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In a system nearby one of the planet Tithia 2 Shivan fleets were forming. There mission was to obliterate the Tithians there but that was not the only thing they were going to do. The ESUS one of the Shivan Imperiums main enemies was surely going to come and help there ally. As soon as their fleet came to save the Tithians from the 1st fleet the 2nd Shivan fleet and the fleet of one of their allies were going to come in activate FTLIs and obliterate the ESUS force.

Blue holes began to appear in front of the 1st fleet and they began to move into them the blue of subspace cast an errie glow on the red and black shivan ships. As the fleet began to come out of subspace 15 minutes later they started to release fighters that started to scout the system and provide cover for the larger warships.

1st fleet
1 Lucifer
5 Ravannas
10 Demons
15 Molochs
20 Rakashas
30 Liliths
1,000 Mara heavy assault fighters
1,500 Dragon Interceptors

2nd fleet
1 Diablo
2 Iblis Carriers
2 Sathanis
1 Lucifer
25 Ravannas
30 demons
30 Molochs
40 Rakashas
50 cains
3,500 Maras
5,000 dragons
1,500 Seraphim bombers

Hryia had long since used the subspace detector to detect the Shivan fleet incoming, he had already prepared the defenses and a small fleet had arrived, and more were on their way. He smiled, thinking that, once the ESUS fleet arrived, they could disperse this fleet. He hoped Neo-Mekanta thought this conflict too small to interfere with, because they were the only enemy the ESUS truly feared.


Planetary Defenses -

775 Laser Batteries, each with 5 laser cannons attached.

15,000,000 Mines surrounding the planet, low powered (primarily used as cannon fodder and destroying fighters)

500 Defensive XBL Fighters (Stats - 2 Laser cannons, 5 cm thick crystal sheathing)


Current Fleet - (note, I have now put older, more obsolete ships here, as I can no longer deploy my prototypes and newer models, I will not be using any of the ships I used before)

3 Hylia Light Destroyers (25 Darkwarp Cannons, 5 Missile Bays, 3 Dispersal Cannons, 155 Laser Cannons)

25 Goron Heavy Frigates (55 Laser Cannons, 1 Missile bay, 7 Darkwarp Cannons)

35 Zora Light Frigates ( 25 Laser Cannons, 3 Darkwarp Cannons, 4 XBL Fighters)

355 Agahnim Heavy Bombers ( 3 Laser Cannons, 1 Darkwarp Cannon)

1200 Din Fighters ( 1 Laser Cannon, 2 Chain-Guns)


The large amount of fighters is due to the destruction of a Juggernaut earlier in the system(not due to war).

The fleet was commanded to guard the mine barrier form the inside, and fire when possible.


2 other fleets will be arriving in a small while (1/2 a NS day, although I may not post over the weekend, my computer is having troubles...)

OOC-Let's see here. There's a small battlegroup attacking my Achilles cruiser. There's a fleet attacking Metallinauts. There's now a fleet attacking Tithia. Spread thin a bit, Shivans?

A call went out to all surrounding ESUS military units - Tithia is under attack, please divert you're course and bolster the fleet. Tithia is under attack, this is a Code 556, Priority 2.


11 Tithian Ships answered the call -


SS Makensappo - Heavy Destroyer : We are inbound for Tithia, we will be there presently.

SS Rahvina - Freebooter, and well-equipped Corvette : Damn, this had better be worth our while... we will arrive soon enough..

Squadron escorting the SS Rahvina - 5 Rakshala Computer-Controlled Fighters - Destination... Set.....Arrival....Immenient

SS Mokal, Shivanas (yes, some captains name their ships such) and the SS Ricyt - All 3 Corvettes : We cannot be diverted form our course right now, but can load the cargo onto a frigate up ahead, and then arrive soon enough.

1 TSS Yondalla - Experimental Light Cruiser : Our apologies, we are on an all-important test-run. We will, however, notify any other ships we make contact with.

[QUOTE=Tithians]..



SS Shivanas (yes, some captains name their ships such)
Hey thats the name of my first nation and somthing else only we know about

At the edge of the system, a small, stealthed recon drone, no bigger than a child's fist, recived the transmission; it's quantum entanglment-based transceiver relaying the distress call to the Admiralty. Minites later, a small panel irised open; the comms laser therein tightbeaming a reply to the planet;

"Message recived; backup is enroute. Kanuckistani High Gaurd, out."

OOC:
I won't be deploying a Battleplate this time, BTW.

Th Pelagai fleet came out of the blue of subspace 20 kms away from the shivan fleet. This was the first battle any of the Vasudans on the mighty warships of the Pelagai navy would fight, and they were proud that it would be helping the Great Destroyers(shivans). Ships of all types were there from the 2 Tanen carriers to the 40 Aten cruisers. A large debate had been waged about whether or no to send a Golgotha Juggernaut. The nearly 3.5 km warship was designed to take down much larger ships it was predicted that one could destroy a Sathanis even though it was 2 km smaller.But the Hammer of light council had finally decided to send one of the ships. And so the fleet waited for the great destroyers signal with weapons and engines ready.

the fleet is
1 golgotha
2 tanens
5 cobras
10 Hatershapts
15 Typhoons
20 Udjats
25 Sobeks
30 Mentus
40 Atens

Responding to the attack orders of the Shivan Imperium, a fleet emerged from subspace just within the Tithia system and held its position while waiting for comformation that the carriers mission had started.

Fleet numbers:
1 Diablo
5 Lucifers
15 Sathanis
25 Ravanas
50 Demons
75 Molochs
100 Liliths

With synchronization only machines can accomplish a fleet of RRC carriers emerged from subspace well within firing range of the defence systems, emptied its bays, and jumped back out. Immediatly after being released into space the RRCs opened fire into the Tithian defence system with 400,000 razor cannons.

Fleet numbers:
100 RRC Carriers

OOC: A RRC carrier holds 1000 RRCs. A RRC is a Remote Razor Cannon which is a square weapons implacement with a razor cannon on each corner. Only 4 of them can be fired at one time.

OOC2: I am aware that subspace has been evacuated so I use a system that only opens a very small section of subspace for each ship and around it is a subspace portal that sends all vessels that hit it back into realspace.

OOC: Holy crap, this isn't what we need now. Ekardia, you and the rest are ordered to make short work of the immediate threat and return to the Yarin system. I am assuming command of the Shivans in IB's place. Nothing personal, but I seem to have the best tactical sense of the Shivans, so I'm taking the reins for the moment. If you get creamed, I may be able to intervene and crush these puny foes with no trouble at all.


Wiseone...come on, don't waste a Diablo!

And no one actually attacked Metallinauts, as he ignored the attack. So we're only really attacking in two places, which we have more than enough ships to do. I'm about half the fleet, so we are by no means spread thinly. These puny "fleets' my comrade is sending represents the puniest spit of our forces.

TM me if things get ugly, I'll send in whatever I feel like. If our uber powerful foe sends in a battleplate, then I get serious, and we tear it apart. I know how strong they are, but that doesn't make them invincible.

I might also add (Yeah, almost done) that as subspace has been evacuated because of the nanites, we can't very well use our subspace shields. Not that they'd do much good against a battleplate, but they'd be helpful here. Thus, nearly all the active subspace shield using ships have been refitted with shields that use exactly the same technology. The exception to this being that instead of creating a portal to subspace, it opens a portal to another level, or frequency, of space. Same effect, really. So ram away, me hearties.

Anyway, sorry to interrupt, just thought I'd remind my comrades that they shouldn't be wasting time in unnecessary battles while we're preparing and massing for some real big assaults.

Reptiles its not a waste its a test run, I've never used one of my Diablos before.

Bump for Tithia to respond to attack.

The Tithian navy had arrived. The tattered remains of it, anyway, as it had clearly come under heavy attack at some stage.

Status -

14 Ylai Sheathed Destroyers (Heavy)

127 Ylaska Crystalline Destroyers (Light)

329 Tlatha Heavy Frigates

639 Yiria Light Corvettes

1247 Yitit Fighter-Bombers

Sorry, but this is all I had time for -



The fleet moved to engage the Shivan fleet(s) .

As it neared the enemy fleet, it opened fire.

Tithia was being evacuated.


Will post more details later, sorry, but I am short for time

Mindsettian Battleforge ships may be relatively new to the Mindsettian Navy, but their power is not to be underestimated. Admiral Keane, onboard the MNS Oblivion, was informed mere seconds after the Battleforges long-range sensors picked up the Tithian plea for allied aid. His new ship was larger than any he had ever captained. Indeed, it was larger than any ship built by The Empire in its four thousand year history. However, he was uniquely aware of the ships operational limits. He had been subjected to several months of intensive artificial memory implants in preparation for this moment. The moment of truth, he thought to himself.

His inserts blinked a pale blue icon inside his virtual vision, and informed him his first officer was attempting to establish voice communication with the Tithian fleet. Keane maundered in the point nine-five standard gravity of the Battleforge, reaching the door of his personal quarters just as the metal that formed it began to melt apart to allow him through. The designers of the Battleforge Heavy Grand Battleship class had stuck to the tradition of the Captains quarters leading directly onto the bridge.

Keane lowered himself into his seat, situated in the lower decking area of the Battleforge bridge. For such a large ship, the bridge itself was unremarkable in size. A sixty-six kilometre long ship, armed with enough masers to melt a planet, and enough firepower to wipe out several species surely deserved a more lavish control room? Keane pondered on the thought for a moment, before fully integrating his inserts with the onboard AI.

“Update, Lieutenant. Bane, begin fighter production. We still have that asteroid in bay three, right? AI, plot a course to the system.” He cracked his neck, preparing for the battle ahead.

The Lieutenant gazed into space as he accessed data from the ships sensors, and collated them into easily spoken words. “Shivans have infiltrated a Tithian system. Long range hysrader picks up several fleets coming through subspace, including one Diablo.”

Bane, ever patronising, interrupted. “I think he already knows that, Lieutenant. Sir, I’ve prepped the fighter production systems. We’ll be at full capacity in twenty minutes. Estimated time to voidhole jump is sixteen minutes, with a journey time of one hour. Our fighters AIs have been informed. The first fighter rolls off the production line in four minutes, although we already have one thousand in reserve. We estimate deployment of 35,000 fighters maximum when we reach the Tithian system.”

“Contact the Tithians. Inform them help is on the way. Big help.”

Nicolai Gard stood at the brigde of the Diablo. He was formally the Admiral of the Ekardian fleet. Then the Shivans began to contact him. He began to give them all the information on the Ekardian fleet and other space nations he could. Then the Shivan fleet came, they completely obliterated the people of Pp25, Bardock, and Veb 7, with very little resistance. Nicolai and 9 others from These lost nations went and joined the Shivan fleet, to aid them in their conquest of the galaxy. He had managed to talk the Shivans into letting the people of Ekardia live, they were forced into slavery and only 50 million of the former 250 million Ekardians remained though he didn’t care, he had been spared and was given his current position in the Shivan armada that was all that mattered to him.

“Has the ESUS sent forces to aid the Tithians yet?” said Nicolai
“No, sir”
“Well as soon as the fleet from Normandeicht arrives we will begi-“
“ Sir they just arrived”
“Excellent give the vasudan fleet the signal to leave subspace.”
“They already have.”
“What, those idiots, have the fleet exit subspace now, when we arrive activate the FTLi.”

As the fleet exited subspace they saw the measley fleet sent to stop them.


“Sir the wiseone fleet have arrived.”
“Excellent.”
"Oh, activate the FTLi."
"Yes sir."

The advance fleet turned towards the Tithians fleet and began targeting the small ships. This is what the Ravanna excelled at destroying ships much smaller than them while being able to fight large ships like destroyers to. They fired beams lasers and missles headed for the smallest ships in the enemy fleet.


ooc fleet size later

OOC: Just to clear something up, Ekardia, are you attacking the Battleforge? Because if you are, it hasn't arrived in-system yet.

No thought that I made it pretty clear I was attacking the Tithian fleet.

OOC:
People, you should be specifying ranges and distances here. I'd like to know exactly where you are, if your in my FTLi or I'm in yours, and if you're in my weapons range.

IC:
Thirty lightseconds, 9 million kilometers, away from the Tithian world(because I'm guessing that should be well outside your FTLi), a subtle shift of chance heralded the arrival of a three kilometer long Kanuckistani Thunderhead-class Superfortress; her IFF tags identifying her as the KHGV Not Covered Under Warrenty.

Battle ready upon arrival, her barrier feilds and weapons charged, her own FTLi bubble began expanding outward at no less than half the speed of light, seeking the desired two lightsecond radius; massivly powerful sensors scoured the system, while ECM and EW skewed and distorted her own apearance upon enemy sensors, making a target lock disturbingly difficult for something of it's size and emmision levels.

OOC:Ekardia, please post losses, I fired at you. Sorry about that TERRIBLE post, but I was pressed for time and wanted to post something.

Commander Ylara sighed. He realised help was on the way, but he didn't know whether he could hold out much longer. He had attempted a suicide attack to hold the Shivans of while the important inventions and the like escaped through the use of ShellSpace.


He had lost quite a number of Fighter-Bombers, while his capital ships remained mostly unharmed. He checked the fleet status screen. He sighed, as he got the status displays up.

Original Status --

1000 Yiria Light Corvettes

2000 Yitit Fighter-Bombers

Tithia System Status --

639 Yiria Light Corvettes

1247 Yitit Fighter-Bombers

Status after Shivan barrage --

512 Yiria Light Corvettes

932 Yitit Fighter-Bombers


He swore. He thought he would be able to guide the navy through, picking up extra fleet members as he went. Instead, Shivans had attacked him multiple times, and he had to run through a virtual gauntlet, losing much of his fleet.

(OOC: These Shivans were a rogue experiment that escaped and made use of the extensive cloning facilities on X-74B, while taking over ships, remodelling them and building up a fleet at a frightening rate)

He had arrived with a dimished fleet, and no way to resupply or even counter if he lost this battle. He swore again. He ordered the entire fleet to focus fire upon the Ekardian Ravannas and Demons. The entire ship rocked with the effort of firing every beam cannon at once, and the overheat meter went dangerously close to the top. He yelled out " Fire Missiles"! "Concentrate fire on the Ravanna to the left of the 3rd Demon"

Beams of searing red light flared out towards the Shivan fleet.

OOC: Sry, will have to stop there.. GTG

"Admiral a Kanuckistani superfortress has arrived."
"Order the Wiseone and Pelagai fleets to destroy it, have the rest of the fleet fire n the Tithian ships."
"Yes admiral."

No sooner than the words had left his mouth the entire fleet fired, the massive amount of beams, lasers, and micro missiles soared towards the enemy fleet. The hundreds of beams and tohousands of missiles and lasers were followed by a massive swarm of fighters and bombers, that began engaging the enemy fighters and making attack runs on the corvettes.

"As soon as this battle is over we need to get to Yarin, and mass with the rest of the fleet, order the Pelagai and Wiseone fleets to do the same."
"Yes Admiral."


OOC the feild is 10 million km

losses
3 liliths
1 demon

OOC 2 the fleet is now this size losses included

1 Diablo
2 Iblis Carriers
3 Sathanis
6 Lucifer
59 Ravannas
87 demons
137 Molochs
134 Rakashas
125 Liliths
147 cains
4,500 Maras
6,500 dragons
1,500 Seraphim bombers

The Battleforge (stats found here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=6716449#post6716449)) dropped out of voidspace sixteen million kilometers from the Tithian star, as per standard proceedure, in a burst of blue Karakov radiation.

Keane stood up, his voidspace restraint harnesses melting off his torso. "Bring short range sensors online. Give me an overlay of the battlefield."

"Data should be in your virtual vision now, Sir."

A map unfolded within Admiral Keane's vision, giving an overlay of every ship detected within four lightyears. "Notify the Kanuckistani Superfortress of our arrival. I don't like the thought of being trapped in that battlefield, with the Kanuckistani and Shivan FTLi activated. Bane, report."

Bane didn't even turn to face his superior officer. In a fluid, brief motion, he accessed the needed data and began to speak it aloud. "23,000 fighters are armed and ready for deployment. The forge is producing one every sixteen minutes."

"Open a one-way voidhole at the very edge of the FTLi. Send 15,000 fighters through, with orders to attack at will."

"Aye, Sir."

OOC: Tithia please respond to my attack on your defencive forces.

IC: Appearing directly above the Battleforge a huge wormhole opened and 1000 RRC carriers appeared and unloaded their entire cargo (1,000,000 RRCs) into the space between the Battleforge and the wormhole. The instant the RRCs were clear of each other they simultaneously opened fire unto a spot no more than 50 meters wide on the Battleforge's shielding directly over the bridge with all 4 million razor cannons. The RRC carriers dissapeared back into the wormhole just as it snapped shut behind them.


OOC: The RRCs are programed to continue firing until the shield falls in that spot and then to burn through the entire ship and spread the hole outward until the ship detonated or disentegrated.

OOC2: the stats for the RRCs are listed on page one.

OOC: In order for me to respond to that, I'll need to know the power output of the RRCs, and if they have shielding.

OOC: 10 MSK? Assume I came in at it's edge, then.


IC:
Upon the Superfortress' surface, massivly armoured bays began opening, and a horde of small, fleet space superiority fighters swarmed into space; five meters long and three wide, the 2500 unmanned Daemon's Bane class interceptors screamed through space on their reactionless drives towards to planet, tho it would take several minutes to cross the intervening space.

Meanwhile, the Superfortress began a long range missile bombardment of the Shivan fleet from the edge of their FTLi feild; four thousand missiles were launched in Alpha-Strike, their speeds staggered to insure they all reached their targets within seconds of each other. All the better to overwhelm enemy point defence.



OOC:

Ekardia's ships are being targeted.

Missile Salvo composition is as follows.

-2750 Bomb-Pumped laser heads; anticapital ship. Detonate when they reach 20'000 kilometers of their target, spearing it with a massivly powerful laser.

-500 ECM/EW heads; dedicated electronic warefare missiles designed to disrupt enemy anti-missile systems. Include ECM and EW drone rack submunitions.

-500 Anti-fighter submunition missiles; carry micro-missile and laser cluster drone racks to destroy, distract, or discourage enemy fighters and anti-missile missiles.

-250 Bomb-pumped gravy guns; detonate 1000km from their target, lancing it with a beam of massivly intense gravitic sheer. These are only targeting ships with subspace sheilds, or whatever you've modifyed them to use instead; Lucifers and, mainly, the Diablo. Also, due to the nature of gravity, the beams will pass right through their targeted ships, regaurdless to any damage done.

Oh, and 1 MSK=1 million kilometers.

OOC: might as well join in

at the rear of the main bulk of the Shivan fleet just outside the shivan and Kanuckistan FTLi field the 1st and 2nd high Fleets exited hyperspace a total of 500 ships apeared. the Flagship of the first fleet was the pride of the Empire the DESC Crow-Da, the RavanCorp Mothership. the largest ship built in the empire at 17 Km long in ship form and 18 Km high in mecha form it was a ship to be feared, for the shivans it was an unlucky day the ship had come out in mecha form.
the 2 fleets moved in with the mothership activateing its own FTLi just covering the 2 fleets (bearly) to stop anyone from jumping in on them, 8370 fighter swarmed at the shivans with weapons hot.
admiral valkyrie look out from the bridge, admiraling the view.
"gunnery target the 2 largest ship in the shivan fleets other then the lucifer and fire the 2 SHRC" he ordered
"aye sir" weapons officer replyed, the bridge was massive. there were layers, one for weapons control, fighter control, Engineering all of the ships needs and a fleet control.
"weapon salution in 5....4.....3.....2.....1 we have salution" the weapons officer replyed
"FIRE" the admiral ordered
the ship from the outside sholders seem to come alive, the 2 massive cannons started to light up.each being feed by an entire Anti matter reactor, then they fired 2 Endor slugs the size of a small astroid but as heavy as large astroid, fired out tho no one could see them at all, the flew at near light speeds at the 2 largest ships in the shivan fleets.
the 2 fleets moved towards the shivans at full speed, ready to open fire as soon the shivans were in range. all where ready and all would fight to the last man/woman.

OOC:to give you an idea of the damage the SHRC can do, they can knock a planet of it rotation with the sun and could (depending on how dence the planet was) go though a planet and crack it in 2.

1st High Fleet:
Flagship: DESC Crow-Da
Class: RavanCorp Mothership
commanding Officer:Grand Admiral Valkyrie
Total Vessals: 250
Total Fighters:4886

Battle Group 1:
1 Ravancorp Mothership (flagship)
1 Ravanos Heavy Cruisers
2 Ravan Heavy Cruisers
4 Emperor Battleships
6 Akiran Battleships
4 Manson Dreadnoughts
8 tigerclaw Destroyers
2 Tigerclaw Mk2 heavy Destroyers
4 Northen Destroyers
4 Echo Battle Cruisers
6 Knight Battle cruisers
2 Nova Carriers
6 Skull Escort Carriers
4 Ranger Light Cruisers
15 Loki Frigates
5 Hybrid Torpedo Frigates
4 Shin zu Frigates
30 lifeless Corvettes
25 She'Klan Corvettes
Total Fighters: 3171

Battlegroup 2:
4 Ravanos Heavy Cruisers
4 Emperor Battleships
3 Akiran Battleships
4 Manson Dreadnoughts
8 tigerclaw Destroyers
2 Tigerclaw Mk2 heavy Destroyers
4 Northen Destroyers
7 Echo Battle Cruisers
6 Knight Battle cruisers
2 Nova Carriers
6 Skull Escort Carriers
4 Ranger Light Cruisers
15 Loki Frigates
8 Hybrid Torpedo Frigates
4 Shin zu Frigates
30 Lifeless Corvettes
15 She Klan Corvettes
Total Fighters:1715

2nd High Fleet:
Flagship: DESC Echo
Class: Echo Battle Cruiser
Commanding Officer: 1st (Class) High Admiral Iris
Total Vessals: 250
Total Fighters: 3484

Battle Group 3:
1 Echo Battle Cruiser (Flagship)
1 Ravanos Heavy Cruisers
1 Ravan Heavy Cruisers
5 Emperor Battleships
5 Akiran Battleships
4 Manson Dreadnoughts
10 tigerclaw Destroyers
1 Tigerclaw Mk2 heavy Destroyers
4 Northen Destroyers
4 Echo Battle Cruisers
6 Knight Battle cruisers
3 Nova Carriers
5 Skull Escort Carriers
4 Ranger Light Cruisers
11 Loki Frigates
6 Hybrid Torpedo Frigates
30 Lifeless Corvettes
19 SheKlan Corvettes
Total Fighters: 1769

Battlegroup 4:
4 Ravanos Heavy Cruisers
4 Emperor Battleships
3 Akiran Battleships
4 Manson Dreadnoughts
8 tigerclaw Destroyers
2 Tigerclaw Mk2 heavy Destroyers
4 Northen Destroyers
7 Echo Battle Cruisers
6 Knight Battle cruisers
2 Nova Carriers
6 Skull Escort Carriers
4 Ranger Light Cruisers
15 Loki Frigates
39 Lifeless Corvettes
20 She'Klan Corvettes
Total Fighters:1715

OOC: Sorry about that Mindset, I thought I put that on the first page.

The RRCs dont have shields but have moderatly thick armor (about 2 meters)
Think of a razor cannon as an extremely tightly focused beam cannon (about 1 meter across), the same amount of damage but with a much smaller area for the beam to burn through., It can be fired for longer than a beam cannon and it has a shorter cool down/recharge time.

OOC: Corpsac you do realize that my shivan fleet is at the far edges of the system right?

IC: Due to the great distance the projectiles were being fired, the fleet's anti-fighter beam cannons had little difficulty picking off the asteroid sized projectiles.

All ships in the fleet began to gather tightly around the Diablo as its newly added wormhole generator (same type of wormhole used by reptiles) ripped a huge tear in the fabric of space and sucked the entire fleet through, shutting the tear behind it. 2 seconds after disapearing, the shivan fleet reappeared 1 kilometer directly above the nearest Kanuckistan super fortress and began pouring fire into its upper shield.

OOC: Corpsac you do realize that my shivan fleet is at the far edges of the system right?

IC: Due to the great distance the projectiles were being fired, the fleet's anti-fighter beam cannons had little difficulty picking off the asteroid sized projectiles.

All ships in the fleet began to gather tightly around the Diablo as its newly added wormhole generator (same type of wormhole used by reptiles) ripped a huge tear in the fabric of space and sucked the entire fleet through, shutting the tear behind it. 2 seconds after disapearing, the shivan fleet reappeared 1 kilometer directly above the nearest Kanuckistan super fortress and began pouring fire into its upper shield.

OOC:
1) There is only one(1) Superfortress in the system.

2) It has deployed FTLi outwards to 2 lightseconds(600'000km), and my FTLi blocks wormholes, so you're atleast that far away. Meaning that you're well outside your own weapons range, and well inside of mine.

Also, what exactly are Shivan weapon ranges? I know they're not very far, but I would like definitive numbers.

Space above the Mindsettian Battleforge Mary Poppins tore open as torrent after torrent of Shivan ships jumped in directly above it. The Battleforge detected the rip in space as an immense gravatic shift, and instantly the point dimentional matrix AI on board was tracking every craft leaving the rift.

"Fire all weapons, take them out before they have a chance to deploy. Bane, lauch a salvo of fighters at them."

Some of they Shivan weapons had already deployed, and were pummelling the electron matrix shielding of the Battleforge. Space fizzled and mini novas erupted all across the ships hull as various types of energy were converted directly into light and heat. The shields held. Their 0.73 Exawatt overload tolerance ensured they could withstand all but the heaviest conventional bombardment.

Huge doors on the underbelly of the craft silently slid open, and four thousand fighters shot out at 70gees, each armed with a 70Gigawatt maser weapon and a light plasma cannon. They began opening fire upon the deployed Shivan weapons at the same time as the Battleforges own defenses came online.

Fifteen of the thirty heavy plasma cannons opened fire, depositing 1.2TW of energised plasma heated to 1.2 billion kelvin with each brilliant violet shot. The targetting computer tracked every shots trajectory with an accuracy only bettered by precognative computing. Six seconds into the fight, and twenty 250GW Ion cannons opened fire, their ionised particle lances sweeping through space, seeking to sterelise everything in their path. Four light maser beams began sweeping through the firefight, attemping to break down the defenses to let the slower, plasma weapons take full effect.

OOC: I have no time to make a response post right now, but I think you should RP some losses of the RRCs.

IC:As thousands of RRCs detonated the rest closed their area of fire into an area only 2 meters wide.


OOC: 100,000 RRCs were destroyed and several carriers were destroyed too so about 400,000 didnt get the chance to deploy at all, so that leaves 500,000 still firing on 2 meters of the battleforge's shield. All in all thats 1,000,000 razor cannons hitting an area no larger than my kitchen table.

Im not gonna have the Finales show up at all, sorry but i didnt have the stats worked out yet.

OOC2: FTLi stands for Faster Than Light inhibitor right? A wormhole doesnt make the ships speed up, all it does is make the distance traveled shorter, so i don't see how it would stop my fleet at its edge. But I'm leaving anyway.

IC: The Wiseone fleet, stopped by the FTLi turned and jumped back to the Yarin system to regroup with the rest of the shivan fleet

OOC: Battleforge shields distribute energy evenly across the entire shielding system, so concentrating fire won't ever bring down a part of the shield, unless you overloaded the entire matrix.

IC: Bane watched as vectors plotted and replotted their courses through a virtual 3D vision hovering meters in front of him, though invisible to everyone else. Targets were represented by stationary red dots, while blue fighter drones deftly wound their way around the growing debris field to launch more particle lance attacks at the RRC attackers.

The Battleforge itself powered up its Voidhole drive, and jumped six lightminutes away from the deployed, stationary RRCs. Since they were programmed only to attack the Battleforge, it seemed, perhaps they would not attack the fighters with as much fury.

The Battleforge safely outside both FTLi fields, and the firing range of the RRCs, it began calling back home for more help.

OOC Sorry about the crappiness of this post but my computers going down sometime soon so I am going to just exit this rp

IC
"Admiral missiles inbound, and there reinforcements have arrived."
"Send the order to retreat."
"Yes, sir."

The ships gathered around the Diablo and the Iblis's, 3 wormholes opened up and the fleet bagan to depart.

losses ill take some
5 liliths
2 rakashas
533 fighters

OOC: The net is down, I wont be posting for awhile, maybe even a week..

The RRC fire hit the mines with almost every single shot, with the mines' crystal sheathing/cloaking (expensive mines, but this IS my home planet..)
, and the mines deflected most of the enemy fire. A few (5000) mines were obliterated, but,considering they had been spaced perfectly to avoid chain reactions, very few occured. Quite a number of shots hit the planet, with it shield generators, armours and reflective shields, only 127 laser batteries were destroyed. The fleet was taking a large amount a random fire, with many ships being damaged, but none destroyed.

G2G again, not my computer, Internet Cafes are becoming expensive on my budget

The Pelagai fleet got the order and began to depart the fleet hadnt taken anyfire the whole battle the blue glow of subspae appeared in front of the ships and they went into it.

OOC kanuckistan since I know you are going to cry subspace isnt FTL travel, after discuss this with Ekardia and Wiseone we decided it wasnt. For this reason. On the last level of Freespace you are fighting in subspace dog fights and bombing runs at FTL travel that would be impossible

Around the sun a fleet of warships emerged from a wormhole and began to emit energy pulses into the sun. Around these ships a ring of defensive vessels appeared from the depths of subspace. The sun began to swell ominously as it neared its last seconds of life.

OOC: I'll post when the sun blows sometime tomorrow.
OOC2: Fleet around sun: 100 Sathanis class juggernaughts.

Defensive fleet:
2 Diablos
15 Lucifers
5,000,000 Razor cannons (magnetically latched all over the hulls of the other ships and detached once the fleet arrived.)

You are about to discover the designed use of the Sathanis, which is to cause a sun to go supernovae. Anyone who has seen the ending cutscene of freespace 2 will know this. It will only take a matter of minutes for the large number of ships to overload the sun so good bye to all of you who havent evacuated.
And dont worry im not gonna get off loss free: all RRCs will be lost and at least 25 Sathanis wil be destroyed, other ships will be protected as they all have subspace shielding.

Tithia: At least im not making your people die slowly.

OOC:
First of all, FTL can reffer to anything that allows you to effect faster than light travel, even if you never actually travel faster than the speed of light. Because, yaknow, most FTL drives out there don't actually involve traveling faster than light; they use short cuts like hyperspace, subspace, wormholes, etc.

My FTLi is not 'generic' or 'undefined'; it creates a number of specific effects designed to stop varrious FTL drives or methods, while also having other, unintended secondary effects, like how it'll shut down subspace sheilds.

However, my FTLi was only deployed out to 600'000km, and I was 10'000'000km away from the planet(or there abouts), so mine wouldn't have blocked your escape. Also, as I'm also just beyond the range of the Shivan FTLi(had to be in order to jump in), I can FTL at will.

Oh, and wiseone, I've seen NS Shivans use Sathanis to create supernovae befor on several ocasions; it's nothing new.

IC:
The KHGV Not Covered Under Warrenty's captain, one Commodore Paul Harding, knew something was wrong as soon as the Shivan's started retreating; knew they only retreated after getting their asses kicked, or were about to deploy some superweapon.

And so, when the Shivan task force deployed around the sun, his ship was ready; releaved that, atleast this time, it wasn't a fragging world ship.

Even as the Sathanis were starting their bombardment, the Superfortress, just beyond the range of Shivan FTLi, engaged her displacer drives and jumped to within two million kilometers of the Shivan fleet assembled to destroy yet another sun and deployed her FTLi out to five million kilometers.

Now, with the Shivans between the Superfortress and the Sun, and traped by her FTLi, she swung her inversion feild forward, interposing it befor her, and opened fire at near maximum range with a full 600-gun salvo from her intermediate battery. Commodore Harding doubted that he could stop them from destroying the star if they still wanted to, but now, they would be signing their own death warrents in doing so.

OOC:
As mentioned above, my FTLi will kill your subspace sheilding. Just ask IB/US.

The Mindsettian Battleforge observed both the retreat of both Shivan and Tithian forces. Admiral Keane evaluated his options; he could either follow the fleeing Shivans, stay and defend Tithian space or leave.

He chose to leave.

OOC: Corpsac you do realize that my shivan fleet is at the far edges of the system right?

IC: Due to the great distance the projectiles were being fired, the fleet's anti-fighter beam cannons had little difficulty picking off the asteroid sized projectiles.


OOC: right er there designed to be fired at long range, the metal used is 3x stronger then any earth based metal and 3x heavyer. on top of that they are flying at near light speeds makeing targeting kinda hard (but not impossible) so Anti fighter weapons would have vary little effect since you would need anti capital ship weapons to take one down. but hay who cares

OOC: right er there designed to be fired at long range, the metal used is 3x stronger then any earth based metal and 3x heavyer. on top of that they are flying at near light speeds makeing targeting kinda hard (but not impossible) so Anti fighter weapons would have vary little effect since you would need anti capital ship weapons to take one down. but hay who cares


sorry about that. oh well, the largest ships were diablos and lucifers so the projectiles were sucked into subspace.

OOC: i might be signing the death warrent of this fleet but at least one superfortress will go down with it.

IC: The sun detonated and took the entire Wiseone fleet stationed there with it.

OOC2: oh well, I guess my shipyards will have to go into overdrive with sathanis production again.

sorry about that. oh well, the largest ships were diablos and lucifers so the projectiles were sucked into subspace.
OOC:i sead other then Lucifers and deablos (or at lest Lucifers), and also DAMAGE TO MY ATTACK 12 HST (hyperspace tears) torpedos just jump in next to 12 of your ships and riped a bunch of tears open bloody shivans never read peoples posts

The commander sighed. He had long since decided to jump out of the system, now the things of importance had gone. The star would go supernova, but that was of little importance. He wouldn't lose his fleet, and sectors SS-5, SS-6 and SX-9 were still secure. The fleet production facilities could be rebuilt, and the nation would recover. He sighed again as his fleet began to enter shellspace, making sure that the S-Zera shield prototype would not be destroyed. He passed the order through the fleet.

"Men, we are moving through shellspace to Ravan in sector LLX-B77" This sector is previously unexplored, and it will take us 2 years to get there, even using shellspace. We will then establish a base there, due to our information probes which will transmit information as soon as we arrive. If Shivans are there, we will re-relocate to another, secret ,location.
(Friends comp, may be able to get on again)

OOC:i sead other then Lucifers and deablos (or at lest Lucifers), and also DAMAGE TO MY ATTACK 12 HST (hyperspace tears) torpedos just jump in next to 12 of your ships and riped a bunch of tears open bloody shivans never read peoples posts

5 Demon class destroyers exploded on impact.

OOC: happy?

5 Demon class destroyers exploded on impact.

OOC: happy?
OOC:
no READ MY POST YOU *starts to curse for hours as he has not had any sleep and is easy to annoy* read my post i stated what i targeted WITH MY HST WEAPONS, oh and they have a 15Km radios
Torpedo Damage Range:
0-2.5Km Destroyed
2.5Km-5Km Critcal damage
5Km-7.5Km Heavy Damage
7.5Km-10Km Medium-Light Damage
10Km-12.5Km Light-No Damage
12.5Km-15Km No damage
oh and your ships would be getting sucked in (thats captial ship damage fighters would be destroyed at around 10Km or less

its amazing how some people dont read *bangs head on table* my IC post:

the 2 high fleets ran for it seeing as the sun was going nova, they only entered layer 1 of hyperspace just to be safe.

OOC: what elce can i type i didnt get to fight even if i did lose all my fighters

Corpsac Kanuckistan has a big FTLi up.

Corpsac Kanuckistan has a big FTLi up.

OOC:
Only near the sun; 5 MSK isn't that huge on the interplanetary scale.

And wiseone, well, you ought to pay closer attention to your enemies kit and tactics; heh, like I'd really sacrifice a Superfortress like that.

IC:
Commodore Harding sighed as the nova incinerated the Shivan fleet, washing over the Warrenty's inversion feild; the Superfortress itself safe within the feild's wake, barrier feilds protecting it from what energies radiated from the sea of plasma that seemingly enveloped her.

This was a bitter victory, Paul thought to himself; the Tithians had escaped, the murderous Shivans burned, but yet another world had been lost. Where would it end?

He knew that answer; 'When the Shivan Imperium has been burned from the face of existance'. But how many more would be lost befor then?


OOC:
That Inversion feild is a beautiful thing, neh? And don't cry Godmod; it only covers a 90 degree arc.

Hell, I did something like this back when IB launched the first Shivan invasion.

OOC How does that work your inversion feild.

Also with my puppet nation I am trying to create a FTLi that is a small device that I can put through out my systems making it so no one can get in, but I want to be able to use subspace nodes so there is only one way in or out of the systems could you help me with it.

OOC How does that work your inversion feild.

Also with my puppet nation I am trying to create a FTLi that is a small device that I can put through out my systems making it so no one can get in, but I want to be able to use subspace nodes so there is only one way in or out of the systems could you help me with it.

OOC:
It uses some fancy physics to effectivly bend reality back on itself, without bending spacetime in the conventional sense. Basicly, if you run into it, you'd impact yourself; energy weapons tend to just bounce off it, reflected.

As for FTLi, just remember that we can always drop out of FTL outside it and come in on sublight drives.

And as for helping you, well, no offence, but you're not the best RPer; from what I've seen, you'd just bastardise anything I created for you. I value my creations enough that I'd rather not see that heppen; sorry.

Don't worry about the poor role playing, mate. I'm running a few war games and tutorials on our home forums, and I intend to keep running it until they ALL get it right. With any luck, there will be some improvement soon.

I can't help him much with the subspace nodes, or whatever. My personal knowledge of future tech is still too limited, so maybe you wouldn't be too against explaining to me how its possible, so that I could make sure that it wasn't used right away, as if the Shivans had known how to all along. But if you just don't want your toys smashed, and I understand, then I'll get Jordaxia to have a brain-storm session with me and we'll figure it out. If its even possible.

Don't worry about the poor role playing, mate. I'm running a few war games and tutorials on our home forums, and I intend to keep running it until they ALL get it right. With any luck, there will be some improvement soon.

I can't help him much with the subspace nodes, or whatever. My personal knowledge of future tech is still too limited, so maybe you wouldn't be too against explaining to me how its possible, so that I could make sure that it wasn't used right away, as if the Shivans had known how to all along. But if you just don't want your toys smashed, and I understand, then I'll get Jordaxia to have a brain-storm session with me and we'll figure it out. If its even possible.

OOC:
Eh, I'll think about it; maybe you could explain what kind of 'subspace nodes' you're using and how they work?

OOC: I broke into a ridiculous stream of swearing (ask Ekardia) when i found out about your superfortress surviving but i did expect that. MERDE!
Someday I'll find a way to kill those things.

Someday I'll find a way to kill those things.

OOC:
I could tell you, but I won't :p ;)

The subspace node is something of a marker as to were a subspace portal is, there are sometimes several in a system. The subspace behind the node is a portal that goes straight from one system to another. I'll tell you more later after I talk to Klonor about it a little. Also this has nothing at all to d with the Shivans, you probably wont even really hear much about this nation for a while, and I would give you credit for it.