fleet, civilian populace will be destroyed.


ooc> Actually, I am nearly 400 million. The Horned Rat is over 400 million. The Ulthwe Craftworld is over 300 million. If you ever set foot in my system you would have the full power of at least 10 other nations of that size up your a**, maybe more. All it woudl take is one post on my regional board and the AoN would quickly rally.

Jordaxia: I never asked for assistance. One of the AoN members might have. I mearly suggested that if the ESUS was going to continue aggression agaisnt me, that the Shivans and the AoN should fight a common enemy. Although, I have reconsidered. I don't appreciate completely unprovoked attacks. The ESUS and I have had their issues, but they never attacked me without reason. So now, because of IB's foolish decision, I think it's safe to say that the Shivans are doomed. :twisted:

This is turing into an IGNORE fest... wow. I hope this thread doen't die before it gets interesting.

ic> The main forces at Mechlon were comming under fire from both ESUS and Shivan forces.
"What the hell are they doing?" Enjir asked his luitenant. "Do they want to lose this war? Change of orders guys: redirect fire at IB vessels. Only fire on Corpsac, ESUS, and other non-IB ships if they fire on you first." The Gronde fleet rallied quickly, firing on these new foes with a vengeance. Enjire sent a message to Kalgar, this would not go unanswered.

Kalgar recieved the message. He wasn't completely suprised. It was time to decide where he should place his loyalties.

[code:1:a76b0230de]
To: ESUS leadership
From: Kalgar of Gronde and the AoN
It has come to my attention that the Shivans cannot be trusted. I should have never tried to work with them. Therefore, I am offering my full support to the ESUS for this war. I am willing to stop any actions against Corpsac if nessicary. It is likely that Corpsac will not accept my help. If this is so, then I will have no choice but to continue my war against him. However, I hold no aggression against the rest of the ESUS. It would be pointless for us to fight eachother when we should be fighting the Shivans. Please consider my offer.
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ooc> I may not be able to get on all weakend. Therefore, if I do not post this within a day, my ships will pull out of the Mechlon system.

OOC-I feel like my arrival is being ignored here...

OOC-I feel like my arrival is being ignored here...

OOC: You prolly are. That is what this war seems to be about.

IC: The Craftworld was assulted by a number of Shivan vessels. The hull mounted weapons blazed away at the attacking forces. In accordance with Enjir's request, the eldar forces broke away from Corpsac and assulted the Shivan fleet. The launching bays on the craftworld opened up and swarms of Wraithbone powered fighters swarmed out and onto the IB forces, blazing their weapons.

OOC: I'm not sure if I will be able to get on for a day or so.

bUmP

Where the hell are the Shivans?

Things that go *bump* in the night.

OOC:
This seems like spagetti bolognesa.. a mess without head or feet.., let's see what happens.. and like Cf said i think, i am gone for a day and 4 pages of postings appear.. damn.. :)

IC:

Commodore Gandara looked at his tactical screen while his battle group was still cloaked, he was watching enemy and allied movements, estudying the flow of the battle.. he say a Shivan Lucifer make quite the interesting maneouver to attacka wetland ship.. "Helm, over there.. lets hit that shivan bastard.. mantain cloak all ships and decloak and attack when we are close ain for their sensors, quantum singularity torpedos in wide spread to hit a s much ship as we can.. lets see if we can make them hurt.. all ships move.."

Tha still cloaked Argheraal 5 Heavy Tiger Destroyers, 2 Hecates and 3 Orions, all in the 2 km+ range moved swiftly.. when the ships were about 3 km away all decloak in unison, their temporal disruptors firing at once in a strafe run, torpedos flying.. "all ships.. if that shivan ship tries to pull the same stunt it did with that wetland ship on us lauch gravmines.. lets see if he likes 40G shockwaves..

Meanwhile the group of Commodore Aaryanna Nirze was in the middle of it firing its weapons at the Shivan Demon, aiming for its weapons with the quantum singularity torpedos and temporal disruptors.. her eyes were alight with the power of the Indran weaponry.. "Man.. i hope our government buys the rights to produce this and outfit all of our ships.. tactical.. keep firing at those shivan small craft.. launch gravmines, let them run into their field of effect, set auto detonation, if you can detonate some of them at the right moment do it.."

The two Hecates and 3 Orions were shooting at the engines and body of the Demon..

OOC: in case some of you did not see the NEW SHIPS i posted some days ago, gravmines have a 50m diameter sphere when detonated, they create a 40G shock wave in the area of affect..

OOC:
Wow; this RP has degenerated into an utter mess. I'm tempted to leave like 5CN, but, lets see if we can blow some shit up first and hope things straighten out.

IC:
The Battleplate KHGV Jagged Razor of Methodical Dismemberment had, for some reason, taken only light, stray fire; all of which bounced harmlessly off it's inversion field(no one bothered to specificly shoot at me, and I was off to the side, so..).

Wittnessing the IB Diablo's vicious attack upon the Wetland vessel, the Kanuckistani fleet-killer SLDS'd to just within a lightsecond(300'000 km) of the two ships; it's full suite of FTL inhibitors projecting a 30 lightsecond(9 million KM) radius field-of-effect instantly upon disengaging the inertialess secondary FTL drives.

They had, however, another effect; the new TrueSpace Barrier-Effectors catalysticly isolating real space from all others with infinite gradiants of diametricly-opposed forces, all technologies which depended upon other plains were cut off. The Shivan subspace shields could no longer function.

A second later, the planet-rending energies from each of the 10 facing SuperHeavy Cryo-Atomic Lased Particle-Wave Cannons convered upon the Imperial Brits Diablo.

OOC: Yeah, I think that we're about to do the timewarp here. Because, I for one, am so unhappy with the way things are going, that I no longer recognise this entire thread. It was a good movie, but I'll wait for the real thing, thank you.

Kanuckistan, with displacers, effectors, and names that have a rather familiar ring to them, I'd like to ask you a question. Have you read: consider phlebas, excession, state of the art, use of weapons, look to windward, or the player of games?

OOC2: Still Jordaxia, still having nation difficulties.

OOC : Imperial Brits - please tell me where you found ABSOLUTE proof that the Shivans are all one hive mind, or , indeed even a hive mind at all.

Ok. I am just going to pretend i was never a Shivan, as ekardia, IB and others just don't seem to appreciate ideas that might be ...GASP ...different from their own.
i thought it would be fun to rp as Shivans, but, self-evidently, i was wrong. Good day gentlemen. Wetland, ignore your losses, the whole shivan fleet was a figment of your commander's imagination etc, etc. I apologise for the inconvience

Does anyone care to start the RP again, without letting all this Gronde/CorpSac fued crap and OOC commentary sidetrack us?

I say yes. This thread has just become 1 big Ignore fest, and I'm pretty sure that's not what anyone wants.

We need to start a new topic, and refresh the RP. We need an OOC topic too (Or just settle differences over MSN or AIM or something.)

I do. The sooner we can put this all back, the better. As I said, I ain't participating if it keeps going like this, so it'd be best for me.

Put a vote to the "aye"

OOC: Yeah, I think that we're about to do the timewarp here. Because, I for one, am so unhappy with the way things are going, that I no longer recognise this entire thread. It was a good movie, but I'll wait for the real thing, thank you.

Kanuckistan, with displacers, effectors, and names that have a rather familiar ring to them, I'd like to ask you a question. Have you read: consider phlebas, excession, state of the art, use of weapons, look to windward, or the player of games?

OOC2: Still Jordaxia, still having nation difficulties.

OOC:
I'm aware of the Culture books and their universe, but have yet to actually read them; the terms I use are sometimes similar, but the root technology is, as far as I know, quite different, as I create most of my tech myself. My displacers, for example, are probibility-based, not hyperspace-based, and effector is a fairly generic term.

EDIT:
I think one of the main problems was that fact that the entire conflict was fairly disorganised and spread over 4-5 threads, with, in some cases, the same battle raging in more than one thread, and with battles in several systems raging in a single thread.

Then the ESUS ambush plan was launched while a battle was still going on, further complicating theings.

OOC: Sorry Feaz, totally lost what I was doing when I was in the thread... where were we?

The Anubis and Angelfire hug in space away from the battle, prepared to strike where necessary, their commanders still unsure of where they were needed.

Blademasters, the current proposal is to go back to before the whole thing happened, just before this thread started. It would be best for all, I believe.

OOC:
Well, it seems that plenty are voting to restart this or else consider the whole affair a holodeck exercise..

And someone was right a few posts ago.. this whole thing happened over 3 or 4 threads.. many got lost.. i was one of them..

If this thing is restarted i am all for it.. if not, well, i'll see how it develops and take a decision to continue or not.

OK heres the deal. I will start a new war thread between the ESUS and the Shivan nations and their allies. NO ONE ELSE is allowed to joing the RP. No Gronde, no AoN, no UTA, or anybody else deciding to interfere. It will take the war from the point where the ESUS fleet has already been cloaked and is in position ready to spring the trap on the Shivans who have not arrived yet. Imperial Brits is the First nation who needs to post the arrival of the Shivans as Indra Prime is the ESUS lead nation in this conflict.

I would like that no AoN was involved(which I'm part of it)

I am all for it Indra...

Well I am for it. If only because it would mean that I can keep my flagship intact.

And Jordaxia, I only posted what kind of damage my ship had. As far as I know that is how you play here.

I would like that no AoN was involved(which I'm part of it)

They are right, HR. We need to take care of our problems with Corpsac in a different thread. I agree with Indra. But I must say that another problem is the large number of people involved. Someone can post and action, and it quickly gets drowned away.