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About Normandeicht were ringed many defenses. The world had, for centuries, been the military world of the Stellar Federation. The small battlegroup had dropped out of warp just a few hours ago and had immediately begun repairs at the Starbase in orbit above Normandeicht. A small ripple in subspace had passed through the system about ten minutes earlier when a tear opened in subspace. The tear was out-system, about twenty minutes at full impulse from the inner system. Klaxons rang out all over the planet and in the stations above the orange and white world. There were in all about 18 of the 50 ships of the fleet stationed there, and all immediately activated weapons and shields. Navy and marines ran through the ships and stations preparing for a huge battle. Vessels of war powered engines, and the planetary generators for the orbital cannons powered up. COmputer cores calculated ETA for the enemy ship, firing solutions, and called for help. THe entire system held its breath.

To: The Germanic Federation
From: Lt. Commander Edwin Duncan, Special Attache to the Special Interests Bureau of the Foreign Ministry
Topic: ln regards to the Shivan threat...

Juumanistra would, perhaps, be obliged to offer her assistence, but given what happened the last time we did that, we're not overly enthusiastic about offering a helping hand this time around. Furthermore, given our varying operations with ESUS and the persistant threat of the Shivans to our own assets, we couldn't spare much in the way of assistence even if we so desired.

A word of advice; watch out for the shielding on the big ones. Intel says it's nasty.

To: The Dominion of Juumanistra
From: The Chanceller's Office
Contents: Teraty of Non-Agression

The Stellar Federation would be cautious but willing to sign a treaty of Non-Agression with the Dominion. It would signify the rebuilding of relations with Juumanistra, and would assure that we would not rashly fire upon those who might have good intentions.

By the way, we have a way to get around the shields. However, it requires the sacrifice of a cruiser or other capital ship.

To: The Germanic Federation
From: Lt. Commander Edwin Duncan, Special Attache to the Special Interests Bureau of the Foreign Ministry
Topic: Words from the President...

The President, with the wholehearted agreement of the Ministers of Defense and the Foreign Ministry, has authorized me to convey the following message:

Shove it.

And, to be glroiously frank Herr Chanceller, I agree with them.

***
[OOC: No offense meant, of course. Merely playing the nation; gratitude scorned, and a few thousand dead along with the loss of a few capships, hasn't sat well with the Juumanistran psyche.]

To: The Dominion of Juumanistra
From: The Federation Council; Military Interests Committee
Topic: Animosity

We are sending a message from the Vice Chanceller now:

Dammit, I fought against them in the War! I don't give a damn about our relations with the Juumanistrans. If we have good relations with the Dominion, I don't care. It would be nice, but, hey.

He doesn't care if you don't help at all. But, we would like to end the animosity between the Dominion and the Federation. We offer you true peace. But, if you choose to reject and backstab like before, we wouldn't hold it against you. It would only be true to your character.

ooc: same story. IC for my nation.

If any USF members with the capability would like to send ships to assist in the defense of Normandeicht, the Navy, Marines, and Army would greatly appreciate it.

The fleet would lie in wait on the dark side of the planet until the enemy was within range of the Orbital Cannons. Once they had fired, the fleet would warp in close, and open up with everything they had. One heay cruiser had been stuffed full of Schlagtruppen und Marinen who would board the shivan vessel when the cruiser had rammed the enemy vessel. Also, a non-military science vessel had been equipped to emit a gravometric pulse every fifteen minutes. This pulse, in theory, could possibly disrupt their subspace shields long enough to fire a beamcannon or two. Possibly even a torpedo. This pulse was only in the testing stages, as it had only been a day since the data from the first battle with the shivans had been collected.

So, until the shivan vessel got close enough, the fleet waited.

Just (b) waiting (u) for (m) IB (p) to respond...

Butter Up My Potatoes!

And on today's episode, will IB ever respond?

IB, I know that you're out there...

To: The Germanic Federation
From: Kameredian Empire

After looking at the situation, we have decided to offer our support in this war. Although we aren't very much of a power, we're willing to help in any way we can.

sorry i know the post etc etc i have just been really busy, i am working on it truley. My post will be up tonight or tommorrow morning

We'll take whatever help we can get...

ok IB.

ooc> Is it ok if I join in?
If so:

ic>
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To: Germanic Federation
From: Chapter Master Varrack of Gronde's 3rd Space Marine Chapter
Topic: Shivan Threat
Gronde forces have rarely ventured to this part of space. However, my Space Marine Chapter has recently set of an outpost nearby and I have recieved information about a possible Shivan threat. If you require any assistance, my forces and I would be more than willing to aid you against a common enemy.
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The outpost was stationed within an astroid field. Many mining bases had been set up to supply the vital raw materials needed to supply Gronde's industry. After having a descussion with the Gronde military council, the protection of this outpost was placed solely on Varrack and his Space marines.

ooc: Ah ha ha ha. Warhammer 40k. I play BFG. I like the Imperials, and I might get a SM cruiser... Might get into W40k...
IC:

Military High Command of Normandeicht had recieved a message from a nearby outpost of a possible ally. The Shivan ship was still out-system so a message was sent to the outpost.

[code:1:05058e600e] Any assistance that can be given will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

-MHC of UFGZ World of Normandeicht [/code:1:05058e600e]

To:Germanische Zustande
From:The Council of Thirteen(currentley 11)
We have recieved your message and would like to help you in an effort against the foul Shivans, if you would like our assisstance, please message us back.

The SJ diablo plotted an intercept course for the planet, the vast warships engines at full was throwing the warship at full speed into the enemies territory. The Diablo had jumped in at the edge of the system now it prepared to extinguish all life possible. The vast arsanal of weapons on the vessel were fully powered, its subspace shielding at optimum efficiency and the thirst for blood was raw.

To: The Council of Thirteen - Two
From: Military High Command- Normandeicht

Based on previous experience with the Shivans, our ramming tactics will not be able to defeat them alone. We need help. Thank you for you assistance. ESUS help would be appreciated, especially since no USF members seem to have been paying attention.

ooc:

SPARTEN, are you a puppet of IB?

The Fleet was already prepped due to another war, just never left, so all that had to be changed was the course.
Skaven:

10 Command Behemoths
2.5 miles long
double barreled ship killer warp-lightning cannon*fixed
thousands of warplightning cannons all over*turrets

20 Behemoths
1.5 miles long
1 ship killer warp-lightning*fixed
thousands of warp-lightning cannons all over*turrets

52 Turbulent Class Destroyers

260 Armed Merchant Vessels

Allied:

10,000 Slivers of various species

40 Explorer Class Cruisers-tau

60 Hero Class Destroyers-tau

120 Defender Class Escorts-tau

Fleet is composed of region members donations.

Wow. I think we'll win. THanks.

A few other things I need to mention,
Shadow Tau:
He/She gave me men and ships for....RL money/food :lol:
His Ships are Black, the only sign is on scanners(which are disrupted due to the warp energy from them), and sillouettes(I don't think thats spelled right) on the stars. These Tau worship Tzeentch, you play BFG, so I assume you know who he/she/it is. For those who don't, I'm too lazy to explain, maybe later.

Slivers:
They evolved an ability like amphibians, able to change their gender, only the slivers it isn't gender, it is species. For istance say their falling from a cliff, the individual/ one of the group would change to a winged sliver and they would fly to saftey.

Skaven:
Warp-lightning is able to pass through all materials except for 2 very basic materials, I doubt any one would cover their ship in them any way. Since this is my first conflict with Shivans, they know nothing about my fleet, and I know nothing about theirs(literally).

Ooh, Tau. THey will help us much. The UFGZ thanks you.

ooc> Wow, HR. It didn't take you long to find this.

BTW, my ships have slightly different names.(except for the Battle Barges of course :twisted: ) My lance battleships are similar to the Emperor Class Battleships. My Battlecruisers are similar to SM strike cruisers and so on. Also, my chapters are much larger than WH40K chapters. (over 400,000) Luckily, the members of my alliance are always sending in eager recruits to join the Space Marines.

ic> Chapter Master Varrack deployed 3/5 of his marines to the threatened system, leaving the rest ot gaurd the outpost. The Space Marine fleet was lead by no less than 3 Battle Barges. The 3rd Chapter was different than its 2 predicessors in that it contained no surface mech divisions. Because it was a space faring chapter, it contained 4 space mech divisions. 2 of those were sent with the fleet. The force quickly arrived at its destination.

[code:1:1f779c8f89]
Requesting permintion to enter the system. I also wish to know if there is an astroid field that my forces could set up defences in.
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I already saw this topic when it was created, just that then, the Shivans didn't reveal how suicidal they were.

The MHC was abuzz with activity. Thousands of reports came in every minute, and one message came from the newest ally of the UFGZ, Gronde. Thier marines were asking permission to enter the system.

"Admiral, we have a transmission from Gronde, thier fleet is requesting permission to enter the system."

"Dammit Chief, tell them to get thier little marine buts in here. They should be smart enough to know we need them," the admiral fumed.
"Send orders to the fleet. Initiate attack pattern Shivan-1-Omega."

"Yes sir," replied the warrant offizer.

The fleet emmitted a gravometric pulse, and as the pulse hit the Shivan vessel, space warped and twisted like a possesed creature of the underworld.

another shivan fleet lay in wait in subspace this fortress would soon fall the shivan imperium would crush this bug and annihilate any that aided him

the fleet is
1 Sathanas
5 Ravannas
10 Demons
20 molochs
25 Rakashas
30 liliths
75 frigates

Ekardia, if you are going to post in my threads, you will spell properly and explain what you mean better. Post stats for all of these ships. And beware my gravometric pulse.

gravomatic pulse won't affect this fleet none of them use subspace sheilding i'll correct the spelling and get stats later

http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/techfs/ships/shivans.shtml

theres the link please note these ships have had some weapons added

No match for what is currently in-system.

Another shivan fleet met up with the one already in subspace they would attack soon

ooc
fleet now stands at
1 Sathanis
10 Ravannas
20 Demons
30 Molochs
40 Rakashas
45 Liliths
100 Frigates
1,000 Mara class fighters
1,000 Dragon class fighters
500 Seraphim class bombers
250 Taurvi class bombers
250 Nephilm class bombers

ooc2 could you tell me what is in your system

The MHC was abuzz with activity. Thousands of reports came in every minute, and one message came from the newest ally of the UFGZ, Gronde. Thier marines were asking permission to enter the system.

"Admiral, we have a transmission from Gronde, thier fleet is requesting permission to enter the system."

"Dammit Chief, tell them to get thier little marine buts in here. They should be smart enough to know we need them," the admiral fumed.


ooc> I have been attacked more times than you might think for making assumptions like that. :?

ic> With the Shivan forces fast approaching, the Space Marine forces made haste to prepare for the attack. Several space platforms were set up near the planet and defencive weapons were placed on them. 2 Divisions stayed on the platforms. The rest were loaded into Thunderhawk gunships. The AoN aid Varrack had requested arrived quickly, and in the form of 4 battleships, 3 Dreadnoughts(as in the ship), and several other vessels.

On the Platform, Varrack was finishing his last speech to his marines before they boarded the Thunderhawks.
"...And we will uphold the honor of the Neo Adeptus Astartes. This fortress will not fall to the Shivans. With the bolter, we will cleanse the unclean!..."

ooc> Total forces:
3 Titan Battlebarges
4 Empire Class Lance Battleships
3 Leviathin Class Dreadnoughts
6 Empire Class Battlecruisers
4 Behemoth Class Carriers
8 Nova Class Super Frigates
8 Hunter Destroyers
9 Cruisers
14 Missile Frigates
16 Torpedo Frigates
24 Paranna Class Corvettes
495 Thunderhawk Gunships
900 Tac. Fighters

Stats for all of my military units are here: http://s6.invisionfree.com/International_Mall/index.php?showforum=41

The UFGZ has 25 ships in system,

2 Modified Shivan Hunters (gunships)
8 Frigates
4 Destroyers
5 Light Cruisers
5 Heavy Cruisers
1 Science Vessel

We also have over a hundred orbital emplacements ready to fire.
And, we have:

200 Attack Fighters (Messerscmit 180-1 NASF)

I don't want to look up the other people's fleet numbers.

bump

IC:The Skaven/Tau/Sliver fleet had finally arrived asking permission to enter the Germanische Zustande space, and if so, where do they go.

On Prekash, flagship of the 4th fleet

Gul Sevit:"Gul Dakar, anything from the Germanische Zustande fleet yet"
Gul Dakar:"Nothing sir"
Gul Sevit:"Hold this position, and inform me of a transmission, I'll be in my quarters finalizing the plans on the Orbital Weapons Platforms"

ooc how did you come up with all this technology to combat shivans one day after the battle

DP

ooc how did you come up with all this technology to combat shivans one day after the battle

To whom are you refering?

The task force that Pelagai had sent to aid th shivans arrived there were 5 Stellar battleships that had their cloaking shelids up they headed for the orbital platforms the phantom tie fighters in the hanger bays began to pour out and fly towards the platforms their cloaking sheilds were up the enemy would be taken by complete surprise

ooc fleet is
5 stellar battleships
400 phantom ties

ooc i was refering to GZ

The task force that Pelagai had sent to aid th shivans arrived there were 5 Stellar battleships that had their cloaking shelids up they headed for the orbital platforms the phantom tie fighters in the hanger bays began to pour out and fly towards the platforms their cloaking sheilds were up the enemy would be taken by complete surprise


ooc> Just fair warning, my space platforms that I have set up have scanning systems that can detect cloaked ships.

BUMP

More shivan ships arived in subspace the fleet was growing but this was only a fraction of the shivan military might if they wanted they could send more fleets ths size but they were staying in subspace incase the esus attacked them

ooc the fleet is now this size

sathanis
20 ravannas
30 demons
40 molochs
45 rakashas
55 liliths
60 cains
350 frigates
2,000 manticore class fighters
1,500 Mara class fighters
1,000 Dragon class fighters
500 Seraphim class bombers
500 Taurvi class bombers
750 Nephilm class bombers

100 Imperial Mark 2 Star Destroyers emerged from subspace directly above the GZ stations and instantly deploy all fighters (Phantom TIEs) while opening fire with all weapons onto the platforms.

OOC: all of the laser cannons on the impstars have been replaced with razor cannons. for all of you who dont know: a razor cannon is basically an extremely tightly focused beam cannon. And yes i know, impstars are not equipped for subspace travel but i built all of them myself and they have subspace engines.

ooc> I am not sure if GZ has FTLi's or not. But until he says he does, I will assume he does not.

ic> The high tech scanners on the Gronde platforms picked up on a signal comming from subspace. The defecive weapons pivoted around just as a group of 100 unidentified vessels appeared. Realizing that their weapons were powered up and that the fleet was begining to launch its fighters, the defecive weapons opened fire just as the star destroyers did. Parts of the platforms took major damage, but none of the Heavy Rail Cannons were destroyed. Thes powerfull weapons locked onto the enemy ships and fired. OMBs (orbital missile batteries) blazed and rappid turret weapons opened fire onto the fighters. The space mech divisions were already deployed onto the platfoms. The Firestorm mechs opened fire with tactical missiles and autocannons while the assult Mechs surged forward and began hacking apart the fighters. The space marines began setting up even more weapons and firing on the enemy ships.

Arriving from the other side of the battle was the actuall fleet. The fleet opened up with a massive wall of fire. The Battleships and Dreadnoughts quickly turned their broadside towards the enemy and made a massive attack. The Battlebarges lead the assult, opening up with their nova cannons and rail cannons.

The phantom ties began to open fire on the orbital emplacements the fighters couldnt be seen but it was easy to tell they were there they rained destructive laser bolts and missiles down at the emplacements the stellar battleships began to open fire with their beam cannons still hiding in their cloaking sheilds one of the pelagai super star destroyers dropped out of subspace and went straight fo the emplacements its sheilds full frontal, fighters began to pour out of its docking bays and engage the platforms its beam cannons fired on the emplaments

this wasnt all pelagai had though they had a fleet waiting in subspace hat would jump in soon and destroy what was left in subspace

ooc
fleet in system
5 stellar battleships
1 ssd
400 phantom ties
150 tie defenders

in subspace
Eclipse
2 SSDs
4 SD MK II
10 SDs
15 Victories
20 Carracks
25 Nebula Bs
350 tie defenders
400 phantom ties
580 tie interceptors
1,380 tie fighters
200 tie bombers
150 scimatar assault bombers


i have given all these ships beam cannons and subspace drives

The shivan fleet jumped out of subspace behing the gronde fleet and began firing at them. The sathanis powered up its 4 main beams and fired at one of the battle barges, the rest of its beam cannons fired away at the barge. The sathanis’ main weakness was’nt going to be a problem in this battle. 8 liliths 4 molochs and a demon were guarding its rear. The ravannas began firing at the cuisers corvettes frigates and fighters (that’s what they specialize at doing). The Demons began firing at the enemy destroyers along with the molochs and rakashas. The bombers began make bombing runs on the enemy barges with fighter escorts the rest of the fighters began engaging the fighters gronde had deployed.

ooc> Lol, I have not deployed my fighters yet. All of my carriers are acting separatly from my main fleet. They are not there right now.

ic> The Gronde fleet came under fire from another enemy. The fleet quickly scattered to avoid major damage. The Battle Barges were barely scathed thanks to improved shields. A destroyer was heavily damaged, but other than that, the first attack didn't effect the fleet much. The fleet quickly adopted a more loose formation and surged into the Wiseone fleet blazing with its short range and broadside weapons. They would make the enemy risk hitting the Wiseone Star destroyers if they wanted to shoot at the Gronde ships.

ooc> Could we not move too fast? The other RPers need a chance to realize whats going on and make their replies.

OOC:Gronde? are flying in their fleet?

IC:Seeing this massive fleet just pop out of now where baffled the skaven, 2 things happened, they either stared, dribbling drool on the floor in stupid amazement, or started panicking, which panicked others, execution after execution after another by the commisars stopped the drooling and panic. All the Behemoths stopped and cranked their cruiser killerson target at the enemey fleet, just then Gronde's ships flew into the enemy fleet in hopes of the enemy hitting them selves.
On board one of the command behemoths, Snikkit snarled"D*** them, why the hell did they go in there, do not fire, repeat do not fire"
"Crewman, send them a message, politley asking them to get the hell out of the way"
"Yes sir"
"Send in the rest of the fleet, have all Behemtohs stationed"
"Yes sir"

While all this was going on the Tau fleet had set up to counter attack from the rear of the newley arrived enemies, guided by Tzeentch.
Kor'el was on board the flag Explorer class cruiser, tentacles, gibbering faces spouting out warpflames, and other trophys adorned this damned ship.
Kor'el:Have the captives been sacrificed, is Tzeentch pleased, do we carry his favor?
(Insert name of ship navigator, too lazy to find it):Yes, yes, and yes, the pact has been made and they will come sir
Kor'el:Good, do you know when?
Navigator dude:No, but I can channel the warp energy to help draw them close and some death would help"
Kor'el:Then let there be death
He absorbed warp energy and made a com channel to the opposing fleet, as soon as they were able to pick up audio, he bellowed out the war cry"FOR THE LORD OF CHANGE", the warp energy sent out by his words would cause symptons anywhere from severe pain to blindness for a half a minute or so. With this all 20 Explorer Class ships launched the attack withe hero class ships, all fireing off lasers, while the defenders zipped around as a screen, ready to intercept fire and die.

Meanwhile the slivers all blinked in and out and then they were in base contact hacking away as others evolved into toxin slivers that secreted acids that ate awy at the hulls.

ooc> Horned Rat: there is another large enemy group nearby. My fleet was flying away from them. Your behemoths could fire at the other fleet.

It takes time to turn a 2.5 mile long ship, besides, I want them to attack me(surprise, say hello to *blank*, now your dead happy RPing) :twisted:

ooc sathanis are bigger than 2.5 miles


the shivan fleet continued to pound the gronde fleet it wasnt worried about hitting the wiseone fleet. the stahanis began to look towards the behemoethsit began to gather energy and its arms began to draw in together the cains began to form behing the sathanis with the other ships guarding its rear
on board the sathanis the order was sent to send in reinforcements the new fleets would be here soon
2 lucifers that had already been in subspace waiting for this order came out in front of the horned rat fleet and and began to open fire on the behemoeths with their flux cannons and other weaponry

OOC: sorry for the delay

Taking the barrage of fire, 25 impstars exploded as their hulls were ripped open. The remaining ships opened fire on the scattering fleet.

From underneath Gronde's fleet, another 125 impstars emereged from subspace and opened fire while emptying their fighter bays of bombers of various models.

OOC: Ahh...back to the RP scene. Don't be too rough with an old fogey like me. :P

Right, much has happened since I last RPed about six months ago. First and foremost, I have become future tech. Second, I have become Shivan (Probably some long RP could accompany that, but not today). Third, I am about to move in and destroy whatever gets in my way (Knock on wood).

This'll be a short RP. Hope no one takes offense.

IC: The Fleet of the Overseer moved through subspace at a casual pace. The new armada had just been completed at the World Station of Hau-Untan (OOC: There's some Al Bhed for all of the FFX people), home of the Neo Order of the Reptile. Centuries before, the immortal leaders of TOR had wandered through the expanses of space, searching for a race worthy of their guidance. The Thirteen had come across the Shivans, which were the perfect mix of pure blood-lust and technological advancement. They had quickly made pacts with the Shivans: Fleets under their command in exchange for their loyalty to the Shivan cause. Now, after many years of preparation, the first Shivan fleet under the command of the Thirteen would ride to war (Figuratively speaking).

Rahab, Third of the Thirteen, gazed out at the fleet from the bridge of the Sathanas-Class Duriel. It was modified (Compliments of Wiseone) to a state of perfection, armed to the proverbial teeth and prepped for battle. Over three hundred ships accompanied it, a beefy mix of nearly everything the Shivans had to offer. Rahab’s mind was filled with confirmations and acknowledgements from the thousands of Shivans throughout the fleet. All ships were in perfect condition and ready to rock. Rahab nodded slightly and telepathically reviewed the orders for the fleet. They were to come out of subspace behind the massive Horned Rat fleet, fire off one volley (For this purpose, all weapons were pre-charged), and fire at will. Fighters would be released in one large swarm toward the smaller and mid-sized ships, all Sathanas would concentrate on the enemy Behemoths, Demons would concentrate on the merchant ships, and all others would skirmish at targets of choice. Live communication with the Shivan fleets already in the battle gave Rahab and his fleet an excellent idea of what to expect, and minor tactics were planned accordingly.

Rahab inclined his head a little, his melancholy look giving the impression that this wasn’t at all interesting to him. He contacted the entire fleet via telepathic “sending” for a final bit of pep talk.

All Shivans and Shivan warships. This is your Supreme Overseer. Though this be our first battle as a fleet, I have full confidence that we will come out ahead. I know your hearts, you know your orders, and the enemy will soon know defeat. Prepare to move into real space!

The countdown began for their move to real space. In a little less than thirty seconds, the entire fleet would “appear’ behind the Horned Rat fleet, adding to the chaos that the enemy fleet was already experiencing. They would use the momentum and slight advantage of surprise to deal massive damage, and, with a little luck, win the day against a slightly larger fleet, as well as the other fleets present in the area.


10.....9…..8….

The countdown seemed in time with the beating of Rahab’s heart as the thrill of combat began to come over him. The count hit zero and time seemed to stop momentarily as they jumped from subspace to real space. They entered the battlefield to see hundreds, possibly thousands of ships fighting it out to the death. Rahab recognized his fellow Shivan ships and, more importantly, saw the Horned Rat fleet ahead of them, with the two Lucifers engaging them at their front. He grinned inwardly, and ordered all ships to carry out their orders. Hundreds of cannons fired almost at once, sending powerful beams of energy toward the enemy fleet, while the ships and fighters prepared to engage.

(Right, not too shoddy. Post yer losses and we’ll really begin.)

OOC: Fleet numbers. Obviously your boys won’t sit there and count them all, but here’s what you’re up against:

Fleet of the Overseer:
Sathanas-Class Flagship Durie
6 sathanas warships
40 ravana destroyers
65 rakasha destroyers
65 demons
40 liliths
50 molochs
50 cains
Full compliments of fighters, bombers, etc. Not sure of what each ship carries, but I recall IB telling me that the whole fleet should carry something above ten or fifteen thousand total.

ooc> Hmm, I think I will actually have to test out my secret weapon here afterall.

ic> The Gronde fleet was in a bad situation. More Shivan forces were arriving and the fleet was outnumbered. The defencive platforms were still holding firm thanks to the iron will of the Space Marines. Varrack considered calling in for AoN aid, but he had already decided on a better option. He had sent a message just as the fighting began. It was time to test the Necrons. (ooc> yes, Necrons)

Many light years away, in a system on the outskirts of AoN space, the first phase of the Necron project had been completed. The Necron Tomb forces were completely under AoN controll. All they needed now was a target to test the formidable capabilities of the Necrons on. Uppon recieving Varrack's message, the researchers agreed that Shivans would make exelent test subjects. A Tomb fleet was already in the Warp at the time and it arrived at the battle site within a few minutes of Varrack's confirmation.

Meanwhile, Varrack decided to bail before the Necrons arrived. His forces had already taken heavy losses and he did not want to lose more. His fleet quickly teleported away. As soon as they teleported away, several thousand mines teleported in, intermingled as close as possible with the Star Destroyers. The mines all sped towards the nearest enemy target triggered their powerfull anti-matter explosions.

Less than 20 seconds after Varrack's departure, the Necron Tomb Fleet arrived. All 3 of the active Tomb Ships were there. Immediately, there was a barrage of green energy into the Shivan and Wiseone ships. The Tomb Ships fired their deadly Super Guass Partical cannon into the largest enemy ships in the battle. The rest of the fleet surged forward blazing away with green lightening.

ooc> Total losses:
1 Damages Battle Barge
2 Battleships
1 Dreadnought
3 Destroyers
12 Frigates
12 Corvettes
43 Thunderhawks
18 Defencive weapons

Necron Tomb Fleet
3 Cairn Class Tombships
8 Scythe Class Harvester Ships
16 Shroud Class Light Cruisers
28 Jackal Class Raiders
20 Dirge Class Raiders

Here is a link to the Necron Info: http://s6.invisionfree.com/International_Mall/index.php?showtopic=750&st=0&

Just a warning, this Tomb fleet is far more dangerous than its size entails.

"Sir, 2 lucifers have appeared before us"
"ALL CRUISER KILLERS FIRE"
(OOC:I have no I idea what they have, sorry if this is a bit light")
The weapons fired crippled a command behemtoh, while the remaining nine cranked their double-barreled Cruiser killers and the 20 Behemtohs sighted their single barreled Cruiser Killers. All fired, 16 shots fizzled out doing nothing, 6 failed to leave the barrel once again doing nothing, while 16 shots slammed into one of the lucifers(these babies keep going, right through your ship, and your close enough to be gutted, sadly won't hit other fleet, its too far). Then all of a sudden a new Shivan force appeared,
On the lead command Behemoth
"Sir, holy s***. a whole new fleet is up our a**, OH MY HORNED RAT"
"ALL TURRETS, RETURN FIRE"A
ll the shots fire cracked the warpstone shield and destroyed 2 basic behemoths and crippled another, then thousands upon thousands of warpstone cannons fired(these able to pass through a merchant ship, not cruisers) opened up on the Flagship, eager to kill the top brass. Then, from all over the ships "lumps" detached and 1 million slivers launched themselves at the last Lucifer(I assume its dead with that many hits).

OOC: #Tag# For first use of the Necrons.

Also, Lucifers have subspace shielding. Subspace shielding is essientially a continous gate directly into subspace. Most things that hit the gate are sent into subspace, without damaging the Lucifer.

ooc> I hope GZ posts soon. I don't want it to be just me and HR doing all the fighting.
CF: From what I know of warpstone energy, it isn't able to enter subspace. It would just end up exploding massively once it reached the the opening of the portal.

The fire from the horned rat fleet at the lucifers passed into subspace doing no damage at all the lucifers began firing flux cannons and micro missiles(anti matter war heads) at the the crippled command behemoeth their beam cannons began concentrating on the other command behemoeths 3,000 fighters and bombers of various sorts came out of subspace and began atting the smaller horned rat ships

ooc gronde ill reply to your post later
and what dose the partical cannon do

How does that work, and if your guys came from subspace, wuldn't the shots hit them as they came out as the beams supposedly go to sub-space?

OOC: Ahem (Holds up the "Post your losses" sign). Second, and I apologize, I RPed nothing of our fleet's formation. But most relevant to your attack, you should know that the flagship is in the back, fulfilling a command position as opposed to an attack role. Thus, you'd need to tear through my other...316 ships to hit it. Apologies, again.

As for the subspace shields, and I'm no expert, so I may be wrong, I assume that it works as one of those one-way windows that look like a mirror on one side (Here, this is the actual shielding, protecting the Lucifer from foreign weapons), and a window on the other (Allowing the Lucifer's weapons to pass through the shields, without going into subspace). I could be wrong, but that seems like a good guess.

Tag for later, once you clear that up.

OOC: subspace shields (as far as i know) work as a one-way portal.

IC: 50 Star Destroyers exploded instantly as the mines detonated on the shields and hulls. The remaining Star Destroyers joined into one group (150 of em) below the Gronde fleet and continued to pour beams into the ships. 350 Gunships jumped in and joined the Star Destroyers instantly opening fire with their 2 beam cannons.

ooc gronde ill reply to your post later
and what dose the partical cannon do

Ekardia: I apologise, my storefront does not have the information on Guass tech up yet. What Guass technology does is basically flay layer after layer of almost any material by decontructing it on the molecular level. It can cause major damage to most ship armour. What the Guass Partical cannon does, is it combines the principals of a partical cannon with that of a Guass cannon. It peirces the outer armour and then begins flaying apart the interior of the ship. It is a very painfull weapon. A few shots from it could destroy a planet.

Wiseone: My Space Marine fleet is long gone. It teleported out before the mines were warped in.

Waiting for reply to my last post before I make my ic post.

The Diablo now out of the battle sitting at the edge of the system, was now powering up its subspace drives as the arrival of the Gronde tomb ships was a threat to the conventional Shivan fleet, and it would be dealt with. The vast subspace drives powered up on the Diablo, masking their energy emissions the vast Shivan capital ship committed a nano jump within the system, its designated coordinates was inside one of the enemy tomb ships. Soon they would feel the wrath of the most modern and powerful shivan ship.

OOC:Are you saying that I can't even hurt your ships, isn't that godmodding?, I don't know, and reptiles, you destroyed 2 behemtohs and crippled another. Hold on before attacking, I want to find out how this works.

OOC: The shields, well they are in fact not shields are effectively a subspace rift around the body of the Lucifer and other ships. Which means that energy weapons and kinetic weapons such as you have will not actualy hit the Lucifer, they will merely enter the rift and pass into subspace. Now this is hardly a godmode as ESUS has developed a few excelent preventures against this shield. The rift is maintained by 5 temporal cores (white holes essentialy) which are required to fire the weapons and maintain the shields. Weapons can fire outside the ift for a reason which iam not going to disclose as i dont trust you to keep it OOC.

ESUS however know the reason and i do trust them to keep it OOC, which they have. They have come up with ingenious ways of combating the Subspace rift.

Every nation has accepted this shield so its hardly a godmode. Only Lucifers, Diablos and Gargantuan class carry these shields.

OOC: The shields, well they are in fact not shields are effectively a subspace rift around the body of the Lucifer and other ships. Which means that energy weapons and kinetic weapons such as you have will not actualy hit the Lucifer, they will merely enter the rift and pass into subspace. Now this is hardly a godmode as ESUS has developed a few excelent preventures against this shield. The rift is maintained by 5 temporal cores (white holes essentialy) which are required to fire the weapons and maintain the shields. Weapons can fire outside the ift for a reason which iam not going to disclose as i dont trust you to keep it OOC.

ESUS however know the reason and i do trust them to keep it OOC, which they have. They have come up with ingenious ways of combating the Subspace rift.

Every nation has accepted this shield so its hardly a godmode. Only Lucifers, Diablos and Gargantuan class carry these shields.

While we're talking in OOC, I might also point out, without trying to seem hostile, that a fleet of 317 ships, as IB said "firing up your arse", would only destroy two ships and cripple a third. Furthermore, Behemoths were not the only target of my attack, as that makes little to no sense, and would be a wasted volley. It would be nice to be rid of the behemoths, but we'd still have all the other ships to consider, so the move wouldn't make tactical sense. Sathanas, as I am told (and there were seven), outmuscle your Behemoths, so they alone would easily destroy the number you gave. You forget the other 310 ships. As IB has told me, my fleet's forward cannons would amount to something like 500 beam cannons. That is nothing to sneeze at. Please fix your figures and post IC.

OOC:Um, warpstone provides a VERY good shield, it is barley penetrable, except by warp-lightning, these behemoths are built to LAST, unlike ford, are you sure you want more to die? That would cause a warp disturbance and basically everything for a LONG distance would die from the ravenous daemons and other things to ghastly to speak of destroy the travelers, so are you sure you want to, the only fleets with a chance are those of mine, shadow tau, and Grondes, as the first 2 worship a chaos god, and the last does a lot with the warp, you unfortunantley are not.

ooc> I really do not want to see this thread die due to pointless arguements.
Horned Rat: Reptiles said that your other, non behemoth, ships were being fired on as well. You should have lost some of the lesser ships as well. I don't think you need to lose more behemoths, just some of the other ships. BTW, HR, please improve your grammar just a little bit. It's not too bad, I just had some trouble reading your last post. :D

Reptiles: I don't think Warpstone energy can enter subspace without causing a huge explosion at the entrance point. The reason for this is that Warpstone energy is the energy of the Warp, which is another dimention--sort of. Warp energy is not very stable outside the Warp. It is stable enough to controll in real space to a certain degree, hence why HR weapons always seem to malfunction. Warpstone energy would be even more unstable if it entered subspace. So much so, in fact, that it would most likely explode as soon as it began to enter, hitting the shielded ship anyways, although, not as directly.

So can we please get back to RPing. And I hope GZ posts something soon as I don't want to be getting blown up for him if hes not even here. :(

ooc> I really do not want to see this thread die due to pointless arguements.
Horned Rat: Reptiles said that your other, non behemoth, ships were being fired on as well. You should have lost some of the lesser ships as well. I don't think you need to lose more behemoths, just some of the other ships. BTW, HR, please improve your grammar just a little bit. It's not too bad, I just had some trouble reading your last post. :D

Reptiles: I don't think Warpstone energy can enter subspace without causing a huge explosion at the entrance point. The reason for this is that Warpstone energy is the energy of the Warp, which is another dimention--sort of. Warp energy is not very stable outside the Warp. It is stable enough to controll in real space to a certain degree, hence why HR weapons always seem to malfunction. Warpstone energy would be even more unstable if it entered subspace. So much so, in fact, that it would most likely explode as soon as it began to enter, hitting the shielded ship anyways, although, not as directly.

So can we please get back to RPing. And I hope GZ posts something soon as I don't want to be getting blown up for him if hes not even here. :(

Thank you, mon ami. You said almost everything I was about to say right there. So, in my last OOC post, I'd like to add that demons don't exist in this future-tech RP, you might have mentioned them earlier. You're back to being a happy, out-gunned alien race of some sort. No demons.

And I wasn't trying to force him into subspace, but IB might keep that info in mind when he tries to ram the ships with his Lucifers.


TAG, and please RP, Horned Rats.

ooc> I know we already have enough ooc crap anyways, but it's not I can really post anything ic until someone respondes to my Necrons. :twisted: Anyways, about the "demons"; HR and I are both avid WHFB/WH40K players. But Warp "demons" is just the name given to them by more superstitious races, such as Scaven. They are actually particularly nasty creatures that live and have evolved in the Warp. Most of them have psycic abilities which explains why when my ships pass through the Warp, the crew are often plagued by nightmares and ghastly visions. It the Warp ended up spewing over into real space, these creatures would escape and they are capable of causing major damage. Not to mention that the Warp energy itself would cause massive damage to everthing within a 1-2 lightyear radius that was not equiped to handle it. So I hope that this puts an end to the ooc nonsense and we can get back to killing and destruction.

OOC: Just out of curiosity, are these the Shivans from the Freespace series, or a made up race with the same name?

The arrival of the Necron fleet caought the shivans by surprise. the Necron gaus partical cannons fired, Several ships were destroyed. The fleet began to fire anti matter misiles and beam cannons at the enemy fleet. Thousands of the anti matter missiles and hundreds of beams went towards the necron fleet The fighters and bombers began to make runs on the enemy ships. After The Sathanis fired its cannons and missles it went into subspace looking as if it was retreating, but it wasn’t, 10 seconds later it appeared on the side of the planet that there wasn’t much fighting on it began to fire its beams and anti matter missile at the orbital platforms


losses
1 Ravanna
3 Demons
5 Rakashas
7 Cains
13 Frigates
57 fighters

ooc yes they are the ones from freespace

OOC: Gronde respond to my attack from the Diablo. I jumped it inside one of your tomb ships. Just to let you know SHivans are telepathic highly so. So a telepathic race posses little threat to the hive mind. Now please respond.

OOC:All other ships went off to attack, if they were shot at from advesaries beyond the 2 lucifers at my front, then I'll remedy my losses
IC:"Oh my-my, oh my" Snikkit kept repeating over as he saw the very shots cease to exist.
"Sir, we-we have no chance if we stand-stand and fight, I suggest a prudent tactical-tactical withdrwal(fancy skaven for "runfor your lives")"
"Get the Eshin-eshin members ready, divert warp-power from the weapons to shields, have-have the rest of the fleet depart into the warp, and the Tau, where are-are they?"
"They've already left-left, and the fleet has been ordered to flee"
"Damn those-those Tau, put them on my black list for dealings if we return-return"
An out of breath skaven rushed up
"Sir, all the-the sorcerers are gathered and ready"
"Have them begin the Skitter-skitter Leap"
"Yes-yes sir"

Gronde: My Space Marine fleet is long gone. It teleported out before the mines were warped in.

OOC: I was under the impression that the Necron fleet joined the marine fleet, sorry about that.

IC: The 150 ImpStar Mark 2s and the 350 Gunships made a micro jump and opened fire on the nearest Horned Rat Behemoth. (Is that spelled right?)

ooc> IB: exactly how big is your Diablo? In fact, what is your Diablo? Also, all of the Tomb ships generate a strange field around their ships. Subspace is one of the things it blocks. All of that info is in the link that I posted earlier, in the innitial paragraph under the Tomb Fleet heading. For now, i will not post any actions for one of the Tomb ships either way until we figure it out. Ill post the rest of my actions for now though.

ic> The newly arrived Necron Tomb fleet quickly came under enemy fire. 2 of the faster Dirge Class Raiders were hit hard. 1 was completely destroyed, the other so heavily damaged that is teleported away. 1 Jackal Class Raider was damaged heavily and it also teleported away. The rest of the barrage was absorbed by the Tomb Ships and the Scythe Class Harvester ships. 2 of the Harvester ships took major damage, but the pulled to the rear of Tomb fleet and quickly self repaired themselves. Another wave of 20 Jackal Class Raiders jumped in and joined the Tomb fleet. As a group, the Tomb fleet wedged into the main bulk of the enemies, laying down a withering hail of Green Guass lightening. The Tomb ships once again focused their fire on the larger enemy capital ships.

The Space Marine Fleet exited the Warp on the other side of the planet in response to the Shivan attack on that side. There were no Space Marine Platforms deployed on that side of the planet. The Space marine ships, now with some reinforcements from the AoN. These forces surged towards the enemy and launched a barrage at the fleet.

ooc> New ships in Space Marine Fleet:
8 Empire Class Battlecruisers
14 Hunter Destroyers
16 Nova Class Super Frigates

BTW, don't say the Necrons are Godmoddish. Just keep in mind that Tomb fleet is the equivilent to an large battlefleet.

The arrival of the enemy ships confirmed one thing the other reinforcements would be needed. The 2 Sathanis's in Subspace came out they were 10 klicks away from this new enemy though they went int subspace and came out near the enemy fleet .5 klicks away and began firing on the new enemy fleet their main beams going for the largest ships and hundreds of antimatter missiles soared to the other ships the they sent a message to the fighters in space they would be here to help soon the other beam canons blasted away at the hunter destroyers

The fleet dealing with the necron fleet realized they would have to regroup as 2 more molochs exploded the ships began to go into subspace they were going to go to a nearby system and would begin to plan he new attack from there but first the destroyers fired another volley at the necron fleet thousands of antimatter missilse went towards one of the tomb ships along with hundreds of beam cannon blasts

the two lucifers continued to pound away at the horned rat ships with flux cannons and antimatter missiles their beam cannons also started to fire

losses
1 demon
2 molochs
5 cains

ooc1 Gronde the DIABLO is over 5 klicks long and has subbspace sheilding

ooc2 HORNED RAT a flux cannons can destroy a capship with under 5 shots one 3 clicks anyway and smaller ALSO reptiles jumped an entire fleet behind you and fired a volley thats over 500 beam cannons post damage from that assault

OOC: I think that HR was trying to say that his fleet was out of range. I must point out that, in my RP, my fleet appeared behind his fleet, not just his behemoths. If that is totally impossible, for whatever reason, then it is a small matter. In any case, if he's retreating, than it makes no difference. I'll accept his losses if he is retreating, and know that I gave him a mean stinging.

By the way, Gronde: Who are you attacking? Sorry if you said somewhere in there, I just didn't see a name on first glance.

IC: The beam cannons from the Fleet of the Overseer cooled in the empty of space. Well, not really the empty of space. More like the "space that would have been empty if it weren't filled with 306* ships, lots of debris, and a lot of Shivan testosterone". They were as hyped as Shivans got, having blasted the enemy for quite a number and having won their first small victory. The Horned Rat fleet got the message and buggered off quickly, a lot more of the kind-of-empty space was made empty when they made the jump.

Rahab's blood pumped faster on the bridge of the Duriel. He could smell the enemy blood that had been shed. He could see, see through the carnage and the remains of the two Behemoths and other, more minor ships (OOC: Assuming that you lost any, we're still figuring that out.), seeing the writhing corpses that floated through the inky blackness, gradually becoming still as they froze or suffocated. Worse yet, Rahab could feel their presences detaching from the mortal plane, feel their minds and souls extinguish. They were all connected to him, in a small way. On the telepathic level, everyone was connected. He was more attuned to it than the rest of the Thirteen, and he thrived on the thrill of feeling their last strings of life being cut. A truly sick piece of work, he was perfect for a mission that had only mass murder of all enemy forces in mind.

He turned his attention to reports from other Shivan fleets. His fleet, being untouched, as well as one of the largest in the area, was naturally the best prepared to deal with any threats. The fleet of Tomb Ships and other ships of war under Gronde command (Not sure whether or not I'd know that they were under your command, but it doesn't matter much) were posing the most obvious threat to the Shivan forces. Rahab ordered the fleet to stay within firing range whilst out of the immediate combat. The fire would be less effective, but it would be more intelligent until he came up with a real course of action. The fleet, still numbering above three hundred ships, turned their beam cannons to the Gronde fleet. The firing that resulted rocked the entire fleet, sending powerful bursts of energy in the direction of the enemy. Reports from the other Shivan fleets gave them advice as to where to fire, what to avoid, etc. With any luck, today would no be their day to die.





*OOC:

Losses from HR's short burst of fire:
Seven Cains
Two Liliths
One Demon
One Moloch

As for the reports sent in from other Shivan fleets, I'm not sure if they know how to combat a Tomb Ship, but if they do, that's what they're telling me. If they don't, then its just general advice and data assembled in the brief combat with the ships. Every little bit helps.

The Diablo is essentily a larger class of Lucifer however its 5.2km long, the start of this whole attack was for me to test it. Your strange field as it were will not block a subspace tear. Only Kanuckistan can do that with some very very good science. So Gronde deal with it, my Diablo and Lucifer dan take out your tomb ships by simply ramming them. The Diablo is a large vessel Sathanas size with a greater ammount of firepower. It was commissioned to fight the ESUS war which has now become aparant that a larger class of destroyer will be needed to take them out.

If you want detailed information contact me via msn my address is Wardventure1@aol.com

The Diablo will when it jumps into your ship will simply move the matter into subspacec, this is also how the Diablo and Lucifer can avoid almost all shielding as it has the shileds attempt to extend into subspace, in reality your shields would overload as they would be trying to generate an infinite ammount of power to complete the bubble. But i dont use that.

ooc> Hmm, that is interesting. In fact, I am not entirely sure how the Tomb ships would react to something like that as they are still experemental. I would think that it would still cause some problems as the entire ship is pulsing with Guass energy which would, in turn flay your ship apart on the molocular level. It has subspace shielding, eh? Then wouldn't my ship pass through it and come out the other side, or something? I don't even think a subspace tear would even open inside the ships. And there is no way in hell that your ships could beat a Tomb ship by ramming it. Assuming you Diablo can get into my Tomb ship, I think its safe to assume that both of them would be destroyed. So, the third tomb ship is still on hold, I wont post anything about it either way.
And BTW, please refrain from you chronic rudeness or I will ignore you. Thank you.

Reptiles: I was attacking Ekardia.

BTW, is it safe to assume that GZ's defencive weapons are firing back at you? Because he has not been posting anything. Sort of frustrating, really.

ic> The Tomb fleet came under a new volly of torpedo fire as well as some other weapons. Several Jackal Raiders flew in between the barrage and the Tomb ships. 2 Jackals were destroyed outright, 7 more were heavily damaged and teleported back to the Tomb world. The rest of the fire hit the Tomb ships, causing some damage. But, once again, it quickly began reparing itself. As the Ekardian fleet jumped away, the Tomb fleet focused its attention on the ships identified as belonging to the order of Reptiles. Another group of 12 Jackal Class Raiders jumped in to replace the lost ones, and the ever increasing fleet curved around onto the Reptiles fleet, blazing with all of their weapons.

On the other side of the planet, the Space Marine fleet came under new attack from the side. Their new shielding systems kept their losses small, luckily. Without altering formation, the fleet unleashed a massive broadside attack against their new attackers. Emmence vollies of Burst cannon, heavy plasma cannon, and torpedo fire went into the enemy ships. At the same time, the forward Nova cannons, tactical Rail Cannons, laser batteries, etc... opened fire onto the first target again.

ooc> Yay, I finnally get to use my ships to their full potential. I will post my losses all at once. Probobly in my next post.

ic. Meanwhile, Master Kalgar and the AoN war council were watching the battle with great interest. They agreed that it was time to send more forces. The Necron researchers were confident that the Necrons could hold out long enough for a large force to be gathered and deployed.

OOC GRONDE THE SATHANISIS ARE OVER 5 KILOMETERS LONG THEIR 4 MAIN BIG BAEMS COULD BREAK THROUGH THOSE SHEILDS THOSE THE OTHER BEAM CANNONS AND THE ANTI MATTER MISSILE SHOULD HAVE DESTROYED A FEW SHIPS IN THAT MARINE FLEET AT LEAST

ALSO IF THE NECRON FLEET DOSNT START LOSING ANYTHING BUT JACKALS I WILL IGNORE THEM THATS ALL THAT HAS BEEN DESTROYED AND THEY ARE YOUR SMALLEST SHIPS AND ONLY ABOUT 3 HAVE BEEN DESTROYED ANYWAY THERE WAS AN ENTIRE FLEET FIRING AT THEM
START TAKING THE LOSSES YOU SHOULD OR ELSE I WILL IGNORE YOU

OOC: Indeed. A little much on the caps lock, but a point well made.

Now, the subspace shielding and IB's favorite tactic of ramming your ships. That WOULD work on your ships, with no damage to his, as the shields act as a portal. The damage would occur in subspace, where it would damage nothing. Bits of your ships would be sucked in and torn apart as he rammed you. It is a tried and true method of fighting, and has probably been countered by the ESUS, but would most likely work on you. And yeah, you need some more losses, as I still have, what? 306 ships?

Time to bring out the big guns...

IC: The Tomb fleet proved to be enticing prey, refusing to die (Hint hint) even through a full volley. Several of their smaller, weaker ships were obliterated in the earth-shaking volley of beam weaponry. Yet, still more of the hated enemy jumped in from other areas of normal space. The Shivan fleet fired and was fired upon, neither side even hinting at falling back. Cains and Liliths ran interference, absorbing enemy fire and returning it, and were being destroyed at a quicker rate than Rahab liked.

All ships in the Shivan fleet, focus fire on the smaller ships. I have something in mind for the Tomb Ships.

The Shivan ships pounded the enemy with beam cannons, leaving the Tomb ships unscathed. Fighters left their bays and flew out to skirmish with the enemy fighters and light capital ships. Bombers dropped their payloads and ran like hell. The Sathanas was pouring out a merciless and seemingly-endless stream of fire at the enemy. They would pay heavily for the meager losses inflicted upon TOR's fleet.


Meanwhile, in Subspace...

Supreme Overlord Raziel (Yes, all of the Thirteen are named for fallen angels) paced across the bridge of a new Lucifer, the newest and most powerful additions to the TOR fleet. His Lucifer served as the command ship for the trio, and was charged with the death of many enemies. The battle was on-screen on the bridge, and he observed his comrades, how they fought and died, and how the enemy poured in as fast as they were killed. They couldn't keep that up forever, he'd make sure of it.

It is time. Lucifers, jump to normal space. Bring us near the Tomb ships.

He received telepathic confirmations of his orders, and moments later they appeared in normal space, as near to the Tomb ships as they could get without sitting on top of them.

You two, ram the enemy tomb ships. I'll provide some cover fire, both for us and for our comrades. They need it, by the looks of it. But Rahab never lost a fight yet, and today is not his day to change that statistic.

The two Lucifers on either side of Raziel's ship sped towards the tomb ships, subspace shielding expanding outwards in all directions to ensure that as much of the enemy ships as possible would be torn into subspace. Raziel's own Lucifer opened fire on the rest of the enemy fleet, targeting whatever made itself available.


Rahab saw his slightly less blood-thirsty comrade's three Lucifers appear from Subspace to give the enemy a surprise they wouldn't quickly forget. His face twisted into a smirk as the Lucifers sped towards the tomb ships, fractions of a second away from ramming them and tearing the mighty ships into little bits and pieces. He took this in, and ordered his Rakasha's
and Ravanas to provide covering fire for the Lucifers. The rest of his fleet continued to pour fire upon the enemy. Many, many men would die today. Many men.

OOC: From Russia, with love! If your Tomb ships could smile, I'd be wiping the smirks off their faces. The Lucifers, before you yell anything about godmodding, are a gift from my larger Shivan comrades.

Losses from your retaliatory fire:
Twelve Cains
Six Liliths
Two Demons
One Rakasha
One Sathanas is damaged, but not crippled.

I'm back. Please forgive me. I have been at CalTech for a week studying math. We have to prepare for next year's AMC 8, 10, and 12.

Anyway, before anything else, would someone like to give me a quick summarry of four pages?

Also, I have like, six different means of FTL travel.

Gladly. Gronde arrived with a fleet of tomb ships, Ekardia poured in more Shivan fleets, IB arrived with two Lucifers, I came out of Subspace behind HR, fired away, and chased him off, turned my attention to Gronde's fleet, we had a few OOC arguments about posting losses, and how Shivan tech works, and I just brought in three Lucifers, all aimed at Gronde's fleet. I believe that some of our other allies, like Wiseone, is attacking your defenses and taking quite a few losses, and all hell is breaking loose.

Thats it, in a good nutshell, as far as I know. On a different note, did you have fun studying math in the summer? Oh, and what is FTL travel?

FTL: Faster Than Light travel. And no. I did not enjoy doing 400 math problems a day. No way. Damned line equations, cos, sin, tan, sec, cosec, ARGH! And, no electronics. Sorry.

After firing the initial barrage onto the Horned Rat's nearest behemoth the Wiseone fleet made a micro jump that landed them directly to the left of the Gronde fleet and opened fire on the nearest tomb ship with all weaponry. Seconds later a fleet of 100 carriers jumped in, disgorged their cargo of Remote Razor Cannons directly above Gronde's fleet and disappeared into subspace. The RRCs open fire with a total of 400,000 razor cannons onto the nearest tomb ship.

OOC: the carriers are RRC Carriers which stands for Remote Razor Cannon Carrier, they hold 1000 RRCs apeice.

RRCs are cube shaped weapons implacements with 1 razor cannon on each corner (8 in all) and can fire up to 4 at the same time.

ooc> Hmm, that is interesting. In fact, I am not entirely sure how the Tomb ships would react to something like that as they are still experemental. I would think that it would still cause some problems as the entire ship is pulsing with Guass energy which would, in turn flay your ship apart on the molocular level. It has subspace shielding, eh? Then wouldn't my ship pass through it and come out the other side, or something? I don't even think a subspace tear would even open inside the ships. And there is no way in hell that your ships could beat a Tomb ship by ramming it. Assuming you Diablo can get into my Tomb ship, I think its safe to assume that both of them would be destroyed. So, the third tomb ship is still on hold, I wont post anything about it either way.
And BTW, please refrain from you chronic rudeness or I will ignore you. Thank you.


your kinda wrong in mutiply points first of a Guass Weapon is a Projectile weapon so its not guass energy its kentnetic.
2nd off his subspace shields is basicly a bubble around the ship that is a subspace portal what ever hits it goes right to subspace. and no im not goin to say what weapon is good for killing things with that kinda shielding. him ramming you would be simple be destroyed rather quickly, first off your shields would over load as they get sucked into subspace. your hull would also get sucked into subspace in subspace there are millions of hungery shivans waiting who will ripe you apart. and the ramming ship would still be unharmed.

Admiral Feischt stood, hands clasped behind his back, on the Command Level of Freiheit Station. The battle raged all around them, still confined to space. As yet, no enemy had attempted to land upon Normandeicht itself. The Generators continued to produce the vital energy to power shields and weapons on the platforms. The planetary particle batteries fired volley after volley into the clouds of enemy fighters and capital ships. The brave Federation and Allied Fleets fired continuously into the seemingly unstoppable horde. They knew that they would die fighting. But, they would sure as hell take the Shivans down with them.

A Federation transport warped right in between two shivan cruisers, and immediately detonated its Anti-matter core. The deck of Freiheit Station shook from the violent shockwave, though it was a hundred thousand miles away. Particle beams, red, blue, yellow, even the type-G from the orbital emplacements, cut and slashed through the skies. This battlefield now was criss-crossed with energy, projectiles flying faster than light burned through the very fabric of space.

Normandeicht lazily spun behind the battle, its entrancing deep orange glow stretching beyond the outlint of the planet. This was the gateway to Atheos. The Reagan, which nearly 60 years of work had gone into, had to be protected so that the few remaining years of work could be finished. Then, the Might of the Federation would be shown. The Great Artifacts of the Ancestors would be found, more knowledge than ever learned in instants, and the Federation would explore new galaxies, colonize and conquer new worlds. It would be a new era.

This was what the men and women of the Federation fought for. The Honor and Glory of the Federation. For their families which served the Federation faithfully through service, or any other means. They fought for the Preservation of the Ancestor's Glorious Legacy. They fought for freedom, for their allies, and to once and for all eventually destroy the Shivan Xenocidal Merderous Mindless fiends from hell itself.

"Communications, open a channel to all weapons platforms." The Admiral, remarkably, calmly said.

The weary comm. officer responded in a shaky voice. "The interference is great sir, the channel may be a little unstable, but they should be able to hear you. Channel open."

The Admiral turned to the Holo-display. "All platforms, launch all attack craft. Also, Normandeicht Shipyards, Launch Marine Cruisers. They are to board every single enemy ship they can. Give them hell. Into the Jaws of Hell, Into the Mouth of Death!" The Admiral shouted part of the only Ancient Saying which spoke of war and killing.

ooc: Um, I'm back, so everyone can post again... The battle isn't over. Or have the Shivans surrendered? Let me check...

ill post as sooon as gronde responds

yeah, well, hurry up. I'm leaving for caltech again in a few minutes.

OOC:Sorry, been gone all weekend, Reptiles, here is how I percieved things, Gronde was fighting with a group og shivans, my fleet comes to the side, the corvette class ships and merchant vessels attack while the behemoths stay behind, then 2 lucifers warp infront and I shoot, uh-oh, nothing happpened, then your fleet I THOUGHT warped behind my behemoths, this means, all my behemoths, the 2 lucifers, and distance is in the way of my other ships, if you warped to attack them, please tell, and losses will be posted, as for the shots against them, Warpstone reacts stronger when together, behemoth shields are made of that energy, put 2 and 2 together, as for GZ, whats happening, the s*** is getting kicked out of your help, if you want help, reveal how the HELL YOU CAN HURT THEM! Otherwise, a prudent tactical withdrawl is now happening.

IC:The ferocious barrage claimed 5 more Behemoths causing wonderful green explosions. Finally 300 eshin sorcerers were beginning skitter leap on the behemoths, 4 more destroyed before the spell was completed, 3 more were destroyed from malfunctioning warpstone/magic. As the fleet ceased to be located, all the other skaven ships went into the warp earlier....

Total Losses:
2 Command Behemoths
10 Behemoths
Unknown number of lesser vessels(will post when I recieve info from reptiles)
Tau-None, no one attacked em
Slivers-None, same thing as Tau

ooc ill post even though gronde hasnt replied

The Shivan fleet arrived in the targeted system without trouble they began to plan their assault at first they were going to jump in and concentrate all fir on the largest tomb ships then as the lucifers jumped in and began "eating" the tomb ships they decided that it would be best to jump in and fire on the smaller ships as the fleet began to move to subspace the blue light cast an erie flow on the red and black ships

ooc returning fleet
19 ravannas
26demons
38 molochs
40 rakashas
55 liliths
48 cains
350 frigates
2,000 manticore class fighters
1,359Mara class fighters
1,000 Dragon class fighters
487 Seraphim class bombers
500 Taurvi class bombers
750 Nephilm class bombers

Sorry 'bout the delay. I have been indesposed for teh last 20 hours. I wont get into that. Anways, I am will have my reply up presently.

ooc> Sorry again about the delay. Anyways, I am not saying that losses have not been taken. I said that I would post all of my losses in my next post. I just didn't realize that I would be occupied for so long. :? Anyways, all losses will be posted at the end of this reply. Thanks to Corpsac, I actually know why ramming me will accomplish anything against the Tomb ships.

ic> One of the Tomb ships was suddenly torn apart and sucked into subspace. A few of the main parts were teleported back to the Tomb world. The rest of the componants self destructed as they were sucked in. The loss of the Tomb ship was seen by the reserchers. They were shocked that anything could beat these ancient ships. The battle continued to rage as the Tomb fleet came under more fire. This time, it was more co-ordinated and caused major damage to several ships. Then, the unthinkable happened, 2 Scythe Class Harvester Ships took so much firepower that they were literally blown apart. There was no chance of them repairing themselves. A few Dirge Raiders were taken out, most of them were able to teleport away before being completely destroyed. 2 Shroud Class Cruisers were also completely destroyed, 3 damaged severly and forced to teleport out. More fire streamed in onto the Tomb ships. They both took even more significant damage. Luckily, the head reserchers of the Necron project had already agreed to pull out and the entire Tomb fleet was teleported back to the Tomb world before any more damage was taken. But, they left leaving the Gronde signature tactic. Just after the Tomb fleet's departure, several waves of Anti-matter mines were teleported onto all of the nearby Shivan fleets. These were followed by a slightly smaller number of mines that were designed to tear open an unstable Warp portal.
The Space marine defencive platforms were still holding firm, laying down a hail of fire onto the Wiseone ships.

On the other side of the planet, the Space marine fleet was getting pounded down, but were still fighting on with volly after volly of weapons fire. The Space Marine forces went into a more evasive formation to prevent more heavy losses.

ooc> Ekardia, the time at which my Tomb fleet teleported away would be just after your ships returned and began fireing on my ships.

Losses:
2 Battle Barges
2 Battleships
4 Hunter Destroyers
3 Battlecruisers
8 Corvettes
Several ships damaged

1 Tomb Ship destroyed, 2 damaged
2 Scythe Class Harvester Ships
2 Shroud Class Cruisers
6 Jackals
4 Dirges
many more Tomb ships damaged

ic> This was only a minor setback. Being only experimental, the project reserchers expected there to be some problems. These Shivans were worthy foes. The reserch team imediatly began researching ways to improve the Necron ships and develope weapons to fight the Shivan technology. The cost was great, but the knowledge they gained from this was worth it.
The battle was not over yet. Gronde had quickly rallied one of the largest battlefleets the AoN had ever essembled. Complete with a wide variety of FLTi's and other special weapons to deal with the Shivans. (ooc> I don't mean that they were made because of the Shivans, they are just weapons and technology that we already had that could come in handy) It would be ready to join the battle within 5 minutes. Kalgar only hoped they could hold out until then.