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ooc: I am unsure as to the extent of the Shivan and Allied fleets in-system, but I know that of the 25 ships of mine engaged in battle, all are firing weapons like mad and preparing the Ramming manuevor that proved to be so effective.

Ic:

The thousands of platforms above Normandeict fired their particle beams and torpedoes in unison with the nearby Starbase. The Fleet was speeding toward the Shivan line; the Cruisers and Destroyers had already launched all their fighters.

On the planet, Millions of troops prepared to defend the surface from Shivan invaders. Emplacements and Fortifications were being prepared, batteries loaded, and arrays charged. Shields went up around the planet.

Deep beneath the planet's surface, a monolithic device powered up. Scientists had been working to build a Planetary shield for years. It wouldn't be very powerful, but could hold a few hundred shots before buckling.

The bloody battle continued as the Federation continued to call for aid. They hoped allies would arrive there soon, as well as the newly commissioned FSS IMO Reagan NRN 002.

ESUS care to help? My old alliance? Shivans care to respond?

I was helping, but then I found out that I can't affect em, so I fled away, I think Gronde did too....
:mp5: :gundge: :sniper:
:mp5: :gundge: :sniper:

OOC: As much as I recall, Gronde's Tomb Fleet turned tail and...er...used a wise tactical retreat, most of your fleet was either gone or out of system, Ekardia and I were massive and totally dominating, and there was very little defending Normandeicht. Without having looked at the old thread, I think I had 270+ ships and 3 Lucifers in-system and was uncontested in power by our enemies. Wiseone was hitting the defenses on Normandeicht and using up some of his old ships. If there's really any point in you continuing the battle, by all means, do the first RP in this thread. I had figured that the battle was drawing to a close, and was making plans for the populace on Normandeicht, and some "toys" that I was devising while the forums were down.

#Tag#. You can expect some form of ESUS involvement in the near future. Probably tommorow RL time.

OOC:
I'll probally be deploying a Battleplate or two once this gets going, so I know how to deploy.

Maybe a few Superfortresses, too, if I think I'll need 'em, but a Battleplate should be enough.

ooc: Okay, Normandeicht is the main Military World of the Federation. Most of the 20 million man army is stationed there, about 15 million. Conquer of this world would seriously devastate the Federation. There are about a 1,500 small platforms armed with Pulsecannons and Torpedoes, and a Starbase and Shipyard facility. The Starbase is heavily armed; the shipyards are loaded with small fighters and laserbeam cutter Workerbees and a few turrets. The Federation fleet is 25 ships, ranging from picket ships to battlecruisers. The Bismarck-Class Battleship (see thread) FSS IMO Reagan is en-route, and will be there by tomarrow. The 15 million troops on the planet are entrenched and ready for a ground war, and the planetary shield is up and running. The shield will overload after about a thousand shots of various weapons, depending on the strength.

As for the first post, I can't do anything until the enemy posts their locations...

OOC: Hm. Considerian the Ekardian Attack on my 'home planet' will probably be negated, I can afford to deploy a Solar Flare Mk III the defend the sun.


A coded, diplomatic message was sent into the allied defenders of Normandeicht : We are deploying a SF (solar flare) Mk III to defend your sun, making sure the Shivans do not find another path of attack. Escort is requested to aid the solar flare en route the sun. Once it is there, it can absorb heat, light and radiation to form a viratually impetrenable shield around the sun, moving the shield to wherever defense is required. If you can manage to escort it too the sun, it can also fire powerful long-range blast to help you in the battle.

OOC: I have decided to end the rp with IB and just continue by using Sparten. However due to the fact Jolt refuses to send me confirmation e-mails i cant post with the nations so ill have to use Unified Sith right now.

IC: The fleet extended off into the distance, launching off from the Shiva was a spectacular site. The ships deemed massive seemed like fighters in comparrison to its vast hull, the round spherical world station sat motionless in the currents of subspace while the drones moved off towards the battlefield.

Gul Dakar:"Sir, Germanische Zustande asks for our assistance, should we respond."

Gul Sevit:"Deploy the 4th Fleet, put the 8th Fleet on alert, and contact the Detapa Council and inform them of the situation."

Cul Dakar:"Yes sir"

OCC: Like Germanische Zustande, I need the location of the enemy fleet.

ooc> Fear not, I am still around. The AoN does not give up so easily. I pulled my Tomb ships out because it was mearly a test run. My Space Marin fleet is continuing to fight a bloody battle to keep the low orbits clear of Shivan vessels. My defencive platforms are also intact and firing crazily at the attackers. I have also gathered some re-enforcments from the rest of the AoN. They will be arriving preasently. ;)

IC post comming later, as soon as the Shivans give their locations and such.
BTW, HR, if you want, you could have your ships meet up with the major AoN fleet that is assembling.

The ESUS knows how to hurt the shivans big ships, but they won't tell us, if they said, then I would, but other wise, nope, sorry, not this time.....

ooc:
Tithians: Have the SF MKIII head to Atheos, the Homeworld, to meet up with the Reagan. The Reagan will escort you in warp to the sun of Normandeicht, then leave a fighter/picketship vanguard and then engage the Shivans.

Cardassia Minor: Please post stats for fleet, thank you very much for assisting.

Gronde: Let them land. My troops on the planet will slaughter them. We also have planetary cannons. Engage the enemy. Keep the platforms and shipyards safe. Please get that fleet in here soon.

Kanuckistan: I hear that Battleplates are really good. Can you show me stats?

THR: There will be no ESUS intervention? Where can I petition the ESUS? I am a member.

All Shivans: My 20 mile-long battleship shall arrive soon. It is not invincible, as shown in the German-Juumo war. As soon as minor hull damage is sustained, it will retreat behind lines to act as a long-range weapons platform and fighter dock.

Go ask an ESUS meber, but by "us" I meant the AoN, wouldn't you know as you are part of the ESUS?

When my alliance joined with the ESUS, they never told us anything.

OOC: Perhaps because your alliance hasn't joined the ESUS yet?

IC: At Chimera Shipyard complexes, a small fleet was preparing to depart. Though this fleet was small, no more than eleven ships, it carried more firepower than the half of the CF star fleet. What's more, most of the ships carried super heavy PPBCs, able to be used against Subspace shielding with relative impunity. It was a fleet of the latest and most deadly vessels the CF Space Corps had to offer.

After a brief period of resupply, and recalling any crew from the shipyard complexes, the assembled fleet activated their quasi-space drives and launched into the green abyss that is quasi-space. An hour later, they emerged at the outskirts of the Normandeicht system, the powerful AWACS/Sensor ship that accompanied the fleet began scanning the inky blackness of space, looking for their targets, the marading Shivan fleet.

"Admiral Banks sir! Detecting large numbers of shivan craft, including Lucifers. No sighting on the Diablo yet though. They're attacking Normandeicht. Looks like the planetary defense grid is holding them off for now, but that could change at any moment." The sensor operator said loudly, specifically so that the admiral could be appraised of the situation.

"This is Admiral Banks to the CF 2nd Expeditionary fleet! All ships, perform tactical quasi-space jump to the following encrypted coordinates." The admiral said while typing in a few coordinates into a datapad. These coordinates corresponded to an area directly behind the main Shivan fleet...

All the fleet registered an affirmative, and they made the jump to quasi-space quickly. Most of the fleet was going to be at point blank range behind the Shivan vessels. It was merely the sensor vessel that would jump out of weapons range of the Shivan vessels. That would allow it to use its potent sensor capabilities to aid the CF forces while still remaining out of harm's way.

Moments later, the CF fleet appeared directly behind the Shivans and opened fire as soon as they had left quasi-space.

OOC: Total ships:
6 Hydra class battleships
2 Sentinel class super battleships
1 Anal class probe/sensor ship/AWACS
1 Pillar class supercarrier
12 Defender class point defense frigates
1 XC-00 'Supernova' Advanced Corvette

Stats on the ships will be provided later. Suffice it to say that there is a huge amount of firepower being directed towards your Shivan posteriors.

ic> The Space Marine fleet went up into higher orbit at the request of the GZ commanders. The arrival of a small, but seemingly powerfull CF fleet. Perhaps they could hold until the AoN megafleet arrived. The Space Marine ships took up a position near the platforms and swept the Shivan ships with Nova and ion fire. (The same grouping being fired on by CF)

The defencive platforms were still holding out against all odds. The rail cannons and missiles batteries were firing at their maximum rate. The Thunderhawk Gunships and the assult craft were launched, and under the covering fire of the platforms, charged the Shivan fleet.

ooc> The rest will be finished later.

Understood. The SF Mk III is underway to carry out the instructed course.
OOC:Someone (I think it was Central Facehuggeria) posted this link, that is why ANY members of the ESUS are here at all. If you wish, i can post it again to perhaps draw some more attention.

ooc: The Allied Forces are severely outnumbered... ANY help would be appreciated...

IC:

The Reagan pulled away from the main starbase in orbit above Atheos. The emerald green-turquois blue planet lazily spun through space below...

The Reagan expanded it's warp field to include the Starfire MKIII that hovered next to it. The two vessels then dissapeared in a bright flash of light.

The Wettic fleet was on its way. After the battle at Mechlon the Wettic navy had rushed production and now the Odin was finished. They were out on manoeuvres when command ordered them to aid GZ against a Shivan fleet. They would arrive in 10 minutes followed closely by 2 Neptune class battleships.

Fleet:
- 1 Jupiter B class battleship
- 2 Miridon class cruisers
- 6 Mars class battleships
- 10 Ironclad gunships
- 2 modified Mercury class freighters carrying 100 Hyperion fighters
- 10 Rihorn class longrange escort fighters

UFGZ has sent the following to the Wetland Fleet:

Please flank the Shivan fleet. We will catch them in a box. The fighting is heavy, prepare for heavy losses... the Reagan will be here soon...

-Normandeicht High Command

OOC: it seems the AON and ESUS are getting chummy, thats not very good, not very good at all. I believe a few members are away on holiday so if they dont post today i will continue rping with their ships. This is a very small post as time is limited.

IC: The Diablo now having committed a nano jump was successfully and secretly located within the sun of the enemy system, protected by its subspace shields, from the raging inferno that is the stellar body by the seemingly magical Shivan technology. Assistance would not be forth coming from subspace for this battle as the Shivan command had other plans for the enemy. Shortly after ESUS fleets had been detected heading towards this system all ships within the fleet began to power up their subspace drives except one, the Diablo remained within the star hidden and safe waiting for its time to strike.

In subspace

In subspacial grid four the vast Shivan fleet that extended off into the distance comprised of ships from all the clans. The vast armada moved away from the Shiva world ship and heading into destiny.

The Cardassian Fleet
15 Galor class warships
25 Tonga class crusiers
40 Norin class destroyers
23 Hideki class Fighter Wings

OOC: Yeah, sure dude. I don't have time to RP at the moment, so you can RP my fleet for me, you probably know how to hurt them better anyway.

Although, wouldn't our locations already be known? This is feeling like a new battle, even though the old battle is still going strong in the other thread (Which we should probably be using, this is a little unnecessary).

I was going to pull out my fleet (Lucifer's included) and warp in my other fleet (Also with three Lucifers) which currently numbers 721 ships. That was my main fleet that I was keeping for Sunday best, but it seems that there is an abundance of prey here.


Fleet numbers, for IB:
Flagship Duriel, a Sathanas class
Three Lucifers
Twelve (Regular) Sathanas warships
Eighty-Five Ravanas
One Hundred and Five Rakashas
One hundred and Ten Demons
One Hundred and Twenty-Five Liliths
One Hundred and Thirty Molochs
One Hundred and Fifty Cains
Somewhere upwards of twenty-thousand fighters and bombers

Perhaps I forgot to mention that I never screw around in war. IB, they're all yours, command 'em well until I can get some time to RP.

Deep inside subspace the vast world station designated the Shiva was slowly powering up. Its engines which had not been activated in over two thousand years were now slowly coming to life. The Shivan populace on board recognised the change almost instantly as energy was diverted to previously inactive systems. All of the temporal cores were brought online which easily exceeded over one thousand.

Though the fleet was at diffrent points in subspace and in combat within the humans Galaxy, the Shivan command decided that it was time to swiftly end this conflict by any means necessary. The overwhelming decision was to use the world station itself as a mobile weapon to destroy the terran race. What was once a mere skirmish to destroy a few inhabitants of a worthless planet would now become the fight for an entire species, either the Shivans would win or the humans.

The alliance designated as the AON were now becoming an inconveniance, all races within the galaxy were uniting under the ESUS banner, divded the Shivans can conquer, however when the enemy is united the conflict becomes greater.

Slowly the world station began to move off into the dark, its gravatational pull so immense that most fighters had trouble avoiding a collision with the surface of their created home. But what was certain the use of this last resort by the Shivans would encounter an equal retalliation form the humans.

OOC: it seems the AON and ESUS are getting chummy, thats not very good, not very good at all.

ooc> You can blame IB for that. He is the one who pissed off the AoN by firing on our ships. You should learn to choose your leaders more wisely. :p

ic> With the battle raging halfway across the galaxy, the Land of Chill wing of the AoN was not resting either. All 14 Forgeworlds were working at maximum capacity. Already, a fleet of 300 Drone Carriers had been constructed. The fleet was massing at Manticore base. Not including the new drone carriers, it already number over 500, with more on the way. Kalgar and the AoN war council had no doubt that this fleet would win the battle, but it was still a matter of getting there in time.

ooc:
Unified Sith: Your Diablo cannot harm the sun, unless you were to sacrafice the ship, and even then, it wouldn't neccesarily be enough to disrupt the sun enough to go nova.

Everybody: Can the Shivans have a ship the size of a planet? Much less thousands of invincible ships... (we have learned somewhat how to blow them up)

All Allied Fleets: I need numbers.... The shivans have, what, 3,000-4,000 without counting fighters? My shipyards above Normandeicht and in other systems are building ships and fighters like mad, but the ships will take too long. The Reagan shall arrive shortly, shields powered, weapons ready...

IC:

Captain La Duc stood on the secondary bridge of Starbase 004, watching the battle from his little vantage point.

"Is the next wave of fighters ready?"

"Yes, sir," a nearby ensign called.

"Good," he exclaimed "now get them out there. Whats the Reagan's ETA?"

Again the same ensign replied. "Three minutes, sir."

La Duc began to issue orders, having the fleet clear for the enourmous vessel. The battle would finally turn when it arrived. We would see whether the PPCs would go through the Shivan shields or not...

OOC: I may join in this conflict soon, but not yet. Suffice is to say that we will soon get involved, big-time.

IC:
There is a grave disturbance in the Force. Jedi Master Arin Nulda, a member of the High Council on Coredia, thought as he meditated. A deadly enemy has attacked the galaxy. I don't know much yet, but I feel that the Dark Side is involved.

Snapping out of his meditation, the elven Jedi walked out of his chambers, to call an emergency meeting of the Council. The Emperor must be made aware of the situation...

OOC-Bloody hell. The Shivans just don't know when to quit do they? I'm on holiday now, but I'll be back Monday. And when I come back, all my new weapons and starships will kick some ass.

A great burst of white light flashed as the Reagan dropped out of warp to the right of the Shivan fleet. It began its deck launches, out poured 2,000 fighters. It fired forward PPCs at the enemy, and the huge bolts of energy easily dwarfed many of the Shivan vessels. Torpedoes sprayed from the Reagan by the thousands, the multi-colored particle beams lit up the heavens as they slashed at the Shivan ships.

"Admiral, Forward shields are down to 98%, all fighters have been launched, Warp Cores at maximum efficiency, and the Forward PPCs are 10% charged."

"Fire all weapons, target the closets ships first, lets work our way through the enemy fleet." Admiral Gerichten stood on the central platform on the Reagan's bridge, miles inside the hull. He watched the battle on the Holoscreens, the Shivan fleets just stretched on and on... Not even the Reagan would be able to take out all of them...

ooc: The Reagan is not invincible, and the PPCs take a long time to charge. Its sheilds are also not invincible, but will take a long time to get down. All Allied Fleets: Rally around the Reagan, we will destroy them.

-OOC-

I refuse to rally around ANYTHING with that name...


-IC-

"Mekantan reinforcements are en route. 'Just sit tight.'"

A huge organic ship the size of a moon enterd the system its surface scared with mechanical enhance ments, fighter docking bays, a sheild projection system and a huge emp pulse cannon mounted below its huge maw where a deep blue shimmer told of the tell tale plasma buildup. From its side 13 Zealot fighter vessels poured out spiraling down before igniting thrusters and powering towards the conflict aiming for the rear of the shivian fleet. Blue sheilds shimmerd over the 50 meter long vessels. There where nothing more than customised nuclear warheads the hazard signs where still apparent on their underside. Slung below the modified nose where the pilot sat where slung 3 plasma cannons and a single photon torpedo tube. All comms waves suddenly became flooded. Any attempt to utilise audio comms would now fail. Roaring towards the conflict the zealot fighters opened fire on the largest Shivan ship while spiraling out into a dispursed arrowhead formation leaving over 200 miles between each ship to avoid potential flack and to give themselves manuvaring space. *Queen: Princes of the Universe* roared over the comms channels accompanied by the wooting and howling of the Zealot pilots. The opened fire bolts of blue plasma flickering towards their targets.


ooc> Zealots scout out systems looking for trouble, they enjoy nothing better than a good fight and are suicidal in the extream. The queen is such a sized that in the same way that planets and large structures prevent FTL travel she also has a similar feild around her extending to 20,000 miles.

OOC:Who are they attacking Imodius?
Oh, and BTW, Unified Sith is Imperial Brits, ok Gronde......

ooc> Rat: Imodius said, "Largest Shivan Ship." does that answer you question?
GZ: I am doing the best I can here. The AoN has the power of a 10+ billion population base for the active military members. I can promise you that you wont be disipointed. The AoN ships are of a high quality and many of them are 2 Km or longer.

ic> The arrival of a large hive ship gave new hope to the Space marines. Especially after it began firing on Shivans instead of them. The fleet continued to rain fire down on the Shivans. The Thunderhawks swarmed into the fray, focussing their fire on a few designated Shivan ships. They needed to hold out for at least another hour and a half.

ooc just a quick reminder the zealot fighters are attacking Shivan's largest ship AND comms are basically down on ALL channels due to rock music blaring away.

ic> *In the deep cold dark that is space there is only ROCK AND ROLL! The music changed to "Like a Bat out of Hell" by Meatloaf (ooc i think).*

OOC:
Germanische Zustande: An assload of firepower wraped in enough spiffy tech to send any mad scientist into a diabedic coma ;) IB made the mistake of getting within my gravy guns' 2500km range when he tryed to jump 5 Lucifers into one of them at Mechlon(sp?); lets just say that only three Lucifers retreated after a very breif exchange of fire(mmmm, Shivan gravy).

'course, I only have 3 Battleplates, and only 7 other, smaller capital ships; very, very small fleet, and a huge military budget dedicated almost exclusivly to the star navy(ex. my standing army's little more than an honour gaurd) are the price I pay for my fleet-killers.

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Unified Sith: World ship, eh? Sweet; that thing's got 'frag me' written all over it :twisted:

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Imodius: Unless they're using tightbeams or certain types of FTL comms, which can't be readily flooded or jammed.

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IC:
A small, possibly metalic object sat at the edge of the system, little bigger than a child's fist; watching, listening for it's masters tens of thousands of lightyears away; connected in real-time via a tiny, unjammible, infinitly secure zero-point datanode.

As the contest continued, distant eyes watched, as distant minds ploted, evaluated, and concluded. A conclusion that went from thoughts to words to actions in mere seconds.

And so it was that Admiral Hayes, the master of the Kanuckistani High Gaurd Vessel Jagged Razor of Methodical Dismemberment, commanded; "All hands to battle stantions; helm, put us one-point-five ell-ess above the target world as soon as tactical gives the green." A chorus of 'aye's answered...

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Four-hundred fifty thousand kilometers above the world of Normandeict's northern pole, a thirteen kilometer long behemoth manifested; the battleship-grey equalatteral-triangle of it's sollouette apearing above the collected Shivan fleets like an all too familiar omen of doom, even as FTLi feilds expanded outward to a lightsecond-radius, and the 90 degree arc of it's inversion feild interposed itself befor the great doom bringer.

As seconds pass, massivly powerful sensors reach out to scour space, as her IFF beacon proudly declares her name and affiliation to all sides; the epicly powerful barrier feilds that sheath the ship still ramping up, while planet-rending energies charged weapons brinning with hellish prefire and firing soloutions were calculated.

At a distance of 450'000 kilometers, Kanuckistani Cryo-Atomic Lased 'Particle-Wave' Beam weaponry would take just over 1.5 seconds to reach the Shivan armada; spitting distance for the main armament, tho well beyond the megar reach of the gravy guns. Regaurdless, the Lucifers and their ilk would be dispatched by other means, assuming they lasted that long, for a simple text message had been sent to the all deffending ships via laser tight-beam. It read, simply, "Shivan subspace sheilds do not protect against gravitic weaponry;" a slight irony, considering the Razor latest upgrade.

ooc: Okay, I know that something as big as what i am about to talk about would be way to hard for me to maintain, so this is probably it's only battle for a while...

The Reagan is 20 miles long, some 32 kilometers. It is NOT invincible, just ask Juumanistra. The stats are on the thread: "Federation announces completion of New battleship" or something like that... However, be ware, Shivans, it is armed with very new technology... It will fight to the end.

Gronde, your's and every other fleet SHOULD be enheartened by that enourmous vessel.

Tally of UFGZ ships: 19 Actively engaging the enemy, 7 destroyed
4,000 small Fighters, Bombers, and Shuttles(armed)

IC: With the constant beating on the shields, they dropped to 90%...

-OOC-

Oh, it's so tempting to have my fleet "accidently" fire on the Reagan, or at least catch it in the shockwaves of their Main Guns. Simply for its name...


-IC-

-Bridge, Mekantan Warship Wrath of Clinton

"How long until our ships defold?"

"I dunno. Probably until some all powerful author-type decides to have us suddenly be there in some kind of deus ex machina type occurance."

"... You're a douche, you know that?"

"Hey, just because I don't know doesn't mean I can't spew bullshit."

ooc: I posted, over 2 1/2 months ago about the construction of the Reagan. All the Military Budget was sent to the Reagan construction for 4 score and 2 years. Also, Mekanta, I posted its embarkation and arrival. Atheos is VERY near to Normandeicht...
I also have a mind to "accidentally" target the Wrath of clinton...

OOC: Bump.

Kanuckistan: Tell me about it! There is no more appetizing a target than a Shivan worldship.

As for the Reagan: If you devoted your entire military budget to its construction, doesn't that kind of leave you defenseless? I mean, how can you afford maintence on your regular forces if this ubership is taking up your entire budget?

OOC: Wetalnd I hope your not going to use your gridfire weapons as I now have defence against them. I will of course give you the tech on how I can do it through the tg system however just ask Jordaxia and he will confirm it. Its actually a rather simple idea. GZ I have a larger ship with my nation called Sparten. I am about to post a thread up its an attack upon Jordaxia where it will be first used, I suggest you all read it as it will be my first ground assault and I have a few nice surprises for you all. I have Imodius on my Ignore list however I have decided to cease this as I now like his style. Kanuckistan I would watch out for the world station as I have a surprise for you. (Hehehehehehehehe)


The Shivan fleet though still the major power in this battle was taking casualties. The lesser weaker ships were the first to fall from the concentrated firepower of the enemy fleets. The AON had rallied their forces while receiving help from the ESUS alliance, slowly more and more ships were jumping into the system making this battle a from a small skirmish over a military base into a strategic outcome. The winner of this battle would gain a severe tactical advantage and unknown the any of the enemy forces the Shivans were about to receive a major card in this campaign.

The world ship was now only mere minutes away from entering the system, though alot can happen in a few minutes. Fleets can survive or be destroyed; tides of battles can be turned or the moral of an army broken, luckily however this battle was only young and the major elements had yet to play out.

The Shivan fleet now essentially boxed in was being attacked from all angles however this was of no consequence. The fleet had essentially taken a position that formed an almost prefect sphere having their badly armed and defended flanks pointed inwards so the enemy fleet could not take advantage of this very prominent weakness. The Shivan ships though now in a sound tactical position was receiving heavy fire from all concerned.

The enemy fighters were the first to attack, moving in at vast speeds to engage the Shivan fleet however this was not to be. The Shivan fleet released a volley of Micro missiles mark2 which due to the formation of the fleet emitted in a symmetrical and beautiful sphere. All the micro missiles which easily numbered over 3 million in the initial volley accelerated out of the short launchers at half the speed of light (micro missiles are no larger than you thumb, they carry a compressed core of anti matter and that’s it. No guidance, no nothing, they move under momentum generated by the launchers.) the missiles suddenly and gently broke apart a km away from the fleet. The anti matter store in each missile was released and under the momentum of the launchers the ESUS and AON fleets now had a cloud of anti-matter headed towards them. For any fighters that were already in range of the capital ships, the anti-fighter beams powered up and began firing upon the enemy until the micro missiles volley removed them as a threat. Meanwhile in the hanger of each Shivan warship a new type of fighter was being readied; this would be it’s first combat test and the Shivan command hoped it would be an effective one.

The Lucifers however with their always readied subspace drives committed a nano jump, and disappeared for almost an instant, then reappeared above the southern polar region of the GZ world. The Lucifers content to leave the battle the way it was made a dive towards the planets surface, with intent on penetrating the planetary shield and moving in towards the core of the contested world. Firing their flux cannons as they went the Lucifers merely fired upon anything within range which was unfortunately the barren landscape of a soon to be decimated world.

The warships however of the Shivan fleet were suffering more serious damage. Already, and the battle had just only begun, eight Moloch destroyers and five Ravana destroyers had been shot down: the wreckage now floating in space a testament to this senseless war. The Shivan fleet however responded by releasing everything they had upon the enemy. Beam cannons, flux cannons, anti fighter beams all opened fire upon the enemy including the Hive ships which were hardly a difficult target.
The first volley of energy weapons which had been launched against the fleet had impacted in many of the Shivan warship hulls however the nature of the metal and the connections to the batteries and subsequently the firing matrix of the beam cannons allowed a lot of energy to be absorbed and used against the ESUS/AON ships.

The GZ Regan battleship however was firing with all its might and inflict severe casualties and damage upon the Shivan fleet. Now would be the time for the allied forces to celebrate upon their increasing victory in space, however a vast gravitational distortion could be detected. Many Shivan ships were pulled out of position due to the immense gravitational field and slowly ever so slowly a subspace tear formed close to the battlefield. Out of the huge tear which caused the entire system to shine blue for several seconds a vast Saturn sized station appeared, it could only be a world station.

ooc:

CF: Thats the thing... the other ships just weren't maintained. Whatever spare parts and materials were in wharehouses were used by the ships engineers to fix whatever needed it. Some of the "Black Budget" money was used to maintain the ships to a degree, however...

ooc: Um, how many worldships do the Shivans have? and, are they the size of Normandeicht?

ic: The Reagan continued to fire thousands of Torpedoes, its Particle cannons blazing, and the PPCs were almost fully charged. The thousands of Engineers had been working to get the Shields back up to 100%, and so far they had gotten to 93%. A thousand fighters formed a vanguard around the mighty vessel, as the other thousand, what few were left, attacked the Shivan fleet.

The planetary shields were near buckling point from the Shivan Lucifer attack, but Planetary cannons and turrets and silos continued to fire at the Lucifers, as hundreds of fighters neared the cruisers. Small system ships armed with a few Pulsecannon arrays converged upon the Shivan ships above the South Pole, and four Battlecruisers broke off from the main engagement to destroy the Shivan vessels attacking the planet surface.

The Rift generator was fully powered, and after a message was sent to all Allied Fleets to brace for impact, a great ripple through subspace pulsed from the Reagan. It hit the subspace shields of the Shivan fleet (please, it only knocked off the shivan ship that attacked UA's world shields for a few minutes) and passed on into the void beyond.

Inside the Reagan its enourmous Warp Cores glowed an eerie blue and green. Antimatter separated from the Matter was combined in small amounts to produce the power needed to run the vessel. Already some of the Cores were being readied for remote detonation and ejection... ( :) )

Antimatter batteries fired their terrible shells into the heart of the enemy fleet, exploding in great blooms of color. Plasma batteries fired masses of burning gas into the Shivan spherefleet, glowing a ghostly green.

The PPCs fired great gold bolts from two huge cannons, impacting directly onto the hulls of many ships...

And so the battle raged... Whence came the Shivan Worldship...

The formost zealot fighter detonated its warhead. The 5megaton nuke went off just as the antimatter wave hit it the two disrupted each other and a small rent was created the remaning 12 tore through before scattering again and targeting the centre of the fleet. The Leader of the pack signaled all out attack dive and they converted all weapons power to forwards sheilding. They plowed through the outer line of defence heading for the core of the sphere of ships. 3 more were lost to the anti fighter firepower raking them. Their sheilds failing the ships detonated their nukes as they dived into nearby shivan ships. Each had a payload of 50 megatons. the remaning 9 continued to tear through the defensive line.
The Norn queen rotated as the weapons hit her alowing the entire sheild the share of the weapons fire so that after one orbit they where fully charged again. Deep inside her the emp shockwave build up and the star cannon charged. Purple plasma began to well up inside her as she targeted the core of the shivan sphere of ships.
In the zealot fighter bays a second wing of zealots preped for launch in addition to a modified pryamid shaped vessel.

The Shivan return fire was heavy. Multitudes of beams and missiles slammed into the CF shields. To sensors, it appeared as though the CF fleet had been totally destroyed, so consumed it was with the Shivan's unholy fire. When the proverbial smoke cleared, the CF fleet was still there, mostly unscathed with the exception of a damaged carrier and crippled Supernova.

"Send them to hell. All batteries, open fire!" the Admiral yelled, fully consumed in the heat of battle. The space between the Shivans and the CF fleet was alit by fire from the various CF weapons. Heavy railguns, their slugs splintering on impact with the Shivan ships. Particle beams of all sizes lanced out towards the Shivan ships, joined quickly by heavy plasma beams and five hundred megaton fusion torpedos.

But then, the world ship appeared...

ic> The wave of thunderhawks came under enemy fire as they made their their attacks. The new "Bounce" shielding installed on them was working effectively as most of the fighters were able to bounce away from enemy blasts minimizing the damage. Despite this, several thunderhawks were lost as they closed in on their targets. Enough remained, however, to to do major damage as they launched their missiles and torpedos.
The rest of the Space Marine fleet came under heavy fire from the Shivans and took damage, losing a few smaller ships. The attack was not as damaging as it would normally have been due to the specially designed anti-torpedo grid shielding that had been activated earlier. The fleet returned fire again with a volly of torpedos and rail fire.

Suddenly, a huge ships arrived.
"Things may yet get interesting," Captain Kalath though.

ooc> All info on the shield I mentioned is in my storefront. Link: .invisionfree.com/International_Mall/index.php?showforum=41

ic> Back on the homefront, the fleet was nearly ready to be deployed. There was still one hold up, however. Several AoN members were having second thoughts about trusting the ESUS and aiding one of the ESUS's allies. A last meeting was in progress to make a final decision, Kalgar hoped they would still be able to get there in time.

"Almighty God save us," Commanding Admiral Schumacher whispered.

A massive construct, the size of a planet, had arrived out-system. A thing that large would probably take a half hour to reach the battle. And when it got there, it wouldn't be defending Normandeicht.

"Corporal, send a sub-space message on all frequencies to all spacefaring worlds," Rear Admiral Terpitz ordered. "Attention all peoples of the Galaxy and even the Universe," he began, "A race known as the Shivans is attempting to wipe out all other life-forms from its own. They have destroyed the homeworld of the Underwater Asylum, as well as eradicated many a peaceful people. They have come in force to a world known as Normandeicht originally to squash a seemingly defenseless foe, the United Federation of Germanic Worlds(Zustande is like "land" or "territory" so I use it as "world"). Many of our allies and those who fight to end the Slaughter and destruction caused by the Shivans have come to our aid and defense, however, a great Shivan Worldship has appeared in the battle. If many a fleet was to join us in our stand, we could severely weaken the merciless and vile Shivan menace. Now is not the time for petty grudges, for United we shall prevail, Divided all shall fall."

Above the orange-white world, the battle continued, as the enourmous Shivan worldship came nearer...

As the Lucifers nanojumped in obvious fear, the KHGV Jagged Razor of Methodical Dismemberment finally lent it's epic firepower to the contest; over two thousand light and six hundred intermediate tier cannons lancing forth into the heart of the enemy formatiom with flawless precision, even as ten thousand missiles streaked in series from their launchers in a massed alpha-strike upon the hiding Lucifers behind the planet.

As they streaked through space, fully 3000 warheads screamed with sensor-blinding ECM, holo-emmiters and drone sub-munitions blurring the swarm on sensors, while a thousand dedicated anti-fighter sub-munitions missiles screaned the onslaught's path; of the remaining 6000, 5500 were split between multi-gigaton conversion warheads, and bomb-pumped laser heads. That last five hundred held a suprise; two, actually.

As they came within twenty thousand kilometers of the massed Lucifers, a mere fist full of seconds after launch, the laser-heads detonated as one; 2700 lances of coherent, ship-rending energy spent uselessly, if the subspace sheilds remained up. Less than a second later, as they pased within a thousand kilometers of their targets, the first suprise would be revealed; 250 warheads detonating as one, the newly designed bomb-pumped gravy guns spearing lances of massivly powerful gravitation sheer through the Shivan Lucifers. An instant later, the remaining missiles would converge on anything Shivan that survived; bomb-pumped gravitic 'stovepipes' shreading wide arcs of space and ship with their twenty-kilometer-ranged weapon, befor the conversion heads immolated all that remained. Massive overkill; atleast, that was the plan.

Meanwhile, however, as final targeting soloutions were being calculated to avoid friendly fire, the superheavies' massive banks of capasitors brimming with obscene, ever-growing prefire, something arrived; something huge, something Shivan, something that had immolate me written all over it. The gravitic influance wasn't felt by the Battleplate as it finally commited to it's prior targets; new SlipFeild generators inhibiting interaction with external gravitational sources. Regaurdless, some ally would get first crack at the looming target, the Battleplate simply reorienting it's inversion feild to face the potential threat, as ten lances of raw, planet-rending death streaked forth into the surrounded Shivan fleet, each targeting a seperate Shivan vessel; the ten most dangerous to the allied fleet of those that remained, excluding any with subspace sheilding. Those ten ships, it was expected, would be promptly be reduced to rapidly expanding clouds of quarks, gluons, and other assorted subatomic particles.


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Elsewhere, near the sun, two more Kanuckistani vessels apeared; the smaller, 3 kilometer long Superfortresses displacing to locations on opposite sides of the star, half a light second above it's surface. Barrier and inversion feilds shrugging off the intense radiation, they imediatly deployed FTLi; the twin, overlapping bubbles racing outward to their full light-minute radius at half the speed of light. However unintentional, the shivan Diablo within the sun was in for a nasty suprise when the subspace sheilds that sheltered it from the crushing pressure and nuclear inferno around it suddenly stoped working.



OOC:
And three new toys are revealed. BTW, the Slipfeild is my own creation, and unrelated to the varrious slipstream technologies, etc, out there; it got it's name because it makes a ship 'slippery' to gravitational influences, and is one of three technologies I created as part of a new FTL system.

ill make a post tonight at 8:00 British time. got work today. :(

OOC: i just want to clarify a few things, GZ the Lucifers were actualy moving towards your planet, if your planetary shield is a conventional one then they will have passed through it and all three are now inside the crust of your plannet. I did not rp me going inside however i did say what i intended to do so you would not considder me rping for you, as i did not know what type of planetery shields you had.

Just to let you all know, the world ship is what it says my world. My entire races population is on board so if you destroy that.......... (bye bye imperial brits for a few months. But i have few things for Kanuckistan to worry about.

Kanuckistan your FTL which inhibit my subspace shields stop them by reinforcing the dimmensional grid with an infinite ammount of energy, however what were to ahppen if i reinforced my shilds with an infinite ammount of energy. Essentilay cancelling out your inhibitors.

As my 3 Lucifers are in fact inside GZ's planet ill assume Kanuckistan your firing at all my other Lucifers :(

"We have almost reached the system. I am detecting multiple fleets, some are AON. I am also detecting a Hive queen and a.... It looks like a Shivan ship but it is far too big for that. It has the size of a gasgiant."
"Put it on screen."
What they saw was awe inspiring and a bit unsettling.
"All hands, prepare for combat."

Kanuckistan your FTL which inhibit my subspace shields stop them by reinforcing the dimmensional grid with an infinite ammount of energy, however what were to ahppen if i reinforced my shilds with an infinite ammount of energy. Essentilay cancelling out your inhibitors.


OOC:
Depends on who has the larger infinity(yes, you can in fact have infinities of varrious sizes, relative to each other); mine happens to utalise infinitly recursive methods, and are interconnected to a degree with similar effects across an arbitrarily vast number of spatial axis'. So, in effect, you not only have a very, very large, infinitly infinite amount of force, but an arbitrarily large multiplyer. And there are two of these FTLi feilds, on top of all that.

So, I'd say it's safe to assume that your subspace sheilds would either fail, or, assuming you matched perfectly, become 50% effective; ie half the matter/energy attempting to pass through would be dumped into subspace, the rest would go through and hit the ship. The joys of bastardised quantum mechanics, eh? :D :twisted:




As my 3 Lucifers are in fact inside GZ's planet ill assume Kanuckistan your firing at all my other Lucifers :(

If you'll pay attention to the noted time scale, you'll see that those missiles would have converged on your Lucifers 15-20 seconds after their nano-jump, at the latest.

However, the fact that you reffered to this Lucy detachment only as 'the Lucifers' made me think that it was all of them; if you only sent 3, eh, sure, I'll frag them. If they can get under the planet in time to avoid the missiles, however, they'll retarget your other Lucifers; their armoured SAPL casings don't react with anti-matter, they've plenty of range, and an uber-secure quantum-entanglment based data network to the Battleplate's fire control system.

The Norn Queen unleashed her emp pules. A huge surge of white pulsed towards the Shivan world ship where it would splash across the entire surface that faced the norn queen. 5 seconds after this the star cannon fired. The city sized pulse of plasma rippled out right behind the emp pulse.

Mean while the zealot fighters tore through the sphere and slammed into the weakened sides of the shivan fleet detonating. 50 megaton nukes exploding as close as they could get to the ships. The Zealot leader ship reached the core of the sphere and detonated. However in its place opened a wormhole from which the strange pyramid shaped structure emerged humming. The wormhole closed behind it and it started to thrum. Pulses of emp rippled out as the structure charged its sheilding already at full strenth.

ooc> Thats 11 X 50 megaton blasts on assorted shivan ships btw.

((Cue Flight of the Valkyries))

On the far side of the planet, green motes of light began appearing. Like emerald teardrops, the motes fused together to create a larger hole in space-time. The prow of a ship appeared through the hole, its silver and gold paint glistening in the light of the system's sun. More holes appeared as the massive Imperial Fleet began entering real space and thier weapons began to charge.

FSS Cain - Citizen-class Dreadnought - Admiral Michaels commanding

Michaels watched with grim satisfaction the battle between the ESUS and the Shivan menace.
"So, their worldship has reared its ugly head. Send word, I want every Skipper we have thrown at those butt-ugly Lucifers. All other fire should focus on the Shivan support elements."
Her emerald eyes narrowed.
"That worldship is our prize."

The forty-two single-shot MACs on board the Cain and her sister ship powered up and fired their massive 100-ton ferrous projectiles at 1/2 the speed of light at the Shivan Worldship. The white-hot projectiles could easily kill a planet. Such a contraption would be a snack.


Feazanthian Numbers (Be aware I wont be able to post until tomorrow)

2 Citizen-class Heavy Dreadnoughts
3 Bec Corbin-class Dreadnoughts
2 Universe-class Dreadnoughts
12 Hurricane-class Battleships
4 Exodai-class Battleships
1 Ra Calium-class Battleship
2 Archangel-class Battleships
4 Salamis-class Cruisers
1 Musai Mk.4 Attack Cruiser
7 Achilles-class Attack Cruisers
7 Concorde-class Heavy Carrier
2 Planetkiller-class Dreadnoughts
5 Bristow-class Dreadnoughts (?)
14 O'Neil-class Battlecruisers
12 Akira-class Battlecruisers
25 Delos-class Battlecruisers
32 Archemedes Cruisers
51 Epee-class Cruisers
86 Wolf-class Light Cruisers
92 Black Falcon-class Destroyers
24 Magnos-class Destroyers
34 Mace-class Destroyers
80 Basil-class Frigates
72 Yaeger-class Frigates
102 Nordic-class Escorts
800 Scimitar-class Medium fighters
500 Claymore-class Heavy Fighters
300 Kindjall-class Superiority Fighters
200 Dire Wolf-class Starfighter Suits
400 Aurora Bombers

Specs upon request

ooc: well, US, my shields act as a sort of bubble, cutting off everything larger than a photon from passing through any form of space. The shields must be overloaded before anything could nano-jump through. Your ships are bouncing off the shields, right now. Essentially, Normandeicht is cut off from the space-time continuum. Like a bubble, sort of. But it is in the VERY early stages of development, won't be very strong, but can hold long enough for Kanuckistan to blow you up.

btw, just another wild theory of mine....

Standard Day Hour: 1.27 - Wormian Federate Palace
Phoenix City - Phoenix IV

Chancellor George Thomas IV looked at the small, two-dimensional, luminescent and translucent hologram float above his desk. It was the situation involving an invasion of Germanische Zustande by the Shivan Imperium. He took off his glasses, and rubbed both his eyes. The stress once again mounted.

"And they have reached the system?" He asked.

One of his top military advisors stood across the desk from him. Jonathan Ketcher, Wormia's youngest Fleet Admiral in command of the M1 Beta Quadrant Battle Fleet, one of the most potentially destructive fleets in known space.

"Yessir, they have. My fleet can reach the Normandeicht System in under four hours." Ketcher said.

"Is your fleet prepared to deal with Shivan subspace shielded starships?" The Chancellor further queried.

"All M1 battle fleets have been retrofitted to carry and utilize anti-Shivan weaponry. The tachyon burst cannons have been employed in a wide scale on our ships."

"Then I believe you have a fleet to get to. Stop the Shivans. Send those bastards back to the Stone Age. They have all the responsibilities and capabilities of a spacefaring nation, and they have abused their power. They have failed in their duty to maintain self-discipline with the technologies and units they possess. And they have crossed the final line from which I will ensure that their empire shall never recover." The bitterness and spite the Chancellor had for the Shivans was ever more noticeable in his latter sentences, as uncontrolled fragments of saliva sprayed.

Chancellor George Thomas IV was not oft one to relish the sheer destruction of an enemy fleet. He always remembered that his enemies were human, and had emotions and feelings as did his own men. But, when his enemies were defending genocide, in a fanatical manner, he had no sympathy. "Sheer bitterness" was an understatement to the undeniable hate he held for that which he believed was no more than the spawn of Satan. He was, himself, somewhat fanatical about decimating the Shivan empire. "Payback's a bitch," was a phrase he was determined to someday enjoy in its perfect fittingness.

"Yes sir." Ketcher said.

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Standard Day Hour: 6.03 - FRW Jupiter
Wormian M1 Beta Quadrant Battle Fleet - Sol System

Captain Kyv Milanes walked onto the bridge of the FRW Jupiter. It was the most destructive ship in the Wormian fleet, possessing a plethora of gadgets and gizmos all aimed at one task: Eradicating Shivans in the most efficient, effective, and preferably painful method possible. He was not captain of the ship, more like caretaker. When the fleet needed mobilization, he was simply in command until the Admiral arrived. His ship was the next most destructive thing: A Wormian Dominance-class battleship.

Which... was relatively soon.

The fleet was fully mobilized, and once the Admiral was aboard, it was to be sent to Normandeicht.

"Comms, you have a message for me?" Milanes asked.

His communications officer nodded. "You recieved a priority transmission from ... the Chancellery... "

This was new. Admirals were frequent callers, and he had done away with many an anytime minute on fellow Captains and a few dignitaries were checked off on his list... but he had never quite talked to Sir George Thomas IV. THE Wormian Chancellor.

"I'll put you on..." His communications officer said, hurridly.

"NO... wait," He grabbed the young officers wrist before it managed to hit the 'Accept' option. "This may sound odd... but... how do I look...?" He said in a low voice.

"Fine sir. If were were frayed, I'm sure our Chancellor would understand. Put him on?"

Sweat shined foreheads like no other substance. But, incapable of preventing the inevitable, Milanes nodded. The video screen blinked on, Chancellor George Thomas IV's face pasted on it.

"Greetings, Captain. As you may or may not know, you are about to enter a war. Or perhaps a battle of a continuing war. Captain... I am a generally reasonable man. I am about to tell you something that I may regret tomorrow... but if it saves lives.... I shall say it."

"Anything, sir." Milanes said, swallowing.

"Have... no... mercy... Send them a message in death: They have picked their final foe. ESUS, Wormia, whomever. Dusk, draws near... captain. No... mercy. None. Annihilate their ships. Destroy escape pods. Every escaped Shivan is another resource to them. That is all."

The screen went blank. Captain Milanes swallowed, and slowly, each and every pair of eyes focused on him.

Wormian M1 Beta Quadrant Battle Fleet:
1 Jupiter-class Mobile Assault/Command Base
9 Gargantua-class Dreadnaught
63 Dominance-class Battleships
45 Zeus-class Missile Cruisers
81 Talon-class Ballistic Missile Destroyers
108 Corsica-class Destroyers
144 Raptor-class Frigates

OOC: Kanuckistan, essentialy my wor;d ship is utilising the energy Grid, which I know you are aware of is a plane on which there is only energy. Dam ESUS why wont you retreat, all I want to do is destroy Gronde and GZ’s little world, but nooooooooo. You have to get in the way.

IC: The world ship now entered the system upon the battlefield. Its gravitational pull would throw of the orbit of the GZ world, however its intentions were to do much more.

The vast docking bays of the world ship opened, out of the open slots the size of countries emerged the Shivan fleet. Thousands of warships as far as the eye could see. Millions of fighters, swarming towards the enemy fleet to aid their allies in their time of need.

The vast weapons of the worldship came online, thousands of beam cannons, flux cannons, torpedo tubes, dispacers all aimed at the meagre enemy forces. The Kanuckistan vessel would receive the first volley. The world station (Shiva) now moving at a low velocity slowly neared the GZ world, with its weapons now fully powered the enemy fleets could not last long. In the blink of an eye the battlefield turned red. Seven Hundred beam and flux cannons erupted from the world station, the red beams signifying the inferno that is the Shivan Imperium smashed into the enemy battleplate. The missisle launchers were the next to fire, millions of missiles were launched at the entire enemy forces from every launcher in an effort to take out the enemy fleet.

Out of the vast body of the world ship hundreds of Shivan warships was emerging, countless fighters and all headed towards the ESUS fleet. On the other side of the world station the enemy fleets were still attacking the initial Shivan invasion force. The fleet now worn down to half its original strength, received the reinforcements. The ESUS fleet now severely outflanked were now the ones boxed in. The world station fired a volley at the enemy fleet, aiming towards the CF forces in particular. Two hundred flux and beam cannons alone targeted their capital ship, while the surrounding Shivan fleet fired as well.

Inside the Shiva landing craft were being prepared for the invasion of the GZ world. Unknown to every nation in the ESUS the Shivans wanted something on this planet.

On certain parts of the world station the vast surface seemed to change before the eyes of the allied forces, huge gun turrets were emerging larger themselves than most destroyers. Slowly and carefully they were moving into position pointed at the Kanuckistan battleplate.

The Wettic fleet finally arrived on the battlefield. The modified freighters quickly launched their fighters before being escorted out of the system by the Rihorns.
These 200 fighters were joined by the 400 from the Odin and the fleet was now ready to fight.

"The fleet has slowed down to 0.3c, our allies are being attacked from 2 sides and the world ship is launching ships by the hundreds. The gravity from that thing is enormous. It is interfering with our FTL-drive, we can't execute a combat jump, sir."
"Ok, this is captain Otana to the fleet. We will start by relieving pressure from our allies. Attack!"

With these words the fleet sprung into action. First came a volley of 144 missiles from the destroyers aimed at the Shivan forces trying to help the original invasion fleet. They were followed by the 600 fighters who waited until they were in range before unleashing a volley of antifigher missiles at the enemy fighters. 1200 of them were on their way towards them as the battleship and the cruisers began firing their plasma cannons at the enemy capital ships.

Two Hydra battleships were destroyed outright in the Shivan attack. The Sentinels fared much better, their conversion shielding asorbing the Shivan weaponry fired at them, using it to put even more power into the shields.

"Does the sensor ship have a lock on that Worldship's subspace frequency?" The admiral yelled as his ship took another violent hit. The shields were holding, for the moment.

"Aye sir! Calibrating Heavy PPBCs now...Done!" The gunnery officer responded.

"Good. Give me a fire solution for the Parallax Torpedos! I want them hitting right after the worldship's subspace shields go down!" The admiral barked out.

"Aye sir! Firing now!" The gunnery officer yelled back. He pressed a button, and the heavy PPBCs fired towards the Shivan worldship, hopefully disabling its shields. Moments later, the two Sentinels Launched their entire payload of Parallax Torpedos towards the worldship...

OOC: The Parallax torpedo is basically my Ace in the hole. It's the equivelent of a 30 gigaton nuclear device. However, soon after it launches, it fires off two drones, each with their own holographic projector. Essientially, only one in three missiles is going to be the real one. The other two are just drones that look and act exactly like the real torpedo. Basically, you've got a one in three chance of getting the right torpedo. And nevermind the fact that these torpedos are going extremely fast (.71c), so it's going to be a little tough to avoid getting hit. :P

Ohh yeah, you now have 400 [real]Parallax torpedos heading for your worldship. They're timed to hit just a second or two after the PPBCs I fired take down your subspace shields.

The disadvantage to PTs is that they're pretty darn expensive for me to make. I can afford a modest space superiority fighter for the price I can get for one of those things. :P

OOC Edit: I won't be able to post for a few hours, I've got to get to work. :P

this entire post is OOC
sorry for the delay in my post i just got back from niagra falls a day ago anyway none of my fleet is in this system at the moment they are in a nearby system as soon as i read everything i will make my post

tithians i may or may not attack you not sure yet gotta see how this battle is going

my fleet is
3 sathanis
2 lucifers
20 ravannas
30 demons
40 molochs
45 rakashas
55 liliths
60 cains

like i said they are in a different system at the moment as they did a tactical retreat before the forums went down

kanuckistan just a reminder you know nothing of the bhaals existence

ooc: Hey, Shivans. I shall explain your nice shiny prize should you take the planet.


The Shivan worldship had opened up with everthing they had. The Reagan took many volleys in the starboard shields, reducing them to nearly 75%. The two PPCs on the starboard side rotated to face the immense "vessel."

After the subspace shields had gone down from an ally's attack, the Reagan unloaded a thousand Quantum Torpedoes, 200 antimatter slugs, and nearly four hundred guided plasma torpedoes the size of a standard cruiser. The Reagan's particle beams seared through the divide between it and the Shivan monstrosity. Deep within the Reagan's heart, thousands of engineers prepared to eject four of the Reagan's Warp Cores, hoping they would be as effective as in the battle with the Juumanistrans so long ago.

A priority Alpha-HC message came through to the Allied fleet from the world of Normandeicht below. "All Allied Fleets: We have discovered an ancient outpost of the Ancestors in the Northernmost mountain range on the Planet. It is emmitting very strange energy waves; this began when the Worldship arrived. We think that the Shivans may have been the ones who nearly destroyed the Ancestors so long ago. Who knows what the Shivans could do if they got their hands on the Technology of the Ancients. If all else fails, we will destroy the outpost. Normandeicht High Command out."

Aboard the Reagan, Commanding Admiral Schumacher let out a low whistle. This battle just got a lot more interesting. "Send out a message to the Fleet. Should the Reagan begin to take heavy damage, we will retreat to Atheos in case the Shivans should find the Homeworld. Should it come to near defeat, randomly jump to five other starsystems, making sure there are no probes following you, and then finally jump to Normandeicht. If we should begin to take heavy casualties, more so than the Shivans, all fleets are advised to make the Jump."

Their escape plan was set. Hopefully though, they would not need it.

ooc> Don't worry, they wont take the planet. (Assuming I can get some re-assurance from the ESUS that they wont backstab me afterwards before the Shivans overrun your planet) I will do what I can right now. It wont be much until I can get the AoN's consent.

ic> The battle was beginning to go over to the Shivan side due to the arrival of the Worldship. The AoN megafleet was still not ready to leave, though this time due to AoN politics and distrust that some AoN members held towards the ESUS. However, Kalgar was not about to let the GZ world fall. He ordered the entire 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Drone Carrier Corps to jump the the sytem.

The massive carrier group arrived moments later and wasted little time in attempting to level the playing field. Each of the 600 Drone Carriers launched its payload of 600 drone fighters each and they swarmed over the Shivan fleet. The best part was that the entire fleet only required 6,000 people to operate.

The Space marine ships continued to drive into the heart of the Shivan fleet. Their losses were still light and their moral was as high as ever.

The vast gun turrets were now moving into position, some larger than a Sathanas destroyer were powering up, along with every single weapon upon the world ship. Thousands of beam cannons were now tracking the positions of the enemy ships. The warships as well were now moving to engage the enemy forces. The worldship was now coming under fire from a few warships of the enemy fleet. The CF warships fired at the subspace shielding of the Shiva, though designed to take out the entire subspace shields the networking of the Shiva’s shielding was different. However the enemy weapon took out section 23Ba of the world stations shielding. No larger than a Sathanas cruiser however it was a weakness and all weaknesses can be exploited. (due to the sheer size of the Shiva, I need to use emitters to refract my subspace shieldingaround the vessel, so in fact my world station is covered by thousands of subspace rifts, so unfortunately CF you can only take down one section at a time.)

After the initial salvo the downed shielding on the section began to power up once again, there was an estimated downtime of 72 seconds however it did not matter. The CF forces launched a volley of missiles at the Shiva. The displacer turrets fully online tracked every single one of them. Though moving incredibly fast, the Shivas AI was faster. The displacer turrets merely turned the incoming missiles into energy releasing it into the cosmos for it to resume a different state. It now seemed that most of the ESUS alliance was reverting to kinetic weaponry, however with the amount of displacers at the hands of the Shivans, most if not all would be nullified. The feazenatia ships also fired a volley at the world station however as before with the CF forces they were merely displaced into nothingness.

All turrets along the vast hull of the Shiva were fully online now, the firing matrix’s which had not seen activation in combat for over 10,000 years were now brought back to life. For an instant the Shiva shut everything down in preparation for the volley then in the blink of an eye the battlefield turned red with fire. Twenty two thousand beamcannons/ flux cannons erupted upon the enemy forces while the primary weapons were now locked on. The vast turrets larger than any cannon of every space faring race had ever seen opened fire upon the Kanuckistan battleplate. The twelve that were in range fired the vast payload of energy, the beams over 2km in radius shone through the black of space and headed towards their target at the speed of light.
The battleplate was not the only vessel to become the target of these weapons. The GZ flagship the Ragen which was at this very instant firing upon the world station would be the victim of a Shivan attack. Eight of the vast turrets were in range of the Ragen and eight turrets subsequently fired upon this pathetic attempt of a ship. The vast beams which would cover the over half the vessel would strike with deadly accuracy.

Meanwhile above the Southern pole of the GZ world, Three Lucifers had just nano jumped only to find Kanuckistan missiles waiting for them. Before they could continue with their deadly assault they were instantly incinerated by the battleplates salvo of weapons. The bodies of the Lucifers were destroyed but the cores were unveiled. With the shielding destroyed 15 White holes were unleashed into the system. The vast fountain of energy the sprouted from their deadly grips shone into the system incinerating an unfortunate Shivan destroyer unlucky enough to get in the way.

The rest of the hydras were destroyed by the Shivan counterattack, and the Sentinels' shields were dangerously near collapse. The battle looked like it would be lost.

The Admiral swore. He had to find some way to neutralize those displacers. Unfourtunately, no way was immediately apparent. The remains of his fleet began to scatter, so he called back the fighters and said "All ships, prepare for a tactical retreat. We'll jump to the far side of the system and regroup. We've got to figure out some way to neutralize that damned worldship."

ooc: Hey, uh, guys? Um, I don't think that we're doin so hot... BTW, what the heck is the AoN? And why aren't they sending a fleet? I am apparently in Limbo; the UFGZ is and is not an ESUS member. So, if that's the AoN's problem, TELL THEM TO GET THIER BUTTS OVER HERE AND KILL THE WORLDSHIP WHILE THERE IS A LARGE ENOUGH FLEET TO FIGHT THEM! Also, like I said, the Reagan will have to retreat soon...

IC: The starboard side of the Reagan shuddered with the impact of the eight large energy bolts. The shielding absorbed much of the power and re-routed it to the Particle beams, however, the energy which couldn't be absorbed reduced the starboard shields to 20%. The Reagan turned to face the Shivan Worldship and began to accelerate to light speed.

The Reagan fired a volley of two tousand quantum flux torpedoes (capable of penetrating the subspace shields because of the whole flux thing...) hoping that it would down the Shivan SS shield for a few seconds. The Reagan ejected two Warp Cores, sending them straight toward the small section of the shield opening. The two 4-mile-long, 250 ft. circumference cores sped toward the worldship. A pair of monstrous golden bolts spewed from the PPCs, as 5,000 red, blue, yellow, and green particle beams tore at the very molecules that comprised the armor of the Shivan worldship. At the last moment, the Reagan slipped into the Warp and headed for the far side of Normandeicht.

ooc: for those who don't know, the warp is not influenced by gravitational fields. Just ask Gronde.

The powerful new Tsunami Class Battleships, the CNSS-2251 Tsunami and the CNSS-2253 Constellation, slowly prepared to enter subspace and reinforce the ESUS forces sent to defend Normandeicht. One of the newest warships in the Combined Five Civilized Nations warships, the Tsunami was the first dedicated Five Civilized Nations cloaking warship.

Aboard the bridge, Commodore Horatio Crusade sat quietly in his command chair, waiting patiently for the battleship to retreive its fighter complement. He was apprehensive about the upcoming battle with the Shivans. The Five Civilized Nations had never truly battled the Shivans. In the first Shivan conflict, the Combined Five Civilized Nations Navy had withdrawn attempting to stop a devastating civil war that nearly annilihated the Star Realm. But now with everything back to the normal, the Five Civilized Nations were ready to reinforce their ESUS allies and protect humanity from the enemy, the Shivans.

When the fighters were finally retreived, the Commodore nodded to his helmsmen who immediately began to power up the powerful Dual Volgo-Minovsky FTL Drive.

A second later, the Tsunami disappeared into subspace, followed moments later by the Constellation, bound for Normandeicht...

Bump.

ooc: Please help us! Anyone! We must Attack the Shivans now! We can severely weaken them if we all try to stop them now! I know that I have another 50 or so ships that are just being finished now... So contribute ships and fleets! We may be able to stop the Shivan Horde once and for all!

Metallinautia Prime in the Segmentum Metallinauts system

The Bridge the UFM Abel was bright and vivid. It had the dynamic look of all Metallinautian vessels. Captain James Maxwell came out of the turbolift and walked briskly to the Captain's chair. He looked around his bridge. All of his officers, down to his simple petty officers were hand picked by him. They were his dream team. His heart was actually for once in a long time happy. Then a dark cloud of regret came over him. He was going to face a Shivan force of a magnitude of unpresidented scale. He was probobly not going to make it out of this one. Yet his heart still was glowing despite his regret, for his brother, th greatest Metallinaut Admiral in history would be commanding this battle. His brother was probobly the one Metallinauts who would still fight a Shivan one on one despite the fact he'd loose. I need him now to talk too, ineed his advice why did he give me a responsibility I cant handle?

"Sir the Soverigns and Excaliburs are ready" said a voice that sounded like a far off echo because of his deep thought.

"Sir? Your orders?" said the voice again.

He snapped out of his dream like state and was back in our world.

"Order Excaliburs and soverigns to take Escoert Fromation Tango. Helm set course to the distress call and activate the Slip Stream and prepare to go on my mark."

Oh God help me he thought to himself.

"Slip Stream Open Sir" said the helmsman.

"Let's go and make them regret enetering this universe."

A few minutes later they arrived out side the system.

Holy Shit James thought. His eyes saw the battle. Explosions raping his eyes with the intesity. Then he saw it. He eyes expanded with horror. He saw the world ship.

"Ensign Run a scan on that plaetoid now!" said Maxwell rushedly. "I want a full tactical assesment" he finished.

"Sir, it's got gun out the ass and same for armor and the same for Subspace shields." she said seconds later.

"Okay" said Maxwell thinking hard.

"Sir, shall we call in the Thor?" said the ensign.

"I'd like to but the Admiral said not call for him unless it is an emergency." said Maxwell. Open a secure channel to the allied fleet." said Maxwell

<Secure Channel>
"This is Captain James Maxwell of the United Federation of Metallinauts. We are here to aid the efforts. More re-enforcements will arrive soon."
<Channel Closed>



more later...

(OOC: Metallinuts, your ships cannot appear out of nowhere and participate in the battle. You have to roleplay your entrance to subspace, hyperspace, or whatever supralight system you use and after some time roleplay your exit. It is godmodding to say that your ships appear out of nowhere to help...)

(OOC: I knoe 5CN but I had to go at the moment I posted I will fix it now)

(OOC: Okay... :D )

ooc> GZ, you should be happy. I was finally able to convince my allied to approve the action. Were sticking our necks out here, you should mention that next time you talk with the ESUS. ;)

ic> The meeting had finally ended. Kalgar had convinced the council to take this chance and trust the ESUS. The massive fleet made a mass teleportation from Manticore to the GZ world. Each AoN nation had taken it uppon themselves to contruct a Desolator, the most powerfull ship in the AoN, even stronger than the Tombships.

ooc> Total fleet:

Total Desolator Class Super Dreadnoughts: 9

Gronde and Fenrisiax ships:
7 Titan Class Battle Barges
16 Empire Class Battleships
19 Leviathin Class Dreadnoughts
25 Behemoth Class Carriers
28 Empire Class Battlecruisers
38 Retribution Class Cruisers
30 Vengeance Class Cruisers
44 Hunter Destroyers
50 Nova Class Super Frigates
70 Gronde Torpedo Frigates
80 Paranna Class Corvettes
80 Sword Class Gunships
455 Shining Spear fighters
7500 tac Fighters

XNaggaroth, Callidus Temple, and Vindecare Temple ships:
4 Titan Class Battle Barges
100 Hero Class Battlecruisers
20 Behemoth Class Carriers
85 Retribution Class Cruisers
200 Defender Class Corvettes
400 Orca Class Strike Ships
5000 Shining Spear fighters
6000 Tac Fighters

The Dark Kabal, The Cullexus temple, the Eversor Temple ships:
20 Empire Class Battleships
50 Torture Class Cruisers
80 Hero Class Battlecruisers
100 Corsair Class Escorts
120 Defender Corvettes
300 Orca Class strike ships
4000 Blade Fighters

ic> The fleet had arrived. When combined with the already pressent drone carriers, it outshined what anyone had expected. The force was split into 3 groups. (ooc> As listed above) The massive Desolators opened fire with their epic Warp cannons onto the Worldship. All the fighters were launched and directed into the Shivan battlefleet. All Gronde and Fenrisiax ships fired off a volly of specially designed Warp Phase torpedos against the Worldships. All of the Dark Eldar and Tau designed ships surged through the system and began clearing all of the Shivan ships that were not in the main fray. The rest of the ships joined the main firefight with a massive barrage of nova fire, as well as some specially designed FTLi torpedos designed to disrupt the Subspace shields. The true battle had begun.

ooc> As for a explanation of the Warp Cannon: It can be formatted to work on several dimentional levels, meening it can get past the Subspace shields. It can fire for an incredable length of time. It works by creating a Warp portal and a vaccume of power in an area. Warp energy flows into the storage area and is fired out of the cannon, thus maintaining the vaccume of energy and continuing the beam. Powerfull enough to destroy a planet.

OOC-Gronde, is that the New Calabran (Albion) warp cannon?

IC

One of the massive Concorde carriers began moving towards the planet. Hundreds of tiny Pelican armored personnel carriers disengaged from the heavy carrier and began a quick burn to the planet's surface in an attempt to beat the Shivan invasion to the ground. Two squadrons of Kindjall superiority fighters swarmed among the Shivan landing craft, firing their deadly phase disruptors. The sheathed condensed antimatter spheres would be incredibly destructive to the lightly armored (I think?) transports.

The beam and flux cannons merely glanced off the revolutionary Feazanthian Distortion shields. Described as a version of the Shivan Subspace shielding, the powerful shields were nearly invincible to all forms of attack. Their only weakness was that as the Feazanthian starships unleashed with their blinding volleys, the shields shut down for three seconds.

The Cain and the Grendel, the pair of Citizen ships, opened up with another destructive volley of 42 one hundred metric ton projectiles, aimed straight at the now-repositioned worldship.

A dozen Yeager-class frigates entered Slipspace. Within the Shivan fleet, green motes of light began gathering, signaling the reentry of the wayward ships.


OOC-Please post losses. I've lost a pair of Epees and three Maces

As the shivan fleet in the nearby system waited for reinforcements they suddenly arrived the fleet the same size as the one in system now but there was a Diablo with them the fleet began to depart into subspace they were going to go towards the part of the planet were there wasnt much fighting they would then begin to bombard the planet among the departing fleet were nearly 500 transports were among the new arivals but they didnt leave neither did a sathanis the transports began to form around the massive

AS the fleet entered the Normandeicht system they began to fire on the planetary sheilds hundreds of beams and thousands of antimatter missiles went towards the sheild.

the remaining sathais and the transports remained in the nearby system waiting till the sheilds of the planet were down then they would go in and take the planet


ooc each transport has 20 shivans

i wont be able to post for a few daysause my computer has to be unhooked so ib has control of my fleet till next post

fleet
1 diablo
6 sathanis
4 lucifers
40 ravannas
60 demons
80 molochs
90rakashas
110 liliths
120 cains

ib if needed there is another fleet of mine you can send into the battle here it is

1sathanis
2 lucifers
20 ravannas
30 demons
40 molochs
45 rakashas
55 liliths
60 cains
i have more ships but i dont want them fighting at the moment

OOC:Grumble, stupid shivans, have to send support *more grumbling*

IC:The council had a fleet ready and waiting, waiting for the right moment, as of the massive AoN fleet warping in, that time was now. Many members were agianst it, but in the end, there was no choice, either fight them now, or fight them lacking allies.....

This has been the largest fleet ever assembled by the Skaven Blight members, and used also. When it left the dock, every heart swelled with pride at seeing their allies and their own ships set forth to vanguish(A very) common foe. Ships from the Tau dedicated to Tzeentch, crewed by the damned, Skaven Vessels patched together from wrecks and captured vessels, Chaos ships, the newest edition, but in considerable size. These ships were waiting in the warp, surronded by the deadly entities of that twisted realm. Waiting for the signal, and it had arrived.....

Skaven Fleet:
13 Command Behemoths, altered after the last encounter
26 Behemoths Also altered
(BTW, in shape, think Pillar of Autum, only with a large cannon on the front, and longer)
130Skaven Cruisers(modified version of the Turbulent destroyer)
65 Skaven Slaughter Cruisers
65 Skaven Murder Cruisers
65 Skaven Devestation Cruisers
26 Acheron Heavy Cruisers
26 Styx Heavy Cruisers
390 Skaven Iconoclasts
390 Skaven Infidels

250 Tau Explorer Cruisers
500 Hero Cruisers
750 Defender Escorts

The Massive fleet was rushed through the vast distance by skitter leap. The spell easily powered within the warp. The beasts of Moulder were quiet, Skyre's weapons were humming(quietley), Eshin was unseen, Pestlins had ceased its chanting, all the crews eager for battle, they knew many would die, but they would also make the shivans pay for their death in blood......

ooc: Thanks be to the AoN. Gronde, rest assured that if things work out with the ESUS, we will put in a VERY good word for you... As for the Military Science Dept., the Black Budget has gone a long way... We have about five different shield systems, and are working on an Anti-Flux Shield as well as Anti-Shivan weapons...

Herm... We need a timeline, How about the Battle is in its tenth day?

Also: Ekardia, Make your posts understandable so that you can make a contribution to the thread. If not, please refrain from posting at all.

Cardassia Minor: If it is alright with you, I will command your ships as you do not seem to get on much...

ic:

Ever since the first day of the battle, When the UFGZ was still alone, the 15 million troops on the planet had set up many defenses around the planet in case the Shivans invaded. So, the Marines and Army were prepared to send the Shivans back where they came from: hell. Airial patrols of 500 fighters were in the air, ready to intercept the Shivan landers. Turrets, Laser silos, Particle beam arrays and torpedoe launchers; all were brought to bear upon the Shivan invaders. Millions of Battle-Armor touting UFGZ marines and soldiers were dug in to mountains, trenches, towers, and over two million genetically-enhanced soldiers protected the outpost of the Ancestors.

The Reagan, after that daring attack, had retreated to the far side of Normandeicht where it was charging shields. It would rejoin the Fleet in an hour or so.

Admiral Terpitz paced about the bridge of the Normandeicht, anxiously awaiting the return to battle. "Conn, how long until re-engagement?"

The officer at the Conn turned about in his chair and sluggishly responded to the Admiral's question. "I'd estimate... another 40-45 minutes, sir."

Terpitz glared at the young man. "I don't want another guess in this battle, understood?"

"Yes sir," The lieutenant snapped.

Terpitz was in awe of the sheer glory of battle. It had been over a hundred years since the Juumo-Germanic War, and only Commodore De Tua remained from that epic battle above Atheos. Terpitz understood that good men and women were dying, he could only hope that he would die an honorable death in a just war. Pride welled up inside him for the great men and women who fought so bravely for Normandeicht, the Federation, the ESUS, the AoN, and Humanity itself. He stood, contemplating the wonderful feeling of bloodlust. He would avenge this day the UA Homeworld, and all those who the Shivans had without mercy slaughtered.

The Battle for Normandeicht continued.

OOC-Don't get cocky, boys. This could get real ugly real fast.

The lead Pelican fired its breaking thrusters and hovered a few meters from a paved road inside the GZ capital city. Ten marines in state-of-the-art IMC-400 powered combat suits, a pair of marines in W-280 Goliath FASAs (Forward Assault Strike Armor), and even three GAI-23 Sentinels appeared. The Sentinels, their eight spindly metal arms waving in all directions, activated their null-grav drives and shot into the air, doing slow circles around the Pelican. The Pelican disengaged a GBW-709 Badger LMBT and landed. What appeared next would be horrifying to the citizens of GZ. It was massive, six point five meters tall. It was made of a strange golden metal. It had four half-ton legs ending in vicious claws. Atop its bulbous 'body' sat a swiveling weapon that would be unknown to anyone but the Feazanthian Armed Forces. To the citizens, it would appear to be a Shivan.

But it wasn't.

The GAI-80 Dragoon stepped out of the transport as the Pelican lifted into the sky to head back to its carrier. It immediately began scanning for hostiles.

One of the marines in a IMC-400 suit strode up to what he percieved to be the captain of the guard. He saluted with a massive hand.

"Corporal G. Montag, head of the First Primary Defense Force. Requesting permission to take up defense of this planet."

Hundreds more Pelicans descended from the skies. The Feazanthian army had come.

OOC: I will accept that 100% effective missile defense for now but you should know that no missile defense system is 100% effective, they always miss a few. And with 1200 missiles inbound as in the case of CF you should have missed a few at least.

IC: The fleet was still out of range of the worldship so they were still safe more or less. Some of the beams impacted the beams but they didn't do much damage.
But what happened to the missiles was a suprise, but the captain already formulated a new tactic as he saw how the AoN began attacking the worldship.
"Helm, change course to 97-2 and tell the fleet to stay on their current trajectory and fire another volley of missiles. Tac, charge the ripper beam and fire a volley of missiles at the same time as the rest of the fleet."

In seconds the massive ship turned to face the Shivan worldship and opened its missile tubes. First were the fighters firing their last antifighter missiles at the target. 1200 of them raced toward their enemy counterparts and they were quickly followed by the antiship missiles the fighters carried along with missiles from the destroyers and the battleship, they totaled 760 antiship missiles.

The battleship could now fire all of his plasma cannons at the enemy fleet and it did. But the largest spectacle was yet to come as the precharges had just unleashed their energy into the emitters and was now ready to fire. A rip in the fabric of space appeared which travelled at supraluminal speed toward the artificial planet. It was at its maximum range and would stop 500km beneath the surface.

ooc: There appears to be some confusion about the Federation. The United Federation of Germanic Worlds controls 26 worlds. Many are sparesly populated, but there are a few population centers. Normandeicht is the main military world, where 15 of the 30 million people in the Army and Marines are stationed. The Federation is currently constructing small, heavily armed vessels to defend Atheos (Ah Tey Oos), the Capital World of the Federation. BTW, Feazanthia, we don't use roads in the conventional sense, and they are certainly not paved. Secondly, (and I'm not being mean, just explaining things) most people on the planet are Military-Affiliated. Most would be suprised at the new tech toy.

ic:

General Tibir had just begun to don his armor when a Feazanthian Corporal walked up to his command post.

"Corporal G. Montag, head of the First Primary Defense Force. Requesting permission to take up defense of this planet."

The General stood 7'6", due to his enhanced genentics, and when in his armor, it added another 4" to his already imposing stature. He shook hands with this Corporal who was obviously also Genetically Engineered.

"Corporal," the General wheezed, "The UFGZ welcomes you. I am General Adeptrich Tibir. Normandeicht is thirsty for Shivan blood. I feel it in the quakes."

The UFGZ continued to prepare, and the new Cannon was itching to be fired...

ooc: Shivans: remember, Normandeicht still has its planetary shields and defensive arrays and turrets... and you have to get through the fleet and defensive platforms...

OOC:
US, just an FYi, but the grid in infinite in the same sense that the universe is; you'll only be able to draw a finite amount of energy from it, tho that amount may be very high(not to mention the fact that my FTLi would cut you off from the grid). Never the less, I am very thankful for my inversion feilds right now :p Just stay more than 300'000 km away from the Battleplate and there will be no issues with the FTLi and your subspace sheilding, etc; it's 450'000km away from the planet, so that shouldn't be hard.

Anyway, I take it that your ship in sun is dead?

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Ekardia, assuming that you're talking about my two superforetresses, your fleet can't come out anywhere near them; each are projecting FTLi feilds a full light-minute in radius, that's 18 million kilometers. Not only that, but they're each on different sides of the sun. Ignored for now.

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GZ, I usually consider space combat to take place over a peroid of minutes to hours, depending on how many pose rounds have occured.

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IC:
Admiral Hayes was very, very thankful for his ship's inversion feild at this moment; interposed between the Battleplate and the Shivan worldship, it not only deflected all enemy fire coming at them from that direction, but reflected it back in the aproximate direction that it had come - the massive walls of firepower concentrated upon the Razor had only served to scyth through the Shivan's own ranks! It was an undoubtedly painful lesson for the Shivan commanders; Hayes only hoped they didn't learn fast enough to adjust they tactics.

Hayes command, however, was hardly inactive; the Battleplate continued to pour deaht into the boxed-in portion of the Shivan fleet, while nearly a thousand light and intermediate tier batteries unable to face that foe unleashd their fury upon the worldship's conventionally sheilded reinforcments, and were swiftly joined by the two 'aft' superheavies, each rending capital ships, while the majority of the massive ship's firepower continued to pummel the original attackers with light, intermediate, and superheavy cannon.

The worldship itself was at first ignored, it's fire directed back against it's sheilds and the reinforcments it had brought. This suddenly changed, however, with the launching of the Battleplate's second missile salvo; nearly a thousand anti-capital-formation matter-energy conversion warheads were launched, each designed to utterly cripple, if not destroy outright, even a well spaced battlecruiser squadron in it's entirity. The missile that carried them, however, was something never befor seen; the Battleplate's secondary FTLi adjusting to allow the miniturised SLDS drives to operate, quickly 'accelerating' the salvo to several times the speed of light to avoid point-defence fire, they reached the Shiva in the blink of an eye.

And that is where the nature of the Streaming Liniar Displacement drive System became a pricless boon; the inertialess drive exploiting quantum uncertanty to 'teleport' each missile mere angstroms, repetedly, countless times per second to simulate movement without momentum. They would pass the shiva's subspace sheild without ever crossing it, and detonate within meters of the worldship's hull.

OOC:
And another really expensive toy is unleashed for the first time, tho I've had this one for a good while now; but targeting nearly intangible missiles inbound a FTL speeds is not something I imagine the displacers were designed for, especially if they're letting any sublight munitions through at all, and I can't breach a subspace sheild without missiles at this range.

ooc: Oh, and US, those Warp Cores hold alot of antimatter. Two of those impacting on the hull should do a heck of alot of damage. I ejected them while Kanuckistan had overloaded your shields.

I ejected them while Kanuckistan had overloaded your shields.

OOC: You mean CF, I take it? 'cause I haven't fired at his worldship until now.

Yeah, I meant CF.

I have some questions
1-Are the shivans planet-ships shields down?
2-How fast is it?
3-(this is an idea, not question)I think we should tally up what is here, discuss what affects what, in an OOC thread.

EDIT to below:What? All I asked were 3 questions...how is that godmodding?

(OOC: Wow... This is a whole shitcrap of godmodding... I can't believe.... Wow... Well at least some people, i.e. Kanuckistan and others are RPing well...)

i edited my post

(OOC: Wow... This is a whole shitcrap of godmodding... I can't believe.... Wow... Well at least some people, i.e. Kanuckistan and others are RPing well...)
ooc> Who exactly are you saying is godmodding? Awaiting reply from US...

ooc:
THR: I would like to know that also, and I like #3, we should do that.
FCN: Who the heck are you talking about? I mean, I don't really have enough time to write posts like I did before the Forum move, but I get the point across with what my forces are doing. And yes, the Reagan has the capability to launch thousands of torpedoes and fire thousands of partical arrays and cannons if that's what you're talking about with the godmod...
Feazanthia: My Cannon is essentially a new form of Big Bertha... Should help take out some Shivans...

Bump... maybe US will see it....

(OOC: From what I've been seeing. A lot of the posts have been like: My 1218948914789175819374 ships appear here and attack you...)

ooc:
FCN: We have done our best to correct those who have done that. Most posts like that were edited to include more story

(OOC: Thank YOU!!! You have taken another step in the right direction to becoming a well-regarded RPer on NS... And FYI, my two cloak battleships will arrive in system tomorrow.)

(OOC: From what I've been seeing. A lot of the posts have been like: My 1218948914789175819374 ships appear here and attack you...)
I was tired, I'm not going to waste 30 minutes of my time writeing a mind crushingly dull council meeting, I'm not going to spend 20 minutes describing all the pretty colors they see, no, I'll add, but not crazy 7 paragraphs of boring detail, often all this "good RP" crosses into the mindless gibberish of boring/Bleh(like oatmeal), I understand it has a point, but it DOESN'T NEED AN ENTIRE PARAGRAPH for a guy to push a button.......
(BTW, there is a thing called "bribes on allies", I give them food or money(in RL) I get to utilize their military)

There, I downsized everything(except behemoths, those are at the original amount), added more story? Any better?
Edit-(Down below) I fired a self-IGNORE cannonand was told to re-start, I think thats a good explanation. (I wonder if I'm the first person to use an IGNORE cannon on themselves?)

THR: You just said what you were sending. You can write a different post about their arrival! just because someone says something doesn't mean you have to do it. Just make sure you understand their point.

*waits for IB to post damage*

OOC: Understand that only 1/3 of the torpedos I fired at the worldship were 'real.' Of course, (once I refill my now depleted torpedo arsenal), I'll have another crack at that worldship. And next time, I'll get through...

Edit: That was to Wetland.

Shivans must have bad writing/reading skills...

sorry guys, way to tired to post. An 18 hour shift at work does that to you. Ill post first thing tommorrow morning but right now I REALLY need some sleep.

Shivans must have bad writing/reading skills...

:rolleyes:

The Metallinauts Forces warped into close range of the Shivan vessels. The UFM Abel Fired all her batteries. Her 4 Dozen MAC guns, 200 Phasers and a full salvo of 450 Transphasic torpedoes. The Soverigns and Excaliburs fired full salvos of torpedoes, it amounted to 60 Transphasic torpedoes.

oh FCN: Just joking about the lack of posts from US... but he has now provided an explination. Nevermind, Metallinauts...

The pyramid shame came to life green light unfolding creating a great energy feild that surround the sphere of shivan ships it had appeared at the core of the defensive sphere.

ooc> Welcome to the harvester pyramid. One of the hive's newest creations, the hive uses it to harvest lifeforms - its basically a big rent in space time. Everyting inside the feild appeares to be frozen in time. you can enter the feild and exit it freely the only problem is that once you are in it 1 second passes after 500 years so escaping is not really an option. The power needed for this results in the effect only lasting for 10 seconds. However as the pyramid is at the core of the feild that 10 seconds is infact 5,000 years. This is a perfect method for the hive to gather new lifeforms. Basically they latch onto ships inside the feild using warp tendrils and so push it out of the time warp. Its like using a magnet under a peice of paper to move iron filings about. oh, final thing, i have one of these per zealot norn queens. I have 1 zealot norn queen per 3 millions slaves in my populus. (Currently 5)

IC:
"Sir, a situation has developed"

The admiral rea the message, anger beating through his heart

"Get us out of here now, with the new toy"

"Yes sir" He pushed a series of buttons, and like that, poof, zippo, gone, no charge up or anything, and the Skaven left....

Oh THR... You can't do that... lol... you're stuck here to fight...

(OOC: The Hive Imodius has declared war on him, so he has no choice...)

Exactley, and it is perfectley story wise, the skaven saw the planet killer, uh-oh, fled useing a new skitterleaping device.....

Ah... well... Isn't Imodius helping me? If we defeat the Shivans, and I rebuild... I may become embroiled in this new conflict...

on whose side I have yet to determine...

Yes, I believe he is helping some bitter ESUS mebers to finish off the AoN(After all are negotiations were going fine and nice, this comes anf f***s it up, probably Corpsac, as he is going to attack us after this is over).....

-OOC-

Don't worry. I'll try not to get too involved with the mass-spanking of the AoN. ^_^

Mekantan fleet still en-route...

OOC: I'm going to keep as far from the AoN war as possible. My nation kind of likes the AoN, and we feel ESUS resources would be better used crushing upstart nations, like TFU. But anyway...

IC: The fighters were recovered as fast as possible, before the Shivans could do obstensibly recharge their weaponry. It was time for a tactical retreat, with the now gravely diminished CF fleet retreating to the edge of the system to rearm and regroup.

Of course, before they could strike again, they would need some way to nullify the Worldstation's missile countermeasures. The admiral hated himself, but there was no other option. The CF fleet had to retreat for the time being.

From what Skaven Blight wants(a third of the AoN) is for support, help some how, end this war, then finish the peace negotiations with the ESUS, I don't know about the Land of Chill, but it might be close to that....

From what Skaven Blight wants(a third of the AoN) is for support, help some how, end this war, then finish the peace negotiations with the ESUS, I don't know about the Land of Chill, but it might be close to that.
But your right, we were helping against the Shivans, then HFI declares war and good bye, happy ESUS+AoN alliance because its hard to get things done when 1 million tyranids are attacking you......

From what Skaven Blight wants(a third of the AoN) is for support, help some how, end this war, then finish the peace negotiations with the ESUS, I don't know about the Land of Chill, but it might be close to that.
But your right, we were helping against the Shivans, then HFI declares war and good bye, happy ESUS+AoN alliance because its hard to get things done when 1 million tyranids are attacking you......

OOC:
I think I have a spare Battleplate sitting around somewhere that could make an apearance, provided I can find the time iRL; any reason given for their declaration of war?

Just waiting for US or Ekardia....

Nations with Ships in the Allied Fleet:

Germanische Zustande
Gronde
Kanuckistan
Central Facehuggeria
Cardassia Minor
Mettalinauts
Hive Fleet Immodius
Wetland
(i think that's everybody)

Nations with ships in the Shivan Fleet:
Unified Sith(IB)
Ekardia

OOC: You were forgetting me GZ.

okay, got you on there, wetland...

Click the link, it should run just a little song I thought suited me right now. http://www.aladdincentral.org/music/RoJ%20-%20Second%20Rate.mp3

courtesy from the Shivan choir. :)

OOC: Wetland and everyone else. I think you are ignoring the size of this thing. It is the size of Saturn with a supporting fleet. It has so many displacer turrets along its hull as well with a huge supporting fleet that it can in reality achieve a 100% removal of all incoming missiles, especially those that go slower than the speed of light. I have been asked by Jordaxia not to mention how my emitters work on the forums as other people may decide to use them, to negate his Gridfire so I will send a tg when I get the time Wetland. Also Kanuckistan your idea that I can draw finite energy from the grid is mistaken. In my attempts to negate your inhibitors all I do is increase my energy withdrawal exponentially to the energy you put into your inhibitors. Essentialy our energy outputs are directly proportional. And to prevent you from closing my rift to the energy grid I have to subspace fields. In actually reality my hole to the energy grid exists in subspace, however I have a constant subspace rift within the heart of the Shiva so I can take my energy from it. Its all horribly complicated but just FYI .


The incoming Wetland fire was merely stopped half a km away from the hull of the Shiva. The Shivas own inhibitor field though not as extent and as powerfull as the Kanuckistani shield. The generated rift from the anti matter plane halted close to the Shivas hull and simply closed once again.

Every single weapon on board the Shiva continued to fire upon the enemy fleet. Millions of missiles were being launched at the same time. The displacer turrets locked on to ships with parts of their shields down, displacing critical systems into subspace while the Shivans initiated phase 2.

Along the body of the Shiva seemingly useless emitters were coming online, vast energy build ups could be detected from their large triangular design. Until within a mere seven seconds the build up was complete. Huge gravitational forces began to emit around the system. The emitters generating their own gravitational field slowly began to warp space time and space itself. Until there intentions could be seen. 10km away from the Shiva huge dimensional holes began to from and unform. Like a protective blanket of death around the Shiva. Slowly but in the same time quickly the bubble began to expand sending the huge rifts towards the enemy ships. The Shiva was now completing its goal, the majority of AON forces were leaving their home system to join in this battle, leaving their worlds/populace undefended. (This field of Gravitational holes is self sustaining, all that is needed to start them off is the energy of the world station then in a sort of catalysed reaction the twisted gravitational forces from each dimensional hole will create another one and so on an so on. The Gravatitational from these dimensional holes will not harm the Shiva for a few reasons that iam not going to let you all know ICly as every time I do that people make defences against me OOC information so if you want proof ill send a tg to Kanuckistan on how iam doing this and he will confirm it.)

The vast vessel that is the Shiva, began to power up its engines, while firing continuously at the enemy fleets. The Hive ships were doing something unknown to a few of their comrades so the Shiva opened fire upon their unknown vessels. The Shivan ships captured within the Hive field merely self-destructed, however the hive ships would get a shock. As the Shivan vessels self destructed they took the shielding down on their cores and released white holes upon the hive fleet.

http://www.doroch.nl/images/whitehole.jpg


The Shiva’s engines now fully powered up was ready for an immediate evacuation to strike the now unguarded worlds of the AON however they had one thing to finish up here.

The battleplate launched a volley of missiles at the Shiva, that were new and unregistered in the database. The displacers though caught unawares managed to remove most of the missiles before they impacted. However some got through. The explosion was vast and huge. The Shiva struck with a resounding vibration that shook the system however it was not down and out. The vast crater left in its surface want down for km’s into its body leaving a gap in the subspace shielding as the emitters were now destroyed for that particular section. From around the station damage control teams were employed to begin repairs on the huge crater upon the surface of the Shiva. While the net of the subspace shields were down, it was an immediate reaction to have secondary emitters launched. Within the space of seven seconds the secondary emitters had taken their place and completed the network.

Meanwhile the fleet was taking heavy losses with many of the minor ships subcoming tot eh fire of the battleplate. However the Shivans had many tricks left in their hands. The fleet now stationed within the gravitational distortion ring was now safe from most incoming fire while the began to recharge their weapons and shields.

Losses to date: A lot. Nah about 50 destroyers of all trypes Molochs, Ravanas and Raksashas.

About 5 Juggernaughts

And well I have yet to launch my fighters 

Meanwhile upon the GZ world the Shivans were about to do something completely unexpected. Upon the surface subspace rifts began to form, (Out of range from Kanuckistans inhibitor fields.)And out of the blue shimmering portals the Shivan invasion army had arrived. Thousands of Shivans were charging out of the portals and emerged into the GZ cities. Fighters screamed across the skies and the Shivans newest attack weapon began to emerge. The battle had just got more interesting.

http://halflife2.gamesweb.com/gallerie/bild013_thumb_middle.jpg

everybody say hello to the Strider. Yes I just took it from Halflife 2 and added a beam cannon and some displacers but they are so dam cool.

Ill just add one more thing, the Shiva has its own rotation. So Kanuckistan the damaged section is now no longer facing you.

Oh heres a pic of the Shiva

http://www.idealwallpapers.com/cgi-bin/preview.pl?http://www.altogames.com/w/war-planets/g-000097-w3-000706.jpg|War+Planets|Games|Unknown| go the pic at the bottom of the page. you will have to copy the link into your address bar though.

Displacers work on two methods, for large missile attacks they do not lock on to individual warheads instead they take a general pattern. as they dont need to reform the atoms etc etc so essentialy they just tarck large areas of space and displace anything there. Second method is to individualy lock on to the missiles which Kanuckistan i can let you know both methods were employed against you.

ooc> US: Did you forget that the 9 AoN desolators were all firing a warp cannan at your worldships, each one capable of destroying a planet by it's self. I understand that it's confusing to keep track of everything, and that the Worldships is very powerfull and durable...But, you didn't expect that huged fire magnet to stay alive long anyways did you?

Very well Gronde I missed your post. Sorry but you must understand you aint gonna do much with that warp energy. And to let you know I only took in the world station to hold off the ESUS plot till Indra gets back online so no the world station wont get destroyed here. Because if it does, Indra will be quite pissed off with however destroys it. More is happening here than things between the Shivans and the AON. (Spiderman 2 reference, anyone seen it yet?)

The Gronde ships fired upon the world station with all their might. Releasing their Main cannons the Gronde beam weapons smashed through the dimensional barriers (I am assuming you are not near Kanuckistan as then this would not get off the ground.) The energy beams shot through the subspace shielding and impacted upon the surface of the world station. The top layer of armour appeared to melt and vaporise as the surface of the worldstation shone a brilliant white and then as the Gronde beam began to dissipate the world station appeared unharmed by the vast energy beam that was just unleashed upon it. The energy fired upon the world station hit its armour and though certain plates were vaporised most of the energy was redirected to the firing matrixes of the beam cannons and Super turrets. Straight after the Gronde ships had fired their first volley, the super turets suddenly came to life. The absorbed energy powered up the turrets and within seven seconds beams two km in radius were heading straight back towards the Gronde ships.

However the torpedoes fired by the Gronde ships seemed to be having a better effect. The displacers only now just coming online struggled to cope with the sheer number being fired upon the world station. as soon as they were about to impact the Gravitational emitters generated a large gravitational field holding the enemy torps in place in whatever dimension they chose to exist in. (Gronde gravity is a dimensional force, in our dimension it is in fact very, very weak and the theory is that in other dimensions its a heck of alot stronger, so in actual fact i havnt destroyed your torps merely stoppe them. I know what your thinking GOD MODE however i did design the world station to be at least a match for Kanuckistans battleplates. So dont go crying if you realise that the level of tech that is being used here is really high tech. If you take no insult to that then I apologise for my pre-emptive reply to your expected outrage or maybe I have just misjudged your character.... ahh yes back on topic lol.)

The subspace shields however were not affected, by the AON attempts to disrupt them as the Shiva quite simply had more energy available to out match them. The phase torpedoes were stopped within another dimension however a few managed to get through and there small blasts could be seen as a small glittering lights on the black surface of the Shiva

Ehhh just to let you know Kanuckistan the hole you made was about the size of England.

The captain and crew of the Odin were baffled when the Ripper beam just stopped before it had hit the target and alarmed when the worldship began to build up power.
"Get us out of here, without the Ripper beam we don't have anything to harm them. Tell the fighters to perform an emergency dock with us, all of them. Tell the fleet to form up around us, standard formation. Helm, once we have taken in all the fighters I want you to lay in a course for the fleet of CF."

Quickly the fighters docked with the Odin and not a moment to soon because space had begun to act up.
"Sir, I am detecting multiple spatial anomalies behind us and they are growing."
"Helm, engage!"
The fleet quickly left leaving behind 30 fighters who hadn't made it to the battleship yet and the 2 gunships at the tail of the fleet whose FTL-drive wouldn't work so close to the distortions.

This small group began to make its way to the battleplate by moving around the worldship trying to stay out of weapons range at the same time they tried to avoid the Shivan ships.

Because if it does, Indra will be quite pissed off with however destroys it. More is happening here than things between the Shivans and the AON.


OOC: Indra is considering sending in a fleet to destroy your worldship here and now.

OOC: He wont, i was talking to him earlier, and he wants us to continue with the old plotline which iam happy to do.

OOC: He wont, i was talking to him earlier, and he wants us to continue with the old plotline which iam happy to do.

As long as we wrap that plotline up in the near future. I was planning to have my nation destroyed by now.

well i suppose we can close it up here, if the Shiva gets destroyed i can finish off my part of the plan and that will be it. All we need is Indra for 5 or 10 minutes.

No comments on my song anyone. None at all ????????? :(

OOC- O_o

IC

A squadron of Dagger fighters entered GZ's atmosphere. The hundred-strong squadron opened up with their light phase disruptors on the advancing Shivan army. Another squadron of Kindjall superiority fighters began their run on the shivan fighter squadrons (specs for all of my stuff is available upon request, BTW).

Three hundred GAI-23 Sentinels descended from the clouds onto the Shivans, their seven free tentacles ripping and crushing the alien warriors. They were backed up by a hail of fire from the city by 150 Badger light tanks and GAI-80 Dragoons. The ship grade weapons on the Dragoons would pose the largest threat.

The marines had taken up station within the buildings, and were readying their triple-barreled gauss rifles and heavy Jackhammer launchers.

Feazanthian Ground Forces
3 Million marines
17,000 Badger tanks
20,000 Sentinels
15,000 Dragoons
(and more en-route)

In the skies above, the MAC weaponry had no effect on the worldship. So, the Archimedes-class cruisers were called in. Within their massive front-mounted cannons, heavy gravitational forces began swirling chaotically. This new weapon, the disruptor, was designed to break through subspace shielding and all manner of Shivan defenses. It was, essentially, a black hole. Twelve of these weapons were fired simultaneously, growing increasingly larger as they went. Traveling at 2/3 the speed of light, they would hit the Shiva without difficulty.

The twelve Yeagers emerged from the Slipstream and began a vicious assault on the Shivan vessels at close range. Far away, the fleet began opening up with volleys of MAC weaponry and Skipper missiles.

As the shivan fleet in the nearby system waited for reinforcements they suddenly arrived the fleet the same size as the one in system now but there was a Diablo with them the fleet began to depart into subspace they were going to go towards the part of the planet were there wasnt much fighting they would then begin to bombard the planet among the departing fleet were nearly 500 transports were among the new arivals but they didnt leave neither did a sathanis the transports began to form around the massive

AS the fleet entered the Normandeicht system they began to fire on the planetary sheilds hundreds of beams and thousands of antimatter missiles went towards the sheild.

the remaining sathais and the transports remained in the nearby system waiting till the sheilds of the planet were down then they would go in and take the planet


ooc each transport has 20 shivans

i wont be able to post for a few daysause my computer has to be unhooked so ib has control of my fleet till next post

fleet
1 diablo
6 sathanis
4 lucifers
40 ravannas
60 demons
80 molochs
90rakashas
110 liliths
120 cains

ib if needed there is another fleet of mine you can send into the battle here it is

1sathanis
2 lucifers
20 ravannas
30 demons
40 molochs
45 rakashas
55 liliths
60 cains
i have more ships but i dont want them fighting at the moment

since everyone didnt pay attention to this the first time here it is again
sorry it cant be better but i have to be quick so i cant edit it

OOC:
I think I have a spare Battleplate sitting around somewhere that could make an apearance, provided I can find the time iRL; any reason given for their declaration of war?
I was trying to help out a new hive fleet player by spreading their organisms, he attacked that caravan and is now going to war with me :(

bump lets try to keep it IC people

ooc: Hey, US, what about the Warp Cores full of antimatter that I got in before your shields went up again? and the Phased Particle Cannon? I can send you the specs for the PPC in a tg.
And also, it seems as though the US is downsizing the effect of our weapons, like the warp cannons and everything... and we have only destroyed 50 of three types of DESTROYERS? No. With all the fleets that are here, with all the technology, We must have destroyed more ships than that.
It just really seems like my tech level in comparison to the Shivans is like a peashooter. I can't seem to do anything to them... But, I think its time to bring out the Rift Generator...

ic:

The Reagan's shields had finally charged fully. Its 50,000 torpedoe tubes were loaded with new Quantumn Singularity torpedoes, which, Admiral Schumacher hoped, would pass through the Shivan shields.

The Reagan powered up its impulse engines and returned to the battle. All eyes turned to the gravitational disturbances in front of the Shiva.

"Tactical, Arm the Rift Generator. When we get within .2 AU, fire." Terpitz shot a leery glance at Schumacher. He hoped this would work.

"Yes sir," came Tactical's response.

(the Rift Generator esentially emits gravitiational waves in all directions. I hope to "sweep" the small rifts aside...)

OOC: LoL i think when people only lose 2 ships when 18,ooo beam cannons decided to open up is a little shoddy. However GZ the anti matter cores would not have made it in the hole in the shields fast enough as they regenerate quite quickly. Also i would watch about firing a blackhole as those smaller rifts will slow it down quite a bit and i can quite simply stop it moving by generating my own gravatational field (lag range point) which puts it quite simply my hravatational field can repel yours if they are equal in strength or about that soooooooooooooooooo. go ahead. And as i said iam desinging my ships to take out Kanuckistan so i do have to be very advanced.


Do a search on the lag range theory if you dont believe me but it exists.

also a blackhole and a distortion = nasty things as they will merge and do bad things to your plannet. iam keeping the distortions away from it but meh if you dont want me too.

the anti- matter core would have been shot out of the sky as well. do you not think that i would not have seen it coming?

ic> The AoN fleet was becomming a little too scattered Admiral Enjir's likings. He ordered the scattered ships back into a better formation as the bulk of the fleet went moved around for a better firing postion. The main part of the fleet distanced itself from the main fighting. At the same time, they charged up their long range weapons.

As long as we wrap that plotline up in the near future. I was planning to have my nation destroyed by now.
OOC: WHAT!!???!!!??!???! IB did you post damage for me, cause I did not see a retaliation.

IC:
Captain Maxwell watched the battle on the view screen. He saw Shivan ships exploding. He was assesing the situation.

"Ensign call in the Thor, now." said Maxwell.

"Aye, Aye." said an Ensign while touching her panel. "This is the Abel, Situation is Broken Arrow, repeat Broken Arrow." she said. "Done Sir"

US, those things are the most heavily shielded things on the whole damn ship. One of those blew up inside the FSS Bismarck, NRN 001. You could not have blown that thing out of the sky, even with your thousands of cannons. And, they were fired at the area where Kanuckistan or CF or somebody had gotten the shields down. Plus, the PHased Particle Cannon. It phases out to pass through the shields, and then phases back in and lodges itself into the ship and blows up. Haven't gotten it completely nailed down workings-wise, but me an Indra Prime were working on that...

sorry ill make all my posts in time, ehh TG'S you know who you are!

OOC:GZ subspace shields are not really shields, they are more like a portal to subspace sending all it contacts into ss. I dont know how phased things do against.

ooc please pay attention to my post

also gz what do your things use to phase in and out of real space hyperspace wont work

OOC:GZ subspace shields are not really shields, they are more like a portal to subspace sending all it contacts into ss. I dont know how phased things do against.

Phased things don't do too well. They still have *some* presence in the physical world, so they'll get zapped right into subspace like almost everything else.

Edit: MY phased particle beam cannons aren't normal phased things. My PPBCs modify their properties (frequency, wavelegnth, focus, etc) to be most effective against a given shield system. Hence why I can disable subspace shields after scanning the shield.

OOC:
Only the size of England, eh? Looks like I need a bigger bomb; luckily, I'm not lacking in the 'bigger bomb' department :twisted:

Do you have any FTLi around that worldship at all? Just asking in case I missed prior mention of it.

IC:
The Razor continued to assault the Shivan fleet; SlipFeild rendering her immune to gravity, while her inversion feild deflected all fire from the Shiva and her escort, and retasked gravy guns repelled any rift that drew too close for comfort.

The moment her SLDS volly rent a hole in the enemy worldship's subspace sheilds, however, was one of frantic action upon her bridge, fire redirected in desperation to take advantage of the hole in the enemy's defences; such things take time, however, even will the best of crews, AI or organic, and so it was only for the last three seconds befor the Shiva's backup sheild generators were deployed that every weapon the Battleplate could bring to bear struck at the single, momentary flaw in their enemy's defence, befor resuming their slaughter of her lesser brethern.

Hayes was growing fustrated - little had been gained against the shivan worldship; allied fleets burned across the sky, and still they were only probing it's defences. Options were growing few, but there were still cards to be played...

ill be making an Uber post tonight, just to let you all know as i have work.

To the nation that iam expecting a tg from. Send it as iam not waiting forever.

The Zealot queen opened fire first with its emp - the emp unfolded as a surge of lightning shaped energy pulsed towards the shivan planet ship, the pulse filled the system with a strong enough force to stop a dying man's heart. Immediatly after this a pulse of plasma was launched - strong enough to unsettle a planet's plate and with a diameter the size of a moon the beam raced after the lightning reaching its target just seconds after the initial effect of the emp - the queen then spun as the fire from the shivan fleet hit it scattering the effect of the damage across its entire surface which then began to refuse and heal - gaping wounds sealing and nitting almost instantly - at the core of the zealot queen the small star was burning as bright as ever.

From the sides of the zealot queen two great cubes of metal dropped out and moved 20km away from the ships skein. A warp link fused between the two forming behind the zealot queen.

From behind the shivan ship a second Zealot queen emerged its 13 zealot fighters racing into the rear guard firing their plasma cannons - it also began to charge its emp and plasma.

ooc> The ships can detonate but they wont go off for 5,000 years because of the time distortion the feild they are trapped in creates.

Ensign Ronald Welier was slouched at his post. He was groggy. His eye lids were incredibly heavy tonight, he has had almost no sleep in the past 2 months. The helmsman test is an extremely long process. Tonight he was taitioned at the Vldamir Military Nerve Station.

THUMP went his head as it slammed onto the panels infront of him. A few sendos later a shrill ring was emitted. It was the sound of an emergency. The Screen infromt of him flashed Incoming Message Level 10 Priority.

Shit he thought, he turned it on the loud speakers.

"This is the Abel, Situation is Broken Arrow, repeat Broken Arrow." said the voice.

"Oh God Damn" said Welier.

He got up from his chair, he was definately awake now. His Uniform made a kind of whoosh noise as he stood up. His hear was beating so hear it was a dull pounding in his ears. Thud, Thud, Thud, Thud, Thud as he was running down the hall way to the Main Bridge of the Station.

Pssssss the doors went as they opened. He ran up to the commanding officer.

"Sir, the Abel has called Broken arrow." he said with almost no windedness in his voice despite the fact he ran roughly 3200m in record time.

"Communications, signal the Admiral that broken arrow has been signaled." said the commanding officer.

"Sir, which Admiral?" said Welier very intrigued.

"Amiral Maxwell, he is personally going to command this fight." said the Commander.

Welier smiled....

Aboard the UFP Odin a Thor Class Heavy Dreadnaught

Admiral Maxwell was sitting in his chair in his ready room. His chisled young face was dispassionate looking, which is the norm for him.

"Sir" interjected his first Officer Donald Hoffman's voice.

"Yes? Don, and you dont have to call me sir. We have been best friends since we were kids, call me Cameron" said Maxwell in a friendly tone.

"I will always refer to you as sir when we are on duty, I owe that respect to the man who saved my life." said Hoffman

"As you wish Don" said Maxwel sounding a little disappointed. Since his victories everyone sees him as infailable and it drives him crazy.

"As I was saying we have a broken arrow. The Abel Sent out the Signal at about 0330 Hours" said Hoffman buissness like.

"Then why are we still here?" said Maxwell getting up turning into the Admiral again. "Tell the fleet to activate Slip Stream drives we are departing immediately." he said as he and Hoffman strode out onto the bridge.

"Signal the fleet to activate the Slip Stream Drives. Set course for the Zustande Home System." said Maxwell

"They fleet has signaled that they are ready sir." said the communications officer.

"Open a channel" said Maxwell.

"Channel Open" said the officer.

"This is Admiral Maxwell. I know today we are all probobly marching to our deaths. Yet FEAR NOT. For we today are not fighting merely for the Metallinauts cause. no, we are fighting for all that is good and righteous. We are hear to stand for those who cannot stand for themselves. Now let us go and strike fear into the Hearts of evey Shivan. No one stops fighting, you continue fighting until every drop of blood has left your body. Yes people will die today. Yet we cannot allow their sacrifice to go in vain. Take their memory and let it fuel you to repel the Shivans. NOW LETS GO AND MAKE THEM SORRY FOR AWAKING THE SLEEPING DRAGON!" Maxwell said in an incredibly heroic tone. He looked around the bridge at the glassy eyed patriotic stares he was recieving. "Activate Slipstream. With that they left the Segmentum Metallinauts.

OOC: In 2 posts they will arrive.
Edit: I am employing new ships, if you want specs Ill post or TG them

The Shivan ground attack was proceeding to plan, though the Feazenatioan sentinels were attacking the incoming Shivans with sheer ferocity there was a new toy to be used today. The Striders marching along the city streets firing their beamcannons at the populace merely created craters in their path. The Striders however were doing much more to aid their ground forces than meets the eye. The displacers situated on top of each Shivan leg began to dematerialise sentinels and enemy forces as they came into range, while the Shivan ground troops moving at some 45mph along the city streets and building walls they returned fire with their plasma cannons. Though some missed and were hence attacked in close quarters by the sentinels the Shivans had some more surprises. As the sentinels got into close range the Shivans struck out with their energy claw which sent vast power surges through the enemy circuits while they were being slashed by the multi-tentacled machines. Though the Shivan ground assault was merely a diversion the loss of life to the Collective mind was a pain for every Shivan to bear.

The fighters however as they came through the rift were of a new class never encountered before by the ESUS, or allied forces. The fighters (Astaroth Class) were not in fact fighters at all but in all reality small corvettes. As these corvettes emerged from the subspace portals they began to generate their own subspace shielding, forming a protective bubble around their red, spiked hull. As soon as the fighters emerged through the rift they made a dive towards the curst of the planet. They penetrated deep into the core headed towards the centre of the GZ world.

Meanwhile back in orbit, the Shiva now under attack from all enemy vessels, was sufficiently protected for the time being. The hive though firing upon the support ships that still remained outside of the Rift wall, attempted an EMP attack upon the Shiva itself. Obviously they had yet to encounter subspace shielding. The emp shockwave that was emitted by the hive merely passed through the blue haze of the subspace rift and entered subspace where it would dissipate and do no harm.

The battle with the Kanuckistan battleplate had appeared to come to a draw. With the Shiva and the battleplate itself firing everything they had upon each other, both remained intact. This enemy though human deserved respect from the Shivans and they received it.

OOC I do have FTLi on my Shiva though they exert in a perfect ring outside the subspace shielding as not to affect it. I also generate a huge gravitational field to prevent any dimensional travel throughout the subspace shielding, in reality the ships/weapons are merely stuck in the one position till I turn it off

The Fighters now at the heart of the GZ world primed their Fusion warheads in the anticipation of the destruction of this world however the Shivans were about to do something never seen before. They were about to commence in an act of Diplomacy.

Directed at the Kanuckistan Battleplate the Shivans sent a transmission, (text only).

“We have at current over 800 subspace shielded fighters in the heart of this world, we will destroy it if all attacking fleets do not move away from this planet at once. This world is the property of the Shivan Imperium and was not ment to be colonised by humans. We will allow all Human life to evacuate if all hostile fleets leave the system immediantly. We will allow the faction that goes by the name Kanuckistan to watch the evacuation. However this world will not be subjugated to human defilement any longer.”

The ancients long destroyed by the Shivans received great respect from the clans. They put up great resistance though in the end they lost, but not before taking many Shivans with them. The respect the Shivans felt towards this now extinct species was great and hence they decided to classify all of their worlds as the Dead Planets. A testament and tribute to the honourable warriors long slain on the field of battle. Human colonisation of these worlds was seen as an insult not only to the Shivans but the honour of the forgotten race. The tollunrai.

OOC:
Actually, I was planning on using my displacer drives to drop interstellar arty on the inside of your subspace sheilds; it's a direct point-to-point system, effectivly teleportation, and doesn't utalise extra-dimentional aspects, so it should work, but I'll leave it up to you.

Also, Kanuckistan is not a hunam nation; there are over a hundred thousand geneticly distinct species in our nation, and less than 10% of the population is hunam.

Oh, and I've only taken a few shots at your worldship with the Battleplate, basicly probing your defences; by and large it's been focusing it's energy weapons on wiping out the Shiva's supporting fleet. I have more, for example, SLDS missiles, it's just that they're not effective enough to justify their production cost in this engagment.

IC:
The Shivan transmission was immediatly re-transmitted to all allied fleets in the system, along with a tag indicating it as having been recived from the Shivan's; Kanuckistani fire slackening off after a minute, as FTLi techs went to work on something special, and a single superheavy cannon, brimming with satanic prefire, targeted the planet.

The following message was 'broadcast' to all ships via laser-whisker, to get around that pesky Hive whiteout of the radiowaves;

"Shivan butchers, this is Admiral Hayes of the Kanuckistani High Gaurd Vessel Jagged Razor of Methodical Dismemberment; for too long now, your kind have struck from the nebulous shadows of subspace, without warning or justification, burning whole worlds and murdering countless trillions in your merciless, genocidal march across the stars.

And now.. now, after all this time, you have the audacity to level an ultimatum; and I have to wonder, 'what is it about this world that they want so badly, that they are willing to delay their slaughter, even for a short time?' And while I do not know what that may be, my instincts all demand that I not let you have it; either to deny you an advantage, or simply out of spite.

I say to you now, vangaurd of the Shivan Imperium, horde of butchers; what makes you think there any negotiating when you are waging a war of extermination? Why should we listen to your words at this late stage in the game?

Hayes out."

OOC:
The Admiral does raise a good point, you know.

With Shivans making it on the planet the fleet began to turn its attention to other targets the Sathanis' and the Diablo began to move towards the super fortresses all of them nano jumped but were not surprised whn they were soon pulled out of subspace they continued to move towards one of them even though it would take a while they would arrive and destroy the enemy

With Shivans making it on the planet the fleet began to turn its attention to other targets the Sathanis' and the Diablo began to move towards the super fortresses all of them nano jumped but were not surprised whn they were soon pulled out of subspace they continued to move towards one of them even though it would take a while they would arrive and destroy the enemy

OOC:
They're on oposite sides of the sun from each other; are you attacking one, or splitting your forces to attack both?

just one then after that the other
whats the range on your ftli

ic> After reaching a better position, (on the other side if the battle from imodius's forces) the entire fleet fired several vollies in unison, sweeping the shivan fleet with firepower. The volly was preceeded by a salvo of FTLi torpedos fired at all Shivan vessels identified to have Subspace shielding. These torpedos were designed to disrupt the shielding, allowing conventional firepower to work against those ships.

Meanwhile, the thunderhawks surged down to the planets surface, carrying their payloads of Space Marines. The Thunderhawks split into units of 12 and layed down waves of fire onto concentrations of Shivan forces. Each team landed it's marines near the major Shivan concentrations. After landing the marines, the thunderhawks joined up with the Blade fighter wings and began hunting down Shivan fighters in a vicious fight to gain air superiority.

just one then after that the other
whats the range on your ftli

The presently equiped hardware is capible of generating an FTLi feild of effect a good light-hour across; however, as previously stated several times already, the Battleplate is projecting an FTLi radius of one light second(300'000km), while the Superfortresses are each projecting FTLi out to radius' of one light minute(18 million km).

OOC: Am I the only one that finds it a bit godmoddish that fighters now have subspace shielding? That you only used it on a few ships that were really large made it acceptable. But now you have thousands of small fighters that are completely invulnerable and can destroy ships simply by flying through them!
I can't accept that and I doubt you can come up with a good explanation for it.

ooc: Hopefully IndraPrime will come to my aid... and, the Ancestors didn't become extinct... they just moved on to another Galaxy...

btw, US, MY PLANETARY SHIELDS ARE STILL UP! you haven't targetted them yet... so your damn fighters aren't in the core, yet. and, can't the cores and the PPC at least do some damage? your stupid Shiva is NOT invincible...

note: 7 federation vessels left in-system

ic:
Admiral Schumacher was beyond words. He couldn't believe that the Shivans had actually offered peace. But the Federation would be damned if they let the Shivans defile this World of the Ancestors. The citizens of the Federation, most of them, were of a near-exact species of the Ancestors. The UFGZ citizens were almost exactly like Humans, except the average male is 6'4", and the average female is 5'10". Many have blond hair and blue eyes, but some have red hair and green eyes.

Anyway, Schumacher wasn't about to yield Normandeicht to the Shivans. Not after all those people had died. They would not die in vain.

"To all Allied Vessels: We must not surrender! Our Comrades must not have died in vain! The Shivans must not be allowed to get hold of the Technology of the Ancestors! We must perservere! We Will Overcome!"

OOC: I have work right now so i cant be long. However here is my answer to both your statements.

Wetland, in all actual fact they are not fighters, in reality they are very small corvettes which will only be used for this engagement as the arrival of the battleplate has deemed it necessary.

GZ, i did not take down your plantary shield because i did not need to. Your shield is a bubble, i accept that however all i did was form a subspace rift inside that bubble and send troops out. Your shield prevents me from flying ships through it via subspace shields but it does not prevent my forces from opening a subspace rift within your plannet. I would advise you just give the plannet and we can be on our way. I only want itfor some reason or another.

However make no mistake about it. Those fighters are there and if you do not either A) evacuate, i will blow the planet apart B) Kanuckistan will most likely blow the plannet apart to stop me from blowing it apart.

The choice is yours. Wetland dont worry, these fighters wont be used in space combat as they have no weapons. They are merely suicide weapons, equiped with a very very big fusion bomb each.

Kanucistan, faliure of the subspace field will cause the bombs to detonate, faliure to comply with my demands will cause the bombs to detonate.

GZ may leave the plannet with his entire opulation and weapons etc etc etc. However the plannet is mine and mine alone.

OOC: The subspace shield itself is a weapon to as you have demonstrated yourself. My objections have not been countered by you.

OOC: The subspace shield itself is a weapon to as you have demonstrated yourself. My objections have not been countered by you.

And is that anything out of the ordinary when talking about US?

Montag saw the Sentinels being vaporized by the massive Shivan war machines.
"Get some air support in here! I want those things taken out!"

A tactical wing of Daggers shot over the Shivan forces at hypersonic speeds. They leveled their ship-grade phase disruptors at the Striders and let loose. The heavily charged distortion bubbles filled with condensed antimatter flew at light speed. With such a big target, there could be no misses. As the marines fired jackhammer rocket after jackhammer rocket from their buildings, the Dragoon army activated their shields and rushed forward to do battle hand-to-hand and phase disruptor-to-laser with the foul beasts. Argon lasers burst from the front of the Dragoons and were quickly followed by a volley of the distortion bubbles filled with antimatter. Badger tanks provided effective artillery support.

Five more dropships filled with Sentinels entered the lower atmosphere and dislodged their cargo. The black squid-like androids joined the fray with their lasers and ripping claws.

Above, a full wing of Kindjall fighters flew down the hole after the Shivan Astaroths. Each of the fear-inducing fighters carried a six-cell launcher full of Skipper missiles modified for atmospheric use. They locked onto the Astaroths' heat blooms and let fly. 600 Skipper missiles, they knew, would make quick work of this new threat. They held back with their phase disruptors, however, for no one knew exactly what would happen should the small bubble of another world come in contact with the subspace shields. And no one wanted to find out.

Over head, a Miranda-class escort exploded as a pair of Hornets emerged from Slipspace. The FSS Andromeda, an Achilles-class attack cruiser, decided to do something quite risky. As its hull vanished in a flash of green, green motes of light began appearing inside the Shiva's massive hull. The captain of the Andromeda didn't know if this would succeed, but he decided it'd be a far better death than at the hands of Shivan beam weapons. The ship emerged into the cavernous expanse and let loose with everything she had. Her eight heavy phase disruptors traced lines across the inside hull while her MACs charged up and let loose with 12 70-ton white hot projectiles.


OOC-Just thought you should know what Dragoons are. They're designed to take a Shivan on one-on-one.

GAI-80 Dragoon

Initially designed to provide artillery support, the GAI-80 was redesigned as both a hand-to-hand combatant and a fire-support provider. Its light Phase Disruptor can knock most atmospheric craft from the sky and do heavy damage to infantry squads unlucky enough to encounter it.
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v296/dafeaz/future%20tech/dragoon.jpg

Length (body): 1.3 meters
Width (body): 1.5 meters
Height: 6.4 meters
Mass: 20.6 tons
Power: Hatchback microfusion reactor
Optics: Visible light, infared, X-ray, electromagnetic
Armor: 3 inches titanium
Shield: Conversion
Tendrils: 4 "legs", can operate for limited times on two. Two forelegs are equipped with large claws twice as powerful as those found one the Sentinel. The hind legs are designed mostly for propulsion, but can be used as blunt weapons.
Weapons: Two argon lasers, one phase disruptor with 360o of rotation

OOC: First off any damage from ships with sub-space shields excepting the Lucifer, Diablo and Shiva, I will ignore they do not exist.

IC:
The bridge of the UFP Odin was dark and flashing red. On the view screen was the eerie green tunnel of the Quantum Slipstream. Admiral Maxwell was hoping his lttle brother was faring well.

"Sir, we are less than a minute untill we have reached the edge of the system." said Helmsman Jacop Allison.

"No got into the system" said Maxwell.

"Aye Aye" said Allison

The Ship jolted. The whole fleet had been dropped out the slipstream.

"Report" said Maxwell.

"The Kanuckistani Superfortresses have their FTLis active." said science officer McCray.

"Ok, tell the whole fleet forward, maximum impulse." said Maxwell

With in seconds the Metallinauts fleet were on the outskirts of the battle.

"Where is the Abel?" said Maxwell.

"They are .099 ly to our starboard." said the Secondary Tactical officer.

"Communications order them to rejoin in our fleet." said Maxwell.

"Aye Aye. Sir they on their way the Soverign and Exclaibur Escorts are with them." said Communications officer Jenny Battaglia.

The Metallinauts fleet formed up and wnt to work on the Santhas Classes. Grosses of Transphasic Torpedoes slammed into all of them. Countless Mk XXI phasers and Pulse Phasers punished any fighter or corvette that dared to venture. The Tho took aim and launched a 10,000 Kg Anti-Matter War Head at a Diablo (if you see 10k Kg too much I will lower it to 5k). Meanwhile the Metallinauts ground forces landed on the Plaent's surface about 10 km from the Main Battle. The Hammerhead Tanks screeched as their anti-grav engines pulled in to position. Their Rail Guns aimed up and proceeded to use a sophisticated sub-munitions round that shelled the city.

OOC:
http://mapgames.7.com1.ru/homeplanet/images/ships/razor.jpg
Thor Class Super Heavy Dreadnaught


Size:
Length: 12.5 Km
Height: 2.75 Km
Width: 2 Km

Crew: 1000 Officers 450,000 Enlisted

Speed and Power:
Power Plant(s): 4 M/ARA Type III Reactors
Reserve Power Plant: M/ARA Type II
Light Speed Drive: Quantum slipstream Generator
Max Speed: Approx. 250,000xC
Sublight Drives: 14 High Output Quadterium Drives
Max Speed: .879xC
24 RCTs for Manuverability

Defense:
Shielding Systems:
1st Layer: Carbonite Shielding System*
2nd Layer: Distortion Shielding System
3rd Layer: Conversion Shielding System
4th Layer: Regenerative Shield System
24 Ablative Armor Generators*
Standard Cloaking Device
Phased Cloaking Device
Ghosting Generator

Structure:
Hull: Reinforced Tritanium/Unobtainum*
Structure: Reinforced Adamatium B/C*

Weapons:
850 Hull Mounted Point Defense Turret Cannons
150 Gravity Accelerated Anti-Fighter Turret Cannons
14 Fore Mounted Hell Cannons*
2 Fore Mounted Armaggeddon Cannons*
14 Fore Mounted Ravager Cannons*
2 For Mounted Lance Cannons*
40 For Mounted Universal Torpedo Launchers
Loaded With:
Photon torpedoes: 30000 Stocked
Quantum torpedoes: 25000 Stocked
Phased High Intensity Plasma Torpedoes*: 25000 Stocked
Transphasic Torpedoes: 20000 Stocked
Thalaron Radiation Generator 2 Emitters
Planetary Napalm 10 Bombs
Black Hole Torpedoes 10 Torpedoes
PSPs 4 Emitters

20 Fore Mounted Missile Launchers:
Loaded With:
Micro Missiles*: 1,000,000
Heavy AntiMatter Warheads*: 12,000 10,000 Kg Warheads

350 (Port) Mounted Broad Side High Intesity Plasma/Antimatter Cannnons
350 (Starboard) Mounted Broad Side High Intesity Plasma/Antimatter Cannnons
200 (Port) Mounted Broadside Type XX Pulse Phasers
200 (Starboard) Mounted Broadside Type XX Pulse Phasers


12 Rear Mounted Universal Torpedo Launchers (feed off main torpedo supply)

150 Ventral Mounted Type XXX Phaser Strips
150 Dorsal Mounted Type XXX Phaser Strips

Like wraiths out of nightmares, the pair of powerful, new Tsunami Class Battleships appeared out of subspace near Normandeicht. As their powerful FTL drives shut down, the battleships' Wraith Platinum Cloaking Devices were activated and the pair of warships disappeared once more.

As each of the battleships' trio of Echo Sublight Fusion Drives activated, the battleships cruised towards the main battlefield. It would be the first time, a Tsunami Class Battleship ever entered a battle and it was going to be a bloody one.

Aboard the CNSS-2253 Constellation, Commodore Joshua Perry sat serenly in the command chair, patiently waiting for the battleships to reach their destination. Already, both battleships had begun launching their substantial complement of fighters and mobile suits, sending them ahead to enter the battle. The Commodore quietly sat in his chair, thinking about the upcoming encounter.

The first mobile suit to be launched from the Constellation was a powerful brand-new FGXM-95MPT Knight Mass Production Type Mobile Suit, piloted by the ace pilot Acturus Geminus, a brilliant mobile suit commander in the elite Five Civilized Nations Mobile Suit Corp. When all the suits of his squadron were launched, the dozen powerful Knight mobile suits all activated their verniers and flew towards the battle. It was going to be a slaughter... The Knights were one of the most powerful mobile suits ever built and they were now entering battle...

The Hive mind decided it was time to bring in one of the most powerful ships the imperium had ever built. It began to slowly come out of a shipyard in one of the deepest parts of subspace. As the behemoeth ship came out of the yard it began to go towards Normandeicht, at full speed. Even though the battle was going well some of the ships were in danger. The ship was being escorted by 4 Lucifers which were barely visible when one looked at the ship.

ooc metallianuts whats your fleet size

this ship will arrive in 2 posts

ooc> A damage report by the Shivans from by several vollies of fire comming from the AoN fleet that no one is paying attention to would be great.

(OOC: Two posts? Isn't that really unrealistic? My battleships arrived after three days... At least wait two days before your ships arrive...)

ooc ok 5cn ill do 2 rl days gronde which fleet did you fire on

ooc> Ekardia: the general mass of Shivan ships that is located at the center of the battle. The main concentration.

(OOC: Two posts? Isn't that really unrealistic? My battleships arrived after three days... At least wait two days before your ships arrive...)
No not unreasonable, they have been assembled and ready since the start, they are my best ships and travel 250,000xC.

ooc metallianuts whats your fleet size


1 thor super heavy dreadnaught
3 Loki Super Heavey Battleships
1 citizen super heavy battleship
10 Soverign Battle ships
10 Excalibur Battleships
20 Akira Cruisers
100 Steamrunner Escorts
150 Defiant Escorts
Several Lightning boat assault landers
This is part of my force

OOC:
Just a quikie for now.

Ekardia, are you just sending your diablo and 6 sathanis' after my superfortress?

IC:
As a Shivan fleet continued it's march through the combined Superfortress' FTLi, the KHGV Target Drone, their choosen target, decided to take the initive even as the Metallinauts' fleet arrived.

With just over 15 million kilometers between the Drone and her would-be attackers, a distance ten times that of even Kanuckistani energy weapons, she let loose with three vollies from her missile tubes; 432 warheads screamed through space, reactionless drives rabiply accelerating them to within a hair's breadth of lightspeed; speeds slightly varried to insure they all converged upon their targets at the same time, hoping to overwhelm the enemy's defences.

250 warheads contained nothing but ECM; drone racks and jammers flooding all spectrums, while less conventional systems blurred even gravitic sensors, presenting the illusion of a wall of missile fire nearly five thouand in number, while working to deny target locks upon real and fals warhead alike. 50 more contained dedicated anti-fighter sub-munitions; hundreds of micro-missiles and laser clusters to sweep opposing fighters from the sky. 75 contained bomb-pumped laser-heads; multi-gigaton weapons who's massed fire could easily gut most capital ships, they targeted the largest aproaching Shivan ships that lacked subspace sheilds, and would detonate at 20'000 kilometers from their targets to spear them with lased hellfire. 20 contained particularly high-yeild matter-energy conversion bombs, with targets akin to the laser-heads, and proximity detonators. Of the remaining 37, 25 would be revealed as the new bomb-pumped gravy-guns, detonating at a thousand kilometers out to lance those ships with subspace sheilds with raw, sheering force. The last 12 would finish off anything that remained, or so it was hoped; the bomb-pumped gravitic 'stovepipes' shreading wide arcs of space and ship with their twenty-kilometer-ranged weapon as soon as they entered effective range.

It would take them just over a minute to reach the detachment that Ekardia had sent to destroy the Superfortress; and three million kilometers into an FTLi feild, the Shivan's couldn't run.

sorry guys but i have alot to do, alot of work essentialy so ill make another uber post tonight.

1600 Hours - FRW Jupiter
Approach to Normandeicht

"Sir... we are approaching Normandeicht..." the helm officer of the massive Jupiter class said to his captain. Captain Milanes was since put to command his ship, the Stellarium.

The ship was battle ready, everything from the the standard Wormian weaponry to the newer anti-Shivan gravitic based weapons. Red lights docilely made their presence noticed, so as not to obnoxiously interfere with crew effectiveness with battle stations, yet at the same time make the crew aware that a red alert was in progress.

"Take us out of overdrive helm, have the fleet follow suit comms. Begin firing all antiship weapons against any and every Shivan ship we can. I want all of our APC's creating a virtual wall of death for the Shivan fighters..."

"Yes sir..." the helm controller said to Admiral Jonathan Ketcher. With that the ships dropped out of hyperspace, above the planet of Normandeicht.

The ominious shadow that was a Shivan Worldship sickened Ketcher, but did not instill fear. Instead, he was determined to give the Shivans as much trouble, annoyance, and defeat as he humanly could while at the same time making their deaths as unpleasant.

"Weapons charged and in range... sir..." the communications officer said.

Ketcher looked sternly at his omnidirectional display. The battle raged ahead. Wormia was no longer a neutral power. From this day forth, they had made an enemy that they would not forget.

"Join allied ships." He turned an looked at the Shivan ships ahead of the Wormian fleet. "Fire ALL weapons."

Wormian M1 Beta Quadrant Battle Fleet:
1 Jupiter-class Mobile Assault/Command Base
9 Gargantua-class Dreadnaught
63 Dominance-class Battleships
45 Zeus-class Missile Cruisers
81 Talon-class Ballistic Missile Destroyers
108 Corsica-class Destroyers
144 Raptor-class Frigates

The attack on the Diablo battlegroup by the Mettalinut fleet came as a complete surprise. One Sathanis shields went down and it was disabled another one went to critical. The other threes rear shields held but barely. They began to move towards the Metalianuts fleet with the Diablo which had emerged from the volley unscathed. The ships began to fire, a hundred of bright red beams of light flew towards the attacking fleet along with hundreds of micro missiles and even more laser fire.

When the enemy fleet attacked the Diablo battlegroup the fleet that had been bombarding the planet began to face this new threat. They started to fire hundreds of beams and thousands of micro missiles soared towards the medium size ships of the fleet. Thousands of laser bolt were fired on the smaller warships and anti fighter beams began to fire on the enemy fighters. Thousands Fighters began to pour out of the fighterbays and began to dogfight and make bombing runs

ooc kanuckistan there is no way you could fire and hit me from that far away and i am not that far into the FTLi my ships arent that fast

The Second Zealot queen powerd towards the Shivan planet ship - its fighters moving around it protecting it while the first pulled back against the warp harnesses - suddenly it surged forwards being propelled at just under lightspeed by the catapult style mechanism produced by the two couves and the warp links. The first had already began overheating the star at its core that had begun to flucutate and destabalise - as it reached its target - approximatly 0.5 meters from the sheilding it detonated - the moon sized ship went super nova and a blast of heat and radiation caused by the internal star's detonation washed over the entire system - as it went off the zealot fighters detonated their 50megaton nukes as oncomming shivan forces moved to intercept the second zealot queen - she also detonated 2km from the rear of the planet ship her star also going super nova. The entire system became white from the blast - the radiowaves crackled and the sudden scilence was horrifying as the wave of the super nova washed over everything in system.

Just out side the system a small pyramid shaped vessel remained - a last ditch attempt should the supernova fail - the hive could only spare zealots at this point in time - it had bigger fish to fry.

ooc> Can you spell boom!? Eehehehe

The Metallinauts ships were bombarded. Thought the Odin,Loki and Citizen were entirely unscathed. Though the Defiants who headed the force were horribly punished 100 were destroyed, 10 were crippled. The Thor's Carbonite Shielding reflected 100% of the beam fire aimed at it back to the hostile ships. They powered up for another attack.. (next post)

ooc> Imodius: Lol, I wanted to blow it up! :(

ic> The AoN fleet was able to see what the Hive was doing quickly, and being a good distance away and already preparing to Warp away, the fleet was able to get away without too much damage. Though, about 21 Drone carriers were lost, and at least half of the ships took some kind of damage, though not severe.

you do realize how much ftli there was going around dont you

you do realize how much ftli there was going around dont you


OOC:
Not as much as you might think; the FTLi I'm generating doesn't come close to the main battle(unless, prehaps, if the US' Shiva has entered the Razor FTLi). There are atleast several dozen MSK between the planet and the outtermost edge of the superfortress' FTLi feilds, and the Battleplate is 450'000km away from the planet while generating a feild 300'000km in radius.

MSK = 1 million kilomneters, BTW


As for missile ranges, well, why the heck couldn't I hit you? Hell, iRL, NASA can put a probe in orbit of Saturn with a gread deal of precision;that's a distance several hundred times greater than what my missiles are faced with, and if you haven't noticed, I'm more than a little more advanced than the RL USA. ICly, my missiles don't have a maximum range; they can accelerate to the desired cruising speed and fly for years, then use remaining power to maneuver when they close with their target(s). Guildance isn't a problem either, because of their secure, real-time entanglment-based datalink with the firing ship's fire control system, which also networks sensor telemetry from each missile in the swarm to help provide refined targeting data.

So, how far are you into the FTLi feild, anyway? And what are your weapons ranges?

erm - 2 super nova going off would flood the entire system with one huge explosion - i know the stars are only small but when they blow they really go with a bang - these things are the core of a moon in size thats about the size of north america + canada in diameter worth of raw energy - if that goes critical the explosion would be well over 2000 megatons - each - thats enough to vaporise a planet 12 times the size of the earth - i think there would be a few more losses - try terracide (Bye bye planet) So basically i just lost 2 of the 5 ships of this class i own - but in return i got off a nuke approximatly 3,500 megatons in power (They over lap so its not 4K)

ooc> Oh, so really, really big boom. Thanks for clarifying though. If this is the case, then my ships would just warp out of the system, as they were preparing to do anyways. I'll edit my origanal IC response.

post tommorrow when i have time sorry guys but iam just pre occupied right now.

I can barely keep up with this as it is.

Ok I have a suggestion. Ekardia and I are fighting. So all those who are fighting Ekardia weshould post in a different thread. Then you post your attack on IB in this thread.

OOC:Sorry havent been able to post.

The Cardassian Fleet has lost 69 ships, the remainder of the fleet is retreating. This loss may force out of the conflict.

Ok I have a suggestion. Ekardia and I are fighting. So all those who are fighting Ekardia weshould post in a different thread. Then you post your attack on IB in this thread.

OOC:
Hell no; we're still in the same system, in the same battle. That would just create confusion.




And Hive, 3.5 gigatons is probally the yeild I'd expect from your average spacetech battlecruiser's broadside; Klonor's Harbinger warheads are rated at 5 gigatons, even.

iRL, Earth's combined nuclear stockpile peaked at around 2-3 gigatons total, and now days there are serious scientific doubts that even that wouldn't have resulted in a global nuclear winter.

As the Super fortresses missiles soared towards the Diablo battlegroup, the Shivan commander on the Diablo had a plan. Knowing that no matter what happened the Sathanis’ would be destroyed he had all of them move infront of the Diablo. Then he saw his plan didn’t matter as the super nova wave came towards them. It swept threw and destroyed the incoming missiles but it also destroyed the 5 mighty Sathanis juggernauts. The Diablos subspace shields hadn't saved it.


The other fleet had much more luck. Many of the ships were able to jump out before the wave hit, the 4Lucifers remained behind and acted as a sort of wall for some of the fighters that hadn’t made it out.

The system of Normandeicht was empty now. Ships had had to jump out or die except for those with subspace shields. The 4 Lucifers nano jumped towards the world ship.

The mighty shivan war ship that had been on its way to Normandeicht suddenly dropped out of subspace but not at its destination. They had been watching the battle unfold and new it was over, the ship and its esorts went to the system where the remain of the Ekardian fleet had jumped to and sent out an order for all ships in good condition to go to the coordinates that they sent them. As the ships began to depart it was made obvious that these ships that hadn’t left would need repairs those that could went into subspace and headed for the nearest worldship. Others had been so badly damaged by the supernova wave they couldn’t make the jump safely. Suddenly the only other sathanis that had been going to participate in the battle came out of subspace in the system along with 500 transports. the juggernaut looked small compared to the new shivan ship. The Bhaal (that’s the new ships name) and her escorts departed into subspace. The sathanis guarded the damaged ships a s they began to make repairs

losses
1 Diablo
5 sathanis’
3 ravannas
7 demons
11 cains
9 rakashas
13 liliths
2 molochs
3,281 fighters


damaged ships
5 ravannas
3 demons
4 molochs
7liliths

ships going to other system
29 ravannas
47 Demons
72 Molochs
74 rakashas
88 Liliths
97 cains

those that went into subspace to home place thing
6 Ravannas
3 demons
4 molochs
7 rakashas
2 liliths
12 cains

ooc they were around 1 million km in

Incompetence...I give you seven hundred ships, added to your other fleet, and you can't do shite to them? If there are any people on our side with something resembling common sense, rally to me and we'll find victory quickly. If not, I may have to take all the glory myself.

As for my fleet, I'm going to have them make a small jump into sub space, link up with my reserve fleets, and prepare to rejoin the fray. With everything in reserves entering the battle, that amounts to the previously-stated 1750 ships.

If a Shivan can tell me what ships I lost from the fleet I sent in before I had to take a week off, I'd appreciate it. The one with 700+ ships that seems to have been totally ignored for the majority of the thread? I could send in another fleet and wipe the floor with you, and trust me when I say that it would be a small task, but I think that this has degraded into a thread of "Woops...big fleet approaching...I send in another hundred ships and three allies that don't even know this is happening..." I'd hate to see an otherwise decent battle end up disgraced, so we can either decide a victor going by who has taken what losses, and who's still left to fight, or I can send in everything in reserves (Which is considerable indeed) and use my new toy ahead of schedule. Your choice, really. Anyway, just thought I'd add in my last two cents before we wrap this up, because it really is getting ridiculous.

Incompetence...I give you seven hundred ships, added to your other fleet, and you can't do shite to them? If there are any people on our side with something resembling common sense, rally to me and we'll find victory quickly. If not, I may have to take all the glory myself.

As for my fleet, I'm going to have them make a small jump into sub space, link up with my reserve fleets, and prepare to rejoin the fray. With everything in reserves entering the battle, that amounts to the previously-stated 1750 ships.

If a Shivan can tell me what ships I lost from the fleet I sent in before I had to take a week off, I'd appreciate it. The one with 700+ ships that seems to have been totally ignored for the majority of the thread? I could send in another fleet and wipe the floor with you, and trust me when I say that it would be a small task, but I think that this has degraded into a thread of "Woops...big fleet approaching...I send in another hundred ships and three allies that don't even know this is happening..." I'd hate to see an otherwise decent battle end up disgraced, so we can either decide a victor going by who has taken what losses, and who's still left to fight, or I can send in everything in reserves (Which is considerable indeed) and use my new toy ahead of schedule. Your choice, really. Anyway, just thought I'd add in my last two cents before we wrap this up, because it really is getting ridiculous.
we won this battle your right it would get ridiculous and releasing the Gargantuan early would be anti-climactic.

ooc> Well, I'm still waiting for a Shivan RPer to give me a legitimate post of losses from my fleets massive fire barrages before said fleet teleported off to avoid HFI's explosion. My fleet represents the bulk of the AoN's power and each ship is considerably powerfull. Not to mention the 9 massive Desolators that are tearing into the Shivan fleets with their massive firepower. The industrial power of the AoN is almost(if not more so) as great as the Shivan Imperium, and this fleet represents that. I have always tried to post my losses when fired on, though that does not seem to be happening much, I wish you guys would do the same.

Releasing the Gargantuan early would make sense, bugger it being anti-climactic. Doh! Forgot, we're talking about IB's Gargantuan, and making sense is not one of his forte's. If we made sense, this war would be over and there would be a lot of piles of dust instead of well-defended planets. I really don't care if you win the battle, I don't consider it a loss for myself as I was out for a week, so I'll let IB and Ekardia take the bad karma for that. Although I wouldn't be so quick to assume that your forces would have attained any kind of victory. You suffered massive losses, and, funny old world, I have more guns waiting. But so long as this thread ends, I can get on with
other things that need doing.

But eh..who are you? You weren't in this RP when I left, and it makes no sense that you could have been alerted by your allies, mobilized some sort of fleet, and arrived at Normandeicht in time to do any good. But if you'd really like to play, I'm sure I could find some toys to amuse you with. I know I had a full stock of Septicemia around here somewhere...

I think I'll test the Gate on you...

Anyway, Gronde: I'll let IB give you the details. As far as I'm concerned, my ships got sick of this BS, left the system, and are biding their time in sub-space. This thread kinda got gay, so I vote that we make another one.


Metallinauts: Keep an eye out for impending doom, it's coming sooner than you think.

OOC-Gate? Don't like the sound of that. Though I'm sure a good MAC round will shred it like everything else you shivvies throw at us.

That is an impression I like to cultivate. But I think it is we, or rather I, who will be dishing out the shots this time around. The thread is up, so you can check it out there.

I agree about this rp going down hill, however Reptiles i was about to use something that would swiftly end this rp but now that the gate is finished i sugest we continue it in the old rp. I sort of ignored my smaller fleets as well i was more occupied with the world ship and that DAM battleplate. But as i said time is money or whatever and whatnot.

The nova from the HIve ships blasted throughout the system in a oerfect sphere. This huge blast consumed everything in its path until it hit the distortion ring. The gravity was so huge and great the the blast was merely pulled into each distortion.

As the Shivan fleet began to was now ready they began to power up their subspace drives, they had come here what they intended to do. The GZ world would die and it would die soon.
Within an instant the Shivan fleet was gone, and amongst the wreckage they had left behind suprises.
The Small corvettes inside the GZ world were now under attack from the Dragons sent in by enermy forces. The rear subspace shields now collapsed (on purpose) The Corvettes merely self destructed. However there was no explosion nor was there any fire or huge ammount of energy released the fighters simply broke apart and decintigrated upon the wall of the tunnel.

More tonight about these seemingly useless fighters :)

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The Diablos subspace shields had saved it but many other ships were not so lucky.

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ooc they were around 1 million km in

OOC:
You do realise that my the TrueSpace Barrier Effectors in my FTLi would prevent your subspace sheilds from working, once you entered their area of effect? I mentioned it earlier to US in the thread, too, where he claims the Shiva is an exception.

Red One (Kindjall Superiority Fighter) - Leader of Red Squadron - Lieutennant 1st Class Wallace A. Jenkins
Inside the tunnel created by Shivan Corvettes

Jenkins saw with a certain amount of satisfaction the Shivan corvettes break apart and disintegrate.
"Lieutennant! Something tells me that this isn't the end. I'm reading a large amount of debris continuing to head towards the planet core."
"I read it too, Mackenson. Artemis, what are our options?"
A small holographic figure appeared to the right of the fighter's controls.
"Well, Lieutennant. By all normal dogfighting tactics and analysis, we won and should be heading for the surface."
"There's a but, isn't there," said Jenkins coyly.
"Indeed. As we know, the Shivans are anything but normal. I suggest pushing the distortion shield to maximum and cleaning up whatever debris are still in this tunnel. I shall designate targets and courses to the squadron now."

The green-white shields on the fighters flared and held, their overcharge feature activated. They began methodically flying over the wreckage of the Shivan corvettes, the pieces flying into the alternate reality of the Slipstream as the shields passed over them.

ooc Kanuckistan i'll edit the post and the Diablo will be destroyed.
Wormia you wouldnt know the Sathanis was with them they are in a different system and for all you know the entire fleet that i had there is in the system and many of them arent injured

IC
The repairs on the ships were going well, three of the molochs drives had been repaired and they jmped into subspace, the other one was deamed unsalvageable and was towed into subspace to be used for mateirials in new ships. The Cains and Liliths had all jumped out as well. They were still waiting on the Ravannas and Denons. All the transports had went to an unknon location for a new mission

The enemy ships flew down the tunnels consuming the wreckage however what the Feazanatian ships did not realise that they were merely adding the catalyst to the reaction. The energy being emitted from the shields of the Feaz craft were being absorbed by the nanites which now covered the entire wall of the tunnels. The nanites began to break apart millions of atoms, absorbing the nuclear energy that was released they replicated more nanites. Millions were forming in the first seconds of the ship breaking apart and by the time the enemy craft reached the tunnel Trillions were now devouring the planets make up.

The retreating ground forces moving back into subspace through other portals began to deposit the new weapon along the planets surface Trillions of nanites were now obliterating the planet atom by atom. The radiation being emitted would now be very detectable as the nanites began to spread. It would look like to an observer a sea of black extending across the landscape, as if they were some form of Shivan locust. The Nanites now numbering in their trillions of trillions began to take form, as they grew in number they grew in intelligence, slow taking form a new race was being created.

The Lucifer wreckage at the planets southern pole was now nearing the planetary shield. The carcass of the Shivan war machine being slowly pulled down to the planetary shield. Out of the wreckage nanites fell towards the planets shield, once they impacted they began to absorb the energy from the GZ barrier. The nanites began to spread over the Shield as though they were a black death. Making day into night on the surface below the nanites would continue to absorb the energy and spread until the shields collapsed due the vast energy drain. The nanites began to spread like wildfire covering km of shield in seconds, as the amount of surface area decreased the layer of nanites would increase. The GZ world was being eaten alive.

(OOC: My two Tsunami Class Battleships are currently in system and cloaked. ESUS members, TG me when you really need them to attack...)

The CFS Tracker stayed at the edge of the system with the rest of the CF fleet. Still, the sensor ship's powerful sensors could pick up the death throes of the planet, as it was consumed by the nanites.

"Holy- What is happening to the planet!?" The captain asked, his eyes not believing the sensor readouts. It seemed as though the planet was being consumed. But surely that wasn't possible? Or was it? The sensor readouts didn't lie. The planet really was being eaten.

"I want us to get every single shred of sensor data we can. This could be incredibly important to the war effort. If the Shivans even smell like they're going to attack us, I want to retreat." The Captain said, his orders cutting through the air, rife with tension.

They had to escape, escape and develop a countermeasure to this horrifying new technology...

And still no losses posted...

Yeah, but that goes for everyone. Anyway, it doesn't matter, as the nanites can't be stopped in time. Unless anyone sees a point in defending a planet that is being rapidly consumed, the battle is effectively over.

OOC:
I've a headach, so, meh, this'll be breif.

I do, however, want posted data from my scans and probes.

IC:
The Kanuckistani vessels were unaffected by the nove, hiding in the wake created by their inversion feilds. With the planet being consumed, however, it was aparent that inteligence was needed.

As one, the Superfortresses droped their FTLi and were in the same instant gone from the stat system. The battleplate, however, remained; launching a series of desposible probes towards the planet and the shivan debris feilds, while blindingly powerful sensors were focused upon the dying world.

The goal was simple; the probes would gather first-hand information on the nanites and materials used in Shivan ship construction, then they would either self-destruct, or be eaten. Either way, they contained no particularly useful technology, and so their fate was of little concern.

Rather evacuate than stay on a dying world, the Feazanthians began loading their dropships and lifting off. Six Typhoon class transports hovered above the outskirts of the main city, waiting for GZ troops to load. The fighters returned to their respective carriers.

Losses (even though NO ONE has reacted to my attacks except on the ground)

1 Achilles-class
1 Archimedes-class
2 Miranda-class
6 Epee-class

TOTAL LOSSES OF THE SHIVAN FLEET AND GROUND FORCES

89 Cain Class Cruisers

6 Lucifer class destroyers

21 Moloch Destroyers

19 Raksasha Destroyers

34 Ravana destroyers

5 Sathanas Juggernauts

42 Lilith cruisers

56 Striders

230 Shivan warriors

123 Dragon fighters

The Thor Reared up against the Lucifers, she dwarfed the gigantic ship. huge Spires eminated out of the hull she was charging her Thalaron Radiation. She Aimed at the Lead Lucifer.

"Sir Thalaron at 75% charge." said a weapons officer.

[I'm going to appologize for the OOC highjacking ahead of time, but I think this needs to be said. This war pretty much destroyed any hopes I had of maintaining a space fleet for futuretech RP. There's so much quantumwank in here that it made my stomach churn and I couldn't stand reading even halfway through this crap. I don't blame the ESUS members here, rather than rightfully IGNORE Shiva for what amounts to Culture tech, you've valiantly fought what is essentially an unwinable fight against uber-tech. Frankly, you've guys have more guts than me, I would have INGORED this crap from the get-go, no questions asked. Good luck.]

Riiiight. I think the ESUS keeps up the fight because they're winning, and because they can counter all of our "godmod" tech. Your words have been noted and ignored.

[So they're winning now? Like I said, I couldn't stomach reading through half of this thread, there's so much wank in it. And I don't believe I ever said the word godmod, it's all pretty much feasible, but then again anything's feasible in quantum physics. I have said that I would have exercised my right to IGNORE anything that I felt was excessive and this most definately qualifies. However, I don't really care, cause I'm not going to be involved in the space arena again until such time as Shiva is permanently defeated, the tech base I would have used couldn't have begun to deal with such wank.]

ic> The fight was over for the AoN. Their fleet had been brought back home just as the Hive ships detonated to kill some Shivans, and perhaps some AoN ships as well. Space Marine captain Kaleth didn't want to leave. He had given GZ his word that the planet would not fall as long as he was still living. In a sense, he had kept his promise, for as the fleet departed, his command battle barge was destroyed by Shivan fire. This day would forever be remembered in the AoN as a day that simblized the pointless side of war and to honor fallen heros.


ooc> I'll get my total losses for the entire conflict (excluding Necron losses) out of the way before I turn my attention away from this.

2 Battle Barges
3 Empire Class Lance Battleships
2 Leviathin Class Dreadnought
3 Vengeance class cruiser
1 Retribution class cruser
34 Drone Carriers
2 Hunter Destroyers
2 Torture Class Cruisers
3 Hero Class Battlecruisers
3 Empire Class Battlecruisers
9 Paranna class corvettes
5 Gunships
7 Torpedo Frigates
About 1/5 of the total fighters brought along to the battle were destroyed and a full legion worth of Space Marines were lost.

GZ: Sorry about jetting from the fight early, but I have other affairs to attend to and the ESUS can't be trusted right now as some of their members are trying to aid HFI in their war against my alliance. Perhaps you should have joined the AoN instead or something. I hope we can RP together in the future, as you seem to at least resemble the lost art of good rping. Peace.

Hey, sorry, got back from vacation... missed the last five days... Could someone please give me a quick summary of what happened in the past four pages?

OOC: Your planet got eaten by Shivan nanites released by hundreds of fighters with subspace shielding. Personally I think its a godmod, but it is up to you.

IC: The nova from the Hive destroyed those ships still in the system. The 2 gunships and the 30 fighters were annihilated. The rest of the fleet had been outside of the system waiting for an oppertunity to attack, but now they could only head for home.

OOC: Your planet got eaten by Shivan nanites released by hundreds of fighters with subspace shielding. Personally I think its a godmod, but it is up to you.

IC: The nova from the Hive destroyed those ships still in the system. The 2 gunships and the 30 fighters were annihilated. The rest of the fleet had been outside of the system waiting for an oppertunity to attack, but now they could only head for home.


Yeah the subspace shielded fighters are a little bit much however the nanites are not. all i have to do is tell my ground troops to release them however i wanted a mad dash and fight inside the planet with feazantia but you dont see to see that. The nanites as Mentallintus did say are not a godmode. as it can be countered you just lack the ability to counter it right now.

ooc> I will have to agree with IB to a point. Too many players yell "Godmodding" whenever something new comes out that they don't know how to deal with.

I agree to a point. I'm glad that I normally possess weapons capable of dealing with the nanites. And I've just finished development of a specialized anti-nanite system.

The four Lucifers that had remained in system the only reason they had stayed was because they thought Kanuckistans ships would be destroyued however they werent so the ships powered up and jumped into subspace where the next battle was going to take place.

ooc sorry about the shortness of that post it was rushed

On the Prekash:

The bridge was dark, the only light was from the backup up power, but it was dim. Sparks were flying from wires that had fallen, smoke was pouring in out of the various holes in the walls which surround the bridge. Bodies lay all over the place, some were dead others were scrambling to restore power and help the medicial teams with the casualties. Gul Sevit was pulling himself into the main commander chair. There was a cut on his head, some blood was flowing from it. When he managed to finally sit, he calmy said "Report." The conn officer responded "We have lost main power, the warp core is at 17%, there are hull breaches on decks 3, 4, 5, 9, 14, and 18-23." "What about weapons and shields" asked Gul Sevit. "Weapons are offline, shields are at 11%."
Glinn Levon interrupted "Sir reports are coming in.... we have lost 69 ships including all but 2 of the Galor warships." "We are sitting ducks in case the Shivans decide to come back and finish us off." He paused for a second and then said, "Glinn Levon go down to the infirmary and find out about the casualties." "The rest of you, try to restore main power and weapons." Everyone on the bridge responded "Yes Gul Sevit."

OOC:
US, I want to know what my scans of the nanites would reveal; I'm doing a pretty detailed analisis here, all things considered.

ooc: Hey all, please excuse, but, should you watch SG-1, my scientists are now working on something like that weapon O'Neil designed... Also, when all the ships have left the system, we will be deploying a "genesis" torpedo... And, most of my people were evacuated by the Reagan and allied ships... I'd say about seven million were rescued of 15 million... don't scream godmod, there were certainly enough ships... btw, was that damned Shivan ship destroyed?

ooc: Hey all, please excuse, but, should you watch SG-1, my scientists are now working on something like that weapon O'Neil designed... Also, when all the ships have left the system, we will be deploying a "genesis" torpedo... And, most of my people were evacuated by the Reagan and allied ships... I'd say about seven million were rescued of 15 million... don't scream godmod, there were certainly enough ships... btw, was that damned Shivan ship destroyed?

That weapon will have no effect on Shivan nanites. That weapon worked by disrupting the communications between the various replicator parts. As Shivan nanites don't have to communicate to get their job done, this weapon is going to be pretty useless against them. Now perhaps if these nanites formed into larger structure, it could work. But at the moment, that isn't happening.

Genesis torpedo? How's that going to help against a planet that has had its stellar mass consumed by nanites and it's sun exploded?

And no, the Shivan ship wasn't destroyed AFAIK.

erm the explosion was not 3.5 it was 3500 MGT of nuclear power - dont know how you translate 3,500 to 3.5 but anywho - and as i said - boom - planet dead - infact - system dead - please repost losses and learn to read.

Regard this as a post from Ekardia

I was thinking the same thing with my ships being on the other side of the planet i figured some could escape so some did, but there should be nothing left in the system like you said those supernovas would eventually hi the sun making it go nova. Just my thoughts

erm the explosion was not 3.5 it was 3500 MGT of nuclear power - dont know how you translate 3,500 to 3.5 but anywho - and as i said - boom - planet dead - infact - system dead - please repost losses and learn to read.

OOC:
You said 3500 megatons, I said 3.5 gigatons; 1000 mega = 1 giga.

And like I said, 3500 megatons isn't very big at all, especially for future tech; put it all in one place on a planet's surface, and you might be able to create a mass-extinction level event.

EDIT:
And I responded, during which I was assuming an energy yeild more apropriate to the intended effects. The novas were deflected by my ship's inversion feilds, which were already pointing in the right direction.

I think you're the one who needs to learn to read.

(OOC: 3.5 gigatons, Kanuckistan!?! What are you trying to do, destroy Normandeicht!?! We're supposed to be protecting it, not nuking it to kingdom come...)

(OOC: 3.5 gigatons, Kanuckistan!?! What are you trying to do, destroy Normandeicht!?! We're supposed to be protecting it, not nuking it to kingdom come...)

OOC:
Hive is claiming his novas were effectly 3.5 gigatons, I'm only saying that 3.5 gigatons ain't all that much.

The thousand anti-capital-formation warheads I launched at the Worldship were probally in the very low teraton range. Each. Granted, they're fricken' anti-capitalship-formation warheads, but 'tis just an example of really, really bigass spacetech bombs.

um the most powerful nuke modern is a 50megaton and that would destabalise a plate if it was positioned correctly - these things would cause the systems sun to go critical as well - the system is dead - end of story - only ships that can with stand 3 nova's are still alive.

um the most powerful nuke modern is a 50megaton and that would destabalise a plate if it was positioned correctly - these things would cause the systems sun to go critical as well - the system is dead - end of story - only ships that can with stand 3 nova's are still alive.

Yeah, positioned directly between the plates in question. 3.5 gigaton nukes aren't all that powerful. I mean, my parallax torpedos mount twenty gigaton warheads, and I launched over four hundred live torpedos at the Shivan worldship. None hit. Grr...

Well no offence the blast of your nove HFI would have simply A) Been stopped by my Distortion ring as it moved towards me

b)gone through the distortions into another unfortunate dimmension

ooc> And now the flaming, powergaming, and godmodding that is always associated with HFI will begin.

um the most powerful nuke modern is a 50megaton and that would destabalise a plate if it was positioned correctly - these things would cause the systems sun to go critical as well - the system is dead - end of story - only ships that can with stand 3 nova's are still alive.
Get a life please, I mean seriously dude that means your ships are dead too. S

ooc: Okay, Shivans... you have won this battle... as for the Genesis torpedo, we may cart in pure matter, simply by converting energy into matter...

second... I sould expect that the shivan worldship took plenty of damage...

third... the Reagan made it out alive... none of the other Federation ships did...

fourth... I have a few ideas for weapons and new tech... especially faster vessel construction... will post them in new thread sometime soon... rest assured the Shivans will not win...

fifth... I hope the allied fleets dealt the Shivans a blow, maybe not a big one, but we will win yet...

sixth... The AoN and ESUS must stop fighting like America and the U.S.S.R. You are not children, and humans and every other race will lose out if we cannot destory the Shivans...

seventh... IB, know this... I will not allow any more gravometric tracking. This is the ONLY time. My warp fields negate the effects of mass upon the S/T continuum...

Damn this sucks, a chance to deal the Shivans a blow, and I couldn't help :( . HFI couldn't help out to a major extent as he/she said in earlier posts.

On a final note i have done some bakground reading - nova's are along the line of several hundred thousand gigatons of blast - they are insane - so sorry my bad at the underestimate
and yea my ships are dead but . . . thats kind of because they exploded . . . . . . . . . but any who . . . think you missed that bit :S

OOC: Is the battle over? Aww man! I was just about to enter to the tune of the Imperial March! ( :D )