NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC: This is a strictly IC thread for this conflict, please direct all OOC posts to one of the previously cluttered threads. Simply continue where you left off. If you need to tag, use the thread options menu. You may add small OOC notes, however please do not respond to and commence OOC discussion in this thread... at all... ever...

History: Read up boys and girls, here are the events leading up to and including this intergalactic conflict. This conflict includes the AoN's war with CorpSac, GZ's Declaration of war on Mekanta, and GZ's supposed rallying of alliances against the ESUS.
- AoN begins expansion (space RP) (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=346169) *note: inactive RP.
- Death of the Emperor, birth or the True Dark Empire (invite only) (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=353869) *note: active RP.
- Formal Declaration of War on Mekanta (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=353677) *note: OOC cluttered.
- War Against the ESUS! (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=354439) *note: please use this for OOC purposes.

* last post ever in this war,bye bye *

President John Kerry:The last thing I need are other nations in my nations universe! We are withdrawling from this werid conflict, I HAVE NO REASON TO BELEIVE THAT THE SHIVANS AND ESUS HAVE ALLIED! I will NOT put my ships at risk. GZ has presented me with no evidance. The ESUS as a whole does not desoty whole worlds as GZ claims.,Gooday
Every last ECF ship has been ordered to return to the EFC. That means all diplomatic ties will be lost. I hope you people can resolve errr I mean GZ can realize that taking on the ESUS means death.
* out of the sensor range of all other ships in the middle of noware *
Willing: Are they ready, I'm eager to get back to my wife, and I think we all need a good rest,
Ops: Sir it's ready!
Willing: All decks prepare for jump!, do it!
* The Lights on the ship turned blue as a loud roar was heard, in a matter of seconds the ships were back in the ECF Universe *
Willing: Ahh set course for Terra 1/3 impluse power, I wonder how well GZ is going to do.

Tarenteor idly sits in the Bridge, looking at the visi-screens of all of the leaders. "We need to strike soon. The first battle in space war usually holds the decisive blow. The one who fails is too weak to recover, and the winner can simply continue, hurtling into the territories and begin taking over planets, quickly striking down the miniscule militias that are left. Possibly, through sheer strength, we could win this war, but that will cost us severly, and leave us open to attack from CAGE or other Anti-ESUS alliances. If we went head on, we wouldn't even have the strength to fight what's left of the Shivans afterwards. Already, ECD has split away due to the obvious stupidity of the conflict he is involved in. We need to try to split them further apart, or use stealthy attacks. I suggest a nanite package. To dispersed to even be picked up as a dust cloud, and a good group could do planetary takedown. If we took a world, they would have to move from thier posts in order to find out what was happening, and THEN we could strike. What do you say?"

ooc> I like my name better. :p

ic> With the Gronde military always in a state of mobilization, Kalgar did not need to worry about economic damage when mobilizing in anticipation of war.
"It's amazing how, with enough propaganda, even the worst of leaders will be morned by their oppressed citizens," Kalgar said. Kalgar's brother laughed at this reference to Corpsac. He knew that Gronde did the same thing. They were both sitting in a place that looked to be a Japanese garden. "What is our military situation?" Kalgar's brother, Logan, was the a leading war advisor in the AoN.
"The imperial navy is on standby for deployment, as are the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Space Marine chapters," Logan responded. "The colonial navy is indesposed due to our recend expansion, but we rarely use them in real war anyways."
"Good, good."
"Why are we mobilizing so extensively anyways? We are not at war." Logan paused. ". . .are we?"
"No one has been informed yet, but Horrar sith is dead."
"Good, the bastard. Isn't this a good thing?" Logan said, his mood improving.
"No! It is not a good thing," Kalgar said, angrily. "He is becoming a martyr. His daughter has sweared revenge."
"So. . ."
"This is not how it was supposed to go," Kalgar said. "Horrar was not supposed to die from a superweapon halfway across the galaxy. He was supposed to die by my own hand, undisputably. Corpsac has already claimed a holy war. It is only a matter of time before a formal war declaration is made."
"That's not good," Logan replied.
"Well, we knew what we were in for. Now, what about the the colonial fortifications and. . ." . . .

The Warp fortress was finnally completed. The MET was at full power. There was also another weapon; a dimentional explosion weapon (DEW). It had already been tested and could break through even some of the most difficult FTLi systems and cover huge areas with deadly energy.

The other secret weapon project was the Necrons. The Tomb forces had spread out immencly, with the help of the AoN. One of the newer members, oropher, had built his own tomb world. With the Necron forces reaching vast numbers, they would no doubt become key in the inevitable conflict.

The weel of war had begun to turn. Few nations would remain uneffected. With so much at stake, this could truly become a Crucible of War.

Admiral Michaels tapped her foot on the plascrete floor of her command deck aboard the FSS Neodammerung.
"As I see it, this is a lose-lose situation. What we need is adequate intelligence. It may take only one or two fleets to hold off this GZ offensive. Our fleet shall be ready within the month, as they're currently undergoing refit with the new Sophist armor and Sublight Warp Drives. However, we'll be ready. Say the word, and I'll order the fifth recon fleet into position."

On one of the far screens, a figure hooded and cloaked began speaking. He was Furher Gustav, leader of the Nazi Utopia of Central Facehuggeria.

"I agree with your assesment. However, we must find interrogate one of their officers to find the location of their other systems. My admirals have come up with a somewhat effective plan in that regard."

OOC: Sorry for the short post. I am getting weary of the OOC arguements associated with this war, and I'm considering ignoring it outright.

The plan my leader is refering to is the one I posted in the other thread.

Taren looks up at the screen, raising an eyebrow, "What's the plan? I was thinking we'd have to deploy and sweep to find planets, but if we can figure out the co-ords, it'd make everything a lot easier, and it allows us to avoid running the risk of going through lightless areas that take over 8 hours to cross, and end up stopping my nanites in thier tracks," Taren stopped and chuckled, "And, of, course, the torturing is a plus."

Gustav smilied. He loved plans like the one he was about to propose.

"The plan is elegant in its simplicity. We deploy a fleet into the Normandeicht system and begin boarding GZ ships. Our troops will work on abducting any and all officers they come across, sending them back to the ships. Then, we activate a temporal barrier field and set off a gigantic systemcracker bomb. Of course, systemcrackers aren't exactly the cheapest weapons in the world, coming in at just under five hundred billion USD, but...we can afford one for such a high profile mission.

Once the bomb is deployed, we will deactivate our FTLi for a few seconds, long enough for us to escape while the Normandeicht system, and all the enemy forces therein are destroyed.

Of course, there is a problem. The systemcracker takes a bit of time to build up enough energy. We'll be able to hide the energy emissions until it's reached critical saturation (1 minute till explosion), but it will still give the enemy a little bit of advance warning. And if the bomb is hit with a sufficient discharge from an EMP weapon (EMP equivelent to a teraton nuke), it will simply deactivate, and the energy will harmlessly bleed into space slowly.

A Minor Transmissions officer was laid back in his chair, watching the latest in Torontonian Galactic Events, noting how the Metallnautian Civil war was turning agaisn't their favor.

Suddenly, the Fourth filter came up with something from the ESUS Comm. Channels, this was something of major importance, as the fourth filter was designed to react to Communications involving War, Disasters, or Large Scale Announcements. He quickly sent the signal to his Superior officers, who in turn read the Announcement, and awakened the chain of command at the TSDC and in the Government.

News was spreading throughout the Internal workings of the Torontonias Government, apparenly, the ESUS had been declared war on a Large Scale Coilition of Space Faring nations, the Consistution dictated that in the event the ESUS went to war, every nation was required to help out, and involvment in a large scale war certianly got the wheels of Torontonian Power moving.

The TSDC Command Room on Epsilon Prime was a flurry of information and aides in hurried movement sending and reciving information from their superiors to the rest of the TSDC. The Commanders were monitoring ESUS plans for the War, before the whole thing spread like wildfire, the Head Commander of the TDSC went to President of Torontonias and informed him of the situation

In his private office, the conversation was carried out.

"Sir, we are now involved in a large scale war involving many of the more powerful nations out there, we need to mobilise our Navy to high alert in the certain event they are deployed." Stated the Head of the TSDC \

"Yes, but we are still tied up with our commitment in that Damnable Rebellion, ugh, we should have never stuck our feet into it, but whats done is done. How do we now that we are needed at this very second?" Replyed the President

'We don't, but when the Shivians attacked, we had a delayed responce, and when we finally got there, we were too late to make much of a difference."

"You forget, that was went we first joined up with the ESUS, and we were a little sluggish on getting the updated information, besides, how do we know that being there first won't upset one or two powers and end up with an Invasion fleet in the Capital system?"

"Thats is what the Network is for Sir, and with all due respect, we don't recive very much attention in our workings as it is, I do not belive we will get blown back to Earth for this action."

"Very well, I suppose, I support you fully, Mobilise the Fleet, do whatever it is necisary to restore Galactic Peace, war disrupts Commerce, which disrupts Business Practices remember? We wouldn't want that now." Sighed the President

The Commander left and returned to the Command Center, he then issued the Fleet on high alert and put the Defence on "War" alert which was the second highest status is could be issued. The TSDC awaited the development of the situation.

Taren groaned at the mention of a systemcracker, "Come on, that's no fun! I'd prefer getting myself some slaves. We can always use 'em. Anyways, I was going to salvage the planets and stars for energy and minerals! I like the first part, with the taking of officers to get the information, but a nanite strike has less risk involved. I say we catch a recon ship, pump the guys for info, and then use some nanites to wipe thier minds, before going on a nanite strike."

ic>

To: GZ high command
From: Admiral Enjire
Have you finished installing the new FTLi network yet? The gateway connecting you to the AoN is ready for activation when you are ready.


With the knowledge of the ESUS's past tactics, defending allied systems would be crucial. This war would not be won if the enemy could simply appear and destroy an entire system.

Michaels narrowed her eyes as her first officer - a Shadri warrior - muttered something about 'cowardly hu-mans'.
"I agree that we should learn the locations of their systems, but there is another way."
She tapped several crystalline buttons on her control panel. The pinkish-blue figure of a young man appeared.
"This is Jean, one of thousands of A.I. constructs in the Feazanthian empire. They are programmed with the highest and most advanced intrusion software in the Empire. One or two of these, inserted via a commando team, would easily be able to overpower an enemy nav database and secure the information we need. Once we have what we need, I can have two assault fleets move in and cover the system cracker."

The evacuation of the Empire mining colonies was proceeding on schedule, and would be finished within the next day or two; keeping the defence forces from being stretched thin. They would arrive at Daniella, homeworld of the Colony of Nereidans, three days after leaving. The first evacuees should be touching down from the Flaming Arrows dedicated to the purpose.

All across the Empire, the star fleets have been mobilised, including the formidible reserves; but not including the experimental fleet, which will be out of action for the next couple of weeks being fitted with 'gravitational well' shields, the first shields ever put on a Moontian vessel.

The SBR stations have been kept busy, providing constant tracking of objects within a five light-year-radius sphere around each of the homeworlds. With the overlap between Dionne and the Solar System, the only ships that could get through without being easily detected are fighters.

Tarenteor glared upwards at the screen, "It opens even MORE holes. The damn bomb is too easy to stop. If it works, sure it'll be worth the trillions of dollars put into it, but my nanites can do the same thing covertly, and it gives us to the chance to take over a planet while we strike from the other side of the star system! Tell me that wouldn't be worth it..."

Admiral Sevaris, on the Wither Mark IV, accompanied by 3 of ST's fighter swarms.
"Well, we could just use numerous of your plans in conjunction with each other. At the same time CF ships begin boarding enemy ships, the AI team could be insterted. Likewise, nanite packages could be deployed and in case of their failure, the systemcracker would be powering up already. In case the systemcracker and nanite package both fail, we have enough forces combined to attack using conventional methods."

To the Allied Nation of Gronde:
From UFGZ High Command:

We are ready for the gateway to link the Federal System of Normandeicht. We await the arrival of the Fleet.

As for the FTLi Network, We have had difficulty installing various components, but we have managed to bring most of Federal space under it's inhibition.

To the Allied Nation of Gronde:
From UFGZ High Command:

We are ready for the gateway to link the Federal System of Normandeicht. We await the arrival of the Fleet.

As for the FTLi Network, We have had difficulty installing various components, but we have managed to bring most of Federal space under it's inhibition.

OOC: OOOOH, now you have a system-wide FTLi, too! Oh, great fun, hilarious! I don't care if this is supposed to be the IC thread, that is a load of shit. You can't win, so we aren't allowed to either, is all you're doing. I'm about || yeay close to ignoring you.

ooc: Ooooh.. am I the first with extremely long range FTLi? most planets act as system wide FTLi, so, we can use primitive FTLi fields to stop primitive FTL. Not neccessarily advanced FTL. We don't have to high up of FTLi Tech. There. Happy? I told someone else besides ECF

ooc: Ooooh.. am I the first with extremely long range FTLi? most planets act as system wide FTLi, so, we can use primitive FTLi fields to stop primitive FTL. Not neccessarily advanced FTL. We don't have to high up of FTLi Tech. There. Happy? I told someone else besides ECF

OOC: You still PULLED IT OUT OF YOUR ASS IN THREE SENTENCES!

ooc: I'VE USED FTLi BEFORE!!! I DID NOT JUST PULL THIS OUT OF MY REAR END!!!

OOC: why are you idiots fighting about who has what? Why not just RP a decent war? This is really stupid. If GZ has a SystemWide FTLi then let him, figure a way out of it. The whole idea of a "systemcracker" is stupid and can ruin a good RP, not that it matters now anyway.

ooc: I'VE USED FTLi BEFORE!!! I DID NOT JUST PULL THIS OUT OF MY REAR END!!!
OOC: You never covered your entire damn solar system with it before.

OOC: This is the LAST OOC sentence in this thread. Further OOC rubbish by ESUS members (JJR) will result in them being BARRED from participating in this war on the side of the ESUS. There is an OOC thread FOR A REASON. Use it.

Silently, a single jet black probe launched into the void. Its destination? Normandeicht. Of course, it would probably be quickly detected, what with it's active emissions being broadcast everywhere, but it would still get valuable information about the defenses of that system, including any FTLi or other...traps.

Soon after entering the system via sheer momentum (It was launched from a probe launcher; basically an .80c railgun), it began scanning the area, looking for anything important, beaming it's information right back to CF fleet command via tracer burst. The tracer burst could not be intercepted, but it could be detected. It also had a rather irritating disadvantage. It took at least twelve minutes to reach into another system. It would take roughly four hours to arrive back at Fleet command in distant Sol. Four hours that would no doubt be used by the enemy to further fortify the system.

But still, the probe would gather vital information that could be used to plan for the coming battle.

OOC: Basically, I'm waiting for you to tell me what my probe discovered. It probably picked up the FTLi, and possibly the temporal emissions from your temporal weapons.

Also note that the Uberbomb is off the table for the moment. I was OOCly angry and I let that sway me into using a weapon that I usually save for n00bs. However, if this RP turns into a "My shields pwn j00 and you do no damage" thread, I'll be forced to bring it back. I have no problem with losing, but it has to be a honorable defeat. It can't be the situation I just described above.

Back on the battleship, Taren continued to watch the monitors. "Look, my nanites are ready and rearing to go. We just need some information, and we can draw them away. If we're lucky, they'll leave a detachment to fortify the perimeter, perhaps half, and give us a much weaker target. if we can fight them in smaller groups, we're better off. I just don't know how we're even supposed to get the information without attacking. Also, we need to probe the defenses or something. We can't go in. For all we know, they could have some trap waiting for us or something. Does anyone have any suggestions in that area?"

OOC: I wanted to say "And the entire room was filled with shouts and rebuttles", but I thought you guys would want to say that...

* A massive hole opens up in the sector... lumbering out of it comes two massive vessels, 13,500,000 metric tons a-piece almost 2 miles long... One bears the markings "TRSS Orion BSG-1" the other "TRSS Zeus BSG-4"... following them lumbers 2 smaller ~2 million Metric Ton vessels marked "TRSS Gemini BC-20" and "TRSS Virgo BC-29", and 5 smaller 120,000 MT vessels marked "TRSS Prometheus DSTEV-50", "TRSS Alexander DSTEV-57", "TRSS Nero DSTEV-58", "TRSS Tiamat DSTEV-62", and "TRSS Thor DSTEV-66". All ships bearing a Blue and Gold Flag marking, emblazened with a spread Eagle. The "Orion" also bears Five Gold Stars.... The ships slowly pass through the system at 0.15c scanning the region closely... as the massive "hole" slams closed behind them.... *

* A massive hole opens up in the sector... lumbering out of it comes two massive vessels, 13,500,000 metric tons a-piece almost 2 miles long... One bears the markings "TRSS Orion BSG-1" the other "TRSS Zeus BSG-4"... following them lumbers 2 smaller ~2 million Metric Ton vessels marked "TRSS Gemini BC-20" and "TRSS Virgo BC-29", and 5 smaller 120,000 MT vessels marked "TRSS Prometheus DSTEV-50", "TRSS Alexander DSTEV-57", "TRSS Nero DSTEV-58", "TRSS Tiamat DSTEV-62", and "TRSS Thor DSTEV-66". All ships bearing a Blue and Gold Flag marking, emblazened with a spread Eagle. The "Orion" also bears Five Gold Stars.... The ships slowly pass through the system at 0.15c scanning the region closely... as the massive "hole" slams closed behind them.... *

ooc> I know there isn't supposed to be ooc stuff here, but wtf are you doing? If this had been an application to the TGC, you might have made a score of 14/50. Again, sorry for wasting space with ooc ranting.

Taren continued to watch the silent screens, "Well, does NO ONE have a suggestion on how to do either of these two things?"

Gustav spoke up. "We have deployed a probe to reconnoiter the system. We should have the reports in a few hours.

Also, regarding the bomb, our technicians are having a bit of trouble safely bringing it out of storage. Thusly, we can't rely upon that strategy.

However, I seriously doubt the ability of your nanites to perform in this sort of situation. This set of circumstances call for warships, not micro nanites. We need to capture at least one enemy officer, and the find a way to destroy the enemy fleet. I'd advise anti-formation bombs. If the enemy has as many ships as long-range sensors indicate, we'll need them."

"My nanites are quite capable of taking over a planet, thank you. But on your action with the probe, that was a smart decision. Unlike the rest of us, you've done something. I've been preparing my nanites, all I need is a coordinate set. If you could supply me the information..." Taren stopped, looking up at the screen almost eagerly, like a little child at a toy store window.

As the door closed, the surround chaos was silenced, and the room fell quiet. Jade hit a few buttons on her desk; suddenly opera could be heard playing quietly in the background. Letting her head fall back she could feel her eye lids become heavy, it had been nearly three day since all this had began. Three days with no rest, no reprieve, only death. Opening her eyes she looked through her office window at the main board, more importantly the counter.

So many dead, in such a short period of time, was all this worth the price that they were now paying. For the first time since all this began she wondered if she had truly done the right thing. Out of the corner of her eye she caught a photo that was sitting in the corner her desk. It was a picture of her and her family on a bright sunny day. She could help but wonder how she had come so far she come since then, it had been nearly six months since she had last seen her children. Long ago she had promised her self that her own children would not suffer the same fate that she had, it was a promise that she now found that she could not keep.

A knock on the door startled her, look up she saw some faceless bureaucrat waiting to enter her office.

“Come in” she said out loud. Patiently she waited for the man to enter “Please have a seat. What can I do for you.”

The man handed her a folder “We’ve assembled a task force of Ship that are to lent to the ESUS military force. ESUS has agreed to provide crews for the ship that we provide, so none of our people will take part in the war. In addition TSMB Curatio is moving to the boarder to provide medical support. All we need is your approval Ma’am”

Taking a moment to look over the documents she reached a picked up a pen off her desk, and signed the documents “How long until these ship reach the ESUS task force?”

“About a week Ma’am” quickly answered the man

“Good, all send the 42nd Tactical division to provide protection for the TSMB” responded Jade as she hand the folder back to the man.

He gave her a brief nodded then went about his duty.

As he left she rose from her chair and walked over the window. The counter on the main screen had went up some more. Things were quickly spiralling out of control, the last thing that she wanted was to get drawn into yet another conflict, the numbers on the board served as a testament to that fact.

Having completed the evacuation, the Auburn Metals Mining Flaming Arrows touched down on Daniella and began disgorging the hundreds of people on board, along with the small amount of ores taken. No Moontian civilian would be left alone on a defenceless world.

In the meantime, the Orbital Defence Reserves had been called up for active duty alongside the regular servicemen, providing even more detailed coverage throughout the Empire. In addition, the reserve Star Fleets have been called up to prepare for the deep-space trips involved in an interstellar engagement of this size.

The regular fleets, on the other hand, have been patrolling other ESUS systems, to assist in their defence.

"Our Fenris Wolf torpedo boats can deliver the system cracker or the nanites. They're unmanned, so they can be far more manueverable and reliable than biologically-targetted missiles. We would just need to get the data we need, and then disrupt any FTLi fields that our enemy has."

Klaxons rang out all throughout the system. A small object had been detected entering into the system boundaries just seconds ago.

Admiral Schumacher stepped into the Bridge of the Reagan, swiftly walking toward the center of the spherical multi-leveled bridge. "What the heck is it," he questioned in a gruff voice.

The woman at the station before him spoke out against the clamor on the bridge. "We have identified it to be a probe of some sort. A gunboat on patrol has reported it destroyed."

The Admiral sank into his chair, awaiting further reports as to the nature and location of the probe. "Put the fleet on Alert Status 0. Ready the Fleet. I expect the enemy will make their move soon..."

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All throughout the Federation, as many people were being evacuated as possible. All the spare ships in all of Federal space had been ordered to evacuate all Federation citizens and take them to a hidden world deep within a nebula, half the galaxy away.

So far, only a few of the more sparsely populated worlds had been evacuated, and the numerous space facilities and mining operations were long since abandoned.

As the hundreds of thousands of private craft labored to take the people of the Federation to safety, the systems they had previously called home became bombs, should any enemy fleet stray near.

As the Fleet acted as a decoy to buy the prescious time needed, those captains of the civilian fleet wasted none of that thing of which there was so little...

ooc: Your probe probably detected the near-by defensive installations, as well as the picket ships on patrol. The Temporal trap as well as all the others are very carefully masked, and you wouldn't have had enough time to detect them...

You probably also picked up the Fleet, and some strange activity around the sixth planet in the system...

"We don't need a torpedo to launch the nanites. We can likely send them in through a rip. I'm also considering FTLing a Slavemaster Hivemind, but that would be too obvious, I'm afraid. I'm sure a hulking nanite monster would scare everyone more, but I'm not sure it would have the proper effect of drawing part of the fleet away. If I sent in a Slavemaster, or any hivemind, the nanites would be able to rearrange buildings and computers systems into defenses for us. I think that the safest option would be to start taking over the planet with the nanites, then send in a slavemaster once the fight has already begun. What do you say?"

OOC: Slavemaster Hiveminds are, in essence, a small, completely automated spaceship what controls a nanite swarm, and can merge with it, to create something like a Steel Plague or Primevil, just on a larger scale. Also, the probe likely just sends raw data without analysis. The probe, upon detecting the anomaly, would do nothing about it. The supercomputers on the homeplanet would do all the deciphering by running the information in a loop and analyzing it.

"That still does not help with our current situation of finding their hiding places. Listen, I can have a Fenris Wolf jump in and pelt one of their smaller ships with boarding pods. My marines would get in, have one of our A.I. constructs force its way into the enemy system, and find the coordinates of their star systems. Then your nanites can move in."
She sighed and sent several commands to the fleet. A Fenris Wolf, looking like a gargantuan torpedo itself, came up to the side of the Neodammerung. It was only about as large as one of the massive magnetic accelerator cannons, but it slid back its launch tube door to show forty-eight purplish pods.

Taren growled slightly to himself, his eyes tinting slightly red, "If you'd been listening, dumbass, you would have known that our esteemed Facehuggerian friends have taken care of the problem with a probe. I need help on what to do with the Slavemaster. If we send one it, we can twist the planet to our aid. My nanites will be able to start building some small craft and weaponry if we can give them cover, but the best way is to allow them to have the slavemaster around for protection AND enhancement in every way. If I can send a Slavemaster in, the planet would be a battle outpost by the time a response could be mustered."

Taren growled slightly to himself, his eyes tinting slightly red, "If you'd been listening, dumbass, you would have known that our esteemed Facehuggerian friends have taken care of the problem with a probe. I need help on what to do with the Slavemaster. If we send one it, we can twist the planet to our aid. My nanites will be able to start building some small craft and weaponry if we can give them cover, but the best way is to allow them to have the slavemaster around for protection AND enhancement in every way. If I can send a Slavemaster in, the planet would be a battle outpost by the time a response could be mustered."

Gustav smilied behind his cloak and began to speak. "Actually, the Feazanthians are correct. Our probe only detected what they have in Normandeicht. They have somehow hidden their other systems, so we must capture an officer and interrogate him. The more the merrier actually. Then we can strike out at their other colonies, and hunt them down to wherever they have fled to. 'Hidden' colonies indeed.

Also, where are you going to get the power to manufacture craft and weaponry with nanites? It's not like a nanite can generate enough power on its own. We need to go in with our fleets and hit them with some nice anti-formation bombs.

That reminds me. The probe data is back in, and they've got a hefty FTLi net there. Looks like it's more of a 'slow them down' measure, but it could still pose a problem. Also, the probe detected over one hundred thousand transient sensor contacts in the system. Probably enemy ships. We also suspect that most of those contacts are smaller drone ships, corvettes, fighters, et cetera.

Lastly, something odd seems to be happening near the sixth planet. I propose we deploy a scout ship or probe once our fleet arrives."

Tarenteor smiled to himself before tapping a button, as the other screens faded to a near black. He could still hear them, yes, but for them moment, the only person who could hear him the the cloaked figure, who still had a brightened screen. "That is one of our secrets. But I trust you enough that I will allow you to know. The answer is simple: the kinetic energy of moving particles. Our generator nanites have pinwheel-like objects, that turn with the shaking of the particles, and transfer it into energy, before storing it in a tiny capacitor. Not as advanced as our Kinetic Enery Transference Units, but in the same strain." Another button was pressed and the screens all came to full color again. "Well then, it seems like we have to capture a ship then. Any ship will do, I'm sure. Take in a recon ship, and pick the ship A. I. apart. We should get our answers soon enough."

Michaels clapped her hands and smiled.
"Excellent! It's settled then. My ships shall leave immediately."
She sent a command to the A.I. in each of the five Fenris Wolf carousel ships, giving them their instructions. Two of the unmanned vessels docked with a nearby troop transport, and soon all five of them ripped space apart and entered the Slipstream.
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The five ships reemgerged on the outskirts of the Normandeicht system, beyond the extent of the FTLi field. The three vessels in the lead, painted with red 'war stripes' reminiscent of the ancient American Indians of Terra, opened their launch doors. The torpedo bay took up the majority of the craft. One hundred and forty-four Thunderbolt Mk.IV fusion torpedos drifted out into the void. The A.I. constructs commanding the Fenris Wolves sent individual targetting data to the six gigaton high velocity missiles. Half of the missiles activated, targetting patrolling vessels. The other half activated three seconds later, targetting the FTLi emitters. At nearly .5c, the torpedos sped through the night without a sound, no forboding of the destruction their payloads would cause.

But that destruction was not the goal of the mission.

The other two Fenris Wolf craft also opened their torpedo doors, but no torpedos were inside the craft. Instead, purplish projectiles slightly larger than the standard torpedo lay inside. These were deployed in the same manner as the torpedos had, but they instead targetted the nearest vessels...a gunboat and a destroyer. Forty-eight of the pods sped towards each target. Nearly a third of them - despite their extensive ECM shielding and stealth countermeasures - were taken out by automatic point defense and energy shielding. However, the rest impacted on the hulls, and their occupants quickly began cutting through the hull to get at the computer systems within.
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"Corporal, what are the chances of this thing goin bloody nova on us?"
"Dunno, sir. Wuz trained t' figh' Shivans, not these damn Zustandes. Think they value their own more than us."
"Well...whatever. Find me a terminal," the captain hefted her MA5B assault rifle and opened fire on several crewmembers. The tat-tat-tat of automatic weapons fire was punctuated as the higher ranking soldier controlled her bursts. Though the gas-powered rifle produced serious kickback, the captain's IMC-730 "Spartan" armor protected her. Her and her comrades' armor glinted green in the dull lights of the gunboat.
"Cap'n! Found a holoterminal!"
"Can you interface?" asked the captain as she kept up her fire.
"Sure thing, cap'! Their plugs are practically the same as ours. Uploading now!"
The corporal and three others began uploading the A.I.s in their armor into the ship's mainframe. The corporal felt the icy coldness of the other presence leave his mind.
"I'm in, accessing nav database," announced one of the A.I.s proudly. "Their security software is tough...bastards! Rerouting secondary protocols. Wells! Get that other construct under lock."

OOC-I'll leave it to you to post losses and what my A.I.s find. But, keep in mind, these A.I.s are equipped with the best intrusion software in Feazanthia.

Germanische Zustande Space

Just outside one of the main solar systems of Germanische Zustande, space appeared to be quite ordinary, stellar gasses and the accretion disk that was left over from the formation of the solar system billions of years ago. To an ordinary passerby, they would not be able to discern anything out of place in the system. Nor would they be able to detect the upcoming battle that would be waged in that area of space. For all primes and purposes, the space was just found just like it would be found any other day of the year. However, this was about to change.

All of a sudden a brief flash of light, signifying something breaking the normalspace/hyperspace boundary, came into existance right in that area of space surrounding the core worlds. Immediatly after it faded, three more, in almost instantaneous succession, appeared and dissapeared. Without having sensors trained on that exact spot where the barrier was broken, no one would be able to detect the four cloaked ships that dropped out of temporal hyperspace to pull into a highly eccentric solar orbit, around the solar system. It turns out, these ships that mysteriously appeared in this sector, were four of the most advanced vessels in the Indra Prime 25th Fleet, not to mention the most advanced vessel out of the entire Regular Indran Navy. These vessels were none other than Retribution Class Spectre Dreadnaughts. Measuring in at eight and a half kilometers, these were the most advanced warships to glide out of the Indran shipyards around Gamma Eridani. Sporting enough firepower to take on seven Phaeralon Class Flagships simultaneously, these vessels had enough power to be considered an entire fleet individually.

The four Retribution Class Dreadnaughts, the Charybdis, the Minotaur, the Centaur, and the Ouroboros, were here to gather tactical information about the enemy the ESUS and Indran Fleets were prepared to combat. Intelligence had recently pointed to a Coalition that was forming between some of the smaller space alliances to take on the mighty Extra Solar Union of Systems. Apparently, each of these alliances were afraid of the immense strength the ESUS was accumulating and the fact that it was still growing, to become more formidible than ever. Task Force Retribution was sent to the space of one of the leaders of this coalition, Germanische Zustande, to assess any tactical capabilities they have in waging a war against the ESUS. Normal operating procedure would be to send a scoutship to assess the tactical levels of the enemy, but in this case, the enemy had been known to shoot first and not ask questions at all, so to prevent a loss like that, four of the best Indran Vessels were sent to investigate, and to relay information to the IPCC Mississippi, one of the Texas Class Command Battle Carriers still deep in ESUS territory, with the rest of the fleet.


Deep within ESUS Territory, Indran Space

On board the IPCC Mississippi, Colonel Damien Falazon sat in his office, adjacent to the bridge, and read over status reports of the fleet he had been assigned. In the thirty two years of service he had given to the Indran Navy, this was his third command, but his first major campaign as fleet commander. His long distinguished career led the Indran Central Command to believe that he would be able to handle this kind of challenge, and indeed he was looking forward to show ICC that the faith they put in him was well deserved. ICC had given him three fleets, numbering 232 vessels, ranging in size from Katrar Battleships, to Texas Class Command Battle Carriers, to Phaeralon Class Flagships, and most recently, the addition of six Retribution Class Spectre Dreadnaughts, four of which he sent behind enemy lines for recon. He had spent weeks looking over the specs of each of the vessels under his command as well as the service records of all the commanding officers taht would be reporting directly to him. ICC had definitely chosen a good group of commanders to help him win this conflict. He basically had every detail about each ship memorized so he flipped absentmindedly through each of the ships' specifications until that reverie was broken by a low buzz from the comm panel on his obsidian desk. He reached out and pressed a faintly glowing circle that would activate the reciever in his office.

"Falazon."

"Colonel Falazon. Please Report to the Bridge."

"On my way."

He took one last look at the vessel schematic in front of him before he deactivated his personal holoterminal and stood up. He strode the 10 yards required to get him around his desk to the door that led to the bridge of his ship.

As he stepped onto the bridge, he could see that the 22 crewmen stationed on deck were busily preparing the ship for war and running though final checklists to make sure everything was in order. Falazon strode to his command chair, situated in the center of the bridge and as he sat down he actiated the holographic display. In less than a second, he was able to verify that all the ship's systems were in perfect running order and then proceeded to shut the display down to find out why he had been summoned. He looked up at the three dimensional viewscreen at the front of the bridge and saw six of the vessels of his fleet maintaining a distance of about 100 km. He asked for a report.

"Report."

"Colonel. Sensors are detecting multiple Hyperspace events five hundred thousand kilometers of the starboard bow, eight degrees azimuth. It appears to be forty three vessels....Registry information coming in....Sir, its the Temporal Incursion Fleet."

The TIF?, thought Falazon. What the hell is the Temporal Incursion Fleet doing here. And Forty Three vessels? Something serious must've happened. There hasnt been a mobilization of that many vessels since the invasion of the Shivan Imperium. This is turning out to be a surrealistic nightmare

Falazon stood up and subconciously straightened his uniform coatshirt.

"Major Ortez, open a secure comm channel with the lead Temporal Incursion Vessel."

"Aye Sir. Secure Channel open."

"This is Colonel Damien Falazon, of the Indra Prime Command Carrier Mississippi. We request to know your intentions in this region of space and what, if anything, we can do to assist you."

Immediately the image of a battlehardened senior officer materialized in the form of a hologram at the front of the command center.

"Colonel Falazon, I am Colonel Dmitri Kaspalov of the Temporal Incursion Fleet Vessel Centurion. We are here to join your command in the fight against the Coalition against the Extra Solar Union of Systems."

Col. Falazon was expecting some wild explanation, but he had not been expecting this.

"Colonel Kaspalov, forgive my bluntness but isn't an invasion something you people at the Temporal Incursion HQ dont get your hands dirty with? Doesn't it interfere with the Temporal Accord?"

"In most cases, Colonel, it does, but not this instance. We have detected.... perhaps it would be better if we speak alone, Colonel."

"Of course. Lieutenant, beam the Colonel to the bridge."

"Aye Sir."

Seconds later, the hologram of Colonel Dmitri Kaspalov, was replaced by the real Dmitri Kaspalov. Fazalon approached the other colonel and greeted him.

"Welcome, Colonel, to the IPCC Mississippi. If you will please follow me to my office we can talk there."

The two officers moved quickly into the office of Falazon to discuss the situation unfolding in the GZ federation. With the doors securely closed and locked to prevent any intrusion, Colonel, Kaspalov began to recant the information given to him by the Temporal Incursion HQ.

"Colonel, The Temporal Research Institute detected the creation of some sort of temporal device in the GZ federation. We are not sure what it is, but the power readings we are getting from it, indicates that whatever the device is, it could pose a threat to the ESUS Fleet, that is without our assistance and interdiction. Now I have been authorized to relay Top Secret Classified information to you direct from the TIHQ. My orders are to fold my command into yours, which will give you forty-three additional ships bringing your count up to 275. Now, forty-nine of those vessels are temporally equipped to use at your disposal, except you must maintain with as much preserverance as possible, the Temporal Accord. We will be wading into unwary waters with the firepower you have been given by the TIHQ. Now these forty-nine vessels..."

Falazon caught something odd and interrupted," Wait. Did you say forty-nine temporally equipped vessels?"

"Yes."

Seeing a problem with that number he continued along those lines.

"You said you had forty-three vessels under your command."

"That’s correct."

"Then where did you get the additional six ships?"

"That is the classified information, I've been trying to tell you. The Six Retribution Class Spectre Dreadnaughts already under your command are the other temporally equipped vessels."

"What?!"

"Yes. They are the most advanced Temporal Incursion Vessels to date. I am sure you read up on the specs of them when you recieved word that you were recieving them under your command. What was not included with the Triple redundant shielding and the missile bays, was the fact that they are equipped with Six Temporal Disruptors, of a slightly more advanced caliber than the ones on the Phaeralon Class Flagships. They also have level 13 Temporal Shielding installed, the most advanced level to come out of the TRI. I Have here a complete schematic of every Retribution Class Vessel under your command so you can review them and see what their capabilities are. I also have a flexi here that gives you basic information about the TIF vessels that will be joining your fleet. With all this hitting your plate at once, you will probably need time to assimilate this information. I will transport back to my ship and will await any questions you may have. Good Luck, Colonel and Godspeed."

An aid came to Taren's chair and whispered in his ear. Taren suddenly leaped up, picking up one of the bottles of whiskey from around him and throwing it at the Feazanthian screen, smashing it to pieces, "What the fuck did you do now!?!?!? You've sent out ships? We don't even ask you to. I suggested that we catch a recon ship. And now you go and jump the gun and send in some marine team?!?!? Yes, we know, we have temporal sensors set up all over the place. You sent in your damned ships and four fucking warships? I might be able to let you off on the small ships, fine, you're eager, but warships? What are you going to do, hide them behind a passing star?" Taren flops back into his seat.

ooc: Feazanthia, I am ignoring your marines that have boarded my ships... Unless of course they can magically pass through shields... However, should you get through with the boarding pods, your AI will find the location of an "abandoned" Federal Colony before the Holocore purges.

As for your missile attacks, the nearest emitter stations have been destroyed, pushing back the field by two light-seconds. Two gunboats have been severely damaged... A cruiser shall pick them up... :D

Indra, are your cloaked ships in realspace now?

ic:

Fritz knew very well that this would be the greatest battle the Federation had ever seen. He had "debated" long and hard with the High Command, but he coule not change their decision. They had decided that the UFGZ, along with many of its allies, would war against the ESUS. Schumacher knew very well that the High Command had its reasons, but from what he knew, those reasons weren't going to save the Federation.

The Admiral sat in his chair, reviewing everything the Allies had in-system. The Allied Fleet was not strong enough to fight the enemy alone, and as such a variety of traps had been set all throughout the system. The traps themselves were easy enough to activate, the only problem for Fritz was how to use the traps to their greatest efficiency.

Fritz's headaches had not eased his already stressed mind. He leaned back in his command chair, hand pressing his forehead in a futile attempt to stop the pain. "Commodore," the Admiral whispered to the man that stood to his right. "I need you to assume command of the Fleet, temporarily. I'll return."

As the High Admiral moved off the bridge, Commodore De Tua frowned in worry. Although the Admiral did not know the extent of Federal Defenses, De Tua knew that Fritz would be foaming at the mouth when, in the middle of battle, he finnally became aware...

ooc> *Sigh*
I am dropping out of this conflict. GZ: You can still use the AoN fleet if you want. I (and most of the AoN) do not want to deal with it. It's only a matter of time before the IGNORE cannons go off and the whole thing becomes a waste of time anyways.

ooc: No, you misunderstand. The Admiral doesn't know about all the traps. He only knows about the temporal trap and the FTLi trap. He doesn't know about the trap behind the sixth planet. What the Commodore is thinking is how mad the High Admiral is going to be when he finds out he's been left out of the loop again...

TRAPS:

Temporal Trap, almost system wide
FTLi Gravitational Trap, almost system wide
Sixth Planet Orbital Station Trap, planet wide effects
Black Fleet Trap, reinforcements

Admiral Schumacher doesn't know about the last two... the Commodore does. The Temporal Trap is essentially a temporal erasure wave. The Grav trap will simply attempt to vibrate enemy ships apart with strong gravitational fields. The Station trap will mimic a small fleet of ships, and when it attracts enemy vessels, it will unleash another temporal erasure wave. The Admiral thinks that this will be a hidden point for retreat. The Black Fleet will fold in behind the enemy fleet and aid the rest of the Allied Fleet.

I'm ignoring Feazanthia's marines because the entire system is on the highest alert that it can be on, due to CF's probe. The ships would have their shields and weapons systems powered up. The Cruiser, however, will provide him with a bigger target...

-Coreship Alpha
The Center of the Unification

"You have done well, Nioze" The Great Will of Neo-Mekanta mused, its deep, booming omnivoice sounding frightening as it chuckled. "Our enemies are too occupied destroying each other to interfere with our operations. You have pleased your Creator and Master."

Nioze just smirked as Minagoroshi's avatar swirled into existance from her nanites, looking at him. "And you, dear sister... What have you accomplished? Anything? Anything at all?"

Minagoroshi just smiled, taking the organic that was considered her brother off guard. "Actually, General Nioze, I have." She snapped, a superfluous gesture, and several creatures stalked into the room, leering at Nioze. "The Zica grow stronger and more numerous with each Tazura. These Warrior caste examples prove the potential of my new pets..."

"Very good... Nioze, ready the Armada to strike at our foes. Minagoroshi and the Zica shall prepare to support your operations." The Great Will laughed, the booming sound embodying both the glory of his Vision, and the hate he felt toward Mekanta and its Allies...


-OOC-
The Neos are still up to various tricks to make things even more troublesome, IC. OOC, I'll try to keep it simple. I'll be posting some VERY OOC information on the Zica soon.

ooc: No, you misunderstand. The Admiral doesn't know about all the traps. He only knows about the temporal trap and the FTLi trap. He doesn't know about the trap behind the sixth planet. What the Commodore is thinking is how mad the High Admiral is going to be when he finds out he's been left out of the loop again...

TRAPS:

Temporal Trap, almost system wide
FTLi Gravitational Trap, almost system wide
Sixth Planet Orbital Station Trap, planet wide effects
Black Fleet Trap, reinforcements

Admiral Schumacher doesn't know about the last two... the Commodore does. The Temporal Trap is essentially a temporal erasure wave. The Grav trap will simply attempt to vibrate enemy ships apart with strong gravitational fields. The Station trap will mimic a small fleet of ships, and when it attracts enemy vessels, it will unleash another temporal erasure wave. The Admiral thinks that this will be a hidden point for retreat. The Black Fleet will fold in behind the enemy fleet and aid the rest of the Allied Fleet.

I'm ignoring Feazanthia's marines because the entire system is on the highest alert that it can be on, due to CF's probe. The ships would have their shields and weapons systems powered up. The Cruiser, however, will provide him with a bigger target...

I am not leaving because of that. This whole thing was doomed because of the number of people trying to be involved. You can still use the AoN fleet.

OoC-The Stritz pod (boarding variant) contains a small slipspace field transient engine. Because of energy constraints, the ship can only jump several thousand meters, but that would be enough to slip past your shields. Besides, I said a third of them didn't make it through because they were either taken out by point defense or impacted on the shields.

And very well. Personally, I think the A.I. would be able to find more...searching through secondary and tertary records and such. However, it's your call.

Also, I think my missiles would have disabled far more generators. Though, again, it's your call.

IC

"Captain, I have found the location of an abandoned Federation colony. Though, some of these data codes about its abandonment are suspicious. Preparing Slipspace document now...document sent. Their comm encryptions are laughable."
"Alright ladies, you heard the computhingy. Hightail it to the bridge, and let's see if we can get a ride outta here."
The marine team, whittled down to thirteen, began making its way towards what they percieved to be the bridge of the gunboat.
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"Mr. Taren, the call was my own and I made it. The 'warships' I sent were unmanned, save for the two carrying an insertion team. And..."
She glanced down as a small data crystal popped up from her command chair. She studied the file name and its description. "We have the location of one of their colonies. My team reports that their nav computer has designated it abandoned, though I believe it is worth checking out anyway. They may have left records behind. And, I believe we should strike soon. From what I see, they're on full alert. My ships have knocked out several FTLi emitters, but the remainder of my torpedoes have been knocked out. However...it may be enough."

Tarenteor fumed in his seat, "Well then, since you've gone and launched the whole damn armada, SCREW IT!" A few more buttons were pressed, and the screens shut off, as a small swarm of nanites swooped upwards and covered the broken screen for a moment, hovering there for a few seconds, before buzzing away again, the screen once again fully repaired.

Within seconds, just outside GZ space, a tiny wormhole opened, no bigger than a hubcap, and stayed open for around a minute. The swarm of nanites filtered from the hole in space, invisible to the eye against the black background, and merely a dust cloud to any sensors. They spread out, towards the area the probe was released into, to find the identified planets. The final planet was sighted within a short while, and the collective intelligence locked onto it.

OOC: This lock on is whatever planet would be closest to my insertion point this time of the year. I'm coming from the opposite direction as the probe...

And Feaz, I was talking about Indra's ships. I knew about four big-ass ships had come in, from the STC sensors, but didn't know what they came from...

OoC: JJR, how the HELL are your nanites moving around in the vacuum of space?

OOC: Actually, I'd like to know that also... Are they launched, and expected to drift towards their target? Things that small can't have any kind of chemical engine since they'd run out of fuel before being of any use.

OOC: How did they spread out even if they were somehow launched?
IE:Check your telegrams.

OOC: Well, a microrelay, of course! They use solar power with TINY panels on thier backs, along with capacitors to hold it. The energy is put into the microrelay and it thuds forwards, releases back lightly, thuds forwards again. This happens at incredible speeds. I thought it would work, but if it's wonky, I can just have them be shot towards a planet.

ooc: Feazanthia, thank you for explaining, but I think that a few light-seconds is plenty for one missile launch...

Also, JJR, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Your device would keep the nanite in place... If I understand your explination right... plus, you wouldn't get very far very fast...

So, for now, keep your nanites home...

Will edit this with a post very soon...

*Deep with in Current BORG territory*
IT IS TIME MANUVER THE COLLECTIVE TO BEGIN THE ASSIMILATION OF OUR INFERIORS. A subroutine in the Hive mind thought.

No, I don't want to assimilate them, some of them are our allies.

IRRELEVANT. MOST OF THEM ARE OUR ENEMIES. THEY ALL WANT TO KEEP US FROM OUR PERFECTION. WE MUST ATTAIN PERFECTION.

That is not true. How can you say that?

IS IT NOT TRUE? MOST OF THEM WOULD BE AFRAID OF A PERFECT NATION. NO ONE WOULD BOW TO OUR WILL THEN. WE MUST DESTROY THEM OR ASSIMILATE THEM NOW!!

With that The subroutine took over the Hive mind and had EVERY vessal in the Collective move for Normandeicht in a Transwarp conduit.

OOC: I will make this quick, King Warfare has gone crazy. That is why he was talking to the Hivemind. My actions are going to be somewhat wild and unpredictable as a result.

ooc: Feazanthia, thank you for explaining, but I think that a few light-seconds is plenty for one missile launch...

Also, JJR, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Your device would keep the nanite in place... If I understand your explination right... plus, you wouldn't get very far very fast...

So, for now, keep your nanites home...

Will edit this with a post very soon...

OOC: I'm sorry for the OOC post, but I would like to point out that the magnet from the relay pulls the tip away from the connection, turning it off, but still pulling forward at high speeds. The fall backwards into the connection is just at a normal speed. Thus creates movement. Also, any particles that they find, and there will be many in the system of a large, spacefaring system, can be used to 'jump' off of.

King Warfare was helpless in the Grip of the Subroutine, countless times he tried deactivating it, every time he failed. He really didn't want to fight something as large as the ESUS when he was so small and helpless, even if he did master the one perfect thing in creation, the Omega Particle. It was hopeless, he was trapped.

just outside the orbit of Normandeichts' highest moon, a transwarp conduit opened up. from inside poured the entire BORG collective.

Warfare: Hello to my allies the UFGZ, we got your message about a war and thus here we are, but, I see nothing happening, did we miss it entirely or are they hiding?

King Warfare ordered the collective to spread out across the territory and begin long range scanning of intruders, effectivly cutting off any sneak attack.

OOC:
Wow, Warhaven, I don't think you could have been more vauge as to your deployed assets, or how you've deployed them, if you tryed. You also seem to have ignored the FTLi.

Anywho, things're pretty slow for me and I'm really bored, so I'm pulling recon; it would be immensly helpful if GZ and allies would detail their forces and the dispositions of their naval assets, if for no other reason than to keep things straight.

IC:
Commodore Ch'cye glanced around the bridge of her command one last time befor entering enemy teratory, eyes scanning tactical repeters and ship's status indicators. Everything was green.

"Helm, lock in jump coordinates and bring displacers to full standby," the petite vulpine ordered, the authority in her voice well beyond her stature, "TransCom; pipe C&C that we're ready to deploy and request confrimation."

A pair of 'aye's followed befor a moment's silence; around her, everyone was ready, waiting, prepared. And then...

"C&C confirms, ma'am; we are a go."

An absent nod, "Good. Helm, take us beyond the FTLi and displace when ready..."

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The edge of the Normandeicht system, 46 Seconds later...

In the void of space, no less than several million kilometers beyond the outtermost of Germanische Zustande's defences, a momentary twisting of chance heralds the otherwise uneventful arrival of the KHGV Target Drone; three kilometers of tempered war machine simply apearing within some undefinibly finite instant.

No sooner has she arrived than her FTLi feilds blossom outwards at half the speed of light towards their eventual radius of 5 light minutes - barrier feilds and weapons already hot, ready for a fight in the event she should stumble upon an unlucky picket.

Seconds pass as massivly powerful sensors ramp up, scouring space with enough raw wattage to litterily melt more sensitive scanners and short out unsheilded electronics, well, atleast those within a lightsecond or so.

Meanwhile, even as sensor emmisions light her up like a christmas tree upon any sensor screen system-wide that so much as glances in her direction, her IDD drives engage, setting her along a course that will skimm the system's edge, coming no closer than 4 light hours from the system's sun befor exiting for the interstellar void - a trip that will requior several hours at best, and quite possibly take the vessel within the enemy's defence parimiter...

OOC: hey I reserve the right to forget things, besides an FTLi no longer means anything to me as I have developed elsewhere the means to reach FTL speeds with our using warp or transwarp. I was using a Transwarp Conduit, i can end it anywhere however I can not begin it in an FTLi feild.
As for my ships I have Cubes, queen ships, spheres, proto ships, probes, Tactical cubes, and Bioships. I have 1,028 of each adding up to 7,200. They seem to be easily destroyed by Shivans so a force as large as yourself apparently has nothing to worry about. as for deployment they are spread over GZ's system.

OOC: hey I reserve the right to forget things, besides an FTLi no longer means anything to me as I have developed elsewhere the means to reach FTL speeds with our using warp or transwarp. I was using a Transwarp Conduit, i can end it anywhere however I can not begin it in an FTLi feild.


OOC:
That depends entirly on the kind of FTLi used by a given person; such a system will not, for example, be able to emerge into an area interdicted by Kanuckistani FTLi - we actually use several seperate systems, but the most effective, and relivent in this case, are the TrueSpace Barrier Effectors.

And I've only sent one ship. Now, enough ooc...

one last ooc: I realize there are diffrent types of FTLi, but I am not using anything that requires a feild to be set up. one of the most basic physics of space is that once you start moving you don't stop because their are no particles to slow you down. using that concept if I use a small thruster to get me started and then cut the engines, I don't have to use them again except to change course. If I continuasly use a big thruster to push my self foward, it stands to reason that I will keep getting faster since space holds little to no power to slow me down I really just need one standered engine to keep accelerating, sure it might take awhile, but I am sure it can be done. That is the reasoning behind my acceleration engine.

one last ooc: I realize there are diffrent types of FTLi, but I am not using anything that requires a feild to be set up. one of the most basic physics of space is that once you start moving you don't stop because their are no particles to slow you down. using that concept if I use a small thruster to get me started and then cut the engines, I don't have to use them again except to change course. If I continuasly use a big thruster to push my self foward, it stands to reason that I will keep getting faster since space holds little to no power to slow me down I really just need one standered engine to keep accelerating, sure it might take awhile, but I am sure it can be done. That is the reasoning behind my acceleration engine.

OOC-Such a system would violate Einstein's law of relativity. E=MC2 and all that. Simply speaking, FTL travel cannot be achieved without changing the laws of physics.

IC
The Neodammerung, along with the entire First Fleet, followed Kanuckistan's jump only half an hour later. Space twisted and convulsed like a sick serpant, and then broke apart as the massive warships exited the Slipstream near the cusp of the FTLi field that the advance boomers had cleared. There they sat, weapons hot, waiting for the enemy to move.

OOC-I have created an official OOC thread for this.
http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=6986680#post6986680

OOC-Such a system would violate Einstein's law of relativity. E=MC2 and all that. Simply speaking, FTL travel cannot be achieved without changing the laws of physics.

OoC: Technically, it violates the laws of electromagnetics before it violates special relativity. You see, if we ignored said EM laws, light speed travel WOULD be possible if we could ever find out a way to push something with infinite mass, which is the only reason that special relativity 'forbids' FTL travel.

EDIT: By the way, E=MC^2 isn't all that related to special or general relativity. It's merely the amount of energy released when you convert any given mass, which is a massive amount given how huge a number C^2 is.

EDIT 2: By the way, though, you're right that his system wouldn't work. I misread your post, and went to address the last sentence first.

You see, War Haven, as an object's speed gets nearer and nearer to C, its mass increases. This means you need more force to push it faster, which will only increase the mass further. I think it's something like 70,000 times more mass at 99.9% of C.

ooc: as said before, the FTLi in the system is a mere Grav field...

ic:

Herbert stared intently at the holoscreen in front of him, reading the ever-unchanging sensor reports. He was terrified, just like every other new recruit that had joined up after the first Normandeicht incident. The fleet had been on alert for a few weeks now, each time a sensor ghost came up, ships started shooting. He was truly scared of what might happen to him.

A high pitched whine emmited from his console, shaking the Petty Officer out of his nightmares. His heart leapt, beating wildly within his chest. He leaned forward, starting at the holoscreen.

"C-c-Commodore? Sensors are picking up a fleet, it apparently just jumped in-system, barely beyond our FTLi!"

De Tua had been wating for this. He pulled himself up from the command chair, walking toward Herbert's station. "Are they moving toward us?"

"N-no sir, n-not right n-now," the P.O. stuttered.

"So, they're waiting for us to come to them..."

ooc: Warhaven, have your fleet just stay near Normandeicht... don't engage the enemy...

Michaels tapped the heel of her black naval-issue boots on the plascrete floor.
"Edmund, what's the analysis of the enemy FTLi field?"
The small holographic projection of a squat man in full military garp appeared. He was Edmund, the most advanced A.I. construct ever created.
"Merely a gravity field. Standard FTL will not work..."
"I didn't ask if standard FTL will work, I want to know if ours will."
Edmund paused for three whole cycles before answering.
"The Slipstream Field Tranisent Engine Mark Two is capable of Slipstream jumps to and from the strongest gravitational anomalies known to the empire. The field should present no inhibition to our vessels."
Michaels grinned a pearly white toothy grin. Her blue eyes sparkled with delight.
"Designate boomers A30 to A70 as Fire Team Charlie. Cluster at rally point epsilon three, as I am designating it now."
Forty of the eighty Fenris Wolf torpedo boats in the task force moved to the front of the fleet.
"Admiral Michaels to Fire Team Charlie, authorization Michaels-four-seven-alpha-tango. You are instructed to make precision Slipspace jumps to the coordinates I am now designating. Upon arriving, destroy targets of opportunity."
Acknowledgement lights flicked on from the newly designated force. "Helm, ready Yamato cannon for a short burst. Target their largest vessel."
"Aye, Admiral. Reagan locked in. Yamato charge at 90%"

The Fenris Wolf boomers emerged from the Slipstream few mere kilomteres from their respective targets - the FTLi generators around Normandeich - and fired their 6 gigaton torpedos. At the same time, the front of the Neodammerung began glowing as a controlled matter-antimatter reaction was condensed by an electromagnetic field. In the space of a heartbeat, the terrifying Yamato cannon - the only weapon of its kind - was fired at the Reagan on the other side of the system ((I think that's where it is)). The massive pulse carried the force of 1,000 gigatons of dynamite.
1 teraton. More than enough to vaporize a planet.

The swarm of nanites simply continues on, buzzing through space, continuing to gain speed, at a slowly decreasing acceleration rate.

Just outside system borders, a lightminute or so from the insertion point of the nanites, rips tear from space as the JJR fleet starts to pour in. Ship upon ship, carriers, gunships, destroyers, cruisers, and ships of every shape and size flow from the rifts. As the rips close, a huge chunk of space begins to bulge outwards, before neatly folding outwards, revealing a gigantic black void. Three barrels stick from the void, as the monstrous ship slowly pulls out into space...

OOC: Here are the ship pictures:
http://img7.exs.cx/img7/6453/UbershipIINoShield.th.jpg (http://img7.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img7&image=UbershipIINoShield.jpg)
http://img27.exs.cx/img27/4977/Ubership600x400.th.jpg (http://img27.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img27&image=Ubership600x400.jpg)
http://img79.exs.cx/img79/3595/UbershipIside.th.jpg (http://img79.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img79&image=UbershipIside.jpg)
http://img79.exs.cx/img79/6007/UbershipIfront.th.jpg (http://img79.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img79&image=UbershipIfront.jpg)
http://img79.exs.cx/img79/6260/UbershipIdiagonal1.th.jpg (http://img79.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img79&image=UbershipIdiagonal1.jpg)
http://img23.exs.cx/img23/4452/BlackWolfOrderFighter.th.jpg (http://img23.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img23&image=BlackWolfOrderFighter.jpg)
http://img41.exs.cx/img41/7910/SkissBlockadeShip.th.jpg (http://img41.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img41&image=SkissBlockadeShip.jpg)

And my storefront is here (http://s6.invisionfree.com/International_Mall/index.php?showforum=121). It has more ships and pictures, along with nanite info (not completely updated) and a few other tidbits. The big ship is in the first picture, but there is another picture of it, but it has some spoiler in it, so I'm hiding it until then. The other picture looks much nicer. Stats are being worked on for the Ubership right now, because I recently finished the other picture.

ooc: school is starting. I am not in the mood to post, and I likely will not have the time before next week... please refrain from posting too very much until then...

OOC: hey I reserve the right to forget things, besides an FTLi no longer means anything to me as I have developed elsewhere the means to reach FTL speeds with our using warp or transwarp. I was using a Transwarp Conduit, i can end it anywhere however I can not begin it in an FTLi feild.

OOC:
A transwarp conduit is an N-dimentional tunnel; you will not be able to re-enter normal space within the space covered by my FTLi.



IC
The Neodammerung, along with the entire First Fleet, followed Kanuckistan's jump only half an hour later.

OOC:
You do realise I'm just performing recon to map out the enemy's defences; I've no intention of attacking yet.


ooc: school is starting. I am not in the mood to post, and I likely will not have the time before next week... please refrain from posting too very much until then...

OOC:
I'm waiting for you to provide the layout of the system, it's defences, and the strength and disposition of yours and allied forces. Or atleast what you think a lengthy and intensive scan by the rather absurdly powerful sensors on that Superfortress would detect; I was planning on using that info to probe your defences, atleast befor Feazanthia jumped the gun.

I don't really mind waiting a few days if you need the time iRL; I'd rather not proceed ICly until you post the requested info.

ooc: Feazanthia, as the system is on full alert, and the beam would take minutes to reach the Reagan, and long before it did, the Reagan would be safely hidden in its temporal shielding.

By my calculations, the Allied fleet numbers at about 240,000 vessels. I estimate that about 20-30 thousand are capital ships (cruisers and up), about 70-90 thousand are escorts (Light cruisers, destroyers, frigates, picketvessels), and the rest are fighters, bombers, light attack crafts, and so on.

Nearly all the fleet is clustered about Normandeicht, a few patrol vessels strewn about the system. There are four large starbases orbiting Normandeicht, as well as a few hundred weapons platforms. There are various other installations in orbit also, most armed with some form of weaponry. Deep within the core of Normandeicht, an enourmous planetary shield generator sits, shielded by the planet it protects.

A small starbase armed to the teeth with Temporal Weaponry and shields also orbit around an outer planet.

ic:

The golden beam shot through the system, head-on toward it's target: The FSS Reagan.

The beam continued, hot, bright, toward the Allied Fleet, searing across the night sky. It passed right through the Reagan, hidden in the currents of time.

The Fleet remained, waiting for the enemy to be so foolish as to assault the Federal Fortress world: Normandeicht.

Just waiting for someone to make a move...

Just waiting for someone to make a move...

In the time between the last post here (Kanuckistan's) and now, most people have lost intrest or had other RPs come up. For instance, my nation has been conquered and enslaved, Feazanthia is off doing something odd near TFU's space, and Kanuckistan is still being his ominous and indecipherable self. If you're willing to wait a few RL months, we can continue this RP.

Along the outside of the monster of a ship, small bays began to open, releasing small orbs, each the size of a bowling ball. Out of the one hundred orbs released, twenty had antimatter cores, twenty had nuclear cores(20kt apiece), twenty had convetional shatter cores, fifteen had IDD cores(They implode on themselves and create a short-lived black hole. 15 heavy cores would easily destroy a planet or star), and five orbs equipped with small FTLi field generators. They sped off towards their target: the Reagan. Should they reach the target, the orbs would be on inside Reagan right as the FTLi kicked in.

OOC: This FTLi WILL kill your shields, because JJR uses shields akin to these, by folding space around an object. You would NOT be able to detect the generators, being that they are dormant. They would merely seem to be lesser nuclear orbs. At they speed they were traveling, they would merely seem to be a volley of heavy shells. So, make your move.

In the time between the last post here (Kanuckistan's) and now, most people have lost intrest or had other RPs come up. For instance, my nation has been conquered and enslaved, Feazanthia is off doing something odd near TFU's space, and Kanuckistan is still being his ominous and indecipherable self. If you're willing to wait a few RL months, we can continue this RP.

Aww, killjoy! I had my super-cool trick in my sleeve!

Aww, killjoy! I had my super-cool trick in my sleeve!

There isn't anything saying that you can't fight this battle. It's just that I can't help. Kanuckistan will probably respond too, if you ask him politely.

OoC: Please GZ, don't do what I'm thinking you're going to do...

OoC: Please GZ, don't do what I'm thinking you're going to do...


OOC: Yeah, if he ignores it or godmods, I'm just gonna laugh. It was a legit attack, albeit one that could take out most of a star and a few planets besides.

OoC: You're not free from reprieve, either, JRR. Many attacks you use are just as borderline god-moding as some of the things GZ has done. You seem to have far too many weapons that can destroy planets and stars.

OoC: You're not free from reprieve, either, JRR. Many attacks you use are just as borderline god-moding as some of the things GZ has done. You seem to have far too many weapons that can destroy planets and stars.
OOC: I've been watching this RP, and IE has a very good point. Both JJR and GZ are very close to godmodding, and GZ DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT

OoC: You're not free from reprieve, either, JRR. Many attacks you use are just as borderline god-moding as some of the things GZ has done. You seem to have far too many weapons that can destroy planets and stars.

OOC: I used one attack, IE... and this is my Ubership, I have one of them, and it cost my just under 700 trillion USD to make. All I used were enhanced drone mines. Really, an IDD grenade-sized core could take out a building if it was right on top of it. The reason the 15 together are so strong is because they are pulling in in fifteen different directions at once, creating a much stronger destructive power. So, take it or leave it, but my stuff isn't that bad.

OOC: Anyways, what are you guys worried about him doing? Godmodding again? He fell into a trap. He uses that shield too much, and it's just annoying. I know an easy way to knock out that shield AND the Reagan, but that is merely a solution to a problem. He has ubership, I have better ubership. He has 240,000 ships, you forget. Certainly, my mines are worth less than the ships are!

ooc: They're not worried about me godmodding... :D

JJR, your orbs will be destroyed.

ic:

A single cruiser fired a volley of Antimatter Cannons toward the incoming projectiles. Whatever was not annihilated would be destroyed by the Vanguard Fleet.

ooc: Short, sweet, and to the point.

ooc: They're not worried about me godmodding... :D

JJR, your orbs will be destroyed.

ic:

A single cruiser fired a volley of Antimatter Cannons toward the incoming projectiles. Whatever was not annihilated would be destroyed by the Vanguard Fleet.

ooc: Short, sweet, and to the point.

OOC: You know what's funny? You just ignored an attack that looked much more dangerous. Dumbass.

I did not ignore, I destroyed your little orbs

OOC: Ehhh, what the hell. You're still screwed, being that I'm in a good enough mood not to ignore you.

IC: Over the entire fleet, weapons began to whir to live, pulling out of thier dormant state. Drives and engines pulled to live, as the fleet began to advance. The ships shuddered as they released volleys of shells, missiles, particles, plasma, and just around everything under the sun at the Germanic fleet. In front of the ubership, space began to twist. Some small supply ships jettisoned antimatter and nuclear mines into the curling orb. As the mines reached the strange phenomena, the merely disspeared. Fifteen mines dissapeared into the orb, along with one small ship.

The nanites had continued towards first planet, moving slowly, until the slavemaster hivemind and the mines appeared in front of them. The nanites drifted into the ship, which promptly sped off towards the first planet, the mines tagging close behind...

I did not ignore, I destroyed your little orbs
OOC: And you ignored Feaz's mondo attack which seemed to be more dangerous, just having it pass across your shields. I don't really care. It doesn't matter at this point, since I have the same FTLi in most of my ships.

OoC: Agh, you should have just done what I said, GZ. Really, I'm borderline pulling my support.

OOC: Look, I'm getting pissed off because this is taking forever, is going nowhere, and the only way for anyone to even TOUCH anything the other person owns IS to godmod. I could have FTLed a few thousand mines of various types into your system and blown some of it to hell, if I felt like it. But I didn't because I wanted this to be fun.

OOC:
Tag update; I'm going to wait and see in you folks can work this out befor responding IC. No reason to waste my time typing up posts if the RP is going to implode.

OOC:

GZ, these globey thingies are smaller than bowling balls. How you can target them accurately at the distances and speeds they're heading towards you. I mean, most turrets would have problems tracking something like this.

OOC:

GZ, these globey thingies are smaller than bowling balls. How you can target them accurately at the distances and speeds they're heading towards you. I mean, most turrets would have problems tracking something like this.
ooc> Or, he could just use the AoN ships and fire plasma torpedo submunition with a quarter mile blast radius. That would take care of them. Now, because there has been a large time lapse, I can get back into it. But please people, enough tech-wanking. I'm sick of all that "my uber-nanites eat your planet and my torpedo makes your sun go supernova your entire system is dead" crap. I don't even think my system sized super weapon which was nearly 100 NS years in the making could do that. It might be able to come close, but it is designed for that purpose and is massive with a price tag to match. Anywho, I will be controlling the AoN general fleet now.


Now, I need visual aid of what is going on.

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Ok, if (......) is GZ's sun, and the area of .... is my FTLi, please show the location of your fleets.

OOC: I am clustered around Normandeicht forming almost a very large sheild around the planet. I am going to bid my time before doing anything.

By my calculations, the Allied fleet numbers at about 240,000 vessels. I estimate that about 20-30 thousand are capital ships (cruisers and up), about 70-90 thousand are escorts (Light cruisers, destroyers, frigates, picketvessels), and the rest are fighters, bombers, light attack crafts, and so on.

OOC: No offence, but that is uberwanking. Hell, I don't think all the active ESUS nations combined even have 30,000 capital ships (battleships, cruisers, destroyers, frigates ect.)

OOC: Quite. Also, my nanites have not done shit, so stop bitching, ok? Good. finally, I have had these IDD grenades for many years. They're not the complex. The only reason I said this could take out a star or the like is because they increase in power greatly for each extra one in a system. With 100 of these guys, I could take down a chunk of a solar system. Combined with antimatter and shatter explosives, along with FTLi, you should hope this was damned expensive. Finally, these orbs are traveling at something about .8-.85 c, meaning they would be quite hard to track. And don't start with E=MC^2, because it's a slope. At .5 c, you only have double your mass. at .85 c, I think it's 5-10 times more mass.

OOC: Quite. Also, my nanites have not done shit, so stop bitching, ok? Good. finally, I have had these IDD grenades for many years. They're not the complex. The only reason I said this could take out a star or the like is because they increase in power greatly for each extra one in a system. With 100 of these guys, I could take down a chunk of a solar system. Combined with antimatter and shatter explosives, along with FTLi, you should hope this was damned expensive. Finally, these orbs are traveling at something about .8-.85 c, meaning they would be quite hard to track. And don't start with E=MC^2, because it's a slope. At .5 c, you only have double your mass. at .85 c, I think it's 5-10 times more mass.

Travelling that fast, I'm not entirely sure they would be capable of beginning their reactions before they passed the Reagen. Remember, time is relative as well.

Travelling that fast, I'm not entirely sure they would be capable of beginning their reactions before they passed the Reagen. Remember, time is relative as well.
OOC: They're called thrusters. They slow stuff down.

OOC: No offence, but that is uberwanking. Hell, I don't think all the active ESUS nations combined even have 30,000 capital ships (battleships, cruisers, destroyers, frigates ect.)

ooc> Well, I am assuming that he is counting the massive number of Drone carriers in the system. They were produced on an epic scale during the AoN expansion when resorces were abundant but man-power was limited. They actually have a few practical weaknesses. (I don't meen "if you screw with the STC in this way. . ." crap either)

ooc> Well, I am assuming that he is counting the massive number of Drone carriers in the system. They were produced on an epic scale during the AoN expansion when resorces were abundant but man-power was limited. They actually have a few practical weaknesses. (I don't meen "if you screw with the STC in this way. . ." crap either)

I believe that a sizable majority of those capital ships are 'borrowed' from the UFP's main [wanked out] fleet.

Also, it's good to see ships with some decent disadvantages! It would be nice to know (OOCly) what those disadvantages are, but the fact that they are actual mechanical disadvantages as opposed to wanked out "If you pull this technobabbel device out of your rear during a vernal equinox with two people dancing around a fire, then you can damage my ships" 'drawbacks' that GZ's shields seem to rely upon makes the AoN instantly more credible in my eyes.

OOC: Quite. And he's in for a surprise. This ubership has shields almost exactly like he has on his Reagan. But they take a while to put up and take down, and I can't fire during that time. The hilarious thing is, I've been working on this project for about half an RL year, and do not yet have it refined to the point he does. I suppose I'll rely on my superior weaponry, etc.

OoC: Ok, I've been trying to talk some sense into him, and I'll continue to do so. I do not wish to see this RP stagnant. However, it takes two to tango, and JRR, I would kindly ask that you also watch your actions and control yourself.

ooc> Well, the obvious disadvantage is that each carrier has is that there are only 4 people on the entire ship. This branches into 2 problems: 1.) It can often make it difficult to micro-manage the 600 drone fighters that each carrier holds. 2.) What would happen if these ships were boarded? Also, they are only practical to produce if your country has cheap labour and a material supply that outclasses your population. (As is the case with the AoN)

Anyways, perhaps we could try something else to keep this RP going. I could use my recently completed MAT on my Warp Fortress. Then you guys could send a force to try to take it out. (Although, that may end up happening in my other RP: http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=361099 )

ooc:

CF, very funny. Anyone who can defeat temporal shields, overload my Phase shields, and pierce the Spacial Barrier of my Standard Shields can defeat me. It doesn't take much.

The Nothingspace shields were just our name for Temporal shields. However, when I hit 2 bil, you may see these nearly impervious sheilds begin to be researched...

ic:

The massive Allied Fleet glowed like a new sky of stars above Normandeicht. It was a great boost to the Troops on the surface; to look up at night and see the Allied Fleet, there, defending the Ideals of the Federation and its allies, defending the People from those who would willingly massacre innocents.

Many of the worlds of the Federation now spun deserted. Only Atheos Prime, Normandeicht, and Meluschtein remained, their citizens hunkered down, prepared for the long war ahead.

Meanwhile, the entire Federation, from Atheos Prime to Unsere Hoffnung, waited for the ESUS to make its move...

-OOC-
Or, Mekanta can just finish the Cascade Wave cannons, and render your wank shields useless and leave your traditional defenses open to a good old fashioned pounding.

Your shields are your only advantage.

-OOC-
Or, Mekanta can just finish the Cascade Wave cannons, and render your wank shields useless and leave your traditional defenses open to a good old fashioned pounding.

Your shields are your only advantage.

OoC: Not once I become involved...

>_>

<_<

*Coughcough*

Wait, did I say something?

-OOC-
His only advantage on his own. Note I didn't count the AoN's support either in his advantages. If allies are factored in, his advantages are...

Wank Shields
Human/Other Race Shields (Hiding behind his backup)

OoC: Oh if only you knew...

By the way, I am not part of the AoN, and if I were posting IC, I would take offense.

-OOC-
Sorry if it seemed like I was associating you with them. Should have put the word "either" in there. ^_^

OoC: It's ok, I don't mind OoC, but IC my nation is fearcly independent. We even refuse to use just technology from another nation, let alone ally with any nation we don't trust intimately, which is only two, at the moment.

Mean wile the NX-8900 Jumped out of 11 D quantum space and bolted towards the nearest enemy ship the captain on board mean wile was pacing “Damn I wonder why they cant do this them selves they had to hire us all ahead full helm“ the helms officer nodded and started to move the ship in to battle Position. The unmarked ship charged up is weapons bank. The moderate sized ship loomed over Normandeicht

-Edge of the Normandeicht System

The blackness of space was sunddenly pierced by blinding flashes as over one hundred ships suddenly dropped out of warp space. The ships began their advance toward the gathering forces within the star system.

On the bridge of the super star destroyer ICS Black Knight Fleet Admiral Shinji Nogumo stood staring out at the massed Crossmanian fleet. This will be a great battle for the Imperium, he thought to himself. He then turned towards his communications officer.
"Lieutenant Walker, open a channel to the allied fleets."

"Yes Admiral.", Walker hit a few buttons on his monitor. "Channel open sir."

Nogumo nodded to the young lieutenant, "To all AoN and allied fleets, this is Fleet Admiral Shinji Nogumo of the Imperial Crossmanian starship Black Knight. Emperor Crossman has pledged the Imperium's support for your cause. We will be honored to fight alongside you all. May all of your men fight bravely! We shall be victorious! Nogumo out." He motioned for Walker to close the channel.

**Crossmanian Forces deployed**
2 Executor-class super star destroyers
**http://www.geocities.com/nifshipyards/ships/super_star_destroyer.jpg
10 Imperial II-class star destroyers
**http://wso.williams.edu/~rfoxwell/starwars/pagestuff/ISD.gif
15 Imperial-class star destroyers
**http://www.starwars.jp/machine/image/imperial_sd.jpg
22 Victory-class star destroyers
**http://www.starwars.jp/machine/image/victory.jpg
30 Dreadnaught-class heavy cruisers
**http://www.starwars.jp/machine/image/dreadnaught.jpg
35 Carrack-class cruisers
**http://www.starwars.jp/machine/image/carrack.jpg
40 Nebulon-class frigates
**http://www.cswu.cz/shiptech/cruisers/frigate/frigate.jpg
38 Lancer-class frigates
**http://www.starwars.jp/machine/image/lancer.jpg

ooc:

CF, very funny. Anyone who can defeat temporal shields, overload my Phase shields, and pierce the Spacial Barrier of my Standard Shields can defeat me. It doesn't take much.


OOC: I know how to do it!

*launches a ten nukes around his homeplanet, sending them into orbit*
*rubs his stomach and pats his head at the same time*
*spins his fingers in opposite directions*
*eats a whole alligator live*
*watches the paint dry*
*waits for a few minutes*
Oh, yeah!
*blasts GZ with his Ignore Cannon*

Yes, that's an official ignore. I'll still RP with the other, non-wank players, if they so wish. If it comes to some final battle, I may un-ignore GZ, but at the moment, his ships do not exist to me. The rest of you are fine. Also, I must say that I was wrong in my belief. My shields are nothing like his. All mine do is wrap the STC around the ship, creating a 'pocket universe'. This takes a period of 15 minutes to set up. It seems that these powerful 'Uber-wank Shields' we have encountered from GZ actually seperate him from the timeline and STC completely, while being able to phase out for weapons fire for mere nanoseconds. GZ must has used his RPi Generators, which he pulled from the mysterious realm of ass-space. Good day.

ooc: JJR, you are truly a moron. You obviously have no understanding of my shield technology, and I am not about to waste time explaining it to you. I will likewise ignore any of your attacks.

NOTE: I have "flamed" JJR only because he has shown ignorance, and he has flamed me.

ooc> Right, TFU, it's not easy to get into systems that I fortify. With my past experiances with quantum space and technology, such meathods of FTL travel have been prepared for within my FTLi field. Meaning, you wouldn't be able to jump in like that. Otherwise, GZ's star would have long since been nova bombed.
Crossman, the same goes for you as well. The FTLi field will block your ships as well. However, you could simply arrive from the outside and request entry, so we wouldn't be shooting at you.

Anyways, please, leave the friggin uber-techwank at home. I respect JJR's ignore of GZ. I don't tech-wank. All of my ships are well built, but I don't have bull like "nothing-space shields" and temporal bullcrap that makes me indestructable. The only thing I have the comes close is my FTLi, but my war machine is based around it. I have my Warp fortress, but it was an AoN project that had a larger price tag than the Necrons. This thread will only callapse, I suggest that we move to the AoN crusade thread.

Which thread is that? I've got this one tagged, and I like to read other people's RPs, so link please.

Bah, this is crap. I'd warned him, I'd attempted to get him to tone it down, but to no avail, and my new Ripper class will gather dust.

How depressing.

http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=361099

OOC: Indeed. This seems to be becoming more of a GODMOD/IGNORE war than an Intergalactic Conflict.

ooc: For everyone's information: THE NOTHINGSPACE SHIELDS ARE OUT OF THE PICTURE. I DROPPED THAT IDEA MONTHS AGO. I have temporal shielding. I have phase shielding. I have Spatial Barrier Shields. Most of my weapons are absolutely nothing compared to everyone else. Secondly, I did forget about the FTLi, Crossman and TFU. Lets just assume that we lowered the FTLi for the microseconds needed to allow your ships through. Thirdly, I do not tech wank. My technologies are just about all I have. Level Four Temporal Technology, and the other lesser technologies are perfectly acheivable by a nation such as mine.

OOC: Yay! We're in!

ooc: For everyone's information: THE NOTHINGSPACE SHIELDS ARE OUT OF THE PICTURE. I DROPPED THAT IDEA MONTHS AGO. I have temporal shielding. I have phase shielding. I have Spatial Barrier Shields. Most of my weapons are absolutely nothing compared to everyone else. Secondly, I did forget about the FTLi, Crossman and TFU. Lets just assume that we lowered the FTLi for the microseconds needed to allow your ships through. Thirdly, I do not tech wank. My technologies are just about all I have. Level Four Temporal Technology, and the other lesser technologies are perfectly acheivable by a nation such as mine.


OOC: Oh come fucking on. When some one says : "J00 have 2 derstoy may n+1 shields, but it be soooo easy, and then you can beet me!" I mean, damn. Also, you just tech wanked again. You can't pull system-wide FTLi down for microseconds. Trust me. Also, it would take them a few minutes to pull all the fleets out. Of course, I'm sure the ESUS will gladly allow you to 'flicker' the FTLi. It's just that all the ships that are halfway through the rip will be sliced in two. Also, you have an ubership that's bigger than mine, for god's sakes. You have 240,000 ships. Your ubership is impervious. Completely impervious. Your weapons are ridiculously overpowered, and they all travel so fast you only have to take down your three ubershields for nanoseconds.

So remember, boys and girls: Every time you tech-wank, a kitten dies.

Oh, and GZ, don't be a whiney bitch because someone ignored you, m'kay?

OOC:

*sits back and watches the continuing "inter-godmod-ic conflict"*

OOC: Oh come fucking on. When some

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be a whiney bitch because someone ignored you, m'kay?

I would like to point out that nanites that can somehow move through hard vacuum at immense speeds aren't much better.

But who am I to complain, I'm taking on the single largest construction project in NS history soon, so I ain't an...*Is shot*

*Man with pistol and dark sunglasses walks on camera*

You did not hear or see anything, move along.

OOC: :)

I try, I try. Anyways, Crossman, you're a halfway decent RPer, or at least you seem to be. So you aren't ignored. Unless you actually agree with the 240,000 ships, in which case I'm gonna laugh at you too.

I would like to point out that nanites that can somehow move through hard vacuum at immense speeds aren't much better.

But who am I to complain, I'm taking on the single largest construction project in NS history soon, so I ain't an...*Is shot*

*Man with pistol and dark sunglasses walks on camera*

You did not hear or see anything, move along.

OOC: Uhh, they aren't moving fast. They got like, 50 feet in 5 hours... then they got picked up by my Slavemaster.

OOC: :)

I try, I try. Anyways, Crossman, you're a halfway decent RPer, or at least you seem to be. So you aren't ignored. Unless you actually agree with the 240,000 ships, in which case I'm gonna laugh at you too.

OOC: Yay! I'm halfway decent!

Well I do think 240,000 is a bit much. From 1 nation. But even a large alliance of nations, its still a bit much. So I'll just see what we all figure out.

OOC: Yay! I'm halfway decent!

Well I do think 240,000 is a bit much. From 1 nation. But even a large alliance of nations, its still a bit much. So I'll just see what we all figure out.
OOC: Well, I have almost all my funds diverted to military, focused on space, I have a massive economy, and a couple hundred million military personnel, and I still don't have anything near that...

OOC: Yay! I'm halfway decent!

Well I do think 240,000 is a bit much. From 1 nation. But even a large alliance of nations, its still a bit much. So I'll just see what we all figure out.

Not to support it or anything, but GZ claims the 240K number comes from 60+ nations. No idea if he's telling the truth.

OOC: Uhh, they aren't moving fast. They got like, 50 feet in 5 hours... then they got picked up by my Slavemaster.

I'm talking about a point earlier where you released a bunch of nanites into space something like a light-minute from a planet expecting them to move at all, let alone get there in a timely manner.

OOC: Well, I have almost all my funds diverted to military, focused on space, I have a massive economy, and a couple hundred million military personnel, and I still don't have anything near that...

Yeah

Not to support it or anything, but GZ claims the 240K number comes from 60+ nations. No idea if he's telling the truth.

Yeah, thats what he told me. I can understand that. Though I don't know all the 60+ nations. So thats why it seems a bit much to me. Who are these 60+ nations? Not to be mean to GZ.

Not to support it or anything, but GZ claims the 240K number comes from 60+ nations. No idea if he's telling the truth.

OOC: Well then, that means that all of them have at least 4000 ships. And, considering GZ himself, that's a stretch. He has a Powerhouse economy, 21% of his budget is going to defence (I think mine is either 42 or 47 percent), and he has the largest GDP in his region at 27.8 trillion. Mine is 106.7 trillion. Crystal Palais' is 168 trillion. My GRP is over 1 quadrillion. He could not afford that many ships.

Most of those ships come from two sources:

The AoN, whose fleet is semi-legitimate in my eyes

and the United Federation of Planets, whose fleet isn't legitimate at all in my eyes.

I'm talking about a point earlier where you released a bunch of nanites into space something like a light-minute from a planet expecting them to move at all, let alone get there in a timely manner.

OOC: I wasn't, I was trying to insert them, let them scan the area a little and move towards the planet as much as the could, so that when I sent in the Slavemaster, they could just go. I didn't want to just FTL in the Slavemaster until there was a distraction, and it wouldn't be noticed. But it's moot now, as the planets are GZ-owned.

Most of those ships come from two sources:

The AoN, whose fleet is semi-legitimate in my eyes

and the United Federation of Planets, whose fleet isn't legitimate at all in my eyes.

How is the UFP fleet not legitamate?

How is the UFP fleet not legitamate?

It's primarily composed of the 30,000 capital ships donated to it by TFU. And since that fleet couldn't exist without godmoding (30,000 capital ships from a nation that is a bit smaller than I am.) All the ships used in it are godmoding. It's like this: You pull a fleet out of your ass and then give it to one of your allies. It's still a product of ass space and is thusly godmoding.

It's primarily composed of the 30,000 capital ships donated to it by TFU. And since that fleet couldn't exist without godmoding (30,000 capital ships from a nation that is a bit smaller than I am.) All the ships used in it are godmoding. It's like this: You pull a fleet out of your ass and then give it to one of your allies. It's still a product of ass space and is thusly godmoding.


OOC: Quite tho, quite tho.

actually no its not all donated by me there’s only about 12000 ship by me plus all 45 nations are helping fund a unified fleet plus donations from other nations the max fleet of the UFP would be 28,000 cap ships and lots of smaller ships 80 k ships in all . that includes fighters

OOC: Yes, I'm sure you have nice little cardboard ships, TFU. The big boys are talking now.

OOC: Yes, I'm sure you have nice little cardboard ships, TFU. The big boys are talking now.

stop being an ignoramus JJR you know my fleet is good qulity my own fleet has only 1200 cap ships

stop being an ignoramus JJR you know my fleet is good qulity my own fleet has only 1200 cap ships

Yes. 1200 invincible ships, and the rest are 10KM-long corvettes.

OOC:
I have also donated ships to the UFP fleet. Probably about 50, so nowhere near 30,000. But still I'm one of the nations who have given ships to the UFP. Also, TFU's ships are very small and have crews of only a few hundred each. They're Star Trek ships, so not the huge star destoyers that have multi-thousand crews, like mine, though I have only about 200+ of them, so not godmodding.

Anyway, I'm off for the night.

Yes. 1200 invincible ships, and the rest are 10KM-long corvettes.

Haha, JJR, he used ST ships, meaning none break 800 meters or so. Hardly 10km corvettes.

Haha, JJR, he used ST ships, meaning none break 800 meters or so. Hardly 10km corvettes.

Ah. Ok. So they're all invincible then.

Ah. Ok. So they're all invincible then.

Would you like some cheese with that whine?

OOC: Okay then, for clarification purposes only, does this mean th RP is NOT going to go through?

OOC:

*slowly walking away from this RP...*

Indeed, are we doing it or not? My fleets could better spend their time collecting dust near my planets.

OOC: No one in the ESUS is a shitty enough RPer to accept a wankfleet of 240,000 ships. We were just doing this to teach him a lesson about wanking and how it's quality and not quantity that counts. We're all too busy anyways. I'm trying to build pictures for my fleet, and master Doga, and have a wargame with Mekanta and Klonor, etc. It's just a waste of time, honestly. The other ESUS members, if any of them still want to RP with GZ, are too busy to post.

ooc> Well, I encourage everyone who hasn't godmodded at an epic scale yet to come down to the RP that I posted earlier. It could see an increase in AoN influence or a distruction of the AoN's power base. Kalger may even be removed from power depending on how things turn out.

Ok, it looks like TFU's fleet won't be involved.

So let us break down the numbers, shall we?

There are roughly 100 nations involved in sending GZ ships.

There are roughly 160,000 total ships, 20,000 of which are capital ships.

Let's look at things in a more subjective manner. I will be contributing only a total of 250 to the capitalship count, but I'll be contributing something like 8000~ warships, and roughly 3000 transport/supply/logistics ships. That's 12,000 from one nation, a vast majority are mere fighters and gunships (Something like 7000 of the ships are fighters, with 750~ frigate and below).

So, if one nation can throw in 8000 warships (we'll disregard the logistics front, for now), does it not stand to reason that 100 odd nations would easily bring about a 160,000 ships fleet?

And if you protest the 20,000 capship number, remember that a vast majority of them are AoN Drone Carriers, many of the rest being 7000 Borg capships from Warhaven; his entire race.

Not only is this number easily attainable, it is actually more likely than a smaller one. And with many of the capships being drone ships, and with many of the total number being mere fighters, perhaps you lot should reconsider whether you want to think of this fleet as god-mode or not.

Hmm... interesting. About time someone tried to make sense of this.

Bump

Will the ESUS please attack some time soon so we can get the RPing going?

I think we've all forgotten about it because of the inactivity, and that totally wank fleet in your system. I don't speak for everyone, so I may be wrong, but I'd say let it die.

Yeah, so go here and stop the forces of darkness (me) from marching across the galaxy. Or, help the forces of darkness march across the galaxy. http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=361099

OOC: Well, since it appears the RP has died, I shall leave then. I have several upgrades I have been waiting to implement.

IC: The Collective quietly leaves realizing that to stay here is Futile. They move to the edge of the FTLi, escape it, and set up a Transwarp for a previously unknown destination deep within there territory.

I think we've all forgotten about it because of the inactivity, and that totally wank fleet in your system. I don't speak for everyone, so I may be wrong, but I'd say let it die.

Excuse me, wank fleet? I fully explained it only a few posts back.